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Newspaper Page Text^ISBT & REED, Proprietors. The Family Joubnal.—News—Politics—Literature—Agriculture—Domestic Affairs. GEORGIA TELEGRAPH BUILDING ESTABLISHED 1826.} MACON, FRIDAY, AUGUST 6, 1869. VOL XUH.~N0.56 '^ia Telegraph Building, Macon. SITES or SUBSCRIPTION : .Tn-iowTH-forone year.. ..$10 00 n"* cgra? H—for six months 5 00 M2}‘Jhortcr period* One Dollar per month. .55,111-IYkskx.t Telegraph—one year,. 4 00 Vsrti-lYKEKLT Telegraph—six m’ths 2 00 Telegraph—one year..... 3 00 ^,5 Wseslt Telegraph—sir months...., 1 50 gfPayaMe alien]/i in advanee."®# node »nd Joh 3?arintlii8f P executed at reasonable prices. * ,cou ' l- ~w.il tritfl . by mail with Postmaster's certificate a I gsinbritlge, CmOg£~* Columbus Lumpkin, Ga., July 31, 1869. Editors Telegraph: The Savannah Republican Lthe ICth, contains a communication signed I «■ vtwisi. ” in regard to the Bainbridge, Cnth- | md Colnmbns Railroad, which is sufficient l.jcoBVxeeany one interested, of the impor- | (l3rt of this great enterprise. If it were not an ■ imottSBi line and one likely to compete with Ijjjjjsomedegree injure the grasping Central | Eiilwad, it is hardly probable that the friends c ^,f~r»iIm<ul *"—' J P 01 S r > wenna advocate | %0sg a branch road from Americus to Lnmp- | & for the purpose of putting a quietus to the I Tunbridge and Columbus projects, and satisfy- I j.,t,r “country cousin,” as Savannah is pleased I . i. — “Savannah’s” nlan for rmttinrr a I r style ns. “savannan s plan for putting a | Mss to the Bainbridge, Cuthbert and Colum- [ Railroad project will not work for several |.#®- la the first place, Americus is not the “natu- I £ market” for our county. Shonld the plan of I -. savannah be carried oat, we would be like | gr sister city, Cuthbert, imposed upon by the Imstitint rates of the Railroad monopoly, and liu «e would be made to pay dearly for a few |p)aiMK So, we don’t want any such help as the gen- Igou'-Savannah” would extend. Much obliged IferiH nmr intended kindness, but excuse us if Irm please. I want the road from Columbus toBain- l-.jje because it will open to us a quick route | s Columbus, Brunswick or Savannah, and I .. place, v-c desire to select our | in market, which will most assuredly be the |«that offers the best inducements. | "Again, we want the most direct, and which I ■ • very naturally the cheapest route, over |riich to bring the vast amount of com and ba- Ign annually drawn from the Western markets. I With the road from Cincinnati to Chattanoo- I n opened, and the proposed road from Colum- Ib to St Mark’s, Florida, put in operation, we IU\ K the most direct and easy commumca- Ition from the “Lakes to the Gulf,” which road I mold feed all of Southwest Georgia, and draw I inch of the travel and freights, from the Cen- Itnl and Southwestern railroads, and therein we I find the main spring that prompts “Savannah" | to bold oot his hands and offer us to take hold. I Twonld in no little degree and to no small I extent compete with the “Great Railroad Mo- I sopoly,” hence their nneasiness about this road. I of this section have not forgotten I lor will they soon forget how the Central rail- I w*d and her tributaries pressed upon them in Itieimyof freights soon after the war. And It? Mtnrally sympathize with any proposed I sate that can successfully compete with the I Central and Southwestern roads. We do not | rut a railroad to our town that would not ben- J (it is any more than the proposed one from | iceriens would. The road to Columbus would lutba entirely without some competition, the I :«her would. The B. C. & C. B. R. would ut» competition in the boats that ply the Chat- lAoochee. The proposed route from Americus ItoLninpkin would have no competition, and mold only be an extension of the “Great Eiilroad Monopoly. ” Americus is not our nat- uil market, but Culumbns is our market and i is to her interest that this road should be [kilt. Savannah, all things considered, is not as I pod a market for the Stewart county farmer as t olnmbus, or Macon, if you did not have to I PM* over part of the “great railroad monopoly.” II the freights to Savannah were low, losses by ;:calage, and otherwise, heavy commissions, '.one per cent, more than in Columbus,) and amount charged the producer for “city and gov ernment taxes,” invariably found on account s»les of cotton sold in Savannah, and are not in . those of Macon and Columbus—all go to show that neither Americas or Savannah is the natu- ural market for the citizens of Stewart. It is gratifying to state that the President and Directors of the new road are meeting with success, and ere long the road will be put under contract to Lumpkin. Rustic. Crops in Stewart. ' Lumpkin, Ga., July 31st, 1869. Editors Telegraph :—IVhat is more pleasant or agreeable to a person interested in the wel fare and prosperity of his country, than to be Kited in a nice buggy, drawn by a spirited PORJ, with a genial companion, upon a balmy coming when the birds are singing gaily and '-'•i nature seems joyous from the effects of a ^freshing shower, riding through luxuriant -ils and fertile valleys to see the prospects of growing crops? It was my happy lot to take ^»ride a day or two ago with a staunch taMc r»t of the Georgia Legislature, h was really a feast to the eye to witness his “limits of wavy com, reaching high in the tr inj bending beneath the heavy weight of tte yellow grain. And the regular “sea of that his cotton unfolded to the view, the I. k cattle browsing upon the hill side or slalr- a S their thirst in the rippling brook, were also of prosperity. Judging from the appearanoe of his com crop J®* Mners we will not want any railroad to T^port that article next year unless it is to teusotne of the Stewart county crop. Ibis gentleman has the prettiest field of cot- v® t° be seen in Southwestern Georgia. The *18 average four and a quarter feet high i ^ stalks being fully six feet high. The rows r* f °ur feet wide and the limbs or branches ■***«ndlock between. There is enough bolls forms on it to make one bale of cotton to sere provided nothing disastrous happens ? Col Harkie, Chief Engineer of the Bain- Cnthbert and Colnmbns Railroad’s sur- r «port8 this to be the best crop between ’’iiPoint and Bainbridge. ,* tec rop8in Stewart are doing finely and as b £ neral thing free .from grass, and if we havn .;. s0o< i.seasons hereafter as we have had before, will be plenty in the land once more. Joe. or a Large Planting Interest in Scsc- •'■tti'-TMcT.