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GEORGIA JOURNAL & MESSENGER
CLISBY, JONES & BEESE, Proprietors.
The Fakilt Journal.—-Nhws—Politics—Literature—Agriculture—Domestic Axeaibs.
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GEORGIA TELEGRAPH BUILDING
Established 1826.
MACON, TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 24, 1878.
Volume Ixni—N
BY TfflEGRAP
Fremont, O., September 15.—The
President will visit the State Fair at Tol
edo cn the 19.b. He will attend the
Soldiers' Reunion at Willoughby, oa
Tuesday—the annuel meeting of the
trustees of the Soldiers’ Home at Dayton
on Wednesday, reaohlDg Toledo on
Thursday, where he will spend a doy.
New Orleans, September 15.—Ten
curses leave for Holly Springs in the
morning. The sick telegraphers are re
ported in an unfavorable condition, but
not without hope.
At Southwest Fas?, there is one new
case to-day.
The following oomes from Canton:
“I traveled yesterday twenty.five miles
iu different directions of the surrounding
country. There is unmistakable yellow
fever in families having no communica
tion with the town. 1 found ono dead
and others dying. My strength and cour
age are still unabated.
[Signed], J. J. Lyons, M. D.
Galveston, September 15.—The state
ments in some papers that Galveston had
contributed nothing to the fever sufferers
is inoorrect. The contributions of Gal
veston for tbat purpose so far amounts to
between eight and ten thousand dollars,
and the committee are still 'working.
Thus far eighteen nnrses and three phy
sicians have been sent to Memphis and
Vicksburg, and by train to-morrow ten
additional nurses go forward.
Terry, Miss., September 15.—There
are twenty cases of fever at Dry Grove,
Eve miles from here.
New Orleans, September 14.—The
deaths to-day include twenty-three chil
dren under seven. Among the now cases
are Charles N. Welch, insurance agent.
Dr. Stone did not leave for Holly Springs.
He is sick and confined to bis bed. Dr.
Metcalf, who daring the illness of Drs.
Pratt and Miles had charge of the Char
ity Hospital, will go in tno morning to
Dry Grove, Mississippi.
0! the new case? reported up to noon
tc- Jay several were many days old. The
doctors report cases in bulk when they
have time. The physicians have report
ed twenty-three cases some five days old.
There were twenty deaths to six o’clock
p. m., and about 120 new cases.
The Youog Men’s Christian Associa
tion report new cases to-day at 92, deaths
•. The Kowatd Association report new
cases at 334.
Holly Springs, September 15.—Ool.
H. W. Walker, a prominent citizen, was
taken this morning mnoh against bis will
and and put in bed as a yellow fever pa-
tiout. Colonel Kinleob Falconer, Secre
tary of State, and who has been here
working all the while, takes his place
on the Belief Committee. Of the origi
nal seven of this committee only two are
loft, but to-day General Frank Walker
with Mr. Fuleouer were added to it.
The death list to-day includes Mr. Pot'
ter, Mr?. Robert Hastings, Samuel Kim
ball, aDti D.nah Ingraham, (colored).
The new cases are George Matthews and
wife, Anderson Chilton, Willis Jackson,
Miss A. Quiggins, Charles Welsher, Mr.
Mtlsi’s son, Miss Glassy, Mrs. Foreman,
Mrs. Goldstein ana son, David Lee, Hate-
man Cook, Catesby Hubbard cf Louis
iana, Mrs. Maggie MoLen and child, of
Memphis, Stephen Knapp, Betty Mar-
dock, Annie Wilts, Mrs. O’Neill, Miss
Laura Deemy, a nurse from New Orleans,
Mr. Dr. Willis, Mrs. W. 8. Fentnerstone,
Robert Lochrane.
The number yet to fall are not far from
five hundred—mostly poor people, en
tirely dependent.
At our headquarters we have endeav
ored to meet ail demands, and withont
partiality. The calls upon U3 constantly
increase. Drs, Gourrier and Bailey, of
New Orleans, and Drs. Urrier, Manning
and Swearingen, of Austin, Texas, and
Mr. Sheldon, of tho “Can’t Get Away
Club,” of Mobile, have done all the
work, during the psst ton days, that was
possible, our home physicians having
fallen in the harness.
Dr. G. W. Saul, of Georgia, arrived
to-night, in company with four volunteer
nurses from Texas.
Express to our friends everywhere
prayerful thanks for their generous as
sistance. May God bless th6m.
Tho only minister here is Bev. Father
Laray, of New Orleans, who hesitates not
to cross the thresholds of the humblest.
The Presbyterian and Baptist ministers
are both convalescing.
W. S. L. Holland,
Chairman Belief Committee.
Vicksbubo,September 15 —The weath
er is clear and warmer. There was light
frost yisterday morning northward in
the Mississippi bottoms. The fever here
i9 abating in new cases, bnt the deaths
continue very large.
There were twenty-two deaths to-day,
16 white and 6 colored. Among them iB
Rev. Father Vitello. .Thm makes the
second priest who has died here within
two weeks—Fathers McManus and Vi
tello.
Bishop Elder is reported convalescent,
tut is extremely weak and bis recovery
will be slow. Bight Beverend Bishop
Leroy has lsoen here for several days.
Rev. Mr. Galloway is again convalescing
after a relapse. Her. Mr. Brice and Cap-
tun E. C. Carroll, superintendent of the
elevator, are also among the convales
cent.
Naw York, September 15.—F. S.
Davie, President of the First National
Bank of Memphis, and now here, re
ceived a telegram tc-day from the chair
man of tho Belief Committee of Memphis,
who says Major William Willis, John G.
Lonsdale, treasurer of the Belief Com
mittee, and Edward Worsham, a leading
masen, died to-day. Tho death rate is
terrible. The fever is abating some.
Colonel James X. Leatb, one of the oldest
and beet citizens of Memphis, died lo-
<byin this city.
,.New Yobk, September 15.—CoL Leath
«i*d of a congestive chill. He was the
eon-in-law of Bev. George White, an
Episcopal Bector of Memphis.
W. W. Thacher, cashier of tho First
national Bank at Memphis, last night,
rent the following:
“Memphis, September 14.—To If. J.
OBnen, General Superintendent Southern
Erpresa Company, New York: Have just
left the noble Willis, who wishes me to
*&y to you that he cannot lire. He is a
noble fellow and meets his fate as all
should, but few do. He asks that some
good man take his place.
