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THE TELEGRAPH
MACON FRIDAY, JULY 61, 1869.
fluidities.
Tho Constitutionalist publishes, under the
bead of “A Novel View,” a communication from
a correspondent, who maintains that the late
Supreme Court eligibility decision cannot possi-
bly apply to the Legislature, and to seats there
in, because it has been decided that a seat in
the Legislature is not “an office.” All that may
be. It is as good as re* adjudicate, at all
events.
But the objection we have to all this legal in
genuity is that it is entirely misplaced. It
might do in the case of tho cracked kettle be
fore the magistrate of amilitia beat,though even
tbcn we should sigh for the straight-forward
dealing of our old friend, Ben Chaires, of the
County Court. He had the case of n man who
borrowed a mule, and ridden it to death,
under advisement, and when the lawyers set
upon him with their quibbles, and insisted upon
filing demurrers, his judicial decision was an
nounced with more vigor than professional pro
priety : “Damn your demurrers,"saidhe—“the
man killed the mtile, and, by all the powers, he
shall pay for the mule.” So, on the whole, we
don't like their quibbles, even in a mule case.
But when you come to apply them to a great
constitutional question, affecting the alleged
■constitutional rights of about half a million peo-
3>Ie, they look very much like fighting Vesuvius
•with a penny squirt. The rule of reason, fair
ness, equity, sound policy and common sense
in this case is the golden rule. We don’t like
negro eligibility; but if they are eligible, give
them the same chance you wonld claim for your
selves and which Congress means they shall bow much worse shall we be ? ’
'have. Don't attempt to fight this fire with
the brush of legal quibbles. You won’t stop it
in that way, and will simply bum your own fin
gers. You will lose character abroad and influ
ence at home, and gain nothing. But accept
the decision fully, in all its fair and legitimate
consequences, and then shape your action to
mitigate damages as much as possible.
This is the true course. Every man knows how
the whites of Georgia would regard all these quib
bles if set up against white representation in the
Legislature to nullify a decision of the Supreme
Court affirming its legality. And precisely that
rule should we apply to this case.
Asia vs. Africa.
John Chinaman has already been dragged
neck and heels into politics in Pennsylvania,
The North American (Radical) having recom
mended superceding American with Chinese
labor, in the Pennsylvania coal mines, in order
to get rid of strikes, the Age appeals to the
‘‘toiling masses” against a proposition which
will turn American labor adrift to starve instead
of striking. The North American is defiant and
reiterates the counsel. The Age thunders furi
ously in rejoinder. The “question is before the
people.” The coal men and iron masters, as
they call them, are squinting towards China in a
most sinister manner. If they can get plenty of
“protection to American labor,” and at the
same time employ Coolies at half price, it will
be a fine thing.
!Now the curtain rises. Asia, in due time,
•will distance Africa as a “disturbing element
and there'is another vexed question to be set
tled—but, thank God, not altogether at South
ern expense. Asia is going to throw Africa into
the shade. Asia stretches out her hands to
•“Melican men,” and says, “Am I not, too, a
man and a brother?" Come along, Johnny,
since you will come.
“How Georgia Should Aet.”
Our friend of the Bavannah Republican, hav
ing been engaged in a passage-at-arms with the
Bainbridge Argus, upon certain religious ques
tions, hauls off to repair damages in much dis
gust. Hesaysitis“notpleasanttodiscus8grave
moral questions that involve the good of society
and where much of its welfare depends upon
their proper solution, with those who persist in
placing you in a false position.” Bnt in the
very next one of his columns, as if to illustrate
the blindness and perversity of human nature,
he proceeds to assail that portion of the Georgia
press who are willing to quiet matters, by giving
effect to the Supreme Court eligibility decision,
as the advocates not only of an unlawful policy,
bnt cowardly and truckling and timid conn-
sellors.
We think tho public must hold him to his con
troversy with the Bainbridge Argus, unless he
will give a better illustration of his own fairness
and candor in debate than he has done here.
We will offset his fulminations by a very short
extract from the Richmond Enquirer, just after
the late election in Virginia. The Enquirer
was about the last of the Virginia prints to come
into the support of the new Constitution, which
gives negroes votes and the right to hold office,
and that paper says:
“Animated by a desire to terminate the ruin
ous contest of the past four years with Congress,
the white people of Virginia hare accepted this
Constitution. Two-thirds of the white vote have
probably been cast for it, and it is adopted by a
majority of perhaps a hundred and fifty thou
sand.”
Does the Republican pronounce the Virgin
ians timid, cowardly and truckling?
That paper says, ‘ ‘Why the most that Congress
can do is to reinstate the negroes for ns, and
This much
worse—that having invited a legal arbitrament
of the right of the negroes to hold office, the
whole outside world will charge that we evaded
the effect of the decision, until compelled by
Congress to accept it
But who told the Republican that was the
most Congress can do ? Who has given him in
formation on this point ? Congress cannot con
stitutionally interfere to reseat the negroes, and
yet the Republican concedes Congress will pro
bably do it. Congress, too, most unfortunately,
holds that they can disfranchise and disqualify
by imposing test oaths, and practically they hold
that no State of the South is “loyal” and fit for
the Union, which does'not vote the radical
ticket. If we, in Georgia, are wise we will not
needlessly incur the hazards of another recon
struction on any slight grounds—and whether
that is “timid counsel” or “sensible counsel,”
we leave the people of Georgia to determine
for themselves.
Poll Tax and Voters,
The Grand Jury for Richmond county, in
their late General Presentments, make this
showing: j
We desire to call especial attention to the I
state of the Poll Tax of the county, and to the I
great deficiency in its collection. We find j
White Polls, returned for 1868 1,381
Colored Polls, returned for 18G8 231
1,612
White Polls returned as defaulters. 120
Colored Polls returned as defaulters... 1,321-1,445
From Macon Comsty.
CROPS—'EDUCATION'—PROF. CALHOUN’S SCHOOL.
Fort Valley, July 10, 1860.
Editor* Telegraph :—Permit m.e to occupy, a
small space in your columns to speak of Macon
county, in its agricultural and educational inter
ests and prospects. Crops in the north-western
portion, especially, are flatteringly good. Cot
ton fields and com patches are groaning under
their burthens of promise, and all the people are
ready to say, “What shall we render unto the
Lord for all His benefits ?”
