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um .;|,>X<l>AY, ju NE 24,1868.
r »l I \»T KILLER,
the cruel mangling of
, ,j ,-e snake, whose introduction into
t, ‘‘‘ i lt , in ocratic garden all true men have
' -.rnly and promptly denounced, we
I certain convulsive movements
B iiow the work not thoroughly done.
\\ e have no idea that sufficient vitality is
1 , L to «l s » us any harm, but these wrig
' are instructive. They demonstrate
' ,vv utterly rotten and unscrupulous are
( 'l 1,011 dholding elements of the Demos
, r ttic party at the North, and how eagerly
~ would seize any pretext and practice
v treachery to principle and the mass of
their party, to save ther ill-gotten hordes.
W'e candidly confess our fear, even though
tlii-i little gime has been spoiled, that they
■tre still plotting mischief, and are prepar
ed to commit the friends of the Constitu
tion to any disgraceful compromise with its
enemies, and their plans for the practical
i, .lavement of the white race of the coun
lrv vVe do not know what form it will
•ikr, now, but wo are none the less suspi
;llll9 and shall be'none tine less watchful.
We hope the Convention will keep a sharp
lookout for them.
Some people who think money can do
everythingarein great tribulation lest these
rag barons should lie huffed by the nomi
nation of Mr. Pendleton, especially, and
r, fine both personal support and the
n-v- of war to his candidacy. Perhaps
\Vc have so little faith in them that
the most disgraceful and deliberate act of
treachery on their part to their political
a-sociates, and the cause to which they
profess devotion, would not surprise us.
T|,e only point to be considered is, what
effect their apostacy or lukewarmness will
I IUVO We are told that Mr. Pendleton, on
nntof liis position in reference to the
payment of bonds in greenbacks, cannot
any New York and Pennsylvania, and
his chances would be hopeless in New
England, even in Connecticut. It is not
denied that lie is the favorite of the masses
of the party in the West, and that, upon
every occasion where it could lie tested,
lias not failed to secure a popular endorse
in,.of from Ids political friends. Wherein
lies the difference between the rank and
tile of New York, or Pennsylvania, or
( iiiinocticuf, and their comrades of Ohio,
Indiana or Illinois? If the rag barons of
these latter (States, who, it is fair to pro
sume, are just as anxious to get gold
f„r their bonds ns their brother Khy
locks of the East, have not been able to
check the current at their own doors, why
should ii not sweep over Messrs. Belmont,
Harlow & Cos.? The argument to the la
boring man and tho soldier of tins West,
that what is good enough for them ought
to be good enough for the bondholders,
ami which argument has proved so irre
sistible, surely cannot be weakened be
cause used to a similar class at the East.
The antagonism between capital and labor
iu that section is more marked and intense
than at the West, and an appeal that
touched so nearly the sense of class
distinction could not fail to be very pow
erful. At least we should judge so, as
aiming that human nature is very much
the same everywhere.
\W do not know, of course, what posi
i„.„ a,,, imftv will luxe upon lueiiueouou.
We are only arguing against an assump j
lion that seems entirely unfounded.
it is not the province of the South to i
say much either, of man or platform, j
especially as regards this partieulai ques- j
(ion. Her delegates will hear all sides, |
and then determine what man shall re I
reive her suffrage. We hope, though, that j
no delegation he deceived, either by the J
specious tales gloomy vaticinations of j
the hondhoh 1 * 1 ' 3 H the West says Pen- j
dleton, am’ 1 * lp ‘‘O’ is echoed by the repre- j
sen tali vc of tl»e party everywhere outside j
of (|, { > -ddeii circle tliat makes headquar
ters i Pork, we hope, nay we are
*„ r , Hie South will not fail to respond
a i->. Whether Mr. Pendleton’s financial
•itsiries lie sound or not, tlie Democracy
of the South should not turn their hacks
upon him at Hie bidding of any set of
men. they can afford, and the party can
illenl to endorse what may he botti un
-'"uinl in theory, and not entirely right in
principle, if by so doing they secure the
niimpli of a man whose political princi-
I- are such satisfactory guarantees of liis
i' lily to the Constitution, and the host
interests of the whole country.
"uiuiixii Again. —Wendell Phillips
I: "ikes the appointment of the Hon. llev
-1 y Johnson, as minister to England, the
i" indulge in a real wholesome scold at
' party, lie objects to “his country”
nir represented abroad by a man from
1 i 'piered rebel State,” as lie is pleased
11 Maryland, and attributes his unaui
nnni* continuation by the Senate to cow
i: nee, treachery, etc. He then goes on
■d> still more about lire Beasts’new
1 1 hiend Grant, and his prospects for
' "'■ ,;l on. Hear him :
' 'i n States have been readmitted and
' ii take their places. No one claims
• Uha are ready or lit for places in Con
tin (Irani parti/ needs them.
' in iiu iple and risk the negro in
Mr. (j/rant. Mark gou , he is
; that there's need to count the
We must risk tlie presence of
"""•rsand Van Winkles, and peril
re-ults of tlie war to insure the
," a of tliis marvellously popular sol-
Gid mi A(r, Greeley and the Inde
"heel into line.
! to Ocean. —The Union
haiitoad is being built more rapid-
year than ever. Tlie word is, “To
l ake by Christmas.” Six hundred
> miles are now in running order,
1 liundred miles more are nearly
1 the track. Brigham Young has
'tuiil men at work in Utah, and
' Ul> t afraid of tlie Gentiles. It is
'hat tlie locomotive will go
i ' to the Pacific in 1869 instead of
will carry along with it an im
l lin 01 passengers and freight,
''ititjg that h a ppy event. Contra
"Ual experience of railroad com
| t uion Pacific lias an abun
• ely money, and pays casli for
• . i’ 1 . I®’ 1 ®’ r *t mortgage six per
I ' "nds are eagerly taken through
■ v. in try by parties of sound finan-
I",„ l '' lu ‘ nt - The sales have already
I to seventeen million dollars.
B * kUPs |\ TELFAIR.
I . Jacksonville, June 20.
|l j i "‘il and Messenger :
S e improving, but not up to the
I * M °Bt of them are late, and
Ii ir !:. uo "' setting ill, may great-
I i.Jern * iere are no grass or weeds
B -‘c growth. Kieldsof corn, cot*
5 ‘' : ® ar l 'aue are as clean as gardens.
■ . of the country was never
B vn f( ‘ e fr eedmen are working tolera-
S v ri oy r 1 10 P as t two weeks, having
■ . tn c excitement of tlie election.
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For the Journal and Messenger.
Mil. CHASE A\D HECOAsTIU CTIO.Y
SO. and.
I see that some of the Northern papers
who have advocated Mr. Chase have dis
covered that the policy they have advo
cated was ruinous to the cause and pros
pects of Democracy, and now agree that
such a policy would tend to Radicalize the
Democracy. lam glad to see that “ light
is breaking” up this mist, and that they
are falling into the line of truth and right.
