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Telegraph & Messenger.
TUESDAY MORNING. JULY 18, 1871.
SruEiKa for ourself, and os an old line Whig,
wo should havo bat little choice, if any, be
tween Grant on the Keputyican platform, and
any other man on a Democratic platform con
structed of ltadical planks. If the National
Democracy should accept the “new departure,”
it wonld bio necessary to label the party in order
to distinguish it from tbo ltadical party. In
that event we coaid have bnt little choice, be
cause then the contest would narrow down to a
straggle between the ins and the out*, in which
we sboold have no interest. Thousands of old
line Whigs and old fire-proof Democrats in the
South and the North feel the same way.
The above is an extract from a long editorial
in the LaGrange Reporter headed “Our Posi
tion.” We have heard a good deal of such
wild talk but hardly expected it from the Re
porter, whose editor used to be, at least, a sen
sible man. The men who put themselves on
record with such brash utterances will either
have to rub it out, join the Radicals, set up a
third party, or stand idly by and see their
brethren fight the common enemy without
their aid. Mark the prediction. And if those
men, under the malign counsels of loaders
whoso brains seem to have been softened by the
poison of passion, succeed in so dividing and
distracting the opponents of the Radical party
in Georgia as to throw the State into Grant’s
arms, they will havo a fearful account to settle.
That they will have strength to lose Georgia to
the National Democracy we have little fear, but
wo aro afraid somo of them will bo reckless
enough to attempt it.
Now, will the Reporter answer these ques
tions, First: Has it no choice between a friendly
and an nnfriondly administration at Washing
ton ? Second: Has it “no choice” between the
men who devised and pnssod the infamous En
forcement Act and the still more infamous Ku-
klux bill, and those who fought, are still fight
ing , and will, just as soon as they get tho power,
strangle both of these monsters ? Third - Has
it no choice between Hoffman, Hancock, Thur
man, Pendleton, Hendricks, Voorhees, et nl,
Morton, Cameron, Chandlor, Beast Butler,
Brownlow, Forney et al t Fourth: Has it
no choice betwoen an administration favor
ing universal amnesty, and tho policy and
practice of conciliation and good words and
works towards tho South, and one which bitterly
opposes amnesty, and whoso most cherished
principles, so far as wo aro concerned, aro rigid
repression, venom and hate—thieves and scoun
drels to rule and rob ns, and tbo bayonets of
hirelings to control the ballot-box and the voice
of the people as expressed through that medium?
Fifth: Has it no choice between knaves and
honest men—even though tho lattor will not
consent to commit political 7iari kariat the bid
ding of thoso who have proved themselves the
nnsafest of loadors and the most nnprophetio of
prophets? Sixth and last: How can a platform
constructed of Radical planks be a Democratic
platform ? That is something wo totally fail to
comprehend.
Wo should really like cool, candid anwers
to these questions, withont any spasmodic
or dramatic flights and flonrishes. We want
answers that will satisfy plain, practical men
who refuse to shut their eyes to facts and
then swear they don't exist—who have no relish
for batting their beads against a stone wall to
satisfy the egotism or spleen of thoso who aro
insisting upon their repeating that insane per'
formtnee. These practical people don’t say
much and write less, bnt they think a great
deal. When the time comes they will set, too,
promptly, boldly—withont regard to old slogans
and played ont issues—without regard, even
—incredible as it may seem in some quarters—
to pamos and memories once potent to sway
them. Somebodies will havo to “stand from un
bov. Rnllocli himI tlie Iiu-KIni
Co Ell III it tecs.
The Atlanta New Era of Sunday contains a
broadside from Gov. Bollock. It is in response
to certain inquiries :rom the Congressional Ku-
klnx Committee, addressed to the Governors of
all the Southern States, in pursuance of a res
olution submitted in committee by Senator
Blair, wanting to know all about the debts, and
taxation and election laws in these so-called re
constructed States; to which tho Governor re
sponds in four columns. Tho Governor tells
them (with somo polite circumlocation), that
he knows of no right of Congress to be inqnir-
ing into these matters. That they belong to
the Stales, and the last time Georgia was re
constructed he understood her to be finished
out and ont, as a complete State, and entitled
to keep her own books and papers just as much
as New York; and he wants to know what New
York or Massachusetts wonld have to answer to
sneb questions addressed &3 a matter of right to
them by a Congressional Committee ? He then
plnmps the committee with a heavy missile
from Thomas Jefferson, in rebnke of their im
pudence, and in support of the necessity of
maintaining “tho State Governments in all
their rights as the most competent administra-
MoitE Sai/ttstoe.—The New York Commer
cial Advertiser complains that, althongh Em
peror Wilhelm talks peace very mnoh, ho does
not act peace at all. All the strongholds in
Germany aro being improved and enlarged by
the labor of the best engineers and many thou
sands of men. The army has been largely in
creased. Krapp’s great cannon foundry is
driven night and day, turning ont now ordi
nance and artillery by the hundreds. The great
naval depot of Wilhelmshaven swarms with
workmen bnilding war ships. Ail these things
smell terribly of more saltpetre, and whodonbta
that Germany and Rn-sia are going to pnt En
rape through a lively course of instruction?
