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FRIDAY MORNING. JULY 11, 1871.
Tlie Great Fair or 1871.
Tbs Premium List of the Macon State Agri
cultural Fair to be held on the 23d of October
next and closing on the 27th, is now out. The
range and number of premiums are very great.
We judge from a hasty review of the pamphlet,
that besides medals and other awards, the So
ciety offers not far from $10,000 in money pre
miums, and in addition to this large amount,
the money premiums offered by private individ
uals and associations aggregate a large sum.
Mayor Ilaff alone offers nearly $3,000 in prizes
for the fastest boats, horses, mules and foot
racers. And there is a prize of £5,000 sterling
(say $95,000) offered by the Governor General
of India, through the British Consul at Savan
nah, for a maohine which shall clean Ramie
fibre at a cost of not more than £15 sterling per
ton. There are also numerous other prizes of
fered from privato sources, and altogether, it is
the most munificent proposition that has ever
been made to the public in these parts.
The lists of competition comprehend almost
everything that can well be thonght of, and the
magnitude of the prizes alone will stimulate
and secure a very fall exhibition in evory de
partment of agriculture, mechanics, manufac
tures and domestio industry. Wo shall antici
pate, with entire confidence, the largest and
most gratifying display of Georgia products, at
least, which was ever put before the public.
All the other material arrangements for the ex
hibition are now being prosecuted with the
greatest energy and with great liberality of out
lay. The new exhibition grounds are very con
venient to town, and we are sure will delight
everybody. The Fair occurs at a season of the
year when we may reasonably look for mild and
dry weathor, and nothing will be lacking on the
part of Macon to signalizo this display as the
best over known in Georgia.
Tho New Vorlt Trouble.
The morning reports of the riot in Gotham
are singularly nnsatisfaotory. They give ns
not the smallest idea where and on what ac
count so many people could have been killed
and wounded as reported on Thursday. In
deed, they indioate no adequate occasion for a
fusillade upon the people, which is a terrible
alternative, inasmuch as it slaughters idle spec
tators as well as active rioters. And that there
was nothing in the situation to justify the re
ported slaughter, is to be inferred from the
statement that the mischievous firing was done
by tho Ninth Regiment without orders. It is,
perhaps, almost inevitable to a use of undis
ciplined volunteer troops in such fracases, that
discretion is lost in excitement. But we must
wait for the facts. At present we have none.
A PaxtaxwoBTHT Example.—Rev. Wm. Mc
Kay, of the Congregational or dissonting
Church of England, came to this country since
the war, as the confidential agent and manager
of an immensely wealthy English Company, who
mode large purchases of lands in Dougherty
oounty, and embarked extensively in the culti
vation of cotton.
Mr. McKay, finding no branch of his own de
nomination in this region, and anxious to labor
in his Master’s vineyard, connected himself
with the Presbyterians, and was ordained a
minister by the Presbytery of Macon.
Afterwards, his abounding zeal and liberality
in preaching the gospel without money and
without price, and his untiring energy, procured
for him the position of Chairman of the Com
mittee on Domestio Missions in bis Presbytery.
Since then, at the cost of great personal effort
in visiting and appoaliog to tho churches for
aid, be has done much to supply the spiritual
destitution of his people. All this has been at
his own charges, too, while many generous
benefaotions from his private purse have been
added to the treasury of the Lord.
It gives us unmixed pleasure to boar this pub-
lio testimony to tho worth of a modest and ex
emplary servant of God.
One op the Peovooations.—To give some
idea of the provocations and incitements to vio
lence offered by the New York Orangemen to
the Catholio Irishmen, wo quote the follow
ing vene from one of their favorite songs, and
to the tune of which they aro in the habit of
marobing:
Water, water,
Holy water;
Sprinkle the Catholics, every one;
We'll cut them asunder.
And make them lie under.
The Protestant boys will carry the gun.
(Cbome)— Croppies, lie down ;
Croppies, lie down;
We’il make all the Catholic Cioppiea lie
down.
Is it any wonder that men ivith warm blood
in their veins resent such wanton insults, not
only to their politics bnt their religious faith?
The Orangemen have a right to parade, doubt
less, bnt they have no right to do or say any
thing calculated to provoke a breaob of the
peace. That is our idea both of the law and of
right.
A Poos Speculation.—The papers say the
oost of advertising the new loan which has been
withdrawn from the market as a failure, was
eight bnndred thousand dollars, exclusive of the
expense of Treasurer Spinner’s and Assistant
Secretary Richardson's trip to Earopo in the
proposed interest of the loan, which, it is said,
will oost fifty thonsand dollars more. This
movement, whioh, at an expense of eight hun
dred and fifty thonsand dollars, has eventuated
in the sale of seven millions of new bonds,
must be classed under the head of poor specu
lations. The Radicals, who boast of their great
financial ability and success, must shut their
eyes to this operation.
