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DAILY TEIEWUP* AID MESSEN8ER.
I' |»uhl;shed every morning—Monday’scirrpted—
ui fU* 1etefrn.pl. Budilin rvmer o'. Cb*irrjas*'
S#*>nJ str-ste. **Urriptur TEN DOLlAM
yexv. FIV* lXiLLARt lor vfa i;w*U>‘- nTO
iOI.I.ARS u4 Ftfl OE>TSIor lia*.' n... .to,
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pitted- _ __
Tnui’fi.t adraftivTT.- nW ■*• dollar j«.t •>(.. >r
cf trn lin,*. or !i*j« lor flrrt iwMiration. .tni mi v
c III. for >11 «.l~qw»t ina-rtfon*. Literal ml--
La fcntr.u U»r».
Tl»r Tinroiurw ssn Mrarcan represent*
thn*-* of tlw oUic'l ii. i»i|»3|*«r* in tlni hiHionol
Gcorrio. mul or many ha»fumi*h«*l tins
r.i?U« a new -»to that !*r/e srope of Oeoivia, Ah*
nnniu nnd PP.r.<fc» truiinr t»< litis |«f*.nt. It
f«i.d* .»• way to alm<*t '-u-ry inu llirf-. i.t h.-.*- -
UU .*»!•«! pi*v of hutim*** in that srrti«4L Assn
uu\.*rt:*.tir medium tn tltfit rune.- of country it
£tleftraph Jt^ffessenfltr
ill.MlAY miRMXH. JAN', to l'TI
I iii . Lave count.-J tiro iu>*od of St.
t..,ui i ijoffi, anil onlj iiiul 8,44Xi. \ et tlu*
City Marshal claims to kill about Unit
auiiito-MiYcry yoar. Tin* MarahallV f ■
it $1 far «-*rh killi-l <1ii<{.
Colihidob, when Irctjirini' whilo a
young scan, wan once violently hissed,
lie immediately retorted: "When a cold
treaui of truth U poured on rod-hot
prejudice*, no wonder that they hi.-w.”
Scuixo Wkatbkk.—Yesterday, aft**r
five day« of raw and rainy weather, the
<un roie in unclouded splendor, and the
dry wa« ns balmy as young spring. Now
shake of .-olil , chill*, pleurisy, pneumo-
i.S, Ac , and go ahead.
■ ■ ■>■*«■
A Frin- h writer (IpverTbfl* A young
ijdy 1 i - a creature that ceasen to kiss
entlemrt At twelve, and begin* again at
* i wenty.” Right, except as to lait-named
age. She begins again mnch earlier than
that. We have been there, and know.
I n c Kinperor of China lias conferred
diitinction on the memory of Ifang-
Chi.ng. late viceroy of the province of
Yunnan. This otticial liange*! himaclf
when he found that he was unable to re-
si*.t the reb«U who oeh-agured the capi
tal city, and his wife hanged herself with
him. {fg J
I’stkh SrAi n has been elected Mayor
of Kooxville, and the Pres* and Iforuld
puts a rooster in the attitude of crowing
at the head of an arithmetical statement
in proof of that fact. Wo are glad that
Peter Staub lias been elected. Don't
know him, but know Petor Sohmincke,
who wan u good fellow in his time.
THE GEORGIA PRESS.
The Atlanta correspondent of the Au-
g ; ta Con titutionalist writes as fellows :
The re* oremendatkm of Gov- Smith
for a Bureau of Agricnltura is gaining
favor, a: it thould. T. G. Holt, of Ma
con, Mr. Harris, of Richmond,and others,
are spoken of in connection with such a
bureau. _
A man named Thomas Heath, living
.. , I near Gunn’s Mills, on the Georgia rail-
ce that | ,
road, waa run over by a tram on that
road la it Friday night, and both his legs
so terribly mangled aa to cause his death
the next morning. It is supposed that.
he was drunk.
The Augusta Constitutionalist pro
poses the organization of an association
in -noli Southern State, for the purpose
of pensioning Confederate soldiers who
have no government to recognize, their
,, , ,, ... , , . ,, claims and look after their wants. The
Inch they will travel. Ihis year, a. . -r j,] an f or raising the money is by lottery.
1 * 11 * r Us im- 'i*he object is a noble one, but we in
Xo Ocuiand lor Lower Grades.
That has bean the song of the cotton
market., the woild over, for twoy- ,ri
past, and :t is stir.louder from moiitli
' to month. “Xodemand for lower grad. ."
la Course not. When it comes to lout:
grade East IndUu furze and dogta’l, at
half price, are u». 1, and enough of mid
dling American used with it to make a
pa slide cloth. There is no place for
poor American cotton at any pri.
w ill pay the grower; and, therefore, it is
indi-pensahle to the -oK-eoss of the South
ern planter that he should improve tin-
qualities of his cotton.
And the importance of this point is
.-rowin'* in view of the alarming increase
of the cotton crop. Tliero is no tolling
what magnitode the Southern crop3 are
going to reach, or the rate of sped at
Notwithstan'Dixo all that liaslx*en said
about fees and cOst i eating up laankrupt
e tute*. a well known nierehttlit assorts
tlmt, if the court and every officer should
Act without any compensation whatever,
the entire estate surrendered by a bank
rupt will not, in the average of involun
tary eases, pay ten cents on the dollar.
Roiseos Cork MHO is sly. After hav-
ing privately read the fateful letter of
Caleb Cushing to Jeff Davis, which he
must have known would blast the
judicial prospects of the writer, Mr.
Coiikliug continued to defend Grant’s
“second choice” up to the very moment
when the production of the letter itself
struck the caucus like a thunderbolt.
Got Them.—The Pennsylvania. Clii-
< igo and Sf. Louis Railway Company ar
rested last Thursday at ColSmbus, Xenia
and Cincinnati eight striking engineers
and other railway operatives for misplac
ing switches, "dobing” engines, soaping
tracks and sodaing water, by which some
of the late accidatl* on the road were ef
fected. The evidence against them is
conclusive.