—The Sumter News says : v >>e arf ' informed that two English gentlemen, " John B. Rogers and John Owens, have ’ ‘ ed from Mr. T. C. Richardson the £jn. ■ ^‘.uumuji, about 4000 acres. Bloom— kV** few miles from Manchester, on the ' r « o river. It is a place of considerable t -orical interest. During the revolution it by Gen. William Richardson, and ; '.' be headquarters of Gen. Greene, also, at ^ a ereot periods, of Gens. Cornwallis and Raw- *1 S', of tories was attacked by patriots ^ 4<tnk a Creek in the neighborhood. During *•*•*“* war it was at this place that the flag reached Gen. Potter and terminated kstir • reached Gen. Potter and terminated U:iie 6,1 ^ ns * ^ me to save another useless ■ ■ ' JMS , _ PM -t - j- J :r: T.V T , k. 6 J e 8ret to see these fine possessions pass- khe hands of our own people. But * they must go we are pleased to know that roV fv? P urc based by substantial men, who will {f“b*bly have the means and energy to turn ^ good account. A ^ashi ““ington pic-nieer tried to drown him- riih J ot ber day because his sweetheart danced •owe one ake—he not knowing how. Life on a Hawaiian Sugar Plantation.' An American who owns a sugar plantation in the Sandwich Islands writes to the San Francis co Bulletin an interesting account of the rapid growth and profits of the enterprise. We quote: “There is method in the growth of the cane. The same root, once planted, willputforth three or four successive stalks; that is, cutting the cane this season, you bum the dry leaves on the. field, and immediately after the new ratoons or sprouts spring up of their own accord from the old root, and are ready for cutting in two years from now; and this is repeated three or four times before the old root is worn out and a new one demanded. Hands are necessary, a great many of them for weeding out of the young sprouts, thinning the leaves of the thriv ing cane and letting the sun in upon it, for cut ting, hauling, and toe thousand little duties that keep us in running order. “The hands will marry over and over again some of them. Children multiply, and now we find over three hundred souls occupying fifty- three houses in our little kingdom. .There are houses of nil descriptions. Many dwellings, two echools, toe mm—•* — for toe cooper. I Ja^kamith, carpenter and butch- or, Hrorenouses, stores—two of them—a dairy, a billiard room and bowling alley, for one needs some recreation here. Moreover, guests are both frequent and numerous; the homestead, with superfluous room, is not enough; one or two cottages are built, and await toe friend or stranger who looks in upon us. “At daybreak the steam whistle at the mill shrieks out his alarm, and the drowsy Kanakers hurry to the front. Various languages may be beard—chiefly the Hawaiian. Here are Kan akers in abundance, South Sea Islanders, Por tugese, Coolies, Japanese, and perhaps a Span iard or two, with some few white men. All talking, all have something to say, each one trying to overcome his neighbor with a greater volume of voice. It reminds one of the confu sion of tongues. “ The sixty-five yoke of oxen are worked only a week at a time, watered and fed with cane tops while in, and then turned out to graze.— Fresh stock is necessary; the planter must keep at least one hundred and thirty yoke on hand, and replenish when needful. A hundred horses and mnles are here also, many of them in use daily; six hundred head of cattle roam these hills to supply our table and keep up toe stock. Flocks of sheep and goats whiten toe meadows; one thousand eight hundred acres are allotted to these running herds; they are not crowded. Our market is well furnished with fresh meats; vegetable gardens, orange, lime and banana trees, pine apples in their sea son,-plenty of wild honey (I have not seen any locusts yet) and the delicious wild ohia supply our table. “Three white men oversee the vital parts of the millwork. Four boilers furnish toe juice, and strangely enough, toe very cane that has yielded it under toe crushing rollers, gives its pith to be dried in toe sun, and there i3 suffi cient in quantity to keep toe mill in motion. In other words, the mill runs to crush the cane and boil the juice, and the cane it crushes is all that is requisite to keep it running. Does not that come pretty near to showing the mystery of perpetual motion ? It is very interesting to see toe little rivulet of sap flowing constantly into its receptacle, when, having been boiled an hour and a half, it is spread in toe coolers and takes five days to get over it. And what a sight this cooling-room is, with its great pans spread over the floor. Just think of half an acre of molasses candy—that’s about it! Then when the whole has settled into a mass of clayed mud, it is shuf fled into those little miracles, the centrifugals, where in two minutes and a half toe muddy mass is whirled into A 1 sugar. “It is done so rapidly and so neatly you can see the brown fade out and toe white come in. There is nothing prettier, nothing more poetical in toe whole range of mechanical invention. These centrifugals are regular little poems any way. You know toe centrifugal is like a tub with a solid bottom and wire cloth sides, slipped into a larger tub, which latter is solid and sta tionary. A little of toe cold, soft candy is put into toe inner tub and set in motion, toe terrific rapidity with which the machine spins round on its axis throws out toe matter in toe bowl of it against the wire-cloth sides. It throws it, more over, with such force that toe molasses is liter ally squeezed through toe wire-cloth against toe onter tnb, which directs it into a receiver below, while the dry sugar remains firmly packed on toe inside of toe inner tab. Is there anything neater than that? The molasses, thongh of a good quality, barely pays its barreling, and one season it was allowed to flow off into the mead* ow below. There was a small river of molasses sweetening the valley for seven months in toe year. “The sngar, when ready for its kegs, has not long to wait, for toe coopers are not backward. At the beach, three miles from the mill, a store house receives the kegs as fast as they are filled, and thither a schooner comes regularly to take them to Honolulu, where they are reshipped for San Francisco and put into the market. As toe day doses toe employes take their last meal of poi. It is dealt out to them from the office with proportions of hard bread and California sal mon. Sugar cane is allowed those who choose to eat it; it is the universal choice, apparently, to eat as much of it as possible without explod ing. For conscience sake the poi is brought from a neighboring district, and five thousand pounds are consumed of it every week. It is a real satisfaction to watch the poi disappearing under the vigorous attack of six or eight hun gry fellows gathered round one calabash. Hav ing eaten their allowance of poi and fish, and the day’s labor being completed, the evening is left to their diversions. Tenderness for tlie Negro. The wonderful tenderness of the administra tion for the negro is illustrated by toe following dispatch to