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THE TELEGRAPH.
MACON, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 37, 18C9.
The Macon Cotton Market. '
A Factor thinks we ought to venture a remon
strance with producers against pressing their
cotton to sale, in the existing conditions of the
market 417 bales were sold yesterday, at 26j
and below, and the market closed dull, quota*
tions nominal, on account of the anxiety of
holders to sell. We think this policy is equally
needless and erroneous. If planters must have
money, no doubt, it can readily be procured by
hypothecating their cotton; end although twen
ty-five and six cents is a good price, thirty is
better, and that or more, it seems to be the gen
eral opinion, every pound of middling of this
crop is bound to command, if not pressed on
the market The buyers now have it all their
own way on account of the extraordinarily early
and rapid manner in which the crop is coming
forward—but the winding up of this crop, in
our opinion, is going to be more sndden and re
markable than its opening in the market
Let the people have courage aud patience.
When the crop all comes forward and is in the
hands of manufacturers, the supply will be
many hnndred thousand bales short. Specula
tors are therefore bonnd to make a good thing
on this crop, but they are not going to force
sales. Neither should producers.
Gathering Sumac.
We have copied from the New York Mercan
tile Journal an article upon Sumac, which might
be of some value to the people of this State.
We observed, in the course of our recent ram
bles in Northern Georgia, that sumac grows
very abundantly in those fertile and mountain
ous regions. Last year, sumac gathering was a
very brisk business in Virginia, and almost any
hand could make at it from two to three dollars
a day. The profits, indeed, were so great that
farmers found it a great embarrassment on ac
count of the temptation it presented to their
hands to abandon the fields and the crops.
Very large amounts were shipped from Virginia
to New York. We see 50 reason why Upper
Georgia could not realize a handsome contribu
tion to wealth and comfort in gathering and cur
ing the sumac which abounds in that region. In
formation should be obtained of the best mode
of gathering and curing, and the proper season,
and then we have no donbt there are many,
white and black, who cannot or do not labor in
the field, who might make a very handsome
sum out of sumac.
The Atlanta Fire.
The telegrams have apprised us of a serious
conflagration in Atlanta on Sunday morning,
about four o'clock. It broke out in the store of
Compton & Peddicord, on Marietta street, be
tween Whitehall and Broad streets. This was
one of a row of wooden buildings, which in the
dry weather burnt like tinder. The fire was
stayed at the National Hotel, which was dam
aged by the intense heat and loss of furniture.
The sufferers were Compton & Peddicord, Hen
ry Seltzer, J. Warlick, McMillan & Snow, A J.
Orme, Pemberton, Willson, Taylor & Co., W.
Powers & Sons, John Bookont, Malone & John
son, W. C. Lawshe, John Gam, B. Hermann,
Reynolds & Hall, Dan Lynch, Larendon & Bro.,
L. Mihnlovitch and the National Hotel. Most
of the losses are covered by insurance.
Answer.—Speaking of the truce between the
two factions of the radicals, the Atlanta New
Era says:
Don’t be too fast, brother Clisby and we will
tell you all about it. Bnt how about passing
the Fifteenth Amendment and reseating colored
members. Will yon do it ? “Tell us all about
it.” Very much hangs upon your action. Be
cautious, be wise, and may the God of Wisdom,
justice aud peace be with you, and bless and
prosper you m well doing.
So far as ‘‘reseating the coloredmembers.”is
concerned, we do not donbt that, under the Con
stitution they are as much entitled to seats in
the Legislature as anybody, and that reseating
them, in accordance with the Supreme Court
decision, will be an act of no great practical
evil, so far as the State is concerned. But
when you come to the Fifteenth Amendment,
aud ask us to blot out the independence of the
States—and arm Congress with the power to say
who shall or shall not be citizens of the States—
in point of fact to constitutionalize the destruc
tion of the whole confederated fabric as built
by the fathers, it will not be done with our con
sent. _ ,
Protection.—At a meeting of the Shipowners’
Association held in New York last week, it was
stated that in New Brunswick the wooden part
of the hull of a sailing vessel was built at $22 in
gold per ton, while on the opposite side of the
river in Maine the same thing in every respect
would cost $45, currency, and that the people
could not be expected to invest in shipping un
der such circumstances.
The ship owners declared the only remedy for
this condition of things was free trade, and
American bottoms had been “protected” out of
existence.
Buried the Hatchet.—We see by an Execu
tive order that the New Era has buried the
tomahawk and become an appointee as publish
er of the Executive proclamations by authority.
And speaking of this business, by the way, we
see some of the press are disposed to carp at
the Democratic appointees, very unjustly, as
we think, inasmuch as no doubt they would
publish if requested. Our rule is never to re
fuse any legitimate business which comes to
hand.
Cotton Chop op 1868.—It will be seen by an
article upon the outside, that the New York Ship
ping and Commercial list, said to be generally
accepted as authority, makes last year's cotton
crop only tuo million, two hundred and sixty
thousand, fits hundred and fifty^seeen bales.
Praiseworty.—The colored citizens of Spald
ing county held a meeting in Griffin on the 10th,
to express their - condemnation of the robberies
and violences committed in that region by “a
band of robbers and assassins, composed chiefly
of colored men,” and pledged their best efforts
to bring the offenders to justice.
Two hundred negroes are said to be studying
for the priesthood in Rome. That is a sign
that the Pope is a shrewd propagandist, he is
certainly not a bad humanitarian. These col
ored men are intended for the brethren in the
South, to whom Rome’s first argument is that it
has educated two hundred of their kind.
Hon. A. H. Stephens and Geo. T. Caster.—
Mr. Stephens has an article of six columns in
the New York World, of the 11th, in reply to a
review of his book by Hon. Geo. T. Carter—
principally devoted to the position of Mr. Web
ster on the State rights question.
The Central Executive Committee of the
Democratic party of Georgia meets in Atlanta
to-day. What is the occasion of the meeting
or what it is likely to do we know not.
Value or a Matrimonial Promise.—In Mon
treal on Saturday, Sophia Granger recovered
$85,000, of one Beming, for not keeping his
promise to marry her. Oh, Sophia.
