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The Greorgia Weekly Telegraph.
THE TELEGRAPH.
MACON FRIDAY, AUGUST 6, 1869.
Drought, Forage and Deep Plowing,
We were gossiping yesterday with a Middle
Georgia planter about matters and things in
'general. He says he has not had rain enough
to stand or nm in his furrows sinoe his com was
planted, and yet thinks he will make a fine crop
—fifteen bushels to the acre upon his uplands.
His oorn. has not suffered seriously from
drought—simply because bis ground was mel
lowed yery deeply.
The sub-soil plow is his great instrument in
preparing the land for crops. The turning-
plow, in his judgment, should be used with
great care and moderation—and but a very
moderate depth of clay turned up to the surface
every year—that it may be incorporated with,
and serve gradually to deepen the soil. The
sub-soil, however, should be deeply mellowed—
the deeper the better. How deep does the tap
root of our lustiest cotton stalks go down into
the earth ? A Bibb county planter says ‘ ‘three
feet, and he will prove it.”
Our gossipping friend has met with first rate
success in red clover. From one and three-
quarter acres he has cut and housed, this sum
mer, ten wagon loads of first rate forage, which
he says weighed at least one thousand pounds
each. That is five tons, or two hundred dollars
worth and more—town prices. He Bays there
is no difficulty with clover upon fair uplands.—
Pulverize the surface soil well, and mellow the
subsoil to the greatest possible depth; but be
careful not to go below the surface soil with
your turn plows. Clover needs a great depth of
mellow ground to penetrate with its long roots
that it may not suffer from the hot sun and
drought. It can be cut twice in the year and it
will, as gTeen forage, keep horses and mules
fat with one ration of corn a day. Our gossip
is known to be one of the best farmers in Mid
dle Georgia, but we call so names.
Got s Certificate.
Stokes, in Tennessee, has been an humble ap
plicant for endorsement at ‘Washington and is
now able to carry the following about in his
breeches pocket:
Washington, D. C., July 24.
“To Hon. W. B. Stokes, City Hotel:
“Believing yon to be the true representative
of the Republican party of Tennessee, I earn
estly advocate yonr election, and I trust that
every sound Republican in your State will rally
enthusiastically to your support. The Presi
dent is absent from the city, but l am confident
that I declare bis opinion and desire.
“John A. Criswell,
Post-master General.”
That is all right, and we shall see next Thurs
day, when the Tennessee Election takes place,
what is the precise value of this certificate. The
Sentermen Bay they will elect him by sixty
thousand majority, and yet he is a bogus radical,
while Stokes is the old original Jacob Townsend.
Surely Grant and Creswell should have more
weight in Tennessee than that!
Immense Southern. Immigration
from the Northwest.
W. B. Donoho, Esq., writes the Memphis Av
alanche, of the 27th, from Dixon, Illinois. He
has been traveling in the Northwest—mingling
with the people—addressing them occasionally
—for the apace of two months. He gives the
most encouraging reports of the friendly dispo
sition of the citizens of that section, and says
they will gather eagerly by thousands for a
friendly talk upon the situation, and the won
derful resources of the Southern country. He
closes his letter as follows:
“Open wide your gates and your hearts, and
be prepared to extend the most cordial greeting
to thousands of the good and true men of Indi
ana, Illinois, Michigan, Ohio and New York,
who. will be found this fall and winter seeking
permanent homes South. They will bring
brains as well as muscle; industry and skill,
money and votes—practically opposed to ‘car
pet-bagger practices.’
“I have talked to eighty thousand of them,
and mingled with them in their counting-rooms,
their mills, their factories, their shops, and
upon their farms, and let our Southern friends
be assured that the great pulse of the North
west is in fullest sympathy and brotherly affec
tion with them, for the fullest restoration of
£eace, and the removal of every obstacle to our
vriffTtie autumn frosts.”
From Baker anil Mitchell.
Caterpillar Reported.—A note from a friend
dated at Newton, Baker county, the 28th, says:
“I have traveled over considerable portions of
this and Mitchell counties, in the past week.
Orops of both com and cotton are very fine; bnt
the caterpillar has commenced its ravages be
yond a doubt.”
Rain Storm.—Onyesterdayafternoon, says the
Augusta Chronicle of the 2Sth, the clerk of the
weather managed to get up a very good imita
tion of the Great Deluge. At the time of the
present writing the rain is still falling, and in
torrents; the centre of Broad street is a lake
navigable for small boats; every sewer is a
miniature river; every gutter a creek. We pre
sume that the waters of the Savannah will be
booming between their banks this morning.
No Worm Yet in East Florida.—The Ocala
(Marion county, East Florida) Journal of the
25th says the cotton crop still presents a most
prosperous appearance. No sign of the cater
pillar yet, and we think with the hot weather we
are having now, that his depredations will not
be very huge this year. All of our farming
friends seem to be in buoyant spirits.
SEjn-omcm. information from Paraguay,
received in ‘Washington, states that Lopez has
retreated into the passes of the Cordilleras,
where he is able to maintain a successful oppo
sition to the allied forces, and at the same time
draw supplies for his commissariat from the ag
ricultural region in his rear. Boliva and other
sympathizing republics continue to famish him
with munitions of war.
Regulations toe Selling Smoking Tobacco.
—The Internal Revenue Bureau has decided
that smoking tobacco cannot be retailed from
pound packages,ea^ptfromtwodcnoneSjpacked
and stamped—and has directed notice to be
given to all dealers in tobacco that the practice
of retailing tobacco from pound packages, ns now
prevailing, must at once cease.
Glostxg Bab Rooms os Sunday.—The Colum
bus Sun and Times announces that the Superior
Court and the city fathers are taking steps to
enforce the closing of the bar rooms on Sunday.
Is it possible our lively sister city is so far be
hind the times as to have that yet to do ?
Fotjb Legs.—There is & child in Blount coun
ty, • Alabama, fourteen months old, with four
perfect legs, *ne body and two stomachs. Our
informant states that the parents of the pfrild pro
pose to exhibit it during the coming fall.
Density of Salt Lake Waxes.—The water of
Sail Lake Is so dense that a man cannot sink in
it The editor of the Corrinne Reporter demon
strated this by standing upright in the water,
and without the least motion could not sink to
the chin. He conld lie on the water, stand in
it, take almost any position, and still he would
float and could not sink. It is necessary after
swimming in this briny water to rinse off with
fresh;' for the salt of the water condenses on
one’s person and leaves one, when dry, looking
as if he had been powdered all over with white
ohalk.