toe Louisville Courier-Journal: Wm. F. Woodward, late chief of the secret service division in the Treasury Department, has issued a pamphlet, in which he severely denounces Secretary Boutwell, on account of removing him from toe department, character izing him as mean, cowardly and unmanly, for removing Republicans from office. He abases Clarvoe, who was appointed to suoooed him, and declares that he will make the Secretary re gret his course. Wood desires to know the cause of toe delay in prosecuting toe cases against the negro* messengers who robbed Comptroller Hulburd’s office, and how that of ficer has accounted for the missing mon ey. He declares that the money on which Turner, the Georgia post-master, was ar rested, is a portion of toe identical money stol en by toe negro Schurman, confidential mes senger of Halbard, not a dollar of which was counterfeit. He further declares that he bad the evidence to convict Schurman, but when the case was called for trial in the Criminal Court, the District Attorney stated it was toe desire of toe Government not to prosecute toe case. Wood speaks of the action of toe Secretary in allowing toe National and American Bank Note Company to print toe national currency as a blundering management. He declares he will expose the villainy and corruption which exist in, and contaminate toe Treasury Department. The administration should quiet its army of detectives, either with bribes or a bow-string— if it is really running on a policy so crooked as Wood represents. United States Troops pi Wilkes.—The Wash ington, Wilkes county, Gazette, of the 30th nit.. Bays: A detachment of U. S. Infantry arrived here on Wednesday,, the 28th inst. We. have not learned the company and regiment, or toe name of the officers in command of toe detachment, nor for what purpose they have been sent here, but we suppose they came to preserve peace and sustain toe civil authorities, to. day, in. toe execution of Bob Arnold, who is to suffer the extreme penalty of toe law for the murder of Mr. Thaxton, in this county last March. Snubbing a President. General Grant Refuses to Eat his Breakfast at a Fashionable Restaurant because he can’t get a Private Room. A Washington telegram, of Thursday, to the New York Herald, says: The White House is in a topsyturvy condi tion just now, and their servants, in imitation of their master and mistress, are taking a little recreation. When the President arrived this morning, his reception was rather cool and dis heartening after toe lionizing at Long Branch. About eight o’clock he sallied forth, like an or dinary government clerk, in search of his break fast. He was resolved to patronize one of the fashionable establishments; probably with a view to getting a breakfast that would remind him in some degree of Long Branch. He hauled up at Walker’s, which is a short distance from the White House. The President was on foot and was dressed as usual in a black, Blab tailed frock coat and a tall, black stove-pipe bat. Going up the steps he looked in at the dining room, where a gentleman was sitting at break fast. Grant had a bewildered air about him, as if he had got into the wrong shop. something that sounded like “good morning, tdl the time keeping his eyes at work as if look ing for a place to sit down. Finally he went up to toe desk of the restaurant and accosted the genius who takes “your money.” Grant—“I want aprivate room and breakfast as quick as possible.” Peter—(Eyeing the General narrowly, as if to measure the length of his purse.) “You can’t have a private room here, Bir. There’s the din ing room,” pointing to the room where the gen tleman already mentioned was quietly enjoying his beefsteak and coffee. The President looked confused and astonished at toe idea of his not being considered good for his breakfast like any other man. He at once turned and beat a rapid retreat out of the house evidently disgusted with his reception. When he had gone, toe gentleman in toe din ing room called Peter, and inquired if he knew who that person was ? Peter—“No, sir.” Gectiemau. “Peter, that is President Grant.” Peter—“The devil, you say." Gentleman—“Yes, indeed.” Peter— “Why don’t he come like a gentleman in a carriage, and not like an old shoemaker with his Sunday clothes on! How did I know he had money enough to pay for a private room and his breakfast ?” The gentleman who seems to have scared Grant out of the dining room and per conse quence ont of his breakfast, is a well known Radical politician and author, who was the inti mate friend of Presidents Pierce and Buchanan, and one who has dined and breakfasted with some of the great men in his day. A wag who was at hand suggested that hereafter when the President is lying around loose in search of his breakfast he should have a label to his coat with the instreptioD, “I am Grant, President of the United States." From Decatur County. Rust in Cotton.—The Bainbridge Argus of Saturday, says: Just before going to press we learn that toe cotton fields near this city have taken toe rust, and are likely to be cut off one-half. A prominent emigrant writing to Dr. L. Crews of this county, from Brazil, gives a most dis couraging account of toe prospects of immi grants to that far-off land. Drury Rambo, Esq., of Decatur county, has some of the most remarkable cotton we ever saw. It is so full of bolls that some of the stalks are broken off by their weight. It is from the Dicksonseed, and manured with guano. He is expecting to make two bales to toe acre. The Caterpillar.—This dreaded insect has made its appearance in some plantations in this county, but it has not yet done any injury. Should it fail to make an attack two weeks longer, there need be but little fears from it. Already some of our cotton is weighted down with bolls, and we have seen some stalks of toe Dickson cotton broken off by their excessive weight. So far as we are concerned, we have ceased to apprehend sericus injuries from th9 caterpillar. It will doubtless do some damage, but we neither see or hear of any indications of a general attack, like that of last year. The Crops in this Section.—We have pretty general reports of toe crops throughout this sec tion, embracing not this county only, but toe counties adjoining. In a few instances, on ac count of both dry and wet weather, toe com has been seriously injured, and toe cotton, caused by toe continuous rains of the past week or ten days, is shedding its forms considerably. Bnt, still, there is a finer prospect for a cotton and com crop—take it altogther—than we have had since 1850. There never has been a crop year wholly exempt from disaster, in some form, here and there; every body does not succeed in mak ing a good crop no year. The showers of toe past week have done much injury to fodder, rendering it almost impossible to save it It is now generally ripe, and many are engaged pulling it. Mammoth Watermelon Patch.