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The Greorgia 'W'eekly Telegraph,
THE TELEGRAPH.
MACON FRIDAY, AUGUST 6
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£ Tike Radicals on Georgia.
N. The letter of the Boston apostle of the negro-
pMly Steams, who claims to have been driven
ontof Georgia—the dispatches and editorials
declaring that the United States revenue officers
cannot safely hold and exercise their offices in
the third district, and various other indications
go to show that the next Congress will open with
a heavy onslaught upon Georgia. The New
York Tribune thinks we are sufficiently alive to
the danger to be ready to accept the recent de
cision of the Supreme Court as an excuse for
retreating from a false step. The Radicals are
anxious to get hold of Georgia and remodel
her in some way that may promise to be ser
viceable to the party.- j * *
Front Florida.
. The Catebpillab.—The Tallahassee Floridian
of the 27th says:
The weather for the last week has been bad
for crops. An unusual quantity of rain has fal
len, and we are apprehensive that it will favor
the development of the caterpillar, the only
thincrwe 1 nve to foar now. They are seen in
gmnil numbers on many of the farms, but we
sincerely hope that they will not increase suffi
ciently to do much damage. We want about
two or three weeks of dry, hot weather and we-
think all will be well.
The Tallahassee and Georgia Railroad,—
The Floridian says that at a meeting of directors
of the Tallahassee and Georgia Railroad a near
ly or quite unanimous expression was made in
favor of running the proposed Tallahassee and
Georgia Road in the direction of Bainbridge,
and a committee consisting of Messrs. Scott,
Hilton and Brokaw were appointed to confer
with President Bruton on the subject. The sur
vey from Bainbridge to Columbus is about fin
ished, and it is likely that the surveying corps
will at an early day run a line from Bainbridge
to Tallahassee.
Rains In Augnsta.
Very heavy rains occurred in Augusta last
Tuesday and Wednesday, submerging a good
many of the streets and washing others very
much. The track of the Columbia road was so
badly washed that the train was stopped at the
three mile post, and the passengers were brought
in on a construction train.
New GreenbackDot.t.abs.—The Treasury De
partment, it is stated, will soon issue new
United States notes of the denomination of one
dollar, the plates for which are now being en
graved. Upon the new notes the bust of Wash
ington will be substituted for the vignette of
Chief Justice Chase. This is in accordance
with an act of Congress, which prohibits the
likeness of any person now living from being
on the face of the national currency.
Greeley considers the adoption of the 15th
amendment secure, and therefore thinks it not
-worth while to make its ratification by the ex
cluded States a condition of their admission.—
What effrontery is this, to acknowledge that
States have been denied representation in Con
gress, not for disloyalty, but simply to force
their consent to a partisan measure. Greeley
is bold to avow what every one knew.—Boston
Post.
The Growing Crop.—Some of the papers
complain, of a disposition among brokers and
speculators to force extravagant estimates of
the young cotton crop upon the public. We in
vito attention to the speculations and estimates
of one of them, extracted from the Boston
Traveler, which puts the growing crop some
where between two million and two million five
hundred thousand bales.
New Books.—Havens A Brown have just re
ceived Claude Gueux—the last day of a con
demned man—by Victor Hugo. It is, in the
shape of a story, a powerful plea in favor of the
abolition of capital punishment. Carlton, pub
lisher—275 pages. Also:
The Kaledescope, a very dainty comic peri
odical, by the brothers Tuplex—very beauti
fully printed and illustrated. Carlton, pub
lisher.
Feacos in South Carolina.—The Edgefield
Advertiser states that Gov. Scott, so-called, has
deposited in the jail of that place 250 Manches
ter rifles, and placed them under guard of negro
soldiers. Affairs are fast ripening in that
District for a row. Ex-Governor Bonham and
General Butler waited on Scott and remon
strated with, but received for answer:
That be bad not authorized an organization of
’’ any militia company in our town or District—
That he had merely sanctioned the employment
of a sufficient guard for the arms and ammuni
tion. And that he had sent said arms and am
munition here as a measure of precaution, re
presentations being constantly made to him of
most lawless doings in different parts of the
District
Pollard’s Lite of Davis, and Secret Histo
ry of the Confederacy.—The National Pub
lishing Company send us a copy of this book—
a handsome work of 500 pages. As the reader
is aware it is a record of Pollard’s prejudices and
hatreds and is pronounced wholly untrustworthy
as history.
Bust in Cotton.—We hear that rust has ap
peared in some of the cotton fields in Jones, and
it may probably be common if this damp and
showery weather is long protracted. Showers
are now falling, we fancy, almost daily through
out the State. At present cotton looks welL
Lawlessness is still unabated in Georgia. A
colored man was taken from the Dawson jail a
few nights since and literally cut to pieces by a
gang of disguised Ku-KInx.
The above was in the Radical organ yester
day, and is as near the truth as that paper can
' get. The man mobbed, (who was in jail for
murder,) was a white man, and, as such, his
taking off will be of no consequence to the pow
ers that be, in illustrating the lawlessness of
Georgia.
Rain in Marietta.—The Journal, of Friday,
says the heaviest rain we have ever been per
mitted to witness fell in this locality on last
Tuesday evening; for the time being it was a
successful deluge.
Land fob Sale.—A fine plantation in Pulaski
county W advertised for sale by. Mr. W. P.
Head. ^He wishes to change investment See
advertisement in this dsy’s paper.
Senator Cole, of Californio, thinks that Mex
ico is the destined goal of Asiatic emigration on
this continent, and wants it diverted in that di
rection.
Y*' On dit—that Brigham Young was married re
cently to a Miss FoHansbee, of Boston. No
cards, and no bridal trip.
Labor numbers of Americans are announced
aa prepared to engage in the coolie trade, since
Koopmanachaap's profits became known.
The Supreme Court were about opening on
Ho. 8 Northern Circuit, when they adjourned
to Saturday.
Gossip upon the Chinese Question.
The rapidity, with which the question of
Chinese Immigration and Labor baa risen to the
rank of an engrossing topic is unexampled. It
will probably become a leading issue in the next
Presidential election, and very naturally come
in as a collateral issue of the other schemes of
some of the negro eleyationists. We shall not
be surprised to see a very strong combination
against it. The White Labor Unions and other
organizations of the North and West wjH nat
urally take issue against Chinese immigration as
calculated to undermine free white labor. The
negrophilists of New England will lead off
against it as calculated to injure the interests of
negro labor in the South. The religious ele
ment of a portion of the country will side
against it to involving . the introduction of
swarms of unbelievers and idolators on the
Western continent. The negroes, as we have
seen already, demand that the Chinese now in
the country shall be banished back again to
their native soil. These elements alone' will
forma strong combination against the immigra
tion of the Chinese, and we shall find them
clamorous for prohibitory enactments of
stringent character.