Fobt Vallet and Pebby Railroad.—Wo un
derstand that all the preliminary arrangements
have been made for the immediate construc
tion of a railroad from Fort Valley to Perry, a
distance of twelve miles. The Oentral Rail
road has the matter in band and has promised
to complete it in time to transport tne present
growing crop. It will ruu through one of most
fortile countries inhabited by the most solid
men in Georgia. They ought to have had a
railroad long ago, but having grown rich and
careless they don’t care mu oh about such things.
Rev. J. L White, recently a graduate of the
Theological Seminary, at Columbia, S. O., hav
ing accepted a call from the Presbyterian church
of AmencnR, has entered upon the discharge
of his duties
Mr. Whit 6 ii a young man of prominence,
and has already created a most favorable im
pression.
The Law and the Testimony.—We are under
obligations to some friend for all the documents
relating to the Atlanta Medical College em-
broglio, and could a tale nnfold by the publica
tion of the same, without championing anybody.
Will either party give us a bid for the job ?
Cost or European Tbips.—The Herald calcu
lates that $120,000,000 aro annually spent by
European tourists from the United States, and
thinks the country could not stand the drain,
except for its wonderful resources and constant
ly increasing productions.
No Holidays fob the Poob —The clerks in
the Now York post-office are in dudgeon over
an order slopping all vacations and holidays.
These are Inxuries belonging to the President
and heads of department.
Immigration to the Sooth.
The New York Bulletin reports that ‘ the tide
of immigration” is settiog iu the direction of
the Southern State*, and has already produced
a notable effect in stimulating the industry and
enterprise of the 8outhem people, and infusing
a new life into many important branches of
prodnetion. This (says the Bulletin) is seen
very prominently in cotton culture during the
present season,” etc., etc. The most of this
will be news to the South. It is stuff. True,
the active efforts of some of our people have
succeeded in bringing a few foreign immigrants
into the territory, bnt they are amere drop in the
bncket—too few anti inconsiderable to make a
riffle in the general current of Southern affairs.
It would be well for many of our Northern
contemporaries, who are fond of dilating npon
Southern prospects and progress, to keep within
hailing distance of facts. There has been, as
yet, no important Northern or foreign immigra
tion to the Southern States, except the horde of
political adventurers who will leave (with a
blessing) bo soon as their occupation and pros
pects are gone and, when they leave, we sup
pose that will abont close np the “tide of
Northern immigration to the Sonth” from that
quarter. Foreign immigration maybe drawn
here by the active efforts of the people, bnt we
incline to the opinion that even this will prove
an np-hill work. The inhabitants of isothermal
climates in Europe are not given to emigration,
while those of colder latitudes seem to prefer the
temperaturo and agricultural products they are
accustomed to.
So, taking into account our own experience
since the abolition of slavery, and also that of
all the tropical regions of the New World, island
and continental, we are disposed to conclude
that the population of most of onr Southern
States will never secure any very rapid or im
portant accessions by Northern or European im
migration.
One would naturally suppose that border States
like Virginia and Kentucky, and such other sec
tions of the Sonth as combine to a great extent
the prodnets and advantages of temperate and
tropical latitudes —such regions, for example,
as Southwestern Virginia, Eistern and Middle
Tonnessee and Northern Alabama, would attract
heavy immigration from the bleak and fierce
climates of the North and West; bnt we see they
fail to do it. These genial aad fertile regions
are steadily passed by and neglected for lati
tudes of eight months' frost and winter temper-
atnres far below zero.
There is no danger, then, that the Southern
people will ever see their individuality buried
under the flood of a mighty Northern or foreign
immigration. We shall never he “Yankeeized”
as some so badly feared—nor Tentonized—nor
Gallicised—nor Celticised. Therefore, it be
hooves ns so much the more to pat forth tho
arm of self-help and independent effort and
seek improvement and progress by onr own ap
plication and economy.
The Southern people can rebnild their own
waste places and repair their own shattered
fortunes, in a very brief time, if they mU do
it. What ought to be the fortunes of a coun
try which can annually turn out maiket crops
worth four hundred millions—as we can do, in
cotton, rice and tobaoco? We have bnt to prac
tice even a loose general economy in order to
aconmnlate great wealth in a few years. If we
would feed ourselves and snpply, as far as pos
sible, the common necessaries of life, we should
soon be armed with the tremondous power of
surplus capital for onr own defence and for fu
ture accumulations. Our people are a frugal
people; but the error they commit is a vital
one in suffering their simplest food necessities
to come from more luxurious countries, where
labor is high, and at an enormous cost of trans
portation. Ho long as this is dono onr crops do
not enrich ns. Stop it and a few successive
harvests would give us abundance of money.
T’lie Rise in tlio Price of Wool.
The New York Snn, of Monday, says there
has been a sudden rise in the price of wool and
woolen goods, and that it doos not appear to
have yet reached its maximum.
