Georgia Historic Newspapers

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The Greorgia 'W'eekly Telegraph.
THE TELEGRAPH.
X UACONTFRIDAY, JULY 2, 1869.
Aflkir* in Virginia.
Tbs New -York Herald's special from Rich
mond of the 25th, says there is great rejoicing
here among the whites over an increased ma
jority ■ of twenty' thousand, which the registra
tion gives them. The prospect of returning
power seems to have liberalized the . minds of
even the straightest of the “ Virginia” sect, and
to such a degree that Conservative men of prom-
inowwft are putting on foot a movement to elect
Dr. Alexander Sharp, former postmaster here,
and brother-in-law- of the present Marshal of
the District of Columbia, to the United States
Senate. The movement for Sharp is evidence
■of a most radical change in the feelings of Con
servative. politicians.
■A Brag Cotton Stalk.
Macon, Jane 29,1669.
.Editors Telegraph: I send you a stalk of
cotton from my place near the city—it is of the
Moina variety. It measured four feet high when
taken from the ground; had ninety-five forms
on it;. five bolls, and six blooms. My land was
thoroughly broken.up last winter with a number
£ Brinley Universal plow. I used about 250
pounds of Dickson’s. Compost to the acre, and
after the plant came up it was cultivated solely
with one of Wrigley & Knott’s Improved Dick
son Sweeps. This sample is a fair average of
nearly two acres. .Yours Truly,
J. w. Knott.
This-stalk measures seven-eighths of an inch
■diameter at the butt—has twenty-five branches,
and by our oounthas 119 forms, blooms and
bolls on it The largest boll is about one-third
grown. "It is a beauty and shows the advantage
of .manures and high culture.
Policy of Raising Food Crops.
It will be seen by onr paper to-day that “far
mers” will differ as entirely as the doctors. We
do not expect to show by figures that an acre
of com is worth as much money os an acre of
cotton; or, that it was worth so much last year
or the year before; or that in any given series
of years the com would balance the cotton ac
count. We have seen years, however, when a
fair acre of com was worth more than a similar
area of cotton, and it may occur again. We
hope not—for, considering the time and labor
which must be expended in producing and
gathering the respective crops, an acre of cot
ton should be worth quite as much as two acres
of com. But this is not the point
Nor can a case be made in the practical ap
plication of com to the raising of meat, as one
of our fanner correspondents does. In that
case, he omits not only the “sausages and
Cabinet Work.—Mr. Boric withdrew from
the Secretaryship of the Navy, ostensibly on the
score of ill-health; but the Herald says his with
drawal will be the beginning of a pretty general
reorganization. His successor, George M. Robe
son, was Attorney General of New Jersey, and
the Herald-says Grant picked him up at his re
cent visit to West-Point, where, pleased with
Robeson's appearance, the President tendered
him the position on the spot Grant’s reap
pearance at Washington with an unknown Cabi
net officer, inspired a new sensation of disgust
among the leaders. They were shocked and
horrified that so new. a man should have been
picked up in that way. Robeson is said to be
forty-five years old, and a fine-looking gentle,
man.
The Income Tax—An Expose.
The New York Tribune of the 2Gth prints, in
thirty-eight double columns of -figures, a com
plete alphabetical list of persons assessed in
that city for the payment of income tax to the
Federal Government with the following re
marks :
The Income-Tax is one of the worst ever
levied—inquisitorial, unequal, and offering a
premium for perjury. Wo trust its days are
nearly numbered—-that it will be the .very next
of our heavy War burdens removed. "While it
stands unrepealed, however, we would have it
honestly assessed, returned and collected: for
its sting is sharpened by the consciousness that
half those required to pay it returned either no
taxable income at all or far less than the true
amount. We hope, by this day’s publication,
to do our part toward making the assessment
more just and equal hereafter.
The list herewith given will prove an excellent
help to the etudy of‘Character. Scan it careful
ly, and see how many whom you know have re
turned incomeB of &1,000 to $1,500 when they
are living at the rate of $10,000 to $15,000 per
annum, and saving money at that! You may
give a very fair guess as to which of your ac
quaintances may be trusted implicity and which
may not, when you shall have serntinized their
returns to the Assessors.
The Herald says the returns of incomes sum
up more than eighty millions. The largest one
is that of Mr. A T. Stewart, who returns $3,-
019,281.
Pine Apples.
Mr. H. N. Ells, on Mnlberry street, has re
ceived a large consignment of fine large, ripe
Fine Apples, which he is anxious to sell for
twenty-five cents apiece.
Eab.lt Tillotsons.—Mr. E. Taylor, of Mon
roe county, sends us half a dozen early Tillotson
peaches, which we find weigh twenty-two ounces,
and are considerably upwards of two inches in di
ameter. They are also as beautiful fruit as can
well be imagined, and far beyond any we ever
saw of this variety. We are tempted upon this
specimen to reverse our verdict in favor of the
Hale as the best variety of the early peach.
Certainly nothing need be finer than these.
spare ribs,” bnt all the offal and the manure
from his swine, which, under judicious man
agement, should be worth to him scarcely less
than the com*jie has fed to them.
This, in its first aspect, is a question of sound
plantation economy. The fanner is yearly
taxing his ground heavily to produce his cot
ton. Every year its productive energies must
be weaker nnless he is returning to the soil as
mnch as he draws from it. How will he do
this? By the use of commercial fertilizers
alone ? We have no idea that one or two hun
dred weight of guanoes or phosphates are going
to keep land from wearing cut or showing de
minished productive energy.
But if the farmer buys his com and meat and
fertilizers and all the other supplies for his
plantation and family, he will never see the day
when he can afford to keep that liberal allow
ance of stock which is necessary to supply the
loss of fertility to his land? He will buy as
little com as possible and he will have as few
horses, mules, hogs and cattle as possible. His
cribs and barns will be empty—the dong-hills
small—the cow lots barren—the product of do
mestic manure of little value towards enriching
the soil. The difference between the stable
and horse, cow and hog lots of the farmer who
raises plenty of com and he who buys it, is the
difference between famine and abundance—
and just this difference will soon begin to be
developed in the lands and crops of the respec
tive parties.
