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* •' Y 1L L Tlie Greorgia "Weekly Telegraph.. THE TELEGRAPH. i MACON FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 18C9. Bkiot Butler lias been invited to attend the State Fair in Macon, in November. If not watched closely he'll get more “prem- ’ inms” than anybody.—-Sumter Courier. We see the statement that the Beast has been invited to the Macon Fair going the rounds of our exchanges. We cannot believe that the Board of Managers would offer such an indigni ty to tho respectable white men and women of Georgia. Will not our Macon contemporaries authorize the press to contradict a report which otherwise will be prejudicial to the Fair, which all desire shall be a success of which the State may be proud?—Savannah Hews. We understand that in the exuberance of lib- erality General B. Butler was invited, but has sent his “regret#." This invitation was, no doubt, sent in pursuance of instructions from the Executive Committee “to invite the members of tho United States Congress,” and without any thought at the time of General Bntler, or the peculiarities which attach to his case. The Committee proceeded on tho general plan of ig noring politics and sections in extending these courtesies, and on that general proposition we are disposed to go with them. The objections to Butler, howover, are not political. Wo look npon him as morally infamous, not only by rea son of the tyranical, abusive, insulting character of his military domination, but also by its un blushing thievery and plunder of the Southern people. Wo doubt not, however, the Executive Com mittee entertain the same opinion, and the invi tation received by General Butler was, in point of fact, mere inadvertence, resulting solely from a general instruction to “invite the mem bers of Congress,” without thought that Gener. al Bntler is of the number. These instructions, being followed to the letter by the cle.ks, no doubt resulted in the invitation to Bntler, and such, without particular inquiry, we venture to say is tho whole history of Butler’s invitation. We trust this explanation will be satisfactory to those of the Press whose sensibilities have been wounded in this matter. Paying for the Negroes. The cotton crop of 1868-69 is now pretty well settled at 2,439,039 bales. The largest previous crop reported in the days of slavery was that of 1861-62, which is estimated at 4,800,000 bales; lint there is no reasonable doubt that, bnt for BIT TELEGRAPH. From Washington. Washington, September 20.—It is believed here that Sumner, in the Massachusetts State Conven tion, will take strong grounds in favor of Caban re- the abolition of slavery, the cotton crop of: cognition. America would have now reached about six mil- I It is thought the public pressure will compel the lions of bales. Cabinet to take some decisive action on Friday. Wc shall estimate the cost to the world of j Revenue receipts to-day, $621,000. emancipation, therefore, atS,5G0,000 bales cot- ' Brns b has beenre-appointed Special Depre ton annually, worth, say fifty dollars per bale, j Nation Agent of the Postoffice Department. , . . , . . . . .... * ... The small note famine will be partially relieved or one hundred and eighty-eight millions of dol- ’ iftcr ^ firat of October. lars. Six millions of bales, on the old schedule, i Secretary Boatwell, Commissioner Delano and would have cost the world no more than two and Col. Capron, have accepted the invitations to visit a half millions do now. ; the Georgia State Fair, which takes place at Macon It will take a great many years for the world on tho 16th of November, as a steamer will leave to pay up for the negroes, evon at the rate of hero early in November for Savannah, where tho two hundred millions a year; but tho money has party will take a special train for Macon. Other got to como-every cent of it; and a great deal P rom “ent government officials will probably attend more besides, because when the negroes are all fair ’ . , „ „ „ , _ , paid for, there comes another little bill to settle ' ^^gato epeaereBerreof the National Bank .... .... .. - - , , „ . , of the United States is over Bevcnty millions, called the “ dignity of free labor.* That has I R „ ramored tbat Amea asks for four days for got to be paid for precisely at the same rates. tto Misaiga ; ppi election. The worst aspect of these little bills is that they | Washington, September 19. Tho Secretaries are have got to be paid by the people least able to ail here. pay them. The wealthy do not care much wheth- j Gen. Grant rotumB on Thursday, and tho Cabi- er clothing costs ten cents or thirty cents a yard; net meets on Friday, but it i3 a terrible difference to a poor man who I ' ' “* J . has a family to clothe; and the consequence will _ From Louisiana, be that they and he will get only about a third ' Kew 0rleaxs - September 20.