About Weekly Georgia telegraph. (Macon [Ga.]) 1858-1869 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 10, 1869)
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Senator Fessenden.—This gentleman has been hovering round the point of death for several days, from a terrible malady, (as we judge by the expressions of the telegram,) the technical name of which we have forgotten—but it is strangulation of the bowels—some unnatu ral contortion or twisting of the intestinal canals by which communication is entirely cut off and •death results from inflammation and gangrene. We recollet Hugh S. Legate died of this mal ady, during the visit of President Tyler to Bos ton ; and several cases of it have occurred among’ our personal acquaintance. One in Bal timore was treated with doses-'of quicksilver, we suppose more for the benefit of the specific gravity of the dose than anything else, but it failed.; and the unhappy man lived nearly a week in a hopeless condition. Another, in Florida, was treated, after all other experiments had failed, with an enormous draught of melted lard—nearly a quart; and it was claimed to have cured him. At anyrate, he survived, and died in Texas, of fever, years afterwards. Meeting oi the Central Executive Democratic Committee. We find the following call published in the Atlanta Constitution of yesterday: Atlanta, September 4,1809.—The members of the Central Executive Committee of the Democratic party of Georgia are requested to meet in the office of Dr. J. F. Alexander, in At lanta, on Wednesday the 15th inst., at 9 o’clock a. m. on business of importance. E. G. Cabaniss, Chairman. Democratic papers in Georgia are requested to copy. Messrs. Visscher, Westcott & Co., of Fort Valuev.—We are indebted to these gentlemen for a box of canned peaches, put up in beautiful style, and no doubt we shall find them “as good as they look.” Messrs. V., W. & Co., have, we understand, this year put up about twenty-two thousand cans, and we hope in a few years they will put up as many hundred thousand. We have been informed by dealers in peaches that a much larger production in America would vastly increase the demand—for the fruit would then become an important article of export trade to Europe, where the peach is held in high es teem—is a costly fruit—produced with difficulty, and not by any means in the perfection it at tains on the North American continent. Common School Education in Boston.—The Boston Traveler gives the consolidated city school reports for the year ending April SO, 18G9. The total expenditures on account of schools and school houses were $1,327,287, of which $982,677 was for ordinary school outlays. The total number of pupils was 16,167 which, it will be seen, is a little over $G0 dollars per year to the pupiL This sum, however, includes books to the indigent; and the average is much increased by the cost per pupil in the high schools. In the Latin High School it was $111 80. In the English High School $116 44. In the girl’s high and normal school it was $87 75. In the grammar sohools it ranges from $25 38 to $46 16, The Cotton Crop. A recent trip on the Milledgeville and Eaton- ton Branch Railroad convinces us that if our State makes aa much cotton as last year we will be fortunate. The fields generally, present the appearance as to life of the plant, condition of the leaves, etc., as they usually do in November after the first frost of autumn. There was a good bottom crop made, a fair middle crop and no late or August crop unless in exceptional cases. Cotton is mostly open and picking is fine; but it will soon be gathered. That section, we hope, will raise enough com for home con sumption. Small creeks have entirely dried up and many mills stopped for want of water. From Brunswick.—We have the Seaport Ap peal of the 4th, for the first time for several weeks. What has been the matter? We trust the Appeal does not cut ns off in our prime. The Appeal is principally down on Savannah and the Central for their alleged monopolizing spirit, and characterizes the former as the “ Southern Hub.” We hope to see Brunswick a prosperous and growing city without taking a leaf from the laurels of Savannah. There’s room for both on this round globe of ours, and we bid both God speed. ' Sharp Fellows.—The Savannah papers con dole with their brethren of the up-country who were so unfortunate as not, like themselves, to see through the millstone of the Halbert-Press Excursion, and avoid the political snare. They should remember that we up-country people cannot sharpen our wits every day against the Savannah “bricks.” If we could, wo might ri val their sagacity and stand the test of Hudi- bras:' “Optics sharp it needs. I ween. To see what is not to bo seen.” Macon and Augusta Railroad.—About 800 hands are now at work on that portion of the road between Macon and Milledgeville which remains to -be graded. The expectation is to put the whole of the line in operation about next mid-summer. The New Era announces that “the Republi can party is fast becoming a unit all over the country." We knew it'was getting weak, but bad no idea it was coming down so fast. When it comes to the last man, will that man be Dr. Bard ? m High time to Attend to Business. — The Springfield Republican (Radical) calls upon the President to stop his travels and attend to busi ness ; or if he will travel, to go South and ac quaint himself personally with the state of af fairs in this quarter. ^ v • ' Trade in New York.—Private letters from New York represent Southern trade in the past three weeks more active than at any time since the war. Ice in Vermont. —Ice formed at Mount Wash ington, Vermont, two inches thick, on the 31st ultimo. ■ ’- 7 The Suez Canal was completed on the 1st instant The grand opening will take place . December 17th. I The Rome Courier announces that Henry W. Grady, “King Hans” of the Constitution, will be associate editor of that paper. MaNToaacsRY and Columbus Cotton Receipts. stock At Montgomery September 1st, 1869, 136; reeefved sines 489; stock September 4th, 181. Columbus, 7th.—Stock September 1st 125; re ceived Cth 45; reoeived previously 324—total 449 bale*. tV aa Jwdxr and Juror. Mourned our Northern brethren are getting their Woinaohs full of negro justice and vent their complaints to the pitiless skieB. Ca*e \ is that of L. P. Smith, of Charleston, ex-registrar aud United States army offloer.