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The Greopgia. "Weekly Telegraph. THE TELEGRAPH. MACON FRIDAY, JULY 30, 1869. A Desperate and Abandoned Man. We print, in another place, with a view to complete the picture of the Radical explosion in Macon, Swayze’s rehash of his evidence against Tomer—leaving the reader to l ■rm his own opinion about its truth. It is certainly an in different matter to ns. Borne score or nine negroes and whites of Swayze’s own party come forward and swear that this man is so reckless and wicked that they would not believe him npon his oath. Nobody opposed to Swayze in politics, from first to last, has had any hand in this affair, except as a few of them have been dragged into it by subpoenas to answer questions generally npon points more or less irrelevant and unimportant. The Government brought the suit and both the prosecution and defence, in every essential particular, is exclusively a Radical affair—not a Democrat impeached Swayze’s veracity—and yet this man represents himself as a victim to the rottenness of societyhere. He says “it can not be denied he is surrounded by traitors, per jurers and lawless mobbers”—when he is sim ply surrounded by his own politioal associates, bladk and white, who swear they have no con fidence in Ms personal integrity. The “perjurers and traitors and mobbers, by whom he is assailed in character," are sim ply and solely his own political associates—the loyal blacks, and the white men who engineer them This is a nice individual, in a very pe culiar situation, to bo comparing Mmself to an ■“opright and truthful man” in “a community of •thieves,” and in his shocking and maudlin blas phemy, to illustrate Ms position by the fate of the Saviour, or the estimation in wMch Lincoln tnfj Ren Butler would be held in Macon. ■ ■<»» ■ — Getting Ready In Time. A committee of PhiladelpMans address the President upon a mammoth centennial celebra tion of the 4th of July, 187C, on a scale of mag nificence and splendor wMch shall outdo crea tion. They propose a musical festival in a col- lisenm wMch shall accommodate one hundred people and twelve thousand perform ers. Is there no originality in the Keystone State? MnsttheybeserrileimitatorsofBoston? Can't they think of something new ?—a monster balloon wMch shall take up half a million peo ple Mgherthan their exstatics ?—water-works wMch shall spout up the Delaware river five miles Mgh?—fire works wMch shall consume ten million tons of Pennsylvania carbon? If they will have music, so-called, wMch shall- drown out Boston, let them run ten thousand steam caliopes—let them bnild an organ which shall cover the whole of Independence Square ten stories high and run it by a steam engine of tea thousand horse power. Let them invite the Finnegans and the Grand Army of the Repub lic to encircle the city by columns of [companies and salute the birth place of American Indepen dence with a thousand rounds of blank cart ridges. Let them close np the performances by paying off the national debt and making a general bonfire and illumination of the bonds, the greenbacks, the fractional currency,[the re- -constrnction acts—the fourteenth and fifteenth amendments—the civil rights bill and negro suf frage, and start out in 1876, at sun down, npon respectable'and sensible basis for the future administration of national affairs. Pdtnam’s Magazine, for August, came yes terday. The most prominent articles are—“A Martyr to Science,” a Frenchy extravaganza, "by the author of “Still Life in Paris;" “More Light,” an essay, by the distinguished Southern writer, Professor Sebele do Vere, tracing the history of “light” from the period when the blazing fagot of the forest was used, down to (he age of magnesium and zircoon; “The De fects of Women, and How to Remedy Them," an Englishman’s paper, on the mental and phys ical education of females, wMch deserves to be •road and carefully considered by the “girl of the iperiod;” and an interesting article, descriptive •of an “Ascent of the Monte Rosa,” by J. M. Hart. Juror Bunches of Grapes.—Mr. D. Milne, of this county,sent ns yesterday two bunches of grapes very large and fine—the largest of wMch weighed two pounds and we have hung np the cluster as a trophy. The messenger gave these grapes some German name wMch we will not undertake to spell. They resemble the Concord in appearance and flavor, - v r Louisiana Rice Crop.—It is estimated that the Louisiana Bice crop this year will be eighty- ax thousand barrels of 200 pounds each. Har vesting will commence on the 1st of Angost. The Cuban flag has five stripes, three wMte and two blue, the colors alternating. At the staff, it has a red triangle, with a white star in the centre. On the flag are the words “La Goerra de Cuba.” Tbom Marietta.—The Journal of the 23d an nounces rain at last. At the fire in Marietta last •Saturday four stores were burned, occupied by Mr. Dupre, Thomas Cook, R. M. McCutchen & Bro., and J. C. Smith—loss about $1000—par- • dally covered by insurance. The Tennessee Election.—The Radicals in "Washington admit that Stokes will be defeated fby forty or fifty thousand majority. Radicals in Georgia report the same. The election takes jilace the 0th August next. Fbom the Celestial Empire.—Dates from 'China, by way of San Francisco, last Monday, aay another formidable rebellion is breaking ont In the Foo Ghoo District, and the conspirators number five hundred thousand. The people were fleeing, in dread 'of the disturbance, to Hong Kong, for protection. .Rains.—The late rains, we see, reached as far northwest as Atlanta, and, we hope, were quite general. We think before the weather settles again all will have enough, and, may be, ■A little to spare. First Case or Yellow Fever in New Or leans.—The first case and death from yellow fe ver this season occurred in New Orleans on Monday last The victim was a yonng French man, just from Havre. He Btopped but a few bonis in Havana, and was quarantined eight days off New Orleans. Span is getting into the throes of civil war. A fight between the authorities, and a band of Carlists has occurred at Cindad Real. Repeal of thz Income Tax—Forney’s Press says several members of Congress will introduce Kill* next session to repeal the income tax Exemplary Chawfishxno. —The House of Lords displayed some exemplary crawfishing night before last on the Disestablishment Bill. T*e Albany News comes to ns much enlarged account of the pressure of advertisements. The Eufaula News of the 23d says they are having delightful showery weather. The Rome Courier says the Superior Court of county has 700 cases. T« Salem {Roanoke County, Va.,) Times an nounces the arrival there of General Hardee and family. fhi lbane Farmer neooaamanda giving pig* took salt twioe.a week is their food. Lost Bis Mare. We beg leave to express the condolence of this community with His Excellency, the Presi dent of the United States, npon the death of his “favorite mare, Ada,” as reported by telegraph through the New York Press Association, and appropriately published in this paper yesterday. We trust the prompt arrival of the President’s two carriage horses, Egypt and Cincinnati, at Long Branch, as reported by telegram, imme