For this reason I have deemed it a boot
less labor to pursue the question of liis
fitness further—but with your permission
I propose to consider what is the safe
course for the State of Georgia, through
her Legislature, now to pursue. The peo
ple of Georgia, under the Reconstruction
acts, have established a State Constitution;
it lias been duly ratified by. the people; it
lias been presented to Congress, and por
tions of it have been stricken out, and the
Legislature is called upon to ratify and
sanction this change, as a condition prece
dent to the admission of the State into the
Union ?
Ought tiie Legislature to do this tiling?
If this relief clause had not been incorpo
rated in it, the Constitution would most
surely have been defeated. No one of in
telligence will for a moment deny this.
All candid men admit that it was put in
for the purpose of giving strength to its
ratification.
Let me then ask, how can any honest
man give his support to a measure which
lie knows is not sustained by the people?
How can Congress sanction such an act of
injustice? When did Congress get the
power to make or change a Constitution
for a .State? It is not found in the Recon
struction acts; it is not in the Constitution ;
but it is only the exercise of the omnipo
tent power of Congress. If Congress can
strike out a part, she could strike out the
whole, and put up a complete Constitution
for tlieState. Possibly the error might have
been cured by allowing the people to pass
upon it again. Until this is done the act
is invalid, and not binding upon the
people.
Again, the Legislature is called upon to
give its solemn sanction to the provision
that the State shall never make any change
so as to restrict the right of suffrage as pro
vided for in the State Constitution. How
can the Legislature do this tiling? The
Constitution provides that it may be
changed, and how it may' be done. Each
mem tier, before taking ids seat, is required
to swear to maintain and support the Con
stitution. How then can a member give
his vote fora change, except as provided
for in the Constitution f
Let me ask, how could Congress receive
such a State? This is anti-republican—
and sin* is bound to guarantee a republican
form of government to each State. But
will it lie said that such a pledge will not
be binding on the State when she is in the
Union—that she can then make such a
change as her people desire? This may
be so. If it is true, it is because of tiie
want of power in Congress to impel, and
of the Legislature to sanction such an act,
under the Constitution. But what becomes
of tiie conscience of tiie member of the
Legislature, while voting in favor of its
sanction? He is shipwrecking his soul,
and the excuse lie gives for it is, that it is
not binding upon liis people But this is
a more serious question than is thus pre
sented. If we are admitted into the Union
upon conditions clearly stated and cheer
fully accepted, and these terms are after
wards violated by the State, does it not
follow that we forfeit our right to remain
in the Union—and cannot Congress re
sume military control of the State? If
she has tiie power to impose those terms,
she certainly can require their faithful ex
ecution. But does not our sanction estop
us as a State mid people, from making any
question as to the powerof Congress either
to require or enforce it? Does it not amount
to a delegation of power on tiie part of our
State to Congress over the whole question?
Does not each member of tiie Legislature
who votes for its sanction, by liis vote l de-
anil if lie is satis
fied that the power does not exist in Con
gress, is he not bound as an honest man to
vote against its sanction?
If tliis is true, what chance is there for
tiie S ate of Georgia to be admitted into
tiie Union under the provisions of tiie
Omnibus Bill? lam free to say that Ido
nat see that it can be done, except by per
jmy and fraud.
1 here are other serious questions con
nected with the adoption of the Constitu
tional amendment, which I propose to
discuss hereafter. Georgia.
Superior Court - — The special term of
tlie Superior Court for this county con
vened last Wednesday, and the Grand j
Jury were busy until the following Satur
day, with criminal business. There were
over forty true bills found—six against
white men, and they Southern born, vve
regret to slate —and tlie remainder negroes,
and from tlie number of thefts which have
recently been discovered, the Grand Jury
could, easily, find fifty bills in a week, if
it were to remain in session that Jong.
About half of tlie number presented
have been tried, several p ead guilty, and
all, hut one or two, were convicted. One
of tlie negroes boasted of having stolen
eighty horses and mules since tlie sur
render, and we must say that tlie Jury :
that recommended him to tlie mercy of
tlie Court had too tender consciences.—
Monroe Advertiser, 2:id.
The Ultima Thule of Meanness.—
The following dispatch from tlie Eutaw
(Ala.) prisoners, whom Gen. Meade was
graciously pleased to pardon for whippinga
thief named Hill, who had been caught
pilfering wood, was received last Thurs
day in Mobile:
Galveston, Texas, June 17, 1868.
To Col. Jas. Crawford , or Kirkseg & Car
penter: •
Released without transportation. Pas
sage-and assistance required in New Or
leans. Leave here to-morrow.
Eutaw Prisoners.
After being rescued from that hell upon
earth, tlie Dry Tortugas, by Meade’s
order, they were carried to Galveston, and
turned loose in tlie streets without a cent
of money, and denied transportation.
Tlie ineffable meanness of tlie transac
tion, is only equaled by tlie damning iufa
my of the trial and sentence from whose
horrors they are escaping.
Wade in the Balance, But Not
Found Wanting. —A Mrs. Wade,of War
ren county, Ohio, who presented her hus
band with triplets last year, just in time to
show them at tlie State Fair, this year
startles him with twins. He lias written
to his kinsman, the Ptofessor of cursing
and swearing at Washington, to know if ar
ticlesof impeachment should not be pre
ferred against her.
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Bains. —The Albany and Americas
papers, of yesterday, inform us that fine
rains fell in those localities on Saturday
and Sunday last, and that great good lias
been done the crops thereby. The Colum
bus papers call their shower of Sunday a
sprinkle, and say it did not extend two
miles beyond tlie city limits.
Good News.— The recent extraordinary
proceedings of General Meade and liis
myrmidons and satellites in Georgia, in
tlie m atter of the imprisonment of certain
citizens of Columbus, have been published
here, and excite a very general feeling ot
horror and disgust. 1 have met no man
who defends them, and I know quite a
number of prominent Republicans who
utterly disapprove of the acts ot tlie mili
tary. The matter is much talked of in
Congress, and au effort has been made to
procure a change of the Department Com
mander in Georgia, which will probably
be successful. 1 think that Meade will be
sent away to some point where lie will not
dare to repent sueli outrages, aud that
General Granger or General Rousseau
(both of whom are now here), will take
his place. The President says these acts
i are horrible.
Wash. cor. Charleston Mercury.
For the Journal and Messenger.
A \ISIT TO fI'THBERT.
Mr. Editor —On Saturday morniug I
took the Southwestern train from Macon,
for a little jauut to tiie country. Every
where along the route could be seen evi
dences of tiie recent drought. The fields
of corn and cotton looked dry aud thirsty
—and indications were that very serious
consequences would eusue—but thanks to
a kind Providence fine rains have fallen
and tiie whole land cheered. I am glad
to state that there has been rain at nearly
all points along the route from Macon to
Uuthbert, and although these rains have
not been heavy they have relieved the !
drought very much.
