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iritis I Did tor Tliee—What Doest
Thon for Me?”
11Mesldctd under a P ri,u °f Chriit {n thc slu d’J
1 ‘ of a Gentian Divine.] J*
Iptre my life for thee,
jjy precious blood I shed,
Tbst tiiou might'st ransomed be,
And quickened from the dead.
X ptre my life for thee;
What bast thoa given for mo ?
I spent long years for thee
hi
i weariness and woe;
That ono eternity ,
Of joy thou might's t know.
I spent long years for thee;
Hast thou spent one for me ?
jlv Father’s house of light,
Jly rainbow-circled throne,
I left for earthly night,
For wanderings sad and lone.
I left all for thee;
Hast thou left aught for me ?
I suffered much for thee,
More than thy tongue can teU,
Of bitterest agony.
To rescue tliee from hell,
I suffered much for thee;
What dost thou bear for me?
And I brought down to thee,
Down from my home above,
Salvation fnU and free,
My pardon and my love;
Great gifts I brought for thee;
What hast thou brought for me ?
O let thy life be given,
Tliv years for mo bo spent.
World fetters all be riven.
And joy with suffering blent;
Give thou thyself to me,
And I will welcome thee!
Chivago ami Mil wnukle—Fishing in
the Lakes.
We copy from the Charleston Courier the an
seied passage from a letter to that paper by a
traveling Charlestonian:
The people of Chicago are engaged in making
unsgements to be the distributory of the teas
of China and Japan, and to make their city the
great depot for this whole land. Judging of the
istureby the past, they may be successful in their
eiott They claim a population of 350,000, and
their wealth is enormous. A party of abont
thirty merchants went out to San Francisco
about sir weeks ago and have returned. It is
•aid every one of them have made arrange
ments to have business direct with California,
and some of them with China. There are some
itaotiful streets in Chicago, equal to any in the
country; splendid houses; elegant grounds,
with avenues, hot houses, statuary, meet the
eye at every turn. There are also well arrang
ed parks, with animals, birds, etc., all after the
ftrle of New York, but on a small scale. But
there is one nuisance, which seems to be inert-
able—the Chicago river or Bayou is a lino of
filth, rottenness and stench. It has no current
-the water from butcher pens and distilleries
is poured into it—it is about the color of ink, it
is growing worse every day, and will kill the
people by and by unless some remedy is found.
The city has been raised some ten feet above
its original level, bnt olas! this Joes not help
the river. The bridges over it at each street
ue swung open for steamers and sail vessels,
tseh ten minutes, and daring these minates
people gather at the sides waiting to cross, and
breathing the horrible atmosphere which is
filled with poison from the river.
This city, from which I write, has some no-
tioeable peculiarities. It is built of a light straw
colored brick, which gives a pleasing soft ap
pearance to the buildings. The houses are
built of a variety of patterns—the beautiful
French Mansard roofs being all the rage. The
The Fence Question,
From the Neicnan Herald.
The propriety, advantage and necessity of
repealing all fence laws and enacting others, re
quiring owners of stock to confine them in en
closures, are now being discussed in some sec
tions of Georgia. In our opinion the advan
tages of the change would not outweigh the
evils.
In the first place the people are accustomed
to the present laws on the subject, and have
by common consent ameliorated many evils, ap
parently attached to them. Thus the law re
quires that “all fences or enclosures, commonly
called worm fences, shall be five feet high, with
or without being stacked and ridered, and from
the ground to the height of three feet, the rails
shall not be more than four inches apart, etc,—
Section 1401 of the Code says: If any trespass
or damage shall be committed in any enclosure,
not being protected as aforesaid, by the break
ing in of any animal, the owner of such animal
shall not be liable to answer for the trespass,
and if the owner of the enclosure shall kill or
injure such, in any manner, be is liable in three
times the damage.”
The reader who is conversant with the charac
ter of the enclosures of farmers will at once per
ceive that not one in ten has a lawful fence,
and, therefore, has no legal protection against
the depredations of stock. But as we before
said, interest and common consent, affords
farmers with ordinary enclosures full protection,
because it is customary among stock owners,
upon the first complaint from a fair-minded
neighbor against tho jumping or breaking
qualities of any particular cow, horse or hog, to
at once coniine or dispose of the mischievous
animal. Public opinion forces this and ex
perience demonstrates that it works well. So
we say that the absence of legal protection to
crops nnder the existing order of affairs, is no
great evil after all.
It is contended, however, that it costs the
farmers of a county more to keep their crops
enclosed than they are benefited by the advan
tages to their stock, by grazing unenclosed
lands. This may be true as to some, but we do
not believe it is as to all the counties of Geor
gia. It is impossible to test the correctness of
either of these positions by mathematics, and
hence opinions are all that can be weighed on
this subject. Without stopping to engage in
this performance, we will briefly state some of
the losses and evils connected with the proposed
xeform.
First The privilege of pasture upon both cul
tivated and uncultivated lands would be lost.
Second. Farms along public high-ways would
be damaged largely by roads made through by
wagoners and others, who, in muddy seasons,
would leave the beaten track.
Third. The crops upon these same farms
would be injured and often destroyed by stock
belonging to movers and drovers.
Fourth. Escaped animals would play general
havoc with growing wheat, com, oats and pota
toes.
Fifth. The expense of feeding
cows kept in small enclosures wotui
whereas now it is nothing.
Sixth. The law cannot be made general, and
unless general, the crops in comities in which
the change is adopted will be destroyed by the
stock of counties in which the present law is of
force.
We deem the enumeration of other evils and
losses unnecessary, but think it proper to add
that the proposed law has not met the sanction
of the citizens of a single State in the Union.
In all of the Northern States, where timber is
scarce, crops of all kinds are cultivated under
enclosures of some kind, either fences, ditches
or hedges.
Hence we believe the proposed change un
wise, and not demanded by interest or the wish
es of those most concerned. The people have
in not -one public meeting in this State, asked
the passage of this measure, and therefore the
Senator or Representative who urges, or forces
legislative action, on this subject, though it be
simply a rejection, will be running the State to
an unnecessary expense. While Legislators re
ceive nine dollars per day, only measures of
public necessity should receive attention, and
this is sot one of them.