The second aspect of the case is a financial
one. In the order of Providence men do not
often get rich by mere acquisition. The man
who gains rapidly spends rapidly, and he who
is always buying bays beyond his intentions. It
is economy which makes thrift, and eeonomy is
morally impossible under the policy of produc
ing and selling just one thing—cotton, and buy
ing ten thousand things beginning with all the
necessaries of life and ending with its luxuries
and superfluities.
The planter who gets rich will pursue just
the opposite policy of producing everything he
can and bnying only that which he cannot pro
duce at home. Under a sound farm policy
which contemplates these results everything pro
duced may, if you please, be ‘charged with an
expense of production which would attach to it
as an independent crop; bnt rightly managed
it does not cost that mnch, although it counts a
great deal more in the saving expense; because
to the market price must be added transporta
tion—time lost in bnying, and whatever other
expense may be incurred, which would be saved
if yon had not the purchase to make. So much
in reference to private economy.
Bnt when we look at the matter as a question
of public economy, it leaves still less room for
doubt. Begin with the thirty to forty million
bushels of Indian com Georgia must have every
year—add hay, fodder, bacon, flour, oats, rye,
barley, rice, tobacco, sugar, dry goods, leather,
boots and shoes, iron, steel, farming and planta
tion ntensils, fertilizers, horses and mules, and
yon have in these leading items alone a vast ex
cess over the value of any cotton crop that
Georgia could possibly produce under existing
conditions. Indeed, try your hand at figuring,
and see if Georgia could pay for the first three
items alone with her whole cotton crop. We
thinV not.
Now, we write so much on this subject be
cause the temptation to ignore food crops is
just now, while cotton is high, so strong and so
plausible. In spite of everything, we believe
com will be increasingly neglected, and if it
is, though Georgia may raise cotton for the next
ten years and get twenty-five cents for it, we do
not believe she will be any better off than she is
now.
Edsian Sbangler’s Statement.—Certainly that
is a most horrid and most disgraceful story upon
our first page, and what is worse it bears the
stamp of truth. It is the story of an American
State prisoner, detailing a ferocious barbarity
which carries one back to the dark ages and the
inquisition.
An Immense Peach Orchard.—A correspon
dent of the New York Express writes from a vil
lage called Ridgeway, midway between Wilming
ton and Weldon, North Carolina, and gives the
the following description of an immense peach
orchard:
But the great feature of the picture is a peach
orchard of 250,000 trees, occupying 2,500 acres
of land. An idea of its magnitude may, perhaps,
be better shown by the statement that if the
acres were in a row they would extend to the
distance of one hundred miles, and if the trees
themselves were in a row, would extend to the
distance of one thousand miles.
In the season for gathering, at only one bask-
- et per tree per day, there must be on the ground
. every day a supply of 250,000 baskets. As the
^peaches pnlled to day, are to be in New York
-to-morrow—for this can be—it is easy to con-
-ceive the army of gatherers necessary to fill the
^baskets and place them on the cars.. An enter
prise "such as this requires no small capital and
.energy. It is in capable hands and will proba
bly be a success. The parties have secured, I
am informed, a contract for transportation for
twenty years. _
Commercial Fates Due on the Fourth of
•July.-—A question has been raised as to when
. banknotes made payable on the 4th of July are
• to be -collected. The Bankers’ Manual lays
down the following rules in reply to questions on
the point :
Commercial paper having days of grace and
tailing due on Sunday, July 4, 1869, will be pay
able on Tuesday, the 6th of July. t
Commercial paper without days of grace, due
Sunday, July 4, 1809, will be payable on Tues
day, July "6.
Commercial paper having days of grace, and
falling due on Monday, July 5, 1869, will be
payable on Saturday, the 3d of July.
Commercial paper without days of grace, fall
ing due on Monday, July 5, 1869, win be paya
ble on Tuesday, the 6th of July.
ClnrtmuUi. Southern
The following dispatch,says the Atlanta Intel-
ligencer of the 29th, was received by Col. Hal
bert on yesterday:
Cincinnati, June 28.—tCoL E. Hnlbert, Su
perintendent-Fifteen thousand four hundred
ang thirty-eight (15,438) votes for railroad. Fif
teen hundred against. Trustees will be ap
pointed this week. A E. Chamberlain.
Th* Rennbalaeb Polytechio School.—In an
editorial yesterday upon this oelebratod school,
we located it at Poughkeepsie, but we are in
formed it ref usee to go there and remains at
Trey.
A fluid preparation, it is reported, has been
®*»7««a.bjr an English Chemist, which, he
**^*ri%| will in five yean* time convert human
That made it JbadTpi Polly,”.
The Negro Legislators.
The Atlanta Intelligencer, of yesterday, dis
coursing at length on the recent decision of the
Supreme Court upon Negro Eligibility to office,
indicates its conclusions in the following :
Reason as the press of the State may upon
the subject; let it denounce the legality itself
of the decision, and deny its power to restore
to their seats in the Legislature the expelled ne
gro members; still this will be done, and the
people of the State may as well prepare for that
inevitable result, and govern themselves accord
ingly, as for any other of those forced results
of congressional reconstruction under which
they now live. * * * •
The question, then, naturally presents itself,
and it has already been much discussed by the
press of the State, “ shall the Legislature, when
it assembles, restore to their seats in that body
the expelled negro members ?” Averse as we
have been, and still are, to the conferring such
a privilege upon the negro, we do not see how
it is possible for that body to avoid retracing its
steps and restoring the negro members their
seats. “To this complexion it will come at last,”
and though it may be. and is, a sore afliction
upon the State, it will have to be borne, till
time shall roctify the eviL
This is a practical common sense view of the
matter. All attempts to evade, ignore or elude
the law as expounded by the Supreme Court, or
to prevent its full and free practical effect, in
Georgia, by a strained construction of the
powers of the Legislature, will only end in total
defeat and involve the remaining members and
the State in new difficulties and embarassments,
and new quarrels with Congress, which will be
bound to hurt Do gentlemen shut their eyes
to the decisions of Canby, in Virginia, that the
iron-clad oath must, under the reconstruction
acts, be applied to every member of the Vir
ginia Legislature? Have they ever inquired
where that decision : came from? "Who has
authorized it? We say beware and be wise.—
Georgia is now in the best condition of all the
late Confederate States. See to it lest by vain
and impracticable counsels you do not put her
in the worst condition of all.
