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Telegraph & Messenger.
SUNDAY MORNING. JULY 1C, 1871.
Tlie Rnrean Cotton Statement.
The night dispatches, on Friday, brought the
first official Bnrean estimate of the growing
cotton crop. It is made by comparing the per
centage of condition with last year in Jnly.
Let ns tabulate their statement thus:
North Carolina....
Booth Carolina....
Georgia
Jnly, 1870.
94
96
101
Jnly, 1871.
99
100
82
Florid a ,,,,,,,,
98
88
Alabama
102
81
Missisippi
95
80
Louisiana
101
Texas
97
93
Arkansas...
101
90
Tenneasee
85
98
970
886
This shows a condition of the growing crop
on an average of States eight and
four-tenths
per cent, below that of Jaly 1870.
It is to be
noted, however,
the percentage for 1871, is
THE GEORGI A I'ltLSS.
lowest in tbo heaviest cotton States—for exam
ple : In Georgia it is nineteen per cent, below
last year—in Alabama twenty-ono per cent; in
Mississippi fifteen; in Louisiana twenty-six;
in Arkansas eleven—an average of over eigh
teen per cent, in the five heaviest cotton States.
Looking at tho aggregate cotton crop as repre-
Rented by all tho States, according to their pro-
dactivo ratio, this table would make ontlhe con
dition as a whole to bo somewhoro abont fifteen
per cent, more unpromising than last year.
This tablo refers alono to the condition of the
crop and not to tbo acreage, or area in cultiva
tion—for tho Bnrean has already reportod that
to bo abont ton per cent, less than last year.
Tho two bases of calculations, taken together,
would therefore represent tho crop as it ap
pears in this month of July, abont twenty-five
per cent, bolow last year; and this tho reader
will see would foreshadow a crop of abont
3,189,500 bales.
The report, however, talks abont nineteen per
cent relatively lower condition, leading to abont
the same conclusion, (say 3,200,000 bales;) bnt
we cannot soo where the nineteen per cont
cornea from, unless made np of the above aver
age condition as to Statea and tho ten per cent,
falling oil in acreage. Bat it is manifest that
it is the condition of tho crop in the great cot
ton States and not the smaller ones, which is
chiefly to determine the volume of production.
An average reduction vastly modified by five
per cent, improvement in North Carolina, four
por cent in South Carolina, and thirteen per
cent, improvement in Tennessee, would give a
totally false idea of the aggregate crop, the
great bulk of which must come from Georgia,
Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas and
Texas. And then, too, we fail to see how nine
teen per cent, off from the crop of 1870 would
result in 3,200,000 bales. It would be some
where about 3,450,000 bales.
This, of course, is all loose figuring from very
uncertain data. The Agricultural Department,
however, prudently puts a wide range on its es
timates—from 2,900,000 to 3,500,000 bales, and
no insists on a falling off of 750,000 bales from
last year, outside of nil contingencies.
A kerman, Grant, the 'Washington Chronicle
and tho North Carolina Ku-klux negroes seem
to bo about the only mortals who are trying to
kick np a row on that subject at this time, in
these United States. Akennaa has appointed
one Lusk as “a special Assistant District Attor
ney,” to go down to North Carolina, probably
to blood hound the traok of the Robeson county
people who have started after tho negro outlaws
tnat have so long terrorized over that connty
and killed four of the sheriff’s posse a few days
ago. Does any man credit Akennan with the
slightest disposition to conserve public order
and morals with his Ku-klux enginery ? Could
he get any honest or candid Radical to say that
ho was even suspected of such a motive ? These
- men, we believe, wonld bless any negro violence
whioh should only provoke a corresponding vio
lence from tho whites. Peace is not what they
want—but trouble and disorder, to be used in
the interests of Radical electioneering. Our
politicians are foaming at the mouth over 1 ‘plat-
forma" and “now departuresbut to get rid
of those traders in public mischief is platform
■ enough for any sensible Southern man.
In a Dilemma.—Tho New York Radical pa
pers are in a Bad dilemma. After exhausting
objurgation upon Superintendent Kelso, for for
bidding the Orange procession, they are puzzled
how to avoid landing Hoffman fur cinnter-
manding the ordor. The most of them do
avoid it, and even denounce Hoffman, too; but
they are evidently embarrassed by the awkward
ness of the dilemma.
The Lease Cases.—In the Supreme Court,
Friday, upon motion of counsel, No. 18 of Ma
con circuit, which is the Mayor and Council of
Maoon et at. vs. the Central Railroad Banking
Company and the Macon and Western Railroad
Company was put with the other cases between
the same parties which has already been set
down for a hearing on the 20th inst., or at the
heel of the docket which may then be up.
Fanot Sketch or Maoon.—The Journal of
Commerce is a very sober and ruthful paper
but the reader will find in this paper a sketch
of Macon taken from its columns, which, how
ever flattering, he wonld regard with some dis
trust, if be did not know it was from the Jour
nal of Commerce.
From Sweden.—Dr. L. Knorr, Corresponding
Secretary of the Georgia Immigrant Aid Sooi-
ety, gives notice that the fast and staunch sail
ing ship Alamo, Capt. Weissenhorn, will sail
from the Swedish port of Gothenburg, direct
to Savannah, towards the end of August next.
Fare $35 in gold.
Habpkbfor August.—Brown ,t Co. have re
ceived the August issue of this magazine. It
is a very good number, though perhaps a trifle
“heavy” for this hot weather. Light reading is
about all people have patience for, with mercu
ry gamboling up among the nineties.
