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MACON, FRIDAY, JUNE 4. 1809.
VOL XLIII.-NO. 29
^Tgia Telegraph Building,
BATES OF SUBSCRIPTION1
Macon.
ties belonging to Austrian officials, from the
Imperial Treasury, the whole amounting to 20,-
-r rone rear Sio uo °°°«000 florins, (about 12,000,000 United States
P j:ir T«ur.H*rH-for *U months} 5 00 currency.)
f * :l F«rI^I'.wkekly^TELECBAPif-oneyear..’ 4 00 Lacroma, the only wooded island of the Adri-
'r'/L^TiitlEORAPH^mrycar 1 !!!!™ 3 00 atic, the poetical retreat of the Emperor Mari-
jjj juTH pkkly Telsgraph—six month* 1 50 milian, has now been sold, with all the form-
1 /^payable ahrav »"<* adcancc.~3S ture, boohs, etc., owned by the unfortunate
1 ,T ob Printing prince. The castle of Abbazia, which was built
n °V ^ly ex” ried at reasonable prices. trith the ransom of Richard Cour de Lion, is to
ttancesby mail with Postmaster’* certificate a become the home of bathers; the costly exot-
— ics, with which the Arch-duke covered the
^ r ^iMrtPh Review or Euro- Island, changing it into an earthly paradise, are
ffecKiy Affairs.
pcan Aiiairs. to be sold, and a part of the forests to be cut
enial month of Jon® has returned; the down and used in the lime kilns.
J-jo-yhfis sought again her oldsummer-home, bussia.
' her morning hymns in praise of the Hardly anything worthy of record has trans-
-; r \atnre has decked with green field pired in Russia. A rumor is afloat that the Em-
' * p eace and good will steal over the peror will pardon a number of Poles exiled in
vTnn. and when the balmy breezes of Siberia, on. condition of their emigrating to the
.i 0 f )Jan, and when
M . . onr cheeks, when we feast our eyes United States of America. At a festival in St.
coring i* 3 - .... ■ t»-.—, * • , .. r i-i r—n-, .
afra ja lawn, we forget for the moment Petersburg, which tho Imperial family honored
® ^ r redictions of those prophetn, who, trith their visit, the fountains playing in the sa-
** m onths ago, confidently foretold the . loons were filled with Ean de Cologne.
* outbreak of war, pronouncing a win- 1 Spain.
campaign to be inevitable. The Spaniards are still going a begging for
E ^ stonas of the equinox are past, and a king. Even a prince of the House of Eohen-
rt jU enjoys profound peace. The hus- . zollem (Prussia,) was thought of for a moment
t5IC ™ - • his team afield with a merry in Madrid. *
not fearing that the hoof of the neighing Since the beginning of the new era in Spain,
at*! will crush the golden blades: no dread of the New Testament and several protestant works
an-yisEged war disturbs ttfe merchant in his have been widely distributed, especially in the
---suit of rightful gain, and the Angel of Death capital. A society has been formed in Berlin,
d rap no harvest this year, hovering over Prussia, for erecting another protestant church
jjHtlt battle-fields, reeking with gore. in Madrid.
1 y ‘ jji spite of all ominous forebodings the j tuekev.
*0,3 is still in the scabbard, and long may it Austria has persuaded the Sublime Porte to
remaia there 1 The people of Europe, with cede the Prince of Montenegro a considerable
-sre nisaimity, desire the maintenance of peacs, tract of land in the Herzegowina.
- - The Government has instituted a commission,
Vice-admiral Hobart Pacha being President,
for regulating the right of anchorage in the Bos-
OBEAT WHTIW. ( porus. Jabko.
Tie English press are still engaged in the
!ors»d experience has taught them that it is the
{,4 condition for the healthy progress of a
strios.
Session of the Alabama question. They are
auiinious in repudiating any further conces- ,
sxos, declaring most emphatically that Eng-
Froill Middle Florida*
Monticello, Fla., May 31, 1809.
Editors Telegraph: Crops appear to be not so
ted has conceded everything compatible with good along the hne of Georgia and Honda as
hr honor and dignity as a nation. aboT ® that P° mt * P lanters m Flonda
lie Tim<“s considers Mr. Sumner’s policy have been alarmed at the appearance of the cat-
» .teard to be seriously discussed. The erpillars on cotton; but there has been nothing
iiine paper has another leader about the dis- *** hairy worm which infests the oak and
fusions of the Assembly of Canada in reference ^erry. MusqmtoesI find very troublesome
to the Alabama question and the proposition of here.
Senator Chandler, from Michigan, to settle the The faet of 010 “S™ be,n & as U were > n P"
iScnlties bv the cession of the Dominion of pennost in the pohtics of Flonda, causes more
Canada to the United States. “The Represent- ln tbat dass ber ® m Ge ° r ^ a ’ “ nd
tares of Canada,” says tho Times, “have the labor is not so good, though somewhat better
Jeclared that she didnot wishto shrink back this year than heretofore.
The bnest crops I have seen are between
from her responsibility as a part of the British
Empire. Mr. Motley may judge from this spon-
uaeons step of the Dominion, which will be the
opinion of England. If be comes among us
nth a mission of reconciliation and peace, he
«ill be received in the same spirit; should,
hoteTer.his propositions prove only a repetition
J Mr. Stunner's extravagancies he must count
tpontheh peremptory rejection.”
Disturbances resulting in bloodshed, which
Bt ittrilmted to the Orangists, occurred in Ire-
isi Also, Agrarian crimes are perpetrated
•pin.
FRANCE.
The relations tietween France and Prussia are
Kjsrently the most satisfactory. * The greatest J ears *
interest is exhibited in the approaching elec-
fas for the Corps LegislatifF.
Ite Emperor, accompanied by the Empress,
paid a visit to the city of Chartres to assist at
Tbomasville and Monticello, Florida.
•This is a nice farming country, general ap
pearance of the land such as Schley and Marion
"counties. The people of Florida seem very
much depressed on the state or affairs about
them.
