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A FIRST-RATE NOTICE OF HYENA HOLT.
Commenting upon the statement re
cently made that the gentleman who mar
ried Miss Annie Surratt had been dis
charged from ilie service of the Govern
ment therefor, at tbe instance of that
monster, Joseph Holt, the World says
nothing more can be probable Holt was
one of the chief agents in the murder
of Mrs- Surratt, and the whole career of
the man proves him to be capable •/
avenging his own crimes upon the victims
of those crimes, even to the third and
fourth generation. It is a disgrace to the
nation that such a person as Holt should
be retained in its service ; it is a disgrace
to the army that ire six mid be su tiered to
wear its uniform ; it is a disgrace to hon
orable men that they should permit them
selves even ollieial intercourse with him.
For tbe offences by which Holt lias earned
the infamy which in history will attach
to his name have been offences not only
against the laws of the laud, such as par
tisan passion might have provoked, and
partisan acts of Congress may condone,
but against the laws of God, of humanity,
aiu l of honor. They drew tiieir origin,
not from a perverted intellect, hut from a
corrupt heart, and they put tiieir perpe
trator into one category, not with the
Alvas and the John Knoxes, but with the
Vargases and the Jeffreys of the past. In
its small way thi' wretched piece of spite,
levelled at the daughter of the woman
whom lie procured to be murdered by a
military commission, exactly reproduces
the temper in which he dealt witti graver
matters of life and death during the war.
Let a single example suffice. We vio
late no contideuce in relating it, for tlie
times are fast coming in w hich the real
nature and not the ficticious repute of
men conspicuous on either side in our
late struggle, will decide, as it ought to
decide, the feeling of the people towards
them, and the true records should begin,
therefore, to ‘‘leap to light.” At the
height of the war, a well-known journal
ist of this city, who tiad for some time
published in his paper “personal notices”
of the whereabouts and well being of
Southern prisoners in Northern prisons,
was notified from tbe War Department
that this practice g tve otleuce and must
be discontinued. Goiug to Washington,
the journalist explained to Secretary
Stanton that lie was only reciprocating
publications as to Northern prisoners in
the South which were suffered to be made
in the Southern papers, and begged that
no obstacle be interposed to prevent so
humaue a thing. Stanton, to his credit
be it mentioned, declared that the order
had been issued in his absence, and re«
ferred the jourualist to Holt. The same
explanations and representations were
made to Holt in his turn. He listened
impatiently, and, when the journalist
had concluded his statement, made this
reply, which should link his name for
ever in a fitting union witli that of the
judicial assassius of the gentle and noble
Lady Alice Lisle: “These personals, sir,
are aid aud comfort to the enemy. If by
them you should communicate to a South
ern mother the news that her rebel sou
Was dying oi consumption, but cared for,
you would be guilty of treason, aud I
should be for puuishiug you as a traitor.”
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GUTTING THEIR EYES OPEN-GRATIFYING
ASSURANCES.
We had the pleasure of a call, Friday
from Mr. James. R. Butts, of this place,
who has just returned from an extended
tour of two months duration, through
some of the New England States, New
York and New Jersey.
He reports a very healthy sentiment at
work there among the people, with re
gard to the South aud its advantages as a
country for settlers from the North, and
says that they are getting tiieir eyes open
ed to the delusions and humbugs practised
upon them so long by wicked politicians,
with regard to tile insecurity of life and
property at the South. The reports of the
large numberof people fromall parts of the
North who visited us last winter, and re
turned home ueiighted with the couutry
and climate, and orderly condition of af
fairs, generally, have done much to bring
about this gratifying result. Mr. Butts is
positive that there will be a very large
immigration to tbe South, and Georgia,
particularly, next fall and winter.
The classes proposing to come are agri
culturists and manufacturers, who will
bring ample capital with them, and tie
prepared to take right hold and go to work
atotic.e. A party of six, acting somewhat
as an advance guard, are expected here
next week, to “prospect” preparatory to
making a final move later in the year.
We are sure they will be welcomed, right
heartily, and that the sight of the mag
nificent harvests now ripening in our
fields will not do them any harm. They
could not come at a better time.
While at the North, Mr. B. visited Mr.
Araasa Sprague, brother of the Rhode Is
land Senator, at his home in Providence.
Mr. S. made many inquiries about manu
facturers and manufactories at ttie South,
and ireely expressed the opinion that the
immense establishments belonging to
himself and brother, would be, if situated
at the South, surrounded by more circum
stauces calculated to enhance tiieir profits,
than anywhere else. Senator Sprague
writes Mr. B. a letter, in which he says,
very emphatically, that if the firm should,
at any time, conclude to extend their
operations, it will certainly be Southward.
We hope that time is not far distant, and
that Georgia, with her unrivaled water
power, will be the objective point of this
raid of the spindles. No State offers a
richer spoil.
“GEX." HOBUbOX.
The M ilitary Secretary of the Navy—How Selected.
From Washington Dispatch N. Y. Herald, 28.
President Grant seems to be governed
very much by the same principles iu the
choice of his Cabinet officers that he is in
the selection of his horses. The best il
lustration of this is found iu the case ot
the new Secretary of the Navy, Mr. ltohe
son. The President met Mr. Kobeson for
the first time about a year ago, when he
was introduced by Senator Catteli. He
had met him once or twice since, but only
casually.
When Mr, Borie told the President that
lie wanted to retire from the Cabinet,
Grant asked him who he would recom
mend as his successor. Borie mentioned
Mr. Kobeson. Grant said that he did not,
know him well enough. This happened
just previous to the President’s trip to
West Point. He wanted to get a chance
to study Robeson’s good and bad points
without letting the object of his curiosity
know about it. Before starting for West
Point the President said to Borie: “Sup
pose you write a note to your friend Robe
sou and say you are going with me to
West Point, and that as you have the
privilege of inviting a friend, you would
like him to lie one of the party.
In that way I will get a chance to see
what kind of a mau lie is. Borie, who, it
see ns, was anxious to place Robeson in
his old shoes, readily complied with the
"request. The result of it was Mr. Robe
soil made one of the Presidential party at
West Point. On the way |> and during
the time they remained ' .-re, Grant em
braced every opportunity to draw Robe
son out on various topics. Os course Mr.
Robeson —who had no idea at that time of
being offered a place in the Cabinet—felt
considerably honored iu the attentions he
received from the President, and spoke
his mind quite freely on every subject in
troduced.
Grant is said to hi -a eyed Robeson as
a man does a horse .. is about to pur
chase. The President told Borie that Rob
eson bad many good points about him aud
he would appoint him Secretary of the
Navy, as he guessed lie was about as good
a man as he could get.
A Waste jP Vvokds. —“As President
Grant was driving to the New York ferry
the other morning, he was recognized by
the driver of an .Eighth Avenue car, who
shouted at the top of his voice ; 4 Do ye
moind the dhrop o’ wather 1 gave ye,
fornint the stunted poines at Bphotsylva
liia Court-house?’ ”
Pat was wasting his breath. Graut
neither remembers nor rewards such ser
vices, as huudreds of crippled soldiers,
who have been turned out of, or denied
offices, allover the country, will testily.
It Pat had subscribed to that house, now,
or taken any stock in the G. G. G. E., the
case would be different.
To Flank .'-moke House Thieves
The Tbomasville Enterprise is prompted
to offer ttie following advice to those whose
smoke houses have suffered from raids:
Most of the country smoke or meat houses,
have earth floors, let the owners floor them
with Uuhtwood logs buried on a level with
the surface of the earth floor, the ends of
the logs extending under the bottom logs
or sills of the smoke house, and we will
guarantee that no provisions will thereaf
ter go out by under-ground passage.
The landlord of a hotel said to a board
er “Book o’ here 1 I want you to pay
vo’ur bill, and you mi*st! I have asked
you often enough for it, aud 1 tell you now
that you don’t leave the house until you
have paid it.” “Good!” said the lodger.
“I’ll stay with you as long as I live.”
K S: I !, K £, S,n,S: ' T JOHNSONON THE TENNESSEE
ELEC TION—HIS OPINION OF GEN. GRANT.
Ex President Johnson arrived in Wash
ington Sunday evening, aud was at once
pounced upon by special correspondents
The correspondent of the New York Her
ald sends a long account of an interview,
from which we take the following ex
tract :
Correspondent— \V r hat do you think will
be tiie result of tbe contest in Tennessee?
Andy Johnson—l think Senter will be
elected. Thousands who remaiued quiet
before are -now uctively at work in the
State. Thousands who kept away from
llio polls are now making themselves
heard, and are determined upon being
heard, if they be not allowed to vote.
They will talk and talk until they make
public sentiment unanimous for justice
and fair play.
That is what is being done in Tennes
see now. Even old Brownlow is coming
around, wishing to be on the winning
side and seeing tbe change coming. You
notice he opposes further proscription.
He does this not from principle, but from
policy. It is precisely the same way in
Virginia and other Southern States. I tell
you, sir, if this country is to be kept from
despotism, anarchy or imperialism, the
nucleus has to come from the South, when
restored. It will be small at first, but
mark me, sir, it will come that way.
