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BY J. W. BURKE & CO. Ifeittnfll mul Hftssraga J. W. lII’RKE At CO., Proprietors. Ws¥l. M. BROWNE, Editor. OFFICE no. 60 SECOND STREET, MACON, OA. U ATF.B OF 81 BSCRIPTION. Daily, per Annum $lO 00 “ Six Months 5 00 “ Three Months 2 50 “ i One Month 1 00 Thi-Webkly. per Annum 5 00 “ “ Six Months 2 50 “ “ Three Mouths 1 50 Weekly, per Annum :> 00 “ Six Months 1 50 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,