(Signed) “W. W. TnACHEE."
Mr. Willis is reported among the dead
to-day.
New Orleans, September 15.—Deaths
“9- New cases reported 149, including
J 6 cases dating from the first to the
fourth inst
Geenada, September 14.—Five deaths
«-oay and five new cases. Mr. Fountain,
niter an illness of seven days, resumes his-
notes as correspondent. The express.
«ace, which had been closed for eight
T®** was reopened to-day by C. A. Par-
Coapsn t0 agett °* the SonlIlern Express
September 14.—Ono death to-
y A*. Mitchell, aged 16—and two new
September 16.—No deaths, no
ne * case*.
Grenada, September 15.—Two deaths
to-day and two new cases. Tho fever is
abating.
Boulte, La., September 15.—A diffi-
cnlty occurred last night in the store of
Chancellor Claix, at St. Charles Coart
House, between Charlie Baptiste (color
ed) and Mr. Valionr, of St. Martin, ex
deputy sheriff and a son of N. O. St.
Martin, district attorney protem, which
resulted in Bapttet9 being stabbed and
instantly killed by St. Martin. Tho lat
ter was arrested and lodged in jail. Dar
ing the night a mob of colored people,
variously estimated at from one to two
hundred, broke open the jail, took the
prisoner and literally riddled him with
bullets beyond all recognition. It
supposed he received the contents of co
less than fifty gnns.
Washington, September 15.—There is
considerable interest in official and diplo
matic oircles over the coming presenta
tion of the Chinese Embassy to the Pres
ident. It is intimated that the Minister
will ask that the same privileges be al
lowed the Chinese in this oonntry as are
extended to Amerioans in China, and that
the same protection be afforded.
Chicago, September 15.—The offioial
report of General Miles regarding his re
cent operations with the Bannocks dis
proves the story he had been surrounded,
and states tbat on the 4th instant, he sur
prised tho hostiles with the results tele
graphed from here Thursday night.
Eleven Indians were killed and 31 taken
prisoner?. Two hundred ponies were
captnred and Captain Bennett of the 5th
infantry and two friendly Crows killed.
Worcester, Mass., Sept. 15.—Isham
Lewi?, colored, became infatuated with
Miss Hannah Courtney, aged nineteen,
and, became she repelled his advances,
laid in wait for her last evening and cat
her throat. Lewis escaped.
Portsmouth, N. H., Sept. 15.—Orders
have been received to get the United
States steamer Ticonderoga ready for
sea. She will be the flag-ship of Com-
medore Shufeldt, now ohief of the Bu
reau of Equipment and Becrniting. She
will have a roving commission, and also
a band. *
Boston, September 15 —James H. Co
hen, while drunk this evening, and en
raged at his wife for refusing to get beer
for him, fatally beat her on on the head
with a plate.
Baltimore, September 15.—The an
nual session of the Grand Lodge of the
United States, I. O. O. F., which was to
have been held in Austin, Texas, but
which, ou account of the fever in tho
Sontb, convenes here, will begin to
morrow. Many members, including the
Grand Sire, have already arrived.
Dayton, Ohio, September 15.—Matilda
Stanley, known as the Gipsy Queen and
reoognized a3 such by all the tribes
throughout the United States, was buried
at Woodland Cemetery, in this city, to
day. She wa3 a woman cf great influ
ence among her race. She died in Vicks
burg last winter and the body was
embalmed and preserved until th3 pres
ent time for final burial. The funeral
attracted visitors from the surrounding
country. Twenty-five thousand people
were present. Bepresentatires of the
prominent Gipey families from all parts
of the United States and Canada have
been assembling here for the occasion.
The procession was a mile in length.
Eufaula, September 15.—At midnight
last night after Waddell and Sanford had
withdrawn and three hundred ballots had
been takeo, the convention adjourned
till Mondaymorning.
Belgrade,September 15.—News cornea
from Bosnia that the Austrian reinforce-
menWhave commenced offensive opera
tions against the insurgent intrench-
ments on the banks of the Save. The
fighting so far has been indecisive.
Trustworthy reports show the Austrian
loss63, between the fourth and ninth of
September, about one hnndred offic3rs
and three thousand men.
London, September 15.—Private ad
vices from Borne, received in Paris, state
tbat Germany defers making any defi
nite proposition for joint action in behalf
of Greece in conseqnence of the opposi
tion of England and the hesitation of
Italy.
Trouble seems to be apprehended in
Scutari. A Benter telegram from tbat
place announces that the Governor has
taken measures to protect the Greek and
Austrian Consuls against any attacks of
the Albanian?.
Bomb, September 15.—Tho Fanfulla
makes a sensational announcement that
the basis of a new treaty between Eng
land and theP irte has been settled, giv
ing Eagianu : .-olectorate over Egypt.
The Fanfulla adds France consents to
the treaty and wilt take part in the man
agement of the finances.
London, September 15—A Renter's
Constantinople dispatch says it is stated
the Porte will not only accept the Eng
lish programme of reforms for Asia Mi
nor, bnt will shortly issue a proclama
tion extending it to the whole Empire.
CAS3ZL, September 15.—Tho Emperor
William hag arrived in good gealtb. He
proceeded to Wilbelmshoe and was en
thusiastically received.
New Orleans, September 16.—Yester
day the Howards reported twenty new
case?, and the Yonng Men’s Christian
Association, fifty-nine. Of tho siok tele
graphers, C. H. Smith, Panl Lelonp, Lu
cius Sheldon, Charles J. Alleyn, Frank
Delaplaine, are convalescing; C. H. Cat-
trell end T. E. Graham are dangeronsly
ill. Mrs. Barnes is still very sick. Her
son has a third relapse from imprudence.
Tno Republican State Convention
meets here tc-day.
Memphis, September 16. — Ninety
deaths were reported yesterday. It is be
lieved tbat many occurred in the suburbs,
which were cot reported.
At Elmwood mauy ocffius were brought
in express wagons and other vehicles
from the suburbs.
Among the dead is Major William Wil
lis, Superintendent o* the Southern Ex
press Company and a leading member of
the Belief Committee, John G. Lonsdale,
Jr., Treasurer of the Committee, Ed
Foster, of the Howards, B. W. Blew, wife
and child, and another child dying.