Common Mexican wool, which used to sell at
from 18 to 20 cents a ponnd, is selling at from
30 to 32 cents. Carpet wools, usually quoted
at 30 cents gold, aro held at 37£ cents. Capo
wools have gone np from 35 cents to 40 cents ;
Australian wool from 42 conts to 52 cents; and
what aro called extra fleeces, which are a stand
ard in the wool market, like middlings in tho
cotton market, aro quoted at from 01 to 64
cents, as against 47 to 50 cents six weeks since.
Even shearings, which are the short wool whioh
grows on sheep between the time of their shear
ing in the spring and their slaughtering in the
fall, and are used for making hats, sell at 40
cents a ponnd, instead of 25 cents, the old price.
The various woolen mannfactnrers have re
sponded of course to this rise in the raw mate
rial. Carpet yarns have advanced from 37J
cents per ponnd to GO cents per ponnd. Two
and three-ply carpets are 12j per cent, dearer
than they were, and Brussels, which recently
fetched $1 95 per yard, are held at $2 15. All
kinds of woolen cloth and clothing material have
advanced on an average 10 per cent., with an
upward tendency.
The Snn says there are several causes for this
advance, among them a short crop last year
the extraordinary demand for woollen goods
caused by the war in Europe; the yellow fever
in Bnenos Ayres which stopped the shipment of
the article from Brazil; and tho abundant sup
ply of water which enables the woolen mills to
run constantly, and thns practically doubles the
demand for raw wool.
Tito Blodgett-Seuiro Dirf-TDron ing Mutch—
III ml gc It's Dander Up, and a Fight or a
Foot Rare Imminent— He Dismisses the
Subject from “Fnrther Xewspaper'Pnbli.
cation.”
In response to Seago's answer to Blodgett’s
card published by us Wednesday morning—and
which contained little else than a square denial
of all the allegations made by B in that article—
Blodgett lets himself loose in another commu
nication which we find in the Atlanta Era of
Wednesday. He says he has proven Seago to
have been guilty of a readiness to swear false
ly—of foul practices to secure the lease of the
State Road—of nsing false weights to defraud
his neighbor—of an attempt to swindle, and of
“wilful and corrupt falsehood," and winds np
with the following broadside. If the weather
wasn’t so hot np at Atlanta—95 in the shade—
we should certainly expect startling events with
in a day or two. Says Blodgett:
Convicted of these charges, yon now attempt
to escape by throwing yourself on your dignity
—the dignity of a common cheat and swindler,
a person ready to swear falsely npon a mere
pretext—the dignity of him who is pnblicly
proven to be gnilty of falsehood. I denounce
yon as a common cheat and a convicted liar,
and leave yon to enjoy the dignity of your dis
honorable and degraded position. Yon have
won that dignity by your base conduct, and yon
are entitled to enjoy it.
I again reiterate my firm purpose to hold on
to my interest in onr company, and to fight the
present lessees as long-as there is any chance
for onr success. And I am ready, at any time,
to pay my part of the expense necessary to be
incurred for that purpose.
In conclusion, I foel that I am due the public
an apology, which I hereby offer, for having
permitted myself to be drawn into this contro
versy, and having been compelled to 601I my
hands with the base creatnre who is the subject
of tho castigation I have felt it my dnty to ad
minister, and I uow dismiss him and tho sub
ject from any further newspaper publication on
my part. _
The First Open Boll.—The new crop of cot
ton is on its way and near at hand, sure enough.
We saw, yesterday, an open boll, which was
pulled, Wednesday, on the plantation of Mr. Sid
ney Root, in Mitchell county, abont seventeen
miles from Albany. Twenty-four hours more
on the stalk, and it would have been folly ripe
for picking.
THE GEORGIA FREWS.
The Biinbridge Argus says complaints about
the crops are “becoming encouragingly leS6” in
that oounty.
We should judge a few Good Templars could
find steady employment in Valdosta just now.
Men have the “ jim jams” on the streets and
insult and abuse the police and citizens gen
erally. P. S.—We don’t think the Eiberton G.
T.s would do, though.
The Bainbridge Argus Baja:
The Fourth or July in Deoatub —If the 4th
inst. was observed by a citizen of Decatur
county, white or black, we have not heard of it.
Not a picnic, nor barbecue, nor school celebra
tion, nor publio address, nor fire-cracker, nor
popgun, distinguished this national jubilee
from any other day of the year! The havoo tHe
Radical party have made npon the liberties and
constitutional rights of the Southern people has
well nigh crushed out all regard for the once
universally celebrated day which declared the
American Colonies free and independent States.
Jnbilating over that stupendous blander, the
first Revolution, will hardly ever be in order
again in this part of the vineyard.
Mr. Jas. Holtzendorf, an old citizen of Glynn
county, was fonnd dead on the road side last
Friday—supposed from over exertion and heat
Columbus real estate is lookiDg up. The En
quirer says lots in the lower part of the city
have donbled in value within a year.