Monticello is a beautiful, substantially built
place and very healthy, inhabitants pleasant and
agreeable. It is about the size of East Macon.
Live Oak, the junction of the railroad, is quite
a lively place. Several nice villages along the
line of railroad westward to Tallahassee.
Lake City, has an energetic, enterprising pop
ulation and promises to be quite a city in a few
Traveler.
Au Experimental Corn-field.
Near Bvron, Houston County, Ga.,)
May 29th, 18G9. >
Editors Telegraph :—I have thought for some
fa distribution of prizes at an exposition of time that I would send you a crop report, but
Iveis. The Emperor replied to the address of j have procrastinated until the present. I have
4* Maire by saying that he depended again this j a small patch of corn, six acres, that I have
ime on the citizens of Chartres to support his • taken a great deal of pains with, in order to as-
rovemment in the coming election, as they . certain what could be done on onr pine land by
•it# a part of the eight million of Frenchmen, deep plowing and heavy mannreing. I will state
iho had already three times given him their how I prepared the land and give you a state
1 meat of the system of cnltnre.
__ ... , 1T Y' T ’ „ i I opened my furrows four feet apart, running
The presents which the Pope xs said to have ; one ^ ^ bottorQ of ^ 0 ^ er . I the n
tC f Ut . ^f 1 * 8 °f tbe vor ^ ° n * be oc " bedded with along turning shovel, donble plow-
ason o e tie anniversary of his conse- . j D g t running one furrow in the other as
.non as pnest, amount 910,000,000 scudis. : before stated, until I plowed the row out. This
The Italian Government has come to an un- ! operation made very high beds. I then opened
landing with Napoleon about the evacuation 1 h ? double plowing with a long shovel a very
-ueu by September next, provided that \ ictor in the trench I deposited forty bushels of sound
PICTURE-BOOK WITHOUT PICTURES,
EY HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN.
Translated from the German far the Macon Daily
Telegraph.
[continued.]
Ninth evening.
The sky was clear again; several nights were
gone; the moon was in the first quarter. She
gave me a new idea for a sketch; listen to what
she told me.
I followed the arctic fcird and the floating
whale to Greenland’s eastern shore; barren ice-
covered rocks and dark clouds shut in a valley
there, where briers and bilberry bushes were in
rich bloom. The fragrant lichen spread a sweet
odor; my light was faint, my face pale as the
water lily, which, tom from its stem, has
floated for weeks on the water. The Northern
Lights were burning; their halo was large, and
the beams went upward from them like whirl
ing pillars of fire, gleaming in green and red.
Those living near had assembled for dancing
and rejoicing, but being accustomed to this
magnificent spectacle, they hardly deemed it
worth a look. “Let now the souls of the dead
play ball with the beads of the walrusses,” they
thought, according to their faith, having only
taste and eyes for song and dance. There
stood in the midst of the circle, without any
fnr, a Greenlander with his jewsharp; he be
gan a song, celebrating the seal hunting, and
the choir replied by “AiVt! Eta ! A ! ” while
they skipped around in the circle in their white
the wild horse of Arabia, when bristl ig its
mane, it careers away, it was the same' grace-
fullness and assurance : I must think of I ie ag
onized mother beneath Golgotha's cross, t was
the same deep-felt grief. And all arounc there
resounded, as a thousand years ago, ap lause
and cheers: “Happy woman, gifted by hei ren,”
they exclaimed rejoicingly. Five minute later
the stage was empty, the company had isap-
peared, no tones resounded any more, all were
gone; but the ruins stood there unchang I, as
they will be standing still after centuries, rhen
nobody will know anything of the applet e of
the moment and of the fair singer, of her t nes,
of her smiles: everything will be forgotter and
past, even for me this hour will be a vanihed
moment. Jaiuo.
[to be continued. ]
, wjn-5 sweep, or a narrow, or a cultivator, wmen
Specimen of Black Oat*. cut so wide a furrow, that a plowman may pass
Laurens Hill, Ga., 1 May 29,18G9. ** over ground very rapidly.
furs; it"looked like a ball of ice-bears. The P<? a b°dv.
eyes and the head made the most daring move
ments. Now a tribunal was instituted. Those
that had disagreed came forth; the plaintiff
improvised the faults of his rival, pertly and
mockingly, as the dance went on to the sound
of the drum; the defendant answered just as
slyly, while the assembly laughed and passed
judgment.
The rocks rang, the glaciers crashed, the
large dropping masses were dashed to atoms
during the fall; it was a Greenlandish, magni
ficent summer night; a hundred paces distant,
under the open tent of hides, there was lying a
sick man; there was still life in his veins, but
yet he must die; he was convinced of it him
self, and so were all standing around; therefore
his wife was sewing him already into a cover of
hides, that afterwards she need not touch the
dead. And she asked: “Dost thon wish to be
buried on the rock in the hard snow? I will
decorate tho place with thy kaiac and arrows;
the Angekokk (spirit of good) shall dance over
it Or dost thou prefer to be sunk into the
sea ?” “Into the sea,” he whispered, nodding
with a melancholy smile. “That is a pleasant
summer tent,” said the wife; “there gambol
thousands of sea dogs, there sleeps the walrus
at thy feet, and the hunting is dangerless and
delightful!” And the children tore, yelling,
the skin from the window, that the dead might
be borne to the sea, to the waving sea, that
gave him nourishment in life, that will give him
rest after his death. The floating icebergs,
changing day and night, became his monument.
The sea dog sleeps on the floating block of ice;
the storm-bird flies over it.
Me. T. J. Plant—Dear Sir: I send you a
bunch of oats grown by me. They are the
Black Spring Oat, from the eastern shore of
Maryland, were sown on upland the 1st week in
February. The spring hasbeen too dry for them
and especially has the dry cold winds for the
last month injured them. Yon will see that the
blades upon the straw are fine from the drouth,
and the head not so good as it should have been.
I have a three acre lot of this kind—all not quite
so good.
You can show them to Mr. Clisbyof the Tele-
geaph. I see he is blowing some oats for Mr.
Yours truly,
Quinn L. Haevaed
P. S. The land is a com field and manured
last year for Potatoes.
