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TELEGRAPH AND MESSENGER PY CUBBY, JONES & KEESE. Tclr(rapt) Knlldliti Hm« U 4 Xuaa|«, os* yt»r. ■orth* .*10 Menenger, one ^ Si month*. • •••••••••••*••••...•••••••• 2 „ W**klj Telegraph and Meetenger, •TW- 1*0 oppod '.j, ,]•»«* l» sltsseo, »*>1 ptptr *U tbe soeij rout oat, aslau renewed. , J ~ l ) u i.nlnlr1— 1 Tataflxapta sod rep- ■ 7» iltTZecrooUttoo. p«rT».lm(t Midd.e,fccr;th- r * - ^‘* So.tbw—tera Georgia and E*>i» ir. Ala- ** jfiddlc Florida. AdTfrtuuDMiUi at r«* *2* rata* Id tbs Weekly at one dollar par *f[ ^ of three-Qaartera of an inch, each pobttcar g«aift*noe» ahoald be made by ezpreea, or l r ' , c hm>o#% order* or regiata Tsf t>bere? ag«ot* of Richmond, Virginia, r , to preaeol.a floe fountain to the estj. I* U ptopo^od to expend #50.000,000 in rtl# r jjpf the dock aocommodation in Liver r* ffiteiti “ b*i|iaaiag la naffer for ila t i’or r-1 gpaa taik M travelers. Tbl* year tb. , yrJ , ra utd to be only half fall, sod dullness Tit qKottaa bra tri.en u to whether the Imftnr of Aartrf* dsollned * glue of Aarerl- till ibid* beeeaee be bed or hed not test- •d the liqoor bsfere. femes end Wettenoo here met la London, „l ij.ir 8r«t ei'ttng lutid tblrtyelz boar*. «d)ti*eo wee heard to remsik at the etoee of „ nwifre, th it be bed never before realized £, fcrdiocriijr of two pair. 1 Vntam OoDgreeeman oerrleo hi* back p«; „ i leiiber poach tUaehrd to a itiep about bin p«o*. Tb. derioe work* admirably. When- mi be bee soy U k with good oontcirnlioas furjtr. end begins to feel tbet be ooght to re nmre H be jaet tekee tbe money oat, tame It mrteo or three time*, end tbe feeling is gone gme.—N. T. Com. Ado. Tn New York Hersld thick* tbet "el a nrg im petty tbe Democrat* bar* been ran to tbe ad of tbelr Hat as negative*. They should •** taka anew depart are for positive meunroe ■f wtlm, and In breaking gronod for a eonati oosal limitation of tbe Presidential term, they ■tf rat the gronod from nnder tbe feet of ebe •dsielatiation end tbe Kepnbliesn party." ;natrium appears to bs prosperons In Eng. lad jilt now. Tbs will of tbe late Mr. M. J. Wtnbj, fonndrr of the L'verpool Daily Post, tabaao ''proved'' for £40,000 peraoLol proper If, tad.pendent cf real estate, and sandry sd- ■Mnof E. Mleli, M. P., editor of tbo Konoon- larnio, the organ of tbo English dissenters, lutly five him s dinner, at wbiob tbe chairman kiadid bio a cheek for £ 10,000, the sohscriptlon ■fa fa* wealthy friends. Tins la something bsantifol and patbelio ttxnl woman's devotion to faahion. We don't rreall any more tonoblng Incident than this. vMeheomee from 8L Laois. A lady of that tty lately ant one of her lost year’s gowns to a nanisg and ragged pensioner, tnd mightily Mogratalated herself npon her charily. I mag. taw her inrpriia and pleasure when it was Imme- diately relnmed, with the aid bnt beroio state- wot that it wa* too foil behind for tbe present tyls, and wouldn't aha taka oat a breadth and thaaga the trimming t Ttaa latest performance In the lice of absent, aisdedaem la recorded tn Iba Now York Trf. b«Meaooeruing a Oinntry parson of that State »ba bat a habit of forgetting things daring bis aneim, and, after seating himself, suddenly rlrag to altar them, with tbo preliminary re- auki "By tbe way." He bad got half way through aa eloquent prayer when ba hesitated, laffot what be was doing, and bestowed himself tyM Ik* clerical sofa without closing. Botin aaaoMBt bis memory relnmed, he jumped up, •ad pointing hia finger at his rather surprised "•FtytaUoo. solemnly observed, "Oh, by the vij-Atten!" A uosiob of the Fillmora family was held at the residence of Calvin T. rmmore, In tbs tavuahip of Solo, Michigan, cn tbe Cib Inst. Ofthi family, five are now living and wore pnatnt, via: Olive A. Johnson, aged seventy in jeers, living In Solo; Millard Fillmore, ■gid seventy-three year*, residing at Buffalo, NrvTjrk; Oyrn* Fillmore, sgrd aevenly-one wua,Uvlog at Orland, Indiana; Calvin T. Fillmore, aged alzly-three years, ami Jolla Har tal, aged rixty-on. years, reoently from Oalifor- tla Th* ladle* are bath widows, and all have liattiaa. The Ann Arbor lteglster says all were la good health, bale and hearty, and to all ap- peiranoet bads fair to yet see many years. A Kbw Wiaros.—A man waa indicted tbo other day at San Francisco for mnrder with a vMpan of a peculiarly dangerous, and for a bog Uma mysterious, nature. This la a sand dab, formed by filling an eel akin with sand. Yhen this Instrument waa first brought into uao the authorities were greatly puzzled by death*, apparaoUy from violence, yet so marks oontd he found on tbe ontaide of tbe body. A burg lar waa fioaUy captured witb a sand club in bl* pnmmriDB, made oat of an eel skin stnffed with •sod. Befog closely questioned, be explained ha use, Wben the vtotim iastrnek.for instance, •* the bead, he drop* insensible and soon dies tram congestion of tbe brain. Often the skull loffw* no Injury from tbe stroke; and if the ration struck rcoovera sensibility, ha gradually Niapeea into a oondiUon of Idloey. Sometimes • Bin struck to the body will be knockeJ down by the peculiar fore* of the blow, and feel no lonediate results from It. Ia a few weeks, bovavar, tbe fl ish will begin to mortify nnder Iba boa of the blow, and rot down to tbo boom Bailer, the celebrated pianist, la supposed to bait oat bla death in Mexico from a stroke of IhudtsOoUoel weapon. Caterpillar In Wilkinson, Twiggs and l’nlaakt. Captain J. J. L. Smith, of Irwinton, was In this effloe yesterday and slate 1 that tbe cater pillar had appeared on several plantations in Nitkiaaoa, and waa also reported In Twiggs and Palaaki Ha said they bad stripped one field •f tight acres, near Irwinton, of every lea', and Ihe promise vraa fair for an equally salutary op- •totion all around the oountry. He believed tbet* was a general dffnaion of caterpillars. Ihe planters were bringing in samples cf the iutaratUng creatures every day. "San Antonio do Bexar.” Cedar this bead tbe last two numbers of the Soo'hera Magaxlne, Tarnbnll »t Co., of Balti more, contain two tonvenirs of Texas travel by °*r friend Sidney Lanier, Esqr., of Macon, which are certainly smerg tbe most sprightly lad entertaining paper* ever contributed to a modem magazine—worthy tbe pen of tbe moat accomplished writer of the day. If Burke or Brewn has these tiro numbers, the reader will bad them worth baying; an] so will Barks or Brown, If they can obtain them and have them Macon and ItrnuawfcU Kallroad. Tbs following Washington telegram is fonnd ** tbs New York Tribune of Tuesday. 0. A Loehrane of Atlanta Ga., now on to Kew Yoik for the purpose of holding f '-»-lutir>n with the holders of bonds of the Hsooa tnd Brunswick KrJ!road Company, that harir.g lately been seized by fjorernor Smith for failure to pay interest on the bonds kdorsfd by the Slate. The Jndge is confident that the l>ondholderfii will pnrehaa* the road, ^ thit they can get it for #1,000,000. ThU telegram would bare been mneh mere fctiifaetorr tf the Jodge had oomrcnnicated the butf of his oonfidenoe. We hardly think the State will s*U ont at that flgnre, bnt of coarse Lachrtne kaowj all about it, so we knock un der. Fawn Jsrx so. rant's List a^rxxcn, DiumrD ..XWaaTON, N. Y., AT A BlCTtPTIO!* w* bt Gzx. bnAurx.—Ladies and gentle- ^en of Kingwion: I have been in yonr oounty todays, aud 1 h»ve fonnd them most enjoy- able here and at Oreriook Mountain. I am tery moch fatigued, and want to retire as I Jbdl leave to Uke the earl? boat for New York in the morning.