On the trip I noticed at various depots j
and on tiie trains, a growing interest iu ;
the Journal <fc Messenger. It was eagerly' |
sought after, and I am glad to inform you
that young Goodman, an enterprising !
newsboy ,connected with Messrs. Havens i
& Brown supplied the wants of all who
sought after the old favorite—not, however, ;
to tlie disparaginent of your neighbor of j
tiie Telegraph— of course be had it for
those who preferred it. How r ever I could
but notice tiie change—only a few months
ago, difficulty was sometimes had to get a
copy of tiie Journal & Messenger and the
newsboys seldom troubled themselves to
carry it, and if they had it, it was ttuck
down under a huge pile of Telegraphs.
Not so now. It is sought after, it is in de
mand, it is growing daily in favor with
tiie people. lam glad to know, Mr. Edi
tor, that tiie public appreciate the efforts
you and your co-laborers are making to
put tiie Journal & Messenger iu tiie front
rank of interesting and valuable newspa
pers.
We arrived at Cuthbert at four in the
afternoon, where we found a friend look
ing for us. Quite a large number of tiie
passengers on the train gotoflat tiie point
—all going to Commencement of Andrew
Female College. We did uot arrive in
time, however, to attend tiie examination
of many of tiie classes which had taken
place during the three preceding days.
On Sabbath morning a large audience as
sembled at the College Chapel to hear the
Rev. Dr. Wills, of your city, preach tiie
Commencement Sermon His text was
the inquiry which Pilate made of the Sa
viour—“ What is truth?” It would be
folly for me to spend any part of this let
ter in eulogizing Dr. Wills, who is so well
and favorab y known to most of your
readers. Suffice it to say that he acquit
ted himself nobly. He had a fine theme,
and held a large audience for an hour in
perfect quiet and witli anxious look and
ear to catch every word that fell from the
lips of tiie eloquent divine. On Monday
we witnessed tiie examination of tiie Ju
nior and Senior classes in Latin, Algebra,
Logic, Physiology, Geometry and Mental
Philosophy. We only express tiie verdict
of all who were present when we say Unit
these examinations reflected great credit
on Dr. Hamilton and bis corps of teach
ers. Tiie young ladies have evidently
been carefully and thoroughly instructed.
On Tuesday, we witnessed something
quite new and interesting in tHe way of
lenmle education —Dr. Hamilton gave an
exhibition of liis class in physical training.
He brought out about sixty young ladies
and carried them through various evolu
tions —which it is impossible for us to
describe, but which tended to develope
and mature the entire muscular system.
Pupils in this department are taught to
walk, stand and sit erect, and various
ways to improve the health of feeble aud
delicate girls. Dr. H. has certainly suc
ceeded well in engrafting this new and
important feature in his course, aud it
will add greatly to tiie influences of liis
school. To-night Col. H. H. Jones ad
dressed tiie Andrew Society and Mrs. M.
J. R. Hamilton read an original essay.
Rut I must not weary your readers. To
morrow evening there is to be a grand
Home Opera and crowning of tiie Rose.
Thursday, Judge Lochraue will make a
speech, and sixty medals are to be award
ed, and at night tiie grand Annual Con
cert. Thus will close a most interesting
annual festival, which lias been a great
"“. u who visited Cuthbert.
on ttie occasion. Wo wiui. x>i. namiTton
and his Institution great success. They
deserve it.
Some excitement exists here in regard
to the Judgeship of the Judicial Circuit-
Judge Clark lias been suggested by tiie
Bar here, as tiie most suitable person to
fill the vacancy occasioned by liis with
drawal—but We have no idea be will be
reappointed.
Cuthbert is a growing place, and bids
fair to be one of the most flourishing towns
in lower Georgia. The Cuthbert Manu
facturing Company has been organized,
and is now in successful operation, under
tiie management of J. B. Buchanan, Esq.,
who seems to understand liis position well.
I see a favorable notice in your paper of
this institution, and trust your paper will
ever be found fostering such enterprises,
tending to develope tiie resources of our
down trodden country. More anon.
W.
——
The Vegetable Trade —Our steam
ships continue to transport to Northern
port heavy and valuable shipments of
tiie vegetables of the season, tiie product
of our immediate neighborhood. This
business opens a large fiekl for the enter
prising agriculturalists, and, with the
extensive and increasing facilities which
sucji articles will have in their speedy
transportation by steam to all the great
centres of population north of us, there is
good reason why the entire country
around should become a splendid garden
spot, where vegetables and fruits of all
kinds may be grown for sale in the great
Northern cities. With thorough drain
age and high tillage the health of tiie
country would vastly improve, and con
sidering tiie large growtli of population
at the North, the time can be hardly dis
tant when a good farmer possessing a
moderate sized piece of land in this region
will have a handsome competency. The
steamship Charleston, for New York,
which left on Saturday, took about four
thousand packages of vegetables, aud tiie
steamship Falcon, for Baltimore, carried
about one thousand. This last steamer
was loaded to the deptli of sixteen feet.
Quite a heavy draught for a coasting
steamer. — Chas. Neivs, 2 '2d.
The Tallahassee Sentinel to
Change Hands.— VVe sever, to-day, our
associations witli newspaperdoin. This is
the last number of the Seutiuel which will
be issued under our auspices. Impel
led by declining health, several months
ago, to publish a proposal to sell, we have
accepted one of many offers to buy, and a
formal announcement of the transfer to
Messrs, Edward M. Cheney & Cos., of tiie
Florida Union, will be made in the next
issue of tliis paper.
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The Crops. — A letter from Messrs.
Murray & Sons, Tuniiell Hill, Ga., gives
the following information as to the crops
in that prolific portion of the State. Under
date of the 19th, they write :
“The wheat iu this section is pretty
well all cut, and will soon be ready for
market. But in quantity and quality it
will fall short of expectation. Our farm
ers will have less for sale this year than
they had last year, though nearly double
the breadth of laud was sow n.
“ It is thought it \> ill open at about two
dollars per bushel, for early deliveries.
“ Corn is small, but looks very promis
ing, and if we are favored with rain iu a
few days, a large yield may be expected.
‘ Our fruit crop never promised better.”
Atlanta Era, 21«f.
A Negro Boy Goes to Sleep on the
Rail Road Track and Loses His Leo.
Late feuuday afternoon a negro boy, being
very tired from overwork at idling during
the past week, laid down upon the Cen
tral Rail Road track, and, while musing
over tiie good old times ot slavery, w’hen
there was little work and much pay, fell
asleep. He dreamed of home aud friends,
and liis dream was rudely interrupted by
a locomotive of a train dashing along.
The eow-catcher caught him, and threw
him some distance, breaking his left leg
in three places, tnd gave him a shaking
up generally. He was taken up and car
ried to the “Freedmeu’s Hospital, where
liis leg was taken oft’ three inches above
the knee, by Dr. Clements. The wounds
and bruises are so numerous and severe
ohat it is thought the patient cannot re
-1 tover. — Savannah Evicts <& Herald, 23 d.
MACON, GA., TUESDAY, JUNE 30. 1868.
