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MACON FRIDAY, JULY 80, 1860.
An EdlMrial ExeaniMi.
A circular from Superintendent Hnlburt pro*
poses an excursion of the members of the press
of Georgia’ for the purpose of examining the
mineral resources of Georgia. The, train will
leave Atlanta on the 25th of Angnst and proceed
to Chattanooga. Front thence, by steamer, to
the extensive iron works on the Tennessee river,
above that city. Returning to Chattanooga
the train will proceed to Rome, and from thence
the excursionists will go down the Coosa by
steamer and visit the iron works on that river.
Retaining to Rome, they will go down the Sel
ma, Rome and Dalton Railway, to the iron
works on that road—the whole trip consuming
about twelve days. The trip cannot fail to be
highly interesting and profitable, and we doubt
not L editorial frate^nty of Georgia win be
fully represented. Co 1. Hnlburt, in his circu
lar, says the iron crop of Georgia will, in a few
years, exceed her cotton crop in value.
Republicans Against the Chinese.
It is now stated,- says the Richmond Dispatch,
that a bill will be introduced at an early period
in the next Congress providing that all contracts
for labor entered into in a foreign country shall
be null and void the moment the immigrant with
whom the contract is made lands upon the Bhores
of the United States. This is to strike at the
Chinese immigrant companies, and if possible
destroy them. Few Coolies will be brought in
if no binding contract can be entered into with
them before their arrival in this country.
How will Messrs. Forney and "Wells like this ?
There is a little fuss made upon the subject in
Memphis ; but the matter of the active intro
duction of the Coolies and the profit therefrom
will be altogether in the bands of northern spec
ulators. If Congress passes such a bill as that
spoken of it will only breakup some very prom
ising schemes gotten up in the North.
To Kill Kot Grass.
Dr. Nelson, of this place, says he was success
ful in killing Nut Grass on the family home
stead in Richmond county, by successive crops
of Black Mustard, sown thickly broadcast, and
sown twice daring the season. The dense shade,
or quality in the mustard poisonous to the grass,
or both, never failed to exterminate it—causing
the nuts to rot in the ground. It is worth try
ing.
Fair at Marietta.
A circular from Wm. L. Mansfield, superin
tendent of Free School at Marietta, Georgia, in
forms us that a Fair will be held daring the
third week in August for the benefit of Educa
tion in that place. He solicits contributions of
books, magazines, boots and shoes, hardware,
cutlery, and in fact almost every description of
goods addressed to the School Fair at Marietta,
Ga., or left at Burke’s bookstore or with Mr. N.
A. Megrath, Hollingsworth Block.
A Clean Baclt-Down
Fitch, of the Griffin Semi-Weekly Star, has
been promising a noble editorial so soon as it
rains. Fitch is able to do it. It’s in the man.
But laziness prevailed and here is Iris miserable
reason: . ' / '
Stole ocb Thunder.—We promised our read
ers n huge leader as soon as it rained again:
but the Macon Telegraph has stolen onr sub
ject, which was Grant’s horses, and we therefore
merely copy its article.
If the Star does not redeem its promise and
give that editorial in -the course of a week—
there’s no help for him. Negro suffrage for
ninety days is the lightest penalty.
Effect or the Supreme Court Decision’.—We
printed yesterday much the ablest argument on
the issues arising under the late Supreme Court
eligibility decision which has yet been presented
-to the people. A timely notice of it was omit
ted by mistake.
The Income Tax.—Next year is the last year,
r ao x» uuw ottuma.
in which the tax on incomes is to be collected.
The amendment passed in 1867 to the 119th sec
tion of the law reads thus:
“That the taxes on incomes herein imposed
shall be levied on the first day of March, and be
due and payable on or before the thiertieth day
of April, in each year, until and including the
year eighteen hundred andseventy and no long
er.” •;
Unless, therefore, Congress extends tho op
eration of this tax, universally acknowledged to
be inquisitorial, oppressive and unconstitution
al, its existence has nearly come to an end.
North Carolina.—The Supreme Couit of
North Carolina have lately declared the acts of
the late Legislature of that State authorizing
large land appropriations to* Railroads, uncon
stitutional and void. North Carolina securities
have advanced considerably in the course of
the past few days on the strength of this
derision.
Miss Borxe, a Gallant Ears.—From Cape May
comes a report that the daughter of ex-Secreta-
ry Borie had distinguished herself by rescuing
from drowning a gentleman who had ventured
beyond his depth. Miss Borie is said to ‘be a
strong, bold swimmer, and seeing a human; life
in danger, she went promptly to the assistance
of the drowning man, and seizing him by - the
hair of the head, brought him toaplace of safe
ty. Why not make Miss Borie Secretary of the
Navy 7—Intelligencer.
A Philosopher on - A- Dangerous Career.—
Horace Greeley of the Tribune lately went down
- to Long Branch to have a talk with Gen. Grant.
How he got there is thus described:
While riding from the depot to the Stetson
House in a carriage the horses became frightened,
and dashed up the beach road at a terrific rate
of speed. The driver frightened, lost control of
• his team, and they ran away. Mr. Greeley, re
mained in his seat His face was pile, but be
yond this there was no evidence of any fright
Fronting the United States Hotel the horses
sheered from the road. The wheels of tho car
riage struck a board fence, tearing it up for
some fifty feet The carriage was smashed, and
Mr. Greeley was thrown to the ground. Hap
pily, he escaped uninjured. On rising to his
feet he made an attempt to brush the curt from
his clothes, and said ;
“Well, well; this beats my ride to Placerville
with Hank Monk I”
The dispatch goes on to say that Greeley had
’a long talk with Gen. Grant—discussed the Cuba
question thoroughly and left the President deep
ly impressed with his advioe..
->*■ African Tournament.—The sable knights of
Tennessee are going to hold a tournament.
Among the passages-at-arms a butting match is
conspicuous, and this will be severely contested.
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Thebe will be four negro members in the
"Virginia Senate, and fourteen in the House.
Two of them are Conservatives, and the rest are
Radicals. :■
Senator Cole, of California, thinks that Mex
ico is the destined goal of Asiatic emigration on
this continent, and wants it diverted in that di
rection.
T wants -trees States have adopted the Fif
teenth amendment. Four more are required to
make it a part of the Constitution.
A oood turn is done our readers when we
commend to them the American House, Boston.
The same judicious management is continued
vrfcicb b»« rendered it so popular in the past.
Two Hopeless Things.
Oar attention ba« been drawn to-day to two
enterprises which we : think are quite hopless.
The first of these is a scheme by the govern
ment to beautify the revenue stamps. It is not
in the range of human art to make those things
look pretty to the people. Onr ancestry went
into oonniption fits and burst the British gov
ernment out of hatred to stamps, and those
stamps did not call for a penny where ours call
for twenty dollars. ^ -j • i.
