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The Greoi'gia Weekly Telegra/ph.
THE TELEGRAPH.
MAGON FRIDAY, AUGUST 13, 1869.
The State Fair an<l the Laboratory
Building.
Mr. Watson, United States Deputy Marshal,
informs us that there is no authority in any one,
except the United States Marshal, W. H. Smyth,
in whose possession the Laboratory property is,
to transfer it to any one. Having been libeled
as “forfeited property,” the Marshal expects to
sell it on the first Tuesday in December next.
In the meantime, the Attorney General has in
formed him that he can allow the Society to use
said property for purposes of the Fair, upon
their giving the Marshal an obligation to be re
sponsible for aU damages U> the property, whilst
in their control; the Society at the same time
having no right to remove any permanent im
provements they may make; but temporary ones
may be taken away. Mr. Watson further states
that he has handed to Dr. Culver a statement of
these conditions, upon which the State Agricultu
ral Society will be placed in temporary possession
of the property, upon executing an obligation to
comply with them.
The question now arises whether the society
should accept the building upon these condi
tions. We understand that a very considerable
outlay iu windows, etc., must be made upon
the building, involving an expense of several
thousand dollars—all of which will be forfeited
to the legion of bummers who are said to have
claims of some sort—discovery—pointing out—
libelling it—and so on, which they intend to
satisfy by a writ of venditioni exponas—tend
they swear that neither President nor Congress
p-bnll chouse them out of their stealings—nor
even the “aged and infirm niggers,” unless
they come down with their dust handsomely,
at a regular Marshal’s sale. We have he^rd
that the sainted Howard expects many a thou
sand out of the laboratory, as he is one of the
chaps thnt “pointed it out."
We say, then, that it appears to ns, at this
writing, that we should never give such bond
or obligation; but drop the laboratory and start
at once to putting up the needful buildings on
the city property down by the river. Wo sub
mit, however, to the wisdom of tho Executive
Committee.
Spain and Cuban Independence.
For several days wo have had reports tele
graphed from London that negotiations between
the United States and Spain were in progress,
by which tho war would be stopped and the in
dependence of Cuba secured. To-day we have
a telegram of tho same character from Madrid,
and the naval movements indicate that some
thing is going on. Therefore, wo entertain no
doubt that the struggle in Cuba is substantially
over—that the United States have bought the
island for a moderate sum, under cover of a
purchase by tho patriot Cubans, and the ever
faithful isle will, in the course of a brief time,
be enfolded in the loving embrace of the great
radical anaconda of North America. It is said
that the patriots prefer isolation and indepen
dence, but they are not strong enough either to
secure or maintain them, and they must inevi
tably be annexed.
The acquisition of Cuba is the most serious
step in that lino ever yet undertaken by our
Government; because it stops over the natu
ral boundary of the high seas,and,by taking one
of a numerous group of islands, commits itself
to a foreign colonial policy, which must, in its
ultimate results, very seriously revolutionize the
whole administrative character of the Govern
ment. It will necessitate large fieets and heavy
garrisons. We have heard army officers say
that a force of fifty to sixty thousand men would
be necessary to garrison Cuba alone. In time
of foreign war it will vastly increase the ex
pense of the public defence, and, at all times,
augment greatly the expense and difficulty of
the revenue service. With such an immense
seaboard to guard as these West India Islands
will go to make up, it seems to ns the day of
exorbitant tariff revenues must cease.
But the acquisition of Cnba will add about
sixty millions to Northern trade, and Mr. Span
iard will stare at the swarms of Yankee adven
turers, who will throng his island with their
various devices to prey upon his substance.
Caterpillar from Dougherty.
Macon, Ga., August 5, 1869.
Editors Telegraph: Accompanying this, we
send you a vial containing one cotton leaf and
two caterpillars. This was brought by Mr.
Wilson, Agent for Mr. Orr, on his plantation in
Dougherty county. Very respectfully,
Lawton & Lawton.
Northern Immigration.—The Chronicle and
Sentinel says, notwithstanding the warm season,
Northern men are in our midst seeking invest
ments and homes. Yesterday Mr. S. T. Pom
eroy, of Cortland, New Yokr, purchased part of
the DeLaigle property from Messrs. L. & A. H.
McLaws. * We understand that two Cuban sugar
planters are also in the city seeking investment
in lands.
Piuce op Coal.—Tho great stir just now, in
New York, is the advance in coal, which is from
nine to eleven dollars a ton. Congress having
put a heavy duty on foreign coal, Halifax is
shut out, and the coal masters are also masters
of the situation. The time when people ex
pected to get a living by fair profits and honest
industry hit gone fay, in the North, at least.
Accident on the Atlantic and Gulp Railroad
A lad by tod name of Thomas Edward Breen,
was killed dt No. 8, Atlantic and Gulf Railroad,
on Monday. He fell off of a car load of lumber
and the wheels crushed his head.
A Bright, Warm Day.—Yesterday was a
bright, warm day, without rain—a first-rate
cotton day.
Col. Malone, of this city, says the Amcrious
Courier, of the 5th, informs us that he has re
ceived a letter from his overseer iu Baker
oounty, informing him that there is no doubt of
the caterpillar being in that section.
Tlie Alabama Election.
The recent election in Alabama seems to have
excited little or no interest among the people.—
The fact is, the people don’t care much who
goes to Congress. And we may go further, and
say that nothing but mere motives of self in
terest will ever drive the Southern people again
to the polls to squeeze a ballot in edgeways
through a press of two. or three hundred or as
many thousand sooty Africans, reeking with all
the odors of the civet cat.
To protect themselves from fraud and oppres
sive taxation, and to secure a Government which
they can live under at all, will urge the unwill
ing white voters to the ballot, now and then,
when these issues are shaiply presented; but
when it comes to electing Congressmen to main
tain a dubious strife with rampant Radicalism
in Congress, it is extremely doubtful whether
the Southern whites, as a mass, will ever be
brought up to the scratch and induced to spend
a good part of a day in squeezing through a ne
gro mob to get their ballot into the box.
Most of the whites who voted in East Ala
bama this time seem to have waited patiently
till the negroes had “done voted” as much as
they wanted to, and dispersed—which made it
late in the day. From long before the opening
of the polls, the blacks hold undisputed posses
sion of most of them and kept it till towards
evening. It was, we have no donbt, a perfect
travesty on a fair election. The Montgomery
papers say that tho Probate Judge of that county,
who had previously issued orders to the election
managers to receive the ballots of none whose
names did not appear on the registry lists, and
accompanied these orders with printed lists,
countermanded them during the day and direct
ed the managers to receive the votes of all who
presented themselves. He found the negroes
were not turning out as he expected, and it was
necessary to do a little staffing.