—We presume Mr. Drary Rambo, of this county, has the finest watermelon patch in this section of toe State. He pulled at two gatherings, last week, three hundred and fifty melons. All hands, both white and black, partake without let or hindrance, as he does not purpose selling any, designing them alone for bi3 own use. DEATH OF THE : Fourteen Years Asleep. tARKABLE SLEEPING WOMAN IN KENTUCKY. Miss Susan Caroline Godsey, toe sleeping won der, died at her mother’s home, some eight miles from Hickman, Kentucky, on Wednesday, the 14th ult. The history of Miss Godsey is well known to the public, a statement of her wonderful condi tion having been published extensively by toe press of toe United States. At the time of her death, Miss Godsey was about twenty-six years of age, and bad been asleep, as described, about fourteen years. The existence of this wonderful case of coma, or preternatural disposition to sleep, has been doubted by many, but the fact is indisputable. Indeed, some twelvemontosago, Miss Godsey was taken to Nashville and other pla ces for exhibition, hntwe understand many even of the physicians of Nashville looked upon toe case with suspicion. The history of the case is briefly: When about twelve years of age she was taken with a severe chill, and treated ac cordingly by her physician. As the fever which followed her chill subsided, she fell in a deep sleep, in which condition she has remained ever since, except at intervals. It was her custom at first to awake regularly twice in every twenty- four hours, and singularly, within a few minutes of toe same hours each day; but of later yeRT3 she awoke oftener, so much so that many con sidered it an indication of her final recovery. She would remain awake five, ten, or perhaps fifteen minutes, and gradually drop off to sleep again. When asleep it was utterly impossible to arouse her. She never complained of any bod ily pain, though when asleep she was very ner vous at times, and appeared to suffer consider- ablv by the violent twitching and jerking of her muscles and limbs, and her hands clenched tightly, as if enduring severe pain—but, when she awoke, she did not appear to suffer, except from drowsy, gaping inclination, and persistent effort to cleanse her throat of phlegm. She generally past into sleep through violent par oxysm, which would last perhaps five minutes, and she would then sleep awhile as calmly and quietly as an infant. Mias Godsey was of me dium size, and her limbs and tfiuscles were well proportioned and developed, and grew considerably after her affliction. Miss Godsey, on the day she (Red, indulged in a little prophesying, which we give, as related, for what it is worth. She Aid “toe sun would be a total eclipse on the 7th of August.” This is remarkable, because parties assert that she could have no knowledge that this was accord ing to calculation. And ‘That the enn would never shine as bright after that day. That this I would indicate the end of toe world, which was j speedily approaching.” Events in Fayette. The Griffin star lias been to Fayette—Court week. A novel case was the conviction of Hil lary decider of hog stealing, on the testimony of Ins former slaves. The great event was the drawing off of Bennett’s yitil pond for. the pur pose of building a new dam. The pood was heavily stocked with fish, rad toe people collected miles eronnd to see toe iport The editor , of the Star was there with his breeches roQed up amid ships, to capture his share. As eil were waiting in noisy'expectancy, the Grand fury in terfered with a .presentment stating objections on the score of-health, but,all fonnded on the fact that they could not he tLere.to seethe sport The boys, however, had come To see thflfun and in some way or other the old dam broje loose. The Star went in, as we have described, and here is what he saw and got: ^1 And now the fun commenced! MuAuf nett were spread; numerous seins werL gotten ready for use; hundreds of gj^An<vboys. black and white, were seen A nrnfjir And mn/1- - The irnr4Au]ar trout, the beau tiful sucker, the swift perch—in fact the whole tbe family of finny settlers beneath the water were taken by surprise, and terror-stricken. They would clear out of water only to land in the fisherman’s toils, or perhaps in the mud—there to meet even a more ignominious death! Fright ened moccasins did’nt stop to bite—nor did toe slippery eels “stand on the order of their go ing. ’ ’ Logger heads and tarrepins fainted away in the agony of despair, and gave up toe ghost without a struggle! Even the bull frogs aban doned their native jungles, and gave not a croak of terror, as they betook themselves to the dry land! Fast and furious grew the sport. As the waters receded, toe fun increased! The noise became deafening—while every little while, as some extra fine fish would be captured, toe uproar amounted to a tempest! The“Court,” though two miles from the pond, became folly infected with toe excitement. Parties, witness es, jurors, lawyers, and perhaps the Judge him self, rushed in wild disorder to toe scene of the engagement, and pretty generally took part in the sport. By dark the pond was pretty thor oughly fished out, and all who had been at all industrious got a good supply of fish. From Monroe County. The Monroe Advertiser of the 3d has the fol lowing : The condition of crops continues favorable. Com is somewhat injured by the late drought, but we bear no special complaints from onr plan ters, and we therefore presume that no material cum age has been done. Cotton that has been cultivated according to the new system of agri culture is very promising, and planters are well satisfied with toe prospect. From correspondents in Crawford, Jasper and Jones, we learn that the crops in those counties are promising. Com and cotton in Crawford were injured by toe recent uncommonly hot and dry weither, bnt late showers have brought them out wonderfully. The crops in Jasper have suf fered greatly for rain, but toe timely seasons of toe past week have materially changed the as pect of things in that section. The same may be said of Jones county. Travel or the Macon and Western Railroad is very good, owing to the liberal inducements offered to excursionists by the officers thereof. Passenger trains to and from Macon are crowd ed day and night. The fall Term of the Monroe Female College began yesterday, with a most flattering prospect of a large attendance. The applications from a distance, we learn, are quite numerous, and toe faculty are encouraging to believe that toe num ber of pupils will be materially increased over toe last term. We are pleased to note that the institution is meeting with toe success which it deserves. Marked Changes at Niagara Falls.