We quote as follows from the Columbus En
quirer, of Wednesday:
Opening of Bids.—The openiug and reading
of bids for contracts on the North and South
Road occurred yesterday. Owing to the con-
tinned illness of CoL MeDongald, no contraots
has been let np to a late hoar. There were
quite a number of bids—some of them from
very responsible parties to take entire contract
to Rome; others for the 20 mile3 leading out
from this city, and still others for short dis
tances. We suppose we shall soon know who
will be awarded the work. From what we conld
learn from outsiders, the narrow gauge, though
generally favored, had not been positively de
termined npon. Before it is, we should like to
know whether the State aid can be reached on
that kind of a line.
A Live Chuboh —The Baptists of Enfanla,
after completing one of the handsomest churches
in Alabama, last week raised $ 1100 to fresco it.
Thos. Kennedy, a coal passer on the steamer
Wyoming, that arrived at Savannah, Tuesday,
from Philadelphia, died at sea the day before,
from being overheated.
Tho three engineers of tho steamer Rapidan,
plying between Savannah and Boston, weigh
2C0, 350, and 240 pounds respectively. They
serve as ballast, and in case of disaster would
make capital life preservers. This is the Bos
ton notion of utility.
Mr. W. M. Watson, a patriot from Vermont,
who came Sonth after the war to help the peo
ple of Savannah develop their resources, is
very much wanted by his partner, Mr. Grom
well, just now. Watson and $1,700 oLthe firm
money disappeared Sunday, and Mr. C. says he
didn’t leave even so much as a photograph or a
loik of hair, as a memento.
Jas. Halligan, a gentleman who has, for sev
eral months, been loving Savannah benzine,
“not wisely bnt too well,” and who was getting
np quite a reputation as a snake hnnter, jumped
from a window of the Savannah hospital, Tues
day night, and broke bis left leg just below the
hip, besides fearfnlly mutilating tho muscles
and flesh just below the knee by falling on the
spikes of the irate railing below.
The Savannah News of Wednesday, says:
The Burolab Winslow—His Release on a
Writ of Habeas Corpus—Final Discharge—
Departure, etc.—The noted bnrglar who is
known by the name of Winslow in this city, and
who has been in confinement at the poliue bar
racks for the past six weeks or two months, was
brought out on a habeas corpus writ last Thurs
day, and upoo an examination of bis case he
was finaly discharged.
For some time past Winslow has been de
sirous of being released in one way or another,
and in order to obtain his liberty, he has
made several acknowledgmanta. He stated
to Lieutenant Wray, the Chief Detective, a
number of facts in connection with his opera
tions in this and other cities, but every state
ment was made under a promise, and could
never, tinder IhqJ/iw of the State, be used
against him in a court of justice. The parties
who have been the victims of Winslow’s bur
glaries, were placed in a condition to recover
their lost property, or institute proceedings
against him, without a shadow of proof as
to tho guilt of the man, exoept as we have
stated bis own confession extorted from him
under promise of reward It is not difficult to
see which conrso would be adopted by every one
of the losers, and the consequence is nearly
every article stolen from the honse or person
by him while operating in this oity has been re
covered and returned to the owner. Not a sin
gle article was obtained from Winslow in per
son, nor was a letter written to any one by the
officer working np the case. Writing material
was furnished the bnrglar, and he did his own
correspondence. In due course the artiole
would be forthcoming aud Lieut Wray enabled
.to deliver it to tho legitimate owner. Only a
few days ago a tine gold watch and chain, the
properly of Mr. Theodore Crane, Jr., wns re-
tnrncd to him, having been sent from Chicago
to the detective here.
In this way everything of value was recovered,
and no one appearing against the man to prose
cute, he was discharged. But all this was ef
fected upon a promise that when released he
should leave the State, never to return to it.
As soon as he was free again he was shipped
for a voyage to Liverpool, and placed aboard a
vessel with some one to keep a strict watch over
him until the vessel left the port, which was
several days ago.
Herman Dreyer, of Augusta, was found dead
in his bed at 353 King street, Charleston, last
Monday morning.
We clip the following from the Constitution
alist, of Wednesday:
Singular Freak or the Storm King.—The
storm which passed over onr city on Monday
afternoon played wild antics on a gentleman’s
plantation in Beach Island, Sonth Carolina.—
Two adjoining fields, each containing one hun
dred acres, surrounded by a high, strong, and
perfectly new rail fence, were planted one in
com and the other in cotton, both of which were
in splendid order and growing finely. A perfect
hurricane, accompanied by a deluge of rain and
hail, swept over these two fields, leaving the
snrronnding country literally untouched. The
corn was completely riddled by the hail, the
fodder being rendered unfit for pulling, and the
cotton battered and beat down in such a man
ner that the owner is afraid that it is ruined
past redemption. The fencing whioh was as
tsubtantial as rail fences can be made, was pros
trated to the ground, while a large hickory tree,
which had stood in the field for many years, was
tom np by the roots. Several other trees were
blown down, and the area presents the appear
ance of having been swept by a besom of de
struction. Not a drop of rain fell in the neigh
borhood.