—If. Y. linut. Mm. Uirroai played an engagement in Lon* don in July. Not suceeatful. Tlie Atlanta i'lanfatlon, for August, Is as lively as a young oolL First, there ia a tLnndering onvUngbt on Mayor Hnff's agricul tural fair address, by a Georgia Granger, and an editorial defense of that document, which is sensible and conclusive. Mr. Hoff, we nnder* •tar d, to be on the line of the Grangers* policy. Altboogb a middle man himself, from patriotic motive be entreats Georgians to raise their own sopplies—to subsist on tbe prod acts of tbelr own farm*, and be independent of liens, mortgBL’'*, and loans, and middle men. Should anyone fiad fault with bis advioe? Tree, ft is orged in round, soorlog and scorching terms —calculated to sting the pr-de of those it bits; botwe tay, witb entire candor, no good hud- mas man can study into the agricnltoral policy of Georgia since freedom and not get mad witb himself if be bad a hacd in it. Tbe temptation to very p!r.la talk was ovcrebelming, and Huff yielded to it. There U a big fight wi?b heavy guns waging in tbe Plantation across tbe Atlantic. Dr. Pen dleton has assaulted tbe renovation theory of Prof. Ville—we mean his fdea of renovating WDrn-out soils—barren sand bed*—with chem ical fertilizers merely. This sostnft brings oat Prof. Massa, of I'oiy, a ditdple of Ville, in tbe Ttlbotton Stac2.rd, to a f no ring reply, to wbiob Dr Pendleton re- j taM at Lcgth, maintaining that atnpply of bomuv mait be added to barren eand in order to derive much benefit frem tbe micerel fer tilizer*. YiUe Bud Mn-*i maybe stead in science, bnt every farmer in Georgia knows that tbe appll— ettlon of goonoto a white s.Ddbed dm*t help tbe crop* much. Bat giro that sendbed forty tone of stable manure to tbe acre, or its equal weight In rotten oek leares and traeb. and then s dressing cf guano io tbe drill, and Ihe way yon will see corn and cotton grow will estoniab e e*mp moeting or make an association or pres bytery bowl witb surprise. Tbs fact is, these commercial fertilizers are to the wise farmer like tbe silt and pepper to hie eonp. The salt and pepper are of littJo ac count in tbemselres, bnt they add immensely to tbe relish and virine of tbe eonp. Therefore, good farmer onght to gather the staple mate rials for bis great land srap, by steady toil from year’s end to year’s end—get hundreds and hun dred* of ton* of leaves and fence corner trash— and mock—all tbe stable mannre and other off»l be can find—all the ashes which, (if block jack or hickory ashes) is cheap at three cents pound beeanM'it ia woiliixuor. than guano, and cotton seed. This glgsntio besp should sccnmalate all tbe year in the borae lot or stable-yard, and sbonld be manipnlatrd by a bnndred bogs and pigs. That yard sbonld be in sight of and very near bis bonae—surrounded by a strong upright board fence, cleeled and at least ten feet high, inside that fence put a dog as big and fioros as grizzly bear, chained in the day time end loose nigbt. Be extremely carefnl whom yon ad mit to those eacred precincts—nobody bnt a son nephew, or some trasty man wbom yon can’t smpeot. Here, then, are tbe mannre and tbe meat fac tory, and wben yon have killed off and salted your hogs in the fall boy yonr favorite fertili zer. Mix it Intimately in small qnantlUes with the pile and banl that pile oat, ton by ton, as yon break cp yonr land for tbe next crop, witb two or foor borae plow ; fill every farrow witb tbe eompoit and bed on it till planting time. If yon don’t find all yon coaid reasonably ask for this fertilizer, ao applied, write ns down an ass on yonr gate posts. Got B. 0. Yanoey advertises a controlling In terest in the Plantation for Bale, on aooonnt of failing health. Tbe Plantation, if not good property, sbonld be, for no agricultural period ical in tbe country is ahead of, if equal to it The Patron* of Hssbtatary. The Prairie Farmer estimate* tbe total num ber of graugea in tbe Coiled State* at 4,277. We are aatbfijd, however, that large as this appears to be. It fall* very for abort of the true number. Thus only twenty-eight are appor tioned to Georgia, wben really ear hundred woo’d be nearer tbe mark. An examlntion of tbe strength of tbe move ment in tbe several State* reveals Ihe foot, that to far, it is almuet exclusively ootfined to tbe Western, Northwestern end South Atlantic and Gulf States. Thus in all tbe New England and Middle States only thirty four grengrs are to be fonnd, and Vermont claims more than half of these. New Yjik baa five, MaiuchuKtts one, and Pennsylvania bnt two. Virginia, also, bai three only, and Kentucky one. The reason for this is apparent It may be as cribed to tbe fact that tbe West and Sooth have been tbe greatest sufferers for lack of transpor tation, and exborbitant freight charge*. Tbe tonnage of tbe East, fiuda profitable tin ploy meat on tbe likes in moving the grain stored at Chicigo, Toledo and Milwackle, while numerous railroad connections and the Erie Canal are likewise benefited very la'gsly by tbe same carrying trade. The farmers of that re gion, too, are themselves producers and sellers of grain, hence, aa contvmcrt, they feel no special interrst in tbe troubles of tbe South and West, growing oot of tbe transportation ques tion. . T - „j, . This may prevent thu movement of tbe Pat rons of Hotbandry from assuming any national significance as a political organ-sttiou. Indeed, they dit-tinctly disavow any such intention. But it i« very evident they will wield an im mense ii fi lence in tbe States where the order ptedominates, and intend to have an eye to the agriccltnral interest in tbe selection of law makers. How else ean they hope to overthrow monopolies, and establish a more liberal policy towards themselves ? Aooordiogty, wa peroeive in Illinois and otber Western States, the farmers are moving on their own book in ooont; and State nominations. The Itepnblioana scout the idea, cr attempt to forestall all aotion by proposed concessions to this new and riBing power. Bat tbe men who belong to the granges and oonstitnie tbe back bone of tbe eoactry, have been too often hoodwinked and deceived by tricky politicians, to forego the present golden opportunity for woiking ont tbeir own salvation. They know the balance of power ia in their bands, and are resolved to cheek publio freed and extravagance, and class legislation, it they can. We shall see whether they t ucoeed or not, and wish them good epred in the inauguration of every true work of reform. THE GEORGIA FBEST. Nor 111 ngatnat the Sooth. It was a great mistake when the people of tbe United States failed to decide tbe issues of tbe late unpleasantness, after tbe manner of tbe mytbo’ogieal gedi, by a competitive display of female beauty. Tbe North would havo marched up to this contest. Jusi as abe aid to tbs otber one, witb perfect confidence of victory; bat she would bsvo been beaten ont of night at tbe first show of forma and faces. Tbs Virginia Springs have become a favorite ground for friondly rivalry between tbe belles and the dames of tbe respective sections, and if we may credit Virginia newspaper correspond ents, the North fa floored every time. They even beat the Northern ladios in dressing and in displays of jewelry, which is an extraerdina- fact, if it be a fact, seeing that tbe Northern ladies have got all onr ante-bellum jewelry and tbeir*, too, and papa baa bad bis old debts to pay, and bia burnt houses and fences to rebuild, and his furniture to buy, and his pardon to bay, and tbe Bareaa of Abandoned Nlggera to con ciliate, and all big lawyors to foe. Whore he got tbe money to replace Mary and Lena’s jew elry and string tbeir mother with pearls and dia mond*, is a puzzling query—but bo got it— that ia a certain fact. An Alleghany Springs correspondent of the Uichmond Dispatch writes: All Ihe girls oomplain of two things—first, that tbe beanx are so soiree; and second, that tbe married ladies absorb too much of tbe stock band. A week or two ago wben tbe star of NewToik flubed npon ns like a meteor, fol- loaod by whispers of Pans, diamond*, green back*. and latest fashion*, there was a