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"jIAOON, FRIDAY, JTJLY 23, 1869.
^ S»w York Xews. ».
. stated that sis fatal cases of cholera oc-
' ‘j t fj 6 past week in this city, brought here
^<sels from Cuba.
V gnreey for East River bridge has been
-tJetriL and the materials are being prepared
; ? abutments on the river shore.
; ^iictments have been fonnd by the grand
-gainst prominent brokers and bankers for
;fLion of the usury laws. The arrest was or-
°Za on Thursday.
•' vriet Attorney Fierpoint has been- anthori-
,i r the President to call on all military and
j forces here to prevent the departure
U Caban expedition said to be about ready to
0,1 ^ York. He has taken measures with
; f irai officials and the military in forts to
his instructions.
9 "• gjjjE Railway Disaster.—The Night Ex-
tro i n from New York, on Thursday night,
! r to a freight train, which had been left
on the track instead of a side track,
thirty miles from Corns Bock. The en-
77 tender, baggage car, express car, smoking
one passenger car and a sleeping car were
® 0 j the track and smashed ont of all
!f°e The splinters from the cars and frag-
timber came into contact with fire
the locomotive, and a conflagration en-
jn w bich timbers, baggage and wounded
tasMDcer* ah ,rent to * ee A flames. Seven
were destroyed and six passengers burned
'"i-iib. Two of the passengers were from
Vi* York, one supposed to be Rev. Benjamin
fpOeck. 'Another dispatch says the through
. ns bnmed in the post-office car.
The Price of the Chinese.—A dispatch to
( v, Courier Journal says that Koopmanschap,
tit great Chinese labor contractor, states that
f" be labor will cost the cotton producers one
iTodied dollars in advance, to pay the cost of
tfiasportation, to be deducted from wages in
of failure to adhere to contracts, and $12
..gold per month. The convention will take
goon upon the question to-morrow. An im-
ptssion prevails among the delegates that the
pice indicated will debar action by the Con-
reEtion as a body.
Iupobtant Supreme Court Decision.—In the
jut of Nathan Chapman against Warren Akin,
fcaaBartcw county, says the Atlanta Constitu-
jjoe, of Thursday, the momentous principle is
t<t»blisbed that the 3526th section of the Code,
rtieh prescibes four years as the rime in which
iterations can be levied on transferred real
tstate applies to the time covered by the war,
iri that sai<J section does not fall under the
entries of limitation.
The effect of it is to relieve hundreds of thou
sands of acres of land from danger of sale at the
Sheriff's hands—to kill hundreds of executions
that bat for this, would be collectible, and to
strike another heavy blow in the direction of
relief.
The remarkably quick (less than thirteen
days) passage ont of the yacht Dauntless, as an-
tounced by tho cable, is considered another
feather in the cap of her owner, Mr. James
Gordon Ifennett, Jr. Mayor Hall, when he heard
the sews, ordered Marshall Tooker to fire one
hundred guns in front of the New York City Hall
in honor of the event, and the order was promp
tly obeyed. - r •
The important office of editor of the New
York Times has been offered to the Hon. John
Bigelow, and he holds the offer under consider
ation. The attractions are said to consist of a
uhry of $10,000 a year, with a large interest
ia the proprietorship of the paper on veryfav-
cnbl# terms. As Mr. Bigelow had just com
pleted bis arrangements for a protracted resi
dence in Europe, be naturally hesitates tochange
his plans.
The Cuban expedition (one hundred and
twenty men) that quietly slipped away from New
York, on the 23d of last month, as qnietly re
tained to New York on Saturday evening last,
in the brig A. Eldred. The men made a land
ing, and had a slight brash with the Spaniards,
but cholera and yellow fever were prevailing
so badly in the insurgent camp that all hands
concluded to,return home while it was yet in
their power to do so.
Seditious.—The Pensacola Commercial, of
the 2d, says: “Wo learn from a source entire
ly reliable that negroes and mulattoes residing in
the upper part of the county have organized in
to military companies, and are drilling in the
night time with muskets, sabres and military
music.’’
A Third Party.—It is said that a new oppo
sition Republican pnrty is forming under the
leadership of Seward, Chase Charles Francis
Adams, Senator Morgan, cf New York, Thurlow
W eed and Chas. A. Dana.
lYeli, let the third party form; but let the
Democracy be all the more united.
The Chops in Florida. — The Tallahassee
Floridian of Tuesday says: “There will be a
large yield of com in this connty, cotton is very
promising, and if we escape the caterpillar the
the farmers will make money, which will im
part activity to the different branches of busi
ness in our dty, and in the fall everything will
bs prosperous."
A man in Adair connty, Iowa, has invented a
turnon which he claims will throw a projectile
fourteen miles, and has gone to Washington to
gets patent. He proposes to offer it to the
Government for $1,000,000.
His next achievement should be to invent a
pan by which objects can be seen at that dis-
hace.
Four young men from Havard have gone ont
England to row a “four oared match” against
ft* students of Oxford. The New York Sun ex
presses the belief that there will be foul play, to
Prevent the young Americans from winning.
Of course if they get beat it will be attributed
f® foul play.
The Detroit Post thinks- that our naval ves-
•ek, if we would have them inspire terror, should
receive such names as Cholera and Yellow Fe-
Ttr > Nitro-Glycerine, Susan B. Anthony, Anna
Dickinson, etc.
General Kirby Smith seems to be popular as
1:1 instructor of youth. In one State alone, says
- • Louisville Courier-Journal, sixteen hundred
kies have promised him their sons as pnpils
f^his military academy. ,
A silversmith in Smithfield, England, recen-
V poisoned his wife and six children to death,
ending the proceeding .by killing himself, be-
esuse he could get no work.
A colored woman named Polly Garland was
•o badly burned by the explosion of a kerosene
l»mp,
in Lynchburg, Va., on Sunday night,
l ' L4t she died in a few hoars.
The New York Sun nominates Burlingame
f° r President in 1872, oh the strengthof the
Chinese immigration.
Professor Maury, of the Virginia Military In-
s ‘itute, has accepted the position of President
6 f the University of Alabama.
^It is said that George Peabody designs to ad-
-■mstor upon hia own estate, and will leave
,^'“8 for heirs or tax gatherers to quarrel
ij^P^Phlet has been issued in New York on
p a ^,, tetetic Means of Reducing Superfluous
ui**" foil length portrait of Beethooven hua |
discovered in Germany. • j
* , ” rt "■* * I
Crops in Georgia.