Dr. R. B. Anderson, of Roswell, had two of
his ribs broken, a day or two since, by being
thrown from a buggy.
The Atlanta Sun, of yesterday, has the follow
ing items:
The Atlanta Street Railway.—Its Pro
gress, Route and Early Completion.—This
new enterprise is progressing most satisfac
torily for the stockholders. In abont ten days
more the track will be laid from the corner
of Alabama and Whitehall to the railroad cross
ing on Peters street. It is being construct
ed in the most substantial manner, with rock
and cinder ballast, which makes the bed per
fectly solid. The iron used is heavy and strong.
It is the old style, which has its objections, bnt
not serious.
A gentleman who came np the Selma, Rome
and Dalton Railroad Tuesday night, arrived in
this city yesterday, and informed ns last night
of a most atrocions rape, committed by a ne
gro man npon a woman near Cave Springs, in
this State, a few days ago. He escaped for the
time, and made his way to Cross Plains, in
Alabama. Before he arrived there, he got into
a fight and fatally stabbed another negro near
Ladiga. He was pursued, and his retreat dis
covered. One of the party entered the cabin
whero he was sitting and remarked, “John, I
have caught you,” at the same time drawing his
pistoL As he did this the negro made a spring
at the weapon, bat bis captor was too fast for
him, and be missed it He then picked np a
chair with the intention of killing his enemy,
and as he raised it to strike, the man fired at
him, the ball entering just below the eye, and
ranging backwards, lodged, as the negro says it
felt, in the back of his head. He was secured
and earned to the depot, and as the np train
came along, was put aboard, where onr inform
ant saw him and learned the particulars. He
begged his captors to kill him rather than take
him back to the scenes of his first crime, pre
ferring death he said, to meeting the vengeance
of an infuriated neighborhood, as he said.
We clip these item3 from the Hawkinsville
Dispatch, of yesterday:
Crops in Dooly.—We receive conflicting re
ports of crop prospects in Dooiy county. Two
of our citizens have just returned from visits
ont thore. One states that the upper part of
the county will produce an abundance of corn.
The other one says that crops in the lower por
tion of the county are damaged badly. Some
fields of corn are utterly ruined, and cotton is
scarcely over ten inches high.
Great Destruction of Hogs.—We leam that
a new disease has attacked the bogs of portions
of Pulaski and Dooly counties, and that the
mortality is very large. It is not believed to be
the cholera, but is equally as fatal. Farmers
are at a loss for a remedy, and unless the disease
is checked it will entail a serious loss npon
them.
Imprisoned on a Charge of Infanticide.—A
white man named David Wright, charged with
infanticide, was brought to this place Saturday
last and confined in jail on a warrant from
Coroner Luke Sapp, of Dodge county. There
is also a warrant against Wright’s wife, whose
condition will not permit her removal from
home. An inquest was held over the body of
the ebild, which, it is said, was found wrapped
iu a pantaloons leg, and bnried a little beneath
the soil near a stump. The accused parties
have been married about three months.
SicxNEfS.—Chills and fever prevail to a limit
ed extent in the surrounding country, and some
few have been attacked in Hawkinsville. The
doctors have plenty to do, and are anticipating
a heavy business this summer and fall, in con
sequence of suoh an-tfnprecedented fall of rain
the past few months.
A qnomlam Texas Field Hand on Carpet-
Baggers— He thinks They are “Too Weak
to Plough, and too Small to Breed From”
and that “They will Wear «nt onr Ma
jorities.”
We have been very much entertained by a
speech mode by one Matt Gaines, a negro State
Senator, so-called, representing Washington
connty, Texas, in the Legislature, and which
wo find in the New York Sun, of Monday, copied
from a late Houston paper. The extract np
pended will give some idea of Matt’s line as to
the 0. B.’s, and how he proposes to deal with
them hereafter. Said he :
What is called the Repnblican party, is not
the Republican party at all. The black men of
Texas aro the real Republican party. Yon put
the black men on one side and the Democrats
on tho other, and the scattering white men who
call themselves Republicans in the middle, and
they would not be strong enough to lift a flea
into office. I refer to the statistics of my own
county. Tho white vote is 1,553, and only 25
of them vote the Repnblican ticket. The colored
vote is 2,745, and they are all Republicans. It
is time to look at the great power we possess.
It is a sin to have power and not use it. We
could put a bull in office if we wanted to. John
Hancock said that when negroes voted, jacks
and mules onght to vote. We have the strength
in this district to send a jackass to Congress.
Yes, jack or jinny, if you like.
carpet baggers.
It is time for colored people to wake up.
Little fellows like Clark came down here from
Connecticut when everything was in a state of
distraction. We were unorganized, and did not
know what to do, and we took them np, bob
tailed coals, tight pants, little gold-headed cane
and all, and we have fed them long enough on
our own chicken pie. They are unthrifty stock.