flutter of excitement, especially a* it was rumored that the lovely New Yorker was to "show ns South ern girls howto dress!" "Show ns, indeed 1 we’ll show bar!’’ wav the cry, and sure enough the next weekly dresa ball the South was tri umphant, and tbelmarried belles helped to do the bnvines*. “They were attractive enough before,” said a lady in confidence to this cor respondent, “bnt this time tbe aggravating thing* beat a* not only in good look*, bnt beat every one of os in dreesea, and above all in dia- rnord*; Mrs. C.bell, Mrs. Robinson, Mrs. Gildetsleeve, all of them were acperbl” An Ohio Tragedy—Three Lives Lest. An Adamsville correspondent of the Cincin nati Commercial of Wednesday writes aa fol lowa: m Tbe saddest calamity that ever happened in tbi* cimmunity occurred yesterday afternoon between 1 aud 2 o'clock, about two miles south east of tbia place. Mr. A J. Wine baa a well that baa been abont dry, and about thirty five feet deep. The past few days he baa been dig ging it deeper, aud a windlaas and tab for draw ing ont tbe dirt stood over tbe month of tbe well. Yesterday one of Mr. Wine’a daughters coEoluded to put some butter dawn in tbe well to oool, and persuaded her brother to let her down in the well for amuvement, which had been frequently done before. He finally concluded to let her down, and was draw ing her up, and when near tbe top tho foul air that waa In the well made her insen sible, and she fell oat of the tub to the bot tom. Her father, a* soon as the acoideutwaa known, came ont and let his son down to bring her np. He bad hardly reachod the bottom be- fore he became insensible from the foul air or damp. No other help being near, Mr. Wine raised an alarm by ringing the bell. Tbe neighbors come in from all quartern. Among the first there waa a young min named Winfield Hank*. Without stopping to inquire abont tbe condition of the well, he wai let down with a rope to bring np one of the bodies, and while engaged in tying the rope be became insenai- ble. The excitement by this time became in tense. A little more precaution was now mani fested. Oae or two more persona were let down, bnt could not romiin loog enough to get either of tbe bodies. Finally John Bowden wa* let down, and stayed long enough to aeoure Hanks, and brought him to the top. A alight fluttering of the heart waa manifested after he w»s brought np, bnt it soon ceared to beat. No one else daring to go down, a grappling took we* attached to a rope and the bodies of the otter two were brought out, life being extinct. By this time a large crowd of people had arrived, and gave deep ex pressions of sympathy for the friend* of the dead. It wa* one of the most heartrending scenes ever witnessed in this neighborhood. Mies Wine sras abont eighteen years of age. an accomplished young lady. Her brother, abont twenty-one, had ,ust returned from college to spend his va-ation, bnt be was destined never to return. Young Ur. Hanks was a ton of our townsman, J. D. Hanks, E-q., about twenty- two year* of age, a young man of bright pros pect*. He hid been married jut two week* before tbe Had calamity occurred. Ox* nun of the bt. Looia Time* baa been ■old for *S0,000. Front Florida. Oaixazs —There is no section of tbs State where the orange tree fliuriebea better, pro duces a larger yield, or there ia more c-riainty of a crop, than on the Dead Lakes, in Oalhonn canty. Toe frnit. too, h.m an excellent color, is very large and of delicious fltvor. The land can bs boeght for a song, labor is cheap and tbe oost of a grove is very light. It is anfortnoate that an undeveloped aonree of wealth, so capa ble of rendering largely iu remuneration for cultivating and growiug it* golden fruit should be so loog neglected, when the handsome rs- inrtiH are so tempting A former citt/.6n of this oocnty, witbont oapual, exoept a strong arm, indomitable wilt, and a large share of industry, throe years since moved to these lakes and commenced an orchard, which baa reoeived nu- caual attention, both in culture and extension, and wears confident that we nnder-estimate tbe value of bis property, at present, when It ia valued at $10,000. Tne great advantage that locality has over nearly uny orange growing section of tbe Slate oonsista in its clone proxim ity to a good market, the short time consumed in transporting the frnit, nnd theHlight expeDse incident to its aale.—Mariana Courier. The Courier add* that tbe orange crop in Oal honn this year ia very promising. Tne trees are heavily laden with tbe beantifal fruit and the orchard* present a magnificent appearance. The Palatka Herald aaya r - “This season baa been tbe beBt for five years for the growth of orange trees on tbe St. John’* river. A gentle man from Dann’a lake aaya bis orange trees l.ave l;otn growing B'eudily for eighteen month* The improvements uu the old cathedral at St. Angnatine will noon be completed. Two chapels, one on either aide of tbe old edifioe, have been built, Tho window* have been en largrd, and stained gifts* inserted. Otber im provements are projected. Mayport is situated near tbo month of the St. John's river, twenty miles from Jacksonville. It* population is abont one hundred and twenty, of whom twenty are females. In tbe winter, from November to April, there f* much activity among tbe people, who are cbiifly employed in shad fishing for tbe Savannah and New York markets. Abont sixteen thousand abad were shipped last winter, and sold at from thirty five to seventy-five cents each, in Savannah, and at higher prices in New York. Large quantities of fish are oaught and shipped to Savannah from April to November, while in August, Septem ber and October an extensive business is done in packing mallet, wbiob sell readily at from $12 to $15 per barrel. Tbe place ia highly spoken of for both a Hammer and winter resort. The surf-bathing, boating and fishing are not exoelled anywhere, and there ia a magnifioent beach extending thirty miles and sHording an unsurpassed pleasure drive. Hotel accommo dations only are needed to render tbe plaoe par ticularly nttraotive. A Jew-fish was reoently caught in tbe river at Apalachicola which measured nearly five feet in length SDd weighed 85 ponnds. Tbero is quite a rpfntcd discussion going on in the ApaUchiooIa Times between oorrepon- denta as to whether serenade*, witb whisky thrown in, are couiincive to good morals. You can't always tell. The irrepressible John Smith shot and killed i alligator in tbe St. John’s nnder a wharf at Jacksonville last week, eight feet nine inches long. His gatonhip waa taken ont and the • bootblack brigade ” went for bia hide. Neal’* Landing, on tbe Chattahooobee river, is now known as Egypt, from tbe large quanti ties of corn sold there tbe present year to the farmers of Jackson and other counties. Cnreaiu Without Knobs or Handles. The fallowing "chunk” of wisdom will be keenly appreciated by many persona wbo have bad oocasion to tackle tbe nuisinoe alluded to. We know bow it ia ourself : The Boston Commercial Bulletin aaya if there is ever a man that ia anathematized by tbe traveling pnblin it is that stnpid, thoughtless see who makes bureaus without knob* or han dles to tne drawers. The greater aaa is, per haps, the landlord who buys such useless things. If tbe one key tbit pull* open the whole set of three or four drawers chanoes not to be lost, of oourse it sticks or gets stock by some hasty traveler in the top or middle or under drawer, and the next one who cornea—with his wife, perhaps—to stay half a dozen days, and wants the use of it. first breaks his finger nails trying to open the remaining drawers, or else gets one of hia own trank keys so inexplicably tangled np in one of the keyholes that a hasty jerk snaps the key, and acta aa the spark which causes an explosion of sulpbnrious expletives, to that Madame turns round with a shudder, and “My dear, it's no matter. If you can't get the ■’thing*, aa you call them, open, it’* no n*e of your using such dreadful language." When Madame, however, puma hastily by, and the one protruding key, sticking out like a Cos sack's lance, catches her ntw mnslin dress and slits an r.gty rent, then cornea her turn, sad the lord of creation leans back in one of the brokan- ■pringed easy chairs and laughs. Seriously, tbe hotel keeper and manufacturer and furniture dealer wbo ael bureaus without knobs or handles to ell the drawers firmly at tached, are aoouuotable formore profanity than a balky horse or decline in copper stock*.