—The Utica Observer says : , Various accounts agree tha; there has been a marked change in the appeaiance of the falls since last year. The theory in regard to toe caving in or wearing away of Iiagara has never had stronger confirmation before. The Horse Shoe has evidently given way some thirty feet in that part of toe cone where be “green water” is seen, so that the horse shte appearance is metamorphosed to that of a riangular shape. It is thought that about one kindred and fifty tons of rock must have fallenin on the Horse Shoe alone, and old habituesare taking land marks, to notice too recession that may take place before another year. ! The American fall has evidextly given way at points to a considerable exteit. There is no doubt but that Niagara is alvays crumbling away, and falling back, but the present reces sion is probably toe greatest erer witnessed by any one generation. The heavy ice fields which pass over in the spring, the string currents and ceaseless wear and tear of time, and the mighty, thundering cataract, must ineviably tell heavily upon toe rocky crest of the giapd old shrine; but, of course, its falling away must be so slow as not to be observable to toe eye, except when, from time to time, some of the'fmmense bould ers are tom from their places. . A Lively Defalcation. The Savannah News of Saturday annnounces a leak discovered in the State Revenue, as fol lows : j Heavy Defalcation.—Somt time ago a ru mor gained currency in offioifl circles to the ef fect that a large discrepancy had been discov ered in the return made by Charles H. Hopkins, Jr., of toe collection of the Ccnvention tax This rumor soon gave place to a positive knowledge of toe fact, but it was withied from publication for prudential reasons. We are now at liberty to state that Hon. Mad ison Bell, Comptroller General of this State, has issued executions against said Charles H. Hop kins, Jr., late Convention Tax Collector, and against Andrew M. Ross, Mary Hopkins, Mon roe Adler, and others of hia securities, for over thirteen thousand dollars, to which amount Hop kins is said to be in default Weekly Resume of Foreign Attain. PREPARED FOB THE GEORGIA TELEGRAPH. From the Chalybeate Springs. ,• Chalybeate Springs, Ga., ) ! August 2, 1869.) 1 Great Britain.—During the past week the Editors Telegraph: Below you will find a list debates of the English Parliament have had no last communica- j “A'di^u^e^d^roccurred in the coal- tion from this favorite resort The weather re- j mines of St Helen, a little place only a few cently has been unfavorable, and we hear that! miles distant from. Liverpool. Fifty-eight many have postponed their visit to the Springs j c 9 r P® es brought to light from the depths until the present cool term shall have passed. | AgS^xhibition, embracing only select All the cabins will soon be filled—but the pro- I works from the dnm«iria 0 f fine arts, todustry prietors are improvising various arrangements, 1 and scientific invention, will be .held in London to enable them to meet toe demands for rooms, ! Indeed, toe carpenters, mattress-makers and ! Ireland. One half of toe population celebrates servants generally are hard at work, adding to! a triumph over the other half, for the one hun- the comforts of toe large number of guests al ready here, and providing for those who are daily arriving. There are no idlers about the Springs, save the visitors—and they have a jolly time, .“you bet.” dred and seventy-ninth time, with the same fa ns tio hatred, as if it were but an event of yes terday. On the 12th of July, 1690, William of Orange defeated James on the Boyne river, and Protestantism triumphed over Catholicism in Ireland. Year after year toe anniversary of 1 li • • it • this battle is kept in the Protestant North by ^ ^ “ 0 J I £ n gv , h8n ( numberless popular meetings, which are gener- it suits us; after which we walk, drink allthe j £tyTo^¥ ^byro^Sa3l^ako7by mmerffi waterwe can hold, and project plans | murder and bloodshed. The Orange proces- ock, when toe gong sounds for break' fast. After the morning meal is disposed of, they disperse to their rooms or about toe grounds, and play ten-pins, croquet, backgam mon, billiards and euchre, and bathe, walk, read, write letters, drink the waters and chat until two o’clock, when dinner is commenced. A brief nap after dinner is always in order, and after that cornea more promenading, flirting, driving and drinking of toe waters. Now and then par ties make excursions to the top of the mountain, from which there is a splendid view. To reach toe summit, however, is a pretty heavy job, and is not undertaken the second time except by the younger and more active visitors. At dusk we have tea—previous to which toe Italian band discourses the most delicious music for half an hour, as they do before dinner. After tea the guests remain in the parlors of toe Hotel until 8 o'clock for the arrival of the coach from Gen eva, the point at which passengers for toe Springs quit the railroad. The arrival of the coach is the great event of the day. The ladies are curious to see the la test arrivals, and nothing can induce them to leave toe hotel until toe coach has delivered its human freight. The gentlemen are equally in terested ; for they are indebted to the coach for their letters and papers. The papers are read with the greatest eagerness, and then passed from cabin to cabin, and from hand to hand. They are well worn and thnmbed by toe time tbe next batch is received. The new comers having been thoroughly scanned and criticised, and toe letters and pa pers read and discussed, toe devotees of Terp sichore repair to the ball room, where they keep up the graceful dance and giddy waltz until ten and eleven o’clock, or such other hour as pru dent mamas may deem it proper to retire. It is not unusual, however, after the dancing is over, for one or more oonples to become very thirsty, and they go by the spring just to get a drink of mineral water before retiring. These conples always find it necessary to take toe spring in their route, wherever they go. Some times they will loiter there by the gas light until the hour of twelve has been struck by every clock in Georgia, all toe time talking love and nonsense. It has ever been a source of astonishment to philosophers and bachelors, to say nothing of ancient maiden ladies, how young men and young women find so much to talk about. They feel quite certain that toe conversation on toe part of the young gentlemen would be voted arrant nonsense by evexy sensible man in the commonwealth, and that a similar judgment would be pronounced by every intelligent wo man upon what is said by toe young ladies. Yet j stration by 25,000 people, representing 189 lodges, took place at Sioyman, under the presi dency of toe fanatic member of Parliament, Mr. Johnston. In Enniskillen, Saintfield, Antrim and Portadown, the Orangists displayed likewise an imposing force. Harangues were delivered against the “spoliation of toe Irish Church,” and toe act of Parliament prohibiting party pro cessions. In Mufflen, near Londonderry, 800 Catholics, carrying arms, had a bloody encoun ter with the Protestants; the police ? - however, soon suoceeded in separating the hostile parties. In Belfast two Catholic schools were levelled to the ground. France.