We are indebted to Mr. Plant for forwarding
the bunch of oats referred to. It is five feet
six inches tall and the stalks as big as a white
clay pipe stem. The heads are long and full,
and the oats large and heavy. In short, it is
altogether a remarkable specimen, and is worth
“blowing,” if editorial mention, in this way, can
be so termed. Our “blowing of some oats for
Mr. Peabody” amounted simply to the republi
cation of some remarks made by him before an
Alabama agricultural association upon a new
species of oats he had introducod, of which he
proposed to raise one hundred bushels to the
acre. We never saw Mr. Peabody and never had
a line from him upon any subject.—Eds,
Farm Work for June.
Crops of all kinds are growing rapidly now,
and the surface of the ground should be stirred
as often as possible, to make the growth con
tinuous and uniform. No weed or spear of grass
should be allowed a foothold in the field, where
it may contend successfully with the com, cot
ton, etc., for the nutritious elements of the soil.
The crab grass that comes up in May being the
most troublesome, especialcare should be taken
to get rid of any which may have escaped np to
this time. The constant pulverizing of the sur
face, acts very much like mulching, preventing
the evaporation of moisture, and keeping the
sun’s heat from penetrating to the roots of the
plants. Where anything like a full crop is
planted, frequent stirring of the surface can
only be accomplished by' using plows like Diek-
son ! s sweep, or a harrow, or a cultivator, which
Where a mixed crop of cotton and small grain
is cultivated, (which is the prevailing custom at
thkSouth,) very nice judgement and manage
ment are required to keep the hoed crops from
snffeiing, from the interruption of regular work
attendant upon the harvest The use of the
reaping machines will lessen much the difficulty
alluded to; and Ve trust the time is not far dis
tant when these time and labor-saving imple
ments will be universally used at the South.
Field peas should be planted now, as soon as
practicable. If thisis delayed till next month,
they may not ripen wdl before frost. Where the
object is to make hay, or to enrich the land by
turning the vines under, peas may be sown as
late as the middle of next month, but as dry
weather may interfere with their coming np, or
with their growth, it is not advisable to defer
planting too late.—Southern Cultivator.
Storm In Decatur Couilly.
A terrible whirlwind, accompanied by rain
and hail, passed over portions of this county on
last Saturday afternoon. We were at the resi
dence of Mr. Josiah G. Jones, on the Chatta
hoochee river, at the time of the storm, and
witnessed some of its devastations. Mr. Jones’
gin-house was blown down, one man and mule
being under it, but were protected by the cog
wheel, which was of sufficient strength to pre
vent a portion of the building from falling to
the ground. Another man was pulled from
under the house by his mule, which becoming
frightened at the cracking noise of the falling
building, rushed out, the man holding the bridle
to prevent his getting loose from him, and was
tbns saved from instant death, as that portion
of the building which was over him fell to the
ground. Quite a number of other hands were
tunning to get under the gin-house when it fell.
TENTH EVENING.
Carmel continues to show his good will toward
fa Pope. The conspiracy at Milan, instigated
iiaizini, was without consequence. At the
| ; qnisition of the Italian Government, the Fed-
wl Council of Switzerland has banished Maz-
ci now living as a refugee in that Republic,
- a all the cantons bordering on Italy. Gene-
r -Henabrea has introduced a law in the Senate
» view of stopping the shameful export of
••i^nhoys as organ-grinders or strolling mnsi-
The Court of Appeals has, after having
' r --oi the penal code, decided in favor of abol-
•^Sthe penalty of death.
ft' Korth German Parliament decreed the
■'Duhtnent of a supreme court of appeal for
suits at Leipsie. The law on tele-
J* vtimps passed the third reading, after
a it claw, substituting for the various taxes
^ >of « c hang8 imposed by the separate
one uniform impost of £ per mille
■ -
Ies P e etive amounts was then laid before
• Among the petitions presented, may
^ttioned that of Mr. Dnnkin, a shipbuilder
who submitted to the Reichstag
cotton seed per acre and covered them with a
turning shovel, putting in the seed in time to
rot before planting my com. On the 17th of
February I planted the com. I opened the ridge
with a loEg shovel and covered with a fork plow.
I succeeded in getting a good stand. The first
time I plowed it I barred it off with a turning
plow deep and let the furrows remain open to
give the sun a chance to warm the roots and
make the plant healthy. I let the furrows re
main open for a week and then plowed the mid
dles out with a scooter plow os deep as I could.
Three weeks after I opened a hole between the
liill3 of com with a hoe, and put in a handful of
cotton seed and covered them with a sweep
shovel, giving the com the second plowing and
each«talk of com a handful of seed, amounting
to thirty bushels of seed per acre, making in
all seventy bushels per acre. The com stands
4 by 2; the rows 4 feet wide; 2 feet in the drill.
I am now laying it by with a 26 inch Dixon
sweep. The com in the ■ greater part of the
patch is as high as the mules and looks remark
ably strong and healthy. Some of the best
stalks are G feet high. A gentleman formerly re
siding in Tennessee, looked at it some time
since and thought that it would probably make
75 bushels per acre if the seasons were favora
ble. I never saw any swamp com that beat it.
If wo should have a long dronth it will fail of
course, but if I get rain a plenty it will make a
fine pile of com; can’t say how much. If it
should do well I will report the resnlt to the
committee at the fair in November next.
As I have said enough abont my little patch,
I will take np up the remainder of this sheet in
giving you a statement of my cotton crop. T
* new man-of-war, invented by
' t °gether with an explanation of its con-
“■ 3a. in order that it might be examined,
^Proved, adopted in the North German
^Government has concluded a com- | gay^GS acres in cotton and have a fine stand.
■ 'yity with Japnn, now under the con- Taking the cold nights into consideration I think
it looks very well, and is as clean as hoes and
plows can make it. I hear much complaint in
other sections about the cotton dying, and I
have given yon a report of my own crop. I do
not know anything abont other crops in the
neighborhood as my business keeps me at home
all the time.