— Remember this, furniture dealers and land lords. Tn* Terr.HIST t r Cam.—There ia a man on FnnKlin street wbo has been engage d In the past two months in a mighty effort to kill a cat. In that time that unfortunate animal ha* explored tbe bottom of every sheet and stream of water within eix miles of Danbury, has ba^ an nnintentional taste of tbe several new va rieties of powder, and has got eo it oan tell in tbe dark, witbont looking erenndt. tbe difference between’* half brick and a whole one. The man himself hasn’t got a whole pieoe of clothing in bia wardrobe, and ha* almost en tirety lost thi uae of one leg from rheumatism contracted while drowning the oat, and baa more •cratehoa oa him than tbe anmvor of foar wivee. Hu aged father aaya be will take a chair ont in tbe yard on a pleasant afternoon, and will ait there for two boars at e time and look at *bat eat and nr ear.—Danbury/ Sou. T*u year's crop of prairie chickens in the Northwest will bo very largo. All tbe Athena correspondents agr that the honor* of betleehlp at tbe late Commeooement were divided between Miss Lola Soalea, of Barks county, aud Mi** Lizz’e Lockett, of this city— tbe one “a glorious blonde” as one correspond ent aaya, and the otber a glorious brunette, as several dozen young men here and elsewhere testify. Thi Atlanta Herald learns that the Chatta- tanooga Times waa levied npon and dosed by tbe sheriff, on Thursday morning. A OcLcxars bailiff ntmsd Ferguson wbo bad arrested a man named Pike last Monday, eaoght a tartar. Pike got hia dmder up and threw the bailiff into tbe river. Tex music of the lively revolver enlivened Thomson last Tuesday. Tbe murioian waa Mr. Wo. Murray who plugged a Mr. Emery in tbe aide. The Woxdzbi i » Wshbixoto* Cocotr.—The Sindersvfita Herald s*y a: There ia a dia'rict in this county in whioh’ not one of its citizens has ever applied for the benefits of tbe homestead or bankrupt Iaw«. and there baa not been a suit bronght in sa d dis trict for more than two years. J. P.’s and law yers don’t make many fortunes out of that people, and of oourse friendship and good feel ing prtviiln g-n-r-tlly. We k inw a nun in thi* county who his been firming for thirty years, running from four to six plows, and has never bonbt a pound of b-con, and baa only bought twenty bushels of corn daring tbe thirty years. Tax same paper ba* these additional items Aaaacr Lxsd i* Cultitatiox t* Washixo to* Cou.vTT, Livs Stock, xto —Number of acres : oorn, 45 879; ouiton, 40,798; wheat, 1 705; rye, 14 447; oats. 1 902; sweet pole toes, 750; eager cane, 27; oreuarda. 1,404; peaouU, 123. L'Vft stock : abeep. 4 433; dogs, 2 304 ; bog*, 14 330 ; males, 2,526; cattle, 7,290 Man Knxzo roe hi* Moxxt —Bartow, Ga Au/ust I'.th, 1 ’*73—Editor* Herald: Mr. E 1- ward White, an unoffending, bard working man, waa brutally murdered last night between 11 and 12 o'oloek. Tbe circumstances are aa follows : Tbe bouse waa oponed, and tbe noise at tbe door being heard by Mr. White, be got ont i f bed to learn tbe cense, wben he wa* iDeiantlj shot three times, the first shot taking eff.et in the forehead, and be fell dead upon the fi » r. The list twoBbota were fired after he fall, a* in supposed, by tbe shot cutting only bt* cloth-* end going through tbe fl.or. Tne murderer then called upon Mr*. Waire and Mrs Doroh for Mr. White's trank and mocey, cr he would blow tbeir brainR on>. A* soon as the trank was shown him, he immediately left, carrying it some 250 yard*, where he opened it, got out what money there wa*—some fifteen or twenty dollar)—and then left the trULk and balance of the oontenta. Tbe murderer and robber 1b anp. posed to be a negro, a small man, wearing No. 6 or 7 aboee. It i* believed that be waa alone, as only one track oonld be found. Yonrs, ete , A. E Tabyes. Cipt. Jons A. Darn, agent of tha Central Bailroid, at Albany, informs the Central City that the reoeipts of tbe Southwestern Bailrord at that point exceed those of tbe same summer month* laat year “to a degree quite flittering to tbe prosperity of the road and the city. Last Saturday a party of banters, seven in namber, took a drive for deer in Worth oonnty and started nine, fire of which were killed and bronght homo. Eistmas is yearning for a dentist, as the one “thing moat needed,” according to tbe Times. Thx Dawson Journal Bays the Pope planta tion, in that county, whioh in tbe good old days would have sold for $25,000 or $30,000, brought only $500 at sheriff’s sale laat Tneaday. An Intzbkhtxno ExPzniMXNT with Kehohine Oil.—The Ohroniole and Sentinel says a oonple of little white boys, mere Infanta, one of them acaroely ont of tbe nurse’s arms, having beard some one read onr aooonnt of a negro boy tying rags saturated with ktroaine oil around the foot of another boy and setting the material on fire, in order to waka the latter np, determined to try tbe experiment on tbeir own aocount. On Monday, nigbt accordingly, finding a negro boy named Henry fa4 asleep, they tied a rag dipped in keroaine around one of bia feet and set it on fire. The darkey didn't sleep much after tbe fire got started. Hia foot wa* badly burned and be bos not been able to work aiLce. Tha singing of one song oost John Morgan, negro, bia life laat Wednoeday night at Au gusts. Ho was warbling some sweet air near the room of one Jas. Cooper, another negro, which ao < xsited Cooper that be reached for bis old musket and let Morgan have its oontenta in tbe lett groin, causing bis death tbe ncvi J.j. Thx Gbzxxz County Goppzb Mine.—An At lanta correspondent writes to tbe Angnsta Con stitutionalist concerning this mine aa follows: I noticed in yonr paper an extract from tbe Greensboro Herald, In regard to a 'oopper mine in Greene county, Georgia, near Union Point,” in which be Btated that a com pany was formed previous to the one now on the premise.*, who sunk a shaft forty feet deep, going balow and not touching the vein of cop per, and tbe work waa then abandoned. I waa one of the company wno took part in sinking that shaft, and know something of the matter, and aa the "mine" ia oorning before the publio, I will give you tne facts and uorreot the informer of tbe Greensboro Herald. Tbe shaft in ques tion was sunk rather too far on tbe west of the vein, aud in going down a few feet nnder the enrfaee, we came down in a good vein of copper, showing itself in the east aide of the sbait about twelve leer, and tha vein suddenly bulged almost across tbe shaft to tbe west; the abaft being eight feet in width. In giing deeper, it aa sud denly passed out on tbe east aide of the shaft. I continued the shaft to abont forty feet in depth, 1 then came up at nr near the bulge spoken of (the vein not showing itself at the bottom of the shaft,) aid tunnelled through tbe vein, taking ont quite a quantity of oopper and niokcl ore. Tbia ore in a crude stale, by an are ly made by llr. August Riht, Assayer of the Duck Town Mines, in Tennessee, gave thirteen per cent, of metalio oopper, witb a email per oentage of niokeL I farther state that I in duced Mr. K*ht to visit the mines in peraoD, and be told me the plaoe waa valuable for oop- l>er, Lnt would prove more so