Mbs. D. A. Dadd, of Iowa, has had three
children in fourteen years, exclusive of eight
pairs of twins, all of which are living. It is
strange that Dadd, the daddy of these little
Dadds, can see nothing seductive in suicide.—
Courier-Journal. ^
Miss Mary Cargill, a very popular young lady
of Columbus, died last Thursday.
On Monday last the town of Madison voted,
by 10C to 2, to subscribe $20,000 to the Griffin
and MadiRon Railway.
A “ traction road engine,” the first ever
brought to this section, arrived at Savannah
last Tuesday. It was built at Paterson, N. J.,
at a cost of $5000, for the Central Railroad, and
will be used for hauling logs for milling pur
poses at No 9 on that road. It is eight horse
power, weighs five tons, and will haul fifteen
tons with ease. It has fixtures for eight plow
shares, and can plow, thresh rice, cut wood, or
do any kind of work that can be done by the
plication of steam power.
The noted desperado, William Oxford, was
taken from Augusta to Washington connty, for
trial, on Thursday.
The Savannah News, of Friday, quotes the
following Western Press dispatch relative to
the defalcation in the Savannah Custom House:
Custom House Defalcations. — For some
time past the Treasury Department has had
reason to suspect that the affairs of the Savan
nah, Georgia, Custom House were not being
conducted altogether satisfactory, and conclud
ed to set a watch upon proceedings. Reports
received here charge that a defalcation has been
discovered amounting to $27,000, $8,000 of
which are covered by false vouchers, and the
balance by extra charges for lights, fuel and
other matters not authorized by law. Tho Col
lector's bondsmen are understood to he Govern
or Reed, of Florida; Governor Bnllock, of
Georgia; Ephraim Tweedy, of Angnsta, Geor
gia, and General Littlefield, of North Carolina,
and ono other party of Ohio, whose name is not
known. It is understood that a prominent
party of Savannah is now on North for the pur
pose of raising funds to cover the default.
Apropos to tho above, tho Washington Re
publican says:
The case of Wellmau, charged with a defal
cation of $11,000 in the Savannah custom
house, will bo taken up by Secretary Boutwell
on bis return. Tbe Department exonerates
Collector Robb of dishonesty, and believes that
the abstraction was done entirely by Deputy
Collector Wellman, thongh Collector Robb, it
is assorted, was very lax in allowing Wellman
entire control of business with only nominal
supervision. Tho friends of Wellman are en
deavoring to raise monoy to make his defalca
tion good.
Tho Nows, in anothor paragraph, states that
Robb, the present collector, says tho defalca
tion occurred during Ex P. G. Jus. Johnson’s
administration, and that it then amounted to
$17,000. The News also says tbo rumor is that
there will soon bo an entire change in tho offi
cials of that institution.
The steamship General Barnes, that sailed
from Savannah to New York, on Thursday, car
ried 10,342 watermelons as part of her cargo.
There were three sudden deaths at Savannah,
Thursday—Messrs Thos. Shea, a well known
painter, John Sherlock, formerly a dry goods
merchant, and Wm. A. Baker, bar keeper.
Smith, the negroleader of the black Ku-klux
who attacked the house of Angus Red, on Beach
Island, South Carolina, killing a white man
named Low and wounding two white women,
a week or two since, was delivered up to the
South Carolina authorities by the Augusta po
lice, Thursday evening.
Three more prisoners escaped from Houston
connty jail, last Friday morning just before
daylight—Phil Lampkin, and Dan Miller and
wife. The people down there speak of shutting
np prisoners in a ten acre lot with a six rail
fence, for safe keeping, hereafter.
Dawson “bets her pile” on a poplar tree
ninetoen feet in circumference, and a 'simmon
sapling two feet in diameter.
Squire Aiken and Jerry Dixon, two suffrage
sliDgers of the charcoal Btrata, retired in good
ordor from the Americas jail, last Tuesday
night.
Boully, of the Lawrenceville Atlas, has seen
a rattlesnake 54 feet long minus its head, and
measuring 13 inches round, which was killed
by Mrs. John R. Robinson, of that county,
with a hoe, a few days since. But the Quitman
Banner trumps Boully’s trick with a snake six
feet long, and B. is now hunting for a seven
footer.
Tho stand of 15lh Amendments down in
Brooks county is beiDg thinned ont. Andrew
Jackson persuaded Boss Johnson into a coffin
with a dirk, and another darkey named White
did likewise to a fellow loylist, with a gun, one
day last week.
Tho editor of the Quitman Banner don't know
the difference between tho bud from a Catalpa
bush and a cotton boll, and tho planters around
there are having dead loads of fun ont of him.
The hog crop of Brooks county is boing de
stroyed by cholera.
Daring a heavy storm at Greensboro, last
Thnrsday, tbe Episcopal church and several
other building were struck by lightning.
The Washington Gazette thinks Wilkes coun
ty will make two thirds of a cotton' crop, and
with one more season so pinch com, that farm
ers “will pay to have the surplus hauled off out
of their way.”
The Atlunta street railway is progressing
rapidly.
The dwelling honse of Mr. Parker, on Hun
ter street, Atlanta, was, with its contents, burned
yesterday morning.
The Era says the Episcopal congregation of
Atlanta, will soon call Rev. Robert Elliott—
son of the late Bishop—to the rectorship of
their church.