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A twenty-inch gen, veBtghing over fifty-seven”
ions, and capable of timowing a shot weighing
1,100 pounds, has been east in Pittsburg. There
is bnt one ether of eqphl size in the United
State*.
The Negro Riot in Charleston.
The Charleston Courier is informed that- the
late negro riot hi that city on the 26th, was oc
casioned by the fact that some time ago a band
of negro minstrels went from that city,to Sa
vannah and were hissed from the place. It is
also attributed to the fact that the Washington
band is composed of Conservative colored men.
Whatever may have been the cause, the act
was a beautiful illustration of negro citizenship.
The riot began in the arrest by the police of a
drunken negro who persisted in going inride the'
lines marked out for the players. Three thousand
armed negroes assembled in ten minutes for a
rescue, and this shows that the peace and secu
rity of Charleston hang every minute on the
contingency that no quarrel takes place between
a white man or the city police and any one of
these radical negroes. Any 6uch event may, in
a quarter of an hour, stir up a general insurrec
tion and fight, in which the civil authorities are
utterly powerless, and the consequences are re-’
mitted to the chapter of accidents or whatever
vile impnlse may possess a furious mob of
demi-savages.
In this case, the riot was perfectly triumphant.
Their leader declared, according to the Courier,
“we are strong enongh to rule this city and
there is no d—d rascal who can put us down.”
The carpet-bag mayor, Pillsbury, a man of their
own choice, oonfeased to the military authorities
that he was perfectly powerless, and implored
their intervention. The United States officer
in command of. the military guard, was grossly
insulted and pelted with street filth. The ne
groes suffered no harm in their defiance of the
guardians of civil order, and nothing bnt the
extremest caution upon the part of the latter—
an attitude strictly defensive and quiet submis
sion to blows from Btones, rocks and garbage,
and still fouler billingsgate, prevented a grand
battlte-royaL , ,
This is the perilous condition of Charleston
every day; and to a great extent the same re
mark will apply to all communities where the
negro either predominates or holds a claim to
numerical equality. White forbearance and
long suffering alone keep the peace.
As a matter of fact, affairs will probably grow
worse in Charleston till they culminate in a gen
eral row in which the negro population shall be
taught subordination to the law and respect for
civil authority. That may come any time, and
although it will involve results temporarily dis
astrous, it will work out the peaceable fruits of
righteousness, if the whites are cautions in main
taining their attitude of upholders of the law.
They must be sure to be not only morally, but
legally right, and then the sooner a conflict
comes with these negro mobocrats, the better in
onr judgment for the peace and character of the
city. Sambo’s reign as a politician and lord of
the ballot in the Southern States or any where
else is destined to be brief and inglorious. He
will be voted an intolerable nuisance as a poli
tician unanimously by the American people
North and South. The radicals who have brought
him into being, will probably be the greatest suf
ferers from him after all. He will blow up their
party for them sky high. He will make their
reconstruction a stench in the nostrils of the
American people.
A String of Falsehoods.
Some correspondent of the New York Com
mercial Advertiser, of the 26th, strings together
more falsehoods in the subjoined paragraph
than we ever before saw collected in the same
space:
The Macon Postmaster.—As a rebuke to the
Georgia whites for the killing of Ayres and
Adkins, and the persecution of the blacks,
President Grant appointed several of the latter
to office. The important position of Postmaster
at Macon, Toomb’s home, was conferred upon
a colored man, named Turner. A hue and cry
was forthwith raised all through that part of
the State, and delegation after delegation was
despatched to the President, to secure a change.
The latter, however, remained immovable.
Then all maimer of criminal charges were
trumped up against Turner, and he was placed
on trial before a United States Commissioner
for passing counterfeit money.
After an examination be has been released,
and the charges pronounced unfounded. One
of his former officers wrote to Colonel T. W.
Higginson from Macon, while the examination
was progressing: “I wish you to know th»* T
have, inet ivuxa »i ■ ■' ■ — ^ valuable testi
mony, that will fully establish his innocence and
prove to the world that the whole affair is a
clear case of persecution and an outrageous
conspiracy to bring the Government into dis
repute, exasperate the people against the pres
ent administration, and to deprive Turner of
his position. From the beginning I have felt
that Turner was an innocent man, and, conse
quently, have been incessantly at work investi
gating the affair, in order to get at the truth.”
So ends another deliberate and outrageous at
tempt to ruin a black man, simply because he
was black.
It is of no use to waste words about the author
of the foregoing. He is undoubtedly one of
those miserable party bummers who pick up a
living out of the political troubles they create
and ferment in the South. Lying is an essential
part of their avocation. But it is of no use to
deny that the New York Daily Advertiser, which
introduces and endorses these falsehoods, knows
better. He knows that the pursuit, alleged de
tection, arrest and trial of Turner were all done
by the Government police, and the whites of
Georgia had nothing to do with it whatever.—
He knows, too, that the -witnesses against Tor.
ner were all Radicals—for all the facts of the
trial are in the Advertiser’s possession. But
the truth is, this escapade in Georgia is humilia.
ting. It is, perhaps, doing the administration
cause no good in Pennsylvania, and surprising,
as it may appear, the New York Commercial
Advertiser was willing to murder truth in an
adroit attempt to varnish that business over.
Resistance to the Internal Revenue
Laws iu Georgia.
The following dispatch to the Western Press
in reference to resistance to the enforcement of
the Internal Revenue Laws .in Georgia is all
news to us:
Washington, D. C., July 27.—The enforce
ment of the revenue laws in at least a portion
of the State of Georgia appears to be a matter
of some difficulty if not danger. Three gentle-
have declined the appointment of Assessor in
one district, aud abandoned the field to disor
derly parties. The district complained of is
known oh *h» Third Gonraia ni.tnot, compris
ing twenty-three counties in the central and
eastern palt of the State. Collector Belcher has
forwarded to Commissioner Delano the resigna
tion of the last appointee, Wm. Haycord, with
the statement that he,|Haycord, found it impos
sible to discharge his duty owing to threats of
intimidation and actual violence, aud that three
unsuccessful attempts had been made to assess
property in these counties. The matter will be
brought to the attention of the President on his
return, and if necessary the military will be
used to aid in the enforcement of the laws.
From Terrell County.
The Dawson Journal, of the 29th, has the fol
lowing:
Weather, CeoFs and .Health.—Rain has
fallen the past week generally, and as far as we
can learn, has been, plentiful ; but in some sec
tions the drought had materially damaged both
corn and cotton, and we are surprised to hear so
much complaint of indifferent crops.
The corn crop is better than last year—the
ootton crop will speak for itself about the first
of January. Calculations made nowis all guess
work.