Wai-mra for Speed.—Persons having
foreign correspondence now-a-days wait
for tho fast steamers. As a cons.'nuencc
the Canard fast steamer Calabria, sail
ing from New York on the 7th instant,
•■anied out ninety-eight hags of mail mat-
ter which hud accumulated within twen
ty-four hours, whilo the slower steamer
of *lie previous trip took out thirty-three
bags, tho gatherings of three days.
The Washington correspondent of the
Cincinnati Times writes, January 15:
•'Caleb Cushing says that, in deference to
the President's wish, he will not resign
tlie Spanish mission. His departure,
which was fixed for the 2-Hli, has been
postponed, and he will not sail nntil in
structed by the State Department. The
intention is to retain him here until the
Spaniards have established some perma
nent form of government.”
Some fiend in human shape, more moved
we suspect by tlie hope of torturing the
candidates than by any sincere desire for
the reform of the Civil Service, proposes
to a«lil to the horrors of the examination
t.v requiring the candidate to spell “lan-
danlet." No man who had the good of
tho i-ountry at heart or any feeling of hu
manity in his bosom would make such a
a brutal suggestion. The next proposi
tion will bo to reipiire candidates to pro
nounce “Credit Mobilier.” This tiling
has been carried too far.—2Vilcnc.
In" tin* past year in Great Britain
eighteen peers have died, rir : Lord An-
naly, aged 81; the Bari of Rutlanil, 78 ;
Ieird Kilmain. 78 ; Lord Geo. Rayleigh,
77: Isird Majoribanks. 76: Lord AYolvcr-
ton, 7li; the Karl of Hardwieke, 74;
Lord Howden, 74: Lord l.yveden, 73;
Lord Westbury, 73; the Earl of Gallo
way, 72 ; Viscount Ossington. 72; Lord
Lytton. G7 . Bishop of Winchester. 67 ;
1/ord Zonche, 83: Earl Cardogan, 61; Earl
Delawarr, 37 ; and tlie Earl of Hopot-nm,
41.
Ir is not throe weeks ago that a friend
criticised to Butler something that the
President did, as “a stupid blunder.” and
Butler turned oc the friend with the
' bird-of-prey" look which characterizes
him at times when he is about to put his
talons into an opponents and blurted out,
“Stupid blunder I when did you ever
know that fool to do anything else ?” It
may be set down as certain that Butler
intends to fulfill the function his name
Implies, and "bottle up” Giant before he
geta through with him.—Utter to Ncir
Port flmykit.
A Tbbbiblb Wmaroji.—A new gun,
the invention of James P. Taylor, of
Knoxville, Tenneesee, is being tried at
Colt’s armory, Hartford, Connecticut.
The Springfield Republican says: “It is
claimed that it will discharge 800 balls
a minute, and has been known to dis
charge 1400. There are twenty-four
barrels, sixteen in the outer circle and
eight inside. They do not re voire, but
are all convergent, so that at five him
dred yards the balls will all strike with*
in a circle of one foot. It it a terrible
weapon. Arrangements are in progress
for their manufacture at Colt’s.
| such a wot. cold and unfavorable
I mer, we wi re to market aboot thirty-six
! or thirty-scv.'n hundred thousand bales—
! ay $230,0u0 lea than wc did last year.
I But almost everybody now looks for a
j crop of 4.100,000, and it will not surprise
I ii a particle to find the first week of next
September tlmt tin- yield has exceeded
that of tlie great cotton year 1S70-’71,
which was 4,352,317 bales. The defi
ciency will be small at best, in our opin
ion.
Now let us consider this question : If
forty-odd hundred thousand bales of cot-
Georgia would find an obstacle in the
Constitution, which forbids all lotteries,
giftenterprisi's, etc., etc.—Atlanta Herald.
’ Precious Uriah Heep! After running
a gift enterprise for months, and that not
without .,ome very objectionable features,
the Herald lias found out that there is a
law against gift enterprises ! Cannot the
Legislature authorize a lottery for this
benevolent purpose as well as for the
Masonic fraternity ? Would tlie Herald
object? Or has it liuhued a crediRous
public of money enough to piously retire
from the business?—Aujudo Consfitu-
tioualift.
One hundred and forty-one applica
tion are marketed as tho product of sncl: tions for liquor license have been pre-
a season as we had last year, what will ] ented to tlie clerk of council at Savan-
be the product of a nood year, like that nah, but only twenty-one have paid tho
of 1870? The answer is brief. It would license.
put lip the crop to over five million bales.
And what would be the effect on the
planter ? The bottom of the market
would drop out, and he would find him
self begging dealers to take liis cotton at
almost any price, n3 he did in 18-43, 18*15
and 18*43, when middling uplands were
quoted at four pence in Liverpool.
This possibility scares us so much that
we wislt to frighten somebody else. We
wish to alarm tho people—not into rais
ing less cotton—(for that is hopeless)—
but into preparing earnestly and anx
iously to produce their own food supplies
—so that when the time comes when no
planter can possibly buy subsistence with
the profits of cotton growing, the people
may not starve. This time (if it has not
already como) will boon bo here. We
need no great effort of the imagination
to sec cotton at 10 cents in Macon next
year. It will sell at that price next
Christmas if we liavo a very favorablo
year like the summer of 1870; and there
is that degree of danger in tho immediate
future which should not only justify every
farmer in making early preparation for
such an evont, but, in our judgment,
should call upon him for the most dili
gent preparation for the emergency. If
it does not come he will not suffer, but
profit by his preparation. If it does
conic, and finds him without a supply of
corn and meat, his case will bo deplorable.
And whatever may be the price of mid
dling uplands, let us rest assured that
poorer grades of cotton will be loss and
less in demand at any price.
To Our Bankrupt Friends—A Word
In Season.