The Era makes this mention of a new Epis
copal church edifice which it is proposed to
build in that city:
Another ornament to the city will be the new
Episcopal Church, drawings for which have been
made by the same gentlemen. Tbe present plan
carried out will be novel in design and prove a
magnificent edifice. Whether it will successfully
rival the Roman Catholio Church is a question
which we presume can cnly be decided by the
congregation. If the proponed plans are carried
In Chicago personals are made up in this
touching vein: “T. J. Falls was his name.
And I shall not deny, with regard to the same,
That ho oame from Shanghai, And he pnt up last
Digbt at the Sherman, Considerably close to the
sky-" -
Cotton appeared to stagnate yesterday in
Liverpool and New York, under the Agricultural
Bnrean estimate. That need not scare them.
PAS8ENOERS bound Northward will please note
the advertised schedule of the Macon and Au
gusta Road.
A Philadelphia belle lately appeared
at a Cape May ball in a dress all of white lace
made in Brussels, at a cost of $7,000.
Cmr Money.—We find the following para
graph in the Americas Republican of Friday
Macon “City Council Money” is refused by
the railroad agent at this place, and the city
brokers only accept it at a discount. What a the
matter?
New York Itiot—Terrible Scenes.
The Orange procession proved to be a very
small affair—numbering scarcely 200. It or
ganized at their headquarters, corner of Twen
ty-eighth street and Eighth Avenue, and moved
down the street between two lines composed of
soldiers and one thousand policemen, extended
for the length of eight blocks. Immense crowds
lined the avenue all the way down, and had col
lected at every point of observation. It was
assailed with missiles and shots three times on
the rente, but there was nothing like a deter
mined onslaught in force. The military return
ed the fire at Twenty-sixth and Twenty-fifth
and Twenty-fourth streets, in each case with very
fatal effect, and in none of them with distinct
orders from the officer in command of the firing
regiment The temper of the rioters was ex
ceedingly violent One dispatch illustrates it by
this anecdote, showing how a boy and the wo
man and child were killed :
A Newark lad, while riding on the top of an
omnibus, displayed an Orange handkerchief.
shot from a pistol struck him and he fell from
the stage dead.
The following is the correct account of the
killing of a woman and little girl, supposed to
have been Mrs. York and her daughter, as given
By an eye witness: I was standing looking at
the procession and the crowd, and there was a
great deal of excitement. Directly I saw a wo
man waving a handkerchief to the Orangemen
and I thought she was very imprudent, or had
more courage than women generally have. Just
at that moment, while she was in the act of
waving her handkerchief, a burly ruffian
stepped up to her, and, placing the muzzle of
his pistol to her ear fired, and she fell dead.
He then turned around and, deliberately cock
ing his pistol, fired a bullet into a little girl,
and she fell. I think the little girl must have
been twelve or thirteen years of age.
The spectacles after the fusillades by the
military, and tho scenes of grief and misery
following were horrible. A dispatch says:
Tho scene after tho soldiers fired on the cor-
ner of 8th avenue and 24th street was enough
to make the stoutest heart quail and turn sick.
The dead and dying lay thickly strewn upon the
bloody pavements, and the very gutters ran
with gore. Within twenty feet of the muzzles
of the musket, with upturned countenance, over
which the gray color of death was stealing, lay
well dressed man, with blood pouring from
his breast. Just beyond him lay another, dead.
In front of a liquor store, whence shots were
fired at the soldiers, lay half a score of disfigured
bodies. One man with his face all shot away
was rolling from side to side in speechless,
dying agony. Near him were two others with
their brains protruding from shot holes in their
heads. Not far away a confused heap of female
apparel marked a woman shot through the head
and body. She had partly fallen upon two men
who lay near her.
out, we think it will be a model church in the
land. It is proposed to seat from 800 to 1,000
people, according as galleries are added or omit
ted. The style will probably be the perpendicular
gothic, which is at once substantial, light and or
namental. Tne'church is cruciform in shape.
On the left, looking towards the altar, will be
the pastor’s vestry. On the left, in the opposite
space, the organ and choir. The committee, so
far, who have examined the plans, approve of
them, and we hope they will be adopted. It is
proposed to erect this church on the lot oppo
site the Oity Hall. Tbe estimated cost will be
from $50,000 to $00,000. It is proposed to floor
it with marble. In fact, if the plans are car
ried ont it will be a beautiful church, and
credit to the congregation.
An Erie Canal Steams iat.—List Sunday the
New York 8tate Commission went np the Hud
son for the purpose of testing steamers adapted
to navigate the Erie Canal, without creating
swell enough to impair the banks. The premium
offered is $50,000, and $50,000 more if in 1873
il shall have proved of practical value. Strange
to say, that man of various opportunities, Andy
H. n. Dawson, of Georgia, is there with an in
vention which he says will revolutionize canal
navigation. He has stuck a propeller in the bows
of bis boat and claims that it will run 148 miles
a day, while the horse boats will only make 36,
and it will do for five dollars what it now costs
eighty-six to do with horses. Andy says it will
revolutionize canal navigation and transport pro
visions to New York from the west 50 per cent
cheaper than now. Whoever expeeted to see
in Ancy the Pshnurns of an improved steam
canal navigation, abdicating his throne as king
of parts of speech.
Henry Ward Beecher preached the other
Sunday from the text: “My soul cleaveth onto
the dust.” It certainly does; and a twenty-
thousand-dollar salary is a pile of dust well
worth cleaving io, too.—Courier-Journal.
Ilotv u Kentucky Poker Player Came
to Join the Church.