for nickel. Ur. .iaht stated to me that he had worked in tbe mines in Germany, and that the ores were the same, and that nickel or German silver, which t one and the same, wa* worth $6 per pound, gave him, Mr. R (after be bad selected his ore from Tennessee) an ingot of copper taken from a slag whioh bad been inn ont in a small blast fur nace on the spot. This assay gave(S7,' eighty-sev en per oent. of metalio oopper, with (4) four per oent. of nickel. Tbe vein where I out through will measure nine or leu feet, and perhaps more. Judob Hopkins, of lbs Fulton Circuit, has refused to bail W. F. Ivey, charged with tbe murder of a negro oonviot named Geo. Henson, while be (Ivey) waa acting aa guard for Grant, Alexander A Co. Thirteen men have been arrested by the Sheriff of Jackson county, charged with tbe killing of. one J. B. Holliday—a very unlovely individual, aocording to all acoousts—in that oonnty on tbe lGth of June. An cfficions Fed. eral Commissioner and sub deputy assistant District Attorney—or words to that effect—who went up there to aee about it, have returned to Atlanta with tbeir fiegera in tbeir months and not tbe ghost of a cost in tbeir pickets. Selah! A xxobo preacher named Lister whipped tbe wife of one of his congregation for "aasaing” him list Friday, and wben remonstrated with by tbe husband bit off about a couple of pounds of tbe Uttar’* lower lip. The Thomaaville Enterprise aaya : Nattbe s F*btxl.'SEB.—The Florida beggar- lioe, a plant of several years acquaintance with na in tbia section, baa begun to elicit oomment and attention among onr farmers, aa a fertili zer. It bas been known aa such for many yean in Florida, and are bare often beard tbe highest enoomiems upon it aa a reclaimer and ramvigorator of old worn ont soils. In this immediate section it baa been rapidly gaining ground, spreading itself over tbe farms, daring tbe last few yean, and affording oar South Georgia planters an opportunity io observe its habits and virtues. A few *<hd scattered about the premise* are sufficient to insure perpetuil crops, and in tbe cultivated fields, it has tbe ao- oomousting good sense to spring np after tbe eorn andeitton are “laid by.” It will then literally cover the faee of tbe earth, and grow ea high a* a man’s heed on a borae, if the lend be tolerably fair. If tbe land in poor, it will grow from two to fonr feet high, im proving and enriching tbe soil by each saoeeaBve crop until a vary few yean will show tbe land covered abont tbe laat of August witb a perfect wilderness of baggariiee, which now beeomee, aay thane ben) acquainted witb it, the baM peatorage in tbe world for bones, mole* and oowo. One of onr moat intelligent farmers sawed na, a few day* ago that it far corps Mod tbe clover of higtier region*, and he intends in troducing it aa a rival to tbe Northern clover, at onr next State Fair. The aaaac gentleman icfnrms aa that ana of bia most aaeoaaafal farm ing neighbor*, oonMdar* ■ crop of begguUo* on bia Und as eqniralent to ten bushels of oot- too seed broad o*at per acre, in the production of oorn. Sa great are its fertilizing qualities that cld fields impoverished by cultivation until they would not yield more then six or eight bushels of oorn per aoie, have in many atanoea, been known to produoe from fifteen twenty bushels of oorn per acre, after two three crop* of beggnrlioe. What it Costs to Feed a Chatham Cou.ttt Gbaxd Just—Tbe SavAnnah Advertiser the following information on the above sab jeot: Among the bills presented to the County Commissioners for thoir consideration and pay. ment yeateidiy was one by Mr. Dan. MoCon nell for lunch, meals, eto, furnished tbe grand jury during tbe term just bronght to a close. Tbe commissioners eximiued this bill closely. It appeared to be a “atunner.” They oouldn’t comprehend it. They looked at it thu way and that, they read it right Bide np. then up side down, then cross wise; they turned it over the back, examining with tbeir spectacles well adjusted. They looked at each other, then the bill; some of them seemed to regird it an infernal machine, which they expected every minute would burst aud blow tbe entire bench through one of the windows. The; grew exci ted and oa’m by turns. Finally they laid the thing down and drew a long breath. An indis- tinot buzzing in the neighborhood ird'.eattd that tbe court was discussing the matter in private. We waited in breathless silence for the result which ’ wa* to the vffeot that the board refused to pay tbe bill. We herewith ap pend this remarkable document which so puz zied tbe head* of onr County Commissioners The Gkahd Jubt— To D. McConnell, Db. For Luntbct, Mcait, etc — Jana 27tb, five spring chickens, $3 75; steaks, $2 50; ooffee, 50; dessert, $1 50; to*st, $ I 25 $9 July 1st, five devil orab*. $1 25; aleak*, $2 50; omelette, $2 50; coffee, 50; milk toes’, $1 25; milk, 75; dessert, 75 9 July 2 i. porter house steak*. $GOO; crabs, $2 50; oeffee, £0; milk, 50 9 50 Juty 7th. ege* poaohed on toast, $2 50; chickens, $3 75; fish, $2 50; coffee, 75...3 50 July 8th, Tennessee steaks, $3 00; toast, 75; fried eggs, $1 30; ooffen, 50; dessert, 35; milk, 50; omelette. $2 40 9 50 Jaly 9 b, spring chickens, $3 75; rab bits, $2 50; dessert, $125; ooffde, 50; crabs, $ I; toast, 50 9 50 Total $57 00 A min named E owald who kept an eating 8*ioou on tbe oorner of Fetors and Thomson streets, Atlanta, died very suidenly on Wednes day night. Hs went to bed in hia usual health. Whisky. At sheriff’a sale in Aabsny on Tuesday lasl, bouse and lut bronght only $400; A F. Holt's interest in the Tallahassee plantation, in Dough erty oonnty, valued at $8,000, bronght $I5G, and the residence of A 0. Westbrook bronght $G50. Cotton.—Uuder this hoad the Albany News of yesterday says: Some plantations are suffering from defeotive and negleoted tillage, and some are being do atroyed by tbe oaterpillers— bnt lew of the lat ter—while the mass of tha crap is doing well. Royall’s and Whiaenant’s preparations are be. ing applied extensively, and wherever applied the worm dies. Those who are using the "De stroyer” are content with the expanse and the ef. feot, while tbe wise ones who pot theory against experiment stand off and langh at tbe poor fools who are alarmed and are making nn effort to save orops. The weed is growiug rapidly and fruiting is programing admirably. Koow ing ones say "look ont,” while the inexperi enoed and nnobsorvant affect Indifference or contempt for the warning. We shall see what we shall see. Ms os tleSesonfces of Lonisiaaa —BT— JOSEPH JONES, M. I).. Professor or Chemistry aud Clinical 9Iedl cine, Medical I>epar meat University oX LonlitRnn and Visiting Fliyqfclnn Cbnrity IfosplfnV, flew Orleans. no n. SALT. Editors Telegraph and Messenger: Salines occur in various portions of tbe State, and tbe rich supplies must necessarily excite tbe attention of capitalists. North of Rsd River, in Bienvillo ai.d Bossier parishes, there aro immense quantities of saliro waters and salif erous deposits; the latter being especially found in the beds of ancient lakes. In the low, flat beds of these basins, which lie below the ordi nary level of the oountry, the wells are sunk to the aeptn ox xrom twelve to twenty reet, when the salt water peroolates through the soil, aud fur nishes an abundant daily supply. This Is boiled in kettles, and each well famishes from twenty to twenty five bushels of salt per day. In a line Leginning almost twenty miles west’of of the mouth of the Alcbafalaya, on the eoe8t of Belle Isle, and running nearly due east, are ranged five Islands, Belle Isle, Goto Blanche, Wenks* Island, Fetis Anse and Aliller’* Island. These islands rise from the low marsh end prairies, by which they are sarrounded, and form mound* of various size?. The chief of these is Petit Auso (Avery’s Island), which is 140 feet above the sea-tide level, and contains an immense deposit of common salt. Petit Anse is situated on Bayou Petit Anse, six miles from the north shore of Vermillion bay, which is an arm of the Gulf. It is fifteen miles to the mouth of that bay, where there is a floe land-locked harbor of eighty feet depth. The following are the general results of my chemical analysis of Louisiana rock salt: Louisiana rock salt pments the form, ap pearance and optical properties of pure chloride of sodium. The large orzstalline masses are so perfectly tranrparent, free from all extraneous matter and uniform in their struotnre and den Bity, that they would be suitable in all respects for the most delicate philosophical experiments upon the transmission of light through different media. 