Health of the country still good, excepting oc
casional attacks of chills and fover, or bilious
fever.
Sad Accident.—Willie Lasseter, son of Jas.
L&sceter, of this county, was killed by falling
from a loaded wagon on Friday last, the 23d
inst. Willie was abont ten years old and quite
an interesting boy. We sympathize with the
family of Willie, in this, their sad bereavement.
Rats, mice and frizzes, to be worn under the
hair, to fill it out, are almost superseded by light
combs and wire ribbon..i- - • %-T
The Ranafiicture of Fertilizers.
A PROPOSITION TO PLANTERS.
It is now a settled proposition that the use
of commercial fertilizers in'this part of Georgia,
is destined to increase largely. Some farmers
and others then were, last summer, who be
came alarmed at the magnitude of the sums ex
pended and indebtedness incurred for these ar
tificial manures, and predicted that it would all
end in disappointment and disgust, and the ac
quisition of a little practical wisdom at a high
price. , v • ». , ■ , U . -
So far, however, although we have heard of
some disappointment in the quality of a few of
the fertilizers brought into Georgia, yet the
mass of the regrets have been that any por
tion of the ootton crop was planted without fer
tilizers. The people have had tangible evidence
that it is a miserable economy to cultivate with
out manures, and very few intelligent men will
do it again. The result, therefore, will be that
two or three dollars will be expended for these
fertilizers next winter and spring to every sin
gle dollar’s outlay of a simular character upon
the growing crop.
Consider, then, the character and extent of
this gigantic business which is springing up
among us—the manufacture and supply of com
mercial fertilizers to the people, which must
now amount to several millions yearly. How
will yon shape and regulate it ? Will yon turn
over the legitimate profits which belong to such
a mighty business to strangers and persons for
eign to Georgia ? Will yon go on buying from
year to year on blind faith—with no personal
knowledge of what you are getting—with no se
curity that the standard of value is achieved or
maintained—with no pecuniary interest in the
manufacture—with no control over the mills?
Surely this is not the part of reason or com-,
mon sense. We wish to submit a proposition
to pinntATo irhictj, if they will consider with can
dor, will enlist their earnest efforts' to the se
curing of a controlling influence in the manu
facture of their own fertilizers and a large share
in the legitimate profits of the operation. i
It is well-known that the Central Railroad
Company, is about transferring their freight Je-
pot and shops to this side of the river,and in view
of this change of site, they are waiting to sell
their valuable buildings in East Macon, with the
whole system of side-tracks and switches, for
the simple value of so muoh building material.
Their buildings are in allj respects admirably
adapted to the manufacture of fertilizers on a
very extensive scale and to their transhipment
all over the State.
The Central railroad also proposes to take
stock in the company and to aid it to the ex
tent of its power in the prompt and cheap trans
portation of the crude materials aud manufac
tured products.
Accordingly, a company has been formed,
and it is proposed to put at the head of it Gen.
William S. Holt—a man of well-known finan
cial and executive ability, and a planter, as well
as President of the Southwestern Railroad. It
is proposed, also, to make that well-known and
favorite agriculturist, chemist and planter, Dr.
E. M. Pendleton, of Sparta, Inspector of the
works.
A considerable amount of stock in this enter
prise has already been taken by many of the
leading men in Macon, but it is earnestly de
sired that the majority of the stock should be
in the hands of planters. If they will take hold
of this business, it will then rest with them to
fix the exact standard and price of the fertil
izers they will manufacture, and assure them
selves beyond all doubt just what they are
using. Under this arrangement, they can take
entire control of the business, as well as reap
the most satisfactory profits from the stock.
Let them think over this proposition.
TELEGRAPH.
Triennial Reeling of the Alamnenn
Association.
Library of W. F. College, >
Tuesday, July 13, 1809. j
The Alnmnean Association of the Wesleyan
Female College convened at the above given
time and place—Mrs. A. B. Clayton, President
pro tern, in the —After the meeting was
called to order, the Constitution was read. The
Committee on Memoirs then presented its report,
which consisted of memorial notices of alumnoe
who had departed this life since the last regular
meeting in July, 18C6. These were:
Mrs. Ann Stephens, nee LeConte; Mrs. Cin
derella C. Hartwell, nee Solomon; Mrs. Clara
C. Wiggins, nee Pierce; Mrs. Sarah M. Rogers,
nee Jameson; Mrs. Ann Chapman, nee Carleton;
Sirs. S. Joanna Smith, nee Ouseley; Mrs. Flori
da Groce, nee Hollingsworth; Mrs. Kate Felder,
nee Dnncan.
The Committee on Nominations reported that
no names had been suggested to th$m for elec
tion to membership.
The Committee of Arrangements for the re
union on Wednesday night, made their report,
which wa3 accepted.
The Association unanimously agreed to re
scind that provision of the Constitution which
forbade the re-election of any officer to the same
office after the expiration of her term.
An election of officers was then entered , into,
which resulted as follows :
President—Mrs. Adaline B. Clayton.
VICE PRESIDENTS:
1st—Mrs. Leona V. Farrar.
2d—Miss Julia C. Jewett, Fort Valley.
3d—Mrs. Octavia S. Adair, Atlanta.
4th—Mrs. Mary Culler, Perry.
5th—Mrs. Harriet M. Colquit.
Gth—Mrs. Sarah E. Nelhut, Lagrange, Tenn.
7th—Mrs. Hayes, Ala.
Committee on Memoirs—Mrs. Alice R. Leak;
Miss Flora A. Smith; andMiss Minnie Gresham.
Committee on Nominations—Mrs. Carrie E.
Brewer; Mrs. Virginia Hopson; and Mrs. M.
Florence Roberts.
Recording Secretary—Him Fannie A. Blount.
Corresponding Secretary—Miss A. Dessau.
Treasurer—Miss Fannie A. Myers.
A communication from the Endowment Asso
ciation was received, requesting the appointment
of a committee to co-operate with that associa-
in extending the list of subscribers to its funds.
Consequently the following committee was ap
pointed for that purpose:
Mrs. Theodosia H. Holland, of Baltimore.
Mrs. Davis D. Spain, of South Carolina.
Mrs. Eugenia H. Ragsdale, of Chattanooga.
Mrs. SaUie O. Hannon, of Montgomery.
Mrs. Virginia C. Tumbule, of Florida.
Mrs. Georgia A. Stroy, of Aberdeen.
Mrs. Elvira Shingler, of Columbus, Ga.
Mrs. Bass, of Macon.
on motion the Corresponding Secretary was
instructed to write to Rev. Osborn L. Smith, D.