-A suit has been , ' b . * “ .entered in the Unitod States Circuit Court against “ mnchjdothing. Theynmst pay tins little MB Gen James R steediaaDi ex _fo temal Bevoone a* Federal Interference with the Free dom of Elections. We were hardly prepared for such revelations as aro indirectly made in an article in the Rich mond Dispatch of the 17th, npon “Virginia and the Union,” That paper says it is hardly neces sary to remind the reader of the implied pledges which were made to enable Virginia to throw off the yoke of military despotism, to-wit: that they would elect blank and blank as Senators— names not given—bnt the Dispatch says that hundreds of its readers conld fill them with names “exceedingly distasteful to ns alL” In other words we understand Virginia had to buy np exemptions from tyranny and the iron-clad oath, by promising to elect Senators agreeable to Gen. Grant! Periodicals. The Galaxy for October has Susan Fielding; The Real Louis Napoleon; A Journey in North ern China; Little Bo peep in two parts; Chap ter 5, Pat Yourself in his Place; Rennaisance; A very timely inquiry—Why thieves prosper; Ten years in a public library, eto., etc.— The Galaxy is perhaps the liveliest of the month lies. The Land We Love and the New Eclectic for October, has a very long table of contents. Among its original matter is a communication from Prof. Gildersleeve on classical study. The passage of tho Red Sea, by W. G. Simms; Turnbull & Murdock, 54 Lexington Street, Balti more. Demorest’s Illustrated Monthly and Mirror of Fashion for October can be had at Havens & Brown’s, as well as all the other popular maga zines. A New System of Telegraphing.—Tho Char leston News says a new system of telegraphing has just been invented which threatens to speed ily revolutionize tho whole business. The pat entee claims the power to transmit messages ten times os rapidly an an expert penman can write, and to do as much business over one wire os can be done over ten wires by tho Morse system of transmission. The rates contemplated are one cent per word for all distances, the cheapness of which conld not fail to draw from the mails all business correspondence, as well as much of a private character that cannot afford to wait for postal transmission. A Gheen Old Age.—There is an old lady in this country, (says the Hancock Journal) said to be one hundred and three years years of age, who is still able to workin her garden and farm. A neighor called to see her one day the past spring and found her “sprouting” in the new ground which herself and children, the oldest of of whom is now eighty-odd years of age, had recently cleared for a cotton patch. The old lady is quite lively—can see very well, and retains her mind to a remarkable degree. A Fast Truk.—Sixty-four miles in seventy minutes, says the Philadelphia Press of the 10th, was the time made on the first trip of the new Chicago fast train, Pennsylvania Central road, on the home stretch. It made the last sixty-five miles in eighty minutes, ten of which were con sumed in covering the mile of track entering the city. No wonder that the delighted Chi cagoans gathered en masse to hail its entree. “Cottok Dull—Cotton Fuat.”—That is the irreverent way in which they talk about cotton in Liverpool—bad luck to them. Somewhere about next April or May yon will see the market excited and Liverpool biting at cotton like pikes, with quotations fifteen pence and upwards. Secretary Boutwell was in New York the latter part of last week, and extensively inter viewed by importers npon questions of practical interest in their business. Business Resumed.—We see from the tele grams that the government has returned, or is about getting back to Washington, and the bu siness will shortly be resumed. The Chattahoochee Mirror. — Mr. M. Tucker, proprietor of this excellent paper, is in Maoon, soliciting favors among advertisers. We commend him to the good will of the public. Modkbx Democracy may be described (more regard than usual being had for exact truthful ness of statement) as a desperate aggregation of miscellaneous fag ends and dregs of policies overruled by the people.— H. T. Commercial Advertiser. That would have been on accurate description of the Radical party a few years ago and will be accurate again a few years hence. It is not en tirely accurate just at this time, simply because the hand of usurpation has throttled the people. General Grant and Cuba.—A Washington letter, in the Baltimore Gazette, says that as soon as he returns to the city either the inde pendence or the belligerent rights of the Cubans will be recognized by Presidential proclamaticn. At least such was his expressed purpose when last in this city. He also declared his intention of retaining possession of the “seized” gun boats building in New York and New England for Spain. many farmers, from different sections of the county, we are convinced that the com crop is a medium one, but not enough to supply the wants of the people. The cotton crop n— been cut short at least one-half.