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"^CON, FRIDAY, JULY 16, 1869.
Call lor a Farmers’ Clnb.
I \ (tbtyt*>•» ^ iee President State Agricul-
widereignea, request that you call a meet-
' , ,;, 3 planters, farmers and gardeners of this
I***-o-i Saturday, the 17th inst., at ten o’clock
1(0®' tli0 city Hall in Macon, for the purpose of
I ' a Fanners' Club for Bibb county. We
l feel an interest in the formation of
l>'* . ^ the improvement of agriculture and
lidtore, to 1>° present. The State Agricultural
^ be' held in this county this year. Bibb
I* 4 * he* Agricultural Club. There is a large
I ' ^mral interest in this county—residents here,
I ‘ ""intf-e-ted in other counties. We invito all
I ' Respectfully.
Bbastm. T. J. Lake,
^ * t Harem. T. O. Holt, Jr.,
JohnA-Nelson,
ZffiSSSa,
£« PJW w ’ F - Wnj!TJEK -
ZL JnUj 8,1869.
K concurring in the above suggestion, Ibeg
t express the hope that, on the day and in
| jjyned. every citizen of the county inter-
I j- each an organization will report himself in
1 1: assist in organizing the Farmers’ Club of
J 8 * 0 ? "JOS. CUSBY.
I jjicoanty. *m>
Crops in Georgia.
i we pet into the critical months and stages
I Om crops, complaints multiply, although
d quite exceptional A large portion of Cen-
-land Southwestern Georgia is still blessed
I i timely and sufficient showers; but there
^docalib’es which are, or were by last accounts,
r^risg from drought, and the people are ex-
impatient of this drought on account of
stage of the com crop, which makes
uis peculiarly necessary. Com is now earing
gfijn is forming and rain is essential to a
L*frewyp 1 ® dncfe
. ,. s 0 f nearly ail the counties in South-
50'^ Georgia aro, however, quite
■t while it is probable that the greater part of
I all of them have had showers within the
I There have been showers on nearly
If, whole line of the Central railroad, and, in
I—more immediate vicinity, Jones and parts
I 'Crawford. Putnam, Jasper and Monroe have
[.;abundant 6liowers. The skies do not seem
Ljngnrdrougth. and wo trust all of our planters
I r ij yet have rain enongh to save their com
Iccps.
I j.; : Luiton. it is as yet entirely healthy and
I prooisiBg- Scattering complaints of rust, boll-
Ljraied caterpillar come to us, but we think
IsUrare groundless or at least with very insuffi-
I —.i itloti. The crop is full of extraor-
I isuy promise, and nothing has yet occurred to
I —pair the prospect.
Can’t Raise Corn.
f« beg our friend, the “Farmer," near By-
| a to note that we advise nobody to raise
Lja who cannot do it. Our suggestions are
Imeuily general, and intended for regions
I rare the ordinary laws of nature prevail; and
Ii by mischance, he gets into a spot whore they
let suspended or abrogated, we fully agree
liuh him that it is of no use to fight against na-
Imc. We are sure to be whipped in such
| crated; and it is better for us to “knock un-
I let” at once, and to conform our arrangements
I rv 11; such exceptional conditions ns
I -.iperience hath taught us to forecast and an-
|hripate.
The best and only course, in fact, which we
I tin pursue, is to treat farm and plantation poli
ter in their general —peetn and hearings, leaving
I uch rentier to decide upon their practical ap-
Igution to himself, according to his own jndg-
I t:it and the conditions which snrround him.
The Cotton Crop of Georgia.
Business of Savannah.—The Republican re
ports the following business for the fiscal year
just closed:
Foreign exports by Foreign vessels....14,388 851
Foreign exports by American vessels.. 7,142*647
Coastwise exports ’........20 3Q4’996
Total exports .: .$48,330,494
From Coweta.
Ye fee by the Newnan Herald of Friday that
lie colored population of that place got into
I cite a row among themselves while celebrating
I if 1th. Two were wounded, but nobody
| tiled Let us havo peace.
On Tuesday, Frederick Gerrald, a young
bit* man, killed Henry Davis, colored. It
Mma that Gerrald, in paying off hands, had re
ined to pay Davis, who had overdrawn his
mges; whereupon Davis abased and assaulted
Gerrald, and the latter shot Davis in self-de-
|ism.
TheKewYobk Commercial Advertiser on
Giobgia.—That paper of the 7th says:
The wisdom of Congress in leaving the trouble-
tome difficulty concerning the expulsion of the
members of the Legislature to the decision of
die Supreme Court, is now becoming apparent.
By the decision just given, which Alexander H.
Stephens himself affirms is in accordance with
law, negroes are not excluded from holding
office. The course of the Legislature, therefore,
in expelling those possessing so much as a drop
of negrq blood in their veins, is shown to have
been — which we have always maintained —
shameful, arbitrary and illegaL It now remains
for the Legislature to take the back track and
reseat the expelled members.
If the Commercial Advertiser, (which seems
to be forgetting all its ancient justice and mod-
fration,) would consider for a moment, he could
M fail to see in two facts the amplest evidence
tbt the decision of the Legislature was not arbi-
toy. The first of these is, that the court, al
though composed wholly of so-called Republi
cs, was as nearly equally divided as it could
E " TB® second is that the majority, in affirm-
4 the eligibility of the negroes, based the af-
-~ition °n difl'erent grounds,only one of them
B&agthe right in the Constitution.
furntsix. Admiration has been accorded the
of Violets as the most elegant skin beauti-
tr fr produced,both for efficacy and elegance.
^ By al] druggists and fancy goods dealers.
«. Brinkerhoff, New York, sole agent for
‘sum*. _
Iuh-ass.—A writer in the • Constitutionalist
-fcfhins bitterly about the inadequate reme-
~ s ‘gainst trespass on landed premises, and
^ if there were no other reason against dis-
**®°8 with enclosures, the fact that fields
*"' 05t fences would be turned into roadways
“-• rained, would be an almost insuperable ob
late dispensing with enclosures.
Herald of the 7th enjoys the Virginia
^--on hugely and vents its hamor on squib-
He radicals.
Foreign vessels 142,321 31
American 987,513 53
From Washington.
The Western Press Dispatches have the fol
lowing :
Washington, July 8.—The result of the Vir
ginia election is the absorbing topic of conver
sation in political circles here to-night Prom-
BY TELEGRAPH.
From Washington.
Washington, July 9 President Grant has. ex-
pressed to several gentlemen his satisfaction with
inent Conservative Republican" politician^from tho result . and gratification with the peacefulness
Mississippi and Texas express themselves con- of 1119 Vir 8 :illia elect >°n- A proclamation for the
fident that the Conservative cause in those Mississippi and Texas elections is expected to-day.