From the Charleston News, 22d.
DESTRUCTIVE FIRE.
About 11 o’clock on Saturday night tiie
alarm of fire was sounded, but"from some j
unexplained cause tiie alarm bell rang
both Wards 3 and 4 This, however, re
tarded the engines but a few minutes, and
they were soon upon the grouud and at
work. The fire originated in tiie centre
of Messrs. Holmes & Calder’s paint aud
oil store, and the draft caused by the nar
row passage carried the flames above the
neighboring buildings and caught tiie
adjoining store, occupied by Mr. W. L.
Webb as a wholesale crockery establish
ment. The fire was first communicated
to the upper story and thence spread
through tiie eutire buiidiug. The front
and lower story of Holmes <fc Calder’s
store was completely destroyed, and the
rear was only saved by tiie falling of tiie
roof, tiie tin of which covered and pro
tected tiie stock in tiie back part of the
store. For some time tiie flames raged
fiercely, aud the iutiamniable material i
which comprised the stock of a paint j
store leut such fuel to the fire, that not
only tiie two buildings mentioned, blit
others in the neighborhood were threat
ened with destruction. Meantime tiie
streams from tiie different engines were
incessantly poured upon tiie burning
building with visible good effect. The
houses of Edwin Bates & Cos., fetrauss,
Vances & Cos., and Campbell Knox & Cos., j
were for some time in great danger, but
excepting the breakage of tiie front glasses
in tiie lower story escaped material dam
age. Holmes & Calder’s store was com
pletely destroyed and ilie building occu- j
pied by Mr. W. 1.. Webb was almost gut
ted by the flames. After tiie fire had
reached tiie second building a large por
tion of the soutli wall fell, carrying with
it the rafters and stock that was upon the
back floors. The firemen succeeded in ex
tinguishing the flames about two o’clock,
but the stores of Holmes & Calder and W.
L. Webb were completely ruined, and tiie j
stocks destroyed. Messrs. Holmes & Cal
der had a full stock, which was insured in
Tupper’s agency for $14,000 on oils and }
paints, and S3,O(H) on belting. Mr. Webb !
was insured for $15,000 on bis stock in tiie
agencies of Colburn & Howell, and Tobias
and Honour. The buildings were each
insured for SIO,OOO. That occupied by
Webb belonged to tiie estate of T. A. 1\ l
Horton, and was insured for $7,000 in tiie j
London arid Liverpool Globe Company,
and for $3,000 in Mr. Oakes’ agency. The ■
building occupied by Holmes & Calder
belonged to the estate of Bell, and was j
insured for SIO,OOO in Northern agencies
The oil stock in the back part of tiie store,
amounting to nearly $2,000, was saved in
a partially damaged condition. A large j
portion of the crockery ware was also
saved, but the sets have been broken, and j
the stock thus rendered comparatively I
valueless. The oils and other inflammable
material caused the heat to be so intense
that many supposed another large fire was j
inaugurated. The boarders of the Charles- j
ton Hotel, and the inmates of tiie adjoin- !
ing houses,collected their household goods
ami prepared for a sudden exodus, but
their apprehensions, fortunately, were not
realized.
Ropes were stretched in fiont of tiie
building yesterday, and passengers pre
vented from passing along tiie east pave
ment, as the front walls were in a danger
ous condition.
Tli«> Two-Third* Hole ill (lie Fourth of .lul\
Convention.
The Washington correspondent of tiie
Baltimore Gazette, in a letter dated tiie
17th inst., says;
“The city is unusually full of leading
Democrats from a distance. At quite a
gathering last night the approaching New
\ r ork Convention was the subject of grave
remark. It was generally concede i that
some reliable man would be tiie selected
standard-bearer of tiie party, and that lie
would be placed upon a platform short,
plain and to tiie purpose. As to tiie course
of tiie Southern delegates, of whom two
or three are here, it was thought they
would unitedly and cheerfully yield a
ready acquiescence in what should appear
to be tiie wishes of the real representation
of the Democratic Party at tiie North, but ,
that they should uot lie regarded or treated ;
•,a .■>«»*»».■■—. «--» t very I
important matter was discussed—that of I
the famous two-tliirds rule. It was con- j
tended that whatever considerations in
bygone days might have been urged in its
favor, time had demonstrated that its
observance had rather distracted than ce
mented ilie party. Tiie inevitable ten
dency of its adoption now would be merely j
to defeat the will of tiie majority. A third
of the members of personal cliques under
its operation, have the power either to
force an objectionable candidate upon the |
party or to disrupt the organization. Its ]
inauguration in 1844 laid the foundation
of the schism between tiie Northern and
Southern wings of tiie Democratic Party, j
and finally in 1860 led uot only to tiie dis- j
ruption of tiie only national party then j
existing, but, as a necessary consequence,
to sectional warfare. There cannot at this |
day be a single sound reason advanced in j
favor of its continuance, and in the op n
ion of wise heads it should be formally j
abandoned, as soon as the 4tii of July ;
Convention assembles. Asa substitute it
was thought at tiie gathering referred to a
rule preliminarily pledging every mem
ber to abide by and support the choice of
a majority might answer all profitable I
purposes.”
Rain and Crops.— There was a very j
fine rain along tiie line of the Mobile aud I
Montgomery road, from below Evergreen j
to a few miles below Greenville, on Wed- !
uesday.
A fine rain fell in Monroe county last
Sunday.
The Dempolis Era of tiie 15th says •
Tiie rain for the last few days lias been
of great advantage to tiie growing crops, j
early corn will now make a fair yield with
out any more rain, I hough it will be much
improved by one or two more good rains
—late corn will now grow off'rapidly—cot
ton as a general thing is looking well aud
growing rapidly. Tiie planters have got j
their crops in a fine condition.
Tiie Hayneville Examiner says:
Tiie rains in this county last Sunday ■
and Monday were very seasonable to the
crops. They fell over a considerable scope
of country, and just where they were most j
required.
The Talladega papers say that slight
rains have visited that county ami done a
partial good. More is slill needed. — Mont. \
Advertiser, 20f/t.
The Wheat Crop.— New Wheat is
coming in fully two weeks earlier this
year than common. Nearly 2,000 bushels
was received in this market last week.
We are informed by the Agent of tiie
Steamboat Company, that a full cargo—
-6,000 bushels—has already been engaged
for tiie boat this week and that probably
a second trip will be made tiie last of tiie
week, down as far as Cedar Bluff.
Tiie general desire of planters is to get
their crops to market as soon as possible
and a lively trade in this line is expected
to set in about the last of this week. A
No. 1 article of Red Wheat now com
mands $2 15 in this market. —Rome
Courier, 23 d.
Well Answered- —Stephen Slade, a
negro well known in this country as one
of the best farm hands and tobacco curers
iu all this section, was “had up” before
the United States officer at Yancey ville,
to answer charges of “intimidating” col
ored men in the late election against vo
ting the Radical ticket. After an amount
of questioning—aud all to no purpose—
the officer asked:
" What was your reason, sir, for voting
the Conservative ticket?”