Grant would see this if lie bad au idea in
his head, but lie lias not. He has no po
litical creed at all. I would rather have a
good heretic than a man without any
failh. I would place more dependence ou
such a man. As I said before, he is a
mere incident.
There has been a great social upheaval
and Grant is left on the top and thinks
there is something in him. It is precisely
like a volcanic disturbance. The natural
condition of tiie earth is broken up, strata
after strata is broken through, things are
displaced and turned upside down, and
what should be at the bottom is tbrown
high up. That is justGraut’s case. Why,
Ben Butler iiad a wonderfully correct idea
of Grant. He used to come to see me
much at ouetime, and expressed tiie pro
foundest contempt for Grant. Hisetimate
of Grant was about the same as my own.
He thought Grant could be made to do
anything, that he could be made a com
plete tool, and that if he desired he could
have himself invited to Grant's house. It
happened precisely so, afterward, just as
Butler boasted.
You remember Butler was invited to
Grant’s house, and it was brought about
by Butler himself. Butler understands
Grant thoroughly. I have no hesitation
in declaring that Grant is a mean, averi
clous, cunning, spiteful man—a complete
bundle of petty jealousies, spites and lies.
He has no courage. I made him fairly
quail before my glance at that Cabinet
meeting, when I asked him about that fa
mous correspondence concerning Blanton.
I asked him question after question, aud
he quailed.
When I finished he stood up, took his
hat in his hand, and in a mean, sneaking
way, said, “Gentlemen, have you any
more questions to ask ?” and slunk out of
the room. I convicted him of lying aud
cowardice then, and you remember all
about it, sir, for you published it at tbe
time.
Tbe Ex-President sa ! d a great many
other things spicy and interesting, but as
the hour is so late I am obliged to break
off.
A SPINSTER ON MATRIMONY.
Bachelors know all about tiie art of
managing wives. Bpiusters perfectly un
derstand how to bring up children. Or,
if they do not, they think they do. Mar
ried folks and parents, however, do not
appreciate the exceeding wisdom of single
people’s views on such matters ; and, for
tiie same reason, they won’t probably at
tach much importance to Miss Busan B.
Anthony's notions of tiie cause and cure
of wedded misery. Miss Anthony in
dulges in the solacing theory that, as a
rule, husbands are tyrants and wives
slaves. Bhe would subdue the one, and
emancipate tiie other. The principal
grievance of the temale victims to the
marriage shackle, as she puts it in a speech
before the Woman’s Suffrage Association,
is, that they caunot “obtain money to
leave tiie city” unless their husbands give
it to them!
Having traveled and lectured iu pretty
much every town and village iu the
United States, Miss Anthony has an idea
that tiie perpetual transporting of oneself
and one’s baggage from one point andoue
bad hotel to another point and another
bad hotel constitutes the height of human
felicity, aud that the wives of America
are piuiug to death for that privilege. Her
idea of perfect liberty ami complete hap
piness for wives is, that they shall run off'
to Concord, Massachusetts; Portland,
Maine; Syracuse, New York; Chicago,
Illinois; St. Louis, Missouri, or Train's
uew city in Nebraska, to attend female
suffrage canventions and bear Miss An
thony speak. Not being able to do this
for tbe want of those funds which tiie
Bashaw of a husband holds in his brutal
grasp, she would have them “ail inde-
earning their own support,”
so that, witli their wages or gains, they
could exercise the diviue instinct of loco
motion to their hearts’ content. Ah !
Miss Anthony ! your advice is all thrown
away.
The wives of America, so long as they
are comfortably supported at home, won’t
declare their independence of their hus
bands and take to braiding straw bats,
binding slioes and making shirts, or lec
turing to earn extra money, and if they
did, they wouldn’t speud it iu traveling to
women's suffrage conventions to bear you
speak. They had rattier put up witli the
solid advantages of what you call “sla
very” than lo take tbe doubtful risks of
your article of “ freedom.” They know
their real interests and they understand
the situation, and that is why they give
you the cold shoulder. Her advice, above
quoted, like her other recommendation
that married people should sleep apart, on
aeeouut of their supposed electrical differ
ences, will not go down '.—Journal of Com
merce.
THE PACIFIC KAIL.RO.VI>.
The Hon J. N. Morris, Government
Commissioner to inspect the Pacific Rail
road, has made a lengthy report. He thus
condemns this great work :
1. This road is not as the law requires,
a “first class road.”
2. It is not supplied with the necessary
buildings.
3. It has not safe and substantial bridges.
4. The tunnels are not wide enough for
a double track.
5. The road-bed at the grade line is not
of auuiform width of fourteen feet, nor
the rails limd.
G. Especially would it be extremely dan
gerous for heavy trains to pass over the
western portion of the road.
7. The ties have sunken in many in
stances, sometimes at one end and some
times entirely, the dirt being washed from
under them ; this is more generally the
case on embankments. Miles upon miles
of them were laid during the winter while
tiie frost wasou the ground. The rails,
consequently 7 , have an uneven bearing, and
in numerous instances are bent, aud ap
pear as you look back upon them like a
succession of small waves. I saw, how
ever, a number of men at several different
points engaged in raising the ends of the
ties and packing dirt uuder them, so as to
level the track as far as that would do it.
Two considerations remain which I deem
of more importance than others :
The road is not ballasted, nor is any part
of it. ,
Cross-ties are laid with great irregular
ity on the bed of the road. They appear,
indeed, to have been pitched on, aud the
rails spiked to them wherever they fell,
provided they did not fall too far apart.
The material objection is, however, to
the ties themselves. They are of soft,
W lußegard to its cost, the government
has furuished iu bonds the small amount
of $G -> 967 192 The contractors owe the
government $3,335,963 for interest, which
they have been unable to pay.
From this, what may be expected in the
future? If the company cannot uow,
witli all the immense resources with
which they have been supplied pay the
interest on’the government bonds, how
cau it hereafter pay interest on all these
bonds?
The Blue Ridge Railroad.— R. K.
Scott, Governor of South Carolina, and
Chairman of the Executive Committee of
tiie Blue Ridge Railroad, has advertised
for proposals from contractors to complete
the road from Anderson, South Carolina,
to Knoxville, Tennessee, a distance of one
hundred aud fifty-two miles. Payment
for tiie work is to be made in the seven
per cent, first mortgage bonds of ttie road,
principal and interest payable iu coin, and
guaranteed by the State. Proposals will
be received until the eighth of this
mouth.
Dougherty Superior Court.—Judge
Clark has adjourned this Court to the 4th
Monday iu November.
—Paper culla— Newspaper attacks.
MA.SONIC.
GEORGIA MASONIC MUTUAL LIFE INSU
RANCE COMPANY.
Although a majority of the members of
this company are in tiie Btate of Georgia,
we are well represented iu Alabama, Lou
isiana, Florida, Tennessee, and Nortli aud
\ South Carolina, with some iu more dis
tant places. We receive many letters
from members and ethers, asking for in
formation of our progress and success;
sometimes mentioning their fears that our
noble and benevolent institution will
eventuate In a failure. We always take
pleasure iu showing them its progress, its
benefits already realized, auil its future
safety, which is beyond a doubt. For ad
ditional information to our membership,
we from week to week write a short para
graph or two iu the Masonic column of
this paper.
From its formation iu April, 18G7, until
February Jast, its increase of members, in
numbers, without any large diminution by
deaths, was steady aud uniform—being
then 4250 members on tiie list. For the
three preceding and the three succeeding
months there were 30 deaths.causingheavy
mortuary assessments upon the member
ship. During this time money was very
scarce throughout the country, and many
of our Masonic brethren who were iu
limited circumstances were unable to pay
their assessments. Resignations and trans
fers to the new classes, deaths and drop
ped by default, caused us to lose a good
many from our list. Yet, with all these
difficulties, our list in May numbered
4435.
When a member dies, resigns, transfers,
or is dropped by default, his number is
giveu to tbe first ou tiie list of app icants,
and is called a reissue. We have now
about eighty names less of tiie above
number to be replaced under new reissues.
We are daily receiving applications for
membership, aud shall soon have our list
on the increase, to the filling up of Class
A during the year, with large additions to
other classes. Returns from tiie agents of
tbe company, forwardiug the collected
assessments of the mouth of May, give
us very few withdrawals from the com
pany; aud we may have no fears as to tiie
success now before us of the great benevo
leut benefits of the institution. Our June
assessments will call for payments to the
heirs of three deceased brethren.
guarih \ns.
We learn that there are some members
very much troubled in anticipation of the
difficulty growing out of tiie appointment
of guardians aftei death. To all such we
say this difficulty has been removed by
tiie action of tbe Convention iu October
last. In ail cases of death that have oc
curred since October, aui that may occur
thereafter, the money will be paid to the
widow, for the benefit of herself aud chil
dren, unless otherwise directed by wiU of
deceased.
SOUTHERN CROP PROSPECTS.
