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A Mystery Explained.
Since ( we were startled by the report that
the Knklux Klan in large numbers had
visited Barnett, (a peaceful hamlet on the
Georgia Railroad which we pass through
very frequently,) and had murdered, robbed,
blasphemed and threatened, with more than
ordinary Kukluxism violence and diabolism.
We have been very anxious to ascertain the
who, the what, and the how of the Kukluses.
To be “so near and yet so far,” to be per-!
haps within their grasp without any tangi
bly c . idem vo jjKiwkmx truculence, and in
fancied i verity and peace, makes one natu
rally nervous, and produces a desire, almost
fluS&unting to monomania, to meet the Ku
kluxes face to face end to them in
the itesh.
When the Tribune announced last year
that the Klan had made its appearance at
Jersey City, we hoped that the whole mys
teiy would lie discovered, and that the New
York reporters would be more than a match
for the Grand Cyclops and liis klan. But
the Kukluxes came and went without leav
ing any trace except, the devastation by
which they mark their visits.
Several of Mr. Bullock’s friends and con
fidential advisers have discovered places
where the Kukluxes have been, but they
have failed to discover the Kukluxes them
selves, although the Governor has offered
large rewards for their apprehension, and
has published his proclamation, regardless
of expense, in a number of papers of mild
and inoffensive character, calling to his aid
the military power of the United States Gov
ernm nt. When Joseph Adkins was killed,
and the “army” moved upon Warren county
and openph and it. the hope was generally en
tertained that the Klan would soon be un-
tjfrtlied. When Union Point and Greens
blpro’ wore garrisoned, the expectation was
inmost assured that the mysterious law
defiers would be unmasked. But the holies
have been disappointed, and so utter has
been the failure that malevolent persons
insist that tin- army and Klan are in colln
r'fcien.
“.Murder will out,” however, and though
long delayed, the mystery is explained.—
Five negroes and one white man, of un
doubted Radical purity and political integri
ty, have been lynched in North Carolina.
The untimely death of so many innocents,
without distinction of race or color, is mat
ter for deep regret, but as the slaughter has
led to the detection of the slayers and the
organization to which they belong, public
grief for the “five negroes and one white
Skßi” will be somewhat soothed.
The Kuklux-Kian and the “Constitutional
Union Guards” are identical. In fact, they
are convertible terms —the Knklux-Klan
being only a playful alias for Constitutional
Union Guards. There are eighteen members.
Hitherto we supposed there were eighteen
si 1 msandof them: tint we are afraid
that what they lack in numerical quantity
they make up in traitorous and murderous
quality. We are further informed that they
have a first officer (probably tin' Grand
Cyclops) who is styled “the South Com
mander,” and under his orders are three
chieftains, known respectively as the North,
East and West Commanders. It is not
stated, but we have no doubt it is so, that of
the remaining fourteen there are Southeast,
Southwest. S. S. E., etc., Commanders.
'But this is conjecture. Let ns adhere to the
facts,
It is disclosed that this diabolical organi
zation are sworn to “resist encroachments
upon their rights,” to help each other out of
tight place . aii.l do a number of other atro
clTti of like character. They have initia
tions, “grips, pass words, and secret cere
monies.” They ask neophytes, “Do you
believe in a white man’s government ?” and
they even reach the utter depravity of ask
ing, “Do you promise to labor faithfully
for the overthrow of the Republican party ?”
We can now believe the very worst that
can be said of the “ Constitutional Union
Guards,” alias the Kuklux Klan, for what
can be conceived which is more atrocious
than “ labeling faithfully for the overthrow
of the Republican party ?”
We owe the discovery of those important
facts to the ever-watcliful and always accu
rate New York Tribune. It may lead to
great results It may compel the Klan to
thaw and dissolve itself into a dew. It may
relieve Mr. Bullock and his friends from a
load of anxiety and painful apprehension,
and it may enable the quiet people of War
renton, Union Point and Greensboro to
guard their own interests, and eat their own
chickens, without any aid from “the |>oysin
Ixlue.”
What fate is too terrible for the South
Commander and the other compass-boxing
chieftains, who slay live negroes and one
white man in North Carolina, and combine
to labor faithfully to overthrow the Radical
party !
I 3]iv. Horace Greeley.
ft It lias become the habit of the New
B>vk papers, mod of some journals in
■hrr places, to nominate Mr. Horace
■reeley as a candidate for every imagi
nable iitliee in the gift of the Federal Gov
ernment and of the people of every State
in the Union. One day he is to be United
States Minister to London, the next
lie is going to Pekin on a special mis
sion, twenty-four hours after he is setting
out to inspect the Pacific Railroad from one
end to the other, and the ink is scarcely
dry which prints this announcement before
it is said that he is forthwith to be Collector
of the port of New York.
Now we sec that “ Horace Greeley is to Ire
one of the ,Senators front Virginia.”
The joke, if it ever deserved the name,
originated in the New York Sun, which
pressed the appointment of Mr. Greeley as
Minister to the Court of St. James. It lias
been long since played out, and lias become
“stale, Hat and unprofitable.”
We hate Mr. Greeley’s politics, believe
that he has done an immense amount of
harm, and is still working injury to the 1
whole country : but we believe that he is an
honest, conscientious man, who believes in
all the heresies he advocates, and we know
that he is kindly disposed, capable of gen
eriositv and good deeds, and infinitely the
best of the party with which he is associa
ted. It is silly to attempt to make a butt of
Horace Greeley. He has more brains and a
better heart than all those put together who
endeavor to deride him.
— M ♦ H
** Jordan, the Filibuster. —The dispatches
from Havana announce that Thomas Jor
dan has turned traitor to the Cuban patriots
who trusted him as their military leader, and
offered to surrender bis forces to the Captain
General for a sum of money. We have little
faith in Jordan, but we can liardly credit
this report. Even if it be false, it shows the
estimate in which the Spaniards hold Jordan
when they circulate such a report and expect
j>eople to believe it, i
Georgia Hmttiat ami fPessengcL
The State Fair——lnvited Guests.
A good deal has been said and written
recently in reference to the imitation ten
dered to the members of Congress and to
the Executive Department of the Govern
ment of the United States, to attend the
State Fair, on the 16th of November.
While we would not have invited the
notorious Benjamin F. Butler, of Massachu
setts, to any place where decent people are j
expected to meet, the Executive Committee j
of the Agricultural Society, who had charge
of the invitations, - may very well have l
thought it impolitic to except Butler from
their list, lest their doing so might|imbitter
him, and induce him to pursue the State of
Georgia with renewed vigor and venom
when Congress meets. We feel sure that
the Committee acted from the best motives,
and though we do not accept the reasoning
as conclusive, we hold them entirely blame
less of any intentional surrender of their:
self-respect, or of whai, they owe to the
people whom they represent, and in whose
names they act.
But we do most emphatically disapprove
the proposition to send a special train at the
public expense to Lynchburg to convey the
members of Congress to Macon. In the first
, place we disapprove it because no one has a
right to spend the public money in any such
way. In the second plaee we disapproveHt
because it would be degrading and humiliat
ing to the people of Georgia to treat with
such unusual cordiality and respect men
whose name and fame are identified with the
heap of wrong, injustice and suffering which
now weighs us down. We are willing that
these gentlemen, if they come, shall be treated
politely and be shown the courtesy due
to strangers, and we advise that this be done
in a becoming manner, so that everything
that Southern hospitality requires shall be
done. But we do not desire that they be
received with rejoicing and marked display,
and friendship and regard only due to those
who have done us some great public service.;
They will respect us all the more if we keep
our distance and confine ourselves to the dis
charge of the duties of simple hospitality to
a stranger. “Too much familiarity breeds
contempt.” Too much servility to Radical
officials will breed not only contempt but the
belief that we are afraid of them and are
trying to appease their wrath by the bribe
of a free ride and free drinks. i
In the third place, we oppose the propo
sition because it would make Mr. Bullock
the host of the occasion, and enable him to
play the big man deputed by the State of
Georgia to receive and entertain her guests.
Mr. Bullock has no more to do with the
State Fair than any other resident of Geor
gia who may come to Macon. The people
do not desire him to represent them upon
any occasion, if they can help it, and were
he to send a train from the State Road, to
meet and convey the Government officials,
at the request or with the approval of the
j Society, he would be entitled to regard him
self as the dispenser of the hospitality of
the State, and the representative man of the
occasion, to whom the Agricultural Society
had delegated their authority, forgetting
what they owe themselves and the public.