Bat more especially, now, the educational
interests demand our attention. The friends of
Pleasant Vale Academy and vicinity are high-
toned, pnblic-spirited, and second to none in
educational aspirations; hence theysecuredthe
services of Prof. James G. Calhoun, the former
teacher of Marion county for nine consecutive
years, who located in their midst January last,
and has been conducting a most flourishing liter
ary and classic school, receiving the entire ap
probation and co-operation of every patron and
lover of education.
On Jane the 18th his first term closed, at
which time he summoned patrons and friends
to witness the progress made by the pnpik. It
was my pleasure to be one of the spectators, and
such was the interest felt that the entire com
munity, besides numbers of visitors was present.
If I had been a stranger of passage when reach
ing Pleasant Dale Academy my first impression
would have been that this was surely a camp
meeting or Baptist association; buggies, car
riages, and a great multitude of people con
fronted me without, and but for the fact that I
was a particular friend of the orator of the day
I should not have gotten inside the Academy
for some length of time. Pleasantly seated!
listened eagerly and with a delight not always
common on such occasions, to class after class
as they were called out, and in justice to teach
er and pupils I must say I never was better
pleased. At 12$ o’clock an interval was declared
and the teacher proclaimed that viands hadbeen
prepared and everybody was invited to partake.
The good women and their husbands repaired
to trunks, boxes, etc., and behold a richer feast
of fat, well cooked carcasses, cakes, jellies, eto.
etc., is not common to be seen in any latitude.
The truth is, Mr. Editor, if I was a widower or
an old young man, I could not be induced to
marry before (at least) visiting Pleasand Vale
neighborhood.
Examination exercises closed—tea and re
freshments had. Just at 7 o’clock, p. sr., the
orator of the occasion, Capt. J. P. Carson, was
introduced to the audience, and for three
quarters of an hour entertained them eloquent
ly with the past, present and future of our
country. %
Then followed the declamation exercises of
the young men and boys, with great credit to
themselves and pleasure to the audience. The
whole interspersed with the finest piano and
vocal music.
Prof. Calhoun is a teacher of rare qualifica
tions, and wonderfully industrious habits in the
school room; and all who desire their children
thoroughly educated, would do well to place
! them under his care. B. L. Ross.
The University of Nashville was founded in
1784, by the State of North Carolina, and en
dowed with lands in the neighborhood of Nash
ville, now within the city, the rise in the value
of which'.has placed her among the wealthiest
institutions of the nation and secured her per
manent prosperity. She was created indepen-
■fexit of Church or State, but has in her long and
snccessfni career benefited both. Her avowed
mission was to elevate the lowly, give strength
to the feeble and to polish the strong and vigo
rous. "While her Faculties have had to rely
mainly upon fees for support, none of them
ever turned away from an ambitious young man
because he was poor, but, on the contrary, al
ways gave him the hand of kindness and encour
agement, making the fame of his after years
Add lustre to her renown.
The graduates of her various departments are
familiar with the high positions throughout the
Sonthem country. Her medical department
alone has had between four and five thousand
young men in her classes, having enjoyed, to an
unexampled extent, the confidence of the pro
fession in the former slave-holding States. This
■department is in a better condition to deserve
•well of the public than ever, having greatly in
creased the means of illustration and also the
facilities for studying clinical medicine And
surgery.
Miscegenation Punished-—The Atlanta In-
••telligencer of Saturday says that Anderson Mid-
•dlebrooks, colored, was married on the evening
of the 8th to Lon McCarthy, white, by George
Kendall, colored preacher. The case was up
before two justices; tho preacher Kendall was
■fined and discharged. Lon McCarthy was dis
charged after being bound over on account of
having two young children. Middlebrooks was
prosecuted by policeman Buffington. M. J.
Ivey, Esq., was appointed for the defence.
Middlebrooks stated that he had been living
with the woman for two years, plead guilty, and
extenuation on account of ignorance of the
daw. His sentence was a fine of §50 or six
months service in the chain gang.
An Important Improvement to the Power
Loom.—The Herald chronicles an important im
provement to the power loom, which onr manu
facturers will have to look into. It is in the shut
tle, which is driven by a new contrivance, which
moves it by the application of a steady mechani
cal power, so that it can be driven any distance
and stopped at any poin£ thus securing a uni
form selvedge any width of fabric desired—
avoiding clatter and danger and saving power in
■running the loom. It is called Lyall’s positive
motion. -
The Hearth and Home.—This popular paper
begins with No. 30 a very interesting tale, nnder
the-title of “The Romance of a* Rich Young
Girl,” by the author of “The Romance of a
Poor Young Man,” with illustrations engraved
in Paris expressly for the Hearth £ Home.
Fettingell, Bates & Co., 37 Park Row, New
York. -
Decrease of the Negroes.—Dr. Robertson, a
distinguished physician of Texas, informs the
Galveston News, that he has taken pains to
peep a record of the vital statistics of Washing
ton county, and the result shows that while the
white population has increased in the usual ra
tio, the negroes have diminished in number
nearly ten per cent, per annum in the past four
years. _
New Cotton.—New Texas cotton In the seed,
was eoWt in Brownsville on the 11th nit., at four
cents per pound in specie.
* No Famine.—Splendid showers all around us,
said a fine one in town yesterday evening.
The American House, Boston, is most favor-
wtbly known all over the country. Unsurpassed
in its management it has few equals in extent,
or in its thousand contrivances for the comfort
And pleasure of its guests.
Aggregate 3,053
The Collector informs us that he is satisfied
there are two hundred white and two thousand
colored who have voted that are not on the books,
and sees no way, as the law is at present, to get
them there, as they seem to have no abiding
place except for a few days at election times;
in fact, it is needless to increase the names on
the books, for at least two thirds of the colored
now on them cannot be collected, as they can
not be found at collecting time.
In view of this state of facts, this Grand Jnry
think that those who desire to vote to control
the Government should be compelled to pay at
least a Poll Tax for its support, and we see no
other remedy for even partial equal rights in the
Government than to have all voters to pay be
fore they vote.
The Constitution prescribes that “no poll tax
shall be levied except for educational purposes,
and such tax shall not exceed one dollar annual
ly on each polk” The Constitution further
prescribes as a qualification for suffrage to every
voter that he “shall have paid all taxes which
may have been required of him, and which he
may have had the opportunity of paying, agree
ably to law, for the year next preceding the
election.”