There seems to be no material difference in
the crop situation since our last Drought still
afflicts some portions of the State—more par
ticularly in the Northern section. Southern,
Southeastern and Southwestern Georgia seem
generally to to have had abundance of rain. In
Middle Georgia, showers have been frequent,
but they have been partial, and many localities
are distressed for want of rain. In Macon, the
past week was signalized by two general show
ers ; and on an average perhaps there has been
as much rain as is usual at this season of the
year. Certainly much more than last year.
Where those showers have fallen the corn crop
is pretty well secured, and will be highly satis
factory. Elsewhere, it is, of course, in a very
optical or almost hopeless condition.
Cotton is still highly promising; notes of
danger come to as from the West and the North
in the cry of boll worm, and from Florida in the
alleged discovery of caterpillars in force. Time
must develop what just cause of- apprehension
exists from these discoveries; but as no cotton
crop was ever yet grown without some com
plaint and alarm of worms and caterpillar, we
are slow to give place to apprehension of eviL
We believe the cotton crop of Georgia never
looked better or promised a greater yield to the
extent of its area than it does now. No ap
pearance of disease of any kind is manifest,
and although here and there the growth of the
plant may be somewhat retarded' by dry weath
er ; yet the skies have not the brassy look of a
season of general drought, and we hope, by
turns, the whole of Georgia wfll get rain enough
to develop the crop to a full fruition of its
present promise. The health of the State con
tinues good. Absolntely no complaints of the
field laborers are audible. Order, peace and
sober and diligent industry are the conditions
every where.
. The Turner Investigation.
Yesterday, it will be seen, was confined to an
effort to destroy the credibility of Swayze; and
some twenty ■ witnesses, principally negroes,
swore they would not believe their doughty
champion on path. That is awful ingratitude—
that when a man makes himself a nigger in the
championship of the race, the blacks disown
him in this way. We dare say Swayze could
have returned the compliment, as to these sooty
witnesses, with right good wilL .It is a nice
business all round.
The Atlanta Constitution
Restates its position in respect to the expelled
members thus:
•The article referred to by the Telegraph, was
the one in which we gave the arguments on
the other side of the question from that we
held, and believed right. We gave these views
as a matter of information, and notin any way en
dorsing or making them the ground of changing a
position previously takenand stilladheredto, and
we little thought our liberality would expose us
to misconstruction. We have never argued the
subject, except from a legal standpoint. The
policy of the matter we have intentionally ig
nored, because we did not think the time had
come to argue it. We were against making a
gratuitous and unnecessary sacrifice of a prin
ciple, while there is a chance to preserve it,
and we hoped, by making a manly and judicious
stand for a legal right, that we might retain it,
particularly when our extreme Radical oppress
ors contended for its truth; when we conceded
them the substantial establishment of negro of
fice holding, and when, if it could be done, it
would be so much to the good of the State.
Now, there has been this difference between
the Telegraph and the Constitution on this
theme, that the former has discussed the policy,
the latter the legality only, of re-seating the
expelled members.
We have believed that we were right, and
contended for it courteously and' impartially,
but we stUI held our columns open to both
sides, that our readers might have all tho light,
and judge for themselves. We have reserved
onr opinion on the policy of the matter till the
thing becomes practical, and that will be when
the Legislature meets.
* * * In the months between this and the
meeting of tho General Assembly, is there not
time, aad wiU .there not be opportunity, to
convince these people that we are acting from
conviction and not prejudice ? If we do tins, is
there not hope that they will forego on oar part
a concession, illegal, as they own, and which is
to the injury of the State, particularly when the
principle is admitted and obeyed ? It is worth
an effort.
Even the Republican has modified its tone.
In its first article, ic avers that Georgia’s posi
tion “cannot secure national restoration” with
out reseating the expelled negroes; in its sec
ond, it merely says, ’tit is likely Georgia will be
called on to reverse her action.”
A great change is going on North about the
South. By avoiding acrimony, by acting with
reason and discretion, we can do much. There
is an improving tido in our favor, and it may
bear us to better days without farther oppres
sion.
These legal principles that our contemporary
so contemptuosly pronounces qualities and po
litical figments are the constitutional safeguards
of important rights, and every one torn away
from our system of laws is an injury to onr lib
erties. We are for giving up no more of them
than is absolntely necessary.
We did, and do now, advise onr legislators to
withhold the expression of their opinions, thus
far as a matter of policy, and this without retra
cing a step we have taken. Four months’ care
ful study, will enable them to decide better than
now, with the issue hastily sprung.
This is the precise idea of the Constitution’s
position we sought to convey, but might have
been unfortunate in the effort. Oar friend of
the Constitution has been stiR more unlucky in
respect to the Telegraph, if he has failed to see
that we have considered the matter in every
possible aspect, both of principle and policy.
Onr friend complains that there is a vein of
dogmatism and one-sided, agressire positivism
in the Telegraph upon this subject, which
might be dispensed with to advantage; but
really we are not conscious of any pride of opin
ion on this subject With our goodwill, no ne
gro should ever hold office in Georgia, and we
don’t think it a question likely to practically vex
the people to any great extent in the future.—
The point is to get safely over existing difficul
ties with Congress, and if the Constitution can
work that ont upon res adjudicata, or upon any
of the other schemes to prevent the practical
application of the doctrines of the Supreme
Court, we shall consider ourselves happy and
fortunate. • *
From Jones County.
Cornucopia, Ga., July 10, 1863.
Editors Telegraph: I have been a reader of
your esteemed paper for several years, and it
seems that the prospect for a bounteous crop,
as reported in the columns of your paper, was
never more cheering. Bat surely you have not
heard from this section. We have not had any
rain here in nearly fonr weeks. Onr corn is
dried up to where the ear ought to be. All the
rain that can possibly fall can t make more than
a fourth of a com crop. Cotton has not grown
any in fifteen days. On the 5th inst., I counted
150 forms on one stalk of cotton in a small patch
belonging to Dr. S. M. Anderson; and this
morning we counted them over with the follow-
ingresult: 40 bolls, 11 blooms and 81 squares,
showing a loss of 18 forms, and I think there is
a like diminution in all the forms in this com
munity. This patch of cotton of Dr. Anderson
which is about a quarter of " an acre, (Peeler
seed.) was the best formed of any I ever saw np
to the commencement of the dry spell.