It is well said by the poet that life is now sim
ply a sea of stamps. We eat, drink and smoke
stamps. We sleep on stamps. We awake on
on stamps, We get np in the morning and
pull off a stamped nightgown,and (such of us as
use the article) put on a stamped shirt. We then
put on stamped dippers—soap our faces with
stamped soap—lather with a stamped brush-
shave with a stamped razor—brush our hair
with a stamped brush—our teeth with the same
—put on stamped clothing and go out and eat
often a stamped breakfast.
The stamps haunt us like Banquo’s ghost till
sometimes existence is loathed and we sigh for
the quiet of the grave. We are sure, though
that grave be in the highway, it can never be
stamped as much as the living subject. That
is the reason why the Yankees represent human
life in their favorite song:
“Stamp! stamp!! stamp!!! the boys are marching,”
as a never-ending series of stamps, from tho
cradle to the grave—which it is. The Yankees
are right in that particular.
The second hopeless thing we shall mention
to-day is a sermon by Ward Beecher to the
bulls and bears of the New York Gold Room.
Beecher is inflamed by a species of clerical
knight errantry, and is persuaded, with his
single lance, be can overthrow and scatter a
legion of foul dragons, be they clothed in ada
mantine scales, and armed with poisonous claws
and tongues of fire. Hence he couches his
lance, and storms the gold room. The tele
gram does not give the result of the onslaught,
but we imagine he was carried out of Downing’s
Oystei Saloon, mortally wounded with cham
pagne and oysters. The contest was too une
qual. •
Price of Lands In Georgia.
A correspondent has written ns that first qual
ity laud in Floyd county is held as high as cue
hundred dollars per acre; and a friend recently
from that section says that several sales have
lately been effected in Floyd and Folk at that
price. In Southwestern Georgia, however, un
questionably the best agricultural section of the
State, although lands are slowly rising in value,
we suppose twenty dollars an acre would be the
top of the market. . .
The reader will see among our advertisements
that the Furlow Place, in Calhoun county, of
two thousand five hundred acres, one thousand
of which are cleared, is offered for thirty thou
sand dollars. As the improvements on the
place are probably worth more than five thou
sand dollars, here is a first rate place offered for
ten dollars an acre. That land without ma
nure, as things now stand, will produce at least
from sixty to seventy-five dollars’ worth of cot
ton to the acre at a cost of cultivation not ex
ceeding twenty dollars, and show a nett product
of say forty dollars to the acre.
It is an odd kind of property which will
pay 400 Der cent upon its value in a single
year. And stranger still is this difference in
value between an acre in Floyd and an acre in
Calhoun. If we allow forty bushels of com to
the Floyd acre, that is worth up there, say fifty
dollars; and it would be difficult to make it nett
thirty to the cultivator. Or if it produced thir
ty bushels of wheat, that would be worth thirty-
seven dollam and a half, and would result in a
still smaller dividend. Some profound philos
opher should take it upon himself to let us into
the secret of these diverse valuations, and show
us the principles upon which they are founded.
Until this is done satisfactorily, we don’t think
we should be over-eager to sell first class oak
and hickory lands in Calhoun county at ten dol
lars per acre.
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The New York Herald, of the 24th, indulges
in cruel taunts on the subject of negro and Chi
nese suffrage. Saith that paper :
The homely old adage that “chickens - come
home to roost,” when applied to those who meet
with punishment or embarrassment as a conse
quence of their own acts, is verified in the case
of the negro-worahipping Radicals of California.
They have gone with their party for negro suf
frage, for elevating the Southern negroes over
the white people and for the constitutional
amendment putting all colors and races of men
on an equality, and now they are alarmed at the
consequences of their ultra-radicalism. They
are likely to have as large a dose of the Chinese
as they have forced the Southern whites to
swallow of the negro. They are sick at stomach
in advance and in contemplation of the future.
The Republican State Convention of Califor
nia in its platform of resolutions emphatically
“opposes Chinese suffrage in any form.” Like
the Radicals of other States of the North they
magnanimously give the suffrage to the ignorant
and brutal negro—to the lowest race of mankind
—because they have scarcely any negroes
among them ; but it is quite another thing when
the Chinese are in question. How illogical and
inconsistent are these Republicans! Everyone
acquainted with history, as well as every phy
siologist, knows that the Chinese are a far su
perior and more intellectual race than the ne
groes. They were a civilized people when the
nations of Europe were barbarians, and in
many things we may yet learn from them. In
some arte they are yet superior; in agriculture
they have attained a high point of excellence,
and in the social or domestio virtues they will
compare with the most civilized people, and
they have maintained an organized govern
ment and system of society from the earliest
times to the present day, while the negroes have
never emerged from barbarism, except where
some degree of civilization has been forced
upon them by the white man. We tell these
California Republicans they must be logical in
this matter. They cannot escape from the con
sequences of their own acta and the acts of their
party. If the suffrage is not to be held exclu
sively by the white race of European stock, and
if the negroes are to be put on an equality with
our own intellectual race the Chinese cannot be
excluded. If we are to try the experiment of a
mongrel republican empire that race which
stands next to the Caucasian cannot be placed
beneath the negro, the lowest of alL Many of
our Radicals may yet live to be seriously troub
led by the political and social monster they have
raised. . .
Why should the Herald pounce on California
alone, when universal Radicalism is engaged in
forcing through, by hook or crook, the fifteenth
amendment of the Constitution which prohibits
all distinctions in suffrage on account of oolor
or race ? The wise men of the Radicals, we
know, determined on that movement in pure
reference to the negro. They did not see the
great crowd of Chinese immigration looming up
in the East. They were very sharp dullards and
blunderers. Now that they discover the mis
chief, they are talking about legal provisions to
deter Chinese immigration. They have tied
themselves up to the apparent alternative of a
ruinous debasement of the suffrage, or a for
feiture of those immense national benefits which
must result from the proper cultivation of the
great alluviums of the South. That is the at
titude in which they have placed themselves
and the country. But they cannot prevent
Chinese immigration, nor on the other hand, bo
long as suffrage is extended to a race so alien as
the negro, can they prevent the Chinese from
attaining it.
The Chinese Question.'—A Washington letter
says :
“The Chinese emigration question is already
bothering the minds of some of the members of
the Workingmen's Assembly here. There is no
doubt that the workingmen generally are think
ing deeply on this subject, and watching with
interest, every movement looking to the impor
tation of the Celestials.”
1
The 'Merrylag Quei>ii*h.
THE DEMORALIZATION OT MODERN DRESS—WHY
MEN DO NOT MARRY.
[ffirw York Cormpondence of tKe Chicao~o~Tribime.
Much of the careless morality of the present
day is owing to the way in which women dress.
There is no cavilling at the fact or pretending
to ignore it, but the moderately dressed wife
and mother is fast disappearing from our homes.