On the other hand, the vast material interests
at stake are well calculated to call into ex
istence a party which will insist that the tra
ditional policy of the country in favor of leav
ing it open to immigration shall be preserved
and maintained. Without Chinese labor the
most productive portions of the American con
tinent—the vast alluviums of the South must re
lapse into wilderness. The negro will not culti
vate them—the white man cannot, and their
immense tributes to the wealth of the ■ country
in the finest cotton and in sugar threaten to be
almost wholly lost.
So, also, in the mining business of the coun
try—immense values must be lost for the want
of cheap labor. Yast areas of gold diggings in
California will be valueless without the cheap
labor from China, and the same is doubtless
true of many other mineral deposits all over the
continent.
So, too, in all those gigantio works of in
ternal improvement which are essential to
cheap, rapid and easy communication between
the Atlantio and Pacific shores, the Chinaman
is as essential as the Irishman was in the At
lantic and Middle States. We must construct
all those great railways and canals which are
absolutely necessary to homogenize so vast a
population—to consolidate their interests—and
to enable the Government to extend super
vision and protection over the whole. From
the Isthmus of Panama northward to the exist
ing Pacific Railway, a vast and pressing demand
for cheap labor, in the construction of great
marine and overland routes is opening, which
can only be supplied by the Chinese.
These considerations,and many others we have
no time to mention, are arraying a strong
party, composed in great part of the intelligence
of the country, in opposition to all attempts to
interpose the barriers of arbitrary law against
the natural flow of the great tide of Eastern im
migration to the Western Continent.
These men regard a policy which shall shut
out Chinese labor from a continent yet unpeo
pled, and every acre of which is clamorous for
the subduing band of human labor, as just as
narrowminded as the Spanish expulsion of the
Moors, or the English expulsion of the Flemings
and Israelites, or the French expulsion of the
Huguenots.
I would be a piece of policy unworthy of civi
lization-five hundred years behind the age—
identical, in fact, with that which has just been
abandoned by the Chinese and Japanese them
selves. The demand that the price of labor
shall be kept up by shutting out supplies, is the
old doctrine of “Protection to American Indus
try” in a new and more ridiculous shape—which
would lie with equal force against all labor sa
ving machines and inventions which distinguish
modem arts and agriculture. The doctrine that
Christianity shall be seenred by proscribing pa
gan immigration, carries ns back to the ages of
the Inquisition and the cloister—when men
were unwilling to trust Christianity to her own
rational and scriptural defences, bnt must come
to aid with fire and sword, and when it was be
lieved that faith must triumph by flying from
sinners and infidels.
We see in this hasty review of the attitudes of
the two parties the lines for as pretty a conflict
of ODposing hosts as were ever drawn, and it
requires no great fore cast to discover that a bat
tle is to ensue here. We see the hosts gather
ing every day. The Baltimore negroes "have
endeavored to commit the Radical party to their
view of the case by denouncing in one breath
white opposition to the mixing of colors in labor,
and Chinese immigration—demanding that the
Chinese shall be expelled from the country.—
They have called a National Negro Convention
upon these propositions. We believe the Radi
cal party will be badly mixed and disarranged
on these issues.
We shall next hear, before long, a grand white
labor Congress demanding that Chinese immi
gration shall be stopped and denouncing the
scheme of mixing colors. We shall soon hear
religions organizations deploring an influx of
pagans and clamoring for laws against it.
We have no doubt, therefore, that John Chi
naman is going to stir up a lively commotion on
the American Continent—he is going to throw
the nigger into the shade for a time—he is going
to confuse parties and give ns something to
think and talk about.
Mbs. Elizabeth OLady Stanton is out flatfoot
ed in favor of women'wearing men’s dress. She
aays: I
The true idea is for- the- sexes to dress as
nearly alike as possible. ‘ We have seen several
ladies dressed precisely like gentlemen, who ap
peared far more elegant and graceful than ’any
real man we ever saw. Ayont glady in Fifth
avenue dressed in male costume for years, trav
elling all over Europe and this country. She
says it would have been impossible to have seen
and known as much of life in woman’s sttiti.-,
and to have felt the independence and security
she did, had her sex been proclaimed before
all Israel and the sun. There are many good
reasons for adopting male costnme. First, it is
the most convenient dress that can be invented;
second, in it woman could secure equal wages
with man for the same work; third, a conceal-
mentof sex would protect our young girls from
those terrible outrages from brutal men reported
in all our daily papers.
We have had our suspicions that Mrs. Stanton
was after wearing the pants for some time, and
now the murder’s out.
Few who have ever tried the American House,
Boston, are tempted to leave that pattern Hotel
tar any other.
Yerger’s Probable Fate.
From the Cincinnati Commercial, July 26.
The findings and sentence in the Yerger case
are, according to rule, kept secret, till they are
approved by the reviewing authorities at Wash
ington. We are advised, however, thairthe pro
ceedings in this case have been forwarded to
Washington. Now, as the sentence in any other
case short of capital punishment wonid have
needed only the approval of the commanding
General of the District—General Ames, in this
case—we can arrive at bat one conclusion, name
ly : that the plea of insanity has not availed;
that the commission did not find for either of
the lower degrees of crime, justifiable homicide,
or manslaughter—but that it has found that the
( killing of Colonel Crane was murder, and the
; punishment awarded—death.
Mr.-A. P.‘ Messenger Thursday evening accom-
Drawo a twentv minutes rain <m Sunday at j P^d inNewYorkthefeat of ndrng 500 miles,
Cincinnati two inches of water fell, flooding the ° n a ™‘ hm ^ consecutive hours.
Milan and lower floors of hundredsofTwell-! 7°^^ to ^ e ^‘r^ 1 5f w “ obl i8 edt ? Blak !
1 l 10,000 circuits of the hall where he rode, and
-, — j turn 40,000 corners.
Is That Tarns ?r-ie the New York Tribune's The colored mechanics of Baltimore and the
fastinsation that Gnat’* ximiniatrstionia dead as State of Maryland are organizing into trades’
Mp hone wall -founded T The “favorite mere i unions and societies of their own, oa the white
Remedies for lb* Boll Worm.
The Box Spring corespondent of the West
Georgia Gazette t^tes that paper that the boll
worm has mafleRs appearanoe in his fields one
month in fiance of list season. Fifteen days
ago he poticed the flies, and he recommends
that bmps and pans of tar should be set in the
fluids' at night, to attract and destroy the moths.
He also proposes to kindle pine-knot fires, at
proper intervals, through the fields, so that the
moth may be scorched and horned.