Let us manage our State Fair for ourselves
in our own way, and witli the dignity and
: self respect which belong to Southern gen
tlemen. If wc can only secure peace by
bowing down before the authors of our
misery, the despoilers of our property, and
the brutal assailants of helpless women and
children, we do_not want it. We too are “in
favor of adopting *very roasoHiidile and lion- '
orable measure to secure it,” but we do not
tbink it at all “reasonable” to ex{ieet us to
send a train of cars to Lynchburg to receive
the Radical members of Congress, and then to
ask Mr. Bullock to meet them at the State
line, nor do we think it “honorable” t i betray
the pusillanimity, servility, and self-degra
dation which the whole proposition involves.
Our oath of allegiance lias nothing to do
with the matter. A man may be “a faithful
citizen of the United States Government and
of the State of Georgia” without welcoming
with huzzas and clasping to our bosom, every
Radical member of Congress who may
come within the State, and without
putting forward (Mr. Bullock as the
“model Governor,” the “success of
whose administration ” entitles him to the
distinction. We differ from our cotempora
rv, the Telegraph, both in our appreciation
of the model Governor and the extent to
which expediency is permissible without loss
of honor, and we deem it necessary to utter
! our earnest protest against the acceptance of
Mr. Bullock’s “ liberal proposition,” because
we do not “concur with the Governor that
the movement might effect very salutary re
sults,” but on the contrary would humiliate
the State in the eyes of nine-tenths of her
people, and degrade us in the estimation of
those for whom we would consent to the
abasement.
The Ihueau Ketiivivus.
General Cabby, it is reported, has resolved
to recommend the re-establishment of the
Freedman’s Bureau in the State of Virginia.
The recommendation is made on grounds
of philanthropy. If agents with hundreds
of thousands of dollars of the people’s
money, are not appointed to take care of the
“wards of the nation” they will become des
titute. Therefore, Virginia is again to be
overrun by a crowd of meddlesome, ill-con
ditioned carpet-bag agents, whose first duty
it will be, of course, to promote ill will be
tween the negroes and their employers.
The real object of Cabby’s recommendation
is too apparent to be concealed by a flimsy
disguise of pliilanthropy. The fact is that
.the Radicals were sorely disappointed by the
large negro vote against Wells and the ultra
Radical ticket in Virginia, and they are
afraid that if something is not done to un
i settle the negroes and revive their V*»lief in
the forty acres of land and a mule humbug,
the negro vote will be an element of weak
ness, and will ensure the triumph of the
Democratic party in Virginia forever.
The agency of the Bureau has been proved
,tobe a most efficient means of swindling,
distracting, and misleading the negroes.
While it lasted the poor creatures were com
pletely in the power of a set of vagabonds
hired to manufacture Radical majorities, fo
ment discord between the races, and prevent
! a return of peace and good order. The moment
;it was withdrawn the negroes began to see
that the white people who employ them and
give them the means of support, are their
best friends and counsellors, and as a neces
sary consequence, they abandoned their
Radical deceivers in large numbers.
Canby is alarmed. He thinks it is an
everlasting stigma upon his political fame
that he was unable to defeat Walker, and he
now proposes by the establishment of the
Bureau to relieve, to some extent, the losses
of the election, and renew dissension and
distrust between the two races.
Another Pie-Cbcst Broken. — President
Grant promised Governor Senter, of Ten
nessee, that there should be no removals
from office on account of political preferences
in the recent contest between Senter and
Stokes, and credulous people rubbed their
hands gleefully, saying, “ Grant is a conserv
ative man who will do the fair thing. ”
Notwithstanding the promise, the Reve
nue Assessor of the Knoxville District has
, been turned out and a rabid Stokes-man ap
pointed in his stead, and in another district
another assessor who supported Senter has
been displaced for a Stokesite. We are told
, that this is “but the beginning of the end.”
But are not executive promises now-a-days
like pie-crusts made to be broken ?’*
Mr. Gustin’s Cotton Patch.
Having heard a good deal of Mr. S. I.
Gustin’s cotton patch, and of his peculiar
mode of culture—some saying that it was
admirable, and some that it was a “dead
failure,” some that his “lifting” mode of
plowing is the very tiling for cotton, and
some who pin their faith to Mr. Dickson of
Hancock, that it is ruinous to cotton —we
j determined to see and judge for ourselves,
and accepting Mr. Gustin’s kind invitation,
we went to see the patch on Tuesday even
ing, in company with Hon. D. W. Lewis,
the worthy Secretary of the State Agricultu
ral Society.
The patch contains from a half to two
thirds of an acre, and as well as we could
calculate, the rows not being all equidistant,
the total number of stalks is from nine hun
i dred to nine hundred and fifty. It is plant
j ed in hills six feet apart one way, by four feet
the other. But, as we already remarked,
the rows having been irregularly laid off, it
was not possible to ascertain by counting
the stalks in one row the precise number
in all.
We are not unfamiliar with good cotton,
and we state, without hesitation, that we
have never seen in Georgia, even on bottom
land, a finer growth, or a greater abundance
of fruit. The stalks are loadiid with fully
matured bolls from the bottom to the very
top, and though the limbs are very much
broken and tangled from the weight of the
bolls, the plants are still green, vigorous,
and in some places still growing and bloom
ing.
We did not see a single defective stalk, or
one which looked as if it had suffered from
drought. The stand was not perfect. But
wherever the seeds came up, we never saw a
more luxuriant growth or moro healthy
plants.
We examined it carefully. We did not
count the number of bolls off a stalk, but
we should say, allowing that one-fourth of
the crop lias bren gathered, that from 1000
to 1200 pounds per aero still remain to lie
gathered. This may lie an under-estimate.
We do not believe that it is an exaggera
tion.
Whatever may lie Mr. Gustin’s system of
culture, and however widely it may differ
from the sweep cultivation recommended by
Mr. Dickson, it certainly suited (Mr. Gus
tin’s land and crop. But it was not to judge
of the comparative merits of the two systems
—both of wliiclarnay be good when used on
different sorts of soil—-that we visited Mr.
Gustin’s little field. It was to see the cob
ton, and we think that we were amply re
paid for our visit by a sight of as pretty a
piece of “fine cotton” as can be found on
upland in any part of Georgia.
Though it did not show any signs of
blight or injury to the middle and top crop,
we feel satisfied that had there been season
able rains in July and August, the growth
would have been much larger. As it is, in
many places the plants have looked in the
rows.
Tlie Reconstruction Committee to
♦tie Rescue!
A terrible state of things exists in Illinois,
the State where the late lamented rose, and
Ulysses sprung—the State where Logan re
sides, and where half a dozen of the Wash
burnes have “located.” The Governor, Pal
mer byname, and Republican by profession,
denounces any attempt to invade “the sov
ereignty of the State,” talking just like that
double-dyed traitor, J. C. Calhoun, of South
.Carolina. He will oppose to the bitter end
any consolidation of authority which wov.ld 1
render a State of less avail in tlie Republic
than a ward of a city.
The State of Illinois has ordered anew
seal, and the seal bears the heretical legend,
•“State Sovereignty.” Mr. Browning, the
friend and Cabinet counsellor of Mr. Lin
coln, prefers to be a Democratic rather than
a Radical candidate for the State Conven
tion, opposes “decidedly” striking out the!
rebellious word “white” from the Constitu
tion of Illinois, and says that the XVth
Amendment is inconsistent with the rest of
the Federal Constitution, and is therefore
void.
Can heresy go further V Can nothing be
done in this age of progress to put a stop to
the growth of such rebellious doctrine as
that a State has any rights which Congress
is bound to respect, ?
Here is a field for Butler, Logan, Sehenck
and the whole Reconstruction Committee.
If Illinois is not at once put out of the
I Uniou, Palmer and Browning disfranchised,
and the seal confiscated as rebel property,
and if the State is not required to repudiate
all her just debts and pay the money to But
ler, acknowledge constitutionally that she is
less than a ward, of a city, and efface irrevo
jcalily the disgraceful word “white,” we shall
be compelled to censure Butler and ask in
dignantly, “Whither are we drifting ?”
The Crops in South-Western Geor
gia.
September 25, 1860.
Editor Journal and Messenger : I have just
returned from a trip through Webster, Lee,
Dougherty and Baker counties, returning
through the Western portion of Sumter. I
find the corn crop generally good, but not so
good as it is in this count}’. The cotton crop
through Lee, and the Western portion of
Dougherty, particularly on those tine lands
on Fowl Town Creek, about old Byron, and
eight or ten miles below, also around Palmy
ra, there will be about two-thirds of a crop,
but not more than half a crop on the roads
throughout all the rest of the trip. The pea,
potato and corn crops are a geueral failure,
on account of the severe drought which has
prevailed in almost all this section, with an
occasional exception. It is a proof of tllO
advantage of well organized labor, scientific
culture, and the judicious use of fertilizers.