The numerous insolvent notices ap
pearing daily in our columns, and a re
cent personal survey of the situation m
South Georgia, revealing unprecedented
financial distress, justifies a brief word of
counsel to the unfortunate sufferers. Re
member that the bankrupt act was in-
tended to relievo honest debtors, and as a
priceless lioon to those who, in the clutch
es of relentless Sbylocks, could neither
pay their obligations, or gain time for
further industrial efforts. It does hot
absolve yon, nor can any earthly tribu
nal do so, from the pledges of payment
made for money and benefits received
from those who saved you perhaps from
starvation and ruin, in your darkest sea
son of distress. And if delivered now
from tho grasp of the sheriff and tlie
meshes of the law, do not lose sight of
the patent fact that tlie first and highest
mission of your lives, should be to trorfc
ei:i and cancel every centime of indebted
ness whieh justly stands against you.
Lot it never be forgotten that you have
used the funds and mayhap exhausted
the resources of your creditors, trithoul
rendering thm: any equivalent. And to ut
terly ignore the justice of their claims in
fora con* cicntiae would be but a slight
remove from highway robbery.
But when is voluntary bankruptcy jits-
tifiable ? We answer, that question rests
between tho debtor and his God. To the
world it would appear that the step was
permissible, when the exigencies of trade
and personal losses showed such a balance
sheet against the applicant, that extrica
tion was impossible, and common honesty
therefore demanded the surrender of liis
effects for the benefit of his creditors.
Or, where no time could be obtained, or
compromise effected with financial cor
respondents—or .when antebellum security
debts, contracted in affluent circumstan
ces, fall like the “rocks and hills” upon
you, and those pledged to bear their part
of the burden evade the issue. These
may justify a resort to this summaiy
method of severing the gordian knot of
your legal obligations, but only as above
indicated, when the resolve is made deo
gratiat, and as far as possible, faithfully
performed toouiftcrwards tojxiy * * ..inally
every farthing yon owe.
The argument that a mere notice of
bankruptcy actually pays a debt is utterly
fallacious, and subversive of all moral re
sponsibility.
To our friends, therefore, who are finan
cially in the throes of dissolution, we say j last departing from those paths of truth
Ekiit thousand one hundred and
twelve bales of cotton, valued at $102,568,
were shipped from Savannah to foreign
ports, on Saturday.
The Savannah Advertiser, of Sunday,
learns “that our city was favored yester
day with tlie presence of a genuine live
English lord, who arrived in the morning
by the Central railroad train, with six
male attendants, three horses and twenty-
two dogs, a full complement of tents, and
camp equipage enough to require tho use
of two extra freight cars. His lordship—
whose name, unfortunately, we were not
able to ascertain, as he did not register at
any hotel, nor favor any of our citizens,
that we could hear of, with his acquaint
ance— is tn route to Florida, where he ex
pects to have a fine time killing game of
all kinds. He is just arrived from the
plains, where ho lias been amusing him
self with buffalo and other small game.
Ho was to have left with his men, horses
and dogs, by tho Gulf train yesterday
afternoon.”
The “Or.rnAN’s Free School” of At
lanta.—Referring to the notice of this
institution, in a late editorial letter to
tho Tr.LEonArn and Messenger, from
Atlanta, a correspondent of the Atlanta
Constitution sny3:
Your valuahlo paper gallantly copied
the handsome extract from tho time-
honored T’ELEonArii and Messenger,
written by the facile pen of H. H. J„
where the author feelingly comments
upon the orphans and higlily compli
ments the teachers of tho “Orphan’s Free
School.” Atlanta returns thanks to her
sister city for her touching tribute of
praise, hut begs the privilege of extend
ing tlie subject, so that justice maybe
done those who hold the helm and guide
the bark of Charity. This orphan’s school
is supported by “Tho Georgia State Lot
tery,” and is emphatically a free school.
A handsome building, teachers, books,
desks, stationery, fuel and tho many ar
ticles necessary to a well organized school,
are generously and munificently furnished
by 110 “Managers,” so that the orphans
are not at one cent's expense. Yearly
some one hundred and fifty orphans en
joy these privileges without money and
without price.” Nor do those blessings
stop here. St. Luke’s Episcopal congre
gation arc allowed a room in the building
fn which to worship. This of itself is a
noteworthy donation. Too much praise
cannot be bestowed upon the courteous,
kind and exceedingly liberal local mana
gers, Colonel A. M. Wallace, Dr. H. L.
Wilson and Colonel James D. Waddel,
who are ever ready with purse and heart
to meet all demands of the school. The
prompt liberality, thoughtful kindness
and universal urbanity have won for
them a place ill the hearts of both teach
ers and scholars of the “Orphan’s Free
School.” B. G. M.
This is a ycord of which tho local
managers may well ho proud, and we take
pleasure in adding it to the words of
praise spoken by our associate.
The Early County News says sundry
creditors in Blakely, with claims amount
ing to $122, attached the property of an
absconding debtor about two weeks ago,
and tho property was sold for about $40.
After paying all the cost3, about $G re
mained to divide among the creditors
and six lawyers.
Tiie Covington Enterprise prints the
following valuahlo information as to how
tho girls of that town stand on tho mar
riage question:
Wc have 112 single ladies between the
ages of fifteen and forty. Ninety-one of
these are after a man with money; two
are anxious to marry a doctor; one will
take a lawyer or a fiddler, she don’t care
which; three are “ lost to lor,” and ex-
Dress their preference for a drug clerk;
five want a dry goods clerk; one is after
a grocery clerk, and two desire an ex
press man; seven will take anything in
tho form of a man, “Oh, Lord!” There
was one who wanted an editor, hut her
friends sent her to the insane asylum,
where she ought to have been thirty-four
years ago.
The Hamilton Visitor says Waverly
“Grange,” in Harris county, produced
last year 700 bushels of corn Over and
above their own wants. Less that 23
bale-: of cotton were mortgaged among
their inti re membership. They have also
agreed to submit all differences between
themselves to arbitration.
A ns-E imported bull that cost $200,
was told at the Steadman bankrupt sale
in Newton county, last week, for $25, but
the average price of a setter puppy in the
same county is $13.