— He fought, bled and died for the Union, only to find himself a prisoner by command of one Aaron Logan, a sbirtless corn-field negro, play ing Justice of the Peace under commission of Gov. Soott, of South Carolina. It seems Smith while on the Board of Registration, caused the arrest and imprisonment of Logan, in Castle Pinckney, for incendiary conduct and languages Logan is a party driver for the Radicals, and brutal, insolent and ignorant in the last degree, logon watched his opportunity for revenge on Smith and found it some time last week, on oc casion of a complaint by Smith before Lncns, a white magistrate, of the misdemeanors of a colored woman on his plantation. Logan got out a habeas corpus and had Smith arrested, without warrant, by four negroes, and carried off nine miles to Logan’s house. Here Smith was put through a course of training by the negroes, which made every drop of his loyal blood boil with rage. He was taught to take his hat off, make his bow and show his “respeo for de oonrt,” and was finally bound over to answer for assault and battery and com mitted to jail for contempt. The wrongs and sufferings of the loyal Smith are the subject of long editorials in the Charles ton papers of Monday. "We condole with him, but cannot help him. His appeal lies to the loyalists of the North. 2. Columbus, Mississippi, has had another rich case, in the trial of one “Rev. Pleasant Bowler," for shooting Cline, Radical Sheriff of the county, while in the lawful custody of the latter, for inciting riot in the streets of Colum bus. Bowler is a terrible scoundrel and impos ter, but also a terrible power among the blacks. He was tried before c. b. Judge Brown, just from Ohio. The jury were all black—not one could read, and ten ont of the twelve sat in their shirt sleeves, filthy and covered with rags. All the facts were proved by unimpeachable witnesses; and the only defence set np was that “brudder Bowler was "Hot in his right mind. The case was closed at 3 o’clock in the morning after long and eloquent speeches by the advo cates, and upon the reassembling of the court after breakfast, the jury came in with the fol lowing verdict: “We is all ob de ’pinion dat brudder Pleasant Bowler didn't do it.” Accordingly, the court directed a verdict of not guilty” to bo entered, and the “intelligent jury” were dismissed. “ A Northerner,” in a letter to the Louisville Journal, developes these facts, togother with an immense amount of in dignation ; but as this is the kind of justice his countrymen prefer for the South, if not for themselves, we think he wastes his astonishment and horror. A Sad Spectacle. One of the most lugubrious spectacles ex hibited in this untoward generation was seen in Nashville, the other day, when eight of the Radical Representatives in Congress got to gether and issued a formal Protest against the late election in Tennessee. When tho Radicals in Georgia undertook to fraudulate fifty thou sand Democratic majority in this State, we thought it a strong case. They deserved sym pathy— they had declared open war on common sense and human reason. But when it comes to seventy thousand majority—that is still more startling. It is the twelfth juror cursing the obstinacy and folly of his eleven compeers. It is the old heretic of Noah’s flood re-enacted, who sat on the top of the highest rock swearing he meant to bring suit against the corporation for not providing proper drainage. What will these protesters have done ? Do they expect Congress to interfere—annuli the election and back Stokes in his threatened Coup tf etat f They don’t say, and probably they dare not say. They protest, and they set forth to Congress and the country the horrid ills which most follow if the election is per mitted to stand, but they dare not recommend any positive course in the premises. They shrink from any direct appeal to Congress to annuli the ballot and set the election aside.— And what they dare not recommend, even for the temporary salvation of their own political bacon, they can scarcely hope Congress will dare undertake. Indeed, so far as we are concerned, we should be glad to see this question of Congressional interference with the freedom of elections, take a shape which no man conld hereafter evado or misrepresent. We should be glad to see Con gress proclaim openly—the position it has prac tically assumed in tho South, that hereafter no State election the results of which are unsatis factory to the Radical party, shall bo permitted to stand. We should then, at least, know how matters stand and what is the character of the government. No donbt these gentlemen feel much ag grieved by the Tennessee election. It sounded the death knell to all their political prospects.— It emancipated the whites. It pat an end to a stupendous Ethiopian Imposition: but it is too big a case for their management. Middle Georgia Colored Baptist As sociation. This body met in Eatonton, Georgia, on Sat urday last, and adjourned onFriday, 7th instant. Rev. Wilkes Flagg, of Milledgeville, was the presiding officer, and we leam from those who were present that he presides with great dignity, and preserves admirable order. It was the oc casion of quite a large assemblage of the colored people in the village, and it affords ns pleasure to chronicle the fact that their conduct was or derly daring the whole time. An important step has been taken in connec tion with the Colored Baptist Ministry, by Rev. E. W. Warren, Pastor of the First Baptist Church of this city. Mr. Warren was at the meeting of the Association on the last day, and proposed to board for one month in Macon, say December next, fifty colored Baptist Ministers, and arrange for their instruction by a catecheti cal system of lectures by himself and other prominent Georgia Baptist Ministers. The subjects on which they are to be lectured are the following: Scriptural Interpretation— Scriptural Geography — Scriptural History— Christian Doctrine — Christian Experience— Holy laving—Church Discipline—Ministerial Qualifications—Composition of Sermons—De livery of Sermons and Church Organization. His proposition was gratefully received by the Moderator and the Association generally, and we have no donbt Mr. Warren will moke a success of it, and add materially to the efficiency of the colored ministry. The Association, by the way, we hear adopted a resolution looking to three examinations of can didates before they are fully licensed to preach. The Cotton-Crop of I860. Correcting an estimate made by the Charles ton News, a correspondent of that paper insists that the crop of this year will not be more than 200,000 bales over that of 1808. We shall be surprised