I would recommend all who are sceptical on
these subjects to go and witness the result as
| evidenced by looking at the crop on those
plantations supervised by Col. Lockett, in
comparison with the crops generally. Cap
tain Allen, one of his managers, who is one
of Mr. Dixon’s disciples, (as I leam lie is
from Hancock), has the most perfect model
of a well managed farm and good culture,
that I have ever seen. Scarcely a sprig of
grass is to be seen in the drills or middles of
thousands of acres of cotton that stretch out
on the road side as a vast ocean of the snowy
fieeee, white unto the harvest, and being
picked by apparently, hundreds of the sable
| wards of the nation, who are now getting, 1
learn, about 1000 pounds per acre, the first
lucking, which is taking nearly all, as there
is very little left to open. The most inex
j perienced casual observer can detect the dif
ference in the different kinds of eottou being
planted in the country, and the great loss
in not having improved seed is apparent to
all. Yours respectfully, G. W. C. M.
A correspondent of the Constitution, writing
from Cartersville, September 24, says:
“Green Spencer killed Richard Smith to
day, in a tight, with a repeater. Both young
men, sons of citizens of this county. Spencer
is a painter and Smith was a bar-keeper—
both wild. Said to have fallen out about a
gambling debt. Balls took effect in Smith’s
breast, head and back, producing death in
stantly. Spencer immediately fled, and, up
to this time, has not been arrested. But
i there are a large number of men in pursuit.
The killing was done in the streets of this
place. It is said that Spencer shot five times,
each ball taking effect, and that Smith was
unarmed. John Smith, the father of the
- deceased, lives a few' miles from town, and
iis an excellent man. It is believed now, that
j Spencer has made good his escape.
—Archibald W. Oxendine, one of “Ma
rion’s Men ” during the Revolution, and for
forty years of bis life a Baptist preacher,
died recently in Missouri, at the age oi 110.
MACON, GA., TUESDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1869.
Raiusdcll’s Norway Gray Oats.
Watching with interest the progress of
our great State, and ever ready to assist in
the development of our vast resources, we
were pleased to have an opportunity to see
and learn some-tiling of the history of the
wonderful variety of oats which has gained
such notoriety in the Northern, Middle and
Western Stftes, and which is now being in
troduced into Georgia by the special agent
(of Messrs. Ramsdell & Cos. We have had a
personal acquaintance with Col. Toole, the
agent, for many years, and can fully rely
on the statements he makes, the hundreds of
testimonials he brings and the samples from
the fields of East Tennessee, where no un
usual preparation*for culture was made, and
where the grain grew five to six feet high,
with heads from twelve to sixteen inches in
length, and from two to four hundred grains
on the stalk, realizing as the product of one
bushel of seed, in many instances, seventy
five bushels and upwards of large, nutritious
grain, weighing thirty-five to forty pounds
to the bushel, certainly indicates a most as
tonishing success.
Wo are assured that with a better cli
mate than East Tennessee, jand soil as
easily prepared, still more wonderful results
must take place in the growth and yield of
the “Ramsdell Oats” in the Southern States.
The substitution of the “Norway” for the
common and deteriorated kinds now in gen
eral use, is of vast impox’tance to the funn
ing interests, and marks an era in their fu
ture prosperity. To increase the annual
yield, even to a limited extent, is regarded
as a success, but to double the crop at once,
by using the new variety, is an advantage
that ought to be fully understood and em
braced by the planting community.
We would urge our planters to make a fair
test of the merits of the new oats, and as
only limited quantities of tlie seed are on j
sale this season, early application should be
made.
,. ♦, <——
Rout well and tlie Gold Gamblers.
Secretary Boutwell's recent interference
between tlie gold BulLs and Bears in New
York has resulted in his being roundly
abused by all sides, irrespective of race,
color or previous condition, and the suspi
cion is very general that the sylvan Secretary
from Groton, Massachusetts, was in the bull
clique and put off his interference until the
Bulls had made their harvest and the Bears
had lieen forced to settle.
We append extracts from the comments of
leading New York papers on the Secretary’s
action :
From the. Mew York Journal of Commerce.
11 i» tlie duty of the Secretary of the Treasury,
by act of 8 pternber 2, 1789, to “digest and pre
pare plans for the improvement anil management
of the revenue and for the support of public cred
it,” but is ‘‘Merchant" sure mis includes the in
terference to put down the price of gold ? His
only argumeirl is tinit the i i.-e .11 gold depreciates
the greenbacks and ttius hurts public credit, llut
suppose it puts up the price of bonds ? And docs
not every rise in gold, if paper is the standard,
“ improve the revenue,” wnieh is also part of the
Secretary’s duty * It Is easy for one whose personal
interests are suffering from some untoward event,
to urge tlie interference of government for ins re
lief, hut it is difficult, if not impossible, for the
authority to aid him without injuring many more.
We do not change our opinion about the propriety
Os the Secretary s attempt to regulate the pri-*- of
gold ou any pretext wbateier. All efforts of this
kind will but precipitate calamities that are inev
itable, aud will result in far more harm than good
to all concerned.
From the AVic York fYorld.
“Tlie charge we make against him is that he
acts in pursuance of no pnuciple, lias no settled
policy, and does not see an inch before his nose.
It is needless to discuss, at present, the question
whether the Secretary of the Treasury can justifi
ably undertake to regulate the price of gold by
using tiie power which he undoubtedly possesses
of raising or lowering it at his pleasure, ills
course is equally reprehensible,ou either hypoth
esis. If, ms magv sug u'.tou* rtossouers contend, he,
has properly noftimg TO lb*Ui lue u«t,jet*«,X4ien ‘
there is no excuse for bis iutcrpOMng, as he did
yesterday, by an announcement that he would sefl
lour miliums of gold and purchase an equal amount
of bonus to day. Hut if, on the other liuud, it is
bis uuly to regulate the market and guaid it
against violent and ruinous fluctuations, there if
no excuse for tlie hailing, obstinate tirhiue-s with
which he wailed till so much mischief bad been
done, uud uutii the street was wild with panic, be
fore became to the rescue. If it was his duty to
lock the stable door at ail, he should have locked
it before- tiie liorse was stolen. On oue of the
horns ot this inevitable dilemma, Mr. Boutwcll
must hang impaled.”
But vimt ( shall the merchants lie left to
the mercy of street operators? Yes! let it
once lie understood that the Secretary will
not interfere, and we will trust the mercan
tile community to protect itself. The reliance
m the Secretary—the belief that lie would
step in and prevent a rise in gold—has
already done great mischief. There can tie
no bull operators if there are no bears.
Many jieople forget this. If the latter have
it their way every tiling is rosy; but if the
bulls once 111 awhile come out ahead, then
the strong arm of the government is invoked.
If merchants and dealers were left to them
selves, they would still be caught sometimes,
but they would suffer less than when they
are taught to lean on the Secretary of tlie
, Treasury. However, the Secretary has
begun, and lie will preserve in the meddling
process we suppose to the end of his career;
so the sales of gold will now be increased.
Office State Agricultural Society, )
Macon, Ga., Sept. 28. 1869. \
Dear Sir : —ln reply to your note of the
23d, allow me to say that all persons pro
posing to enter their names as competitors
for the premium to gymnasts, velocipedists,
knights in tournaments, liad best report
their names by letter or otherwise to this
office, specifying the department of these
exercises in which they propose to compete;
and if they will also communicate to this
office the preparations or structures which
they wish erected as important or essential
to their performances, the Committee will
endeavor to meet their wishes. The charge
for entering and competing in these depart
ments will be fixed by the Executive Com
mittee at their session the 7th of October
next. I would be gratified and the gentle
men themselves be better satisfied if all in
terested in this list of exercises would meet
in this city about the first of November, ar
range then' regulations, agree upon the kind
or style of performance in each department,
and make known to me the result of their
conference. All who are interested will
therefore please respond by letter or in per
son to this call for a meeting the first of
November.
The Secretary confesses to perfect igno
rance as to what is meant by “ trapeze per
formers” and “carpet tricks.” The admis
sion of such performances will be considered
and determined when the nature of them is
bettpr understood. This and all questions
of the kind will be decided by the Executive!
Committee, to which it will} be referred'
when they meet in October.
Papers of the State will please copy.
Very respectfully,
David W. Lewis,
Secretary.
To IF. P. Mag ill, Esq., Atlanta, Ga.
The Hearth of Imperialism. —The New
! York Imperialist is dead. It died of inanition.
His Imperial Majesty, the Emperor of the
! French, has rheumatism in all his joints and
articulations, and the Czar of all the Russian,
the biggest Emperor extant, is threatened
with brain fever. The poor Emperor Maxi
milian, we know was murdered, and the Em
| peror Soulouque died in exile. ‘ ‘From all
we can learn,” Imperialism is in the rapid
j decline.