Boully, of the Hamilton Visitor, is
consult your creditors first, and seek tiim
or liberal compromises at tlieir hands,
before adopting the domicr resort of
bankruptcy. In addition, reduce your
expenses to the minimum figure, and
pm * by earnest efforts, and manly solf-
saerifice* the sincerity of yonr desire to
discharge every liability. If all fail, God
help you. It is not for erring man to
judge you for clambering out of the
depths into the bankrupt life-boat. But
the remedy is itself a calamity, which is
sufficient almost to break the proudest
spirit.
aud virtue in which we ust?d fondly to
think he wn- firmly anchored. Hear him:
Mr. J. W. Bonaer, of Meriwether coun
ty, was lately taken »ick, and complained
of a pain in his stomach. During the
nigl-.t lie vomited a minnow fish of the
homey-laud species, having one side cov
ered with moss. It is supposed to have
been in hi. stomach for twenty years, and
the lno-s on its side is accounted for
from its having lain so long in a torpid
state. After having thrown up the fish,
the patient felt no further pain.
Wilkes county is out of debt, and has
$355 31 in her trios my.
Tn e residence and four outhouses of
Colonel Strong, near Thomasville, were
burned last Thursday. No insurance on
the house, hot the furniture was insured
for $980.
Insurance Con.-olidatiox.—The At-
Tbat Trooli Lotl Chatlain Again
We had occasion a few days since to
quote and comment upon a very unique
prayer offered in the Federal Senate by
its chaplain, the Rev. Byron Sunderland, j ^ Constitution, of Sunday, has the
of Washington City. j followin „ .
It turns out, now, that this trooly loyl [ A dls?at ..* Ui received yesterday, from St.
pwraon is not above turning an honest ( Louis, from Jos. B. Eads, the presblent of
penny as a pious lobbyist. The New I the Mound City Life Insurance Company,
York Son prints an affidavit from a citi- Mr -' ? Hawkins, General Traveling
. „ . a* i J Agent of the company, informs him that
*euof Fairfax county, Ya., to the effect the contratt lit ween the Mound City
that in 1867 he secured Sunderland’s ser
vice* to lobby a hill for damages done by
the Federal army to affiant’s property,
lad that Sunderland worked cheap, only
asking $350, which sum affiant paid him
after th* passage of the bill.
Company and the well-known St. Louis
Mutual Life Insurance Company has been
carried out. The latter company is
merged in the Mound City Company,
which, yesterday took possession of the
business and splendiil building of the St.
Louis Mutual.
Dnrell’s Case-Very Damaging Evi
dence Against Him.
The Tribune's spesial Washington cor
respondent telegraphs under date of the
lGth, that Judge Wilson and Mr. El-
dredge of the Judiciary Committee, who
have been to New Orleans to investigate
accusations made against Judge Durell,
arc busy in preparing the testimony to
place before the Committee at an early
day. The evidence against Judge Durell
is very demaging. It wa3 discovered,
among other thing*, that the famous
“midnight order,” made by Durell out of
Court, at his own house, and without the
seal or signature of the Clerk of the Court,
by which the Mechanics’ Institute, used
as State nouse, ifas seized in tlie interest
of the Kellogg usurpation, was issued on
Judge Darell’s own motion and without
tlie knowledge of either of the attorneys
in the ease. In other words, Judge Du
rell made a motion for this order to him
self as Judge, and in the latter capacity
issued it. It also appeared that Durell
made two orders in regard to one of his
friends for the purpose of throwing the
chief bankruptcy business into liis
hands. The first order directed that in
all bankruptcy cases this special friend,
named Norton, should be assignee, except
where the creditors, under the law, ap
pointed some other person. Lest this ap
pointment of other persons should, after
a time, take the business out of Norton’s
hands, it was further provided in order
No. 2 that he should act as assignee in
all this latter class of cases. Norton’s
fees were frightfully exorbitant. Credi
tors rarely received any dividends out of
the assets of bankrupts, and when they
did they were so small os to be of little
account. Meanwhile Norton giew im
mensely rich. When trouble arose about
excessive fees, Durrell made another or
der, that no complaints about fee3 or pa
pers looking to securing a remedy should
be filed unless $30 was first deposited.
This, of course, greatly reduced tha num
ber of complaints, a3 $30 was generally
more than any creditor hoped to receive,
no matter how large his claim.
A New York Communist.
The Sun says that among the persons
arrested in New York, on tho day of the
fight between the police and the unem
ployed workingmen, was one Justus
Schwab, of Frankfort-on-thc-Main, who
was found in a saloon with a red flag
wrapped around him, proclaiming liberty,
equality, and fraternity to a little knot of
disappointed workingmen. At the station
a badge said to be that of the Commune
was found pinned to his coat. He gave
his name defiantly, and maintained a
bellicose demeanor, even behind the bars.
“What was I doing there?” said he. “I
went there to lead the workingmen. Thoy
wanted to bo led, that’s all. If they had
followed me tho police could never have
stood against us.” “Where were you
when arrested ?” “In a saloon,” was the
reply. “That makes no difference. I
was telling them that citizens had a right
to pxrade and a right to live. They
dragged me away for nothing, nothing at
all. It must come to an end soon. Capi*
tal has been grinding the face of the poor
long enough.”
“Are you an International?”
“I belong to the Tenth Section. We
advocate the abolition of property and
the marriage law. It must como to the
Commune at last. We intend to make
tho streets of New York run redder with
blood than those of Paris did.”
“Did yon ever learn a trade ?”
“I am a mason, but I have had no
work for weeks. An employer offered
me $3.50 a day, where he was making
•hi* hundreds off of tho job. I would not
work for such wages; $3.50 a day! It
hardly feeds one, much loss buys clothes.”
Only a Joke.
The playful allusions made in the con
cluding portion of our Cuthbert letter
with reference to tho indestructible na
ture of tlie ancient uniforms of the fed
eral soldiery, which the negroes fell heir
to, have l>een accepted as meant in earn
est by some of our friends.
