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. FRIDAY, AUGUST 27, 1SQ9.
fljfinnH
's Dry Goods Store.
„ lin has been making an itnpor-
I _ jnd improvement to bis popular
• Emporium, hy which ho baa nearly
^«i*e. He ha? lengthened it in the
' niercetbo contiguous block, and
^next afore, fronting on' Cherry
1 l 'ch means his store describes an el-
<idcs of a square^—and has two
os Second, and the other bn Cherry
«. ojiensi<> n of his original store is
l ’^ p] a te glass, which gives a fine
1 u be admirable for the display of
Beyond this, broad arches,
1 n iron columns, give entrance to
! r oet store, which will be dovoted
•g 0 f all descriptions. Both to-
? him 8 hundred and fifty or’ sixty
, Mh in store room on the ground
’convenient and finely ventilated. In
** it will he filled with new and rich
'^ticipation of an unusually busy
J .gf os the Test Oath n» Veoisij.
I • n to the Louisville Courier-Journal
Kington. the l sth » say that well-inform-
r” j^jhat city are confident that Attor-
r , g oaT ^jU sustain Oanby’s const rn e -
Uw in regard to the in Ida;
rip opinion, and decide that it must be
* | to the members of the Virginia
gooftrell and Cresswell will sns-
1 bnt Fish, Eobeson, and Kawlins will
i bolding that the act of Congress
* | reqnire the test oath of the Virginia
Cox is regarded as uncertain,
. -ny claim that he will coincide with
f’.; Kudins. It is also understood that
'.r General Hoar has not yet prepared
which accounts forth® delay in de-
Mwt action relative to this most im-
abject. w 1 ^
■ ttnoMEv's Savings and Trust Coh-
G, w ll attention to the advertisement
I Wjn branch of this useful institution,
' he fonnd in Hollingsworth Range,
L.jil, \Ve see it has now on deposit
- thonsand dollars, belonging to three
L depositors. The whites should advise
Jn'ssge the negroes to save and accumu-
t-timings in thi3 bank. The first step
:aii«l improvement in the condition
*j*ople will bo shown in the accumula-
•roperfy. This involves the virtue of
■J, prudence, forecast* and persever-
>:ry. and when the man begins to ac-
^tis little store, his self-respect and in-
LjiM order and well-being of society
sir increase. Few among these de-
we venture to say, will be fonnd
Lie turbulent, idle, vicio’ia and lawless.
I r j lessons And habits of accumulation
|iit are far more valuable than the mere
sot savings.
ate Riot in Hew Jersey—A desper-
• occurred on Thursday, at Spring Hill
The Emmett Guards of Jersey City had
ic there, numbering fifteen hundred per-
Irough insulted a lady, and was knocked
l k one of the Guards. A general fight en-
The nmghs were largely in the majority,
; i desperate attack on the Guards. Dor-
no usclee revolvers were drawn and knives
.tones freely used. After a great effort the
MM succeeded in getting back to their
k and put off.
Raying St***«I Cotton.
lets who buy seed cotton, ought in good
pie community, to keep a record of their
h-i and to aim at reasonable assurance
i-rare not buying stolen property. We
ration to an article npon this subject on
i page of this edition.
iHejlt.—Yesterday the heat wes almost
table. The mercury on Mulberry
tit Lob’s shop, was 103 at five o'clock, p.
|it Ztilin's it was 103, and 102 at six
The anil was terrible in its scorching
Let us abolish kitchen fires, and cook
ianers by sunshine.
t Comet.—On our first page will be fonnd
ting article on comets in general, and,
Mcnlar, the great comet which is threat-
5 to knock this mundane sphere into seve-
uall pieces and terrifying the people.
■ Riilboad Wab — Mr. J. M. Ahr, in the
m Herald, gives some well considered
upon the great railroad war, and the
lability of Macon's becoming a way station
[the railways. His communication will be
fcd on the 1th page.
>«Law dj Illinois.—Cairo, August 10.—
[Mgro Baldwin, who was arrested hero, and
Hi having ontraged Mrs. Benson, the
| of a clergyman near Paducah, was taken
* the jail of that city yesterday before day-
i>by eighty armed men, and bung to a tree
peras-roads in the suburbs, with » placard
breast warning persons from cutting
athe body.
MtSs in the Family.—The New York Times,
editorial on Thursday, in which the separa-
p^Lord Byron and wife is detailed, asserts
Stowe’s narrative is entirely without
®, and is a base slander,
t Stowe alleges in her narrative, on the au-
HLady Byron, that Lord B. was guilty
P*vith his own sister.
i cm Wilson, Factobs and Genesal
t IIebchants, Sav c."yail—We direct
1 to the card of this highly respecta-
, among our advertisements, and com-
i 111 to the confidence and patronage of onr
Karannnh Cotton Statement.
Our weekly report and tables, published else-
where, says the Republican of Friday! show the
following facts: The receipts at all the ports
to thelatest dates are 2,035,§23 bales, being 95,-
070 bales less than those of last year at the same
time. There. has been a decrease of 208,538
bales in the exports to. foreign ports, while the
shipments to domestic ports have increased 53,-,
994 bales. The stocks on hand amount to 23,-
868 bales, against 53,494 bales last season, 1 four
fifths of which is held in New York. The re
ceipts at this port since the 1st of September
last have been 339,007 bales upland and 9,425
bales sea island, against 489,704 bales'upland
and 10,840 bales sea islandlast year to this date,
showing a falling off in the receipts of 149, C37
bale-s and 1,415 bales sea island. Abont one-
sixth of the whole crop thus far has been re
ceived in this city. The stock on hand in this
port at present is very small, being but 1C7 bales
upland and 2 bales sea island, ageihst 1,737
bales upland and 141 bales sea island last year.