Cotton Fiqijbis.—The press dispatches re
port total receipts np to Friday night last 3,945,-
832, against 2,854,081—showing 1,091,751 ex
cess. 'Total exports for the same time 3,070,042,
against 2,1+7,187 np to the same time last year,
showing 928,855 excess, or within 72,896 of the
entire crop excess. Tho exports of the past
week were exceedingly small—being only 7,083
against 19,623 for the corresponding week last
year. Stock at the interior towns—at all the
American ports—cotton afloat and stock in
Liverpool footnp 1,445,938 bales, against 1,291,-
432 bales at the same date last year—showing
an excess of 153,506 bales.
We are free to confess that if punishment
and reformation are the objects sought, then
the restraint of prison walls, interdiction of
speech with each other, and solitary confinement
in cells at night after the old plan, wonld prove
far more salutary than the present system. The
poor creatures were chained together, some
times a negro with a white man, and shut np
in crowded stock cars were very little better off,
and far more miserable than the dnmb beasts
who similarly situated, accompanied them.
Messrs. Grant & Alexander pay ten dollars
per annum for each convict and feed and sup
port them, and experience shows that the State
is a gainer by the contract. These gentlemen
readily hire them to sub-contractors, however,
at SI 50 per day, and certainly do a thriving
business with the public slaves. Wo were
pleased to learn that the convicts are well fed
and humanely treated when they behave them
selves.
THE GEORGIA. PRESS.
A Blow.—New York took the benefit of a
natural storm on Snnday, which the dispatch
says blow a bell weighing six thousand pounds
ont of a church tower. That is a pretty tough
story. Bat Governor Brown, of Florida, used
to tell of a tornado in Charleston which blew a
crowbar ont of the attic of one house, aoross
the street and through the roofing into the attic
of the house opposite. Ho proved it by the
Charleston Courier of that date, too. Wind is
very windy, sometimes.
The Atlanta Son.—We learn from yester
day’s issue of this paper that it has been re-ad
mitted to membership in the New York Associ
ated Press, so far as receiving the telegraphio
dispathes thereof is ooncemed. So it seems
that the “humbug" and “wash” of the New
York Associated Press is worth all the news
that can be gathered from any other source—
which is our opinion, most decidedly.
The Herald eaya “tbo extreme quiet which
prevailed in Now York on Thursday, is a re
markable commentary on the stability of Amer
ican Institatiocs.” Down here we call it dull
times, bnt perhaps the Herald’s way of putting
it is the best. There is a great deal of this sta
bility all over the South just now—varied, in
fact, only by reports of mobs and negro Kn klnx
which come from the North.
The administration is distinguishing itself by
getting up a new series of stamps—from $5000
down to one cent. Tastes change. Time was
in American history when stamps were unpopu
lar. Now all t e people ask is to have them
printed in bright colors and look pretty, and it
affords a deal of amusement to the young to
ent them ont and paste them on things.
A Mobile dispatch in the Herald 6ays Bont-
weli anpoinled Willard Warner Collector to in-
jare Grant’s popularity in Mobile. It is a great
pity to “injure Grant’s popularity in Mobile.”
If Bontwel! bad slapped his grandmother’s face
he would not have done a meaner thing.
The United States Courts in the District of
Columbia have decided that negroes have tho
seme rights in restaurants and hotels as people
of other colors, and there must be no distinc
tion. This will be well for tho hotels.
Cotton gave way handsomely in New York
and Liverpool yesterday.
tors of onr domestic concerns,” etc., which last
sentence the Governor thnndcrs at tho Com
mittee in capitals.
Now, on this particular point, Gov. Bullock
has not struck & lick amiss; but then wo are
curious to know how he came to masqnerado in
that suit. It is like Satan reproving ain. It is
liko the devil quoting Scripture. We don’t
know the Governor in the character of an ad
vocate of State rights and local self-govern
ment. The last time we Haw him he had pnt a
hook through the nose of the State of Georgia,
and ho and Blodgett, at the head of a pack of ne
groes, wore dragging tho dead corpse through the
gore and filth of the Washington party schisms to
be kicked by every dirty politician who had
stolen a pair of boots for tbo purpose. That
was a glorious frolic, no doubt, but no State
rights nmusomont.