Tkie Administration and Mississippi.
The telegrams, a few days ago, stated that, in
consequence of some delay arising out of a ver
bal mistake by the administration in the ap
pointment of a successor to district attorney
Adams, in Mississippi, that gentleman was ena
ble to anticipate bis dismissal by a letter of re
signation. The Western papers contain the fol
lowing paragraph from this letter, which is a
severe lecture to the administration upon its
coarse in relation to Mississippi:
G. Gordon Adams, UnitedStatesAttomey for
the Southern District of Mississippi, and a prom
inent supporter of Judge Dent in that State, to
day forwarded his letter of resignation to the
President, in which he says :
“Though the office is not one of much im
portance, I can not retain it without being
: identified to some extent with an administration
whose acts, so far as they relate to my own
State, I can not approve. Maj. Wofford, an.
officer of the late rebel army, who, in defiance
of the contumely and reproach heaped upon
him by the Southern people, supported bravely,
and almost alone, in his district, the reconstruc
tion policy of Congress, has been removed from
office. From the late approved published state
ment of your views, I am justified in the belief
that this is done in accordance with the estab
lished policy of your administration. From the
same sources I learn your confidence in, and sup-
portof Gen. Ames, anofficerwhohasdegradedhis
position as Military Commander of the 4th Mili
tary District, by exercising its functions solelyin
furtherance of his own personal and partisan
ends, unhesitatingly avowing that he desired
to use the high office of Senator from my State
as a stepping stone to the appointment of Brig
adier General in the regular army, and whose
whole course in that State has been marked by
a tyrannical exercise of power, utterly antago
nistic to the spirit of the reconstruction laws.
As a resident of Mississippi, and one of the
founders of the Republican party in that State,
though never a political aspirant, I would be
false to my State and to the republican princi
ples which I have always maintained, if I longer
retained the office to which your kind preference
has assigned me.”
in summer,
3d be immense,
Times on Chinese Immigration.
The New York Times calls the anti-Chinese
immigration disease which has broken out the
secondary symptoms of knownotbingism, and
says:
San Francisco is the port on which, in the
• , 1, . o , , K Dwsnun 1SCU 13 uw wvu mo
®f "Mte pine pl ank laid across natn ral order of things, the waves of this Chi-
* treets are P a T ad TOth ! nese inundation must break. The largest reli-
woovrtich lasts .boot five years; others are ; aUe estimate p i aces the present Chinese popu-
ESSr St0Deis scarce, and not very good latjon in California at 00,000. The official
3 poiposes, hence the cornices and , records fiW a* during the six months ending
window sills of houses are of pme covered with , December 30,1808, there arrived in San Fran-
s.ma to resemble brown stone. The city is i -00.
Daring the
In,?!!? 011 / Waff, directly upon Lake Michigan j 8ame period 1221 persons of the same race em-
a ane trade * Wth good railroad facil- , barked f or China, leaving a net apparent gain
~"*° ’V“ | barked for China, leaving a net apparent gain
?, \ of coarse the markets are well supplied. 1 0 j gjgg during the six months, which would be
1 nod now those things you had two months I at ^ rate Q f 1000 per mont h, or 12,000 per
Potatoes, beans, bemes, just in, j From this sum, of course, should be de-
Um ST’ 6t m RS? °t ‘ he delicacies of : g ncteda i arge percentage of deaths, while no
ar ®. the white fish caught in the j allowano6 D eed be made for the natural increase
11,18 delicious fish will not takethe1 hook 1 of ^ race b births, as it is stated upon com-
«d are caught in traps as a matter of business. | petent authority that there are almost no Chi
«P the lake al * ,? nleS -V>, ^se chiidren bom in Caiifornia.
Sr”®- The fishermen were out half a mile It is twenty year8 since the mineral wealth of
mending their nets." On hading them, toey California was discovered and the American col-
\Zr m-two only—and taking ns into their 1 onizatioll of th e Pacific coast commenced, and
we went out to see the way fish are caught; tthe Chinese Immigration has only reached
lake Michigan. A line of nets of about half • jjj e insignificant sum of twelve thonsand a year
‘ mile are strung along on posts driven into the not an amount that justifies any
Ufe and extending into water about thirty-five . alarm ev r en assumi: I '
. — o --—•—-—_-ty-nve - a i arm . even assuming that the emigrants were
t Xl6r0 ft trap IS flX6u Of nets llltont o enKofontifll npnnidHfin to thA r.onntnr.
/ . 'r- r —■ — UOt a suuhumuui ncuuiMuou uw wuuu (
* square, and a tunnel of nets so ar- . we are by no means disposed to admit.
C’iirl 4V> n 4 45..V, 11ia lino Af vtnfa t — *
ringed that the fish on striking the line of nets i
In relation to Chinese labor in the South the
more labor coming in
facing at one side they cautiously “overhauled” j never "f® 8 ’ a nn .v, ’
to bottom of the net, bringing it to our side of i Panted suggest to£U*‘ Southern
lie trap and the fish to the surface, when the f «ends that perhaps tihey axe mistaken in sup-
catch^ of twenty-four honrs was visible. There : P°»ngthat they me to be the first wUms as
*«e thousands of fish of all sizes and various £®7 ar ® d,s P°- sed to themselves, of tho
Jnis, sturgeon, white fish, trout, sheepheads j a JSSSr of SKheyX
herring &c. A-c., from six nches m and we ^ 6e6 n0 reason why the
JS fee ‘- Weboughtawhite fish of who come3 so m nc h further
P°ands weight for fifty cen s, tb an thoEnropean emigrant for work, should not
ed to land- , b ke him seek the market where labor brings the
■n,. T: I ’ll .. ■ . . ; highest price. Why should he go South, where
The New York Tribune and the . tbe laborer is worth scarcely SI50 a year, when
State Fair. I Jq almost any part of the North his labor would
The editor of the New York Tribune, who command three times that sum? The gentle
distingniahed Sorted ta«£
"estern men has been specially invited to at- matter, are reckoning without their host. The
knd the State Fair in Georgia, responds thus ' Chinese will not work long, either with or with-
kiadly to the invitation in his paper of the 13th , out a contract, on wages much below the ruling
W.-1. 1 prices, and when they hear that a few leagues
T . . . , . . ,1' ; . ! North they can make in one year what it will
U is very cheerful to read that a State Agn- tbem or fonr to make in the South,
1 filial n..*_ - _ 1 * in ‘ . . . .. • a J
Wltural Fair. on a large scale, is to be held in - contract into which they may have entered
@ rent ] will be strong enough to bind them very long.