In addition to this, he suggests tapping the
cotton, and causing each hand engaged in top
ping to carry a sack,- in which to put the bud,
which should be carefully burned. It is known
to farmers that the eggs are generally, if not
always, deposited in the bud of the main stalk,
or those of the larger branches. If, then, the
parent stalk, with its branches, be budded or
topped, and these buds bo burned, the fell de
stroyer is destroyed.
In regard to the condition of crops, Box
Springs says:
Cotton crops in this section are very promis
ing, and com as good as the land can produce.
The cotton which has received the help of the
“Joana," as the freedman terms it, is four or
five hundred per cent, ahead of that which has
not the benefit of any manure. This is true as
to weed and fruit . _ _ ,
I saw a stalk growing on old land (been cul
tivated more than forty years) having two hun
dred and eighty well developed forms. Upon
this land I put one hundred pounds of guano
per acre, with a considerable quantity of farm
manure. The cotton growing contiguous to
this—with the same amount of farm manure
which was put in with the guano—shows the im
mense value of the guano to the fanner. The
weed which received the guano is more than
four.feet in bight, while, the rows next to it,
planted without guano, are froin eighteen to
twenty inches.
The Gazette, editorially has the following:
About the Boll Worm.—An experienced
fanner of this county gives ns the following
facts concerning the dreaded boll worm. He
says the fly, which resembles the candle fly, us
ually makes its appearance towards the last of
July, and abont the first of August begins to de
posit its eggs. These it drops about on the
limbs, leaves, and in the bud of the cotton stalk.
Those left in the bnd are the ones that do the
damage; for if it be dry the eggs on the limbs
will die for want of sustenance. If wet weather,
however, all of them will thrive. Our inform
ant says that a sure remedy is to top the cotton
between the first and the tenth of August, after
you are sure the fly has laid its eggs. He has
tried it often and never failed in making a crop,
while others who neglected it lost nearly all—
The fellow in the bud is the one to be dreaded,
therefore top your cotton.
From Atlanta—Dental Convention.
Atlanta, Ga., July 28,1869.
Editors Telegraph: After a pleasant but tardy
journey of a week from your beautiful city, we
arrived in Atlanta yesterday noon, and are now
safely ensconced in that gem of a Hotel, in
everything that pertains to a man’s comfort, the
National. After a protracted stay in Macon,
we must confess that other cities look narrow
and contracted when compared with its broad
and shady avenues.
The Southern Dental Convention is now in
session here, and the meeting has been harmo
nious and successf ol in the highest degree. New
Orleans, Baltimore, Louisville, Nashville, Mem
phis, Montgomery, and many other cities are
represented by some of the most able members
of the profession. It is truly a fine looking
body of gentlemen, and does honor to the South.
Atlanta is growing in all directions, and the
new residence of Mr. James, the banker, will
rather eclipse, we think, anything of the kind
in the State. Macon must look to her laurels.
More anon. Cobvus.
know by telegram la vary dead.
1 men refuse to admit them into their unions.
From Talbot, Meriwether and
Taylor.
The Talbotton "West Georgia Gazette, of the
29th instant, is responsible for the following:
High.—Com and com meal are at present
worth SI 75 per bushel in Talbotton. Thank
Heaven, the recent rains will secure the crop
in this section.
Wheat.—We have heard of wheat being sold
in this county at $1 75 per bushel, though we
believe the price generally asked is §2. Not
much offering.
Killed.—A negro boy was run over and
killed by a train on the Southwestern Railroad
last Sunday, about five miles below Geneva.—
The boy was asleep on the track.
Good Turn-out.—Ten bushels of new wheat
yielded 400 pounds of first quality flour at Per
sons’ Mill last week, being forty pounds to the
bushel
Raul—We have had fine rains in this seetion
daring the last few days.
Geneva.—This pleasant village is thriving
rapidly. Two or three new bnildings are going
np. Messrs. Gorman & Martin, grocery mer
chants and provision dealers of this place, are
building a very large store-house near the depot,
and other signs of progress are evident. Gene
va is a go ahead place. All the people need is
more capitaL ,
From Meriwether.—A gentleman who has
jnst returned from a trip to Meriwether, informs
ns that the crops in that comity are greatly
above the average. In passing through the val
ley he noticed that not more than half the
cleared land was in cultivation, and by far the
greater part of that in cotton. The valley peo
ple, however, have plenty of hog and hominy.
What Gbit Will Do.—A subscriber in Harris
writes us that a young lady of that county—Miss
Carrie A. Benning—has in cultivation abont five
acres of cotton, which is the best in the neigh
borhood, there being plenty of bolls on it the
20th of June. Miss Carrie planted and worked
this cotton herself, except one plowing, and it
is believed she will realize three or four bales
from the patch. Miss Benning was wealthy be
fore ihe war, bnt now sees the situation and is
notafraidof.it. The man who is so fortunate
as to marry this lady will have a treasure in a
wife.
. The Early County News has seen a planter
trying to engage com at 75 cents per bushel,
and thinks it will be plentiful at 50 cents at the
time of gathering.
When the moon turns to green cheese, then
you’ll see Georgia raised com at 75 cents per
busheL So, look out!
From Taylor County.—We leam from a sub
scriber that the crops in Taylor county are gen
erally good—the com particularly so, a large
area having been planted. Cotton as good as
conld be where it has had proper attention.
. The spring term of Butler Academy, under
choree of Prof. Monroe Edwards, closed last
Friday with an examination and exhibition at
nighty Seventy-five pupils were in attendance.
Our informant says the examination and exhi
bition wet®, highly creditable to teachers, pupils
and the confmmaty.
Butler is improving—several new buildings
being in course of erection. Wo are glad to
bear this. The citisen* .of Taylor are an inter
esting people, and are sqj^t o mako ’ both ?nds
meet, and have something ov*t -
A flairs In Colnnbas.
The Enquiror of Thursday understands that
the membership of the African M. E. Church
in that city him increased to such an extent that
a new church building has becomes necessity so
urgent that active steps arc being inaugurated
to secure one of sufficient capacity to accommo
date the members. We hear that they have
some idea of purchasing Temperance Hall, if a
fond large enough can be raised.
Everything abont the city yesterday was quiet
and pleasant. But little was stirring. _ Mer
chants are doing nothing as amiably as if they
had no use for trade, and really enjoyedleisure.
We admire their spirit but regret their condi
tion. But few strangers in the city. Receipts
of goods light. The Eagle and Phoenix Manu
facturing Co. continue to get huge packages of
new machinery for their mill now in course of
erection.