And then, too, wo are still more puzzled by
tho language with which the Governor winds
up this column of rebnke. He says he has ven
tured to say that much, lest his compliance
with the committee’s reqnest should be held as
as a precedent, and in order that tho “Union
Republican party” might not be held as endors
ing the “extreme construction" which is sought
to be given to the late amendments of the Con
stitution. Now wo know that nobody was so
peremptory and sweeping in his demands of
Congress in respect to Georgia as the Governor,
and we know that now nobody is for pushing
the amendments, and the acts to enforoe them,
so far as Grant, and these facts pnzzle us in
connection with this declaration.
Finally, the Governor proceeds to give the in
formation asked. He say3 the debt of the State
reported by the Comptroller General, 20th De
cember, I860, was $3,688,750. At the close of
the war, October 16, 1845, it was $3,645,250.
During Governor Jenkins’ administration, the
debt was augmented to $6,544,500, and that was
tho amount January, 1, 1871. The contingent
liabilities, under the State aid acts, are: for the
Macon and Brunswick, $2,550,000; Alabama
and Chattanooga. $194,400; South Georgia and
Florida, $584,000; Brunswick and Albany, $3,-
630,000; Cherokee, $587,800—which are the
only roads which have, so far, placed themselves
in condition to be entitled to indorsement—to
tal contingent liabilities, $7,545,900. Other
roads entitled to indorsement made different
arrangements.
The Governor boasts of the superior econ
omy of his administration, and says that the
whole of the expenses under Governor Jenkins,
for twenly-two months, were $2,960,509 41;
the expenditures under him from Angustll,
1868, to January 1, 1871, were $3,758,804 77.
ceeded
and that of 1870 had increased twenty-one mil
lions. The tax return in 1860 was $672,292,447—
including $302,694,855 value of slaves. That
or 1870 was for $22G,119,529.
EDITORIAL CORRESPONDENCE.
News from Southwest Georgia.
CtTTHBEBT, July 16, 1871.
The prospects of the farmer have materially
improved within the past week throughout this
portion of the State. Rains have been general,
and the cotton weed though small, and showing
very little fruit, looks green and vigorous, and
is growing off finely. Heavy inroads have been
made npon the grass also and the crops are in
fair condition.
Some spots, as is the case with this city and
its immediate snrronndings, are still afflicted
with drought, and gardens are rained aud the
corn greatly damaged. Still, on the whole, the
agricultural situation is more cheerful, and we
trust another year there will be “bread and to
spare” throughout this region. The oorn crop
may now be considered ont of danger, and on
the red lands will produce most bountifully.
NEGRO KtJKLUX.
On Sabbath afternoon we encountered a
strapping 15 th Amendment bearing an enor
mous watermelon in bis arms en route for the
Gonrt-house. Upon examining his burden it
proved to be perforated on the under side and
heavily charged with strychnine.
It seems that a colored brother named Jack-
son had quarreled with him, and resolved on
revenge, visited the patch of the complainant
and poisoned his finest melon, so as to make a
sure case of his antagonist.
How will this do “for high” with onr Wash
ington En-klnx examiners Qury: Is thst the
sort of information they are in quest of ?
DR. HAMILTON AND ANDREW COLLEGE.
The reported resignation of this gentleman
turns ont to be true. His re-election by the
Trustees was qualified with the condition that
he would strictly adhere to the constitution and
by-laws of the institution. This the Doctor
considered wonld interfere with his non-sec
tarian programme, and hence his resignation.
Few men have labored harder and more effectu
ally in behalf of any enterprise. No sooner
foot-loose than the astnte Kimball resolved to
seenre onr eidevant president in the railroad
interest, hence the irrepressible Doctor is now
actively engaged in traversing the country
between Cnthbert and Columbus, to arouse the
sleeping Rip Van Winkles from their lethargy
and imbne them with the spirit of the times.
No Peter the Hermit ever preached a crusade
with more unction and determination. Under
his auspices, and backed by his superior, the
Great Mogul (H. L), a grand railroad barbacue
will be prepared and discussed at Lumpkin on
Wednesday of the present week, and, we pre
dict, nnder snch engineering, the good people of
Stewart will go homo with fall stomachs and
light pockets.
A BIDE WITH THE PENITENTIABT CONVICTS.