During tbe past week we have examin
ed a great number of reports received
from all parts of the cotton region. We
give below, tiie information derived from
them, and our friends can see what lias
beeu done up to this time. Supposing the
crop safely through tiie trying mouth of
August, and tiie at my worm did not
make its appearance, aud tiie frost should
he late, the freedmeti continue to work
well, and the picking season favorable,
there would still remain the very serious
question of the picking capacity of the
Bouth. There was sufficient inducement
last year to cause planters lo make every
effort to secure the crop, and the same
will be done this year. But witli tiie
present labor it would hardly be wise to
calculate upon any large increase over the
crops of the past two years.
Tiie weather throughout the cotton re
gion appears to have been very unfavor
able up to the last week in May. Heavy
and continuous rains fell in April and part
of May. which seriously retarded planting
operations. The wet weather continued
after the planting, and the nights were
unusually cold. The plant consequently
made hut little progress, aud the com
pla'uts of poor stands were universal.
After 25th May there was a decided
change. The days were hot aud the
uigiits warm with occasional showers, and
a great improvement took place iu tiie
young plant. Latterly tiie accounts have
been as good as could be desired, and the
stand is universally healthy aud vigorous,
but the plant is small. Tbe season aver
ages from two to three weeks behind last
year, which renders the plant more liable
to damage from worms, frost, &e.
In tbe Btates of North Carolina, Geor
gia and parts of Alabama, commercial
fertilizers have been geuerally and very
extensively used. In tiie other cotton
Btates, where the lauds are richer, we can
not see that aoy have been bought.
As tiie plauters generally ate this year
in much better circumstances financially,
there is to be noticed a decided improve
ment iu tbe stock and implements neces
sary to the successful cultivation of tbe
crop.
We find tbat many of the freedmen are
this year working hired lands, and tiiis is
of course included in tiie increased acre
age. It is well known that, while more
corn, peas, potatoes, etc , may be raised in
such cases, the yield of cotton per acre is
decidedly less than where tiie negro
works under white supervision.
North Carolina —About the same
acreage; less black and more white labor;
crop backward; stand small but healthy,
Bouth Carolina.—Ten percent, more
land planted; less labor; poor stand.
Georgia.—Ten per cent, more land
planted; five per cent, less labor; freed
men doing well; stand backward but
healthy.
Florida.— Fifteen per cent, more land
planted; same amount of labor; ciop
well worked and forward; some accounts
on the bottoms of caterpillar.
Alabama.— Ten per cent, more laud ;
a little less labor; overflow necessitated
replautiug. In the upper part of the State
crop very backward ; stands irregular.
Mississippi.— Ten to fifteen percent,
more laud planted; labor deficient; stands
irregular ; three weeks late.
Louisiana —Same acreage; laborers do
ing well, but less iu number; sugar culti
vation drawn off' many; crop backward;
moderate stands.
Arkansas— Bame acreage; crops very
backward; Jess labor and not so efficient.
Texas—Ten per cent, more land; crops
forward and well worked; same negro
labor; more white, all working well; same
reports of worms.
Tennessee—Twelve percent, more land;
stand unfavorable; more white labor, but
less black . Easton de Vo's. Circular.
No Danger of War.—Judge Wood
ward, of Pennsylvania, speaking recently
of the talk about a war with England,
said:
“Men who speak the English language
will never wage war any more as amoug
themselves. Insurrections and outbreaks,
no doubt, will occur uow and then, but
national wars among people of our lineage
and language are improbabilities of so
high a degree as to be practically impossi
ble.
“Such politicians as Sumner and Chan
dler will always be crying out for war,
just as ravens screech over battle fields for
carcasses on which to feed, out they rep
resent not the heart, or life, or sense of the
nation. And if every man of us should
determine to fight England, she wouldn’t
fight us. She would pay all the damages
of the Alabama and give us Canada to
boot, rather than have a year’s war with
us. We are iu the condition of two game
cocks, one of whom is afraid and the other
dares not, and therefore each wears his
gaflk and does his crowing without an en
counter, and it will be so to the end * * *
1 have no fears of war with England.”"
Asa striking evidence of the return of
the tobacco trade to New Orleans, we may
cite the recent cargo of over 1000 hogs
heads brought by the Robert E. Lee, and
the arrival yesterday morning of the
Richmond, with no less thau 1,213 hogs
heads. All the Western boats are bring
ing on their regular trips a proportionate
quuDtity of the staple.—A. O. Bulletin,
Honors at the University.—A cor
respondent at Athens, sends to the Con
stitutionalist the following list of the
young gentlemen who have taken the
honors iu the present graduating class:
First Honor—Willie Bean, Moses Guyton
and W. R. Hammond. Hecoad Honor—
H. B. Van Epps. Third Honor—J as,
White.
GEORGIA JOURNAL AND MESSENGER.
Passenger Fares on the Pacific
Railroad.—The California papers of
June 17, just received, contain the latest
revision of passenger fares on the Pacific
Railroad. Tiie charges are as follows:
From San Francisco to Promontory, SSO
in gold; from San Francisco to Omaha,
$133; to Bt. Louis or Chicago, $153; to
Cincinnati, $106.50; to Niagara Falls,
$l7O 50; to New York, $173; to Boston,
$170; ali the through rates payable in cur
rency. Children under twelve years of
age, half price; under five years, free.
One hundred pounds of baggage is allowed
free to each passenger. The schedule time
is: from San Francisco to Chicago, five
days, seven hours, t” Bt. Louis, five days,
five hours; to New York, seven days. A
correspondent of the New York Tribune,
who has recently passed over the Pacific
railway, gives eight days, two aud-a-half
hours, as the time required to pass from
New York to Ban Francisco, waiting five
hours at Chicago and ten hours at Pro
montory .QThe Central Pacific trains, it is
stated, coming East, pass over the road
eleven hours quicker than in going West.
The extra expenses for meals and sleeping
cars are from $5 to $0 a day. The meals,
until reaching Omaha, cost seventy-five
cents each; from Omaha to Promontory,
sl, (gold;) from Promontory to Sacra
mento, sl, (gold.) The sleeping car
charges vary from fifty to seventy-five
cents. •
A gentleman, in noticing some in
stances in tiie education of children, said
he knew of a woman who used to tie her
boy to the bedpost on Buuday, while she
went to church, and made him learn the
hymn beginning, “Thine earthly Sab
baths, Lord, we love.”
For the Journal and Messenger.
How Turner Uaineto be Poulnianler.
Mr Editor: As the Postoffice in your city
seems to be the all absorbing topic of ihe day, 1
propose to give yon a few facts in regard to Turn
er's appointment. I obtained the information iu
Atlauta, from one high in authority among the
Radicals—and it may be relied on as strictly cor
rect. I give these items for two reasons : First as
a matter of history Secondly, that your readers
may sec the auituusof the party in power, and the
very little respect they have for any white man in
Maeon—whether Democrat or Radical.
Turner went to Washington in the interest of
Swayze, and was backed by Gov. Bullock, and his
influence. lie pressed his claims on two grounds :
First, because he was the only man who had edited
a strictly straight out Radical paper in Georgia,
Secondly, that if Swayze got the Postoffice it would
enable him to publish’ his paper daily, which was
very desirable for the interests of the party. Turn
er, it seems had not dreamed of getting the office
himself, up to this time. But circumstances alter
cases. Now we come to the point— how Turner got
the place.
The appointment of the negro Sims, to the
Postoffice at Savannah, and his subsequent ejection
to make room for a white man, created a terrible
stir in Yankee Doodledom —second only to that
caused by the turuing tiie negroes out of the Leg
islature. It was a gross piece of injustice to Sambo.
It was Gen. Grant and bis Cabinet, doing just what
the Legislature of Georgia had done, and for which
it was urged she ought to be reconstructed ; Sum
ner, Phillips, Beast Butler, et kl omne genus— ail
raised s howl. Tbe pressure was at once brought
to tieuron Gen. Grant and his Cabinet. They must
at once make an appointment to conciliate these
hosiers— these white skinned negro worshipers.
It was determined that a prominent appointment in
Georgia must be filled by a negro. The thought oc
curred to Creswell to put Turner iu tbe Postotllce
at Macon. Accordingly the appointment was
made—and all the efforts Unit could be made failed
to change the appoiu tux nt —and said my informant,
when I asked if there was noway to avert such an
outrage—“No, the C’abiuct have made the appoint
ment to conciliate the ultru-Kepublicaiis and ne
groes, and they will not go back on it”
Now, Mr. Editor, yon will see iu what estimate
white men iu tiie South are held at Washington.
Eveu white Republican- of the most loyal kind,
who have suffered terribly, (as they say,) for the
cause, are ignored, and a negro put in one of the
most prominent positions in the State.
Yon will observe from this statement that Tur
ner is not so much to blame as tiie wicked, plotting
scoundrels at the North, who are coustaully devis
iug means for our degradation, lie has only done
wliat almost any one would have done, accrjMed «
good J'at office. If lie is to blame at ail, it is lor at
tempting to fill an office for which lie is so utterly
incapable.
1 presume you will have trouble for a few weeks,
until somebody gets in who understands the ropes.
It is hard to advise what is best to be done. Ob *
thing is certain, the powers at Washington have no
sympathy for us, aud hence, however much trouble
we may have, they will not repent of their purpose.