“Am Ia free man sir?” inquired Ste
phen.
“Certainly you are, sir,” replied the
officer.
“Then, sir, if I’m a free man, I shall
keep my reason to myself ” And Stephen
kept it. —Milton N. C. Chronicle,
Yellow Fever in Galveston.—A
letter from Galveston says :
The yellow fever has broken out here,
aud people are leaving for the interior of
the State by every possible conveyance.
Here, as at New Orleans and all tiie coast
of Texas, no such intense heat has ever
been known, hardly iu August. All
through the month of May, there reigned
a continual and almost insurportable heat.
The temperature of August lias been hur
ried into May and June, and all the peo
pie think 'his reversion of seasons is at
tributable to the never-to-be-forgotten and
1 terrible hurricane of October 7, 1867.
THURSDAY, JUNE 25,15G8.
GEORGIA'S KE\L RULERS.
We have been under a delusion upou
this subject. We thought it was a joint
stock company, composed of Joe Brown,
Gen. Meade aud Bullock. That was an
error. The lives, liberties, ami property
of tiie people of Georgia are abso utely at
the mercy of two scoundrels sent out from
Washington City by tiie Radicals, and
called “ detectives.” They are thorough
paced villains, and graduates with high
honors in tiie school established by Joe
Holt, Stanton, and tiie infamous Baker.
They have filled (lie 10 by 21 cells of the
Federal Black-Hole at Atlanta with inno
cent men from Columbus, and hold the
bodies of their victims completely subject
to their own wicked will. Tiie military
authorities are but puppets to do their bid
ding, and if they were disposed to strangle
or put their prisoners to the torture, there
would be none to say them nay.
Is tiiis tiie Nineteenty Century, Free
men of Georgia, and are you slaves iudeed ?
Were your sires the men of Eutaw, and
Camden, and Yorktown, or were they
thralls and bondmen? Does blood, rich,
red, Anglo Saxon blood, or vile dishwater
run in your veins? God of tiie Oppressed,
I' \v long, oh how long!
We counsel no violence. We deprecate
assassination and mobs. We say watt and
turn the stone over in your pockets till it
be time to throw it. But if those who suf
fer should, in tiie madness of desperation,
seize and tear these wretches limb from
limb, we could have no tears to shed. In
the golden days of tiie Republic such ver
min were unknown. There was no place
for them in a government of Law and Or
der and the Constitution. They would
iiave died in the atmosphere of Constitu
tional Liberty and Civil Supremacy. It
was reserved for tiie party that gave a But
ler, a Dalilgreen, a Milroy, and a rurchin
to tiie army, and a Sumner, a Stevens and
a Wade to the National Councils —that lias
honeycombed a continent with tiie graves
of half a million of American freemen,and
robbed, wronged, and outraged tiie whole
people, until it almost seems that Heaven is
cruel not to interfere, and that is now seek- j
ing to perpetuate all this misery—it was re
served for this tarty, we say, to create such
instruments of torture, such tools of hate
and falsehood, if the American people
elect Grant, this rule will be perpetuated
and these infamies patented. The party
that lias put him at the head of i(s crime
stained legions, cannot live an hour with
out theaid of such instruments of tyranny.
Born of war and bloodshed, and nurtured
upon the food furnished by perjury and
fraud, spies, informers, and skulking de
tectives, it would languish and die with
out these stimulants- It lias grown so
bold as not to see any barrier, or acknowl
edge any limit to its usurpations. It in
vades the sanctity of tiie i ed-clmm* er, and
even at tiie horns of tiie altar listens and
strikes. It does not respect tiie seal of
private correspondence, and scoffs at t lie
scruples of conscience. “To hell with con
science,” is the answer to all remonstrance,
it binds and looses whom it wills, without
rogard to any principle but that of party
need or tiie glutting of personal hate. It
is not content with turning over tiie gov
ernment of ten sovereign Slates to a con
spiracy of political thieves and prostitutes,
and ignorant, savage barbarians. It seeks —
and is daily drawing nearer to tiie consum
mation—to make white men feel that they
■awe Hioir lives and liberty, even, to tiie
mercy of black men ; and by its wanton
attacks upon the personal rights of the most
respectable citizens of the country, at the
instance of, and on tiie lying testimony of
tiie most abandoned inmates of negro
brothels, proclaims its defiance to all law
aud justice.
We do not believe there is another peo
ple upon the face of the earth, who ever
have been free, that would submit to these
outrages without resistance. Ireland, or
Hungary, or Poland would have struck
back long ago. To such a condition,
though, have three long years of oppres
sion reduced the Southern temper, that it
scarcely shows upon its outward surface
the glow of a natural and honest resent
ment. We have been patient and long
suffering, beyond iiistorie parallel. Shall
not our time come at last? Shall we not,
in some blessed day, not too tar off, have
justice and retribution? We watch, and
wait, aud hope, and pray. Tiie day for
violence lies passed, but there is a remedy,
peaceful, yet very potent. It wil! soon be
tested. How it will result none can tell
as yet. Webelievethe Right will triumph-
We shall labor to that end with ail our en
ergies, if there be no compromise with
Wrong. The issues that separate the
friends from tiie enemies of the country
are as high as the heavens, as broad as the
earth, and as deep as hell itself. There
can be no compromise, and no quarter.
Let tiie banner that marshals the hosts
who march to the rescue of tiie Constitu
tion bear no other device. Let the music
that rallies them to the assault sound no
other note.
♦
Something, if True, That U Worth Knowing.
I was informed to-day by an old and in
telligent gentleman of tiiis county, how
to be “weatherwise.” There are, accord
ing io his long years of close observation j
and knowledge, six days in tiie year that
are prognostic of the weather of sea- j
sons, etc. etc., for six mouths following.
Thus: Tiie 20th, 21st and 22d days of
March aie prognostic for the three fol-j
lowing months ; as these days are, so will
be the months ; if the 20th is rajny, etc., j
April will be like "its day.” aud so on.
Again : The 20th 21st and 22d June
govern tiie following months.
The object of this communication is to
call our attention to this matter and let us
learn by observation if this be true. If
true, why is it so? And if in reality it be
true, would it not be of incalculable bene
fit to all to know tiie fact and “govern
ourselves accordingly.”
Will some astronomer tell us “how tiiis
thing is done?” Skeptic.
Col. Enquirer, 23d.
Rains, Crops, etc.— Since our last issue
this section has been favored with two or
three fiue seasons, which have imbued
vegetation with new life, apparently, and
revived the hope that we are yet to enjoy
many good vegetable dinners before tiie
season is over.