At Ward's station, Messrs. Grant and Alex
ander’s State prison auxiliaries, numbering one
hundred, with their implements, baggage, carts,
teams, etc., filling fourteen boxes, were added
to onr train. Among the live stock were a num
ber of bogs, also. Upon inquiry, we learned
that they were tho property of the convicts who
had, tho day previous, sold 91 head. The swine
fed around the camps when the hands were in
the field, and marched with them from place to
place. They were perfectly tame, and added
no little to the pocket money and table comforts
of their luckless owners. Whether this is in keep.
ing with prison discipline and the ends intended
to be subserved by confinement in the Peniten
tiary, is a very pertinent question.
The Cuthbert Appeal reports cotton rapidly
improving and growing off finely in that and
adjoining counties.
The price of watermelons in Cnthbert is one
cent per pound.
Dr. Skinner, pastor of the Columbus Baptist
Church, will resign that charge at the end of
this month.
In a personal affray at McLain’s mill, Miller
county, last week, Mr. Stephen Spooner disem
bowelled Dr. Gnest, who, it is thought, will
die. Dr. Clifton, who interfered to stop the
fight, was terribly cut in the wrist
Bacon is so cheap in Bainbridge that the ed
itor of the Sun can afford to grease his mustaches
three times a day.
For the reformation of tho Elberton Good
Templars, a town pump will soon be put up in
tho pnblio square.
The Columbus Sun, of Sanday, says:
The Total Subscbipcton.—Tho N. and S. R.
R. has thus far obtained in good and reliable
subscription $523,000. This includes the $200,-
000 of the city of Columbus, $100,000 of Rome
and $25,000 of LaGrange bonds. All the
counties have not yet been canvassed, neither
has Colnmbus. Three hundred thousand dol
lars additional can be easily be raised.
Preferred a Whiffing.—Mr. John Barber,
employe of Col. Barden caught a negro Thurs
day night endeavoring to steal tho back door
key of the store. He was lodged in the cala
boose. Yesterday morning he begged that he
might be given a whipping instead of being
prosoented; said if they would whip him he
wonld go to Alabama and not return. His
urgent reqnest was complied with.
The Darkies Over the River.—The Radical
darkies over the river, in Alabama, are in some
quarters holding political meetings, at which
“no white man is allowed to attend.” They say
they intend to have their own way this year,
and that the “carpet-bagger or scallawag who
interrupts them will go ’way with a flea in his
ear.”
General Montgomery Gardner, who com
manded the 8th Georgia at the first battle of
Manassas, and was terribly wounded, has bought
a farm and settled in Floyd county. A banquet
was given him by the Romans, a few nights
since.
Of the Custom House troubles at Savannah,
the Republican, of Sanday, says:
Rumors are rife of early aud important
changes in tho official corps of our custom-house.
It is said that Collector Robb’s head has been
marked for the block, and that a resident of
Atlanta—one Adkins, late Revenue Collector, is
to take his place. Wellman, of course, goes by
the board, and it is hinted that Mr. Bowles, the
present Surveyor of the port, is to be inaugu
rated as deputy nnder the new administration.
We have these rumors from pretty good author
ity, and think they will not be found far wrong
in the end.
While on this subject, it may not he amiss to
mention that ex-Federal Governor, James
Johnson, formerly Collector of the port and now
Jndge of the Muscogee Circuit, was in the city
yesterday and in close confab with the custom
house authorities. Collector Robb’s intimation
and that matters otherwise were not left just as
they shonld have been, may have something to
A Washington special to the Advertiser, same
date, says tho candidates for Collector are Col.
T. P. Saffold, Adkins, and Col. A. N. Wilson, of
Savannah, with chances in favor of Wilson.
Mr. Da Parc, wharf clerk for Messrs. J. W.
Anderson’s Sons & Co., at Savannah, who was
snn struck several days ago, died Saturday
afternoon.
The Republican, of Sanday, says :
The Traction Engine.—The roaa steamer or
traction engine, of which we gave a description
a few days ago, having been pnt together, was
tried yesterday, on River street, and worked to
the entire satisaction of those who witnessed
its performance. Quite a crowd were present,
and expresed themselves highly pleased with the
ease of movement and facility with which its
motion is controlled by the engineer. It turn
ed in a space not greater than its own length,
and made good time in thu heavy sand near
Cohen’s wharf.
We clip the following from the Advertiser:
Forest City Mutual Loan Association.—At
a meeting of the Forest City Mntnal Loan As
sociation, held at the hall of the Metropolitan
Fire Company last evening, $5,000 was disposed
of at from 39 j to 41J per cent, premium.
James Halligan Dead.—James Halligan, who
was so seriously injured by jumping from a
second story window at the Hospital on Monday
night last to the railiDgs surrounding the build
ing, died Thursday night from the effect of the
injuries received.