—The Richmond Dispatch notices that
there are two causes that tend to disturb the
smoothness and harmony of the return of
Virginia to the Union. These are the pres
! sure of the partisan conflict in the North for
'again in United States Senators, and at
home the itch for office, the corroding can
ker of political ambition, which in many
ways rexes the State. Against these it says
the great party of practical ideas, moderate
policy and public devotion, which triumph
ed in the election of Walker to be Governor,
must set itself with a face of iron and a reso
lution as firm as adamant, maintaining its
ground manfully, and carryiug out the prac
tical policy of restoring the State to the
■Union in the shortest possible time,
Correspondence .Journal and Messenger.
Letter from Down South.
Sefit.muei: 23, 1869.
Mr. Editor: —Your occasional agricultural
column is a desideratum. Mauv of your read
ers, like myself, who are not engaged in ag
riculture, read every article tlwty can find on
tlie subject with great zest, dew that gar
deners and farmers are awake (o the necessi
ty of scientific fertilizing and culture, to sup
ply their lack of thews and current
information on agriculture' id .. imb ed sub- :
jects is greatly needed. To supply this de
mand you cannot draw too lib rally on the
Southern Cultivator and other publications
professionally devoted to this specialty.
I was delighted to read the article of your
contributor on the shallow and obnoxious
idea, that “it don’t pay to ruise corn with
cotton at twenty cents per pound. ” “ South
erner's” “head is level.” Just such stu
pendous follies have been tlie ruin of the
Sout h. During slavery, the sole idea among
planters was—to raise cotton to buy more !
laud and negroes—to make more cotton.
Their investment in land is aU that saved!
them—their two thousand miliums of slave
property went up. The present population,
with its increase, will t- pp}y this loss of
wealth in a much shorter uaffe than was re
quired to aggregate two thousand millions
of slave property. How “is the surplus of
this vast 4animn . t of CftplThl to be Invested /
The “ it don’t pay, etc., with cotton at twen
ty cents per pound ” economists? it is to be
feared, will waste their shave fit in the pro
duction of “more cotton to buy more land
and hire more Asiatics—to make more eot-
ton.” All other sources of investment that
have added permanent wealth to any other
: country will be studiously ignored by these
I one-idea men. They will live in tumble
down houses, lest the building of lietter
should trench on their means “to raise more
j cotton to buy more land and hire more
hands—to make more cotton.” A few may
succeed in this experiment, but the great
mass will ruinously fail, and be driven to
parcel out tlieir latnls to small farmers, w ho,
by a liberal production of a diversity of
crops, and by improving their homes and
stock, will add permanent wealth to the
country.
“Hasten slowly,” is “a wise saw” in eco
nomics. But every man in the Bouth. who
has a little spare cash, is on the qui vine for
a handsome speculation. Willingly borne
along on this current, farmers have become
mercliants, und lawyers have become plan
ters—and they have “landed” in a mael
strom. “Hasten slowly,” deliberate, sur
vey the field, calculate cost, see if you
etui lose without ruin, discard “one-ideas;”
but, move on.
Mr. Editor, for one, I thank you for your
admonitions on the Asiatic question. Public
(opinion must put a stop to the “pig-tail”
imports. We need and desire immigrants,
but let them be such as come, not such as
must be brought or bought.
The long-cotton crop of Florida is the
most decided failure this, of any season
within rny observation. In tin- extreme
southern part of the peninsula, I hear, the
! potato crop—which is the indispensable-—is
a failure. The orange crop, as a whole, “ar
a suckees.” To-day we are having premoni
tory puffs of the equinoctial blow. Wind a
little North of East.
Zkb.
Negroes and Roman Catholics.
From the London Morning Font, Sept. 9.
The letter of our New York correspondent,
which we published yesterday, contains an
item of news of almost incalculable signifi
cance. The condition of the emancipated
negroes in the United States has attracted
the attention of the Holy See. The lioman
'Catholic Church is about to make a great
effort to bring these outcasts within her foil.
No less than two hundred of them are now,
our correspondent informs ns, studying for
the priesthood at Rome. There are, he
says, certain features of the Roman Catholic
ritual which render it especially well adapted
to captivate the negro imagination, .and it
will, In thinks, but not surprising if a large
portion of tlie black population of tin* South
is brought over to the Church of Rome. Our
•correspondent supposes that this be
pleasant news for Protestants, and, as fe~’
gards Protestants who biff**** t:>jLno good
can come out of Rome, Iff n&v be right.
We can readily conceive thM it will grate
upon the cars of Mr. Wliajley, and that,
considering it as the result of her own mis
sion, Mrs. Beecher Stowe will turn her face
to the wall. But, whether pleasant or un
pleasant. it must lie read with the fact that
it is folly to expect that tlie Protestant
churches in the United State- will accom
plish much towards the “evangelical Christi
anization of the negro.” Those who preach
ed emancipation, and beat their pulpit cush
ions as drums ecclesiastic, seem to be uttc-rvl
incapable of exercising any authority in a
beneficial sense over half-mad and miserable
creatures, suddenly lqft to tlie guidance of
their own instincts, and exposed to all man
ner of temptation. Our correspondent tells
us that the speedy extinction of the whole
negro race is confidently predicted. The
men are drinking themselves to death, and
the women are murdering their children.
“Infanticide is as common in the South as
it is in New England.” In view of such a
state of things, then, we must needs follow
our correspondent to the conclusion which
he has arrived at—that the authority of a
Roman Catholic priest, if not the best in the
world, will certainly be better than no au
thority at all, and if it does not lead people
to Heaven, it will at least restrain them from
' crime and vice, and teach them the impor
tance of obeying the moral law. For tlie
rest, the missionary machinery of the Church
of Rome is fit for the work, and the work
will pay. It would lie unjust as well as un
charitable to suggest that the Holy Father
i lias provided for the education of some two
hundred negroes as laborers in this field for
any merely worldly purpose. We do not
doubt that Pius IX. Is, as lie conceives, and
1 rightly conceives, fulfilling his Lightest obli
■ gations,that his motives arepure.andtliatlie
; is animated with Christian zeal, and moved
. by feelings of human compassion aud kind
ness. But it is equally evident that the
‘ Sovereign Pontiff has consulted the compre
hensive interests of Catholicism. With the
i electoral suffrage in their hands, the saved
, aud regenerated negro race may, in the ful
ness of time, shape the course and decide tlie
destiny of the great American Republic.
The Model Domestic. —The New Orleans
Picayune remarks a growing hostility among
the country presses of Louisiana to the in
troduction of Chinese labor, but in another
place makes the following narration:
A friend of ours who resided some time in
Havana, had, he tells ns, a Chinese cook,
and from his experience with this one lias
conceived a high opinion of the Chinese in
general. The cook was a complete servant;
he not only prepared all his dishes in the
most admiral manner, learning most readily
everything new, and improved on almost
everything lie learned, but his peculiar care
fulness, delicacy and cleanliness, made every
thing especially appetizing.
Besides doing the cooking he officiated as
dining-room servant also, swept the house,
etc., and did the housework in general. He
was peculiarly attentive to his employer’s
clothes, boots, etc. When dinner was upon
the table and announced, he was found at
the head of the table, ready to wait upon the
company, and no tw'o or three waiters would
have performed the duties thereof**-more
satisfactorily.
His peculiar trait seemed to be constant
observation and the faculty to pick out excel
; lencies, and to adopt and practice them. To
enable us to judge of his cleanliness, our
friend told us that his Chinaman dressed al
ways in white, down to his very slippers,
and that he kept himself so clean that he
! never saw any dirt stains upon his clothes.
His cooking utensils, after use, were at once
cleaned, and kept so clean that it was stom
ach-assuring at all times to see him or his
kitchen. Such is, at least, one Chinaman
as a cook and house servant.
Agricultural Report for August.—
Washington, September 24.—The monthly re
; port of the Department of Agriculture for
August says of corn that unless the close of
the season is favorable there must be 150,-
1000,000 bushels less than a full crop.
Cotton.—There will be a reduction in the
yield of cotton from the Carolinas and Ala
bama, and a material increase- from Missis
sippi and Texas. The probabilities at pres
ent favor a yield of 2,750,000 bales.
I Wheat—The crop as a whole is larger.
| The only States showing a decrease are Illi
nois, Michigan, lowa, and California.
Fruit.—Yield abundant. Apples in a less
degree than on any other species.
In stock hogs there is a reduction in num
ber and condition apparently, as compared
with last year, of five to ten per cent.
—The orange groves on the St. Johns’
"River, Florida, are said to be] more fruitful
than for ten years previous.
Letter from Decatur County.