_ —A. UAA, \JL± (t AflAgU DVOIO, AO AV mw —w.
Jacon, Ga., in November next. Various 1
mtQ are to be invited, including the President
f 0 ® “the principal generals of the late con-j.
fading armies.” O*
Ethiopeix Dolce tab Niexte.—The Charles-
Of oourse, this leads, m tlio 1 ^ Newg ba8 a j etter f rom a Beaufort corres-
'ircular of invitation, to much poetic talk about ] pondent -who gives this “good and lazy” acoount
and swords, pruning-hooks and plow-
But the solid fact is better than the
■ :Ltinaent. Georgia needs nothing but rational
agriculture, and a practical recognition, of the
■act that the laborer is worthy of hishire, to be-
c vme one of tho greatest agricultural States in
Jr° republic. God speed the State Agricultural
upon the ssnsible way which it proposes
*0 follow.
Runt in Talbot County*
of the negroes upon the coast:
'' The universal complaint is that the negroes
won’t work; that good wages wiU not tempt
them to do it, and there is more injury to be
feared to the crops from lack of hands to attend
to them than from any other cause. The negroes
employ two days of the week in fishing, and
oatch enough shrimps and fish to get provisions
to last them the remaining days of the week,
during which they sleep. One day last week 1
1 -o woman heavy with child, walked five
Moina Cotton. *
Editors Tdepraph : In your issue of the 18th
inst., yon allude to misapprehension in regard
to the character and price of Moina cotton.
As my name was used in connection with the
above cotton, in the article refered to, and hav
ing been instrumental in introducing this vari
ety of staple among my friends, allow me as
brief a statement of facta as possible. My mo
tive finds birth in the fqar that I may be held
responsible for fictitions valuation. I have
never assigned it a valuation / of over 10 cents
per pound more than ordinary varieties of cot
ton ; nor have I authorized o-her parties to do
Here are the facta :n i-sird to the charac
ter of the Moina staple! y'
In the Augusta market, where it has estab
lished classification, Hon. J. H. Echols, through
his factors, Beall, Spears & Co., was offered 10
cent3 per pound over other grades of cotton, in
November, 1807. More favorable advices were
received by him from his friends in New York,
advising shipping to Liverpool, where the cot
ton was then worth from 18 to 203.
this
Weather—Prospects of Cotton,—Splendid j m i? e s from Beanfortto a planter and asked him
Crop—Fodder, etc. 1 to give her work. As it was late in the day he
Talbotton, August 15, 1SC9. refused, bnt on her stating that she wanted to
The rust has appeared in many localities in I ®®™ ten cents to buy litacuita with he <consent
ispn.^1.. a - ,, y ' eA, and the women worked just long enongli to
is county, doing considerable damage. I no- . e ^ ratencentei q „it,walked back to town, bought 1 PJ .. . JP g
8 this more particularly where guanoes and ■ tbe biscuits and was happy. This is only an illos- J made to approximate more ear y to t ,. *
°' htr manures have been used. The good ! tration of the general conduct of the negroes in , tion which . worid places upon the h ghe
1 sought for. None but honest la bor has any dic-
- - ■ * - * -vh
The Odious Monopoly of Labor.
A late number of the New York Journal of
Commerce has some strictures on & great evil
that has grown up in the land of late years—as
sociations to monopolize the labor market and
keep down the supply, thereby inflicting a dead
ly blow on individual rights as well as the gen
eral prosperity. They are worthy to be read
everywhere, and correspond so nearly with our
own views on the subject, that we copy them
below with our cordial endorsement
“In various ways a set of men who are con
tinually whining about the grasping nature of
capital*, the selfishness of the rich, the grinding
power of monopolies, and other similar grievan
ces, real or imaginary, permit to appear that
they aro themselves bent on establishing a mo
nopoly of the most oppressive character in one
of the commonest articles of supply and demand.
The opposition to Chinese immigration, where
it is not merely speculative or altogether politi
cal, springs from the fear that it may ope
rate adversely to the formation of the in
tended grand “comer” in the labor market.
The telegraph is continually burdened, and
the local colnmns of our exchanges constantly
replete with the movements of men who it
is doubtless tme, have some legitimate and
worthy objects to advance, bnt whose main
purpose is to create and maintain an artificial
scarcity of labor, especially of skilled labor; to
preserve for themselves a monopoly of it, and
consequently to extort from employers a higher
price for it than it is worth, or would be worth
:f left to seek its own leveL It is a remarkable
feature of this conspiracy—for it deserves no
softer name—that it is not merely the common
feud of the poor against the rich, or the em
ploye against the employer, bnt it is likewise the
man who is compelled to labor for a living
against the men who also must labor, steal or
starve. One of these having got a ronnd fur
ther up on the ladder than the other, by ac
quiring a trade or occupation, straightway
sets his wits to work to pull the ladder up to
him, so that nobody can follow, unless there
is more to do than he chooses to monopolize for
himself. This is what the trade unions are every
where doing. They dictate to employers how
many apprentices they may take to learn their
respective trades; and of course the number
is determined not by the number of youths wil
ling and competent to learn, but by the resolu
tion of the conspirators to maintain an arti
ficial scarcity in the branches of labor they con
trol. The Unions may plea'd that they thus mo
nopolize such branches only, and that persons
excluded therefrom may seek other kinds of
employment; but the apology does not alter
the character of their proceeding; and, besides,
if the principal is an honest one, its applica
tion is nniversal, in which case it amonnta to a
declaration that only a certain limited portion
of mankind shall have have the right to earn its
own living at all. If the other portion happens
to be born rich, very well; if poor, we see no
alternative for the 'unlucky ones but to beg,
steal, or, as soon as possible, to get altogether
out of a world where they are not wanted, and
where they are forbidden even the opportunity
to fulfill the divine command, to eat their bread
in the sweat of their brows. It is. perhaps, not
generally known that the monopoly of labor of
some kinds is so strict, and the tyranny of the
unions so rigid, that an employer is forbidden to
do any part of his own work with his own hands,
under a penalty of a ‘strike.’