A Grand Idea.
It is said that five thousand Chinamen are on
their way, via St. Louis, to the sugar plantations
of Louisiana. If so, what has appeared to be
a dark and unpromising problem is in process
of solution. The great alluviums of the South
will be rescued from the jungle and made to re
sume their ancient contributions to the wealth
of the South and the country. The Chinese will
be more valuable and cheaper laborers than the
negroes ever were, and in a very few years Mis
sissippi, Louisiana, Texas and Arkansas will be
more productive of sugar and cotton than they
have ever been before. The negroes in those
States will be driven to the upland regions,
while the same race in Virginia, Kentucky, and
Northern Tennessee will be driven South by
white labor. Coffee will therefore be flanked
on both sides, and it is probable Alabama, Geor
gia and Florida, and the Carolines, will be the
theatre of his final conflicts on the American
continent, in competition with the superior
hardihood, intelligence and energy of the Asiatic
and.European races.
B72T TELEO-RAPH.
' From Washington.
Washington, June 29.—The Government has now
no war vessel in Cuban waters.
Advices indicate a favorable settlement of the af
fairs of the Merchants National Bank at Little Bock,
and an early resumption of business by the Bank.
The Times has a long editorial approving the Fed
eral non-interference in favor of either of the tick
ets of Virginia, Tennessee and Texas.
From Brunswick.
The Brunswick Appeal Of last Saturday has
the following:
Macon and Brunswick Railroad.—We are au
thorized to announce that the link connecting
Brunswick and No. 6, on the A <fc G. B. B.,
will be completed by the morning of the 5th
prox., and that a special train will be run through
to Savannah on that day by Major Orme, the
energetic manager of this end of the road. Look
out gents, we Are coming on the road this time,
and intend to have our boats along.
About the 7th we learn Col. Screven, the Pres-
Revenue to-day over $500,000.
The Secretaries of War and Navy have placed ident of the A. 3c G. R. B., will place a regular
forces at the disposal of the Secretary of the Treas-\ ° n the route between this city and Savan-
ury to break np illicit distilleries. t ? ah > an ? «**** xmtil *■» whole rofld
Washington, June 30,-Secretarv Cox, of the In- 18 com P leted ***** to Maoon -
terior, and Fisher, Commissioner of Patents, are
about resigning.
Attorney General Hoar has information of the
seizure of three steamers in New York harbor load
ed with fillibusters for Cuba.
At present most of the Cabinet are absent
Bevenne for the fiscal year is $168,250,000; de
crease of public debt for the month, about $9,000,-
000 ' '
Grant distributes the Georgetown College pre
miums. The Ben of Senator Mallory, of Florida,
wins the first prize.
The departments dose Monday in honor of the
4th.
From Virginia.
Richmond, Jute 29.—General Canby has issued
an order to-day, extending the stay law to Janu
ary 1st, 1870, in all cases where one year’s interest
on the debt is paid before August next, bnt allow
ing executions to be levied in cases where such in
terest is not paii.
A large Republcan meeting was held in the Park
this afternoon, and was addressed by VanWyck, of
New York; Beers, of Montana, and others. Near
the dose of the meeting a white Republican in the
crow dissented from one of the speakers, and the
negroes, thinking it was a Conservative, set on him,
and beat him severely. The police rescued him.
Gilbert C. Walker, candidate for Governor, ar
rived to-night, and was serenaded by the Conserva
tives. He spoke in response.
From Monroe Connfy.
We clip the following from the Monroe Ad*
vertiser of the.29th instant:
The first full grown cotton boll we have seen
this season was brought into our office last week
by Mr. George Rhodes, of this place, and was
taken from his plantation in(Dougherty county.
Mr. Rhodes, after a careful examination of the
crops in both sections, is of the opinion that the
crop of Middle Georgia is at least "three weeks
ahead of that in the Southwestern portion of the
State. The cotton plant is healthy and vigo
rous, and a fine crop is anticipated.
The oat crop-is said to be excellent. We have
seen several-fine samples on exhibition about
town which, would seem to indicate that an un
usually large supply of this important cereal
has been grown. Rev. Hiram Phinazee informs
us that he has cut nearly fifty thousand pounds
of oafs, which, at present prices, will bring
about five hundred dollars. Commend us to the
grain farmers.
The peach crop is not quite as good as it was
last year. The fruit was somewhat thinned out
early in the season. That which is left, how
ever, will be very large and fine.
The Commencement sermon of the Monroe
Female College will be delivered next Sabbath
morning in the College chapel. There will be
no services at the Methodist church.
Notwithstanding the complaints of many of
backwardness of the growing crops, we are.of
the opinion that they are as far advanced as they
were this time last year. The first cotton bloom
we saw last year was placed -on our table by Mr.
E. B. Taylor, of this county, on the 19th of
June, and acknowledged in our issue of the 23d
of June. The first bloom this year was left in
onr office by Mr. O. Holland, on the 16th inst.,
and acknowledged on the 22d.
Onr correspondent in the Fourth District says
that the wheat crop in his section is but an
average one. His section certainly is an ex
ceptionable one. We hear of one planter who
raised one hundred and thirty-five bushels on
twenty acres. No painee were taken in the pre
paration of the land, and the expense of the
crop was the cost of the seed and the expense of
plowing them in.
Cotton is looking finely. From present pros
pects, the growing crop will prove even more
remunerative than that of last year. Prices are
now ranging very high, and they will probably
remain so during a greater portion of the in
coming season. Com is promising, and farm
ers have finished working it. One or two more
seasonable showers will make the crop, which
will be ampls for all. Viewing things in their
present favorable tight, we do not see anything
ref ore our people but prosperity and success.
Visitors to the Spring are not as numerous
as the attractions of the place would seem to
warrant. It is thought, however, that the lib
eral reduction of fare by the Macon & Western
Railroad will soon crowd onr rnatic Spa with
the gay crowds usually found there during the
summer.
The Petersburg Scrimmage.