Dr. McGregor, of Tipton county, Ten
nessee, also died yesterday. Drs. Arm
strong and John Erskine. D. D„ are in a
critical condition. J. W. McDonald, tele
grapher, from Cincinnati, is dead.
Mr. Klatz, o! Mobile is down. Messrs.
Langford and Bryant are doing a noble
work. Of twenty-four Howards only six
aro on their feet—tho others dead or
sick.
Twenty-six physicians report one hnn
dred and seventy-four new cases in the
twenty-fonr hours ending at 6 p. m, yes
terday, against two hundred and thirty-
four the day before.
Vicksbubo, Miss., September 16.—
Fhysioiaus think there is a steady decline
in new cases, bnt fears are entertained,
if very warm weather returns, that the
fever will again icoresse.
There were eighteen deaths yesterday,
nine white and nineoolored. Anong the
new cases iB William A. Fairchild.
Calcutta, September 16.—The fliods
have destroyed npward3 of a thousand
houses in the Jullinder distrio; of the
Fanjanb.
Dunkirk, September 16.—Tho crew of
American Bilk Lavinja, burned here,
have been arrestrd for mutiny and incen
diarism.
New Orleans, September 1C.—Wm
N. Sogers, a wall known stable keeper,
was shot and dangeronsly wounded by
James Finn, an ex-policeman.
Washington, September 16. —The
banking honse of H. E. Offley & Co. eus-
pendedthis morning,
_ Cincinnati, September 16.—A spe
cial dispatch eays George Lynch, living
at Hockley, Texas, was assaulted on Fri
day night, while asleep at home, by a
party who shot him, and thinking him
dead, then murdered hie eight children
with a hatchet and set fire to the house.
The eldest child was aged seventeen.
Suspicion rests upon a man named Boat-
were, with whom Lynch had had a diffi
culty.
Canton, September 16.—Twenty new
cases and one death in the past twenty-
four hours. Dr. Galloway has returned
to duty.
New Orleans, September 16.—Tho
weather is clear and pleasant. Seventy-
three deaths, and ono hundred and eight
new cases. The Masons of Louisiana
are profoundly grateful for aid furnished.
They say ample funds have been received
for the craft in this State.
Washington, September 16.—W. V.
S. Wileon, asserting teller in the Nation
al Bank Bedemption Division of the
Treasury, was dismissed Saturday, and
an examination of his books to-day
ekowed a deficit of one thousand dollars,
which was abstracted on the 9th instant.
Heretofore his integrity was unques
tioned. Wilson wa3 from New Jersey,
and had been in the employe of the
Treasury for fifteen years. He was ar
rested.
H. E. Offisy & Co., bankers of this
city, have suspended and made an assign
ment.
The Secretary of the Treasury to-day
issued the seventy-first call for the re
demption of 5-203. Five millions ato
called in, three millions registered and
two million oonpons bends.
The State Department is advised of
the wreck of the American ship Mabel
Clark on the island Tristan Dacunba, on
the 10th of May last, while on a voyage
from Liverpool to Hong Koug. The sec
ond officer and five season were drowned.
The captain and seventeen were saved.
Memphis, September 16.—There is a
slight docreaso of the fever this morning.
The deaths to noon were not exceeding
forty. The saddest feature of the epi
demic is tbat many who have been ao
tively relieving the distressed, aro dying
or being etricken down. Among the
number are Ed E. T. Worsham, acting
treasurer of the Masonic Belief Board,
and Fast Grand Commander of the Ten
nessee Knights Templar, who had a re
lapse and died yesterday; also W. D.
McGallnm, an active Howard; Horace
H. Briggs, Sir. Kayser, of the Memphis
Brewing Company; B. F. Plummer, W.
K. Thixion, F. D. Berher, E. Marshall,
the Citizen’s Beliof, is djrng.
New York, September 19.—The
Cnambsr of Commerce Belief Committee
received $1,147 in subscriptions for the
fever sufferers. The Citizens Belief
Committee’s total reoeipts to.day were
$383. The Tonro Infirmary of New Or
leans request funds, stating that they had
one hundred and six patients in their in
stitution, and supported five thousand
more. The Brooklyn Boards of Police
and Excise Commissioners report the re
ceipts of the past two days at $591. The
Brooklyn fond to noon to-day was $1,049.
Generous subscriptions from various
other points throughout tho country con
tinue to be reported.
Bomb, 6a, Septembsr 16.—The Ala
bama Irom Company and employes con
tributed two hundred and fifty dollars to
the yellow fever fund.
Baltimore, September 16.—The fol
lowing contributions wore sent to-day
from the Mayor’s offise: To Memphis,
$1,869; New Orleans, $678; Holly
Springs, $254; Greenville, $547; Yioks-
burg, 1,207. Total oontribntions (o date
received and distributed for the Mayor’s
office, $34,191.66. Collection, in accord
ance with the circular letter of Archbishop
Gibbon?, was taken in the churohesof
this diocese yesterday. Baturas from
the chnrobesin this city, os far as receiv
ed, amount to nearly $4,000.
Washington, September 16—A tele
gram from Baltimore eays the yellow
fever benefit given to-night at Ford’s
Opera House is the greatest yet given for
that cause. The receipts will exceed the
New York benefit. Fire thousands tick
ets were sold.
Mobile, September 16.—The Can’t-
Get-Away Club made the following re
mittances to-day, in addition to those
already made: Fivo hundred dollars to
Memphis; $400 to Vicksburg; $150 to
Helly Spring?; $100, each, to Baton
Bouge, Grenada, Grand Junction, Canton,
Port Gibson, and $50 to the army of
Northern Virginia, Louisiana division;
$50 to tho army of Tenceseee, Louisiana
division, and $25 to the Fireman’s char
itable Association.
Vienna, September 16.—A correspond
ent of the FreePresse has interviewed
General Phillipovicb. Tho General de
clared be was confident tbat be would be
master of Bosnia four weeks hence.
Madrid, September 16.—The Political
announces that the Cortes will meet on
the 2d of December, after King Alfonso’s
return from his tour among the northern
garrisons.
Lowell, Mass., September 16.—The
Bepnblican committee of the 7th Con
gressional district will hold a convention
October 23, to nominate a successor to
Butler.
