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Georgia Journal & Messenger,
J. W. RI'KKE & CO., Proprietor*.
A. W. KEENE, I
S. HONE, 1 Kdltor*.
SATURDAY, OCT. 31, 18687~
Georgia Masonic Mutual Life Insurance
Comi’ant.—The annual meeting of thin Company
was held last night at the City Hall, in this city.
A large number of members were present. Hon.
B. 11. Bigham, of LaGrange, was called to the
chair, and Hon. E. G. Cabanhss requested to act as
Secretary. The report of President, Geo. S.
Obear, and J. YV. Burke, Secretary and Treasu
rer, were read and received. The former report
showed the operations of the Company for the i«st
year, and recommended various changes, which
were adopted. The fee for admission hereafter
will be |l2, instead of six, us heretofore. The
membership now reaches 3,C00, and the applications
are coming in rapidly, and the Company will soon
1111 up to the maximum number of first-class five
thousand, when anew class will be commenced.
The following gentlemen were elected officers
for the ensuing year :
Geoboe S. Drear, President.
J. W. Burke, Secretary and Treasurer.
Directors.—George S. Obear, J. T. Boifeuillet,
tV. J. Lawton, Geo. W. Adams, J. Emmet* Black
shear, GeorgeS Jones, Virgil Powers, A u. Max
well, K. W. Cubbedge, Macon, Ga.; 1). M. Hood,
Koine; Peter Fair, Milledgeville; \V. J. Pollard,
Augusta; A. A. Austell, Atlanta; J. H. Estill, Sa
vannah; W. Burrus Jones, LaGrange; 8. 1). Irvin,
Griffin; T. M. Furlow, Amerieus; T. H. Johnston,
Albany; I). Morris, Georgetown; F. 11. Reming
ton, Thomasville ; R. 8. Hardaway, ColimiiW},'. YS
N. Austin, Fort Valley ; Philip Cook, Oglethorpe :
.1 F. Zimmerman, Greensboro’; Arthur Hood,
Cuthbert; R. M. Smith, Athens; J. 11. Durham,
Buena Vista; J. Harris, Covington; Robert
Springer, Kotherwood.
Arrival of the Macon Cotton Press at Sa
vannah.—The Savannah A tins, of Thursday, says ;
“The steamer San Salvador, which arrived yes
terday, brought out;the machinery for the hydraulic
press*for compressing cotton, which is to he erect
ed in the city of Macon by Major Normand C.
Joins. The machinery for the Augusta press is ex
pected in a few dnys. Major Jones, we learn, is
sanguine of the success of his undertaking, and
fei ls confident Unit the presses in the Interior will
be kept busy.”
VVe are truly glad thb press is to be is to be es
tablished here, and feel confident, that so soon as
our shippers understand its merits; they will pat
ronize it liberally. We are sure it will greatly re
duce the loss sustained by all cotton shippers to
New York. It should he compressed and put in
perfect order here, and sent direct to the steamer
on the wharf, dispense with all the extra handling,
possible, by people on the wayside. Capt. Morton,
of the Gen. Barnes, told us the other day., that his
line would pay the Cotton Press of Macon just as
much and as freely, as it pays the Savannah presses
He says we ought to have one, and that we have
little conception of what a saving it would be in
weight.
AII.IOI UN M ENT OF THE CrRAND I,ODOE. — TllC Ma
sonie Grand Lodge, after an interesting session of
four days, adjourned yesterday afternoon, to meet
again iu Macon, one year lienee.
The session was rather more lengthy than usual,
and marked witli that perfect harmony and deco
rum so characteristic of the ancient and honorable
order. A great many delegates left for their homes
last night, and the remainder will depart this morn
ing. VVe wish them all a safe journey home.
The matrimonial fever is prevailing as an
epidemic just now in Macon. We have two or
three weddings every week, and they are anitouced
by the dozen in the prospective. They say there
is nothing like it. Go it while you re young.
Something Rotten.—A New York letter of the
*_“2d inst., says: “A singular occurrence in the
financial world lends force to the not unfrequent
statement that there is something rotten in the
monetary Denmark. A Wall-street firm drew a
check for #21K,000 in gold on oue of the most sub
stantial hanks, as was thought, in this city. On
presentation, the bank officers said it wasn’t good.
One of tin- members of the firm then went to the
hank, said it was good, and they would certify it.
< )n this the truth came out. The bank did not have
that much gold, nor could it command it. The
matter was finally settled tiy SIOB,OOO in specie
then, and the balance, s.’>o,ooo, thereafter. There
lias been much talk over the circumstance. An
other thing to be noted is that notKidy knows lu>w
much the national debt is. Only the recorded debt
is given in the monthly statements, and some say
there are at least $4,(H>0,000,000 of tiio outstanding
liabilities, war claims, etc. Cut this down one
half, and it is awful; cut it down even seventy-five
percent., and yet it is dreadful to think of such an
accession in the present load.”
I niversity High School.—The public will be
gratified to learn that the University High School,
attached to the Franklin Cniversity at Athens, is
now in a nourishing condition. The list of stu
dents numbers one hundred and sixteen. Upwards
of thirty counties in our State are represented in
this institution ; besides these there are represen
tives from four other Southern States.
The exercises of the fall term of this institution
have commenced with the most tlattering pros
pects. Chancellor Lipscomb, of the University,
devotes two afternoons of each week to the pupils
of tin' High School. One to religious services, the
other to familiar lectures on the art of Thinking as
adapted to students, and to kindred topics. These
lectures are so simplified and illustrated as to be
easily comprehended by the youngest pupil. The
students are delighted and fully appreciate the
fact, that they enjoy privileges allotted to but few
of our schools. --Chronicle and Sentinel, '*Mh.
Tin- I’iiosi’F.RiTV of Macon. —Macon is» the groat
centre of railroads and travel. There will soon be
si\ roads converging at this point. Her commer
cial relations and geographical position rank her
among the tirst cities of the South. Macon, too,
has been highly favored in other respects. Her
beautiful location, situated on a plain, as it were,
encircled by a chain of hills, render it a place of
great attraction for residence and business. Macon
occupies a centra! position in the State, with an
uninterrupted rail communication with the North
and West, which commands cheap freights and ex
peditious travel. It is undoubtedly one of the
best grocery and drv goods markets in the South.
| Talbottim Gazette, XMh.
[From the Sumter Republican, mh.]
IA tIICMOHI\>I OF HON. HOWELL t’OBB.
Sumter Superior Court, 1
October Term, 1868. f
HON. J. M. CLARK, PRESIDING.
The Committee appointed to report suit
able preamble and resolutions of the Court
and liar, expressive of their sympathies
arising from the sudden death of Hon.
Howell Cobb, beg leave to submit the fol
lowing :
The death of a prominent citizen is al
ways a source of deep sorrow and regret.
Hut when so distinguished a citizen as
Hon. Howell Cobb, is so suddenly taken
from the hope ofjhis native State, we can
not but regard it ns a great public calami
ty. Gov. Cobb, more perhaps, than any
mail in the State, has a hold upon the
hearts and confidence of the people. He
had long served them in the national
councils—in the Cabinet, and as Governor,
and in all the various and important pub
lic trusts, lie discharged bis duties with
distinguished ability, credit to himself
and State. He was an eminent lawyer,
and as a forensic speaker, be bad few
equals and no superiors. In all the social
relations of life lie was affable, kind and
courteous. His hospitality was uubouud
ed. He bad a large, generous ami noble
heart, tilled with benevolent charity. An
all wise Providence lias, we trust, taken
him to Himself, and we submit with rev
erence to His holy will.
Georgia, in the death of our Cobb, has
lost a favorite son. His seat in the court
room will never be tilled again.
Resolved, That iu the death of Hon.
Howell Cobb, this Stute has lost oue of
its most eminent and distiuguished citi
zens and statesmen, and this Bar oue of
its ablest and most beloved members; the
social cir.le oue of its chief delights and
ornaments; and tHat this Court and the
members of bis Bar feel the most poig
nant sorrow, for the loss of the lamented
dead.
Resolved , t hat we heartily condole with
the bereaved family and. friends of the
deceased, and that bis sudden death ought
to admonish us ail to be “ready, for the
Son of Mail cometh iu au hour we think
not of.”
Resolved, That a copy of these proceed
ings be entered on the minutes of this
Court, publish* I in the city newspapers,
and sent to the bereaved family of the de
ceased .
All of which is respectfully submitted.
