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The Greorgia 'Weekly Telegraph.
THE TELEGRAPH
MACON, FRIDAY, JUNE 4, 1869.
Bibb County Court House.
In reference to the suggestions of “Out
siders," in ovr last edition, we are requested to
•ay that the Court House Commissioners noti
fed the public on the 26th nit. that they had
appointed Messrs. L. N. Whittle, G. B. Roberts,
and J. M. Boardman, a committee specially for
the purpose of imparting information upon the
points referred to by Outsiders, and have kept
a notice of the fact before the public ever
since. All persons desiring information as to
the size, style, and cost of the proposed struc
ture, are therefore respectfully referred to that
oommittee. '
A Twenty Acre Cotton Crop.
In the June Cultivator, David Dickson says
“The 3d of May I commenced the twenty acre
lot and finished the 10th of May; commenced
planting the 7th May; fumed under a fine coat
of creen manure; used 800 pounds of my com
pound per acre. It made thirty-two bales—the
last one being a bag and a half, and paid a divi
dend on $4000 per acre, after paying all ex
penses and improving the capital ten per cent
on what it would sell for; but as I wish to be
fair, I will state the sale of the seed increased
the nett dividends two-thirds or more, but the
Hut alone paid a nett dividend on one thousand
dollars or more per acre.
Crops—Warm Weather.
We are now having weather of the ardent
kind—warm and sultry both night and day.—
Crop accounts are getting to be more cheerful,
and we donot doubt that there will be a great
change for the better in the course of a week.
The soil is dry and the roads very dusty. We
need ram, and hope soon to have it. Will
planters writ© ns how their wheat and oats are
turning out ?. One of our traveling correspon
dents, in f Brooks, speaks of oats seven feet
high! That is tall. Has he been in a cane-
brake lately?
Hold-Hold. — The Montgomery Advertiser
mentions a “frightful rumor” current at the cap
ital of Alabama, viz: that the Legislature is to
be convened at an early day. It says that the
excuse given for such a call is the necessity of
amending the Tax Laws, and the discovery of a
clerical error' in the law providing for the gen
eral election of this year. The law orders the
■election “on Tuesday the 5th day of August,”
but the 3d day of August,-and not the 5th, will
be Tuesday this year. The Advertiser regards
the reasons for ’ the call as mere pretexts, be
cause there is no hope of a material reduction
of the taxes being made, and the error about
the day of the election is not such a one as
would invalidate the election if held. It thinks
the real cause that suggests the call is tho fact
that the Legislators are out of money and want
to make another haul on the Treasury.
Colo bed Postmaster at Cuthbeet. — The
Cuthhert Appeal says “our colored Postmaster
is stm in a state of snspended.animatiori, and it
is reportedwould .be glad of the assistance of a
competent whjte deputy. The old incumbent,
Mr. Peacock, still remains at his post.” Here,
we suppose, will be the block at the working of
this Radical-negro-postoffice enginery.- What
white men will do the work under a negro
principal—and if white men cannot be found,
where can negroes be obtained competent to the
business? The Savannah Republican says the
citizens of Cuthbert will have their mail-matter
shipped at Ward’s station and send, a carrier
after it. We have no information or instruc
tions upon the subject.
Judicial Election in Tennessee.—Returns
have been received sufficient to indicate the
election of the Conservative Judicial ticket by a
majority of 400 to 500, notwithstanding the tre
mendous frauds practiced by the carpet-bag
gers. We carry every county in the district
except Montgomery.'county, Tennessee, and
Logan, Todd, Christian and a part of Warren in
Kentucky, from which the darkies flocked in
crowds. This result, together with the decision
of the Supreme Court which enfranchises 30,-
000 of the disfranchised of this State, has made
the'people jubilant! and dispirited the carpet-
■ baggeni. ...
’. Railed ad Consolidation-.—The authorities of
tljeipplttinbia-and Charlotte and Columbia and
Augusta railroad have, agreed upon terms of
consolidation, to be ratified or rejected by their
respective stockholders in July. Under the
terms agreed upon the stockholders of the Co
lombia and Augusta railroad is valued at twenty-
two dollars a share, that of the Charlotte and
South Carolina railroad is valued at par, and
four and a half shares of the former are to be
received for brie share of the latter.
.Paid Off, — A Washington paper says that
twenty-three thousand dollars in gold has been
paid to Mr. Hatvey, Minister to Portugal, in full
of his salary, which Congress has refused for
three years because of a letter not complimen-
tary to themselves. It'seemsthat Mr. Fish was
opposed to repudiation, and considered the'la-
'TRaerworffiyottsishfre. ~~
i. ‘ j«Tpe Brow* , PrpES.?’ , -7^The Savannah' Repub-
Jican 6f Sunday says,'among the freights by! the
Tonawanda yesterday were several, briridlesof
..iheiamous ‘.‘Joe BrqwnKkes^’VjTheyaVAfrom
a lot of two hundred which their owner is anxi
ous to dispose of, he haying the refusal of
eight hundred more. They go to Philadelphia
’ •4o find a market; n 5 -J i . L j
■ . Hvinxzm&sutgaa'
i.CbLb^iAjiihia.^pitaLpf.rour^ sister State; is-
emphatically under negro supremacy. The Cor
oner fmd; School-.Commissioner elected last week
jsrq. bqth negroes. Columbia must fee a nice
placetohrein!.- ^ " 3 V ! J
i BELodER’bN Trials-The Chronicle and Sen-
b.iihel says, that Belcher the colored Assessor of
Internal Revenue forthat disto*4srm. trial/or
an alleged felony—destroying government, pa-,
pers in order to injure a person formerly in the
II .Ilf . liM' f. ;. . .1 J 1
"iii Habvmstikg '^HEAT.-^-HarTesting wheat, says
the Augusta Chronicle, of Saturday, was com
menced on the wheat lands oh the outskirts of
the city yesterday. ■ The wheat is in fine condi
tion, well matured and therfiseems to bhjq fine
prospect for a large-yield.
t.-i ~
. ^‘"/KinsiijGxsbE has been reoeived from Canton
to the effect that the whole of the first crop of
tea has been seriously damaged by bad weather.
Bnhilhr news comeb from Pekin. itK-rr-
A gentleman.'arrived in', Boston, on. Saturday
’''"in seven days and eleven hours from San Fran-
. cisco, including seventeen hours’ delay on' the
Pacifiorailroad;' ,
Thebe is a movement in the Ohio Legislature
. to remedy tbe alarming evil of celibacy, by a
■ law making'it .criminal to remain single'.after
the age of twenty-five years; :
Prince Louis de Bourbon, the disowned de
scendant of a line of throneless kings, has de
clared his allegiance to the United States. '■
—- - TttE .Geoigia-Raiitpad jrarposeS to extend her
jseeAtixosa.. Athens to Knoxville,. Terinegsee, at
as‘an early day as possible.''