Low Fare.—The railroad through fare from
New York to Chicago is to be reduced to ten
'dollars. The distance is, we believe, about
twelve hundred miles.
Tax “Last Hope” is the suggestive name of
W New York eoeUble,
Legislative Extravagance.
"The evil results of Legislatures which hold
ho responsibly to the tax-payers of a State are
strongly illustrated in North Carolina. ' The
Raleigh Sentinel says the last Legislature of that
State appropriated for railroads and turnpikes
alone the enormous sum of twenty-six millions
nine hundred and seventy thousand dollars—for
which bonds are to be issued, which ara now
worth in the market about thirty-three cents in
gold—so that the whole amount will prodnce, if
they can be sold at this rate, about the sum of
$8,990,000. This, however, will be handsome
winnings for the graceless adventurers who
control the polites of the Old North State. They
will divide out and vamose with full pockets,
leaving the Old State a good many feet above
her eyelids in debt.
Now, what is to be done ? North Carolina
had nothing to do with incurring this debt—that
is to say, the North Carolina who must pay it,
if it is paid at all! The tax payers and proper
ty holders never gave their consent to its crea
tion. Their voice was hushed and stifled and
smothered by the unconstitutional action of Con
gress, in creating for North Carolina, contrary
to all the fundamental principles of free gov
ernment, a people, who had none of the proper
attributes of a people so far as legally and mor
ally binding the property of the State to pay
this debt was concerned. They could, legally
and equitably, just as well have bound the peo
ple of New England to pay that debt.
A man cannot be brought in debt without his
own consent—nor can a people—a body politic
—be brought in debt without their assent to it.
When Congress by usurpation created a people
for these States without the consent of the same,
and this people, representing hardly a dollar of
taxable property, under the evil advice of
foreign adventurers and mercenaries, create
enormous debts and pledge the property of the
State to pay them, it becomes impossible in the
nature of things that they should be collected of
the property-holders and tax payers except by
force—for all the principles of justice aud equity-
have been outraged in the creation of these
debts.
Hence, in South Carolina, where a stupend
ous debt has been created in the same way, the
people (that is, the whites,) are now holding
meetings and notifying the world in advance
not to buy these bonds, because they will not
and cannot be paid. We say “caveat emptor,”
and every buyer of common intelligence in this
case is without excuse: because there is no
man who has the faintest notion of Republican
institutions, or of the Constitution, or of com
mon justice and equity, who does not know
that these hypothecations of the property of
the tax-payers are, under the circumstances,
outrages upon all.
The case of Georgia, considered in the light
of equity, very materially differs from that of
the Carolinas. For although a people have been
made for us by the usurpation of Congress, yet
virtually in the creation of our debts the tax-
paying people have never lost control. Their
representatives have been wofully extravagant,
but still they were, in equity, if not in law, re
presentatives of the tax-paying people; and we
cannot plead like the Carolinians that our voices
have been hushed while our property has been
encumbered with enormous debts. It becomes
the people of Georgia, therefore, to use every
influence to curb Legislative extravagance. It ,
has been alarming and must be stopped or the
State will be bankrupt.
A Venerable Institution Failing.
The Calcutta papers report that the Jugger-
nauth Festival in India this year has been al
most a dead failure—no faith—no energy or en
thusiasm exhibited by the worshippers; and on
the last day of the festival, July 19th, two cars,
decorated with flags and idols, were left stand
ing on the roadside and partially in the ditch,
in conseqence of the refusal of the people to
pull them. Numbers, it is stated, had been
hired to applaud and to pull, but the cars were
only moved half the usual distance, and then
were left on the roadside. The crowd collected
was estimated at seventy-five thousand persons,
at the highest, being only one third of the usu
al assemblage, aud only one man being present
to fifty women and children.
Doubtless the old Brahmins shake their heads
at this awful apostaev of the people, and pre
dict a final dissolution of Nature in conse
quence ; but there is no intelligent outside con
servatism in respect to “Jaganatha—the Lord of
the world. " We shall hear of the final upset-
ment of his lofty old wagon without r. sigh, and
be glad to see him crushed nnder his own pon
derous wheels. But Jnggernauth is an old insti
tution. The Hindoos date his present princi
pal temple some where about the year 1120, and
he had been in the business thousands of years
before the corner-stone of that vast structure,
which with its enclosure, covers ten acres and
towers upward of two_hundred feet, had been
laid.
This news will be interesting to the Christian
philosopher, as part and parcel of the manifest
drift of the great Eastern world from the
moorings which have held them thousands of
years, not only in the bonds of superstition, but
of a political and social isolation so profound
that instruction and improvement could not
reash them. It was but the other day that the
newspapers chronicled the remarriage of a wid
ow in the Brahminical caste—an event abhor
rent to all Hindoo ideas and customs aud which
has a meaning that one not intimately acquaint
ed with that race of people is qualified to com
prehend. 1
Monroe County Items.
We clip the following from the local column
of the Monroe Advertiser, of the 14th.:
Cotton continues to come into market, as if
the season was at its height It is generally
conceded that the crop of tnis county will be
ready for market by the middle of October, and
that it will fall short of the expectations of onr
planters fnlly one-half.
The revival at the Baptist Church has been
progressing the past week with many gratifying
signs, and the probability is that it will be con
tinued throughout the present week. Dr. Hill-
yer and Mr. Pledger are untiring in their labors
and the results, thus far, have amply repaid
their earnest efforts. The ordinance of bap
tism was administered to four new members
last Sabbath, and it is quite likely that several
others will be added to the Church.
The weather is pleasant, but continues dry
and dusty. Rain is needed in nearly every
portion of the county.
The discussion of the immigration question
was continued with great spirit by the Monroe
Agricultural Society at its meeting on Friday
last. L. A. Ponder, W. B. Meek, R. G. Ander
son, Geo. S. Smith, Dr. Lawton and Mr. W. D.
Stone, being speakers. Decision reserved till
next meeting.