—Hewnan Herald. in shivering from tho cold, or—in other words— in deficient raiment Then there’s the factory operatives—they pay it by scant labor and wages. They lose the em ployment (or a great deal of it) which would be lector for this District, and hia sureties by tho United States District Attorney, for over six hun dred thousand dollars, which amount for adjust ment of accounts by the proper officer, is found to bo duo by Stoedman as Tax Collector to the Gov- afforded by spinning and weaving thirty-five j eminent, hundred thousand bales of cotton, and every i Ex-Collector Customs Fuller has been brought other of the countless legions of sailors, labor- horo fco “ 8t barged with complicity in ™ clerks salesmen semnstresses etc who a three million ring swindle on the Government,! ’ ’ - 8n * P! J ’ J was admitted to bail in the sum of 320,000, to appear would have found profitable employment m j,' ovcm ber next transporting and handling this amount of cotton j and in manipulating it in all its various shapes j From Soutll Carolina. till it got at last into the hands of the consumer | Charleston, September 20—One of tho largest or wearer—what a wonderful sum they are an- churches in tho city was crowded to-day, to listen to nually paying for the negro, and how illy they can afford to pay it! State Fair—Interesting Communica tion* Office State Agricultural Society of Geo.,) Macon, Ga., September 20, 1869. ) Sir: In reply to yonr note of the 16 th inst, this, the roles for tho management of tho Fair in November, will be adopted and widely circu lated by the Executive Committee, which meets here the 7th of October next. It is probable that the following regulation will be adoptedinrelationtothe matter to which yon refer, to-wit: The members of county or local agricultural societies, regularly appointed under certificate of their President and Secretary, or who come as a Society in a body and camp on the ground, will be furnished with a ticket which will per mit them ingress and egress of the grounds with out charge. Such-members contending forpre- minms will pay tho nsnal fee of two dollars. I will send all the Society copies of the revised regulations. I hope yonr Society will do as the Randolph County Society has done. They met last Sat- nrday to appoint a delegation of ten to the Fair, and finally resolved that tho whole Club should go lf the county societies will follow the example of Randolph, they can hold assemblies and dis cussions at night on the Fair Ground vastly to their own enjoyment and edification. ‘What do you say ? Very respectfully, David W. Lewis, Secretary. To J. S. Pope, Secretary of Pike County Ag ricultural Society. Tax on Cotton. Forney in his Press of tho 17th instant, tele- graphes as follows from Washington: The prosperity of the South warrants tho statement that the internal revenue receipts from that section will be nearly fifty per cent, greater for the present fiscal year than for the last fiscal year. Among the mondification of the revenue law that will undoubtedly be recom mended to the next Congress will be a tax of one cent per pound on cotton. It is believed Miat such a tax will yield fully $15,000,000 a ^ar, and this would justify the repeal of that portion of the law imposing special taxes, relieving the Iaboamg and manufacturing interests of a great bnrden. It is said that the Government does not now realize one-tenth of the amount it should from the sale of cotton, as the profits are not reached by the income tax. Wo suppose the Press speaks by the card in this matter, and we are sorry to believe it. The embarrassment to trade inflicted in the levying of the tax on cotton—the vexation to planters— the annoyance of a great horde of revenue sharks nosing about and gobbling np every cot ton grower or buyer who happens to be at fault in any one of their red tape formulas, will create a good deal more than fifteen millions worth of trouble and vexation. sermon by Rev. Dr. Hickson. His subject was political and social charity, in connection with the Avondale disaster. A handsome contribution was mado for tho sufferers. Tho injuries to tho South Carolina Railroad by yesterday’s accident will be fully repaired by to morrow. The principal loss of property was the destruction of tho locomotive. Salt was a largo item of the freight lost. The Cotton Yield. A correspondent of the Sun, writing from Eufaula, alludes to a point which we have no donbt will make a deep impression on planters before the cotton picking is over. He says: In addition to the failure of the production of cotton as above stated, there is another fruit ful cause of a short crop, which is the legiti mate result of the facts already mentioned. I allude to the light yield of lint in proportion to the amount of seed cotton. My agent, on in telligent and practical farmer, weighed 500 pounds of seed cotton, ginned it, and obtained only 140 pounds of lint. He then ginned 3,000 pounds of seed cotton and got only 680 pounds of lint. And all cotton opening prematurely will produce a light return of lint, which the rust and excessive drought and heat will pro duce or bring about. I am of the opinion that any cotton and in any season, well cultivated, will give yon a better yield of lint than the same nmonct of cotton badly cultivated. This experiment was from cotton not well cultivated. I hope to receive a better yield from other squads, whose cotton has been more thoroughly cultivated. The lint seems to suffer even moro than the cotton plant from misfortunes or bad culture, and hence I expeot a short crop this season, first, from a bad stand; secondly, bad work and slow beginning; and lastly and mostly, from the almost univer sal prevalence of rust. And I fear tho planters will do this fall as they did in 1868—suffer the cotton to pass into the hands of speculators be fore the maximum price is reached. It does appear but just that he who makes the cotton should get nil it is worth, and let the speculator and manufacturer speculate npon the mere nom inal value, as do the operators in the Stock Ex change of New York and elsewhere. Disappearance of Dog Stab.