The Courier-Journal, in the course of an ar
ticle on “The Gambling Mania,” relates tho
following experience of a disgusted poker
player:
Au unhappy friend of ours, who has led some
what of the life of a sad dog of late, but who
may now be seen any Sunday sitting pretty
high np in Dr. Oraik’s church, a swinging of
his feet under the pew and looking as pious as
men usually look when they have been disap
pointed in love or unlucky at cards, has commu
nicated some facts to us, in confidence, the pub
lication of which seems to be justified by the
ends of good morality.
“Sir,” says he, “I have studied the cue papers,
and you know that I know the whole science of
chance. At one time I had a dead thing on the
faro-banks. As‘to the game of poker, I con
sider myself the best poker player alive, both
mentally and physically. But there is no use
fighting against luck. The run of the kiard3,
sir, will beat any living man—it’ll beat the old
est poker-pftiyer in the world, sir—and it beat
me. What do yon think, begad ? Why. sir, at
one sitting, by jingo, they beat a king full for
me, several flashes and three accs repeatedly !
I can’t play against no such luck as that, you
know. Of course not. I just set, sir, like a
baboon rubbm’ a boar’s back, whilst everybody
preyed upon me. If I had a flush somebody had
a full, and if I had three kings somebody was
sure to have three aces, and that’s tho way it
went for six hours, until they beat me ont of
abont—well, dam it, there’s no use specifying
amounts—but a good deal of monoy. I thought
I was playing it like a lonmed pig, and they
thonght I was playing it like a blasted Jackass,
whioh was the fact. So, I have jnst dropped
ont of tho horizon, like the prismatic tints of
the evolutionary rainbow—in point of fact,
joined the church, begad.”
Tbe ARansns Democracy Endorse tUe
‘•New Departure.” 4“
The Arkansas Democratic State and Congres
sional District Committees, met at Little Rock
on Tuesday last, and adopted the following
resolutions :
1. Opposing the calling of a State convention
till the National Democratic Committee have
issued a call for a National convention.
2. Disclaiming their right to make a platform,
but recommending to the earnest consideration
of the people the address of tho Democratic
members of Congress.
3. Indorse the platforms of the Democrats of
Ohio and I’enusy lviiuin, as embodying the liv
ing issues upon which the National campaign
should be made.
4. Opposing all secret political organizations
as being destructive to the best interests of
society.
5. Recommending to the people the protec
tion of the rights of all citizens irrespective of
race, color or previous condition; but, while
doing this, we shall earnestly demand oar own
rights by all legitimate means.
6. Calling on the people of the State to give
a cordial support to all Democratic papers, and
indorsing tbe course of the Hon. J. M. Hanks
as a member of Congress.
The Fastest Horse.—At tbe Saratoga Races
last Friday, the dispatch says Longfellow made
the first mile in 1.40—the best time ever made
in this country. This mnst be a mistake, a cor
respondent of the Commercial Advertiser says:
“Longfellow looks like an elongated Chatham
square hack horse. His head is homely and
clumsily put in. He is not 17 hands high, as
reported, but measures 1GJ. Color dark brown,
stallion, aged four, sired by Leamington, dam
Natnrah by Bronner’a Eclipse. He starts off like
a camel charged with electricity, but, by-and-
by, when the electricity is gone, he settles into
a steady, rolling gait. Then his strides become
monstrous, and without apparent effort he shoots
by everything on the track. Longfellow ha3
run six races, all of which h6 has won. Thongh,
when he was a three-year-old, he was beaten
when sick by Eoquirer. He ran in Lexington,
beating Pilgrim—time 1.37. From there he
went to Nashville, beating Morgan Scout with
out effort, and ran in Memphis, healing Mor
gan Scout and John Morrissey’s Defender. He
also ran in Cincinnati. At the Branch he has
jnst easily beaten Helmbold, Regards and
Breakneck. Longfellow did 1.44 by Harper’s
old silver watch this morning.”
Longfellow belongs to John Harper, a Ken
tucky farmer and an octogenarian, who said to
the correspondent' that if Longfellow beat the
race he should value tho horse at $ 100,000. He
had been offered $60,000 at Long Branch, and
declined it. „
An OvEBSiGHr.—The apprehension of a seri
ous disturbance has been so. much greater in
this city during the past week than in any sec
tion of the South since the war ended, that it
is rather snrprising-to find no mention made of
the Enforcement Law lately passed by Con
gress. Tho operation of that enactment was
extended to every part of the United States,
and it so happens that the first occasion for call
ing ont the mihtiry force to suppress illegal
gatherings is furnished in New York to-day—
yet the State authorities prove themselves equal
to the emergency. E'even regiments of New
York, and several others in Brooklyn, are under
arms to-day, ready to make short work with aDy
riotous demonstrations. The State is capable
of taking care of itself, even in the face of a
threatening and organized mob. If this is tbe
case in New York, why not in a Southern State
—especially when no State of the South has yet
been required to display the military power that
this city exhibits to day ? We can get on yery
well here without the Enforcement Law, riot or
no riot, and the Southern States can also get
on without it. We note the contrast, as one of
the curious things of the day. and commend it
to the attention of the President.—Afew vs *”*‘
Commercial Advertiser, {Rad.)
INCREDIBLE POWER OF A STORM.
A Train Blown from the Track—Immense
Destruction.
The telegraphic reports in no way exaggerated
the tremendous force of the storm which re
cently deyastated a portion of Nebraska. In
the country near Omaha serious mischief was
done. A number of people were killed, and a
vast quantity of property destroyed. The
house of a farmer, J. R. Jester, was lifted bod
ily from its foundation by a furious blast and
whirled through the air five rods or more, stun
ning and bruising the frightened inmates. In
the same town nearly every house was unroofed,
the wind tearing the roofs off like pasteboard.