The freedmeu on my form are working well,
in fact, doing all they can. They are entitled
to a great deal of credit for their industry and
orderly conduct. Very respectfully,
B. M. Bateman.
“ ! the Zollbundesrath, which contains
provisions. The King of Prussia
■‘ >o send diplomatic agents to Japan,
»,l7***®* 0 have the right of travelling
the country. The seaport towns
Hi°g°, Hanagawa, Nagasaki, Nie-
Istr > Minato and Osaka, as well as the
are opened to Germans. The Ja-
•^oriiies re to render every assistance
to German vessels in distress,
: we to be allowed to take in
f *1 and deposit stores without paying
New York Dry Goods Market.—A correspon-
j dent of the Charleston Courier, writing from
„, Kaiser in Berlin, an eminent Ger- 1 “J 8: ‘ ,Th8 ** g oods “a*® 1 con *
... ‘‘Dior, has received an order by the At- 1‘cues depressed. The distributive demand and
r;."’"" the execution of a colossal bust > the general complaint is that the mills are either
iofv Cr Von Mnmboldt for the Central I working without profit or at a positive loss.—
f York, to be finished and sentoff in ! Stocks meanwhile are accumulating, and the
I talk is that there will soon be a material curtail
ment of production. Many staple goods are
^ha 1 ** 11 Reichsta e is busily engaged in ! selling below cost. Leading prints remain at
fils. Pavements. IwaIva to twelve and a half cents. ”
. .
****! aSti 0 *" opposed to an Austro.
twelve to twelve and a half cents.’
s ® mi -°® clal j° nr - and In number, had a rehearsal in Boston on
ft **Udbvtb - . *?■ A great sensation Wednesday evening, which was pronounced a
j e musing of marriage seenri- grand success.. '
J The Peace Jubilee Chorus, over three thous-
“I knew an old spinster,” continued the
Moon; * ‘ she wore every winter a dressing-gown
of yellow satin—it was her unvarying fashion.
Every summer she wore one and the same straw
hat, and I think, one and the same blue-gray
dress. She went only to an old friend across
the street. During the last years she did not
even do that, for the friend was dead. In her
solitude my old spinster was always busy at tho
window, before which there were standing pret
ty flowers during the whole summer, and mag
nificent cress in winter, sown on a piece of felt
Last month I did not see her any more at the
window, but she was still living; that I knew,
for I had not seen her yet set out for the great
journey, about which she spoke so often to her
friend. ‘Yes,’she used then to say, ‘if I shall
die I shall have to make a longer journey than
during my whole life. Six miles from here there
is our family burial-place; there I shall be
borne—there I shall sleep with the rest of my
kin.’ Last night there was a carriage waiting
before the house. They brought a coffin out.
Now I know that she had died. They put straw
around the coffin and drove away. There slept
the quiet old spinster that during the last year
had not left the house. The carriage rolled out
of the gate of the city quick, as if it had been
on a pleasure drive. On the high road they went
stiH faster. The coachman looked some times
stealthily back—I think he feared to see her sit
ting in her gown of yellow satin on the coffin.
Therefore he whipped the horses unreasonably,
holding the reins so tightly that the horses were
foaming. They were young and full of mettle.
A bare bounded across the road—they ran away.
The old, quiet spinster, that all the year round
had only moved in a slow circle at home, drove
now that she was dead over hedge and ditch
along the open highway. The coffin, wrapped
up in straw covers, flew down and remained ly
ing in the road, while the horses, coachman and
carriage sped on in a wild career. The lark
arose singing from the field, warbled her morn
ing song above the coffin, and sitting downnpon
it, pecked the straw cover with its bill, as if to
tear it The lark arose singing again, and I
withdrew behind the red morning clouds.”
From Putnam County.
Near Thickest, Putnam co., May 29, 1869.
Messrs. Editors : Thinking perhaps you would j A number of trees were prostrated, doing con-
like to hear from the crops in this portion of the j aderable damage to the crops and fences.
. x .. ... The hail was not observable at Mr. Jones’,
t y, write y * s: _ ! bat a few miles distant we were informed that
Crops, as a general thing, look pretty well j jj r _ Simpson Lewis sustained serious injury,
considering the late spring we have had. I do ( both from wind and hail. His com was beaten
not think I ever saw com look healthier in my j to shreds by the hail-stones, trees were blown
life, though rather small for the time of vear. ! *>wn and portions of his fence taken np and
, lamci ouiuii mi me ii earned a considerable distance by the careering
Negroes are working better than usual, and j whirl-wind.— Bainbridgc Argus.
seem determined to let polities alone. "Wheat | , -
is ruined with rast; mine has it on the blade and j The Athens Prize Wheat Fields,
stalk, I do not think I can make more than half | The Athens Southern Banner of Friday says:
a crop. _Now and then you can find a crop that j Ceres in all her domain ha3 nothing more at-
iofnzl vrnfTv mef GnonnTnnl'ne u iranee !
ELEVENTH EVENING.
“There was a wedding celebrated,” narrated
the Moon. “Songs were sung, healths were
drank, everything was rich and magnificent; the
guests departed—itwas already past midnight—
the mothers kissed bride and bridegroom. I
saw them alone, bnt the enrtains were almost
entirely drawn together; a lamp lighted np the
cosy apartment
“Thank God that they are gone!” said he,
kissing her hands and lips; she smiled and
wept, reposing on his breast, trembling as the
lotus-flower on the streaming water. And they
spoke sweet, soul-breathing words.
“Rest softly,” so spoke he, while she drew
back the curtains.
‘How magnificently tho Moon shines!” said
she; how softly, how brightly!” and she ex
tinguished the "lamp; it grew dark in the cosy
room; and yet my light beamed, as his eyes
beamed. Womanhood, kiss the poet’s harp, if
he praises, in song, the mysteries of life.
TWELFTH EVENING.