J as J. Scarborough, Chairman.
Willis A. Hawkins,
N. A. SMITH,
Charles T. Goode,
W. B. Uuerry,
Committee.
On motion, it was ordered that the pro
ceedings be spread upon the minutes of
this Court, and published iu the city pa
pers, and a certified copy sent to the be
reaved family of Gov. Cobb.
J. M. Clark, J. ». C., ». vv. l.
A true extract from the Minutes o. hura
ter (Superior Court, Oct. 26, 1868.
A. J. Konaldson, Clerk.
“Wells, Fargo & Cos. have couciuded a
contract with the P. O. D. to carry the
overland mail to California, for $1,750,000.
EPITAPHS.
'I he following inscription was found on
the head-board of a grave in the Spaita
"•KKhigs, California:
In memory of John Smith, who met with wielcnt
death near this spot 18 hundred and 40 too. He
was shot by bis own pistill. It was not one of the i
new kind but a old fasherned brass barrel, and of j
sucb is the Kingdom of Heaven.
In a graveyard in Texas there is a tomb
stone whereon is inscribed the following:
She lived a life of virtue and died of
Cholera morbus, caused by eating green fruit,
In the full hope of a blessed immortality,
At the early age of twenty-four.
Reader, go thou and do likewise.
The following is a Spanish epitaph upon
a young girl who died broken-hearted :
She who lies beneath this stone
Died of constancy alone.
Fear not, approach, oh ! passer-by—
Os naught contagious did she die.
THE RIOT LAST NIGHT.
Four Men Killed and Three Wounded.
From the N. O. Crescent, 25th.
Last night occurred one of those scenes
of bloodshed and violence, which, a as!
are getting more and more frequent day
by day, and whose often repetition makes
every citizen constantly in dread of dis
turbance. The origin of this difficulty is,
as such things always are, almost unfath
omable, and we can only state deductions
from many different accounts which we
heard, adding thereto such facts as this
reporter witnessed.
The Workingmen’s .Democratic Club
was out last night, and about 9) o’clock
halted in front of the store of Mr" Thomas
Haro, of Poy drus street, between St.
Charles and Carondelet. While there a
Katie,ai clubs passed down sit. Charles
slreet, shouting and yelling like demons.
After they had passed the corner of St.
Charles and Poydras streets the YVorking
mott liled into St. Charles street and went,
down town, the route which they had
selected. The negroes rent the air with
shouts for Grant, and the Workingmen
for Seymour, a large crowd assembling on
the sidewalk and following them down.
Oil St. Charles street, us the Workingmen
passed by, we noticed at two different
points negroes hallooing at the top of their
voices for Grant and Colfax, and no one
in tike crowd molesting them in the least.
Ou reaching Canal street the Radical club
took the down town side, the Democrats
the upper side. Ou reaching Dauphino
street the negroes, from all accounts we
could gather, turned up and went across
Canal street to the upper side, where they
countermarched. Meantime one of the
negro clubs had at Carondelet street cross
ed to the upper side of Canal street, and
thence marched toward the lake, a little
ahead of the Workingmen—al! this time
the crowd on the sidewalks became denser
ami denser, and the excitement increased.
When this last club was about the mid
dle of the square between Carondelet and
Baronne streets, our reporter, who was in
a carriage at the head of the VV'orking
men, heard a single shot ahead. Nothing
resulted from this, and in a few moments
afterwards he heard another shot. Htill
there was no general disturbance, until,
just as the tail end of the Radical proces
sion—all the clubs beingonce more joined
had passed Baronne street, our reporter
saw a club of white men (the Seymour
Sentinels) come running down Baronne
street towards Canal street. Just then one
of the torches carried in the colored pro
cession burst, making a great noise and a
large flame. This seemed to start every
thing, for immediately ihe negroes com
menced to run, and fifty or seventy-live
shots were fired in quick succession. The
Workingmen, meanwhile, rushed quickly
forward, without however, any Krill or
ganization whatever. A lull followed,
when again the liring commenced, con
tinued for a few moments with great
rapidity, ami then finally ceased, with the
exception of a few dropping shots along
the slreet, which lasted some live minutes
longer. By this time, the Radical clubs,
having thrown away torches, hats, ban
ners, transparencies and everything else,
had disappeared from the scene, leaving
their accoutrements behind them, and the
banquette flowing with the coal oil of
their broken lamps.
A review of the ground directly after
the fray showed that three negroes had
been killed. Their names we did not
learn, but one of 'hem was a marshal. A
colored man named James Williams was
wounded and subsequently taken to his
resideuee, No. 366 Philip street. YY’e found
the body of a little negro boy lying ou the
sidewalk, jammed close against the wall,
quite dead. He had no wound upon his
person, and the only hypothesis possible
is that he was trampled to death by the
panic-stricken colored men. Mr. Thomas
Reynolds, a geutleman well known in this
city, was wounded slightly in the head, as
was also anotherg white man whose name
we did not gel. A colored man, we sub
sequently learned, was, just after the fray
near Baronne street, shot and killed at the
corner of Basin ami Canal streets, ami an
other colored man killed on Canal street
further out.
After the disturbance was ended, the
Workingmen formed again and proceeded
to finish the route they had laid down for
themselves. A number of persons then
assembled on the scene of the fracas, look
ing at the trace j of it, and speculating as
to the origin and manner of it.
These are tiie facts as far as we can
gather them. With the confusion that in
an occasion of that sort reigns, it is hard
to >;et accuiate statements from men who
are bewildered by excitement, and harder
for a person to view a part of the scene,
which is all oue man can do. and then de
scribe the whole of it. As further partic
ulars are developed our readers shall know
them.
INCIDENTS.
Just after the first firing ceased, our re
porter went out Canal to Philippa and
there turned up. On the corner was a
huge uegro, dressed in semi uniform,
flourishing a naked sword and crying out
to a group of frightened darkies near him,
“Rally ! rally! and scatter the d—d scoun
drels.” Although the surroundings were
so serious, the sceue was too funny uot to
laugh at.
The man who carried the flag of one of
the uegro clubs, in the race to tiie swamp
dropped his standard, and ran some ten
feet before he could stop himself. He at
ouce turned round, ran hack in the face of
the advancing whites, picked up his flag
aud made oft'with it.
LATER.
Since writing the above we have learned
that about 11$ o'clock a colored man was
shot and killed at the corner of Franklin
and Poydras streets by a party unknown.
His body was brought to tlie central sta
tion. Also, that Mr. Robert Martin was
arrested and placed iu the station, charged
with shooting on Canal street, about 10$
o’clock. The charge does not say that he
shot anybody, but simply avers to the
violation of the city ordinance which pro
hibits the discharge o. firearms within the
corporate limits of the city
The bodies of all tlie men killed in the
affray were brought to the central station.
The Reverend Doctor Blaukonce told a
little auecdote of Mr. James Harper. “I
asked the Mayor,” said Doctor Blank,
“what he did? I said to him I kuow that
Mr. John Harper attends to the business ;
Mr. Wesley Harper looksafter the literary
correspondence; Mr. Fletcher Harper
receives authors, and looks after new
boobs and the Magazine—but you, Mr.
Mayor, 1 have never been able to discover
what you do.” “I’ll tell you,” answered
the Mayor, in a whisper, “but you must
not let it out. I entertain the bores.”
Tue Defeat of Ashlet.— The defeat of James
M. Ashley, iu the 10th Ohio Congressional Dis
trict, is gratifying news indeed, aud especially so
to the people of the South. lie had all the vin
dictiveness aud meanness of Stevens, without his
ability. The man has done everything that a po
litical jackal could do to make himself infamous.
He consorted with suborners like Holt, and per
jurers like Conover. He was a representative man
of the basest elements of the Radical party. He
was a bitter and a ineau persecutor of the South
and the Southern people. No measure was ever
sprung in Congress too violent for this bad man.
He was one of the towering spirits in the late Im
peachment trial of Andrew Johnson, and during
its progress stooped to every grade of depravity to
carry his point. We are glad his career as a Con
gressman has ended.
Return of a Gold Watch Stolen- During
Sherman's March. —We learn that n Mr. Kibby.
residing at Brousonville, No. 8, Central Railroad,
on Tuesday last, received a handsome gold watch
which had’heen stolen by a memoer of Sherman’s
aruiv in 1864. The watch came by express from a
Catholic Priest at Annapolis, Md., who stated that
a repentant thief gave it to him to return to the
owner.