For miles the fine com fields and wheri; fields
have been rained. Says the Omaha Herald:
A procession following the corpse of Lewis F.
Thompson was overtaken by the tempest about
four mile3 west of this city. Mr. Ireland was
one of the first to see it coming, and, being a
strong man, he jumped out, hoping to be able
to hold the carriage to tho gronnd. Bnt his
efforts were fruitless, the vehicle being twisted
out of his grasp and overturned. Nearly every
team was lifted bodily from the ground. A car
riage in which Mrs. Thompson, Mrs. Ireland,
Mrs. Scott, and other near relatives of the de
ceased were riding, was capsized. The hearse
ran down into a hollow, where shelter was af
forded. O6o lady was taken up from tho gronnd
and carried a distance of two hundred feet in
the air before she could regain her feet The
men could not stand upj but were thrown about
at the mercy of the wind.
The afternoon train on tho Fremont and Elk-
horn Valley Railroad was struck by tho storm
between Scribner and Crowell, and the three
coaches were lifted from tho track, thrown
down the embankment, and turned upside down
in the ditch. One side of tho engine was lifted
eight inches from tho track, but tho coupling
broke, and it fell back again. Nearly every
passcDger was more or less injured. John Mo-
Clary, of Norfolk, received a fractured skull;
hisjwife was braised beyond recognition ; their
son, Johnnie, bad his skull fractured. Robert
E. Farley’s shoulder was dislocated. The left
arm of Dr. A. G. Beebe, of Blair, was broken
above the elbow. Conductor McLeod’s shoul
der was broken. Lew. Reed, of this city, was
on the train, but escaped with only slight
bruises. But ono mile from tho wreck of the
train, the house of Nathan Austin was picked
up by the wind, carried about 100 feet, and torn
completely into pieces. Mr. Austin was crushed
to death in the wreck by falling timbers. His
daughter escaped with her life, thongh she was
soverely injured.
The Union Pacific Railroad express train,
which had drawn np to to the water tank at
Lone Tree, was backed away from the building
when the approach of the storm was noticed
and not a moment too soon, for the windmill
and building fell immediately afterward with a
fearful crash. As the storm swept about the
train, shaking it tremendously, the employes of
the company hurried toward the sleeping-cars
which were considered the safest from being
the heaviest, and they said that the passengers
were nearly all dn their knees praying for mer
cy, for not one expected to escape alive. Im
mense hailstones fell at this point, and a dis
patch received from there said that none were
smaller than coffee cups. One was found that
actually measured twelve inches in circumfer
ence. In the city twelve houses were blown
down and destroyed. The roof was tom from
the back side of the depGt; the kitchen of tho
hotel was blown down; the telegraph poles were
torn from the ground; a box freight car, whioh
was standing on a side track was demolished;
the frame was blown down an embankment, and
the truck was taken up by an opposite current of
wind and thrown on tho main track. Files of
lumber were whirled in every direction.
Tbe operator telegraphed that “a woman was
picked np by the wind and carried a quarter of
a mile at the rate of a thousand miles a min
ute.” A gentleman named E. Phelps, living
near Lone Tree, was killed, his daughter fatally
injured, and every member of his family more
or less bruised. The storm there continued
about ten minntes, and its traok was abont ten
miles in width. Within that limit every field of
grain was entirely destroyed. At Blair the
Sioux City and Pacific round house was blown
down, and the watchman, with his son, narrowly
escaped from the ruins with their lives. Mr.
Boston’s honse, abont one mile from the town,
was tom to pieces, but fortunately no person
was injured. Tho loss in buildings and crops,
which is immense, cannot now be estimated,
and it is probable that further loss of human
life will be reported.
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Louisiana Crop Prospects.
We find the following synopsized extracts—
"from its country exchanges—in the New Or
leans Picayune, of Wednesday:
Tho Madison Journal reports crops improving.
The Sparta Rural Times reports tho com crop
seriously injured.
The Abbevillo Flag says the cane in Vermill
ion parish is very promising, and our planters
have reason to look for an abnndant yield.
The Tensas Journal, of July 8, says: The
crops throughout tho greater portion of tho par
ish have improved very much, indeed, during
the past two or three weeksof favorable weather.
Corn will donbtless rally under the last rains and
fill out better than anticipated.
This from the East Feliciana Patriot, of Jnly
8: The weather for the past few weeks has
beenfavorable forthe crops—dry and warm, with
occasional showers. Should it oontinue and the
worms not come, we may safely expect a cotton
crop only one-third less than that of last year.
Of corn in this parish there will be only half
enough raised to meet the wants of planters.
According to the Register, the prospects for
a good sugar crop in Plaquemines are most
cheering. Rice is also doiDg well.
The Democrat has from all quarters still dis
couraging accounts of the crops in Rapides.
The com crop will be a failure; cotton with a
good season from now out, may reach a scant
half crop. Even the cane orop is far from be
ing good. Most of the plant cane will do pretty
well; as for the stubble, it will not yield seed
cane.
The Sugar Bowl says the crops on Bayou
Bceaf, L’Oure, Blaok and Teriebonue are doing
well for the most part Several of the planters
are still in the grass, and many have laid by
their cane crops. Corn and cotton will be short
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS
NOTICE
TO CONTEACTOES, BUILEEES,
AND LUMBER MEN.
QEALED 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 be seen now at the office of Major Fuss,
Architect. Other plans and specifications can be
seen on next Thursday, at the office of D. B. Wood
ruff, Architect
Proposals will be received for famishing 600,000
feet of Framing Lumber, delivered at any Railroad
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.