Last year, by executive proclamation, the
operation of the latter clause of the Constitu
tion was suspended, on the ground that poll tax
claims were about to bo enforced against the
negroes which had accrued nnder the Constitu- i
tion of 1865, and exceeded in amount thelimita-
tion laid down in the Constitution of 1868; but
it is hardly to be presumed that the experiment
of suspending the Constitution by Executive Pro
clamation will be often repeated. It is possible
that the negroes were not legally liable to more
than one dollar tax, and the proclamation of the
Governor shonld have been directed merely to
the limitation of the tax.
Now it is of prime importance to every coun
ty that a close and accurate poll tax list shonld
appear upon the Tax Receiver’s books. This
he can make out from tho poll lists, if he cannot
get them in any other way, and the tax collector
shonld be represented at every polk from the
time of opening to the time of closing, to see that
no man votes whose nnme does not appear on
the tax list credited with his dollar, or who is
not ready to have it entered there in that shape.
This is about the only protection ngainst fraud
ulent voting and it shonld be enforced with sys
tem and rigor.
In An Unreasonable Mood.
Our friends of the Augusta Chronicle & Sen
tinel seem to have got into an unreasonable
mood about Turner, the colored Postmaster at
Macon. Repeating and adhering to their pre
vious statements, made upon the authority of a
special U. S. Deputy Marshal, they go on to say:
To the Macon Telegraph, which seems to have
so earnestly espoused the canse of its new Post
master, and to believe implicitly the denial
which it has sought from him, we would state
that we are perfectly willing that it shonld re
ceive for gospel the word of a man, whom
its own columns, not many months since, ex
posed as a falsifier and incendiary. We confess,
however, that we, ourselves, are not yet quite
prepared to accept the simple^ denial of a party
accused of a crime as conclusive evidence with
regard to his innocence. At every session of
our courts we find thieves who plead not guilty
to the crime, for the commission of which they
are subsequently convicted. In the meantime
we await furthsr developments.
To which we have simply to say, in answer,
that we gave Turner’s statement only for what
it was worth, and aimed at nothing but the facts,
as a matter of pnblio information. That Turn
er conld not have been arrested in Macon and
carried off in irons, as the Chronicle and Senti
nel stated, and nobody here know anything
about it, was quite clear, and the reiteration of
the statement cannot make it credible. It would
have been folly in ns to have printed the Chron
icle’s story, in the face of such manifest error,
without some effort to get at tho facts; and no
source of information was, at the time, accessi
ble, but Turner himself, who was here, at large,
while represented by the Chronicle as a prison
er in Atlanta. To charge us with “esponsing
the cause” of Turner, because we printed his
account of himself is an expedient not worthy
the Chronicle's intelligence and candor. Upon
the same principle we might just as reasonably
be charged with complicity with every rogue or
rascal allowed a hearing in his own defence.
Let the Chronicle keep oooL Possibly we may
get at the facts in this business in due time.
I They may be very serious.
From Thomas County.
CROPS—HEALTH—RAILROAD—NEGRO QUESTION.
Thomasville, July 9, 1869.
Editors Telegraph: Farmers ia this region
are in pretty good spirits, though anxious about
the caterpillar. Our oat crop is unusually large
and fine and all gathered. Com crop good and
about made. Cotton quite promising, providing
caterpillars do‘hot come. Health, on the whole,
good for this season of the year—heat four or
five degrees less than in Macon.
The iron will bo laid on the first section, (ten
miles) of the Albany & Thomasville Railroad
in a few weeks. They will get to the Ocklock-
onnee, (six miles out,) next week.
I see you are striving to induce the Legisla
ture to reseat theSonsofHam. Idou’tseeany
thing to be gained by refusing to do so, but
much to be lost If the maintenance of any im
portant principle were involved, we shonld of
conrse be compelled to adhere to it, at all risks
to material welfare: but since the decision of
the Supreme Court, right or wrong, establishes
what is henceforth to be law, it looks much like
a foolish and ruinous obstinacy to make any
stand against it now.
From Kaiser and Decatur Counties.
The Bainbridge Sun of the 8th instant says:
Three negroes escaped from onr county jail
late yesterday evening. We did not learn their
names.
P. M. General Creswell has appointed one
Louis M. Pleasant, a buff colored individual,
Route agent between this place and No. 12 on
the A. & G. R. R., vice L. C. Rice (white man.)
This question was asked us exactly three hun
dred and seventy two times on yesterday. Sev
eral persons stopped us in the middle of the
street, the thermometer standing at. 98 and
says ? “Ain't it hot /”
A letter from the Editor in Baker county
says:
It is truly a beautiful sight—one upon which
the eye delights to linger—to behold the beauti
ful com fields that adorn the land. Well may
the farmer’s heart dance with joy as he gaze’s
exultingly upon the broad acres* teeming with
golden grain. The refreshing showers, that
have recently gladdened the parched earth, has
ensured him a rich harvest of grain.
Cotton is doing finely. General “Green,”
favored and revived by the kindly showers ra
pidly advances upon the snowy staple, and will
not readily fall down at the biding of tho freed-
man, armed with deadly hoe and formidable
plow. He disputes gallantly every inch of soil.
Much olnrm prevails among the planters at his
obstinacy.
A Baker county letter from the Bainbridge
Argus of the 10 th says:
Very heavy rains have passed over portions of
this county within the last few days; many farms
have had too much rain, and some crops have
been damaged by severe winds. Quite a storm
visited the plantations of J. O. Lark, F. D. ICea
and others on the 30th of June, prostrating an
immense number of trees in the com and cotton.
Crops are doing well; rather too much rain
for cotton; but the prospect for a large com
crop is seldom better than now—in fact, all the
oldest com is now nearly made.
Bainbridoe and Cuthbert Railroad.—The
Argus bts been informed that the Cuthbert Rail
road will cross the Flint half a mile below the
city, at what is known as the Barge Yard. The
land thereat, and to a considerable distance from
the river, is the property of tho President.
Sweedish Oats-Sixty Bushels to the
Acre.
The Columbus Enquirer of Saturday prints a
note from Charles A. Peabody about his new
variety of oats, as follows:
Editor Columbus Enquirer:—You no doubt
remember you, with many other gentlemen,
were looking at my Bamsdale Swedish Oats.