The row in Petersburg, though? trivial in con
sequences, shows the existence of a good deal
of danger of something worse. The Richmond
Dispatch, of the 28th, complains that the Radi
cal niggers are exceedingly overbearing. -That
paper says Dr. Bayne, a Conservative negro,
has been mobbed several timeB for daring to op
pose the Leagues. A few days Bince a colored
speaker attempted to address his brethren in
Tappahanock, in behalf of Norton (colored,)
who opposes Ayer for Congress, when he was
set upon by a multitude of blacks, and narrow
ly escaped their fury by running to a place of
safety, where he was protected by white people
from the wrath of his own race! *
In.a.word, they have taken their cue from the
Washington negroes, and it is quite possible
that, in the effort to dragoon the whites, may
unexpectedly “encounter an obstacle” some of
these days. The Northern Radicals and the
Administration seem to be backing them up as
much as they can, bnt the Express says the
Leagues are losing their influence with the col
ored people and the prospects of the Conserva
tives are bright.
Examination at the Academy for the
Blind.
Unprecedented Immigration.—A letter from
one of the Liverpool steamship agencies re
ceived at New York Saturday morning says an
average of five thousand emigrants may be ex
pected at the port of New Youc for the next five
or six weeks to come. The pressure for pas
sage, the writer says, is tremendous—nothing
was ever seen like it before. "What is to be
done with the crowd when they come, nnless
they push on west, is a problem. Even now the
streets in the lower part of the city are thronged
with the advance guard, not only from Liver
pool, but from Hamburg, Bremen, Amiterdam
d Norwegian ports,
ippee-may-w ft—
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The exercises at the Georgia Academy for the
Blind closed Tuesday afternoon, with a fine
vocal and instrumental concert. The chapel
was crowded to its utmost capacity with the
fair matrons and daughters of Macon, thus man
ifesting an interest in, and sympathy for the
blind, not often witnessod in Macon. The con
cert passed off very creditably to the perform
ers, and entirely to the satisfaction of the
audience.
The examination, which was quite interesting,
was better attended by the citizens than any
previous examination of the kind in the writer's
knowledge.
The blind are very sensitive, and highly ap
preciate any attention shown them. They were
also encouraged by the presence of the pro
fessors and young ladies of college, although
this is with them a-very busy time, as they are
on the eve of their annual examination.
I might speeify classes, but suffice it to say,
that ihey were examined in all the branches
taught in other sohools, and exhibited great
familiarity with their respective text books.
The want of sight gives concentration to the
mind, and strength to the memory. This was
remarkably shown -by their going through the
process of long division in Algebra without a
mistake—even in a sign. Also by their stating
and solving problems involving two unknown
quantities, and the extraction of the square root;
working long questions in fractions, and ques
tions in simple interest where the time was odd
years, months and days.
Several of the dosses, both in music and in
the literary department, were taught by the more
advanced pupils. Thus they are being prepar
ed for teachers; and several who graduated in
the institution last summer, have been main
taining themsdves well during the past year by
teaching.
It is to be regretted that more of the blind of
the State do not avail themselves of the opportu
nity here offeredforgettingagood education, The
academy building is capable of' accommodating
about one hundred pupils; and but little over
one third of this number is in attendance.
If our more favored citizens would exert them
selves to influence the blind within their know!
edge to leave home and come, to this school
where they will be better provided for, soon our
institution would be filled, and the labor now ex
pended on a small number might be productive
of threefold more good.
The workshops are still in successful opera
tion, but there seems not to be that importance
attached to them which they merit, as but few
of the pupils seem inclined to learn a trade.
Let us, as opportunity offers, encourage
the worthy principal and faithful assistants of
this good and benevolent institution. L.
Slave Trade nr Georgia.—We are shocked
to learn from the Savannah Republican that the
slave trade has broken oat in Georgia. That
paper says:
We learn that a few days since a white man,
a fisherman, residing on the Ogeeohee canal,
some ten or twelve miles from the city, Bold
his wife to another fisherman (white) for sixty
bunches of fish, valned at fifty cents per bunch.
The wife was perfectly satisfied with the sale,
and is now living with her purchaser. For the
information- of Messrs. Forney and Greeley, we
will state that aU the parties to this transaction
are said to be trooly loll voters of, the Radical
ticket.
From Louisiana.
New Orleans, June 30.—The investigations by
Collector Casey, which have been in progress some
time, resulted in the seizure, last evening, of four
thousand four hundred and ninety boxes, thirteen
hundred and eighty-seven hogsheads and seventy-
nine tierces of sugar, belonging to the importing
house of Auguste Continue & Co., and the placing
under surveillance of the entire stock of imported
sugar in bond in this city, amounting to one thou
sand seven bundled and sixty boxes, thirty-one
hundred and fifty-seven hogsheads, one hundred
and thirty-three tierces and two hundred and fifty-
nine barrels; all of which will be reweighed and
reclassified before it is permitted to be withdrawn
from bond, with a view to the detection of further
frauds which may have been committed.
The investigations of the revenue officers show
that theimporters used false invoices. The sugar
was classed too low, and the weighers returned the
weights almost invariably lower than even the false
invoices. Implicated in these frauds are a number
af weighers, appraisers, examiners and inspectors
appointed by Collector Casey. It is supposed, how
ever, that similar frauds have been practiced for a
long period. Suspicion was aroused by the differ
ence in the weight of packages and the difference in
the quality of sugars from the same port, where
Deputy Collector Herring had prepared an abstract,
giving a complete history of every package of sugar
in bond, showing a uniform difference of weight
amounting to 150 pounds on each hogshead; and 45
pounds on each box on fraudulent invoice. Several
other importing houses are implicated, but no far
ther frauds are definitely fixed.
From Cuba.
Havana, June 29.—DeRod&s. the new Captain
General, was quietly received. In a manifesto he
states his policy as embraced in three words:
‘‘Spain, Justice, Morality.” He tells the volunteers
they ought to bo proud of their past actions.
The Providence steamers put into the city of
Newport. The Bay Queen was injured by a col
lision in a fog—no lives lost.
The insurgents have captured the garrison at
Sabana Neuve, near Puerto Principe.
Havana, June 30.—General DeRodas says he
counts on fifty thousand volunteers to put down the
rebellion.
The Bruns wickers, male and female, made a
moonlight excursion down to St Simon's Island
last Thursday night in the steamer Louder and
had a dance and frolic at the King place. They
are a frolicsome generation, although the edi
tor says “a large number of those present were
members of the Methodist church and could not
dance.”