100 grains of Louisiana rock salt contain: Chloride of sodium 90.617 Sulphate of lime 0 318 Sulphate of magnesia 0.062 Moisture (dried at 330 degrees f ) 0 093 Tbe Louisiana rook sab, contain*, less than one half of one per cent. (0 473,) of those sub stances, which may be considered as foreign ; viz : moisture and sulphate of lime and mag nesia whioh are found in greater or less quan tities aocording to their purity, in almost all samples of salt. The absence of both chloride of calcium and chloride of magnesia is impor tant, as these salts abstract moisture readily from the atmosphere, and when existing to even a limited extent in salt, impair more or less its valne. by rendering it more or less by- drosapio. Meats cured with salt abounding with the chloride of. calcium, are those prone to absorb moisture from tbe atmoephere. PZTBOLZUflf. The oil springs of the Louisiana Coal Oil Company are situated in Calcasien Parish, about sixty miles from the coast. The oil spring contains large masses of asphaltum, whioh were formed by the changes in the oil upon exposure to the atmosphere. Carburet ted hydrogen gas passes out of the spring iu a for cible and continuous stream, and when con ducted in tabes, ean be employed for illcminat- iog and beating puiposes. It is supposed that petroleum underlies this seotiou of oountry, and that in tbe hands of experienced engineers large quan ities of this valuable material will be obtained. • C3AL. Lignite deposits of various degrees of purity and value, underlie nearly the whole cf the uo- land country, from tbe Sabine to the Auchita rivers. This ooal makes an excellent fael and has been used in Shreveport. PZAT. Valuable deposits of Peat, are found in many places near the coast, and will, wben reached by railrotd*, furnish large supplies of fuel. XBOX. Iron of good quality is scattered in immerse quantities over an extensive surface of Louisi ana, south of Red River, and from the Arkan sas line, it extends nearly to Red River; south of this, it appears in DaSota, Nachitoches, Rip- idea and Sabine. Bienville parish is singularly rich in iron ore. Lime, and inexhaustible forget* of pine and oak, from which tbe necessary flax and charcoal may be obtained, accompanya the beds of iron ore. GTP.rar. Tbi* valuable fertilizing material is found in large quantities in the saline basins of Northern Louisiana: and the fertilizing properties of the waters of Red River have been justly attributed to the vast store* of this material washed down by its numerous tributaries. VUtZ. Aim FIOM3CT8. We might also enumerate mar!sand pigments, and day* of fine qualitiee, and the Ditrate and oar ben ate of soda, amongst the mineral re- sources of Louisiana. 493 St- Charles street, New Orleans, Lx, An- gust 5, 1573. * “ w m ■ * ■*’***’* m Turn income of Jones, of Nevada, Is $890,000 s year from mining property. Hi« election to the United States Senate coet him nearly a jeer's (nocme. BY TELEGRAPH. day dispatches. marine Trouble*. New Yonr, August 8.—Two of the crow of the steamship Ol*t*a quarrelled and one was thrown overboard and drowned. The murderer was arrested. The 8teameh ; pe M*y Clinton and Gen. Siegel collided off the battery, and the Siegel suuk. No lives lost. The La Crole, from Saint Domingo, lost her Captain, of yellow fever. Hinnjfs In tbe Brltfab Cabinet* A Herald special, dated London, August 7, says a cabinet council was held this evening. The discussion resulted in important changes in the present ministry. The Marquis of Ripon, Child3ra and B x:er have resigned ; the two first for private reasons. Mr. Gladstone, in addition to the Premier ship, assumes the Chancellorship of the Ex chequer. in lieu of Lowe, who assumes the Home c ffije. Mr. Bruce is to be made a peer, aud will sneoeed Lord Ripon es President the Council. Mr. Bonham Carter succeeds Mr. Baxter Joint Secretary of the Treasury. Arthur Peel becomes the Liberal whip. Orher changes are expioted in & few days. John Bright joins tbe Cabinet as Chancellor of the Dachy of LmcaBhiro. The Liberals lost the eleotion to-day in Eist Slafforddbire. Tattling Cubans* The Cabans of this city are preparing another expedition to land arm* and ammunitions on Caban soil by steamer Virginias. It is said this will be the largest one yet attempted. The articles of agreement for a boat race have been drawn up and signed by Jjhn A Bigle-w. of New Yorjr, and George Brown, of Halifax $1000 a side. The race is to be rowed at Ha'J fax August 28 th. Tbe Everlasting Tlcbbornc* Whalley, a member of tho British Parlia ment, who arrived in this city Wednesday, told a reporter yesterday that be came to obtain testimony favorable to the claimant of the Tichborne title ard estate. His man appeared in England about three weeks ago, wbo pretend ed to have been steward on boird the Osprey, which picked up & boat from the wreck of the Brila, containing the claimant. He gave evi denoe cf speaking the truth, and corroborated important testimony already given in the trial He thought it advisible to come and see if he could find corroborative proof. A Tea Fraud. A glgantio swindle has been bronght to light iu tbe preparation for tho sale of over 9,000 chests of damagod tea. The tea is part of the cargo of the steamer Petersburg, wretktd on the Ber muda*. The parties who bought the damaged tea at a Government anorion sale, have been dootoriug and preparing it for acme time in West street male honne, to foist it upon the market when a favorable opportunity offered. The attention of the Health Board has been di rected to the matter. FROM CUBA. Lamentations over do Euro. Havana, August 8.—The Diario de la Marina of to day, says tf leg rams have been received, announcing a decree annulling the sequestra tion of the property of the Caban rebel*, bnt that it will not pronounce the news false, for fear of nr.sleadiDg the public. It o&nnot accept it without official confirma tion. The Diario thinks it imprubible that the Spanish government desires the immediate re turn of their property to rebe s and rebel sym pathizers. It say* the rebels have Uied a great part of their resontots in buying vessels and arm* to carry on the w»»r. The return of their property will send oat new expeditions and prolong the war. It thii k-i such aotion would be an absurdity, and show a want of reason and patriotic sentiment on the part of tho gov erement. Tbo loyal people o f Cuba are meking heavy sacrifices to enaoie tha government to sontain the neerssary expensed of the war, and it is a great outrdge to take a million or more out of the treasury in this way. Frgrht witti Apaches. San Fbanokco, August 8 —An Indian fight ha* oconrred near Camp Verde. Three Apaches were killed and five women captnred. Cliolcrn In tho West. Columbus, O., August 8.