1 Yours most respectfully,
Wm. Alexander.
Fobney boasts that two-thirds of the 8500 news
papers of the United States are Republican in
politics Republicans are the reading portion
of our population, and it is they who give life
and vigor to all the educational and intellectual
undertakings of the day.
If that be true the Radicals must be of the
»!«.« described by John Randolph, whose natur
al stupidity had been aggravated by much study,
reading and reflection.
‘-CotmtyAgrlcnltnral Societies.
Macon, July 17, I860.
The Secretary of the Agricultural Society re
quests the city papers to republish the follow
ing form of a Constitution for County Agricultu
ral Societies as he often receives requests for
copies. He suggests further that the formation
of connty societies rind the representation by
delegates of these societies in the great Conven
tion which will be held during the fair will be a
matter of some importance , to these societies
and delegates, in the way of extra privileges and
advantages afforded them as such. Some forty
societies, with the names of officers and members,
are already received and enrolled. Papers of
the State please copy.
David W. Lewis, Secretaiy.
TO EH OF CONSTITUTION FOB COUNTY AGRICULTURAL
SOCIETY.
The undersigned citizens of —-— county,by
affixing their names to the subjoined Constitu
tion, and by paying annually two dollars for
membership, or ten dollars for life member
ship, do form themselves into an organization to
be known as the County Agricultural
Society—the objects of which will be encour
agement of all improvement in agncnlture
and of all the kindred arts and sciences which
tend to increase the profits and pleasnres of ag
ricultural labor, and render home life on the
farm attractive and happy.
The officers shall he a President, elected by
ballot by the members present at the close of
each annual meeting; one Vice-President from
each military district in the county; a Secretary
and a Treasurer—all elected in the same manner
and at the same time.
These officers shall constitute an Executive
Committee, who shall have the power to fix the
time and place of holding the annual meetings
and fairs, and to prescribe the rales and regula
tions to be observed in the managment of the
same.
It shall also be the dnty of this committee to
encourage the monthly meetings of the Society,
especially daring the period of preparation for
and the tillage of the crops; and to bring before
such meetings those topics and questions for
colloquial debate, best calculate to keep up the
work and the spirit of improvement. It shall
farther be the duty of this committee and of its
individual members, to procure, from time to
time, written essays and addresses on appropri
ate subjects from persons distinguished for their
success in agriculture, orfor their learning in the
kindred arts and sciences.
The Secretary shall keep a fall and perfect
record of the proceedings of the Society.
The Treasurer shall make, whenever called
upon by the Society or executive Committee, a
full exhibit of the financial affairs of the Society,
and be the keeper of the Society’s fund3.
From Houston Connty.'
Dry and Discouraged—Corn a Failure near
Byron and Planters are not Going to try it
Again.
Near Byeon, Houston County:)
July 9, 1869. f
Editors Telegraph : In looking over the crop
reports in the Telegraph I find that every sec
tion of the country throughout the State has been
blest with an abundance of rain, with the ex
ception of this neighborhood. We here, in this
vicinity, have been very unfortunate in onr
farming operations for the last five years. Vie
have made fine cotton crops some few times,
bat invariably fail in corn.
The drouth commenced this year, as usual,
about the middle of May, and will continue, I
suppose, as usual up to fodder pulling time, and
then we will have an abundance of rain—judg
ing the future by the past. I have had but
one rain since the middle of May, and that came
very unexpected on the 25th of Jane, and that
was a little partial shower that only rained on a
few plantations. Every corn crop planted in
this section since the war has been almost a fail
ure, with the exception of the crop of 1S67. I
consider the corn crop in this section.an entire
failure unless we get rain in a few days, which
is hardly probable, as there is no appearance of
rain at this time.
Our cotton is not injured up to this time. I
never saw cotton look any better. It is begin
ning to wilt now and will injure in a few days,
if the weather continues dry.
Mr. Editor, I know you are a great advocate
for com raising, and you are all the while as
serting through the columns of your valuable
paper, that raising cotton to bny com with will
rain ns. I wish to know if we cultivate a great
deal of laud in corn and fail to raise it, and
still have to purchase Western com, if we wont
go to ruin more rapidly than if we were to spend
our time and resources in making cotton to pur
chase Western cbm with? If we cultivate our
land in com and faij to make the com, (as we
generally do,) and have no money to purchase
Western com with, we will be rained to all in
tents and purposes.
Tho farmer that plants com here, if the sea
sons continue as they have for the last five years,
will soon he without money or com, bacon or
anything else. In fact he will run ont com
pletely to the frazzeled end of nothing. I made
com enough to do me last year and if I had
The President shall have the power to call a plenty of rain I would have made a plenty to
special meeting of the Committee or the Society | hava answere a my purposes for two years. The
when, in his opinion, the interest of the Society
requires it.
From Clarke County.
From the Athens Southern Banner of Friday
morning we clip the subjoined:
Calobical. —The weather for the last two
weeks has been growing hot, until it has reached
about the maximum known to the summer sol
stice in this latitude. The thermometer has
ranged day after day from 90 to 96 degrees,
and the nights—usually comfortable here—have
been oppressive. There has been little rain
for a month and crops generally are suffering.
Gardens about town are rained.
The Sun’s Eclipse.—The Banner furnishes
the following information in relation to the sun’s
eclipse on the 7th of August next:
Tffe following calculations of the beginning
and end of this eclipse for the several places
named were made by a member of the senior
class of the University, Mr. W. S. Bean, of Au
gusta. They were calculated on the principle
of projections, and are accurate, in so far as
the latitude and longitude of the places named
could be determined. The calculations are
made for the local time of each place.
Athens, begins 4h 31.5 m., ends Oh 36.1 m.—
Atlanta, begins 4h 37.3m., ends Ch 31. 9m.—
Milledgeville, begins 4h 45.5 m., ends 6h 38.
8m. Macon, begins 4h 42.5 m., ends 6h 36.5
m. Augusta, begins, 4h 49.1 m., ends Ch41.
7m. Savannah, begins 4h 55.1m., ends Ch 77.
4in. Throughout Georgia the eclipse will be
partiaL Much more of the sun will be obscured
to observers in the Northern part of the State,
than to those in the Southern part.