$100 Premium Offered for n Plough,
Editors Telegraph: In view of the want
of improved agricultural implement s adapt
ed to the necessities of Southern farmers,
and wishing to advance the interests of agricul
ture in'Middle Georgia, I offer, for any turn-
plough cutting a furrow twelve inches broad
and ten inches deep, of a draft not exceeding
the capacity of two good horses, which will turn
and perfectly shed the soil of certain red upland
on my plantation—on® hundred dollars. The
plough to be separate as to mould-bars and
| shares or points. I have used Dodge’s Perfect,
Brinley's Universal, Peekskill, Avery’s and
Reynolds’ ploughs, and all are 'defective in
turning the soil and cleaning themselves.
J. EL Bivins.
Taylor Co., Qa., Sept. 13,18C0. ' 1
The Atlanta Intelligencer failed to put in OS
appearance yesterday.'
The Cession «f Cabo.
The Washington correspondent of the Louis
ville Courier-Journal says, on the 11th, that a
letter was received from Madrid, from a well
posted American tourist, who says that the prop
osition made through special agent Forbes and
Gen. Sickles for the sale of Cuba to the Cubans
was substantially rejected soon after it was
made known to Regent Serrano, but Sickles has
ever since been endeavoring to have the matter
again considered in another shape, and has par
tially succeeded. This he has followed up by
representations that public sentiment has grown
so rapidly in this country in favor of the recog
nition of the independence of Cnba that such
recognition will soon follow, unless the island is
disposed of by Spain for a consideration. This
gentleman adds, however, that there is not one
Spanish official in favor of the cession.
From Brunswick.
The Seaport Appeal of the 11th says the old
road bed of the Brunswick & Albany Road has
been cleared and graded for thirty miles from
Brunswick. Some culverts and bridges com
pleted, cross-ties delivered for seven miles and
within a few weeks will be delivered for the
whole distance. Six platform cars have been
received, and a locomotive was expected on that
day. Eleven hundred tons of railroad iron
have been shipped, and the work is going for
ward with all possible dispatch.
The Cotton Crop of 1S68-69.
It will be seen there is a wide discrepancy be
tween the figures of the New York Shipping
List and the Charleston Courier. IVe suppose
the Courier is right.
A visit to Savannah this week enables ns to
speak of the advancement of Georgia’s Seaport
City. Of course, there is not now the life there
that exhibits itself in the midst of the busy sea
son, but still trade has opened fairly, and the
Bay looks quite lively. Many business men
are still absent, bnt they are harrying home.
The decline in the price of cotton this week de
presses the factors considerably, but we trust it
will soon touch bottom and then rebound.
Should it do so, everything will move along
briskly.
We observe many houses for business being
erected on the Bay, and in that pleasant portion
of the city near the Park are many new, splen
did and comfortable residences.
Everything, in fact, indicates that Savannah
is alive to her interests and constantly improves
—evincing the fact that, should we have another
fine seaport in Brunswick, there will be ample
business for all, and Savannah will ever be a
city of which Georgia may he proud.
Hon. Geo. H. Pendleton, in response to a
call by a large number of bis political friends,
made a short speech last Saturday, leaning
upon his crutches. He dissented from the Re
publican assertion that the Union was restored,
while Virginia, Mississippi and TexaB are still
under military government, and denied that the
great questions of liberty and union have been
solved. He opposed the adoption of the fif
teenth amendment becanse it introduced a rad'
ical, material change in our system of govern
ment, and takes away from the States, withont
their consent, the essential element of a self-
governing ccmmuniiy. He reiterated his doc
trine of the payment of bonds with greenbacks,
the abolishment of the national banking sys
tem, and a rigid economy in public affairs, so
as to aid in reducing the public debt
Never Fear.—Some of the newspapers are
talking about what the planters shall do with
their money this year. We devoutly hope the
great body of our planters will be able to pay
all their debts, aud have a comfortable surplus
left; bat by the time they have bought and paid
for their corn and meat and guano and males,
and a nice wardrobe for the family, a comforta
ble carriage for mother, fitted up the house, re
plenished the china—repaired the fences and
stables and put everything in first rate order the
balanoe will not cause them many sleepless
nights.
F. W. Sms & Co.—The card of this old firm
of Savannah Factors and Commission Merchants
will be found in this issue. They are well known
for their energy in business and thorough knowl
edge of everything pertaining to the trade in
cotton, and their ample means to meet the
wants of their customers. Col. F. W. Sims re
turned on Monday from New York, in fine health
and working trim. They are ready for all the
business of their old friends and as many more
as wish lo give them a trial.
Gen. Wm. M. Wad let. President of the Cen
tral Railroad, who has been spending the sum
mer North, to recuperate his system so long
suffering from a chronic disease, returned on
Monday to Savannah. We were glad to learn
that he was considerably improved, though tem
porarily worsted by his trip outward. We sup
pose that he will at once assume control of the
business of the Road with his usual energy and
business tact.
Down to Fifteen and up to TsiETr-nvE.—
We beard a gentleman predict yesterday that
cotton would go down to fifteen cents during the
winter, and then rise to thirty-five in the spring.
That would be a lovely margin for buyers. But
we apprehend no snch fluctuations. The crop
is too short—demand too eager—and everybody
knows that with any possible yield it must fall
far short of the demands of spinners.
Baldwin County.—The Milledgeville Re
corder says : The value cf property returned
to the Tax Receiver for this year amounts
to SI,084,227. In 1857, $1,576,999, a de
crease of $492,772. Is old Baldwin on the
decline ? Next year we hope for better things.
The amount returned in I860, when all was
prosperity and peace, amounted to $5,921,362.
a loss to the county by the effects of war, of
$4,837,135. _
The Cotton Crop.—A very experienced
planter who has been looking at the crop in
Houston, 6ays he has never seen a more perfect
failure in that county. He will pick a half less
than he expected, and in his opinion the whole
cotton crop of Middle and Southwestern Georgia
will be gathered by the last of October.
Florida Annexation.—In pursuance to the
proceedings which have already transpired for
the annexation of West Florida to Alabama, the
Governor of Florida has already issued his
proclamation, ordering an election in the
counties of West Florida, to ascertain the feel
ings of the people on the subject. The election'
comes off on the 2d of November.