if it is as much. All the accounts of tho crop in Georgia whioh reach us, show that the fields nowlook much as they usually do in No vember. The crop is almost universally made. Picking will be pretty mnch over by the middle or last of October. This is ah extraordinary state of affairs, and although a greater area was cultivated than last year, we have serious doubts whether the yield'will be greater. We hope it will, but really see no gnat chance for it The Coining Immigration and the Labor Question. While we are discussing questions respecting Chinese snd foreign immigration, we are really overlooking the kind of immigration most im minent and the source from which it is to come. These were pointed out last spring in a charge to the Grand Jury of Dougherty by Hon. J. M. Clarke, which was printed in the Telegraph about that time. The Judge prophesied a heavy emigration of the freedmen from Virginia and the other border States—gradually retiring before the inflny of white immigration and white labor. Repeated extracts from the Virginia papers which we have copied, of late, show that this movement has begum A statement reprinted yesterday from the Lynchburg News, says that the crop failure in Virginia will drive the ne groes by thousands southward from Virginia during the ensniDg winter. The Danville Times says that Virginia will soon bo occupied by small immigrant proprietors from other States, and the colored population will move rapidly southward. We have also published announce ments of the actual beginning of such an exo dus from Virginia, so that we may justly assume that the theory of the Judge is fast taking the shape of fact On the other hand, we leam from many trust worthy sources that the negro population is rapidly leaving the rich alluviums and prairie lands of the Southwest, and seeking the up lands. They will not consent to labor in insalu brious localities. Sickness is very fatal where there is no provision for medical advice and remedies, and proper food and care for the pa tient, and where these are had the expenses sweep away the small earnings of the laborers. Thus, under the combined operation of these causes the circle of the colored habitat is fast narrowing. This population is gradually work ing towards a common centre—the great upland ootton region of Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi and Tennessee. Here they have a mild and healthful climate, and here they can find abnn dant labor and good wages in the production of food and upland cotton crops. Their places in the great cotton alluviums, if supplied at all, must be filled by Asiatics, and many millions of the Chinese are bom in and people just such regions. We believe the Mississippi alluviums and the rich prairies of the Southwest can well afford to offer such superior inducements to Chinese labor, as will command it and insure that vast region of unrivalled fertility from all danger of relapsing Into jungle. But wc, in the Southern uplands, sea in this movement of the colored population that onr supply of negro labor is probably destined to increase from year to year, and that we occupy the point around which the last of the colored race will cluster in the final issue of the great industrial conflict with the white race. We need not, therefore, vex ourselves with the problem of Chinese immigration. We should rather leam to do our best with the negro, and prepare to compete, through him, with Asiatic labor employed in the production of lowland cottons. The best and most practical minds in these States should be turned to digesting the best systems of labor employment and management —the best system of police for the protection of property, the collection of wages, enforce ment of contracts, the security of labor against crime, demoralization, fraud, and imposition, and in fine, the harmonizing of the interests of the white and colored populations upon the best possible foundation. Let us assume, once for all, that the kind of agricultural labor we have is to be ours for at least a generation, and turn onr thoughts away from vain speculations about some other, to the practical point—how we may best utilise, control, and govern what we have for the inter ests of all concerned. Columbus Affairs. The Sun of Tuesday says there was a heavy rain on Sunday on the Talbotton road, within five miles of Columbus, and abundant rains have fallen in the southern part of Russell county and in other sections of Alabama. There was a slight drizzle in Columbus on Monday. The mill and ginhonse of Wm. G. Woolfolk, eight miles below Columbus, were burned on Sunday. -Mr. Eugene Stewart, a young and promi nent merchant of Colnmbus, died on Monday evening of congestive fever. Trinity Church has chosen Rev. S. S. Harris, late of Montgom ery, to be its Rector. A novel claim of suc cession to the estate of T. W. Brantley has arisen by the appearance of a woman claim ing to be his widow. A woman unknown, left by an unknown man for accouchment at a house in Columbus, died of congestive chill, which seized her immediately after her companion had left her. She refosed to make any disclosures and was anxious to die. BY TELEGRAPH, From Baldwin County. The Federal Union leams from Mr. E. D. Brown, a contractor on the Macon and Augusta Railroad, that the distance from Macon to Mil- ledgevillo by the line is thirty-one and a quarter miles. Abont thirty-five bales of new cotton had been sold in Milledgeville up to Tuesday, at 29J@29J. R. h. Hunter, Esq., had established in Mil ledgeville an agency of tho Southern Insurance and Trust Company of Savannah. The grand jury of fealdwin county complain of Gov. Bullock’s exercise of the pardoning power—of his reckless expenditure of the funds of the State in advertising in the public gazettes, and of the removal of the Beat of government Bishop Linz, who was sentenced to imprison ment for defying the civil authorities of Austria, will be made a cardinal by the Pope. Humboldt’s servant, to whom he left most of his property is dead. The viceroy bought a doll in Paris for the Sul tan’s daughter. The ear-rings of the toy woman cost $10,000. The new silk mills in Patterson, New Jersey, it is said will cover a block of thirty thousand square feet, and are to be lighted entirely from the roof. The post-master at Clarksville, Mo., who gets a salary of two hundred and fifty dollars a year, has been trying to resign for several months past without sncces. Forney at Gettysburg privately admitted that Mr. Geary would be beaten by Mr. Packer in October. Grand Duchess Helena, of Russia, is called the best looking princess in Europe. “A man’s character is his capital.” Many people don’t have tc distress themselves much about the safety of their capital. Wise and Patriotic.