The receipts up to latest dates at the Texas ports
were 144,542 bales; Mobile has received22C,-
2G0 bales; Charlestonhasreceived 103,300 bales
upland and 6,637 bales sea island. It thus ap
pears that Savannah is a long way ahead.
The Cotton Crop of Georgia.
A feeling of profound disappointment per
vades the mass of Georgia cotton planters just
now. The rust has clean dissipated every pros
pect of “ a bully crop,"’ and knocked down an
ticipations from twenty-five to fifty per cent
We have heard much talk and speculation about
this rust—whether, in truth, the plant is misting
or burning under the drought and the, intensity
of the solar heat We think it must be a good
deal of both. At all events, the disease sans the
vitality of the plant at once. It wilts, droops,
and frequently falls prone upon the bosom of
Mother Earth. What bolls are sufficiently ma
tured, will open prematurely and develope their
contents of rather inferior cotton, and then the
account of that stalk is closed forever. Georgia
will make as much cotton as she did last year,
and that was a very scant crop. Whether she
will do better, and if so, how much, is yet to be
settled.
— ■ <«►-• ■■
Cotton Tax Claims,
We have seen a circular from Washington,
which states that it is now certain that the en
tire Supreme Bench, with one exception, are of
opinion that the cotton tax was unconstitutional,
and will have to be refunded. A case is to be
made in Court next December, and is no doubt
is felt about the ultimate result It is further
said, that a company is being organized in New
York with a capital of five or ten millions to buy
up these claims and that parties are now selling
them for a song when they are worth their
face. Planters and others, who have paid this
tax, are earnestly advised not to part with their
claims for the present. No doubt they will be
collected at the proper time, at a very moderate j these States* of your iron-clad oath, and the
per centage.
Anottier Pelltical Letter from Judge I Letter from the Chalybeate Springs.
If cut—Pungent Criticism of Secreta
ry Boutwell and his Political Course.
Washington, August 17.—Judge Dent has
written to Secretary Boutwell a pungent letter,
of which the following is a copy:
Washington, D. C,, August 17, 18G0.
7o Son. George S. Boutwell, Secretary of the
Treasury:
Sib—I shall make little apology for asking
your attention to my letter, and less for the na
ture of its contents. You were the first to deny
the political orthodoxy of my friends and. my
self, and by all the rules of the forum I am en
titled to a defense. Again, youhold an office of
the Republic, and your acts, therefore, are legiti
mate subjects of criticism bythe humblest citizen
thereof. But in some respects we are alike. For
instance, wo are both aspirants for place, with
this difference: You aim to be the next Presi
dent, with every assurance of success “ except’’
in the opinion of the people.
. YTkil® I seek an humbler place, with my hopes
in disastrous eclipse, “except” in the judgment
of Mississippi, so in the probable results of the
future we both stand adverse to the judgment of
the country. In the pursuit of your ambition
you are ungrateful and unscrupulous ns to the
means of success. Your organ, the New York
Sun, in the same breath ridicules the capacity
of your master, and dwells with emphasis upon
your peculiar fitness for his office. Your tool,
Mr. Tullock, became so reckless in the manipu
lation of your department in the interest of
your ambition, and so defiant of the wishes of
the President and the country, that to save your
self from an explosion of popular indignation
yon found it convenient to transfer him to an
other Bphere of scandalous activity, where his
talents might be exerted with equal effect and
loss effrontery. Virginia, Tennessee, Mississ
ippi, and Texas, not to mention anything so
humble as myself, were obstructions in the way
of your success, because through President
Grant’s intervention in excluding the proscrip
tive clauses from their organic law these States
are brought into the Union and firmly welded to
his support.
Now, this is in direct conflict with your syste
matized plans ; for what General Grant gets in
the next Presidential election clearly Mr, Bout-
will not get, and therefore have you denounced
the Conservative Republicans, who are for
Grant, that you may obtain the proscriptive
Republicans, who are for Bcutwell; and, by
some strange, dexterous management and oc
cult political strategy, you have so worked upon
the confidence of the President as to cause him
to flourish the club with which you intend to
break his head, by inducing him to join you in
denunciation of the Conservative Republicans—
a party created by his magnanimity, and tri
umphant through his encouragement
But, sir, “your purpbse is easily discemable,
and has a two-fold object—namely, to destroy
the National Republican party in the South, and
then to reconstruct from its shattered fragments
a Boutwell party, with one Richmond in the
field to strike for your crown. But if you can
not succeed in this scheme of desperate enter
prise you mean to ruin”—a result, from present
appearances, much more likely to be reached.
Your official intervention for Wells, for in
stance, gave thirty thousand majority to Walker.
Your letter to Stokes gave Senter Tennessee by
an overwhelming vote of seventy thousand.—
Your marvelous political sagacity, now active
in Mississippi and Texas, will repeat your ca
lamity and again overwhelm you with discom
fiture and defeat. Snperadd to these results
of your unapproachable folly the imposition on
From Crawford.
Knoxville, Ga., August 20, 1869.