D. , and request him to address the Association
at its next regular meeting, in 1872.
On motion it was unanimously resolved, that
the Corresponding Secretary be instructed to
return the thanks of the Association to the edi
tors of the Macon papers who had been so kind
as to publish its notices without charge.
On motion the Association adjourned.
Mrs. A. B. Clayton, Pres’t.
Miss M. C. deGeaffexbeid, Seo'y pro tern.
Supreme Court.
Wednesday, July 28, 1SC9.
No. 9. Flint Circuit—Miles G. Robbins vs.
Charles D. Dnpree—Motion to set aside a judg
ment from Spalding, was argued by Judge
Spear for plaintiff in error and OoL Peeples for
defendant in error.
No. 1. Northern Circuit—Laden N. B. Bat
tle vs. James A. Shivers—Argument in this case
was opened by Gen. Toombs. Pending the re
ply oi Col. E. A. Pottle, the Court adjourned
till 10 a. sl, to morrow. —Intelligencer.
Turner and. Schurman.—According to the
press telegrams yesterday, Turner is to be sum
moned as witness against Schurman, a Treasury
messenger, charged with stealing and uttering
the forged New Jersey Bank notes. Schurman
is another negro appointee and a nice specimen
of radioal enterprise in that line.
Pensacola.—The physicians of ■ Pensacola
publish a card, deolaring that there has not
been a else of yellow fever in that city this
season.
Prom Washinsrton.
Washington, July 29.—Gov. Hahn, of Louisiana,
dined with Gen. Dent yesterday. The table conversa
tion indicated no intention on the part of Dent to
abandon his position regarding Mississippi
Secretary Boutweli decides that the Ohio Shaker
Society are only entitled to one thousand dollars’
exemption on income tax instead of a thousand for
each adult male. The same rule applies to Trinity
Church, New York, and several other associations
throughout the country. «. -
The pressure on Grant to throw the influence of
the administration in favor of the extremists of
Texas andM'seiseippi is quite heavy. The extrem
ists here are in good spirits this morning, hut notic
ing definite is known.
Sherman is stated to have said to day his depar-
ment would not interfere beyond securing a fair
registration and a peaceable election.
General Grant is here.
There was a special session of the Cabinet, to-day,
devoted to accumulated business. Neither Virginia,
Mississippi nor Texas affaire were considered.
Cresswell la still absent.
Grant goes to Saratoga oi Tuesday.
Delano has awarded the contract for distillery
locks to tbeTownsend Manufacturing Company, at
Buffalo. >
The following has beeni transmitted over the
French cable:
- r “Paris—8:45 a. si.
The Honorable Secretary of State, Washington:
The Emperor of the French to the President of
the United,States, at Washington: I am highly
gratified toinaugurate the new tine of telegraph
which unitk France with the United States, by
sending to on the expression of my good wishes
for you and :br the prosperity of the United Statos.
Napoleon.”
1 REPLY OF THE PRESIDENT.
“The PyUtegtof the United States to the Empe
ror of theFreiA: J cordially reciprocate your good
wishes and trait that the liberal policy of the United
States, pursuant to which this came has been lauded,
may result in many such means of communication,
especially between this country and its earliest ally
and friend. U.S. Grant.”
Barenue to-day ©725,000.
Judge Jefferds and General Moorman visited
General Dent to-day, and received renewed assur
ances of his determination to act with the Missis
sippi Conservative Republicans. General Wirt Ad
ams, and Judge Hunt, of Vicksbtug, also visited
Dent to-day, and make the same report,
of Granguard d Schneider was seized yesterday by
Collector Stoekdale, for a violation of the Revenue
laws. Treasury Solicitor Barfield returned last night
to Washington, having completed his investigation
here. -
Prom Cuba.
Havana, July 29.—The insurgents are active in
the Central Department. They have destroyed
much property abont Trinidad. A large band of in
surgents attacked Puerto Principe', but, after a short
struggle, were beaten off, with considerable loss.
Foreign Hews.
Paris, July 29.—The Presse says the furloughed
soldiers will receive an indefinite leave of absence.
London, July 26.—Charles Gilpin has introduced
into the House of Commons a bill to abolish capital
punishment.
Madrid, July 29 —Arrests continue. A hundred
of the Ciudad Real Insurgents are applying for par
don, and claiming that they were driven by the Car-
lists. A sharp street fight occurred at La Mancha.
The Carlists were defeated and fled to the moun
tains.
Sr. Petersburg, July 29.—The Jews of this Em
pire have united in a petition to the Czaryfor
the extension of their religious and educatxmal
rights. - '■
General Hew*. '
Augusta, July 29.—la some sections tiers has
been no rain for four weeks, while in others there
has been too much. /
Marine Hews. . , .
Savannah, July 29.—Cleared, brig ptelmer Mere
dith, Philadelphia; schooner Ida Richardson, New
York.
From Pulaski and Below.
The Hawkinsville Dispatch of the 29th con
tains the following:
A Good Season.—The rain began falling at
seven o'clock last Saturday evening, and con-
turned to descend, with but slight intermission,
all that night, and all next day, until abont three
o’clock in the afternoon. It fell as the gentle
aew from heaven, lightly, and unaccompanied
by wind. Although our gardens are “gone up,”
this rain will give a new impetus to many a
thirsty and dying ield of com and cotton. The
hearts of all shoull be filled with gratitude to
the giver of the early and the latter rain. We
earnestly hope tlat this season was general
throughout this sation.
Later.—We lean from J. P. Shaw, the affa
ble passenger conductor on the Macon and
Brunswick Railrotd, that the rain was general
all along the route; and we are further informed
that this was the i.ase throughout the county.
We fail to hear oia single farmer, either in tins
county or those aljacent, who is longer suffer
ing for this hitherto much needed blessing. All
appear to have hid an abundance.
Fiest Cotton.—On Monday last, the 2Gth,
was received at this office, from Mr. Thomas
Singletary, of thfe county, the first open cotton
we have seen. Itwas of good quality nnd ready
for picking. Altiough Mr. S. is two weeks la
ter than he promised, he still has the credit of
having furnished us with the first specimen of
the new crop in this county. Let him go to
work and bring tfe first bale of cotton to market,
and make a year Is subscription free.
Murder in Teitaib.—From reliable authori
ty, we gain the following account of a cold
blooded murder !a Telfair county, which was
committed lastTlkrsday, the 22d:
It appears thatfe family from South Carolina
had moved into the vicinity of one John K.
Brown, and he weit to run them off. On reach
ing there, he fount only some women. He tore
down the chimney) and took a seat in tho door,
when Joseph T. RaUins rode up. Brown asked
him if he was mad knd wanted to fight. Rollins
replied that he wts too old to be fighting.