St John’s day was observed by Ocean Lodge
No. 214 in high state. An address was delivered
on the occasion by Bro. Chas. A. Fullwood,
which is published in the Appeal.
The Appeal cuts the negro controversy short,
in this wise:
The question above will most certainly be
made before the Legislature at its next sitting.
We do not hazard much when we venture the
opinion that the ousted negro members will be
reseated.
CITY AFFAIRS.
From Randolph County.
Six Miles Southeast of Cuthbebt, >
Randolph Co., Ga., June 29, 1869.)
Editors Telegraph: Not having seen any
thing lately in your paper in regard to the crops
in this section-of Randolph, I must say that I
have never seen crops look finer, nor a better
prospect for an abundant yield, than at present.
I have three hundred acres in cotton, and two
in corn. I have used no fertilizers, but my
crop looks as well as some I have seen who
used them extensively. We have had plenty of
rain, and the freedmen are working well, as
they have found out that they cannot live with
out it. Blackberries and whortleberries are
plentiful in this section.
Small Bow in Petersburg.
Richmond, June SO.—Last night, in Petersburg,
Van Wyck, of New York, addressed a Republican
meeting. The Conservatives present called for
division of time, and that not being allowed, the
next Radical speaker was drowned out by calls for
Conservative speakers. The negroes then formed
a body and charged the whites present, driving them
away with bricks, and chasing them through the
streets. It appears that the whites went to the
meeting with the impression that a division of time
was to bo allowed. Neither party used fire arms
and no body w&3 seriously injured.
General News,
New York, June 29.—Notwithstanding Marshal
Barlow’s denial, it is considered certain that the
fillibusters got to sea, and that the ship Catharine,
which the revenue cutters captured, was a decoy.
Captain Hamilton’s fifty men, recruited at Rich
mond, Ya., are with the expedition.
San Francisco, June 29.—Rich silver mines have
been discovered near the proposed line of the
Southern Pacific Railroad.
New York, June 30.—It is ascertained certainly
that a Cuban expedition went tftsea on Saturday
last
Lieut. Commander Van Yleick, died of yellow
fever on the hospital steamer, Illinois. .
The forger, Ketchum, was before the Court to
day, on a habeas corpus plea. He was sentenced
for a crime not charged in the indictment. His
discharge on bail is probable.
The box containing six hundred thousand dollars,
in securities, stolen from the Ocean Bank, has been
found.
Foreign News.
Brest, June 29.—The Gxeat Eastern is progress-
,ing finely.
Paris, June 29.—J. Q. Warren, an American citi
zen, entered formal complaint for arrest and cruel
-treatment during the riot, and demands damages
through Minister Washbume.
Chinese Labor in Cuba.—The following is
from a private letter written by a gentleman in
Cuba to a friend resident in the vicinity of Ba
ton Rouge:
“With regard to Coolie labor I have had con
siderable experience. I was on one estate that
was worked entirely by Chinamen, on another
where the greater part were Chinamen. On the
estate, (Alcanica) most of the hands about the
mill and sugar house, and all in my department,
were Chinamen, and there are about one hun
dred free Chinamen—that is, those whose terms
of engagement have expired—cutting cane by
the contract, and in all cases, I can say withont
hesitation that they are far superior to negro
laborers. They seem to stand the climate and
labor required on the sugar estates inLonisiana,
and from what I have seen of the Chinese labor
in Cuba, I certainly think that the Chinese
would be most invaluable as laborers in Louisi
ana ; it would, however, I think, be necessary
to have them under a proper engagement, for
if left to themselves to xnn from one estate to
another, they would take to peddling and gam
bling, to which they are much addicted. They
are here, I may say, not only badly treated, but
under very severe restraint; they are engaged
for eight months at $4.25 per month, with ra
tions and clothing, and made to work the same
as negroes. I do think the introduction of that
sort of labor into Louisiana would be the means
of rendering the country more prosperous than
ever.'"
Col. Green Clay, grandson of Henry Clay,
and a large planter in Mississippi, is talked of
for Conservative candidate for Congress from
that State.
Jalino Caesar at West Point,
Grant appointed no negro cadets. He there
by onragea the negroes of Washington. “What?”
say they, “are colored men to be restricted in
social intercourse to the mechanical classes,
and their sons and heirs to be refused admis
sion to the national academies at WestPoint and
Annapolis ? Perish the thought! ’ ’ Grant puts
negroes into the printing offices and brick-yards
and navy-yards, but none into West Point.
What an outrage upon equal rights. The
blacks are clearly entitled to about one-fifth of
the scholarships in West Point
From Pulasld County.
The Hawkinsville Dispatch of the 30th nit,
has the following upon the crops:
A gentleman who has just returned from a
trip of seven miles up, and nine miles down the
river, in this county, reports very favorably on
the growing crops. He says the com looks like
a green cloud. All in that section have had fine
rains, with the exception of Mr. Willis. Our
informant states that the amount of com plant
ed is small. It is being laid by. Farmers are
well up with the grass. Mr. Coley, on the river
road, said he had never had a better cotton crop
at this season.
Mr. Thomas Singletary, who resides six miles
from here, has laid on our table a full grown
boll, which would have opened in a few days.
It is of good size, and Mr. S. says he has a ten-
acre field of ttte same sort. Mr. S. promises us
a boll of open cotton next week.
Judge Kibbee, of thi3 place, showed us, in his
patch, the first boll we have seen this year. It
was of the Moina variety, and was of smaller
size than the above, which is the product of the
common seed.
The weather is among the nineties.
The Dispatch says Mr. J. W. Ogilvie’s resi
dence af Hayneville was totally destroyed by
fire last Sunday. Loss two to three thousand
dollars—no insurance. Mr. Ogilvie’s situation
is deplorable, he having loBt both-hands and be
ing very nearly blind from the effects of the ex
plosion of a shell in Atlanta during the war.
The Masons of Hawkinsville had a grand turn
out St. John’s day and were addressed by P. D.
G. M. Blackshear, of this city. About two
thousand people were present.
General Jail Delivery — Jut Long, Jim
along Josey.—The Eufaula News of yesterday
says:
Night before last several prisoners confined in
the city guard-house made a hole through the
wall of the house sufficiently large to admit their
bodies, and thereby effected their escape. On
Monday evening, Jim Long, who had just been
brought from Maoon, and who, since his arrival,
had been kept in a different room, made an en
trance through the partition into the one from
which the prisoners had escaped the night be
fore,and about 1 o’clock,made his egress through
the same hole, and walked off in broad daylight.