—A most start ling astronomical fact—the explosion, or rather the conflagration, of Tan Coronae—occurred some time since. It appears now that another and much more important star is slowly taking itself oat of onr system. By calculations of ex traordinary minuteness and delicacy, Mr. Hug gins, and Father Secchi have demonstrated that Sirius and our sun are mutually receding from one another at the rate of 29.4 miles per second. In the end, therefore, though the distance of time strains the imagination, we must lose sight of Sirius—that is to say, provided we have not by that time gained the capacity of watching the more distant universe towards which he must be , x . receding—an improbability. Nothing seems so . cent. are 8al “ be vrhite, near its final limit as the power of astronomical j Grant’s view of the Presidency—“It may be telescopes, while the power of the human eye, ' four years, and it may be forever!" if it alters at all, probably decreases. j Ullmann asked Franz List to make a concert _ „ , ! tour in this oountry, bnt the Abbe declined. r • „ New York Herald, of Friday, says: | c^oo, npon orders from London, is export- Gbops is Coweta—From conversations with Lewis Carter, the negro man who was boned fog butter to China, by way of California. by the caving in of a well at Jamaica, L. L, on 2- tra . Wednesday, is still afire nearly forty feet under ' Tfl 6 the snrfaoe. A two inch iron pipe was run Publican is a column devoted to prize fights, down to him and he breathes and converses Louisiana claims to be drawing numbers of through it. He hm now been more than thirty colonists from Indiana and other Western hours buried and is without food, bnt a large States. gong of men are at work digging him out A movement is said to be contemplated to in- . —» crease the whisky tax at the next session of Oregon is canning salmon for the rest of the Congress. wor ^ Marshal Kanb was defeated by Hr.. Albert.as General News. Louisville, September 20.—Railroads from here South are not blocked. Some delay, however, oc curs in transferring goods over tho Ohio river. San Francisco. September 20.—Tho Humboldt celebration was a fine affair. An earthquake occurred throughout Arizona on the 5th. No damage reported. New York, September 19.—A French Cervelle has arrived in distress. She brought eight cases of yel low fever to quarantine—one since died. Norfolk, September 19.—Policeman Geoigo Scullates had his lip bitten off and received several blows over his head in attempting to arrest Corporal Smith, of Company K, 17tb U. S. Infantry, whom he ebot, killing him instantly. Scullates has been arrested. Waverly, N. Y., September 20.—An express train, bound North on the Pennsylvania and New York Railroad, collided to-day with a car on the track. Two were killed and several wounded. No Southern names. Foreign Hews. London, September 20 The Tost of this morn ing says : It now appears that America only mado friendly representations to tho Madrid Government in favor of tho recognition of Cuba, probably. Na poleon's advico to tho Regency is that Spain shonld act considerately towards Cnba, and so disarm tho American influence. Tho French Government fa vors a conciliatory policy at Madrid and non-inter vention at Washington. Stanford says that Prim’s attempt to induce England and France to join in a protectionate for Cnba has totally failed. The Paris correspondent of the Times says that tho Emperor’s recovery has caused a lull in the fiery debate which has begun between the party of the Empress and friends of the Prince. Tho Napoleon rivalry, already displayed by each faction, gives a foretasto of what is in storo for France when the death of the Emperor lots his family loose and gives up tho State to their unseemly discords. Lisbon, September 20.—A Rio Janeiro steamer has arrived with advices which report the capture of Asearra Reribebin. Lopez fled. The news causes rejoicing. Buenos Ayres, Montevideo and Rio Ja neiro were illnminated. Washinoton, September 20.—The Bishop of Exe ter is dead—aged 91 years. Ono hundred and twenty vessels and several hundred seamen were injured bytholato English gale. It is rumored that Napoleon telegraphs to the French minister at Washington that France desires that Spain should retain Cuba. Tho embarkation of troops for Cuba has already commenced. It is confidently stated that Admiral Topete commands the fleet. Prim reaches Madrid to-morrow. Tho negotiations for his marriage with the Duke of Montpensier’s daughter improves the chances of tho Duke of Genoa for the Spanish throne. Marine Hews. Savannah. September 20.—Arrived, steamer Her man Livingston, New York; ship Crescent City, Liverpool; schooner Maryland, Boston. Charleston, September 20.