Indeed, thev will rather enjoy our discomfiture,
and say we deserve it, because we arc rebels, and
set up ourselves as respectable people, and believe a
white man is as good as a negro. I believe they
would bear with Turner for six months, if neces
sary, and would be utterly deaf to all onr com
plaints of his incompetency.
Would it not be well, in view of all these facts,
to encourage some arrangement by wlWcb the com
munity can t>e served in the I’ostofflce—even with
Turner at the head of it. My word for it, this is
our only chance for escape. And while I feel us
great repugnance to Turner’s apiointment •« -ay
man on earth—yet I think we, as sensible men,
must not in a fight meet the fanatical crew
where the odd# are again-t us, and sacrifice
the commercial interests of our city, which are so
intimately connected with postal service. 1 give
no advice us to what course shall be pursued I
only suggest that it would be wise for Uie business
men of Macon to consider this question—which
means more than at first appears. What shall be
done to keep open channels of communication
with the world outside of Macon ? Bibb.
We expressed our opiuion ou the point sug
gested iu the last paragraph of “Bibb’s’’ commu
nication Saturday, uud if we said anything to-day
would only reiterate it witli added emphasis. We
shall be sorry, indeed, to see our people try to
escape by auy such road.
The Study of the Classics.
Henry Cockburti, in his memoirs of his own
times, very truly says of the study of Greek and
Latin : “There is no solid and graceful foundation
for boys’ minds like ‘classical’ learning grammati
cally expressed and acquired ; and all tbe modem
substitutes of what is called ‘useful knowledge’
breed little beyond conceit, vulgarity aitd general
ignorance. It is not the mere acquaintance with
two immortal languages that constitutes the value,
though the value of this is incalculable, but the
early discipline of the mind, by the necessary re
ception of precise rules, of which the use and the
reasonableness is in due time disclosed.” Tids
testimony of the learned Scotchman is valuable in
these days, when it is somewhat the fashion to
decry classical learning.
TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.
GENERAL NEWS.
Richmond, June 29. —Gen. Can by issued an or
der to-day, extending the Stay Law to January Ist,
1870, iu all eases where one year’s interest on the
debt is paid before August next, but allowing exe
cutions to be levied iu cases where such interest
is not paid.
A large Republican meeting in the Park this af
ternoon was addressed by Van Wyek, of New York,
Beers, of Montana, and others. Near tiie close of
tiie meeting a white Republican In the crowd dis
sented from one of the speakers, and the negroes,
thinking it was a Conservative, set on him and beat
him severely. The police rescued him.
Gilbert C. Walker, candidate for Governor, ar
rived to-night. He was serenaded by the Conserva
tives, and spoke in response.
Washington, June 29. —Revenue half a million.
The Secretary of War and of the Navy have placed
forces at the disposal of the Secretary of the Treas
ury to break up illicit distilleries.
The Government has now no war vessel In Cuban
waters.
New York, June 29.—Notwithstanding Marshal
Barlow’s denial, it is considered certain that the
fillibustorsgottosea, and that the Catharine which
the revenue cutters captured, was a decoy. Capt.
Hamilton's fifty men, recruited iu Hichmoud, went
with the expedition.
The Times has a long editorial, approving of Fed
eral non-interference in favor of either ticket in the
approaching elections in Virginia, Mississippi, aud
Texas
New York, June 30.—it is ascenameu,
tainly, that the Cuban expedition went to sea. Sa
t-11 Nre York, June 30.—The forger, Ketehum, is
before court on a writ of habeas corpus. Tiie plea
is, he was sentenced for a crime not charged iu the
indictment. His discharge on bail is probable.
A box containing six hundred thousand dollars
wortli of securities, stolen from the Ocean Bank,
has been found.
Charleston, June 30. —Accounts from all quar
ters represent the cotton crop, both uplands and
Sea Island, as extremely promising. The appre
hensions of the caterpillar for this season are now,
to a great extent, dissipated.
Weather intensely hot.
New Orleans, June3o. lnvestigations by Col
lector Casey, which have been in progress some
time, resulted in the seizure, last evening, of four
thousand four hundred and ninety boxes, one
thousand three hundred and eighty-seven hogs
heads, and seventy-nine tierces of sugar, belong
ing to tiie importing house of Auguste Canturie &
Cos., and placing under surveilauee theeutire stock
of imported sugar in bond in this city, amounting
to 17,060 boxes, 3,157 hogsheads, 133 tierces, and
259 barrels, all of which will be reweighed and re
classified before permitted to be withdrawn from
boud, with a view to the detection of further
frauds which may have been committed. The in
vestigations of tiie Revenue officers show that the
importers used false invoices; that the sugar was
classed too low, and weighers returned weights
almost invariably lower than even the false in
voices.
Implicated in these frauds are a number of
weighers, appraiseis, examiners and inspectors,
appointed by Collector Casey. It is supposed,
however, that similar frauds have been practiced
for a long period. Suspicion was aroused by a
diflerence in the weight of the packages, and the
difference in the quality of the sugars from the
same port—when Deputy Collector Herwig hud
prepared an abstract giving a complete history of
every package of sugar in bond, showing the uui
form difference in weight, amounting to two hun
dred and fifty pounds in each hogshead, and forty
five pounds in each box, on fraudulent invoice.
Several other importing houses are implicated, hut
uo further frauds are definitely fixed.
Washington, June 30. —Cox, Secretary of the
Interior, and Fisher, Commissioner of Patents,
are about resigning.
The Attorney General lias information of the
seizure of three steamers in New York harbor
loaded with tillibusters for Cuba.
Increase of the public debt for the month, about
nine millions.
Grant distributes the Georgetown College pre
miums. A son of Senator Mallory, of Florida,
wins the first prize.
Washington, July I.—The three Cuban crafta
i aptured ia New York liarbor eontaiued only one
hundred and fifty men. The main expedition Is
undoubtedly far out to sea. The police have ad
vices of the departure of a schooner with a lot of
horses aboard. The horses will probably perish
for want of the hay found aboard of the captured
vessel, Catharine Whiting.
Mr. Thornton, the British, and Mr. Roberta, the
Spanish Minister, have been in consultation.
Bauks, after consulting Cubaus, visited Grant
and Rawlins. Banks says tiie Cubans will obtain
early independence, and that the Government
would declare them belligerents before many
weeks, r
Yesterday's Express has the following regarding
the mon*y panic : “It has leaked out to day that
about the millions of greenbacks have beeu locked
up by parties manipulating the money market to
affect geuerally. The present distress in
too mmUfcmarket could never have been reached
at this season but for the remarkable assistance
from the Treasury Department. Wall street has
locked up five millions, aud Boutwell has locked
up nearly thirty millions.”
Debt statement showed a decrease of $16,350,000.
Total coin interest due to-day,thirty-one millions.
The Treasury received in the past forty-eight
hours six millions, which unexpectedly further
decreased the debt statement. Amount bearing
coin Interest, two thousand two hundred millions;
currency interest, sixty-six millions; no interest,
four hundred eighteen and a half millions; debt on
which interest ceased since maturity, five millions;
coin in Treasury, seventy-nine and three quarter
millions; coin certificates, thirty and a half mil
lions; currency, thirty-seven millions.
The Secretary of the Treasury directs the Assis
tant Treasurer at New York to putoliase not ex
ceeding three million dollars’ worth of bonds, on
Saturday next, to be held by tiie Treasury Depart
ment subject to future action of Congress.
Among the Cubans overhauled and captured are
parties bailed to keep the peace in sums aggrega
ting seventy five thousand dollars.
Col. Ryan and a large number of others are still
missing.
The papers convey the impression that the entire
recent Cutan expedition has failed. Among the
American officers captured were Colonels Byron
and Keats, Majors O'Leary and Courtenay, and
Captains T F. O’Neil, Win. H. Lindsey, Kearns,
Murphy, MeCue. Lindsey, Simonson, Dobbins,
Tom Masterton, Dixon, Hoar, and Harris, besides
several otters-all of whom had acquired a reputa
tion as brave officers in our late war.
The Revenue Cntter Mahoning, yesterday after
noon, captured the fillibuster tug-boat, Chase, with
seventy-five men aboard ; also the schooner Fancy
aud the Winona, with rifles, field pieces, sabres,
and ammunition. A1 i the vessels arc now at Brook
lyn Navy Yard.
New Orlxans, July I.—The Congressional Com
mittee of investigation into the conduct of the
November elections in this city and State, consist
ing of Stevenson, of Ohio, Burdett, of Mo., and
Kerr, of lud , will adjourn to day, the last witness
examined being Governor Warmouth. The Com
mittee have wen iu session continuously for two
months, silt.ng generally Beveu or eight hours
daily. The Committee has examined some five
hundred wit:.eases from every quarter of the State,
and concerning five contested election cases. The
most important part of the testimony relates to
disturbances n this city, and the parishes of Bt.
Landry, Hosier, aud Bt. Bernard Much of it re
lates to the secret order known as the Knights of
the White Canelia. The testimony covers some
ten thousand manuscript pages, equivalent to two
Uiousaud pril led pages.