They were then suffering from a long drowth,
not a drop of rain having fallen on them for
four weeks. It was the opinion of all the par
ties examining, that the crop had lost one-half,
even if it got rain plenty now. The day after
you were here we had a fine rain, with frequent
showers ever since. These rains brought out
the crop wonderfully. I have cut the oats, and
get from the ten acre field six hundred bushels
of clean oats. Had the rains come three weeks
sooner I would have got one hundred bushels to
the acre. They have proved to be rust proof,
as one portion of the field in which the oats
grew was in wheat, which was entirely destroyed
by rust. I send yon a sample of the oats, the
product of one seed.
In reference to the sample of oats sent, the
Enqnirer says:
The oats sent ns are fully six feet in height,
with long and full heads. We conld not well
connt the stalks, bnt there are not less than fifty
that grew from a single seed. We are told that
“Carter had oats,” but if he had as manv as
Peabody, and grew them on no greater area,
he had good cause to be boastful of his crop.
Crops on the Line of the Georgia. Railroad.
The Hancock Journal of’t^? 9th instant says:
We have recently traversed the entire line of
the Georgia Railroad, and iudgiffg from what
we saw by the way—the crops between Milledge-
ville ana Warrenton are at least 25 per cent
ahead of any we saw.
Oua correspondent’s report of the Tourna
ment at Perry has been anticipated.
Report and Discnmion on the Fence
Question.
Covington, Ga., July 6, 1869.
In accordance with notioe previously given by
the Livingston Agricultural Club, quite a num
ber of toe.citizens of Newton county met at the
Court House in Covington, on Tuesday, (July
6,) to discuss the important interests involved in
the question of the Stock Law.
The meeting was organized by calling Hon.
A. Livingston to the Chair, and requesting J. C.
Morris, Esq., to act as Secretary.
The report of the Club Committee on the
question was read by the Chairman, which is
follows:
report of the committee. •
The committee appointed by the Livingston
Agricultural Club, to investigate the question
of abandoning the use of fences, and the enact
ment of a stock law, beg leave to report:
That after carefully examining the subject,
viewing it in all .its phases, we are a unit in
favor of the proposed reform. The reasons are
many and cumulative, going to establish this
view.' To fence a farm properly demands great
labor, and if not well done, it affords little real
and no legal protection. The present unre
liability of labor, and the growing scarcity of
suitable rail timber, renders it almost an im
possibility for the fanner to guard his crop
against outside intrusion. From whatever
cause, we do not know of a single lawful fence
in the country. As matters now stand, men
are less troubled with their own than with their
neighbors’ stock. Many with strange ideas of
individual rights, turn out their herds to shift
for themselves, and browse upon their neigh
bors’ possessions, regardless of the injustice
and grievance inflicted upon others. Frail
humanity often plays loose because it can.
Now by the enactment of a suitable stock law,
men will be forced to do right—keep up vividly
before their minds the distinction between mine
and thine. Every man will be protected in
what he has a right to demand from law, the
enjoyment of his inherited or purchased posses
sions. He will be shielded against troublesome
and destructive flocks by day, and against the
insufferable annoyance of their lying around
his yard with clattering bells at night. In tens
of thousands of families, a nuisance will be
abated, and quiet security enjoyed, hitherto un
known in the land. The loss sustained by the
killing of stock, occasioned by insufficient
fences, will be known no more, and the conse
quent engendering of neighborhood fends, with
their attendant litigation will cease; for every
farm, however deficient now in fences against
the incursions of the outside world, wonld furn
ish abundant supply of rails for securing its
stock on its own pastures. By the proposed ar
rangement he may still fence as ranch of his
farm as he needs for pasture, or may desire for
other purposes, and will besides be enabled and
encourage to improved his stock. So long as the
present law exists, stock must continue to de
generate. Few fences will be found as an ade
quate barrier against tho hunger impelled herds
of Fharoah’s kine, now seen famishing on the
commons.
These manifest advantages, we think, shonld
enlist the favor of an intelligent public, and as
sure their earnest advocacy of the proposed
measure. This reason would expect, even if r.t
the expense of a tax, or other pecuniary sacri
fice. But by the change, instead of loss, mil
lions will be gained to the State of Georgia.
Lands now waste and worthless, can be
fenced up for the benefit of the owner’s stock
by rails, whose only use now is to protect him
against trespass from without. The price of
land where wood is scant will be enhanced; the
want of rail timber will no longer be a serious
consideration, and farms now unmarketable
will command a ready sale. So far from farms
whose timber is most abundant adding aught to
the value of the plantation, they actually depre
ciate it in proportion to the timber used; so
that, nnder our present system of fencing, our
best farms are declining in value. Now, while
the proposed stock law will appreciate land
poorly timbered, it wiil also arrest that decline,
and thus each class of proprietors will be bene
fited. In future purchases of land, the question
would not so much be in regard to the timber,
as fertility. Thus our fences, apart from the
actual cost attending their construction, bear
down with crushing effect upon the industry
and prosperity of toe country. But, when we
consider the heavy expenses of fences, we are
ftfmished with an irresistible argument ia favor
of their discontinuance. Now, in order that
this question of actual cost attending toe build
ing, repairing, etc., of fences, may not be unin
telligible to any, but plain and clear to all, we
herewith annex a tabular statement of the orig
inal cost of fencing a two hundred acre farm in
twenty-fivo acre fields, together with the subse
quent annual expense attaching to these fences:
Whole number of rails, 40,704, at one
dollar per hundred when up §407 04
Timber at §1 per hundred 407 04
Land on which the fence stands and the
turn row 84 feet 44 acres 45 00
BY TELEGRAPH.!
Twenty-five acres allow for pasture..
859 03
. 107 S8
§752 70
Annual expense one rail per panel. $ 33 92
Timber 33 92
Cleaning fence comers 4 per pannel.... 1C 92
Interest on capital invested at seven per
cent 62 61
§137 41
To the table we now subjoin tho estimated
value of stock (mules excepted) on the above
farm: milk cows, four; yearlings, six; sheep,
twelve; hogs, twenty ; making in all §135.