MACON LODGE NO. 5, F. A. M.
M EMBERS of this Lodge will attend a Regular
Communication TO-MORROW (Monday)
EVENING, at 8 o’clock. All brethren in good
standing, aro fraternally invited to attend.
By order of JNO. G. DEITZ, W. M.
W. F. Grace, Secretary. jolyl61t
ICE. ICE.
F ROM this date wo aro prepared to retail Ice at
No. 88 Cherry street. Sunday hours 7 to 8)4
. ai. and from 12 M. to 1)4 r. si.
jull6 tf S. T. & B. P. WALKER.
PLEASANT SUMMER RETREAT.
B OARD for the summer months may bo ob
tained at tho residence of the undersigned,
at the railroad village of Tunnel Hill, Georgia,
eight miles above Dalton and fivo miles from Ca
toosa Springs. The place is remarkable for health,
fino wator and bracing atmosphere, and tho propri
etor boing an experienced physician, can render
modical aid to any who may desire it. Terms $25
per month; por weok $8; one third less for chil
dren and servants. Apply, before coming, to
DR. It. C. WARD,
jul!6 8t Tunnel Hill, Georgia.
WORKING HEN’S CANDIDATE.
A. C. AUD0IN offers himself to the voters of
Bibb county, as a Candidate, on the part of the
Workingmen, for Tax Collector of eaid connty, and
if elected will give bond and de the duties of the
office eati8factoriiy.
A CAKD.
While absent from the cty “many friends” have
asked through the columns of the Telegraph and
Messesgeb, if I wonld run for tho 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 inn 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,
jnlylltd WM. D. RAINEY.
FOB TAX COLLECTOR.
We are authorized by the many friends of Jxo.
W. Stubbs, to announce him as a candidate for
Tax Collector at the ensuing election on the 23th
inst. julyll td«
FOB TAX COLLECTOR.
We are are authorized to announce P. M. HEATH
as a candidate for Tax Collector of Bibb county, at
the election to be held tbe 28th inst.
jn!9tf “MANY TAX PAYERS."
FQR TAX COLLECTOR.
EbitobsTelegraph: Announce W. T. NELSON
a candidate for Tax Collector, at the special elec
tion on the 28th inst.—subject to regular nomina
tion, if any is made.
joI9ide MANY VOTER?.
WANTED.
B Y an experienced Teacher, a sitnalion in town
or country. References given if required. Ad-
dress
jull5J3twlt* CARHART & CURD, Macon, Ga.
C1 EORGIA, TAYLOR COUNTY.—Whereas Anti-
\JT nett Daniel (wife or Jas. W. Daniel), of said
county, Leona F. Daniel, AuriUiaE. Daniel, and La
den A. Daniel, have applied tor exemption of per
sonalty and setting apart and valuation of home
stead, and I will piss npon the same at 2 o’clock
p. m. on Tuesday, 1st day of August, 1871, at my
offioe.
jull5 2t JAMES D. BUSS, Ordinary.
NOTICE.
U NDER and by virtue of a resolution of the City
Council of Macon, the Tax Books will •
closed on the 15th day of Jnly next. All persons
who fail to make their returns by the time speci-
Tork I fied will be doubly taxed.
J jun29tf J. A. HcMANUS, Clerk 0. C
Macon and Augusta Railroad.
MACON AND AUGUSTA RAILROAD,)
' Macon, Ga., July 15,1871. j
T RAINS on this Road will run daily as follows
(Sundays excepted):
Leave Macon 0.30 A. m
Arrive at Augusta 1 45 p. M
Leave Augusta 12.00 m.
Arrive at Maoon 7.10 p. m
No change of cars between Macon and Augusta.
Close connections made at Oamak for all points on
tbe Georgia Railroad and its branches.
Passengers going North leave Augusta at 6 p. si.
via Columbia, Charlotte and Richmond—making as
quick time and as close connections as by any other
route.
S. K. JOHNSON, Superintendent.
jallCeodlm
CHLORIDE OF LIME
COPPERAS, CHLORIDE OF SODA.
Darby’s Prophylactic Fluid,
CARBOLIC ACID,
And other cheap Disinfectants.
HUNT, RANKIN & LAMAR, Druggists.
For tke Sickly Season.
QUININE, CALOMEL, BLUE MASS, OPIUM,
MORPHINE, CASTOR OIL,
And everything in our line of business, in quantity
and of tne best quality. We offer special induce
ments to dealers.
HUNT, RANKIN & LAMAR, Druggists.
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TURNIP SEED,
L ANDRETH’S New Crop, 1871,
Just received and for sale by
G. E. SUSSDOBFF.
GREEN AND BLACK TEA,
The best brought to this country,
For sale by G. E. SUSSDOBFF.
COAL OIL, Ten barrels prime, for sale by
G. E. SUSSDOBFF.
‘WINE SAP” TOBACCO, for sale by
G. E. SUSSDOBFF.
CONGRESS WATER, ten cases, for sale by
G. E. SUSSDOBFF.
QUININE, P. and W.
G. E. SUSSDOBFF.
CALIFORNIA BRANDY, No. 1.
G. E. SUSSDOBFF, Druggist,
jnly 16 tf Third and Mulberry streets.
PLANTERS, TAKE NOTICE,
BACON. BACON.
3STOW IS THE TIME TO BUY *
%
BURDICK BROTHERS
J+
Will soil you BACON, for CASH or on TIME as low as any house in MIDDLE GEORGIA.