But the effect of all such proceedings as
these, and the debasement of the suffrage, only
increases the intense disgust for politics among
tho intelligent people. They will hardly he per
suaded to vote except upon the most pressing
motives of self-protection, and where the whites
show no interest in the ballot, the eagerness for
it among the negroes will soon abate; and this
is probably the explanation of the falling off in
the negro vote of Alabama.
The fact is there is an intense disgust of poli
ties and politicians among the Southern people.
They have transferred all tho interest they once
felt in these subjects to agriculture and trade,
and not one newspaper reader in a dozen can
be betrayed into reading a political article.
They have learned to look upon their Govern
ments, State and National, such as they are,
as evils they must endure, and the best they
hope from them is that their oppressions may not
becomo absolutely intolerable, and drive them
to starvation and ruin. Few of them antici
pate any improvement, or think it possible un
der existing conditions. The only chance left
for an amelioration in the situation lies in the
profits of industry, and the products of tho soiL
They are striving to secure themselves against
penury and want, and this is the ambition of
the period. We have no doubt that if the
Northern Radicals and negroes could give secu
rity for a fair government, half the Southern
whites would not care to vote again.
Burglaries—The Newnan People’s Defender
complains of frequent burglaries in that place
and attributes them to an organized band of ne
groes.
The Supreme Court got as far as No. G, Chat
tahoochee Circuit, on “Wednesday.
The Memphis Appeal intimates that the sub
scriptions towards the Chinese immigration
scheme set on foot by thelate convention do not
come in as rapidly as expected. Of $100,000
necessary to make up the capital of the society,
however, §00,000 had been subscribed up to the
21st. |t|
A pasty of seven Sisters of Charity came pas
sengers from France to New York on Tuesday,
in the steamship Ville de Paris. They are said
to be the first installment of a hundred or more
who have been sent for to aid the Catholic mis
sions in their now rapidly extending work along
the line of the Pacific Railroad.
Rose Hersee, who is coming to this country
to sing in Parepa’s English Opera Troupe, will
make her debut in “Somnambula.” She is to
have $300 a week salary, in gold, all her travel
ing expensed, and a private carriage. She is
said to be young and beautiful and a brilliant
vocalist, too.
The once celebrated but almost useless Thames
Tunnel, being required, for the Rest London
Railway “Works, has been closed for traffic.
The Cotton Supply.
The New York Herald is talking to the Brit
ish Cotton Supply Association about the folly of
their new efforts, at large expense, to stimulate
the growth in India. These efforts have al
ready resulted in starving about two millions of
the Hindostanese, but they are of little value.
The Herald says:
But however much the quantity has been in
creased or the quality improved, England cannot
do without American cotton. Nowhere in the
world can onr beautiful long staple be produced,
as far as is yet known except in America.
Natare has settled that question. The semi-
tropical climate of the Southern States and the
influence of the Gulf Stream, which brings the
necessary showers of rain to stimulate the
growth of the annual plant, make a certain
ielt in this country peculiarly adapted to its
cultivation. And even here cotton cannot be
profitably produced in the same degrees of lati
tude beyond the infiuenco of the Gulf Stream as
in the most western portions of Texas or the
territory west of Arkansas.
Unless the British can find another Gulf
Stream and the same climatic conditions that are
found in onr Southern States, will never be able
to compete with ns in cotton production. Cotton
can be grown in almost any warm climate, but
not of the quality we produce, nor with the
same certainty of a crop. It is a question of
climate more than of labor or capital. Irriga
tion, as in Egypt, may do something. and the
occasional floods of rain in India may be utilized,
but nowhere is there the necessary alternate
showers and warm sunshine as in the cotton
belt of the United States.
Since the supply has been cut off in part from
this country, the cotton manufacturers of Eu
rope have been changing their machinery to suit
the short staple article of India and other coun
tries ; but we advise them not to spend money
unnecessarily in this way. From this time forth
they may expect a larger supply from tho Uni
ted States. The planters of the South have
surely passed the period of their poverty caused
by tho war, and they will have capital enough to
extend their planting operations. Tho labor of
that section, which was disorganized and unre
liable from the same cause, is becoming organ
ized and reliable. Besides, there will be within
a short time a great influx of Chinese laborers,
as well as of European and Northern emigrants,
to increase the production. Within three or
four years, probably, there will be as large or
a larger crop of cotton raised than in any year
before the war. The British manufacturers,
therefore, need not be alarmed, or spend large
sums of money uselessly in India or elsewhere.
With regard to the American planters, this
news from England of the urgent demand for
their staple is most encouraging. They arc
sure to realize from this year’s crop a high
price, and abundant means to increase the area
of cultivation next year. Indeed, there is every
reason to believe that the South, so poor and
depressed from the war, will soon become again
the richest part of the country. With the ma
terial and social improvement of the Southern
ers, they will soon be relieved from all political
disabilities. The memories of the war will dio
out, and we shall have peace and prosperity
throughout the land. Lot them go on, then, as
thoyho-ro been going, prudently, quietly, and
attending to their material interests, and they
need have no tear that their rich soil and beauti
ful country will not soon make them more pros
perous and wealthy than even. In a material,
if not in a political sense, cotton will become
king again.
Another Fatal Mistake by a Druggist.
The Columbus Enquirer mentions the death of
Mrs. Pickett of Girard under very painful cir
cumstances :
Dr. Terry prescribed for her a dose of sub-
nitrate of bismuth as a check to diarrhoea. Mr.
Pickett took the prescription to a drug store,
obtained the medicine as he thought, for it was
labelled sub-nit. bismuth, and administered it
to his wife. She immediately complained of a
burning sensation, and soon frothed at the
month. He husband, in alarm, hurried^over to
see the Doctor, who, learning the effect of the
dose, knew that some mistake had been commit
ted, and repaired with Mr. Pickett to the drug
store. They there ascertained, to their horror
and dismay, that the medicine had been taken
from a bottle of corrosive sublimate! Tho la
bel of the bottle was indistinct, and the time
was near dusk, which circumstances mode it
more easy to commit such a mistake. We learn
that the greater part of the word “corrosive” on
the label had been defaced by the caustic action
of the contents of the bottle. Dr. Terry told
Mr. Pickett to hurry back and make Mrs. P.
swallow a number of r|w eggs. The Doctor
himself followed as fast as the first vehicle ho
found could carry' him. But alas! the fatal
dose had done its terrible work but too surely.
They found Mrs. Pickett in the agonies of death,
and she expired within about one hour after tak
ing the poison,
The Boston Post Bays “Fish’s toruous course
in the cable matter shows him plaintly to be an
electrioeeL” . S-„; .i '.-' * .
Letter Irom.New York,
New York, July 29, 1869.
Editors Tdegraph : On leaving Macon some
days since, I promised to send you such jottings
of people, places and events as I might gather
by the wayside.