Cincinnati now contains as many inhabitants
as did the entire State of 'Ohio," twenty years
after its settlement. - .w. • j;.
•i, T Italian Minister havinggone to Italy, the
i-legation .during his absence is in charge of
’■ Chevalfer Bertinati, formed the Italian Minister
! . . to this country, •
' A paper “down East' makes the correction:
Itt bur paragraph yesterday concerning thirteen
ministers who had been spanked in infancy, for
spanked read sprinkled.
Hatred or the Confederate Dead.
Sunday’s press dispatch was very brief and
refered to but one subject. It was as follows:
“ Washington Cur, May 30. — Occasional
flowers thrown on Confederate graves at Arling
ton produced disturbances, which were checked
by the guards, who prevented the decoration of
the Confederate graves. This policy waj forced
upon the authorities by ruffians, (supported by
thoughtless persons,) who gathered and tram
pled upon the flowers. This act, and the neces
sity to guard the graves, is universally deplored,
but the vast and mixed crowd rendered the
guard necessary. Otherwise, there would have
been a row, and probably bloodshed. A heavy
storm to-day.”
The Northern people, borrowing the sugges
tion from the Southern practice, very generally
appointed last Sunday as a day for decorating
the graves of their dead soldiers. The selec
tion of Sunday for this purpose met, in some
places, with opposition, and the preceding Sat
urday or following Monday was substituted^
In Washington the ceremonials took place on
Saturday with the result as stated. The crowd,
observing some flowers upon the graves of Con
federate soldiers, raised a cry of indignation and
trampled upon the flowers and the graves of the
dead. Amidst this crowd might probably have
been a few Confederate sympathizers whose in
dignation was roused to madness at this public
indignity to the memory of the brave and pat
riotic dead. They rallied to oppose and pre
vent it, and the soldiers on duty as gnards, in
order to prevent a bloody conflict, threw a cor-
don around the graves of the dead Confederates,
and by preventing any further decoration, re.
moved all excuse and provocation for further
insult!
What spectacle was this; A populace inflamed
with such malignant and envenomed hatred of
the dead soldiers of the Sontb, that they were
ready to fight when they saw flowers upon their
graves, and in their blind rage abandoned all
manhood to trample upon and disfigure the
graves of their enemies.
But the telegram was very particular to say
that this was done “by ruffians supported by
thoughtless persons.” Grave yards are not gen
erally popular places with ruffians. It strikes
us the occasion, being a purely sentimental and
patriotic one, was not sncll as likely to enlist
very largely the sympathy and personal atten
dance of professional ruffians; and if some of
that class had been present out of curiosity they
could not probably have taken the direction of
proceedings of such a character. The immensity
of the throng would have made their efforts to
control matters powerless. They would have
been hissed off the ground for doing a thing
of this nature if popular sentiment did not sanc
tion it -
Bnt, accepting the explanation and apology of
the telegram in this case, it seems to us leaders
of public opinion in the North are constantly
guilty of utterances which would inspire to acts
of more dastard malice than the foregoing. For
example, take the.following editorial in Forney’s
Philadelphia Press of the 27th;
‘‘Amonument upon Southern soil, to the mem
ory of the tens of thousands of brave Union sol
diers who perished by' starvation in the prison
lens, has been projected. By all means let it
ie btqlt, and let it be so conspicuously placed
that every living rebel, who has upon his con
science the murder of patriots, may at some pe
riod of his life see it, and have recalled to him
the pictures of misery and death which his fiend
ish barbarity assisted to produce.”
The spirit of that paragraph , is as fonl and
malicious as Satan. The Press must be aware
that Federal documents show a greater per tent
age of mortality in Federal than in Confederate
prisons during the war—and this, with every
advantage of ample means to make their pris
oners healthy and comfortable, which the Sonih
were'entirely destitute of. Is it in the face of
such'facts' that the press : dares to charge
‘murder,”, and proposes to seer Southern con
sciences with monuments to onr “fiendish bar
barity?” Let him build his monuments, but
the figures will still stand.
We. regret mnch to see these manifestations
of inexorable hatred which neither time nor the
grave can' mollify. We in the South feel our
selves the ; victims to sectional oppression and
an outraged constitution. We were bom to
rights of self government, of which we have
been basely, plundered by a combination of
States who have, extinguished : 'our liberties in
the blood of onr people. Nevertheless,, oh the
days set apart for decorating the graves of
the victims, we have forgotten the animosities
of the war, and sectional strife. The graves of
the dead soldiers of both sections have received
the same floral tributes. But what a return of
such liberalityTs this? y v— : -~
-> False Packed Hay.
There has been some talk, of late, about
false-packed cotton, and truly'the planter who
is guilty of it deserves reprobation, besides be
ing “a fool for his pains.” But as the “Great
Northern Hay Crop” is the grand counter-point
to the great Southern cotton crop, and both are
representative crops, we beg toast our South-
em contemporaries how it is about false-
packed Hay ? Upon this point our limited ob
servation and experience disclose marvels. In
respect to Eastern Hay, in’ a‘single bale bought
a while - ago for two hundred and. seventy
pounds, there were by weight sixty-seven
pounds of wood, used in baling it. A gentleman
in a lot of eight hundred pounds, found about
three hundred pounds of wood. In a hooped
bale of Hay bought a week ago, there were
three.layers of dirt, hay seed, trash, etc., sev
eral Inches thick, which had beenBatnrated with
water and packed down solid, qnd constituted,
probably, forty or fifty per cent of the weight
of the bale.
Our impression is that an honest bale of hay
is exceptional in the Macon market We think
the average -fraud will be twenty- per cent ! 6fthe'-
weight,’and we sHotildlike 't©! Bear how it is in’
other towns in Georgia. Unfortunately and fool
ishly a great deal of Northern a£d ; Western/hay
’is" sold in Macon, whereas,'"W6 Should be abun
dantly supplied /with, .domestic forage. We
Think the brethren of the North are running
false packing injto.the ground.
i.y., Y Disimtcjifc*. .