It has oven been intimated that legis
lators might be induced to follow up the
suggestion to send agents through the
country for tho collection of these weath
er-proof vermin depositories, neaven
grant they may take no such serious ac
tion, and thus turn into a tragical reality,
the g03sippingpleasantry of the innocent
writer.
Why it would raise such a howl from
tho coatlcs3 and shirtless black allies of
tlie administration, that the whole stand
ing army of the country would be march
ed forthwith again into Dixie—Sumner
would have a fit—Butler don liis regi
mentals and grasp his haversack for
another spoon raid—and the long roll to
arms would ho beaten from Ma : ne to
California.
The saints defend U3 from such a ca
tastrophe. Rather let every darkey—man,
wonuttt and child, sooty, speckled or yel
low—bo arrayed in loyal blue, spic and
span new, at Uncle Sam’s charges.
It was a harmless jest we meant to
indulge in, at the expense of the cast-off
finery of tho * boys in blue.” Nothing
more, Mr. Grant, nothing more, * ’poa
honor.”
A Handsome Prolit.
A correspondent sends tho Charleston
News the following statement of the yield
of one acre of- land on the plantation of
CoL Warthen,in Washington county, Ga:
Five bales upland cotton sold for $370 00
Premiums taken at two fairs 200 00
One liundrod ami thirty .i.u.h- N * :: n
seed solil at 3 rents per bushel G50 00
Total $1*00 00
COST AND CHARGES.
One thousand fourlmnilred pounds
puano ,$4S 00
Four hundred bushels compost 40 00
Sixty bushels cotton seed. 10 00
Seventy loails pine straw io GO
L-il>or mpickhnr, etc., etc 00 OO—171 00
Net profits $iy>sa 00
This, it may be said, is an exceptional
case ; but there are thousands of acres of
land in South Carolina that, with care in
cultivation, will produce from three to
four bales of upland *otton. White im
migrant labor will do it.
Frauds and Defalcations in the Freed-
men’s Savings Bank.
The Boston Globe (Rad.) says a letter
has been received by a prominent South
ern member of Congress from an officer
of a branch of the Freedmen’s Bank in a
Southern city, which says:
“Absence of intermediate and personal
control has led, in several instances at
least, to gross speculation and fraud. The
discovery of such fraud, however,'has
never been made public to depositors,
but has been hushed up and compromised
by agents sent from Washington; while,
in not one single instance, to my knowl
edge, has any attempt been made to pro
ceed criminally against a defaulting cash
ier. The branch in this city ha3 suffered
from such defalcation, yet no entry of the
same appear on the records. No report
of it has been officially made to its Advi
sing Board, and no steps has been taken
to punish the defaulter. Congress char
tered the institution, and it is independ
ent of State control. But the numerous
defalcations hushed up, its absence of re- I
ports as to investments, its immediate j
stopping of payments on the breaking
out of the late panic, and the absence of
all responsibility of the directors, except
to Congress, make a thorough investiga
tion by Congress into the bank’s condi
tion moat desirable, and the repeal of its
charter an act of justice to tin* Southern
States.”
Wayside Notes.
Mr. S. Fleishman, of Hawk ins viile, and j
Miss F. Marcus, of Amerieus, were mar-1
ried at the latter place on the evening of
the 13th instant. Hasson C. Wislosky,
of Albany officiated. Tho marriage cere
mony was followed by a grand ball. Prof.
Kessler’s excellent band made music for
tho occasion.
The newly elected City Council of Cuth
bert, held their first meeting Tuesday
night and elected the following officers to
servo for the ensuing year: E. S. Kirk-
sey, marshal, W. J. Barry, deputy mar-
marshal, F. M. Allison Treasurer, J. G.
Kiddoo, Clerk.
A number of Randolph county planters
invested in the Georgia Fertilizer manu
factured by Messrs. C. H. Way & Co., of
Savannah, giving their notes for the same
payable when the crop was made. The
notes were not paid upon maturity, and
the Central Railroad Company, holding
tho notes as collateral security, sued tho
parties who gaTe them for principal and
interest. The planters refused to pay
them, alleging that tho manure was
worthless and when the cases were up for
trial at Randolph Superior Court last
week, they introduced a number of wit
nesses who testified that tho fertilizer
had no visible effect upon the crops. In
each case the jury rendered a verdict for
the plaintiff.
Mr. Brooks, a nephew of the founder
of tho Brooks House, has taken cliarge
of tliat establishment, and by careful
personal attention is making it an excel
lent hotel.
The tax-payers of Randolph county re
turn $1,801,000 worth of property.
A prominent lawyer and leader in
Southwest Georgia, in conversation with
a party of his agricultural friends, sug
gested that each farmer and planter in
tho State should sell one-third of his
mules. One of the party inquired, “Who
would he tlie buyers r"
Cotton thieves are active about Eu-
faula. On Thursday night a largo por
tion of a halo and tlie watchman’s lan
tern were stolen from the Southwestern
depot.
Judge Kiels sent two Eufaula lawyers
to jail last week for fighting near his
court-room.
The handsome depot for the Y. and B.
RR. at Eufaula has been completed and
will ho occupied in a few days.
The social event of the season at Clay
ton, Ala., was a grand hall at tho Hill
House on Friday night.
Sixteen ycar3 ago, while the waters of
the Chattahoochee were low, a boat dis
charged a cargo of several thousand bars
of iron on an island a few miles below
Eufaula. A great freshet in the river
soon ensued, which Eomewhat changed
tho course of the river, obliterated tho
island, and all traces of the iron was lost.
Numerous attempts have been made for
years passed to find the rich deposit, and
one day last week a lucky explorer suc
ceeded in locating it, full two hundred
yards from tho present course of the
river, and buried fifteen feet in the
ground.
Mr. John Reese of Barbour county,
Alabama, and Miss S. D. Gregory, of
Clayton, committed matrimony on tho
evening of the 10th inst.