Editors Telegraph: Beading the “local” of
the Journal and Messenger yesterday, “Horri
ble Outrage by Negroes,” caused me to fall into
the reflection that the piece was probably a sen
sation article, not attributable, however, to the
Local.
The following facts will illustrate : Last week
a man professing to have pursued a negro from
Alabama, who, with another had attacked two
sisters and outraged them and cut the arm off
one of them to avenge the loss of his own,caused
by the father of the girls, came to our county
and excited much sympathy by tho relation of
the above outrage, which he located in Alabama.
He obtained the loan of a citizen’s mnle to con.
tinue the pursuit, neither of which have been
heard from since.
Now the last mentioned facts and the “ hor
rible outrage” are so near aliko as to aronse at
least a suspicion that something is rotten in
Denmark.
No. 14 Is so accessible to Macon that there
can be no difficulty in having the facts verified.
It is remarkable that two cases so distant, but
so much aliko in detail and description of perpe-
tion (for the negro in Alabama is described ex
actly as the one in “ horrible outrage”) should
have occurred at the same time.
Lost Mule.
r i another communication from Knox*
the “horrible outrage,” repeating the
*^ded to yesterday. We have little
whole story is a humbug set on foot
originally in Crawford county.
f.—There is a terrible cry about
* in the Northern papers, and we believe
Prizes the season almost every where.
Sale op Land in Coweta.—An execu-
! of a very valuable farm in Coweta is
i in our edition of to-day.
t.—In view of Judge Dent’s re-
‘ h> Secretary Boutwell, Fomey de-
Dent has gone over body and soul to
“^Ppetheads. n ' I
hum. and Chops in Olay.—Last week the
*v.* a . s very pleasant and cool until Sun-
it appeared to have changed sudden-
i,J® "•# we have had. some warm days, it
. . warm at the time of writing. Since onr
i >rt we have heard bnt tittle, relative to
rc,however,complain of dry weath-
tost on their citton.—Chattahoochee
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& Atlantic Raxlboad,
ScPEMNTENDXXT.’S OFFICE, >
|£. Atlanta, Aug. 20,18G9.)
Rufus B. Bullock, Governor,
I /t’ VtorgM :
T, flave <1*7 paid to N. L. Angier,
; i r ,„ aasn , Ior of the State of Georgia, twenty-
dollar8 ' ($25,000) for the month
‘ 1116 eRrnin ga of the Western
* am -J 'overnor, very respectfully,
Tour obedient *sriant,
E. Bulbekt, Soph
The .Southwestern Railroail—Snndsy
School Celebrations, ole.
Geoegetown, Ga., August 20, 1869.
Editors Telegraph: Modesty alone would
compel one like the writer, who boasts not of
his ability as a journalist, to forbear appearing
as a correspondent in the columns of a newspa
per, but when justice almost demands that some
one should call the attention of the public to the
liberality of that much abused corporation, the
Southwestern Railroad, I reluctantly assume
the responsibility to do so.
In days gone by wo were wont to hear much
calumny and abuse heaped upon it on account
of its high rates of freight, unaccommodating
spirit, etc., but most of it was due to preju
dice and a want or desire to promote the inter
est of other roads and corporations. Many and
oft havo been the times that its gentlemanly Su
perintendent, Col. Powers, has tendered his
trains, without money and without price, to tho
Sabbath school and church interests at large—
thereby not only manifesting a spirit of liber
ality and kindness, bnt a desire to promote said
interests.
No longer than last week CoL Powers very
kindly placed at the disposal of the entire Sab
bath-school of Georgetown his trains to attend
a festival at Cutlibert, to which the school had
been solicited—and in this connection we would
take occasion to give you and yoar readers a
synopsis of the doings on the day of the fes
tival.
The Sabbath-school of Georgetown left this
little village on Taesday, the 10th inst., having
accepted an invitation from the Cuthbert Sab-
batb-school to join them in this festival at the
Andrew Female College in that city. The school
consisted of the old and the young, from the
gray haired teacher to the toddling four year
old—all in their holiday attire, with their nu
merous baskets of provisions for the getting up
of which on short notice the Georgetown ladies
have long been proverbial, under the charge
and care of that polite and model conductor,
Capt. George Cherry, and ou arriving at Cuth
bert were met by the delegates of that school
and escorted to the College chapel, where they
were welcomed by Dr. Hamilton in a short and
beautiful speech, tendering the hospitalities and
freedom of the city; to whom Dupont Gnerry,
Esq., of Georgetown, replied in behalf of the
Georgetown school, inavery appropriate speech
of a few minntes.
After the salutations, greeting, speeches, etc.,
the schools joined in singing some choice selec
tions of songs. After the singing was con
cluded, all mixed and mingled freely, talking
of love and things lovely, and to “lovely
things,” alias the “vanity fair,” until the bell
announced that the hour had arrived for the
baskets to disgorge their contents, which an
nouncement all responded to with a hearty
good appetite.
After dinner, all once more repaired to the
Chapel, where we were again pleasantly end
profitably entertained by Colonel Jones, of the
Cuthbert Appeal, in a short but appropriate ad
dress. The evening having passed off so plea
santly and rapidly, before we were conscious of
it, the hour for departure was signalted, so we
took up onr line of march for the railroad, and
under another of the road’s model conductors,
Geo. Dasher, (as it is famous for its polite and
attentive ones,) we sped rapidly back to onr
destination, leaving reluctantly the good people
of Cuthbert, who insisted that we renew our
visits and baskets at no distant day.