As aspeciriien of the clAss of news that conics
to us nightly from ..the far off- places in the
South, we give today a.. dispatch. from
Atlanta, Georgia, Wecannot, rfatboin the mo
tives of a news .organization that keeps in its
employ a set of irresponsible rebel scamps whose
only object is to misrepresent occurrences and
send abroad ' unblushing falsehoods, with
the.hope of .poisoiting;.y>oblic opinion and pre
venting its just judgments. ' -j
•The above, from the Philadelphia Press of
the 28th. f ult.y refers : to-the- press dispatch
abqriV Swkyze’s, indiefafient. *The fawness of
the Press is illustrated by the fact that ,when he -
gets a special dispatch from Atlanta alleging the.
murder of two negroes by the “rebel Ku-Klnx,”"
when the negrfces are. sBve'.ahd ’.well," jfcie bad
nota word of oeniplaint or contradiction. Truth
is unpardonable .when ;if discredits! Radicalism, 1
Falsehood, the qth&f way; ad good gs wheat
•-.i
Caterpillars dc • Middle . pLoniDAi — Tlw
Bainbndge.Argus of tho^Oth'sa^s, ican be'
no longer a reasonable , doubt that the Cotton-
caterpillarkas made its appearance in '-this sec
tion of Georgiy and 'Florida, and thal'lts work
Of destruction has already commenced^ We
heard on Monday that Colonel J.. J. Williams,
planting nchr Tallahassee, has a field of four
hundred acres, in which were not that many
.stalks of ; 'e»tton iiiat. mth^.wht^Iy or
partially stripped by this dreaded scourge.
; RfataNAnoiV. — The Atlanta Intelligencer
•publishes official correspondence announcing the;
resignation of Col. B. B. deGraffenried, Execu
tive Secretary of Gov. Bullock-
From Wilcox County.
Wmcox Co., May 28, 1869.
Editor8 Telegraph: As you have resumed
your correspondence with the planters for the
ensuing season, we propose that Wilcox shall
also be represented. Although “a rose bom to
blush unseen," with unassuming grace she con
tributes her share to the growth and prosperity
of the Commonwealth. She has not yet been
the recipient of a due share of the benefits ac
cruing to the offspring of noble lineage, bnt as
she is still in her youth, we trust that in maturi
ty, the vociferous neigh of the iron horse will
be no nmmni sound to her people, and the
schoolmasters baton will have drilled for ns our
future statesmen, and heroes, while the pulpit
will be the arena around which centers onr
highest hopes for future good.
Spring has been wary of her charms and
seems almost to have ignored her gentle quali
ties, for she has coquetted with Boreas and
Pluvins until the young cotton droops its abash
ed head and meekly awaits the advent of the
kindlier beams of a June solstice. The hardier
com looks well and defies the cool winds so in
jurious to its meek neighbor, while the sturdy
cane -waves its long leaves to the breeze and por
tends a rich yield of juice from within an im-
pervious coat.
Onr farmers are now industriously engaged
in destroying the young grass, and as the season
is propitious for the work, with due diligence it
can be eradicated beyond all fear of its assum
ing a mastership; but in the uncertain future
does there not lurk a deadly foe, to blast the
hopes of the poor planter? The caterpillar,
which has already appeared in some sections of
the country, may, in a few hours, spread abroad
ruin and devastation. We have heard of more
than one planter who is almost persuaded to re
treat from the field at the prospect, bnt we say
to all such—advance, attack the enemy in foil
force and rout him from his position; for in the
language of a Divine writer, “hethatobserveth
the wind shall not sow, and he that regardeth
the clouds shall not reap.” “In the morning
sow thy seed, and in the evening withhold not
thine hand; for thou knowest not whether shall
prosper, either this or that, or whether they
both shall be alike good.” Should the ravages
of this worm become general, it behooves ns to
accept the scourge as a Providential punishment
to our people for their blind persistence in the
cultivation of cotton, to the exclusion of bread-
stuffs. We sincerely trust, however, that our
good farmers may be spared this fatal dispensa
tion and reap a rich return for the unusual out
lay in fertilizers.
The freedmen in this county, remote from
towns, work admirably.
A distressing homicide occurred in the little
village of Abbeville, on the 20th inst. Both par
ties were the subjects of King Alcohol, and com
mitted a crime at which they would have revolt
ed, under the reign of reason. The poor victim,
after suffering several days, has gone to his trial
before the great tribunal of the King of Kings,
while the perpetrator is a miserable wanderer
and fugitive from justice.
Very Respectfully, W. A. J.
From Lowndes County,
Valdosta, May 29, I860.
Editors Telegraph: I find this a flourishing
village of about fifteen hundred inhabitants—
citizens generally kind, social and hospitable.
They have two of the best schools in the State
with eighty scholars each. The scholars are
sent here from four or five counties around and
some from Savannah.
: .The South Georgia Times, edited by Major
P. G. Pendleton, I am glad to find flourishing.
Persons who, in the olden times, visited Tronp-
ville will, remember Uncle Billy Smith and
Grandma; his wife. They have charge of a
railroad eating house and provide, as of old,
well for their guests..
Labor is not so good here. Freedmen fre
quently break their contracts in this county and
leave to work on the railroads in process of
building.. -
On last Monday night some rascal broke into
the office of the A. & G. R. ,R. depot in seacb of
nine hundred dollars, known to have been re
ceived that day, -but the money fortunately had
been sent away, and he missed his game.
L_... v-,■:“;*? Traveler.
; ^Frvom.Broojks ^onnty. ...
-Quitman, Brooks County, CrAi,j
• : May28th,. 1869; ! y
Editors . Telegraph : In. passing through
Dougherty, Mitchell, and Thomas counties, the
cold nights having continued to this time, cot
ton Has been backward.' Brooks' County pro
duces oats'-of 'iUie best kind; A'genifleman here
has twentyacres in onts that average seven feet
high. I do not know- the variety. . Sugar cane
proinises well, and gardens are splendid. Fish
is to.be bad in any quantity here.
The South Georgia and Florida Railroad is
being pushed rapidly forward to Camilla. Col.
Hardaway, President of the road, reports the
w6tk" pr6gres8ing'fiheIy,-'aii'd'-'atockholders pay
ing their installments..' .(.iti/.-.i.
Quitman is qnite a large place, and one of
the. .prettiest; villages in Georgia. “There are
three churches, - twenty-five business houses, an
excellent school, and a nice , hotel—Mrs. McIn
tosh, pWprjetress. Business -houses generally
are.bnilt of -brick. A" fiiie oonxt house adds to
the general -appearance of :tire' place.' This
town' was laid out, in • I860, and now has two
thousand inhabitants; as fine, clever people as
ever . saw,-and The .most ibeautiful-girls and
plenty -of. them, -it is very healtbyBere. The
women and'i children loole ■ splefididly;. The
Qmtul&fi'Banner.Jetfited by HajV Fildes and Col.
St. Clair,'-is a flourishing paper. Quitman is
destined- to be quite a city.' /.Traveler.