“The means employed by these labor monop
olists correspond in character with the object
they seek to attain. Not merely verbal abuse,
proscription and threats, bnt personal violence,
awaits the poor man who, wanting bread, is
willing to get it by working for whatever his
labor will fetch in the market, if that amount
happens to be less than the “union” insists up
on. The laboring man is no longer his own
master; he is a serf of the “union.” A few days
ago a poor man went to work as a steve-dore in
this city below “union” rates. He was set upon,
beaten, and considerably injured, by men’who
call themselves champions of the “nghts of la
bor.” The same sort of men put up threaten
ing notices, adorned with coffins and deaths
heads, at the entrance of the Pennsylvania coal
mines during the recent troubles, warning all
who might be disposed to sell their own labor
at their own prices, that they were not at liber
ty to do so, except under pain of assassination.
Instances of rach ruffianism in support of the
conspiracy to establish a labor monopoly are too
familiar, however, to need multiplication here.
The so-called laboring class has every claim
to sympathy and respect when it employs itself
in legitimate efforts to better its condition by
increasing its rewards and lightening its bur
dens. Neither is it destitute of this sympathy.
But when domestic servants undertake to alter
their relations to their employers by making
themselves as unserviceable and unbearable as
possible, when mechanics employed on a job
seem to make it their chief study to do as little
as they can, and when they combine and con
spire, not merely to extort greater pay than
their services are worth, bnt to prevent willing
bands from doing what they refuse to do, then
these persons assume an nttitnde which is hostile
alike to the rest of society and to the principles
of common right.
Insnch a struggle they can have no moral
strength, and must inevitably fail at last, even
if for a time they are apparently successful
Nothing is more futile than the attempt to give
the base metals the value of gold by merely
stamping the denomination upon them. An ap
proximation to it may be made by .increasing
their usefulness, and in the same, manner only
can the product of the. laborer’s muscles be
' more nearly to the valua-
The above party, from whom I purchased the
Moina seed, had a superior gin. In January,
when ordinary kinds of middling cotton were
worth from twenty-five to twenty-seven cents
ier pound in Macon, the Moina would have
nought thirty-five cents. In March following,
J. L. Warren, Esq., of Lathrop, Warren & Co.,
of Savannah, wrote me Moina would sell for
forty cents per pound in Savannah In regard
to two bales, shipped by Messrs. Collins & Son
to Liverpool, it is but fair to state—the facts of
which I gave them at that time—that the cot
ton, while in seed, had been balked while too
damp, and exposed in an out-house (to prevent
mixing with other varieties) to tramping of dogs
and lolling of freedmen for six weeks, before
the writer was informed of the fact. Besides
this, the two bales, weighing in the aggregate
only 530 pounds, were ginned on an old-fash
ioned gin, which napped and broke the staple
badly.
The above are facts which I can substantiate.
Every party iowhoml furnished Moina seed
speak well of it, as a vigorous, fruitful and
large boiled cotton—very nearly as prolific as
Dickson's, and from one-half to three-fourths
of an inch longer in fibre.
Having ordered a needle gin and condenser,
upon which to gin the present crop the planting
fraternity will have a fair test of the merits of
Moina cotton.
We have no disposition to eureintse this sta
ple beyond its true merits, but simply feel con
fident'that intelligent farmers will hold fast to
that which Kill pay. Very respectfully,
Eden Tavlob.
Colaparchee, Ga., August 16th, 1869.
From Macon Connty.
Montezuma, Ga., August 17, 1869.
Editors Telegraph : In your issue of August
14th, appears a piece from a correspondent from
this (Macon County) in reference to crops, etc.,
and especially a slanderous attack upon myself.
In said piece appears the following language:
“They (the freedmen,) had a barbecue last Sat
urday at Traveller’s Rest, near Montezuma,
which would have passed off with credit to the
negroes, had they not allowed a low-bred bigot
of a white man to address them after the dinner
was over. Allow me to advise Mr. N. A. throngli
the colnmns of your admirable paper, to go back
to lower Dooly, if he wisl"% to-be a big man
with bis colored brethren, (signed) Nemo.”
As I dislike to do my neighbors injustice by
guessing and thinking it my just dues to know
the author of the above piece, I write to you for
his name. I am a Baptist Minister, and have
tried for eleven years to live in the humble dis
charge of my duties to God, my family and
neighbors, and have never sought to create dis
turbances in the community in which I have
had the honor to live, nor to lead the ignorant
astray—but have ever endeavored to lead and
direct others in the paths which I honestly be
lieved would be for their good in this life—and
eternal happiness in the life to come.
The speech or rather lecture, to the colored
people, which seems to have givep so much of
fense to Nemo, was altogether on morality and
fidelity, and was heard by some forty or fifty of
my neighbors and friends, among them, Judge
C. Carmichael, Thos. Derham, Dr. Dykes,
George Hunter, Cogdell Hamilton, and John E.
Homady. I think the above named gentlemen
will bear me out in the assertion that my pur
pose was to open the eyes of the freedmen to
their own interest, by becoming honest and faith
ful to their employers, and the faithful discharge
of all their obligations, and by this means alone
could they make friends and get credit. I hope
yon will do me the kindness to publish this in
your valuable paper, together with the following
certificate from my neighbors.
With great respect, N. A. Hobxadt.
Montezuma, Ga., Aug. 17, 1860.