diately before this sad catastrophe, had the happy effect to diminish the sense of bereave ment Bnt the meeting of these intelligent creatures, under such melancholy circumstances, was af fecting in the extreme. We can imagine how the sick “Ada” tinned her agonized gaze to the royal pair of coach horses, os they passed, and apostrophized one of them in the words of the poet: “ I am dying, Egypt,—dying!” and the affecting and emphatio “neigh” of Egypt as he refused to credit the sorrowful tidings. These things distress ns much. And let no man think that these domestic “creeter” belong ings of the President do not merit telegraph tolls and tears. The most dignified historians have transmitted to ns, through the dusty vista of centuries, a minute and particular view of the stable arrangements of Nero—Ms ivorystalls and golden mangers, and earlier than that they tell ns all about Alexander's horse Bucephalus—and even the good book discourses about Balaam’s ass and Tobit's dog—although the latter is chni. lenged as apocryphal—and we know the favorite horse and camel of the prophet share, in the minds of the devout mussulmen, the pious rev erence they entertain for the founder of their religion. Don Quixote’s Rosinante and honest Sancho’s mnle Dnmplo are world renowned— and the “man on horse-back” is now the syno nym for inexorable fate and manifest destiny. Gen. Grant’s “hoss talk" is historical, although he can hardly yet bo said to have secured a sta ble administration, and the death of Ada may have even a more unfortunate effect in that par ticular than the loss of poor Borie. We trust the Republican Conventions, throughout the States, will take early action on thissnbject. From Lowndes and Berrien. A Berrien county correspondent of the Val dosta South Georgia Times gives a very favora ble account of affairs in that county. There had been some suffering from drought, but generally speaking crops were very good. He says a pro fessional man reported that he counted 291 bolls and forms on a stalk of cotton, and believed that he had lots of stalks that had three hundred, and another one, it is thought, will make between one thousand and fifteen hundred bushels of rice besides good corn and cotton crops. The weather in Lowndes had been stormy, more or less rain, thunder and wind every day. The Times says: As for the crops, we report pretty mnch the same as last week—excellent corn crop, fine pros pect for cotton, potatoes, cane, etc. The far mers are hopeful and the caterpillar has not yet made its appearance. Some of them think the caterpillar will not make its appearance this year, at all, while others are inclined to take a less hopeful view. The tMrd District meeting of the Brunswick District of the M. E. Church, was to be bolden in Blackshear on the 2Sth. The Times says: We take the liberty of recommending the good people of Blackshear to lay in an extra supply of cMckens, eggs, hams, etc., for the use of the delegates. Methodist preachers are said to have litue weaknesses for those articles. Rev. Dr. Pierce, one of the oldest men in Is rael, is expected. He is Sunday-school agent, and has the interest of Sunday-schools under his immediate care. The Colored Population of Savannah Appear to be exceedingly tnrbulent and virions. The newspapers of that city seldom pass a day without chronicling some new exploit in the way of violent knavery. The Daily Advertiser of Thursday, for example, has the following: Highway Robbery.—We learn that on Tues day evening last, as a party of countrymen were returning to their homes from market, they were stopped by a band of seven negroes, who assaulted and robbed them. One of the negroes told a member of the party that he might go to town to take out warrants for their arrest, bnt he conldn’t get any, as there was “no rich tings as warrants any more.” About the same time the above affair took place, another parly of countrymen were stopped near Fipemaker’s Creek, on the Augusta road, six miles from the city, and robbed—one of the number, who re sisted the negroes, was severely beaten. Negro Desperadoes.—We learn that two Ger mans, while passing in the vicinity of Reed’s Row, near the canal, on Tuesday night, were set npon and severely beaten by colored men. Blasted by Lightning. The Colnmbus Enquirer of Tuesday last no ticed the fact that about half an acre of cotton in Mr. Holland’s plantation in Lee county, was killed outright by a stroke of lightning, and tho earth itself seems so paralyzed as to lose all power of vegetation. The same paper of Thurs day noticed a similar occurrence in a field be longing to Major A. C. Morrison, a few miles be low Columbus, where a plot of about thirty yards square was destroyed in the same man ner. Negro Labor in Stewart. A correspondent of the Columbus Enquirer gives the first unfavorable report of negro labor we bave noticed, for some time. He says: I am still of the opinion that the present sys tem of labor will ruin this once prosperous country. Labor is fifty per cent, worse than it was two years ago, for it has been the best year to work crops since the war. The rains have been regular and light, (with the exception of one very heavy rain, which set us back some,) and now we are a little dry, and some are really suffering. Notwithstanding all these favorable tilings, there are more crops ruined for want of work than I have everseen. Some are not done chopping ont yet, and uqll not make a bale to ten acres; while a great many are not over the second time with the hoes. In fact, wMle I am writing, my mind is confused with the thought that I nave twenty or tMrty acres not chopped the second time. Yet it is said that I have done well and have a good crop. There are one or two men who work old sandy, land, that have kept clean all the year. From Randolph Conhly. The Cnthbert Appeal of Thursday has the following: _ '***-' ' I Our community has been greeted by a visit from one of Gen. Terry's officials, who came clothed with authority to investigate eleven hor rible murders, which the General’s informant avered had been perpetrated in peaceful old Randolph. The Federal Colonel was received with every courtesy and attention, and after being enter tained by an African pow-wow on Sunday night, condescended to listen to the other side, and gave audience to the whites in the Court-house the following day. Our citizens volunteered every assistance in their power to aid in ferretting out crime wher ever it existed, and we venture the assertion that our inquisitorial visitor, returned to head quarters profoundly impressed with the falsity of Radical statements. ' Weather and Crops.—A large portion of this county is now suffering for the lack of rain, and com crops, where late, will be seriously cut off. Cotton too is mnch wilted, and begins to blossom all over, indicating the cessation of growth. A glut of rain will cause the plant to cast much of its fruit. The weather is now very cool, and showers are passing about. A general rain is mneb needed. The Chinamen have pigtails and almond eyes, and flattened faces and names studded with Angs and Engs. But these little peculiarities will not set our people against them.