Mr. T. J. Avera, tho most prominent
merchant of Smithvflle, died oE Pneumo
nia on Sunday morning, the 18th inst.
Death of Rev. Mr. McIIan.
Cdthhekt, Ga., January 18,1874.
Editors Telegraph and Messenger: Rev.
Wm. B. McHan, of this city, aged nearly
fifty years, and for many years a member
of the Georgia Conference, died at his
residence to-day of heart disease. He
was a pure and upright gentleman, a
zealous Christian, a useful minister, a
faithful friend, devoted companion, kind
father, and in every respect a good citi
zen. Friend.
—— m ^ -
A portly gentleman crowded himself
into a horso car next to a young man,
who said: “Perhaps you wouldn’t crowd
in here if you knew I had just had the
small-pox?” "Oh, that’s nothing,” was
tho reply, “for this is the first time I
have been out since I had it myself.”
A country paper exclaims: “Lives
there a man with soul so dead, who never
to himself has said, I’ll pay before I go
to bed, tho debt I owe tho printer? Yes,
there are some we know full well, who
never such a tale could toll, hut thoy, I
fear, will go to—well, the place where
there’s no winter.” .
The Republican Senators opposed
Caleb Cushing for Chief Justice because
he had written a letter to Jeff Davis.
Mr. Akerman, of Georgia, did not write a
letter to Jeff.. Davis, hut fought for him
all through tljo war, and these self-same
Senators confirmed his appointment as
Attorney General of the United States,
without even making a wry face.
The French mean to carry out in Al
geria the plan which had been proposed
by American engineers for the Colorado
waste, to introduce the waters of tho
Mediterranean into the desert and form
an inland sea. The depression which it
is intended to fill is about 225 miles in
length, and is south of the Atlas chain.
It is believed that seaports might ho
built, and tribes which now hardly ack
nowledge the supremacy of the French,
subdued.
Prof. Proctor says that if an infant
were horn having an arm of the length of
91,000,000 miles, so as to reach the sun;
and if in the cradle ho were to stretch
out hia arm and touch the sun, that in
fant might grow to tho three-score years
and ten allotted to man, bat he never
would he con-icious of the fact that the
tip of his finger was burned; ho would
have to live one hundred and thirty-five
years before that would be experienced.
Some infant ought to just try thi3 to see
whether the professor is right.
A Ladt’s Property in her Features.
A new departure i3 announced by tho
New York Graphic. Haring been about
to publish a portrait of Mr3. Attorney
General lYilliams, and having been re
quested by her husband not to do so, it
announces that it has yielded in this in
stance to the Attorney General’s request,
hut in future will, under similar circum
stances, refuse. The new principle and
practice are thus formulated:
Tlie wife oi a prominent officer in the
Government whose character and claims
are canvassed by people in all sections
of the country, is herrelf an object of
public interest, and if =lie dresses and
arrays herself for levees where she will
be the cynosure of a thousand curious
eyes, has no right to complain if her por
trait is shown to 100,000 readers of a re
spectable journal. And while we insist
upon the propriety os a mutter of ethics,
we are equally willing to test the legality
of it in the courts. Hereafter when we
have made arrangement* to give a por
trait of a distinguished man or woman,
we shall not feel compelled to regard the
wishes or requests of the party concerned.
IMPERISHABLE FRAGRANCE
MUEBAY
JOHNSON & SMITH,
LANMAli'S
CKI.EBIt.VTKn
FLORIDA WATER!
The richest, most lasting-, yet most delicate of a
perfumes, for use on the
HANDKERCHIEF,
At the TOILET,
And in th* BATH.
As there are imitations and counterfeits, always
ask for the Florida Water, which lias on the bottle,
on tho label, and on the pamphlet, the names of
MURRAY & LAYMAN, without which noue is
genuine.
_ For sale by all perfumers, druggists, and dealers
in fancy good*.julySoodthu
auks It. blouxt. Isaac habdema^.
JOHN L. HARDEMAN.
BLOUNT, IIAEDEMAN & HARDEMAN
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
MACON, CA.
Dissolution of Copartnership.
T nE law firm of nines & Hobbs, at Albany,
Ga., is hereby dissolved by mutual consent.
Either member will sign the firm name in liqui
dation or settlement. The law business now
pending in Court will bo attended to and wound
up by the said Hines, and also by the new firm of
\Y arren A Hobbs, successors to Hines & Hobbs.
It. K. HINES.
jan3 2w RICH. HOBBS.
Albany, Gru. December 31,1873.
LAW COPARTNERSHIP.
WARREN & HOBBS,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW.
ALBANY, CA.
"\T7TLL practice regularly in the State Courts
\ Y of L<x\ Dougherty, Worth, Mitchell, Baker.
Decatur and Calhoun counties, and in the United
States Circuit Court, Savannah. Elsewhere in
the State by siiecial agreement.
L. P. D. WARREX,
RICH. HOBBS.
Albany, Ga., January 1,1S74.jan3 Cm
LAW PARTNERSHIP.
B. F. LTOS. 1 JAMES JACKSON'.
LYON & JACKSON,
ATTOKNEY8 A.T LAW,
MACON, GEOEC-IA,
W ILL practice in the Courts of the State and
of the United States for Georgia.
dec!7 tf
Law Copartnership.
rpHE undersigned have associated themselves
X together in the practice of law, under the
firm name of
Nisbet, Bacon & Hines.
They will practice in the Superior Courts of the
Macon Circuit and of tho counties of Sumter,
Randolph and Dougherty, in tho Supreme Court
of the State, and in the Federal Courts for the
District of Georgia.
JAMES T. NISBET,
A. O. BACON,
dec!7 tf R. K. HINES.
SAMUEL D. IRVIN.
THOMAS B. GRESHAM
IRVIN & GRESHAM,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
MACON, GA,
*YT7TLL practice in tho Superior Courts of the
\Y Macon Circuit, in tho Supreme Court of
Georgia and in tho United States Courts for the
Southern District of Georgia.