The. i Arlington Grave Decorations.—Our
Sunday press dispatcli led "ns into the error that
the decoration of the Beileral jpavesat Arling-;
tbn.tqok place on Sunday j But we. s Bee : by the
pres^ dispatcher to the. ^cRtem papers that it
ocoiirreii oji'Satnrday.' Tlie'following isaspe-
oiai. to the Louisville Courier-J'oinrnal
•iVAstaNGTON,' May 28.—Business vrill-be gen
erally -suspended here toinprrow. The ' Presi
dent has ordered all the departments to be closed
and the'Mayor issued a! -proclamation .this.eve-
iiing ; r^iiiiring a'general observance' of the day
bn the partbf the local business communities.
,Exlepftye. ; pregj«atibgs Been. made.-to dec
orate with flowers and. evergreens' the forty
thousand igniveS-of Union soldiers;.' The cele-
tmtibnff at Arlington willbe elaborate; jpclnd-
ing'an .^fldresE, the singing of sacred hymns,’
dirges by several bands, etc! ' 3 .
.This xrts'the occasion and -here the scene of
tiw-pfiblio indignity tothe grave's of- the.CoU-;
tedmtbe sbl&ers.' It vas- dofie at..thbi.Federal"
ca^tpl, ind-nnder circumstances which seem to
preclude the idea that-it was the work of a few
rowdies..; ^
The Independence Beige says it has received
infonnalion from London that thq British Gor-
!ftnyp6fit,;by : -way'.^.Seply. tb; : Mr. :; Sumner's,
speech, has communicated to the Washington
Cabinet, without waiting for the arrival of Mr.
: i Mo|Tejv 1 tkat it jmaiiil^iiis.the; princjpie-of arbi
tration for all claims;of:- the citizens of: the two
countries arising put ofThe' late.civil war. - The
Independence Beige considers:this an important
piece ofnews, and promises, further particulars
a3 aeon as they are received.' :
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; Crop*-in Lee Ceunty. -— - f; .
.TV.;. ;/ ,j;fii»«quirt?,May2G. ;
Editors Telegraph : Crops in Lee are not as
good as usuak We are as dry as a powder-house,
when we - kindle a fire we have totonchit off-
softly. ; . Yours, I.’E. F.
The Central Pacific Railroad Company has
discharged about 2000 men already. ’ ,
TELEGRAPH.
From Washington.
Washinton, May SL—David Turner is appointed
Collector of post at Georgetown, Va.
The Government has advices of an engagement
between troyps and Indians near Fort Griffin, Texas,
and fourteen Indians killed.
John H. Gould has been appointed Collector of
the 1st Georgia District.
Four first-class iron-clad revenue cutters will he
constructed by the Treasury Department.
Senator Wade visited Grant today, receivings
commission as Government director for the Union
Pacific Railroad.
Stephen A. Douglas’ mother is dead. She was
80 years old.
The President departs for Annapolis Thursday,
and for West Point on the 10th.
Internal Revenue, for the month, $20,250,000,
The commander of the Pacific squadron has been
ordered to give all possible aid to the American and
Chinese Telegraph Company.
Bassett, the negro Minister to Hayti, received in
structions to-day. He is to present them but not
to press to a certain settlement. He is, also, per
sonally instructed by the President to assure the
Haytiens of hie good will. y
Longstreet, in replying to the demands from
the War Department for sums claimed against him
at the date of Iris resignation, demands vouchers
with original endorsements, concluding: “The
confusion incident to the stiring events of the last
ten years has led to the loss of a great many of my
papers, leaving me no other resource than to your
records.
General Hews.
Memphis, May 31.—The Supreme Court of Ten-
nesse, at Brownsville, decides unanimously that the
right to vote is secured to citizens under the con
stitutional declarative bill of rights; and that the
elective franchise stands equally high with the right
to hold property, which, once vented, cannot be
withdrawn without due process of law; and that the
power conferred by the Tennessee Legislature upon
the Governor to set aside these regulations is illegal
and the Governor’s action in the matter null.
New York, May 31 In the Old School Assembly
resolutions were offered to extend Christian saluta
tions to the Presbyterian Churches of the Southern
States,expressing the desire that the day is not dis
tant when all Presbyterians shall be United in a
great organization that shall cover our whole land.
New Yons, May 31.—The steamboat Norwalk,
which was recently sunk, has been raised.
From Alabama.
Montgomery, May 31.—Messrs. Bingham, Lough-
bridge. and Eldridge, of tho Congressional Com
mittee to investigate the charges against Judge Bus-
teed, reached here on Saturday night.
Judge Busteed adjourned his court to-day until
Wednesday noon.
The State Immigration Convention meets tomor
row. A number of delegates have arrived already.
Foreign News.
Liverpool, May 31.—Motley received, to-day, ad
dresses of welcome from the Liverpool and Ameri
can Chambers of Commerce and proceeded to
London.
Caught at Last.—Tho notorious negro thief and
escaped convict, Bob Wagner, was caught on Sun
day evening last at Goodall’s plantation, about
eleven miles from this city, on the Houston Road,
and arrived heie yesterday morning, abont eight
o'clock, bound and in charge of his captors. It was
soon known all through the city that Bob had been
caught and was at the City Hall, and hundreds
flocked thither to see a negro who has been the
terror of both whites and blacks in this community
for several months past. The negroes seemed to
enjoy his capture more than the whites, and in fact
the vast crowd which assembled at the City Hall
was composed almost altogether of the colored
population.
Bob was captured by Mr. R. T. Avant. who lives
at Seago’s Station, assisted by three of his colored
laborers—Calvin Dann, Jim Wilson and Jordan
Wright These three men knew Bob, personally,
and desired his arrest, as Bob never made any dis
tinction of color in perpetrating rascality. So they
told Mr. Avant where Bob was, and the four went
to the cabin where they had seen him; bnt he had
gone to another cabin, and Mr. A., aware of Bob’s
desperate character, Bent two of the above named
men in advance to discover him, and see if he was
armed and induce him to como out of the cabin.
They succeeded in finding him and proposed to go
to the mill pond and take a bathing. Bob consented
and his trappers led him along to where Mr. Avant
was, who seized him by the shirt sleeve and asked
Bob who he was and what he was doing there. Bob
replied that his name was John Johnson, and that
he was working on Goodall’s plantation. Mr. Avant
told him that he lied and must go to town, and the
captors seized and bound him, and guarding him
over night, brought him in as above stated.
We visited Bob, in his cell, an hour or two after
his imprisonment, to hear what he had to say, and
see the scamp abont whom we have written eo
much. :
He is a man about five feetsix inches high, heavy
set and will weigh one hundred and sixty pounds.
He is twenty-seven years old, very black, round
bushy bead,- high cheek bones, and one of his upper
front teeth is gone. His voice is rather Bubdued
and weak for a man of his appearance, and in every
lineament of the face yon can, detect the thief,
whilst the lips and chin give some marks of courage
and resolution.