So, Messrs. Editors, we spent a most pleasant
day at the expense of the Southwestern Rail
road, which is only one of the many acts of
kindness and liberality extended to the people
alienation is complete, landing them all in tho
outstretched anus of the Democracy.
But the consequence of your folly does not
stop here—Ohio and Pennsylvania and others
will follow. Decide their political status in Oc
tober, and the North will echo back the condem
nation of the South, and peal in your ears this
fact, that there is still left enough of the incor
ruptible virtue of the republic to rebuke you
for a wanton repression of that most sacred
right, the elective franchise. But, sir, this
will not deter you from your mad course; you
will still persist, until every prop that supports
our party is stricken away, and the whole grand
superstructure tumbles about our ears in hope
less ruin.
When you were appointed Secretary of the
Treasury, and unanimously confirmed by a Sen
ate Df every shade of political opinion, *did you
not take an oath to administer your office im
partially and for the exclusive objects of its cre
ation “ To collect tho revenue and control the
finances of the country.” Is not that office the
property of the nation, and yourself only clothed
for a time with a little brief authority ? Then,
sir, how do you explain this perversion of its
legitimate uses and functions into a means and
instrument of oppression to force and compel an
election of obnoxious rulers upon the people of
the South ?
Is such a course consistent with your oath of
office', or do you call this a great moral idea ?
But, Mr. Boutwell, though yon have thus pros
tituted the power of your office for purposes of
oppression “without the warrant or conscience
or law,” it may be that yon can tell me by what
authority you assume to pronounce npon my
political orthodoxy. Who constituted you the
infallible hope of Republicanism ?
Who gave you authority to hurl tho political
anathemas of the party ? Again, what right had
you to commit the Administration to your poli
cy ? Have you to learn yet that yon are only a
part of the Administration, and not the whole of
it ? though your friends believe that monomania
has seized your mind ou that subject^ and that
you verily believe yourself “the State.”
Very respectfully, Louis Dent.
Fatal Affray.—This morning about three
miles from this place, an encounter took place
between G. W. Welch, of Henry county, and
Charles Lockhart, a son of Dr. Lockhart, of this
city. It is reported to us that Welch rode np to
where Lockhart was in conversation with a Mr.
Phillips and his wife, and commenced abusing
Lockhart’s father, the boy remonstrated in
quiet way and attempted to appease the wrath
of Welch, to no effect. Finally Welch abused
the boy and threatening to thrash him, got off
his mnle for that purpose. As ho did so, Lock
hart cut him with a knife, across the abdomen,
making a cut of about eight inches, and jumped
back. Welch then gathered a rock and a stick
and made at him again, when he was again cut
near the same place and in several places
on his bead, which brought him to the ground.
He was carried to the residence of Mr. John
Mitchell, where his wounds were sewed up, and
he was sent in a wagon to his home. Onr in
formant says it is supposed that he was cut to
the hollow, and if so there is little hope for his
recovery. Welch had been drinking, and it is
said the bov was blameless in the matter.
[Griffin Middle Georgian.
Observations on the Cotton Caterpil
lar.
Dougherty Co., Aug. 19, 1869.
Editors Telegraph : For the benefit of your
numerous readers, I propose to give my obser
vation of the cotton caterpillar. I have watched
their movements very closely this season. A
dusky yellowish white moth, with light green
eyes, first makes its appearance in no very great
numbers, lying still during the day, active after
sundown. Very shortly is seen a light green
worm abont one and a half inches long when
full grown. These worms feed upon the tender
kindness i
by the much abused
A BroniUe Broken—The Ladies to Blame for it
—'A Word in Favor of Round ts. Long Faces
»—Solomon's Opinion—Young Heads for
•Young Shoulders and Old Heads for Old
Shoulders;—The Late BaU—“Trails’’ and
,L Swalloic-TaUs’'—The Comet and Eclipse—
' Late Arrivals, etc., etc.
• Chalybeate Springs, Ga., . )
August 19, 1869./
Editors Telegraph : It is just simply impossi
ble to .write you such a letter as I promised in
my Inst communication from this delightful re
treat. I then thought, and, in fact, promised
that I -would send you some account of this
picturesque region, its fertility, its mines and
mineral waters, and report some of the opinions
one hears advancedhere upon topics which inter
est men engaged in business, politics, etc. But
the ladies say it shall not be done! They say
that of all the letters printed in the newspapers
niue-tenths of them are devoted entirely to men
and their business, and that a letter from a
fashionable watering place in which politics and
business, geology and agriculture, mines and
mineral waters, alone are discussed, would be as
stupid and as much out of place as would be a
letter from Macon during the approaching State
Fair, i? which the ladies only were mentioned.
In other words the sweet creatures contend that
all communications from the Springs to the press
shall be devoted entirely to their own dear selves
ard their gallant beaux, and that if your corres
pondent dares to depart from this rule, they
will vote him a crusty old bachelor, and a hard-
headed, impracticable old fogy!
IVhat,. then, shall I do, Messrs. Editors ?—
Shall I imitate father Adam, and obey my bet
ters ? or shall I indite such a letter as will in
terest Mr. Gradgrind, Mr. Hardfist and old
’Shent-per-’shent ?