New Orleans, September 16.—In Ba
ton Bongo yesterday the deaths were 2;
new cases 74. To-day, no deaths; new
cases 34. Total deaths 29. Total cases
541.
Cincinnati, September 16.—Advices
from Charleston, West Virginia, aro to
the effect that travel is yet suspended on
the Chesapeake & Ohio railroad. There
is a heavy blockade of freight and pas
sengers. The damage to the road below
Cannellton and Hinton, West Virginia,
is very heavy. Kanawha river is now
falling.
Montgomery, September 16. — The
Tallssee factory and mills m Elmore
county, Alabama, were sold to-day by
the decree of Chancery for a quarter of a
million dollars, and purchased by W. A.
Chase, of Georgia.
Baltimore, September 16.—After the
reading of tbe usual reports, the various
committees were announced and the
Grand Lodge adjourned until to-morrow.
No representatives were present from
Louisiana.
New Orleans, September 16.—There
was no quorum in tbe Republican State
Convention on account of tbe quaran
tines which would prevent a number
from returning to . their pariebe.-.
It was decided that the chairman of tup
State Contral Committee should call a
convention to assemble some future time.
Tbe Congressional Conventions will be
held in their respective districts. In the
First District Aristides Morey can ba
nominated if he wishes, and Governor
Habn in tbe Second. These districts,
however, may indorse Caatellman and
Cullom, nominated by the Nationals. In
the Third, Morris Marks is the adminis
tration candidate. Opposition is Bobart I
H. Hiberh The Fifth has abeidy nom- I
ica'cd T. C. Anderson.
THE GEORGIA FttESS.
An Augusta special, of Saturday, to
the Atlanta Constitution, says Mr. Steph
ens is again very iff. “Had two hemor.
rhages from the longs. Dr. Stsimer was
telegraphed for and went up on the train
to-day. Thi3is tbe first time he has
ever had a hemorrhage from the lungs. 1
Judge Claiborne Snead, of Richmond
county court, has resigned that position.
He has held it five years, and with much
credit to himself.
Atlanta cotton merchants predict the
receipt of ever 125,000 bales this season.
The Columbus papers announce tbe
death of Mrs. Samuel J. Hatcher, one of
the oldest residents of that city.
Ws find these items in the last issue
of the Dublin Posf:
On Friday sight Beven masked men
rode np to tbe house of Mr. Willard Gray,
living two miles east of town, and hailed.
As he stepped out on tbe porcb, they
fired several shots at him and riddled the
house with ballets. A rifl9 ball and four
small shot struck the old man in tbe leg,
and one or two small shot etrnck one of
his grandchildren who was inside of the
house, in the back. There is no clue to
the perpetrators of this shameless horror,
But this matter should be looked into,
and the villians should every one be made
to pull hemp. Mr. Gray is a harmless
old man cf abont seventy yearn of age.
The-only thing that can be said against
him is that he has two or three disreput
able daughters.
On last Saturday morning, Mrs. Eve
line B. McLoor was going np the gin-
house steps on Mr. Hughes' Whitehead
place, six miles west of town, when
about half way up, her foct slipped and
she fell forward, striking her left side
across a step, from the effects of which
fall she died almost Instantly.
Specimens of pare copper oro have
been recently found in Oglethorpe coun
ty. What between gold and copper
mines, the people up there seem to have
fina prospect of being “embarrassed
with riches,” as the Parley vons phrase it.
The Air Line Headliyht tells these fear
ful stories:
A gentleman in Habersham comity, on
Tallulah river, has twenty-three sons,
and a man in Gwinnett county is ninety-
two years old and has twenty-two chil
dren, and that he is the beBt hoar in the
county. We don’t doubt it. A man in
Hart county had twenty-seven children
and he and his wife are still alive, hearty
and well. We heard a gentleman, who
stopped out of a storm at the house of a
Hart county friend, Eay tbat be was
amused at tbe old lady calling np the
children and counting them as they came
in the honse. There are a dozen conn-
tieB near the Air Line railroad, in Geor
gia, that conld raise boys enough in the
next twenty years to whip any country on
earth except the United States. ''
Miss Mary Berry, of Jefferson county,
rooked herself off her father’s piazza one
day last week, and broke ono of her
arms, and dislocated the elbow joint of
tbo other.
The Brunswick Appeal wants to know
as follows:
Would it not be true economy, would
it not be true statesmanship, to extend
this road to Atlanta, connect it with the
Western and Atlantic, thus giving the
State a through line connecting with the
far West? Would it not add to the value
of both roads ? Would it not insure the
payment of the debt by the sale of the
two roads when prosperous times return,
as they eurely will ? Would it not in
sure two independent competing lines to
Georgia ports, reasonable freights, in
creased business from the far' West,
speedier development of onr vast mineral
resources, increased value of taxable
property? It yes, what belter time to
bnild? Bailroad iron and material are
exceptionally low, onr labor is at onr
band in our penitentiary convicts, who
might well be used to perform the work.
Bnt a constitutional question may be
raised: That the State shall not extend
aid to internal improvements. We. do
not think this can apply to her own prop
erty which she is trying to bring into the
market. We would like to see this mat
ter argued in tbe Legislature. If there
aro constitutional objections, let them ba
ventilated. If there are none, let tbe
benefits to be d-rived from such exten
sion be discussed, the expenses estimated,
and the increased value of both loads
also be estimated, as well as the increase
of taxable property.*
Its Augusta Chronicle mbs its hands
over tho scare Beast Bntler is giving the
“respectable Republicans” of Massachu
setts, and remarks:
If General Butler is now making so-
oalied “respectable Republicans” feel
somewhat as the people of tbe South felt
it is a oase of righteous retribution. Bnt
no amount of Bntler and his following
oan equal or approach the infamy brought
upon the Sontb, and if Massachusetts gets
off with a doss of her own physio admin
istered by a onoe favorite son, ebe may
thank Heaven that crimes so enormous
are punished so lightly. If the troubles
oi Massachusetts were to end with Bntler,
there would not be much to complain of;
but that oan hardly be expected. Butler
is only the beginning of an “overwhelm
ing soonrge,” wbioh mnat overtake all
commonwealths that wickedly conspired
to raise black barbarism above white civi
lization; that “marshaled carpet-baggers
and soalawags; ” that enfranchised igno
rance and disfranchised intellect; tbat en
throned commnnism and degraded wealth;
that tamed upside down the whole sooial
fabrio and destroyed and dried np tbe
sources of honest industry. It is no long
er safe or wise for tbe Bailers to plunder
the Sonlb, backed by Federal bayonets;
bnt there is nothing to prevent tbe hero
of Fort Fisher from exploding hti powdar
boat in Massachusetts with deadly execu
tion, and foraging upon a people who
applauded him co wildly when he gorged
himself abroad. Butler has gone home,
not to roost, bnt to ravage.