Overcome by the Heat.—Policeman Hanlon,
while on duty at the market yesterday, was
overcome by the heat and had to be taken home,
but will probably recover.
Says tho News of Satnrday:
The Flantebs’ Bank Case.—A decree was
made in the Superior Court yesterday, in the
case of Messrs. George W. Anderson end Hngh
W. Mercer, assignees of the Planters’ Bank, vs.
T. J. McNish And others, creditors, the snb-
stance of which is, that after the payment of the
assignees, the attorney’s fees and the cost of
suit, those creditors who have not yet received
anything, and who present their claims, are to be
paid twenty per cent, to place them on an
equality with others who have received this
amount. After that there is to be a pro rata
distribution of the assets to all who present
their claims within twelve months, after which
time those who fail to present are barred, and
the balance equitably distributed to those who
have.
Bob Green, a brunette Grant voter down at
Augusta, had a fit in another man’s watermelon
patch Satnrday night, and has been very strange
ly affected over since. He can’t sit down at all.
He thinks he was “witched" with something less
than a pound of bird shot.
'William Oxford was tried last Friday for mur
der, in Washington county, and the verdict was
involantary manslaughter in the commission of
an unlawfui^act. Three years in the peniten
tiary.
The members of the Second Baptist Church,
at Atlanta, have chosen Rev. Wm. D. Thomas,
of Greeneville, S. C , successor to Dr. Brantley,
who goes to Baltimore the 1st of September.
The chaps hailing from Jacksonville, who
were fined $100 at Savannah, a few days since,
for shooting into the windows of a private resi
dence, were not Floridians, as reported, bnt
genuine c. b.’s from Boston and New York.
Glad to hear it.
It’s very hot down at Augusta but they tcCi
have their rations of excitement. On Saturday
afternoon a little matter between Mr. Hewitt, of
the Globe Hotel, and a drunken guest named
Otis Cook, was settled by both drawing revolv
ers, and Hewitt gettinng one shot bnt no game.
A young lady of Savannah was severely
burned, lost Thursday night, by the flame of a
kerosene lamp Airing up and setting fire to the
netting on a bed.
The Savannah Advertiser has a long article
explaining “how mosquitoes bite" in the ab
stract. ' In the concrete, Savannah mnsquitoes
bite like the—well, they nip awful.
G. M. Hood, Charles Evans and a third parly
who ia averse to newspaper fame—all of Augusta
■received $5,000 per express from Bullock, on
Saturday, as their reward for capturing Henry
Oxford.
We get the following from the Covington
Enterprise, of Saturday:
OcMULGEE AND NORTH GEORGIA RAILBOAD.—
We learn that CoL Jere Cowles has just re
turned from the North, where he has succeeded
in perfecting arrangements by which he is con
fident that the speedy construction of this road
is secured. He is satisfied that it will be in
operation in time to carry off the crop of 1872.
He thinks the engineers employed by the
Northern Company to determine the location of
the route, will reach Covington to-morrow,
(Saturday,) the 15th inst The plan contem
plated at the present is to bnild a Narrow
Gauge Road, which can be constructed and
equipped for about one-third the cost of ordi
nary railroads. The efforts of Col. Cowles
have resulted in securing the requisite capital
to build the road, and the purpose is to press it
to completion without delay.
Mr. iV. W. Fleming has bought a half inter
est in the Early County News. The News
says :
Crops.—One of onr planters have recently
traveled throngh much of Miller, Baker and
Dougherty counties, and from his report, crops
are much better in Early than in any of tho
others. He puts down Miller as next to Early
in superiority of both com and cotton crops.
It is not to be inferred from this that he means
crops are good in Early, but that they are
wretchedly poor in these other counties.
Tho Athens Banner, of Friday, has thiB hard
hit at the Atlanta ink slingers :
Palatial Residence.—Hon. Junius Hillyer,
father of our prominent feliow-citizon, Col.
Hillyer, is having built at Decatur, one of the
handsomest residences in the State.—Atlanta
Constitution, 9th inst.
The old Democratic friends and admirers of
Jndge Hillyer Bhould not feel concerned about
the above paragraph, nor believe that he really
contemplates retiring to a palace. It is only a
way the Atlanta editors have of saying things.
They see objects in and about that village
throngh double magnifying glasses. In that
wonderful burg there are no houses, but “villas”
and “palatial residences;” and we presume tho
Jenkins who wrote the paragraph only intended
to say that the Judge was putting np a com
fortable dwelling houso in Decatur. In the
lofty dialect of Atlanta, a calico frock is called
a trosseau, and a junk-shop is an Emporium.