He acknowledges some of the rascality which he
is charged with in this community, but he says that
much has-been charged’to him that he is not re
sponsible for; that lie has stolen nothing-since
Capt. Simpson shot Mm, some months ago, and that
he had quit M3 evil companions, and bad gone off
where he'thought ho was out of danger, to work for
a living; that he has not been abont Macon since.
he wa£ shot; and that the theft perpetrated last
week at Capt. Lloyd's place,'.was' by the negro
Wyley. He says he suffered a grealdeal from. the.
wound in Ms arm, and it now shows where numer
ous abscesses formed, and the ball qah be distinctly
felt, on the inside of the arm just above the wrist.
: Bob’s history is too well known to the community
to review it;'and we dismiss him with the statement
that, he will be held here two or three days, for cer
tain reasons, before he is returned to the peniten
tiary. - - .' y.’tr fb.TfU •• iwii'S.!/
Ah to! Ms Captors, we have only to say that they
deserve and have the thanks of the whole commun
ity.' : the three colored men who identified. Bob and
assisted in arresting Mm, should be,liberally re
warded. .Mr. Avant says they Ore honest,-faithful
laborers, and acted in good faith and like honest
men in the whole - transaction, and we hope the city'
or county authoritiess will reward them accordingly.
Mayor’s Court.—Six cases-were on docket for
trial in this court yesterday, morning, and there wa3
la large attendance of outsiders, in addition to.ihose
who had to face the frowns of violated law. ;
The first case was against Luther Bell, a -negro,
for stealing a pair of shoes from the store of R.
Morris. He was ordered to work on the streets 80
days for the offence.;. /,i'. ™
The next was a case of fighting against three ne
gro women, bnt there being, some extenuating cii>
'cumstances connected with the affair,-it was dis
missed.-; ,i:V .:! • . ■
A. Washington; was then brought np, under a
charge of vagrancy;'but lie Managed to Satisfy the
court'that the charge was groundless and ho was
discharged. — •-..-•f !j=
' Mr." John Doyle was in conrt under, two charges—
one for keeping a disorderly house, , and the other
for selling.liquor on Sunday. For. the first offence
he .was ordered, tti'thejGUard^Manse for thirty days;
and,for the second was fined.$100.: ' • !• , 1
v .'^«we ; 6f SisordMly conduct sent a negro up for
thirty days, and one against awMte man-, cost Mm
twenty dollars, wMch he succeeded in finding, after.
looking a few moments through: a roll of bills'
large as'a stove-pipe.' ' He spread it oiit before His
Honor ak'p6U£e!y''£ill qil«ll/ aa' If ho were prepar-'
ing a seat for a ladyat a pio-nic, with, hia.handker-
cMc/j.»nd.sryeli#y, Retired,, j
A Wink Isn’t as Good as a Nod.—It has been
decided that a wink at an auction is not a logal bid.
In other words, a bid of. that kind. is to be for
bidden. WMle about it the Courts should decide if-
a wink socially is,a fair recognition, or sign; though
it isnot to be denied it la often done by the fair. -
''Patent Medicines' of all kinds atman nfacturers
prices. » L. W. Hunt & CO.
Firemen's Parade.In honor of the visit of the
Oglethorpe Fire Company and the Screven Hose
Company, of Savannah, yesterday was made a gala
day in this city. Both companies arrived on the
Savannah morning train abont 7 o’clock and were
received at the passenger shed by delegations from
each of the fire companies of this city—CoL Thos.
Hardeman, jr., delivering the reception address,
which wasMghly felicitous and in Ms usual eloquent
and graceful manner. He was responded to by Mr.
R. Wayne Russell in the following happy and grace
ful address, which elicited the heartiest applause
from all who beard it:
Gentlemen of the Macon Fire Department : It
affords me sincere pleasure, as a representative of
the Oglethorpe Fire Company, of Savannah, Ga., to
respond in their behalf to the kind sentiments your
chosen speaker has so beautifully expressed. They
are sentiments, gentlemen, wMch go direct to the
heart, and at once dispel that unpleasant stiffnees
wMch so often embarrasses the interchange of or
dinary civilities. Coming into your midst as strang
ers from a distant city, we bad no right to expect
more than that formal though pleasing politeness
wMch visitors usually receive; but the genuine
hospitality for wMch your fair city and her good
people are so justly famed, has already embraced ns
in its open arms and taught us to feel that we stand
upon familiar ground, and that the beaming and
welcoming countenances we see around us belong
not to strangers, but to friends.
We have come to visit you, gentlemen, not from
an idle curiosity; not to promote our own pleasure
merely, bnt by an amicable contact with your own
eflicient organization, to brace and improve our
selves for renewed usefuMess and more earnest
efforts in performing tho noble and generous duties
of our common mission. Above all, we have come
to unite the sea-hoard with the hills; to multiply
mutual kindnesses and friendships from centre to cir
cumference of our good old State. We wish, so far
as we can, to nerve, with the mighty force of mu
tual confidence and esteem, those great arteries of
trade wMch binds us together, and to fill the deep
channels of our commerce with a generous sym
pathy wMch shall ever flow backwards and forwards,
from the centre to the sea. Then will onr good
old State rise like a giant wakened from Ms slum
ber, and the bare trunk stripped of its verdure
through the calamities of war will again become in
stinct with its native sap, and blossom anew with
hope and strength and beauty.
Again, gentlemen, we thank you for your frank
and generous welcome; and to the kind bands so
cordially offered, we extend onr our own, with our
hearts in them.
The visiting companies were then escorted to
their quarters at the different hotels in tho city—a
few seeking the homes of familiar friends and ac
quaintances in the city.
The most of the day was spent by the visitors in
seeking rest; but not a few were on band at Huff’s
Rink during the day, whilst others were rambling
through the city, visiting our beautiful Bose Hill
Cemetery and other places of pleasant resort.
At 4 o’clock in the afternoon, the Macon Fire De
partment, and their visitors, assembled at the City
Hall, and, forming line, marched through several
streets to Mulberry, on wMch they formed line and
a trial of the steam engines was had. And here the
scene was repeated wMch we all witnessed on the
15th of April last. The balconies, windows and
house-tops, on each side of the street, were literally
thronged with ladies and gentlemen, girls and hoys,
all anxious spectators of the proceedings within the
lines. '
The “John W. Anderson,” steamer of the Ogle-
thorpes, of Savannah, was the first to take position
at the cistern. From a want of proper fuel she was
nearly two hours in preparing for a trial of her ca
pacities, bnt when she announced her readiness to
play, by a whistle, she did some first-rate work and
did it well—throwing water 232 feet inches.
Though rather long in getting ready, she neverthe
less retired from the field the victor and amid the
heartiest cheers.