“I will give thee a picture of Pompeii,” said
the Moon. “I was in the superb, in the street
of the graves, as they call it, where the fine
monuments are, where once the rejoicing
youth, roses around their brows, danced with
the fair sisters of Lais. Now dead silence was
reigning here; German hirelings in Neapolitan
services kept guard. In my full light they
wished to see the city arisen from the grave;
and I showed them the tracks of carriage wheels
in the streets paved with large slabs of lava,
showed them the names on the doors and the
still suspended sign-boards; they saw in the
little courts the basins of the fountains decora
ted with conch-shells, but no stream of water
arose, no songs resounded from the richly
painted rooms, where the brazen dog watches
the threshold.
It was the city of tho dead ; only Vesuvius
thundered his eternal hymn, every verso of
which is called anew eruption by man. We
went to the temple of Venus, erected out of
snow-white marble, with its high altar before
the wide stair case, and its willow tree that had
started up between the columns; the sky was
transparent and blue, tho background was
formed by black Vesuvius, from which the fire
arose like the stem of the pine tree. Above
there was hovering the cloud of smoke in the
stillness of night, as the head of the pine tree,
but in blood red illumination.
Among the company there was a lady singer,
areal and great singer; I have been a witness
of the homages the greatest cities in Europe of
fered to her. Approaching the tragic theatre,
they all took their seats on the stone steps of
the amphitheatre ; a small part of it was filled
again as thousands of years ago. The stage
was still unchanged with the side scenes of brick
work and the two arches in the back-ground
through which you may behold the same deco
rations as of yore, nature herself, the moun
tains between Sorrento and Amalfi. The singer
ascended playfully the stage of antiquity and
sang. The place inspired her ; I must think of
is not afflicted with rust. Guanomak.es the grass j tractive than the wheat fields around Athens,
grow very rapidly, and keeps the farmers quite j Some of them are now almost ready for the
busy in keeping it under. | sickle, (which is the old style of saying one of
What think yon of a reunion of the Fourth | Wood’s Reapers.) Some of the contestants for
Georgia Regiment at an early day. Please ad- ■ the wheat premium, have amused themselves
. .. . during the last few days, making a mathemati-
vocate it m your paper and oblige 0. R. E. es % m£L te of the esart yield of an acre. They
Think, for reasons assigned by a correspon- j ha\e counted the stalks in a given area, in va
dent, some days ago, it had better be postponed. : rious portions of the field; and, having obtain.
Editors 1 e( t the number of stalks to the acre, have connt-
‘ ‘ ed the kernels in various heads, by which they
,, . „ . , _ ^ . . have figured out the number of kernels to the
Crops In Baber, llilclicll and Decatur acre. There is nothing in the way of a com-
The editor of the Bainbridge Arg us, of the i pie to demonstration of the yield, but the size of
29th, says : j the kernels. But taking the average figures,
We have passed over a large portion of this . “laid down in the books,” they cypher out the
immediate section within the past ten days, and \ most gratifying results. The figures totally re-
have seen much to encourage us in regard to , fuse to show anything less than about 50 bush-
agricultural prospects. In Baker and Mitchell ‘ els to the acre, while if the grains should prove
counties, as well as in the portions of Decatur ; “as large as they ought to be,” the yield will
we have visited, the com is growing^ finely, is I run considerably higher! Altogether, the rival-
perfectly clean, and much of it is waist-high.— I ry, among the different contestants is interest-
The cotton is small, for the season, and in some ! ing. Dr. Hamilton, Mr. Bancroft, and Mr.
instances, the stand is bad, yet we have seen no I Bloomfield, are, we believe, the leading com-
cause to apprehend disaster to this important j petitors for the premium. Several others are
crop. Indeed, we are disposed to regard the | right after them.
cotton-plant as doing well. Some of these fields AVe learn that Dr. Hamilton, and perhaps
look very beautiful, the plant averaging from ] others, intend to commence cutting wheat next
four to six inches in height, and squares are ! Monday.
daily multiplying, and hardly a sprig of grass to i ’ —- - —
be seen anywhere. The negroes in Baker and j The Bainbridge, Cnthbert Chlnni*
Mitchell are active, reliable and obedient. We j bus Railroad,
heard of no complaint, but of much commenda-I ,, „ ^ .. „
tion of their conduct In this county they are ! Horn all the information we Cak gather,_ the
Cuba. That Postmaster,
Further Particulars of the Landing of FiU-! Some of “the people of Macon” object to the
busters—The engagement at the Bag of Nipe! color of the postmaster famished them by Grant
—Brilliant Victory for the Filibusters—.4 i Certainly the reasons given for the appointment
Battle near Puerto Padre—The Insurgents j of a negro to that place are very baa ones. It
Victorious—General Good Newt for the Pa-. is said to have been done to pnnish the people,
triots.
Havana, May 27, via Key West, May 29, ’69.
A Herald special from Nenvitas reports that
the steamer San Salvador successfully landed
her men and munitions at the port of Nnevas
Grandes, on the north coast, not far from Nne-
vitas. A British war steamar and two Spanish
cruisers failed to catch the Salvador, which de
parted immediately after her men and cargo
had been disembarked. A Spanish force land
ed soon after. !»•*•««> mitrastere were already
on their march to the interior, and only the evi
dence ot there having been there was found.
The expedition which landed in the Bay of
Nipe comprised a large steamer, (name not giv
en), and the steamsMp Perit, from New York.
The steamer transferred her cargo to the Pent,
which made several trips to the shore, landing
men, arms, artillery, amunition, provisions and
clothing for the insurgents. Immediately upon
landing, the filibusters threw up intrenchments,
and mounted eight guns sweeping the Bay.
On the 16th instant the Spanish war steamer
Marsella entered the Bay of Nipe and was re
ceived with a sharp fire from the artilery. Two
shots took effect in her hull compeling her to
withdraw. She then went to the port of Man-
ati, and obtained a force of soldiers, and in
company with the Spanish gunboat Africa, re
turned to the Bay of Nipe. After several shots
had been exchanged between the steamers and
the shore batteries several hundreds of Span
iards were landed, and, making a detour to the
rear, took possesion of the guns which the fili
busters had been compelled to abandon. The
insurgents, meantime, had only retired for the
purpose of reforming. That done they returned
in force, made a brilliant charge with the bayo
net, retook all the guns and compelled the
Spaniards to retreat in disorder with a loss of
forty-five killed and one hundred wounded.