The Savannah News sajs accounts
from tbeOgeeobee rice plantations are
very gloomy. The entire rioe crop has
been greatly damaged in that section,
only three plantations having escaped
injury.
Thus tbe Angnsta Chronicle:
“Senator Hill has read and approved
Mr. Stephens’ letter endorsing Dr. Fel
ton’s independent candidacy for Congress
in the Seventh" District. Feople sbonld
now get ont their ascension robes, for
when Our Ben and the Commoner poll
together in donbie harness, assuredly the
day of judgment drawetb nigh.”
The Albany Advertiser says Mr. Kirke,
late Superintendent of the American
Watch Company at Waltham, Massachu
setts, has bcught Mr. G. 5. Childb’ plan
tation in Dcugberty oounty, and arrived
there last week to take charge of it.
Alio that there is a great demand for
cetton pickers in that sectien just now,
some farmers paying, fifty cents per hun
dred.
Augusta has a cotton tie faotory
which will turn ont 10,000 bundles this
season, which sell for $2.15 per bundle.
Nineteen men are employed.
The Fifth District- Democrats didn’t
do so badly as we were led to expect
from the telegram announcing their ao-
tion on the financial question. Here is
theirplatform]:
Besolved, By the delegates of the Fifth
Congressional District in convention as
sembled, that wa deem it due as the rep
resentatives of Democracy of the district,
to put upon record the following as onr
platform of principles upon the subject
of our National finances:
1. That we condemn the contraction
of the currency—that has - brought so
much min and disaster upon the agricul
tural, commercial and manufacturing in
terest?, of the country, and we demand,
at the hands of Congress, the repeal of
the resumption act.
2. We indorse and demand the remov
al, by Congress, of all restrictions in the
coinage of silver, and the re-establish-
meat of silver as a money metal the same
as gold.
'• 3. We favor the gradual substitution
of United States legal tender paper for
national bank notes and its permanent
establishment as the paper money of the
country—made receivable for all dues to
the government, and of equal tender with
coin. Tbe amonnt of sueh issues to be
so regulated by law as to give the people
assuranoe of stability in tbe volume of the
anrrency and consequent stability of the
value—no farther increase in the bonded
debt, and no farther sale of bonds for the
pnrobase of coin for resumption purposes.
Resolved, further, That we approve
and endorse the payment of all bonds and
does by the federal government as they
fall dne in the enrrenoy of the govern
ment where the same are not payable in
ooin by the original contract. We favor
farther the gradual extinotion of the pub
lic debt—rigid eoonemy—the rednotion
of expenditures in ail branches of the
publio service, and a tariff for revenue
only.
The Conyers Weekly has this to say of
Mr. Blount’d renomiaation:
If any of the Congressional districts m
Georgia do not seem to know what they
want, this cannot be said of onrs. We
want just what we have had for eight
years put—the balanced intellect, the
dispassionate judgment, the wise states
manship and the incorruptible integrity
of Hon. Jas. H. Blount. These are qual
ities which our people know how to ap
preciate as pillars in the temple of the
pnblio liberties; and ont of this apprecia
tion grows the fact that Mr. Blount has
been renominated withont a vote of dis
sent and will bs re-eleo‘ed withont a
ticket of opposition. That thera b ne
man in the district who could fill his
place, we will not say; but we do say that
there is no one who could take it. It
there aro any who think they might take
it, and who propose to try their hand at
that game in tbe canvas of 1880, we ad
vise them to begin early and to work
hard. They will find the time short
enough for the Herculean enterprise.
Whoever helps them we are sure that
Mr. B. will not. No voto or speech of
his in Washington will give ground of
;[nst cr even of plausible exception. He
- a an Achilles without the undipt heel.
Striking at a harmless pigeon with
his whip caused Mr. A. W. Harmon, of
Savannah,a dislocation of his collar bone.
Flague Spots.
New York Tribune.J
Grenada is withont a city government,
and burglaries are frequent. A dry goods
store has been robbed of articles worth
$1,000, and a private residence of $500 in
valuables. A bank containing $6,000 to
the credit of the sufferers is closed and
unguarded, the cashier being sick. An
English setter followed his master's coffin
to tbs grave, showed signs o! grief, re
fused his food, would not leave the ceme
tery, and died near the grave of his lost
friend. In one of the Memphis banks a
relief committee deposited $5,000 and
fled; the money could not be drawn
except on their order, and they coulu
not be found. Well known people in
New Orleans sick of the fever have
their names suppressed ont of considera
tion for the feelings of absent friends.
There are one hundred whites and seven
hnndred negroes remaining in Brownsville
Teen., and the negroes are bolsterons
and insolent, boasting that they will do
nothing, and will oompel the whites to
famish them food. Three imported oa
ses have appeared in Nashville, one of
them being a student at Fisk University,
who is in a critical oondition. In & street
in New Orleans forty-three Chinese Jan
borers, failing to get work on a rloe plan
tation because of the owner’s alarm from
the fever, were found huddled together
In a starving oondition. Abont two Iran-
hundred and fifty refngees have arrived
in Chioago daring the past ten days.
Large numbers of people have gone
through to points in Wisconsin and Min
nesota. Kate Coffman, who was called
the belle of Grenada and “the most beau
tiful woman in tbs South,” is among the
dead, her father and mother having died
also.