None of the prisoners have been re-arrested. If
the keeping of this institution costs the city any
thing it is eminently advisable that it be dis
pensed with.
"What Maoon Wants It is true that railroads are
of inestimable value in building up cities and towns,
and in developing the natural resources of the coun
try whioh they traverse; but it is not true that they
can do either, to any great extent, independent of a
proper degree of public epirit and enterprise on the
part of the people. That city or town whioh relies
exclusively upon its railroad facilities for prosperity
and commercial importance, will never accomplish
much, and will soon reach a point in its existence
from which it is bound to recede, if. it fails or re
fuses to press forward. Inertion is death to the
commerce, progress and prosperity of any city. Its
people must be active, enterprising, vigilant, or all
the railroads in the world would not make it, what
it would otherwise be, by a proper exercise of these
great virtues.
We have heard, reoently, intelligent gentlemen
express gloomy forebodings and prognostications in
regard to the future of Maoon, since the consolida
tion of the Southwestern and Central railroads has
been made public, which we believe to be as ground
less as they are idle and humiliating to the spirit of
our people. The consolidation mentioned has vir
tually existed for months, and whilst we dislike to
see any corporation assuming the vast proportions
of the Central Railroad Company, still we believe
that if it was disposed to injure Macon, it will be
powerless to accomplish much in that direction, if
our people will meet it with a proper degree of enter
prise.
"What Macon wants is a more liberal investment
of the means of her capitalists in all kinds of man
ufactories. She is surrounded by forests from
which to draw aU of her lumber, and is in the midst
of a country teeming with agricultural products, and
possessing all the elements of wealth in a wonder
ful degree. Then, why should she not become, at
no distant day, a great manufacturing city—not
only supplying the country immediately around her,
bnt the whole of Southern Georgia, Florida and
Southeastern Alabama, with the hundreds of arti
cles annually consumed, and for which there is an
ever increasing demand ? Why should not Macon
have a population of fifty or sixty thousand souls in
five years from this time ? We can see no reason,
provided our people will wake up to their true inter
ests, and inaugurate the system to which we have
referred. Capital can find a profitable - investment
here in the manufacture of agricultural implements,
and in all the varieties of cooperage, of cotton and
woolen goods, and the hundreds of other things
which it is unnecessary to mention; and if it is not
already here, it should be brought here by repre
sentations to foreign capitalists of the manifold ad
vantages of our location. A little of the spirit of
enterprise will produce wonderful results, and
should be exhibited withont further delay.
Mayor’s Court.—But one case was docketed in
this Court yesterday. It was against that same Billy
Morrissy, a notoriously bad man, not unknown to
this Court, and the police force of the city. He was
arraigned in this instance for stealing some jewelry
from Mr.Thomas Knight,who resides on Fifth Btreet.
Billy is a bad character, and is rapidly acquiring for
himself a reputation which will, ere long, be second
to none m this community, if we except that of Bob
Wagnon. He combines, with a certain degree of
daring and bold indifference, a most refreshing ad
mixture of impudence and coolness.
Only the day before, Billy had been before the
Mayor for disorderly conduct, and bad received a
bonus in the Bhape of “thirty days on the streets.’*
He took the sentence as any ambitious aspirant for
notoriety would do, and appeared to bo perfectly
reconciled to bis fate. He, however, told polioeman
Perry that he would like to go home and get some
clothing, for a change, while living in his quiet
abode. The officer, with a heart full of the milk of
human kindness, accompanied Billy to where his
clothes were, and no sooner had they entered the
house, than the prisoner performed one of those
flights through a window, which might give an im
mortality to Claude Duval himself, or Sixteen-String
Jack, leaving his charitable protector to get out the
best way he could. The ungrateful “cuss” did not
even stop to say good-bye, but went his way re
joicing. While at large, he committed the theft for
which he was arraigned yesterday. Another thirty
days on the streets was ordered in this case, with
the additional order that Billy be attached to a ball
and chain, to prevent another hasty flight, should
he feel disposed to attempt it. Ah, Billy 2 you are
laying the foundation of a bad life for yourself.
Academy fob the Bund.—We spent an honro,
two at this institution yesterday forenoon, in h*v
tag an examination of the pupils in artthmet*"
geography, botany, mental philosophy, etc.
many other visitors we were perfectly astonished >t
of study. Their memory and powers of — TOaL
are wonderfully developed* under the trtinfcT*?
their faithful and efficient teachers. We sawhat
in mental arithmetic, solve problems yesterday
few moments, which, we dare say, not fifty raeu n
town not engaged in teaching would correctly soh
in hours, with a slate and pencil to assist them, rj
was the same in mental philosophy, geography ^
other stndiee—they seemed to be thoroughh- pogpj
in each. As to music, the pupils seem to take to it
naturally; and during the examination, several it.
strumantal pieces were sweetly and correctly reo.
dered. ‘ CB '
We are promised a full report of the day’s e Ier ,
rises, and until it is received, the forecoim,
suffice. ^ mn *t
Home Building and Loan Association.—^
glad to see that another one of these beneficial m
city building institutions has been started in Mim
in addition to the two now in successful oper&r' /
The Home Building and Loan Association coo!
menced business on the 8th inst., and in the hand
of the following gentleman as its managers, re c ^
diet for it complete suceess: ’
President—R. W. Ccbbedoe.
Treasurer and Secretary—A. R. Freeman,
directors:
J. W. Burke, Bess. Bcm a
Stephen Collins, W. A. Huit ’
W. O. Singleton, L. N. Whittu.
The shares in this Association are being tiles
rapidly, but there are a few left which can beat-
tained by an early application to the Secretary u j
Treasurer.
Train Off the Track.—The Savannah News, „
Monday last, says the down passenger train froa
Macon, on the Central Railroad, when about
hundred and eighteen miles from Savannah, ns
upon some cross ties that had been placed npon Q*
track. The engine was thrown off, but it ran iW
the railroad for a few yards, and jumped on agifc
without sustaining injury. One of the ties that hj
been laid on the track became entangled in ft-
cowcatcher, and it occasioned some little d«U?
and trouble to get it out.