The crops through the country, we un
derstand from farmers are looking well
and growing finely since the rains. Be
ing thoroughly clean, they have a fair
chance. Tiie present seasons will, no
doubt, advance them so as to preclude tiie
, possibility of their being injured by t;.e
growth of grass aud weeds, .iereafter.—
Eatonton Press A Messenger, 23d.
j
The Georgia Railroad. —Col. Cole
gives notice of a liberal offer to tiie travel
fug public over the Georgia Road, and
branches, and the Macon and Augusta
Road. Business tickets, entitling the
holder to ride one thousand miles, will be
sold for $2-5. This is certainly very liberal,
and is, we believe, less than tiie rates of
any other road in the South- —Chronicle <t-
Sentinel, 23d.
Hail.— On Thursday last a heavy hail
storm visited some sections of this county,
doing considerable damage to the growing
1 crops, especially cotton. We have heard
of one or two fields being entirely stripped
of the leaves, and nothing left standing
i but the naked stalk. —Eatonton Press, 23d.
UA\ GEORGIA \OTE l\ THE PREMREYTIAL
ELECTION !
The passage of tiie “Omnibus Bill”
with the condition precedent therein con
tained to the restoration of Georgia under
I its provisious, suggests this query to our
; cotemporary of the Columbus Enquirer.
As it is one of great interest toall, we give
tiie Enquirer the benefit of the argument
put forward as an answer to it. Our own
opinion is that Georgia will vote in this
election, aud that she will go for tiie nom
inee of the New York Convention,
though the Radicals do not think so.
Whatever obstacles may stand in the way
to her voting in November will be re
moved. Having got thus far on tiie road
in defiance of the Constitution, and law,
and justice, tiie men who invented “re
construction ” will uot be stopped by any
means short of force. Says the Enquirer :
The bill attaches tiiis qualification or
condition to the restoration of Georgia to
representation in Congress: that “the
General Assembly of said State shall, by
solemn public act, declare tiie assent of
said State” to tiie amendment of the Con
stitution required by Counress; which
amendment is the annulling of tiie “Re-
lief” or repudiating provisions of tiie Con
stitution. The question then arises, can
“the General Assembly” make the amend
ment required by Congress, and how ?
We answer, it can, and annex tiie article
of the new Constitution providing for
amendments:
“Art. XIT. Tiiis Constitution may be
amended by a two-thirds vote of two suc
cessive Legislatures, aud by tiie submis
sion of tlie amendment to the qualified
voters for final ratification. Rut tiie Gen
eral Assembly shall not call a Convention
of tiie people in the election of delegates
to which any person, qualified to vote by
tiiis Constitution, shall be disqualified.
And the representation in said Convention
shall be based on population. Nor shall
the right of suffrage ever be taken from
any person qualified by this Constitution
to vote.”
’File members of tiie Legislature will
have to be governed by tiiis Constitution
—will have to take an oatli to observe and
support it before they enter upon their
duties. They must then he governed by
tiie Constitution in making any altera
tions of that instrument. This will re
quire tiie assent of two successive Legis
latures and the subsequent ratification by
a popular vote. Os course the amend*
meut cannot be made in tiiis way in time
to allow tiie State to lie represented in
Congress and to participate in the Presi
dential election, which participation is
dependent upon representation in Con
gress.
It may be said .that, though Congress
lias named the General Assembly as tiie
legislative body to make the amendment,
the Convention ean be called together
again to do tiiis work. We suppose that
the anticipation of contingencies of tiiis
kind was what induced the Convention,
instead of adjourning sine die, to prolong
its authority, subject to a call for its re
assembling by the President. But even
tiiis course will consume so much time
that the State can hardly be fully quali
fied to vote in tiie Presidential election.
The Convention would have to submit
the amendment to a popular vott; else to
be guilty of tiie absurdity and usurpation
of striking from the Constitution a pro
vision that lias just Been put in and sanc
tioned by the popular vote. And if tiie
striking out of tiiis amendment should be
submitted to a popular vote, we think
that we can show political tricksters that
tiie “tangled web” woven by their deceit
is too intricate for their own bauds to
unravel.
It may be contended that the 11th sec
tion of Article XT of tiie Constitution left
it to Congress to make amendments. We
copy that section :
“XI. Should this Constitution be rati
fied by tiie people, and Congress accept
tins same with any qualifications or condi
tions, tiie Government herein provided
for, and tiie officers elected shall neverthe
less exist auej continue ' ll exercise of
their several functions, as the Govern
ment of this State so far as the same may
be consistent with tiie action of tiie United
States in the premises,”
Forbearing to comraenton tiie absurdity
of Congress making a Constitution for tiie
Slate, suffice it to say that Congress has
not done so in this instance. It has only
named its condition and required tiie
Legislature to make the amendment con
forming to it. There may lie no great dif
ference, in thespirit of the thing, between
Congress doing tiie work itself and mak
ing the Legislature do it. But the Radical
Congressmen see tiie necessity of some
plausible observance of tiie o and forms of
our system of government, and therefore,
while constraining the people of tiie Soutli
to do certain things, refrain from directly
asserting tiie powerof Congress to do
them.
If Congress lias already amended the
Constitution of Georgia by striking out
tiie “Relief” provisions, action on tiie
matter by the Legislature is superfluous
tomfoolery. If Congress has only de
manded of tiie Legislature that it shall
make tiie amendment, tiie Legislature
must proceed in conformity with the re
quirements of the Constitution as to tiie
mode of making amendments.
It appears to us, therefore, that tiie Le
gislature of Georgia lias a preliminary
work to do, so tedious in its stages as to
forbid its completion in time for the Slate
to participate in tiie Presidential election.
It may be that tiiis is just what Congress
desired to bring about, tiie Presidential
vote of the State being generally regarded
as doubtful. Whatever may have been
the motive, we hope that our Democratic
and Conservative friends in tiie Legisla
ture will permit the Radicals of that body
to flounder iu tiie slough into which they
have fallen by following tiie humbug
“ Relief,” until the Presidential election
is over, before lending a lielpiDg baud to
extricate them.
Meeting of the Legislature—lt
seems to be generally understood that tiie
Legislature will be couvened on the 4th.
Gov. Brown is the authority, and we take
it for granted he knows.
We warn Democratic members that both
Houses may be organized, tiie 14th Article
ratified and United States Senators elected
in a day or two. Let every man be ou
tiie watch for the call, and ready to re
spond.
We cut the above from the Atlanta Con
stitution of yesterday, aud reiterate the
warning. Be on hand, all of you, Demo
; crats and Conservatives, at the organiza
tion. There is tiie place, aud that the oc
casion to commence the fight.
We shall have something to say tomor
row, possibly, on tiiis 14th Article busi
ness. If there is any Democrat elected to
tiie Legislature who has not made up his
mind to vote agaiust it till tiie “crack o’
doom,” he had better stay at home. Tiie
Democrat who goes back on his people
and the leaders whom the people put for
ward by voting to brand them at Radical
dictation, had better never have been
, born.
FRIDAY JUNE 2<J, 1868.