—Charles ton News. Well, with a little more practice with the “lit-, tie peculiarities” of the African nee, perhaps we might be able to stand almond eyes and fiat feoee. Entire snits of fine white French -flannel are much fas vogue among young gentlemen at the are cool and Swayxe Restates His Evidence. | Correspondence Between Gov. Bnl- As part of the history of the Turner Imbrog- Comptroller General Bell, lio we copy the following from the American \ Erotn the Atlanta Intelligencer.'] Union, Swayze’s pape % ofyestorday I of Y^Snde^ wMSecentiV3 S Turner s Confession.—Owing to the fact that I between Hw Excellency, Governor Bullock, and portions of my testimony on the occasion of the Turner investigation last Friday, was incorrect ly reported, and that some of it was objected to by the defendant’s counsel, and that it was taken a few words at a time, and therefore disjointed, and in some instances contradictory, I propose now to make an independent statement cover ing all the facts irrespective of objections by counsel. This I deem all the more a duty to myself from the fact that my testimony, as it stands, is impeached. Henry M. Turner came into my office on Sun day, the 4th day of July, about 3 o’clock in the afternoon, and after carefully closing the door, without saying a word to me, he came toward me and sat down on the corner of my editorial table. He looked strangely at me, and then, swinging Ms foot as his leg hung over the table, he half smiling said : “I want to tell you some thing.” Feeling roused at his disturbed de meanor I asked what was the matter? “I am ruined!” said he, “ruined politically, religious ly and every other way,” and he, with a quick movement, started np and down the room wring ing his hands and wiping the profuse perspira tion from Ms face. I said: “Turner, you scare me.; what inthe world is the matter?” He then took from Ms pocket an envelope, and from the envelope a paper and handed it to me. It was a snbpcena to appear in Atlanta the next day as a witness in the case of the United States vs. Ma rian Harris. After I had finished reading it, he gave me another paper from the same envelope; it was a letter from L. J. Gartrell and W. H. Hulsey, of Atlanta, and contained the informa tion that Marian Harris had been arrested, and had made a confidential confession to them as Attorneys, and they advised him that it would be to his interest to see them without delay.— This letter was written on a half sheet of letter paper with a printed head, and to the best of my recollection the heading indicated the firm of “Gartrell & Jackson ;” at all events it was different from the names that were attached to the written letter wMch were: L. J. Gartrell and W. H. Hulsey. I may be incorrect as to the initials of these names, bnt I give them as near as I can remember. After reading the let ter, I asked Tomer what he bad to do with it, and he told me that he had given Marian Har ris the money on account of wMch she had been arrested, and he suspected that the subpoena for Ms appearance in Atlanta was a blind to fa cilitate Ms arrest, and wished my advice as to what was best for him to do. He explained that he had given her $1,800 of tMs spurious money, for the reason that he feared that he might be killed on his way from Washington to Macon, on account of the bitter opposition that existed to his appointment as Post-master of Macon, and he did not wish to have tMs money found upon his person, and said that he instruct ed her to keep it for Mm until they got home. Without tMnMng of the extent to wMch I was committing myself, I advised him that it was his interest to know nothing abont the money in question, not even to the lawyers who professed tohave the secret. He too thought that best, and he left my office determined npon that course of action when he should arrive in Atlanta, to wMch point he was to start that evening. I saw no more of Mm until Tuesday the 6th. Butin the mean time I had thought maturely on the matter, and fully realized the perilous position in wMch Tamer had placed me, and determined that I would not allow the infamy of such a transaction attach itself, in good faith, to myself and my family; so, upon the return of Mr. Turner on Tuesday morning, I told Mm frankly that I could not keep his secret, and that I meant to divulge it to the proper authorities. Upon this announcement Mr. Tomer ap pealed to mein the strongest terms—offered me any price in his power to give, any influence he could command politically; he begged of me, for God’s sake, to keep Ms secret. I told Mm I did not dare to do it—that I was not disposed to do it—that I would not do it, when he very abruptly left my office. That day I went to CoL Morrill’s office and disclosed to Mm what Turner had confessed, and asked Mm to send a detective that I might, be yond doubt, commit him. Col. Morrill was just then very busy with cases of seizures of goods upon wMch the Revenue had not been paid, and told me he could not attend to the matter until Mr. Neil, the detective, returned from Atlanta, which would be on Friday, the 9th. On Wednesday, the 7th, Mr. Tomer again came to my office, and after closing the door, began a sort of defence of his crime by saying that he did not give the counterfeit money in question to Marian Harris, bnt that he laid the package down in the car-seat on their way from Washington to Georgia, and that she had taken it np from the seat. This was offered as a tech nical evasion, which he seemed to suppose would defeat the law. He further stated that he told the woman that it would not be safe for her to try to pass any of this money. She examined it and said that she thought she could pass it easy enough. He further stated that he suspected that she had been passing it to prove to him that she could do more with it than he gave her credit for. After pursuing tMs line some time, he asked if I had yet exposed him. I refused to satisfy him on that point, but repeated to Mm the situation in wMch his confession placed me in the eyes of the law, and told Mm he had no favors to expect from me. At this interview the matter of the publication in the Augusta papers came up. I think it came up by my asking him if he had seen the Augusta papers. He had not seen them. I told him that Mr. Smith, route agent on the Central Road, had been in my office the evening before, and had told me that he had seen an Augusta paper, wMch contained an extract implicating him in the matter for wMch Marian Harris had been arrested, and, npon this information, he at once left my office. In the afternoon of the same day he called again, and said that he had been to the Dlcly Telegraph office, and that the editor of that paper had called his attention to the article of which I had spoken. He then renewed his pleadings for silence on my part, and Mnted, as a threat, that since I had shield ed him thus far, he could implicate me as an accomplice. I pursued the aloof policy—gave Mm no satisfaction, and he retired. On Thursday, the 8th, he visited me again and again renewed Ms pleadings, his excuses and explanations, bnt the same routine was re peated with immaterial variations. On Friday Mr. Neil presented himself.and af ter consultation with Mm I