The parties who placed the obstructions on tfc
track were evidently near by, to witness the reset,
of their villainy, for when the express train aai
along soon after, the ties had been pat back, uj
this time in a more secure position, having Us
wedged in a cattle guard. Four or five cars v«,
thrown off, and ifecdved considerable injury, u $
also the locomotive. Fortunately none of the pi.
sengers or employees on the train were hurt.
It is'evident that the object of the ecoondreVa
whom this dastardly act. was committed, vru roi
berry, not bloodshed, or they would have placed a
obstructions upon a bridge over which tbs bid
runs, a few rods distant from the place at wide
they were put.
The Exodus from Europe.
From the port of Liverpool alone,in the week
ending May 29th, the whole number of passen
gers, including cabin and steerage, which left
for the United States and Canada, was close up
on 7500. Many of these were Germans, Hol
landers and Swedes. The French emigrants
leave Havre direct for New York. The Ger
mans, Dutch, Swedes and Norwegians cross the
German Ocean to Hull, and thence take the
railroad to Liverpool.
In the week ending June 5th, ten steamers
left the Mersey for the United States and Can
ada with nearly 7,000 souls on board. As before
the majority of these were from the German
States, Sweden and Norway. One steamer took
1217 passengers and 1071 and 1017 went on two
others. About two-thirds of the whole number
are to settle in the United States, and are gen
erally well provided with money.
From the principal ports of Ireland the exo
dus also continues, and a better class of persons
than ordinary are leaving that country. We
have room and welcome for them all. The Irish
as usual, will be gregarious in the cities and
large towns; the continental emigrants, except
such as are skilled mechanics, will go West, and
become happy and prosperous under their own
vines and fig trees.—Philadelphia Press.
An Engine Loose on the Pacific Rail*
road.
At Echo, on the Union Pacific Railroad, the
other evening, three freight trains stood upon
the main track, when word came flashing over
the telegraph from the Superintendent, “A lo
comotive and tender, with steam up and nobody
on board, have broken from a freight train and
stinted down the grade.” Ah I then and there
was hurrying to and fro. In a few seconds
came a second message: “ She has just passed
Castle Rock station.” Never were three trains
got off upon a siding with less delay. Then the
workmen piled sleepers high upon the track;
lest even that should not stop her, and she
should do" murder further down the road, they
tore up the rails below. Just as this was ac
complished she came in sight. She shot through
the sleepers like a bullet through a pine board,
sending them flying in all directions, and dark
ening the air with the splinters, but at the brok
en track she jumped up and down with vexation
and finally plunged angrily, head foremost into
a hillside. She had run twenty-six miles in
twenty-nine minutes—the best time yet made
upon the road. ..
Local Brevities.—Weather oppressively warm—
ice dealers flourishing. Business dull, and trade
slow. People talking about going to the Springs,
and looking for cool places until they can make ar
rangements to start. Cant-get-aways in distress,
and appear to suffer more from the heat than those
who can. No amusement—no relief—no nothing in
the city worth reporting. Every youngster, and
others in the city, who can set astride a velocipede,
are frantic with excitement about the great races
which come off next Saturday at Huffs’ Rink—the
last one of them confident he will win the pitcher,
or a cup. The speed on the occasion will, it is be
lieved, be very rapid. Like the trustful mariner,
every man will be at the wheel.
A Convenience.—We had something to say re
cently in regard to railroad and city time. Since
then our attention has been called to Mr. L. H.
Wing’s method for keeping both, which is quite a
convenience, and very simple. His chronometer,
standing to the left of th8 door as you enter his
jewelry store on Second Street, shows the correct
city time, and, having noted that on the dial plate,
look below it, and you will get the correct running
time on the different railroads entering Macon. To
illustrate: The Central Railroad running time is
twelve minutes ahead of the city, or Wing’s time;
so that, if the dial plate indicates twelve o’clock, we
may know that the Central Railroad time is twelve
minutes past twelve o’clock. The time on the
Southwestern ailroad is five and a half minutes
faster than Wing’s time; on the Macon and West
ern road it is six minutes faster; on the Macon and
Brunswick Road it is the same. By bearing these
differences of time in mind there is no excuse ou
this score for being too late at the - passenger depot
when yon desire to leave the city.
The Post Office.—It is generally understood, we
believe, that Turner will take charge of the Macon
post office this morning. We heard several names
of white men and one or two negroes mentioned
yesterday in connection with clerkships in the office,
but, so far as we can learn, nothing definite was
known in regard to Turner’s appointments. Since
it is a fixed fact that he is to be our postmaster, we
care not who he gets to conduct the business of the
office. We anticipate, however, much confusion, de
lay and trouble for some sime, in regard to our
postal affairs, unless he can secure some one or
more persons familiar with the business, which is
not likely, in this community.
A Splendid Newspaper Building. — A. D.
Richardson, who is writing a description of the
the Pacifie railroad for the New York Tribune,
gives the following aocount of a newspaper office
in the West:
The new office of the Chicago Tribune is the
finest newspaper building in the United States.
It is of white marble, finished interiorly in ches-
nut and black walnut, four stories high, and
with broad, roomy halls and Btaircases. It cost
$220,000; and the portions rented beside those
required for the use of the newspaper, return
ten per cent, per annum on the entire invest
ment. It is said that the profits of the estab
lishment for fifteen months paid for the build
ing. v .V^-- • " l
Fanny Ellsler, who once illustrated the refine
ment and poetry of dancing, was married the
other day, at the ripe age of fifty-nine. The
happy husband is ex-King Ferdinand of Portu
gal, and pursuant to royal rules the union is a
morganatio one.
Wm. Henry Halbert has gone to Europe to
write up the great Ecumcenical Council and the
Suez Canal opening. :
The handsome daughter of a wealthy merchant
of Brooklyn Heights eloped a few days ago with
her father’s colored coachman.
The wheat harvest has commenced in South
ern Illinois. The grain is good and the yield
•* . • * ’• v
Bibb Superior Court.—The notorious Bob Wag
non had another hearing in this Court yesterday.
He was tried for burglary in day time. After the
State's evidence closed, the plea of not guilty was
withdrawn, and the plea of guilty entered. Eo in
stant!, Judge Cole ordered Bob to stand up. Bob
arose, and received a sentence of five more years in
the penitentiary.