Brown then asked lim to get down and talk to
him, and took him behind the house and killed
him with a fence rail
Rollins was abort fifty-three years old.
Brown is said to be k desperate character, and,
at last advices, had nbt been arrested.
If no mitigating circumstances are connected
with the above, it is about as heartless a deed
as we ever heard of, aud we trust that Brown
will not long be suffered to go at large.
From Clarke County.
The Athens Southern Watchman, of the 2Stb,
says:
After a drought of upwards of five week’s du
ration, we were favored with a fine rain Satur
day night—no “little drizzle;” but a good, old-
time “clay-soaker.” So far as early upland
com is concerned, the rain came too late to
save it. Late com and other crops will be
greatly benefitted.
As we write (Monday noon) another beautiful
shower is falling, with an appearance of contin
ued showers.
Those who are threatened with short com
crops can do much towards providing for the
loss, by sowing largely of turnips and fall oats.
This matter should not be neglected, as the
turnips will be useful in fattening hogs and*
wintering cattle, and the oats will come in next
spring to feed plough stock.
New Cotton and Woolen Mills.—Mr. H. 1 F.
Fowler, of this’ county, has now in operation a
portion of the machinery at his new factory,
seven miles west of this place. He expects to
have the whole of it in operation by the first of
October, when he will spin cotton, card wool,
and spin and weavo wool into plain or twilled
cloth.
The failure of the Baltic Fire Insurance Company
of New York baa been announced.
An Unlucky Man.—Captain-General Do Ro-
das aud General Butler are said to bear a re
markable resemblance to each other.
Conld any worse luck happen to a roan than
that? __
Sudden Death of. a Good Citizen. — The
Rome Courier regrets to learn that Mr. B. F.
Hooper, one of the best citizens of Floyd coun
ty, died at 124 o’clock on the 28th, at his resi
dence, some six miles from that.city.
There was a man so intensely polite that as
he passed a hen-on. her nest. b<- said: “Don’t
rise, ma’aiq,’' •*’? ..... ...
Decisions ot the Supreme Court ol
Georgia.
DELIVERED AT ATLANTA, TUESDAY, JULY 27.
[.Reported Expressly for th* Constitution, by AT. J.
Hammond, Supreme Court Reportsr.]
Killes Brown plaintiff in error, vs. Wm. Wright
et. al, defendants in error.. Motion for new
trial from DeKalb. >
Brown, G. J.—A Guardian who acted with the
caution of a prudent man, and loaned the money
of his wards, prior to the adoption of the Code,
first of January, 1863, and took a note well se
cured, by a mortgage upon negro property,
which was lost by reason of the emancipation of
the slaves, is not liable to his wards for the
amount to-lost. • 'j ^ y . : b
2. A guardian who acted in good faith, and
received Confederate Treasury notes in pay
ment of debts, due his wards, at a time when
prudent men generally received them, in pay
ment of all debts due, acted under color of law,
and is protected by the. act of 1866 ; and the
Ordinances of the Conventions of 1865,' and
1866. And if he loaned out the funds, so re
ceived prior to the 1st of January, 1863, upon
what was at the time good security, and they
were afterwards lost, by the results of the war,
he is not liable.
3. A guardian who loaned out or invested the
funds belonging to his wards, after the adoption
of the Code, without an order of Ct?nrt, did so'
at his own risk, unless the investment was, in
the stocks, bonds or other securities, authorized
by law, and he is liable for the value of the
money or currency received by him, and so in
vested or loaned, allowing him a reasonable
time to invest it, whether he lost it or not.
4. Where the guardian loaned out the money
of hi3 wards, after the adoption of the Code,
without an order of Court, and took a note for
©1,500 for its payment, and the Court on the
trial refused to allow the note to be read in evi
dence, because it was not stamped. Held:
That the Court did not err, as the guardian was
liable in any event in such case, for the value
of the currency when received, allowing him a
reasonable time to re-invest, and the note
whether stamped or not, was properly rejected.
Judgment reversed.
Wm. Ezzard. for plaintiff in error,
will A- Chandler, lor attendants m
Ellen D. Dicken, plaintiff in error, vs. H. T.
Dicken, defendant in error. Actionfor divorce,
and motion for temporary alimony, from Spauld
ing.
Brown, C. J.—On the hearing of a motion
for temporary alimony, pending an action for
divorce, the merits of the cause are not in issue.
But under section 1735 of the Code, the Judge,
in fixing the amount, of alimony, may inquire
into the cause and circumstances of the separa
tion, rendering the alimony necessary, and, in
his discretion, may refuse it altogether; or he
may grant such alimony, including the expenses
of the litigation, as the condition of the husband
and the facts of the case may justify. But the
Judge should exercise a sound discretion, and
should be careful that he does not so use this
discretionary power as to encourage the separa
tion of husbands and wives, and increase litiga
tion of this character.
2. After looking into the cause and circum
stances of this separation, we are satisfied the
Judge did not abase -the discretion vested in
him by the statute.
Judgment affirmed.
Boynton and Dismuke for plaintiff in error.
D. J. Bailey for defendant in error.
Martha F. Smith, plaintiff in error, vs. Thos.
J. Granberry, defendant in error. Injunction
from Monroe. • ■ r-
Brown, C. J.—1. The will of James Hogan
gave to his wife, daring her natural life, all his
estate, both real and personal, and at her death
the estate, with its increase, to be equally di
vided, and one-half given by his executors to
the lawful heirs of the body of one of his daugh
ters, and the use of the other half to his other
daughter during her natural life, and at her
death to go to the lawful heirs of her body.
The will then contains this clause: “If my wife
should, at any time, think proper to give any
portion of my estate, thus bequeathed, to the
legacy above named, I wish her to do so only at
her own discretion, through and by my execu
tors.” Held, that the assent of the qualified ex-
utor to the life estate, of Mrs. Hogan, did not
divest him of further control over the estate.
But at her death, it was the right and duty of
the executor to take possession of the estate,
with its increase, if any, and to administer it
according to the directions in the will; and as
there were no specific legacies, the ordinary, on
the application of the executor, had jurisdiction
to order a sale for the purposes of distribution
in conformity to the will; the vested interest
of each remainderman, being an interest in a
certain proportion of the estate, and not a
vested interest in any particular tract of land
or piece of personal property.