The Banner says Rev. P. F. Lamar has re- , . . .. . .... -
signed U» SnbX.liee,o„Up<>, Iniemd Keve. I £$%££ Jg JfS, ito "
nue in that district, and it is rumored that Mr. ! trying to raise it. If we could get rain we could
A. F. Nunnally, of Walton, will succeed him. j raise millions of bushels for sale, but we can’t
— —w - ■ I get rain and consequently we can’t make the
From Thomns Connty. j com.
The Thomasville Southern Enterprise of As S’ 011 L ftve advised ns to make corn a plen-
w , ty to answer our purposes and used argument
Wednesday has the following: j to prove that we ought to do it by all means, I
Caterpillars. —Fanners along the Florida * thought it would not be amiss in me to give you
lino, and especially on the Micosukio lake, in I our reasons for not taking your advice in the
Jefferson county, Florida, report caterpillars ia i matter of com raising. Now, Mr. Editor, if you
their cotton fields, but doing little mischief, j can invent any plan to moke rain faU when the
They have crossed into Georgia in some places, . corn needs it or devise any scheme to make
and we are informed that they are qnite numer- ! coni grow without rain, I will guarantee that all
ous on the farm of Mr. Robert Eoddenbeny, 1 farmers in tnis section will raise their bread
near the Florida line in this county. We think , an< j stop purchasing western corn. If yon
the weather is too dry and warm for them, how- . our com all parched and withered up as it
ever, and unless cloudy, rainy days come to j fs now at this time you would readily come to
their relief soon, there will he uo cause for conclusion that if you were a planter you
alarm. ! would make cotton and purchase western com.
Progress of the Railroad.,—The track lay- j I have land this year planted in corn that will
ing on the South Georgia and Florida Boad will! not make ten bnshels per acre. Last year the
reach th6 Ocklockonee bridge to-day. Now is same land made a bale of cotton per acre.
drouth come upon me’ and nearly rained my
com last year and now my com crop is ruined
again.
The fine patch of corn that I wrote to yon
j about some time since is nearly burnt up and
will not make a half crop. The com crop in
this neighborhood cannot make five bushels per
acre.
Do not say that it is for the want of work;
the com crop has been well manured, and cul
tivated well also. Every exertion has been
made by the farmers here to raise their com,
(with few exceptions) but wo have failed, from
the fact that we never—or very seldom—get
any rain in this region of country during the
months of June and July. We have invariably
had a dry June ever since the war, and the
dronth continuing up to the middle of July
generally.
The reason, Mr. Editor, the fanners purchase
Western com is from the fact that they cannot
moke Georgia com, and why ? Simply because
we can't get rain in the right time to make com.
You can’t make com here when it seldom rains
in June or July. Therefore, we must make
cotton, if we can, to pnrehase Western com
with. The time has been when we could make
com here, but alas, that time has past. The
seasons have changed, as well as everything
else. I heard an old planter, a few days ago,
say that he never intended to plant another
acre in com during life. He has not planted
any corn for several yeani and he is prospering,
making money and doing well in every respect.
The farmer would willingly make his corn if he
could, but his arm being too short to bring rain
when the plant needs, it the scorching weather
the time for a big pie-iric. Maj. Maxwell will
furnish a train, and we hope all our people will
prepare their baskets and give the South Geor-
I have given you our reason for planting so
much cotton, and to our minds (being weak
mortals) the reasons appear good. To those of
gia and Florida Railroad Company and its able superior understanding the reasoning may ap-
. 9 ? - _ I T _ it.«A - YS 1. n ^ wll. ’ a n m v til ft V, r~\ —\ tl. n t tl mill niVA
engineering corps a pic-nic that will be worth
remembering. Let the day be appointed at
least a week beforehand.
Hot Weather.—This immediate locality is
dry and the weather unusually warm. We are
afraid to look at the thermometer, but eveiy
pear poor. With the hope that you will give
this a place in your paper, I am very respect
fully, etc. _ _ Farmer.
A Protestant Sisterhood of Charity.—A
new community, to bo known as the “Evangel-
- . ical Protestant Deaconesses' Institute and
man you meet declares it the “hottest weather graining Hospital,” has recently been estab-
he ever saw. Some of J 13 n f e “ ralD ’ an “ , no \ Baked in England. The community was organ-
doubt the needy will get it before Saturday . j^gd in consequence of the number of appTica-
night. .T--, Itionsmadeto an orphan home, by ladies, for
■ Isabella Grapes.—-Mr. Edward K. v ann, re- • p erm j gs i on to attend as nurses the sick beds of
siding near Boston in this county, brought to • poor. The deaconesses wear white CAps and
our sanctum on Monday a splendid sample of j a pjons, with dark colored dresses and bonnets.
Isabella grapes, from a vine which one of his 'pi 1 ey attend charitable institutions, end, when
neighbors assured us has borne not less than ^ as ] i g ( ] i will nurse in private families, upon cer-
five bushels this season. _ j tain conditions: They must be addressed as
Mr. Vann says the vine is only two or three j a j s f eri an a must be provided with board and
years old, has never been pruned, but trained ■ t rave Rug expenses, but no charge for services
upon green oaks instead of arbors. He thinks • jg Candidates for admission to the sis-
tlie vines must be protected from the sun in or- igrjiood must he over seventeen, and under
der to yield fruit, and hence his idea of training
them among the foliage of green trees.
thirty-fivo years of age, must not be engaged to
be married, and must not have any intention of
The Enterprise chronicles a beet weighing making such engagement. The deaconesses
eight pounds and five ounces, and says it can’t j are of all ranks in society, receive maintenance
be beaten; but we have already received and no- 1 from a .common fund, but retain control of their
. „ , . ., ; own private means,
ticed a beet which beats his beet by three ounces « r
-for ours weighed eight pounds and a half, ! . “Regent” of Spain was rather theatrical
, . , . S . ■ i in his surroundings when inducted into office.
down weight. If the Enterprise crows oyei us . p onr maces preceded him as he entered, arrayed
on cabbage, we mean to square accounts on , j n all the gloryof robes of crimson velvet, artis-
beets.
The Enterprise notices the deaths of Mr.
Geo. W. Mitchell of that county, and Mr. John
H. Lowry, late of Thomas, who died in Manatep
connty, Florida.