These figures speak for themselves. We see
that under toe present system toe cost of unnec
essary fencing added to its other evils, would
purchase at 5 dollars per acre three-fourths of
the whole plantation, and that their annual ex
pense amounts to more than the value of the
whole pasturing stock. When to these irrefra
gable facts are added the time lost in making
and repairing fences which might be profitably
employed in gathering manure piles to enrich
the soil, the wear and tear of mules and wagons,
and destruction of the forest, we strongly re
commend toe discontinuance of fences, and the
enactment of a stock law, suited to the neces
sities of the times and the interests of toe
people.
A. Livingston, 'l
H. Quigg, I
A. L. Davidson, >• Committee
Ii. F. Livingston, I
C. T. Zachry, j
On the motion of Bev. H. Quigg for its adop
tion, a spirited discussion was entered into and
warmly conducted by Lewis Zachry, Judge Glass,
L. F. Livingston, Rev. H. Quigg, Hon. A. H.
Lee, Judge P. Reynolds, and E. J. Edwards.
• On motion of General Thomas, the vote on
the question was postponed until the first Tues
day in September.
On motion, it was requested that an expres
sion of opinion be given on the question by each
county, in the State with a view of presenting to
the next Legislature the wishes of the people of
the State on the question.
A. Livingston, Ohairman.
J. C. Morris, Secretary.
From Wilcox County.
Wilcox Co., July 9, 1869.
Editors Telegraph : The bright glances of
the summer sun has warmed into life andbeauty
our Southern staple. Already toe hopeful farm
er views through the glimmering vista of time a
rich return for his weary toil The God of seasons
spares no favors, but sends rains upon the just"
and unjust. And all who have had the foresight
to pay homage to king com will soon have the
assurance of an abundant supply of the staff of
life. Those who pay their vows to cotton
will—provided no sudden attack be made—pile
upop pile their vapid product to barter away for
the means to sustain fife.
Would that our people were more independ
ent. With a land surpassed by none, h more
happy and prosperous people oould not be
found on the globe, were their granaries and
smokehouses filled from home. Let cotton be the
surplus product—bnt the multiplication of words
is useless. A word to the wise is sufficient.
The efficacy of guano is everywhere evident,
but we have observed in some places where
used very freely the weed grows quite tall, with
bnt few brandies. We have a few acres of the
Moina variety, half of it manured with fish
guano in small quantities—the remainder with
stable compost quite freely—the latter proving
the best. It is not over three feet high, bnt
well branohed, and completely burdened with
forms and bolls, averaging from fifty to one
hundred and twenty-five to the stalk. Crops in
this section are free of grass. An abundant oat
crop was harvested.
There.is, nothing breaks the monotony of life
but the changes of wind and weather. Onr
people are insensible to Cabinet changes, Post
master appointments, eto. White is the pre
dominant color in this county. W. A. J. i
The New York Tribune calls the most power
ful organ in that city “an exasperating box of
whistles.”
The Party Future.
The Savannah Republican, of Saturday, is
From Washington. '"highly delighted over a prognostication by the
Washington, July 12.—The President haa gone to : Missouri Democrat, (red radical,) that the De-
Baltimore to attend the Sang erf est. ■ mocratic party is going into disintegration. The
Governor Pease, of Texas, is here in the internet Democratic party has more lives than a cat, and
of the Conservatives and Republicans. Governor 1
Geary, or Pennsylvania, and the President of the
Grand Council of the Union League promise
material aid to toe Texas Badical Republicans. Sev
eral speakers will canvass that State after the sick
ly season is aver.
Governor Walker, of "Virginia, had a long and sat
isfactory interview with Grant this morning.
The President has abandoned his visit to Balti
more.
Judge Chase has ordered tho hearing of the ap
plication for habeaB corpus in the Terger case, now
under trial in Mississippi by military commission,
for the killing of Col. Crane, at 11 o’clock Wednes
day. Chase has ordered notice to be served upon
the Attorney General. Judge Chase, it appears, has
no discretion in the matter. The first point argued
will be jurisdiction. That decided affirmatively, the
merits of the military commission will be argued,
because the Judge will not grant habeas corpus un
less the facts alleged in the petition would enable
him to discharge the prisoner. In other words,
Judge Chase will not have the prisoner brought from
Mississippi, only to recommit him to the custody of
the commission. In this branch of the hearing, the
recent opinion of Hoar in the Weaver case comes
np for review, and an adjudication and decision on
the constitutionality of a part of the reconstruction
acts, authorizing military trials in the present con
dition of the country, will be given.
Judge Lewis Dent writes a letter, addressed to
J. L. Wofford and A. L. Jenks. responding to the
letter tendering Dent the nomination of the Con
servative Republican party of Mississippi for Gov
ernor, wherein he says: “If I can in the least be
instrumental in restoring the State of my adoption
to her normal place in the Union, and securing to
her a good local administration, you have my per
mission to use my name for any position within the
gift of the National Union Republican party of your
State. The platform adopted by your Convention,
at Jackson, on the 23d of June last, I most heartily
approve and endorse.”
Tho Howard Asylum of Georgia for aged and in
firm negroes has been organized. Jacob R. Davis,
President; Wm. P. Edwards, Vice President, and
seven directors.
Revenue receipts tff-day nearly $1,000,000.
The President departs on Thursday, for Long
Branch, to be absent two weeks.
The Conservatives of Texas and Mississippi have
little hope this evening of securing their election
earlier than the last of November.
Nothing pointed has transpired regarding Gov.
Walker’s interview with Grant, beyond non-com
mittal cordiality.
The President has appointed Geo. T. Jarvis Col
lector of Customs at Cherrystone, Ya., and Isaac-
Strait appraiser of merchandize, Savannah, Ga.
Robeson, in responding to his New Jersey friends,
said, regarding Grant’s- administration: “As the
policy by which the rebellion was finally subdued
was the policy of action rather than profession, so
the policy of the present administration, under
Grant, must he judged by its fruits. With no
startling announcements, with no professions of
splendid policy, the administration of Gen. Grant
endeavors quietly, persistently and honestly to per
form, each day, the duties which each day finds
before it."
Washington, July 11.—The Tallapoosa has re
turned from Cuban waters without yellow fever.
Judge Chase, it is here understood, will hear an
application for habeas corpus in the Yerger case.
Vigorous efforts are progressing to secure an ear
lier election for Mississippi than was determined
upon by Friday’s Cabinet, with some probability of
success
Currency balance $30,010,000. Many bonds de
posited by banks as security for public deposits will
probably be placed on the market.