Tito Best Cultivated County lu
Amorim. -
New York Times 1
_ One of the very beBt cultivated coun
ties in the whole Bspnblio is said to be
Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, origi
nally settled by Mennonites, Moravians
and Danders, who fled from Germany
and Holland to avoid persecution daring
the eighteenth century. They were a
mining and agricultural people, and their
descendants to-day follow the same call
ings that their ancestors did. Lancaster
was laid out in 1729, and was the fonrth
county in the State. It contains 928
square miles; the value of the farms is
estimated at abont $80,000,000; of its
agricultural products nearly $20,000,000,
and its minerals some $16,000,000. The
population is abont 226,000. The farms
.are small, from 60 to 100 acres generally,
a farm of 200 being very rare. These
are seldom sold. They are handed
down from sire to son—the Pennsylvania
Dutch, as they aro commonly named,
being among tbe mo3t industrious, thrif
ty acd conservative of people. They
have changed very little in the last 150
yeais, having the same notions, habits
and prejudices that they had a century
ago. They are not enlightened in any
sense, bnt they work hard, pay their
debts, prosper materially and mind their
own business. If the Americans gener
ally understood farming as they do, this
country would be the garden of the
world.
ABOLITION IN CUBA.
The Slave Owners to be Bobbed
as They were fu the United
Watts
By telegraph to the News and CourierJ
New Yobk, September 12.—A letter
from Havana, dated September 7, sayt:
Cuban journals wbioh formerly hardly
dared to call slavery by its real name,
aro now discussing means for its aboli
tion. It appears that all parties are
gradually coming to tho conviction that
pecuniary compensation to the owners of
slaves is quite ont of tho question, for
the amonnt wonld be very large, and the
treasury of the Island con’d not raise it.
The eolation of the Blavery question will
ultimately bs with the Spanish Cortes,
and it is therefore of the utmost impor
tance that men should ba eleoted cn this
Island who are free from party spirit,
and with a full knowledge of the country’s
peculiarities and necessities, and who
wonld be able to impress the Cortes with
what iB really needed.
Decisions of tbe supreme Court
ol Georgia, Delivered Septem
ber 3d, 1878.
Abridged from the Atlanta Constitution byN
E. Harris, of the Macon Ear.
Kelsoevs. Taylor & Co. Illegality,
from Sumter.
Jackson, JT. Incase of the death
of tbe presiding judge and the verifica
tion of the hill of exceptions under sec
tion 4255 of the code, the plaintiff in er
ror must use deligence to proseente his
case to the next term of the Supreme
Court, and if it appears on the face of
the record that the counsel drew his affi
davit on the 6th of Jnly, and delayed to
take the oath until the 26th of Jnly, and
thereby lost a term, and no satisfactory
reason therefor appears, the writ of error
will be dismissed.
2. In suoh case the verification of the
counsel for the plaintiff in error must be
supplemented by that of “at least one
disinterested member of the bar who was
present at the trial,” and the affidavit of
such member of the bar must be certain
both as to his presence at the trial and to
the facts certified to be true; otherwise
the case should be dismissed on this
ground also.
Bill of exceptions dismissed.
Usry vs. Sanlsbnry, Boapaes & Co.
Foreclosure of crop lien, from Sumter.
Jackson, J. 1. An averment that
“since the said same became dne, the
said Sanlsbnry, Bsapaas & Co., by their
agent, th9 said James M. Bateman, have
demanded payment thereof of the said
William Usry,” is a sufficient averment of
a demand upon Usry as the owner of the
crop and maker of the lien, the faot that
he was such and that Bateman was the
agent of the plaintiffs appearing else
where in theaffidavit to foreolose the lien.
2. If it appear from the date of the
judgment of foseclosure and of the levy
that the exeontion most have been issued
between those two dates, and that every
step was taken in time to foreolese and
enforce the lien, the omission by the
oleik to date the fl, fa. is not fatal to the
case.
8. A draft, signed by William Usry and
endorsed by him and addressed to Sauls-
bury, Bespass & Co., Maoon, Ga., and
promising to deliver to them ootlon
enough to pay it, or in defaolt of snoh
delivery to pay the sum speoified to them,
is Bnffloient to bind Usry as the maker
and endorser thereof, thongh made paya
ble to tbe order of blank—the blank be.
ing left Refilled with the word “myself.’
4. A levy nponoorn in February, 1874,
under an exeontion issned upon foreclos
ure of a lien npon the crop of 1873, is
sufficient, especially when it is pointed
out for levy by the defendant.
Judgment affirmed.
Chappell vs. Boyd. Complaint, from
Webster.
Blickley, J.—1. When ihe wife sues
her husband’s creditor, in an action of
complaint for money had and reoeived by
the creditor for the wife’s use, the faot
' eing that the money was paid by the has
and to the oreditor on a debt of the hus
band, tho oreditor knowing that it was
the wife’s money, the husband need not
be made a party defendant—certainly
not, unless there is a plea for abatement
for non-joinder. Chit. Fl: 46; 54 Ga.,
637.
2. It is not a lawful investment of the
wife’s money by tbs hnaband for the lat
ter to bay land, give his two notes for
the purchase money, take a bond for ti
tles to himself, and, when the first note
becomes dne, pay it off with money be
longing to the wife, giving the creditor
notice that it is his wife’s money, and
leaving the other note unpaid, and the
legal title in the vendor, he (the hus
band) retaining the bond for titles, with
no transfer of the same to his wife, or to
any person for her us9.
3. When the husband paid the wife’s
money on his own debt for land, and then
conveyed the land to her, leaving half of
the purchase money unpaid, he having
only a bond for titles, she is not estopped
byaocepting the deed from suing the
vendor for her money, the conveyance
from her husband to her never having
been allowed or approved by a court of
competent j nriediction.
4. A claim to the land, interposed by
the wife in resistance to a levy made upon
it as the husband’s property for a bal
ance of the purchase money, and a ver
dict and judgment in the claim oase de
claring the property subject, will not,
upon the dootrine of res adjudicates or
former recovery, bar an action againat the
oreditor in her favor for money of heris
which the oreditor received from her hus
band in discharge of a note given by the
husband for a part of the purohaee money
the creditor knowing that the money
whiohhe received washer’s.
5. The wife having-no power to con
sent to tbe application of her money to
her hnaband’s debts, has no power to rat
ify snoh application, even on compensa
tion being made to tar by her hnaband in
property,- without the allowance jor ap
proval of a court of chancery, or of the
Superior Conrt of the oonnty of her dom-
loil.
6. Until suoh allowance or approval is
had, tbe property oonveyed as compensa
tion is not the property of the wife abso
lutely, and unless she aotually derived an
Inoome" from the same, or had the use
thereof to the exclusion of her hnaband,
she is not ohargsbls with rents or profits.
Suoh title as rests in her is provisional
and dependent npon future allowance or
ratification by the oonrt having compe
tent jurisdiction.