I have concluded to let our modem Eves have
their will, as their first mother had hor’s; though
I will write that letter, if it has to be done at
night, or after I leave the Springs. But after
all, the ladies are not far wrong. Oar lot is a
hard one at best, and we do not soften or im
prove it by devoting all our working hours to
facts and figures and the other stem realities of
life. Somewhat of poetry and laughter and
music, and a few more holidays and festival
junketings, and a little less austerity and puri-
tanism and hypocrisy, would not curtail our
happiness here, or diminish our chances of
finally reaching that bright land beyond the sun.
Round faces are quite as harmless and hand
some as long ones, and it does no hurt to build
an air-castle now and then, though we never
inhabit it. King Solomon tells us that “a merry
heart maketh a cheerful countenance, but by
sorrow of the heart the spirit is broken.” And
he remarks, in another place, that “there is
nothing better for a man than that he should
eat and drink, and that he should make his soul
enjoy good in his labor.” He informs us, also,
that there is a time for all things—“a time to
weep, a time to laugh, a time to mourn and a
time to dance.”
Why, then, should not a comer in our daily
newspapers—those great educators of modem
times—be set apart to the pastimes and pleas
ures—and even the follies, if you please—of
the young and merry-hearted ? Indnstry and
diligence and economy are commendable vir
tues ; indeed, without them there can be but
little excellence in our lives—and yet “all work
and no play makes Jack a dull boy,” and Jean
nie a dull girl. Parents make a sad mistake
when they reqnire their sons and daughters to
carry old heads on their young shoulders. The
enjoyments of the young wera innocent and
pleasant enough when they were young, but
now that they have grown old, they would for
bid them to their children. If wisdom and sor.
row come only with age, then let the ypnng re
main young as long as possible. Let not all our
songs be songs of sadness. If some will chaht
only the Miserere, pray let the rest of us, if so
inclined, sing the Jubilate as well.
There have been considerable and interesting
additions made to our society here since the
date of my last communication, as you will see
by the list of arrivals below. It is now very gay
and • pleasant, though there is here, as at ail
our Southern watering places, a lack of gentle
men. In the good old ante-bellum times, before
onr young men had gone out to battle, and when
we all had more means and leisure, it was quite
different Now onr young gentlemen find it nec
essary to look more closeiy to their business; and
when they do pnt their bands to the plough, they
cannot look back as in the olden time. Bnt the
ladies think none the less of them because they
have to labor. On the contrary, they respect
them all the more, since this necessity is upon
them, that they meet it cheerfully and manfully.
It will not be amiss, however, Messrs. Editors,
for you to mako a note of this scarcity of beaux
and suggest to your young friends not to miss
this opportunity.
“Now’s the day, and now’s the hour.”
I had almost forgotten to state that the first
ball of the season was given two nights ago. It
was gotten up on short notice, but was none
the less enjoyable to those who dance, for that
reason. A few of the dancers appeared in fan
cy dresses—among them, “the little brown-eyed
silver slippered widow from the banks of the
Tombigbee,” who appeared as the Queen of
Night, anda black-eyed little beanty from Colum
bus, who represented the Rose, and a handsome
young gentleman from Macon, who appeared in
the garb of a Troubadour. Several of the gen
tlemen donned their “white kids,” and “swal
low-tails.” The ladies were dressed becoming-
y, of course, but as I have ever been an igno
ramus in the mysteries of female toilet, I dare
not nndertake to describe their costumes.—
“Some wore silk, and some wore satin.” Some
appeared in short dresses, and others had trails.
And such trails! They reminded one of Oliver
Wendell Holmes’ account of the comet:
“Ten million miles of head—
Ten thousand million miles of tail.”
leaves of the cotton till they attain their full
size, which does not take above two or three w jr e? though blindfolded, might pnt in his,hand
These trails are stately and becoming, but
quite inconvenient in a crowded ball room, and
as difficult to manage as a long railway train on
a road having short curves. The short dresses,
one would suppose, were more comfortable to
the wearer, as I am sure they are more popular
with the spectator, since they allow the latter to
enjoy the graceful play of the feet.
Among the ladies not heretofore alluded to
in this random correspondence, who attracted
particular attention at the ball, was a young
girl from Macon, and a very handsome lady
who had just arrived from Columbus. The
former is just verging into womanhood—a bru
nette, with dark hair and eyes, who looks as if
she were a naiad just escaped from the water
and the willows. The latter is a blonde, with
a profusion of massive auburn hair; somewhat
above medium height; in form perfect; in car
riage queenly, yet graceful and easy; in char
acter gentle and modest, almost to shyness. It
is difficult to conjecture which would admire
her tho most—the poet, the painter or the
sculptor. And yet this fair, young woman, as
every true woman should be, is accomplished
in every domestic virtue.
But there are other beautiful and elegant wo
men here, married and single—those who dance
and those who do not Montgomery has just
made a liberal contribution to our society in this
respect, as have other parts of Alabama and
Georgia. Indeed, if the names of all the ladies
here were put into a hat, a man in search of a
Corporation.
Rumor says that the President visits Newport
pest Monday and Tuesday as a guest of ex-Gov-
ernor Morgan. *
days; they then turn over a comer of a leaf up
on themselves by means of a web. In one day
a black shell forms over them from which they
emerge in five days a fly or moth. From these
the real caterpillar is bred in constantly increas
ing numbers till they, by this process of genera
tion, become so numerous as to destroy the
crops.
From their first appearance I have been hav
ing the worms killed in the morning, and have
had many fires built in the fields at night, to at
tract and bum the moths. I cannot yet say
that I shall successfully combat their progress.