Spending one day in Savannah I remarked
considerable activity in business for the summer
season and extensive preparations for a heavy
fall and winter trade. I expected, however, to
find a large business done in the way of ship
ping fruit North, but on the contrary was in
formed that the luxuriously living people of the
Forest City usually keep the market exhausted.
Large shipments of water-melons, however, are
being made, which readily bring from a dollar to
a dollar and a half in this city,which price, after
a large margin for breakage, stealage and
freight, must make a very fair profit.
Among the most genial of Savannah’s citizens,
I met CoL Thompson, the editor of the News,
whom all fun loving people of onr State will re
member having met in the character of “Major
Jones” in “Major Jones’ Courtship.” Miss
‘Mary Stallings,” I found in the person of the
Colonel’s wife. Though advanced in life, with
children and grand-children around them, their
hearts are as young and fresh as over. Good
luck to them!
The concentration of tho cotton trade at Sa
vannah, as well as its being the distributing point
for largo amounts of fertilizers, grain, &c., re
quired for the Southern trade, is rapidly making
it the commercial city of Georgia, and inducing
many from the interior of Georgia, Florida and
Alabama, to seek their homes and fortunes there.
By the Rapidan, with pleasant Captain Mal
lary, we had a fair voyage along the coast. Th9
track of vessels sailing North, I find, lies inside
of the gulf stream, and seldom more than sixty
or seventy miles from land. At ten o’clock, the
night of toe third day out, wo came in view of
Long Branch, which looked very beautiful with
its ten thousand vari-colored lights flashing over
the water, where twenty or thirty thousand of
Northern pleasure seekers, are generally found
daring toe summer season. Long Branch is
soon behind, and in the stillness of night we
have arrived in the great city.
On awaking in the morning, we find a dozen
or so cabmen introducing themselves and want
ing to carry you somewhere for five dollars, or
other like liberal amount. I had been three
days on sea, but these were toe first sharks I
had met.
New York is a considerable sized village, dif
fering from other villages in this, that people
here don’t seem to know or care about each
other’s business—most villages are not this way.
Serio—The city is still rapidly growing and
improving—one of the first objects of my atten
tion was a new street being cut directly through
toe heart of toe city from Church street to toe
Battery, through some eight or ten blocks of
buildings from five to six stories high. It is
claimed that toe necessities of trade require this
immense destruction of property and expendi
ture of money, though doubtless toe contractors,
who are termed here suckers, are the principal
beneficiaries. Swindling here, like every
thing else, is done on a large scale; it is only
too petty thieves and scoundrels who are frus
trated.
There are so many things worthy of note
here that it is difficult to select what is most
worth mentioning. Of toe fine buildings toe
Park Bank i3 probably among the first—its
vaults are inside of twenty feet of solid stone
masonry, the exterior surface of whose walls is
divided into fire hundred or more miniature
safes about eight inches square. These are
rented by merchants as places of deposit for in
terest bearing bands and other valuable papers.
These safes are accessible at all times to their
proprietors, and are far more convenient than
toe old method of deposit.
Yesterday I'attended a Fulton street prayer
meetiDgat the “Collegiate Reformed Protestant
Dutch Church," where I copied from placards
on its walls toe following notices:
“Prayers and exhortations not to exceed five
minntes in order to give aU an opportunity."
“Not more than(2) two consecutive prayers
or exhortations allowed. No controverted points
discussed.”
From which one Yould naturally infer that
these people were very fond of praying and
exhorting. “Wonder kow old Brother D. would
fare under this rule ? Why tho good man would
hardly get started before some one would call
him to order.
Everything here is high, but experience I find
probably the most costly of all. A fellow not
only has to pay a good deal for it, bntbas to buy
it so often.
This is a random letter, but as I am not here
long enough yet to get well-organized, I send it
without more excuse. J. U. S.
Disturbance In Chesterfield District,
South Carolina.
The Cheraw Democrat, of the 30th nlL, pub
lishes the following account of a serious distur
bance that occurred recently at Mount Croghan,
in that District:
We regret to have to report a serious difficul
ty in our District at the recent township election,
but are glad to leam that our people were not
responsible for it. Several statements have
reached us, but toe following is toe best authen
ticated and seemB most reasonable:
During the progress of th6 election, a negro
walked up to Archibald Nicholson, with demon
strations of fight, and told him ho was going to
whip him. Nicholson immediately went for his
rifle, where he had deposited it, but it had been
removed. He then advanced with his knife on
toe negro, who ran and was pursued. At last
the negro turned with a rail in his hand, and the
fight began. While struggling with each other,
another negro came up and struck Nicholson on
the back of toe head with a gun, which put an
end to that affair. John Nicholson, toe brother
of Archibald, had followed on to prevent too
fight if possible, and made every effort to do so.
Ho was struck in the forebead with a rock, from
some quarter not known, and while binding up
his wound Archibald was there looking on. The
young men at toe polls became exasperated at
toe conduct of these negroes, and drove them
away, but did not interfere with those who took
no part in toe fracas. Archibald Nicholson, on
his way home, complained of Ms hurt, which was
not regarded as serious, and after he reached
home died from its effects.
Application was made for a warrant to arrest
the negro who had killed Nicholson, but ho re
fused it. On what ground he knew best, and
will probably be required to inform toe Solicitor.
During the excitement one of toe managers,
Mr. R. S. Donaldson, ran off with some of toe
ballot boxes, but brought them back again after
toe excitement abated. This is another result
of carpet-bag teaching. •
A Monstrous Evil.
Tho Hongkong Daily Press, of Jnne 1st,
throws a new light upon toe question of toe im
portation of Chinese women for the purposes of
prostitution. It appears that a large proportion
of these unfortunate females are kidnapped in
China, and coni beta against their will, to be
devoted to a life of shame. They are systemati
cally inveigled from their homes in tho interior
by cunning old hags—such as infest other conn-
tries than CMna, and being taken to Hongkong
are forced on board sMp, under terror of threats
and intimidation. The Daily Press calls for
colonial legislation on the subject, and suggests
toe propriety of issuing a proclamation inform
ing the girls (who are mostly ignorant of too
law) that they may claim protection of toe au
thorities. “Whatever action toe people of Hong
kong may take in tois connection, it is certain
that much of toe responsibility of this disgrace
ful business rests upon those who knowingly
permit toeir vessels to carry those kidnapped
women.
The Pacific Mail SteamsMp Company might
check tois immigration materially by too exer
cise of more caution in taking Chinese passen
gers ; bnt even then it is probable that they
would come by sailing vessels to some extent.
Some months ago the heads of toe Chinese
Companies expressed a determination to put an
end to toe shameful traffic; and for a short
time it seemed as though we had seen the last
of it. But when toe public had forgotten toe
matter a little emigration increased again, and,
at present it is in full blast We beuevo the
companies can stop it if they want to, and if
they will not,, wo must take the matter into our
own hands. The question is one which affects
onr reputation as a Christian, civilized com
munity—and now that we know how these un
fortunate creatures are procured, we must lose
no time in putting toe shameful business away
from us.