The domestio daughter has long sinoe become a
myth, and in. her place we have a creature of
hair and humps—wasp hips, Grecian-bended,
high-heeled, chignoned young lady, who laughs
loud and talks fast, and writes herself “Mane”
Or “Julie,” and who is a complete success in
doing nothing and knowing nothing except the
slang literature of the day.
This model of young womanhood has a splen
did wardrobe, a waist that measures eighteen
inches, and a lover with tight pantaloons and a
side whisker, whom she marries, under the pro
test that if she sees some one that she likes
better, she need not cleave to him any longer,
knowing, as well as you and I do, that divorces
can be procured without publicity. She
wouldn’t have any children for the world—can’t
endure the trouble—should die, etc.—the only
sensible thing she was likely to do. You can
see her any day on the sidewalk, or in a car
nage—often at the church—always at the opera
—and she is a representative of a large class,
not wicked, or intentionally immoral, but oh!
so weak—with that overburden of dry goods,
laces, jewelry, enough to crash out any better
principle that might assert itself.
Over-dressing demoralizes a woman. I takes
from her that purity of thought and character,
the high prerogatives of a perfect life, which is
her legitimate' birthright, and she sells it for a
mess of pottage. It opens the avenues of her
soul to a thousand destroying infinences, and
leads her by silken tendrils over into the valley
of the shadow of death. I think of this when
I see mothers helping their little ones into the
thraldom; I thought of it last Sunday, as I
glanced from the chapel-master, in his robes, to
a baby-worshipper in blue silk, en panier, all
ruffles and folds, and Grecian bend—to the
white hat, with its cluster of matnre ted roses—
to the small wrists clasped in jeweled bands—
to the shapely baby finger heaped with dia
monds.
I looked at the soft, pale, golden hair, ar
ranged just like mamma’s—to the white brow
on which the lace hat so properly rested—to
the clear-cut features of the mature, precooious
face, luminous with seven years’ wisdom, and I
could not reiterate the good man's assertion:
“Of such is the Kingdom of Heaven.” It
seemed to me too much in the fashion of this
world “which passeth away.” I think the rea
son young men do not marry is because girls
have ceased to be domestic, and spend a great
deal of money upon dress. They are not con
tented to live in a quiet way, and dress moder
ately ; they must go out, dress and ride, and
frequent places of amusement; have suppers
and banquets, and receive adulation. It costa
a great deal of money, which the young man
furnishes, and he never gets ahead enough to
marry; so they repent and try their luck over
again.
It is the easiest thing in the world to do with
less luxury, but it involves a little self-sacri
fice and economy, and those virtues are fast be
coming exotics. Folly one-half of the girls who
are now filling situations in stores, offices, etc.,
g# there, in the first place, in order to be able
to dress better. They live in plain, but comfor
table homes, and must help with the house
work, or the children of their own kin; but they
hear glowing accounts of the city; they want
the finery that is denied them, and they want to
go from those peaceful home-lives, from the
kind guardianship of parents, to the toil and
temptations of the ten-hour system.
They go plain country girls,with modest,blush-
ing cheeks and smooth, shining hair. They stay
there a year or two, and their cheeks are pale
and their hair is frizzed. They have lost the
gtuichrrk of blushing and are bold at reportcr.
They dress somehow; but they have hours-of
despondency that make them old. It is onr
long struggle with labor and temptation, am
how they preserve their integrity God only
knows.
Now, would not these girls be happier as the
wives of farmers or mechanics ? Would not one
word of genuine love outweigh a ton of admira
tion ? Would not the smile of a little child be a
thousand times better than the gaze of a liber
tine? Is it not easier to work for one’s own
than for strangers ? to feel that you are a king
in your castle, if it is only a one-story cottage ?
Woman’s independence will work a deadlier
wrong than any bond she has ever worn.
"When she steps beyond the fair threshold of
womanly power—the archetypal home, where
God has made her supreme, to fight the demons
of political or commercial life, she lays down a
sceptre to take np a chain whose iron canker
will eat into her soul. That was a true and
beautifnl reply which one of our strongest ad
vocates of suffrage in this city gave to a gentle
man who called on her at her office and de-
manuca -w kuvn *uo mcamng or woman's
Rights. She looked np with a troubled face—
the face of a delicate, thoughtful woman—from
the pile of exchanges and manuscripts which lay
before her, and answered with earnest solem
nity, “I can give you its entire definition at
this moment in two words, ‘Home andPeace!’ ”
BY TELBGtlj^PH;
From Washington.
Washington, July 27.—Alexander H. Stephens,
writing to a friend here, says: “l am gratified at
the result of the election in Virginia, and earnestly
hope that Judge Dent may be elected in' Missis
sippi.”
Dr. C. P. Culver leaves for Maeon to-merrow, for
the purpose of placing the laboratory property in
possession of the Georgia Agricultural Society.,
The President is expected for Friday's Cabinet.
Mr. Greeley, with a party, have gone to Virginia.
Hoar contemplates a week’s absence. Field, will
officiate.
Revenue, to-day, $300,000.
TreasurerBpinnerbas received a counterfeit three
dollar coupon from Germany, evidently manu
factured there. The imitation of the engraving,
signatures, seals, etc., is good, but the paper is
bad. .•
Proceedings have commenced against Sdrarman,
(colored) the former Messenger of the Treasury,
for uttering bogus money. H. M. Tomer, the ne
gro Post-master, at Macon, Ga., will be brought
here as a witness.
Washington, July 28.—It is understood that Mc
Dowell will relieve Gen. Canby in Virginia, who is
to be Eent to Mississippi.
Great interest attaches to Friday’s Cabinet when
the test oath question in Virginia will be decided.
In the meantime it is stated that the President lias
positively ordered Gen. Canby to take no action.
Revenue, to-day, nearly one million dollars.
It is stated that Morton will introduce a universal
amnesty hill immediately upon the ratification of
the fifteenth amendment.
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Coolie Trade Prohibited,
Koopmansehaap’s Enterprise Contrary to Lav>
—The Acts of Congress on the Subject—The
Punishment for Offenders Fine and Impris
onment.
From the New York Timet.
