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t The Greforgia ~W~eeXsly Telegraph,. THE TELEGRAPH MACON, FRIDAY, JUNE 18, 1869. Tlie Fence Question. We should be glad to reprint the views of onr Georgia contemporaries generally npon' the question of dispensing with field fences, but just now are much pressed for space. The first and only article we have seen against the proposition is copied from the Columbus En quirer on the outside. We have no opinions on the subject which we value as personal pro perty to the amount of a ginger cake. The question is simply one of sound economy, and it is for planters and landholders to decide. The objections of the Enquirer have their weight, and there must be considerable inconveniences in adopting such a change ; but they do not at all compare with the benefits to accrue. We have not a line's space, however, to argue the matter. Feats or the Few Office Holders. Black. Wilder, the Ethiopian Postmaster of . Columbia, S. C., being unable to spell out the packages, is sending his mails round miscellane ously, just as it happens. He chucks them into any bag which happens to be handy; but that would have made no difference if he had not mismanaged with a remittance on the way to “Governor Scott.” This was fatal and raised a muss. If Wilder can’t get a white man to man age the machine he has got to resign. Whits.—Clift, according to the Republican, lately cashed a 8200 Postoffice order with 8100 which was good measure. When the citizen said a mistake had been made, Clift’s assist ant, Seely, took fire and would hear of no correc tion. The citizen had left the desk with it, and it was too late to correct mistakes. The next day Seely begged revision, but by that time citi zen had taken the studs and found it too late to .correct mistakes. Georgia—tlie Matter Brought Down to a Focus—All Depends on Hoar. The New York Tribune’s Washington corres pondent, telegraphing on the 7th, gives this startling information: Since the adjournment of Congress, the Pres ident has been importuned, time and again, by citizens of Georgia representing all political parties therein, to take some action which would definitely settle the present status of that State. The Senators of the State never having been admitted to qualify and take their seats, and her vote for President not having been counted in the Electoral College, it has been as serted by many that she is not a State in the Union, but remains an unreconstructed State, the some ns Virginia, Mississippi and Texas. This condition of uncertainty has led to many embarrassments among the State and Federal officials of Georgia, and has led the President to submit the whole matter to the Attorney Gen eral for a legal opinion. If Air. Hoar should de cide that the State is not a State in the Union, according to the reconstruction laws of Con gress, then, it is thought, the President will have the same power there that he has in Vir ginia, Mississippi and Texas, and will recognize Georgia as having only a Provisional Govern ment If that is true, we might as well begin to pack for a trip out of the Union, for our confi dence in Attorney General Hoar is of the least Crockery and Preserving Jars. B. A. Wise, Mulberry street, advertises a really large assortment of crockery at whole sale and retail, and a timely supply of the best variety of preserving jars. These admirable contrivances for the thrifty house-keeper will soon be in great demand, and there never has yet been a full supply of them in Macon through the fruit season. We recommend all to secure what they need. Crops in Houston County. Messrs. Editors :—A recent trip enables me to inform you that the crops in Houston coun ty are promising. Cotton is backward, but looks healthy and flourishing, and is beginning to grow finely. The “stand” is generally very good, and when manured with guano, is very promising. The freedmen are working well, and keep the crops very clean. I saw no grass worth men tioning. The com looked well, but was also somewhat backward. It begins to need rain very much. The gardens are suffering much where no rain has fallen lately. Taken altogether, I think the fanners in Houston have flattering prospects. * On Hand Again. The Atlanta telegrapher to the Washington Chronicle, et id omne genus, is on hand again, as we see, and telegraphs on the 7th to the amount of half a column. If he should hap pen, by mistake, to telegraph anything true, he would die of grief and shame. Albany Xews Office Fired. We had the following Thursday morning: At,tuny, Ga., June 10. My office was partially burned this morning. Office in pi. No paper for a week. It is the work of an incendiary. Carey W. Styles. We regret much to hear this news, but it will be only a riffle in the onward course of our co temporary. Troubled.—The water on the Brunswick bar seems to trouble our friend of the Savannah Republican mightily. We suggest that writing will make it neither more nor less, and the time 18 swiftly rolling around when, if the water is not there, it will be found out beyond contro versy. Shooting in Jaceson.—A private dispatch from Jackson, Mississippi, says that Colonel J. G. Crane, of the United States army, acting as Mayor of Jackson, was shot and killed by E. M. Yerger. The affair grew out of the action of Colonel Crane in seizing property of Yerger’sfor taxes. Yerger haB been arrested by the mil itary. The Terrell complains of dry weather, com is beginning to toast, and the Dawson Journal says, unless the floodgates of Heaven are raised soon, gardens are gone. How is This ?—The Cartersville Express gives the story of the Lost Lover, but does not give the price of wheat Accident to Commissioner Weil.—We are sorry to see by the dispatches that a distressing and painful accident has happened to Commis sioner Weil, on his way North to take ship for Europe. , , The Editors acknowledge an invitation to the exercises and festivities of the Virginia Mili tary Institute, 2d July. A Great Yield op Wheat.—The Americas Republican says that Mr. James A. Fort of that county raised fifty-nine bushels of wheat on one and three quarters acres. The sale of seats to the “Peace Jubilee” at Boston, on Tuesday next, now foots up 880,000, and it is believed that by the 15th it will reach $150,000. ' Fertilizers.