The Income Tas-Its Inequality. ' ‘■ j
The New York Herald, of the 12tb, gives a
table showing the amount of income tax per
capitum paid in most of the States. It is
made from the official returns of 1868, and dis
plays an extraordinary inequaliiy. In Massa
chusetts, the tax amounted to $4.12 per head;
in Maine, 39 cents; in California, $5.31; in
Nevada, $17.77; in West Virginia, SO cents;
Oregon, $3,00; New Hampshire, 72 cents;
Vermont, 47cents; Rhode Island, $2.88; Con
necticut, $2.07: New York, $3.07; Pennsylva
nia, $1.10; Delaware, $1.15; Maryland, $1.75;
Kentucky, 62 cents; Missouri, 58 cents; Ohio,
92 cents; Indiana, 43 cents; Illinois, $1.19;
Michigan, 9G cents; Wisconsin, 48 cents; Iowa,
41 cents; Minnesota, 58 cents; Kansas, 57
oents; showing an inequality which cannot be
the result of the difference of personal income.
See notice of Executor’s Sale of a fine Farm
in Upper Georgia. Mr. J. M. Patton is. the
Executor. The place is properly described, and
is one of the most desirable in that section of
Georgia. / V
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Columbus, as we see by the Enquirer, - was
blessed with a delightful shower yesterday even
ing. That is more than Macofl can say for her
self. But for the past few days the clouds have
threatened a storm.
Will the Telegraph do us the favor to pub
lish the article from the Chronicle and Sentinel
from which it derived its statement that we,
“pronounce the committee functus officio, and
challenge their right to meet, and question the
occasion.—Chronicle and Sentinel, 14th.
We would cheerfully publish that article, if
we had it, inasmuch as we have not the smallest
desire to put the Chronicle and Sentinel in any
position it does not wish to occupy. Onr para
graph spoke of both the Augusta papers, and
we perhaps erred in attributing to both a posi
tion which was in part only applicable to one.
We find the Columbus Sun of the 14tb, has this
upon the subject:
Some of the Pres3 of the State assume the
ground that the Committee is functus officio,
among them the Chronicle and Sentinel, of
which Gen. Wright, one of the members of the
Committee, is the editor.
In another animadversion in the Chronicle of
the same date, we find the following:
It has been frequently asserted of late, in our
hearing, that the editor of the Telegraph fa
vored the acceptance of the original Recon
struction Act of Congress, and that he advised
the adoption of that policy by the people of the
State. We respectfully ask whether this be
true, and if so whether the Telegraph thinks
the rejection of that policy by the Democratic
party was wise and proper ?
Unlike the Telegraph, the Chronicle and
Sentinel has “invested something in personal
hatred” toward those who have labored for tho
destruction of the State Government and the
degradation of our people, and we shall never
see the day in which we can forgive and frater
nize with those who sought to betray and ruin
ns.
Well it is not true. We failed like most peo
ple, in discerning the signs of the times. But
if we had known, in 1865, that the ultra Radi
cals in Congress would have taken advantage of
onr hesitation and delay to work up their party
to imposing negro suffrage and all the other
hard conditions we have since been compelled
to accept, upon the South, we would have en
treated the people to close up that controversy
at once, on almost any terms, which would then
have been demanded of ns.
Finally, we hope to see the day yet, when
the people will return to Constitutional Gov
ernment, and punish the Radical party for their
sins and oppressions; and this hope we in
dulge without personal malice or any desire
to make our paper the vehicle of that sentiment.
A Lively Justice in Louisiana.
The Planters’ Banner tells of a lively occur
rence in St. Mary’s Parish, displaying the vigor
and learning of a negro Justice of the Peace,
one John Fields. Field issued a warrant and
placed it in the hands of a negro. The docu
ment read as follows:
“This. is. to citte. fy. that L the nndarcind.
Justis. of. the. Peace. O Pint and in Pour.
John.. A Star, to. A-rest, the body, of Henre
Evens, and, Bring, hit, Be-four, me John Fields
J Peace. Word 4 (S. M.)”
Evans treated'the missive with contempt, and
thereupon, Fields, with a posse of twelve ne
groes, surrounded Evans’ house at midnight
and opened fire upon it The house was rid
dled with balls, but fortunately the assailants
shot too high and none of the family were hurt.
As soon as Evans could find his gun and am
munition, in the dark, he returned the fire with
some effect, and the party took French leave ;
bnt upon being arrested next day it was found
to have been a judicial proceeding in form and
manner as stated.
Letter from Secretary Lewis.
Office Georgia State Agricultural Society, \
Macon, Ga., September 15, 1869. )
Dear Sir: Having heard much said, and
seen no little written, about the cotton patch
of Mr. Gustin, near this city, and having, in
common with others the curiosity to see it, the
favorable opportunity was presented when Col.
DuBignon called at this office on the 11th inst.,
and expressed the desire to gratify a similar cu
riosity. A call was made on Mr. J. V. Grier,
whose kind liberality keeps a conveyance at all
times at the service of the Secretary, without
charge, for a conveyance, andin a very short time
the CoL and the Secretary were on the field of
observation.
Col. DuBignon embodied the result of his ob
servation, in the remark, that there was no mis
take about the fact that here was a piece of cot
ton that through all the vicissitudes of weather
aud drought had gone on to maturity and the
development of a perfect plant without the loss
of a form or boll, and the fact was that he was
determined to understand how the thing was
done. I am exactly in the same fix with CoL Du-
Bignon.
I have only to add, Mr. Editor, that in my
humble judgment the experiment of Mr. Gus
tin goes a step or two in advance of any thing
yet reported towards developing the great ulti
matum of cotton culture, to-wit: how much
cotton can be raised to the acre, and what is the
least cost of labor and expenses which will
achieve it.
Permit one word more, and that is that the sur
face culture of Mr. Dickson, who I will agree
is entitled to the nom de plume of the Napoleon
of the cotton field, has been pushed to extremes,
and the shriveled cotton bolls and dried leaves
of thousands of acres of damaged cotton fields
attest too truly and too sadly this truth.
As one of the Vice Presidents of the State
Society, I feel sure you are interested in all such
facts as the above. Veiy respectfuly,
D. W. Lewis.
To Mr. Joseph Clisby, Vice President Geor
gia Agricultural Society.