The Sun and Times of the same date has the
following:
Judge William Dougherty, of the Ckatta-
hoochee Circuit.—Judge Johnson left the
Bench of the Superior Court during the morn
ing, yesterday, and it was immediately occu
pied by Horn Wm. Dougherty. The matter
occurred in this wise: A case was oalled, in
which Judge J. had been retained as counsel
Under the law, when such is the case, opposing
counsel can consent to an attorney acting as
Jndge pro tern. Mr. D. was agreed upon, and
sat in the case. The incident waa a novel one
in this Circuit.
Idle Negroes.—The city abounds with them.
They saunter around town in their best clothes,
and seem to think that labor is odious. It is next
to impossible to hire one to wash and cook, or to
cut wood and work the garden. Some of the
more fashionable haul their babies around in
carriages, and seem elated at the idea that the
“bottom rail is on top.” How they manage to
keep np appearances is questionable. Of course
the more depraved among them have no consci
entious scruples against stealing.
Baxnbbidqe, Cuthbebt and Columbus -Rail
road.—The Engineering Corps of the Bain
bridge, Cuthbert and Columbus Railroad reached
this city Tuesday afternoon, having run the line
of the preliminary survey of that road through
from Bainbridge to Columbus. The character
of the country on the line of survey from Bain
bridge to Lumpkin, and the favorableness of the
ground for the road, was stated in a letter from
the Chief Engineer, Col Harkie, to the Sun,
severe! days ago. In a conversation with him,
we leam that the ground this side of Lumpkin
is generally favorable, with the exception of
that portion termed the Hannahatcbee Hills.—
The line just run, passes immediately through
the village of Cusseta, from thence, and in a
north direction to the Ochillie Creek at or near
the plantation of Beverly A. Thornton, Esq.,
thence down the valley of that stream to the
Upatoie, passing through the lands and near the
null of Air. Van Horn. From the crossing of
the Upatoie jnst below the mouth of the Ochil
lie, the survey passed down the creek through
the lands of William Baxter, and the late Dr.
Robinson. The line passes north of the dwell
ing on the Robinson plantation; thence through
the valley north of the dwelling on the Andrews
place, and crossing Bull Creek above the Aver-
ett bridge, comes to the east commons of the
city, known as the “gallows” or “old City Maga
zine” grounds.
Another line, we understand, will probably
be ran from this city to Lumpidn via. James
town ; and, possibly, another farther east of a
portion of the line just beyond Cusseta, before
any decision as to location is made.
Col Harkie says the land owners on the line
of the survey manifest a very liberal spirit as to
the right of way, most having already granted
the right.
Cotton Prospect In Southwest Georgia.
From the Cuthbert Appeal of the 30th.]
That false and exaggerated estimates and re
ports of the growing crop in this section, have
been widely circulated, no one will deny who is
posted as to facts, and capable of forming a
correct opinion.
Personal observation, and information de
rived from careful and competent individuals,
lead to the following conclusions:
First. The crop is at the lowest calculation two
weeks behind its usual status at this stage of
the season. This is the result of the exceedingly
late spring, and the repeated slight frosts up to
A Radical Peter the Hermit ea a Cru
sade North Against Georgia.
That our readers may oomprehend the char
acter of the appeals to the North to reconstruct
Georgia, we copy the following. Its falsehoods
are about as numerous its lines:
Tmt CAUSE OF FBEZDKSN IN GEORGIA.
uobton, July 21,1869.
To the Editor of the Boston Journal: I am a
resident of Columbia oounty, Georgia, in which
locality I settled some three years ago. Aa the
affairs of Georgia have become somewhat com
plicated, it has occurred to me that the state
ments of a resident there would be particularly
valuable at this time. I am a native of Maasaehn-
ckusetts, and have resided several years in Bos
ton. I left this city in 1854, as one of the pio
neers in the work of rescuing Kansas from the
grasp of the slave power.
On my arrival in Georgia and settling on my
own plantation, I proceeded to establish a Bun-
day-school for the benefit of my own laborers
and those who chose to attend from the sur
rounding plantations. For this act of temerity
my life was immediately threatened, and Btrong
precautionary measures were adopted on my
part. A little more than a year afterward we
began to organize our poliffical movement, and
the war “waxed hotter." In November, 1867,
enr Constitutional Convention was held, and in
the April following our first election under it.
At the eleotion we polled some 1650 colored
votes, out of abont 1800 registered ones. The
polls were protected by soldiers and but little
disturbance occurred, although the rebel spirit
was rampant. But in November the times had
changed. The military was withdrawn and reb-
eldom “ did what they listed.” Consequently
we polled bnt one vote for Grant. In Lincoln
county, adjoining us, not one Republican vote
was cast. In our Senatorial district, embrac
ing Columbia, Lincoln and Wilkes counties, the
last being the home of Robert Toombs, out of
3000 votes polled in April, we cast but 86. for
Gen. Grant. This gentleman would not be per
mitted to set his foot in Lincoln county to-day.
Mr. Adkins, the murdered Senator, resided in
Warren county,adjoiningour county on the west.
He was well known as an aged gentleman, of ir
reproachable character, and a minister of the
Methodist Churoh North, in which capacity he
preached in Augnsta the Sunday previous to
his brutal murder. A friend of mine warned him
ofhiB danger on that day, and besought him
not to attempt to return to his home, as threats
had been made in Augusta a day or two previ
ous by persons from ms county.
Following this murder was that of the negro
who was driving him home, and on the Sunday
night previous an infuriated mob attacked the
Rev. Mr. Stillman, presiding elder of the Me
thodist Churoh North, in the town of Waynes
boro, about twenty-five mileB from Augusta.—
His life was saved only by the protection of a
large number of colored people. Hon. Josiah
Sherman is Senator from our district, but has
not dared to visit his home there since he left
to take his seat in the Legislature, more than a
year ago. Hon. J. AL Rice is Representative
from Columbia county, but does not dare to go
anywhere openly in that county, bnt resides a
few miles from the line, near Angusta.
Mr. Madison is Representative from Lincoln
county, bnt has never dared to show his face
there for more than a year. I was elected “Jndge
of Ordinary” for onr county in April, 1868, bnt
was driven from my position by a ferocious mob,
who gave me my choice to abdicate my office or
die. When I appealed to the authority of Con
gress their reply was, “d—n Congress; it is only
a rump Congress.” Said they: “We will be
d—d if the niggers shall rule over us, and yon
was elected by the niggers.” When I refused
to leave the court-house they dragged me from
it. and some proposed instant death at that time.
Mob law thus triumphs in onr county. I have
not deemed it safe to visit onr county seat since
then.