We have a great respect for the Catholic Church,
aud admire its inanv excellent usages and doctrines.
If it has done this much by the conversion of one
of Sherman’s men, is there not hope that a band of
persevering missionaries might be able to operate
successfully upon Ben. Butler, and cause him to
return a few tons of silverware stolen from South
ern people. —Savannah Xetcx, ‘3oth.
GEORGIA JOURNAL AND MESSENGER
TREED BY A TIGER.
The following thrilling account of an
adventure with a South American tiger is
taken from Col. Sarmiento’s "Life in the
Argentine Republic in the Days of the
Tyrants,” recently published : The book
is for sale by J. W Burke & Cos. Price
$2 00.
Between the cities of San Luis and Sau
Juan lies an extensive desert, called the
Tiavesia, a word which signifies “waul
of water ” The aspect of that waste is
most gloomy and unpromising, and the
traveler coming from the East does not
fail to provide his chijle* with a sufficient
quantity of water at the last cisteru lie
passes as he approaches it. This Travesia
once witnessed the following strange
scene. The consequences of some of the
eucouuters with knives, so common
among our ganchos, Lad driven one of
them in haste from tiie city of Sau Luis,
and forced him to escape to the Travesia
on foot, and with his riding gear ou his
sltoul ter, in order to avoid the pursuit of
the lav. Twocomrades were to join him
as soon as they couid steal horses for all
three.
Ilut geraiid thirst were uot the only
dauge s which at that time awaited him
in the desert. A tiger that had already
tasted oilman flesh had been following
tiie trt ‘k of those who crossed it for a
year, i id more tliau eight persons had
ahead been the victims of this prefer
ence.
In se regions, wheie man must con
tend v tli tins animal for dominion over
nature, the former sometimes falls a victim,
upon .-Inch the tiger begius to acquire
a pref. euee for the taste of human flesh;
and wi en it has once devoted itself to this
Wfty£Lii r, tfie name of “man eater.”
The provincial justice nearest the scene of
his depredations calls out the huntsmen
of his district who joiu, under ids author
ity amt guidance in tiie pursuit of the
beast, which seldom escapes the conse
quences of its outlawry.
When our fugitive had proceeded six
leagues he thought he iieard the distant
roar of the animal, and a shudder ran
through him. The roar of the tiger
resembles the screech of tiie hog, but
is prolonged, sharp and piercing, and even
when there is no occasion for fear, causes
an involuntary tremor of the nerves, as if
Hie flesh shuddered consciously at Lite
menace of death.
The roaring was heard clearer and
nearer. The tiger was already upon the
trail of the man, who saw no refuge but a
small caroh tree at a great distance. He
had to quicken His pace, aud tinady to
run, for the roats behind him began to
follow each other more rapidly, and each
was clearer aud more ringing than the
last. Al length, flinging his riding gear to
one side of the path, the gancho turned to
the tree which he had noticed, and, iu
spite of tiie weakness of the trunk, happily
quite a tall oue, he succeeded in clamber
ing to its top, and keeping himself half
concealed among its hougliH, which oscil
lated violently. Thence he could see the
swift approach of the tiger, sniffing the
soil and roaring more frequently In pro
portion to its increasing perception of tiie
nearness of its prey. Pausing beyond Lite
spot where our traveler had left the path,
it lost the traeji, and becoming enraged,
rapidly circled about until it discovered
the riding gear, which it dashed to frag
ments by a single blow. Still more furious
from tHis failure, it resumed its search for
the trail, and at last found out the direc
tion in which it led. It soon discerned its
prey, under whose weight the slight tree
was swaying like a reed upon the summit
of which a bird has alighted. The tiger
now sprang forward, atui in the twinkling
of an eye its monstrous forepaws were
resting on the slender trunk two yards
from the ground, and were impartiug to
the tree a convulsive trembliug calculated
to act upon the nerves of the gancho,
whoso position was far from secure. The
beast exerted its strength iu au ineffectual
leap; it circled around tiie tree, measuring
tiie elevation with eyes reddened by* tiie
thirst for blood, and at length, roaring
with rage, it crouched down, beating the
ground frantically with its tail, its eyes
fixed on its prey, its parched mouth half
open
This horrible scene had lasted for nearly
two mortal hours. The gancho’s con
strained attitude, and the fearful fascina
tion exercised over him by the fixed and
bloodthirsty state of the tiger, which irre
sistably attracted and retained his glances
had begun to diminish his strength, and
he already perceived that the moment was
at baud when his exhausted body would
fall into the capacious mouth of his pur
suer. But, at this moment, the distant
sound of the feet of horses ou a rapid
gallop gave him hope of rescue. His
friends bad, indeed, seen the tiger’s foot
prints, and were hastening on, though
without hope of saving him. Thescattered
fragments of the saddle directed them to
the scene of action, aud it was the work of
a moment for them to reach it, to unwoil
their lassoes, and to fling them over the
tiger, now blinded with rage. The beast,
drawn in opposite directions by the two
lassoes, could not evade the swift stabs by
which its destined victim took revenge for
his prolonged torments. “On that occa
sion I knew what it was to be afraid” was
the expression of Don Juan Faeunda
Quiropa. as he related this incident to a
group of officers.
NORTHERNERS COMING SOUTH.
\Y*e published, a few days since, a letter
of inquiry respecting the "price of lands,
character of productions, &c., &c., from a
gentleman of Virginia. We have before
us to-day letters from parties personally
unknown to us, residing in the States of
Ohio and lowa, making similar inquiries.
The Hagerstown (Maryland) Mail thus
announces a contemplated excursion of a
party fr.nu that section :
About the 18th of November a party of
gentlemen contemplate a second excur
sion to Virginia and the South. All who
wish to join the party and report tiie fact
at the Mail office prior to the 10th of Nov
ember, will he furnished half-fare railr ad
tickets for the excursion. Hotel and oth
er accommodations have been promised at
reduced rates.
A letter from an avowed Renublican of
Cincinnati, to one of our citizens, has been
shown us, in which the following passage
occurs:
“ 1 here isa growing disposition to look
Southward for trade, ami a strong inclina
tion to sell lands at the prevailing high
prices here and to invest iu the cheap
lands of the South. There are two re
straints. The first is the prevailing idea
of want of safety aud security which arises
out of the newspaper stories of murder
and assassination and general lawlessness,
which you and I know are eitheraltogeth
er false, or greatly exaggerated for politi
cal purposes. The second is the expen
siveness of the trip as compared with our
accustomed rates. I am fully persuaded
that could winter excursion tickets be ar
ranged for two or three months this win
ter, on the main lines which would give
the traveler au opportunity of seeing the
country, by stopping at such points of in
terest as might attract him, it would do
more to restore harmony and good feeling
between these sections than Grant’s elec
tion.”
Our citizens will recollect that Judge
Carleton, of Indiana, frankly told the
citizens of Augusta that the great need be
tween the West and the South was inter
course. That the idea of a Southerner
which prevailed, was that he was some
thing after the order of a Paudcur, or an
Italian Carbonari; that this idea wa9, iu
a great measure, derived from partisan
pictorial prints; and that he himself was
seriously warned against undertaking the
trip, Democratic Elector, as he was ; ami
that lie was certaiu should the people of
Indiana mingle as freely with the people
of Georgia as he had done since he had
entered the State, there would not be
found a single Republican who would
endorse the Reconstruction measures.
We have grouped together these facts to
direct public attention to them, to meet
as far as possible this “growiog disposi
tion” for emigration and travel southward
So soon as the election is over it would
seem reasonable that these lyiug misrep
resentations about Ku-klux Klans and
murders aud assassinations should cease,
because they can be no longer used as po
litical thunder, and we have no doubt that
our railroad authorities will further con
form to the demands of the times by ex
tending the system (already iu operation
from Augusta northward) of interchange
able excursion tickets—good by any route.
Chronicle & Sentinel, 30 th ult.
The Stringency in the New York Monet
Market.—Such of the city bauks as have been
lending themselves to the alleged conspiracy of the
bears to create an artificial stringency iu tlie inoney
market, disarranging more or less the general busi
ness of tiie country, will probably have occasion, as
soon as Congress assembles, to repent of their
course. Members of Congress have been in Wall
street a day or two past, watching the modus
operandi, aiid the understanding is that as soon as
that body convenes such action will be had as will
put it out of the power of any national bank ever to
leud itself to schemes of "that character again.
Prominent business men are also in correspondence
with the Secretary on the subject.—.Vw lurk Cor
respondence l*h iUuielphia Ledger.