—The reports from the fertilizers so for are very satisfactory. An improvement of twenty-five to thirty-three and a third per cent is noted. There is a man in Chicago who vowed he would not shave until Douglas was elected President. His beard is eight feet long. An elopement took place in Westport, Con necticut, last week. An old and well-to-do far mer, aged 8G years, eloped with a maiden fair, fat and forty. Dusmo the past winter New York merchants have paid $11,000,000 for dry goods manufac tured in the State of Rhode Talari Logan, as the head of the “ Grand Army of the Republic,” takes npon himself the respon sibility of pronouncing the fiat of that organ! ration, that the Confederate dead shall not be honored. That is the nltra-radical decision. Therein outcrops the moral and political postu late, that “ treason [as displayed in the rebel lion, so called] must be made odious!" That was the universal Radical outcry, so soon as the roar of the cannon and the roll of the drums were hushed. “Treason must be made odious.” The Confederate traitors, dead and living, must be engulfed in infamous memory. This is the point underlying not only the con troversy about floral grave decorations, but also the whole series of legal proscriptions and dis qualifications upon which the Radical Congress has been engaged since 1S65,'plunging the coun try into disorder and pecuniary distress, and re versing every principle of sound and constitu tional administration, in order to brand the “Southern Rebels” with moral infamy. Against all these efforts we rely with calm confidence upon the verdict of history. The landmarks of the late melancholy sectional quar rel are too plain to be arbitrarily stamped out of the intelligence and common sense of America. We, the Southern people, are not moral trai tors and the Radicals cannot make us so. We were raised to believe ourselves citizens of States which had formed a common government strict ly upon the principle of consent. That our al legiance was dne to our States and not to their creature and agent. That we had a legal and moral right to protect ourselves against ruinous agression from a combination of the States by withdrawing from the Union, and we attempted to exercise that right simply for self protection and in no purpose to injure the States which remain. That the war originated solely in tJ0B effort to restrain and prohibit the exercise at tfeis right, and that, in fine, in the whole transaction, there was no moral treason on our part whatever; but a strict and true conformity to the obligations of law and allegiance as we understood them, and as they had been uniformly interpreted to us by the venerated founders and exponents of the American federative system. This is and must ever be history. No glosses, perversions, or falsehoods can cover it, and no fanatical pronnneiamentos or partisan strife can prevent honor to the illustrious dead who died in full conviction of duty and patriotism. In the light of events we have ceased to quarrel with those Northern ideas, either of the prop erty rights of the South, or of the powers of the States, which brought on the war. Let them stand. But certainly there is no jnstice in the attempt to settle our moral attitude and respou. sibility by principles and doctrines to which we never assented, and which the whole previous political history of the government belied. It cannot be done, Mr. Logan. You may stamp on the flowers, but you can’t grind history into oblivion. Logan, (lie Ultra-Radicals and the I Letter from Milledgeville. Confederate Dead. j Affairs in Hancock—Crops—Thirty Bushes of TI71 A A- tl. WT a7. Military in Warren County. If the friends of Peace and Order in XVarren county will pursue a proper and judicious course in the present emergency, we have no doubt the result of the existing fuss will be highly bene ficial to that county. They might protest against the unconstitutionality and injustice of military arrests and military trials, (if they are proposed)—they might display immense indig nation and excitement; Jbut it would all be fruitless. Let them take things as they are and do their best to elicit the whole truth in reference to the violences in that county, with an equal de termination neither to shield the guilty, nor to permit the innocent to suffer if they can help it. Let them, therefore, co-operate with the military in the frankest and fullest investiga tion of the offences charged and in the detection of the offenders. This is due to their own in terests, and it is due to the State which has suf fered from these difficulties and disturbances. We have no doubt the military are inclined to act fairly and justly in the premises. We don’t believe they will side either with one par ty or the other in these proceedings, if the intel ligent people of Warren will not commit thefolly of standing aloof and allowing these representa tives of the Federal Government to be manipu lated at will, by the representatives of radicalism and the private feuds and animosities of un worthy individuals. We say nothing, therefore, to excite indigna tion in this matter. That is precisely what the Warren people should curb and restrain. We say, on the contrary, lay aside fuss and fuming and pitch into the whole matter with the mili tary, determined to get at the bottom of it, and determined that the United States Government shall not be wielded in the interests of injustice and wrong, by unworthy and unscrupulous par ties, through the ill-advised and culpable inac tivity and reserve of the people of the county. Help yourselves, by good management in this matter, just as you would not fail to do if you had a large property interest dependent upon If your right to your property were chal lenged and endangered in this way, yon would not fail of doing your best to protect it, although you might object to the tribunal. You would not stand aloof in stupid listlessness or offend ed dignity and see the ears of the court poison ed against you by rascals, while you did noth ing for yourself! Just so here. Take hold and do not permit injustice and folly to be done, just because Chap Norris or anybody else has brought down the military npon you. You have just as good right to the ear of the military as Chap Nor ris has, and can get it, if you will, a hundred times better. Fonr Outlets to the Sea. The Augusta papers announce, as things set tled and provided for, the completion of the Ma con and Augusta Railroad and a railroad from Augusta to Port Royal on the Sea board. The whole will be accomplished within a year, and will open up, with what we now have, four out lets from Macon, more or less direct to the Sea. We shall have almost a straight line to Port Royal, Charleston and Brunswick, and a less di rect line to Savannah. The difference in dis tance by eitherroute to New York will, perhaps, be immaterial as affecting the actual cost of transportation, although that by the way of Port Royal will probably be by about fifty miles the shortest route. With the completion of these four routes wo may therefore count upon such moderate rates of freight as shall materially increase the facilities of the Macon merchants for an active competi tion for the trade of the interior, while, at the same time, Macon, as the radiating point of these four grand competing routes, and the ac cessible centre of a vast cotton growing region should naturally be one of the most active and extensive cotton and produce marts in the whole Southern country. Let the Macon and Memphis Railway be pushed onward, as it promises to be, and cer tainly the map of the United States will disclose few more commanding points for an active trade than this central point of Georgia will then be. Let our business men and property holders then wake up, for day is breaking. A dispatch from St. Joseph, Mo., says Fred erick Foreman, of the Southern Resurrection