CORN. GORIN CORN.
We are prepared to fill all orders for CORN, and cannot be undersold. We guarantee satisfaction.
Send your orders to
BURDICK BROTHERS.
Flour, Hay, Oats, Lard Meal, Magnolia Hams,
Wheat. Bran, Syrup, Sugar, Coffee. Etc.
For sale as low as any other house. Call and see us t or send your orders, and we will endeavor to
please you.
BURDICK BROTHERS,
Grain and Provision Headquarters,
(NEAR HARDEMAN & SPARKS’ WAREHOUSE,)
63 Third St., Macon, Ga.
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INCORPORATED
1850.
D. F. WILLC0X, Secretary.
CAPITAL,
®350,0001
5fc>y
J. MODES BROirVE, I'm.
The Charter Makes Stockholders Individually Liable.
• - $495,406 45
ASSETS, JANUARY 1, 1870,
Premiums Received and Losses Paid since 1865.
PREMIUMS. LOSSES.
Received in 1865-6 .8103,959 68 I Paid in 1865-6 $69,339 fiS
Recoived in 1867 144,881 18 Paid in 1867. 73.342 12
Received in 1868 .................................... 159 653 711 Paid in 1868 95,283 01
Received in 1869,, 229.601 30 I Paid in 1869 98.761 17
Received inl870 315,018 40 I Paid in 1870 118,468 a
Agents at all Prominent Points throughout the Southern and
Southwestern States, to whom apply, or to
I). F. WILLC0X, Sec’y, Columbus, Ga.
DAVENPORT * SPF.ER, Agent* nt
T.S.POWELL Acenint
wm. J. AXDERSOX, Agent nt
JNO. A. DAVIS. Agent nt
C. C. KIBBKE, Agent at
S. R. WESTON, Agent at
- Americas.
. Cutbbert.
Fort Valley,
■ Albany.
Han-kinsvile.
- Dawson.
mayl4-lawly
WM. W. CARNES, Agent, Macon, Ga.
OFFICE. SOUTHEAST CORNER THIRD AND CHERRY STS.
Sii.’IvA
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IIP
TO PHOTOGRAPHERS
And those Engaged in the Arts.
You will find it to your interest to call on
J. II. ZEILIN & CO.,
Wholesale Druggists.
A Large Stock on Hand.
NITRATE SILVER CRYSTALS.
SULPHURIC ETHER,
CONCENTRATED AMMONIA.
CHLORIDE GOLD
COLLODION, ATWOOD’S ALCOHOL, ETC.,ETC.
Remember the
OLD WOODEN DRUG STORE.
SPECIAL NOTICE.
Our Store is opened for the accommodation of
the sick on Sunday from 8 A- a. until 9 p. a. Night
bell answered two doora below the Store, over
Btowd & Co.’s Book Store jnlietf
A PE.OCI.AIWCHLTI03V.
GEORGIA.
By E. B. Bullock, Governor of said State.
Whebeas, Official information has been received
at this Department that JAMES TOOMBS, a des
perate character, recently convicted of marder and
confined under sentence of death in the common
jail of Houston county, has made bis escape from
said jail and is now at large:
Now, therefore, I have thought ptoper to issue
this, my proclamation, hereby offering a reward of
ONE THOUSAND DOLLARS for tho apprehension
and delivery of tbe said JAMES TOOMBS to tho
Sheriff of Huneton connty, in ordor that ho may be
punished for the offense of which he stands con
victed.
Given nnder my ban 1 and tho Great Seal of the
State, at the Ca itol in Atlanta, this 14th day of
July, in the year of our Lord Eighteen Hundred
and Seventy-one, and of the independence of the
United States of America tho Ninety-sixth.
RUFUSB BULLOCK.
By the Governor:
David G. Uottiso, Secretary of State.
jnll6d3t wit
TOR SAXE.
T HREE desirable residences, with all tho neces
sary out building, to-wit: One on Orange
street, between Georgia avenue and Bond street,
with seven rooms; one on First street, between Oak
and Arch streets, with eight rooms; one on Pinm
street, between First and Now streets, with seven
rooms. For further information apply to
TURPIN <fc OGDEN.
jn!14 3t Real Estate and Insurance Agents.
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. MoMANUS.
apr4-tf City Clerk.
COTTON STATES
Life Insurance Co.
PRINCIPAL OFFICE, MACON, GEORGI4-
Authorized Capital $2,000,000
Guaranteed Capital 500,000
Deposited with State Comptroller for se
curity of Policy Holders 150,000
W. B. Johnston President.
W. S. Holt Vice President.
Geo. S. Obeab Secretary.
J. W. Bbbke General Agent.
J. Merceu Green, M. D Medical Examiner.
W. J. Maoill Superintendent of Agencies.
C. F. McOay Actuary.
INSURE ON ALL POPULAR PLANS,
INSURE YOUR LIFE AT HOME.
ALL ITS FUNDS INVESTED IN GEORGIA.
ALL LOSSES PAID WITHOUT DELAY.
IT IS MANAGED WITH ECONOMY.
ITS POLICIES ARE NON-FORFEITING AF
TER TWO YEARS.
F. M. HEATH, Special Agent,
Macon, Georgia.
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THE MISSES LANE
W ILL open a Boarding School for Young La
dies in New York oity, on Wednesday, Sep
tember 20, 1871. For reference andcirctilars apply
to J. J. Gresham, Esq., Macon, Ga. jullS 3m
ELACKSMITH SHOP.