7. If tbe oreditor of the husband to
whom the wife’s mcney has been paid has
anydaim upon the wife for rents or
profits of the property oonveyed by tbe
Husband to the wife as compensation, it
is only by way of snbrogaff on to the hus
band’s rights and in order for the creditor
to recover snoh rents or prefi's, whether
by action or by plea in the nature of cross
aotion, the hnaband must be a party, and
the evidenoa must be such as wonld estab
lish a liability either et law or in eqnity,
in favor of the husband against the wife.
Judgment affirmed.
A Prayer far tbe Times
At tbe recent meeting of the bishops
of the Protestant Episcopal Church in
the United State?, the following form of
prayer was prepared, and recommended
for the nse during the prevalence of
yellow fevers
Almighty God, onr Bsfuge and
Strength in time of trouble, give ear to
onr prayers in behalf of Thy people who
at this time are suffering under grievous
sickness and mortality, and hide not Thy
face from them in this season of their
distresp. Remember them in mercy, not
in wrath, and stretch forth Thy mighty
hand to stay this pestilence. Heal the
sick, and deliver them not over unto
death. Cover with the Bhield ol Thy
protection all those who 'are exposed to
danger. Strengthen the weak-hearted;
comfort the bereaved afod desolate; and
give to them that Jare sorrowful beanty
for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning,
and the garment of praise for the spirit
of heaviness. Bestow Thy blessing npon
those at home and abroad who minister
to the relief of the afflicted. Sanctify
this visitation to the good of this whole
nation, humbling onr hearts, binding ns
in sympathy one with another, and by
Thy graoe making us a people serving
Gcd and working righteousness. So may
we live to honor Thy name and extol
Thy mercy; through Jesus Christ enr
Lord. Amen.
Tbe Cotton Crop of 1877-8,
4,811,265 Bales!
The New York Commercial ana Finan
cial Chronicle’s circular, delayed by the
storm in its transmission to this point, did
not reach ns until Sunday. The follow-
ing is its report of the crop of the last
cotton year compared with tbe year pre
vious:
Year ending Sept. 1,
3877-78. 1878-77.
Receipts at the shipping
ports. bales™™....... 4,315,645 4,CSS,141
idd shipment, from Ten
nessee, etc, direct to
manufacturers ... ™... 817,689 300,382
Total..™ 4,663,265 4,833,428
Manufactured South, not
included in above 143.000 147,000
Total cotton crop for the
Year, bales 4,811,265 4.485.423
The result ot these figures is a total of 4811,-.
265 bales as the crop of the United States for the
year ending August 31,1878, We are much sur
prised at this remit, as it is 60,000 bales more
than we estimated it.
The Chronicle makes the average gross
weight of these bales 480.10. The largest
crop, in number of bales, was pro
dnoed in 1859-60, and was 4,823,770, or
12,505 baleB In excess of last year’s crop;
but no doubt far short of it in aggregate
weight of lint.
The aggregate product of cotton since
the war, say from 1865-6 np to this time,
has been 45,637,665 bale?, whioh would
show an average yield of 3,510,582 bales
a year. Tho average product of the first
three of theEe years was 2,262,381 bales.
The average product of tbe last three of
these years was 4,655,325. The gain in
the annual crop of the last thirteen
years as shown by these figures wonld be
2,392,944 bales, or more than donbie. In
other words the cotton crop has more
thandonbbd in the last thirteen years.
The rate of progress in the fatnre may
be considered problematical. As the
planting operations of the past fonr or
fire years aftsr the war were mnoh em
barrassed by the general unsettled char
acter of tha times, the prodcot was not a
normal one, and tbe comparison with the
last three, when order was restored and
industrial operations moving on qnietiy
wonld, of course, show abnormal results.
The orop, however, is increasing its di
mensions rapidly, and it is gratifying to
note that, although consumption is now
laboring under serious embarrassment,
yet it has, on the average, gained on pro
duction.
Of the cotton crop of the United States
the Chronicle's circular estimates that
American spinners consume abont 1.546,-
293 bales, and the remainder finds market
abroad. The spinning power -of the
world is now estimated at 7.500,000 bales
of 400 pounds each, and is constantly
increasing _
Bast Week’s Cotton Figures.
The Chronicle, of the 14th, re
ports receipts at ail the ports for the
seven days ending Friday night, 13th in
stant, at 47,431 bales, against 12,109 the
corresponding week last year. Total re
oeipts since the 1st instant, 73,329 bales>
against 17,994 to same date last year—
showing an increase of 55,335 bales.
The interior port businoss ot the week
was aB follows: Receipts, 24,463 against
8,628 bales the same week last year m
Shipments, 15,471 bales, against 8,853.
Stock, 18,971 bales, againbt 16.272 last
year.
The Chronicle’s table of visible supply
on Friday showed 1,090,588 baleB,
against 1,554,657 at the same date last
year, 1,811,397 the year before, and 1,-
712,699 in 1875. This shows a decrease
of469,099 bales on the visible supply of
last year at same date, a decrease of 720,-
839 on the supply of 1876 and a decrease
of 622,141 on the supply of 1875.
Middling upland was quoted at 6} in
Liverpool last Friday. At same date last
year it was 6 i, in 1876, sixpence, and in
1875 6 15-16.
Those is nothing ot importance to note
in tbe orop sitnation as depicted by the
Chronicle’s Friday telegrams. Unseason
ably cool temperature is complained of
everywhere. Eastern Texas represents
the orop foliage stripped hy the caterpil
lar, bnt pioking is generally represented
as making good progress. No reports
from Louisians, and little or flothing
from Mississippi. Alabama reports the
weather clear and cool, and orop move
ments free. Madiaon, Florida, bad seven
inoheB of rain daring the week, and orop
somewhat damaged by storm. Nothing
important from Georgia.
Another Fat Man Reduced.
H. A. Kufns, dealer in dry geode,
Woo ahull, Ill., writes Botanic Medicine
Cc., Buffalo, N. Y., June 22,1878:
“Gentlemen—Please find enclosed five
dollars, for which send me. by express,
Antr-I^t. I have taken one bottle and I
lost five and I lost five and one-quarter
pounds.” aepl7d w a w It
By the exercise ot the moat judicious
management, the Grand Central Hotel,
New York, has very oleverly turned the
tide of trade in its direction, not less by
the sweeping redaction of its rates than
-through its excellent management.