'I here is no come-out in them. I am better
fitted for Congress than Clark, and there wonld
be more propriety in my being there by the
side of Greeley and Sumner. These grand Re
publicans, like Ruby from Maine, come down
here, and would make yon believe that they
fonght the whole war through by themselves,
and that they tore Vicksburg down with their
own hands for your freedom, and they will
sleep in your beds with you, no matter how
lousy. No more polling wool over onr eyeB.
There are somo old black men here who have
danced to the musio of the dinner horn, and not
mnch dinner at that, and who deserved chicken
pie, and are better worthy of position than the
imported little worms that have crawled into
so many offices. Those little fellows are too
weak to plongh, and too small to breed. Give
yonr provender to belter stock. They will
wear out our majorities, they never had a decent
suit of clothes till they .came down here from
Connecticut, or thereabouts, and got office.
They used to hang around my desk at Austin,
and nse my stationery, and call mo Senator
Gains. 'When they got office it was Mr. Gains,
and after a while it was Matt. I am tired of
such fellows living at our expense.
An Unpopular View or Crops. |
Editors Telegraph and Messenger: I have
been in some of the counties below Maoon for
eight or ton days past, and for the life of me I
cannot see just and sufficient gronnd for the
universal despondency so outspoken by your
selves and yonr correspondents. Take corn and
cotton collectively and the crops, so far as I
saw, were up to an average of the past five
years. Cotton is not so good, com a great deal
better than in 1870—both together are assuring
that this, after ail that has been said, will be a
good year.
I cannot appreciate that class of people who
loudly declaim that we are rapidly going down
to ruin—that the devil’s claws are leaching ont
and will soon draw us into his red hot oven 1 It
is not true. The actual truth is, we are more
rapidly progressing in wealth than we ever did
before in our lives. “Oh,” says ten thousand,
“ootton brought nothing last year—didn’t bring
near as mnch as it cost, and everybody will have
to run in debt for all they want until another
crop comes to market.” That is not so, either,
for any warehouseman in your city will tell you
that he* has not one-third the applications for
advances now that he had a year ago. This,
then, is the situation, the crop is comparatively
unincumbered with debt—it will be so brought
to market—there will be no occasion to force
sales of mnoh of it, and the New York and
Liverpool gamblers will stand a poor chance
this time to get up comers.
My advice to planters is to make the most ex
traordinary exertions to keep their crop in their
own hands, and demand 25 cents per ponnd for
it. I make the prediction, that before the close
of next February it will be worth that in your
market.
I think upon the whole, that whilst the cot
ton orop of 1871 will reach only 3,250,000 bales,
we will produce nearly, if not quite enough
com and grass to do us. Some sections will be
short—others have more than enough, as is
often the case. But better than aU, our crop
of warehouse papers will be shorter than ever
known. It has been a hard year for yonr 2J
per cent Shy locks, but will, I think, be a good
one for the bone and sinew.
Judge Dryasdust.
A CARD.
While absent from the c : ty “many friends” have
asked through the columns of the Telegraph and
Messenger, if I would run for the office of Tax
Collector. In answer, I would state, that I am
now, as I have always been, subject to the order
of my friends; as it is their wish I will ran the
race. If elected, will endeavor to perform the
duties of the office to the satisfaction of my friends
and the public. I have lived in Macon 42 years,
julylltd WM. D. RAINEY.
FOR TAX COLIJEGTOK.
Wo are authorized by the many friends of Jno.
W. Stubbs, to announce him as a candidate for
Tax Collector at the ensuing election on the 2Sth
inst. julyll td*
FOR TAX COLLECTOR.
We are are authorized to announce F. M. HEATH
as a candidate for Tax Collector of Bibb county, at
the election to be held the 28th inst.
jufifif « MANY TAX PAYERS.”
MASQUERADE SKATE AND DANCE.
T HERE will be a Masquerade given by the Indi
an Spring Roller Skating and Dancing Associ
ation, ThtUBdry, July 20, 1871.
julyl3 7t £• W. COLLIER, McIntosh House.
NOTICE.
TTNDEB and by virtue of a resolution of the City
U Council of Macon, the Tax Books wifi,
closed on the loth day of July next. All persons
who fail to make their returns by the time speci
fied wifi be doubly taxed.
jun29tf j. A. MclUNUS, Cierk 0. 0.
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS
3STOTICE
TO CONTRACTORS, BUILDERS,
AND LUMBER MEN.
OEALED PROPOSALS will be received until the
O 17th instant, for tho erection and completion
of two or more Exhibition Halls, and several other
small Buildings—including one or two hundred
Stables.
Plans and specifications for two of these build
ings can bo seen now at the office of Major Fuse,
Architect. Other plans and spe< ifications can be
seen on next Thuisday, at the office of D. B. Wood
ruff, Architect.
