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[IJSBY & REID, Proprietors: GEORGIA TELEGRAPH BUILDING MACON, FRIDAY, AUGUST 20, 1869. 6«orgia Telegraph Building, Macon. Bitxs or srnscBiPTiox: -TnwiwrH—for one year...™—..... idsirH-for six months KStorScriodsOneDollar pern 810 00 6 00 1 v/r ihortcr periods One Dollar per month. .ffsesi-WKEKLY Telegraph—one year.. 4 00 c.ut.wkekly i tiAuiura—one year.. » -ju jlsMUrsa ,^ Erriy ^fgLEORAPH—six m’ths 2 00 WrsstTTsLKCRAPn-ono year 3 00 Jt»*JoTH Telegraph—six months 1 50 ahcatjt in advance.' „ nn v anti Job Printing U V«tlT executed at reasonable prices, f 'niittMeeshy mail with Postmaster’s certificate a ::: ■ 1 1 1 ——» 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 - - Ta 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. ■ wrtfjrfluu-, .i--- Auaitti