States will receive an impetus by the result in Gens. Ames and Reynolds will be instructed against
the Virginia election which will insure those partiality towards either party in the preliminaries
States to the Conservatives by large majorities, to elections
yw.MOtorolya^ting an official Georgians here ara urging the establishment,part-
Value of imports (gold) $816,145 00
Dubes on imports 412,713 47
TONNAGE FOE THE TEAR ENDING JUNE 30, 1869. - - . _ Z~~TT - ueoigians nere arauigmg uieeai»ujuuuu«u,pan-
No. Men. I ekctioS UiSe PreSident aSSiSniDS a ***' forthe ly to be supported by the Government, of an asylum
.Hql t A card is published here this afternoon an- f °r tbe aged and infirm negroes of that State. It is
0,< * nouncing that the publication of the National stated that Howard supports the scheme.
‘ Intelligencer will soon be resumed by its lawful The Cabans here are mexiyover the reported cap-
owners, and all persons are enjoined from tres- ture of their powder mill at Nagua. The patriots
passing upon the use of said title. they say, have no powder mill
The following telegram, from two of the Gov- The Secretary of War to-day issued an order
eminent Directors of the Union Pacific Rail,
road, was received by the Secretary of the In.
tenor last week:
„ , 1,129,834 84 22,101
Bales of upland cotton shipped. 358,679
Bales Sea Island 7,483
,‘^option of all late improvments evinces
S '"filiation to keep the American House,
where it ever has been—in the front
! -Kew England hotels.
^Atlanta Intelligencer was received yester-
^^^rtheris intensely warm and dry in
. ^ llonaon Salt Lake Telegraph is out for
’^.Bmaman against sambe :
»fc3. ^ys our Mormon friend, “let him go
(3* inclination prompts him, and if he is
ksrij M i 8t ®tion only demands, rest assured
€t| d eavo r to get seats in Congress,
a PPointed Minister to Hayti, Postmas-
tt{y t! j. Wco , n i Ga., without any bondsman, or
outrages npon defenceless females.’’
Bifd ^ ^ , n ?* ; belie*® in “cure alls” until we
* inimitable pills, and now we think
are 3 0 R e cre t lies in the fact that purgatives
4 Jbha n&tQral remed y for disease, and Dr.
^ s made the best of purgatives. They
°ur complaints. —Logon, Ohio, Ptm.
Comfort exist throughout the
H °nse, Boston. The hotel is still
lettoT? veteraa Lewis Rice, whose su-
a: ? r 6 quarter of a century has ren-
“ house so popular.
Total value of cotton shipment 45,603,910
It will thus be seen that all the other ship
ments of Timber, Lumber, Domestics, Wool,
Hides, Rice, Wheat, Flour, Naval Stores, etc.,
amounted in value to only $2,672,584.
How large a part of the 358,679 bales of cot
ton shipped from Savannah was grown outside
of Georgia we have'no means of determining.
The Central Railroad and Atlantic and Gulf
Railroad books would show pretty closely; but
it is true, nevertheless, that cotton of outside
growth was brought to Savannah by the Florida
steamers. If we pnt it at one half—then 179,-
339 bales of Georgia cotton-were shipped from
Savannah. Then of the eighty or ninety thous
and bales received at Augusta a considerable
amount of Georgia cotton must have been
shipped through Apalachicola and Femandina.
Probably the true Georgia crop was somewhere
between two hundred and two hundred and
twenty-five thousand bales.
Our Savannah contemporaries, with a little
inquiry, can give us much more satisfactory and
reliable estimates. But it is pretty clear that
the crop of Georgia, which, in 18C0 was over
five hundred thousand bales, has shrunk to less
than one-half what it used to be, and tho New
York Times’ estimate of an increased product
in Georgia founded solely (as we suppose) upon
increased shipments from the port of Savannah
is lamentably erroneous. Suppose our friend
of the Republican corrects our guess work by
figures from the railway books.
Railway Consolidation—Affairs in
Columbia.
On Wednesday last, a meeting of the Stock
holders on the Columbia and Augusta Railroad,
was held in Columbia, to take into consideration
propositions for consolidation with the Char
lotte and South Carolina Railroad. After much
debate the consolidation was voted by yeas 10,*
163, nays 1,437. The scheme adopted is as fol
lows:
Each share of stock in the Charlotte and
South Carolina Railroad Company shall be con
verted into a share in the consolidated com
pany ; and every four and one-half shares of
stock in the Columbia and Augusta Railroad
Company shall be converted into a share in the
consolidated company; and where, in the last
named appointment, fractions of a share may
result, the owners there may, at their option,
complete the unit by paying for the necessary
additional shares of Columbia and Augusta
Railroad stock, at the rate of $12 50 per share;
or they may receive pay for their surplus shares
at the same rate.
A correspondent of the Augusts Constitution
alist, who attended the Stockholders’ meeting in
Columbia, reports crops good along the line of
toad, and the negroes giving satisfaction. Co
lumbia was improving and gradually obliter
ating Sherman’s handiwork. Business was dull
He adds:
In Georgia we fail to approximate a due ap
preciation of tho humiliation to which our Car
olina friends are subjected in tbe enthronement
of the ebony idol of Radicalism as the controll
ing power of a State government which has
been adorned in its administration by tbe pur
est men and brightest intellects of which our
sister State has been so prolific in the past. So
utterly repulsive is this ulcerated fungus to all
the education and refinement of the better ele
ment of society in the State, that their piety is
severely tested by the temptation to invoke a
moving of the infernal regions to swallow up out
of sight and beyond tbe possibility of resurrec
tion, this body of death, which is strangling the
State in all that pertains to its material advance
ment in wealth and good government.
Front Thomas County.
The Thomasville Southern Enterprise, of the
7th inst., reports crops good all over that sec
tion. Some localities are too dry, and others
too wet; but, as a general thing, there is no
just ground for complaint. Corn, cotton, oats
sugarcane, potatoes, peas, beans, and every
thing else, are doing very well Some rust is
reported in the cotton crop, and an insect is
depredating on its foliage, devouring the under
snrface of the leaf. This insect is nearly a
quarter of an inch in length, but is not other
wise described. The Enterprise says:
Arthur P. Wright, Esq., planted last fall 100
acres of land in oats. The cold, he thinks,
killed one half the stand, and six acres of the
field were old worn out soil covered with broom-
sedge, and Mr. Wright considers 63 acres of
the land very fair. He has now harvested the
crop and infoimsus that hehonsed 120,000 bun
dles averaging in weight 34 pounds or 420,000
pounds in round numbers. "Multiply this by 75
cents the value of oate per hundred in this mar
ket, and Mr. Wright made $3,150.00 on oats
with an expense of less than $150 00.