It is well known that the wealthy San Fran
cisco merchant, Koopmarischaap, has recently
strenuously advocated the introduction of the
colic labor system, which at present prevails
only in the Pacific States, into all parts of the
United States; that he started a gigantic project
for bringing coolies into this country direct from
China; that he was prominently concerned in
the Memphis Convention, where the subject of
cheap labor was extensively discussed; that he
subsequently came North with the expectation of
receiving encouragement in his undertaking; and
But it appears that the coolie trade is strictly
forbidden by law. His enterprise comes under
an act passed during the second session of the
Thirty-seventh Congress, specifying that no
citizen or foreigner coming into or residing with
in the United States shall engage in the Coolie
trade under penalty of losing the vessel or ves
sels so engaged. In the same act it is provided
that every person who shall aid or abet the
building, equipping or navigating of any vessel
intended for the Coolie trade, shall, upon con
viction, be liable to a fine not exceeding $2,000,
and be imprisoned, not exceeding one year.—
Another section of the same act makes it on
offence to take on board of any vessel, or re
ceive or transport any Coolies who shall
be intended for' the Coolie trade. The
punishment is a fine of $2,000, or imprisonment
for one year. The first and most important sec
tion of the act reads as follows:
“That no citizen or citizens of the United
States, or foreigner coming into or residing
within the same, shall, for himself or for any
other person whatever, either as master, factor,
owner, or otherwise, raise, build, equip, load or
otherwise prepare any ship or vessel, or any
steamship or steam vessel, registered, enrolled
or licensed, in the United States, or any port
within the same, for the purpose of procuring
from China, or from any port or place therein,
or from any other port or place the inhabitants
or subjects of China, known as Coolies, to be
transported to any foreign country, port or
place whatever,-to-be disposed of, or sold, or
transferred, for any term of years, or for any
time whatever, as servants or apprentices, or to
be held to service or labor. And if any ship or
vessel, steamship or steam vessel, belonging in
whole or in part to citizens of the United States,
and registered, enrolled or otherwise licensed as
aforesaid, shall be employed for the said pur
pose, or in the Coolie trade so called, or shall
be caused to procure from China or elsewhere,
as aforesaid, any subjects of the Government of
China for the purpose of transporting or dis
posing of them as aforesaid, every such ship or
vessel, steamship or steam vessel, her tackle,
apparel, furniture and other appurtenances,
shall be forfeited to the United States, and shall
be liable to he seized, prosecuted and condemned
in any of the Circuit or District Courts of the
United States for the diatriot where the said ship
or vessel, steamship or steamship or steam ves
sel may be found, seized or carried.”
Death of Captain Francis J. Cebcopelt.—
We regret to announce the death of this old
citizen, who expired at his residence, comer of
Jones and Price streets, last evening at seven
o’clock, of chronic dysentery, aged sixty-three
years.
He was for thirty-five years captain of a
steamer on the Savannah river; was in the ser
vice of the Confederate government during the
war, and at the time of his death was Messenger
of Council.
Railroad Accident.
Cincinnati, July 23.—A passenger train on the
Memphis and Ohio Railroad, near Clarksville, Tonn.,
went through the trestle work over Budd Creek
The train, with the exception of one car, was burned.
The engineer and fireman, and three or four others
were killed. Thirty were badly hurt.
Later.—The entire train and contents, except
the Orleans sleeping car, were burned, and that
badly damaged. Casualties, killed—Eugene Riley,
engineer; Chas. Childs, fireman; Hugh McCall,
passenger from Orleans. Badly wounded—Mrs. H.
McCall, of Orleans; Joseph Nent of Orleans; H.
B. Mitchell, Orleans ; John Burt, Columbus, Miss.
Judge Caulkins and wife, Orleans; J. J. Buck,
Clarksville; Seth Henderson, (colored), Memphis
C. H. Sage, Fulton, N. V.; C. A. Brown, baggage-
master; John C. Duggan, express messenger.
Slightly wounded—Wm. McCall, Orleans: Ed. Stowe,
Eufaula, Ala.; Mr. and Mrs. Peterson, Baton Rouge
W. S. Packer, Pittsburg; J. C. Hannah, Coffeeville,
Miss.; J. O. Levy, Holly Springs, Miss.; Miss Hat
tie Michael, of Lauderdale; W. E. Shephard, Or
leans; J. L. Corril], Stewart’s Station; Barton
Salisbury, Stewart’s Station; two children of Judge
Caulkins, of Orleans; Sam. Lowry, sleeping car
conductor; W. D. Wray, milligant; E. N. Boon,
brakeman; 0. B. Webster, brikeman.
Negro Riot in Charleston.
Charleston. July 27.—A negro riot, which at one
time threatened very serious consequences, oc
curred last night on the occasion of the departure
of a visiting base-ball club from Savannah. The
dub was accompanied by a brass band composed of
colored men, who were said to be Democrats. Aa
the dub was leaving in procession for the Savannah
boat, they were attacked with sticks and showers of
stones and brickbats by a negro mob of several hun
dred men. Several shots were fired on both sides.
Mayor Pillsbnry was on the ground, hut said he
was powerless to quell the riot, and called on Major
Oglesby for the assistance of the United States
troops. The Club was then escorted to the boat be
tween platoons of the Eighth Infantry, followed by
a large crowd of yelling and infuriated negroes,
throwing stones and compelling the soldiers at in
tervals to face about and threaten to fire. Several
were wounded, mostly members of the colored band.
The affair causes intense indignation among the
whites. __ • ’■
From Virginia!^V.’;\
Bichmond, July 27 General Canby has modified
his order for the payment of January interest by
directing that only one per cent, he paid. -This will
amount to $350,000.
It is stated that James C. Taylor, Attorney Gen
eral elect, is to be commissioned by Gen. Canby to
fill that office, its occupant having resigned.
White Sulphur Springs, July 27.—A meeting was
held here to-day, composed principally of Southern
ers. Resolutions were unanimously adopted express-
Jncr flin erratitnda of the Southern peoplo todcor^-o
Peabodyfor the munificent gift of $8,000,000 to the
cause of education to the South. The reeolntions
will be formally presented to Peatodv to-morrow.
There are one thousand visitors here, two hundred
at Hot Springs, eighty at Healing, one hundred and
twenty-five at Alleghany, one hundred and fifty at
Old Sweet, eighty at Red Sweet, and seventy-five at
Salt Sulphur.
It has been raining here the past two days.
From Cuba. *
Havana, July 27—Official reports state that regu
lar effective troops are thirty-two thousand. Volun
teers four thousand and Rebels six thousand well
armed men and many guerrillas.
Seviaro orders withholding the Jesuit College
stipend owing to the indiscretion of the directors.
The volunteers surprised and killed eighteen Reb
els near Rem'edios.
A skirmish between Villa Clara and Sagua re
sulted in the loss of twenty Rebels, including Major
Motigues.
Sugar firmer and a large business at prices un
changed.
Washington, Jnly 28.—The Cabans here have of
ficial advices to the twentieth. Quesada has de
stroyed two important bridges on the Nnevitas and
Puerto Principe Railroad, and holds the country
between the two cities, which is closely invested.
The garrisons are suffering from disease and short
supplies. Several sorties fromNuevitas were driven
back with serious loss. Quesada has a number of
Spanish prisoners which he holds as hostages to in
sure proper treatment to Cuban prisoners. The Cu
bans hold several positions on the coast, giving them
direct communication with the United States. The
fight at Remedios resulted in a loss of one hundred
and fifty Spaniards, killed, wounded and prisoners.
The fight at Sagua le Grande lasted several hours.