Verbal reports from Southwestern Georgia
lead us to believe that tho cotton crop will be
much shorter than is generally believed. TV©
shall not be surprised to hear that the great
body of the planters will themselves be surprised
at the suddenness with which they will come to
the end of their picking.
Clerical Anecdote.—Tho Rev. Sam. Claw
son, a Methodist preacher of eccentric manners,
somtimes called “wild man,” was very popular
in 'Westem Virginia some twenty years ago. He
was cross-eyed and wiry, made, and very dark
skinned for a white man. At times he was sur
prisingly eloquent, always excitable, and occa
sionally extravagant. He once accompanied a
brother minister, Rev. Mr. R., a prominent
pastor in a visit to a colored church. Mr. R.
gave the colored preacher the hint, and of course
Clawson was invited to preach. He did So, and
during the sermon, set the impulsive Africans to
shouting all over the house.
This, in turn, set Clawson, to extravagant
words and actions, and he leaped out of the pul
pit like a deer, and began to shake the hands of
the colored brethren, and mix in quite happily.
He wept for joy. Then pressing through the
crowd, he found brother R., and sitting down
beside him, he threw his arms around his neck,
and, with tears streaming down his cheeks, he
said:
“ Brother R., I almost wish I had been bom
Student Selected.—The Augusta Typograph
ical Union, yesterday, selected EdwinE. Levy,a
deserving yonth connected with this office, to
the scholarship offered, by Washington, (Va.,)
.College.—Augusta Constitutionalist.
th^h^w^e^e^er^^u’of have a negro. These folks have more religion than . trated and many marine disasters. Steamship City
already sold more goods during the past week we have. i of Limerick put into Queenstown leaking.
than they had sold up to Christmas day during “ Vfell, well, ’ said brother R., “you came so A subscription has beeh startedbefe for the Aven-
the last season. near it, that you needn’t cry about it,” dale widows and orphans.,
From Washington.
Washington, September 14.—Revenue to-day
$1.000,000.
The Sabine left Cherbourg for Libboaon the 20th.
The reported mutiny is unmentioned in official let
ters. ' i - <• >
The ex-Colombian Minister had an interview with
Commissioner Fish regarding the Darien Isthmus
Canal.
Cox has returned.
A half-blood, equally with pure Indian, can in
herit pensions. . •
The Light House Board has accounts from light
houses on the New England coast, showing vety
great mjuiy to shipping from the late atoms. As
far aa heard from no lighthouse was injured. •
The Postoffice report shows a million and a half
of appropriations for its support unexpended.
The Tallapoosa took Commodore Poore to New
York, whence ho sails for .the West Indies on the
Powhattan, as the flag ship.-
Delano has gone for ten days. *
The Revenue Department forbids the Bale of
liquor from ordinary stand casks.
Boutwell returns to-morrow.
The Methodist Church, as far as heard from, shows
one hundred and fifty in favor of, and seventy-five
thousand against lay representation.
It is estimated that the September debt statement
will show a decrease of eight or ten millions.
The Western Union and Atlantic and Pacifio Tele
graph Companies have consolidated.
Hoar decides claims againBt the Government for
damages to real property caused by the military op
erations daring the war, instancing the Danville,
Lancaster and Nicholas Turnpike Railroad Company,
which must be addressed to Congress instead of the
Courts.
James Gordon Bennett is seriously sick, and ca
bles his son to return.
Washington, September 15.—The Spanish organ
at New York asserts that both the Spanish and Ca
ban reports of tho fights near Los Tunas are fic
tions.
The mixed black and white schools were defeated
here in the City Council, by a vote of 6 to 7 aud the
word “white” remains in the District school regula
tions. 1
An enthusiastic annexation meeting was held in
Quebec on Saturday.
Secretary Seward has returned safely from Alas
ka and now visits the city of Mexico.
The steamer Hornet has sailed from Halifax with
a lot of hard customers, at high wages, whose sup
posed destination is Cuba.
Three whites and twenty Indians were recently
killed in Arizona while fighting over a wagon train.
The London Times discussing Cuba hopes that
Spain will soon boo that it is good policy to get rid
of Cuba on any terms.
A Cuban expedition from New Bedford was over
hauled at sea.
Revenue to-day $308,000.
Collector Hicks of the Third Mississippi Revenue
District has resigned.
Robeson is here.
The Treasury Department will melt over one hun
dred counterfeit plates now in its possession. Two
or three very fine plates will be preserved as speci
mens.
Certain German citizens engaged in the solution
of a contract, ask Spinner's advice regarding the
genuineness of Confederate bonds. Spinner thinks
the specimen exhibited is genuine. .
The recently adopted Virginia Constitution abro
gates all, and forbids the Legislature passing new
stay laws.
Boutwell comes Friday.
Madrid journals assert that the Government re
cently sent a letter to the great powers of Europe
repeating the note from Gen. Sickles, American
Minister, on the subject of the recognition of Cuba,
and that replies favorable to the rights of Spain
have been received from England, France and Aus
tria.
Motley wa3 not forbidden to entertain invitations
to reopen tho Alabama claims negotiations. Motley
is now engaged negotiating for an important consu
lar treaty.
Sickles was not authorized to make any demand
upon the Spanish Government. He was instructed
to act discreetly, but with earnestness, as a media
tor between Spain and Cuba, on the basis already
published for the independence of the Island.
Leading members of the Government, including the
Begent, favor the proposition, but are not free at
present to accept it.
From Virginia.
Richmond, September 14.—There was a large
turnout to-day at the Humboldt festival. Addresses'
were delivered at the theatre, where the bust of
Humboldt was unveiled. To-night there are fire
works and an immense crowd of Germans and
Americans at Hatleafe Garden.
The White Sulphur Springs have closed for the
seaeon, and there are not more than five hundred
visitors now at the mountain watering places.
Recent heavy rains have helped the late com in
West Virginia and the Valley.
Meeting of the Democratic Executive
Committee.
Atlanta, September 15—The Executive Commit
tee of the Democratic party of Georgia met to
day, under the call of the Chairman. No quorum
was present, and the meeting adjourned, sine die,
subject to the call of the Chairman.
It is the unanimous opinion of the members pres
ent that it is inexpedient to recommend the election
of members of Congress at this time, there being
no law authorizing such election till November. 1870.