The Enterprise also says Mr. Wright has
three-eights of an acre in Boyd’s Prolific cotton
which Is about waist high and will average a
hundred forms each stalk.
Derry Mitchell, stabbed John Blackshear to
the heart in a quarel on tbe 3d. Both negroes.
From Newton County.
The Covington Enterprise of Friday morning
says:
Although some portions of Newton county
have been favored with rains sufficient to keep
crops from suffering, the region immediately
around Covington is suffering from severe
drought, so that nearly all the gardens are de
stroyed for lack of moisture.
The Fence Question and a Stock Law.—On
Tuesday, the 6th instant, the Livingston Agri
cultural Club, of Newton county, had a report
and a public discussion in tbe Court-house upon
the policy of enacting a stock law and aband
oning the use of fences. The report is from a
special committee of fire members, and takes
strong ground in favor of the proposition. An
animated discussion followed tbe reading which
consumed the entire session of the club, and,
on motion, a final vote upon it was postponed
to the first Tuesday in September, and the other
counties of the State were earnestly requested
to consider and give an expression of their views
upon the subject. We will publish the report
and proceedings when we can find room for
them. The Enterprise has the following:
A Singular Incident.—A rare exception to
the laws of instinct, occurred at the residence
of Judge McC. Neal, in Covington, last week.
A oat, with a litter of kittens, occupied a box in
the bouse; and five young rats were seen among
the kittens, to which the cat seemed as devoted
as to her own offspring. She nursed them all
together some days; after which she killed some
of them and continued nursing the remainder
until at last she devoured the last of her little
proteges, with as little apparent remorse as is
exhibited by tbe present rulers in “tbe best
govomment the world ever saw,” when they
trample on the Constitution of the country.
San Francisco, June 28, 1868.
We have been over the two Pacific Railroads
from Omaha to Sacramento, almost all by day
light, at the rate of thirty miles an hour and
more, and we find them to be as good as any
new roads ever made in this country. Where
transferring the Laboratory bondings at Macon to
the Georgia State Agricultural Society, to hold until
the first of January next.
Revenue to-day 3690,000.
Gen. Ranks has gone to Europe.
Gov. Flanders, of Louisiana, is at Willard’s,
The British legation is at Newport.
Patent Commissioner Fisher has returned.
Silas D. Wood, Collector of the Fourth Texas
rtn y K°L Pe ? eC i ed v a 1 f ; omEcho Ctmon t0 Revenue District, was qualified to-day.
Humboldt, hundreds of laborers are now per- ,, ,, , ' 1 , - .
fectingthe work as fast as possible. We are 3Iotla J' has neither made nor received proposi-
satisfied that all has been done in good faith. tl0ns regarding the Alabama claims,
[Signed.] B. F. Wade, ‘ Wofford and Jenks, of Mississippi, visited the
James Brooks. President to-day. They have assurances of utter
A delegation of Mississippi Republicans, now impartiality in the approaching contest, so far as
in Washington, have tendered to Judge Lewis tho administration Is concerned, and have assur-
Dent, President Grant’s brother-in-law, the ances that the commanding Generals will bo re-
nomination for Governor in that State. It is strained from any show of partiality. A free and
understood that the Judge, who is a citizen of unbiased contest between the people, provided
■»>»-“■<»?•>»**•
yass. ministration requires. It will only interfere m be-
Contarr, is tho name of the iron clad dis- half of peace,
patched to Santiago do Cuba, to inquire into all General John Cochrane will accept the Revenue
the circumstances attending the execution of Collectorship of the Sixth New York District, if any
sss&zssR&fi? 1 p ” mtl i or ,“% tsa
Several of the heaviest iron-clads will soon 13 arranging to have Cochrane’s deposits received
be dispatched to the Cuban coast. The Dicta- *h e el 030 °f his business hours,
tor will be prepared in six or eight days to pro- Cuban partizans in this city have receivejLthe
ceed thither, and the Seminole will be ready to- following advices from Neuvitas and Puerto
morrow. _ _ cipe, to the 27th ulti, and from Puerto Del Padre
Those of the vessels comprising the present and Los Tunos, to tho 26th: There has been no
squadron have been obliged to leave the Cuban movEment of a decided character in either district,
waters, owing to the prevalence of yellow fever
on hoard. Within the next week twenty vessels
will be available for public service in that direc
tion, and elsewhere. There is no reason to be
lieve that Admiral Hoff will be relieved of the
command of the squadron in the Cuban waters,
unless a request should come from himself, as
was ascertained to day at the Navy Department,
from an authentic source.
The authorities deny that they find any fault
with him on account of his official conduct.
A dispatch was received from Mississippi to-
The Spaniards have been reinforced at Neuvitas,and
are thus' enabled to retain possession of the railroad
from that city to Puerto Principe, and give succor
to the garrison of the latter named city, which is
threatened by the Cubans, under General Queeada.
In the Puerto Del Padre District there have been
several skirmishes. The health of the Cuban army
is reported to be very good, and it is rapidly in
creasing in numbers and effectiveness. There in
great anxiety to know the views of the United States
day from the State and United States officials Government, and the position it will occupy in the
saying that the Republican party would support contest.
Judge Lewis Dent for Govemer, and his elec
tion is certain. Judge Dent authorized the
statement that he would accept the nomination.
The Convention meets on the loth of July.
The Navy Department has advices that Luperoa,
with his gunboat Telegrafo, is molesting American
vessels in the Caribbean sea.
Grant thinks Mississippi and Texas will follow
Virginia’s lead.
The health of Rawlins, Secretary of War, is not
feeble.
The election in Mississippi will probably not occur
until the fourth Tuesday in November. This will
throw this election after those of Pennsylvania and
Ohio.
Nothing definite has transpired regarding the Tex
as election, but it is thought it will be equally remote.
The Cabinet meeting lasted until three o’clock.—
Aflairs in Washington.