We, the undersigned, citizens of Macon conn
ty, having had onr attention called to an un
warrantable nttack upon the character of the
Rev. N. A. Homady, of this connty, in the
issue of the 14th inst. in the Macon Daily Tele-
r.TMPTi by a correspondent from this county,
who signs himself “Nemo,” hereby certify that
we have known the Rev. N. A. Homady for
several years, and have ever found him a good
neighbor, an honest man, a pious Christian, and
a gentleman who attends to his own affairs, and
is an industrious, hard working man in his pro
fession (Dentistry,) and is endeavoring to raise
up his interesting family in the principles of
the gospel, and frequently preaches to his neigh
bors and friends. He certainly deserves great
credit for his success in life as he is a self-made
man.
A. D. Smith, M. D.,
W. P. Harper,
G. V. Hunter,
Railroad Meeting in Webster.
Pkestox, Ga., August 12,1869.
In accordance with a previous appointment
a number of the citizens of the county met this
day at the Court-house to take into considera
tion the building of a Railroad from Americus
to Lumpkin.
On motion of Mr. N. A. Winsor, Mr. J. H.
Cawood was called to the chair, and T. L. Clarke
requested to act as Secretary; and on motion,
the Chairman in a few pointed remarks ex
plained the object of the meeting.
At the close of the remarks by the Chair, on
motion a Committee of seven was appointed by
the Chair to retire and draft suitable resolu
tions.
On motion this committee was appointed:
Hon. G. S. Rosser, Judge J. J. Chappell, Oapfc
A. J. Beaty, A. J. Smith, T. H. Pickett, Esq.;
L. L. Hammond and J. D. Stapleton. Fending
the absence of the Committee, some short
and well-suited speeches were made by the
Chairman, N. A. Winsor and others.
The Committee on Resolutions reported the
following, which were unanimously adopted:
Resolved 1st. That the citizens of Webster
county, feeling the great necessity of railroad
communication,will heartily co-operate with the
Central or Southwestern Railroad Company in
the construction of a railroad from Americus to
Lumpkin, via Preston.
Resolved, 2d. That a Road running through
the places above designated, being as near as
practicable an air line, and passing through a
territory where the expenses of grading would
be less than in the construction of a majority of
Roads in the State,—would be the most profi
table as to the investment, and most certainly
secure the objects contemplated: the conve
nience and necessities of the agricultural, mer
cantile and other interests.
Resolved, 3d. That we are determined to have
Railroad communication, and if the Central or
Sonth Western Railroad Company will not co
operate with us, we will apply elsewhere for
assistance.
Resolved, 4th. That for furtherance of the
objects contemplated in the last resolution, a
Committee of five be appointed to correspond
with President Waclley, of the Central Railroad,
also with President Holt of the S. W. Railroad,
to ascertain which of said companies will most
certainly, most expeditiously, and most ably as
sist in the construction of said Road—in fine,
to ascertain what they will do, and what they
will expect the people to do in the premises;
and that said Committee explain fully the re
sources and abilities of the people to support
and maintain a railroad.
Resolved, 5th. That the Sumter Republi
can, Americus Courier, Macon Teleobaph and
the Savannah Republican, be requested to pub
lish these resolutions and the proceedings of
this meeting.
The following named gentlemen were ap
pointed to correspond with the Presidents of the
Central and Southwestern Railroad Companies,
in accordance with the 4th resolution: Hon. G.
S. Rosser, Judge J. J. Chappell, Capt. J. P.
Beaty, T. L. Clarke and J. D. Stapleton.
On motion the meeting adjourned, to meet
again the 1st Saturday in October next.
J. H. Cawood, Chairman.
T. L. Clabke, Secretary.
Making Silk Without Worms.
The Arbeiter Union, a German workingmen’s
organ in New York city, says:
“Abont one year ago, German newspapers re
ported that an Austrian had made the inven
tion to prepare raw silk without the interven
tion of silk w^rrns, from parts of the mulberry
tree directly, on which the silkworms, as is well
known, live. Many readers of this item may
have shaken their heads at this news.
“On Sunday last, we saw, with our own eyes,
raw silk just prepared by the inventor himself,
in this manner. Having made this invention
years ago, while in Vienna, when he, after his
immigration here, saw from the papers that
some one else claimed this same invention as
Supreme Court of Georgia.
From the Atlanta Constitution.]
John E. Jones et al., plaintiffs in error, vs.
the Macon and Brunswick Railroad Company,
ts granting the aid of the He has been punctual Hs eame last year in
Railroad Company, when this neighborhood on the 13th of August. This
defendants in error. Injunction, from Bibb.
Brown, C. J.—1. An injunction, which is a
harsh remedy, should not be granted until a
clear prima facie case is made by the bill Hie
allegations mustbe direct and positive. A charge
that they are true, “on information received
from others,” is insufficient
2. It is not necessary to the adjudication of
this case, for this Court to decide whether the
fifth section of the acts grantinj
State to the Air-Idne Railroad <
applied to any other company, is constitutional
or not.
3. Said section, if constitutional, does not
confer upon any citizen or tax-payer of this
State any right to institute any suit or to file
any bill in any Court of this State, to inquire
into the conduct of the Legislature in the pass
age of any act or resolution on the subject of
State aid, or into the conduct of the Executive
in issuing the bonds of the State, as both are
responsible to the people alone and not to the
Courts; or to inquire whether the company has
complied with the terms of the act granting
State aid, or whether the necessary subscrip
tions have been made, or to intermeddle in any
way in the affairs of the company, further than
is necessary to the investigation of the 1 single
question, whether the company has sold the
bonds indorsed by the State for less than ninety
cents in the dollar; and in case of a bill filed by
a citizen or tax-payer, the Court should confine
the investigation to that issue alone. 1 '
4. It was the duty of the Chancellor, nnder
she resolution passed by the Legislature on the
28th of January, 1869, to dissolve tho injunction
in this case.
Judgment affirmed.
William Dougherty, Lyon, DeGraffenreid and
Irwin, for plaintiff in error.
Whittle & Gustin and W. Hope Hull for de
fendant in error.
sum of three thousand, sii hundred and'twenty-
one dollars and sixty-one oenta, leaving the ver-
diot to stand for five thousand dollajs, I eon-
cur in the judgment of the Court to that effect.
Judgment reversed upon terms. ' v*“
S. Hall, B. Hill, Gea W. Fish, for p&itttiff
in error. : XjesiltMSi i/fto
W. H. Robinson, Phil Cook, Jaa. Jackson, L.
E. Bleckley, defendant in error.
The Worms in Barbonr County.