Boutwell has directed the purchase of three mil
lions of bonds each Wednesday daring the present
month, to be held subject to the future action of
Congress.
From Virginia.
Richmond, July 12 Official election returns- so
far show that the blacks voted closer to their regis
tered strength than did the whiles. The less intel
ligent blacks, who had been under the belief during
tbe canvass that if the Walker ticket succeeded their
rights would be taken away from them, and who
were assured by Welles, in a speech the day before
the election, that a victory for Walker would bo no
victory, as the election would have to be held over
again, are not generally disposed to accept the sit
uation. Yesterday a Walker negro was set upon by
a colored mob on one of the public promeuades and
had to be rescued by the whites.
General News.
New Yoke, July 12.—-The bark Rebecca has ar
rived from Mautanzas with several cases of yellow-
fever on board, and four or five deaths during her
passage.
A through train which was en route for Washing
ton was detained six hours by an accident. No one
hurt.
Savannah, July 12 Reports from Columbia and
Alachua counties, Florida, state that the caterpillar
lias undoubtedly made its appearance there.
Foreign News.
Belfast, July 12.—There has been a riot between
the Orangemen and Catholics.
Galwat, July 12.—Fenain outrages occur- daily.
Capt. Lambcr was shot fatally to-day.
From Mexico.
Vera Cruz. July 5 Tho elections throughout the
country resulted favorably to the Government.
From Muscogee County.
The Columbus Enquirer of Saturday says: On
Thursday night and yesterday we- were blessed
with timely and copious rains' It would be hard
to tell how much corn was made by them, bat it
must be counted by thousands of bushels. A
large portion of the com in this section is now
in silk, and it bad commenced to.feel the effects
of the last ten days of hot," dry weather; but
this has brought it, we hope, to a point beyond
injury from drought. Cotton is thriving finely,
and wherever manure was used, and the proper
plantation tools actively applied; its growth is
reported to be “good enough.”
The Sun of Saturday says that Oliver Saun
ders, a well known radical negro of Columbus,
at least three-fourths white, we understand has
been appointed to a $1200 clerkship by Turner,
the negro postmaster at Macon. With his fam
ily he went over there the other day.
PiNEr Woods Corn Crops.—A country cor
respondent of the Sun says:
The Piney woods of Muscogee will certainly
make a name this year, so far as the production
of corn is concerned. I have never seen better
corn grow out of mother earth than is now to
be seen on the pine hills adjacent to onr oaky
woods. Com sufficient will be made to bread
this section, and to fatten a few pigs. Many
planters have abandoned all hope of raising
their own nieat, and find an excuse for so doing
by the alleged stealing of freedmen. That a
negro will steal, if he is very hungry, is true;
so will a white man similarly situated. The
best remedy for such a habit is to feed well A
liberal ration and kind treatment will make any
working negro an honest one.
Melancholy Occurrence.
ACCIDENTAL DEATH OF A DAUGHTER OF GENERAL
PINK PROM CHLOROFORM.
Miss Isidore Pike, the younger daughter of
General Albert Pike, was found dead inner bed
yesterday morning. Being afflicted with ner
vous headache, at the time of retiring, she took
with her a vial of chloroform, and, it is sup
posed, while employing it as an anesthetic, she
became unconscious, and the Btopper being re
moved, and the bed or pillow saturated with the
subtle fluid, her pure and beautiful spirit passed
to the eternal hereafter without a pang. She
was adorned with all the accomplishments that
make woman lovely. We cannot measure the
pang that this sudden bereavement will bring to
those whose idol she was, and we feel that hu
man sympathy is powerless to even for a mo
ment assuage the grief produced in their hearts
by this melanchoUy dispensation. Both Gener
al Pike and Captain L. H. Pike are absent—the
former in Washington, and the latter in Arkan
sas.—Memphis Avalanche, 8th.
The Beauffremont divorce case in Paris still
goes on. They seem to have been a nice
couple. The husband writes, “Amuse yourself;
mind you amuse yourself well. As long as you
do not make me ridiculous I ask no more.” *
has been killed many times oftener. It has or
had, before last year, the facultyof understand
ing and adapting itself to circumstances—and
we think that faculty still exists ia sufficient
strength to save the organization, and through
it to save the country and the Constitution.
That is our faith, but here is the Bepublican’s:
Both the proportions set forth in this extract
are correct. The “bat-eyed Democratic organs”
are perfectly right in interpreting the phenomena
in question as significant of approaching “dis
integration of the Republican party.” On the
other hand, toe editor of the Democrat is
equally correct when he says these phenomena
indicate “the elimination of the Democratic
party from the political problem, and its abol
ition and annihilation.” This latter assump
tion may grate somewhat harshly upon the ears
of many of our Southern friends, but it is none
toe less true for that. We are speaking of facts
—of events necessarily resulting from existing
causes, and which neither they nor we can
control—and, as wise men, we shonld look
them squarely in the face.
It is very clear to us, judging from the course
of events, that neitheir the Republican nor the
Democratic party, as at present organized, is to
control this government in future; and for two
reasons; First, both have had their day and out
lived the issues on which they were based; sec
ondly, the elements of future power are pecu
liar to neither, hut exist, to a greater or less ex
tent, in both. Necessity will bring them forth
in due time, unincumbered by dead orobnoxious
issues, and represented by a new political or
ganization that shell sweep over this land and
direct its destinies for many years to come. It
is the party of peace, of justice, of fraternal fel
lowship, of constitutional rights as distinguished
from arbitrary government, the party of low
taxes, of equitable laws, of hostility to New
England fanaticism, insolence and domination;
in fine, the party of “Wisdom, Justice, andMod-
eration”—the People’s Party, resolved to save
the country from anarchy and perdition at toe
hands of political pirates and mountebanks.
Neither of the present political parties can
achieve this salutary, patriotic revolution—not
the Republicans, because they have not the
will; not toe Democrats, becauso they have not
the power. It is to the men in both that love
country better than party, that we must look
for the desired consummation. And the condi
tion of the country is gradually bringing about
the change. Democrats and Republicans who
see the danger are forgetting the past, calming
their passions, getting rid of their asperities,
and coming together in a common cause. It is
the only way in which the government can be
saved. It is worthy of sacrifices, and the true
patriot will he ready to offer up his passions
and prejudices on its altar.