Shots from the Spanish steamer having set
fire to a building filled with war materials, the
filibusters did not pursue the routed enemy,
they having to remain and extinguish the flames
and save the arms, which they succeeded in do
ing.
because of the murder of Union men, eto. We
do not see that the punishment is proper or
likely to be effective, nor does it seem just - that
the appointing power should be made use of in
that way at alL When a postmaster is appoint
ed with a view to “punish” a district is it meant
that the punishment shall be a complete faitire
to detiver their letters to the people ? If so,
tLereaay real objection to this postmaster from
the real people of Macon ? On the contrary, is*
not Macon proper well satisfied with him, and
does not all the protestation come from the rad
ical carpet-baggers who went South, becoming
radicals and carpet-baggers simply to get all
the offices and have been disappointed in
many ?
The Herald of the 30th commits the foregoing:
“Macon proper” will cheerfully consent to the
transfer of Tumsr to the New York Postoffioe r
if “New York proper” likes that kind.
A flairs in Putnam County;
We clip the following from the Eaton ton Pre3B*
& Messenger of the 1st inst.
Laeoe Stale of Cotton.—Mr. C. R. Ezell laid!
on our desk, last Saturday, a stalk of cotton*
measuring full fourteen indies in height. It is
of the Hunt’s prolific variety, and was taken
from a field on which the Eureka guano had
been used, and is bnt a fair sample of the whole,
which looks remarkably well for the season.—
This isthe largest stalk we have seen, anddoobt
whether it can be beat by any in tins section.
not doing so well. Radicalism in nowise suits I P ros pert s of an early beginning o? the work on
their present status—it is, in fact, destruetiveto : ^® above 5 am ® d r S ad arevet J Ottering. Maj.
both black and white. But the negro is improv
ing here, and in a large majority of instances is
doing much better than be did last year. What
is most gratifying, the planters have notneglect-
Williams, the Chief Engineer, was in our city
on Tuesday last, for the purpose of perfecting
the necessary arrangements, &c.
We do not know the exact amount subscribed,
ed to plant ampta* corn crops. They havebeen butMeam that it will reach 8400,000 or more.-
misrepresented in this respect.
We publish the following exhibit, as repre
senting the proportion of each species of pro
duce planted by our farmers ; and we presume
these reports, scattered here and there over
three counties, will correctly represent the
planting interest in this section, as a whole:
J. Baggs plants 1400 acres in cotton; 1150; in
corn; 100 in oats, besides patches. D. J. Owens
plants 150 acres in cotton ; 225 in com; 30 in
oats, besides patches. W. W. Dews plants 100
acres in cotton ; 100 in com ; 100 in oats ; 5 in
cane ; 10 in ground peas. He raises his own
horses and stock of every kind. L. A. M. Col
lins plants 185 acres in cotton; 1*5 in com ; 80
oats, besides patches; H. H. Hall plants 40
acres in com ; 30 in cotton ; 10 in oats. G. P.
Winchester plants 125 acres in com; 125 in
cotton; 40 m oats. S. P. Davis plants 288
acres in com; 30G in cotton : 40 in oats, besides
patches. J. C. L. plants 480 acres in cotton;
320 in com, besides patches, D. K. Butler
plants 150 acres in cotton ; 50 in com ; 100 in
oats; 10 in ground peas ; 5 in rice.
The caterpillar, it is supposed, has appeared
in some places, but it has done no damage as yet,
it is to be hoped that its early appearance is a
favorable indication.
Newton, Ga.
_ We attended the Spring Session of the Supe
rior Court at this village last week. Quite a
number of lawyers were in attendance, bnt the
business was in most cases of but little general
interest. The Conrt adjourned on Thursday.
The citizens of Baker are anxious to have a
railroad connection with Savannah via Camilla
and Thomasville, and we are informed, have sub
scribed $25,000 towards it. For $75,000 the S.
G. & F. R. R. Co., have agreed to build a branch
,of their road to Newton, andlocato the depot on
the west side of Flint river.
Newton, probably, does the largest business
for a village of its size in the State, and repre
sents a large extent of the best cotton lands in
Georgia. One of its merchants, who began bu
siness there in 1848 without a dollar, and who
never attended school a day in his life, succeed
ed in amassing a large fortune there previous
to the war, and since the war has paid endorsed
papers to the amount of forty thousand dollars.
He plants this year about 2,700 acres of land,
embracing five or six valuable plantations, all
his own, we believe.
Newton will be a place of considerable impor
tance some day. It now has a good hotel, kept
by Mr. W. W. Livingston, whose liberality to
the press-gang is unequalled in this section of
the State. We bespeak for Mr. Livingston the
patronage he so richly merits from an apprecia
tive public.
A Sunday-school celebration was had here on
Friday, which created considerable interest.—
[Bainbridge Argus.
Of this amount the corporation of Bainbridge
has subscribed $S5,000. How much has been
raised by private subscription we are not at
presentpreparedtosay, but think from $35,000
to $40,000.
We learn that it is the intention of the ener-
getio President of this Company to have the
Engineer Corps in Cnthbert on the 21st prox.
Should he be able to do so, it will bespeak an
amount of energy almost unparalleled in the
history of railroads in the South.
There is no definite line determined on as yet,
but we presume the route the least expensive
will be selected. A meeting of the Board of
Directors will be held in Cnthbert at an early
day.—Bainbridge Sun, 27th.
Neoeo Killed.—A negro man named Alfred
Pickett, was shot and killed by a white man
named John Morandt at the bridge, near this city,
on Saturday. It seems that Morand was riding
in a wagon with other parties, when Pickett
asked permission to put a two gallon jug in it—
himself being in a rickety old buggy, heavily
loaded—which permission was granted by the
driver, and the jug placed upon the wagon. Mo
rand obj ected to the jug being hauled, and threw
it out upon the ground, breaking it. The ne
gro told him he must pay him ter the syrup,
whereupon Morand said he would pay him by
shooting him, and drew his pistoL The negro
started with a bucket to water the horses, and
finding that Morand was following him turned
to face him, when he (Morand) fired, the ball
passing through the negroe’s heart, and killing
him in a short time. After firing Morand fied,
and. up to this time has not been captured.—
Americus Courier.