MONDAY, NOV. 2, 186S.
Amalgamation of the Southwestern and
Muscogee Railroads—TheTrade Completed.—
We have the satisfaction of announcing this morn
ing the final consummation of the amalgamation !
of the Southwestern aud Muscogee Railroads. The
proposition has been ratified by the Stockholders
of both roads. Yesterday the Muscogee, with its
entire equipments, were taken possession of by the
Southwestern, and it will hereafter be run by one
Company.
The terms are, the Southwestern takes up all the
stock of the Muscogee at 87>£ cents on the dollar
and issues its own stock to the Stockholders of the
Muscogee. They then become joint Stockholders
in both roads and will be entitled to all the benefits
arising therefrom.
This is great news to the city of Macon, for it
will draw us closer to Alabama and increase our
trade and commerce in that direction. The Mus
cogee will take anew lease of life, aud will at once
become one of our most important lines. It is a
fine arrangement for its Stockholders. Their
sliares have, for a loug time, been dull and heavy
at 55 and IXJ cents, while dividends have been very
small. They will now receive 87)4 for them,
uot in money it is true, but in Southwestern stock,
which is worth at least 91 in this market.
Plant Grain. —We hope the fine profits which
are now being realized upon cotton will not turn
the heads of our planters and make them relax the
policy adopted a year ago to plant plenty of corn,
liay, wheat, oats and barley to do them. They are
now well fortified with plenty of grain, which
makes them free and independent, and places
them in a situation to demand this very price they
are now obtaining for their cotton crop. Were
consume, cotton would be forced upon every mar
ket, which would quickly depress the prices. It
is the poorest economy to so run our plantations
that we are forced to buy all the provisions we
consume. This tacitly amounts to our working
for Western farmers. Or if there is a little money
left after buying these supplies, it goes for dry
goods and general groceries. So that in the end
we have nothing left.
We must make an ettortto replenish our stock
of cattle and hogs. They have been killed off by
vagabond freediuen who do no work, but depend
upon theft for a living. The safest plan would be
to give the hands upon every plantation au interest
in tiie stock, and being thus interested they would
take good care of it. The drain upon our money
to buy meat is enormous. Two or three thousand
dollars are sent West every day from Macon alone
to purchase bacon. Those people never buy any
thing from us, ami hence we never get any of this
money back Could'we produce everything tie
consume, aud sell our cotton as a surplus, we
would be the richest people in the world in ten
years. It will take $50,000,000 to buy our cotton
this year, and could we only keep this among us,
we would be rich indeed. It can only be done iu
the way pointed out.
GENERAL PRESENTMENTS
PULASKI SUPERIOR iXKTRT.)
October Terx, 1868. )
We, trie Uraud Jurors chosen and sworn for the
October term of the Superior Court at Pulaski
County, 18b8, beg leave to make the billowing
general presentments :
We have examined, through committees, the
books of the Clerk of the Superior and Inferior
Courts, and find them neatly and correctly kept.
We have also examined the books of tte Ordina
ry, and report them kept with their usual neat
ness. As Treasurer of the Poor School Fund, the
Ordinary has received from the Tax Collector of
the county, for the year 1867, the sum of SB»7, aud
paid $172 39, leaving a balance in his hands of
sll4 61. We also find on file in ills ottlceuupaid
accounts against said school fund to the amount
of $468 47.
Upon examination of the Treasurer's books we
had that several’errors have been made in tiie
entries and additions ; at the same time, the
Grand Jury ate of th© opinion that these errors
are clerical rather than intentional. Tiie amount
ot money received by the Treasurer up to date, as
appears upon his bo ks, is $26,791 61; amount of
disbursements, $21,9;0 97, wliiah, with commis
sions charged, to-wit: $1,211 06, leaves a balance
due the cpuuty of $576 58. We find, however, in
the Treasurer’s hands, vouchers not yet entered
upou the books, to the amount of $Bl3 75, which
with commissions on same, (21 09,) leaves a bal
ance due the Treasurer of S2BB 26. The Treasu
rer’s books also show that the Tax Collector lias
paid over to the County Treasurer llie sum ot
$19,551 86, and that tie has received for the years
1866 and 1867, upon the best information that can
be obtained, the sum of $19,257. The receipts of
the Poor School Fund by the Tax Collector for
the same time amounts to $1,422 99, and he has
paid out the sum of $1,t52 90, leaving still due to
said fund the sum of $270 00.
The Treasurer’s books show a balance due the
Tax Collector, on County fund, of $3 >3 86,but an
error appears in an order passed by the Superior
Court, July Ist, 1868, allowing the Tax Collector
the sum of $599 (X)—uncollected State and County
taxes as insolvent list—of which amount the sum
of $299 31 alone should be credited to tiie Tax Col
lector on County Fund, which would leave the
suincfs3l 36 to his credit, and this amount de
ducted from the balance dge by the Tax Collector
on the Poor School Fund would leave a balance
due by the Tax Collector to the county of $238 64.
Tills unpaid balance we are satisfied would have
been collected and paid over but for the tact that
the Tax Collector has been prevented from col
lecting some of the taxes by tiie application of
parties in bankruptcy, thereby postponing the
receipts of amounts due by them until appoint
ment of assignees.
The present indebtedness of the county we find
t> be *10,133 71.
We recommend that a tax of 100 per cent, on
the State tax be levied for the present year, for
county purposes, and if there be any surplus
over after defraying the current expenses of the
county, that the same be applied first to the pay
ment of interest upon said debt, and then to out
standing orders pro rata, preferring iliose orders
upon which no money lias been paid to those
which have already had credits placed upon
them.
We find the court house requiring no immedi
ate repairs, but we recommend that glass be
placed In the windows, and locks upon the doors
where needed.
The jail we find very insecure, and requiring
additional safeguards to prevent the escape of
prisoners. We recommend that Iron bars be
used for the outside doors iu such a manner as to
make the same a catch for the locks, aud that
these bars be secured by iron bolts extending
through the logs, and clinched; and that iron
spikes bedr.veu iu the logs around the windows
to prevent tiie removing of the bars.
We report the roads generality, throughout the
county, as In bad condition. In view of our dis
turbed political aud social ass airs, and the gen
eral neglect of other than Individual interest’
we do not attach that blame to the Justices of the
Peace of the respective precincts, who are, by
special enactment, road commissioners in this
county, that they might do under other circum
stances; aud yet we cannot but charge negligence
upon the officers having this portion of the coun
ty interest in hand, and therefore call their spe
cial attention to this matter in our general pre
sentments.
In relation to our eonnty bridges, we find iu
some of them great canses of complaint—of cul
pable negligence and disregard of public interest
In concluding our general presentments, we
beg leave to congratulate our citizens upon the
restoration of civil government and upon the
fact that our courts are once more enabled to dis
charge their functions without interference from
the military authorities. We have additional
reason for congratulation, however, in this Judi
cial Circuit, in view of the fact that the recent
appointment of Judge Alexander, to fill the office
so long and ably filled by- his predecessor, Judge
Han' ell, heartily accords with the wishes of our
citizens, and relieves them from a painful anxie
ty they were indulging iu as to who should be
Judge Hansell’s successor. Ills appointment
meets our warm approval, and we pledge him, in
advance, our earnest and active co-operation in
the snppression of crime and preservation of or
der, and cordial assistance in conducting the
business of our courts. In taking leave of his
Honor, we respectfully tender him our expres
sions of warm personal regard, and extend to
him our thanks far the wise, able, aud impartial
manner in which he has cinducted tne business.
Congratulatiug ourselves upon the reappoint
ment of our able and efficient Solicitor. W. B.
Bennett, we beg leave to present him renewed ex
pressions of confidence, and tender him our
ClosE Your Stores —Let the business
men of Macon suspend operations to-mor
row by closing their stores, so that evrey
man may have a chance to vote. Go to
the polls early, all of you, aud stay there
till they are closed. See that every black
man who wishes to vote with his bread
aud meat, has that opportunity. If such
as these have no backers, the Radical mob
will hoot, and curse, aud drive them from
the polls, as they did last year.
A “hung” jury, composed of whites and
blacks, were locked up for four days and
nights, last week, iu a close jury room at
Montgomery, Ala., being unable to agree
on a verdict.
On Wednesday last, a stone thrown into
the window of a passenger car on the
Georgia railroad, when the train was about
two miles from Yellow river, struck
Bishop Wightman with such force as to
draw blood.