We see this grand moral and political revolu
tion for the redemption of the country going on
in all the States that are engaged in the work of
reorganization preparatory to resuming their
places in the Union. In Texas and Tennessee,
and Virginia, we see all agtagonisms buried and
the people marching on to victory over the
country’s enemies. These elements' have per
fectly fnsed in toe glorious Old Dominion, and
they have spoken with a voice that has made
tyrants tremble and toe effete parties of the
past quake to their very foundations. And they
will go on uniting, conquering and to conquer,
in ever State of the South and West until the
government of onr fathers shall be rescued from
the jaws of destruction, and the liberties of the
people saved. No good man, white or black,
should raise his hand against such a party.
It will prove the saviour of both from certain
destruction. It will reanimate and recall the
banished spirit of freedom to onr once glorious
land. It will purify the government by over
whelming the entire army of rogues and royal
ists who seek to plunder and destroy it. It will
restore society to its normal and happy condi
tion. It will vindicate the law and re-establish
the rights of the States and of the people. It
will bring order out of chaos, correct in due
time all abuses and usurpations, and once more
put this great Republic of the West on the high
road to substantial prosperity and greatness.
For one, with all our heart, we say, God speed
you ’ to the new revolution.
Georgians Farming in California.
The Uovington Enterprise publishes the fol
lowing extract from a late California letter:
CoL Lamar, (one of our Georgia emigrants.)
lives near the Lake. He spent a night with ns
recently, and a most gentlemanly interesting
man we found him to be. His account of that
region confirms the many glowing reports which
I have heard through other channels. He gave
us a very cordial invitation to make a visit next
summer! He is a lawyer of high reputation,
and candidate for toe Jhdgeship of this circuit.
His father was a brother of Peter Lamar. I
have rarely met a more intelligent, polished
Christian gentleman.
I have seen Mr. Bostick, from Oglethorpe,
Georgia, who came out here some years ago, a
poor boy. He told me the other day, that his
crop of wheat last year and the year "before was
forty thousand bushels (more or less not to be "
exact,) each year. Dr. Frank Thomas and I
were up at Bostick’s ranch last year, and saw
his crop just about the time of harvest I never
saw such a beautiful- sight in the shape of a
wheat field. Just think of a field of 900 acres,
that yielded on the average over 45 bushels per
acre—and all as level as a garden—and the
wheat abont equally good from one end to the
other. This year, be says, his prospect is bet
ter than it has. ever been.
Immigration from the
It has been stated that if the Chin*! '
emigrate to this country in the sanT 8 ^ I
the entire population at home wwlh I
N ation from Germany bean to *
toon, we should increase our nnm£,*P
million of Chinese yearly, and in tent V]
i larger proportion of male adults 0 ?
blood than of all other families
emigration is having a remarkable;
promises to impress its character!
ing distinctness on the industrial u
country. California kept the cL3! s,o! 4
long as she oould, and subjected th<Z 0(8 1
harshest treatment after they were on - t ° f
the necessities of the great Pacific wW®* s i 1
twenty thousand of these inveterate*?* 4
across to her ehores, and immediate^ ■
their course, as if by some fate, to a? •
and heart of the continent. Onoe
question assumed entirely new featureT* 6, 1
is no return, but they begin to findft
along to the Missouri, and to drift not '-
less by any means, down the great
it may yet be their task in great part hil
The Asiatics have made their marV„i te ^S|
the Pacifio Road. Without them it
have been completed for years. The^ -i
at the very nick of time to supply 1
our own population by the war. ';nr J
ery obstacle and every prejudice
with, and, therefore, their present
permanently gained. They will not 1
their work over again. For industry * 10 i
on earth are their superior, tw ll D °
in labor, as well as by it; and'oof?,' 9
scanty earnings they will manage to i H
competency. There appear to be j
of industry to which they cannot s- Craaci 4
apply themselves, but in that broad
demands cheap labor, they need ten
from competition. They, too. are to Y
the only civilized race that can endures*^
heat without injury, and hence none
providentially adapted to the solution”1?
new problem for toe Southern States. 81
Memphis Convention was called in ord 1
give serions consideration to this Terr jr , •
determine, if possible, the wisdom" of nil
counsel of necessity, and opening th e JfN
the Asiatic tide, "which may, in time dost’' J
a resistless volume over the whole of
tion. 11
Citizenship is within the reach of this n I
eqnally within that of the negro. Howi>l
be applied, what new modifications of J
character are to result from emptying r .i
vast mass into the very centre of the contm "
these are questions that challenge theK.
speculation. But what is to be the result 3
development of our material resources.'d
hardly requires any time for an answer." Vt
same master mind among the Chinese tbsy
nished the army of laborers for the Paciac.J
be invoked, as -rumored by the leadinc i
the Southern States, to turn the same'n^ 1
producing force into toe channel which d_
shall prepare—not many years will eliwl
fore the Mississippi valley will show !y.|
miraculous recuperation and improven>,rf
will deservedly give it the name of the
of the Continent. Providence has waited *1
the fortunes of this country in a singnlir sj
ner. At the critical time, gold was disco-J
in California. Again, the Pacific Bailroihj
built, all by the very race whose labor procj
to be the one thing needed to give us a ner»
on the road to prosperity. The elements o[J
problem now working'out are of worn*
variety, and are so vast and novel in theiin
binations a3 to almost compel a read jest!
of the principles of politics! economy.-!!
Post.
Agricultural Prospects in Engli
It seems from the latest mail advice.- %
England is now in imminent danger of!
subjected to one of the greatest disaster •
can possibly befall a country with a dense a
ulaiion, a limited extent of cultivable lani’d
a large proportion of toe laboring classic
stantly living from hand to month on tie *
verge of pauperism—a bad harvest, lie n
age temperature in England for the put j
weeks has certainly been lower than it mj
Christmas. Rain has been constantly A:
throughout the spring and early sumnei. i
in some of the districts in which- the crape J
usually most forward, not a wheat ear Ik a
seen a fortnight ago. It is calculated tka
harvest will be at least three weeks later-J
last year, and that nothing but con timely
and sunny weather throughout the pts
month can bring the yield up to l
average, while a fortnight'or even a wtj
more of cold and rain must infallibly j
dnee most disastrous consequences. The p
of wheat had already began to rise. anlJ
greatest apprehensions were entertained f«i
future unless the weather speedily modcaJ
Even should the yield ultimately attainai rf
age, the lateness of- the harvest must s«i
sarily have an important effect on the dim
in a country where a single day’s comm pel
of cereals bears- so large a relative propia
to the home produce and the stock in hxl
this period of the year. Fortunately for Ef
land, telegraph cables and steamboats p!i*l
limited supplies of food within her reril
moderately enhanced prices, bnt m the liter
condition of the country, the pauperised
discontent throughout the agricultural did
which wonld result from the failure of tieh
vest would prove a terrible calamity.