A worn-out, cast-away freight ear, propped up
on the side of the railroad track, is called a sa
loon, and the fellow who retails benzine in it at
a nickle a drink, never ranks below Colonel.
Nevertheless, we, in common with all onr cit
izens, regret the loss of so good a man from onr
midst, and wish the Jndgo and his family many
years of happiness in their new home, be it a
palace or a cottage.
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS
HOME B. & L. ASSOCIATION.
•> PECIAL Meeting on Tuesday night. 18th inst.,
. j at 19 minutes before 9 o’clock. The iunda on
hand will be loaned to shareholders at the office of
the Company. A. R* FREEMAN,
julylS It*’ Secretary and Treasurer.
0CHUL6EE B. & L. ASSOCIATION.
T HE Fourth Annual Meeting of this Company
will be held at their room on Wednesday, the
19th inst., at 8 o’clock p. M , for election of officers
for the ensuing year. A- R. FREEMAN,
julyl8 21* Secretary and Treasurer.
MACON B. & L. ASSOCIATION.
E EGULAR Meeting to-night at 8}$ o’clock, at
the rooms over L. H. Wing 4 Co.’s jewelry
store. Instalments can be made during the day at
the atoro of Mr. Henry L. Jewett, or at tho rooms
to-night. GEO. W. BURR,
julyl8 It Secretary and Treasurer.
Cuba.—The Spanish Cortes passed a resolu
tion yesterday that they would hold Cuba at any
cost and to the last extremity. It is clear Spain
is becoming sensible of the difficulties of the
situtation. Spain has, for generations, wrung
a revenue of some ten or fifteen millions dol
lars out of about half a million of tax payers in
Onba, and gave them nothing in return for it
bnt one of the most corrupt and venal satrapies
which ever afflicted mankind. The CabaBs
themselves would cheerfully engage to pay
Spain a hundred millions for their own freedom
and for the right of devoting their own reve
nues to improving their own condition; bnt we
see Spanish obstinacy will not listen to reason.
A country anable to govern herself, insists in
dominating over an island three thousand miles
off. The case of the Cubans is a hard one.
Alabama and Chattanooga Railroad.—Tho
Chattanooga Times, of Saturday, learns from
reliable sources that a very bad state of feeling
exists on the Alabama and Chattanooga Railroad
below Tuscaloosa, not only among the employos,
bnt also among those who have furnished ties
and other supplies. It is said that if they are
not paid within 30 or 60 days they will burn the
bridges, tear up and destroy the traok a la Sher
man.
Supreme Court of Georgia —
is, ^iin T ^«^risiciidS§! iment No
No. 16, which had been passed, was argued.
It is James B. Walker vs. Wm. H. Whitehead,
Nonsuit, under act of 1870, from Baker.
Hines & Hobbs for plaintiff in error.
Lyon, deGrafienreid & Irvin, W. A. Haw
kins, for plointiff in error.
No. 19 was argued. It is Jefferson Nesbitt
and George Johnson vs. the State. Murder
from Baker.
T. R. Lyon, Capers King, R. F. Lyon, for
the plaintiffs in error.
R. H. Whitely, Solicitor General, by R. Sims,
for the State.
The continned case whioh had been passed
over was next taken np. It is the Atlantic and
Gulf Railroad Company vs. Thomas Mann.
Case from Decatur.
Flemming & Rutherford, L. J. Glenn & Son.
for plaintiff in error.
Sims & Crawford, Clark & Spence, for defend
ant.
The hour of adjournment arrived pending tho
argnment in this case.
Two other cases, which reached the Clerk’s
office less than twenty days before the term,
were to-day allowed to be entered upon the
docket of the Albany Circuit.
Court adjourned till Tuesday next at 10 o’clock
A. sr. Monday is consultation day as usual.—
Constitution, 16 th.
CONSIGNEES PER M. «& W. R. R.
July 17, 1871.
W A Huff; Johnson 4 8; Smith, S 4 Co. E F Da
vis; Mr. Rainwater; W W Parker; B Krutz: E Price;
Burdick Bros; Wheeler 4 Co; Jones 4 B: Small 4 G;
Rogers’ Sons; H Bell; McCaliie & T; Seymour, T 4
Co; Daly 4 Bro.
W. A. HUFF,
PRODUCE MERCHANT
MACON, GEORGIA.
I. O. O. F.
T HE Annual Meeting of the R, W. Grand En
campment of the Independent Order of Odd
Fellowa of the State of Georgia, will be held in the
city of Augusta on Tuesday, iha first day of August
next. JOHN G. DEITZ,
julyl8 tu&su R. W. Grand Scribe.