2. The executor, after the death of the widow,
having taken possession of the lands of the
estate, and having obtained an order from the
ordinary for the sale of the same for the pur
pose of' distribution among the legatees; and
after legal advertisement he having sold the
same at the proper time and place; and having
through A purchased the land at his own sale,
and after making a deed to A, the land, on the
second day thereafter, having been conveyed to
him by A, by regular deed. Held, that the
purchase by the executor was not void, but was
only voidable at the option of the legatees;
provided, they so elected within a reasonable
time. And the executor after said sale having
claimed and occnpied the land as his own, there
by acquired an adverse possession of the same,
and a tenant placed upon the land by the execu
tor after his purchase, was his tenant, and such
tenant could not change his landlord by attorn
ing to the administrator de bonis non of the
estate of Hogan.
3. The executor, after his purchase, while he
had a tenant upan the laud, entered into a mar
riage contraot with the plaintiff in error, and
conveyed to her a life estate, after his death, in
consideration of marriage, without notice to her
of the nature of his purchase; the marriage was
then solemnized, and- in a few months he died,
leaving the tenant upon the premises, and his
widow commenced action against the tenant for
the rent, and a proceeding to dispossess the ten
ant holding over. Held,that the tenant became
her tenant on the death of her husband, and the
administrator de bonis non of the estate of Ho
gan had no right to interfere in this litigation,
or to maintain a bill in equity to enjoin her ac
tion against the tenant; the more especially as
she resided in Bibb county, and the litigation
between her and her tenant was pending in
Monroe, where the bill was filed. If he, or the
legatees of Hogan, had paramount title the liti
gation between plaintiff in error and her tenant
did not in any way interfere with their right to
commence their action of ejectment, or other
proper proceeding for the recovery of the land.
Judgment reversed.
‘Warner, J., concurred in the judgment, but
not in the reversing of the Court He furnished
no written decision.
McCay, J., concurred in the judgment for the
following reasons:
1. If property be 'demised to A for life with
remainder to B and C, and the executor deliver
possession of the estate to A, who enters upon
the full enjoyment of the life estate, she holds
it for herself and the remaindermen. And any
duty, (as to divide the estate, or the like.) put
upon thy executor, by toe will, after the ter
mination of the life-estate, is a special trust,
and forms no part of his duty as executor, and
the supervision of it does not beloiw to the
Court of Ordinary, but to the Superior Court.
2. Where one is in adverse position of land,
against the true owner, and rents it to a tenant,
avowedly, in his character of adverse holder,
cannot attorn to the trne owner, or deny the
adverse possession of his landlord.
Lanier Js Anderson, R. P. Trippe, for plaint
iff in error.
Cabaniss *fc Peeples, for defendant in error.
J. G. Brown vs. Seaborn Croley. Complaint
from DeKalb.
McCay, J. If B purchase from A two paroels
of land at the same time, and when they come
to draw the writings, A suggests that B, to save
the writings of two deeds, take a deed for one
of the parcels from C, from whom A had pur
chased it, bnt had not yet got titles, saying it
would do just as well—and B consented, and
there was, in fact, a mortgage on the land, given
by C, of which B. was ignorant: Held, that B,
who had the mortgage to pay, might, in a suit
bv A, on one of the notes, given at the time,
plead a failure of consideration to the amount
of his damage.
Judgment affirmed. •
Hiil & Candler for plaintiff in error,
lym. Ezzard for defendant in error.
Alfred "Wooten, vs. Perry Wilkins, Case from
Spalding.
MoCay, J.—In ftp action by a father for tbe
seduction of bis minor daughter, the dying de
clarations of the daughter, as to who was the
father of her child are jgadmisaable, ah evidence
for the. plaintiff.
. 2. Although this Conn may not.be entirely
aarit&od with a verdict of o.jary, yet if the
Court below refuse a new trjal, fhu Court wQl
hot interfere to grant a new trial, unless the
verdict be manifestly, the result of prejudice
mistake,or corruption in the jury.
Judgment affirmed.
8. D. Irwin from plaintiff in error.
Dpyal & Nunn ally for defendant in error.
Emily T, Jackson, e£ «l, vs. Jas. W. Corbin,
et of. Motion to dissolve injunction from Spald-
ing.
Warner, J.—When J sold a tract of land to I,
for fourteen hundred dollars, receiving five
hundred dollars of tixe purchase money, and ta
king the note of I for the balance of the pur
chase money, and made a warranty deed to I,
the purchaser, and afterwards' died insolvent;
and within a short time after the death of J, G,
a judgment creditor J, levied an execution upon
the land in satisfaction of a judgment obtained
against J, anterior to the sale of the land to I,
and a Bill was filed by the widow of J, in behalf
of herself and her minor children, alleging the
insolvency of her deceased husband, and claim
ing a year's support out of the nine hundred
dollar note given for the land, as being the only
property left for that purpose, and also alleging
that if the land sold should be sold by the judg
ment creditor in satisfaction of his debt, the
purchaser of the land would successfully de
fend the note as against her and her children,
on the ground of failure of title, and thereby
defeat her claim to her year's support out of the
note given to her deceased husband for tbe land
which is unpaid, and which is tbe only remain
ing estate left’ont of which she can obtain her
year's support. Held, That it was error in the
Court in. dissolving the injunction upon the fore
going state of facts, inasmuch, as the widow
was entitled to her year’s support out of the
nine hundred dollar note, and that the sale of
land Bhould have been restrained until the rights
and equities of the parties conld be adjusted
upon the final hearing of the cause, the purcha
ser' of the land having been made a party to the
bill.
Judgment reversed.
D. J. Bailey, S. D. Irvin, for plaintiffs in
error. - •
i Center & Treadwell vs. L. H. Davis. Case,
from Fulton.
Warner, J.—Where Davis, the landlord, on
the 4th day of June, 1859, entered into a writ-
tflircoDimcir mm 'ugawrA" ^yeakTwell tor re&t to
them a storeroom, then in the proecs. n t hntid.