—Since July oth there have been twenty-fonr cholera case?, of which eighteen proved fatal. Outside of the penitentiary there are six cases now In tbe city, two of which are mild. HorKiNaViLLE. Ky., Auguit 8Three deaths from cbolera here in two days. Fears of a Wrecked Steamship. London, August 8 —From the debris fonnd off tho coast of Ireand, it is feared that the steamship Alabama, from Glasgow Saturday, has been wrecked. Nt^ survivors from any wreck have been reported. Browned. FniLADELrtiia, Au^uui o. O.. - T , n( .it to Atlantic City was drowned yesterday. NIGHT DISPATCHES Capital Xotca. Washington, Angnst 8.—Tho fail report of the special commies ion on *he abides of the United Htates branch of tbe Vienna Exposition, has been received here. The conclusions are the reverse of complimentary to General Van Bnren aud his coi fi lential assistant, General Mayer, and some of tbeir subordinate*. The Government has reoeived no effisial com munication from Great Britain relative to tho Monitoba difficulty and, therefore, contrary to report, bas taken no action whatever in the premises. Nor has the Government received any communications from the tip&nish repre sentatives, concerning th) action of United States officers, relative to the protection of the Virginias. Tne German minister has been officially in formed of the grounds of the conclusions of onr Government in the Vogt csss, and farther, that at the expiration of a certain time Vogt will be discharged from custody. Haisey, who was stabbed atr the Hangerfest young Slatter, of Alabama, is dead. Blatter has not been arrested. Synopsis Weather Statement Wab Dzp’t, Omm Chief Signal Officeb, Washington, August 8. Probabilities: For the Northwest, and thence Missouri, low barometer, southwest winds, high temperature and cloudy weather will pre vail, with occasional rain for the upper lakes. Vari&bte sonthe&st and northeast winds, in creasing clondy and warm weather to-morrow, with falling barometer, from tho Ohio valley to Tennessee. Southeast winds, warm and partly clondy weather, with local storm*, for the Gnlf States. Southerly winds, partly cloudy weather, high temperature and local storm* for tho Booth Atlantic States. Bonthe&st wind*, falling baremeter, warm aod generally clear weather for lower lake* aud Middle States. Tempo rarily rising barometer, lower temperature, westerly wind*, occasional rain, generally dealing weather for the New England States. Rabid Doc on tbe R*mpa?c. Bbidoepobt, Conn , August 8 —Patrick Hear- _ a member of the police force of ihia city, was severely bitten last evening by his own dog, which is supposed to have been mad. Tho dog first attacked officer Jennings, who was in oonversition with Heariv, bat waa beaten off with a o!nb. It next fliw at it* mister and Zdd him by the cheek ard neck, lac^rAting both In a terrible manner. The dog was killed. Hearly’s condition is critical. Bo«r Eat Bog:. Buffalo, August 8.—Thieves entered a room the Mansion House occupied by some Eastern sporting men last night, and succeeded getting away with over 113,000 io money and elry. Covention Adjourned. Cincinnati, August 8.—The Constitutional Convention adjourned to meet December 2d. l ondon N$«n, London, Augusts—Lidy Trevjlinis dead At a meeting yesterday of the directors of company nrginized to lay a cable direct to ooafit of New Hampshire, it was unani mously resolved to change the route, and land e cable on the coast of Newfoundland. London j'rarnals of thi* morning announce that Lord Frederick Charles Cavendish and 8Ir Arthur Wellesly Peel, will assist Mr. GJad- ia Administering the dutieB of the office Chancellor of the Exchequer. It is also stated that Hon. Algernon Greville been offered one of the Janior Lordihips of Treasury. It is .probable that Bir John, Duke of Colo- ridge, will be appointed Msster of the Rolls, Bir George JesaeL, Attorney-General, and Mr. Henry James, Solicitor-General. Fan eral or Odlllcn Barrot. Pabis, August 8 —The faoerel of OJillon Barrot is to take plaoe to-morrow. M. Thiers be one of tbe pall bearers. On Monday M- Tbiera will leave for Lucerne, here he will remain nntil the end of the week, when he will return to Peris. Ckwlera. Bbblix, August 8.—Cholera has appeared vi olently in tbe barracks. Immense Loss by Fire. London, Aajjurt 8.—The loss by the burning of rice mills at Stepney will amount to five MDNIURT DISPATCHER RtemnbOAt Burned—Fe»rfnl Los* of Lire. Fri debicksbubo, Va , August S.—The steamer Wawaaett, running on the Potomac river, be tween Washington and Corrieman, took fire abont twelve o'clock to-day at Chataten Uudicg, and was destroyed. She hid abont one hundred and fifty passengers on board, and between forty and fifty live* are lost. S.x bodies were fonnd up to two o’clock—three white ladies, one child and two colored children. Miss Virginia Marbnry, of Glymoct, Mrs. Bettie Saunders and child, from (Jnrrieman are among the dead. Others have not been recognized. Geo. W. Cooke, of Warsaw, Virginia, is miss ing. Captain Wood did not leave the boat until forced by thfl flimes. The fire Wta first dis covered in the engine room. Tbe Waisiai There is no hope cf further details of the Wa waset disaster.* The news was bronght to Fred ericksburg by a negro. The news seems to be ootfi med by tho non-arrival of the vessel twelve hoars ago. An lndefitlte Blspntcb. Washington, Angost 8 —The Civil Servico CcmmtbSion, at it* session at Washington, which terminated Jane 4, 18"3, recommended certain forther rules to bo prescaibed by the President for ihe government of the civil service of the United States. These rules as herewith pub lished are approved, and their provisions will bo enforced as rapidly 03 tho proper arrange ments can ba made. U. S. Gbant. By the President. Hamilton Fi*h, Secretary of Siato. New York Items. New Yoke, August 8 —Mary Roy King, widow of the late Governor King, is dead, aged eigbty-five. The steamer Arndt is sixteen days overdue. L. M. Sage, son of a wealthy resident of Hackensack, N. J.. and nn old colored servant, were drowned in Hackensack while fi&liing. Tbe bankrnptoy proceeding* against the Brooklyn Trust Company have been discon tinued. Fonr watchmen emp’oyed In the government warehouse which was burned a week ago have been arrested for robbery of bonded gooes. A dispatch from Glasgow to the agents of t-ho State line of steamers says: “Lx.-k for the Alabama on the 13.h. Tha report of her wreck id unfounded. Attempted Assassination. New Oblean.i, August 3.—Officer Wm. Terry, of the Mounted Metropolitan Police, was ar rested to-day on the oharge of attempting to as sassinate District Attorney McKay last night, in Carrolton Terry snapped a pistol twice at McKiy and Aid. Cholera. Chattanooga, August 8.—There were five ca?es of cholera hero to-day, three of whioh proved fatal. MEsirnii, Angnat 8.—The cholera ha* reap peared in the northeastern portion of this county. Rochefort off for New Caledonia, Pabis, Angu3t 8 —Henri Rochefort was ex amined by physicians yesterday,and pronounced able to bear ihe fatigue of a voyage. He was accordingly sent aboard the transport Virginie this morning, with 89 other convicts for New Caledonia. 0 More Indemnity Paid. The payment of the third quarter of the last milliard of the war indemnity was completed on the 5fii instant. Londou Intelligence. London, August 8 —Wm. P. Adams, member of Parliament for Clackmanshiro, has been ap pointed Commissioner of Pablio Works and Building*, vice A Garton renigned. Nearly all tbe large cotton mills at Rockdale are closed in consequence of a strike. Attempt to Assassinate a Prince. TniE8TE, August 8 —An attempt was made to day to assassinate Prince Nicholas, Hospodar of Montenegro. The Prince was severely wonnded in the face. Count de Chaniborit Accepts the Throne. Vienna, Angost 8.