A LON E -ONG.
Droop, droop, soft little eyelids.
Droop over eves of weird wild blue.
Under the fringe of those tremulous skylids
Glances of love aud fun peep through.
Sinw, sing, sweetest of maidens I
Carol awav with thy little throat !-
Echo awakes to the exquisite cadence
Here on the magical mere afloat.
Dream, dream, heart of my own hive I .
Sweet is the wind from the odorous south—
Sweet is the island we sail to alone, love—
Sweet is a kiss from thy ruddy young mouth.
[Dublin University Magazine.
ROOSTERS.
By prof. j. billings.
Tbare is uot ou the whole horizon of
live natur a more pleazing and strength
ing studdy than the Rooster. This re
markable package of feathers has bin for
ages food for philosophik as well as the
simple curious mind. They belong tew
the feathered sekt denominated poulty,
and are the husbands of uieuny wives. In
Utah it is kousidered a disgrace tew speak
disrespekful of a rooster. Brigham
Young’s coat ov arms isa rooster in full
blast, crowing till lie is almost bent over
double backward.
The flesh ov tiie rooster is very similar
tew the flesh ov the hen ; it is hard tew
distinguish thedifFerence, espeslily inyure
soup Roosters are the pugilists amung
the domestik burds; they wear the belt,
and having no shoulder tew strike from,
they strike from the heel.
Roosters, according to profane history,
if my edukushun remembers me right,
were formerly a man, who came suddenly
upou one ov the heathen
and waz for that offence rebuilt over into
the fust rooster, and waz forever afterward
destiued tew crow as a kind of warning.
This chauge from u mail akouuts for their
fighting*abilities, and for their politeness
tew the hens. Tliare is nothing in man
that a woman admires more thau His red
dyness and ability to smash another fel
low, and it iz jiss so with a hen. When a
rooster gits licked the h-nsall march oph
with the other rooster, if Ite aiut half so
big or handsome.
It iz pluck that wins a hen or a womau.
There is a great variety ov pedigree
amung the rooster tace. but for stiddy biz
ness, give tne the old-sash domique roos
ter, short-legged, aud when they walk
they alwus strut, and their buzz tuns stick
out like an alderman’s abdominal cup
board. This breed is hawk-colored, and has
a crooked tail on them arched like a sickle,
and az full ov feathers as anew duster.
Blit when you come right down to grit,
and throw all outside influences overboard,
there ain’t nothing on earth, nor under
it, that can out-style, outstep, out-brag, or
out pluck a regular Bantum rooster.
They alwus put me in mind ova very
small dandy practicing before a looking
glass.
They don’t weigh more than thirty
ounces, but they make az much fuss az a
tun. I have seen them trying tew pick a
quarrel with a two-hoss wagon, and don’t
think they would hesitate tew light a
meeting-house if it waz the least sassy tew
them.
It seems tew be necessary that there
should be sumthing outrageous iu every
thing, tew show us whar propriety ends
and impropriety begins. This is tiie mel
ancholly case in the rooster affair; for we
have the Sbanghi rooster, the greatest out
rage, in my opiuyuu, ever committed in
the annals of poultry.
Tlteze kritters are tiie camels amung
fowls, they mope around the barnyard,
tippiugover the hay racks and stepping
on the young goslins, aud evry now aud
then they crow confusion.
If enuybody should giv me a Sbanghi
rooster i should halter him and keep him
in a box stall, and feed him ou cut feed,
and if he would work kind in harness, all
right; if not, I would butcher him the
fust wet day that cum, aud salt him down
tew giv tew the poor.
But tliare aint nobody a going tew giv
me one of this breed, knot if i know it; i
don’t think thare iz u man on eartli mean
enough tew do it.
Roosters do but very little household
work; they won’t layenny egge, nor try
tew hatch enny, nor see tew tiie young
ones; this satis'ys me that there is sum
truth in the myth dogikal ackount ov the
rooster’ fust origin.
Yu kan’t git a rooster tew pay etiny at
tenshua lew a y ting one; tiiey spend their
time in crowing, strutting, ami occasion
ally find a worm, which they make a re
markable fuss over, calling up their wives
from a distauce, apparently tew treat
them, but just az the hens get thare this
elegant cuss bends over and gobels up the
morsel.
Just like a man, for all the world.
[From the Savannah News of the 30th. J
NO ELECTION FOR JUSTICES OF THE PEACE
OR COUNTY CONSTABLES TO BE HELD.
For same time past the candidates for
the offices of Justices of the Peace aud
County Constables have been remarkably
active in canvassing tiie various districts
in which they wore running, and drum
ming up their votes, in readiness for the
election to be held in Jauuary, according
to their calculations; which, iiowever,
appear to lie doomed to disappointment.
Many of them have had bills and posters
stuck up about town, announcing them
seives as candidates, while some few have
even gone so far as to have their tickets
priuted aud distributed.
Again, some were running in districts
in which they did not and had not resided,
under a special law of tiie State by which,
for Presidential election purposes, this city
was made oue district; and they main
tained that it superseded the law requir
ing a three months’ residence within the
particular district. Others were candi
dates who were ineligible under tiie 14th
amendment to the Constitution of the
United States.
We publish below a letter received from
the Secretary of State, DeGraffenried, by
which it will be seen that tiie bill provid
ing for the election in January next,
which passed botli Houses of tiie Legisla
ture, was not signed by Bullock, and
therefore did not become a law : and con
sequently, until further action by the
Legislature the election cannot he held.
The letter, which touches upou the points
mentioned above, is as follows:
Executive Department, }
St ate of G eorgi a , 5-
Atlanta, October 27, 1868. )
Morton Payton, Esq., Savannah, Ga:
Dear Sir: In reply to the first inquiry
in your esteemed favor of tiie 23d inst., I
weuld 9ay that l believe an act, or bill,
did pass both Houses of the General As
sembly at its late session to authorize the
holding of an election throughout the
State in January next, f.»r one justice of
the Peace in each district G. M., hut it
did not receive the sanction of the Gover
nor, and, therefore, did not become a law.
As to your next inquiry “if Sec. 475 of
the Code of Georgia is in force.” I must
say it is not, only so far as not changed by
Sec. 3 of the 14th Art. of the Amendment
to the Constitution of the United Slates,
which is in these words :
“3. No person shall be a Senator or
Representative iu Congress, or Elector or
President, or Vice President, or hold any
office, civil or military, tinder tiie United
States, or under any State, who, having
previously taken au oath as a member of
Congress, or as au officer of rite United
States, or as a mem tier of any State Legis
lature, or as an Executive or Judicial
officer of any State, to support tiie Consti
tution of the United States, shall have en
gaged in insurrection or rebellion against
the same, or given aid or comfort to the
enemies thereof.”
Very respectfully, &c.,
B. B. DeGkaffenp.eid.
Section 475 of the Code re;:d- as follows:
"All persons are eligible to the office of
Justice of the Peace who are entitled, in
the county in which tiie district is situated,
to vote for members of the General Assem
bly, who have been three months in the
district next preceding the election, and
who do not labor under any disqualifica
tion.”
The "all persons” conflicts with the
Constitutional amendment, and is there
fore held null aud void. The remainder
being iu force, it seems to be regarded by
the authorities at Atlanta as it reads.
This information will disappoint the
hopes of many—and there is no hope of
relief until the Legislature meets again—
if it is ever allowed to do so by the Radi
cal Congress.
South Georgia and Florida Railroad. —The
contract for clearing, grubbing and grading the
above road was secured by our enterprising fellow
citizen, Col. William McLendon, who, we under
stand. has associated with him a number of gentle
men of equal energy and reliability, and they agree
to finish tiie work from ThomasTille to Albany in
twelve months. The contract for the bridgiDgwas
secured by G. W. Smith, of Cuthbert, a gentleman
fully competent to carry it out with all tiie prompt
ness required. Thus the Company have put the
whole line uDder contract, and with their determ
ination to follow the grading with the track-laying,
we may safely expect the whole road to be com
pleted in time for the next crop.— T/ionuvniUe En
terprise, 28 th.
j F roin tiie Monday Crescent. ]
AT THK STATION.
BY KEMsHAW.
God bless the gray! It is faded now.
And swings the ax or tends the herd.
Or drives the plain or follows the plow,
All worn aiul torn; while hope deferred
Doth sicken the heart. God bless the gray 1
God bless the gray ; and bless the face.