—The “Journal officiel” denies that J. Q. A. Warren, toe American citizen who was arrested during the late Paris riots, has met with any brutal treatment; the paper wishes the publio to withhold its judgment until toe case is thoroughly examined into by toe court. The same journal congratulates France on the successful laying of the Franoo-American cable. The Empress prepares already for her voyage to the Orient. She will stay ten days in Con stantinople, visit Smyrna and its environs and finally proceed to Egypt to witness the inaugu ration of the Suez canal. The Turkish ambas sador at the Toileries will be in her retinue. Nothing is known as to the rumored visit of Eugenie to toe United States. Germany.—King William, and almost all the ministers, are sojourning at the German water ing places, while Bismarck enjoys his rural re treat at Yarzin. The new treaty between the North-German Confederation and the United States for the protection of emigrants, provides for toe for mation of an international sworn commission in toe ports of departure and arrival. Besides possessing the right of thoroughly examining toe emigrant ships, the commission shall be em powered to summon and hear witnesses, to pre scribe all necessary oaths and declarations, to impose fines and punish with imprisonment; to decide in all cases of claims for compensation, and to pronounce a ship unfit for transporting passengers between toe ports of toe two con tracting parties. The resolutions and verdicts of the respective commissions shall be decisive in case of their being unanimous, and when there is a difference of opinion among them, an appeal may be made to the highest court having jurisdiction in marine affairs belonging to toe State under the flag of which the vessel in question sails. It seems almost certain that a confidential tin ders tandinj ward toe German Governments. Prussia, it is affirmed, will not suffer Rome to ng about the policy to be adopted to- Boman Council exists between the some how or other, this nonsense is amazingly I rruasia, n is amrmeo, wm not siraer isorne to interesting to the “youngfolks,” assimilar non- encroach in any way upon the jurisdiction of the sense doubtless was to the older ones when they I » an< * Bavaria, where the Ultramontanes - - - - - - wield a far greater power, may depend, in case of need, upon her speedy support. Hermann Yogel, in Berlin, a member of toe hortn were young. But wiser xu» than modern phil osophers and crusty bachelors and maidens have felt surprise at this, for you will doubtless re member there were four things which were “too wonderful” even to king Solomon, as he himself has informed us, and this was one of them. Vie are expecting a brilliant party of young i tographic likeness of the eclipse of^Siesun^st year, Las received an invitation from Washing ton, to join toe American expedition, which will i . «» »■ JW., prompt evening, onu deputies have pledged themselves to support a g Thus am>dto say, we have not had j g* J* one ‘ffast woman or “fast young man’ among State JSiut toe prewdtog consentof s. There is a large company of ladies and : f , * entlemen here but no social adventurers. In- j ■j ,i * j I iv no ert i mind that sucii & msmscs w&s trs&tcd as con* eed, the society at toe Spring.» so dwfldedty cubinage by th e law of Bavaria, unless the hus- good that no Won 0 f questionable character or . band j*> a h y eoome _ Amerioan ’ citizen . and the snmnrfdin^eounb^a're ex ' consequence was, that the wife could not inherit 1 tar h^band’s estate in Germany; until a short time ego the law of 'Waert.mbMg required the part of Meriwether county the com and cotton are as good as the land will produce. Invalid. LIST OF LATE ARRIVALS AT CHALYBEATE SPRINGS, Mrs. E. Sims Banks, H. S. Stewart, Coltun- special consent of the King to sanction such a marriage. Austria.—The Chancellor of the Empire, in an audience, assured toe Budget Committee of bus; Dr; F. McLean, McD. Atchenson, Lownds ! toe Hungarian Delegation of his pacific inten- county, Ala.; Mrs. R. O. Howard, Ala.; Colonel | tions, expressing his regret that they were not Murphy, Montgomery; G. C. Connor, Macon; i responded to in the same spirit by Prussia. Col. P. W. Alexander and servant, Columbus; j The Hungarian Ministry has granted a pen- Capt. Richard Spaulding, LaGrange; G. H. j sion of six hundred florins each to the six sur- Cotter, Sulphur Springs; Mr. and Mrs. Charles | viving widows of the heroic Hungarian Honved E. Booher, child and servant, Columbus; Miss es Fishacker, H. O. Bussey, N. J. Bussey, jr., Columbus; J. J. Daniel, Ala. ; Mrs. E. Vi. Beck and servant, Miss Viola Williamson, Miss Ella generals, who were executed in Arad, 1849, by order of tbe Austrian Government. The discovery of the remains of Ca6imir the Great, the famons king, still living in Polish How Mr. Creswell Broke His Arm.—Mr. Cresweli left here Saturday evening on toe 5:40 train and arrived in Elkton about 9 o’clock, where his carriage was in waiting. He entered it, and was driven to the house of the Rev. Mr. McIntyre, where he took supper. After supper they seated themselves on the piazza to enjoy a few moments' conversation. Mr. Creswell’s chair was placed too close to toe edge of toe pi azza, which was about two feet above toe ground, and one of the legs of toe chair projected over the edge. Mr. Creswell attempted to tip his chair backward, and, as he was sitting with his back to the edge of toe piazza, toe chair slipped off. He threw up his arms to recover his bal ance, but failed to do so, Bnd fell backward on his left arm, breaking the bone at .toe elbow joint The arm is so badly fractured that fears are entertained that it cannot be set, and will probably be toe occasion of a long confinement to the Postmaster General.— Washington Citron- tele, 27th. Corn Crop op Indiana.—The Indianapolis Journal, speaking of the com crop, says : “The sum of the whale matter, as near as we can ar rive at any Bum at all, is that the crop in the center and south part of toe State, off the river bottoms, looks finely. On the high lands it is not very bad either north or south, but in toe north it is generally bad, and oh low lands ut terly rained.” „ Troops Sent to Columbia County.