Grrrrsßuict, July I.—There is an immense
crowd here. I'he ceremonies connected with the
establishment of the Soldiers’ National Cemetery,
and the dedication of tbe Soldiers’ Monument,
proceeded to uny according to programme.
Washington Jniy 2.—The Cubans here have
the following advices : “After the Spaniards were
repulsed In the Cinco Villas district, they were
reinforced by two thousand troops, making the
Spauish forces double toe Cuban forces, aud com
pelling the Cu>aus to retreat. Eighty five Cubans,
iududing several Americans, were captured, whom
Lesca shot. Nearly ail the large plantations in
the Cinco Villa* district have been destroyed. It
is stated that tae Cubans are concentrating to fight
Lesca, and news of a decisive battle is daily ex
pected. The Cubans are uneasy at not hearing
from Jordan.”-,
Revenue, to-jfay, $1,350,000.
The Brazilian Minister has received dispatches,
announcing that Lopez has proposed, through
McMahon, to surrender his army on a guarantee of
personal,safety)
Delano left t<J-aay, and will he absent ten days.
Johnson has departed homeward, and will can
vas* in support f>f tseuter.
Two buudreduiore of the Cuban expedition hare
been captured.
Nothing heard of Col. Ryan.
The Herald (As at last the finale of the great
Cuban flUibuatcfmg expedition baa t>een reached,
and ita failure teas absolute as its results are disae
trious
Richmond, July 2.— The colored Conservative
barbecue, which, was ended by the accident, was
attended by al>4ut 300 colored men and a large
number of whit 4
A large crowd had congregated at the gate of the
bridge leading Y> the Island, being kept off the
bridge by the pojee. Col. Branch, managing the
affair, while staiilng on tiie bridge, directed the
police to admit the crowd, which being done, toe
wi-ight broke the structure, precipitating a number
iuto the water, where Col. Branch, Policeman
Kirkham and Robert Ashley were caught iu tailing
timbers aud killed. Seven more were wounded,
two of which will die.
Col. Branch’s body was followed to his residence
by a procession of prominent citizeus, aud the po
lice, in a body, escorted Kirktiam’s remains home.
Col. Branch was one of the first business meu of
the city.
A barbecue given to the Walker colored men
took place to-day on Vauxball'a Island, adjoining
toe citv. About three o'clock the chain bridge
uaum'o tj-u ontmi was so crowde,d that it broke,
carrying down about sixty persons.
Col James It. Branch, a prominent broker, ami
the Conservative candidate for the Senate, was in
stantly killed, as also was policeman Kirkham,
who was striving to prevent toe crowd from rush
ing on the bridge, sfcven colored meu are fatally
wounded.
Gettysburg, July 2.—Meade, in his speech,
urge# decent buri.J for tbe Confederate dead.
Senator Morton, the orator of the day, in speak
ing of Cuba, says “She i» making a bold, vigor
ous, aud, as we trust, a successful effort to throw
ofl tbe Spanish yoke aud establish her independ
ence.” tie also said : “Iu the fields before us are
tbe graves of toe rebel dead, now sunk to tiie level
of the plain, unmarked, uuhonored, and unknown.
They were our countrymen, of onr blood, lan
guage aud history. They displayed a courate
worthy of tiieir country aud of a hotter cause, and
we may drop a tear to tiieir memory. The news of
this fatal field carried atony to thousands of South
ern homes, and the wail of despair was heard in
the everglades and orange groves of the South.”
New York, July 3 —The Cuban prisoners trims
ferred to the Catharine Whiting arc expected to be
released this evening. Che majority are Cubans.
Bcuor Alfero and Dr. Bossora have been lodged iu
Ludlow street jail, it is thought Ryan and his
men were prisoners, as the Revenue Cutter has
been sent to Gardner’s Island with a fully armed
crew and posse. The Marshal’s reiiort says they
quarrelled among themselves, aud three were
killed aud several wounded iu the free fight yes
terday.
St. Loris, iuiy 3.—The lionds of tills county
have been protested In New York for non payment
iu gold. The county had plenty of currency, hut
holders declined.
No flood West or North of Sioux City, but below
Council Bluff the damage is very great. Tiie loss
of life is very great. The Captain of tiie steamer
Mountaineer saw twenty-seven liodies taken from
a creek below Council Bluff.
The Indians are dissatisfied, and say they don’t
understand or like the Quakers.
Indian outrages have been resumed at Grand
River, they having no provisions, and having been
repeatedly deceived, are firing into steamboats,
driving off stock, aud threatening death to all
whites.
A fearful storm passed over Cliutou county,
lowa, to-day. Several lives lost
The Kamils papers say a colony of Swedes, en
camped on the Kaw River, rn route for the ba
settlement, .were engulfed and about twenty-three
drowned.
New York, July 3.—George Peabody has given
another milliou dollars, iu bonds, for Southern
education. Among the bonds are $19,000 Louis
iana 6’s; SIO,OOO New Orleans City 6s; $35,000
Mobile Citv 5 per cents; $79,000 Alabama SV,
$69,000 Louisiana Consolidated Bank s’s. All se
curities of first class dividends, aud certain to be
paid.
In addition, he gives Florida six per cent bonds,
which, with overdue coupons, amount to about
$384,000. These last, like Mississippi bonds, will
require many years for payment
New Orleans, July 3.—Enough of the seized
sugars have been reweighed to prove fraud beyond
doubt.
San Francisco, July B.—Seward was enthusias
tically received.
'l 1... ...rial ttSamor Avitnr made n aiipepaafnl trip.
The steamer rose seventy-five feet and the ma
chinery worked well, propelling the vessel with
considerable speed. A public trial trip occurs to
morrow.
Wells, Fargo & Cos., have shipped a million and
a half overland since the opening of toe Pacific
Railroad. _
Washington, July 3.—The Lighthouse Board
has information that a wreck, bottom up, lies in
main ship channel to Key West, near west trian
gle bay. Vessels entering during the night should
be careful to avoid the wreck.
The State Department lias advices that among
articles admitted duty free iu Great Britain are
wheat, barley, oats, rye flour, biscuit and bread,
flour, peas, beans, potatoes, Indian corn, and
meals and flours.
There is tiie best authority for stating that do
present Cabinet changes are contemplated.
Bismarck refuses to recognize E. Iloechester, of
Chicago, appointed Consul to Bremen.
The question whether the members of the Vir
ginia Assembly must take tiie iron-clad, has been
brought to the attention of the President; but it is
too late to make changes iu the Virginia canvass,
even should the President sustain Canby’s views.
The matter will be submitted to Hoar, before the
meeting of the Assembly, and the decision will es
tablish a uniform rule for Virginia, Mississippi and
Texas.
It is certaiu that the President lias no present
intention of molesting Georgia as a State in the
Union, nor has he asked Hoar’s opinion regarding
tier political condition.
Grant, in an interview with Clift, Edwards, and
other Georgians, said that, having made the ap
pointments for the Augusta and Macon Postoflices,
he was indisjfbsed to change them until the incum
bents proved incompetent. During this interview,
Grant gave no indication that lie was considering
the political status of Georgia.
Fortress Monroe, July 4. —The assistant sur
geon and one of the crew of Le Cureux died of
fever.
Richmond, July s.—The funeral of Col. Jas. R.
Branch took place this afternoon, attended by a
large concourse of citizens. Some alarm was
created at the church where the pressure of the
immense crowd caused the vestibule floor to sink,
but uo one was hurt.
Two companies of troops are ordered from
Fortress Monroe to be here on election day.
FOREIGN.
Havana, June 29.—The Insurgents captured the
garrison at Sabana Nueva, near Puerto Principe.
Brest, June 29.—The Great Eastern is progress
ing finely.
Paris, June 29 —J. Q. Warren, an American
citizen, has entered a formal complaint for arrest
and cruel treatment during the recent election
riots, and demands damages, through Washburne.
Havana, June 29.-DeKodas has quietly issued
his manifesto. He states his policy to be embraced
in three words: “Spain, Justice, Morality.” He
tells the volunteers they might be proud of their
past actions.
San Francisco, June 29—A rich silver mine haa
been discovered near the proposed line of the
Southern Pacific Railroad.
Havana, June 30.—DeRoda says he counts on
fifty thousand volunteers to put down the rebellion.
Fortress Monro* , July 2.—The French Cor
vette Curieux, has arrived from Martinque, with
eighteen eases of vomito and four deaths. The
Captain, first officer and Surgeon are dead, and toe
Assistant Surgeon is dying.
Brest, June 30. —This morning at 9 o’clock,
Greenwich time, the Great Eastern telegraphed to
us: “We are going to cut the cable and buoy it.”
No signal has been received since. The first sign
of something wrong in the electrical condition of
the cable occurred this morning, but nothing of
definite character. The electricians see no reason
for alarm. The delav is only an inconvenience.
Madrid, July I.— The Cortez rejected the bill to
increase the duty on cereals.
London, July 2.—Advices from the coast of
Africa report the arrival, at Fernando Po, of two
hundred and fifty political prisoners from Havana.
The Disestablishment bill is progressing through
the Lords. The Ministry promises to insert a
clause whereby the Irish Bishops retain their seats
in the Lords.