The right of members elected April, 1868, to be ad
mitted to seats in the 41st Congress, is a question
to be determined by the House of Representatives
when they present themselves for admission, and
an expression of opinion by this Committee is un-
neccessaiy.
General Hews.
New York, September 14—McManus’ Stables,
with five horses including the famous mare Cora,
valued at fifteen thousand dollars, has been burned.
Augusta, Me., September 14.—Vote reduced. In
dications aro that Chamberlin is elected by five
thousand against twenty thousand last year. The
prohibition vote won’t exceed 0000.
Cincinnati, September 14.—The attempted com
promise between tho Fiotestants and Catholics in
regard to public schools has failed. Petitions against
the exclusion of the Bible have been presented,
signed by ten thousand persons. The Conference
was strong and lasted till after midnight. Finally
a proposition to exclude testaments as a text book
was tabled.
The Red Stocking Base Ball Club started for Cali
fornia to-day.
San Francisco, September 14.—Stewart has re-'
turned from Alaska in improved health and fine
spirits.
There has been another slight earthquake through
out the Pacifio coast.
A bottle has been found containing many details
of the Sir John Franldin Arctic expedition. Sir John
died June 11,1847.
Binghamton, Nl Y., September 14—The bootma
kers are on a strike in consequence of the refusal
of the employers to discharge some workmen not
members 0/ the St Crispin Society.
New York, September 14—The ex-Paraguayan
Minister, Washbume, writes to the London journals,
reiterating his statements of Lopez’s barbarisms.
New Orleans, September 15 Ex-Oollectora Per
ry, Fuller and W’addy Thompson, of the Brig Colson
notoriety, were arrested in St Louis on Mon
day, upon affidavit of Special Treasury Agent Vin-
a ill a, charged with defrauding the Government* and
will be brought here for examination.
Foreign Hews.
Paris, September 14—Gen. Prim has conferred
with,the Spanish ministers to France and England.
It is rumored that conferees favored a last reply to
American offidousneas regarding Cub*. The La
Public contemns the American meddling and thinks
Spain should resent American interference. The
Madrid Imperial insists upon the necessity of a
speedy suppression of the Cuban insurrection.
Part of the Cuban reinforcements have sailed
from Barcelona and other detachment® follow
from Carthagana. The difficulties aro growing be
tween the progressionists and unionists.
London,' September 14.—Heavy storm yesterday,
here and throughout the continent—telegraph pros-
New Bedford, September 14 A schooner with
ninety suspicions men has left.' A revenue cutter
has gone in pursuit.
London, September 15—There was a large meet
ing of the cotton merchants, spinners and manu
facturers at Manchester, last evening, for the pur
pose of considering and continuing the trade in
Lancaster. Speeches were made and resolutions
adopted. One of the latter aeserted that it was ex
pedient to form an association to urge Parlia
ment to grant an inquiry into the causes of the de
pressed state of capital and labor. Also, resolved
to hold a series of public meetings in the principal
towns of England. The want of a reciprocity of the
French treaty, and the system of American imports
and English exports were generally condemned.
FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL,
3 ’ w' 1 T i ’ 1-386 bushels wlieit
* oS9 *L our - 220 bushels oat* ’
2,25-1 sacks flour, 23 bushels rve
•issss&fif
• 8 half barrels bran, 168 bars iron^
2 boxes hardware, 6 wagons ’
10 barrels onions, 8 barrels ’potato*,
11 cases glassware, 10 boxes me rchwi
1 box machmery, 26 bundles £2?^
2 bellows, 2 anvils ^
78 pieces lumber, 73 bundles chair.
1 v*r a 1 6111111 machine’
1 cider rnffi, 10 barrels sog^’
0 bundles wheels, 5 barrels oiL
1 bale merchandise, 2 baggies ^
2 mules. ’
Weekly Review of the Market.
OFFICE DAILY TELEGRAPH, > *■
September 15—Evening, 1869. j
General Remarks.—We have to report a large
wholesale and jobbing trade generally, in tMa mar-
ket, for the week ending this evening. Notwith
standing the eteady decline in the price of cotton,
the sales have been heavy in proportion to the re
ceipts, and with the proceeds a large and active
trade both in dry goods and groceries, has been the
result. To-day, the wholesale and jobbing trade of
this city was, doubtless, the heaviest of the season,
and we base the statement npon the opinion of
some of our heaviest dealers and the unusual ac
tivity at the freight depots.
Prices of leading articles, both in dry goods and
groceries, have been remarkably steady ail the
week under review, and we have but a few slight
changes to make in quotations.
In stocks and bonds the operations of the last
week have been comparatively nothing. There is
no demand. We quote:
exchange on new yore.
BuyinS % prem
Selling «... prem
TOOTED STATES CVHHZSCY—LOANS.
Permonth l%@2 per cent
gold and silver.
Buving rates for Gold $1 33
Selling. j 38
Buying rates for Silver 1 25
Settling so
RAILROAD STOCKS AND BONDS.
Central Railroad Stock ..120
Central Railroad Bonds loo
Macon & Western Railroad Stock 138
Southwestern Railroad Stock 1 %]
Soutwestem Railroad Bonds it
Macon & Brunswick Stock 30
Macon & Brunswick Railroad Endorsed Bonds... 90
Georgia Railroad Stock 104(3105
Georgia Railroad Bonds 101
Muscogee Railroad Bonds 20
Atlantic A Golf Railroad Stock S3
Augusta A Waynesboro Railroad Stock 90
South Carolina Railroad Stock 4S@50
Cotton States Life Insurance Stock :... .100
Cotton—Receipts to-day 597 bales; sales419;
shipped 495.
Receipts for the week ending this evening, the
above included, 2,922 bales; sales for Eame time,
1,822 bales; shipments, 1,958; showing an increase
of receipts of last week over those of the week be
fore, of 1,059 bales; increase of sales, 750.
Receipts for the corresponding week in Septem
ber, 1868, 797 bales; sales 389. Middling cotton,
on the 16th of September, 1868, 20 cants.
Receipts of the new crop at this point, to date,
5,172 bales.