Office: No. 90 Mulberry street, Board man’s
Block—up the second llignt of steps from tlie
comer—and nearly opposite the Court-house
decll-8m
HERBERT FIELDER.
IDU3 L. FIELDER
H. & I. L. FIELDER,
Attorneys at Law,
W
CUTHBERT, GEORGIA,
ILL give prompt attention to all business
confided to them, in the counties of Ran-
olpli, Stewart, Quitman, Clay, Early, Calhoun
nd Terrell, the Supremo Court of Georgia, aud
tho District and Circuit Courts of tho United
States for tho Southern District of Georgia.
sept!7-tf
POE, HALL & LOFTON,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
MACON, GA.
Office, on Third street, over City Bank.
‘ novltf
WHOLESALE
We have a large and varied stock of GROCERIES and LIQUORS in store,
which we offer at low prices. IYe wl*il continue to sell to
PROMPT CUSTOMERS
On 30 days, but thosh of our friends who have not paid up their accounts within
that time must not expect ns to accommodate them with further credit. We desire
to approximate as nearly to cash as tho condition of trade will admit, aud necessity
compels us to require hereafter the very best* security from those who wish to buy
on 30 days.
JOHNSON & SMITn,
MASONIC TEMPLE, MULBERRY STREET.
clec3tf Macon, Georgia.
WING & SOLOMON
Offer to the public a largo and newly selected stock of
FINE JEWELRY!
STERLING SILVER AND PLATED-WARE.
And embracing many new and novel styles, just out
They are sole agents for the celebrated
L. <Sc M. PERFECTED SPECTACLES I
THE BEST IN USE.
Tlieir Work Department is complete. New Work and Badges made to order. To line vredch
work and repairi»g,spec*ial attention is given—and guarantee their work—at moderate cliaro-s
oct!2tf
FIRST NATIONAL BANK of MACON
TRANSACTS A GENERAL BANKING BUSINESS.
DIRECTORS:
I. C. PLANT. D. FI-ANDERS.
H. L. JEWETT, W. B. DINSMORE
II. B. PLANT, D. S. LITTLE,
G. II. IIAZLEHUOST.
I. C. PLANT, President.
W. W. Wr.iai.EY, Cashier. malft-tilnovt*
GIFT ENTERPRISE
The only Reliable Gift Distribution in the country
$75,000
IK VALUABLE GIFTS
To bo Distributed in
L. 13- SINE’S
lOath Regular Monthly
GIFT ENTERPRISE!
To bo drawn 3Ionday, February 23d, 1S34.
TWO GRAND CAPITALS OF
$5,000 eack in GREENBACKS!
Two PbizbsopSIOOO •)
Five Prizes op $.VK) each in ;* f+pppri nooVo f
Tex Prizes op $100 J '•“cchuolilb i
1 Horse and Buggy, with Silver-mounted Har
ness, worth $000.
One Fine-toned Rosewood Piano, worth $330.
Ten Family Sewing Machines, worth $100 each.
Five Gold Watches and Chains, worth $300
each.
Five Gold American Iluntiig Watches, worth
$123 each.
Ten Ladies Gold Hunting Watches, worth $100
each.
1,000 Gold and Silver Lever Hunting Watches
(in all) worth from $20 to $300 each.
Gold Chains, Silverware, Jewelry, etc., etc.
v.iv«>w.f nr niff, r rnn Tickets limited to
Agents Wanted to sell TICKETS to
whom liberal Premiums will
he paid.
Single Tickets $1; Six Tickets $5; Twelve Tick*
ets $10; Twenty-five Tickets $20.
Circulars containing a full list of prizes, a de»
scription of the manner of drawing, and other in
formation in reference to the Distribution, will be
sent to any one ordering them. All letters must
be'addressed to
Main Office, L. D. SINE. Box S6,
101 W. Fifth Street. Cincinnati. Q.
dec2S d£\\7w
$ 300,000
Missouri Stats Lottery!
Legalized by State Authority aud
Drawn in Public at* Mt. Louis.
Grand Single Number Scheme
50,000 NUMHEH8.
CLASS A, TO BE DRAWN JAN. 31. 137L
I. 0. PLANT & SON,
Bankers and Brokers,
MACON, GA.
Buy anil Svll Exchange, Gold, Silvi-r. Sturts and
Bonds.
Deposits Received
On Which Interest will be Allowed,
AS AGREED UP0X.
PAYABLE ON CALL.
Advances made on Cotton and I'ro
ducc In Store.
COLLECTIONS PROMPTLY ATTENDED TO
eliil iy
£
&
&
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<£*
<s>
CITY BANK
MACON. GEORGIA.
Capital 200,000 .Dollars.
MRECTOUS :
WM. B. JOnNSTON.
JOHN J. GRESHAM,
julyiB Cm
8. G. Boss, President. R. F. Lawton, Cashier.
EXCHANGE BANK OF MACON.
Office In Muff’s New Building.
Receives Deposits,
BUYS AND SELLS EXCHANGE.
Makes Advances on Stocks, Bonds, Cotton in
Store. Also on Shipments of Cotton.
Planters 7 Bank,
FORT VALLEY, GA.
TV EC LIVES Deposit*, discotintsPap«*r,LuysaRd
XA/ sells Exciiant'e; also, Gold and Silver.
Collection-* made at all accessible points.
Interest paid on Dej*osits when made for a
specified time.
Wm. J. Asdeesox, Pres’t. W. E. Bnoo, Cash’r
DIRECTORS
Wm. J. Anderson, Col. Hugh L. Dennard
Co!. Wm. Ft-lion, I>r. W..A Mathews,
Dr.M L. ILHolIinshna delstf
5,880 PRIZES, AMOUNTING TO $300,000.