—Weleam, says the Constitutionalist of Saturday, that the down passenger train on - the Georgia Railroad, yesterday, brought from Atlanta to Sawdust Station a company of United States soldiers, destined for Appling Court-house. The fruit of the rashness and indiscretion of a few thought less men. Sparks, Mr. J. M. Sparks, Coleman Walls, Grif-; song, gave rise to a Polish national festival at fin; Mr. and Mrs. O. E. Dexter, Miss Dexter, {Caracow. The remains were enshrined in a Master Dexter, Columbus; Joseph Solomon, j silver coffinn, and, with a large concourse of all Montgomery; J. S. Solomon, Troy, Ala.; Mr. 'classes of Polish sooiety, again deposited and Mrs. James S. Jones, child and servant, ! in the ancient Cathedral cf Caracow, where CoL Robt. Thompson, J. 0. Love, Columbus; ' they had been found. Also the Israelites did John B. Holst, O. B. Austin, Savannah; Dr. S. j grateful homage to toe memory of the il- A. Billing, Mr. and Mrs, Ben. Fontaine, child , lustrious dead by taking part in the ceie- and servant, Columbus ; J. T. Neal, Talbotton; I bration; for, being far in advance of toe AT Beaves, B. D. Bender, Meriwether county; ' prejudices of his age, he already five hundred W. J. Chaffin, J. M. Osborn, Columbus; A. H. ' years ago not only acunitted toe Jews to bis do- Tharp, Miss Amelia Tharp, Miss Eugenia Tharp, | minions, but actually granted them equal rights Ferry; Chas. E. Shorter, Jas. H. Shorter, Mrs. | with his other subjects—a justice still denied to M. E. Shorter, Dr. Colzey, Wm. A. Little, wife, ; them by Bossia in the 19th century, child and servant, John A. Colvin and wife, Co- [ Great excitement in the same city was occa- lumbus; Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Faunce, 3 children j stoned by toe liberation of a nun who had been and servant, Miss Pet Hatchett, Montgomery; kept imprisoned in a nunnery for above twenty Mrs. G. DeLannay, C. C. Cody, Columbus; Z. : years. T. Conner, D. E. Norris, Macon; J. L. How-j The Bohemians celebrated the anniversary of ard, Savannah; Mrs. Mathews, Ga.; John Hoi-. John Huss’ birth-day. Theredcalice onawhite lingsworto, Macon; W. Kelly Banks, Miss Sue [ flag was everywhere conspicuous as were the Banks, Miss Josephine Banks, MissE. Fergu- j emblems of the Hussites’ ealioe, flail and club. In son, Miss Lilly Clayton, Dr. Grimes, A. A. Cole- ; toe Bohemian theatre a play “John Huss” was man, Columbus; Mrs. M. E. Lanier, Missis- \ enacted, «waunin^ manr 'attoeja nnou.Bpme, gfpp,. \ , ; toe Pope, toe Empire and toe Germans which' " * *»<* were always followed by a thunder of applause. Homicide in Fayette.-A shocking affair oc- ****jT^% 0a ^ in6t curred near Ringbone, in Fayette county, last resigned the idea of a collective note in regard who seeks to obstruot her passage. When the Empress had been only a short time in Laeken, she beheld one day a portrait bust of Napoleon; immediately rushing towards it she dashed the bust with such vehemence on the floor that it was shivered to atoms. Everything reminding her of Maximilian’s evil genius who lured the Prince from his home on toe bids Mediterrane an to bis tragic doom in Queret&ro, is carefully kept out of her sight. ■> Russia.—A good grain crop is expected in toe northern and western provinces, while the ,, reports from the south, usually the granary of Europe, are very unfavorable. The result of toe crop will be very important for many dis- *• trusts of the vast empire, as the last two yean were deficient, while, owing to the growing de pravity of the Russian peasantry since uieir emancipation, toe cultivation of toe soil is con tinually deteriorating. The former hat-maker, • Komisaarow, how saved the Emperor’s life on the 16th of April, I860, committed suicide by banging himself. Alexander II, as a proof of his gratitude, had showored favors upon his savior, by presenting him with an estate, and conferring nobility upon him—while a national subscription put the “bran-new” nobleman beyond au pecuniary cares. Addicted to drunkenness, Komissarcrw " is said to have so strangely behaved at court that the Emperor was obliged to decline his further visits. The disgrsoe drove tbe wretched 4 slave of the rum bottle to suicide. Jarno. ^u, ' Important Decision ot the Snprei Court. “ Judgments upon which Entries have not' been , made for seven years declared void—nottclth- standing the Suspension of the.Statue of j* Limitations by the Stay Laws. . L. T. Battle vs. James -A. Shivers—Motion to distribute money—from Warren county. In the above case the question arose as to whether a judgment obtained in April, 1861, was entitled to certain funds in the hands of, the sheriff. The point made against Shivers was that his judgment was dormant—no entry having been made upon it in seven years. Shivers claimed that by toe act of 30th November, I860, the statue of limitations was suspended, and also by the act of 1866, known as the Stay Law. The Court below determined that toe judgment was not dormant. The Supreme Court, in a decision rendered on Tuesday last, by Chief Justice Brown and Justice McO&y, re verse this decision. Their reasoning is long, and we omit their opinions. As to toe effect of .. the provision in the Act of 1866, Chief Just ice Brown says:.' ' ' • y 3. But it is insisted that the act of 1868; known as toe stay law, expressly suspends toe statute . of limitations as to liens. So it does: But what liens? All liens, says the statute, affected by that act. This conrt, whether its judgment was right or not, has declared toe stay law un constitutional, and void. It is very clear that the Legislature only intended to suspend toe i statute of limitations as to liens as long as the stay law remained legally in force and no long er. Under the ruling of this court toe stay law was never legally in force for a single day.' It, therefore, never affected any liens, and as the statute of limitations was only suspended as to liens affected by it, and none were affected by it, the statute was suspended as to none. The stay law having been declared null and void it is in law as if it had never been passed; and cred itors are no more entitled to olaim legal rights • under it now than debtors were when, it was brought before this court and set aside in the ; interest of creditors. Per contra : J. Warner dissenting says: But in my judgment, toe decision of the Court below was right, upon a fair construction of the act of 1866, commonly known as the stay law. By the first section of that act, executions were to be stayed until the 1st of January, 1870; that was a definite period of time fixed for toe opera tion of the act upon executions issued upon judgments. The third section of toe act deolares, “that all Statutes of Limitationsrelating to liens affected by this act, shall be suspended during the continuance of toe act.” It was toe declared intent of the Legislature to suspend the running of toe Statute of