Society, passed through there Saturday evening on the way to commence a lecturing tour through the Southern States, with a view to the introduction of coolie serfdom throughout the South. A Thomasville correspondent speaks of cotton blooms on the 7th instant. Wheat to the Acre—Crops in North Georgia and Alabama, Middle and Western Tennes see, Mississippi and Eastern Louisiana—Af fairs in MiUedgcville. \ Milledgeville, Ga., June 9, 18C9, Editors Telegraph : A recent hasty visit to the western portion of Hancock county gives me an opportunity to say that the crops in that se ction are progressing satisfactorily. Just how in that region, and also hereabouts, we are suf fering from protracted drought; but cotton tad com are 6tfll growing well, and maintait a healthy, promise, for the future. The writer hereof can boast of numerous “squares” on cotton. Wheat crops are undergoing harvest ing, and the promise for a reasonable yield is good. It is to be hoped that more attention to the cultivation of wheat in Middle Georgia Till be excited. The crop will pay if well cared hr. Here in Milledgeville, near the depot of (he Milledgeville and Eatonton Railway, a lot of about an acre, belonging to Mr. Kiel, has jist been cut The land has no very extraordiniry superiority of quality or cultivation; yet I think the yield cannot fall short of thirty bush els. By careful and wise—I will not say scien tific, for that in its usual acceptation, is not always wise—by careful and wise cultivation the product can be increased. Would it not “puy” (as the phrase is) for each farmer to lavish manure on a few acres annually for Meat, and thus produce his own flour? The policy of producing torn sufficient for home consumption is, I believe, fully admitted, after abundant demonstration by both theory and experience— although full results are not yet always realized. Your correspondent has been something of a wanderer of late. He has had opportunity of observing, within the past three weeks, the crops alongsome of the railways leading through Northern Georgia, North Alabama, Middle and Western Tennessee, Mississippi and Eastern Louisiana. The general promise is good, but tardy. The lateness of the season and contin gent tardiness in crops, are widespread and gen eral. Yet the plasters are not discouraged. The culture appeared to be good except in a few fields of Northern Alabama and Louisiana, where our “man and brother’ seems tohave ‘fallen back’ —afamousstragetic measure in war—before bris tling armies of weeds. We observed, a week ago, in Middle Tennessee, cotton and com crops almost or quite as much advanced as we saw in Southern Mississippi and Louisiana. This was the result of general lateness of the season which seems to have assimilated the climates of differ ent latitudes strangely this year. In New Or leans, the grand magnolia trees were in foil bloom, and tliB Orleaners flashed their feme- colored floweis in every direction; and here we find the some floral exhibition, as we did also a week ago, in Nashville, Tennessee—a remarka ble illnstration of uncommon uniformity of sea son in these different latitudes. v Milledgeville has just experienced a sensation. A vdbeipedist has appeared among us. Already the little walking wagon is the rage. Your cor respondent has just been vaccinated, and hopes to escape the infection. He dodged the croquet epidemic in that way. The talented young Photographer, J. L. Schaub, from your city, is still among us. His career here has been eminently successful. His pictures give great satisfaction, and he is kept continually busy. His specimens show that he reads the latest scientific productions on this rapidly improving art, and that he practices successfully all the latest improvements. Were you to see his picture of your correspondent, I fear you would fall in love with it, and make yourself unhappy. In fact, not only in velocipcdism, and the fine arts, but in every ether interest, our tough little city, determined not to be killed off by any amount of Radical persecution, “still lives.” We bave a confident hope of the return of the seat of government hither, sooner or later. Georgians have too high a perception of justice, and too acute a one of their own interests, to neglect this. The deserted and silent Capitol Building and Executive Mansion plead with re sistless eloquence the wanton extravagance of the removal. Still, Capital or no Capital, we are prospering. No department of business flags. Our merchants are driving a profitable trade. A new building goes up here and there, and the hammer of the carpenter is often heard in repaira, Our largest hotel in the State, the Milledgeville Hotel, is admirably kept; no ho tel in the South better. In its airy basement the thirsty wayfarer may get “half-shaved,” without the penalty of a headache the next morning; and, if he is tonsoriallyinclined, he can get completely shaved, and served in all the departments of the art, by the accomplished barber, in the same building, Robert. Heath. Our press is yet ably represented by those ster ling weeklies, the Federal Union and the Re corder. ... Mac. Letter from Jasper County. Crops — A “Likely" Family of Negroes — Freedmen— White Laborers. Near Monticello, June 9, 1869. Editors Telegraph: Up here we are all doing as they did before the flood—marrying and giv ing in marriage. Fonr or more “cases” are on hand, this month, in Monticello. Cotton is looking very well, with a fine stand and first rate cultivation, up to this time. Com is flourishing, with a splendid dark-green color, and prospects are bright for a beautiful crop, where there has been much of it planted. But I am sorry to say, there has been a good deal more cotton than com planted in old Jasper this year. A good many of our farmers have cut, or will be catting their wheat this week. All appear satisfied with the yield. There is a negro woman now living in Jasper county, and bom and raisep here, who has given birth to thirty-three children, and twenty-seven of them are now living. Her name is Eveline Brown, and her present husband, Levi Brown, is the father of thirty-one of these children.— This old couple worked out in the field last year, and I think they are doing the same thing this year. The freedmen generally, are working well, but the white laborers are doing badly. A great many of the latter are leaving their crops just now—“can’t stand the sun,” I suppose.— A murrain on the lazy creatures. Hick. Prolific Wheat.—Our attention was attract ed some days since to a few rows of wheat in Mr. F. O. Shockley’s garden. Mr. Shockley purchased one head, a year since, from an itin erant vendor and planted a few rows in his gar den ; each seed has produced fifteen to twenty stalks and each stalk has made a number of heads, at least it has tho appearance of having numerous heads; but, upon close examination, it proves to be but one, having two hundred or more seeds. It is a bearded wheat, grows very luxuriantly, and we are satisfied will grow suffi ciently high upon any land to allow of being reaped. We think it is just the wheat for our climate, the beards are easily disposed of by the thresher, and its excessive fruitfulness and freedom from rust make it, at least, worthy of trial. We understand that the seed of this wheat will be for sale. We shall try it.