I find the flies less numerous but the caterpillar
on the increase; but this may be from eggs laid
before my fires commenced to destroy tne flies.
I am satisfied that this is the only way to fight
them. The files come from the south, and may
be seen in both com and cotton fields. The
fires will do no good unless kept up for several
weeks. The moth must be met with flames till
the last of them are destroyed. Last night I
stood and watched numbers of them go into the
flames and bum themselves up. You may rely
upon the foregoing statement as being the
mode by which the caterpillar is produced.
' Fabmeb,
There is said to be a new case of coldness be
tween Butler and. Grant. Butler, in that spirit
of Christian forbearance so characteristic of him
6ays that Grant is “a d d fooL”
The worst of the unhealthy season has passed
in-Cuba, and the sickness among the nnaccli«
mated is decreasing.
why should it not have occasioned the same
change at all other points where the eclipse was
total ? The radiation of heat from the earth’s
surface is always sufficient to prevent so great a
change in so short a time. When the sun sinks
below the western horizon and disappears en
tirely we notice no such change of temperature
as that referred to. The sun is always in a
state of eclipse at some point in God’s wide
universe; for whenever the moon may be in
her orbit or plane, she is necessarily and at all
times between the sun and some point in the
wide exposure of space. It is only at long in
tervals that the moon comes wholly between the
sun and our earth, and then it is that the great
luminary of day is in eclipse to us.
But my letter is growing under my pen. I
will only add that the proprietors intend to give
a grand dress and fancy ball at an early day.
when a large attendance, in addition to those
already here, is expected. "When it, comes I
may or may not give you some account of it. I
am an invalid, or was, as you know, and write
only for my own diversion, and the entertain
ment of such of your readers as may feel in
clined to follow me. Ona does not long remain
an invalid here. The mineral waters, bracing
air and cool nights soon restore one to his
wonted health, and I thank Heaven that it is so.
Invalid.
ARRIVALS AT CHALYBEATE SPRINGS, FROM llTH
AUGUST TO THE 19lH.
From Columbus—Miss Carrie Williams, Miss
Lucy IVoolfolk, Miss DoBose. Ed. Woolfolk,
John Johnson, J. 0. Brewer, M. Joseph, Chas.
Joseph, N. J. Bussey, T. E. Blanchard, W. U.
Garrard, Goo. H. Fontaine, IV. D. Hill, Hugh
King, Woolfolk Walker, Col. N. W: Long, Miss
Mary J. Thomas, George Y. Banks, aDd J. O.
Andrews.
From Montgomery—Miss Ella Arrington,
Miss Pattie Arrington, B. L. Wyman, W. D.
Sayre, Robert Ware and daughters, General J.
T. Holtzclaw, wife and daughter, J. R. Warren,
wife, child and servant, J. C. Henley, G. H
Gibson, W. R. Bullard, J. DuBose Bibb, E. D.
Bibb, Miss Fannie Home.
From Macon—Miss Tallulah Strohecker, John
Hollingsworth, B. Hill, R. S. Lanier, Mrs. Shan
non, child and servant, Mr. Sidney Lanier, wife,
child, servant, R. W. Bnrdell, Miss Jessie H.
Farmer, Miss Ella Getsinger.
From Griffin—E. W. Beck and daughter, W.
R. Maugham, J. H. Grant.
From Talbotton—J. B. Gorman, W. A. Dan
iel, J. A. Cox, J. H. Harney, J. L. O’Neal, J.
A. Leonard, J. H. Dennis. *
From Union Springs, Alabama—J. N. Arring
ton, Alfred Bethea, Mrs. Bethea and child, Miss
Baldwin, Mrs. Tompkins.
From other poin ts—J. W. Scott, Washington
City; Miss Gertrude Dillard, Auburn, Ala.,; L.
F. W. Andrews, Americas; J. B. McCoy, Talbot
county; Jas. F. Lewis, Stewart county; G. A.
Miller, J. Whit Bonner, White Sulphur Springs;
M. M. Fitch and wife," Thomasville ; Miss Ada
Young, E. B. Young, Jr., Eufaula.
The Rivals or the Railroad War.
f From the Fewnan Herald, 20th instatU.
Macon is very near the geographical centre
of Georgia, and Savannah is, on an air line, the
nearest seaport to Macon. But, owing to the
extremo tortuosity of the Central Railroad,
Brunswick is, by rail, somewhat nearer (per
haps twenty miles,) to Macon than Savannah,
or will be, rather, when tho Macon and Biuns-
wick Railroad is completed. Savannah and
Brunswick are, therefore, (or will be,) rival
claimants for the freight and trade of which
Macon is the distributing centre, and in the
contest which has commenced between the
“rivals,” the former city puts forth the Central
Railroad as her companion, and the latter, the
Macon and Brunswick as hers.
The contest appears to be an unequal one,
Savannah is a fall grown city with business
connections, and is rich and prosperous.—
Brunswick is almost unknown in the business
world, and has her business connections to
form; she has, however, a splendid harbor,
and is full of fight and spirit. The Central
Railroad is a wealthy corporation, strong in its
stockholders, assets and credit.
The Macon and Brunswick is struggling for
completion, with no income, and perhaps little
credit as yet, but is said to be backed by several
northern stockholders, each of whom is reported
to be a very Croesus.
Thus appointed, the “Rivals” bid each other
defiance, and the “Champions” enter the field.