The Spaniards finally drew off with a loss of three
hundred. The Cuban leaders have no doubt of their
ability to maintain themselves against the forces
nowin the field againBt them. A vessel with a
largo amount of arms and ammunition, and a bat
tery with three hundred and sixty men, landed near
Nuevitas, and the expedition safely reached Quesada.
Havana, July 28.—The Governor of the jurisdic
tion of Trinidad orders all Spaniards between 15
and 60 years of age to arms. Persons unfit for ac
tive service in the field to garrison towns. The presB
praises the measure and demands its application
throughout the Island.
General News.
Augusta, July 27.—There was a heavy rain storm
this evening.
The Constitutionalist states that a disguised party
visited the jail at Appling, Columbia county, and
took therefrom a negro man and woman, who were
found dead on the road-side Sunday morning. The
negroes had had a difficulty with a white family.
Albany, N. V., July 27.—The Sheriff and his pos
se have been driven from East Greenock by the anti
renters. The Sheriff was mortally, and five of the
posse seriously wounded.
Buffalo, July 27.—Edward Holpto, an elderly
man, fell into Niagara Falls, a distance of one hun
dred and eighty feet to-day, and was instantly killed.
Baltimore, July 28.—The Colored Labor Conven
tion has passed resolutions, that the objections of
white men to work with negroes must be overcome—
a national negro convention to meet in Baltimore
next December, and invoking Congress to drive
Chinese labor out of the country. * >, .. ■- n j . f
Richmond. July 28.—The State Treasurer will
commence the payment of the one per cent. Janu
ary interest on the State registered bonds on the
15th of August, and as soon thereafter as possible
tho payment of coupons will be made.
The.Boyal assent to the disestablishment bill bra
been sent to both Houses. The Commons applaud
ed loudIy.J"~'"*"v: '' |! "
A collision between two Hull steamers resulted in
their sinking and the loss of twenty passengers and
the crew.
Madrid, July 27.—The Cariists were repulsed in
attempting to capture Pampoluna. Several were
killed on both sides. . raws .telctdhi.S A .t.
A party of Cariists were defeated by the volun
teers at Saras eon.
Offers of aid to put down the rebellion come
fiom all quarters of Spain. Purtero offers his ser
vices. '. V: . . ,
London, July 27 Gladstone is unwell. Parlia
ment has prorogued till the tenth of Angnst. Faults
have been discovered in the Atlantic Cable of 1866.
They have been located one hundred and fifty miles
from Valentia.
Duxbury, July 28—The French Cable Ib pierfect.
Its present capacity is 18 words per minute direct,
and 25 words by repeating at St. Pierre.
Paris, July 28.—It is reported that Don Carlos
has ordered the cessation of the movement in his
behalf, in Spain.
From Louisiana.
New Orleans, July 28—The investigation of the
customs frauds are steadily progressing. Solicitor
Bareii-.Id Las retained the legal firm of Hudson A
Fearn to assist the District Attorney in the prosecu
tion of cases. ~ .
Tiie Cabinet on Texas, Mlssslssippi
j-t and Virginia*|
Mr. Forney telegraphs his Philadelphia Press
of the 24th from Washington as follows:
Texas and Mississippi.—The several parties
in Texas and Mississippi are represented here
by delegations whose duty it is to urge the ad
ministration to use its influence there for the
Conservative or Radical candidates in the pend
ing campaigns. After carefully canvassing the
Cabinet, both parties agree tnat Secretaries
Boutwell and Robeson, Attorney General Hoar
and Post-master General CresweU are opposed
to the Conservative movement. It is, therefore,
evident that the patronage of the government,
which is mainly composed of the offices in the gift
of the Treasury and Post-office Departments, will
boused for the benefit of the Radicals. Both par
ties also agree that President Grant will not in
terfere with the desire of the heads of the sev
eral departments, although the Conservatives
assert that he is inclined to pursue a strictly
neutral policy. They therefore claim that no
changes will be made in either State, nnless oc
casion requires new appointments, in which
case most undoubtedly the Radicals will receive
material benefit. j . ■■
Virginia.—The Radicals of Virginia, who da
ring the late election were opposed to the suc
cessful ticket, have made arrangements to pre
sent arguments to Congress with a view to in-
fluencing that body to reject the constitution as
adopted. A delegation of leading Radicals from
that State will stay here until the question is
finally settled. Those of the delegation now
here claim that one-half of the Cabinet, viz:
Secretaries Boutwell, Creswell, and Robeson,
are inclined to favor their proposition, but are
not willing to recommend a new election. It is
therefore probable that their efforts will prove
futile.
Wanted the Man Thrown In.—A Canadian
Clergyman, not long since, was called upon by
an Irish girl who inquired how much he asked
for “marrying anybody.”
He replied, “a dollar and a half’and Biddy
departed. . ,
A few evenings later, on being summoned to
the door, he was accosted by the same person,
with the remark that she had come to be mar
ried.
“Very well,” said the minister—but perceiv
ing with astonishment, that she was alone, he
continued, “where is the man ?” • ■
An expression of disappointment passed over
Biddy’s features as she ejaculated:
“And don’t you find the man for a dollar and
a half ?
Drowned, Probably.—A negro boy who was
bathing in the creek in Girard left his clotheB
under the creek bridge and waded down to where
the creek enters the river; he was last seen
there. His clothes and hat were found late in
the afternoon. His mother came down to look
for him, and on learning the probabilities, on
the tenderness of : her sympathies, exclaimed:
“Well, if he’s drowned I reckon he’ll rise
again.” So she went home not much concerned.
[Columbus Sun.
. «. ..
Baker County.—A correspondent of the Sav
annah News says:
Some of the planters of this connty are using
the fertilizers extensively and successfully, and
I doubt not but what their land will yield from
fifty to one hundred per cent. mare. Each plan
ter has three or four acres of cotton planted
around his house. This they have manured
well, either with stable manure or guano. The
owner of one of these patches says his will
average one hundred and sixty forms to the
stalk. I saw his patch, and I saw another gen-
tlesman’s, and if the former’s will average one
hundred and sixty, I know the latter’s will.
Com crops are splendid; stalks higher than
you can reach on your horse, and each having
from two to four ears. I heard one old gentle
man remark, who has been farming on that place
four years, “that this was the best corn crop he
had ever made.”
A Savannah (Georgia) paper says that “it is
a rare thing for the Northern Democrats to make
a judicious nomination,” and that “since the
South has been out of their councils the party
appears to hare lost its brains.” Now, we al
ways thought, and wo believe all sensible men
at the South are satisfied by the result, that it
was the Southern politicians who were crazy at
the Charleston Convention in 1860, and not the
Northern Democrats. If the Southern leaders
had followed the advice of their Northern
friends, the party would have been in power,
and all of our trouble have been averted. As
for the Northern Democrats not making “judi
cious nominations,” our Southern cotemporary
knows nothing. He does not live hero; he
knows little of the temper of our people, and his
advice, in any case, would evidently be the
worst that could he adopted. His article, which
we find copied in Republican exchanges, was
evidently written for the Republican market,
where he himself has been, we are satisfied, for
some time.—Cin cin n ati Enquirer.
