About Weekly Georgia telegraph. (Macon [Ga.]) 1858-1869 | View Entire Issue (July 16, 1869)
" '* '' ” Tlie Greoi*o-i a "W"eeklv Ifffg TELEG-RAPH. "^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. , •, Otetteto -V: -v