1 prize of $30,000 3,000 prism of $ 100
1 prize of 13,430 0 prizes of 1,000
1 prize of 10,o00 9 pn/.es of 300
1 prize of 7,500 9 prizes of...... 300
4 prizes of 3/>03 9 prizes of 250
4 prizes of 2^>*> So prizes of...... 200
20 prizes of 1,<»00 3*1 prizes of. 350
20 prizes of 500 IsO prizes of...^. 100
40 prizes of 250 5,000 prizes of 10
Tickets $10. Half Tickets $5. Quarters $2-30. f
Our lotteries are chartered bv the State, are al-
wa3*s drawn at the time named, and all drawings
are under tlie supervision of sworn commissioners.
The official drawime will be published in the St.
Louis papers, and a copy of drawing sent to pur
chasers of tickets. . , , . ,
We will draw a similar scheme the lost day of
every month during the year 1C74.
Remit at our risk, by l’ostoflice Jm.rv-v Orders,
Registered Letter, Lraft or Express. Send for a
circular. Address
MURRAY. MILLER A CO..
Postoffice Box 2,4k>. St. Louia, Mo.
EARLY ROSE.
EARLY GOODRICH.
PINK EYES.
Just received, and for sale low, by
Seymour, Tinsley & Co.
janStf
W. W. FLS XXAGAX.
B~ ». MORGAN.
FLAXXAGAN, ABELL & CO.,
Cotton Factors and General Com
mission Merchants,
1S5 BAY STREET, SAVANNAH, GA.
M ANAGING Agents for the English Stonewall
Fertilizer, etc. Bagging and Ties furnished,
and liberal cash advances made on consignments
for sale in Savannah, or on shipments to our cor
respondents in Northern, Eastern or Enropean
markets. augl tJm
I S the lx*st and cheapest Guano in use. We fur j
nisli the strong Chemical Salts of Aimuoni*
Nitre, Potash, etc., which we guarantee to be pun 1
and reliable. These, when mixed with whalu
saved at home, make a better manure than jou
can buy for two or three times tho money.
Formula No. 1 makes £000 pounds fertilizer to
be used on ten acres for cotton or fifteen acres far
corn. Price $25 30, delivered in dejiotal Jfacort
cash.
Formula No. 2, with cotton seed, makes .100P
pounds fertilizer, to be used on ten cava fur cot
tonor fifteen acres for com. Price $10 50.delivered
in depot at Macon, cash.
We have also for sale in quantities to suit, tha
best quality of fertilizing chemicals at the luw«*d
prices—Ammonia,Nitre, Dissolved Bones. Potash
Land Plaster, etc. Plantera aro cautioned no
numerous “compounds” that will no doubt
offered them as substitutes for our preparation.
Do not buy except from us or some of our uathor
d agents. Send for circular giving all partu u
lars.
HUNT. RANKIN & LAMAR.
82 and si Cherry street.
Butts County, Ga., Decembers, l$7S.
I used yours by the side of two high-pri^
manures, and it did better than cither.
B. F. WARD.
After uring 70 tons this year, I prefer yours eve a
at the same price of the expensive manures.
L. M. HOUSER, Houston county.
Yours produced as well or better than otlk-riat
less than Lalf the cost.
W il ROBINSON. Macon
Yours produced as well as tft,-. Chinrha Lhnd
and the two Oilier liiirli-pri«od which 1 used thit
year. C A HAMILTON, Jones county*
Yours is as good as the expensive kinds ! usj-1
this year; some think Utter.
J II McCAY, Talbot county
Your fertilizer, on two years* trial, has proves]
to be as good us any other fertilizer I ever «swj
and I shall use it alone hereafter.
J M SPINLIN Fayette county.
It has proved to be just as good, and In soma
respects superior, to the most cxi>eusivc manure*-
I desire to use it extensively next vear.
HENRY J WILLIAMSON. Griffin.Ga.
It is as good as the expensive sort that I used.
I sliall use it altogether next season.
J W PERRY, M D. Clay county,Ga.
I used a ton of the “Home-Made” by two of tha
expensive guanos, and find no different*? in te4
yield. I can heartily recommend it as »
mid paving fertilizer—shall «'■>** it cxi : •*
year. JXO H BUTLER. Monroe county.
Bakxestillf, Ga., October 8,1S7*
I used your compound again this year,
so well pLased with it that I don’t think I
everu.se any other kind* Where I used 300 pound*
. j will make 2,000 pound> of wed cotton
re. I used it on turnips this year; itej
to the acre. I used it on turnips this war;
are the finest I ever saw. I think lue fanner*
will bo satisfied, after this year’s trial, that it *>
the best in use. Yours respectfully,
J P MCLEAN
SPAUirsa Cgi'xtv, Oa.. Octoter IS. 1ST**
I usvd your “Home-Made Pertilizep* Ibi*
on cotton and corn, in the same quantities witn
one of the high-pricked manures, ami theadirsn*
ta*re is decidedly with the “Home-Made.” I
decided t© use it exclusively next vear. __
EDWARD M DORSEY.
Scxxtsidb, Ga-, October 2X 1ST*-
fair test by the side of three high-pr**-
and standard commercial manures,it is P**,
that the “Home Made” is as good ns any, anal
can conscientiously commend it to the fanner* ^
the best and cheapest they can r.se.
JOA MILLER-
Maeshalville, Ga., October 21, is* 5 *
Dr. P. R. Holt: .
Dear Sir—I used this season thirty-six too* ”
your “Home-Made Fertilizer,” and am so wo*
pleased with it that 1 shall use it almost or qu 11 ®
exclusively next year. I applied it at the rat ^. c '
75 to 150 jxHinds per acre with satisfactory re***®’
Yours truly, \\ U FELTON
Terrel County. Ga., October20. l'-* t
I used this year the Home-Made Fertilize^..
Hunt, Rankin A Lamar,on com and cotton- * ■
fertilizer was manipulated with top cartli. •
land is light and sandy. W e? pi.h«ltti»»«Sl
on cotton alternately with the bea Iowi«.
quantities of each, and could never discover ^
difference in the two. We used duii co^
find the Home-Made decidedly the best, w
we put the Home-Made the corn retained a
green color up to maturity. w ... t* \r r>
dreUredAwSm JNO T LULUS. M P*