—Gen. Lee, in declining the invitation to go to Gettysburg, says: My engagements will not permit me to be present. I believe if there I could not add anything on the subject. I think it wiser, moreover, not to keep open the sores of war, but to follow the examples of those nations who endeavored to obliterate the marks of civil strife, and to commit to oblivion the feelings it engendered. Mbs. Stowe has found a champion in John Neal, of Portland, Me., who has, it is said, facts in his possession to corroborate her statements. The Boston Advertiser says, Mr. Neal was pres ent at Lord Byron's funeral, and acquainted with his friends, and that his reminiscences will soon appear in the public prints, and form a fit sequel to his already published “Wandering Recollections.” Oub Colleton correspondent, says the Charles ton News, reports that three murders, by ne groes, have taken place in a short time, and that there have been three incendiary fires in Walterboro’ in one week. Perhaps the Radi cals will call these Democratic outrages] At Stockholm, Sweden, when a sewer was dug recently,-the ’hull of a vessel was found eleven feet under ground, which is estimated to have been there about three hundred years. From Washington. Washington, September 7—Fenian aims and ammunition are being used by the Cubans. In consequence of the funeral on Thnreday of Gen. Rawlins, the Department, except for necessa ry business, will be closed until Friday. Gov. Walker, with prominent Virginians will be present at the funeral. Troops will be called from adjacent posts to assist. Revenue to-day, $354,000. The private correspondence between the Revenue officials and members of Congress, it is said, fore shadows the increase of the whisky tax. Treasury Department, September 7,1869, As a mark of respect to the memory of Eon. John A. Rawlins, deceased, late Secretary of War, the Treasury will be closed, and the public works under the control of this Department suspended, and flags kopt at half-mast during Thursday, the 9th instant— the day on which the obsequies of the deceased will be solemnized. Wil A. Richardson, Acting Secretary. Peabody’s health is not much improved. Currency will hereafter be issued at the rate of one quarter of a million daily until the pressing wants are supplied. Washington, September 8.—The Secretary of the Navy has ordered minute guns to be fired at every' naval station and by war vessels, in honor of Sec retary Rawlins. Generals Grant and Sherman were in consultation this morning at the War Department. The President to-day appointed General Sherman Secretary of War. It is supposed that G. B. Dodge will ultimately obtain the portfolio.. All public bueiness is suspended and the publie buildings are draped in mourning. The following order has been issued at Norwich, Connecticut The parties in whose behalf the pe tition was made are now on trial before a military commission at Calvert, Texas, for the alleged mur der of Dr. Maxwell, in Jnne last: Ex parte, Ben. Brown, Eli Wood, John H. Halli- gen. Granville Williams, Andrew Phillip Stone, meets the petition for habeas corpus, at Chambers, before S. P. Chase, Chief Justice of the United States, September 6th, 1869 : Upon hearing the petition in this case, it appear ing from the statement of D. N. Baziza, Esquire, counsel for the petitioners, that there is no good reason to apprehend that tire sentence of the mili tary commission now trying the said petitioners, will, if against them, or either of them, be carried into execution until the questions arising upon their petition shall have been determined by the Supreme Court of the United States, upon hearing of an ap plication in behalf of E- U* Yerger for a writ of habeas corpus with writ of certiorari, directed to the Circuit Court of the United States for the Dis trict of Mississippi, to be made at tho session of the Supremo Court of the United States to be held in October next, or upon hearing of a similar appli cation for writ of habeas eprpus with writ of certio rari, directed to the Circuit Court of the United States for the Western district of Texas, to ho made to the said Supreme Court, at its said Octo ber session, in behalf of tbe petitioners; it is therefore, Orderod, That forthor action upon this petition be postponed until the second Monday of October next, at Chambers, in tbe City of Washington, on which day, or earlier if found needful, this appli cation may be renewed. S. P. Chase, Chief Justice of the United States. A letter has been received from Mr. Davis dated London Augnst 20th. The Chinese Minister, Browne, informs tho State department that the Chinese government has grant ed no concessions to any company or individuals for tho inland telegraphs. FROM CUBA. The Cubans have the following to tho 20th : A re- connoitering force of seven hundred from Puerto Principe, were defeated. It i3 reported that Puerto Principe has been abandoned, the Spaniards having retreated to NenvitaB. Valmazada’a forces moved from Los Tonos and attacked the Cubans, who were concentrating in that vicinity under Quesada. Val in azada commanded the Spaniards. The force was composed of twenty-five hundred regulars and fif teen hundred volunteers. The engagement lasted four hours. The Spaniards were repulsed with heavy loss. Tho Cuban loss was over one hundred. Val- mazada found refuge under the fortifications of Los Tonos, which Quesada, without artillery, was unable to attack. In the fight reported in Puerto La Grande in which a Spanish force of over Beven hundred was defeated, it is stated that after the first fire tho troops desert ed en masse to the Cubans, when the officers were captured and paroled by Jordan. The Pennsylvania Disaster. Scranton, September 7.—All work is stopped in this vicinity. Two men who ventured down to res cue thoso in the mine perished. The trains are bringing miners from ail quarters free of charge to pid in rescuing the bodies whether dead or alive.— The widows and orphans will not be less than six hundred in number. The prolonged strikes, just closed, increases the destitutions. Tbe men who descended the shaft found the doors at the bottom dosed, and lost their lives while waiting below for implements with which to force the doors. They are supposed to bavo been closed by the miners to exdude tho flames. Later.