Blowing Cave, Ga., I
September 20th, 186 V. j’
Dear General: To-morrow is the autumnal
equinox, and no sign of rain yet. We are
very dry. Potatoes, peas, cane, and such
Crops are almost ruined already, and will
actually die if it does not rain, and that
very soon. Even oak bushes are dying. I
did think that after cotton was stripped by
the worms that its cup of bitterness was full,
but the dry weather is causing it to open
'prematurely, and consequently very little
fibre upon the seed, and that very poor.
About two-thirds of the cotton is picked,
and a larger proportion than usual forward
ed from this section.
And here let me implore my fellow-plant
ers for mercy’s sake to stand firm and not
suffer themselves to lie robbed as in tlie past.
Sell only enough to pay debts due thereon,
and “sink or swim” with the remainder. As
for me and my house, wo think we will
swim, even though we wait until next spring.
I am aware that all speculations as to the
future of cotton are vain and puerile, but
(there are certain fixed rules of supply and'
demand which cannot lie evaded, and upon,
which figures can be reckoned. Last year,
with 2,250,000 of bales, the supply was in
adequate. Will the present crop exceed
that? Will it reach two millions? We
think that the crop of 1869 can under no
cirfritostances reach that of 1868; hence we
hold our cotton. The spinmfrs are compel
led to have the cotton. We have it—if they
cannot get it at their price, they must take
it at ours.
Close the door of mercy upon the specu
lator; he has had his turn for two years and
that is long enough; it is now our turn.
Mrs. Stowe, (H. 8.,) has so much of the
hyena in her composition, suggest toiler the
propriety of her -writing the history of Thad.
Stevens. The man that uttered the noble
sentiment, "da niortuis nit nisi bonutn,” never
knew him. As ever,
Tam O’Khantbr.
STATE NEWS.
Atlanta.
From an authentic source tlie Constitution
learns that Gov. Bullock has drawn within
the past month, executive warrants for over
811,000 as retaining fees alone to counsel.
Also, that Gov. Bullock, on Tuesday, drew
an executive warrant in favor of Doyle and
\uunally, composed of L. T. Doyle, and A.
D. Nuriiially, for @2,500, as a retaining fee
in the ease of the heirs of Mitchell, against
the city of Atlanta.
The same paper learns that Treasurer
Angier refused to pay an executive warrant
drawn by the Governor for $1,582 20 for
2,552 copies of the Rules of Practice adopted
by the Convention of .Superior Court Judges.
There wore 3.000 copies published at a cost
—all told —of 3132 (JO. Os this mimlier 448
were retained by the publisher, to be sold at
81 per copy. The State was charged sixty
cents per copy for 1,552 copies, a profit of
over $1,400.
hMdfrifille.
On Sunday afternoon 19th, about 3
o’clock, the Gin House, of Mr. Alex. Smith,
seven miles from town, was discovered to be
on fire. The flames spreading rapidly, the
house and contents including three bales of
cotton, was soon laid in ashes. It was, be
yond doubt, the work of an unfuriated ne
gress.
Hawkimnltle.
The Dispatch says the engine and boiler
for the Pulaski Manufacturing Company
have lieen received, and tliat it is intended
by the energetic men who have inaugurated
the enterpri.-e to press forward the work
to completion, with vigor.
The Dispatch learns that a serious difficulty
occurred at Levison, on the M. A B. It. li.,
List .Satunity, in which Mr. John W. Har
rell, of PuLiski county, received a severe
wound in the breast from a knife in the
haniL- of his cousin. Mr. Sam Evans. After
the cutting Mr Evans was severely lieateu
by Mr. Harrell's negroes and was also shot
by Mr. E. F. Lee, a brother-in-law of the
latter. The difficulty wan cigteed by old
feud. The lives of both are Jekjiam-d of.
'Die rceWifti H .yf cotton "nt IfnwkitixviUa
the week ending 28th instant were 268 bales.
The editor of the DisjnihJi advises ail who
can honorably do so, to held their cotton,
and thinks if’not a bale of cotton were ship
ped North in tin- next four weeks, cotton
w ould run up to 35 cents per pound.
A correspondent of the Disp-itrh, writing
from Wilcox county, says : ,
There is only one crop that the people
w ill make, andtiiat is corn. -All that I know
of, or hear of will make a sufficiency, except
a few, and the excess will perhaps supply
them. Cotton is generally cut off about
one-half. Sugar eane, potatoes and the pea
crop is almost entirely cut off.
A then*.
A revival of much interest is going on at
the Methodist Church in Athens. Large
numbers go forward to lie prayed for at
every- meeting, and the crowds in attendance
have increased in numbers.
The same paper learns by a letter from
Clayton, (Rabum Cos.) that on the 21st ult.,
i*t the house of Capt. I). M. Singleton, on
Chechero, a difficulty arose, ■which resulted
in a young man by the name of Wm. Angel
seriously4*utting Singleton about the throat
and face. Singleton knocked down and
stamped Angel—injuring him seriously, if
not fatally. Cause of difficulty not known.
Several intelligent, enterprising farmers
of Hall county have commenced the culture
of clover on an extensive scale, some of
whom have made sufficient hay not only to
winter their own stock, but have sold to
their neighbors at highly remunerative
prices. Many others are preparing to go at
it extensively.
The editor of the Watchman, who has
recently visited Hall county, was pleased to
find that the corn crops along the road
looked better than he expected to find
them. Not that he would hold out the idea
that there is a full crop. Far from it. But
then he had heard such doleful complaints
that he scarcely expected to see a bushel to
the acre.
Cuthbert.
The Appeal learns that Col. Anthony, of
Fort Gaines, and most of the most party
who emigrated several years since to Brazil,
have returned to Georgia, thoroughly satis
fied with that mongrel country, and the fleas,
vermin, and gasconade of its inhabitants.
The same paper reports that cotton pick
ing progresses, ami soon the world will
know and realize the deplorable deficiency
which will be made evident in the total yield
; of the great staple.
Byron’s Memory.
His Widow’s Delusions—Views of an Inti
mate ACQUAINTANCE.
To the Editor of the Pall Mali Gazelle:
Sib : —Lady Noel Byron resided, on and
ofl, many years in Brighton, and her circle
of friends coincide very closely with my own.
For most of these years I heard but of one
crime of which she accused her dead hus
band, but latterly of two, which need not be
named. Six or seven persons more or less j
known to me received her communications,
three of whom were Americans. Her com
munications were not given as secrets, but,
on the contrary, as facts to be used for the
defence of her conduct, character or memo
ry. Some of these persons received them as
Mrs. Beecher Stowe did —Rev. Frederick
Robertson for one ; others thought “her
mind was touched upon the subject of the
separation. ” In 1847 one of her best friends
asked me to talk with her on the liabilities to
error of private judgement when deciding
questions involving criminal charges which
can be properly investigated only by public
tribunials. No one, I told her, had ’a right
to repeat such charges, excepts as decisions
of Courts of law. Her stories differed. Her
narratives and memoranda were given away
right and left. The confidantes who knew
her best, her peculiarities, her troubles with
her daughter, her elder grandson, her ser
vants, never would have repeated her stories
with pens and types. They thought her
mind was touched. Suspicions had become
i delusions. Three of her friends, myself be
j ing one, came separately to this conclusion.
The sealed papers held by her trustees, if
they contain the accusations she made, can
only be records of her delusions; for the
charge she made most frequently is not cap
able of proof; and the charge Mrs. Stowe
has published is comparatively recent and
utterly incredible. John Robertson,
No. 12 Norfolk Road, Sept. 12, 1869.
—Count Bismarck, the retired minister of
Prussia, it is reported, is affected with the
same diseases as those from which the Em
l peror Napoleon 111. is suffering. The prin
j cipal disease is said to be inflamation of the
kidneys, with which Bismarck has been af
flicted for several years, and on account of
which he has been obliged to intermit his
'•official duties, •
FOREIGN NEWS.
Spain.
The news reports to hand in London from
Spain up to the 26th, are of an exciting,
ever-alarming character. Popular disaffec
tion und disloyalty to the existing govern
ment prevail very generally throughout the
nation, and both have again been expressed
in the shape of an armed counter revolution.
There was an insurrectionary demonstra
tion made by the volunteer troops iu Barce
lona last night. It was occasioned by the
receipt of the government order command
ing the volunteers to disarm, and an attempt
on the part of the local authorities to en
force it. The fact that the volunteers of
Tarragona who had refused to disarm previ
ously were suffering imprisonment for the
offence was made a cause for an additional;
excitement. In a short time five barricades,
one built by the public cartmen, were thrown
up. The cart men's barricade was assaulted
by the regular troops and carried by a bayo
net charge, after a very desperate resistance
on the part of its defenders and a heavy loss
of life.
During the engagement tlie insurgents had
twenty-four men killed, a large number
wounded and seventy of their more active
1 brethren made prisoners.