Madrid, July 2. —The Cortes passed a revenue
budget, and authorized the Government to expend
sums necessary.
Paris, July 2.—The Third Party in the Corps
Legislatif proposes measures granting the people
a more intimate association with the direction of
affairs.
Brest, July 2.—No communication with the
Great Eastern since Wednesday.
Madrid, July 2.—The contemplated changes in
the Ministry have been postponed until tbe budget
of expenditures now before tbe Cortez, is adopted.
Havana, July 2. —Rodas, in a public speech to
day, advised the journalists to show more modera
tion, and endeavor to conciliate all classes, and to
cease publishing incendiary articles, especially re
garding ladies.
The Catalan volunteers, guarding the Neuvitas
railroad, mutinied, and their Colonel was arrested
by Letoria. The Puerto Principe volunteers
marched on Puerto Principe, rescued their Colonel,
and imprisoned Letoria, who will probably be
shot.
New York, July 2. —Puerto Principe advices of
U»e ‘22d report tbe condition of tbe Spanish troops
dreadful. Tbe hospitals are full, and there are
ten deaths daily.
.A foraging party, one hundred and fifty strong,
was driven into the city, forty of whom went Into
the hospital.
The Cubans captured one hundred regulars at
the first station from Principe.
One regimeut of volunteers has two hundred
sick. Quesada is in the vicinity. The Spaniards
attribute his successes to the acquisition of fllli
busters, and state that forty thousand more troops
are necessary. The Spanish garrison is disheart
ened.
Ddblin, July 3.—The Orange demonstration
concerning the question of Disestablishment re
sulted in a riot at Portadown. Tlie police fired,
killing one, wounding one.
Madrid, July 3.—The Republican Junta at New
Castile has issued a manifesto against the reaction
ary policy of the Ministry, and recommending re
organization ; also, asserting the right of insur
rection. .
Carlist demonstrations arc reported in the pro
vinces.
London, July 3.—Carlist risings are reported iu
Spain. The streets of Vittoria are filled with a
revolutionary mob armed with scythes and re
volvers, shouting for Don Carlos and Cabrera.
They murdered the alcalde aud wouuded thirty
citizens. Similar risings are reported at Carta
gena and Valencia. Troops have been despatched
ter suppress them.
Cubans in Washington have account* of recent
attempt to relieve Los Tunis. The train, guarded
by from fifteen to twenty-five hundred, was at
tacked by a squadron of Marmol’s cavalry, aud a
large portion of the train captured. In the contest
the Spaniards lost over two hundred, bat succeeded
in reaching Los Tunis with fourteen hundred, and
found the garrisou almost helpless from cholera
and fever. The disease »oon attacked the rein
forcements and the encampment was evacuated,
and after severe loss, they succeeded iu retreating.
Lesca has been repulsed with severe loss, in the
Ciuco Villa District The District has been re
gained by tbe Cuban army. (Juesada has com
menced offensive movement* and has regained
several important positions, and is master of tbe
Northwestern portion of the island.
Tbe immigrants, now numbering seven thousand,
are acting earnestly with the Cubans. The dis
patches state that the Cubans are well organized,
and armed with approved weapons, are well pro
visioned and in good spirit*.
HofTs report savs Havana is quiet. A brigade
sent to reinforce Puerto Padre, returned in a pitia
ble condition and full of cholera. They succeeded
In reaching Los Tunis, but were harrassed and
finally attacked; but repulsed tbe Cubans. The
Spanish lost in battle was seventy-six. Tbe Insur
gent* behaved bravely and retired in order.
It is re|s>rtod that the Spaniards intend abandon
ing the railroad between Neuvitas and Principe.
Brest, July 3.—Communication with the Great
Eastern was re established at uoon, yesterday. The
cable was cut a* a matter of precaution during a
gale.
FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL
Weekly Review of the Maeoo Market.
Monday Evening, July 6, 1869.
Cotton —There has been very little done the
past week. The sales for the w eek amount to 100
bales; receipts, r>4 bales; shipment*, 154 tales.
There is no demand, and but little Cottou offer
ing. We quote Middlings 31c.
The receipt* to-day umount to 1 bale; ship
ments, 73 bales; no sales.
macon cotton statement.
Stock September 1, 1858 1 1,328
Received this week 54
Received previously :.... 58,384 —58,418
Total 59,744
Shipped this week 154
Shipped previously 59,102 —59,250
Stock on hand 488
Financial.—There is but little doing in Securi
ties, at quotations as given below :
We quote Gold and Silver as follows:
GOLD AND SILVER.
Buying rates lor Gold $1 35
Selling 1 38
Buying rates for Silver 1 25
Selling I 30
UNITED STATES CURRENCY LOANS.
Per month . IX to 2% per cent
EXCHANGE ON NEW YORK.
Buying par@%prem.
BeUing % prern.
RAILROAD STOCKS AND BONDS.
Central Railroad Stock 120
Central Rail read Bonds 103
Macou ifc Western R. R. Stock 138
Southwestern R. R. Bonds 101
Southwestern Kuilroad Stock 104@105
Macon At Brunswick Railroad Stock 35
Macon is Brunswick R. R. End’d Bonds 'AO
Georgia Railroad Stock 105
Georgia Railroad Bonds 102
Atlantic At Gulf Railroad Stock 30
Augusta Ac Wayi usboro Railroad Stock 95
Macon City Bonds 75(0)78
Macon City Bones, Endorsed 100
South Carolina Railroad Stock 50
Cotton States Life Insurance Company 105
Tobacco.—There is but little doing. We note
an advance in prices for nearly all grades.
Damaged 50
Low Grades 55
Common, sound 00
Good 65
Mediums 70
Good Mediums 75
Fine S5
Extra Fine I '-25
Strictly Fine 1 50
Meat and Provisions.—Market firm.
Mess Fork.. $37 50(2:38 00
Prime Mess 33 00(231 00
Rumps 30 00(2)31 50
Hams, (plain) 20
Hams, (eanvased) 21 @23
Clear Sides, (smoked) 19%@20
Clear Ribbed, (smoked) 10)i@19)£
Bulk C. li. Sides 18X
Bulk Clear Sides 19
Long Clear Sides 19
Bellies, (dry salted) 18%@19
Shoulders, (smoked) 16@lti^
Shoulders, (dry 6alted) 15
Lard—ln fair supply at 21@22 cents.
Bagging.—No sales. We quote:
Borneo Bagging, $ yard 30
Kentucky, $1 yard 28
Richardson’s Greenleaf, ‘ft yard 28
Gunny Bagging, f) yard 28<2!28.V£
Gunny Bagging, rolls, perfect 28@28 1 -£
Guunv, rolls, patched 26
Rope.—Greenlears Rope, half coils, 11c; whole
coils, 10 cents $ pound; other brands, B@lo cents;
Cotton Rope, 50c. No sales.
Oats. —We quote Oats, $1.20 bushel.
Cokn—ls selling at 1.25 bushel, from store.
Retailing at 1.30. Very firm.
Flour.—Stocks large. We quote at wholesale ;
Superfine, ?.50@8.00 $ barrel; 9.50@10.C0 for
Family. In barrels, we quote choiee Western
brands : Extra Family, 10.50@ 11.50; Hiram Smith,
13.00; Cream of the South, 13.00.
Sugar —A, 17)<e; C, 15X; Extra C, IGX@I7;
Crushed, Powdered, 19>£; Fellow, 14@15e
pound.
Molasses. —60@65c; Choice Syrups, 80@90c f)
gallon, by the barrel. Stock small—prices ad
vancing.
Coffee. —Rio, 20@2R cents f) pound; Java, 40@
45 ceuts. Coffee has advanced about 2c on quota
tions current some weeks ago.
Salt. —Liverpool, 2.75; Virginia, 2.50 $ sack.
Whisky.—There is a good demand for Whisky.
We quote: Common, 1.10@1.25; Rye, 1.25@3.50;
Bourbon, 1.25@3.50 'll gallon.
Gin.—2.50@3.50 f1 gallon.
Ale.—lmported, 3.25; American, 2.00@2.50 $
dozen.
Domestics. —3—4,12%c; 7-8 Shirting, 13@14; 4-4
Shirting, 15@15>tfc.
Drilling.--Heavy brown, 18@20c; heavy Geor
gia Stripes, 18@21.
Osnahurgs.—No. 1, 8 oz., 23@25c; No. 2, 7 oz.,
19@21; Richmond, 19; Milledgeville, No. 1, 22;
Flint River, No. 1,24 c.
Kentucky Jeans.—We quote the best Kentucky
Jeans, 50@65c $ yard. Kentucky Linsey, 50e.
8h alley.—Cuthbert, 30c.
Twine—2sc $ pound, wholesale; 35c in small
quantities.
Nails—6.2s@6 50 f keg.
Hides. —Dry Flint, 18@19c.
Wool.—Bur, 20@25 cents; Clean, 30@33 ets $
pound.
Guano. —Kettle well’s AA, 85.00 $ ton; Whann’s
Rawbone Superphosphate, 70.00 $ ton; Gustin’s
Rawbone Superphosphate, 65 f) ton.
country produce—retail prices.