A case between J. M. Jones and George Jones,
and W. H. Ross, founded on an anti-war debt, was
next heard. The relief law was plead, and the jury
gave a verdict for the plaintiff, deducting only a
small part of the interest due on the principal debt.
Fending the consideration of a case between Fat.
Cody and B. S. Lanier, Administrator of Mrs.
Wimbish, for money loaned to bar in her life time,
the Court adjourned until nine o’clock this morn
ing.
ful glass of Soda water, drop in »* 1158
and he wfil serve you. In fact, y*” 1 < * B , i iq
^ It’s SO,
A countryman, yesterday, with about nine fingers
of benzine aboard, fell out of his buggy whilst dri- “ m ueor K l *i ou jm. ^ 1
ving along the street, which frightened the horse, ton’s Hotel. J3r, you n#
and he dashed off at a rapid gait. The gallant yeo
man, however, though down, yet refused to release
bis grasp of the lines, and he was dragged about
forty yards, first on one side and then on another,
at a speed which must have made his head swim, to
say the least of it The horse was soon stopped,
and the driver again scrambled into the buggy, and
awfty he went
Mayor’s Court—Five eases Were disposed of in
this Court yesterday, as follows:
Thee. Worlds, (negro)—stealing—ordered to the
streets for thirty days.
Two cases of disorderly condnct—one sent the
offender on the streets ferthirtydqys, the other wae j A. Q. Kwiutme and J.
continued.
Bubb Superior Court.—The trial of Boh Wipa
for one of hiB multitudinous burglaries comma
in and abont the city, took place on yeaterdiv.
having stated, in answer to the inquiry from
Court, that he was unable to employ counsel,
Honor, Judge Cole, assigned to his defence.
Schofield and — Gunn, Esqs. This anno:
from the prisoner produced manifest die*;
ment among some of the Bar, as large fees
in expectancy, on account of the many
speculations in which Bob had been recent);
gaged. The trial resulted in his conviction,
Judge Cole, doubtless apprehensive of then
character of his subject, pronounced sentence
him before the ink with which the verdict vis
dered had dried. When the verdict was retd
indulged in a broad grin, which provoked a
rebuke from the Court, who attributed it to the
louBness of the prisoner as to his fate—bnt n
informed that the exuberance of bis joy me
to the fact that he had just been told flat
Judge did not intend to bang him. This e:
don is due to Bob, whose frequent appearance
fore our Courts indicates a high respect for jd
rial tribunals. He goes to the penitentiary
twenty years, to be computed from the expina
of his present term of four years. There are
other indictments against him, and if he be com
ed on these, he will probably have to attend on
institution for three score and ten years.
A divorce case between Ellen Milner and Cbr
Milner, alias Charlie Gorman, waB also tried,
verdict for the plaintiff was rendered. Wi
Poe, Esq., her former owner, gave testimony!
high character for truth, honesty, industry ml
tue. It is hoped that the.scene will impress
large crowd of colored people who, witnessed it
the value and importance of maintaining good
acter. The testimony, on the other hind,
equally damaging to Charlie, who spent the
earnings of a good wife in “riontous living."
Judge Cole also pronounced the sentence of
law npon Henrietta Grier, the murderess of
young white girl, Nancy Wright. No emotion
evinced. She heard, with apparent nonchiiuot
awful words that, “on the 23d day of Jnly oat
should be hung by the neck until she wu aeti j
The execution is to take place private!; a
yard of the jail—no persons being admitted
those whom the Sheriff may need or desire.
Mayor’s Court.—His Honor, the Mayor,
heavy business yesterday morning—the head
the season. There were no less than twelve!
on the docket, and the mourn ere’ benctl
crowded. AU the seats were taken and eta
were at a premium. The Court having pe
eye on the docket, dropped back in its cht|
slowly peeled its coatsleeve as far up as the t
and whilst doing so, cast a knowing glance ^
the penitents’ corner of the room. It looked
in every lineament and fully equal to the eu
But to the docket:
The first case called was one against Rebecca j
dies, and Wm. Morrissy, for fighting, of c
that is the Morrissys’ fort. The testimon; -■
case proved that the parties bad had a
graceful fight, row and melee general!;.
they manifested no disposition to soften
and animosity when interrupted by the
was an aggravated case, and so His Hoo® (T
it. He fined Morrissy $25, or thirty day* ‘‘I
streets. A similar fine was imposed opus
male portion of .the fight, or it could boarf—l
days at the city hotel.
A case of disorderly conduct cost the oSSf ' |
or ten days in the guard-house.
Another little fight cost the cnlp* 1 * 1 * P 1
gaged in it $10, which wae paid «d (,e
dropped. 3
Rebecca Sanches was again called *Pi 03 .
of disorderly conduct, and Uu*
rough with her, as she was ordered to j*® J
days, to be allowed nothing but 153 I
during that tune.
A drunk was forgiven by the
gro named Henry Washington, who os',
rested under a warrant, was brought up
sent to jail.
Rees Davies, the festive youth f* 0 ®
was then introduced to the Court I®*
nothing against him, but as the T e ° nefl8 |'^.
ties did, he was ordered to jail to await »• J
from the Governor of that State-
Jones Bird, a negro kleptomaniac,** 8 '
for warrant.
Bobt. Homady, a negro similarly a® 1 *
for trial, but bis case wt8 continued. i
A little fight was dismissed, and A®
session of one hour and twenty-five ,,
joumed, panting like a lizzard, and m**®* ]
water and the north side of things.
It’s So—If you would enjoy as fine
is in Georgia, call on Mr. Thos. B-
anything nice at Gorman's. t
teet the matter you will be convinced-
otf'1
Hot to be Relied Upon.—Any
wilfully misrepresent, and try w
article for Dt Simmons’ Hv*r ReT 1
cine, they are deceiving you, a** 1 ^
in one thing, may do eo in other*. **
a spurious medicine ha any case. # ^
everything costing from aurii a
lions atoo,aufl should not be rehrdw^'
utoeSaunoE^Iim Begute
A. Q; Wmmamand J.H. *<£*
age—any other article la *
A base of fast driving was dtatiaged.
dcorivprs.