Meager and grim and unkempt of hair:
I knew the like in the foremost place,
When life and death were the prizes rare
For which we wrestled. God bless the gray !
I’ve seen them march with feet that bled.
With haversack empty and uniform rags;
When famine with war disputed the dead ;
Hut glittering muskets and shot-rent dags
Spoke louder than all. God bless the gray 1
And now the sword is a plow become,
And spears into pruning hooks are made;
But hate can wait, and steel that is dumb,
VV lien wrong shall have wrought the hero’s blade.
Will plead for the men that wore the gray.
A .MODERN BORG I t.
Wholesale Poisoning by a Servant.
From the Ashburne (N. Y.) News, October, 21.
We have to record a most fiendish, and
from tiie circumstances attending it de
liberately planned murder, by which a
whole family were destroyed.
Mr. C. Roaeli, his wife and live children
are the victims. They had lately moved
into the western part of the city. On
Monday afternoon they were in usual
health, and yesterday morning were found
cold in death. The usual signs of life not
being apparent to the neighbors yesterday
morning, suspicion was aroused that a i
was not right, and at twelve M. the house
dining room in the basement was found
Mr. and Mrs. Koach and their twoyouug
est children, in tlie parlor two other chil
dren, and iu tlie bath room the eldest
daughter. .Life was not extinct, but she
was too near death to articulate, and died
in a very few moments after she was first
discovered. The corpses are blackened
and swollen, the features convulsed, aud
the limbs drawn up as if they died suffer
ing gr eat pain.
Suspicion points toward the servant girl
as tire murderess, as she has been frequent
ly heard to threaten the life of Mrs. Roach,
saying she was mistr. ss of the kitchen
ami would not be interfered with. Sever
al times iast week sire chased the children
from tire kitchen, and orr one occasion at
tempted to scald Miss R.. wlro only es
captd by running out of the door; hutas
sire was a good servant and attentive to all
lur duties, she was not discharged, and
it was hoped that by kindness her
dislike to the family might be overcome.
They were too trusting, aud tlii> is tire
result Tire poison used is thought tube
Paris green mingled with tire food of the
family, as large quantities of it were found
iu the pantries.
The girl is still at large.
A “ Short Cotton Crop ” Theory.
To the Editor of the Journal of Com
merce: In order to show tlie folly of re
garding the receipts of cotton at tire ports
so lar this season as positively largo, when
they are positively small, if tire crop is to
exceed two million bales, I submit the
following remarks:
The Gulf crop is much more forward in
maturity than iast year, and New Orleans
shows the largest excess; hence the re
ceipts at that port are more forward, and
1859 and 1860 are the years to compare
with. Tire combined receipts of those
years at New Orleans, to October 17, were
488,000, and 8,331,000 were their aggregate
United States crops.
If, therefore, 488,000 gave 8,331 000,
90,000, the uet receipts at New Orleans
this year to October 17, will give 1,536,000
for the whole U. S. crops. So Mr. To
ney, in the Macon paper, can have a still
stronger string to his bow.
Or take VV. P. Wright’s tables and try
the question by receipts at all ports thus
far If 1,181,000 gave 8,331,000, 198,000
will give 1,397,000 for this crop. There
fore, whether this crop is 1,536,000 or
1,397,000, either result is far below Mr.
Toney’s estimate of 1,800,000.
If any one can prove that the crops of
1859 and 1860 were more forward than that
of this year, that the meaus of marketing
them were greater, or that the growers
were more uuder the necessity of selling,
or that the price was as high as twenty
two cents in those years, let him do it,
and apply the proper corrections to the
problem.
With all corrections that can he made,
assuming the New Orleans Price Current
aud W. P. Wright to be right in their
figures, it will be impossible to make this
crop reach 2,000,000 hales until the present
very small receipts give place to much
larger figures. Cotton.
New York, Oct. 23, 1868.
Too Old to Sait the Tmhlc of a Merchant Prince.
Books written and printed long years
ago by the famous writers of the past, and
of which there are hut few copies extant,
are generally highly prized and considered
of great value, not only by persons of lit
erary tastes and predilections, hut by men
of sense and intelligence everywhere;
aud we sometimes hear of ancient and
rare volumes being sold for fabulous prices.
It is a fact well kuown iu Savannah,
that the late Mr. Smets, devoted almost
hi3 whole lifetime to the collection of val
uable works of antiquity, as well as books
of more modern origin. Last w inter the
famous Smets Library w r as taken to New
York and sold for $10,000; a sum far less
than it would have brought iu Savannah.
We heard a little incident regarding A. T.
Stewart, the so-called Merchant Prince,
of New York, in connection with this
library, which will do to be made public.
When it was offered for sale in New York,
the parties interested wrote to well-known
wealthy men there, calling their attention
to the fact, thinking that they would
probably be desirous of procuring some of
the rarest of the works, for their private
libraries. Among others A. T. Stewart
was notified, and a catalogue sent to him.
The great leader of the party which claims
to have all the brains and intelli _<enee of
the country centred in it, relumed answer
that he had carefully examined the cata
logue, and that tlre books were entirely
too old to suit him !
If Stewart has a library it is probably
constructed upon the same style as that of
Mr. Potiphar, which was made by a first
class carpenter, who made the books of
wood, with fancy backs, and finished them
so artistically that they looked very gen
uine. When a guest wished to look at a
volume, the key of the library was always
lost.— Sav. News, 30 (h.
A VENERABLE PAIR.
Old Mr. unit Mr». Blair a. They Hide into VV a.li
iiigtun.
[From the New York Hun.)
A friend describes to us the appearance
of old Mr. and Mrs. J.lair, as they ride into
Washington City. He is now seventy
eight years old, anti his wife is -eventy
six. They live six miles from Washing
ton, a^ country seatin Maryland, known
as Sil™r Spring. Nearly every day they
both ride into Washington on horseback ;
and when they do not come to Washing
ton they ritle as far in the opposite direc
tion. Mr.‘ Blair weurs a broad-brimmed
slouched hat, and looks lik ■ the relic of a
century ago. He is very thin ; his legs are
hardly larger than a common man’s
wrist ; and by tlie time he gets into the
city his trousers have slipped half way
up to his knees. Mrs. Blair, who is a ro
bust, stout, fine looking old lady, wears a
broad Quaker sun-bonnet, made of paste
board slips, so that she can gather it all up
together in her hand, and a white dimity
short dress.
Mr. Blair always rides about a length
anda-balfof the hoise ahead of her. lie
rides up to the steps in front of Montgom
ery Blair’s house, throws the reins down
on the horse’s neck, dismounts, aud pro
ceeds directly up the steps The horse
droops his head aud stands still. Directly
Mrs. Blair rides up, switches her hus
band’s horse out of the way, gets off her
horse, aud follows her husband into the
house.
One end of this house is occupied by
Montgomery Blair, Mr. Blair’s eldest son.
a graduate of West Point, once a Judge in
Missouri, an office-holder under Buch
anan, Postmaster-General under Lincoln,
a friendly man, a first-rate hater, and a
very viiuleat politician and stump-speak
er; and the other end is occupied by Rear
Admiral Lee, wbo married the only
daughter of old Mr. Blair, and made nine
ty thousand dollars prize money before he
stopped the rebels from running the
blockade at Wilmington during the late
war.
The mansion where Montgomery Blair
lives, and where old Mr. and Mrs Blair
alight as they ride into Washington, is the !
one iu which Senator Benton formerly
lived. It is situated across the street, in
front of the White House, aud nearly op
posite the War Department.
Brick Pomeroy is dangerously ill in New
York.
[ From tUe I .ami We Love.]
A I.O\ XL .IIRIIH.
Under tlie protection of the Freedmen’s
Bureau aud the teaching of the loyal
Fetish, the negroes of tiie South commit
more crime every week than the aggregate
crime among i hem during the two hun
dred years of slavery. Rape, r >bhery and
murder are daily occurrence. Still, amid
all tiie out rat es committed, there has been
a good deal of the ludicto'-.- m>t unworthy
the Haversack.
When the order came from the Big Boss
of each of the “live Districts to put ne
groes on ilic jury, the colore I brethreu
were not slow to learn that the pay was
two dollars per day. Many of them walk
ed ten and fifteen miles to town, saying
that they had come to “jine tiie jury.