Euyaula, Ala., August 16, 1869.
year a few skirmishers appeared earlier, but
his line of battle reveals itself on the 14th of
August. A neighbor' qf mine hadlast year four
hundred acres, with a perfect stand, and a good
prospect fox one hundred and
caterpillar appeared in a little bottom on the
13th of August. In a few days they had cov
ered every thing, and eaten np one hundred 1 'and
four bales, at a reasonable calculation. He
made forty-six. This year, on the 14th inst.,
in the identical bottom, they are discovered, ac
companied by the boll worm in force. These
latter are more numerous than'I have ever seen
them. On one small stalk I found nine bolls
and forms perforated, and caught the malefactor
in a blossom. Two miles from here the cater
pillars have 8 wept over a large field.
The rost, which commenced two weeks ’ago,
and is wide spread, had done extensive damage,
but tiie boll worms and caterpillars will, in my
opinion, excel their exploits of last year, signal
as they were. A Fabmeb.
Joel Kitchens, et. al., plaintiffs in error, vs
Elizabeth Kitchens, defendant in error.
Brown, C. J.—In a proceeding to establish a
will, whioh is alleged to have been destroyed
since the death of the testator, it is necessary
to prove the execution of the will, by three sub
scribing witnesses, if in life, and within the ju
risdiction of the Court, as in case of probate, in
solemn form.
2. The contents of the will must be proved,
and the presumption of revocation, by the tes
tator, which is raised by law, rebutted by such
evidence as clearly satisfies the conscience of
the jury, but this may be done by the subscrib
ing witnesses or any other competent testimony,
andin case the testimony isin conflict the jmy,as
in all other cases, are the judgesof the credibility
of the witnesses.
3. A new trial will not he granted in a case
of this character, where there is evidence to
sustain the verdict nnder the rule3 above laid
down.
Judgment affirmed.
W. AY. Clark, F. Jordan and A. Reese, for
plaintiffs in error.
W. A. Lofton, Geo. T. Bartlett, for defend
ant in error.
his own, he applied in Washington for a patent
for the United States, which was granted to him
in July last
“It is the bark of the mulberry trees of one
year’s growth, of the ‘Murus Alba,’ which solely
produces the right kind of fiber; be had, there
fore, to wait until the spring of this year for
getting a sufficient supply of twigs, to prepare
therefrom a quantity of raw silk.
“The latter is, as we could convince ourselves,
to be distinguished from worm silk only in this,
that it is not produced in one coherent thread,
but in fibers of the length of a hand or some
what longer. It is white, soft, glossy, smooth,
easily spun, and of a considerable toughness. It
can be produced at trifling cost; seven pounds
of bark giving one pound of fiber, the process
of preparation requiring no particular skill, and
the chemical part of the same, for the purpose
of separating the fibers from bast and gum, be
ing simple and little expensive. A plantation
of young mulberry trees will produce a very
high net income from one acre, even if the raw
silk should be sold many times cheaper than
worm silk.
“The inventor of this important productions
a German, and workingman, Mr. Wm. Holdman,
actually President of the Association of German
Workingmen of New York, which own this
paper.”
W. P. Drumright,
John G. Smith,
M. L. Shealy,
S. S. Turner,
Reuben Patrick.
A. J. Cheves,
W. S. Trnluck,
J. P. Dawson,
T. T. Lytle,
W. M. Dykes,
W. W. McLendon,
J. F. Oliver,
An Elephant anti a Bridge.
The well known sagacity of the elephant re
cently had a remarkable exemplification, at St.
John, in the Province of Quebec. The im
mense Ceylon elephant belonging to Campbell’s
Menagerie and Circus, which was to exhibit in
Montreal, was the hero. We will premise our
statement with the fact that, a few weeks since,
while traveling from Waterbary to Northfield,
in the State of Vermont, this elephant, in cross
ing a bridge over a creek, crashed the floor with
his enormous weight, and fell partly through,
his fore-quarters only remaining on the bridge.
| By this accident he was lamed for several days,
| bnt not sufficiently to prevent him from travel-
I ing. When he was brought to the Long Bridge
I over the Richelieu river, at St Johns he evi-
• dently retained a vivid recollection of this mis-
of the cause under the 3798 section of the
Senor da' • hap, and neither coaxing, threats, persuasion, Code.
What is Said or the Chinese. _.
Mas, late Spanish Minister at Pekin, writes of i nOrforce,, could induce mm to budge aninch on
the Chinese in Cuba and in the Philippine Is
lands, where he has long resided, and says that
in Cuba some hundreds of the Chinese have got
a few thousand dollars capital; five or six abont
8300,000, and one is worth $400,000, though it
is only a few years since the Chinese coloniza
tion began. In the Phillippire Islands, where
the, to him, perilous structure. Nor does it
appear that his apprehensions were unfounded
—for the proprietors of the bridge notified the
menagerie managers that they were dnbions of
the capacity of the bridge to bear the weight of
the elephant, and that if they orossed him they
must do so at their own risk. The morning was
— younger cotton is doing better;
^'0h the ground is vety dry. As the fodder j ” Q effort fa required.