made affidavit to the facts, and as l am since informed a warrant was issued on that day. The editorial which ap peared in the Union on that day, headed “Tur ner in Irons,” was written only because of the positive necessity to say something in defence or explanation of the published charges against Tomer; and matters had not sufficiently devel oped to make a statement of the oase without, possibly, defeating the ends of justice. That artiele, however, when closely analyzed, makes no defence of Tamer,but what is conscienciously due him. For the' days intervening between the 9 th and the 14th—the day of his arrest—nothing of special note transpired, only that he visited my office almost daily, and made it his special busi ness to try to bribe me to be silent. Many people attribute self-interest, revenge, malice, the money of rebels, and every thing else that is mean, to me, as the motive which actuated me in this matter. May I not have a little- credit for common honesty? Is it not plain-that if I had been grovelling I could have jingled rebel gold for such a service? Mr. Tomer offered me everytMng he had, or ex pected to have. When will these revilersof mine learn that I am not to he bought ? Rogues will learn, after a while, to give me a wide berth, for the only use I have for them is to bring them to justice. J. Clarke Swatze. Oil Discoveries in Ohio.—The Marietta (O.) Register , chronicles new and important-dis coveries cf oil in that region: “Within the last ten days numerous wells have been strack at Cow Run, which promise a yield of oil greater than ever before discovered there. The Athey well, Kiggins well, Mount Yemon No. 2, and Perkins No. 3, are constantly, boiling over, and at times throw oil fifty feet high. At no time in the history of this famous oil region has there been such excitement and such eagerness to develop the territory. Wells that have yielded one, two, and some five years, show no signs.of exhaustion, while the new dis coveries are largely augmenting the wealth of the region.” . . - Caterpillar in Southwestern Georgia.—The Albany News of the 23d has the following: tho Comptroller General of the State, Hon. MadisonBell, to which wo invite special atten tion. The correspondence speaks for itself, and it is not necessary that we should present views of our own, on this occasion, on the subject matter to which it refers. The enquiry made by the Govemar of the Comptroller General in view to the statement that had been made, was proper in itself, and the reply of the Comptroller cannot bnt salsfy all unprejudiced and honest men, that neither has he, nor the Governor ex ceeded the powers vested in them, the one in the drawing iS warrants npon the Treasury to pay demands against the State, and the other m auditing and) passing them over to the State Treasurer for payment. Both the law and pre cedent sustain their action in the matter, and Treasurer Angier is alone at fault, as we have heretofore shown, in the matter of controversy between himself, the Executive and the Comp troller, in Sitting np his opinions as against the judgment and authority of the Executive head of the State Government. correspondence—gov. bullock’s letter. Executive Department, ) Atlanta, Ga., July 17, 1869. j Eon. M. Bell, Comptroller General: Sib—Your attention is invited to the follow ing extract from a published statement made in the interest ol the Hon. N. L. Angier, State Treasurer: “We presume the CMef Justice does not wish to be understool to say that tne Treasurer has no right to refute to pay a warrant when there is no appropriation to cover said warrant, or when the warrart is drawn on an appropriation wMch has beer exhausted, even though the warrant may be approved by the Comptroller General. ‘No class of warrants have been refused by the Treasurer, save those drawn upon an ap propriation after the same has been exhausted, those drawn upon the wrong fund, and those drawn when no appropriaton existed to cover them.” I desire to be informed: 1st, if any warrant has bean drawn by the Executive and approved by you "on an appropriation which has been exhautted ?" As to those referred to “drawn npon the wrong fond,” it is, of course, simply matter of opinion, wherein the Honorable Treasurerplaces Ms own in opposition to the official act of the Executive, approved by the Comptroller in ac cordance with the written opinion of the Attor ney General. The objection of tho Honorable Treasurer to the warrants “drawn on the wrong fund” is not that said warrants do not represent a lawful claim against the State, but that in his opinion, what tha Executive, the Attorney General and yourself unite in deciding to be the right fund, is the "wrongfund.” Also please inform me: 2d, If any warrant has be«n drawn by the Executive and approved by yon “when there is no appropriation to cover said warrant?” Very respectfully, Rufus B. Bullock, . „ » • . Governor. REPLY OF THE COMPTROLLER GENERAL. Comptroller General’s Office, ) Atlanta, July 19, 1869. j To his Excellency Rufus B. Bullock : Sir—I acknowledge the receipt of your com munication of the 17th inst., calling my atten tion to a certain statement, “made in the inter est of” the State Tseasurer, and, in reply, have to say: 1st That I have never knowingly approved a warrant drawn on any fund, after it was ex hausted, because I knew such approval would be in violation of the express provisions of Paragraph 7, Section 94, of the Code. I would state, however, in this connection, that, upon the hypothesis that the contingent fond, appro priated by the Legislature of 1868, for the lat ter half of the year, was limited to $10,000— said fund was over-drawn by about fifty dollars, but the warrant was the last one drawn on that fund, and it was in favor of the Treasurer Mm self—to cover incidental expenses, such as postage, etc., wMch he had paid. This war rant was approved, without that close scrutiny and calculation usually adopted, and I suppose the same thing occurred with the Treasurer. But it may not he here amiss to state that, accord ing to the opinion of the Attorney General, the fondwa8notlimitedto $10,000, by reason of the latter clause of the section appropriating^, and in this view of the subject, the appropriation was not overdrawn. By the same section of the Ap propriation act of I860, fifteen thousand dol lars was appropriated as a Printing Fund, and it was declared in the latter part of said section, that “in case of a deficiency in this appropria tion, the Governor is hereby authorized to draw Ms warrant on the Treasurer for the same, to be paid ont of any money in the Treasury not oth erwise appropriated.” I was satisfied that the clause just quoted, rendered the appropriation indefinite and unlimited, and therefore when the fifteen thousand dollars was exhausted, I did not hesitate to approve warrants drawn on the same section. Besides, my own construc tion of the law was sustained by that of the ! Attorney General, whose opinion I had taken pose for which drawn, the person in whose favor drawn, and the fund or appropriation npon which each warrant was drawn, and I expect to do so again when that body assembles. And if, with this information before them, they shall again adjourn, leaving the law in reference to the issuing and approving of Executive'War rants as it now is and seems to have been for years past, I shall oontinne to do, in the future, as I have been doing heretofore. Very respectfully, Madison Bell, Comptroller General. The Bow at Silver Run. The Columbus Enquirer, of Thursday, has the following report of this affair, wMch was the subject of editorial remark yesterday: Difficulty at Seale's Station.