—The Versiadt Z etuug re ports that Count de Chambord has accepted the throne of France, the personal tender of wbioh wa* recently made him by a deputation of Le- gitimits. P, C. SAWYER’S (patented may 2J, 1873.) With Adjustable Roll Box and Swinging Front, for Ginning Damp, Wet or Dry Cotton. Also, the Celebrated Grriswold Grin, Oanuino Pattam.irilhtho Oecniating or Water Box. JIumfacturoJ by P. C. SAWYER, Macon, Georgia. WHISENANT’S laterpillar Destroyer! Koyalty Removed! W* will eell tha Whisenant’a Caterpillar De- etroyor to any ivho iriah to nae It at soven an J a half cotta a pound, affriahig tho ttto cf tzroniy pounds to tho aero. This compound wo have no hesitation in recommonding as the most effectual, and of little or no injury to tha plant. This price about as cheap as any fannor can prepare it—to say nothing of tha bad results which may follow the uso of such poisonous compounds when not properly or perfectly mi^od. To place it in tho reach of all the owner of the patent has waived the royalty. “ lunar, 3a., ingust 1, 1873. “ The Whlsenant compound has been export mented with by a good many of onr p'antera, and veiy thoroughly. It ha, answered every experts tion, and without iijory to the plant whon applied directed. “ N. & A. F. TIFT & CO." Our terms are oash or approved acceptance. Address all orders tc HUNT, EAN KIN & T.AjIAR, JnneI5cod<fcft~6ni Druggists, Macon, Ga. This Gin M Three PfeminEis Inst Year. THE SA.WYER ECLIPSE COTTON GIN with its improvements, lias won its w*y, upon its own mer its, to tho very first rank of popular favor. It atandj to-day with jut a ocMPErrroa in all tho point* and qualities desirable or attainable iu a PERFECT oOTTON GIN. Our Portable or AdjumatilQ Roll Bjx places it in the power of ©very planter to regulato the picking of tae seed to Bait himself, ana ia tho nnlv one made that doea. Properly managed SAWYER’S ECLIPSE GIN will maintain the full natural length of tbe staple, and be mado to do aa rapid work as any machine in nee. ihe old GRISWOLD GIN—a genu-no pattern— faraiehod to order, whenever doaired. Three premiums were takon by SAWYER’S ECLIPSE GIN last year, over all competitors, viz: Two at the Southeast Alabama and Southwest Georgia Fair, at Eufaula—one a silver cup, tho other a diploma. AJso, the first premiam at tho Fair at Goldsboro*, North Carolina. IVEW O-IIVS Will be delivered on board the cars at the follow ing pricos: Thirty-five Saws $131 50 Forty 8awa.... 150 00 Forty-five Saws 1C8 75 Fifty Saws 187 50 Sixty Saws 225( 0 Seventy Saws 262 50 Eighty Saws 280 00 To prevent delay, orders and old gins should be sent in immediately. Tim ef given to responsible parties. EDWARD SPRXHZ, IVJOTABY PUBLIO and EX-OFFICIO JUSTICE A.\ OF THE PEACE. I can be fonnd for the present at all hoars of the day at my office, adjoin- ng the law office of A. Prondfit, over the stove of Jaques A Johnsons Third street, Macon, Ga., to at tend to all M aeieterial hnaineaa. ancr . ONLY MANUFACTORY In this country where Write* Vessel Ceyeleed. The whaling berk Anna-Wes, from Hasca- eansetts, capsized. Five lost. Seventeen were rad by a passing veecei. Patent Wire Meddles Are made nnder one management. Also, SUPPLIES used in COTTON and WOOLEN MILLb promptly famished. D C. IJBOWN, july24 6m • Lowell. Mass, U-8. $300,000! mSSOKI STATE LOTTERY. Lccallied by State Authority and Draw iu Public In St- Louis. Grand Single Humber Scheme, 50,000 Sl'ECEBS. CLASS H. TO BE DRAWN AUGUST 30. 1673. 5^80 FRIZES* AMOUNTING TO $300,000. I prise o? ^450,000 500 priias of f ICO 1 prise of 13,450 9 prises nf . . t 1000 1 prite of 10.U00 9 prites 500 1 prixe of — 7.500 9 prises of. ... 300 4 prisei of 5,Oft) 9 prize* of. ...... 250 4 prizes of.~ 2Jhufi 36 prize* 7>f £00 20 prixe* 1.000 36 prize# 150 20 prises of — 500 180 prize* of.—.— V r > 40 prise* of 250 5.0U0 prixe* 10 Tickets 910. Half Tickets IS. Quarter* 92.50. 49" Oar iotterie* are chartered by the.Statee^ara VOLUNTARY TESTIMONIALS! Are famished from various sections of tho cotton growing States, of the character following: Locust Grove, Ga., Octobor 30,1872. Mr. P. O. Sawyer, Macon, Ga. Dear Sir—Enclosed find draft on Griffin Banking Company for $150, ag payment for our gin, wiih which wo are well pleased. Yours tiuly. H. T. BICKIN & SON. Tho above letter onclosoi the following testimo nial. addr*waed to Mr. Sawyer, via i Locust Gaovz, Ga , October 30, 1872. We, the undersigned planters, havo witnessed the operation of one of your Eclipao Cotton Ginn, which wo think euperior to any other gin wo have ever aeon need It leaves the geed perfectly ctt'&n, end at the name timotnrna out a b»antifol eamnle, etc. H. T. DiCEIN A r-ON, K. ALftX CLEAYELAND, M.L. HARRIS. Mr. Daniel P. Fergnsron, of Jonesboro, Ga., writoa under dato of October 10, J872. an f clfows: I havo your gin running. • * • I can aa\ it ia the beat that I ever eaw ran. It cleans tho s»-ed perfectly. J havo boon raided in a gin bou-ee, and I believe I know all about wh»t ahoutd bo expected in a firB:-clasa Cotton Gin. I can gin five hannred pounds of lint inride of sixtv minutes. Th« first two bales ginned weighed 1100 pound*, from 3ui0 pounds seed cotton, bagging and ties included. Irwinton, Ga , October 7, 1872. Mr P. C. Sawyer—Dear Sir: Tho Cotton Gin we got from you, wa are pleased to aay, me< ts our fullest expectations, and doea all you promised it ahoald do. We have ginned one hundred and six teen bales on it, and it has never choked nor bto~ ken the roll. It picke the seed clean and mzkoa good Imt. We have had ccneiderable experie nce with various kinds of cotton gins, and can, with safety, eay yours is the boat we have ever seen run. THOMAS HOOKS. Elijah lingo. Colonel Nathan Base, of Rome, Ga., rays ho h*ia UBed Griswold’*, Maguey’* and Taylor'a Uioa, and that he is now running a D. Pratt Gin in Lee coun ty, Ga , and an Eagle and a Carver Gin in Arkan sas, and a “lawyer Eclipse Gin” in Rome, Ga . tnd regards the las: named aa superior io any of tbe others. It picks fastcR and*CLK\KEa thzn rry other gin with which he ia acq tainted. ears 1 o has ginned eighty-six bales with it without break ing the roll. Bullard’s Station, M. A B R. R. January 20, 1873. Mr. P. O. Sawyer, Macon, Ga—Dear Sir—Tho Cotton Gin yon repaired for me. with your im proved box, gives perfe.t satisfaction, snd I take very groat pleasure in recommending your gins to tho public. W. O'DANIEL, M. D. Dr J. W. Summers, of Ortngpburg. 8.0 , writes: All your Gin« sold by me this sets m aro doing well and giving entire Baiiaf&ction. I will be able to sell a great many next season. J. C. Staley, of Fort Valley, writes. “Yonr Gin ia the only Giu I e?er saw that anyb >dy could feed I have heretofore been compelled to trap oy a feeder for glaring, bat with jour gin a child can feed it and it will never break tbe rolL It £ii.a both clean and fast and makes beantifal lint.” Messrs. Cbnds, Nickerson <fc Co., of Atbenx, Ga., write: “All the Sawyer Gins sold by ns are giving satisfaction. We will be able to sell a num ber of them the coming season.” Cochran, Ga., January 7, 1873. Mr. P. O. Sawyer. Macon, Ga.: Sib—The Cotton Gin we bought of you last Fall, after a fair trial, bas given ns satisfaction It makes good lint and c'eaoa the se6d well* Yours reapectfnllv, T. J. «k B. G. LEE. GINS REPAIBED PROMPTLY And made as good as new at the following low figures; New Improved Bibs Boll Box Hoad aod Bottom Pieces.. Babbitt Boxes New Saws, per set... • ••/..COo. each 310 00 each 150 each 1 50 each 1 00 each rew Ths official dr a wins will be published in the St. Louix paperc. and a oopy of drawing aent to pur- Anr$ of tickets. . . . . , . Xif \fe will draw a »imDar *eheme th* last day of orery month during the year 1873. Remit at our risk by Postoffice Money Orders JUrirtOTd L.tur 2r«£. or Expr-J » OT- Srift^Addro*,,,, M ’u >. »LU. g L K K^ACO^ QUIT. flBUl * Foitoffies Box 2446. Bepliring Biu.h „..*5 C0<3*15 00 New Broth 25 00 Printing Gin.......... 6 00 Can furnish 94 different patfomfl of xiba to th. trade at 20 rente each, at short notice. P. c. majieatiwAw SAWYER, MACON, Qi,