Boutwell Master of the Situation and the
Coxing Man.—The specials to the Cincinnati
Commercial, (a radical paper,) say it is settted
in radical circles that Boutwell is to be played
for the succession. The writer says:
It was generally understood that President
Grant ha3 turned over the administration of the
Government to the Cabinet, and that he takes
little or no interest in what is going on. His _ . , „ , ^ ,
influence with his Cabinet Ministers is daily be- ^ discussion was spirited. Boutwell s policy
coming less, while their power over him is daily favoring extreme views regarding the partial re
becoming stronger. * tendon of disfranchisement and delay until after
If General Grant is now a candidate for re- the important Northern elections, prevailed,
election, he very soon will not be one. His in- qq, e friends of Hamilton, in Texas, are indignant
fluence and his mantle will quietly and gently the proposed deUy, which will keep those States
fall upon Mr. Boutwell, whose wise and states- _ . . '
manlike administration of the Treasury has giv- out ot tha Umon 011111 !ato 111 tta - v f ar ’
en entire satisfaction to all the solid moneyed Washington, July 10.—The public printer, Clapp,
men of the countiy. in replying to a committee of book-binders, regard-
Private information is to the effect that the ing the employment of apprentices, denies the right
President is much changed since his accession of any private organization to dictate to the Govern-
to office. He has aged so fast that those who
—~— From Cuba-
Havana, July 10—The Government estimates the
July expenditures at two million dollars. The Gov
ernment has embargoed five hundred and forty es
tates. &W*
Yalmaseda writes DeRodas that civil authority
has been re-established in the jurisdictions of Haa-
zenillo, Bayamo and Tngn.ni.
DeBodas accords the free use of the telegraph to
the Agents of the New York Associated Press.
The Quaker City arrived at Kingston on the 29th
of June, and departed—destination unknown.
Havana, July 9.—The troops under Yalinasda
have captured the Rebel entrenched camp at Nagua,
together with the powder mills and a quantity of
war material forming a complete arsenal.
Captain General DeRodas has issued a proclama
tion closing all the ports at the east end of the Is
land except S&gua, Caubriena, Neuvitas,* Gabaria,
Banacoa, Guantanama, Santiago de Cuba, Manzan-
illa, Santa Cruz, Sasa, Trinidad and Cienfnegos.—
Vessels and their crews, if armed and engaged in
bringing filibusters to Cuba are declared pirates.
From New York.
New York, July 9.—Goodwin’s tobacco factory in
Brooklyn, has been seize^ by the revenue officers.
No warrants have yet been issued against the bro
kers or money lenders; but the GTand Jury is still
taking evidence. A large number of well known
brokers are summoned.
The email pox has materially abated in the city.
Texas—Navis Becognized by the Nation*
al Badieals.
Boston, July 7.—I have directed the recognition
by the Secretary of the National Executive Bepub-
lican Committee of the Executive Committee of the
State of Texas, chosen by the Houston Convention
which nominated Gen. E. J. Davis for Governor of
that State. (Signed) . William Clafun,
Chairman National Republican Executive Commit
tee.
The original of the above is in the^possession of
Maj. W. B. Moore, of Texas, who visited Claflin
with the special view of securing the endorsement.
Foreign News.
London, July 9—The action of the Lords on the
Irish bill creates intense excitement. Bright and
Gladstone answer evasively to letters urging the re
commencement of the reform league agitation, and
express the hope that the Lords will ultimately
yield.
Paris, July 9.—The political combination con
tinues. The Emperor has decided to give way to
the Chambers, and change the system of Govern
ment.
Brest, July 9.—The Great Eastern is 1734 knots
out. The officers expected to reach the shoal
soundings to-day.
London, July 10 -The report on the disestablish
ment bill has been received. Earl Clancarte gave
notice that when ths bill came up for a third reading
he would move for three months’ postponement.
Brest, July 9 The Great Eastern will reach
shoal water to-day.
Madrid, July 10 The Governor of Catalonia has
been dismissed for failure to prevent Republican
demonstrations.
knew him at the head of the army ara aston
ished at the difference. His mind seems to be
abstracted—he takes little interest in what is
going on about him—smokes incessantly, and
carries the aspect of a jaded and disappointed
man.
ment. The journeymen printers of the association
inthi3city have inserted the word white in their
Constitution, thus excluding blacks from member
ship.
The Conservatives of Mississippi and Texas aro
not hopeless of securing an earlier election day than
that ordered, at the Cabinet meeting yesterday, and
one which will not interfere so much with cotton
picking. It appears that Mr. Boutwell, in the Cabi
net Council, thought the proposed day would be the
earliest of the season.
Col Roff. Collector of Customs at Savannah, is
here. The Secretary of the Treasury has placed at
From Cedar Valley.
A correspondent of the Rome Courier has
been down to Cedar Valley, in Polk county.
He says:
A large breath of land in the Valley has been ., _ _ ,, „ _ ,, .
planted in cotton, but there seems only about ^ disposal the Revenue Cutter McCulloch, until
one-third of a stand, which is very low for the Nansemond, now at Baltimore repairing, is ser-
season. Com is looking finely. The founds- viceable.
turn for a new Court-house is being laid, and, Revenue to-day nearly one million and a half—
from the energy being exhibited, there is reason for tiio week it is over eight millions,
to believe it will soon be completed, and it will The President has appointed John Dietrich Col-
pea’ly add to the beauty of this pleasant “cot- , f ^ at Va]aael) T vice Wayley
tage villa. , -
I examined some lands near the town recently suspended,
sold by Mr. Wm. Peck, for one hundred dollars Distillers licensed to make spirits from grain, may
per acre. He sold five hundred acres for fifty distill fruit without increasing tho tax liabilities,
thousand dollars, and taking into consideration hut cannot claim exemptions attaching to an es-
tbe actual yield of those acres for several years tablishment exclusivelv devoted to fruit distillation.
past, connected with the fact that there are no _ , . . ^ , , ..
* if i ii y t_ _ * No fractional cuttgocy lias iiscn issued tills WGflk.
gullies ana galled spots covering one-iourtnof . ... , ... /. . . , .. .
their area, thev are the best investment of the E P lnt3 forfeite d from having been left m
surplus capital'of the farmer. My friend, Mr. bonded warehouses after the first of July, have
Peck, will pardon me for bringing to the public been ordered to be sold. The Collector gets five
notice of young men, farmers particularly, his per cent, commission.
success as a planter and manager. He moved wnnvr nrrak
to this Valley, from Middle Georgia, about six-1 dacuai oura.
teen years ago, and bought lands here ranging Tho Cabans have the following letters, received
from "ten to forty dollars per acre, and up. to this from prominent Caban officers, via Nassau and
time, has invested one hundred and sixteen jj ey West, which bring dates to the 1st: The in-
thonsand dollars in lands, all of which are good, telligence of tho arrest of the Cuban Junta, and
He pointed out scores of acres that had frequent- New York, produced a most profound
ly Yielded one bale of cotton to the acre, with- . 1 . . . x , , ... *
out manure—he never uses manures. impression of surprise and regret. No other news
could have caused such a feeling of despondency.