PI id from the corn, we find tho | Northern Democratic acthobities say that j nity whatever, and that dignity increases only
ctonam A „ VoitTHERX Democratic ACTHOBITIES say that ; mty whatever, anu tnat aignuy increases umy ..—-5 . cP a
Ae» P -i S . d ® S COU d be ’ Have had erceUent Pft ' oktr xvill’ carry Pennsylvania, and Pendleton as it rises above and becomes more intelligent ing boys and girls as Flovd <»unty affords,
for saving fodder. “Ocoisidxal.” Ohio Sat ta good>4 if Wt. than that of the.borse and ox.” ■ .. .happy and in the right spirit.
it is older, the Chinese and their race are mixed; ! rather chilly, and as they did not wish to risk
they are proprietors of most of the lands in the ; his health by swimming him, they concluded
country, and the natives, less intelligent, sink- 1 to make the venture at their risk. The band
in" into the working population. The Chinese” chariot andanenormous denof performing lions
usually marry when and where they can find were started on ahead of him, in order to give
wives. In the East Indies they have intermar- ; him confidence, and when he saw that they
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ried with the Malays and the Tagals, and in the : went safely over, he was induced to follow,
Sandwich Islands they wed with the Kanakas, I which he did very slowly, testing each plank
though the latter are professed Christians. In and timber with his fore feet and trunk as he
Pertfthey are settling in considerable numbers, progressed. Whenever he discovered any of
and well were it for every State of South Ameri- the timbers to be defective, he would cross over
ca if tho Chinese would come with their indus- the division to the opposite road-way, and
try and love of order. If they find their way would so progress until he came to another
into the Southern States, either the negroes will doubtful place, when he would cross back again,
have to quit work or become more capable and He worked along in this way until he had come
industrious. > “ore than half-way over, when he became sus-
■ picious that neither road was safe, and started
Paris on Sunday.—Sunday was tho hundredth rapidly back, driving back the long den of cages
anniversary of the birthdav of Napoleon and the that were following, and clearing the bridge for
dispatches'say: ' a “>P ace of ten or more rods. At this juncture a
Paris is very gay to-night. The boulevards flock of sheep came running past him, and he
and streets are crowded, and the theatres are vented his spleen by picking them up one by one
thrown open,free to the people. Immense crowds and throwing them into the river, until ho had
are gathered to witness the illuminations and disposed of seven in this way. He was finally
magnificent display of fire works provided bv induced to go on, and, after having been more
the government. , • ' ’ than two hours. in crossing, arrived safely oyer.'
b —■ The scene was witnessed by over two thousand
MniTiTm by Moonlight.—The Rome Com- people, and the utmost excitement prevailed,
mercial says: ■ ; Mmtregl Star.
Married—By the Honorable A B. "Wright, on
B. F. Wilder, et. al, vs. J. H. Blount, Ad
ministrator. Bill for direction from Blount.
McCay, J.—A testator provided that one-
seventh of his property should, at his death, be
set off to his married daughter, and the remain
der be kept together by his wife, who was the
executrix, for the support and education of his
five minor children, mentioned by name, until
they should respectively become of age, or the
girls many, in irMA wal, 41m children marry
ing, or coming of age, should take out one-sixth,
one fifth, one-quarter, and soon, to the last;
and “should either of said minors die, before
coming of age, etc., his or her share to cease to
exist, and become the joint and common pro
perty of those living”: Held, That by the words,
“those living,” in the quoted clause, he meant
those living of the five minors.
Held, further, That if one of the “five” should
die before twenty-one, or, if a girl before mar
riage, the share of the one so dying belongs to
all of tho “five minors” then living andnot sole
ly to those of the five who remain minors, at the
death of the one dying.
Judgment reversed.
J. Wingfield, by Thos. Alexander, for plaint
iffs in error.
Harris & Hunter for defendant in error.
Ex'rsof E. H. Adams vs, Adm’rof Eliab
Jones. Equity, from Macon.
Warner, J.—A bill was filed by the adminis
trator of Jones, against Adams, alleging that,
in July, 1849, Jones had committed an offense
against the law3 of this State, which would have
subjected him to punishment in the penitentia
ry, and, being anxious to leave the State, went
to the house of Adams; and, while there, Ad
ams, taking advantage of his situation, fraudu
lently obtained from Jones an absolute title to
all of Jones’ property, including land and per-
sonal property, promising Jones that he would
pay his debts, and, after retaining the ’amount
of one thousand and fifty dollars advanced to
Jones, to enable him to get out of the State,
that he would pay over the balance to Jones,
or his family. The bill prayed for an account
and degree against Adams. The answer of the
defendant denied the fraud charged, and claimed
an absolute title to the property conveyed by
Jones to Adams; discharged by any trust, ex
press or implied. It further appeared, from
the record, that Jones had not been heard of
after leaving the State for more than seven
years, and that administration had been granted
on his estate by the Ordinary of Dooly county,
where he last resided, and where tho land and
other property was located, at the the time of
making the title deeds therefor to Adams.
1. Held, That the obligations in complain
ant’s bill made a joase of fraud, on ihe trial of
which, parol evidenoe was admissable to prove
the fraud, and thereby raise an implied trust in
favor of Jones and his family.
2. Held, Also, that the alleged widow of the
intestate (Mrs. Jones) and his son, were com
petent witnesses for the complainant on the trial
3. Held, Farther, that in the discretion of
the chancellor, compound interest 'may be
charged on a final settlement with an implied
trustee, who fraudulently obtains possession of
the property, as well as against a trustee ap
pointed, who rightfully obtains possession of
the property, as provided by the 2562d section
of the Code*; the power comes within the reason
of the rule prescribed for the latter.
4. Held, Also, that seven years’ absence of
Jones, without being heard of, was presump
tive evidence of his death, and authorized the
Ordinary to grant letters of administration on
hig estate; and although that presumption
might have been rebntted by evidence on the
trial, still, the letters of adiministration were
conclusive on the trial of this case as to that
part, in the absence of any ecidence rebutting
that presumption.
5. Held, Further, that in view of the facts
contained in this record, the defendant is not
protected by the Statute of Limitations ncr by
the equitable bar of lapse of time.
6. The Court charged the jury, that “when
the answer is contradictory in itself, or contra
dicted by other evidence, the jury are not bound
to give credit to any portion of it’’ Held:
That this charge of the Court was too broad in
the latter: portion of it; that it should have
been left to the jury to determine what credit
they would would give to the answer, or to any
part thereof, without any intimation from the
Court; they were the exclusive judges as to the
credit to be given to the answer of the defen
dant, in view of the facts oontained and stated
therein.
In my judgment, however, a new trial ought
Editors Telegraph: The enemy has arrived.
ffavigatlen of the Red Seat.