On my return from that place I was taken
sick, and for two months was confined to my
honse, daring which time rebel ballets flew
around me, and rebel yells and screechings
could be heard night and day. My situation
was nnpleasant in the extreme. My object in
visiting the North is twofold. 1st. Tourgenpon
the people the necessity of Congressional action
in our behalf. We need protection and must
have it, or the Republican party in Georgia will
exist only in name.
No fair election can now be held there with
out the presence of soldiers. If this is not
granted, and Georgia is readmitted, you will
The Cotton Crop.
An experienced and well known cotton broker
sends the Boston Traveller the following com
munication respecting the growing cotton crop
at the South. He has good facilities for obtain
ing information, ahd ms statements may be re
lied upon:
Observing the numerous and varied efforts of
writers on the Southern cotton crop, for more
than a month past, to induce a general belief in
their predictions of 3,000,000 of bales as the
product of 1869, 1 am constrained to offer yon
a few considerations per contra:
In the first place such efforts are usual They
come every year at this season. Such writers oy it uie reai oonon aestroyerinan easily 1^ ^
~ ~ anguished from all others. Then thereof
Alay, which, though not killing the plant out- g av0 j n ' Congress mne additional Representa-
rigu, yet left it feeble, yellow, and covered j ^ vea 0 f th 0 Democratic faith. Do you wish for
with hce. Afterwards, abundantrams induced j an even t ? Then let Congress pass either
great succulency and a rapid growth, which was the Edmunds or Butler bill, either of which will
again suddenly checked by the late dry and ex
tremely hot spell.
When the rains set in two or three days
since, thousands of acres in this and adjoining
counties had ceased to grow, and were flowering
all over, like fields in September. Except
where ample distance in the hill, also, had been
left, the burning suns had played sad havoc
with the squares and young fruit
We have seen crops in which, at least, one
half of the embryo fruit lay on the ground, or
had dried upon the branches. This fact hun
dreds will attest.
Secondly—Where fertilizers have been lav-
iskingly employed, under the stimulus of repeat
ed rains prior to the drought, the cotton weed
has sprung forward luxuriantly, and developed
far more stalk and fibre than bolls.
The bumingiguano beneath, and the fiery or
deal above for several weekB past, have each
conspired to bring to grief the exuberant hopes
of many planters, who talked largely, of har
vesting more than a bale to the acre.
This portion of the crop therefore has suffer
ed most
We feel justified, accordingly, in the asser
tion that the forthcoming crop in Southwest
Georgia will not be an average one, leaving out
of account even the well authenticated tidings
that the genuine caterpillar has appeared in
Dougherty, Baker and other of the lower count
ies. Should this scourge prove as fatal and
general as last year, the falling off will be sad
indeed. Of course the above statements are
subject to modification in particular locations,
where the seasons have been more propitious.
In the main, however, they will be found to be
correct
The Tappahnimocli Wheat—From
Northeast Georgia.
Bio Savanna, Dawson County.
July 27, 1869.)
Editors Telegraph : Please find enclosed sub
scription to your paper, and also a wheat head,
of the Tappahannock variety seed, obtained
from Virginia, at Falling Creek Alills. I raised
this year from one quarter of a bushel nine
bushels, sown on a small lot, where I have fed
my sheep for a number of years. Two years
previous to sowing I gathered a good crop of
clover hay each year from toe lot I suppose
the lot contains something over a quarter of an
acre.
Iliave ordinarily realized eighteen bushels
per bushel sown, for two years past My judg
ment is the Tappahannock variety is the best
for this climate we have ever sown. It does
best Bovra three-fourths of a bushel per a ore.
Com crops are looking well, though we have
The Aufc% Rent War—Serious Fight.
Several Persons Wounded.
Albany, N. Y., July 27.—Later advices from
the scene of the anti-rent troubles in East
Greenbush, Rennsselaer county, yesterday, give
additional particulars of the affair. The prop
erty about to be levied upon belongs to Wm.
Whitbeck, and not to Air. Dennison.
As the Sheriff’s posse advanced np the road
they encountered skirmishers from the enemy,
who were on the look out The skirmishers re
treated as the posse advanced. Finally, the
Sheriff reached the premises. Wm. Whitbeck
was in front, while the others were standing
around apparently unconcerned spectators.—
Some of them were whitling. Sheriff Gregg
approached Wm. Whitbeck, and demanded pos
session of the farm under a process which he
held; 'Whitbeck drew a revolver, and declared
that he would relinquish his hold upon' the
property only with his life. Just then a rapture
between one of Whitbeck’s sons and one of the
Sheriff's posse occurred. Blows were struck
and in a minute a general fight was in progress,
Pistols, stones, and clubs were freely used.—
The ■ anti-renters being prepared fought with
advantage.
The attack was so sudden and unexpected that
the Sheriff’s posse were taken aback. The re
sult of the engagement was that the Sheriff’s
party were driven from the ground in conster
nation and dismay, and the anti-renters left
.masters of the situation.
The fight lasted only about ten minutes, yet
it W'ts a regular hand-to-hand encounter, and
was desperately contested. In the melee six
persona are known to-have been wounded, but
it is likely that some others were hurt. One
account has it that eight persons were wounded.
In addition to those reported wonnded last night
are Special Deputies Southard and Gideon Mc-
Afenomy, both of this city, as well as William
Whitbeck, the' person sought to be dispossessed.
Deputy Sheriff Gregg and Speoial Deputy
Whitbeck are seriously -wounded,' and are hot
expected to survive their injuries.
The first named is reported dead, though as
he was left on the ground his fate is uncertain
From Spalding.—The Griffin Star of Friday
says: i
The rains so far as we can learn have been
pretty general The crops are looking remark
ably well, and all nature seems to rejoice and
smile, gladdening the - hearts and enlivening the
countenances of onr people. . If.no unforeseen
MM calamity overtakes the crops, our section will,
had no rain to benefit our com crop in five have plenty and to spare,
weeks. Very respectfully yours, etc., j JjIQHT frizzled curls are worn about the chig-
J. D. P. | non, with a velvet bandean ent bias, for plain
The wheat sent is a very full, heavy golden dress, and the gayest of aigrettes for a more
grain, and the ear between four and five inches ’ elaborate toilet.
in length. . i Prentice asks this question: Since the Gov-
answer our purpose, although we prefer the
former, as more thorough. But the colored
members of the Legislature must be restored to
their seats, and the military must be placed
under the control of the Governor, who is a
staunch Republican.
Another objectlhad in view in coming North
was to see if some of onr wealthy men could be
persuaded to raise a fund for the purchase of
of a farm, which should be leased or sold to the
freedmen in small tracts. A plan has already
been devised by which this could be made re
munerative and perfectly safe to the purchasers,
on the advance of a comparatively small sum—
say §5,000 or §6,000—the remainder of the
price of the land being collected by the seller
from the rent and improvements upon it. The
universal cry of the blacks is, “let us have some
land.”