The market was quoted, on the date of our last
weekly review, as dull at SO cents for middlings,
with nearly every bale in the city for sale, on the
sample boards. Since then, the price has steadily
fallen off every day, and we quote tho market dull
this evening at 25% cents for the best middlings—a
decline of fnlly one cent from yesterday’s figures.
This steady and rapid decline was caused alto
gether, we think, by the rapid manner in which
cotton has been thrown upon the market by pro
ducers, and if it is persisted in much longer, it will
not surprise us in the least if we quote middlings
on next Wednesday at 20 cents. No market can be
glutted with an article, as the cottonm&rket now is,
without affecting the price of the article, and may
be, force it below its productive value. We are in
clined to the' opinion, however, that the price of
cotton iB now about down to that point below which
the planter will not go if he can help himself, and
we therefore look for orders npon his factor to
3TORE, instead of sell, as has been the clamor du
ring the past week.
From New York market reports given below, it
will be seen that cotton is quoted at 31 cents—a de
cline of four cents during the week ending this
evening.
MACON COTTON STATEMENT.
Stock on hand Sept. 1,1S69—bales.. 179
Received to-day... 597
Received previously r 4,377— 4,974
5,153
Shipped to-day 495
Shipped previously 2,885—3,880
LATEST MARKETS BY TELEGK APb
Domestic Market*. 8 ‘
York, September 15. noon—
settled. Money 7. Sterling, lone sv. la-
Gold, 86. 1862s, 22 I
S3)g _a3ked. Virginias ex-bounon^y?
new, 67.
, *? our , 5 @ 10 low ® r - favors bares *
doji and heavy. Mess Pork nominal at 30 m r n
dull. Turpentine 43%. Fine Basin e ss. ^
^SSSSSi^-
New York. September 15, evening-Cntt™
and decidedly lower; sales 1.200 hales
Flour heavy; Southern common to t2f\
6 50@G 85. Wheat heavy and 1@2 W
red 1 5S@157. Com closed a abide tmJ?life
Western 1 09@113. Mess Pork hearv^n'n^
29 90. Lard a shade lower at uHS* *5?*
good demand. Coffee
very dull. Money easy a/^sterW I
Gold active at 86%. Stocks weak and nnsetufa^'
atSof mlOBB: September ^-Cotton irregdj
Hour quiet and firm; demand light \vw.,
com unchanged. Oats 60(362. Mess’Pork SH
S3 50(534 C'0. Bacon firm and sSire ^i
scarce at 123(31 30. '' U J
. Savannah, September 15—Cotton receinta 1 nt
bales; market dull with declining tendencr rs
rency scarce and no freights otferinc. 1
273^; sales 199 bales.
Augusta, September 15.—Cotton market o»y,-1
easry and closed at 2 cents off; sales 2S3 ba!»' ^ I
quiet at 130.
higher and in _
dull. Naval stores quiet.
Governments steadv.
ceiptsSSO; middlings 26.
Charleston, September 15—Cotton dull ,y I
depressed, with downward tendenev; sales 52tslet I
middlings nominally 23receipts‘713 bales. 1
Wilmington, September 15.—Spirits 1WI
a shade lower at 39^. Rosin nothmg doing. CtS I
Turpentine steady. Tar steady. ‘ I
Cincinnati, September 15—Whiskv ddl. 11^,1
Pork and Lard dull and nominally unchanged, hi
con; shoulders 15)£(a'15>£; clear- sides 1C;. . ~ I
Louisville, September 15 Mess Fork 83ot|
33 25. Bacon, shoulders 16: clear rib sides lie' I
clear sides 1014@10%. Lardl9&@20. iYhisha|
Mobile, September 15—Cotton, middlings 2s I
@29; receipts 220; exports 55. |
New Orleans, September 15 Cotton b*e|
middlings 30: sales 448 bales; -receipts 1,08$. |
Hay SO 00(531 00. Lard lower at 20Q22. Sus|
higher. Others unchanged. 1
Gold 34%. New York Sight par.
Foreign Markets.
London, September 15, noon Consols avl
Bonds 83%. ' 1
Common rosin 6s; fine, 16s 6d.
Liverpool, September 15. noon—Cotton hi |
uplands 13%; Orleans 13%; sales 4,000 bales.
Later—Cotton irregular.
Bre&dstufTs quiet. Bacon 66s.
Liverpool. September 15, afternoon.—fe:|
closed irregular; uplands 13; Orleans 13}!: ala I
4,000 bales; speculation exports. 2,000 bales. i
Paris, September 15, evening—Bourse ckhjI
flat. Rentes 70f90c. ' 1
Havre, September
heavy bnt quiet.
15, noon—Cotton ojasl
Stock on hand this evening.
1,773
GHOCEHIES ASD PROVISIONS.
Trade in this line has been quite active the past
week, and has steadily increased from day to day,
until this, the last day of our commercial week, it
was the heaviest of the season. Corn, bacon, flour,
salt and a few other of the leading articles have
been steady and firm, with a good demand, since
the date of our last review, and we make no change
in quotations. The stock of com in this market is
now very light, but the demand, fortunately, is
correspondingly so. Quotations tell the rest:
BACON—Clear Sides (smoked).... $ 21 @
Clear Bib Sides (emoked)... 20%@
Shoulders 17%@
Hams (country) 23 @
Hams (sugar-cured)
PORK—Mess S6 50 @87 .50
Prime Mess 33 00 ©Si 00
Rumps SO 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
S*
17%
26
25
i
2 00
40
30
30
Green ■!■■■■■
BUTTER—Goshen
Tennessee Yellow
Country
CHEESE—Accordingto quality-...
LARD—
SUGAR—According to grade
MOLASSES—According to grade..