I Thanks—We again thank the polite and attent
ive route agents of the Southern Express Office for
a copy of yesterday’s Savannah News, in advance
of the mail, and from which we dip the following
paragraph, in regard to the assault upon the Wash
ington Comet Band (colored,) by a negro mob in
Charleston, on the 26th tost:
The attack was of the most unprovoked and bru
tal nature that can be imagined—two or three thou
sand armed and furious devils in human form,
armed with clubs, palings tom from the fences,
stones and brickbats, rushed upon these unpro
tected and innocent and harmless men, kicking
them down, beating and. jumping upon them—vei
ling all the while as though hell had broken loose,
and all its fiends had rushed forth to devour the
world. Nearly every member of the band was
struck. A squad of soldiers came to the rescue,
and drove the mob from the grounds. The Mavor
was present, but, when called upon for assistance,
asserted that he was powerless to afford it Gen
eral Anderson, Chief of the Savannah police force,
then requested the commandant of the military to
furnish protection to the band, which request was
: granted, and they were escorted to the Charleston
Hotel, where the clubs formed in line, accompanied
by the invited guests, with a squad of soldiers in
front and rear—marched to the hall of the Vigilant
Fire Company, where the Oarolinas entertained
their visitors with an elegant repast.
■ - 1 — .
FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL*
Foreign Hew*.
London, July 27—It is rumored that a new trea
ty has been made between France, Austria and
His funeral will take place this afternoon at j thereby Italy furnishes fifty thousand troops
four o’clock. I and will occupy Viterbo in case of war.
Captain Ceroopely was respected for his many ! It is rumored that Prussia offers the Pope twelve
excellent traits of character, and esteemed as a thousand troops, should France vacate Rome,
good citizen,—Sir. Repsiblicun. -Egypt is ansung extensively.
Stock Feed—Our attention was called yesterday
to a new article of stock feed, in the shape of a bale
of hay which had been cut, winnowed and mashed
before baling, thus removing all the dnst and trash
from the hay before packing, whilst at the same
time all the hard joints in the grass were mashed
and softened, and then cut up finely so that it could
be easily mixed with oats or other grain, and thus
render it much more nutritious and easier of diges
tion. We were assured that this cut hay saves fully
25 per cent, to the stock feeder, though it sells at
an advance of 50 cents per bale upon the usual
mode of packing. It can be seen at Burdick &
Bro.’s grocery and provision store, on Third street,
and . these gentlemen take special pleasure in des
canting upon ite virtues.
T’Mi- r—i — -os. ■ —-V;
More Rain—-For the last three dayswe have had
a shower of rain each day, between the hours of 12
and 2 ?. n. How long this arrangement is to last,
or how long the Clerk of the weather proposes to
run on’thie schedule, we do not know; but we do
know that if it is kept up much longer it will excite
serious apprehensions in regard to the cotton crop
in this vicinity. The shower of yesterday afternoon
was the longest and heaviest that has fallen here
during the month.
Weekly Review of the Market.
OFFICE DAILY TELEGRAPH, >
July 28—Evening, 1869.f
Aside from the operations in provisions and plan
tation supplies, the wholesale and jobbing trad* of
the city has been extremely dull during the week
closing this evening. Prices for leading articles to
dry goods have been steady all the week and have
changed noDe whatever, but the trade in dry goods,
clothing, etc., is very limited at this time of the
year, and the merchant who can keep pace with his
expenses is doing remarkably well.
Financially we have nothing to report Honey is
something tighter than it has.been for months past,
but A1 paper has no trouble in getting accommoda
tion at the usual rates of discount. There is an
abundance of exchange in market bnt it is a little
slow of sale.
The stock and bond market is as dead as a mack
erel, and this class of securities have no longer a
charm upon capitalists, or at leat they have been
abandoned for better paying investments.* We
quote the market perfectly flat at the following
rates: 1
EXCHANGE ON NEW YORK.
Bnypg K prem
Selling..• i......;.....; prem
UNITED STATES CURRENCY—LOANS.
Per month 1)4@2 per cent
GOLD AND SILVER.
Buying rates for Gold...' ........... ., .$132
Bn;
raying ra
pilling- .
grates for Silver....; ...1 20i
1 30
' r. RAILROAD STOCKS AND BONDS.
Central Railroad Stock.........’......... ■....121
Central Railroad Bonds ; .104
Macon &. Western Railroad Stock 138
Southwestern Railroad Stock 105
Soutwestem Railroad Bonds .101
Macon & Brunswick Stock 35
Macon & BrunswickRailroadEndoraedBonds... 90
GeorgiaBailroad Stock 7. 104@105
Georgia Bailroad Bonds 102
Muscogee Railroad Bonds 92
Atlantis & Gulf Bailroad Stock 35
Augusta & Waynesboro Railroad Stock.92
South Carolina Railroad Stock...7.:. 45@50
Cotton States life Insurance Stock : .>'.105
STATE Alto CITY STOCKS AND BONDS.
Macon Gas Company Stock. 140
Macon Factory Stock 110
City of Macon Reserve Mortgaged Bonds....... 80
City of Macon Endorsed Bonds .100
State of Georgia new 7 per cent. Bonds 95
State of Georgia old 7 per cent Bonds...;...... 93
Stateof Georgia old 6 per cent. Bonds.......... 82
Cotton. — Receipts to-day 11 bales ; sales 3 ;
shipped 16.
Receipts for the week, ending this evening, the
above included, 35 bales; sales for same time 7S;
shipments 135 —showing an increase of receipts
over those of the week before of 22 bales; decrease
of sales for same time 60.
The market has been very quiet and 'doll all the
week under review and" the few sales effected were
on a basis of 30 cents for middlings. The offering
stock is well nigh, exhausted and there are now but
two or three local buyers in market
MACON COTTON STATEMENT.
Stock on hand Sept. 1,1868—bales... 1.S26
Received past week ;.... 35 . .
Received previously. . 58,355—58,S90
59.716
Shipped past week...... 135
Shipped previously .59,504—59.639
Stock on hand this evening.-. 77
. GROCERIES AND PROVISIONS.
Trade in this line the past week has been confined
mostly to the articles of com and bacon; but as a
general thing the market has been quite dull.
On Friday and Saturday last the stock of com in
market was large and prices fell off from. 5 to 10c
per bushel; but since then the stock has been very
materially reduced and the decline has been checked
—prices this evening standing about 5c per bushel
under what they were in our last weekly review of
the market, with an upward tendency and good de
mand.
Bacon has been firm all the week under a strong
demand and steadily advancing prices. Onr quota
tions are fully one cent higher to'-day than on
Wednesday of last week. , : '
Hi other articles our grocery and provision mar
ket is quiet at unchanged prices. With these re
marks we give carefully revised quotations, includ
ing those for coiton baling material:
BACON—Clear Sides (smoked)..