The troops had two commissioned officers
killed and several soldiers wounded.
Order was subsequently restored.
A Radical Republican Democratic demon
stration is announced to be made in Madrid
during Wednesday, tlie 29th inst. More
trouble is anticipated tin the occasion.
Die Madrid journals announce the death
of Mine. Godoy, relict of the famous Prince
of Peace, Duke D’Aleudia. who was deprived
of his titles by tiie Spanish Cortes. She died
at the age of 92. not of any illness, but from
an accident. Her dress caught fire, and she
succumbed to the effect of the burns.
France.
The Emperor and Empress attended the
races at the Bo is ile Boulogne on the 26th
September.
Tlie departure of the Empress for the East
is fixed for the 30th instant.
An official denial is given to a report in
: circulation that Mar.-dud Canrobert is about
to leave the command of the First army
corps, which is stationed in and around
Paris.
Turkey.
Constantinople, Sept. 25, 1809.—The
semi-official journal, Turquie, of this city,
publishes in its issue to-day a violent article
against the Viceroy of Egypt for his action
in resisting the terms of arrangement with
the Sultan embraced in the second letter
transmitted to his Highness by the Turkish
government through the Vizier, and also for
his proposal to refer the whole subject mat
ter in dispute between his Imperial Majesty
and himself to the arbitrament of tlie Euro
pean Great Powers.
The Grand Vizier’s newspaper organ ob
jects, in the name of the Sultan, to the pro
positions of the Viceroy, and insists on the
complete acceptance of the second letter by
the latter.
The Turquie concludes this editorial at
tack by recommending the Porte govern
ment to at once dismiss Ishmail Pacha and
appoint Mnstapha Tazyl Pacha Viceroy of
Egypt.
England.
Tlie London Telegraph sava report
relative to the discovery of document* in the
Aretie regions detailing the fate of Sir John
Franklin and his companions is untrust
worthy. “ Mrs. Stowe’s affair seems to have
brought American discoveries rather into
disrepute just- at present.”
Germany.
The Northeastern Qorresjrondeu ce, of Berlin,
affirms that the Prussian authorities have
given notice in Schleswig to the effect that
any applications made to the Emperor of
Austria to obtain the execution of article
five of the treaty of Prague would be con.sid
: ered as an act of high treason.
ami Art News.
—A club has been formed in EngLuul
called the “Carlyle and Emerson Associa
tion,” whose chief object is declared to lie
that of popularizing the writings and teach
ings of these authors, which the promoters
regard as “eminently calculated u> imbue
tilt- Toatli of ttie rising generation wivltauch
high and worthy aspiraTioria as sliali raLder
l nroun.-sa possible hereafter.” /
- ilrT ATlr. ii .xnstm, wito wrote ,A.
called “The tfeaafin.” has felt called upP*J to
publish a vindicate TtSHA Byron. * Mr.
Win. Hewitt aud about a dozen others are
writing letters on the same subject to the
London newspapers, and Mr, John Camden
Hotten, of Piccadilly, has collected and is
going to publish in a volume everything on
the topic that everybody of note has put
forth.
—Prof. Faber’s speaking machine is to be
e xliibi ted at Ilambu rg and u ring the i uteric i
tionul Horticultural Exhibition. It is aid
to articulate ntrioas words, and even to an
swer questions by simple sentences, with
wonderful distinctness. This is not the first
invention of the kind that has lieen exhibited.
Wolfgang von Kempelcu, the inventor of a
chess automaton, who was bom at Tresburg
in 1734, ami died at Vienna iu 1804, con
structed a machine of the kind, and wrote
ou the subject. The machine about to be
exhibited at Hamburg is, however, reputed
to be more perfect than any previous inven
tion of the kind.
—A literary undertaking of immense ex
tent is projected by a society of savuns in
Paris, having for its object the reproduction
of all the master-pieces of literature which
have appeared in ancient and modem times
among the various nations of the. world. Tlie
title of the work is the Jiiblotheque Inlenia
tionah ’ Universe!!*, and it is to consist of two
hundred volumes in large octavo, to be is
sued at the rate of two volumes each month,
at an unprecedentedly low price to subscri
bers. The works reprinted are to be in the
best French translations, and are to appear
on a prescribed plan, iu order to show how
primitive ideas have been developed in or
ganized forms, ami how these have under
gone transformations and produced reactions
upon spheres beyond their own. Tlie French
Government has recognized the importance
of the work, and has approved its publica
tion, and men of the highest standing in
science, literature aud art have promised
tlieir co-operation.
—The Now York Park-fence advertising
peripatetic standard-bearers and all such ob
vious devices are eclipsed. A company has
been formed in Paris to carry out a really
novel idea in the way of advertising. The
company takes a lease of one window in the
second or third story of a house in a promi
nent street or boulevard. From dusk till
after midnight a transparency, brightly lit
up, on a sea-green ground, sets forth the
advertisement. You can arrange either for
a display once a week or a whole week, etc.,
alternately in any of the windows in the sev
leral quarters possessed by the Company.
The Chinese have made us familiar with a
“ City of Lanterns,” but Paris through this,
invention promises to become the city of
transparencies.
| —Paper petticoats have come into fashion
in England. In manufacturing them amuse
ment is blended with comfort in a very high
degree. A dealer in the article inserts this
advertisement in a London paper : “Madame
Percale begs leave to call the attention of
1 atlies about co visit the seaside, to her new
and richly embroidered paper petticoats at
one shilling each. Each petticoat contains
!an installment of anew novel of great do
mestic interest, by Anthony Trollope, enti
: tied, ‘Tucks or Frills. ’ The story will be
complete in fifty weekly petticoats. ”
Denied. —It is denied that Secretary
Cox lias threatened to resign, unless some
of liis friends and admirers present him with
a house and lot in Washington. The New
York Snn originated the story, and it was
generally believed to be true, because it is
so natural that Cox should follow the pre
vailing fashion. “Like master like man”
is an old law, and we know that Cox’s mas
ter would not live any where if he did not
receive presents of lots of houses and a
number of other fixings. Why should Cox
be so inconveniently singular? He should
reconsider the matter, and if his friends
and admirers are forthcoming with the
necessary greenbacks, Cox may yet be per
suaded to accept a house. Why should poor
Cox lie the only one of the party who is to
be compelled to pay rent?
—The Pall Mall Gazette, says: “The Holy
Father is said to have derived from the Peter
penny from 1860 to the present year the large
: sum of eighty million francs, which gives an
average of ten millions a year. The Pontif
ical treasury will immediately receive from
the Italian “government seven million five
hundred francs on account of the Pontifical
debt, this amount having been brought to
S Rome in gold by an Italian functionary and
lodged at the French embassy. The arrival
of such a supply has produced a good effect
on Pontifical consolides, and also on Roman
bank notes, which had become geriously de
preciated, 1 '
THE CITY.
Judge Logan's Court.
On yesterday morning at ten o’clock James Don
alsou, alia* 3. W. Donald, was brought bafore the
Hon. George M. Logan, J. P., upon a charge of
burglary In the night time. The arrest having been
made In consequence of an affidavit made "by Mrs.
Eliza Aiken, to the effect that on the night of the
24th of September last, past, the said Donalson
had broken into her house and stolen a carpet-bag
and other good*.
While in waiting for the attendance of witnesses,
.we took a copy of a letter brought, to Judge Logan
by one of the city police, which came by last even
ing’s mail, that reads as follows:
“Montezuma, Ga., September 29, 1*309.
Mayor Obkak : /*■<«• iSir—Noticing In the local
"columns of the, Journal ano MsssatKiEK of yes
terday, that one Donalson, alimt Donnelly, had been '
arresied in Augusta, and is now probably in your
city, and should in as brief a manner as pu.-sibie be
sent to the Penitentiary, I forward the following
facts to you as evidence accumulative of hta seouii
drclit-m, and of his being an imjioster, a cheat and
a swindler.
“White in tlii- town he represented ldmseif as
agent for a large produce aud coramiseion house
in Savannah, and went so far as to bargain off a
hogshead of bacon and some sugar. He also rep
resented himself us a widow er, and owner of a line
hotel in Atlanta, and was desirous of obtaining the
services of some neat, tidy, unmarried lady to go
: to Atlanta, and take charge of his miperb hotel,
'offering many inducements, by which he came very
near being successful, but accident-, and that natu
ral prurient desire to commit further rascalities,
prevented and discovered him, whereupon lie ab
sconded.
“i regret to state that I was a victim to his ras
cally machinations, having advanced him $25 in
gold, on » hoasV'ud of bacon and a lot of sugar,
which existed only In imagination, Shoujd you'
fail to make out a case against him, do not release
him, for I want to see if this gay, yet sympathetic
gallant, cannot tie jugged lor obtaining money
under fraudulent pretences. I forgot to state that
iiis exit from this place was so sudden that he for
got to pay his bogrd.