ing, in the city of Atlanta, for the term of one
year, for the sum of eight hundred dollars per
annum, with the privilege of renting said store
room for three additional years at the same rate,
and Davis, the landlord, stipulated on his part
to have said storeroom “well fitted up and rea
dy for use, by the second Monday in August,
1865,” and the tenants went into poesescion of
the storeroom after its erection, occupied it
for one year, aud in pursuance of the original
contract between tbe parties, rented the store
room for another year. It also appears, from
the record, that after the making of the rent
contract, Davis, the landlord, proceeded to erect,
over the storeroom rented to the plaintiffs, and
over the adjoining storeroom, rented to another
tenant, a boarding house and kitchen, the
boarding honse, in front of the building,
and the kitchen over the back part thereof,
and constructed a platform or walk over
the valley between tbe two Btorerooms, leading
from the boarding house so built over the store
rooms to the kitchen, the landlord rented the
boarding house, kitchen and fixtures so erected
over the storerooms to another tenant, who oc
cupied the some. These fixtures were erected
by the landlord, when, the plaintiffs renewed
their lease for the second year, upon tbe original
contract. The evidence in the record shows
that, in consequence of the erection by the
landlord of the buildings and fixtures over the
storeroom, and the use thereof by his tenants to
whom he rented the same, the plaintiffs have
been damaged by tbe water thrown upon their
goods in the storeroom, to the amount of twelve
hundred dollars, os assessed by five merchants
called on for that purpose. Held, that inasmuch
as the landlord stipulated in his contract, to
have the storeroom weU fitted up and ready for
the use of the plaintiffs, that if he afterwards
erected obstructions over the buildings which
caused the plaintiff’s to be injured, either by his
own negligence, or that of his tenants or agents
in the use thereof, he is liable for the damage
resulting thereform. t
Held, also, that the agreement of the tenants
to make repairs, as stated in the record, ex
tended only to ordinary repairs of the building,
and did not extend to making repairs by remov
ing permanent fixtures erected by the landlord,
from which the injury to the plaintiff resulted.
The Conrt charged the jury: “Bnt the law
does not require the landlord to sweep the prem
ises and keep them clean while the tenant is oc
cupying them; this is the tenant's business if the
house was properly built, and kept in repairs,
and if being kept dean, no damages wonldhave
resulted, defendant is not liable. If thekitchen
overhead was built after plaintiffs first went into
the honse, and they received their tenancy with
out objection after it was built, the trouble of
sweeping and keeping clean the premises is no
matter of which plaintiffs conld afterwards com
plain.” Held, that this charge of the Court in
view of the facts of this case was error, and cal
culated to mislead the jury. The plaintiffs were
only tenants of the Btore house which they
rented, they were only bound to sweep and keep
that clean, it was not their business, or duty, to
sweep and keep clean the premises above them,
which caused the damage, they had no legal
right to go there for that purpose. The land
lord was bound by his contract to keep the
storehouse rented to the plaintiffs fit for tho
nse for which he rented it to them, and if by
obstructions placed there by himself, and used
by his tenants, snch obstructions rendered the
store house unfit for the purposes for which it
was rented, and damage resulted therefrom, the
landlord is liable therefor, and the plaintiffs
have the legal right to complain whenever dam
aged thereby, whether they renewed their ten
ancy nnder their original contract, after the
creation of the obstructions by the landlord, or
not.
Judgment reversed.
McCay, J. concurred as follows:
A landlord who rents a portion of a tenement
to A, is bound, either by himself or his other
tenants, to keep the remainder of the building
in such a condition as that the portion oocupied
by A, shall be tenantable, and if he fails, he is
liable for the damages which A may received
from his neglect.
Brown, C. J., dissenting.
In my opinion, the verdict and judgment in
this case was right, and I cannot concur in the
judgment of reversal
The tenants elected to take the seoond lease
for three years, with full knowledge that the
kitchen and passway were over the Btore room,
just as they remained, till the damage was done.
And if the tenant who occuDied tbe rooms over
the store after the date of the second lease, negli
gently and wrongfully obstructed the gutter,so as
to prevent the free passage of the water from the
roof; and there was no defect in the roof or gut
ter, but while it was perfect, it was filled up
with trash by the negligence of the tenant above,
he, and not the landlord, was liable for any
damage that ensued by his negligence or his
wrongful act. In that case, the obstruction
placed in the gutter by the tenant above was a
nuisance of which the tenant below had a right
to complain, and if injured by it, he had a right
to recover damages against the tenant above,
for maintaining it to bis injury.
Tho Codo, section 2949, dennes a nuisance to
be “anything that worketh hurt, inconvenience
or damage, to another; and the fact that the act
done may otherwise be lawful does not keep it
from being a nuisance.”
If, then, the filling np. of the gutter, which
was perfect in itself, was caused by the negli
gence or the wrongful act of the tenant above,
and was & nuisance; and it was not so filled
when the tenant below, took the seoond lease,
the decision of this Court in the case, Tason vs.
the City Council of Augusta, not yet repeated,
clearly fixes the liability on the tenant who
maintained the nuisance, and not upon the
landlord. In Hint case, this Court says’: -“A
landlord who leased the premises to a tenant
is not liable for a nuisance maintained upon the
premises by the tenant, during the lease. If
the nuisance existed upon the premises when
the lease was made, the landlord is liable. But
if the tenant continues the nuisanoe after he
obtains exclusive possession and oontrol, he
alone is liable for its continuance. As the
landlord, under our statute, is liable for neces
sary repairs on the premises, if foe nuisanoe
grows out of his neglect to make the repairs, the
tenant may make them, and set off the reason
able value against the rent due the landlord.”
But it is objected, that the case just cited was
does not in the ether. If he who maintains a
nuisanoe is subject to indictment and punish
ment for so doing ; and is also subject to an no
tion for damages by a person, injured by the
nuisance; where is the reason for tte distinction
between the two oases? JVith what propriety With a
can it be contended that Davis \ is net liable to
indictment for this'nuiafteoA, if ’ it had neolied.
’ because he-di&JWt
ject to punishment beoaTfle he did maintti-
but that Davis was liabteKadamageatotL^’
ticular individual injured » itTAre we ta l
down tka rule of law, thpK the,Mantis |W
criminally, beo he alone mamtaigg n,.
nuisance; btit that thefandlord is Kab^
to an action for damsass in case an in&nsq
is injured fif ths nuisance, whisk is
by the wrongful act of the tenant alosS?^ 1 ^
It is said the contract ahd Jhe statute of tv.