—Tho only hope for the safety of tho two hundred and two men in Arondale mine, lies in tho probability that they may have shut themselves up in a remote part of the mine, away from the shaft The death of thoeo who descended the shaft to res cue them, was caused from foul air coming from the mine. '!< Scranton, September 8.—Two bodies have been brought up swelled beyond recognition. Clots of blood dung about their mouths, and they were hor rible objects. It now seems that the efforts made to save the miners probably caused their death. The volume of air sent down for ventilation carried tho flames from the horning shaft into the mine.' Nothing is now being done except throwing water down tbe shaft. Approach to tho mouth of the mine is still dangerous. Later.—One hundred and three bodies have been brought up. Philadelphia, September 8 A special to the Evening Telegram says that the Aruudale shaft has been opened, and that the miners are all dead. James Snider, who lolled a Master Mason at Fair- mount, committed suicide in Moyamensing prison, to-day, by holding his head in a bucket of water. Trov Virginia. Richmond, Sept. 7—^acmcl Collier, of Baltimore, accepted to-day, the challenge of ^Charles Doherty, of this city, for a prize fight, to take place in Vir ginia. Several distinguished citizens of Richmond will go to Washington to attend the funeral of Secretary Rawlins. Tho insurance on tho tiro last night foots up 50,000. The bulk of it being in Virginia Compa nies. ’ A telegram to tho Dispatch from Farmville, an nounces the burning of tbe Presbyterian Female Academy, with furniture, library, etc. Richmond, Sept. 8.—The proclamation of Gen. Oanby will bring the Legislature together on Octo ber 6th. Governor Walker will ho installed aB pro visional Governor within the next two weeks, at which time Governor Wolla’ resignation, now in tho hands of Canby, will to accepted. Tho Legislature itself will decide on whether it shall elect permanent or temporary officers. Tho stockholders of tho Richmond ind York River Railroad resolved to-day to extend tho road twenty- ono miles, to Chesapeake Bay, thus shortening by seven hours time between Richmond and Baltimore and Philadelphia. General Canby will issue tho election proclama tion to-morrow. - " Governor Wells, it is stated on good authority, sent his resignation to General Canby a week ago', on the reception of tho Attorney General's test oath opinion. , ,'\ F. E. Lindsey, Post-master at Ravens Nest, Scott county, was arrested and. brought here to-night for robbing the mail. ■. General Hews. Chicago, September 7.—Highwaymen robbed Welle, Far.ro Jc Co.’s coach atMalvade station, Utah ] Territory, of $40,000. The passengers were unmo lested. j. - - “ Froia Cnba.'- - l. . „. ‘Havana, September 7.—Foreign residents, princi pally Germans, are enlisting in tho reserve battal ions. Eeight hundred Insurgents surprised and re pulsed five hundred volunteers near Puerto Princi pe. Reinforcements were sent when the Cubans declined battle. On the 17th of August the Insur gents, several thousand strong, commanded by' Quesada, President Cespedes being present,attacked Los Tunis. Two hundred and fifty Cubans were killed. The garrison, consisting of 450 troops, lost a hundred killed. The fight lasted nine hours. From Mobile. Mobile, September 7.—A suit for libel, in which the dameges are laid at $10,000, was entered to-day snd a sumiqons served on Col. Mann, proprietor of ’theRegister, for alleged defamation of character of one Putnam, a carpet-bagger, and superintendent of the public schools in this city. The offense as charged is for the publication of a communication from a distinguished citizen charging Putnam with having been indicted for embezzlement. A like suit has been instituted against Col. Forsyth, of the Register, and author of the communication. General Hews. Portland, September 8.—Senator Fessenden is dead. Allentown, Penn., September 8—The Allen town Iron Works were burned to-day. Loss, $300,’ 000. It throws one thousand men out of employ, ment. Tho company paid out one hundred and fifty thousand dollars as wages per month. New York, September 8.—A private dispatch to O. L. Bcranter, says: “Cespedes and Quesada, with six thousand men, were repulsed from Los Tonos with a loss of five hundred men, many arms and a flag.” St. Louis, September 8.—8. A. Benoist & Co., Bankers, have failed New Orleans, September 8.—Yesterday’s Detroit freight train, on the Jackson road, fell through the trestle above Eenneville. The train was fired and four cars and their contents consumed. Foreign Hews. Paris, Sept. 7.—The Journal Officiate, to-day, con tradicts tho alarming rumors of the Emperor’s health, saying the Emperor attends to his affairs daily. He has suffered some from rheumatism, but at no time has his condition been such as to cause tbe least anxiety. Sessions of the Senate have closed. London, Sept. 7.—Alexandria dispatches report tho cotton crop in the interior. of Egypt excellent, both in quality and quantity. Madrid, September 7.—The troops have defeated thirty Carlista under Estartus near Genoa. Estartus escaped. This is the last Carlist baud known to be on Spanish soil. U. S. Commissioner’s Court.—Court met at 10 o’clock yesterday forenoon pursuant to adjourn ment, and after tbe Marshal had commanded silence and order, Hon. H. S. Fitch, of Savannah, on the paitof W. B. Johnson et al, Cuban patriots, pro ceeded to read various points of law in support of his motion, on the day before, to discharge the par ties, as they had been arrested beyond the jurisdic tion of this Court, and there was no authority here to hold the prisoners, or to hear and determine upon tho charges against them. Col. Jno. B. Weems, on the part of the govern ment, replied at some length, and insisted that as the accused bad committed an offence against the laws of tho United States and not againat the laws of Georgia; this Court, as a court of the general Government, for the Southern District of Georgia, did have the right to hear and determine the matter now before it. Col. Jno. Milledge, U. S. District Attorney, fol lowed in justification of the act of tho U. 8. Mar shal in arresting the prisoners wherever they might he fonnd, on land or sea, within the jurisdiction of the United States. The parties were not arrested in Enfaula, Ala., without authority* They were ar rested by authority of this Court and under a war rant from it ob a legal power of the Government. Hon. H. S. Fitch then replied to tbe arguments of Cols. Milledge and