Proposals wifi be received for famishing 500,000
feet of Framing Lumber, delivered at any Bailroad
Depot at Macon. Also for famishing 500,000 good
shingles, delivered on the Fair Grounds.
Proposals to be addressed to Building Committee
on Fair Grounds, care of ‘ W. A. HUFF, _
julyll Gt Chairman Building Committee.
NOTICE.
D URING the summer months our office hours
will be as follows: From 9 a. m. to X P. m. and
from 3 p. M. to 4 p m.
juU4 2t CUBBEDGE & HAZLEHURST.
FOR SAXE.
T HREE desirable residences, with all the neces
sary out building, to-wit: One on Orange
street, between Georgia avenue and Bond etreet,
with seven rooms ;.ono on First street, between Oak
and Arch streets, with eight rooms; one on Plum
street, between First and Now streets, with seven
rooms. For further information apply to
TURPIN & OGDEN.
jull4 3t Real Estate and Insurance Agents.
NOTICE.
H AYING sold out our entire interest in our Old
Stand, near the market, we will now concen
trate our whole business at our New Stand, No. 83
Cherry street, and will there bo prepared to furnish
the public with the best of everything in our line,
such as Fancy and Family Groceries. Fruits, Veget
ables, ChickenB, Eggs, Euttter, and Caromel Cocoa-
nut. Also, Wines, Whiskies, fine Brandies, and
choice Cigars.
jnll4 tf S. T. * B. P. WALKER,
SELTZER
■\TEVER NAUSEATE A WEAK STOMACH.—
JLx The condition of a weak stomach was never
yet improved by cathartic drugs. They merely in
crease the irritation, which it is all-important to
allay. There is no preparation in existence which
so quickly and certainly relieves nausea as
Tarrant's Seltzer Aperient,
Its immediate effect is to soothe and refresh the
uneasy organ. It arrests vomiting or the disposi
tion to vomit, at once, and carries off without pain,
through the intestines, the morbid emetic matter
which is the provocativo of nausea. A dose of the
Aperient will always effectually “settle the stom
ach” after a night’s dissipation.
SOLD BY ALL DRUGGISTS.
ju!14 eod&w2w
NE W BOOKS!
TWO GUARDIANS, by Charlotte M. Tonga.
THE ROSE OF TYPHAINES, a Tale of the Com-
mun in the twelfth century, by Count A. de
Goberean.
JAS. GORDON’S WIFE, one of Appleton’s Library
of Choice Novels. Paper. 50 cents.
WON—NOT WOOED. Paper. 50 cents. One of
Harper’s Library of Choice Novels.
FAB ABOVE RUBIES. Paper. $1.00. One of
Glaxton, Remsen & Hafelfinger’s Library of
Choice Beading-
THE ISLAND NEIGHBORS, a Novel of American
Life Illustrated, Paper. 75 cents.
THE FIGHT AT DAME EUROPAS SCHOOL,
Illustrated by Naste.
julyt4 tf
FLOtJR
J. W. BURKE & CO.’S.
FROM NEW WHEAT!
W E have this day received two carloads of
Cook & Cheek’s Flour, of various grades
from new wheat, which we offer to the trade and
consumer's cheap.
julylS St BURDICK BROTHERS.
BLACKSMITH SHOP.
A LL who desire first-class smith work are re
quested to call at the Blacksmith Shop of
HOLMEA &. CLAY,
Near the Passenger Depot, and bo satisfied.
tBf* Horse-shoeing a speciality. julyG tf
BOARD AND LODGING.
A LARGE, cool, up-stairs room, suitable for a
married couple, or for several young gentle
men as a sleeping apartment, with as good board as
can be obtained in the city, can be secured by im
mediate application at the large brick dwelling on
the comer of First and Pine streets.
JunlG tf
NEW BOOKS! NEW BOOKS!
T
OM PIPPIN’S WEDDING, By the author of
The Fight at Dame Europa’s School.
STRIFE, A Romane of Germany and Italy.
OALORPOD, A late French Novel by Maurice
Sand, (son of Geo. Sand.)
“WHY DID HE NOT DIE,” by Mrs. A. S. Wister,
after the German or Ad Von Volckhaasen.
july 13 tf
J W. BURKE * CO.
HOUSE FOE SALE OR RENT.
A THREE ROOMED HOUSE, with a well of
water unexcelled in the city of Macon, for sale
cheap, or rent, nmil the first of October. The
place is high, cool, and commands an extended
view of the city. Call noon if yon want a bargain,
and save rents. App yto
R. W. B. S1ERRITT, City Market, .
may30 tf Or. at Tbis Office.
FOR RENT.
A DESIRABLE Brick House on upper Wains*
street. Containing six looms, with good gai
den, outhouses and water. Apply to
mar25 tf E. PESCHKE.
STTJDWELL BROS ,
17 MURIUY ST , XK1V YOIUi,
MANUFACTURERS AND JOBBERS OF
BOOTS AND SHOES
Ex.uefcsly for
Southern Trade.