Correcting his statement about Mr. Wright’s
cotton field, the Enterprise says:
As for the cotton statement we will make it
larger than what it was, and we believe this day
it will average one hundred and fifty squares,
blooms and bolls to the stalk. We ask our up-
country friends to quit talking about forty and
sixty to the stalk.
From Xewton Connty.
The Covington Examiner of Thursday, has
the following:
An Excellent Yield.—Our old friend, Maj.
Lewis Zachry, raised this year, from one bushel
and three pecks of seed wheat, fifty busbeis of
excellent wheat. The crop was drilled fifteen
inches between the rows, and worked with a
hoe. The wheat raised will average between
62 and 64 lbs. to the bushel. Who can beat
that?
Tm weather, for the past few days, has been
the hotest of the season. We were visited by a
slight shower of rain, Monday evening lost, the
first rain sufficient to lay the dust, in about five
weeks. Gardens in this vicinity are pretty well
dried np.
The Covington Georgia Enterprise of Friday
morning says:
Rain has fallen in some portions of the coun
ty ip quantities to suit farmers, while in others
it is still in great demand. Cora that is in an
advanced state of maturity has been already se
riously damaged yet a series of Bhowers would
make great changes in the prospect. Cotton
has not suffered so much, yet the plant would
doubtless feel refreshed with a shower. Upon
the whole we hear much that pleases, and some
littlo that is sad and discouraging.
tically decorated by crowns and other insignia
of royalty in gold, with red velvet caps, sur
mounted by enormous ostrich feathers of snowy
white. These marched solemnly in front, and
at the steps of the platform divided, fronting the
Regent.
Advices from Turks Island to June 36th, re
port salt scarce at the salt island in consequence
of late heavy rains that had destroyed the crops,
and caused an advance of two and a half to
three cents per bushel, and masters of vessels
there fonnd it difficult to procure full cargoes of
good quality of salt even at this advance.
A dozen leading business men of Chicago have
gone to California to explore the chances for
mercantile enterprise in that direction.
From Spalding and Meriwether Conn*
ties.
The Griffin Middle Georgian of Saturday says
on Thursday they were favored with abundant
rain in and around Griffin, hut six miles below
it was npt as heavy as needed. The Middle
Georgian has the following upon the Savannah
Griffin and North Alabama Railroad. At a meet
ing of the Directors on Thursday, it was resolved
to put the road under construction at once, and
Major Corput, the efficient chief engineer, is ad
vertising for cross ties. The President, Captain
Jack White, to whom our citizens are perpetual
ly indebted for his zeal in the cause, has tele
graphed to Europe for the iron necessary, and
the work will go forward to completion without
any trouble. Major Corput informs us that
there is not a great deal of work to do on the
road bed, between this and Newman, and that 1
he intends to have a train through by the 1st of
January.
A correspondent of the Middle Georgian, who
has made a trip to Meriwether county, reports
fine seasons and fine crops all through that re
gion. Com will be abundant, - and excellent
wheat and oat crops were made.
From Talbot Cenatjr.
Commencement Exercises of LeVert College—
Sermon of Dr. Looick Pierce—Sophomore
Exhibition—Commencement Day—Col. Har-
deiAan, etc! ■r'-f siii 1 c:At V Lh .»j
Talbotton, July 9, 1869,
Editors Telegraph : The Commencement Ser
mon of LeVert College was delivered on last
Sabbath by that greet divine, Dr. .Pierce, who
spoke for nearly two hours, with unsurpassed
brilliancy of mind—rarely, if . ever equalled.
In the xxxi Chapter of Prorerbs we find his
beautiful text: “Who can find a virtuous wo
man ? for her price is far above rubies.”
It would be difficult to employ language that
would convey an idea of this memorable dis
course ; so broad and expansive was his view of
this subject. From the creation of man till the
present day, woman, in all her relations to
society and man, was discussed. Her moral
and intellectual culture—woman as the equal of
man—as a social reformer—as his wife or sister,
passed under the review of his inexhaustible
mind.
Dr. Pierce is the most remarkable man of the
present day, having lived to the great age of
eighty-six years, with almost unimpaired vigor
of intellect. May God bless this great man in
his declining life. • : -
The exercises, as usual, passed with great
credit to jh a officers and pupils of the college.
In every branch and department, evidence was
given of thorough education and accomplish
ment. Of the Sophomore class we could not
speak too highly. The distinctive and clear
manner whioh characterized the reading of their
compositions was very commendable in the
girls. For proficiency in reading, prizes were
awarded by the Rev. J. Conley, in an eloquent
address. n-i :••
The Senior Class was quite small this year,
but the Commencement day was a big oue.
Misses Searcy, of Talbot, and Willie Chandler
shared the honors.
CoL Hardeman, of Macon, delivered the an
nual address—one of the most beautiful efforts
of his life. It was a noble tribute to woman—
such as few men are able to pay to her worth.
Oh! that his thoughts could be embodied in a
painting, transferred with his own fine imagery
and poetical nature, that we could preserve,
in art, the constituent elements of a beautiful
and perfect woman. I should be pleased to see
the entire address published, as it is a composi
tion of rare excellence. The Colonel has won
many bright laurels in Talbotton. One feature
was very gratifying on the occasion—there was
qnite a large and refined audience to appreciate
this finished address, which, I trust, gave CoL
Hardeman a renewed assurance of the high
esteem in which he is held.
On the rostrum, I observed the Hon. E. H.
Worril, one of the few incorruptible jurists;
W. H. Hughes, of Columbus, and several other
prominent gentlemen.
President T. A. Brown has sent in his resig
nation, the time for winch he had leased the
LeVert College, having expired. His successor
has not been determined on. “More anon”
from Chalybeate Springs. “Occasional.”
Letter from Texas.
Railroad Ball—A thriving town—Radical har
monics—Jack Hamilton's election certain—
Health—Too muchrain.
Columbus, Texas, July 12, 1869.
Editors Telegraph: In compliment to the
first new train from Harrisburg to this place,
over the new and splendid iron bridge that spans
the Brazos at Richmond, a magnificent ball was
given here, the night of the 9th instant. The
beauty and accomplishments of the fair excur
sionists from the other end of the road, and the
reinforcements picked np along the route, when
joined to the belles of this place and the sur
rounding country, constitnted a charming array
of dazzling splendor, seldom seen in the coarse
of even a lucky life.