One of the writers says:
It came like the news of the death of your near
est and best friend—your only friend. The feeling
of all seemed to be that we were alone and most
expect no assistance. However, all seeing that it
is now liberty or death—for no mercy can be ex-
Jlacon and Angnsta Railroad.
The Angnsta papers contain a call from B.
Conley, President of the Macon and Angnsta
Road, for twenty dollars per share, in addition
to the eighty per cent heretofore called, pay
able on the 20th of September to the Secretary pelted from the Spaniards—we will fight as only
and Treasurer, J. A. S. Mulligan. The Secreta- men f 0 Bn oh desperation can fight.
*Y sa y s : ... Letona, who succeeded Lesca, at Nnevitas and
It will doubtless be gratifying to the Stock- p Qer to Principe, is reported to have lost two hundred
will be greatly increased in a few days, has al- port disaffection among tho Spanish troops as in
ready been placed on the unfinished portion of creasing, caused by the frequent changes of com-
the road, and the work of construction will be manders of posts and quarrels of regimental officers,
energetically prosecuted until the line is com- Frequent collisions occur between the outposts
pleted to Macon. without serious loss to either aide. The Cubans
It is earnestly desired, therefore, that every
Stockholder will contribute his aid to the speedy
completion of this work, by promptly respond
ing to the call now made for the final install
ment. I
claim an advantage of position and earnestness on
the part of their troops.
The Spanish Commanders continue to execute all
prisoners, immediately upon capture. Even those
who are wounded are executed on the field. Qnesada
has hitherto respected the rights of prisoners. This
policy is giving dissatisfaction in his camp. His
The fashionable circles of Brooklyn are dis
turbed just now by a well-founded report that
the daughter of a wealthy merchant living on
the Heights eloped last week with her father's
coachman: while those of Sonth Boston are
hardly less agitated over the fact that a young
lady of social position and culture, and one of
the belles of that aristocratic locality, has adopted
the stage as a profession, and will appear at one
of the New York theatres next antumn.
Energetic efforts are being made to render
Paris a: grand market for American securities,
and considerable success has been obtained.
From Griffin.
The Middle Georgian of Saturday says:
On Thursday evening we were favored with a followers demand retaliation,
very refreshing rain. In some localities it was ■ — •
very light, in others ample to meet the wishes — From Louisiana.
^Personal-—We regret to learn that a Mr. New Orleans, July 10.—Marshal Packard, yes-
Hargett, from Lee county, near Albany, who terday, on an order from the United States Court,
has been here in pursuit of improved health, is seized the books of Auguste Coutard & Co., which
very low and not expected to live. He is stop- wd ] De examined by experts for evidence of frauds
ping at the Grant House, receiving every atten- to relation to 8eized BUgar a.
tion possible.
TCtt.t.vd bx Lightning.—On Monday evening,
near the Indian Spring, two negroes, mother
and daughter, formerly the property of L W.
Thurman, were struck by lightning and killed.
The mother, named Nancy, was killed outright,
her daughter was set on fire and burned to
death.
Floods in Texas.
A dispatch from Houston. Texas, reports an un
precedented flood in the Colorado Valley. The tele
graph wires are down west of LaGrange, and for
five days we can hear nothing from beyond. The
water is all over the country, some places twenty
feet deep and rising rapidly. LaGrange is being
evacuated; Columbus, also, is being deserted.—
Supreme Court. _
Friday, July 9, 18o9.—No. 11, Cherokee Cir- The women and children are mostly gone; houses
cnit, Baylor vs. Hardin foreclosure of m0Tt ~ are seen floatiugpaat LaCrange. The water is over
gage, fromB^rtow^Argnment intffiscase was of tJtreesinthebottoms. The trestle
resumed by D. A. Walker, for defendant in er- , ,
ror, and concluded by Gen. W. T. Wofford, for approaching the Railroad bridge at Columbus is
plaintiff in error. S one > the heavy rise has not yet reached there.—
No. 12, Cherokee Circuit—Hanks, Adminis- Most of tho fine crops in the valley have been de-
tratcr vs. Phillips, et. al.,—Ejectment from atroved.
Murray; was argued by Judge D. A. Walker, Later.—Further telegrams confirm the account
for plaintiff in error, and by Messrs. W._H. Dab- 0 j yj B goods in the Colorado Valley, Texas,
ney and B. J. McCamy, for defendants in error. Tll0 water jg ten feet deep in the Court House square
mto£titor, eS e , e ^- John Ad^lr, Executor,' LaGrange It is estimated that twenfr-five
et al —Equity and Ejectment, from Murray, houses have been seen passing down the stream.
Argument in this case was opened by Col W. The river is still rismg. Staging has been stopped
H. Dabney; panditig the reply of B. H. McCa- for four days. The town of Columbus is entirely
my the Court adjourned till 10 a. al, to-morrow, eurrounded by water. The Brazos river is also very
—Atlanta New Era.
A young man of Memphis has appeared in St.
Louis to claim the reward of $100 advertised for
news of a missing girL He married her the
other day after a successful elopement.
fall and rising at the rate of four inches per hour.
From Virginia.
Richmond,'July 9.—Eighty-four counties give 23,-
000 majority for Walker.
General News.
New YonK, July 10.—The Henry Chauncey brings
Aspinwall dates to the second. Tne yellow feves is
subsiding in Pern.
It is stated that the claims of France and Itaiy
against Nicarauga have been amicably adjusted.
Portsmouth, July 10—The Narragansett has ar
rived. Three officers and three men have the fever
but are doing well Lieut. Dner and one seaman
died daring the passage.
From Houston County.
Crops—Dry Weather—Use of Fertilizers—How
Much they Improve the Crops—The Negro
Member Question.
Fort Valley, July 9, 1869.
Editors Telegraph : Having seen nothing in
your paper recently in reference to crops, etc.,
I make a brief report.
We are now much in want of rain; com will
he seriously injured without rain in a very few
days—with timely seasons our prospects for
making a supply are still good. Cotton doing
well, though needing rain, and must be dam
aged if dry weather continues long. The con
trast between guanoedootton, and thatnot guan
oed is very great. I will not say how great,
lest I be charged with exaggeration. I have
been using guano for fourteen years, when it
conld be procured, and have never, so far as I
remember, seen snch disproportion, between
the size and general appearance of cotton,
where fertilizers were and were not used. With
few exceptions, our crops are clean, and nothing
necessary or wanting to insure abundant har
vest, but propitious seasons. The many dis
asters to which cotton will be exposed during
the ensuing sixty days, prevent anything like a
reasonable estimate of the growing crop, and
the calculations already made of a large crop,
to say the least, are premature—the resnlt, in
part, of a disposition on the part of planters to
brag a little, by exhibiting their best specimens,
and sometimes greatly exaggerating their pros
pects.