Clear Bib Sides (smoked).
Hams (country).
Hams (sugar-cured)
RK—Mess
Prime Mess..,...,
Rumps................
BULK MEATS-Clear 8ideB..
..$ 20)4©
21
. 20 ®
20)4
17
. 16)4®
•V 28 @
24 ©
-MK
. 36 50 @37 50
. 33 00 @34 00
. 30 00
19)4
. 19
22 @
26
30 @
33
. 43 @
45
10 @
12)4
9 @
11
1 50
2 00
40
: 30
. 25
25
@ 2 00
@2 50
@ 50
40
SO
27
23K
20
70
Shoulders.....
COFFEE—Rio
Laguayra
Java
DRIED FRUIT, per pound.. i...
RICE per pound
TEA—Black
Green...'. ..-
BUTTER—Goshen
Tennessee Yellow ;..
Country
CHEESE—According to quality...
LARD— . 2214©
SUGAR—According to grade...... 16 @
MOLASSES—According to grade.. 65 @
FISH—Mackerel, bbls, No. 1, 2, 3. 15 00 @24 00
Kits ....I 3 00 @5 00
Codfish per pound 10
SALT—Liverpool per sack 2 75
Virginia..1 2 50
WHISKY—Common Bye.. ..... .. 1 20
Fine 2 50
Com.. 1 15
Bourbon ' 3 50
ALE—Per dozen 3 00
TOBACOO—Low grades per pound 50
Medium 60
Good ;.... 75
. Bright Virginia......,...,.-. 85
Fancy 1 25
FLOUR—-Superfineperbbl..... 7 00
® 1234
@ 3 00
@ 1 50
@ 5 00
@ 1 35
@ 5 00
@ 4 00
@ 55
® 70
@ 80
@ 1 00
@ 1 50
Extra..:'. ~ 9 00 @10 00
Family......' 10 50 @1100
Fancv Family Brands 12 00 @13 00
New "per barrel. 11 00
GRAIN AND HAY.
CORN—Yellow, Mixed and White. 1 85 @ 1 40
MEAL..... 1 40
GRITS 150 @1,55
OATS 1 00 0-1-O5
WHEAT—Per bushel 1 40 @ 1 50
FIELD PEAS..... 1 45
HAY—Northern 190 @200
Tennesse Timothy 2 00
HerdsGrass... 2 00
Tennessee 2 00
DOHBSTICS.
Domestics—3-4 per yard 12}^
Shikting—7-6 per yard 13J4@ 14
4-4 15 @1534
Dmmxa—He»vyBrownperyard.-..‘....18 @20
Heavy Georgia Stripes..,....;... 18 @21
Osnabubgs—No.1,8 oz :.... 22 @22)4
No. 2, 7 oz 19 @21
Richmond.. .19
Milledgeville. No. 1......22
Flint River. No. 1 24
Shat.t.fy—Cnthbert, per yard .....30
BAGGIITG, TIES AND TWINE.
BAGGING—Borneo, 2% lbs. per yard.. 31
Kentucky Roll, 2)4 “ - “ ■' “ .. 27 @28)4
BALING TWINE, per pound.......;... 40
IRON TIES—Arrow, per pound 8)4® 9
LATEST MARKETS BY TELEGRAPH.
Domestic Markets.
New Yoke, July 28, noon Gold 8654. J862s 23)4.
Stocks feverish. Sterling 9)4. North Carolines 68:
new 58)4- Virginias, ex-coupons 57)4i new 61)4
asked. Tennessees, ex-coupons 63; new 56)4—
Louisiana*, old 69; levees 64)4.
Flour 5@10 lower. Wheat 1@2 lower.' Coml
lower: all dull. Mess Pork qniet, S3 00. Lard dull.
Turpentine favors buyers. Rosin steady; common
strained 2 23; good strained 2 30. Freights dull.
Cotton quiet; uplands 34.
New Yobe, July 28, evening. — Flour closed
dull and scarcely so firm; superfine to fancy State
6 85@7 40; superfine to choioe white Western 5 85
17 70; Southern drooping: common to choioe extra
90® 1175. Wheat heavy; new extra Virginia 165.
Com 2@3 lower; mixed western 110@111. Beef
steady. Mess Pork firmer; new 83 25: old 32 50.—
Lard firm; kettle 19J4@20. Whisky dull, 111.—
Sugar in fair request. Other Groceries quiet Na
val Stores quiet Turpentine 41)4@42)4. Rosin
2 25@8 00. Freights firm; cotton, per steam 34,-
wheat per steam 7)4- . .
Cotton rather more active; sales 1500 bales at 34.
Money easy, 6®7. Discounts 8@10. Sterling
firm, Gold closed heavy, 85)4- Gov
ernments dull but steady. Southerns dull.
Baltotobe, July 28.— Cotton quiet, 34.
Flour quiet and scarce. Wheat heavy: red 1 55@
1 65. Com firmer; prime white 110@113. Oats
dull; 65@70. Mess Pork quiet, 34 00. Bacon active
and advancing. Whisky scare?.
Savannah, July 28—Cotton, no market; no of
fering stock; exports 110 bales.
Augusta, July 28—Cotton easier: nothing doing;
receipts 7 bales; sales 20: middlings 31)4@82.
Charleston, July 28. — Cotton quiet; PU^f 68 *
no receipts: exports coastwise*) bales; **«dling«
\ nominally 92.
WrLMEtoxoN^Jffiy 28-Turpentine acti^T'
Ta?qX“2 \
Mobile, July 28. — Cotton, sales 500 I
wipts 11; market dull; mMAWiw^ gj. fmi, j 6 ® 1 *■
among *-few. - I
-S*"** |
-KEfe,
Bran 1 05. Hay. prime &9 00. Mess iwt 1 ,J —
35 50. Baoon, shoulders SS)4 ; clear rib **
clesr sides 19)4. Lard,.tierce 19V@21k«^* ,4
22 K- Sugar stiffer; common lOJfgli v • S
Wtus£ 117)4. Coffee dull; fa£lfS$M*K
17- Molasses nominal; prime fermenting 63
Foreign Markets.
duft£’ ^ n ° On - C0n80liS »^ Bo^ |
Sugar, on spot quiet; afloat steadv
Liverpool, J* 28, noon—Cotton aa]«iw I
bales; uplands 12)4; Orleans 12W; maritet«
firmer. . ’ »shads |
Red Western Wheat 9sld.
^vkbpool. July 28, p. m—Cotton uncW,o
Havre, July 29. — Cotton, opened
spot 151)4; closed on spot and afloat 151 ^ sot| •
^London, July 28, evening— Consols 9% ^
Tallow 2Gs6d.
Liverpool, July 28, evening.—Cotton ..