Weems at considerable length and with great learning, logic and power, insisting upon it, that this Court was one of limited jurisdic tion ; if not, where did its limit extend and where begin ? He submitted the question. The Court ruled that tbe arrest of the prisoners at Euf aula, by the United States Marshal was valid, to all intents and purposes, and cited authority for its action in ordering the arrest . This decision set tled for the time the case of the Atlanta prisoners. Tho Court then proceeded to an examination of the case of the United States it. John Puryear. for a violation of the Neutrality Laws, and the follow ing witnesses were examined: Edward Strohecker, jr., sworn, says: I know John Puryear; had an interview with him at tho Lanier Honso two weeks ago, relative to going out to Cuba. He said he was a recruiting officer, and was author ized to give $33 per month to all enlisted men. There were five or six present. I accepted tho offer and volunteered to join the expedition against the Cuban authorities. Cross Examined: We were down stairs in the sit ting room of the Lanier House. Mr. Freeman and Mr. Wycho were present. I don’t know who intro duced ino to Mr. Puryear. I asked him what was intended to be donehe said it was a filibustering expedition. He said tho $35 would be paid in gold, but said nothing about bounty. Ho got me to raise a company. I raised some fifty or sixiy. I re ceived no money; was not to receive any until wo were on board the steamer. I saw no arms or ac coutrements ; made the affidavit on which Mr. Pur year was arrested. Am a citizen of the United States. J. S. Yowls, sworn, says: I know Mr. Puryear; have seen him in presence of last witness; never heard any promises made by Mr. Paryear; met him at my boarding house; he told me he was bound for Cuba, and that I should have tho same inducements he possessed. Cross Examined bp XT. S. Counsel: He stated he was to command a company of partizan rangers, and said that all competent young men would re ceive good positions. He offered me no pay, if I agreed to go. Re-examined by Counsel for defence: Was not an enlisted man and never signed my name to any muster roll. Here the Counsel turned to Mr. Strohecker, asked him if he ever made out a muster roll. To which Mr. Strohecker replied: I have sir; the company was to be colled Company H, when we got to Cuba. The list of names I saw had its caption or heading, “List of Company H,”nothing more; don’t know what become of the list; would not know a copy of the muster roll if it was in court to-day. James S. Freeman, sworn, says: Know Mr. Pur year; was not present at Lanier Houbo when Mr, Strohecker was introduced; I was never offered any inducements to join the expedition. Mr. Stroheck er asked mo to join; I have never been arrested; have never signed my name to any military con tract. Percy Clancy, sworn, says: Heard Mr. Paryear say $35 per month was offered to recruits; never received a dime. I put ray name down to go, but had a privato conversation with my father, who advised me not to go. He said wo would all be brought back, and I determined then not to go. Cannot tell whother I was regularly enlisted or not, did not hear any one say the Cuban government would pay for our services, that I remember; my name was signed for mo with my consent. Court adjourned till 2% o’clock p, m. Afternoon Proceedings.—The Court convened at 3 p. m—attendance as compared with that of the morning rather slim. The Marshal called those present to order snd commanded silence, when Hon. Henry S. Fitch, counsel for the accused, pro ceeded to argue the case. He strongly maintained the point, and cited numerous passages of law in support of it, that no enlistment can be made un less accompanied by an oath of allegiance to the government about to bo served; that a mere enroll ment of a recruit does not constitute enlistment; the recruit must sign bis name to the articles of en listment with his own hand, or it must be done with his personal consent and knowledge and in his pres ence. In the case now. before the Court nothing of tho sort had been done and, consequently, tbe pros ecution was without a case. The learned and elo quent gentleman was extremely sarcastic and scath ing in his remarks upon the character of the testi mony given, by Mr. Strohecker. Col. Weems followed m behalf of the prosecution, claiming that the accused had so clearly, palpably and openly violated tbe Neutrality Laws, (a portion of which he read) that the Court must bind the ac cused over to the United States District Court, to answer for the offence. At'the dose of Col. W.’s argument Commissioner Morrill announced that his decision would be re-., served until this morning at 10 o'clock, whereupon ttye Marshal adjourned the Court till that hour. Personal.—Mr. J. M..Scott, of the reliable firm Scott A Brother, commission merchants, in New 1 FINANCM, AND COMMERCIAL. Weekly Review of the Market. OFFICE DAILY TELEGRAPH, 1 September 8—Evening, 1869.) General Remarks.—Barring the eearetty of mo ney, we have to report a very good wholesale and jobbing trade in this city for the first week of our commercial year. But for the scarcity of money re ferred to, the trade .would have been considerably larger; but, nevertheless, it wee unusually good, owing to the great activity in the cotton market, ■which market Is the barometer of trade at the South. Our merchants, in all branches of business, have been unusually busy the past week in receiving new goods, and in a short while "they can boast of as large and well assorted stocks ss can be found in the State. Financial.—We have etillno change to note in the condition of the money market It continues strin gent, as the rapidly increasing crop of cotton ab sorbs every surplus dollar in the hands of capitalists, and the banka are not yet prepared to make ad vances. With the exception of a slight advance iit the buying and selling rates of gold, we have no change to make in financial quotations. The stock and bond market is perfectly flat No demand. Quotations unchanged. Cotton.—Receipts to-day 582 bales ; sales 89; shipped 182. Receipts for the week ending this evening 1863 bales; sales for same time 1072; shipments 1244. Receipts for the first eight days of September, 1868, amounted to 252 bales; receipts for the same time, 1869, amount to 2052 bales. The market during the week ending this evening has been firm and active on a basis of 30 cents for middlings. Today, however, the demand was checked under the unfavorable market reports from New York and Liverpool, and tho market closed very quiet at SO cents, nominal, for middlings. 