Butter —Choice, 40c $ pound; Tennessee, 40c
» pound; Goshen, 60c $ pound.
Egos—2sc $ dozen.
Chickens— Spring Chickens, 30@40c, Hens, 50c.
Turkeys—s2.oo@3.oo apiece.
Potatoes.—lrish, new, $1.50@2.00 $ bushel.
Chickens and Butter plentiful. Eggs scarce.
MARKETS BY TELEGRAPH.
Liverpool Cotton Market.
Liverpool, July S—Noon.—Cotton market
a shade firmer, with uplands at 12%d; Orleans,
12%d. Sales, 15,000 bales.
Afternoon—Cotton market continues active,
with uplands at 12X<L Orleans, 12% and.
New York Cotton Market.
New York, July 3—Noon.—Cotton market
quiet, with middlings at 34Xc.
Eveuing—Cotton market closed quiet, with mid
dlings at S4X- Sales, 9.0 bales.
Foreign Markets.
Liverpool, July 3—Noon.—Breadstuff* firm.
Afternoou—Provisions dull.
Havre, July 3.—Cotton market opens active,
both on the spot and afloat.
London, July 3—Noon.—Consols, 92%. Bonds,
me
Tallow, 44s GU. Fine Rosin, 14s fid.
Domestic Markets.
New York. July 3—Noon.—Flour dull. Wheat
scarcely so firm. Corn unchanged. Mess Pork
dull at 31.75@31.87X- Lard dull.
Turpentine dull at 42@42%- Rosin dull;
strained common, 2.25; good, 2.30. Freights quiet.
Money active at 7 per cent., with X com
mission. Sterling, 9%. Gold, 37. Stocks firm
but feverish. f)2’s, 21%. North Carolina*, 57%
asked; new, 50%. Tennessees, 61%; new > 55%.
Louisiana*, old, 68. Levees, 66%.
Evening—Flour steady. Wheat l@2c lower.
Corn closed quiet. Mess firmer at 32.50. Lard
lower; kettle, 19@19%. Groceries dulL
Nuval Stores quiet. Freight* a shade firmer.
Money a shade easier at 7 per cent. Gold heavy
at 36%. Southern securities generally dull. North
Carolina*, new, declined to 49%. Georgia o’s, 84;
Ts, 92@93. Bonds higher towards the close. A
heavy treasury purchase cleared the market 62's,
21%@22%.
Baltimore, July 3 —Cotton market firm, with
middlings at 34c.
Flour dull and inactive. Wheat weaker; prime
to red, 1.55(31.80; white, 1.60@1.80. Corn dull;
white, 95@98; yellow, 92. Oats firmer at 70@73.
Mess Pork quiet at 34.00. Bacon—shoulders, 15e.
Lard, 20c.
VirgiuiaG’s, old, 50 bid. North Carolinas, old,
50% hid.
Savannah, July 3.—Cotton market quiet but
firm, with middlings at 32%c. Sales nominal. Re
ceipts, 17 bales. Exports, 2167 bales.
Augusta. July 3.—Cotton tmarket stiff, with
middlings at 32%c. No sales. Receipt*, 28 bales.
Charleston, July 3.—Cotton market quiet but
firm, with middling* at 33c. Sales, 70 bales. Re
ceipt*, 147 bales. Ex-port* coastw ise, 253 bales.
Cincinnati, July 3.—Mess Pork, 33.25. Ba
con dull; shoulders, 14%; clear sides, 18. Lard, 19.
St. Louis, July 3. —Mess Pork 32.25(333.75.
Bacon quiet; shoulders, 13%@14%; clear sides,
lb%. Lard, 19.
New Orleans, July 3. — Cotton market stiffer,
with middlings at 32%@33c. Sales, 154 tales. Re
ceipts, 194 tales.
Gold, 37%. Sterling, SIX- New York Sight, X
premium.
Flour—superfine, 5.75; XX, 6.20; XXX, 6.35.
Cosm —white, 1.00. Oats, 72@73. Bran, 1.05.
Hay—prime, 27.00. Mess Pork dull at 34.75. Ba
con retailing—shoulders, 14%; clear rib side*.
18%; clear sides, 18%. Lard—tierce, 19%@20%.
keg, 21 @22. Sugar dull; fair, 9%@10; prime;
13. Molasses nominal; fermenting prime, Go@64,
Coffee—fair, 14%@15%.
Mobile, J uiy 3.— Cottou market quiet but firm,
with low middlings at 31c. Sales, 100 tales. Re
ceipts, 44 Bales.
CONCLUSIVE EVIDENCE IN FAVOR OF
HOSTETTKR’S STOMACH BITTERS.
W. H. Reese, a leading drnggist In Monticello,
11)., In a letter of June 6, 1888, write* to this ef
fect: “Having sold Hostetler’s Bitters for the
past four years, I cannot but speak of tbe article
as being the best tonic and appetizer extant.
Daring the ague season of 1*65—0,1 could not keep
a sufficient stock on hand to supply my custom
ers. In fact your Bitters was as staple as quinine.
I learn that physicians prescribe it all over the
Western country. Indeed, a great many families
think they are not safe without /our Invaluable
tonic.”
J. K. Witherspoon, Esq., a magistrate of Ker
shaw county, 8. C-, states, under date April 13
1808, that he has used the Bitters constantly In
his own tamlly for the previous two years. He
first tried the preparation when suffering from
exhaustion produced by a severe attack of fever.
Before the first bottle was finished he experi
enced a remarkable change fjr the better. He
had tried brandy at the outset, but found that
did him more harm than good. In one month
Irotn the time he commenced using the bitters
hi* health, strength and appetite were restored.
He had recommended the article to others in
like circumstances, and never known it to fail,
and had found it a perfect specific for chills and
fever.
Mr. Samuel Young, of Clarion, Pa., under date
April 8, 1868, certifies that he was completely
cured of “one of the most distressing attacks of
dyspepsia that ever afflicted any mortal,” by
three bottles of Bitters, after “various other rem
edies had proved powerless.” Restored lo per
fect health, he thanks “that excellent prepara
tion tor the result.”
Dr. G. M. Spencer, of Brush Creek, Perry Cos.,
Aia., writing thence Feb. 8,1868, says: “I have
used your Stomach Eit:ers for several years In
my practice, and find them superior to most of
tbe Billers now prescribed by the profession gen»
eraily.”
HALF WAY UP LOOKOUT MOUNTAIN,
The place where memory is stirred by a thousand
thrilling associations, and where the brave boys
of both armies met and fought hand to hand,
where the blood of both friend and foe was
mingled together and ran down the mountain
side in rivulets, is a smooth-faced rock, upon
which a poor wounded soldier inscribed tbe lol
lowing:
•*S. T.—iß6o—X,—Early in the battle I was
wouuded, and carried to this spot by two clever
•Yanks.’ They bade me farewell, and as they
supposed, to die. for I was so weak from loss of
blood that 1 could but faintly thank them for
their kindness. They left in my canteen a part
brittle of Plantation Bittkrs, lo which 1 owe
my l ife, for it strengthened me, and kept life
within me until help came aud my wound was
dressed. God bless them for their kindness, and
for the Plantation Bitter*.”
Henry Davagkl,
Company B, loth Ga.
MAGNOLIA WATER—Superior to the best
imported German Cologne, and sold at half the
price.
In Germany' they treat a patiet with liver dis
ease regularly, as though he was violently ill, for
six months, he Is then turned over to the cook
with a digestion that is perfect. In this country,
how many suffer from year to year, taking a lit
tle blue pill to poison the system now and then,
butgoing on paying no attention to the disease,
until they don’t know what it is to be well, be
coming a burden to themselves and a trouble to
all around them. Take Simmons’ Liver Regula
tor regularly, enjoy health yourself, and give
gratification to those about you.
The wonderful properties of the PYRAFUGE
s showing itself daily in the blooming cheeks o
our former emaciated citizens, all of whom de
clare that until tney tried this great chill and
fever expeller, they knew not what it was to be
clear, even fora few dais, of the scourge of our
Southern country; but thanks to science and our
enterprising townsman, we need no longer fear
this great scourge, and we can now go on our
way rejoicing that at last a conqueror is at our
hauds which will instantly expel from our sys
tem chills and fever, dumb ague, and those dis
eases incidental to malarious climates. Keep a
bottle of the Pyrafuge In the house, and as soon
as the chill or fever is felt, commence taking it,
and at once you are really making a lasting and
permanent cure. apls-ct
McKesson <fc Robbius, New York, Wholesale
Agents for Pyrafuge and Oil ol Liie. aplti-ct
b eautifoxTwom AN.
If you would he beautiful, use Hagan’s Mag
nolia Balm.
stores Youthful Beauty.
Its effects are gradual, natural and perfect.
It removes Redness, Blotches and Pimples ;
cures Tan, Sunburn and Freckles, and makes a
Lady of thirty appear but twenty.
The Magnolia Balm makes the Skin Smooth
and Pearly; the Eye bright and clear; the Cheek
glow with the bloom of youth, and imparts a
fresh, plump appearance to the Countenance.