If I were ambitious of seeming to be original,
which, the gods be praised, I am not, I would
say something about “soft eyes, fair women and
brave men,” etc., not omitting a slight touch
relating to “smooth-gliding, graceful-floating,
through the tangled mazes of the giddy dance.’’
I will imitate the Jenkinses no further than to
say that all seemed to enjoy themselves with a
zest refreshing to behold; and the “poetry of
motion” was executed with a captivating grace
that would have charmed a snarling cynic. In
brief, they danced with the spirit, seemingly—
certainly with the understanding.
This town is thriving vigorously and growing
rapidly. It has two well conducted weekly pa
pers, Conservative in politics. Each favors the
ratification of the Constitntion and the election
of Jack Hamilton.
By-the-way, Morgan C. Hamilton, an extreme
Radical, and a brother of Jack, is ont in a let
ter denouncing E. J. Davis, the Gubernatorial
nominee of the Convention, composed of a little
over a baker’s dozen, that assembled at Houston
sometime ago. Hisobjectionisthat they passed
a resolution favoring the adoption' of the Con
stitution. He advises the Radicals to disband.
That if that is adopted in less than two years
the rebel element, as he chooses to style the
Conservatives, will be in power, when loyalists
can no longer live in Texas. Let him quiet his
fears. The Conservatives of Texas, as their
name implies, will molest no man for opinion’s
sake. Besides, his brother Jack, a good loyal
ist, who has sense enough to know that a white
man is as good as a negro and has patriotism
enough to urge the recognition of those rights—
the exercise of which none but tyrants and op
pressors fear—is certain to be.Governor of. the
State for the next six years.
I wonder if Morgan county is weak enough to
think that branding with infamy the men who
took an active part in the late “unpleasantness,”
is the way to make their sons and younger
brothers more loyal? He ought to know that
hatred, transmitted by inheritence, is doubly
embittered, trebly intensified. His brother
Jack takes a comprehensive statesman-like view
of the whole subject. I believe he has an hon
est, sincere desire to practice the motto which
the author of the sentiment has only thus far
honored by giving it utterance—mere lip ser
vice—“let us have peace.”
A month ago I believed and feared that Judge
Hamilton would be beaten by his extreme Rad
ical competitor. Now his election is as certain
as any faturo event can be.
Crops on the Brazos and Colorado are all that
could be desired. In fact, they are unusually
promising throughout the State. If the cater
pillar will only give ns the go by tins year, toil
in this part of Texas will meet its legitimate re
ward. .
The health of the country is excellent. No
yellow fever yet at Galveston or Houston.
We have had too much rain this summer. But
this has been a standing subject of - complaint
for the last few years and is nothing.new.
Pab Fols -
Mr. Stephens on the Fntore.
In a recent letter of the 19th of Jane, in dis
cussing the present condition. qf .affairs, he
says: “There can be no cure of the disease un
til its real cause is not only understood, but re
moved. The cause of all these late troubles in
our land, and of all those gross usurpations, so
to speak, is the departure of the Government
from the primary laws of its existence. The
only practical living issue before the people of
this country now ia one between Federal Re
publicanism and Imperialism—Constitutional
liberty and Monarchy. There is no middle
ground ; no haltf-way house between them. The
people'mnst choose between them, and take one
or the other side of this qaeBtion. The one
carries with it State sovereignty and Constitu
tional liberty; the other carries with it consoli
dation and despotism. There is no hope for this
country but in a thorough repudiation of the
whole principles upon which the late war was in
augurated and waged against the Southern
States. The very idea of maintaining a Union
of States by force is perfectly paradoxical and
absurd.
These aro my views, briefly and frankly as
well as earnestly given. I know and feel per
fectly assured that in their soundness and cor
rectness lies the only hope of constitutional lib
erty on this continent. 'Whether the people
will be able or disposed to understand the truth
and appreciate it in time to secure themselves
from impending rain or not, I do not know. I
am exceedingly apprehensive that they will not,
bat that they will go on in their delusion about
saving the Union and patting down the rebel
lion until their doom is sealed!
“As Paul said to Agrippa, so I say to yon,
“Believest thou the Prophets; I know that thou
belie vest.' I know that you believe in the
teachings of the fathers of our republic! Then
be it known to yon that our only hope is in their
teachings! The Union is the foundation of our
safety. What sort of a Union ? The Union of
sovereign States—whioh cannot be .maintained
by force, but by volantary consent, secured by
justice.”
The Daniel Webster farm and .homestead in
Franklin, New Hampshire, were sold on Friday
last for $16,000.
337ST TBIiEGKRAPH.
From Washington.
Washington, July 16.—The argument in the Ycr-
ger case for procuring its removal from- a HGDtary
Commission, and bringing it before the Supreme
Court, was concluded to-day. The important ques
tions involved in this petition for habeas corpus
have induced the Attorney General to enter into a
written stipulation with the petitioner’s counsel, to
put the question in such form as may be consid
ered and determined by the United States Supreme
Court next October. The present application to the
Chief Justice is to remain suspended.
The President authorizes the Attorney General to
say that the sentence Of the military commission,
farther than ia necessary for the safe custody of
the prisoner, will not be executed until the final
determination of the Court. This meets the ap
proval of Chief Justice Chase.
Present indications point to another heavy re.
dnetionof the public debt during the month—cus
toms and internal revenue receipts being favorable.
The Executive Mansion, owing to the absence of
the President, is entirely deserted by officials of all
glides of importance.
Richard D. Debars t. of Indiana, has been appoint
ed Consul to Santiago de Cuba.
The Post Office Department has advices from New
Mexico concerning the depredations by the Apache
Indians, who had captured several mails latety, and
killed and wounded a number of persons on the
routes.
Dispatches from Rodney Station, on the Union
Pacific railroad, report an'accident by which two
persons were killed and several wounded.
The weather is intensely hob ..The thermometer
at 4 p. m. was 101.
Washington, July 17.—Internal Revenue receipts
to-day $1,600,000. -j
Disappointed office seekers are after Boutwell for
a return of their papers, backing applications,
The Collector of the Second Mississippi District,
who has been appointed Mayor of Vicksburg by Gen.
Ames, in response to the inquiry whether he can
hold both offices, is advised by the Department to
decline the Mayoralty. r
A colored lawyer was admitted to the Criminal
Court of this district, to-day, who has been con
nected with the Bureau.