JOSEPH LaBOYTEAUX, Salesman,
jnne 30-3meod
Notice to City Tax-Payers.
A LL persons owning taxable property in the city
of Macon, are required by the city Ordinance
to make immediate returns of the same to the city
Clerk, or subject themselves to the penalty of
double taxation. JNO. A. McMANUS.
apr4-tf city Clerk.
NEW YORK PRIYATE BOARD.
QOuTHERNER3 visiting New York can find
O comfortable rooms and superior board at 53
West Thirty-third street, near Broadway, in the
immediate vicinity of the Fifth Avenue and other
prominent hotels.
Refers in Macon, by permission, to Judge Ward
and James Seymour, Esq. june25 2tw2w
PLANTERS, TAKE NOTICE,
BACON. JBAXJOjN,
USTOW IS THE TIME TO Bird
BURDICK BROTHER;]
Wifi sell you BACON, for CASH or on TIME as low as any house in MIDDLE GEORGIA
conisr. corns coim.
We are prepared to fill all orders for CORN, and cannot be undersold. We guaranty - .. I
Send yonr orders to “‘WirJ
BURDICK BROTHERS
Flour, Hay, Oats, Lard Meal, Magnolia Hard
Wheat Bran, Syrup, Sugar, Coffee. Etc.
For sale as low as any other house. Call and see us, or send your orders, and we will emt* I
please you. •
BURDICK BROTHERS,
Grain and Provision Headquarter?.
(NEAR HARDEMAN * SPARKS’ WAREHOUSE ,
83 Third St., Macon, Ga I
jnn9 5w
THOS. TT. CONNER]
Next to Mix & Kirtland’s, Cotton Avenue. Macon. Ga.,
KEEPS CONSTANTLY A FULL STOCK OF
HATS AND CAPS
FOR MEN AND BOYS,
Of the very Latest Styles, in Silk, Beaver, Felt, Cassimere, Straw and Wool.
MEN’S FURNISHING GOODS
Consisting of Dress Shirts, with Plain, Plaited, Puffed, Embroidered and Full Bosoms—opening in t~
or at the back, or at the side—andtoweur with buttons, or spirals or studs. Checked and *<tcr
Cambric Shirts ; Linen and Paper Collars and Cuffs of every style; Collar Bows and Cravatic'l
styles and colors; Lisle Thread and India Gauze Undershirts; Perfect Fitting Drawers in alls:
LiBle Thread and Bleached and Unbleached British Socks; Linen and Siik HandkerchiefsSusnenC
and all kinds of Gloves, including Gents’ Kids of all sizes, in white, black and all the colors-' '
TRUNKS, VALISES, SATCHELS AND UMBRELLAS,
Of all sizes and qualities and styles, for both ladies and gentlemen.
nmfitf
B. A. WISE & CO
Cherry Street, Macon, Georgia.
Now offer to the public our entire stock of HOUSE-FURNISHING GOODS,
STOVES, CUTLERY,
Silver-IPlatecL and "Britannia Ware,
Brooms, Brushes, Feather Dusters,
PLAIN AND PLANISHED TIN WARE,
At prices LOWER than were ever offered in Macon.
COOKING STOVES.
Onr stock embraces all the latest andbeet improved patterns, among which will be found the celebnt^
“ Cotton Plant,” “ Fire-8ido,” “Master-Piece,’*' “Iron Witch,” “Charter Oak,” Queen of the South,” m- 1
“ Marion.” Wo have now on hand Two Hundred and Fifty Cook Stoves, which we will sell for cask «
on time, for acceptances, till November 1, at prices which cannot bo competed with.
' TINWARE. TINWARE.
Having for tho past twenty years made the manufactnro of Tinware a specialty, we now offer to t» tr '
chants aud bnyeis a very largo and splendid assortment of plain and pressed Tinware.
CUTLERY. CUTLERY.
Importing onr
TABLE AND POCKET CUTLERY.
SCISSORS, RAZORS, ETC.,
And having received a large invoice of
GEORGE WOoTENHOLMS & SONS’ CELEBRATED CCTLEBI
We aie prepared to offor the trade tho best of goods at great barga®
FRUIT JARS. JELLY TUMBLERS.
We are now receiving a large stock of all the best kinds of Frait Jars, tho
MASON PORCELAIN LINED AND IMPROVED MASON JARS,
THE GEM LETCHWORTH AND WIRE TOP-JARS,
Which we can sell at very low prices.
ICE CREAM CHURNS, WATER COOLERS, ICE PITCHERS, REFRIGERA
TORS, BATHING TUBS, SPRINKLING POTS.
And a general assortment of
WOOD WARE, BROOMS AND BRUSHES,
Embracing the largest stock to be found in the city.
ORDERS SOLICITED.
B. A. WISE & CO.,
CHERRY STREET, MACON, GA
m&yll eofi"®