The C. A. Nutting, of Protection, No. 1, next took
her position at the cistern, but it was nearly dark
when she did so, and after a few moments’ play t
during wMch she threw a stream of 200 feet, 8%
inches, she fell into line with her visitor and march
ed home, the vast andience and the other engines
having proceeded to their homes sometime before.
And thus closed the day yesterday.
OFFCERS OF THE OGLETHORPE EIRE COTTPANT.
Phillip M. Russell, President.
A. E. Delane, First Foreman.
Julius Auxmann, Second Foreman.
Isaac S. Cohen, Third Foreman.
Charle8 L. Lodge, Treasurer.
Richard Wayne Russell, Secretary.
Thos. J. Swygover, Engineer.
And thirty-five visiting members.
OFFICERS 6CBT7EN HOSE COMPANY.
Isaac Russell, President.
Marion .Tidwell, First Foreman.
Alonzo Michler, Second Foreman.
0. B. Johnson, Third Foreman.
Wm. Searcy, Treasurer.
Anthony Strocse, Secretary.
And forty visittog members.
We ought- to say that the “John W. Anderson,”
in the line of procession, was beautifuRy decorated
with wreaths and flowere, and amid them were
seated two neatly dressed and sweet little girls,
which made her the object of attraction and admira
tion along her line of march.
The Screven also turned out a very beantiful hose
carriage, which was universally admired as one of
the most handsome things of the kind ever seen on
our streets.
Both companies are composed of fine looking,
well-bred and intelligent gentlemen, and we shall
test their social qualities at a pic-nic to-day, at Rus
sell's Brewery; after wMch we may have something
more to say in to-morrow's paper.
Pio-Nic on Saturday.—The Croquet Club pio-nic
on Saturday was one of the pleasantest, we are in
formed, of the season. It came off in the grove,
just this side of the Cemetery, and from an early
hour in the morning until nightfall the belles and
beaux of Macon had a delightful time. We have
received a communication on the subject from one
of the gallants present, and regret that we have not
the space to spare this morning in publishing it.
Suffice it to say that all returned to their homes
happy in the associations and sports of tho day and
gratified that nothing had occurred to mar its
pleasures.
A Pure and Reliable Wine.—L. W. Hunt & Co.,
on Cherry street, have for sale a dozen or so cases
of pure Scuppernong Wine from the vinyard of Mr.
C. W. Garrett, of Halifax county, N. O. TMs wine
was made in the most careful manner by a German
wbo has had great experience in the old country,
and is pronounced by the best judges to be superior
to any which has yet been made. It is entirely free
from alcohol or other addition. Solomon had seen
such wine when he wrote, “Give strong drink to
Mm who is ready to perish, bnt wine to him who is
heavy of heart." To the sick this wine is recom
mended as being the perfectly pure juice of the
scuppernong grape.
Christ Church Parish We are informed that
Mr. J. G. Deitz, of the firm of J. W. Burke & Co.,
has been elected a member of the Vestry of Christ
Church Parish. The Vestry, as now organized,
consists of the following gentlemen:
James JIercer Green, Senior Warden.
Lewis N. Whittle, Junior Warden.
John L. Jones, )
J. M. Boardman, I
O. B. Cole, j-Vestrymen.
W. B. Johnston, I
John G. Deuz. J
Soda Water.—“How nice and cool,” is the ex
pression coming from the lips of every one who
has drank of that Ice Cream Soda Fountain of J.
H. Zeilin & Co. All of the choice syrnps are to be
found there, made from the fruits, and you are
sure of being satisfied.
mElilHHlBUuilHlKfcj
Ames’ Circus and Menagerie.—The following
correspondence speaks for itself; but we must put
in a word, too, which is, that CoL Ames has now
a splendid combination of stars in the ring aad an*
mala in Ms cages, whilst the band of musicians is
one of the best we have ever heard in the city.
Without disparagement to others of Ms fine corps
of artists and artistes, we must make special men
tion of- M’dle Amelia as a rider and tight-rope
walker. ' In' either Bhe is well worth the price of ad
mission. But to : the. correspondence:
Macon, Ga., May 31st, 1869.
To the Prcsideiit and,Foreman of Oglethorpe Fire
Company. Eo. 1; and Screven Hose Company,
of Savannah. Ga.r 4
Gentlemen—The proprietor of the New Orleans
Circus and Menagerie, wishing to lend a helping
hand to aidttenel^efireinen of/tiie.ciiyflf Macon
to.raake your short visit as pleasing and agreeable
as possible, .does hereby: extend through you to the
members of-' your honorable companies and invited
guests, from the city of! Savannah, a most!cordial
invitation to attend an exhibition of the New Or
leans Circus and Menagerie;, at any time you may
see r flt to designate. '••.••• '-”'1-Y:.
Trusting w.e shall be honored with your presence,
J remain',' Withprofound respect, yours, trulvj
■ ’■"Y"." , .• Con. O. T. Axes, , ^
• . Proprietor and Manager of the New Orleans
v-.. „ .pirras and Menagerie.
^ ; ‘ ‘
. »tfr;. i-:• '• MaCoi^Ga.,May3f^-.1869.
Col. C. T. Alius, Proprietor of the XciS Orleans
...Circus, etc.: _
MyDxarBie—Yours of! this date"iai£ ! iand, and
in reply to the same I .am happy, to announce, in
behalf of the Oglethorpe and Screven Companies,
of Savannah, that- they accept the cordial invitation
so kindly extended by.you, and- with your approval
would suggest this evening for the said companies
to visit your exhibition. '* - ; 11 - r "
I am, very respectfully, your obedient servant,
~PhhljpM. Russell, ...
__ _ ’PresidentO.F.O.,No.l. ; •'
R.Wapo:Russell,.Secretary^; Y'Y.' : .
Laser -Beer.—.We are in receipt ofi.a .eask oi
very superior .lager; ;B4er from the--BfceWery of
Messrs. Russell & Peter, of this city. ; We .pretend
lmW86mettog,,of the. quality of this great
silniMer beverage, afidYetuiBesStiitin^ly pronounce
that manufactured by the abovi named firm.as first
rate, and nothing-: gives betiet proof of this, than
the fact that the orders they ore now receiving for
it are both numerous and heavy.,. They cap furnish
it to retailers on suoh terms as will-leave a hand
some profit in jhe retailers’hands, arid at the same
time afford their customers the utmost satisfaction.
In addition to tMs, the hpnesty and reliability of
the manufacturers, are s' guaranty that' the lager
beef they offer for sale Is pure andlinadulterated.
Twenty-five boxes pure Pearl Starch.'
„ L.W.Hunt&Co.