—BarncsviUe Gazette. Wheat in Rome.—The Courier of Thursday says: Though red wheat is worth only $1 25 in this market, yet it is considerably higher here than in Nashville, Louisville, St. Louis and other places in that direction, where the price now is from $1 00 to 1 10. Country bacon, hog round, now commands, from wagons, from 16 to 17 cents. New wheat will probably open at $1 50, but the expectation is that it will soon decline from that figure. The Railroad Convention. From (he Chronicle and Sentinel and Conetitutionalut. In accordance with the call published by the May or of Augusta, through the direction or the City Council, a meeting of the stockholders of the Macon and Augusta Railroad Company was held at the City Hall yesterdav evening at one o’clock. The object of the Convention was to displace those Directors who it was alleged illegally represented the stock in the road owned by the city of Augusta and also to provide means for finishing the road to Macon, its destined terminus. There was not a large body of stockholders present, but it was believed that a large amount of stock was represented by proxy.— Still, however, before the Convention assembled, fears were entertained that a majority of tho stock would not be represented and that, consequently, tho meeting would fail to accomplish the purposes for which it was called. The meeting did not assemble for some time af ter it was called, owing to a meeting of the Direc tors of the Georgia Railroad, which had to beheld before the Macon Road stockholders could hold their Convention. At a few minutes before one o’clock the Conven tion was called to order by Hon. H. F. Russell, Mayor of the city, who was called to the Chair on motion of Mr. J. J. Cohen. Dr. J. A. S. Milligan was requested to act as Secretary. Mr. L. N. Whittle, of 3Iacon, wished to know the object of the meeting, as he had not been informed of it. Mr. Tutt said the meeting was called for a spe cific purpose, and he thought that that purpose ought to be stated to the Convention. Mr. Sibley said that terms for the completion of the road to Macon had been submitted by Judge King, which did not meet the approval of Council, and hence the Convention had been called in order that these terms might be submitted to it. and if they were found unacceptable, that some other ar rangement might be agreed upon. There were also said to be certain parties in the Directory of tho road who had no right to be there. Mr. Moore moved that the amount of stock rep resented by members of the Convention be ascer tained. Mr. Whittle said the meeting, according to the charter of the company, could take no action which would be binding upon the Board of Directors. He saw no reason for ascertaining the amount of stock represented, as the action of the Convention was worth nothing in a legal point of view. What it might do would be merely advisory. The Directors alone had the right to call a meeting which would be legal. Mr. Moore renewed his motion. At any meeting the stockholders might alter the by-laws if they so desired. Mr. Cohen thought Mr. Moore's motion was un necessary, as any one could see from the stock list that a quorum of the stock of the road was rep resented. Sir. Moore changed his motion so as to instruct the Secretary to call the roll of stockholders and ascertain the number present, and the amount of stock which was represented. On motion of Mr. B. T. Harris, of Hancock, the motionof Mr. Moore was amended so as to require the stockholders to report themselves and their proxies to the Secretary. After this was done, the Secretary reported that eleven thousand one hundred and thirty-seven shares were represented in the Convention. Mr. Tutt moved that tho Secretary read a list of those Directors who were owners of stock in the Company. Carried. The Secretary read, Benjamin Conley, President, ten shares; J. P. King one hundred and five shares; Geo. Hazlehnrst ten shares: W. Shear thirty-five shares ; 31. H. Welbom ten shares; those who did not own any stock were W. J. Mtgratli. who repre sented the stock owned by tho South Carolina Rail road, B. B. DeGraffenreid, who represented the stock owned by Baldwin county, and Geo. S. Obear, who represented the Macon stock. Alderman Sibley asked if any of the Directors had resigned recently. The Secretary answered that Blodgett, Tweedy and Levy had resigned. Mr. Clark moved that the proposition of Hon. John P. King to finish tho road, be read for the in formation of the Convention. Mr. King had ex plained it to the City Council, but he thought it would be best now for him to furnish the same in formation to the meeting. General A. R. Wright said he understood the Con vention was called by the owners of the road for the purpose of examining into its condition with a view to its early completion. Previous to this meeting, Mr. King had submitted certain propositions to the 1 City Council, which the latter rejected. The meet ing was called in order to have tne road completed at an early day. This was not a political meeting, nor was it called to prevent the construction of the road as had been charged. At the time the meet ing was called the Directors who represented the city were not legally representatives. There was some discrepancy, he thought, between the proposi tion as explained by 3Ir. King, the proposition as explained by one of the Executive Committee and the report of the Executive Committee, which he would like to see explained. He hoped 3Ir. King would read his proposition. BIr. King said there was no discrepancy that ho knew of between the report of the Exeentive Com mittee and that of himself. Ho thought the city ought to feel an interest in the road, a3 it was a largo stockholder. He reviewed the history of the road frojn the termination of hostilities up to the present time. The general outline of the proposi tion was that JesBup & Co. should receive five thou sand shares of stock, and all tho assets of the Ma con Road, consisting as follows: 660,000 Macon city bonds at SO 643,000 33,000 Baldwin county bonds at 70 23,100 40,000 So. Ca. Railroad bonds at '80 32,000 370,000 M. & A. bonds, endorsed by Ga. R. R., at 90 330.000 30,000 cash collection from stock holders 30,000 225,000 City AugUBta bonds at 80 180,000 5,000 shares of stock' at 33 165,000 hat the Dii ect ore be requested, with the concurrence of the City Council of Augusta, to confirm the con tract as read, provided the right to redeem the stock to be issued of *6500,000 be reserved to the Macon and Augusta Railroad Company, or they failing, to the municipal corporation of Augusta, to redeem at 40 cents on the dollar, within twelve months from the completion of tho road. Gen. Wright thought the better plan, considering the interest manifested by Mr. Whittle in behalf or Macon,for the completion of the road under the prop osition submitted, would be for the