Limitations relating to^ liens, the time fixed by the first seotion of the act jfor its continuance. The intention of toe Legisla ture is quite as clear and manifest as if it had been declared in so many words, that the sta tute should be suspended until the first day of. January, 1870. The first section of the act was to continue of force until the 1st of January, 1870. The statute of limitations relating to liens, affected by the act, was suspended until that time. It is true, that the fiist and fourth sections of the act of 1866 have been declared unconstitutional and void, but toe third section. of that act is not unconstitutional and has never been declared to be so. That section of toe act remains intact, and because the other Mo tions of toe act have been declared unconstitu tional, that fact does not prevent a reference to them to ascertain what was the intention of the Legislature in toe enactment of toe third section as to toe period of time for which the statute of limitations, relating to, liens, was to be suspended, that it was the intention of toe Legislature to suspend the running of toe stat ute of limitations, relating to liens, until the 1 st of January 1870,1 think is clear and indis putable, and taking toe mast favorable view of the question for the plaintiff in error, the time should not be coturtod against toe defendant in error, until the rendition of toe judgment of this court, declaring the first and fourth sections of the act of 1866 unconstitutional. . r "n • •>' * !> «■ : .* » *r,< •; :* * . « ; f * v . * we3T It was on the plantation of toe late Bur- , to toe General Council, rell Ware, who died last year, and his widow - died recently, leaving her brothe^in4aw Mr. j SSSS&^fiRS Mie Council upon toe Pa£T£vy will also be represented at £ ad «« i the opening of the Suez CanaL The Oorvet “L -whereupon Oawleyattacked him abofi and } Immacolata^ Concezione/’ toe>only one_the Gov- Rainey claimed the right to take the £>m; ' eminent po**®** 8 - ^ P tur P° 8 !> i ^?^ whereupon Cawley went to his house, got his 8ent . te To n, e, to be thoroughly iron and returning, shot Rainey dead in the field repaired. • ' where his body lay untouched for a long time. : Spain.—The path of the Pretender, Don Car- It is thought that the trouble originated in a I 08 ! has, as usual, been marked with blood and family misunderstanding about the property of tears, without advancing a cause hopelessly lost toe late Burrell Ware. forever. The Cariists were routed in several At last accounts Cawley had not teen arrested, encounters, and Carlos, who, over the bleeding From the version we get, this was a very cold- corpses of his countrymen, would step upon the blooded and atrocious affair.—Griffin Star. throne, is said to have given orders to discon- tinue the movement. The attempt is generally _ *"*„ . . , ... censidered a total failure, The Government is Cotton Crop.—The official statistics of toe ^torminAd on maibiafotog the authority of toe agricultural department of'the United States as j ftw; Offers for aiding in the suppression of compiled by J. B. Dodge, give a total acreage thB Qailist rising, had retched Madrid from all planted in cotton eight million acres. The aver-! p arb3 0 j country, and even the venerable age yield will probably be a bale to threepr four .fwrtero had volunteered his services, acres, but taking three as toe basis, we wffl have , 6 eneral gictieg the new Amerioan Ambassa- a crop of 2,666,666 bales. We think this is dott amved. * ** ' - in Ka awivad b4 * Parton, who enlogiaed Ben Butler by writing his biography, says there is so tittle to commend in George Washington that it will not pay to write his life. _ —A. about os near .toe truth, as can be arrived at,— Any disaster would lessen these figures. Belgium.—Reports from Brussels describe the state of the Empress Carlotta as sinking very fast. Madness and consumption are rapid ly undermining her life. Sleep flees her; and The belle at Saratoga this season ia a Castil linn damsel from Madrid. She knows of Eng- in toe night rising from her bed she wanders lish not a word. Her foot is said to be but six like Lady Macbeth through toe desolate halls of inches in length. • ' { the cattle of EMken, pushing aside everybofly Tbe Crops in Florida. {va-Aw:. ■ Americus, Ga., August 2, 1869. Editors Telegraph—I have just left your old friends and neighborhood, Middle Florida, after a sojourn of seven months: Crops of com, cotton, cane and potatoes oonld not' be better, as rain and dry weather appeared exactly to suit planters, and the crops on the road are gen erally very good indeed, until I reached the neighborhood of Americus, where they have suffered some for rain, but have it now. I have but one discouraging item in the prospect of farmers, and that is the caterpillar. On three farms in Middle Florida they were sufficiently numerous as to be serious. These far* 18 were Bloxham’s, Philip Pearce’s and Roberts’. I heard of a few scattering p»es in Southwest Georgia. Planters wero, however, generally vMM3. -c~t. em11 of cotton, the being ample, and out or danger. S. M. Lester. provision crop Tbe Cotton Famine. The London Shipping Gazette concludes an article upon toe condition of the cotton trade thus: It is difficult to see, however, how any great increased demand can be satisfied out of present resources. The quantity of cotton on hand in Liverpool is very small, having only increased by 13,700 bales since the opening of the year. It may be noted that the average stock held dar ing tbe twenty years ended 1860, was no less than 747,000 bales, the quantity on hand at the present time being 365,800, or was than half that amount. Even if we take the case of the last three years, the stock is at an unusually low ebb. In July, 1866, the quantity held was 1,020,000 bales; in 1867,738,000; and in 1868,603,000— the average being 778,000 bales. It haa, how ever, been gradually declining, until it has reached the present low figure. But any In- crease in consumption, would force prices up to suah a point aa to prohibit s! dp neats of gooefci to any great extent, and we doubt if the foreign markets are yet sufficiently denaded .of goods to allow of any material increase in prices abroad. For this reason we incline to tbe belief that the activity which has lately set in through tha Manchester market is of a temporary nature, and will not be maintained in toe faoe of a con tinued rise in the pries wf the raw, material The HotelPeQwm in B3s|m t wei^dagflm thousand toosk .and having', jnp* nearly one tondMcL feet high, ia to be moved hy iriW.rflt lets a distance of fourteen feet, ;, , shift. Ham kimdMI aitejjjili 1 IT. iviiriiiriifa y,. mm

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Weekly Georgia telegraph. (Macon [Ga.]) 1858-1869, August 06, 1869, Image 1