No modem and foppish tournament this, but a
regular “Combat a Voutrancc."
The first blow was struck by the Central in an
effort to acquire a controlling interest in the
Savannah and Gulf Railroad. The Macon and
Rtunswick parried, but with a weapon that
broke at the hilt, and the Central triumphed.—
Emboldened by thi3 success, the Central resolv-
id on “bolder things,” and determined to end
ffie contest at once and forever by degrading
Macon from the exalted position of a prime dis'
tribnting center to the humbler one of a mere
way station. How can that be done ? By con
trolling the railroads that disgorge into Macon,
so as to carry their exportable freight at once
to Savannah. A bold conception truly, but not
an impracticable one, for the Central now con
trols the Southwestern, the Muscogee, the Col
umbus and Montgomery, and is actively engaged
in pushing to completion a road from Montgom
ery to Decatur. Thus has the Central triumph
ed step by step, until at last there remains bnt
one obstacle to complete success.
The Macon and Western is that obstacle.
Tho Central has failed in an effort to lease it,
and is now seeking to purchase a controlling in
terest in its stock. The stock of the M. & W.
is worth 81 40; but, as it is mostly owned by
wealthy men, it is hardly probable that much
of it can be bought for less than 82 00. The
capital stock of the M. & W., is $2,000,000.
To control the M. & W., then, the Central must
expend upwards of 82,000,000.
What are the M. & B., Brunswick and the
city of Macon, doing to check the Central in
this career of success? Nothing, except to look
on, and bite their nails in stupid despair. Can
they do nothing? Much, if they can only be
roused to a full sense of their danger. Like a
tamed bird, they sit and await the approach of
the destroyer, when a single fiutter of the wings
will put them in safety.
The safety of Macon, of Brunswick, of the
Macon and Brunswick, of the Macon and West
ern, and, I may add, the prosperity of Griffin
and Newnan, depend upon the speedy comple
tion of the Savannah, Griffin and North Ala
bama Railroad. The Macon and Western and
the Central both realize this; and whilst the
former is laboring to effect that, the latter is
trying to defeat it. The M. & W. has subscribed
$150,000 to the S., G. &N. A. R. R. upon con
dition that $200,000 be raised from other
sources. Individuals have subscribed about
$140,000, and it is supposed that the remainder
of the $200,000 will soon be raised. But wh;
do not Macon and the Macon and Brunswi
Railroad come forward and place the completion
of the S. f G. & N. A. R. R. beyond a peradven-
ture, by subscribing each $ 150,000 ? By so do
ing, they will completely foil the Central, and
force that road to retrace its steps and engage
in a legitimate war of freight-rates with the Ma
con and Brunswick. Nor should Brunswick be
laggard in this matter, nor Griffin, nor Newnan,
nor the people of Spalding, Fayette, Coweta and
CarrolL
Of the $140,000 mentioned, the greater part
has been raised in Coweta and CarrolL Why
are Spalding and Fayette so back word ?
Apart from the importance of the S., G. and
N. A. R. R. in the present railroad war,it is un
doubtedly the most important freight route now
in process of construction in the South. Upon
its completion, an air line from Newnan to
Memphis, it will open the shortest communica
tion from the Valley of the Mississippi to the
Atlantic seaboard; and Savannah can better
subserve her ultimate interests by renouncing
her hostility to this road, uniting in its con
struction, and so constructing her connections
with the West, making herself the nearest sea
port to the Mississippi Valley. A glance at tlje
map will show what she can gain by pursuing
this course, and how little it will cost.
It may not be amiss for the stockholders of
the Central to take this matter into considers-
T. C. NISBET’S
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Price, - - - - SB85 OO.
FROM THE NUMBER OF TESTIMONIALS. TO THE VALUE OF EACH OF THESE SCREWS, I
SELECT THE FOLLOWING:
DOUBLE BRIDGE, UPfON COUNTY. JUNE 27,
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Yours of the 17th came to baud on yesterday and contents noticed. Ttio Cast Iron Screw I bought of yon
last fall gives entire satisfaction. I commenced packing my crop without weighing in the cotton, thinking,
that 500 pounds was being put in: but when I came to sell my cotton the bags weighed from 600 to 805 pounds.
I sold the cotton to Swatts & Brown, at Barnesville, and anyone doubting the weight can be furnished the-
receipts from the above parties. I have been farming all my life, and have used many different Screws, but
this ono is the best I ever saw. In packing my crop I never used but one mule. I take pleasure in recom-'
mending the Screw to planters generally. D. W. WOMBLE.
Refereucc of those nemo the above Screw .•
W. T. Basset, Houston county. I IIf.nrv Farley. Baldwin county.
Joel Walsee, Houston county. | John Pascal, Putnam county.
"Wrought Iron Screw, No. 1.
4 inch Wrought Iron. 3 inch Pitch Screw. PRICE, - - - $90 00.
MILLEDGEVILLE, JUNE 17,1S69.
Dear Sir:—I am using one of your 4 inch Cotton Press Screws. 3 inch pitch, with levers, adapted to
mule- power. I, however, never use mule-power but run it down by hand. I am satisfied that it will do
more work in the same time, and with much more ease, than the old wood screw, and thatit is ten times
as durable. You will allow me, at the same time, to recommend your horse-power as a valuable power to
gin cotton. Yours respectfully. JOHN JONES.
PERRY. JUNE 21,1369.-. ..