Fall Trade Pkosteits of Macon.—lt
is rather early, to be sure, to indulge in
speculation as to our prospects for a flush
fall trade, but the recent rains, and the
generally promising reports from crops n
the section that deals with Macon, will
excuse it, if any excuse is needed. We
are very hopeful of Macon’s future, to
commence with her fall trade. We be
lieve Unit corn and cotton crops will be
good—above the average—and that a good
ly portion of the greenback stream will
ilow in this direction. Wo believe, too,
that Northern capital and immigration
will be found seeking investment and set
tlement with us, and that a filial and
peaceful triumph of sound principles in
November will chase the last cloud away
that lowers over us.
No section of Georgia 0110181 greater in
ducements to capital and settlers from the
North and abroad, than Middle Georgia,
of which Macon is tiie centre aud capi
tal. We are equally removed from the
rigorous winter of Nortli Georgia, aud tiie
extreme heat of tiie Southern portion of
the State. The soil laughs, when people
tickle it with tlie hoe and plough, with
abundant harvests of every description,
as well with wheat aud oats as cotton, and
for fruits and vegetables cannot be excell
ed. Tiie climate is healthful and equable,
and ttie society as good as any man or
woman, we care not whence they come,
lias a right to ask. Our planters are men
of intelligence, and fully alive to all tlie
demands and suggestions of the spirit of
thrift and improvement. Our merchants
are men of substance, not adventurers who
are litre to-day and gono to-morrow.
Business of every description, if not al
ways as brisk as it might be, is on a solid
basis, and if profits are small, they are sure
and steady. We count with confidence
upou the commencement in the full of a
golden era, iudeed, for our city.
Savannah versus Mobile.—Savan
nah, through tlio Central Railroad, is in
vading tlie warehouses of Mobile. We
hear of a contract, made very recently, to
bring 500 bales of cotton from that city to
Savannah, thence to lie shipped to New
York. Tiie inauguration of the fast
through frieght arrangement from Mont
gomery to Savannah will tell most power
fully upon tiie trade of Mobile, and we
will not lie at all surprised to liud, next
winter, that nine out of every ten bales
of cotton shipped from tiie counties on
tiie line of (lie Montgomery aud West
Point Railroad, and those lying between
that road and the Chattahoochee River,
will pass to New York over this line.
Montgomery will become a shipping de
pot, for Savannah, and Mobile such a
rival to Savannah in the cotton trade as
Philadelphia is to New York as a com
mercial mart. In this, as in all other
great enterprises, a combination of quali
ties has been at work —rare good judg
ment, an energy that laughs at obstacles,
and the boldness that follows up inspira
tion with execution. An article clipped
from the Chronicle and Sentinel, and to be
found elsewhere, shows in what apprecia
tion these qualities are held in that city,
and liow scarce they must be there. We
hope the Mobilians will iiave great suc
cess witli their Bayou Mancliuc project,
for the prospect is that they will need its
aid, and all they ean enlist from every
other quarter, to even hold their own.
Cut Worm at Work. —Seeing is be
lieving. Had we notseen tlie destruction,
we could not have been induced to believe
that in the midst of tiie hot weather we
have been having in this latitude, for tiie
last three weeks, it were possible for the
cut worm to be at its work of destruction
of cotton. Being on a visit to the coun
try, we took a stroll Sunday morning over
a ten acre field of cotton, averaging from
half-leg to knee high, and found morethan
twenty vigorous looking stalks from eight
to ten inches high, cut off' above the
ground by tiie common collard cut worm.
The work was fresh, having been done the
night previous. This destructive element
we found playing sad havoc with tiie stand
of cotton, it having already been thinned
out to one stalk in a place. The present
cool nights will enable them to do great
damage. This is a bad feature, but it is
butoneof the ills to which cotton is heir
to from the time it is planted until gath
ered. — Col. Sun, 23d.
ANOTHER Ot THAGE.
An Armed Rand of Negroes Attach Some
Whites —One Negro Killed, Another
Wounded.
By a private letter from a person living
near “Resource Landing,” in Scriven
County, we learn of another outrage per
petrated by armed negroes. It appears
that after emancipation, a colored girl,
daughter of one Tom Middleton, cbo-e to
remain with her former master, Mr. Lewis
Brown. On last Wednesday night, Mid
dleton, at tiie bead of an armed band of
negroes, went to tiie place and demanded
tiie girl. He was warned off, but instead
of going lie attempted to shoot Mr. Ben
jamin Brown, son of Mr. Lewis Brown,
wli > dodged tiie shot and saved his life.
In self-defense, seeing tiie negroes swarm
ing upon him, lie drew liis pistol and shot
Middleton through the heart. He fell
dead instantly. Another of tiie negroes
was wounded, and the party then fled.
Nine of them liave since been arrested,
and are now confined In jail awaiting
trial. —Savannah Republican, -\th.
Outflanked Again.— We notice in a
Macon paper [tiie Journal and Messen
ger] tiie statement that passenger trains
are now to run through from Montgomery
to Macon and Savannah without change
or stoppage, and that freight trains will
also be run through without breaking
bulk, whiie between Montgomery and
Atlanta there will lie two changes of cars.
While tiie President and Directors iiave
been quietly sitting in their office parlor
sucking their fingers and playing tiie part
of a mutual admiration society, tiie Cen
tral Railroad has gone to work, afier re
building and making new the whole of
tiie line of their road, at a cost of over a
million of dollars, and iiave bought up a
sufficient amountof the stock of tiie Mont
gomery and West Point Road to enable
them to get complete control of it. As
soon as tiiis little purchasing job is accom
plished, we find tiie line from Montgomery
to Coluinhus made the main trunk, and
tiie portion which leads to West Point
made a brancli of the Savannah line.
If tiie stock which tiie Georgia Railroad
owns iu tiie Atlanta mid LaGrange Rail
road— nearly a half a million of dollars—
had been sold, and tiie proceeds appropria
ted to tiie purchase of tiie Montgomery
and West Point Stock, tiie Central Rail
road would never liave been able to get
absolute control of that important connec
tion. But, while we are fast asleep, dream
ing about our past importance, a rival road,
wide awake to the importance of continu
ed activity and energy, steps in aud bears
off the prize. Sic transit gloria Augusta!
Chronicle and Sentinel, 24th.
*
Stoi* Thief.— We are informed that on
last evening, two telegraphic dispatches
arrived for Major C'hipley, brother of tiie
Columbus prisoner, from ids father. We
are further informed that a Government
Detective got hoi lof and attempted to ap
propriate them. We are still further in
formed that said Detective was caught in
the act, by a friend of Major Chipley,
standing near, and made to fork over the
same.
It is remarkable that one who follows
ail avocation, requiring so much shrewd
ness, should commit so great a blunder.
A man should be right “sharp and quick, ’
Before he apes the tharper.
We cannot say bow the Detective got
possession of Major Chipley’s dispatches-
He was stopping, however, at the Nation
al Hotel. — Constitution, 24th.
VOL. LX., NO. 41.
• HOIN l\ «|l ITM \\ roj y rv
Quitman County, June 2_’.