1 MACON COTTON STATEMENT. Stock on hand Sept 1,1869—bales.. 179 Received to-day 582 Received previously..... 1,470— 2,052 2,231 Shipped to-day 1S2 Shipped previously 1,240— 1,422 Stock on hand this evening 800 Groceries and Provisions.—Trade has been mod erately active for the week ending this evening, and prices for leading articles have been fully main tained. Corn has advanced folly ten cents per bushel since the date of our last weekly review, and the stock in market is now very low. In the face of an extremely short crop of com in Tennesseee and in the Northwest, it is a source of much satisfaction to know that the crop of com in the Cotton States is larger, perhaps, than it has been for years, andwith rigid economy in its consumption our planters may be able to keep down famine prices next spring and summer. Bacon has been steady and firm, with a good de mand, all the week under review. Flour is in fair demand, with a large and choice stock in market. Cotton-baling material has been in strong demand all the week, and the sales have been numerous and heavy. Tbe stock is still ample to supply all ordi nary demands. Quotations tell the rest: BACON—Clear Sides (smoked).... $ 21 @ Clear Rib Sides (smoked)... 20%@ Shoulders 17%@ Hams (country) 23 @ Hams (sugar-cured) 23 fit PORK—Mess .’. .. 36 50 Prime Mess 33 00 Bumps 30 00 BULK MEATS—Clear Sides 19% Clear Bib Sides 19 Shoulders. ; 15% COFFEE—Rio 22 @ Laguayra 30 @ Java 43 @ DRIED FRUIT, per pound 10 RICE per pound. 9 TEA—Black 1 50 Green 2 00 BUTTER—Goshen 7. 40 Tennessee Yellow 30 Country 30 CHEESE—According to quality... 22%@ LARD— 22%@ SUGARr-According to grade 16 @ MOLASSES—According to grade.. 65 @ FISH—Mackerel, bbls, No. 1, 2, 3. 15 00 @24 00' Kits 3 00 @ 5 00 Codfish per pound 10 @ 12K SALT—Liverpool per sack 2 75 @ 3 00 Virginia 2 50 WHISKY—Common Rye,. 1 20 @ 1 50 Fine 2 50 @ 5 00 Com 1 15 @ 1 35 Bourbon 350 @500 ALE—Per dozen 3 00 ® 4 00 TOBACCO—Lowgrades per pound 50 @ 65 Medium Good... Bright Virginia Fancy FLOUR Superfine per bbl Extra 21J* 21 17tf @ 26 @ 25 @37 50 @34 00 26 33 45 & ® ® 2 00 @ 2 50 ® 521* ® 40 40 27 23 20 70K 60 75 85 1 25 7 00 9 00 70 80 ® 1 00 ® 1 50 @ 7 50 @10 00 Family 10 50 @11 00 Fancy Family Brands 12 00 (gl8 00 New per barrel 11 00 GRAIN SND HAY. CORN—Yellow, Mixed and White. meal GRITS OATS ; 90 1 40 ® 1 50 (S 1 60 @ 1 70 @ 1 00 @ 1 50 140 FIELD PEAS HAY—Northern 1 90 @ 2 00 Tcnnesse Timothy........ Herds Grass 2 00 2 00 Tennessee 2 00 Foreign Market*. aft. 8eptettber *• “-a—* w*. Sugar afloat 28e9d. Bonds 82^ September 8, evening^-Consoia 92)' Liverpool, September 8, afternoon.—Cotton uplands 13^; Orleans 13;i@18)£. Red Western Wheat 9sl0d{498lld. L*rtr76ef' >tt ° n ***** ^ BSC8fl(J 3000 bal*, i Liverpool, September 8, evening. Cotton 4,000 bales; export and speculation 2,000 n D w? 13%; Orleans 13%; marketdnU. ’ ’ np!iw » Provisions and Naval Stores dull. iSSs?"*" 8 ' Later.—Bourse firmer. Rentes 70f27c. Runaway.—We ’ bare all heard’ of the bull in china shop, and yesterday we- had a horse in crockery store. A Mr. Gates, from the country tJ stopped his horse on Cotton Avenue to repU^’ bridle bit which had fallen out of the horse’g mouth and white doing so, something frightened the j^l mal and he ran away, smashing the buggy to Void, he was attached, and, breaking loose from it, ajul down Cotton Avenue and then up Second sw? He first attempted to run into Wing’s jewelrv gJ but was frightened back, when he ran on street to Cherry and, dashing across the htte^ darted into B. A. Wise & Co.’s crockery and houwJ furnishing store, next door to this office. He" through the entire length of the building M a Stopped only by the dosed door in the rear, hmj! di&tely around where he stopped and sitting on the floor was a large quantity of crockery wire, but strange to say, not a piece was brokei. ’ He stepped around and among tbe plates and dishes very hie we have seen blind men danoe among and over eggs macrons ring, and-never smash one with their - feet. The affair produced the greatest sensation we have Been on Cherry street since'Wise received his late heavy importation from Europe. An EjlEcrablk Wretch A mean white wretch, named Donalaon, a day or Two since, in Atlanta, ea- ticed a poor white woman, with several children, to break up house-keeping in that city, sell her fund- tore, and come to thia city or neighborhood, and he would give her a good home and her children lucrv tive employment in picking ont his cotton. The woman took the scoundrel’s advice, and placed ia hi3 hands the proceeds of the sale of herfnnutnre, and on reaching this city, the day before yesterdij her betrayer deserted her, and went off on die Brunswick Railroad yesterday morning, leafing the poor woman and her children here among strangen, and without a doliar. She stated her case to the city authorities, and officer Pridgen left yesterdiy afternoon in pursuit of the inhuman dog. Cotton Receipts.—Yesterday morning’s Cohmi- bus freight train brought through for Savannah 153 bales of cotton, and for Macon 26. The afternoon Euf aula freight train 1 for Savannah 228 bales, and for Macon 79, nuimg I the receipts by the South-Western road yesterday Btand thus: Savannah. T... .381 Macon..... :..105 The ootton receipts by tbe South-Western W- | road for the first week of the present month, endig Tuesday evening last, exceed those of the com*- ponding week in 1868,1,971 bales. Desperate and Fatal Affray.—Conductor Har ris, who came in yesterday morning on the 4:43ft-' | lumbus freight train, reports that a desperate id fatal affray occurred at the machine shop oi the j Southwestern railroad, in Columbus, on Tueedijit ternoon last, between Mr. Isles, boss' madiinUtaf the shop, and a young man named Raddiff, a which Raddiff was killed on the spot, and Isles vu so badly cut up with a knife as to leave no bop* | that he will recover. It appears that Raddiff, awhile back, had applied to Isles for a situation in the shop, and the impret- sion was made upon his mind that he would, probe { bly, get it. But he was subsequently informed tbit j be could not get the situation. This incensed Eti-1 cliff, and, arming himself with a knife, he assails! I Mr. Isles most violently and cut him in* seven) I places before Isles could draw bis pistol. He ea> I ceeded in a moment, however, in getting it out, ul I the parties then had it between them, toa to toe, f the one with a knife and the other with a revolrer. I Raddiff received three balls through his body wind I killed him on the spot, and Isles sank down faUZr | wounded in several places, and was dying when os | informant left. We shall, probably, get a full account of the bloody j tragedy in the Columbus papers of yesterday. DOmKSTICS. Domestics—3-4 per yard ..12% Shirting—'7-8 peryard 13%@ 14 4-4 16 @15% Drilling—HeavyBrown per yard 18 @ 20 Heavy Georgia Stripes .18 OSNAHUEGS—No. 1, 8 OZ 22 No. 2, 7 oz 19 ® 21 @ 22% @ 21 Milled igeville. No. 1 22 Flint! River. No. 1 24 Sttit.t.kv—Cuthbert, peryard.. 