So far all admit guanoes promise to pay. A
great variety have been used. None I think
are doing better or giving more satisfaction
than “Zell’s Rawbone, and Amoniated Super
phosphate of Lime.” For which very valuable
fertilizers, Messrs. J. W. & J. B. Mathews, are
agents at this place, and will, 1 am informed, be
prepared to fill all orders daring the ensuing
season promptly.
Permit me to say, Messrs. Editors, in my very
humble judgment, your views on the negro
eligibility question are correot; and 1 believe
your course and policy of moderation, accepting
what we cannot help, and making the best of
it we can, will meet with the approval and en
dorsement of all good men, who will let com
mon sense govern them, instead of prejudice,
and passion. It would have been better for us,
had this policy been adopted sooner. W. A. M.
John Hancock.—No man has probably been
more overrated than John Hancock. He was
rich, lived ostentatiously, and was very gener
ous, but be was vain and unscrupulous. Al
most everybody with whom he traded was ob
liged to sue him. My father told me that one
conld seldom pass the Conrt-honse in Boston,
during term time, without hearing the crier of
the court proclaim from the doorsteps: “His
Excellency, John Hancock, come into court
and make answer to A. B., or you will be
defaulted.” He would present to a clergy
man, for example, on eleotion day, a suit
of clothes, and the tailor would have to sue
the Governor for payment—and so in numer
ous other instances. His widow, Madame
Scott, who married Oaptain Scott, master of
one of Govemer Hancock’s London packets,
told me in my yontli, that on one occasion, the
Governor invited the whole Senate of Massa
chusetts to breakfast with him without giving
her any notice. She said, “We have no milk
for the coffee of so many persons,” and he re
plied, “Send the servants ont to milk the cows
on the common.” It was the custom then for
the inhabitants to send their cows to crop the
grass on the public common. Bnt Hancock was
not the only man in those days who dishonored
his position. The late Judge William Jay in
formed me that while he was a boy, he heard
Chancellor Livingston say to his father, “Jay,
what a set of rascals there were in.the Old
Congress.”—Lewis Tappan.
An artesian well, lately sunk in Algeria, threw
up with the water an innumerable quantity of
small fish, about half an inch in length, re
sembling whitebait both in appearance and
taste. As the sand extracted from this well is
identical with that which forms the bed of the
Nile, it is concluded that an undergiwand com-
mnnication must exist between it and that river.
The Washington correspondents say that there
are four mortgages on the National Intelligencer
concern, covering $40,000. Thejpaper did not
own a cent of real estate. It has been quite
profitable, but conld not support one or two of
its proprietors who lived in such princely style
as to astonish some of the richest men in the
district. . ,
Michigan forests can hardly hold out against
the enormous drafts made npon them every win
ter, There is one jam in a river of the State
and its branch sixty-two miles long. The lower
end is in the Titbawassee river; bnt no one
conld have expected that logs should get through
a river with sneh. a crooked name without stick
ing* , f --‘r i i-ri n r lifliiir niT
Dew Alcohol Coiitrihate to the nutri
tion of the Body and Increase mint's
power or endurance or Physical or
Meiiial Lahor?
Editors Telegraph : The efficient and health
ful functional activity of the different organs
of the body demand a supply of food and drink
which contain the elements that enter into the
structure of the different tissues md organs.
Those substances are usually most digestible
and assimilable which can be most readily acted
upon by the fluids of the stomach, prepar
ed for absorption into the blood, and assimila
tion or conversion into the constituent parts of
the body. Healthy arterial blood fully freighted
with the elements of nutrition for the support
of the different tissues, leaves the heart' and
passes the round of tho circulation, in its
errand of distributing to.the wants of the econ
omy. On its return to the heart from the
capillary system of vessels, it becomes altered
in its color and qualities, having lost its red and
assumed the color of dark or venous blood, and
been deprived of its nutritive qualities. The
venous blood charged with carbon passes on to
the ltmgs, to undergo a process of purification
or vitalization, by the chemical action of the
atmosphere. A great redundance of carbonic
acid in the blood destroys life by its poisonous
effects npon the brain and nervous system, and
inducing congestion of the longs, by imposing
npon them a higher degree of functional activity
than they can sustain.
Nitrogen, one of the four elements—carbon,
oxygen, hydrogen and nitrogen, which compose
all organic bodies, enters into all tbe tissues;
they cannot be formed withont its presence, for
it is the pabulum, or food of flesh and blood. It
abounds in lean meats, various cereal grains and
all grasses. Baits chemical composition alcohol is
utterly destituteof nitrogen: 4 parts of carbon, 6
of hydrogen and 2 of oxygen form alcohol As
is well known, it is highly inflammable; and re
sists the process of putrefaction of vegetable and
animal substances. Its effeots vary in intensi
ty according to the quantity taken into the
stomach within a given time. In moderate doses
it is highly stimulating, and becomes rapidly
absorbed into the blood. It increases the force
of the circulation, sharpens the appetite, but
expends its energies especially upon the nervous
system and brain. It is, par excellence, a brain
stimulant, and seems to have an elective affinity
for this important organ; Its chemical ele
ments enter chiefly into the formation of oily
and fatty matters. The latter are usually slow
and difficult of solution, and in a disordered con
dition of the digestive organs are either rejected
by the stomach, or remain some time before
they can be appropriated to the wants of tbe econ
omy. In large quantities, alcohol acts as a viru
lent poison, and almost immediately extinguishes
the vital principle. Dr. Piercy introduced a
considerable quantify into the stomach of a dog,
and death ensued in two minutes. In Buch cir
cumstances, the post-mortem appearance of the
blood resembles that produced by lightning; it
loses its power of coagulating. These suddenly
fatal effects are supposed to arise from paraly
sis of the vital organs, by direct impressions
made upon the nerves and brain.
Oily and fatty matters can be readily digested
in the healthy stomach by the action of the gas
tric fluids, and pepsin the peculiar solvent of
all nutritious substancesbut alcohol cannot be
digested,for it precipitated pepsin and separates
it from the gastric fluids. It also retains the
digestion of nitrogenized substances by coagu
lating and solidifying them on account of the
great demand it makes upon the water that en
ters into their composition. Subject for a time
to immersion in alcohol a piece of flesh or ani
mal membrane and it soon becomes corrugated
or shrivelled, thus draining it of its watery par
ticles, and arresting putnfication, by the ab
straction of the oxygen and hydrogen necessary
for the process of fermentation of animal and veg
etable tissues. Albumen coagulates by contact
with alcohol. The alcoholic coagulum, if sepa
rated from the aloohol by washing does not re
dissolve in water.—Dalton.