—A serious difficulty occurred at Seale's Station, on the Mobile and Girard Railroad, yesterday, at about half-past one o’clock. We learn that Heflin, the Radical candidate for Congress in the District to wMch Russel county belongs, was speaking, and used very insulting language towards the Southern people. Among other things, he said that the Southern wMte man would work a negro all day, pay him nothing, and Ku-klnx Mm at night. He was re peatedly' warned to desist from his incendiary language, but he paid no attention to the warn ing. The excitement continued to increase, and, finding that trouble was brewing, he left by a back window of the old Masonic Hall, where he had been speaking, and made his way to Hawkins’ Hotel. Sheriff John Ware used every effort to quiet the excitement, and commenced taking away such pistols as were in the hands of the citizens of the place, and surrounding country, who were present. Whilst doing so, he noticed a negro, named Ely Crowell, with a pistol in his hand, and called upon Mm to de liver it up. The negro refused to do so, and fired at Sheriff Ware, shooting off one of Ware’s fingers. Ware returned his fire, shooting him twice. Tho firing then became general, some fifty or more shots being made in a few mo ments. The east freight train of the Mobile & Girard Railroad called np jnst before the shooting be gan, and onr old friend, J. B. Hackney, Con ductor, started in the direction of the depot, but stopped as soon as he heard the shooting. A negro woman, who was standing near him, was Mt in the side ; and not being prepared or in clined to participate, onr friend Jim sought a ditch near at hand, but not before a stray shot strack him in the leg, inflicting a painful but not serious wound. Heflin, as soon as the fight began, left Hawk ins’ Hotel by the back way, and had not been heard from np to the leaving of the train, although he had been previously informed that he should suffer no harm. He gets the poor negro into difficulty and deserts Mm when (here is apparent danger to Mmself. The Cotton Crop and the Worm in Middle Florida. The Floridian, of the 20th, has the following npon these interesting topics: Divers and sundry rumors are in circulation about the caterpillar having appeared in small numbers in various localities. TMs, of course, is a bad omen, and looks ns if all our hopes are to be blasted; but it is growing rather late in the season, and the cotton is becoming too far advanced for the worm to be able to effeot much damage; and if the hot, scorching sun of the past week has not effectually killed ont those few that have been seen, then they possess mnch greater tenacity of life than we have been led to believe. If we are not mistaken, tMs time last year the caterpillar had done great damage to' the cotton in the fields, and we tMnk onr citizens may dispel all their fears about the fate of the present orop. “Black seed” cotton, we believe, is still yonng enough to be damaged by the worms, but a few more days of hot weather will place that beyonnd their reach. Reports from all sections of the country rep resent the crop as in splendid condition—the stalks healthy and vigoronrs, and heavily fruit ed; bnt all hope hangs npon a precarious ten ure—the “pleasure” of the.caterpillar. Yet, from all indications, we predict a large crop, a good remunerative price, and general prosperi ty to all classes of onr people. So mote it me. Fruit fbr Food. One of the common diseases of children is worms in the bowels. If a child’s digestion be comes impaired, and the gastric juices become weakened or defective in quantity, by over-eat ing of bad food, the whole alimentary canal be comes clogged np and filthy, and famishes a nest for such worms as will breed there. In this weakened condition of the' system, they cannot be destroyed by the process of digestion, and hence great harm comes from them. Now it is an interesting fact that fresh, ripe fruit, is the best preventive for tMs state of things. Dr. Benjamin Rush pointed this out a hundred years ago. He made a series of experiments on earth worms, wMch he regarded as the more nearly allied to those that infest the bowels of cMldren than any other, with a view to test their power of retaining life, under the influ ences that might be used as worm medicines. The results proved worms often lived longer in those substances known as poisonous than in some of the most harmless articles of food. BY TELEGRAPH. For instance, in watery solutions of opium they , lived eleven minutes ; in infusion of pink root, the precaution to obtain, before approving any j thirty-three minutes; in claret wine, ten min- warrant after the $15,000 00 had been exhaust-j u te S ; but inthe juice of red cherries they ed. Indeed, whenever I had any doubt as to j died in sis minutes; black cherries, in five min- what course I should pursue in approving war- | utes; red currents, in three minutes; goose- rants, I submitted the matter to that officer, he | berries, in four minutes; whortleberries, in being, nnder the Constitution, the legal adviser of the State House officers. . a .. : 2d. I have never, to my knowledge, approved a warrant drawn by the Executive “when there was no appropriation to cover said warrant." I have approved many warrants where there was no special appropriation to meet them, but in all such cases, I recognized the authority to do so under some general clause of the Appro priation Act, or nnder some provision of the Code of Georgia, and I considered it, in such cases, as much my duty to approve the war rants as if they had been drawn on some special appropriation which bad not been exhausted. In reference to the snbjfiMof warrants alleged to have been drawn on tha^wrong fund,” I beg leave to say in justification of the course I have seven minutes, and rasberries, in five minutes, From - these experiments, Dr. Rash argued that fresh, ripe fruits, of which children are very fond, are the most speedy and effectual poisons for worms. In practice tMs theory has proved to be coireet. The Ness' Legislature of Virginia.