The Orientals travel with bar gold coin and
jewels to pay their way in foreign lands, bank
ing being very little of ah Eastern institution ;
there, ore it is not so very wonderful, if curious*
to hear that the Vioeroy of Egypt, to meet his
expenditure in England, came furnished with
twelve boxes of oak, bound with brass, each box
being eighteen inches long, nine inches high,
I and twelve in width, and containing: gold and
notes. •••', * ,vfr . * ''Sm. i
From Macon County.
crops—freedmen's barbecue and the freed-
, KEN..' i ■ . ““.
Macon County, August 5, 1869.
Editors Telegraph : Allow me a small place
in your paper to make a few remarks upon
affairs in this county. We have suffered
severely from drought. Cbm and cotton arc
badly damaged. Rust has made its appearance
and some large cotton fields are almost a failure.
The crops • have b6en well cultivated. The
Freedmen have worked and behaved well, and
we are getting along well with them. As few
depredations are committed by them as when
they were slaves. Wherever I go I see that :
they are fixing up about toeir houses, and seem
to understand that they have got to maintain a
good character to get favors from white people.
The Freedmen gave a barbecne at Hog Crawl
Creek, with toe assistance of the whites on the
31st of July last, and invited the farmers around to
partake with them. Several families were pres
ent and they had a fine dinner. I made a speech
on toe occasion and complimente d them for toeir
faithfulness tois year, and industry and good be
havior. I advised them to put down loafers and
idlers, and then there would be no stealing as
everybody would have plenty. That by eleva
ting their own character, they would get credit
and assistance from the white people, and they
would ever find the Southern whites their best
and most useful friends. That if they would
lend their assistance to keep bad men out of
office and put good men in, we would have good
laws, and a prosperous country.
The farmers represented at the dinner, were
James Barklay, William Chapman, John and
Bryant Thomas, James Lester, Dr. Dykes, N.
A. Homady. Several freedmen made speeches
aftefi dinner, upon social and religious topics.
So toe day passed pleasantly off. N. A. H.
sm: t elegbapHl
Bloody Work In Camden.
Camden County, Ga., July 31, 1809.
Editor Savannah Republican :
Sir : I write to give you toe particulars of a
very unfortunate tragedy wMch occurred iu this
county, on Wednesday last, July 28th. Two
freedmen, Jnlins Jacobs and Edward Tison, in
toe employ of the Norwich Lumber Company,
went to toe log landing of Borwell A. Brown, a
white man, on White Oak River, in tois county,
for the purpose of rafting some mill logs which
the said Brown had cut. While engaged in
getting toe logs ready, Burwell A. Brown and
his two sons, Simon and Barwell, appeared at
toe landing, Simon armed with a double-barrel
ed gun. An altercation at once took place be
tween Jacobs and Burwell A. Brown in regard
to a previous difficulty in which young Burwell
Brown and Jacobs had been concerned. It is
said that a struggle took place between
Jacobs and Simon Brown, wMch resulted
Jacobs getting a knife and- the gun
from Simon, and that he threw away the
knife and handed toe gun to Edward Tison,
who was standing or sitting near, and who, up
to that time, had taken no part whatever in the
affair, telling Tison to keep tho gun at all haz
ards, as if he gave it up to Brown he would be
shot. Unfortunately Tison gave up the gun to
Simon Brown, upon a promise that ho would
not shoot. As soon as the gun was given up,
Jacobs ran off, getting behind a building which
stood near at hand. Burwell A. Brown caught
the gun from Ms son Simon’s hands and tried to
shoot Jacobs as he ran, but failing to do so,
turned toe gun upon Tison, who had appre
hended no danger to Mmself and immediately
shot him dead on toe spot, toe charge entering
his left side below the heart and passing entire
ly through toe body. Meantime Jacobs had got
some distance away, bnt not so far bnt that
Brown succeeded in getting a shot at Mm, Mt-
ting Mm with one buckshot on Ms right shoul
der blade, inflicting a slight wound. Circum
stances may transpire which will put a different
aspect upon toe case, but so far it looks like a
case of willful murder. A warrant for the arrest
of Brown has been taken out. It is said thnt
all toe parties were perfectly sober but that
Jacobs was somewhat insulting in his language
to Brown.
The day after tho shooting, the affair was re
ported at Satilla Mills by Jacobs, when some
fifteen or twenty negroes, employed at toe Mil!p,
armed themselves and proceeded up tho river
to Verdon plantation, where Tison’s family be
longed, intending to meet others there and take
snmmary vengeance on Brown and his family.
Tison’s family and two white men from Satilla
Mills succeeded in dissuading them from tois
design, however, and they turned back after
reaching Vernon. As the foremost boat ap
proached the dock at Satilla Mills, one of the
negroes, named John Nelson, put out his hand
to shove her off from some logs wMch she was
running against, and by some means discharged
Ms own gun, which was pointed towards him,
and killed himself instantly, at the same time
shooting “William Thomas through his left arm,
just above the elbow. An inquest was held on
the body of Nelson, at which too above fads
transpired, A good deal of excitement exists
among the negroes in regard to tois sad occur
rence, bnt it is hoped that no evil consequences
will result to the community. Should anytoing
occur I will keep you informed.
Very respectfully yours,
Camden County.
From Washington.
Washington, August 5.—The Prssideni and Sec
retary Fish will be here on Tuesday for oonsulto-
tion regarding Cuban and Mexican complications.
Itevenue to-day, $772,000. ■ jjty' Stir ,'jS-
General Banks will remain in Europe until H5j>-
vember. ’ r ... ■i
Between four and five millions of 10-40’s havA
been substituted for 5-20’s, as security for national
bank circulation, since BoutwelVs order allowing-
sueli substitution.
The Revenue Department has a letter from Rich
mond announcing the arrest of the Deputy Collec
tor for withholding collections.— J
CoL Barziza. counsel for Brown, and others,
charged with toe murder of Dr. Maxwell, at Bryan,
Texas, is here, to have his clients placed on a .foot
ing with Verger, in Mississippi^ for a hearing before
tho Supremo Court.
Tho Tribune, in an editorial, captioned “Old Vir
ginia,” says: “We protest against toe action of the
test oath as meditated by Gen- Canby; we want the
leading conservatives to take toeir seats in toe new
Legislature—swear fidelity to tho new Constitution
and ratify tho fifteenth amendment—and we want
the State admitted, thereupon to representation in
Congress and to all the rights of self-goverment—
and so, wo aro confident, to a’very large majority,
are the Northern people.
9:80 p. m.—Notoing more from Tennessee.