000 bales; uplands 12)4; Orleans 12&-
shade firmer. ““‘a i
Red Western Wheat 9sld@9s2d.
James R. Butts, Esq.—The memoir
--....~ , y of tijfa
and prominent citizen of Macon, demands a -
onr hands than the brief announcement ^
death. His public services to the State, his^
plary life, his indomitable energy and pe'rse;-^
in all his undertakings, would furnish the mite u
for a most interesting biography; bnt * e
leave that work for some one mors family.
the subject, and oonfine ourselves to a brief reriei
of some of the leading features of his career
James B. Butte was bom in the State ot Connee.
ticut, on the 22d day of August, 1802, ad
Maeon on the 26th day of July, 1669-aged sixtt^
years, eleven months and four daye. Re **’.v
oldest eon of Dr. Elijah Butts, of Connecticut, aj
when quite a young man he left the State J; v..
birth and became a citizen of Twiggs county,Ga,
where he soon afterwards entered into the merejj.
tile and boating business—running his boats to 1R
con, where he soon after located.
Abont the year 1830, he conceived the idea c j
adapting steamboats to the navigation of the Oc-
mulgee river, and constructed the steamer‘B-n.
eer’ —the forerunner of a line of steamers oiled
the-Tioneer Line.” extending from Macon to Tv
rien, Savannah and Charleston. To the euwesud
this enterprise Maoon owes much of its proepea;.
During this Interval he was associated in buaiaesi
first with Mr. Coats, and soon afterwards with «t
esteemed citizen, Mr. Charles Day.
The building of the Central Bailroad from Sivt
nah to Macon,'changed the route of trade from tit
river, when Mr. Butts extended his enterprise to fit
Flint and Chatiahooche Rivers.
In 1850, Mr. Butts was elected Surveyor Genet
of the State, which office he filled with m&rke}
tinction during Gov. Town's administration, h
1856 he returned to Macon, and in 1857 compiled u
authentic map of the State, which to this davit c
admirable and accurate work for reference to fit
geographical student.
In 1862 he was captured at St. Mark's, Fiorio-
wliitherhehad gone to establish Salt Works-tyi
party of Federal cruisers, and was incarcerate la
nine months in the prison at Fort Lafayette, r-
the distinguished Dr. Ould, of OMo, and othts
On being released from his long imprisonment, it
immediately returned to his adopted State ad
family, and was known as a most zealous and &
deviating, friend of the South and her brate de
fenders in the field.
Since the war he was the senior partner io fie
real estate firm of Butts & Brother, of this c.tj.
arid whilst conducting the business ot the office be
conceived the plan of throwing into the marketed
the world, by means of floating saw-mills, the mif
nificent timber resources of the State which line fie
banks of the Ocmnlgee River. Through his effom
the Georgia'White Orik Lumber Company was op
ganized, of which he .was the President, and daring
last year he built-at our city wharf the“TaMah^ 1
a substantial and admirably constructed boat, for
getting out ship-knees, pipe andbanelstaves; bn:
which, for Some cause not yet clearly defined, met
with a disaster soon after it arrived at the field oi
operations, which checked and stopped the farther
prosecution of an enterprise which will yet be car
ried out, and confirm the vievrB of Mr. Butts, u
often expressed to the writer, that from the timber
along the banks of the Ocmulgoe, vast fortw«
would some day be hewed out, by public spirits!
and enterprising men.
Up to within a short'time of his death, Mr. Bette
was in the enjoyment of good health, for one of bs
years; but when disease, at last, came, his enfeebled
frame could not withstand the Bhock, and it broke
suddenly aa the dried reed. Be was seized about)
o'clock, on Saturday night last, with an attack c!
bilious cholic, which tertninated in congestion of fie
bowels, and he expired cm Monday afternoon, it 5
p. m., calmly and quietly, “like one who wraps fie
drapery of bis conch about him and lies do-ra to
pleasant dreams.”
Vain Wish.—We heard a pensive man remit;
yesterday: “I wish I had all the money back tin: I
have spent for drinks the past ten yean.’’ The
wish was vain, hut it may not be uninteresting tc
him and others who cherish the same reflections. U
make a calculation of the amount they would reshu
if it were possible to reoover the money thus speat
Before going into figures, however, we might saffej
state that not one in twenty who, retrospective;;
gazing, gives utterance to that wish, has iabx
mind even an approximating idea of theuaosst
which a person of even moderate bibulous propens-
ties may spend upon drink in the space of tea
years. Bat; leaving wishes and expensive honors
quite out of the question, let us see what a plain
cocktailist or modem imbiber of old rye is likely tc
disburse on his favorite refreshments in the couise
of a year. Take.a very moderate man as a simple-
Assume that he drinks one glass of ale at ten cents,
and four glasses of whisky at fifteen. That amounts
to seventy cents a day, which makes four dollsm
and nmoty cents a week. Multiply by four, aad
you have nineteen dollars and sixty cents a month,
which oomes, you know, to one hundred and thirty-
five dollars and twenty-five cents & year. Thus, if
the man who had carried on at this rate for ten
years had all his liquor money back, his pocif-
would be inflated to the tune of thirteen hundR-
and fifty-two dollars. This ia only a small beer es
calation ; but think of the men who spend first®-
this amount on liquors, and remember that
name is legion.^
During the heavy rain yesterday afternoon,
just after a loud peal of thunder, a mule abo c:
seventeen years of age, started down Fourth street
with a dray attached to it, at a gait that madepe^
pie believe it was a young and likely animal. ‘ If '*
was running to get out of the rain, we have nothin
more to say; but. if it was running from thor.der-
it’s owner was.rigbt when, seizing it by the ears, M
called it a “darned fool,” and informed it that ’"•***
thunder was ahead before you started.”
Personal.—The Commissi on era appointed at
last session of the Mabtrns Legislature, to loo
after the matter of annexing Florida to Alabina-
were in the city yesterday, but we did not best o
their presence until it was too late to obtain an in
terview and learn what they had done, or propel
to do on the subject
The Telegraph has already published the ter® 5
upon which the authorities - of both States hire
agreed to settle the matter, and it is possible tW
papers have lately been signed, sealed and d*m
ered, and the Oommiseioners are on their way fit® 1 '
with the documents in their pockets.
Burglary.—The residence of Mr. Gabe
near the upper end of Cotton Avenue, was
on Tuesday night last and robbed of a lot of * ^
ing apparel for both males and females.
entered through a second story windo* fry means
a ladder. Before be departed he
to the pantry, in eating pra*-*™**
etc., thereby showing th*» 116 ***? at least, a
of taste, if his mo*^ *** ^
qw city wm onuguaUy qniet yesterday-
of tart one arrest, in police °*, *
man who, being, too limber to take owe of bkotsJ’
was kindly furnished with quartan# «t tb« city h»t ? -
His bill for the earns wiS be pwafot** this men®*
gt Iffiook. te tbe _
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