—A dis patch from Richmond to the 'Western Press, da ted the 19th, says: General Canby has sent circulars to all the members elect of the Legislature, asking each of them if they can qualify by subscribing to the iron-clad oath. If he ascertains there is a quo rum of both Houses thus qualified, he will issue his proclamation in about fifteen days announc- pursued, that I have not at any time to my fog the result of the election and calling the knowledge approved a warrant drawn npon a Legislature together to ratify the fifteenth fund specially appropriated and restricted to amendment nnd elect United States Senators. specially appropriated some other purpose. I have approved warrants drawn on the Printing Fnnd for advertising Ex ecutive Orders, Proclamations, etc., which I understand the Treasurer has refused to pay, because they were not drawn on the Contingent Fund. I have not been able to satisfy my mind that such warrants were drawn on the wrong fund. . . Indeed, I have considered myself justified both by law and precedent, in the course I have pursued. Section 1,043 of the Code declares, that “all printing other than that performed by the Public Printer, wMch necessity may demand shall be printed at the seat of Government, or such other place as may be necessary, in- the discretion of the Governor nnder his direction and supervision,, npon reasonable rates, to be paid for out of the Contingent Fund.”’' I have not considered the advertisement of a Procla mation intention of this section, amendment nnd elect United States Senators. The members unable to qualify would in tMs case remain absent till the Constitution had been ratified by Congress and the States admitted, when they would present themselves and be qualified nnder the State Constitution, from wMch the test oath has been expunged. Should there not, however, be found a quorum able to qualify by taking the test oath, the Command ing General will then defer issning his procla mation, bnt will order new' elections to fill the seats which will be declared vacant by the rea son of the disability to qualify as above. technical meaning, different from the word “ad vertising” or “publisMng.” It clearly, means suoh job work as it may be necessary to have done, outside of that winch the law requires the Publio Printer to do, and hot the publication of an Order or Proclamation. In the performance of the latter service, it is not the mere skill and labor of setting up the type and striking off the sheets that constitute the gist and value of the service. It is the space in the newspaper, and the circulation and publicity thereby given to the notice. The mere printing of the notice is not what was intended, nor what is charged for in such cases, but it is the publi cation and circulation of the notice among the people, Tbe knowledge and information thus promulgated and imparted to the public consti tute the consideration for which the warrant in such cases is issued; such a warrant, therefore, in my jndgment, is not for that species of print ing referred to in section 1043 of the Code, and hence may properly be drawn on the Printing Fund. In other words, the law, in my judg ment, does not restrict the payment of claims for advertising, etc., to the Contingent Fund, and in this view I am amply sustained by the practice of the Governors and the Comptroller Generals of the State for many years bade. It was the practice of Governor Jenkins, as the warrant books in this office show, to draw war- . .. . | rants fbr publishing proclamations, orders,--eio., Caterpillar fob Sure.—There is no longer a j on the Printing Fund, and this section, 1043, of donbt about the appearance of this seedling of j the Code, was in as full force during his admin- Radicalism—the cussed things are in Dougherty, istration as it is now. In all such cases, if the Baker, Mitchell and other counties, and planters ; warrant was within the amount appropriated, I are beginning to look sour. ’ All now depends on j did not consider myself authorized or required the seasons. If we should have a wet August, : to go behind it, because the law, in my judg- the havoc will be terrible, but if reasonably dry j ment, oasts no such responsibility upon me. and warm no very great damage need be appre- j It may not be improper in me to state he Are headed. i closing, that I made a full statement to the Lest- .. *!*., . . • . . ’! Mature of 1869, in my report of every warrant Sateen thousand bushels of xag>bcni*s were j that I had approved w> to the 1st of January xeoeived is Oinahmsta one day last week. < last, giving the number, date, thTpur- A Letter from General Jordan’s Command. The Montgomery (Ala.) State Journal publishes the following extract from a letter jnst received from a young Alabamian, now with General ion as at all coming within the meaning or j Jordan in Cuba: ntion of this section, because the word j Vre are now camped near Holguin, a most ‘■printing” is used, and has to my mind a distinct 1 beautiful place. Yesterday evening, at 5. o’clock, - • • • -■■*•-“ ■ * * •• - -- - ; the Spaniards attacked a part of our lines, bnt ’ we repulsed them easily, and ran them into the little town, nnder tbe protection of their heavy guns. The loss in onr brigade, strong, was nine killed and fourteen wounded. lieutenant George Stone of Nashville, was killed. The Spaniards don't fight as well as the Yankees.— They come quick and leave quick. The boys are all well clad and doing splendidly. We are disappointed in not having received American reinforcements before this. General Jordan is popular, but very firm and decided. A Case of Relioiqus Enthusiasm. —Some days since we referred editorially to the crazi ness of the negroes hereabouts on the subject of religion. We have a case to illustrate our re marks. A gentleman residing near the city, on Sunday evening ordered his servant to get his supper. “ Go way from me,” she replied, “go way from me. I’m seeking my Savior, I am. I’m sarchfog for heben. I ain't got no time to' study about de tings of dis world. Go way from me Buckra man. Go way from me.” The result was a usually good servant lost a good place and tne last seen of her was in a wagon “sarohing fur heben.” This is but one of many similar cases. We know of another family that had to discharge their cook for the reason thatshe insisted upon having every Mon day for the purpose of religious exercises. This thing will last as long as watermelons, peaches, blackberries, roasting ears and warm weather continue. When cold weather oomea, with long nights and dancing frolics, the religious fever will abate.—Columbus Sun, 21st In Great Britain to a population of 24,363,000 persons, there are 36,200 ministers of all de nominations, 84,700 churches and chapels. Segar dealers are learning that they can sell at retail only from the boxes in which the Be gan wen Originally stamped. - From Washington. Washington, July 23.