FISH—Mackerel, bbls, No.l, 2,3. 15 00
Kite 3 00
Codfish per pound 10
SALT—Liverpool per sack..i..... 2 75
Virginia 2 50
WHISKY—Common Rye. 120
Fine 2 50
Com . 1 15
Bourbon 3 50
ALE—Per dozen : 3 00
TOBACCO—Low grades per pound 50
Medium 60
Good
Bright Virginia
26
S3
45
© 12%
t il
2 00
@ 2 50
© 52%
22%@
22%©
16 &
G5
40
40
27
23
20
@ 70%
©24 00
© 5 00
© 12%
@ 3 00
© 1 50
© 5 00
© 1 35
0 5 00
@ 4 00
© 55
© 70
75 © SO
I . 83-© 1 00
Fancy 1 25 © 1 50
FLOUR—Superfine per bbl 7 00 @7 50
Extra 9 00 @10 00
Family 10 50 @1100
Fancy Family Brands 12 00 @13 00-
New per barrel 11 00
GRAIN ASD HAY.
CORN—Yellow, Mixed and White. © 1 50
MEAL @150
GBITS.. 1 70
OATS 90 @100
WHEAT—Per bushel. 140 @150
FIELD PEAS 150
HAY—Northern 1 90 @ 2 00
Tennease Timothy. a 00
HerdsGraBS...... (... 2 00
Tennessee,'.....2 00
DOStRSTICS.
Dojiesttcs—3-4per yard...,..........12%
Shirtino—7^8 per yard. ..1S%@ -14
4-4 ...JL5 @ 15%
Drilling—Heavy Brown per yards.,, ...18 @20
Heavy Georgia Stripes.18 @21
Osnaeurgs—No. 1,8 oz. 22 @ 22%
No. 2, 7 oz i .....19 @21
' *" Richmond 19 -
Milledgeville, No. 1.. .....22
Flint River. No. 1‘, ..1.24 .
SHALLEY—Cuthbert, per yard i.. 30
The State Fair—Two months from to-dayia I
Georgia State Fair opens at the Labratorr neirEi|
city, and it may well be asked, what arraegenta |
have the Fhcecutive Committee of the Agricnioi|
Society made for the comfort and accommoaff: |
of the thousands of visitors while upon tkelcl
Grounds; and what arrangements have our riatal
made for their reception and comfort while is til
city? Several thousand ladies will daily atteritl
the Fsir Grounds, provided they can find com/c.Tj
ble seats and other convenient arrangements!:*
witnessing the various out-door exhibitions tia
will be made: but if they will have to et&nd *rcc|
all day, and seek comfort or rest at times wheruj
it can be found, the exercises will be of little oru
interest to them, and the receipts at the gate ril
seriously fall off after the first or second csyl
There must either be bought or rented enongtluJ
ber to erect an amphitheatre for the se»th;nf
comfortable disposition of the large audience::;j
dies and gentlemen, dariDg the exhibition of b|
stock and other out-door excrcisee, ortheFxer.r
Committee will have a din raised about thera
that will be anything elso than agreeable or pi:
ant. Indeed, there remains to be done at thel
oratory, a vast deal of work to make the Wrlj
cc-ss, in a pecuniary point of view, or anytbfc;i
a pleasant or comfortable place to visitors tda’-
attend merely for pleasure, and to meet »cd
mingle with the planters, mechanics and artist; j
Georgia. [
Nor is the time between this and the FairtH
long, that our citizens should not he puttia; M
houses in order, and making arrangements fc'-j
vast number of visitors who will he here and *2:
pect to be accommodated on some terms or ats
price, when the crowded hotels turn then
Every vacant room in the city should be seir-'
out and prepared for sleeping apartments
they may be needed; for if we can afford vis
accommodation in this respect, the hotels
tauranta will supply food to a large number d?
eons whom they cannot supply with lodging.
We repeat, therefore, what we have here;
stated, that the people of Georgia and visitor: i
other States, confidently rely upon the ExM
Committee and tho citizens of Macdn forsD-
sary arrangements for their accommodation 4
Fair week, and it will never do that they
leave tire city in disappointment. They v-J
come prepared to pay liberally for what theyr
and if their stay can be made pleasant and *
ble to them, we have not a doubt that they aC*
nearly a half million of surplus cash in the?
of our business men and citizens.
Before anotbor month expires vro hope iff-1
our pleasure, as it will be eur duty to thopci^J
announce that ample preparations are bekg -
by the Executive Committee, which wffl ** \
pleted in time, for the accommodation
of &U—both ladies and gentlemen—viJ v
the Fair Grounds in November; and s' 50
citizens have aroused themselves to the imp
of aiding the Committee a® much
making such preparations, and are hci'toS
selves in readiness to meet the emw£ encjC '
great occasion.
Murder in Houston County—From
who.was in Fort Valley on Tuesday l&sb T
that a most brutal and oowardly murder 1
trated on Monday afternoon in Houston
a blacksmith shop on the place of Joell’- 0 '
about three miles from Fort Valley. i
it appears approached the shop with his F-a
finding there two negro boys about ll° r J
age, he deliberately shot and killed the o- 1 IT
for some cause not yet made known, 'J
for the woods and effected hie escape. ‘ J
was in the shop with deceased failed to ^1
the murderer, and the whole matter is
myntery. The negroes in tho neigM'C- " ]
greatly incensed at the brutal and dastard f J
were searching diliigentiy for the murdetfri
due that would lead to his identification
The weather continues cool and
head, but we are needing rain very
mediate section of country, and P ir, *' :u 7 r ff.v^J
city. The dust is now deeper, dryer snCUST J
the streets than it has been for men *•,!
great bustle of wagons and drays rQ& ^ e f'l n«r
preesaive and offensive to pedeetrians
■ otherwise be if. not thus continually Suck
ArcnoN—It must not be prosnme>l ‘ * ^ (
Old Unde Bob Clayton was recently
sharper, that ho has retired from the
ness. He has reopened again oc °o ^,1
where he hopes to have better luck, 611
old friends will always find him re * d ^ joi 1
Xo man can take the good* which ^ i
produce AND. scndries j under the hammer. and . duplicate tu*
Received by the Macon & Western Baib^ad fey eon- , jjdee, h, ope of the institution* of ^(j
signeea in Macon for the week ending September ; be sustained Give him a liberal sjjf 1 *
4th, 18S9: . • * ' ' j iro age.
BAGGIKG, TIBS AND TWINS.
BAGGING—Borneo, 2% lbs. per yard.. 81
Kentucky Roll. 2% “ “ “ . ; 27 @28%
BALING TWINE, per pound. 25
IRON TIES—Arrow, per pound 8
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