They do not expect it to be given to them, bnt
are willing to pay a good rent for it, with a lien
on the crops for security. They say they can
not vote the Republican ticket as they are How
situated, and many of them say they would die
before they would vote the Democratic ticket.
In Lincoln county quite a number were killed
before the balance would agree to vote the hated
ticket; but under such potent instrumentalities
as the bowie-knife and the bullet, they soon
yielded, and in a mass deposited their votes for
the rebels.
It is the opinion of all the white friends of
the freedmen at the South that they can never
be thoroughly elevated without having land of
their own to work upon. But I am trespassing
too much upon yonr valuable space. Any per
son wishing further information upon this land
question can obtain it by applying to me by
letter, or otherwise, at 517 Washington street.
On next Sunday afternoon, at 3 o’clock, I shall
speak in Morgan Chapel, Indiana Place, upon
the moral and religious condition of the freed
men in Georgia. Yours very respectfully,
C. Stearns.
The President at Long Branch.
It is perhaps no great discredit to a man that
he is not accomplished in small talk and is not
“well np” in the attitudes and graces of fash
ionable life. The Charleston Courier's New
York correspondent says that is pre-eminently
the case with Gen. Grant, and comments upon
his figure at Long Branch as follows :
The beaux and belles at Long Branch have
had a good deal of fun, daring the past few days,
with Gen. Grant. He is a most awkward man
in the social circle, has very little to talk about,
and looks, when unobservedly walking through
the parlors of the Stetson House, as if he were
a policeman in civil clothes. He is so unlike
Farragnt, whose jolly manners have made him
quite a favorite at the Branch, that, were both
men not far beyond the mere oritioismof gossip
ing young ladies and their admirers, a jealousy
would spring up between them. that might en
danger their friendly relations. As it is, Grant
is not admired at all by the throng of dames
and seigneurs who crowd the Branch just now,
and even his distinguished career cannot over
shadow the indifference felt toward him by the
gay crowd that lounges on the piazzas of the
hotel.
Not even a cheer reached him yesterday after
noon, when. on returning from New York,, he
entered the hotel On the contrary, there was
a general titter along the lines when, on jump
ing from his carriage, several parcels followed
him, containing things bought in the city. Some
say h« came on to purchase some new clothes,
which he needed very much while frequenting
such respectable society as annually gathers at
the Branch. Take him all in all he is looked
upon, socially, as a veritable countryman; bnt,
if he stays long enough, he' may be civilised
sufficiently to cut a dash, even among the Ave-
noodles now bleaching on the seashore.
A Corn Story.—A correspondent of thea Co
lumbus Enquirer in Musoogee oounty, says:
“Let me tell you what I saw on the 27th of
this month. I saw a man six feet two inches
high, stand, and with a cane three feet long,
touch forty-four eara of com. I saw the same
man, with the same stick over his head, fail to
roach the,silk, when standing erect and dose by
the base of a stalk on the same plantation.”
That’s tall.
JH The.. Newnan. “Peoples Defender” says the
eminent turned out an office-holder for marry-! county jail wss burned on the 27th. Fortunately
2 T _ V IT V - J *a _ j ' if wm a *w%4 nruiimlnil nf fVn limn
Excited Frenchman at Niagara Falls—“Ah ! ing John H. SnrrattV sister, why does it.not l it was not occupied at the time.
to Messrs. Neill Brothers have scarcely prog
nosticated a cotton oTop of 1ms than 8,000,000
since the dose of the war. The facta have reg
ularly shown how little knowledge they possess;
and it is, only surprising that the uncommonly
sagacious proprietors of cotton mills of New
England should allow themselves to be deceived
into that course of delay in purchasing their
stocks, which is now so disadvantageous to
them. They have allowed cotton to be ex
ported to Europe, which should have been re
tained for the udils of this country, and they
nowsuffer for it
Second—The whole season has been, until
quite recently, unpropitious for the ootton
plant; and the crop has been retarded from two
to four weeks by the prevalence of late frosts,
rain storms, and the consequent difficulties of
working the bottom and even much of the
marshy and clayey uplands, in their soft and
muddy condition. Even should the caterpillar
not come as early as usual, there will be a cor
responding immaturity of the plants to favor its
devastating mission; and should it not come in
force at all, still we shall have the great disad
vantage of late picking with all its losses, so well
known by old factors as well as planters. It will
come, however, beyond any doubt, and until it
has spoken, speculations as to 2J, 2j, or 3,000,-
000 of boles, are little better than idle dreams
worthy the fertile brain, of the milkmaid—a
counting of chickens prematurely.
Third—The area of land planted in cotton be
ing less and the labor less than in 1868, every
thing influencing the product must, for the re
mainder of the summer and entire autumn, be
exceedingly propitious if even 2$ millions of bales
are to reward the toil of the producer. A very
extensive and somewhat minute examination of
.thp cotton regions of Louisiana, Arkansas and
Mississippi enables the writer to compare the
present with former years in the respects both
of areas planted and labor engaged in cotton
culture.
Fourth.—The recent floods in the valleys of
the Gnadaloupe, Camel, Colorado and Brazos
rivers in Texas, to say nothing of the Trinity,
Neches and more eastern streams of that State,
have already swept away, as in a day, the hopes
based upon the most fertile and best cultivated
cotton valleys south and west of Red river.
Never befoie, since white men have known the
country, have the rivers of middle and western
Texas swelled so high. Their entire and wide
spread bottoms, bearing the broadest cotton
fields of the State, have been wholly overflowed
and swept by the flood, and the papers assure
us that nine-tenths of the crop of the entire
county of Gonzales is destroyed.
Other large river counties, having a portion
of uplands, suffer in less degree. “The Camel
River rose to the third story of the cotton fac
tory at New Brownfels, and destroyed all the
material and machinery. Every flouring mill,
woolen factory and bridge on Camel River has
been swept away.
If we add to this widespread destruction of
the cotton crop throughout the very best regions
of Texas, the meagre promise afforded by much
of Arkansas, Louisiana, Alississippi and Ala
bama, it will be difficult for the experienced
merchant or manufacturer to see in the future
any clear and satisfactory demonstration of more
than 2,500,000 bales, even .if no worm appears.
It would be safer to fix the estimate at 2,000,000
bales, and work accordingly.^
Last year we had Georgia' estimated by the
class of writers above mentioned at 300,000,
then 275,000, and so on, as the season advanced,
down to 250,000 bales; not to mention some
very confident gentlemen, who made still larger
figures. Nowit is shown, bybarefnl examina
tion, to be between 200,000 and 225,000 bales.