I. O. O. F.
T HE Annual Meeting of the R. W. Grand Lodge
of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows of —
tho State of Georgia, will ba held in the city of An- J-V.fcJ.L_L L U-fclVy
gusta, commencing on Wednesday, the 2d day of '
August next. Representatives and others attend
ing the same will be passed over the several rail
roads by paying ONE FARE GOING
JOHN G. DEITZ,
july 18 tu&su. R. W. Grand Secretary.
NOTICE,
H AVING purchased the entire stock of Messrs,
S. T. 4 B. P. Walker, opposite the Market,
wo will continue tho buainoss at the “old stand,”
and would respectfully solicit a chare of public pat
ronage.
july 18 codlw CORBIN & VIRGIN.
G EORGIA, BIBB COUNTY.—Sam’l A. Porter
and Goo. N. Holmes, as Trustees, have made
their joint application to me for exemption of per
sonalty and sotting apart and valuation of home
stead, and I will pass upon the same at 10 o’clock
a. si., on the 29th da3 of July, 1871, at my office.
july!8 d2t C. T. WARD, Ordinary.
COTTON STATES
Life Insurance Co..
PRINCIPAL OFFICE, MACON, GEORGIA-
Authoiized Capital 52,000,000
Guaranteed Capital 600,000
Deposited with Stato Comptroller for se
curity of Policy Holders 150,000
W. B. Johnston President.
W. S. Holt Vice President.
Geo. S Obeah Secretary.
J. W. Bukke General Agent.
J. Mebceb Green, M. D Medical Examiner,
W. J. Magill Superintendent of Agencies.
C. F. McOay Actuary.
INSURE ON ALL POPULAR PLANS.
INSUBE YOUR LIFE AT HOME.
ALL ITS FUNDS INVESTED IN GEORGIA.
ALL LOSSES PAID WITHOUT DELAY.
IT IS MANAGED WITH ECONOMY.
ITS POLICIES ARE NON-FOP.FEITING AF
TER TWO YEARS.
F. M. HEATH, Special Agent,
jul8tf Macon, Georgia.
ICE. ICE.
F ROM this date we are prepared to retail Ice at
No. 88 Cherry street. Sunday hours 7 to 8%
A. m. and from 12 at. to IK r - M.
jullC tf S. T. & B. P. WALKER.
PLEASANT SUMMER KETBEAT.
B OARD for the summer months may be ob
tained at tho residenco of the undersigned,
at the railroad village of Tunnel Hill, Georgia,
eight miles above Dalton and five miles from Ca
toosa Springs. Tho place is remarkable for health,
fino water and bracing atmosphere, and the propri
etor being an expenenced physician, can render
medical aid to any who may desire it. Terms 825
per month; per week 58; ono- third less for chil
dren and servants. Apply, before coming, to
DR. R. O. WARD,
ju!16 3t Tunnel Hill. Georgia.
WANTED.
B Y an experienced Teacher; a situation iu town
or country. References given if required. Ad
dress
ju!15d3twlt* CARHART 4 CURD. Macon. Ga.
• fJr bent.
A DE3IR4£{B3 Brick .House on .ripper Walnn 1
street. t<5>iftagqn/? six rooms, with good gar
den, outoo" aetna-nfl watBr. Apply to
mar25 tf . . E. PESCHKE.
NOTICE.
P ERSONS in want of Rough aud Dressed Lum
ber, Sash, Blinds, Mouldings or any- kind of
building material, or any style of house built, from
a cottage to a mansion or temple, are advised to
call on It. C. Wilder 4 Son, Third street, near Ar-
tope’e marble yard. Terms cash and very reason
able.
julyll Xm R. C. WILDER & SON.
WORKINGMEN’S CANDIDATE.
A. C. AUDOIN offers himself to the voters of
Bibb county, as a Candidate, on the part of the
Workingmen, for Tax Collector of said county, and
if elected will give bond and do the duties of the
office satisfactorily.
A CARD.
While absent from the c ty “many friends” have
asked through the columns of the Telegraph and
Messesoee, if I would ran 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 COLLECTOR.
We are authorized by the many friends of Jno.
W. Stupes, to announce him as a candidate for
Tax Collector at tho ensuing election on the 23th
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 bo held the 28th inst.
jul9tf “ MANY TAX PAYERS.”
-FOR TAX COLLECTOR.
Editors Telegraph i Announce W. T. NELSON
a candidate for Tax Collector, at the special elec
tion on the 28th inBt.—subject to regular nomina
tion, if any is made.
ju!9tde MANY VOTEB3.
HOUSE 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,
majSO tf Or, at This Office.
BOARD AND LODGING.