-V< &irs. I.difots: —l' or the information of
; your numerous readers, I semi you this
| short communication. As the subject of
something to eat is of more importance to
the hungry than all others combined, it
will perhaps interest your many readers
to learn of our prospects in South-Western
Georgia for something to support and sus
tain the inner man. My personal obs re
vation extends only to the county of tjuii
mau and the Western portion of Han.
dolph. The Corn crops along the Eastern
portion of Quitman and the Western por
tion of Randolph are very llatterim*.
With the increased area planted, lie l 1
attention paid to its culture, the propitious
seasons up t» the present, we have good
reason to expect a bountiful yield, ami
should we be favored with one or two s*..
sonable rains in due time, we need enter
tain no fears for the stall' of life in tiiis fa
vored section.
I learn from planters in the counties
below here that the crops, though a little
later than former years, ate very good. 1
regret, however, to say that the crops in
the Western portion of this county and
the Eastern side of Harbor county, Ala
bama, including the fertile lands along the
Chattahoochee river, have been very seri
ously injured by drought. The Cotton
crops, though small as to size and amount
planted, compared with last year,arc look
ing very well, ami generally in good con
dition. I noticed, aday or two ago,at tin*
offieeofthe Journal and Mi,s-k\okk,
the reception of the first cotton bloom of
the season, on the 14th June. The writer
saw two cotton blooms on one stalk on the
3d, and by the Gth saw plenty of them.
The grain crops just harvested, with a
few exceptions, were almost a total failure.
Early peaches and watermelons are be
ginning to ripen.
We had asplendid rain yesterday, which
seems to have been general, and hasdouht
less revived the drooping spirits of plan
ters in the dry streaks, and caused laborers,
both black and white, to enter their fields
this morning with renewed energy and
merry hearts.
The freedinen are generally working
very well this year,giving very little trou
ble toemployers, and less money to Hureuu
agents —or, rather, employers are learning
better to accommodate themselves to the
new system of labor.
Yours truly, Qui i m an.
Tin: Bkason—Crops. —We wire re
freshed last Saturday by a moderate rain,
which was readily absorbed by tin* parch
ed earth. It had been more than four
weeks since it had rained and the corn
crops, gardens, etc., were in a critical con
dition. A recurrence of occasional show
ers will still, it is hoped, secure us a plenty
of corn. Cotton, though backward is
ordinarily good. Wheat hits been harves
ted. From one-half to two-thirds of a
crop has been realized* — Southern lie cor
tier, 23</.
Crops. —Extract of a letter from Epson
county, on the 18th instant, says :
The crops are not very good, wheat re
markably poor—not half crops—oats very
sorry, badly rusted; corn small, and
needing rain ; the cotton small hut grow
ing very nice Health of the county gen
erally good, polities easy, hut little talked
about—nearly till are trying to make
something to live on, and of course have
hutiittle time for anything else. —Southern
Jieeorder, 23 and.
Crops and Politics in* tiii: Intkriok.
A correspondent, who lias recently trav
elled along the line of the Greenville and
Spartanburg Railroads, writes: ‘‘The
crops in the up-country are as tineas they
can be at present. Wheat slightly in
jured by rust, but about an average crop.
Politics all one-side. The Radicals have
no showing. lam speaking of the coun
try above Columbia.” — CharlcH'on Mer
cury, 24 th,
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Tiik Crops.— We have had, during the
past week, several glorious showers, and
our farmers are wearing smiling faces at
the prospects of excellent crops ahead.
We believe the rain were pretty generul in
this and adjoining counties. A good
wheat crop has been made, and with a
good corn crop to fol ow, bread studs will
lie cheap in North Georgia. There is a
good time coming, and in the language of
Pat Henry we say *‘let it come.” — Ilona
Commercial, 25th.
Tiik Crops in Jkkfkkson County.—
We are permitted to make the following
extract from a letter received by a factor
in this city from a planter in Jefferson
county, dated the 12th inst:
“The crops in this section aje greatly in
need of rain, anti from present indications
I fear it will he sometime before we get it.
Asa general thing they are in good order,
but unusually small. 1 hear of a field nt
150 acres cut down by the worms. I n the
same section I learn one Held of cotton
has been entirely ruined, and has been
planted in corn. The prospects for an
average yield are Dot encouraging.” -Sen
Ncwh '& Herald, 15 th.
Important to Whkat Growers. —
An old and experienced farmer of Wil
liam Hon connty gives it as a fact that the
followin'; method is a sure prevention of
the insect weavil in wheat. In piling up
your wheat after it has been cleaned with
the fan, to every three bushels put in a
good hard brick, well and ied by the sun,
and he sure it is perfectly dry at the time
you use it. The brick absorbs tire mois
ture that natura ly accumulates in the
grain and causes it to become so Hard and
flinty that the insect or fly cannot pene
trate the outer cohering. We are assured
by persons who have made tbeexperi men i
that it is so easy and simple, we would
advise our friends who grow or deal in
wheat to try it.—A 'ashviUc Gazette
Wheat and Crops.—Tire drought in
this section is most alarming, and many
corn crops are already hopelessly cut oil.
We learn that in parts of Baker and Mil
ler counties, no rain to do good, lias fallen
for six weeks.
If the cloud# do not speedily unlock
their treasures, famine and suffering will
he the consequence From all parts of the
State simi%r complaints arc heard. In
some favored spots showers of rain have
fallen, hut those have heen partial and
limited in extent. —Cuthbert Apptal, VUh.
Conorkssionai. A.mnkst v. — The pro
ceedings of tiie Senate to-day indicated
somewhat a disposition to favor a general
enfranchisement of the Southern people.
The bill removing political disabilities
from certain citizeusof North Carolina w as
under consideration, being amended by
Mr. Doolittle, who added two names to
the li-t, and by Mr. Hendricks, who
moved to also insert the name of George
W. Jones, of Tennessee. There was con
siderable discussion over these amend
ments, during which Senator Ferry de
dared his ‘intention to vote for all such
measures until Congress should pass some
general law adequate for the purpose.
Senator Wilson opposed the amendment
of Mr. Hendricks, but apparently only on
the ground that the name proposed had
not heen before the Judiciary Committee
in regular order. In referring to Mr.
Jones, he said he would vote to relieve
him, and. as far as he knew, he was a
good, honest man; but he (Wilson) del
not like to see this legislative pardoning
made a farce of, and he hoped ere long a
hill would go through enfranchising the
great body of the people of the sou h, '■ “>
keeping out those few who were the h - I
and front —the instigators of the reh. Ih <j-
Senators generally, seemed nnhm
ttiis idea, and some such bill may •
I reported.-Cor. Baltimore Gazegr, 1. n.
i A Gkakiisonof kV-Prksho n i Harri
son Commits Suictok- tmeuinu t, Jun
•*j Dr Charles F. Ihorntou, a grand
son of General Harrison ex President,
committed suicide at Clevels. a few mi.es
from Cincinnati to day, by cuttmg h,s
throat and stabbing himself in the heatt
with a pen knife. Ihorntou made the
attemot to take his life some weeks ago,
but was prevented by his friends.