oity of Macon to subscribe 6160,000 additional, which would prevent the necessity of a sale of stock. Mr. Whittle rejoined that the 6100,000 subscrip tion of Macon was all that the city could do under present indebtedness—6360,000—a large amount lor a small city. On a call for the question, 3Ir. Moore's substitute was unanimously adopted, and the meeting ad journed. . , * Total 6803.100 and assume all liabilities, which were as follows Due to Jessup & Co., New York 6100,000 Due the C. B. R. for freight 12,000 Due the Georgia Railroad 40,000 Interest on bonds 42,000 Sundries 7,800 Total 201,800 Jessup & Co. would expend the following amounts in tho construction of the road: JohnT. Grant & Co., Contractors to re ceive 6360,000 Twenty-six hundred tons of iron rails 221,000 Railroad chairs and spikes 22,400 Salaries of engineers and officers 10,000 Total 6603,400 If the road had the cash on hand it could bo built for about fifty thousand dollars less than this amount. Under these circumstances tho Executive Committee thought these termB were the best to be obtained,and it was better to acceptthem than tolet the road rot for want of means to finish it. His in terest and that of the Georgia Railaoad were inci dental with that of the Macon Road, and if he had made errors they were honest errors. He proposed this arrangement because he believed it to be the beet for his own interest and that of the city of Au gusta. The safety of the road depended upon its completion to Macon. A proposition had been made to build the road upon its own bonds endorsed by the Georgia Road. This was not practicable, as he did not believe the Georgia Road would consent to the endorsement. Mr. Sibley asked Judge King to read the proposi tion made to him by the City Council of Augusta for finishing the Macon and Augusta Railroad. BIr. King read the plan of tho City Council, which was that bonds of the road to the amount' of six hundred thousand dollars shonld be issued and en dorsed by the cities of Augusta and Macon, and the Georgia and South Carolina Railroads, upon which it could be built. Mr. King thought the Georgia Road would not give the endorsement, and that this proposition if accepted wonld involve a fatal delay In consummating the arrangement, and was, there fore impracticable. The other proposition wonld furnish cash and allow the speedy completion of the work. While the Jessup proposition was the best possible under the circumstances, the Convention need not accept it if it was disagreeable, bnt he felt bound to say that he thought no more favorable proposition would be ever offered. Mr. Hazlehnrst gave tho estimate of Grant A Co. for finishing the road (not including iron, etc.,) to Macon, as follows: 1,250,000 yards of excavation, at 17 cents per yard 6212,600 20,000 yards of rock cutting at $1 00 per yard 20,000 Grubbing 5,000 Masonry. 20,000 Crossties 40,000 32 miles of track laying 16,000 Repairs and regrading 16,000 Total 6329,500 On the word of an experienced engineer he assur ed them this was a low estimate for the work. He told the Convention of his expedition to New York to get aid for this road, of the reception he met with from Messrs. Kefcham, Dabney, Morgan & Co., and other large capitalists, and their refusal to aid him. He said that finally he succeeded in getting Jessup A Co. to do it on the terms proposed above, provided lio became a party to the contract. Ho had refused to do this until advised to consent by Judge King. Ho was willing to give to the road every dollar he made from the contract. He thought this the only chance offered to complete the road, and if it was not accepted he wonld have nothing more to do with it. The Convention, however, could act as it thought fit in the matter. After some discus sion between the Speaker and Mr. Hazlehnrst, as to the best manner of building the road, - BIr- Whittle offered tho following resolution: Resolved, That the Board of Directors are re quested to complete and carry out the plan of con tract submitted to this meeting as now under nego tiation with G. Hull A Co., and others, for tho early completion of the road to Macon. BIr. Whittle supported his resolution in an earn est and comprehensive argument, demonstrative of the advantages of accepting the proposition of Hull A Co., and pointing ont the unfavorable contingen cies of an adoption of the views of the City Council, proposing a sale of tho assets of the road. That the estimated value of the assets'was in excess of what could be obtained on the market. Hon. Linton Stephens favored the- arrangement for the redemption of the 6500,000 of stock to be issued. Mr. Henry Moore offered the following resolution as a substitute to BIr. Whittle’s resolution: Heavy Roebery The Perpetrators Discovered and a Portion of the Property Recovered.—On the night of the 27th of April last, a trank was stolen in Atlanta from the residence of Mr. Peterson, con taining jewelry, dreeaes and other valuables to tho amount of seventeen or eighteen hundred dollars. The trank belonged to a Miss Lizzie Thompson, and since it was stolen, until within the last few days, no cine could he found to the perpetrators of the robbery or the whereabouts of the trunk and con tents. It will be remembered that on one day last week, Capt. Simpson; of our city police, accidentally met up with two negroes on Walnut street and attempted their arrest, but both escaped, and in his efforts, assisted by officers Wood, Hurley, Pridgen, fcm- brew and Stephan, and also by Mr. Bomar, of the Atlanta police force, to arrest the negroes after wards, the trail was struck which led to the identifi cation of the parties who perpetrated the Atlanta robbery and the recovery of about twelve hundred dollara' worth of the stolen goods. When officer Bomar, of Atlanta, read in the Tel egraph of the Walnut street incident, it occurred to him that these two negroes might be implicated in the robbery alluded to, and he immediately came to Macon and joined onr police in their efforts to ar rest them, and whilst on the hunt, and knowing the kind pf goods that had been stolen, they came up with a negress, Mary Russell, on Bridge Row, in this city, who had a pair of pearl ear-rings, which had been made from two of the links of a pearl necklace. She was made to tell where she got them, and in doing so. she implicated J6ny Manuel. Jer ry was then arrested, and he acknowledged the pos session, at one time and another, of a lot of jewelry he had received from two negroes—Wiley Thomas, alias Redding, and Lewis Travis. These two are the negroes Capt. S. and force wore after, Travis being the one that has so frequently been taken for Bob Wagner, and the one, too, who has perpetrated so many vfllainieB around town. Jerry said he received this jewelry in payment of board, and he told how and to whom he bad disposed of it. The parties were called upon and made to disgorge, and the following articles were recovered: One beautiful pearl necklace, valued at 6600, but badly broken apart; two gold and one pearl bracelets, valued at 6150; one diamond ring, worth $300, which was sold to