A LARGE, cool, np-stairs room, suitable for a
married couple, or for several young gentle
men as a bleeping apartment, with as good board as
can be obtained in the city, can be secured by im
mediate appheuion at the large brick dwelling on
tho comor of Firet aud Pine streets,
junto tf
BLACKSMITH SHOP.
A LL who desire first-class smith work are re
quested to call at the Blacksmith Shop of
HOLHES A CLAY,
Near the Passenger Depot, and be satisfied.
.10“ Horse-shoeing a speciality. juljG tf
MASQUERADE SKATE AND DANCE.
july 13 7t B- W. COLLIER, McIntosh House.
NOTICE.
H AVING sold out our entire interest in onr 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
the public with the best of everything in onr line,
such as Fancy and Family Groceries, Fruits, Veget
ables, Chickens, Eggs. Euttter, and Caromel Cocoa-
nut. Also, Wines, Whiskies, fino Brandies, and
choice Cigars.
jnlH tf S. T. & B. P. WALKER.
THE MISSES LANE
W ILL open a Boarding School for Young La
dies in New York city, on Wednesday, Sep
tember 20, 1871. For reference and circulars apply
to J. J. Gresham, Esq., Macon, Ga jullS 3m
CORN,
THE LARGEST AND MOST SELECT STOCK OF
and Tennessee Corn,
CAN ALWAYS BE FOUND AT THE “GRAIN EMPORIUM” OF
W HTTPP.
CHLORIDE OF LIME
COPPERAS, CHLORIDE OF SODA.
Darby’s Prophylactic Fluid,
CARBOLIC ACID,
And other cheap Disinfectants.
HUNT, RANKIN & LAMAR, Druggists.
For tlie Sickly Season.
QUININE, CALOMEL. BLUE MASS, OPIUM,
MORPHINE, CASTOR OIL,
And everything in our line of business, in quantity
and of the beat quality. We offer special induce
ments to dealers.
HUNT, RANKIN 4 LAMAR, Druggists.
ju!16tf ■ __
TURNIP SEED,
L ANDRETH’S New Crop, 1871,
Just received and for sale by
G E SUSSDORFF.
GREEN AND BLACK TEA,
The best brought to this country.
For sale by G. E. SUSSDORFF.
COAL OIL, Ten barrels prime, for sale by
G. E. SUSSDORFF.
“WINE SAP” TOBACCO, for sale by
G. E. SUSSDORFF.
CONGRESS WATER, ten cases, for sale by
G. E. SUSSDORFF.
QUININE, P. and W.
G. E. SUSSDORFF.
CALIFORNIA BRANDY, No. 1.
G. E. SUSSDORFF, Druggist,
jnlylG tf Third and Mulberry streets.
INDIAN SPRING HOTEL.
T HIS House is now opened by Mrs. C. H. Var
ner as a private Boarding House. The large
Hall belonging to tbo house will be used as a
Dancing Saloon and Skating Rink, accompanied
with good music, which will make it pleasant for
the guests. Terms of Board 535 per month; $10
per week. jul2-dlm
J- 33. BRES,
Cotton Factor & General Coi. Merchant
No. 196 Gravier street, New Orleans.
jnn20 dCmw3m J. RAGLAND, Agent.
HAY. HAY.
Choice Kentucky and Tennessee Hay,
ALWAYS ON HAND AND FOB SALE BY
W. A. HUFF
OAJTB. OATS,
1,000 SACKS FEED OATS.
FOR SALE BY
W. _A_. ECTTI’I 1 .
BACON AND BULK MEATS.
I HAVE IN STORE
100,000 pounds Clear Rib Bacon,
25,000 pounds Bacon Shoulders,
25,000 pounds Bulk Sides,
20 tierces Magnolia Hams,
20 tierces various other Kinds of Hams,
5,000 tierces Plain Tennessee Hams*
W. HUFF.
FLOUR AND MEAL.
150 bbls. Kentucky Extra Flour,
75 bbls. Choice Family Flour.
25,000 ponnds Superfine Flour,
500 bushels Freash Meal.
ALL FOB SALE BY
W. A., HTTFI'.
SUGAR AND COFFEE.
25 bbls. A Sugar,
20 bbls. Extra C Sugar,
10 hbds. New Orleans Brown Sugar,
40 bags Choice Bio Coffee.
NOW IN STORE AND FOB SALE BY
W. /A - huff.
RICE AND SYRUP.
A LARGE AND SELECT LOT OF
New York, New Orleans and Georgia Syrups.
ON HAND. ALSO,
TEN TIERCES RICE.
FOR SALE B
w. a.. nmT-
My Terms are CASH, or such City Acceptances as can be Used
at Banks.
W. An HUFF.
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