FROM CUBA.
Cubans here have official advices to toe 25th. Quo-
sado still holds communication between Puerto
Principe andthecoaBt. There is great suffering
at Puerto Principe, from want of food, and out
rages. Tho volunteer, forces before Jordan have
been reinforced by two regiments of volunteers
and a battalion of regulars. ■ The* Spaniards drove
Jordan from his position, near Satiago de Cuba,
with some loss. Jordan rallied bis forces, and, re
inforced by Figeros, regained Ins position. It.is
reported that a foragiDg party of Cubans, near’Be-
medios, captured another party near Sagua la
Grande. The two expeditions numbred eighty. It
is feared they were all executed. The Cuban
troops are free from disease,- and a decisive action
is expected in about twenty days, which, if success
ful, will give toe Cabans control of toe eastern por
tion of toe island. , . ■■ ; :
, Much Whisky Bufnt.
Philadelphia, August 5.—Patterson's bonded
warehouse at the foot of Lombard street, contain
ing forty thousand barrels of whisky is burned—loss
about $11,500,000. The fire is attributed to the
breaking of tho floor over toe engine room. The
streets are flooded with burning whisky impeding
toe firemen,
LATER-r-Noon.—Tho fire is still raging bnt no
chance of extending. Tho los3 is now estimated at
85,000,000. No lives lost.
The Juniola has gone to sea. The Dictator sails
to-day. The Constellation has gone to Norfolk,
where she will remain as a receiving sMp. The
double-turretted monitor Miantonomah, and the
steamer Cambridge aro fitting out for sea.
Total insurance on whisky, is two million two hun
dred and eighty-eight thousand dollars; Now York
and Eastern companies are toe heaviest losers;
London and Globe companies lose one hundred and
eighty thousand; Imperial, three hundred and nine
teen thousand; insurance company of North Amer
ica* at Philadelphia, one hundred and twenty-seven
thousand; Philadelphia companies probably lose
four hundred thousand.
From Washington County.
The Sandersville Georgian of tho 4th instant
says of toe crop prospects in that region :
Here in onr own county, farmers are giving
toe finishing touch to the cultivation of the cot
ton crop—plowing over the last time. We hear
some glowing accounts from planters, as to toeir
prospect. A gentleman told ns afow days since,
that he felt confident of realizing fifty bushels
of corn per acre from a portion of his crop.
Another informs us that he would realize twen
ty bushels to toe acre from a portion of his; and
another, that Ms entire crop would average
twelve bushels to the acre. None of these are
wild calculators, but men of sound judgement
and practical farmers. Yet with tois promised
yield the crop has been damaged considerably
by toe drought.
The pork crop also bids fair to be unusually
good. People have fewer hogs, give greater at
tention and raise more and better meat,
P. S.—Since writing tho above, we aro in
formed that toe rust has appeared in several
localities, and is doing serious injury to toe
cotton. We trust it is not very extensive.
Extraordinary Cropping.—The Georgian
speaks of too farming of Mr. W. 0. Riddle, of
that county, as follows:
In toe first place, he spends no idle time,
but devotes his leasnre days to preparation for
the busy season. Hence his plantation is over
in too most perfect trim. This year he has cul
tivated—and we mean what we say—80 acres to
the mule, and but for too drought it is tho opin
ion of experts, would have made 500 bales of
cotton on 500 acres of land. His mules aro now
in good keeping, not overworked, his hands toe
same. We call attention-to this as som^^ing
of a tribute to deserved worth, and hoping that
it may stimulate others to strive to do likewise.
Mr. Biddle’s lands aro naturally no better than
others, and his success is owing to toe earnest
attention given Ms business.
Impending Judgments Predicted—
Earthquakes, Tornadoes aud Dis
asters Foretold.
I From the Paducah Kentuckian, 2&th.
A short distance from tois city there has long
resided an old gentleman of most estimable
character and more than ordinary religious feel
ing. On numerous occasions his singular pre
science of events has startled Ms friends und
persons skeptical of what their senses could not
comprehend. “Two weeks ago, this gentleman
being in Ms usuaI health, .'predicted, approach
ing' earthquakes and' disasters of the most
tremendous character, and concluded his rove-,
lation by tho announcement that they would
know Mm to be a true prophet from this, that
ho himself would certainly die exactly at four
o’clock, on Thursday, July 22<L Anxiously tho
friends awaited the hour thus 'designated—
thinking that it might be a hallucination that
deception would cure, they set the clock for
ward, but iu vain, for exactly at four o'clock on
last Thursday, the prophet breathed Ms last.
The event has caused a profound sensation
among a wide circle of people in this section
and many are in painful apprehension of coming
disasters. Another circumstance has strength
ened toeir fears. It seems that Miss Caroline
Godsey, the champion sleepist who Las scarcely
been awake for fourteen years, and after suc
cessful exhibitions in many places, died recently
near Hickman, just previous to her death made
similar predictions of coming disasters and
earthquakes. When tho shock occurred on Sun
day night and when-bright blazing moHors, ap
parently as large as the moon, and with an
effulgence rivalling that of toe son, lighted up
this section of the country on two successive
nights, there was profound alarm, but as yet the
skies are as bright, the waters as unruffled, the i
air as balmy and as genial, aud all nature .as
lovely as at any ti ne within our i(.-collection. “.
mim
From Mississippi.
Jackson, August 6.—The Clarion, to-day, pub
lishes an address to toe people of Mississippi,
signed by ono hundred and thirty-eix gentlemen of
the old Whig and Democrat schools, representing
nearly every county in tho State. They advise that
tho people should support the National Union Re
publican party, and vote for the ticket they present,
assured that it will be composed of gentlemen ac
tuated by conservative and patriotic principles.—
Yield no cold formal support, but active, zealous
and faithful—taking Virginia as toeir example in
the coming contest, and assuring toe people that
tho party sustains tho views of President Grant and
the Congressional plan of reconstruction.
The National Union Republican party have called
a Nominating Convention, to assemble on toe 8th
of September, in tois city.
Violent Eruption in Kansas.
Leavenworth, August 5.—At a meeting of toe
Land League, on neutral lands, speeches were
made by Hon. Sydney Clarke, and others. Resolu
tions woro unanimously passed denouncing James
F. Joy and the Senate of toe United States, asking
Ross and Pomeroy to resign, and cutting loose
from the Republican party and forming a new inde
pendent State Central Committee. Senator Pome
roy was burned in effigy.
Shooting Affair in South Carolina.
Augusta, August 5.—There is a report from
Edgefield, South Carolina, that Charles and J. D.
Creswell, who left this city yesterday, were shot this
morning near Edgefield, the former being Jailed
instantly and the latter seriously, if not mortally,
wounded. The affair was of an entirely private
ar.lure, and is alleged to have grown out of family
1 roubles. - . .•
From Tennessee.