It is well known that carbolic acid, croasote,
and all antiseptic agents are difficult or impos
sible of digestion. Now, although in ordinaty
quantities in the dilated State in which alcohol
ic drinks are usually indulged when taken oc
casionally, the organs employed in depurating
or purifying the blood by their united efforts
may counteract for the time their injurious ef
fects, yet continued, and often repeated stimu
lation,* even in moderate quantities, must be at-
tendedby impairment of the nutritive functions.
The popular notions entertained of the proper
ties of alcohol as a tonic we think are not found
ed upon philosophical principles, neither do
they stand the test of experience, but may be
fairly attributable to the transient stimulating
impression made npon the nervous tissue. A
tonic agent increases and maintains the con
tractility of the muscular tissue, and tightens
the relaxed muscular fibre. Its'effect may not
be immediately appreciable by the senses in the
induction of mental hilarity and intense muscu
lar activity, bnt by its slow, steady, and sus
taining power.
Preparations of iron exert their tonio effect
by increasing the red corpuscles of the blood,
and its plasticity or ready convertibility into
the animal tissues. The different prepara-
lions of nux vomica, in minute quantities, ex
ert a decidedly stringent agency upon the spi
nal marrow and its motor nerves; quinine neu
tralizes the morbific poison of malarious dis
tricts, by a peculiar influence upon the sympa
thetic system of nerves. Coffee and tea are not
only direct nervine tonics, in moderate quanti
ties, but they may be classed with the nitrogen
ous substances that abound in elements of nu
trition. which are: employed in the regeneration
of the tissues.
Alcohol induces a rapid exaltation of ner
vous sensibility, whereby prodigious feats of
strength and agflify are accomplished, for the
time, but in proportion to the degree of excite
ment must there be a corresponding stage of de
pression. These rapid alternations of opposite
states of the system must be followed by debil
ity and exhaustion. Says Dr. J. D. Hooker:
“I know of only one occasion on whioh the use
of spirits appeared to be indispensible, and that
was, when a little more exertion at the crowning
of a mighty and long continued effort was de
manded. * * * Now I have seen every offi
cer and man of the ship straining at the capstan
for hours together, through snow and sleet, with
the perspiration running down our faces and
bodies like water. Towards tbe end of suoh a
struggle, or at the mighty crowning effort,I have
seen a little grog work wonders. I could not have
drank hot coffee without stopping to oool; nor
if I had, do I think it would have supplied the
temporary amount of strength called for on the
spot under circumstances like this. These,
however, are extreme cases which, do not affect
the sailor in his ordinary condition, and which
any ship may be well prepared for.”
Alcohol is incapable of sustaining prolonged
and extreme physical labor. There is a con
tinual process of waste and replenishment of the
vital tissues going on. This is accomplished by
certain organs employed in elaborating and sup
plying the elements of recuperation, and others
whose office it is to eliminate and discharge
those substances not needed in maintaining the
integrity of the vifal organs. Among the latter
are the lungs, liver, kidneys and skin. Now, it
is evident, that where, a proper counterpoise is
riot maintained between the organs and tissues,
those employed in the process of nutrition and
excretion, derangement in the machinery must
necesarily egsue. Excessive labor imposed
upon an organ must invite an undue deter-
inination of blood thereto, and necessitate an ade*
qnate supply of those materials required for its
proper nutrition. Where the latter is withheld,
impairment of its functional powers must be the
ligitimate consequence, or excessively prolonged
labor must result in structural disease. Now
the active agent employed in the disintegration
of the tissues is the. oxygen conveyed by the
blood into every part of the system. It has al
ready been shown that the presence of alcohol
deteriorates the qualify of the blood by loading
it with an excess of carbon. The portion of
oxygen, therefore, which is required in the pro
cess of disintegration of the tissues, is expended
in driving. out the offending substance, in the
formation of oarbonic acid, and its expulsion
through the lungs, and liver. Hence, in warm
climates more particularly, we find that habitual
topers are especially prone to biliary disorders,
and succumb very speedily to acute diseases of
almost every type; toe perversion of toe blood,
and impairment of nervous energy precluding
almost entirely toe use of depleting remedies
of every kind, and rendering- nugatory the re
cuperative efforts of nature.
The deductions drawn from scientific truth
are greaUy confirmed by observing their practi
cal operations upon individuals and bodies of
men in toe business of life. In mechanical
workshops and at other kinds of employment
requiring intense and prolonged muscular effort,
where large bodies of men were engaged, ex
periments have been made testing the relative
S r of endurance of water-drinkers and drain
ers. “In an extensive brick-making es
tablishment out of 23,000,000 of bricks mads
during the season, the average per inan, ASMiT' ‘ ‘
by the beer-drinker, was 760,269, while tile .
average for the tee-totaler Iras 79f,4f)0, ftoich ’ ^
is 35,131 in favor of toe latter. In comparisons
made between individual workmen the .highest
number made by toe beer-drinker was 890,000;
the highest number made by the water-drinker
was 890,000; the lowest number by the
beer-drinker was 659,000; the lowest number
made by toe water-drinker was 746,000, leaving
86,500 in' favor of the latter.” Itis probable
that the difference would have been much more
striking if the laborers had drank whisky or gin
instead of beer, for toe former contains from
fifty to fifty-four per cent of alcohol, while toe
latter has but four or five per cent., with a con
siderable quantify of [mucilage and saccharine
matter, which are possessed of nutritive prop
erties. In an extensive machine shop, where
between one thousand and two thousand work
men were employed, the proprietor reports,
“that the men engaged as strikers to the forge,
who drink largely of water, are more active,
can do more work, and are more healthy than
those who make use of-fermanted liquors.”
The American Indian, before his destructive
contact with civilization, was regarded as the
type of physical and natural mental endowment
With his supply of parched corn and jerked ven
ison, he laughed at hunger and fatigue; and,
with muscles of iron and nerves of steel he pur
sued the bounding deer, or the track of his foe,
giving neither repose to his limbs, nor slumber
to his eye lids, antil avarice or revenge were
fully satisfied. Among prize fighters, profes
sional pugilists, before a contemplated contest,
are subjected to a rigid system of training, in
volving three essential requisites: 1st, property
regulated exercise ; 2d, a diet of lean meats and
stale bread; 3d, an entire abstinence from al-
choholic drinks.