a white man for 63, hut which, he says, he has lost. He will, of course, have to produce or pay for it; and two very fine silk dresses, worth at least 6125. These goods were scattered here and there through the city, and the officers bad an all day’s tramp on Tuesday last in hunting them up as directed by the negro Jerry, whom, we are re quested to say, is not suspected of any criminality in the matter, and frankly divulged all be knew about it. There remain of the stolen goods to be recovered a beautiful and costly set of mourning jewelry, consisting of jet mounted with diamonds and val ued at 6500, and a lot of valuable laces and other ar ticles of a lady’s wardrobe. These articles, however, were not brought to Macon, but were sold in At lanta, and enough has been learned about them to lead to their recovery. The whole affair has been well and adroitly man aged by the officers having it in hand, and they de serve much credit for the energy and industry they have displayed in following up the complicated and tedious manccuvrings of two shrewd scoundrels who llave had a month or two the start of them. The rascals are still at large, but if they stay above ground in this State they are bound to bo caugbt. 20% 8 21s The Velocipede Race.—An immense crowd as sembled at Huff's Rink yesterday afternoon to wit ness the velocipede race for three silver goblets, offered by the liberal and spirited proprietor, to the youths of the city who oould make a circuit of the rink in the shortest time. The ladies were out in their beauty and bloom in great number, and many who were a little late in reaching the rink, were forced to return home for want of even standing room where the race could be seen. Mr. H. informs us this shall not be the case again, as he is going to enlarge the ladies’ department immediately. Bat to the race. There were three classes of youth that contended for the. prize. One for hoys under 15 years of age; another for those under 17; and the third for those under 20. The following summary will show the entries in each class and the time in which the cir cuit was made. The first and third class were al lowed two trials to test their speed, as follow: First Class—Under 15. First Trial. Second Trial. W. H. Boifeuillet, 24 a 23% s Robt. Saulsbury, 28% 8 24% s Christian Farmer, 22% s 23% s Second Class—Under 17. Henry North, 21 a On the tie run Walter Johnston, 21 s On the tie run 22% s 23% s 23% s Third. Class— Under 20. First Trial. Second Trial. P. B. Griffin, 21% 8 22 s Albert Knight, 20% s 22 s Joseph G. Wilburn, 21% s 22 s From the foregoing it will be seen that Master Christian Farmer was the winner in the first class; Master Henry North in the second, and Albert Knight in the third class. As each of the victors was named by the Judges, Mr. Huff presented him with a beautiful silver goblet, with a blue ribbon, and he made the circuit of the rink with the prize attached to the lever of the machine, and amid the most deafening cheers. It was an interesting and exciting scene, and the boys who participated in it will make the occasion an era in their lives. At the conclusion of the race, Mr. Joe Dasher, an expert, made the circuit (185 yards) in 19% sec onds. Messrs. W. H. Hulbert and W. McLendon then started on a mile run, but as the latter was on a new and hard running machine, he retired after the fourth round, and Mr. Hulbert kept on to the end of the mile, making it in the very short time of three minnteB and forty-six seconds. Everything passed off well and pleasantly, and we have not seen finer sport in a long while. George Payne, Charlie Wells, Alfred Edwards, Stop That !—We are informed that one of the Macon and Brunswick Railroad contractors, in trans porting a number of convicts from Atlanta to their place for labor on that road, intentionally or other wise dropped two female convicts in this city, when passing through on Wednesday night last. They are white women and had been sentenced to the penitentiary for a short term; but as they were dis eased, and therefore worthless as laborers, it is pre sumed that they were purposely left behind. They were arrested by our policemen and placed in the guard-house, to be sent back from whence they came. Contractors in hiring convicts are required to take them at a certain price, just as they come, men women, boys and girls, and it is clear that they not unfrequently get hold of several customers, as in this case, that do not pay. But we submit that it is an outrage to take these worthless vagabonds from their confinement and scatter them through the country. So far as tho two women above alluded are concerned, we hope our authorities will send them back to the point from which they started, and if no one can be fonnd to receive and confine them, then release them right there and let them scuffle for a living in a community that would palm them off on this. We hope Railroad contractors will not leave any more such characters about Macon. She has as many as she is able or willing to look after. The Turner Tournament.—We were reliably in formed yesterday, that the mulatto, Jeff Long, was making up a pony purse for the purpose of paying his expenses to Washington, to look after the Pres ident’s reasons for withdrawing Turner’s appoint ment, and, perhaps, to rebuke the President for do ing so; as Jeff, is impudent and self-conceited enough to rebuke anybody or anything that does not conform to his bigoted notions generally and his ideas of government particularly. Jeff., we were informed, was to have left last night, and if he did, we hope the President will pnt a flea in his ear, in regard to Turner and himself, that will si lence them for a season. By the way, what great fools these negroes are, that will give their hard earnings to such fellowB as Turner and Jeff. Long, to be squandered in tripe to Washington and the North. They had better throw their money in the fire. Another Race.—The race which came off last Saturday was not at all satisfactory to the owner of the Jones county Scratch, and as he believes the race track is the only place in this town where he can get his money back, be has challenged the own er of Kate Spears for another race, and it has been accepted, and will come off to-morrow afternoon at four o'clock. A quarter dash will be made for a 6500 purse—6250 a side—between the six-year-old stallion, “Felix McIntyre,” and “Kate Spears.” There will be no flying the track this time. * Those who left the track with empty purses and in such disgust on Saturday last, will have an opportunity to-morrow to make others do a little of that same, or hopeleBBly sink their bottom dollar. Horse-racing is very fine Bport, but like many other things on this mundane sphere, » “mighty onsartin”—you bet; but bet on the fastest horse. Returned—Judge O. B. Cole returned from Washington, by the evening passenger train, on the Central railroad, yesterday. His report is merely confirmatory of his telegram to a gentleman of this city, on the evening before he left Washington. His visit was entirely successful, and he believes Tur ner’s appointment to the Macon Postoffice, is irrevo cably set aside. He does not know, positively, who will be our Postmaster, but expresses a firm belief that Mr. Washington will be retained in bis present position. We axe glad to Btate that Judge Cole returns 2h good health, and is looking well, though he is alittle f atigued from the effects of the long trip. Our citi zens owe him a mighty debt of gratitude. Wheat.