In connection with the ronte by the Suez ca
nal and Red Sea, a marine correspondent of the
New York Tribune, writes to that paper as fol.
lows:
All but the north and south extremities of the
Red Sea are subject to the most distressing, and
almost perpetual, calms. This renders the Red
Sea eternally unfit for. ship navigation—only
steamers are fit for it; therefore it must always
be excessively expensive. An instance occurred
of a ship (chartered by or otherwise) -carrying
coals for the “P, and Oriental Company,”
spending eleven months in the Red Sea in the
vain attempt to pass those regions of. deadly,
calm; and, at last, her captain abandoned the
attempt, and discharged the coals at Aden, thus
losing the expected profit. 2d. The effects of
the vast desert regions, on both sides (especial
ly West,) render the heat of that region cumul
ative, until the end of September, when it seems
almost insupportable. I have myself seen a
woman die a horrible death from its effects—
her face becoming black before she .expired—as
though she were suffocating, although she lay
on toe open saloon-deck with the air from a
large windsail blowing upon her. Daring Au
gust and September, in most years, toe air
seems so rarefied as to be insufficient to support
life in its usual functions—one gasps for air.—
About toe time of the above mentioned death
another case occurred—of a strong 'Irish wet
nurse—also dying from heat. Both of these
deaths occurred in my ship.
To Catch the Pennies.
Here is a lively device for that purpose:
The forthcoming number of toe Atlantic
monthly will contain an article written to un
ravel a mystery which has for many yean baf
fled toe curiosity which it stimulated, and which
seemed likely to remain unsolved forever. The
real cause of the sadden and total separation of
Lord Byron from his wife ; the alternate abuse
and praise with which he afterwards spoke and
wrote of her; toe 1 rtful way in which he and
his friends gradually created a sentiment
against her; the complete (and it is not shown)
magnanimous silence, which she preserved
through all, are now explained, at once and fi
nally.
Some years since, at the time of one of the
eriodical attacks which were made npon Lady
iyron, her friends represented to her that it
was a duty which she owed to herself and to his
tory to place all the - facts of the . case in the
hands of somo person competent to judge of toe
proper season for publication and able to do so
in toe proper manner. Mrs. Harriet Beecher
Stowe, then in England, was selected for the
trust, and she having been put in possession of
all toe facta and dates, advised against publica
tion at that time, but promised to .use the infor
mation in her hands whenever occasion shoifid
require. The occasion has now come with the
publication of the memoirs of the Coontess Gu-
lccioli, who, insidiously pleading her lover’s
cause, would persuade her readers that Lord
Byron was driven to her by toe cold repulsive
ness of his wife. Mrs. Stowe has come to the
defence of the wife against the mistress ; how
well she has performed her task her readers will
decide.
Crops in Washington.. ,
The SandersviHe Central Georgian, of the
18th, says: * -
Just now we are having oppressively hot
and dry weather. Planters report to ns that
“toe cotton is done.” Rust is general through
out the county, and doing much damage. The
oateipillar has also appeared in the low lands.
We have convened with gentlemen from the
best farming portions of the county, during the
last few days, and all say there will not be more
than a half crop of ootton made in the county.
The com crop, too, will be less than an aver
age one, though sufficient we trust, to. supply
those who deserve to be supplied. Men. who
planted cotton to toe neglect of com ought to
have to go a long ways after it.
So sudded a change for the worse has never
come within onr knowledge, at least in farm
matters. And this state of things is by no
means confined to Washington ana adjoining
counties. '
Forney’s Heaviest.—The. beet specimen of
Forney’s andacity yet is the following from the
Philadelphia Press of the 14to:
The effort of the Democratic party to defeat
Grant last fall was confined to New York, Penn
sylvania, and Indiana. It was successful in but
one, but its success in that one shows that suc
cess toe next time may be possible. Defeated
as toe party of principle, it still needs watching
as a conspiracy against honest elections, or, as
Curtis expresses it in Harper’s Weekly, the
Democracy as a party of principles “has ceased
to be formidable ; but as a conspiracy, against
honest elections it still challenges the vigilance
of every man who values true popular govern
ment. It is to be remembered that all who jus*
tify toe rebellion and pledge toe ‘lost cause’—all
who would repudiate toe national debt and dis
honor the national name—all who disbelieve in
popular government—all who would perpetuate
hostilities of race—all who oppose a registry
and its strict enforcement—the ignorant and the
dangerous part of the population—instinctively
ally themselves to toe party that is responsible
for toe vast system of electoral frauds.”
California has bespoken the next Cabinet
vacancy. One thousand cigars from a San
Francisco firm, packed in glass boxos of one
hundred each, with the monogram of- the Pres
ident on each box, and the small end of each
cigar finished with gold leaf, have arrived in
Washington addressed to the President.
Sunday night, August the 15th inst., at Pleasant • The Commissioner of Internal Revenue, in
Valley Church, by the silvery light of the moon the case of (rooancm, ?Wia«nan & Co., of
and the rays of a single'candle. Mt.” Wm. C. D. Charleston, S:0., has decided that manufaetur-
Phillifs, to Mrs. Salue A.'Stover. There ers of medicated bitters prepared for medicmal
was present a “rousing crowd -1 of as good look- use, and containing but twenty-five per cent, of
- r ... - - ■— “ a u alcohol, aro exempt from rectifiers tax, and ar
'« to pay only the usual manufacturers’ license .
Axtiqujtt or the'Human Race.—Our friends
of the Mobile Tribune have been considering
at length toe antiquity of the human race and
oome to the conclusion:
If the premises assumed above are correct, it
must be conceded that the antiquity of the hu
man race is greater, by thousands of years, than
j—^— -—-w- that Resigned to it by the popular chronology,
not to be granted, m this case, lor this alleged I conclusion, "arrived at by philology an*
error in the charge of the Court, ^though, the | arc w ogy ia ^an sustained by recent
verdict may have been somewhat too large un- j di8C0T#ries of geology. These are nothing less
der the evidence, still, I should not myself, be than the io^Uemnlns of men who llVed on the
disposed to disturb toe verdict of toe jury; yet, I earth more tban twanty thousand yteite ago !
as tho majority of the Court are of the opinion ; „ . ° ,
the judgment should be reversed, unless the j ^® 'whole,- so far as the present race Is
complainants shall write off from the verdict the concerned, we shall stand by the Mosaic record.
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