It is generally conceded that the brain is the
medium through which we observe manifesta
tions of toe operations of mind, and toe ap
parent elective affinity of spirituous liquors for
brain and nervous matter, causes varied mani
festations of intelligence. The creative and
combining faculties seem to be especiallystimu-
lated, thereby heightening the poetic talent and
quickening the imagination and fancyevoking
sallies of wit, streams of silvery rhetoric, and
the harmony of dulcet notes that fall with
seraphic sweetness upon toe ear, but they ren
der the mind inoapable of intense concentration
of thought, evolving severe and lucid logical
deductions. Intense and prolonged mental
effort requires great consumption of brain and-
nervous matter, in the natural process of disin
tegration and waste of Hie tissues. Granting
that carbon or hydrogen may enter in 0ne de
gree into the constitution of the grey substances
of nervous matter, toe perverted quality of the
blood and the deficient supply of nitrogen in
spirituous liquors must necessarily induce ex
cessive depression of the mental powers to a ;;
degree as great as that of their abnormal eleva- .
tion. The demand, therefore, for a still larger
amount of stimulus to work the inind up to its
former pitch of excitement, eventually lays the
train to early and rapid consumption of both
mind and body. • ' - • ivrcfi h> dti i edi
The splendid productions-of musical and po
etic genius, exhibited in the writings of Burns,:
Byron and Mozart, under toe inspiration of al
coholic potations, with meteoric brightness,
dazzled the world for a time, but how soon
were these lights extinguished in toe debris of
early physical decay, and premature death. On
the other hand, toe Herculean labors of Newton,
Bacon, Franklin and Locke, in toe departments
of metaphysics, natural philosophy, and natural
science, were accomplished by the aid of those
articles of nutrition which sustained the integ- i >t
rify and vigor of the whole' pbysicalsystem. It
is said that “Dr. Johnson, in toe latter part of
his life, took nothing stronger than tea; while .! r
Voltaire and Fontanelle used coffee; and New*.. r
ton and Hobbes were accustomed to solace, not
excite, themselves with the fumes of tobacco.” ’“
One who knew him well testifies that Locke's
diet was the same as other people's, except that i
he usually drank nothing but water, and he
thought his abstinence in this respect had pre
served his life so long, although his constitution
was so weak. -
Sir Wm. C arpenter one of the most astute think
ers, and intelligent and voluminous expounders of
Physiological science declares,' that while suffer
ing from occasional spells of mental depression
arising from a peculiar state of the atmosphere,
he was in. toe habit of resorting to moderate
drinks of fermented liquors for relief, but hav- 1
ing reason to question their utility he entirely
abstained from them. . During two years of his
experience, he performed a larger amount of
mental labor than ever before in the same
space of time, and with more ease to himself
than under his former habits; and furthermore,
he believes that tbe benefit which some persons
imagine that they derive from alcoholic stimu
lants arises from' their simply retnooing for a
time the depression which results from their pre
vious employment
We might go on and adduce without number I
the testimony of individuals and corporations
from all ranks and conditions of society, in con
firmation of the views set forth in this essay,
but we believe that enough has -been written to
incline us to risk the opinion, that the popular
notions entertained with regard to the necessity
of alcoholic liquors for the maintenance of
physical health are at least .questionable; and
that in a vast majority of instances, where
dogmatism ignores the lessons of reason and
philosophy, the “wish is father to the thought”- - ’
T jeSj&m j sr ; to te&rfgrffbe
Baker County, July2, 1869. i on.-
The trial of the model of the air-ship Avitbr ^'
in San Francisco, on Sunday, is pronounced
successful by the Times, while the Alta says the
performance was something like a failure.—"*'
The wind was blowing so hard that it was im
possible to make the experiment in toe open
air, so the trial was made under cover. The
ship rose in the air and was propelled backward
and forward, being guided any desired direction
by toe steering apparatus. . It is dlaimed that r
toe present Avitor is no oriterian of success.—
Its machinery is so trifling, toe engines and
boiler weighing less than a hundred pounds,
that its failure or success would be no matter of
surprise. ; - .-.I.,
A few days ago, a tall lank specimen of -a
man walked into a store in San Antonio and
asked to be shown shirts, A number of boxes
were taken down for his inspection, and one at
tracting his eye more than toe others, he asked-
what kind they were. -The clerk answered,
“They are the Royal Eagle shirt, sir.” “The
Loyal League shirt! The devil I I fit for the
Confederacy, I did,” and toe indignant custo
mer walked out of the store.
The weather is very warm and dry in this im
mediate vicinity. Gardens are literally drying
up. We are pleased to know, however, that the
drought is not general; some portions of the
county have had rain, and the crops are flour
ishing. —Covington Examiner, 9th.
There is an unusual depression in toe cotton
trade in Lancashire, and several firms in the
business have bean obliged to suspend.
OBITUARY. ’ " '»
Martha Ann Jones, wife of Bennett Jones, was
bom May 10,1822, and died in Twiggs county, June
9.1369, of dropsy , in the ; 47th year of her age.
Mrs. Jones was a member of the Baptift Church,
having joined the church many years ago at Ever-.
green, Pulaski county, under the ministry of Bev.
George McCall Her religion was a religion of
principle—it was the work of the Spirit inwrought
in the heart, and manifesting itself in the life, con
duct and conviction of oar deceased sister. In all
toe relations of life, sbe gave clear, demonstrative
proof of the soundness of her conversion, and the
genuineness of her religion. As a wife, she was af
fectionate, dutiful, kind, considerate of her hus
band’s true interests—in a word, her entire oblige- ’
tions at the Hymemal Altar were folly met and dis
charged, in a true Christian spirit. Aa a mother,
she loved her children, prayed for them, and en
deavored to train them up in toe “nurture and ad-,
monition of the Lord.” Her children—those of
them old enongh to appreciate her maternal love,
And labor in their behalf—rise up and call her
blessed. As a member of the church and society,
she was active in the charities and social amenities
'All' at iijIT !,i -
Her passive virtues are as conspicuous as her ac
tive. For months tbe subject of painful afflictions,
she bore np with a fortitude and patient resignation
pre-eminently Christian. , God was “too wise to s*r,
and too good be unkind.” Ibis was the language
of her heart
We might expect that such a life, so richly adorn
ed with such Christian virtues and graces, would be.
what it was,'A death of cairn, holy, painful triumph.
She is gone—gone to -the better load ! And, while
her husband and children, and large ctids of ap
preciative friends and neighbors, bereaved and sad,
weep for her departure, they sorrow not as tease-
who hare no tippe—but they joyfully took forward
to a happy union in t^e jGtob-^uflt City. , •,
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