Dear Sir I am using one of yonr 4in. Wrought Iron Screws, 3in. pitch, and it is all you represent it tobe.
I pack with hand-power levers, and havo put 600 pounds in a bale with six hands. I like the press so well
that I want you to get me up another and shall bo in Macon about the 1st of August.
JAMES W. ROUNDTREE.
Reference of some of those using the four inch Press, three pitch :
Garret Smith, Houston county. I ' "
John IV. Woolfolk, Houston county. i
William Adkins. Dooly county. |
N. Tucker, Laurens county. |
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W. C. Carlis, Bibb county.
Thos. H. Jones. Twiggs county.
J. P. Bond, Twiggs county.
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J. W. Sessions, Washington county.
WROUGHT IRON SCREW, NO. 2.
1, 11-2 AND Q INCH PITCH,
PRICE, - - - - - $80 00.
CLINTON. Ga.. 1863.
T. C. Nisbet. Esq.I can safely say your Press is all, and perhans more, than yon claim it to be.
It is the cheapest, easiest and most convenient packing apparatus I have seen. I have seen two
ds pack a bale of cotton that we supposed to weigh 500 pounds.
HENRY J. MARSHALL.
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T. C. Nisbet, Esq.I am well pleased with your Press. I have packed with six hands a bale of
cotton weighing six hundred and forty pounds in thirty minutes. _
R. F. WOOLFOLK. 114 inch
REFERENCES:
John Kino. Houston county.
W. A. Atwood, Putnam county.
Bekj. Barron, Jasper county.
Wm. Scarborough. Monroe connty.
Thos. Barron. Talbot county.
J. A. Spivey, Macon county.
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No. 2 CAST IRON SCREW,
Pitt 7 1-2 Feet Long, 6 inch Diameter and 2 inch Pitch.
PR ICE, $7 0,
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„ , . „ , „ FORT VALLEY. JUNE. 1869.
T.C.Nisbet—DearSir: Ihavebeen using your Cast Iron ScrewPress, 2 inch pitch, for two seasons. I have
no hesitation in recommending it as a simple, compact and durable press. I have mule-power levers, bat
press altogether by hand. ... . , , _ J. A. MADDOX.
Reference to a few of those using the above Press :
Stephen E. Bassett, Houston county. | John Teal, Quitman county.
H. J. Clark, Houston county. 1 A. Dawson, Wilkinson oouaty.
The above Screws are all warranted for one season. The price does mot include Frame and Box, but a
draft to build from will be furnished.
IRON FRAME, Price .'...*35
WOOD WORK, complete a 30
These Screws are long enough for a nine foot Cotton Box, as the entire length of the Screw can be use
but when a longer Screw is required it can be furnished up to 12 feet.
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EIGHT FEET GIN GEAR, PINION AND BOLTS,....
NINE FEET GIN GEAR—
TEN FEET GIN GEAR
PORTABLE HORSE-POWER. ADAPTED TO GINING....
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Cane Mill Prices:
EIGHTEEN INCH MILL
SIXTEEN INCH MILL
FIFTEEN INCH MILL.....„
ELEVEN INCH MILL
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and be suro to draw a prize. There wonld be
no blanks in the number.
The weather has been quite warm the last few
days, yet we require blankets at night, and are
entirely free from dust and mosquitoes.
Some of the young gentlemen have remained
up quite late at night, looking, they say, for the
comet J Some how, they never eDgage in these
astronomical observations alone, bnt are invari
ably accompanied by a lady. And this recalls
to mind the recent eclipse and the great amount
of nonsense that has been published about it It o „
is plain that a total, or even a partial, eclipse of \ t; onj and check the directory of theroadin their
the sun most always be accompanied by a dimu
nition of solar heat, bnt never to the extent
stated by some recent observers. The wind
commenced to blow here, from the northeast, on
Friday evening, and by noon on Saturday it had
turned quite cold. The New York papers note
the same facts at that point. Yet the eclipse did
not occur until after 5 o’clock Saturday after
noon! The eclipse, then, did not produce the
cold weather: for the latter preceded, accompa
nied, and followed it. The belt of land covered
by the total e dipso was abont one hundred and
forty miles in width and over six thousand miles
in length, extending from Alaska to the Caroll-
nas. The belt covered by the partial eclipse
was of course’ much wider, though, bnt little
longer. Certain observers in the northwest re
port a fall in the temperature tof 34 degrees;
while others who are probably correct, report a
fall at other points of only three or four degrees.
Now, since the laws of nature act uniformly,
and the same cause produces the same effect,
both of these reports cannot be correct. If the
•trw
eclipse produced a fall of 34 degrees in Illinois,
wild career, before the credit of the road has
been impaired by gigantic enterprises.
_ JayM. Amt.
Health of Gen. Wad ley.—The Republican
copies and corrects a statement in our local
columns, as follows;
We are giad to be able to say that the rumor
mentioned by the Telegraph is probably with
out foundation. Mr. Wadley has been afflicted
for some time with a chronic complaint, and
left here some weeks ago for the. Virginia
Springs, but, finding no improvement in his
health there, he proceeded further North, and
is now traveling iu that section. Letters were
received from him a day or two since, in which
he stated that he was “slowly improving.” It
is hoped that with freedom from business care
and labor, and the invigorating effects of a
Northern c'im ,te, he will soon be entirely re
stored to health, and returned ready to resume
the- battie of tie railroads in which he stands,
confessedly, without “a foeman worthy of his
steel.”
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