The Mayor of Americus offers one hundred
dollars reward for the arrest of Morand.
The Spaniards saw ten cannon unmounted in
addition to the eight pieces already in position.
Foreigners led tho attack and composed a
large part of the insurgent force. The Span
iards captured a Prussian and instantly shot
him.
On the lCth instant a severe engagement took
place four miles from Puerto Padre. The in
surgents attacked a force of 1,000 Spaniards
conveying provisions to Tunas. The battle took
place along the margin of the river and lasted
for several hours, and every attempt of the
Spaniards to cross was repulsed with severe
loss. They were shot down in the river, ac
tually dyeing the water with their blood. Final
ly tfie Spaniards were driven back with great
loss and compelled to abandon the design of
provisioning Tunas. They acknowledge a loss
of thirty-four killed and one hundred wounded,
but the insurgents claim that their loss was
much heavier. .
Seventy-eight of the wounded had arrived at
Nuevitas. A Spanish soldier informed^ your
correspondent that of one hundred men in his
company only seven escaped unharmed.
The Spaniards retreated to Puerto Pardre,
where they were awaiting reinforcements at last
accounts. One thousand men under General
Ferrer had arrivedfrom Puerto Principe at Nue
vitas, and were about to march to reinforce
Puerto Padre. Ferrer will command all the
Spanish troops there.
A coasting schooner had arrived at Nuevitas
with the Spaniards wounded in a skirmish near
the same place on the 20th instant, between a
band of insurgents and a Spanish foraging party,
in which the latter were driven back.
Puerto Padre is a small seaport town on the
North Coast of Cuba, in the Eastern Depart
ment, between Hibara and Malaqueta Bay.—
The locality is reported to be swarming with
insurgents.
The Cubans aro jubilant over these successive
victories, which have evidently been gained by
the patriots, as all the information given above
has been obtained from Spanish sources.
Napoleon Arango, the insurgent chief, has
been restored to his command.
The Cubans have resolved “upon active oper
ations, and in the future intend keeping the
Spaniards on the seaboard, eat off from com
munication with the interior towns, whioh are
all suffering severely from want of provisions.
The railroad between Puerto Principe and
Nuevitas was to be soon destroyed again.
Never were the Cubans more sanguine Of
achieving their independence than at the pres
ent day.
Reliable information from revolutionary
sources reports that Count Valmaseda’s forces
have been driven out of Bayamo by the insur
gents under General Harm oil and that Valmase-
ca himself has been captured.
Two hundred Spanish troops have died of the
cholera.
The soldiers are reported shoeless and dis
contented.
Business in New York.—Pink, the New York
correspondent of the Charleston Courier, says:
Everywhere complaints are heard abont the
dullness of trade, and the want of energy all
around. Merchants cannot dispose of their
immense stocks to advantage, and small traders
are loaded down by heavy expenses. Where
last year hardly a store was to be had along.
Broadway, or along the populous and thriving
Sixth and Eighth Avenues, there now are to be •
found numerous retailers who would be glad to*
transfer their leases to other hands.
Shall the Confederate Dead be Honored 7
The Washington correspondent of- the Boston
Advertiser writes as follows to that journal:
There is quite a difference of opinion in the
Grand Army of the Republic in this section re
garding the decoration of the graves of tho Con
federate dead. Post No. 1 of this city resolves
unanimously that “while we hold no malice
against the dead who fell in attempting to haul
down our flag and thereby endangering the na
tion, we will not divide ourhonors by decorating
Confederate graves, and thereby taint the char
acter of those who sacrificed their lives that their
country might live.” Post No. 19 in Pennsyl
vania issues a circular saying that it has decided
“not to pass by the graves of Confederates
sleeping in our lines, but to divide each, year
between blue and grey the first floral offsprings,
of a common country. We have no powerloap-
foes. Post No. 19 thinks of the Southern dggC
only as brave men.” y
The Harvard University crew, which is to row
the English College crews in English waters
next summer, will sail thither on July 10th, bn
the fast steamer City of Paris, of the Inman
line, and so. will have five weeks’ acclimatiza
tion and rowing before the race.
Nearly four thousand persons are said to have
starved to death in London last year.
Tornado at Northeastern Georgia.—Quite
a destructive tornado occurred in the North
eastern part of Franklin county, on the evening
of the 13th inst. Several residences were blown
down, and in one instance the foundation Bflh
were lifted from their places, while the furni
ture in the house was carried away and princi
pally destroyed. The out buildings of several
farms were razed to the. ground, as well asa con
siderable amount of fencing. One farm, owned
by a Mr. Thomas, was left without a eingio
panel of fence standing. Such a destruction of
timber, as was occasioned by the storm Where
it principally raged, has been witnessed by but
few of onr oldest citizens. The fruit trees, the
lofty pine and the giant oak of the forest, all
alike yielded at the touch of this mighty storm,
as it raged in its fury. The tornado seems to
have begun its work of destruction near.tne'
Red Hollow Road, a few miles from the res
idence of Col. Knox, and extended in a North
east direction, until it reached the Tugalo Riv
er, about half a mile above Stribbling's Ferry,
beyond which point we have heard nothing of
its effects.—Banner.
26
142
2,330
223
326
42
2,737
252,55
18,486
12,227
221.340
23
111
1.800
121
290
37
1,590
168,932
10,891
8,737
184,397
Strength of the Presbyterians.
The following figures which we clip from the
Press of the 29th ult, will be interesting
The last year’s statistical reports give the fol
lowing summaries of the Old and the New
School Presbyterians:
Synods
Presbyteries....:
Ministers....
Licentiates
Candidates
Ministers died
Churches
Communicants
Added on examination....
Added on certificate
Number in Sundav-scbool.