Let any of your readers refer to the articles
which were frequently appearing in the New
York papers abont this time last year—notably
the Times—assuring the spinners of a ereatly
increased product in Georgia, if they wish to
see how little these speculations in the interest
of “sellers short” are to be depended on. Let
mill owners be wise, and bny early, for there
wiUl be small advantage, indeed, in delay.
TItc Status in Georgia as Viewed by
Tribune.
The New York Tribune of the 26th, review
ing the condition of the Southern States has the
following upon Georgia:
In Georgia, the “Conservatives” have on
their hands a large elephant of their own rais
ing. By expelling from the Legislature its
colored members, when they thought Seymour
and Blair were to be elected, they put them
selves wholly in the wrong. They forced a ma
jority for Seymour when at least ten thousand
more voters preferred Grant. Since they heard
of Grant’s election, they have been trying to
get out of their false position; but this is not
half so easy as keeping out would have been.—
Yet the recent decision of their Supreme Court
that blacks were eligible to office has given them
an excuse; and opportunity alone is still want
ing. They are ready to restore to the colored
members the seats wherefrom they were most
wrongfully elected, and to ratify the fifteenth
amendment Conld they be assured to-morrow
that they might thus regain the ground they
most unwisely and perversely abandoned, they
would promptly do so. (We speak of the vast
majority; there is in Georgia, as elsewhere, an
incorrigible few; but their soepter has de
parted.) • ■ • '•
How to Stop the Cotton Coterpiy^
As the season approaches when the *
the cotton caterpillar may be expected, fo, *
benefit of our planting friends we pnbliah a*
following communication, which appear a. ^
last number of the Albany News: ;
This worm is very simitar to several oth.-
the same class, that are innocent. Ther**^ ^
o&t
way of telling the simon-pure cotton ««u-
it is touched it will not draw up sinmly «/' -
worms do, bnt it will jump as if shocked
peculiarity is noticed with but few worms '
by it the real ootton destroyer can easilyS 5^
no mistake about it It makes its
at this season of the year most usually Tbjr™*
invariably when the ootton is targe) on th* ^
der aide of the bottom leaves. It was de 10 * <Bl '
there as an egg by the fly from three to f
before the yonng’worm isseen to eat
This little worm makes up its journeyof •
twenty-one days, when it passes into a efcrwli?
state, partly webbed; and in this dormant^T
for four or five days, when its cell is broken *
a very sluggish gray colored ”
and
charged with the means of multi^^ Ini J
spreading its raoe. It has an instim*;-?.
spreading its raoe. It has an instinctive !
for the cotton plant, and may be seen late i J a
evening in swarms in the rank cotton
ing its eggs. These flies alone are the
of spreading this plague. The worm trave,
little. The army worm which appeared i/i
and 1846 passed from field to field and em
seen in large numbers in the ruts of the,'.?
dividing cotton fields. This is a more shnni
creature and rarely leaves the plant mm.
it is hatched.
The capacity of this fly to propagate is
derfuL It has been ascertained by actual k
serration that each fly will lay from 450 to Gm
eggs in its short span of life, and that this stori?
will average 400 vigorous, active worms.
These are well known facts and may be relied
upon; as they were noticed and carefnii- ;
vested by the late DnLB. Mercer, who fid
on this subject for twenty-five years, ana was»
man of scienoe and well informed in histon
He was also a practical scientific planter. '
The worm when seen first in the ootton, about
the 20th July, is not numerous, and is first dis.
covered in very rank cotton. If it appears latei
—in August—they are more numerous, hatii®
been propagated by the swarms of flies from ft*
South. When this is the case it is too late to
stop their progress. But if every planter woulj
go to work with all hands, passing between the
ootton rows and destroy all the worms whet
they first appear, there is no doubt but the terri
ble plague could be arrested.
It would be a little difficult to find the weta
when it first makes its appearance, for they ay
very small; but in a few days their presence
may be ascertained, even in very rank ootton,
by the destruction of the leaves, making it mote
light than other spots, and which they web fo
the second crop, then one hand can destroy mil.
lions in a day. When in this state they may he
seen some distance—the stalk of cotton up®
which they web having much the appearance of
being covered by a large spider’s nest.
This is the best working that can he given to
cotton,''and will compensate better than all else
that eonld be done. Let it be tried by ah
means.
Some persons think that this worm is pre
served in winter in this climate. This is a mis
take. The winter here is too cold. Its coco®
or quarters are very fragile—nothing like sc
compact as the cocoon of toe silk worm. There
were few that did hibernate in this section the
last season—in Alitchell and Baker conntiee-
and they hatched oat in April and Alay, am
passed away, but they are brought from Florid
where they are safe in winter, and where the;
frequently make their appearance in May and
June. If this war could be made upon them n
Florida and in toe border counties cf Georgs,
there is no doubt but they could very soon hi
destroyed, and this great enemy of the cotta
crop in a few years wonid disappear.
The plan of building fires in the fields afie:
night to catch ihe flies may partially, protect
isolated fields, but when they are so numeret-
as to make this practicable, enough would be
left to destroy all the crops northward of these
places. These flies pass mostly in a north vari
direction, and are doubtless driven by the
winds.
Go to work and save one year's work, for ve
are sore to have them again in Southwest Geor
gia this season. Dotohebit.
The Textile Exposition.
Great progress is being made in toe prepara
tion of the rooms in which the Great Textile
Fabric Exposition is to be held.
The space in the rear of the building is being
covered for toe exhibition of looms and other
machinery, and a steam engine, famished gra
tuitously by Messrs. Lane ABodley, of this city,
is now being put np.
The gentlemen having the matter in charge
are greatly encouraged by the manifestations of
toe past few days. Large invoices are being
received, and toe appearances are that the Ex
hibition will equal the expectation of the most
sanguine.
Goods from toe foliowing manufactories and
firms have been received daring the past few
days :
Batesville Alills, Charleston, S. 0.; George
Draper & Son, Hopedale, Mass.; D. A. Jewell
Jewell's Alills, Ga.; H. W. Bntterworto & Son,
Philadelphia; Prattville Mills, Prattville; E.