‘‘Sonny,” remarked a mother to her
young hopeful, “if boys were half aa
patient in their attention to their studies
aa they are In learning how to skate on
rollers, they would be perfect angels.”
“That’s ao, Mama,” said the boy, “hut
then they wouldn’t have near so muoh
fun.”
Tax latest report we have Been from
Sev. Ut, Landrum was to the effeot that
his case was alight one and he was do
ing vary well.
Mr. Blount’s Acceptance of the
Nomination.
Millsdgevj»e, Ga., Bept. 4, 1S7S.
Hon. JamesH. Blount, Macon:—It is the
pleasing duty of the undersigned to ad
vise yon of your nnanimons nomination
to represent the Sixth Congressional Dis
trict in the Forty-sixth Congress, by the m
convention which assembled in this city*
to-day, and to ask yonr acceptance of the
same,
In this connection we beg to tender,
onr cordial congratulations npon this re
newed evidenoe of appreciation of yonr
past services by your constituents.
We are very respectfully,
Jambs J. Conner,
Rcb’t C. Humber,
E. P. SpbeB.
Maoon, Ga-, Bepember 10th, 1878.':
Messrs. James J. Conner, Bob’t C. Humber
and F. P. Speer: v v .
Gentlemen—Yonr letter of the 4th in
stant informing me of my nnanimons'
nomination for congress by the Democrat
ic convention ot the Sixth congressional
district, and requesting my aooeptanoe of
the same, has been reoeived.
Suoh a compliment, coming from a
body, representing a constituency nnsnr- .
passed for intelligence and devotion to
the rights of the States, and the liberty of
every citizen, awakens my profonndest
gratitude. X aooept the position tender
ed with the assurance that whatever of
public experience I may have acquired
shall be earnestly given to advanoe wise
legislation and restore a fraternal feeling
which shall look to the prosperity and
peace of every portion of tiffs great oonn-
try.
As it is my purpose to address the peo
ple of each county of tbe district on snch
important subjects as pertain to Federal
legislation and in which they are espe
cially interested, I shall not refer to them
now.
Yon have kindly cengratulated me npon
the fact that this nomination Is evidence
of appreciation for my pa3t services. As
sneh it excites far more pride than the '
position assigned me. It has been my
ambition that my official life should he
productive of some valuable results and
if in this I have succeeded, I conld ask no
higher reward.
Wishing each of yon success in life, I
am gentlemen, very truly,
Yonr friend and obedient servant,
James H. Blount.
Potto a Good Use.
Philadelphia Times. |
Eugene Hale had a brave word to say
as he was borne from the field on an am
bulance. It was that after all,the Maine
election was a mere skirmish and the party
would soon get over it. The best thing
about the skirmish was tbat Hale hap
pened to ba standing on the skirmish
line and stopped one of the bullets. His
body was never pnt to a better nse.
Ihe North Carolina Senatorshlp.
Washington St&r.J
Ex-Senator Abbott, of North Carolina,
is in the city. He say3 that Governor
Vance, of that State, will succeed Sena
tor Merrimcn, whose term expires the
4th of March next. The Legislature
stands 100 Democrats to 70 Republicans
and independent Democrats. At the
last Senatorial contest Vance was de
feated by Merrimon and the Old Line
Democrats and Independents. Vance’s
support was the Bourbon element. This
time Vance is going to have the Old
Line and Independent support, while
Merrimon will depend on the Bonrbons.
This revolution was brought about, it is
said, by Merrimon’a lukewarmness to
ward his former adherents.
The Renomlnatlon of James H.
Blount* of Georgia.
New York World.]
The Southern people, true to their tra
ditions, are retaining their ablest and
most experienced Representatives to the
next Congress, and most of the Southern
members of that body will enter its hall
equipped with those great advantages
wbioh experience and a knowledge of men
and things and the ways of legislation
confer npon those who pocssss them.
Conspicuous among these members who
have just been renominated is James H.
Blount of Georgia, who has already
served with distinction in three consecn*
tive Congresses, and is now second on the
Committee on Appropriations, and one
of the most influential members- of the
House.
The Bea«t ou Use Maine Election.
Interview in Bostcn Globe/]
It is claimed that although the Gre en-
backera were casting an unexpectedly
large vote it was drawn largely from the
Democratic party. Yet the Bepnblican
party is the one that has been beaten.
Ferhaps it can be figured ont by some
body that there have been no Bepnblican
changes. Tho Maine election will have a
very great effect upon Pennsylvania.
Indiana, Ohio and New York. It will
give the party in those States hope
where they have had no knowledge ef
their strength before. Yon ask, “And in
Massachusetts?” I answer, it will not
have so orach effeot in Massachusetts, be
cause we had all the hope and confidence
before and onr enemies all the soars.
Bnt the election in Maine settles one
thing. Either the Demooratie party
most unite with the Greenback party, or
the Greenback party trout unite with the
Democratic party. So that practically
there will he bnt two parties in 1880, as
in 1860, except, perhaps a few fossils
who will form a sort of Bell-Everetbparty,
and with abont the same effeot that that
>arty had. The Maine election, also,
ias almost settled the question of the
majority in the next Honse of Represent
atives. The Bepnblican?, the beet they
could do, conld figure out but six, and
now they have lost two of those.
Congressman Hale’s Successor.—Mr.
March, who haabeensleoted to Congrees
by the Maine greenbackera over Mr.
Hale, is the secretary of a stoneouttera’
union, and has been the headeentre of
all the strikes and troubles on the granite
islands. In his speech accepting the
nomination he said that he had never
seen the inside of a aohoolhonse since he
was sixteen, that he was not a speaker,
and that he did not own a dollar’s worth
of property.
TAx Democrats of this country, saya
the Knoxville Tribune, who have snffered
so mnoh during the last fear years hy
Republican misrule and mismanagement
can not afford to ran the slightest risk o
losing control of the next Honse of Be
preservatives. The condition of the
country has been steadily growing worse
under Bspnhlican rule, and something
must be done to ameliorate the condition
of the masses. The Democratic party is
the only party which promises this, and
which has strength enough-to keep its
promisee. No side movements oan prove
of any avail. See to it that the Demo
cratic party continue to control tbe legis-
‘ latnre ot the nation.