The Collector of the Second Alabama District in-,
forms the Department of the seizure of forty boxes
of tobacco. ’ • V / - , , . . . - :
Boutwell has ordered one and a half million of
bonds to be issued by the Central Pacific Railroad;
being for the completion of the road to Promontory
Point.
Abstract of the reports of North Carolina banks
show ah aggregate of $2,600,000; specie in banks,
' ■ M»i
Chinese Labor Convention.
Memphis, July 17.—A Chinese Emigration Society
has been organized with a capital of a million dol
lars, which may be doubled. Forty thousand dollars
were subscribed on the spot in shares of a hundred
dollars.
The Convention ordered three thousand copies of
its proceedings printed, and adjourned sine die.
News from Cuba—Reported Battles.
Washington, July 16.—The Cubans here have ad
vices from the forces under Quesada, which report
having captured a scouting party near San Miguel,
sent out by Gen. Lelona from Neuvitas, numbering
75 men. The Cubans numbered 300 and encamped
on Sagua de Grande river near a town of that name
where they were attacked by the Spaniards, under
command of Gen. Trino, who were three times re
pulsed and compelled to retire, leaving a portion of
their baggage and killed upon the field. The Cu
ban loss was 35 in killed and wounded.
An engagement is reported at La Esperanza, in
the Spanish troops were defeated.
Under direction of the volunteer Junta, the prop
erty of Cubans suspected of sympathy with the in
surrection is being seized and confiscated. Families
are driven from their homes, and their houses are
given up to pillage.
New York, July 16.—A special, dated Havana,
July 12, via Key West, 14th, says General Poella, at
the head of three hundred Spanish marines, was at
tacked by the patriots near Bogs, a email town, sit
uated on the same bay as Nueritas. The marines
were forced to fall back upon Nuevitas, with a loss
of eighty, including General Poella.
From Virginia.
Richmond, July 16.—A telegram from Lexington
to-day, says the State Educational Convention, af
ter an exciting debate on the mode of education for
the colored race, in view of the present anomalous
condition of affairs, tabled the subject till the next
annual session. An educational journal was estab
lished, Gen. Lee taking50 shares of the stock. Gem
Custia Lee is quite ill.
The German singing society of New York arrived
here this morning and were publicly welcomed at
the theatre to-night by the Mayor. Their concert
was crowded. The theatre was intensely hot and
several of the New York Germans fell from sun
stroke, after their march through the streets. None
of the cases were fatal George Froth, a citizen,
died of sun-stroke to-day, being the firstdeath since
the heated term. Thermometer 105 in the shade,
The official count of the State vote at head quar-
ters, shows Walker’s majority tobeseventeen thou
sand five hundred.
From Texas.
Galveston, July 16.—To-day’s advices from San
Antonio report the Guadeloupe river higher than
ever before known. The entire valley is overflowed.
Nine-tenths of the crop in Gonzales county have been
destroyed. Carnal river rose to the third story of
the cotton factory at New Braunfels, and destroyed
all the material and machinery. Every flouring
mill, woollen factory and bridge on Carnal river has
been swept away. No lives lost at either Bastrop or
Webberville. The Colorado river is going down.
The Brazos is still rising slowly.
Frightful Railroad Disaster.
New York, July 16.—The Erie Railway train lienee
at 6:30 Thursday evening, collided with a freight
train—six cars were burned, and nine passengers
killed—six of whom were burned to death. Partial
lists report no Southerners.
Foreign Newt-
London, July 16.—At Lurgan Credoud, on the
12th instant, an Orange mob were pelted with stones.
They retaliated by utterly destroying seventeen
houses occupied by the Catholics. The wood wards
Of buildings and furniture were then carried into
the street and burned. Latest advices say order has
been restored. At New Key the Orange Hall was
attacked by forty. Catholics. The occupants fired
on the assailants, leaving three badly wounded.
London, July 17,—The debate on the Irish Church
Bill continued all night. Disraeli regretted the
rejection of the Lords’ amendments. He said the
Peers had consented to a second reading of tho bill
on the understanding that the Commons would con
sent to its modification. Gladstone said the prom
ise was only to consider reasonable amendments.
He denied a violation of the pledge.
Gathome Hardy supported Disraeli's eiatements,
He said Bright had used threats of a dissolution of
the Parliament to coerce the Lords, ai^i treated
them in an unworthy manner.
Bright denied the accusation. Finally a commit
tee was appointed to report the reasons for reject
ing the Lords’ amendments. ,
Paris, July 17.—It is ascertained that the follow-
ia the new Ministry: Interior! Roquett; Justice,
Duvergier; Foreign, Auvergne; Finance, Peire
Maque; Commerce, Lerona ; Public Works, Dres
sier; Marine Admiral, Genuilloy; War, Marshal
Kiel ,.
General News.
Memshis, July 16.—Several committees reported
A Joint Stock Immigration Society with officers in
the principal Southern cities is recommended.
Fortress Monbob, July 16i—The President and
party arrived to-day, and were received with military
honors. After a short stay they left for Long
Branch.
Philadelphia, July 16.—The mechanical opera
tors, in the chief coiner's department of the United
States Mint, have suspended operations for a few
weeks for the purpose of placing a new set of boil
ers in tile institution.
Cave Mat, July 17.—The Presidential party has
arrived and will remain until Monday.
St. Loots, July 17—An excursion composed of
railroad officials ran off the track at Lawrence, and
many prominent railroad officials were hurt, but
none killed.
New Yolti July 17—The Govaciment f nris jSvk
destroyed Byaa’s camp of fUHbnsters on Long
Island, and brought one hundred and twenty-four
prisoners to the dty. Byan escaped. No blood
shed. . . ,
From Xexico.
Havana, July 17.—Mexican advices of ,lbe 11th,
say Juarez and a party of forty, nartowly escaped ,
death by the explosion of a boiler on a steamer in
Lake Tezoeao. Romero was thrown overboard by
the explosion, aad saved himself by swimming.
From Cuba-
Havana, July 17—The estates of Miguel Domingo
and Aldamas have been embargoed.
A Devotee to Principle.