One of these, who may i car the geueric
name of Pompey Squash, did get on the
jury. During the whole" trial, lie sat medi
tating Upon tile goidnesaot the Big Boss
in letting him have a < liai.ee to get his
two dollars a day. He understood not a
word that was said by the witnesses and
lawyers, but his meditations were, never
theless, sweet upon the forthcoming
greenbacks. “De oie woouiau shill git
rael, shore nufT calikcr frock, aud shan’t
go to meetin’ iu a copperas frock, like de
white trash.” In the midst of these pleas
ant reflections, the Judge gave a solemn
charge to tiie jury, explaining the points
of law and enjoining t hem to discharge
their duty faithfully. The jury retired to
their room. “Did you understand tiie
Judge’s charge, Mr. Squash? asked one
of tiie jurors. Instantly Pompey’s face
became a shade blacker, his eyes rolled in
his hoatl, and the whites of his eyes look
ed like snow and ikes on a coal pile, "Bless
ns Lord, is de Judge chargin' us .' 1 tot
we wos a gwine to git pay !”
We will conclude tlie anecdote. We
never liked the style, “the rest of this
thrilling story to ho found in Bonner’s
Ledyer next week.” Cine got her “rael
caliker frock,” and looks down, with
queenly contempt, on “de white trash.”
SURGERY U\ LIGHTNING.
The London Lancet says: “A boy of
twelve, belonging to Korsk (Western Rus
sia) who used to walk with a crutch, on
account of anchylosis of the right knee,
was on horseback in the fields when he
was overtaken by a violent storm. After
a severe clap of thunder the horse ran
away, and the boy, completely stunned,
fe Ito the ground. When his senses re
turned, and he tried to rise, he found that
his right leg was gone. His uncle, who
had ridden by his side, and his own horse
had disappeared. The poor hoy, at first
somewhat collapsed, foil asleep. His com
panion, however, at last returned, after
having secured the horse, and on examin
ing his nephew he observed that the right
leg was entirely wanting. The patient’s
shirt aud clothes were iu shreds, and
burned along the seams, and on the body
were many scars. The boy was conveyed
to the village in a cart, suffering severely
in tiie stump, and much alarmed at the
hemorrhage, which, however, soon stop
ped. A few days afterward Dr. Rago
witch found a regular wound as usually
mMe by tlie amputating knife, surround
ed with granulations, and presenting in
tiie center a few gangrenous spots. The
divisions iiad been effected by lightning,
through thesuperlor extremity of the tibia,
the patella and femur being intact. Tne
healing of this wound was very rapid, and
by the use of ordinary means. The sever
ed leg was found on the grass several days
after the accident, just where the boy had
been thrown from iiis iiorse. It was quite
dried up, aud emitted no smell, the tibia
being quite black, and stripped half down
the leg. These facts arc mentioned in the
Jierl. Klin. Woch., No 21, 1868, and guar
anteed by Dr Bycyanko.”
A LETTER FROM MARK TW VIA.
Judge Char es F. Cady hands us the fol
lowing characteristic epistle, received
lately from the lively Mark Twain.
[iSf. Louis Times.
No. 146 Asylum street, \
Hartford, October 5. j
Dear Judge,—l am just starting away
on a trip up the mountains, and I snatch
a moment to apologize to you and Hod
nett for my lapse of duty. You see I
couldn’t doit. 1 have been on the wing
ever since I left you, and 1 am at it yet.
Tell H. lam on the war-path. I am go
ing after the person who sent me this dia
bolical ‘‘Question in Moral Science,” as lie
calls it, to he elucidated by me Moral
science is my best hold generally, but tiie
interrogatory is too many for me. I have
not solved it quite, but I suppose 1 could
have done it if I had remained iu my
right mind. You try it awhile. You are
healthy.
“question in moral science.
“If a man wer ■ to signify, however,
which lie was n.>t if he hail the power,
wiiicii being denied him he will endeavor
anyhow, merely because he dou’t, would
you ?”
It mixes me beyond expression. Be
cause sometimes I think he is, and some
times I think lie would, and tlieu again I
think he don't. Other times I think he
dosn't. Just occasionally I think he did,
but then lam not certain. Indeed, lam
not quite certain on any count in this in
dictment ; and since it isn’t like anything
else I think of, it must he an indictment.
Bring tiie powers of the legal mind to hear
upon it.
You treated me so hospitably when I
was in St. Louis, and did it with such a
grace and such a hearty spirit withal, that
it gives me a genuine pleasure to be able
to make this welt-ineaut return for it in
the way of affording you a little intellec
tual recreation that will stay witli you
that will he regarded as permanent—that
will last as long as you do, Judge.
Your fellow-sufferer.
Mark Twain.
“Those Witnesses” Not Foriheoming.
The announcement that Messrs. Moses
& Garrard, of counsel for the “Columbus
prisoners,” had made a call upon Gen.
Meade for the return of the principal wit
nesses against them has caused s > much
inquiry as to the result of that applica
tion, that vve have procured a copy *>f the
reply of the Adjutant General, as follows :
Headq’bs Dei'aktment of tiie So in h, t
Office of .Judge Advocate,
Atlanta, Ga., Oet. M 7, !-v> )
Messrs. Moses <!• Garrard, Attorneys at Ja' V„-
bus, Ga. :
Gentlemen: The Major General coiiim
directs me to say in reply to your letter of ih ■
instant, that on the resumption of civil an •
in the State, the witnesses, Betts and Mar- i ( ill i :
ferred to in your communication, being fee' f
their personal safety if they remained in the . 1 r ■,
were famished transportation to the North. fi-tts
left the train on the Orange and Alexander ILiil
road some two stations south of Culpepper, Vir
ginia. Marshall being an enlisted man in the
United States service, reported at Fort Columbus,
New York harbor, where lie lias since been dis
charged.
There is no information at these Headquarters
where these men can now be found, and neither
are unuer military’ control.
I am, very respectfully, your obedient servant,
<Vm. 11. Smyth.
Copt. 16th Infantry, Bt. Major U. S. A.,
Acting Jndge Advocate.
We doubt whether ttie annals of criminal prose
cutions afford a parallel to such a proceeding as is
disclosed above. The military authorities have
been czctedini/ly anxious to discover and punish the
murderers of Aslibura. Ttiey offered for them a
reward unprecedented in amount—so large as at
once to create the apprehension that wretches
would be found sordid and callous enough to accuse
innocent men, with a view of obtaining the reward.
Some of tiie most sacred rights of American citizens
guaranteed to them by the Constitution, were
violated in the attempt to lind the guilty parties.
The most barbarous and revolting outrages were
perpetrated upon some persona, arrested as wit
nesses or accomplices, to make them tell an
accusing tale. The .prisoners accused were sub
jected to the most rigorou- and harsh treatment
while in confinement, and the most violent and
unjust denunciations were made of the civil author
ities for not discovering and punishing those who
committed the bloody deed. Well, the military
authorities at laat found auu secured two of the
murderers—men who confessed to au active par
ticipation in the murder. These are the men for
whose return to Georgia the counsel for the late
“prisoners made application; and the reply is that
the military authorities, after finding out that they
Jiad two of the murderer , turned them loose with
out even requiring of them bonds, and that they j
cannot now lay hands upon them ! To say that the
citizens of Columbus, lately so unjustly accused j
and harshly treated, and indeed our whole commu- ]
uity, have been greatly outraged by this mockery of
justice—this connivance at the escape of murder
ers or suborned perjurers—would be too mild an j
expression.— Oolu.//tbus Kwjalrer, 61 st ult.
Speculations in Cotton.— Our cotton specula
tors have had a hard road to travel this season. It •
is said some of them are ‘‘busted," to use a verv I
elegant and cla-.-ic phrase. The old kiug has been '
constantly getting sick on their hands They have I
had precious little r ':a> • • to rnaka anything out of i
him this year. lie! a ;.i r old chicken. He is |
hard to calculate. Vou may fix him certain at one 1
point, look again, and lo he is not there, and 1
never was and never will be. Like the game of I
‘•Little Joker,” you see the white ball with both j
your eyes put under the black box. It is as plain |
as your hand before you. You bet your money’ it j
is there, the box is raised, when you find it is uu
der the white box.
Horace Greeley receives $7,000 for filling
the New York Tribune with Jies on tiie
Southern people.
THE FIN \N! I \|. « Him-.
CRITICAL STATE OF AFFAIRS IN \.
STREET. ‘ All
- the New York Herald, o. i,; . .