—We were shown a letter from Chattanoo ga yesterday, and from a very reliable source, sta ting that the wheat crop of. Tennesee this season is a most abundant one and of a very superior quality. Planters are offering very liberal terms to dealers, and a heavy decline in the present price of this grain is confidently expected, within the next fortnight, should the weather continue favorable. Oats.—For the first time in this market, that we remember, oats and com were retailing yesterday Resolved, That it is the sense of this meeting at the same price—$1 15 per bushel. Arrested.—A young man was arrested in this city yesterday afternoon and lodged in the guard house, under the following circumstances: He came to this city yesterday morning on the train from Atlanta, and registered his name at the Brown House as A. Austen, Louisville, By., After breakfast he called at the foundry and iron works of J. 8. Schofield, and presented to that gentleman a letter of credit which purported to he from one Jno. B. Davies, “Washington Foundry,” Louisville, Ky. This letter referred to the bearer as * ‘my son, Rees Davies,” and npon it Hr. Schofield, at the re quest of the young man, endorsed adraftnpon Jno. B. Davies, of Louisville, for 675, and upon this draft the young man obtained the money at one of our banks. On separating from Mr. S., Davies went to the hotel and took dinner, and in a little while after Mr. Schofield called to take a ride with him. In ref erring to the hotel register before Davies made bis appearance, BIr. S. noticed that there was no name answering to that which the young man had given, and he began to “smell a veiylarge sized mice.” When Davies came in, Mr. S. called his at tention to the register and demanded an explana tion. It was given, bnt it was not at all satisfacto ry. The advanced money was then demanded, which washanded over, and officer Ferrell was called to take the gent in hand. He was placed in jail, and at his reqnest a telegram was sent to Louis ville, to one A. Dent, in which the prisoner request ed Dent to endorse and identify him. Dent replied that he did not understand the telegram. This looked very suspicious, bnt the prisoner still assert ed his ability to exculpate himself. We called on him in the afternoon, and from our interview we are certain he ie well posted in Louis ville affairs and knows many business men of that city. He is about 25 years old, five feet six or seven inches high, dark complexion, black hair, nearly black eyes, sports a small, black mustache, and will weigh 135 or 140 ponnds. This description answers very well except as to height of stature, to the de scription of a partner of Hoffman, who rebbed Adams’ Express in Baltimore, on the 19th nit., of $16000 in bonds apd money. Davies says he registered his name as Austen, be cause he played the villain with a respectable girl in Kentucky, and had heard that her father was pursuing him, and by this means hoped to elude him. A warrant will be sued out against him for swindling. He will be held until he is identified, and makes a better showing than he has thus far mad9. BY TELEfiR^p^ From Washington. Washington, June 10—The announce^..,, a number of capitalists of New York had to loan the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad ^ million dollars to bnild the road, it is reliably ^ is not founded on fact Negotiations sre » ***** and it is probable that a visit will be made o/ ? ** road before any proposition is entertained ^ It is said Bontwell will persevere in gelline two million in gold and buying one million A train conveying Grant northward wag k ^ from the track at Annapolis Junction by \ cow- cars smashed. Several persons were inim-lt eluding Commissioner Weil, of Atlanta, face is badly smashed. The Presidential r lltt - * uninjured. '• BIr. Weil, of Atlanta, hurt in the railroad to-day, was en route to Europe as State Commissioner. ^ A gentleman from Charleston, S. C. er. m Blaine, received a splinter in the breaa*- an •*' serious wound. ’ A committee of cotton brokers have writt Delano, contending that, as mere agents in 2' ing buyers and sellere together, they are pj r --f' 5 only one transaction, and shonld not pay 5 They state they have each an office in where they display samples of cotton re^M*’ commission merchants, and procure buyer, {. commission merchants. They have "no -° rsi; whatever in said ootton, other than in buyer, and receive a brokerage from the Eeiu twenty-five cents per bale. Delano has given no decision. It is rumored that Borie will resign and Guy Geary is to succeed him. eil<! > The negro Stewart whom the police carried t 0 polls when he voted, was sent to Baltimore br authorities for safety. General News. Cincinnati, June 10—A fierce tornado near v amasburg. Ohio, destroyed bridges and fence/.,' unroofing houses. Augusta, June 10—The parties arrested in it renton by the militaiy have been released by On on giving bonds. ’ Judge Andrews, of the Circuit Court, hia f 0 .-. den the Sheriff, at whose instance the arrest, y/ made, to act. or in any way assume the functi*/ his office. Quiet is restored and good feeling exists bet**, the citizens and the militaiy. Foreign News. London, June 10 The Arch Bishop of Ctte bury counsels Bishops not to oppose the diseetil lishment bill. A banquet was given in London to the hearts the Irish memorials against the bill. Many T c ^ s Peers, and Clergymen of the established Cfc- were present. The French minister of foreign affairs thufe the Prussian minister for the tone of the Pnsa press regarding the French -elections. A new decree authorizes the use of the language in the administration of the national» vice of Gallicia. Deltodas, Captain General, sails for Havana day, stopping at Porto Rico. There is a lick c! it mony in the Spanish ministry manifest, and u tc ly change is expected. The French Corps Legislatiff convened on 28th. The election riots at Nantes axe serious. 