[JVciO Tori:
Five or six hands would require about two
Training Tomato Tines.
A neighbor lady last year trained her d
toes up small poles—bean poles—over sit j
high, reaching out above the poles. Ti-j
is a practical demonstration of the smtcwl
may attend this method of training. Ii ‘J
not seen with my own eyes I could hardly
a truthful account of it The poles
before the plants -were, and when the A
began to grow toe leading shoot only toI
tained, all others being kept off throat'.l
pen at the top o. r -
beautiful clusters, easily accessible, witfc:
struction whatever, and no fruit rotting w
swamp of vines where the sun could not i
it This is all open to the light and heaUI
sun and to the wind. The plant, in sior-J
a fair chance given it to develop itself.
was ready and glad to avail itself of tee
lege. If" there is a worm on the vines. -
not hide away, but can. easily be 1
stroyed; and the ground can be wortw I
riTYi 1 ^ with common wood twine froul
would cost him about four dollars per acre, pro-! time ^ im ] & vine like a morning
vided he hired*aH the teams, machinery and j * „ _ I
hands to do the-work. . i Th ' e *21 o{ emT56 get first at the 1<»«I
I have a neighbor named Flournoy, an emi-, f h vi “ the Mason advanced, A
grant from Virginia. He told me a few days ^ ^ £ j, fruit bids fairl
ago, that yeas- before last he put m only four t th “ f e the les . There it haj
months labor for one hand in ploughing season i p y “ -■
and that he raised on that place ten thousand
bushels of wheat. He has another ranch on
Sacramentoriver.
The story, however, is not all told. More
than half of toe ten thousand bushels was grown
from volunteer wheat, and, therefore, was not
ploughed at all after tbe previons crop was
taken off. This is one of toe beanties of Cali
fornia farming. At least half of every crop put
in this year or rather that is raised this year ! 5lr °y ei t ; “?
may be volunteered next rear. The land needs ! ^ dovra is ^
veai^on^^^toe^cro^is'nulln^eslftiloimhei ' sitcom” andhifeehit,ard^l
frnm ? fesah pbrnghaq.. OTe and t derived are thereby edjjjl
Urn? d ' T* 16 P*M»ts may be set in rows fourWH
harvesting and without ploughing the land. r d inches " apart ia the row. MT
Flournoy told me, furthermore, that ^ closer than this, bnt
years ago, he sold a farm to a fnend of his, just. b , freedom of m0 vement for tie M
from.the States, at a pretty large pnee per acre. V- { ‘ e T j. d . it istsc iesp*J
The previous year he had rarsed a crop of wheat | Son tre^^ toeaper; it » H
i tain, will ripen fi4 earlier, and
fnend did not plough a furrow nor sow a seed, * ^ same ^ e *l
and yet from* the* volunteer wheat he raised , 1
enough wheat to pay for the ranch, and seven ! £*** P leAse Jon.-Joun* 1 |
hundred and fifty dollars over. ! r '
Flournoy is trying to persuade Dr. Frank and 1 Snnrcme Court,
myself to go up and buy lands near his ranch 1 , T ;o, ’■*
on Cash creek where they have the finest lands,
he thinks, in the State. He says that in digging
wells on his place there is no difference in the
soil for sixty feet. That land would not suit
some of our Georgia farmers who say that land
is never ploughed well unless you touch the day.
It wonld requite a pretty long bull-tongne to
fathom such soil as that. Don’t yon think?
The above cases axe not of infrequent occur
rence.
Dr. Frank is in the practice of his profession and
he would have aheavy practice if his health could
bear it He frequently has to decline profes
sional calls on account of his indisposition. He
has been thus far very successful. Shaw is in |
fine health, and is giving fine satisfaction. He
is a noble fellow, and generally very popular.—
He applies himself very closely to study. ^
J. R. Thomas.
Court met at 10 o’clock pursuant to ™
ment. ., ■- f
No. 18, Cherokee Circuit—C. D-
vs. John Adair, et. al—Equity »oa .^1
from Murray. Argument in this cs
sumed and concluded.
Messrs. Dabney and "Walker, for I
error, and Messrs. McCutchen and 31 I
defendant in error.
No. 14, Cherokee Circuit—StrMt^.J
—Equity from Dade—was argued . j,
H. Dabney, for plaintiff in error, an •
D. A. Walker, for defendant in
There was only one case from “*? Zt
Circuit. That will be in order Tnesaa
and the Tallapoosa Circuit follows
Era.
Facts fob the Ladies.—Bus i 3
I bought a Wheeler & Wilson Sewing ^
March 7, 1859, and it has been used^
satisfaction by my daughter, who
with spinal disease. It proved the
I ever employed, for she not only
health, but has earned a living with i
Mbs-M-®"
Affairs in lanrens.
Laurens Co., July 7, 1869.
Editors Telegraph—Our crops in this county
are very fine. On forty acres of land where I
put Dixon's compound, the cotton will average
waist high, and I hear of several other crops
manured in the some way equally as good. We and me ever sinoe.
have a flourishing Agricultural Club in our New York, Nov. 29, 1868.
county, of great promise to our people. We! Amanda Craig ia not sorieh
have attached ourselves to the State Agricul- ! thought to be. On {roet^*
tural Society, and expectin a few years to come j $«>><# ‘
in for a share of premiums at our annual fairs, . ^ ,
with the more advanced portions of our State, i A Missison-Pl paper says that !
in agricultural horticultural, and other prpiducts. ■ when first appointed Govern? 1
Oconee, j spent most o< hia time
• ♦ — ! since he has been Commanding ]
The Princess of Wales again “has prospects.” j devoted his time to playinj““*
Cholera has started in India. I people.