Huff’s Rink.—This popular place of amusement
and exercise was crowded yesterday afternoon, and
the4adies’ apartments were scarcley large enough to
accommodate them.
The eport was very fine, indeed, and we believe
the time in wMch Messrs. Hulburt and McLendon
made the mile yesterday was the fastest on record
—3 minutes and 53 seconds.
Mr. Dasher made the circuit (185 yards) in 20
seconds.
There are now eighteen velocipedes at this rink
and when they are all running at the same time the
scene is as lively as one would care to see.
We understand that Huff will give the “Savannah
boys” a couple of honrs, some time during to-mor
row, to test their skill on the velocipede with the
•‘Macon boys,” and this, with the circus, will make
the ring exercises of the day—to use an expressive
word—^bully!
Freights from St. Louis to Macon.—On the 10th
inst., a new and reduced freight tariff of the “Green
Line” went into operation. Bacon is now brought
from St. Louis to tMs city at 97 cents per one hun
dred pounds. Flour at $1 55 per barrel, and com
at 32 cents per bushel.
Da. Banning will be at the Byington Hotel nntil
Saturday evening, the 6th.
Warren, Trumbull County, OMo, Jan. 15,1859.
E. P. Banning, M. D.—For ten years I have
been confined to my bed with spinal curvature, fall
ing of tla» womb, incontinence of urine, terrible
constipation, and extreme indigestion, emaciated,
and loss of taste. For seven years I was unable
to bold a pen, and at no hour of tMs time was I
kept from attracting the attention of paBsers by
constant moans, without morphine. Bnt I am re
stored to both strength and health, by your simple
abdominal and spinal brace. People come mileB to
be “certain” that the miracle really has been per
formed. Could weak ladies know half of what
your Brace has done for me, they would hasten to
possess it. Ever gratefully, yours, &c.,
Abbie Potter.
From the Forthern Independent, Auburn, -V. F]
Mr. Editor: * * * * Dr. Banning, of 11
St. Mark’s Place, New York, has invented si Brace
for supporting the abdomen, bracing the back,
throwing back the shoulders and expanding the
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and has ever since attended to her household affairs
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desires all her female friends to make trial of the
Brace also; and for this reason I have written thus,
without the knowledge of Dr. Banning, whom I
have not even the pleasure of knowing personally.
Rev. JOHN A WELLS. Brockport, N. Y.
From Rev. J. IF. Wiley, D. D. President of Pen
nington Collegiate Seminary:
Pennington, N. J., January 16,1864.
I have worn Dr. E. P. Banning’s Brace for several
months, on account of adominal weakness, admit
ting of a drooping of the internal organs, and have
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J. W. WILEY.
Millville, N. J., December 20,1863.
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N. McCONAUGHY,
Pastor Presbyterian Church, Millvfile, N. J.
E. P. Banning, M. D.
Youngbtown, Mahoning, Co., O., Nov. 15,1857.
Dr. Banning : My wife, who was for four years
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Horace Greeley’s Advice to the Radi
cals ol West Virginia.
New York Tribune, >
New York, November 18, 1868.)
My Dear Sir—I have yours of the 16th. Its
leading positions have long been understood and
appreciated in this quarter. Now bear me.
Every year one thousand of yoflb rebels die,
and one thousand (or more) of their sons become
of age. Yon can’t disfranchise them. Yon
have now five thousand majority. Six years at
furthest will convert this into a rebel majority
of one thousand. Then the rebels will be en
franchised in spite of you, and the blacks will
be left under foot—and yon under estimate
these at two thousand.
Go your own way, and see if the rebels don’t
have you under foot in less than six years.
I speak from a wide experience when I tell
yon .that your house is built on the sand. It
candot stand. Every year will see the passions
of the war cool and the demand for amnesty
" strengthened. Now yon can amnesty the rebels.
Soon the question will be, shall they amnesty
you ? Look, at Kentucky and Maryland, and
read your certain fate in theirs. Yours,
Horace Greeley.
lo the Editor of the Wheeling Intelligencer.
Mrs. Blackmore, of Hamilton, Hancock coun
ty, Ill., a member of the Methodist Church,
while in attendance upon a prayer meeting,' on
tb6 ; evening of the :11th;ifast., rose to describe a
strange sensation that had taken possession of
her. She said she was going to die very soon;
that she felt that half her body was dead already.
She desired her family to be sent for immedi
ately. She said? she suffered no pain, was not
afraid to die, but filt calm and happy. In a few
moments, after speaking thus, she sank back in
death.
Winneck’s comet'hrBnnounced as making di
rectly for the earth. Let it come. The United
States is ready for it
New York is to have a hew building ior-a fish
market, on Fulton street, at a cost of $24)0,000.
Of the two thousand and more varieties of
pears described and known to those who make
pomology a Btudy, only abont seventy or eighty
are counted^ as,teuly valuable.
It is ex£ectii* tBat the present season at Ni
agara will be a very prosperous and brilliant
Ode, .and prepar&tiDHg have been made accord
ingly at the hotels and by the storekeepers. -
A protest against ritualism in the Protestan t
Episcopal serriba, arid a call for an anti-ritual?,
istio convention have been published; signed
by many prominent clergymen in Hlinoui
Trie Georgia Penitentiary.
Speaking of this institution, tire MiUedav*
Recorder of the 1st instant, says: ““
Some few weeks since, a Railroad contra
came and took a number of convicts
the Penitentiary at tins time, fortyIfi Te
which number,there isnot more than fifteen '
good hands. We saw eight or ten that wm! 88 *
bnt little account, and three or four thatI
no account. we «o(
The principal work that is now being don.
that of bnck making, blacksmithing, she* J?
ing, and wagon work, of eourseupon «.?**•
small scale. We were informed by CoL
Principal Keeper, that he is making more
money with the few hands he has, thaY*?*
they were twice as many. He has given „ 5
kinds of little job work, and takes in onlv h P ***
work. The average earnings of the blacW^
shop per week, is about $125. All the - 14 '
that are made find ready sale.
The whole number of convicts as recist.^, I
is about 408, of wMch two-thirds are new”’
The number at work on railroads, 364 f or KY
the State gets $10 per year for each’ hand e-,
the State being at no expense in feeding
ing, etc. ®’ uoti -1
We are of the opinion, that Mring 0 «, . ,
convicts is about the best thing that conid •
done under the circumstances, and that it in,?
only way to save expense to the State fv‘ tf
field negro convicts can never be worked to
advantage as mechanics, and putting ther **
the railroad is about as good a wav to
them profitable as any.