Memphis, August 5.—The election is progressing
quietly; not a single disorder having occurred. Tho
indications are that Senter, and the Democratic can-
dates for toe Legislature will carry the county by
two thousand majority.
From Alabama.
Selma, August 5.—Ryland Randolph, editor of
the Independent Monitor, was elected to too Leg
islature, from Tuscaloosa, by a majority of five
hundred, being a Democratic gain of four hundred
in that county.. >
From Cnba.
Havana, August 5.—The Captain General has
authorized tho Spanish Back to issue a second loan,
based on proceeds of confiscated estates specially
pledged for its redemption.
The number of volunteers on tho Island is fifty-
six thousand. Previous reports were incorrect.
Foreign News. .
Paris, August 5.—Eugenie visits Constantinople.
Immense preparations are made.. Isabella abdicates
the throne of Spain, in favor of too Prince of'
Austria.
Madrid, August 5.—Negotiations are pending for
Cuban independent**-
Coolies.
The opposition to CMnese immigration is as
suming form and shape. The Honorable Sec
retary of toe Treasury informs toe officials of
tho New Orleans Cnstom-honse that the coolie
trade is nothing more nor less than the slave
trade in disguise. Now, we Are as sincerely, and
as honestly opposed to slavery in every form as
the Honorable Secretary or as the blatant fa
natics who kindled toe flames of civil war which
desolated the land for four years, but we do not
believe in this clamor of toe fanatics, or in toe
wisdom of that enactment of the Thirty-seventh
Congress, which would prevent toe free and vol
untary immigration into these States of any
people whatever. “When toe farmers of the
Y/cst, who are now forced to pay the exorbitant
amount of three dollars and fifty cents per diem
to'the harvest-hands or lose in the wheat crop
tho toil of a year, come to know they can pro
cure docile, frugal, industrious laborers for a
term of five years, at the rate of ten dollars per
month, when the planters of toe South find they
can be restored to more than their former pros
perity by toe substitution of Mongol for slave
labor, and when the artisans of the country
come to understand that through too employ
ment of these people the cost of living will be
materially reduced—they will cease to listen to
these brawling fanatios and demagogues, and
sweep them away as a lion does vermin from
Ms mane.—JV. Y. Turf, Fidd and Farm.
Weather, Crops and Health.—Rato, rain ;
every day we have rain, and on Monday- had
what is called here, a “lightwood-knot floater.
The planters are coming in daily, and not one
can give a favorable report as to toeir prospect
for a good cotton crop. Wet weather is damage
ing, but not to compare to toe damage that Is
and has -been done by the rust. On some plant
ations, we hear that the ootton stalk is now
dead.
Cotton is all speculation, as much so to.toe.
grower as to the man who buys it. A few weeks
back, toe prospect of our section was'good tof n
cotton crop, now many say that it is not bo good
as at this rime last year. Health of the country 1
'still ^oist—Eiiu-sofi Jouf^d^^hr'
' X
Another 'Letter from Major Madison
Bell.
From the Atlanta fnteUiffcncer.'i 1
Atlanta, Ga:,, July 28,1869.
The controversy between toe'State Treasurer
and myself has not been sought or desired by
me, but, on the contrary, I have endeavored, by
eyery means that honor and self respect would
justify,’to avoid it. This controversy first grew
oat of a correspondence between toe Governor
and tois Office, elicited by a note of inquiry
from the former. In my reply, I stated that I
had not approved warrants drawn upon a fund
-that was exhausted, ox-warrants drawn, upon
tho wrong fund, or drawn when there was no
appropriation to meet them. My reply was
oouched in as respectful language as I could
command, and even exhibited a scrupulous ab
stinence from any discourteous allusions to the
action or motives of toe Treasurer, whatever.—
His first effort was to prove that my answers to
the Governor’s interrogatories were not tfue.but
having failed to do tois, his subsequent effusions
are a mixture of reckless assertions and personal
invective, wMch I do not propose to notice, but
as the Treasurer sets himself up to be toe only
officer who confines himself within legal bounds,
I do propose to exdibit some of Ms inconsisten
cies, and to show that his actions have not been
in accordance with his profession And, as he
has taken the liberty to deal so unsparingly
with what he affects to consider the motives that
have prompted my official action in the prem
ises, he will pardon me if I take a slight retro
spect of his own. He referred to my approv
al of warrants drawn on the Printing Fund to
pay for advertising Exeoutive proclamations,
orders, etc., as proof of his charge that I had
approved warrants drawn on “a fund specially
appropriated and restricted to some other pur
pose.” The vindication of my course in tMs
matter is before toe public, and it is not neces
sary to repeat it. But what will the public
think when I utter toe assurance that tois im
maculate' Treasurer paid these warrants with
out a murmur down to as recent a period as toe
8th of December, 1868, and that I can prove
what I say by Ms own report, which I now have
before me? On page 17 of ■ this report, under
toe head of “Printing Fund of 1868,” I ob
serve toe first warrant,- No. 304, in favor of
Dr. Samuel Bard, “for advertising Governor’s
proclamations to July 24, 1868, $149 00.” Then
follows forty-seven more warrants for toe same
species "of service, and drawn on toe same fund,
running through a period of nearly four months,
and for a sum of money amounting in the ag
gregate, to over six thousand five hundred dol
lars. “Where were his scruples then, and with
all his boasted knowledge and -legal acumen,
why had ho not discovered during that period
of nearly four months, that it was a violation,
of law to pay such warrants ? ■ Why has he not
explained to the public, wM!e endeavoring to
fix the approval of such warrants on me as a
crime, as a conspiracy to rob toe Treasury,
how it is that he was a participant in toe same
crime by paying forty-seven of those illegal war
rants, amounting to the sum of six thousand
five hundred dollars? Let him also explain
how it happened that he became so suddenly
enlightened as to toe law, and so scrupulously
conscientious as to stop the payment of such
warrants just about the tone he had a rupture
with the Governor.
Plain, unsophisticated people would regard tois
as rather a singular coincident, at least, and all
fair-minded, unprejudiced men would like to
have it explained. Can it possibly be that as
long as toe Treasurer was on friendly terms
with the Governor he was willing to unite in
the “conspiracy,” and participate in a violation
of the law, bnt as soon as a breech occurred
between them he changed Ms course, not for
the sake of the law, but for the purpose of an
noying the Governor by dishonoring his war
rants ? He was either ignorant of the law and
his duty as a public officer, as he now professes
to understand them, or he knowingly and crim
inally violated too law (for it stood then pre
cisely as it does now), and in either case he
should come to the confessional and make an
atonement for Ms error before he arraigns an-1
other officer before the public for approving the
forty-seven warrants that'he paid.