“.Should you desire, or the committing magis
trate d.-sire my testimony, let me know aud 1 will
cheerfully give it.
“Respectfully, &c.,
'- Jons D. WfUi.ES,’’
The prisoner upon his entrance Into Court, es
corted by Constable Cain and officer E. W. Pridg
en, of the city police, brought with him thccarpet
pet bag alleged to have been stolen. He bad no
; couusei, but stated he was ready for trial, although
lie liad no witnesses present to gfve any evidence
in his favor. The first witness examined was:
Mrs. Eliza Aiken, (sworn.) Knows the prison
er, he is the man who was at my house; lie left
there Friday morning, and came tlier: Tuesday, a
week before that, lie broke into my house Friday
morning between twoo,cl<x-k and day break. When
i went to bed his carpet-sack was in my house.
When I got up in the morning, his earpet-saek and
my things were gone. The earpet-oag Dow beside
the prisoner was the one he brought to my house
and carried off on Friday morning. He said on the
night previous, that he intended to sleep down
town; tie came to my house when 1 was asleep.
In the morning I saw the window had been forced,
and that the earjiet-saek ano my tiiiegs w ere both
missing. The articles I missed, was my husband’s
coal am! pants, a piece of worsted goods, two
shaw ls, one black, and the other a red striped one,
a shirt of my hu>-oand's, and one I was making at
the time. Mr. Aiken's umbrella and some greeo
coffee, was taken away also. I did not sec him en
tering my house. I locked up my doors and fast
ened my windows as usual before* I retired.
(Hen- Mr. Donalson asked Mrs. Aiken if she
didn't know that a wagoner was that night at her
piace: if there was not a just God watching her,
etc. Prisoner seemed somewhat excited.)
Miss Cornelia CiiEKKT sworn— l have seen the
man in Court at Mrs Aiken's. His name is
James Donalson. The Last place I saw him was. at
Mrs. Aiken's in this county—was a week ago, the
23d uit.. on Thursday night. He had a carpet
bag with him. The same one is now in Court. I
was at Mrs. Aiken’s on the night the goods were
stolen; the carpet-bag was there when we went to
bed together, Mrs, Aiken and myself. The win
dows and uoors were fastened before we went to
sleep. I board and sleep at Mrs. Aiken's house
1 heard no noise in the night. We went to bed
about two o’clock. I heard no one moving about
through the night In the morning we noticed
the window had been broken open, and then we
missed some green coffee from Uie table, and soon
afterwards found the carpet-bag was gone. I next
found some money and letters liad been taken out
of the pocket of my dress. A coaL, pair of pant-,
two shawls, some woolen ckith. and some shirts
were also gone. I did not -ee the juaeoner after
this robbery till he was brought from Atlanta by
the officers, on Tuesday evening. TTic window
broken seemed to liave been taken oil its hinges;
it was a board window, and in the room next the
one occupied by myself and Mrs. Aiken. It was
fastened with a book and staple. It was swung
back oti the when 1 found it. A shelf
Upon u>' broken down. The carpet
bag and other ,-rty stolen was ill the beds its*
where we slejdr j jjg next morning all the
were missini shawl I had taken fro« . jl
1 SWTwI- ‘ To
and fortv ceotsV** in iny pocket, and taker. * p;-,.
from. Mr. D<mal»un generally slept intherodi-ic
occupied. Thejfe were but two rooms in the house.
The house fs located near Thompson’s factory, the
second house from the road. Donalson had
boarded with Mrs. Aiken for a week or 60. He
said he was going to pay her for hi 9 board Ido
not know whether he did pav it or not. Donal
-on was in the house when Mrs. Aiken and myself
retired; he went out shortly afterwards; he did
not take the carpet-tog with him when he went.
Mrs. Aiken’s little girl got up aud fastened the
door when he wont out.
Maky WiujOCGHBK. a little daughter of Mrs.
Aikiiis, aged eleven years, (nearly twelve) says she ,
knows prisoner, his name Is Jfm Donation: he
staid with my mother, Mrs. Aiken, who iiv.-s to-re
in Macon. He staid with mother, but be did not
pay for his board. Jim DomdNoti came to the
window and called mother; shedid not answer.
Then lie called Cornelia; she did not answer. Then
he bursted tiie window open somehow, jumped in
through the window and struck a light. This was
Friday morning, 24th of September, about a week
ago. After he got into the house he picked trp his
carpet bat and laid it ou hi* tied. 1 did not see
him take anything out of the house. He weutijito
the other room when he put out the ctfndle. IVe
could see the window he got in at from where we
was in l>cd, but we could not see the door without
we got up. I have not seen him since she 24th of
September until now. lie was missing the next
morning and so was mother’s things. The carpet
bag now in court is the one he had with him at
mother's house.
Henry Robinson (negro) sworn.— l do not
know prisoner, but have seen him before at iny
shop on Saturday morning, doth September, 1*139.
I only know his mime by w hat 1 have heard of
him. He offered me a shawl that he said he had
paid three dollars for, and I might have it for half
of the money. 1 said I had no money to buy it
w ith. (Here Donalson Interrupted witness, saying,
"You'd better get out of tills country my friend,
if I ever get free of tills scrape.’’) I did not see
the shawl. I s.iw an umbrella and carpet-bag, the
one now before me in court. The umbrella he liad
had a yellow staff in it. lam sure this is the man
that offered the shawl, and that it was on Satnrday
ia-t. 1 am a blacksmith, and work out on the
Columbus road, iu this county. He said he did
not sell the shawl because he wanted money, for
lie had a thousand dollars in his pocket right then.
He said lie had taken the shawl from a w oman he
had been boarding with.
flavins: heard the evidence submitted, hi* Honor
decided that the prisoner should be held, to bail in
the sum of one thousand dollars, with two good
and sufficient securities, to, .he iwd appear before
the Superior Court of Bibb county, at the next
November term, there to be tried for his many
crimes and offences.
How many indictment* are pending against the
prisoner, we liave no means of knowing. He is
evidently a hard case, and will probably be closely
followed up by his many victims throughout the
country, all of whom seem anxious to hear from
him. He says he happens to be entirely out of
money, just now, and of course will have to remain
iu custody till liis trial conies ou, next November,
before the Superior Court.
Tilt and Tourney.
Onr brave knights of the lance will hail with
joy, the perf. ction of arrangements for a grand
tournament during the coming State Fair.
Captains of companies now formed or being
formed in the cities of Atlanta, Augusta, Savannah.
Columbus, Albany, Americas and Macon, can be
furnished information by applying to office Agricul
tural Association, for selected places for tamp and
bivouac, so like the days of yor«. Nothipg is now
left for them to do, except to practice for cxc-el.
lence in every branch of thin manly exercise on
horseback.
Magnificent prizes will be awarded to the victors,
and the “Prize of prizes” will be to the vie.
tor over all the differeut oues who excel in their re-;
speetive companies to to the most lovely j
woman present.
We expect many a fair beauty to visit Macon, and
honor us with a longer stay on account of these fes-;
tivities. Knights with hostler and camp eqnippage,,
can have a glorious time —forage for animals being .
furnished on the grounds at cost.
Now what are our Macon boys doing ? Why not
be practicing at the old Fair Grouud on these spirit'
ed steeds that throng our streets. Our friends in
charge, are fixing everything for their pleasure at
the tilt.
Papers friendly to the State Fair please copy or
notice, so that those interested may be posted.
The Late Homicide.
In our issue of yesterday, our report er made—as
it now appears —an inaccurate statement relative
to a previous meeting between Mr. W. F. Mason
and Samuel G. Goalsoii, which was said to have
taken place in this city the day previous to the
unfortunate occurrence, which statement, made on
what he regarded as correct information, he cor- |
rcets with great pleasure. No such meeting occur
red, as we are positively informed by the father of
the deceased young man, who knows whereof he
speaks. In making reports of this description
from the evidence of other parties, inaccuracies!
will sometimes occur, no matter how extremely :
careful a reporter may be to obtain the exact facts ;
—and it is manifest that in this case we were al
great pains to obtain a correct version of it — yet we
invariably correct all such with as litUe delay as
possible. None can regret the unfortunate reu
icontremore than ourselves. We hope never to
' hear of another like it, 2
VOL. XLI. NO. 27,
The Homicide at Coley's Station.
We heard so many conflicting statements day
before yesterday relative to the killing of Mr. W. F.