The present aspect of (inan ;
furnishes foot! lor very serion- : ( .|] . ‘
| Tliat a 1 Fairs in the moneyed \ V< i ,
i metropolis are in a very eri i,-.--| ,
is obvious even to tbo-e who are
willing to decry dangc in u.
j Money is scarce —that is, in the i;
I sense.' It is true there i- j q
j money in the country now as th
few weeks ago ; but the -ud<j,. tl „
! drawal of $15,000,000 from cireubm.,,
| the panic in tiie stock market in,,
ieuders to he extremely caution,
loans. They have always adv : .i,,
rate to the legal and even beyond th,.
rate of interest —a device pecu inr p, \ ,
street. Seven per cent, is, of Cl ,
rale beyond which no lawful de
he made, but there is no statu’e :
its payment iu gold or the exa ,
commission equivalent to a bonus, :
use of the money. Hence in the i .
stringency, borrowers have bte':
pelled to pay as high as ten to twilve
cent, interest. The cause of tins -, ;
I crisis in Wall street may le hrcilv
; and will be found an interesting
Just about tiie middle of cSepun.
each year mouey always becotiH - act:v'."
It was a little late this season owing p,
backwardness of tiie cotton crop. j u lt
i South and to the retention of the \\..
crops by the farmers, who ,
higher prices.
Money was abundant iu tiie n.•• :
as a consequence, and was loann ~ v .
at four, five and six |>or cent, on
known as call loans. These are
made upon collateral, such as stock,
bonds, and liable to be called in :, h,.
tion of tiie lender. The ease in nmc, \
duced tiie inmost speculation in theq,..
market, and everything iu the .-! ;l |,
stocks was bought up with avidity, p
ran up so rapidly that an advance
twenty per cent, took place in -on,,- of;,
railway stocks, particularly iu il,, \v,
etn ones, within u few weeks. Tin m;-„
lion afforded a line opportunity ;
grand “ hear ” operation, by which
could be sold at a price below tin o a ,
ket value, and then by pressure f,»i t .,[ :
low tiie contract figure. Such, m h ,
I was the view taken of it l»y api : ,
(“hear” firm, who induced other.;,::
i them, and a large “pool” was (Inis icrm
i for tiie purpose of breaking down i K
market. Stocks go up when moiav
plenty. Conversely, they go down wfi.-i
money is light. Hence tiie “ pool
termitied upon making money tight u> i .
first step to their speculation. Ace
ingly they borrowed money by and ; -
collateral at the hanks. The sum tin... i
tained they deposited in other I ■ .
drew their checks against it, ami Icci
certified. The certified cheek they.-a
at still other hunks, and finally u
locked the last amounts in their* if..
Aliy one familiar with business at 1
banks will see at once that with a in.;.,
of collateral the speculators could c.-.-
tie up, or “ lock up,” to use the verii;:.
of Waii street, the sum of three, h ur, iji
eras many millions more as they c. .
liud banks willing to lend theimelvc. t.
the scheme. The sum of SJ.ovn.imu ,
$4,000,000 was thus locked up. uini fi...
speculators counted on the usual adivio
of money to help tlu m. But money u.Il
not become scarce, for the reason.- j\
| ously cited, and the remaining volun;
currency expanded so as to meet 11,
quirements of business for a few i
The attempt was a fiasco , and aftci i TANARUS,::
time they took their greenbacks out oi i>
safe and put them in bank again. \ m
ond attempt was made a few weeks after
wards, but it was hardly more -uctn .--ii,
The stock market ill each insiance viiua
ted a little, but tiie scheme being .-u
through, prices renu ined firm and tin
speculators retired vanquished.
Tiie third and the most successful :.:
tempt was inaugurated iast Monday an,l
Tuesday, when the sum of $9,00il i ni'o vv.-
suddenly withdrawn from cireulatUn I;
tile same “pool” and by the same ‘lochii
! up” process. The game now began to in
; desperate one on their part. The si >,;k
market refused to respond as they vi iniu-d
to the tightness in mouey, and the u .
was applied by tho withdrawal n Hi;;: •
| day of three millions more of grei n!>:.< 1 ■
Still tiie market was obstinate The
Western railroad shares broke under ll r
pressure, it is true, because they w< re the
most largely inflated by the previous
mania for speculation. The ohjecliv
point was Erie, however, aud that stock
continued firm. A further withdrawal if
money was managed, and Erie, afi<
fighting hard all day Friday, fell from U
to 44, amid great excitement. The rest is
soon told. The withdrawal of more gn <
backs, until the sum of sls,o(H),Odd ' •
taken from circulation, completed t
rout of tiie stock market, and the win ■
list wavered and broke. Erie fell,
again half way, aud then relapsed t
i about 38. Tiie vielors are not conic:. 1
jas yet. They are still pursuing the %:•
! quisbed Erie with the threat that tie
j will drive it down to 35. Mean
the greenbacks are locked up. When
j is remembered that the total curn-n \
i New York city is only from s7o,iiimi.i:;in
| SBO,OOO 000 it is easy to find a can ■ Ur (I
i pinch in money when $15,009. uun .m
j taken out of circulation. The wm f-a
ture of tiie situation is that theuitilh ml
j stringency is likely to be at gram red by u
I natural one, owing to a demand fur / / m<y
iiu legitimate business operation t-ucli
i as tiie movement of crops aud the I'D
| which were suspended until t\i.- ' 1 " :
Several of the banks are impli’-afisl;; ti
grand scheme of the “hears.” and wla i
the crisis is over they should boroincn
bered accordingly.
Such is the condition of aU'tiisa’
moment. Where it will < lid or wi
j will result in are speculations i r
j who are versed in financial pnriev.
j succeeds in curbing thesjiecuiativ ■ i .
I now largely possessing moneyed m s
brings capital back into legitim.»*«■*
| nels; if it cures the great ambition '
; day to make fortune in a few In in
■ Stock Exchange, and if it imparts :
stimulus to honest business tin:
! it will not have been without it- ■
' spite 1 he millions of dollars that h:iv<-
i gambled away in Wall street within
present brief calender mouth.
BLR NT COTTON \\ IMPORT V N'T ‘ ’
(TOKO.
The suit of Washington F rI < ;
Surget, lately decided in Adam ( "
Court, involved questions of so v
portance as to make it of inU est 1 1!
of our readers. In May, 1862, wlie
appearance of the Federal fleet in t
sissippi river endangered property
ing the hanks, Mr. ’. K. Faiiar.
civil provost marshal of Adam <
issued orders commandin'.' J:
E*q., deputy provost marshni, t” •
all cotton lying upon the Ad tm
bank of tiie river, and iu such ) :
as to be iu danger of falling in tie ■
of the enemy. In pursuance of
der, Mr. Hurget burned the cotton ‘
era! planters. Mr. Washington V "■
two hundred hales within a slim i ’
of the river, in this county. Tin- 1
Mr. Hurget destroyed Just a fie ‘ 1 ’''
render Sir. Ford brought suit ag«ni-
Surget for $120,000, being Ibe t' Li|lKl
value of the two hundred baits oi
at that time.
At the two previous ternn of tin; 1
the case was argued on demurrer-:
cases tiie demurrers were overrule - !
court. At thi* term the e:;-’_ v
upon Its merits. General • ’
Judge Josiah Winchester
North, Esq., weie counsel for
file defendant. Judge JI ir.on U.
W. F. Melleu, Esq., for Mr !'• :
plaintiff'. The trial occupied a < ■
hie lime, and was argued with g ;
ity on both sides. Tiie case was :
to the jury on Friday evening. ‘
remained in their room during
night, and, after further cousin
brought a verdict for the and U
deciding, so far as this court -
one of the most importautqiu -li
out of tiie late war. , ,
We understand thecounse! for 11 * : _
tiff'have given notice of an apnea-
High Court of Mississippi, and in
carry tiie case to the United Stab'
preme Court if necessary.
[Natchez Democrat , 2" A
Brazilian Cotton.—Messrs, u
& Tillman, factors of this city, l
us a specimen of this heautifm
grown on the plantation of R
Anderson, iu Pulaski county, j
dark cream color, resembling a hg'v t
of nankeen ; while in length amt i
of staple it is aiwiut equal to Middle
da sea islands. Mr. Anderson i- 1
perimenting with it this year, l> ;,: '
to plant from twenty-five to thin.' f
the coming season. Tt grows t<>
section on our uplands and is a g°V',
er. We are informed that n)lr
probably command fifty cents in ‘ ‘ ( .
ket at this time, a price which ,j. vfllj(>ii
duce others to embark iu its cm
[Sav. News,