In his last communication, wMch appeared in
tho Era of toe 27th instant, he.again refers to
my approval of warrants in favor of additional
clerks in the Executive office, and triumphantly
asks, “Where is hjs authority for departing from
law, and letting toe Governor’s sense of pressure
4 g.^df800i
kfttar half
tiiil
the. civil e-ppropriai
aame clerk, was 3
drew the $500 a;
tor his services
year 1868. ^
J Thj( Treasurer coUmsfife severe!, ...
ud«£on tostthad nought
Governor m tasiapjflimion ofthe^
fund, and attempted show, by quoU?^
the Oode that it waaffiy- tortyto
counts, and allow or reject them hTr ^
aro submitted to the Governor !
not show that I have the right to SL?* 5 *
fund out of wMch they shall be
I have audited and allowed, or
account that has ever been presented^
if I have not done this in case of all ^
that have been paid, it was because fh
have hot presented them. And here
urer is ,again unfortunate. He titaT
task for not approving every accotiat „
paid for out of the contingent fund h* a
ernor, when he himself has neglected •
instances, to present Ms accounts for
and has filed his accounts in the Exera^
fica, indorsed with his own (ipprorslaln
sented his warrant at this office had jt,
and pocketed the money. I ask attain
he tous disregarded the injunction of
which he had quoted ? Why does h 6
better example, and practice what ? 0ISi
I find on the file in the Execute d
counts amounting in the ac er6M ,„ , M
$700,00, approved by - the T^asuSl *°. (
ing, in part, cash payments made kTl!?
stationery, exchange, express cW
grams, water-cooler, letter-heads etc." ’ f
is included in one of the warrants
before; drawn on the 23d section of L r
p nation Act of 1869. Now, not
accounts has my approval upon •
eyes of the Treasurer, it is a great dev
of duty in me not to audit every
Which a warrant is issued. So it geen^
he wants to get money he does not waitl!'
regular routine wMch he now insists tV .“
public creditors shall follow, at least h» £
wait in the instance referred to. ’ - ° “
In conclusion, .1 would, remark that u
have said during my controversy with t'.eT-
urer, I have dealt with him in his official a
ty, and it has been my purpose to avoid s
alities. Being attacked, I considered it »j<t
duty to defend my: official course, and the
and dignity of too Comptroller General’s
This was due .to too public, for whose 1
toe office I hold should be administered
ther than this it has not been my intention
and with this I bid toe Treasurer affieu-a
for the present.
Respectfully, Mimas
. , Comptroller
Judge Dent and the Misstssurmij
Louisville Express reporter, who intenjJ
Mississippi Conservative admirer ol)
Dent, discovers that he is wanted for Gs
because;
r First—He is Gen. Grant’s brothei-L
Second—General Grant is his brother-;
Third—They are the brother-in-law tf
other. Fourth—Judge Dent married a 1
sippi lady. Fifth—A Mississippi lady a.
Judge Deut.. Sixth—Judge Dent and’ sS
sippi lady married each other. Seventh-!
Judge Dent. Eighth—Judge Dent is it
Grant’s brother-in-law. Ninth—That’i \
.toe matter with him.
The reporter left perfectly satisfied.
The Genuine Simmons 1
Medicine vs. Iniitaiml
be Ms rale of action ?” X do not notice this
point now with toe view of again vindicating
my action in the premises—tois I have already
done in former communications. But I do so
for toe purpose of again showing up the Treas
urer’s inconsistency by introducing Ms own
official acts. I find, by reference to toe record,
that warrant No. 149, in favor of N. L. Angier,
for $882 55, drawn on the 7th section of toe Ap
propriation act of 1S68, “for stationery, printing,
etc.,” was approved and entered on toe 20to of
January, 1869. Then again, I find that warrant
No. 107, in favor of the same, for stationery,
exchange, telegrams, express charges, etc., and ,1 4“*
drawn on-toe 23d section of toe Appropriation
Act of 1869, was approved and entered on the
19th of Jnly, I860. Where -was your authority,
Mr. Treasurer, “for departing.from the law" in
The following fa from John G. finite,«
planter, and deeply pious, conscientious, o"
ber of the M. E. Church. South:
TO ALL THE WORLD, GREETING:
Relieving it to bo the duty of every p-ral
their best efforts to suppress aud keep dcr.f
deceptions and impositions of all kinds, bite;
5y in mejicines; and having seen the ainn
of a party In Macon. Ga., who boldly
solves to be sole proprietors of Dr, Simp's
Medicine—wbo acknowiedea that they b«c
their ri?ht and knowledge that they hsverfr
rne C. A-Simmons, of Georgia—who»l» t-ii
several articles from the said 0. A. Simmon j
of which he affirms that they (the party im 1
‘‘Ore tho only ones that have Ony ric’it tea:
same, arid the only one* that have the oriiitil
and only receipt tor t* o same. - ’ Therehc.'. l
my duty to pat the public and the trerHcl
guard against the presumptuous'a-'snnu tio': I
party, and their nurture for medicine, trhrll
greatest imposition that I or or in,,,. The ml
in Macon, Ga., say they broy'it their ngo''
said C. A. Simmons, on the 30th d*y of S .
1838 I bought an unlimited right to make r
the same medicine, from the same Midp. A.r:
on thaTth day of March. l!#k for which ! *
the pititul sum of ton dollars. Thl* teepnttj
have.' the'said C. A. Simmons warranted t; L
genuine receipt for makingtheVese'ablelurl
ic'ne, which he said he obtained fr»nijir. .t..T
mons, who lived at that time in the Sateofj
It is clear from .the writings of the gmt rttv
in Macon, that the$r either knew their rttr
been sold to others beside themselves."mss
bought from nn unreliable, irrespoi.-st.r <■
neither of which would justify their pc: r
‘rms. L
The same said C. A- Simmons soldthe aai
to mnho medicine, with some kind of tint'.]
other persons , in thi- neighborhood, r''
prices—snae as jew as five dollars—vi’
to each one to whom he sold to oe the r
these two cases? Why was it not- as-lawful to
pay toe warrant of Mr. Conley, the State Libra
rian, drawn upon toe same 23d section, for
postage stamps, diayage, etc., for the use of;
his office, and for which ho had advanced toe
cash out of his own funds ? His warrant was
in every respect similar to your own, yet you
refused to pay it because it was drawn on toe
23d section. Let it be understood that tlja 7to
section of toe act of 1868 and 23d section of toe
act of 1869 are toe same in substance. If it
was contrary to law to pay Mr. Conley’s war
rant, where is the authority, Mr. Treasurer, for
paying your own? “What excuse have you for
breaking tho law in your own favor, and recog
nizing it. when the interests .of others aro in
volved? I ought to mention,-in passing, that
Conley’s warrant, was only for $41.30, while
yours (the last named) was for $785.40.