Mason," a young gentleman well aud favorably
known in this city, that we resolved to publish
nothing relative to the subject until we found
something we could regard as authentic. So
sooni r had we heard one statement that it was con
tradicted point blank by others, and we therefore
briefly mentioned the casualty, reserving, until to
day, all mention of particulars connected with the
affray. From repeated conversations with those
who'claitn to know all of the facts we gather tha
following statement:
Mr. W ) F. Mason (now deceased) was a young
.gentleman of more than ordinary promise, bom
,iud reared iu this city—his father, Mr.T. N. Mason
stilt being a resident here. Daring the late strug
gle for independence on the part of the South, Mr.
Mason was enrolled as a member of the Macon
Guards, and served under Colonel Lucius Lamar
in the Bth Georgia Regiment, where he was re
garded as a brave soldier and excellent companion.
Since the war he has tieen a resident of this city for
a greater part of the time.
Among Mr. Mason’s personal friends and ac
quaintances was Mr. Samuel G. Coalson, with
whom he was more than ordinarily familiar. Soma
few w eeks ago they attended an lnfair together by
invitation, where, "more for the sake of teasing than
anything else, Mr. Mason began to joke his friend
about his iutended. Growing out of this conversa
tion a nii-uuderstauding arose, which Coalson
brooded over until be became satisfied he had been
seriously wronged, and the friendship previously
existing between the two gentlemen ended in a
decided rupture, which lias now terminated ia
; the death yf one of the parties.
On Monday last, if we are correctly informed,
Mr. Mason was driving through the streets of this
city when Mr. Obalsoti approached him and asked
him if he had made certain state-menu respecting a
.young lady of his acquaintance,, to which Mr. Ma
son answered affirmatively. Mr. Coalson then be
came very much excited and exclaimed, 'You’re a
bar, sir.’’ Mr. Mason responded in similar but
more emphatic terms, and giving his horse the
twffi drn.i- furiously onward, apparently under
great excitement.
On Tuesday morning young Mason earned his
father to Coley’s. Ills father got out of the buggy,
took bis valise and started to the train, when
Coalson came up within twenty feet aud said,
“Doc Mason, defend yourself,” and commenced
tiring. Fired twice before Mason drew his pistol.
He snot six times, the fourth shot taking effect
and producing a wound from which Mason died
without speaking a word. The father came up and
received one bullet bole through his overcoat.
Young Mason shot twice—once after he started to
fall. The moment he shot off his pistol he fell to
the earth, when Mr. Coalson shot at him again,
and that time missed him.
There was an immense excitement about there
at the time, and Mr. Coalson was arrested at once
by the citizens and taken to Pulaski, where he is
now held in custody. The train of ears came up
just aftt-r the aflray, and every passenger seemed to
have his own version of the adair, so that it was
almost impossible to get anything like correct in
formation from any one. The bereaved father (who .
has our heartfelt sympathies in thegreatloss he ha*-*
sustained) 6ent an order up to this city for a coffin *
to enclose the remains of his unfortuuate son, and.
yesterday he was buried at Rose Hill Cemetery bje
many ot his comrades iu arms, and friends "who*
knew and loved liim in life.
Mr. Mason, at the time of his death, was in tbq
twenty-fifth year of his age, and but for this unhapt ’
pv affair, bid fair to enjoy a long and useful life. .
Not three days ago he was in the enjoyment of vig
orous ami robust health, now ne si reps in the city
of tiie dead. We hope his untimely taking off may j
induce our young men to be more careful, and to
remember that hut for this, so foolish a habit of
carrying deadly weapons, a valuable life might have
been spared. - %
Inparalleled Outrage Jf
Mr. Ferguson, of Jefferson county, wbu« lying
sick upou his bed, was so severely beaten oa'e*t*
uruay n gut that it is feared he will not recover
The negroes who inflicted this severe punishment
are marked, and many of them can and will be ideu
t fled. His wife and daugnter maae th ir escape
toribe woods, where they"remained lili da, break.
The police are upon the tra kof the miscreants. '
Cheering Statistics.
Tiie New York Evening Post is the au
thority for the statement that a Dr. Edwterd,
Jams will give an interesting article in the 4
Atlantic Mynihly for October, on the gradual -
improvement which lias taken place in tha
duration of human life. He brings together,,
in outline, the results of the tables of mor
tality kept in all ages, ever since Ulpianas,’
a Homan judge of the time of Alexander
Severus, made the first attempt to compute
the average “expectation of life.”
It appears conclusively that sanitary j
science has a great influence for good; and
that the greater attention paid to the con
ditions of life and health, in reaent times,
has told weightily in the statistics. In for
mer ages many forms of disease were more
fatal, as well as more prevalent, than now—
especially those of children. Life in cities
was short; many of them were only kept
from extinction by new supplies of life from
fthe country. For instance:
t- Ijfij—im
n*-i aSidTninety-nine thousand six* hun
-Grotl routjr-five. and the burials m'n.i
hundred and sixty-four thousand eight hun
dred and eighty-two.”
In London, now, the burials are 78 to
each 100 births; while in the seventh century
they were 137. Similar results are shown
in the few large cities of Europe—Faria,
Dresden, Augsburg end Breslau—in which
sudi records have been kept so long. Iu
Boston, too, where the annual deaths from
1728 to 1752 were nearly one in twenty-one
of all persons living, they have been for tha g
last twenty years only one in forty-two; or .
om-hajf as many.
But the most curious proofs of his theebd
rent which Dr. Jarvis has found are in thd
records of mortality in Geneva, and in tha
annuities of the British Government.—
“There is,” be tells us, “a record of mor
tality kept at Geneva, in Switzerland, for
almost four hundred years.” “The expecta
tion of life,” that .is, the average time every
person had to live, was—
Iu the loth century 21.21 years.
In the 17th century 25.67 “
Iu the 18th century 33.72 “
Iu 1801 to 1833 39.69 * s
In IS’l4 to 1833 40.68 “ *
If is especially interesting that—“ This
improvement is mainly in the diminish
mortality of infants and children. In the
first period one-half were dead in their ninth
year. In the last and present period one
half lived forty-three years and one-fifth.
In the first period only thirty-nine per cent
;of those who were born reached the period
of maturity at twenty, and entered upon
self-sustaining and responsible life. In tha
last period .sixtv-six per cent, passed into tha
working period, and became self-support-?
ers. "
The British Government has paid dearly*
' for its knowledge of the fact that the aver
age duration of life had increased. In 1790 L
it borrowed a large sum of money on annui-j
ties, payable during life; and tlieir valued
were estimated by the same tables of mar*
tality which had been used for the same pur*
pose a hundred years before, and found sat
isfactory to the treasury. But the people
lived longer in the nineteenth than they had
in the eighteenth century, and the annuities
remained payable long after they ought, by
the tables, and accouling to the estimate of
their value, to have ceased.
“Mr. Finlayson’s analysis and calculations
showed that, while under the age of twenty
eight ten thousand of each sex had died in
the tontine of 1693, only five thousand seven
! hundred and seventy-two males and six
thousand four hundred and sixteen females
1 hail died in the tontine of 1790, in the same
!length of time. The mortality under the
age of twenty-eight had diminished forty
two per cent, among males, and thirty-five
| per cent, among females, during the hun
dred years.”
| Dr. Jarvis promises a series of articles,
showing how epidemics and all diseases havt
i been made less destructive, and the physical l
constitution of men strengthened by the
progress of civilization.
A Flagrant Outrage. j
During the visit of Prince Arthur of Engs
land, to an exhibition at London, Canada,
somebody not having the fear of Sumner,
| Chandler and Butler before his eyes, pulled
down an American flag and tore it into
! threils.
Here is an item to add to Sumner’s All*
jbama claims bilL If the effete Britishtii
| refuse to pay it promptly, we think thAtJfll
is high time to “let slip the dogs of waK;
For Sumner’s convenience we state the tM,
count and repeat our recommendation th|B
j Zacliariali Chandler, with the yellow liver*®
! and the “armonial bearings of Michigan ml
! the buttons,” be ordered to present it.
! Victoria and demand instant payment
I coin, or greenbacks.
' To amount of account rendered.. .£500,000 os.
To 1 U. 8. Flag destroyed. 1
£500,001 as. +1
—Dr. Porter, junior partner oi the die
I firm of Gurlton & Porter, formerly Method
[ ist book agents, and immediate predeoesßg
!of the present firm of Carlton A Lanahtstti
returned to New York on Thursday, hava* -
just heard of the rumored defalcation, fi
thinks it exceedingly questionable whefbt
tthere lias been any loss whatever to
Book Concern, by fraud in the managttgHt
or any other cause, and that Dr. T il ” i<il **Mi
new agent, has been led into miataka(j|H3p»
i investigations.
— The Loudon htuiAMa » Ba»»tbsd
useript in Lord Byron's own brjid - r
will soon be published, which will set
question raised by Mrs,