State, makes the landlord liablefoTthe aes
sary repairs. Grant it But how does this H?!
the plaintiffs in error? What repairs »
wanted? There is no evidence that either
roof or the gutter was out of repair in the nw
where the injury occurred. They were perflS?
and the damage resulted from the obstruct:
of the gutter, by the wrongful set of the tenS
above. If there had been no obstruction in ^
gutter, there would have been no d*»*nr. 0 **
But admit that the cleaning ont ofthe cmn,
was understood, by the parties,'to be indS
in the necessary repairs of the roof; that th
parties so understood H, and such was foe veraw
it was not properly speaking right. The evident
was in conflict, but there was positive testimon
before the jury, that the plaintiffs in error cm
ed the attention of Davis, the landlord, to ,iT
condition of the roof, stating that it needed »
pairs, and that he told them to have the ren»j
made and charge to him, and they agrt^
Now, if the cleaning out of the gutter
part of the repairs, and the tenants^ »gs*«d t
have them made, at the expense of thehmdlori
and they neglected it, he is Rot liable to tw
for the damage resulting from their ova wf
gence. And as the jury, whose province it If,
to decide on the credibility and weight of tl
evidence, have found this issue for the hcdloti
and the Judge who tried the case, is satisfied
with the finding, we should not, in xny onini. -T
disturb the verdict. . . *
If this damage was the result of a nuisance
the tenant who maintained the nuisance a&d
not the landlord, was liable. But if it resulted
from neglect to make proper repairs, the phin-
tiffs in error, who had agreed to We then
made at the expense of the landlord, and W
neglected to do so, have no right to recover
from the landlord damages which resulted from
their own neglect. In either view of this 039$.
tion, I think the judgment of the Court bd™
anolaf fra
J. IT. Calhoun & Bon, r». x j-> , rr ■
D. F. Hammond, for defendant in error. ‘
From Griffin.
The Middle Georgian of the 29th has the fo!.
lowing:
Crops.—Our farming friends are in good ha.
mor, as they are having very fine seasons. 11
good rain fell hereabouts on last Saturday ufi
Sunday and a little several times since. It vu
the one thing needful to make com.
A Pig—We were felicitating ourself onhavis; I
fine Chester pigs, but our frieud John Stilbd
has made us feel bad. He showed us one th* I
is not five months old and which weighs pnfi.
ably two hundred pounds. la fact it is cruel :o
keep an animal as fat as his pig is, as it cannot [
get up when down, except with great difficulty
and many efforts. It’s a huge pig, sure enough
Southern Prosperity.—The New York In.
bune says: “The present year is one of grert
material prosperity at the South. The prospes I
is that Bhe will sell three million bales for u [
much money as six million would have netted
her in those old palmy days to which she vi! |
still gaze back with unfounded regret,
she will have less pork to buy, less flour, nut so I
many shoes, nor hats, lighter doctors' bills a I
settle. She pays smaller usury to the commis I
sion merchant, and mueh less to Northern hc& j
With marvellous advantages of &"
mate, with the irrepressible vigor and thrift d I
a race skilled in the imperial art of transmute;
disaster into fortune, the South, so bankrupt:
1S65, is now in a fair way to plow her wap
that opulence a&d power to which she unci
strove to cat a bloody path with the sword."
From Cnthbert to Lumpkin.
AFFAIRS IN LUMPKIN—GREAT NEED OF HAH U>
czLznxs.
Cuthbebt, July 25, 1869.
Editors Tdegraph: And now I am off fa I
Lumpkin, a distance of twenty-five miles hoc
Cnthbert. Along this road are many heautifil
residences, with good and well-tilled farms at-1
fetched. The crops of com and cotton are ven I
good. They were spread ont before me cn the |
right and left as far as the eye could penetrate I
The only complaint I heard about crops, wtt |
want of rain. This is the general comp,lli;
wherever I have traveled.
I arrived in Lumpkin at a late hour in de
night—too late to see any thing of the tom
After a good night’s rest, and a hearty break-
fast, I sallied forth in the streets to look on cue I
of the prettiest towns, to its rize, in Georgii j
Its level and beautifully shaded streets reminl I
ed me much of Savannah. I did sot visit is; I
of its public buildings, except the Court-booM.
as my stay in town was quite limited. Ik I
square is finely located, and by proper impww-1
ment could be made beautiful Sorely Luxp-1
kin, in by-gone days, was a magnificent pl»« I
Passing through the scourge of a four ye«s I
war not shorn it of all its beauty. It $ I
retains one of its strongest elements to brings I
back to its original prosperity—its intelligtS j
and high spirited citizens yet survive, fall d I
enterprise and buoyant with hope.
The railroad meeting in Lumpkin, held a I
the 10th inst, and the amount subscribed, ?^
000, show very plainly what the people u-s-1
to do, and what kind of spirit they are of. I
railroad will be built—this is a fixed fact Tk-1
let other towns and cities in Georgia, dial “ |
had railroad advantages, look out for 8® I
laurels. . I
The citizens of Lumpkin are shamefully I
lected by the Post-office Department and
office officials. They have no commumca^
whatever with Cnthbert— a distance of tweo.
five miles, and on this entire road uie
are thickly settled—intelligent, reading I
all deprived of mail matter. They, 1
the citizens of Lumpkin, are cut off from ■
privileges from some of the most I
points in the State; Savannah, Augusta A j
Macon and many other portions of me I
that send out their daily papejs to Cu J
wnich could be received along tins
Lumpkin in due time, if thew was s ® I
tri-weekly mail line established betwee • I
two important points. 1 . T ft
- ‘ citizen of Georgia, yeti.may «
in general public iajqny beems
maintain it;; and jtb^t hfn V*nA])t i
I am not a citizen oi
in the process of time, and I f® e ^ 611 . I
tiie establishment of this route. , . nbrn to|
On my return to Cnthbert. I htjd
with the esteemed and efficient P g-ittl
there, Mr. Peacock, on the If I
promised me he would attend tp it a I
the people of Lumpkin and Cnthbert wonW I
in a petition to the Post-office
’Washington, for the estabUshment « » ^ I
ronte from Cnthbert to Lumpkin, Gw#^ j
setting forth the inconveniences they I
subjected to, and the advantages thM«vt^J
erne to them from such route, it wouia I
ed to them. The citizens that are
are an intelligent and reading P eo P}!’
want the news of the country. loui«) ^ •
truly, _
Splendid Crop* In Crawtor*
Knoxville, Ga., July 1 ',
Editors Telegraph : Permit me to oc<®^
small spaee in your columns to speak
ford county, in its agricultural and
Interests and prospects. Crops inth®
and northern portions, especially, 814 &
ingly good. Cotton and com are 8 roall ^jjiii
der their burthens of promise. Th® ^
glanees of the summer sun have warm
life and beauty our Southern staple-
the hopeful farmer views, through the g ^
ing vista of time, a rich return id
toil. The God of seasons spares no f» T °^
sends rains upon the just and unjos
who pay their vows to cotton will—P r0 ’“^
sudden attack be made—have the a® 3
an abundant supply to barter away
means to sustain life.
It is truly a beautiful sight,
e eye delights to Ungear; to behold tM ^
Wen may the fanner’s heart dance
he gazes exsltkigly upon the broad ^
ing with glorious crops. The refreamre -■
erfthabhU ,,
earth have insured him a nch 1 **fT*L#»*i
Would that our people were
Withstand surpassed'by ^I
and prosperous pwpteeouMMt ^
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