30 BAGBIHG, TIBS ASD TWINE. BAGGING—Borneo, 2% lbs. per yard.. 31 Kentucky Roll. 2% “ “ “ ..27 @23% BALING TWINE, per pound. 25 IRON TEES—Arrow, per pound 8%@ Lawton & Lawton.—This firm, composed d I Col. W. J. Lawton and Major R. F. Lawton, tel j nonnee to-day’to their friends and the pnblio tiitl j thoy this season will continue to serve them as at-1 ton factors. Their past services in behalf of thoe* I who have patronized them, is their reference. Tbt?| ask a fair share of the business in their line. Andersonville, Sept Sth, 11 Editors Telegrams—Sirs : White looking Wl the last copy of your paper, I discovered a sbsl publication of some young men who expect togobl Cuba. I am solid tons of knowing all. tbe putol lars respecting their antidpations. Very likely tho J conld be a considerable club made up in this J inanity. Let me know, or pat me in oommsdol tion with thoso gentlemen, and you will obSpl your friend D. C. Singletak. " Wo do not know that we can reply to the far| going more satisfactorily, than to refer the well to tbe proceedings yesterday in the United Stf*| Commissioner’s Court, and we do so. LATEST MARKETS BY TELEGRAPH. Domestic Markets. New York, September 8. noon.—Flour 5 lower. Wheat 2@3 lower. Corn dull and drooping. Mess Fork nominal. Tuipentine quiet at 42. Rosin quiet; good common 2 35; Btrained 2 37%. Lard quiet Freights steady. Cotton lower at 34%. Stocks unsettled. Money easier at 7.' Sterling, long 8%; short 8%. Gold feverish and weak at 34%. 1862s 22. Tennessees, ex-coupons 60; new, 62. Virginias, ex-coupons 56. Louisian as, old 72 asked; levees 66%; 8’s 84%. Alabama 8’s 93%. Georgia 7s 90. North Carolinas, old 55; new, 57%. New York, September 8, evening—Flour, State and Western heaw; superfine to fancy State 6 50(2) 7 20; southern dull and declining; common to fair extra 6 55@11 00. Wheat closed with noon’s decline recovered. Corn dull and lower; mixed Western 119@1 20. Beef steady. Mesa pork lower at 30 50 @31 50. Lard a shade lower; kettle 19%@19%. Whiskv 110@110%. Groceries quiet. Turpentine 41%@42%. Rosin 2 30@8 00. Freights quiet but firm. Cotton fully % lower; sales 800 bales at 34%. Governments closed steady; 1862s 21%. Sonth- ems dull. Money active and tight *47; currency to gold sterling 12. Gold dull at 35. Baltimore, September 8—Cotton doll at 34@ 34%. Flour steady and in fair demand. Wheat steady ■ )rimo to choice red 153(3 1 57. - Com firm at 118(2) L22. Oats 65(360. Rice 10@15. Mess Pork dull at 34 00. Bacon, shoulders 16%. Whisky better at 113. Virginias, old 46%; 1866s 54; 1867s 60 bid. Savannah, September 8.—Cotton receipts 1236 bales; sales 75; middlings 31@31%; market flat, with a decline of % on all grades; stock largo. Augusta, September 8.—Cotton sales 213 bales; receipts 313; market opened quiet at 31%, but closed at 31. Charleston, September 8.—Cotton Bales 200 bales; market somewhat active, closing with % off; Hud dling 32. Wilmington, September 8.—Spirits Turpentine steady at 38%. Rosin quiet at 175 for No. 2. Crude Turpentine steady at 1 50(2.3 00. Tar steady at 2 45. Low middling Cotton 31. Louisville, September 8.—Whisky 1 OS. Pro visions quiet. Mess pork 34 0G@34 25. Bacon, shoulders 16(3X6%; clear sides 19%. Cincinnati, September 8.—Whisky dull at 1 08. Mess pork dull and nominally unchanged. Bacon, shoulders 15%; sides 16%. Tobacco in good demand at foil prices. St. Lome, September 8—Markets steady. Mobile, September 8—Cotton sales 100 bales; receipts 114; low middlings 80; market closed easy. Those at a distance who are unable to visit -I J. A. Hunter, of New Orleans, physicians for eases of the Throat and Lungs, during his etayil Macon, or desire any information not containo!*! his publications, should consult him by letter. B^l | US, Macon, Ga. Ten's Improved Hair Dye—Is admitted M y I sides to bo the most simple and natural dye J invented; it is easily applied,does not stain skin, lea? 68 the hair soft and glossy, and is insZj taneous in its effect. Try it and you will other. sept 5-d6t A f ’ : Just Received.—Messrs. Havens & Broirab ! *l just reoeived at their News Dopot, No. 46 S**®?I street, tbe following late Newspapers and icals; . I Harper’s Weekly, Hearth and Home, I Mercury. Leslie's Zeitung, Scottish Anew* 1 ’J don News, Sporting Timos and Day’s Doings- Peterson’s Magazine, for.October. Pepper.— An enraged woman on the other silt ^I the river, yesterday, oowbided an eighteen y«U J strippling until his hide would not bold He won’t do so no more—stake bottom doliK | that. Heavy Cotton Receipts—The, C . train of yesterday morning brought tbrougs ■ Savannah 327 bales of cotton. The yeeterf 1 ?. | temoon's Enfaula freight train brought up ^ ^ I for Savannah and 840 bales forMacon—| receipts of tbe day stand: For Savannah These are unprecedented shipments for' | of September. Couflzmextart to Dr. Hunter op Atlanta.—A card highly complimentary J character, signed by several prominent ,^1 Atlanta who have been under Dr. Hunter __ disease of tbe head, throat or lungs, will *#^1 in another column. Its perusal will, no J prove interesting to those afflicted with^te* ^ j these organs as it is unquestionable Dr. Hunter possesses the skill and ability these affections auceennfafiy. Comparative Cotton Statement-— Dnria ^- first week in September, 4868, there w6re ’ , at this point 219 bates of the crop of that y ’ of this amount only 86 bates were sold on * 25 cents for middlings, the market bain* ^ the week. During tbe first week in Sep*®®"!, there have been received here 1470 bales o rl '^Orleans, is stopping at tbe Lanier House. New Orleans, September 8—Cotton receipts 64; d of ths _ 1112# bates have sales 800, leaving little or none in first hands; ex- j . “ “ (T »be m»r* ports, coastwise 11; middlings 31%. on a basis of SO cents for t *1 Gold 34%. Sterling nominally 45. NeW York ing active with a good demand all tne Sight discount. . there ever before iu any twocwosecat-ve J e JSrazSfSSRi'KftiS&g "»- but unchanged. ’ awrirti?' hhhhi