—It is more than suspected that Delano will shortly remove some Revenue Su pervisors. Revenue to-day $713,000. Rawlins returns to-morrow. It is stated that Boutwell will sell no gold at pres ent rates. Boutwell and Stanton had a long interview to-day. Arrangements are afloat for the world’s exposition of manufactures here next year. Over a half million of bonds were issued to the Union Pacific Railroad to-day. Custom authorities are not to interfere with the French Cable. The Treasury Department has advices that owners of sugar recently seized in New Orleans, are unable to furnish the bonds required. It is stated that the Department will order its confiscation and sale. The bond required is two hundred thousand. The value of the property.is between two and three hundred thousand. Boutwell has addressed a letter to the Comp troller of Currency, announcing that he has decided to permit the substitution of ten-forties for five- twenties, oi exchange any gold-bearing bonds, now held as security for circulating notes, on the basis hitherto adopted. Ten-forties are to be received at 85 per cent, of their par value, ana all other gold- bearing bonds at 90 percent. The six per cent, currency bonds issued to the Pacific Railroads will not be received as security for the circulation of na tional banks, and the exchange of gold-bearing bonds is subject hereafter to revision, if it shall be found that such exchange is so frequent as to be come onerous to the Department. It is stated that Ryan and Crowder are organiz ing a Cuban expedition, to sail from Canadian waters. FROM CUBA. The Cabans here have official news to the 15th. The Spaniards made two attacks on Quesada, and were repulsed in both instances, with a loss of over one hundred and fifty, and Quesada continues the sieg<before Puerto Principe, A portion of Jordan’s command, posted about forty miles from Santiago de Cuba, were attacked by twelve hundred Spaniards, commanded by Yal- mesada, in person. After three hours’fighting, the Spaniards withdrew. The Spaniards were reinforced and renewed the attack next day. They made three assaults, losing heavily. Jordan commanded in the second day’s fight. The Cubans lost sixty-two killed and wounded, including two officers. Spanish lose, over three hundred. They made good their retreat to Santiago de Cuba. The Cabans are in good spirits, and suffer but little from cholera and vomito, so prevalent among the Spaniards. Washington, July 24.—The President disapproves the findings of the Court-martial at Galvestion, in the case of Lieut. Gairetson, of the Seventeenth In fantry, and restores Garreteon to duty. Collector Casey, of New Orleans, writes to Boutr well, enclosing aletter from Wm. McCreary, regard ing the Coolie importations and asks instructions. Boutwell replies that McCreary is in error in stating that the Act of February,1862, forbidding theAmer* ican citizens from engaging in the Coolie trade was abrogated. On the 16th of January, 1867, a bill was passed unanimously by both Houses of Congress expressing the abhorence of the people of the United States for the Coolie trade, and in conformi ty therewith, Secretary McCulloch addressed a let ter to Collector of Customs at New Orleans, a copy wMch Boutwell encloses to Casy. An additional article prior to the treaty concluded 28th July last, and only waiting Chinese. ratification, reprobates any other than voluntary emigration, and makes it a penal offence to take Chinese subjects from China without their free consent. The Department of State, by circnlar, January 17,1867, addressed to the Ministers and Consuls of the United States, directs that Consuls at every port where Coolies may embark, be required to certify, after full ex amination, that such embarkation is not forced or procured by fraud; and requires-that such Minis ters and Consuls use all their power and influence to prevent and disencourage Coolie trade. Such being the facte, -Boutwell instructs and directs Casey to use all vigilance, as he terms this a “new modifi cation of the slave trade.”; Revenue over half a million. Bassett, the negro Minister to Hayti, gives gloomy accounts. He wants war vessels to protect Ameri can interests. Salnave is at the head of the army in the South, but the revolution intheo North is not even checked; and says one dollar in gold is worth seven hundred in currency. Sumner writes approvingly or the President’s Ca ban policy and urges a continuance. Important from Great Britain—The Lords Caved. Loxdon, July 23.—A full attendance of Lords and many Commons were present in the session yester day. Earl Granville opened the debate by stating that ministers regarded the vote rejecting the pre amble of the disestablishment bill a grave affair, but were unwilling to prevent the consideration of other amendments and anxious to conduct the dis cussion in a peaceful and conciliatory spirit. Lord Carnes said that einoe the adjournment he has had a conference with Earl Granville, and he moved to restore the original date of the disestablishment, and to compromise on other amendments. Earl Salisbury, Earl Bussell, and other leading Peers ac cepted the compromise and praised the conduct of Lord Carnes in this emergency. The Lords restored the original date and other amendments were com promised. Earl Granville thanked Lord Carnes for the frankness with which he had entered into con fidential relations with- the ministry. General News. Selma, Ala., July 23.—The Drily Times of this morning contains the following, which confirms the report concerning' the caterpillar: * ‘We learn from Messrs. Hardie & Robinson, cotton factors of this city, who have taken great pains to investigate the subject, that the caterpillar has made its appear ance on the cotton in the black lands, the cane- break region in tbe western part of the oounty.” New York, July 23.—The Herald’s London special says the compromise of the disestablishment bill is the result of /ear on the part of the Lords. The Tory Lords held a large private meeting and re solved to abandon Earl Salisbury and follow Lord Carnes, whom the meeting authorized to make peace with the ministry. The prompt and loud ex pression of popular indignation terrified the Lords and thus the threatened agitation was postponed. The Arizonia brings only five thousand in trea sure. The three Paraguayans -who attempted to assas sinate the allied commander were shot. The Paraguayans attempted to board the Brazi lian iron clad but were all killed. The allies are attempting to drive Lopez into Bo livia. Norfolk, July 23.—Peter Reddick, a mulatto, was hung to-day in Portsmouth, for the murder of a market-man. on his way home in the country. Boston, July 23.—The steamers with the French Cable were signaled from Cape Cod this morning at sun rise, and will reach their destination this afternoon. Detroit, July 23. Ex-Governor Crapo, is dead. Boston, July 24.—The shore end of the French Cable was landed, to-day. The entire cable ie re ported to be in a good condition. San Francisco, July 24.—The Congressional Com mittee on Ways and Means depart Eastward on Monday. Senator Hendricks was enthusiastically received by the Democrats. Augusta, July 24.—Rains have occurred through out this section for the past two days, and crops are doing well. A political fracas took place at Upper Three Runs, Barnwell District, South Carolina, to-day, in which two men were killed, and several wounded. The affair wm confined to the whites. Kingston, July 24.—Tbs telegraph to Duxbury will be oompleted to-day. It is thought the land and ocean lines will be splioed on Monday. Savannah, July 24.—Crop reports from Southern Georgia and Florida are very cheering. Many specimens of the new crop have been received here. Norfolk, July 24.—Peter Reddick: for the mur der of Oomriins Hayes, a young farmer, on the highway, in January last, wm hung to-day at one FonigaBew*. Paris, July 23—Bullion has increased seven on. lion francs. Madrid, July 23—The Generals and other offi cere recently arrested for fomenting insane have been exiled to the .Canary Islands. 