Mi row Telegraph.—In answer to the remarks
of our Maoon contemporary) we refer it to an
article on “ Policy and Principle,” copied else
where from the. Augusta Constitutionalist, and
which accords folly with onr own views on the
subject. "We would simply sdd that it is time
Southern people had ceased to play the track-
ling game even to power. It is wrong in princi
ple, and they have found it a losing one thus
far, which, of itself, is sufficient to secure its re
jection on the ground of “policy,” which idea
seems to be a trouble on the brain with onr Ma
con friends. No. We have done that sort of
business until even the Yankees have ceased to
respect ns; and they are right, for a people who
do not respect their own rights and dignity have
no claim upon the respect of otheis. Georgia
will lose nothing by letting the law take its
course, in the case of the negro legislators, and
she will gain only contempt by following the no
doubt well meant advice of our contemporary.
It is simply a case of bad statesmanship, and we
hope they will revise and correct it The time
has passed in our history for arbitrary and tyr-
anical measures towards the South. They must
be clearly and intentinaily provoked in order to
receive the countenance even of the North, and
it is very certain that no such case can be made
against the people of Georgia.—SetvanTUih Re
publican, !6lA.
The Pknysylvania Nomination—Northern
Democracy.—It is a rare thing for the Northern
Democrats to make a judicious nomination.
Indeed, since the Sonth has- been left out of
their councils, the party appears to have lost its
brains. There seems to be a fatality - that drives
them away from every road that can possibly
lead to victory. They appear incapable of
learning anything from the past. It is their
blunders alone that have kept alive the Radical
party, which has long since been condemned by
the Amerioan people. In the late Presidential
campaign, they not only brought out a ticket
that was obliged to be beaten, but took special
pains to secure its defeat by patting the party
on the defensive in a long and Billy string of
irrelevant resolutions. In the States they have
been gnilty of equal folly. With the exception
of Hoffman, in New York, and Rosecranz, in
Ohio, they have blundered in almost every nom
ination made since the close of the wav. The
Pennsylvania nomination, on Tuesday, affords
a striking example. They could have had the
services of Hancock by anything like a unani
mous nomination, and his name would have put
a Democratic victory beyond a peradventore; but
no, they must go off intoa wild goose chase after a
“copperhead” nominee, a well known partisan
who will keep his minority party together and
the opposition qnite as firmly united. Divide
and conquer, is the only road to snocess at 'the
North where the great body of the people have
been voting Radical for years, and bow can it
be done so long as the Democrats oontinue by
their nominations to keep alive the issues upon
which they have so often been defeated, and
which have long since .forfeited their place in
American politics ? The truth Is, the party has
lost its sagacity with its Southern heads. Like
quack doctors, they have no rational concep
tion of the disease that troubles their organiza
tion and keeps it constantly under the weather,
and they go on giving the same old physic that
worked well with their fathers under a wholly
different state of affairs, as if the country had
undergone no change.
However strong may be many of their claims
upon us, the South would be foolish to pin her
faith to the skirts of any such party. They
cannot take care of themselves at home, muon
less should they be trusted with the vast inter
ests we have at stake. Until they have wisdom,
and develop a capacity to carry the people and
conduct the Government, our policy will be to
sympathise as much as we please, but have no
entangling alliance with them. The Sonth most
take care of herself. For the present, she has
no further interest in American politics. She
is groping in the dark night of despotism, and
should follow the lead of anybody whom she
believes able and willing, even by a circuitous
path, to conduct her back into the broad day
light of freedom and equal rights.—Savannah
Republican of the 16th.
Vie think it will tax the ingenuity of onr
friend of the Republican to harmonize the
philosophy of these two articles from his num
ber of the lGth instant He assails us, very un
justly, os we aonoeive, for consulting policy in
the adjustment of our State complications with
the Congressional Radicals, -on a point wherein
both principle and policy go hand in hand. He
then assails the Northern Democracy with still
more injustice for refusing to relax principle
for policy and adhering to “copperheadism,"
and so jeopardizing success. What is copper
headism ? It was opposition to the war upon
the Southern States upon the high constitutional
ground that the States were co-equal sovereign
ties, and could not be legally or rightfully coerced
by a subordinate government of mere delegated
powers and those strictly defined and limited.
There can be no higher or more sacred and
fundamental principle than this, and whatever
we may think of the policy of putting up popu
lar candidates before the Northern people on
.this basis, as Southern men, we are bound to
revere the principle.
We agree with the Savannah Republican that
it is practically better to avoid issues of this
character, but we do not admit that any devotion,
to principle however indiscreet is good ground for
the abandonment of the Democratic party by
the South. Nor do we at all agree with him ia
the opinion that all the fault of mismanagement,
and misjudgment, indiscretion, and impractica
bility rests with the Northern Democracy. I On
the contrary, the Sonth herself aided and sanc
tioned the wont mistakes in the last Presiden
tial election, and aided most signally in defeat
ing the Democratic ticket by ill-timed and ill-
judged issues. Let us do better in the faturo;
but at present we see no chance of bettering
ourselves by an abandonment and denunciation
of that great party, which has fought for genera
tions under the banner of equal laws—equal
rights—the sovereignty of the States and a strict
construction of the Constitution.
From Brooks Connty.
The Quitman Banner of the 16th gives very
good acoonnt of the crops, as follows:
Onr planting friends are in better humor than
they were two weeks ago. The threatened de
struction of their cotton by rust, or some other
disease, has proved of very little oir no conse
quence. 'i'he plant is now looking remarkably
healthy and is well fruited. It is our deoided
opinion that “there is a good time coming,”
when greenbacks will be in abundance, and hon
est men can pay their debts.
The Banner also has the following at our ex
pense :
That excellent daily, the Macon Telegraph,
makes a desperate effort to create a laugh at
the Banner, for “not knowing vrhat was going
on in onr county,” to wit: that oats grew seven
feet high. Was not the editor of the Tele-
graph a “doubting Thomas,” when his corres
pondent wrote in reference to the “twenty acre
field?" If not, why did he make the inquiry as
to whose cane brake the said correspondent had
been into ? We can appreciate the Telegraph's
surprise, however, for such remarkable • oats
grow nowhere except in the unparalleled pro
ductive soil of Brooks county.
A Washington letter-writer cheers the New
York Journal of Commerce by the following
statement:
“Tennessee, Mississippi end Pennsylvania
politics, especially the latter, will create astir
soon. The prospects are now that Stokes will
be beaten in Tennessee. Geary in Pannay lvia,
and Dent (goodness knows which
Judge perhaps,) will be elected in IfjsriUifipi-
Geary aad Stokes are personal frier
and I feel sorry for them.”