Funds—
. Total contributions .$4,339,595 $3,091,8S5
Congregational. 2,919,970 2,441,085
Foreign Missions 285,303 108,196
Home Missions 113,109 132,843
Leaving these two main wings of the Church,
there are other Presbyterian bodies of very re
spectable numbers: The Southern Presbyterian
Assembly comprises 10 synods, 4S presbyteries,
7S5 ministers, 51 licentiates, 92 candidates,
1,298 churches, and. J6,949 communicants. The
United Presbyterian Church has 7 synods, 50
presbyteries, and about 700 ministers and 05,-
G12 communicants. The Cumberland Presby
terian Church has 54 synods, 99 presbyteries,
1,500 ministers, and 130,000 communicants.—
The Reformed Presbyterian Synod has 77 min
isters and 8,487 communicants. The Associate
Synod has 12 ministers, and 1,091 communi
cants. Besides these there are other small
Presbyterian bodies.
Indian depredations are growing frequent in
Arizona. A murder and a mail robbery have
recently been perpetrated by them.
The rice crop of Louisana for the current
year will be twice as large, it is said, as that of
J80S. .. . .
Circumstances Alter Casks.—This is a dog^
ma by which a veiy large portion of the world
regulate their conduct, and we do not recollect
to have ever seen it more happily illustrated
than in an anecdote that is told of a leading
French j ournal in the days of Napoleon. It con
tains an admirable portrait of a certain people
who are- ever ready to say evil of those who are
powerless or at a distance, but find in them mar
velous proper persons when brought face to
face. The story runs as follows :
"When Napoleon L escaped from Elba, the
Paris Moniteur thus chronicled his progress:
“The anthropophagist” has escaped—the “Cor-
sicanogre” has landed—the “tiger” is ooming—
the “monster” has slept at. Grenoble—the “ty
rant” has arrived at Lyons—the “usurper” has
been seen in the environs of Paris—“Bonaparte”
advances toward, but will never enter the capi
tal—“Napoleon” will be under our ramparts to-
rnnwoiu TvlriTinWXF* 1 Vsoo n nni
Georgia.—The dispatches to the JJjpisyille
Courier-Journal say that the admixsafaation has
decided as to what it will do w-iiilithe t alleged'
disturbed condition of things SeiGeorgia. The
commanding officer of the department in which
that State is situated is-tobe instructed to do all;
in his power to aid io-tlie punishing of crime'..
Washington, May 16.—From a private let
ter, dated a* above, we take the following ex
tract :
The recommendation of a Democrat is now, ,
it seems, worse than useless, especially in the
postal department. The President is, I fear,
under the control of the worst of his party.
It is stated that every farm of 160 acres in
Eastern Kansas is underlaid with 1,600,000 tons
of coal, or nine times more fuel than if the Bur-
face were covered with heavy timber.
Isabella is anxfons to compromise with
are still afsea off the md
friends Qi DemOQTacy have not yet despaired of
their visionary republic.
A. T. Stewart, of New York, paid tax last year
upon an income of three million nineteen thou
sand two hundred and eighteen dollars (3.019.-
218.) •
Brigham YoptG has just reached three score
and ten by taking his seventieth wife.
A wooden legged velocipedist is in Iowa sen
sation.
Rev. J. L. Johnson, of "Virginia, is preparing
a book in which will be given the biographies of
those students of the University of Virginia who
fell in the late war.
The Episcopal Convention of Pennsylvania,
just held, adopted resolutions against ritualistic
innovations.
The Pacific Railroad income from through
trafic, it is estimated, will amount to $60,000,-
000 annually.
A calculation made by a postoffice mathema
tician gives the number of letters that passed:
through the mails last year at about five hun
dred millions.
Women in Russia owning property have the
right to vote by proxy. "Women in the countiy
owning husbands enjoy the same right.
A society has been organized in New York:
for the protection of poor strangera in the city..
It has a large membership and plenty of tends..
In Massachusetts, a man was found to-be a
common drunkard, and was given the choice of."
leaving town or going to jail; he ohoae to-
raveL
An English gentleman has bought between
3,000 and 4,000 acres of land in Nelson County,
Virginia, on which he intends to settle 800 Eng
lish families.
Maine has a family in which the fsth'er is °* T -
feet four inches high, the son is six feet four,
and the grandson six feet six.
Bridesmaids’ dresses are now made of tulle or-
tarleten, trimmed with satin ribbon, and made-
with short trains. Groomsmen-at weddings are-
going out of fashion.
Laeoe numbers of immigrants,-, particularly-
Swiss, are pouring into Grundy county, Tenses--
see. The Swiss are erecting many romantic cot
tages in the vicinity of the colony lands.
The manager of a menagerie is Belgium re
cently took the place of hie “lion tamer*” who*
was sick. He got along veiy well until the lions
became hungry, when they ate hint
Six attempts have been made within a year to
assasinate Victor EmanneL
It is reported that Mr. Sanford, the American
Minister to Belgium, has sent in his resigna
tion.
morrow—“‘the Emperor” has arrived at Fon-
tainbleau—and lastly, hie “Imperial Majesty”
entered the Tuileries on the 21et of March, ‘“in
the midst of hia faithful subjects.’!
The Pope received $4,000,000 worth of pres
ents on his anniversary.
Prince Augustus, of Portugal, is*the last ru
mored nominee for the Spanish throne.
Forty-nine Baptist Churches have been or
ganized in England the past year, making an ag
gregate of 2,447.
Of the scandal that may be caused bya “false
report” this is an instance, related in a French
paper. A wag, passing through a dark tunnel,
amused himself by imprinting a kiss, a resound,
ing, sonorous kiss, on the back of his own hand!
General sensation, and angry, inquisitive glances
all round, when the oar reached the light.
In Italy, out of a population of 24,000,000,
18,000,0000 were so totally uneducated -as to be
unable to read or write.
John Brougham’s two benefit* fe New York.-
last week netted him $6,000; He is one of the
most popular and accomplished American ao-
tors.
Failure to pay a hotel bill ie decided to be a-
; penitentiary offence & New York-"’ \ j
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