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•V :•:£/ *, t . y . . I • 1* • . * ' . The G-eoraia Weekly telegraph. . 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 I" ) & 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 INTA.COiSr, CjtlV., JKTEIAIl PASSBKTGEIH. DEPOT. i •Xyl CAST IRON SCREW, NO. 1. 9-12 FEET 7 INCHES DIAMETER AND 3 INCH FITCH. 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, ' * ~ :rew I boos I ' ’ 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. | > r -x, V* • ..<#***• .-'St- eemi W. C. Carlis, Bibb county. Thos. H. Jones. Twiggs county. J. P. Bond, Twiggs county. ions, Wa 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. 1 inch. , MV'I*. s«2*» ?- 4* i• l - V'ti •. ' • 4Mb* * f-«. a * MACON. Ga.. 1863. 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. .» »K No. 2 CAST IRON SCREW, Pitt 7 1-2 Feet Long, 6 inch Diameter and 2 inch Pitch. PR ICE, $7 0, '' 2 inoh. „ , . „ , „ 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. a X 1ST GEAR EIGHT FEET GIN GEAR, PINION AND BOLTS,.... NINE FEET GIN GEAR— TEN FEET GIN GEAR PORTABLE HORSE-POWER. ADAPTED TO GINING.... -s*!' 18 inches 28 inches Cane Mill Prices: EIGHTEEN INCH MILL SIXTEEN INCH MILL FIFTEEN INCH MILL.....„ ELEVEN INCH MILL =*£% : 45 00 33 00 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.” 100 *' iSS9 SO ft 80 ” 9* 70 M »» *•. 6Q *• e* a « 40 SO ** «« ** •s »< KETTLE PRICES: ONF. HUNDRED AND THIRTY GALLONS ONE HUNDRED GALLONS EI-tHTY GALLON’S ...... SIXTY GALLONS ..$32 25 t 25 Horse Steam Engine, price, 20 Horse Steam Engine, price, Boilers to Match the above Engines, Circular Saw Mill, - - $1000 1000 500 500 SEND FOR A CIRCULAR. jnly20-2t»w4w3!n T. O. NISBET. WM. HENRY WOODS, COTTON FACTOR AND GENERAL COMMISSION MERCHANT, Bay Street, SAVANNAH, GA. ^GENT FOR REESE’S SOLUBLE PACIFIC GUANO. Is prepared at all times to advanceHbunOy on Consignment! for lale iu Savanaah. or for ehipment to hie coireipondent* in New York ewd ‘AUtfifltimlHftiiaintijgaBdMfe&jidhi Liverpool. >r/4W. -.SSI .^Kr.V