2 soldiers used the bayonet. More tumultnona pi erings in Montavaideo yesterday were disperse 1 troops. Paris, June 10. — General Fleniy has bear pointed Minister to Italy. The Duke de Persigny has written a commiaa tiontothe Emperor Napoleon, advising tbekis- duction of further liberal reforms. Shot by Mistake On Thursday night last, about- 10 o'clock, the notorious negro burglar and thief, Lewis Travis, was seen near the Macon and Western railroad track, just back t of the Findlay foundry, and officers Charley Wood and Henry Ferrell wentout in that direction to arrest him. In a short while they came nearly np with a negro named Gas Davis, who very much resembled Travis and was dreseed almost precisely like him. Officer Ferrell called to Gus and commanded him to halt; but he refused to do so, and endeavored to get into a ditch which crossed under the railroad and by which he could have made his escape. He was halted a second time and told that he would be shot if he did not stop, just as he was in the act of leaping into the ditch. He refused, however, to obey, and Ferrell then fired, the ball taking effect in Gus’ arm near the elbow joint and ranging down the arm, without breaking a bone, nearly to the wrist Gus then stopped, and it was discovered, to the regret of the officers, that he was not the negro they were after. Gus was taken to Dr. Hall who cut the ball ont of his arm, and, as no bones were broken,- it will soon be all right Moral—When you are halted late at night by an officer, and are conscious of having done nothing wrong, stop, instantly, and let him know who you are. If, on the contrary, you are a rascal, and are willing to risk your life in an attempt to escape, then run like the d—1 when you are ordered to etop. To run is an evidence of gnilt, and an officer so con strues it “Green Corn or Horn” Potato.—Jtr. Local: With my compliments, permit me to make you a present of a nice mess of Irish potatoes. Though not the first of the season nor of the largest variety. I hope you will find them of a different variety to any you have yet seen. They are known as the “Green Com or Horn” potato, and were not raised in Yineville where such things mature earlier and grow larger than in any other portion of the coun try. If you are charitably disposed, you can show your generosity to great advantage by sending one or two of these potatoes to the very particular friend of Green Com or Green Horn—so called. And I wonld send one also to old Father Noah’s ticket agent by this friend—I have forgotten his name— as he will find it good and strengthening to weak stomachs, and more wholesome and easier digested than that early com of the stump-tail variety. A Friend of Green Corn. Macon, June 11,1869. With the foregoing “hit,’ 1 we received a basketful of very large, fine Irish potatoes, tastefully con cealed under many of the sweetest flowers of the season. In addition to the palatable present and accompanying flowers, doubtless from some fair friend, she enters the arena in our defence, and very skillfully turns the keen blade of onr senior, gives him a home thrust in return. She has our most earnest and sincere thanks, with the hope that her path of life may ever be strewn with such flow ers as she has thrown upon ours. When their beau ty shall have faded and their fragrance wasted, we shall still cherish them in memory’s vase as a con tribution from the hand of a fair friend in a time of need. From Alabama. Montgomery. June 10.—A special to the Aire tiser of to-morrow morning eajB that the Convention for the Third District,at Opelika it sfi at sea, and no agreement effected. The straggle growing fiercer, and the charge is made sgahs Mr. Norris, tho late Representative, tint is is citizen of Maine, and not of Alabama The prto pal opponents of Norris are the native Republicans The Haynesville Examiner, of to-day, repor that the dreaded boll worm has made its appeuua on plantations in Lowndes county, and is canjin destruction to the cotton crop. From Hississippi. Jackson, June 10—The trial of E. M. Teiger. fc killing Col. Crane, commenced to-d&y before i Military Commission—Brigadier General B. Granger, President. The counsel for Yerger £ an objection to trial by a Military Ccmmitax which will be argued to-morrow. Yerger pleads not guilty to the charges and specifications. Ex nent counsel has been retained for the defence. From ,Cuba. Havana. June 10.—Jordan’s fillibusters are sa Trinidad. The Governor of Trinidad refnsed ton sign. The volunteers killed him. The Nuevitas Railroad has been cut again. 8 skirmishing near Trinidad. Supreme Court of tteorgia—The Git* Negro Eligibility Case. ‘Wednesday, June 9,18Q. The Court met at 10 A. u., pursuant to * joumment. Argument was resumed and concluded the 14th case from the Pataula Circuit. ij® ander and Howell vs. Wm. C. Leith— Eqffi- and motion for new trial from Early. CoL t Fielder for plaintiff in error, and CoL A H» for defendant in error. [ According to the announcement madebjcK- sent of the Bar on yesterday, the first case * the docket from the Eastern Circuit was cacs State of Georgia—ex relatione—James J. W renvs.the Georgia Medical Society—Manta® from Chatham. Argued by Julian Hanrioj Esq., for plaintiff in error, and by Thoffiis ’ Loyd, Esq., for defendant in error. No. 2.—Eastern Circuit—Bichard W. vs. the State of Georgia, ex relatione, wot * Clements—Quo Warranto—from Chatham When this case was called Mr. Akerman sUM that he had been retained by parties inW*®| in the decision of this case, to appear fori* plaintiff in error, and requested the court to- lax its rule, allowing only two counsel to opp* for either party; that he might also be beaN- the plaintiff iu this case. The requ* 1 granted, with the announcement that the privilege would be extended to the othei■ ^ and with the further announcement that too taxation of the rule in this instance must considered as a precedent _ Pending the reading of the Bill of ftaeps by A. W. Stone, Esq., tho Court adjourn* 3 - 10 a. m., to-morrow. T . A. W. Stone, Esq., Governor James and Mr. Akerman will speak for the and Hartridge and Loyd for the defendaafi This case involves the question of ehg> * of the negroes to offioe. , ,t- Bichard EL Whiteley was admitted to of this Court—Atlanta New Era. ,-T* Cotton Bowls—The first cotton bowl of the growing crop which we bave seen in this section wm brought up from the plantation of Messrs. Smith A Ross, in Houston county, on Tuesday. Since then, we have seen several from other planta tions in different parts of this section of the State. All were quite email. i rttf T •’ Crops in Monroe, Pike and Upsos Barnesville Gazette says: ^ The reports from our fanners of Pij®> * and Upson are very encouraging, succeeded in reaping a finer crop of w** ^ has been realized for several years. Con> i cotton, notwithstanding the unfaY° r ahl“r^ the weather several weeks since, are beg^r; to show the influence of the sun by g 1 ® ^ vigorously, and com silks (in gardens) p ton squares are plentiful. Oats will average crop. Our fanners report fi* T ^ upon the benefits of fertilizers in pushing ^ crop, and some of them are sanguine of ^ cotton in market by the 1st, or, at fartae*' middle of August Tine, O King. The Herald oUMonday has the foUow^ Singular Admission fob a Radical- ^ the most violent Radicals declared, tn day, that if a Presidential election wsa to-day the bitterest oopperhead would be over any man the Republicans might He was not a disappointed offiee-seezw-j ily, radicalism is beginning to take a # shape all over the country. The North i» s ^ and growling: the West is grumbling an“ j blina; the South is “sassy," and » j . vn. i tn. a.:i ♦rOQD*® - state of “bubble, bubble, toil and trOO 11 ‘ 0 V the political cauldron seems pending the country. Six attempts have beeif made within a V* assasiaate Victor Emanuel.