Public Buildings in JMUlledgeviHe
We extract the following from the Fed-~j
Union of Tuesday:
The Old Capitol.—The granite steps on a
east side of the old Capitol, which were left;
an unfinished condition on the abandonment 3
the State House, were oompleted last week, tv!
building is now, we believe, in perfect orde*'
and only awaits the time when the people J I
Georgia have an opportunity to pronounced:-’
wiU, to be re-occupied by the State Officers, Y'
the Legislature. Take good care of the kono>ei
old building, Unde Ben, and you will one Y
receive a vote of thanks for so doing 1 !
Lunatic Asylum.—The roof of the ksfiumn
being put in thorough repair. A re^e,
proves, beyond any doubt, that from a sprit/
near the Asylum, water can be conveyed to at, I
portion of the building occupied by thepatien I
We learn that the laying of the pipe will be coc.
menced in a short time, and the institution wiY I
supplied with an abundance of pure water frost
this spring.
To the earnest labor of the able Superintetl. I
ent.Dr. Green, are the people of Georgia maid! I
indebted for the gradual perfection of this cat I
modious and admirably arranged building I
the care and restoration of the insane. ' 1
From Washington County.
The following news items are clipped frej I
the Sandersvilie Georgian of the 2d instant:
While in Johnson county last week we ml
flour made from new wheat grown in the com::. |
This was very nearly np with our friend Bnd|
The wheat was grown on the plantation of if: |
John SnelL |
The Masonic Fraternity of Washington com I
ty have purchased the lots in the new cemetesl
in Sanders vilie, to be used as a Masonic bum:; I
ground. A committee has been appointed til
confer with the family of the late Dr.'Wm.i.l
Haynes, a distinguished Brother, highly estoil
ed by the Fraternity of the State, relative tatisl
removal of his remains and the erection of J
monument to Ms memory, for which latter prl
pose the Grand Lodge and Grand Chapter ; I
Georgia made appropriation some yc-ars agJ
Owing to the unprotected condition of the oil
grave yard (we regret to say) the erection:!
the monument has been deferred until no-1
The work will, we trust, be speedily complete!
Warm.—After so many weeks of chilly weaite |
summer has burst suddenly upon us. Thela|
few days have been quite warm.
Repudiation — Entering Wedge.—ZhnE;
Green, May 24.—A large number of peofi
were in town to-day, and listened to an acccc
of his stewardsMp from Hon. J. S. Golladrt
onr representative in Congress. He annoancei
himself in favor of repudiation, and fully pro-
ed to his attentive hearers that Congress was
not a very virtuous body. He expressed the
deep mortification he felt when Menard, the ne
gro from Louisiana, claimed his seat in the
House of Representatives. Golladay, by his
zeal and attention to all the interests of Ms con
stituents, is making himself exceedingly popu
lar with this district—Courier-Journal
Woman Suffrage Still Agttatlng-Miss
Anna Dickinson give* her Views.
Mr. Anna Dickinson lectured the other eye
ing in New York. The Tribune thus describe
her:
MissAnna Dickinson is a very charmingyoc
lady, endowed by heaven with many of thosi
choicest graces which have made her sex sod
an awful power in the world ever since Evegsu
an apple to Adam in the Garden of Eden Ari
like most young ladies, she is never more fad-
nating than in the absolute unreason with wild
she insists upon having her own way.
This female young gentleman said some stop
tilings. We quote a few to show that she orhe
has very considerable powers of tongue:
The world says to-day, as it has said in th
past, that men are the natural law-makers of tie
universe. If this is so, then I say it is lift
time that art should try to improve upon nafct
[Applause.]
Society here in New York forces women:
sin, and then punishes them for it, while a
goes unpunished for the same sin, though b
commits it voluntarily. God thought that r
was not good for man to be alone in the Garfe
of Eden—and it is certain, also, that it is ri|
good for a man to be alone in Washington'
Laughter and applause.] Humanity and o-Xj
als, pleasure and pain, vice and virtue, life sn
death, recognize no sex. The same Christ di«
for them aU—the same eternity awaits them*
God does not need a man's interference ton 51
a woman’s sonL The mistakes that sneb
as the editor of The Observer are constait;
making, is in supposing that their inteiM.
in politics is politics itself. To-day p®*j |
means an indecent scramble for office, |
every man is for himself, and the devil tiMI
the hindermost As for the foremost, thy**|
already safe in his possession. . |
She then sent a red-hot shot by venhhn? I
the Tennessee Legislature as a specimen of
monious cackling, in comparison with ® I
late noisy Woman’s Convention. . s I
She finally gathered her forces and eJP*' I
into the following bold prediction: |
When I vote, as I shall five years |
[applause,] and when I speak as a H> embe /. |
Congress, as I shall ten years from now, It |
plause,] I expect to be held up as a partf® 14
wisdom and eloquence by such beings as t
itor of the Observer.—Constitution.
Tlie Local Press on the Cotton Cw? I
From the Milled get Me Union.] . r wii I
We have been editing a newspaper in Gwi I
for more than twenty years and wa have I
that it is a very thankless, as well as a . Te Y^ I
gerous business for an editor to meddle I
coming cotton crop. Nothing of a g* n , 1
tore which he can publish will suit the pi®** I
If he publish the cotton crop as likely 10 |
failure, they imagine it will injure their
with their merchants, and if he publish the
flatted; |
pectof a large cotton crop as very
it will injure the price of cotton. For tn^ I
twenty years we have never known the pi®
to admit that there was likely to be a fun
of cotton made that year; nor have vra ^
been able to learn what the planters cau»
cotton crop. Generally they say the* 6 ^
be more than half a crop ana frequent*. ^
more than a third or fourth of a crop n> a(le L ; ,
wish very much the planters would let ns
what constitutes a frill crop of cotton. ^
We have been led to these reflections' 5 ? ^
ing an angry letter in the Macon
from an Early county planter, over the s
tore of “Georgian. ” According to * ” e0 5ji
the cotton in his vicinity is in a sa
indeed. They have, according to this _
a poor stand of stinted, shrivelled, lifel®®^
struggling on, to be devoured by it
boll worms, army worms, eta, etc. J®
real trouble of “Georgian” is ^*® :o y® r ftk e f»
the end of his letter. He is afraid tb»> Aj
vorable account of the ootton crop P““ ^
in the Georgia local jDresa will injure ^
of cotton. If his cotton is as poor T jp
ports, the price of cotton wifi not be ot >
portance to him. But his fears about
lieaitotts isi the local press affactingtW
cotton are‘entirely groundless. ’ Yit
Lowell, Liverpool and New York know»u ^
the coming cotton crop. They
agents in every part of tne cotton raiaas ^
try, who keep them-posted from wees __ f
and day to day concerning the ootton
that nothing that the local press - *
can say win naw uw
The cron will show for itself, and th»_
talers and speculators know JriB
about It tbfa any planter or. editor m