But again: The Treasurer has arraigned me
for approving warrants for extra service, and
goes out of his way to allude specially to a war
rant in favor of my brother, wMch he styles as
being of “doubtful propriety.” I wonder what
he thought of certain warrants in favor of his
son, which he paid, and where he finds his much
vaunted “authority of law” for so doing. Now,
I assert, that tho warrant in favor of my brother,
to which I presume he alludes, was authorized
by express provision of law. On page 186, pub
lished laws of 1S6S, resolution hfo. 14 expressly
authorizes me to have certain entries transfer
red in my office and' to employ a suitable clerk
to do the work! By this authority I employed
my brother, and he executed toe work to the
entire satisfaction of a Legislative Committee
who examined it. Why then tois insinuation
that toe warrant was of “ doubtful propriety?—
But, as the Treasurer speaks of the amount of
said warrant being at the rate of $150 00, it oc
curs to me that he may possibly refer to another
warrant in.favor of my brother for services un
der the “Wild Land” laws. If so. hn J«
unfortunate- ore or the Code express
ly authorizes the Governor to appoint a clerk to
perform the duties upon which my brother has
for some time been engaged, having been ap
pointed by the Governor. For this service the
warrant was drawn at the rate of $150 00 per
month, and as no“ salary was fixed by law for
this clerk, the Governor, in Ms discretion, fixed
it as above.
It is the same that has been allowed otoer
clerks, both in the Executive office and in the
office of Superintendent of Public Works. Also,
toe clerks employed to make county maps, etc.,
all wMch toe Treasurer had heretofore paid,
without doubting their propriety, so far as I am
informed. But whv did the Treasurer pay a
warrant for $500 in favor of Ms son for miking
a transfer of certain entries in his office, and
why did he, at a subsequent period, pay another
warrant in favor of his son for toe same service
of $350, making in all $850 for these transfers,
■when there is no express law authorizing it ?—
The resolution named refers exclusively to the
Comptroller General’s office, yet I find on my
book the two warrants in favor of the Treasurer’s
son for “extra service transferring Treasurer.
Rockwell’s books,” etc. TMs is not alL The
Treasurer affects great veneration for “law,”
and the “will of toe legislature,” yet in the
teeth of Ms pretensions, I find on my book war
rant number 28 for $150, in favor of his son
approved November 10, 1868, “for extra ser
vices as Treasurer’s clerk.” On page 10, Laws
of 1868, seotion 13 of the Appropriation Act,
there is appropriated $500 to pay toe salary of
the same clerk for the latter half of 1868. This
act became a law 10th of October, 1868, and
here was the expressed will of the Legislature
that the Treasurer’s clerk should have but $500
for half the year, or at the rate of $1000 per
year. .Yet, on the 10th of November there
after, the Treasurer, with all Ms veneration for
law and toe expressed will of the Legislature,
paid Ms son $150 over and above Ms lawful
salary.
Again, on tke 18 th of January, 1869,1 find
that another warrant for the same amount, No.
132, in favor of his son, was approved and en
tered, for similar servioea: in the Trei^urer’s
office. . Saw,.lot it, be remembered that about
the same time that each of toes* warrants,
approved another van-apt lor
ec:pU tor anythinx he Could get fortbri,
had,a pretty good property, fc»
turn's ss hixh ns twenty-five doUars-if i
suit hioi with the price. It will be cot
tablish these farts here, to the satis:ecu
incredulous. We heard of him sellia?w
other neighborhoods. His business cere
receipts. Ho inquired of me *to KeW'T
that wn? prepared by A. Q. Simmons.or.vy
mens, in this neighborhood, er eltewoe-'V'j
knew.. He said he always sold more rectal
vrho had used the medicine than to soyo-r- l
He said that necessity forcei himtoseau:=|
receipt: that he wo? obliged to raise plu
ceipt isno secret here. Tho women Ul«»-j
conversation. I was satisfied that it vat',f
nine, and never thought enoogh of IC‘-“ j
the mixture by it—but others tried it, sc*'
not correct. . .. , r
Ike (l'mnnd for the genuine Liver Mm,-J
is prepared by Dr. M. A. Simmons of i0‘*T
sippi. continued to increase, and ws’
months aflor tha above named recevp.pc*-,
through the country than ever before. '
peered alarmed for fesr of deeep
get a supply of that which they had 1
most perfect satisfaction for .many ■
would never de-eive them in it« actio-i. r
• From the fact that the said receipt tel
his receipt public, there pan be no ooiui-j
upon those who promised to keep toe■
for he left us without a secret. Eos 1 1- -
tions now in public print, that ve no*’ r ..
to make the medicine, and that we
ine receipt. Therefore, Ihnte
Hunt A Co.. Druggists of Mecon, GWJgS
believing that they will use it to toe o rx
in exposing and suppressing tost grw '-gJ
position in their eity upon the mnoco.
are ignorant of the faots, ril ov«r t he
My right rends -s follows: Iiij
John G. Gniee how to makePr-Simm^, ,
icine, and have authoriiea “ljn tO f ^
name. Said Guice is sto 1
icine anywhere, aud in any oute or ^
may ehoo-o.
March 7tb, 1800. r bonci :
Ho mentioned in this that
secret, but it being n o secret, an
right, I leave it. out. r , n s n o! 1 1
I see that L. W. Hunt A Co-.
different sections of the T jitV
vertiBiments aro in newspapers,
country, and all they prefer*
moss' Liter Medicine they loupht/ese ^
named receipt peddler only
besides mvself who bought I) 1
ceipt peddler will probably report 1,^1 -
is prepared by Dr. M. A Simmon? 01 . 1 *,^
is the only reliable Liver
Franklin Counted,
yjsSS®
Dr. -V. A. Simmons, Juka, Miss.: ,j
Sir: Fpr information thriJ-““Lm
the humanlfamilv, in regard toyoury ,
ble Liver Medicine, I am; bow® ££
been acting as agent—selling ,,
cine for nearly nineteen yew. “w*
a necessity in my family: I do po.
do without it. It has given uniyen
PersooB are making almost d»iiT!,’ e5
have the genuine medicine. »u“ g
bless the human family with w.'j
‘‘any have told, me that .
iave bfeen dead had it not been
preparation. May it be banded do
er&tions. Yours, respectfully. j.
P. S.-In regard to the difference
medicine and the receipt tcld ,a /“ o0 * g*
try by C, A. Simmons, there is"
able i®*-
kttt
One old lady, whose judgment
doubted, says that she has hoiieev. )t s
nearanee in the neighbornooa.
both, and that it i* not the *
other sueh lady says th*t she f
par nitons made by other men,
some effect that the old medicine j
aug 8-dAwlt
an® 1
terms of the taw, rad those,,
are required to mike m
nugVwfiw*.
Southern Masonic
Grand Lodeo of
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