0Bl A plot to assassinate the Minister of Justice hi, been discovered. Sickles hM arrived. London, July 23—Fifty-eight bodies have bee taken from the colliery pit at St. Madrid, July 2^—Much Carlist excitement iata. Many arrests have been made. The Got * ment hesitates whether to meet the difficulty il means or a declaration of irurHai 3 ■ C!T - The Dogs Growling over the Bones Charleston, July 24—Much excitement prevail among the two wings of the Republican party he« Dr. Mackey,J,the late Collector, leads the mg. wing, which includes the mass of the colored rotes' while Senator Sawyer, Congressman Bowen ini Geo. W. Clark, the newly appointed Collector - the place of Mackey, head tho Northern element THO removal of Mackey has intensified the bitter ness between the two factions. On Thuadar QarL- called on Mackey, and presenting his coaa^, demanded instant possession of the Collecto^o? flee. Mackey ref used to vacate until he had tale inventories of the publio property and received te- ccipta from Clarke; but promised to make the tuns fer on the 31et instant. Clarke insisted on aa ig. mediate surrender, which being refused he tnte-J Mackey’s office and attempted to act as Collect® • whereupon he was forcibly ejected by Made* subordinates. Yesterday afternoon Madej- other Custom House officers were arrested *t the instance of Clarke, on a charge of assault and ob structing an officer of Revenue, and were bc_ over to answer before the United Stales Comma- sionor. On Monday, during the hearing of the case Clarke,with aposse of thirty men forced bis way into the Custom House and took possession, which hs still retains. , The partisans of Clarke attempted to eerenaJs Sawyer and Bowen last night, but the colored Es- publicans rallied in large numbers and prevented the serenade—charging tho procession and capt®. ing its flag, which they carried in triumph to M*. key’s residence.. The colored Republicans Ktteh denounce the. action of the administration in re moving Mackey, and declare that Clarke, the n»» Collector, is a traitor to the Radical party. Important from France. Paris, July 24—The Irreconciliables metyeats- day. Thiers, on assuming the leadership,sntaittd a draft of an address to the electors of France. Ih address was rejected. The French Assembly re-assembles in Octote, but the Senate remains in session during August, to consider Constitutional changes, whereof siity-tw have been suggested. Tbe Senate expects * me- sage from the Emperor shortly, and the minietn» busy drafting new laws, which the Emperor desis to be more liberal than indicatedin his last m sage. y ‘ Prince Napoleon intends addressing the Saw on the proposed reform, whioh he regards hej; full enough. The Viceroy of Egypt, departed suddenly hoa- ward. It is rumored his rapture with the Giri Turk was the cause of his sudden departure. From Cuba. Havana, July 24.—Captain-General DeRodu hi issued stringent orders regarding the collection j! customs. The British authorities at Jamaioo concern the cargo of the Grapeehot for a violation of & neutrality laws. Dates from Santiago de Cnba, of the 16tb, ai the Spanish explanation of the execution of oceof the Grapeshot’s crew is satisfactory with Ainai Hoff. Jordan is between here and Bayamo, reinferai by Tusban’a command. Several heavy skumsis have taken place. No details. Jordan is not wounded. The Disestablishment Sill Passed. London, July 24.—The Commons, on Gladstone! motion, adopted the Lords’ compromise amend ment without division. [Great cheering."] The Princeof "Wries unveiled the Peabody etate The ceremonies were imposing. A Legacy to Hrs. Stonewall Jackson. Memphis, July 24.—Wade Bolton, shot eoa: days since by Dr. Dickens, is dead. He bequeaths! a hundred thousand dollars to charitable purpose*, including ten thousand dollars to Stonewall Jack- eon’s widow, and fifty acres of land to each of Ji.i- son’s former, slaves. > From Thomas County. The Thomasville Enterprise speaks veiy high ly of the cotton crop prospects in that county, and says: We hear of fine cotton on all sides, and if ft-1 ports are true, more than a dozen farmers inthe I county have thrown our friend “Wright’s wt-l ton” quite inthe shade. We are glad to heat: I and hope the caterpillar, now giving so aK I alarm in this section, may find the July 1 gust sun too hot for his health. ' In relation to onr eight and a half po^ j beet—it was prepared for the pot—top cut of. | tap root trimmed up to two inches in w* -5 -! lateral roots: and washed clean. A pleasure pq I ty of ladies and gentlemen from Tbomasvi I took an excursion to the Ocklokonnee bridge* I the Thomasville and Albany Railroad las! Sate I day week. The Enterprise assails the ^ I bridge Sun’s effort to induce the Thllahasseetf j to run their Railroad to that place. Extraordluary Misrepresentation' The New York Times’ special Washington^ patches of the 20th, lead of with the followinj I Washington, July 20.—A high Treasury o>- j cial estimates the amount of money in theScu- ■ ern States at present at about $40,000,000, | expresses the opinion that the South w M I off financially to-day than it was before tne I In former years the planters had nearly w /I anticipated their crops, whereas now it i- I tirety different Last year's harvests vbk I quite so bad as it was generally supposea, ■ with close economy, were sufficient , to I them to support themselves moderately. i unwillingness of capitalists to loan them m I lastfallhas realtyinnredto the j Southern people, as they now find to - I for the most part out of debt, their old - I tions having been swept away by the I law, with a full year’s profits in reserve. We had rather be misrepresented J# I way, than to be called hard names, and sn^ I tised as ouiragers, lawless Ku-Klox, etc.; really, the Washington wiseacres are »= I from the facts in this ease as they were in I other. This section of Georgia is as rich ^ ^1 other, and here money is very scarce among I people, and the process of acquisition .1 slow and uncertain, unless we follow a I economy. To make us better off, than we were of ore the war, the receipt .1 simple: Give ua a four thousand Miffi 011 * M J damnify us for lost slave property— 4 ^ 81 | mnch more for depreciation in land va ne -J and about as much more for values deshV | duringthe war. . Bad Weather in October.—Capt Sax j-L the Royal Navy, has called public atten J the London Times to the follow facts w verified by results, will prove a curious in* I of a priori reasoning: At 7 a. m. on the ensuing October will be at the part of her orbit, which w the earth; -her attraction will, thereto I its maximum force. At noon the moo® I on the earth’s eqnater, a circumstance ^ ■ never occurs without marked atmospoe ^ torbance; and at 2 P. M., the same . > ^ drawn from the earth's center vrtil I end moon in the same aro of right The moon’s attraction and the 8°® * j. (0 fore, be acting in the same direction- words, the new moon will be on the e»r“ ^ tor when in perigee, and nothing I ing can ooeur ’ of Ugh tides and storms. '' ■ - ^ ■ . Mias Otis, a oonapsououa **^3:0* belle, drives a tandem turnOT 6 ^® o’clock in the jail yard. He made no confession. the ariatoontfc)" A thorough-RRKD Berkshire pig, fo Shelby, deed kb^ ifty poaftds. Twma is an abundance Ekriasipci for ntfe 1 rmoit- in 0*#^ I