No lady need complain of her Complexion, when
Seventy-five Cents will purchase this delightful
article.
The belt article to dress the Hair Is Lyon's
Kathairon. JuneU-dAweodlm.
During the epidemic of lntermittents in the
West this season, the whole immence stock of
Ayer’s Ague Cuie became exhausted, and the
producing power of his Lal»oratory was found
inadequate to meet the demand. Many who
knew its extraordinary virtues for the cure of
Chills ami Fever, paid exorbitant prices for it to
those who were fortunate enough to have a sup
ply ou hand. Some ol our neighbors paid ten
dollars for a bottle, while the regular price is
but one. and assure us it was on the whole the
cheapest remedy they could buy, even at that
figure. They praise it for two qualities: first,
that it cures ; and last, that it leaves the health
unimpaired. —lowa Standard.
J ulyl-d<*wlt
PLANTERS
AND
COTTON DEALERS:
WE again tender you our services as Cotton
Factors anil Commission Merchants, at our
old stand on Third Street, and pledge ourselves
to conduct strictly a COMMISSION BUSINESS,
and shall give special care aud attention to all
business entrusted to us.
We return our sincere thanks to our old pa
trons for past favors, and solicit a continuance
of the same, aud would request Planters gener
ally to give us a trial, as we make the sale of Col
ton a specialty.
Shall be prepared to render the usual accom
modation.
JONATHAN COLLINS & SON.
COTTON FACTORS,
MACON, UA
julys-dAw3m-ct
EXTRA SPECIAL XOTICE.
Beware of Counterfeits! Smith’s Tonic Syrup
has been counterfeited, and the counterfeiter
brought to grief.
SMITH S TONIC SYRUP.
The genuine article must have Dr. John Ball's
private stamp on each bottle. Dr. John Bull
only has the right to manufacture and sell the
original John Smith’s Tonic Syrup, of Ixiuisvllle,
Ky. Examine welt the label on each bottle. It
my private stamp is not on the bottle, do not
purchase, or you will be deceived. See my col
umn advertisement and my showcard. I will
prosecute any one infringing on my right. Tbe
genuine Smith's Tonic Syrup can only be pre
pared by myself.
The public's servant,
Louisville, Ky. Dr. JOHN BULL.
For sale by
L W. HUNT A CO.
If you gaffer with ninou* complaints and want
a mild purgative, take Kay ton’s Pills.
KAYTON’S OIL OK LIFE-Cures headache
and toothache In halt a minute.
KAYTON’S OIL OF LIFEAND PILLS—For
sale wholesale and retail, in Macon, at J. H.
Zeilln * Co,’s, Massenbnrg, Son A Harris', aud
L. W. Hunt A Co.’s, and by druggists generally
KAYTON’S PILLS—Cure dyspepsia and live
omplaint.
KAYTON’S OIL OF LIFE AND TILLS—For
sale by druggists and country storekeepers gen
erally.
KAYTON’S OIL OF LlFE—Cures ground Itch
wellings. Insect stings and biles.
KAYTON'S OIL OF LIFE-Cnre sail pains and
aches.
Superior French Blacking—L. W. Hunt A Cos.
KAYTON’E OIL OK LlFE—Cure* corns
bnnions.
We have seen Darby's Prophylactic Fluid
very successfully applied to the treatment of
chronic sores
GEORGIA - TELFAIR COUNTY.” Rebecca
Parker has applied to me for Exemption of
Homestead; and I writ pass upon the same on
the 23d of July, at 10 o'clock, a. M,,at my office iu
Jacksonville. This, July 2d. Inki.
W. P. CAMPBELL, O. T. C.
julys-2t
O'! 150 RGI A—HOUSTON COUNTY.—Edward 1..
J Felder, administrator of Dr. Edmund J.
McQehee, deceased, having made application for
leave to sell the lands of his said Intestate ; Th -
Is, therefore.to cite all persons interested, kin
dred and creditors, to show cause on or before
the first Monday in August next, why said leave
Bhonld not be granted.
W. T. SWIFT,
juiyS-td Ordinary.
Immmmmmmmmmt ;he mpt< u
I plaint are uneasiness and
SlilMlf\.V I pain In the side. Sometime-;
■ the pKln i8 jn the shoulder,
and Is mistaken for rheuma
■ tism. TheMomaoh is atf>
ed with loss of appetite and sickness, bowels In
general costive, sometimes alternating with lax.
The bead is troubled with pain, and doll, heavy
sensatton. considerable loss of memory. acc<m-
MMHHSHSB pan led with painful srnta
| ______ I tion of having left undoes
I LIVER I something which ought to
I * aja*. ■ have been done. Often com
plaining of weakness, debtli
ty, and low spirits. Some
times some of the above symptoms attend the
disease, and at other times very few of them,
but the Liver is generally the organ most In
volved. Cure the Liver with
DR. SIMMONS’
LIVER REGULATOR
A preparation of roots and herbs, warranted to
be strictly vegetable, and can do no injury to
any one.
It has been used by hundreds, and known for
the last thirty-five years as one of the most reli
able, efficacious aud harmless preparations ever
offered to the suffering. If taken regularly and
persistently, ft Is snre to cure
Dyspepsia, teadac- e
• I dice, costiveness, sick head-
Rforillafor I aehe.chronicdiarrhma, afifec
’ I tious of the bladder, camp
dysentery, affections of the
kidreys, fever, nervousness,
chills, diseases of the skin, impurity of tbe blood,
melancholy, or depression of spirits, heartburn,
colic, or pains in tbe bowels, pain in the head,
lever and ague, dropsy, bolts, pain in back and
limbs, tslhma, erysipelas, female affections, and
bilious diseases generally.
Prepared only by
J. H. ZEILIN A CO.,
Druggist*, Macon, Ga.
Price $1; by mail *1 25.
The following highly respectable persons can
fully attest to the virtues of this valuable medi
cine, and to whom we most respectfully refer :
General W 8. Holt. President H. W. R. R. Cos ;
Rev. J. R. Felder, Perry, Ga.; Col. E. K Sparks,
Albany, Ga - George J. Lunsford, Esq , Conduc
tor 8. W. R. R.; C. Masterson, Esq., >tertff Bibb
County; J. A. Butts. Bainbrldge. Ga.; Dykes A
Hparhawk, Editors Floridian. Tallahassee; Rev.
J. W. Burke, Macou, Ga.; Virgil PoWers, Esq ,
Superintendents. W. R. R.; Daniel Bullard,
Bullard’s Station. M. and B. R. R.. Twiggs Cos..
Ga.; Grenville Wood, Wood’s Factory, Macon,
Ga.; Rev. E. F. Easterling, P. E. Florida Confer
ence; Major A. F. Wooiey, Kingston, Ga.; Editor
Macon Telegraph.
For sale by all Druggist*. jnnel-wtl
DR. POR TE It
QN ACCOUNT OF THE WEATHER BEING
SO EXCEEDINGLY WARM, has deemed it ad
visable to make some alterations in regard to
his ronte on this trip, and has concluded not to
visit either Eufaula or Huntsvllle.bat only the
following places previous to his returning North :
Columbus, Ceorgia,
FROM WEDNESDAY MORNING, JULY 11th,
TO THURSDAY NIGHT, JULY 22d, 1869.
Montgomery, Ala.,
FROM SATURDAY MORNING, JULY 24th,
TO THURSDAY NIGHT, AUGUST sth, 1869.
Selma, Alabama,
FROM SATURDAY MORNING, AUGUST ~th,
TO MONDAY NIGHT, AUGUST, lUTH, 1869.
june3o-d2fdtw2t
THE BISHOP PILL!
THE BISHOP PILL!
THE BISHOP PILL!
A Purely Vegetable Pill (Sugar Coated).
“COSTAR’S” BISHOP PILL,
“ Isot extraordinary efficacy tor Costfveness, Indi
gestion, Dyspepsia, Headache, Nervous Debility,
Liver Complaint.’’ “The best Pill in the
World.” [Medical Journal, Sept.
TRY THEM!
TRY THEM!
(All Druggists in Macon sell them.
•’! OH ! !MY ! I can’t stand it; hut
he did, for he sent right ofl and got a box ol
COSTAR’S CORN SOLVENT!
"And It cured him.
Thousands of boxes sold.
All Druggists ln-MACON sell it.
“ COSTAR’S »*
Standard Preparations
ABB
“Coatar’s” Rat, Roach, etc,,
, Exterminators,
‘ Costar s” Red Bug Exterminators,
••Costar’B” (only pure) Inaeot Powder
“ Only Infallible Kemedies known/’
‘ 18 years established in New York.”
‘‘4UOQ Boxes and Flasks manufactured diiJy.”
.II Beware !!! of spurious imitations.”
All Druggists in Macon sell them.
For sl, *2, $3 and $o Sizes, ADDRESS
“ COSTAR ” Company,
No. 13 HOWARD STREET, N. T.
Sold in Macon by
J. H. ZRIXIN <* CO.
L. W. HUNT A 00.
a t-i w-Unr3 HARRIS CLAY A 00.