T. Clement, Nashville, Tenn.; Potter, Handy
& Co., Hamilton, Ohio; B. Kaufman A Co., Al
pha, Ohio; Seymour Woolen Factory, Seymonr,
Indiana; Hope Thread Co., Pawtuoket, R. L ;
Lehman, Dorr & Co.,agents, Montgomery, Ala,;
Geo. F. Ellis & Co.. Terre Haute, Ind.; Bowling
Green Alannfacturing Co., of Kentucky; Alex
ander Edgar, of Yevay, Ind.; Houston Factory,
Ga. ; Macon Alannfacturing Co., Ga.; Granite-
ville Manufacturing Company,, Graniteville,
South Carolina ; Muncle, Indianna; Janney A
Son; Marshall Illinois; Williams, Lahmer So
Co., New Philadelphia, Ohio; Barnet, Micau &
Go., Taltassee, Ala. ; Augusta Factory, Augnsta,
Ga.; Eagle and Phoenix Mills, Columbus, Ga.;
F. K. Nichols & Son, Alton, III; Union Woolen
Mills, Gallipoiis, Ohio.; Tiffin Woolen Mills,
Tiffin, Ohio; Fontenoy Mills, Antioch, Ga.;
James Wallace A Co., Ashland Alills, Steuben
ville, Ohio; Porter, Hardy A Co., Hamilton,
Ohio; Wm. O. Walker, Paris, HI; J. A H.
Glassgens, New Richmond, Ohio; Lowry A Bat
man, Indianapolis, Indiana.
About sixty oases and packages, generally
large, are already in toe rooms, and advioes are
here of shipments having been made from
almost all important points of toe West and
South. Invoices were received yesterday of ten
cases of shawls, shipped by one manufacturer
alone, in Illinois.—Cincinnati Enquirer, 24th.
The Mew Chief ol the Times.
From the Few York Sun.]
We understand that the proprietors of the
Times have formed themselves into a joint stock
association, and on last Tnursday, formally
tendered toe editorship of that journal to the
Hon. John Bigelow, at a very liberal salary.
Although Mr. Bigelow had made his arrange
ments for a trip to Europe, he has set them
aside, and accepts the position, the duties of
which he will assume on Monday next The
proprietors had under consideration toe names
of Frederick Houston, formerly of the Herald,
George William Curtis, the Hon. William AL
Evarts, the Hon. Luther R. Marsh, And other
gentlemen distinguished in the field pt letter*.
gentlemen distinguished in the field pf letter*. Font to inenoraei ane
The selection ofMr. Bigelow over these able Uoodneas gracious! t»V« <■»
and eminent gentlemen is a compfimentne Every fellow far himself, sod toe <tavn
Prohibiting Chinese Immigration.
A correspondent of the New York Evening
Post (Radical) is considering practically the ab
surdity of prohibiting Chinese immigration—
That point, as we said yesterday, is rapidly loom
ing up 03 a political question. This correspon
dent says: s
In fact, nothing bnt arbitrary legislation, ab
solutely prohibiting the immigration of Chine®
tabor, can possibly prevent it. Take only the
State of Arkansas, covering over fifty thousand
square miles, one half of which is cotton Isnd
of the best quality, mostly river bottom. The
Chinaman is fitted in every respect to settle the
region, of which only about one acre in a hun
dred baa ever yet been cultivated in cotton.-
The crop easily made is a bale to the sore, and
eight to ten bales to the hand, besides fooi-
The value of ten bales is now over § 1200 in ca-
rency. The tabor is not hard, bnt persistent
Hero are the condition of demand for labor,
and sixty days’ time, with about §100 in money
will bring.-an umlimited supply. If such con-
tracts can be made as were laid before me b;
my informant, such demand and such enppij
cannot fail to meet .The Pacific MailCompe-
ny can move abont twelve thousand per month
One hundred thousand such laborers would »di
eight hundred thousand to one million bales to
our annual crop of cotton, and would place np-
der cultivation, in Arkansas, we will say, omr
two or three acres more out of' each hundred
in addition to the little patch now under culti
vation. 1
There is a plan now maturing in St LomsW
building a short line of railroad from Cape Gi
rardeau to Helena, the distance being I belief
about two hundred miles, and continuing the
Iron Mountain road southward. The embsai-
ment for this road to form a levee, excluding
the Mississippi River .from five million acres ti
the richest bottom land of which oyer a million
acres have been subscribed toward the construc
tion of the road. If this road should be brnit
and this little patch put into cotton by Chit*'
men, the crop therefrom might be four to hi
million bales of cotton from land now almoe
uncultivated and worthless.
I had hoped for a complete statement fro
my friend in San Francisco before mabng th*
public, but I avoid delay, as I wish it to be inadt
apparent that Chinamen who are not cooue
may be expected in very large numbers.
The Caterpillar-
The Quitman (Broofayjounty) Banner has tin
following upon the caterpillar in that secti " 1 -
Caterpillar.—Some of our citizen 8
siderably exercised, because a few caterpui*“
have made their • appearanoe on several pw®
tiona in this county. We have made
inquiry, and have yet to learn of the P“®.
who has, thus far, suffered from the depre<*_
tion of this insect. It is admitted that in* 8 -
tain portions of the county—especially wbf
there has been an extra quantity of rain-""*
caterpillar has made its appearanoe, but weN“'
tend that they have come too late in the sew®;
to repeat toe devastation of last year. 1“
who have studied the nature of toe caterpw*^
say that it requires from four to six week,
they first make their appearanoe to aocumau
force and prepare for a grand onslaught A
would delay toe periodfof destruction untu
latter part of August; by whioh time tm**
fourths of the orop will be in a condition to
defianoe to all such pestiferous insects.
Under these circumstance, we do not tnu*
our planting friends have any grounds foe
easiness. The crops may be s little *bort
they will have the decided advantage of Pj* ,
it upon a higher market than ever before o»
in the history of cotton planting.
Oub friend of toe Macon Teixobapb
plains that our white-horse joke is «**.*._»
for want of an '‘interpretation;” fr°m wh* ^
infer that his acquaintance with toe d* 88 *** ^
not extend to the Seminole language
for J
edification we will translate aa
iole for horse-" Chdocbr^
tocko" is Seminole for horse— ' v . nw iTZ"rteA~
means white-horae — u hajo" signme*
"Wahf Yahr are exclamations td'NV*:
“Hokneagu«” means bad or eviltedadoie,
chef” fa an Indian irrioottiaapeare expre***
get up and dust,” or an&uuon, to
on .a somewhat sxmtoe order of your goaf-
“Stand HAttce. ,, i*. un-
Butendcred max quotation
Font to “The horse!
dis is de grand spektAkle! 1 Supaarb! Mngnifi
quo 1 By gar, he is come down fintnte 1”
turn out men for going to see John Wilkes ■
1 Booth’s brother upon the stage t
which he may well feel
hi* return to too editorial
There are aver two. hundred persons at the (under his experienoed l
Mineral Spring.—ibid. do no discredit to its wei'
that
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i reputation. V