A LL who desire first-class smith work aro re
quested to call at the Blacksmith Shop of
HOLMES & CLAY,
Near the Passenger Depot, and be satisfied.
S3" Horse-shoeing a speciality, ju’y6 tf
NOTICE.
H AVING 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. 88
Cherry street, and will there be prepared to furnish
tbe public with the best of evetything in onr line,
such as Fancy and Family Groceries, Fruits, Veget
ables, Chickens, Eggs, Euttter, and Caromel Cocoa-
nut. Also, Wines, Whiskies, fine Brandies, and
choice Cigars.
juU4 tf S. T. & B. P. WALKER.
NQTICE.
P ERSONS in want of Rough and Dressed Lnm
ber, Sash, Blinds, Mouldings or any kind of
building material, or any style of honse bnilt, from
a cottage to a mansion or temple, are advised to
call on B. C. Wilder & Son, Third street, near Ar-
tope’e marble yard. Terms cash and very reason
able.
julyll lm B. C. WILDER & SON.
MASQUERADE SKATE AND DANCE.
T HERE Will be a Masquerade given by the Indi
an Spring Roller Skating and Dancing Associ
ation, Tbuisdry, July 20, 1871.
julyl3 7t B-W. COLLIER, McIntosh House.
HOXJSE FOB SALE OB BENT-
A THREE ROOMED HOUSE, with a well of
water unexcelled in the city of Macon, for sale
cheap, or rent, until the first of October. The
place is high, cool, and commands an extended
view of the city. Call soon if you want a bargain,
and save rents. Apply to
B. W. B. MERRITT, City Market,
may 30 tf Or, at This Office.
FLOUR 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
consumers cheap.
julyl3 3t BURDICK BROTHERS.
STUDWELL BROS.,
17 HURRAY ST., NEW YORK,
MANUFACTURERS AND JOBBERS OF
BOOTS AND SHOES
Expressly for
Southern Trade.
JOSEPH LaBOYTEAUX, K«lpsm»n
june 30-3meod
FOR BENT.
A DESIRABLE Brick Honse on upper Walnu*
street. Containing six rooms, with good gar
den, outhouses and water. Apply to
ffi&r25 tf E. PESCHKE.
MONTPELIER INSTITUTE,
NEAR MACON, GEORGIA.
A BOARDING AND DAY SCHOOL
FOB YOUNG LADIES.
THIRTIETH YEAH, 1S71-72.
T HIS Institution will be reopened on Wednes
day, the 13th of September next, tinder the di
rection of its former officers.
REV. J. T. PRY8E. M. A Rector
MRS. H. D. PRYSE......................Principal
The course of instruction will contain all tie
branches of learning, both nseful and ornamental,
usually taught in first-claBS schools for the educa
tion of young ladies.
The school year will be divided into a Fall and a
Spring Term, of 20 weeks each.
CHARGES FOR BOARDING PUPILS.
Board, including Washing. Fuel and Lights, with
instructions in English and Classical departments,
per term of 20 weeks, $130.
An additional charge of $5 will be made for the
conveyance of each pupil and baggage from Macon
to Montpelier, when comiog to entor the Institute,
and a like charge when returning home at the end
of a term.
N. B.—Conveyances from Macon to Montpelier
may be procured, at any time, npon application at
the Livery Stables of Messrs. Holmes A Clay, Ma
con, Ga.
DAY FOR PUPILS.
ENGLISH TUITION, in Preparatory Depart
ment, per term of 20 weeks $20
ENGLISH TUITION, in Collegiate Depart
ment -$'30
Extra charges for French Music, Drawing,
Fainting, etc.
Payment of School charges for a term, invaria
bly in advance.
%* Post-offioe address: “Montpelier Institute,
near Macon, Ga.”
Telegrams for the Institute, directed to the care
of Brown’s Hotel, Macon, Ga., will be immediately
forwarded.
For circnlars and further particulars, apply to
REV. JOHN T. PRYSE.
juU3 6t Montpelier Institute, near Macon, Ga.
JNO. V/. O’CONNOR,
WHOLESALE DEALER IN
BRANDIES, WINES, GINS,
BUMS, ALE AND PORTER.
And sole agont for his Premium Whisky,
Old Monongahela Bye.
Just received—
15 barrels XSXX,
100 cases CLARET and ST. ANDRE,
50 cases CLARET, (HARDY A CO.),
150 M DOMESTIC CIGARS,
Together with a full line of Sherries, Ports,
Champagnes, Jamaica and St. Croix Rum, etc., all
of which will be sold cheap for CASH, or on time
for approved paper.
To Country Merchants, extra inducements will
be given.
JNO. W. O’CONNOR.
Jun21 toctl 60 Cherry street. _
J. E. ELLIS,
MANUFACTURER, CONTRACTOR*
And
LUMBER DEALER.
WHARF-ST., Bet. Third and Fourth, M4.CON, GA
I HAVE leased the large and commodious two-
story brick factory on Wharf street, where I ex
pect to manufacture Bnilding Material in ah lta
styles. I will keep on hand Blinds. Sssb, Door*,
Mouldings, Brackets, Mantles, Ballusters. Door
and Window Frames; also, Rough and Dressen
Lumber of all varieties and sizes. I will bmld an“
ropair houses; fencing of any and all dimensions-
Let the house be ever so small and the fence snort,
I will gladly receive the job and give prompt at
tention. , .
Thankful for past favors, 1 earnestly solicit
share of public patronage. Orders from the country
will receive prompt attention and the goods siup
ped with dispatch.
Terms—Cash; charges moderate'
junell-tf ) J- E. ELUS.