—Arrived, steamer Sea Gull, Baltimore; schooners A. E. Glover, Bos ton, J. H. Stickney, Baltimore, and Jonathan May, Philadelphia; steamer Rescue, New York. Cleared, Mengatank, New York. The following is the area of the United States since tho addition of Alaska. Area of tho States 1,092,436 square miles; an area of the Territo ries 1,041,962 sqnaro miles; area of the Dis trict of Columbia 63 square miles; Alaska 577,- 490 square miles. Total area 3,611,822 square miles. A woman recently appeared before a tribunal to complain of the ill usage she received of her husband. “What pretext had he for beating yon?” inquired the Judge. “Please, sir, he didn't have no pretext, it was a stick.” A New York contemporary says: “There aro only two kinds of buildings now being erected in this city—tenement houses and palaces.” An Englishman has started in a canoe, to pad dle himself from New Jersey to Texas. He has made extended jonrneys of this kind in Europe. The Louisville Journal thinks “it is no worse to get drunk on whisky than on fanatical oppo sition to it” A traveler across the continent mentions game as scarce on the Pacific slope, euchre being the most abundant Geo. Gillespy, Democratic candidate for Governor of Iowa, ia champion of heavy weights — weighing abont three hundred pounds. Josh Bnxnros says: “HI was in the habit of swearing, I would not hesitate to coss a bed bag right in his face.” The first through freight train from Chicago arrived at Alameda, GaL, yesterday. The Hon. Sanford E. Church still lies in a critical condition at Rochester. The Rheims Chamber of Commerce pats the champagne trade this year at 22,000,000 bot tles. Or the population of Jamaica, but three per The Washington Chronicle says:“Prominent colored men in South Carolina have communi cated with Mr. John H. Bntler, asking if he will acoept the position of assistant commissioner of education in South Carolina. Mr. Butler holds the mutter uader.advteemvnt ' I An airline to California is proposed when the a candidate for the nomination for sheriff at the , “Avitor" gets running. primary election in Baltimore Tuesday. . Burned Alive The Augusta Constitutionalist, furnishing the particulars of the late catastrophe on the South Carolina Railroad, which was announced in the telegrams Sunday morning, says: About 2 o’clock yesterday morning, the up passenger train from Charleston reached the Congaree trestle, across the track of whioh a de cayed titee had fallen. The train was made up of two passenger coaches, filled with passengers, and the mail, baggage and express cars, besides ten or twelve box carsheavily freighted. Immediate ly before reaching the break m the road, caused by the fallen tree, which had broken the super structure of the trestle for several feet, one of the firemen, Charley Bums, discovered the chasm, but thought it the shadow of a tree across the track. When still nearer, he discovered its true character, bnt too late to stay the progress of the locomotive, which jumped the break, and meeting no track on the opposite side, keeled over into the abyss, twenty feet below, thirteen freight cars following and falling one upon an other into the chasm. The locomotive in falling caught the engineer, Mr. Seaborn Hargrove, who was bnried beheath its pondorons weight. Mr. James Gilbert, firman, was also entangled in the wreck of the locomotive in snch n manner that extrication was impossible, and his body, if not killed outright, was completely roasted to death by the fire in tho engine. As soon as the shock was felt, Conductor Evans hurriedly ascertained the cause and dis covered the horrible death hanging over his en gineer, whom, when he reached the engine, by sliding down the trestle timbers, he found still alive. The most earnest and laborious exer tions were put forth by Conductor Evans and others to rescue the unfortunate man, who re tained his consciousness and appreciated the full extent of his terrible position and the utter hopelessneffi of his relief. By this time, the cars next the engine were discovered to be on fire, which was observed by tho engineer, who calmly importuned his friends to leave him to his manifest fate and protect themselves from tho burning wreck which threatened to fall upon them in a few minutes. With a kindly message to his wife, ho announced his willingness, “to go,” and calmly folded his arms across his breast, to await the terrible fate which hung over him. Finding all efforts to extricate him futile, with heavy hearts, the friends of this he roic man were forced to withdraw themsolves from further exposure to the fiery death which was suspended over them, and leave him to liiB awful fate. Tho bodies of tho two men were extricated from the wreck during the day yesterday. As if dying with folded arms, tile right hand and left arm of the engineer was burned completly off, together with his legs at the knees, and other parts of his body charrtd to a complete crisp. The head and both arm? and legs of the fireman, Gilbert, wero burned off, presenting one of tho saddest spectacles upon wich human eyes ever rested. Of all the harrowing scenes of tho terrible disaster, the horrible death and multilations of these unfortunate men were most melancholy, and claimed the sympathy of tha stoutest hearts. The other fireman, Char ley Bums, was severely scaldel and badly braised, but unconscious, as it wcie, of the ex tent of his injuries, was enabled to extricate himself from the wreck and walk out of danger. Although suffering greatly yesterday, he was cheerful, and was brought from the scene to Branchville, by Conductor Moore, whose train arrived here last night, and to whom wo are in debted for many of the particulars which we give. He was carried to Charleston, hii home, and there aro strong hopes entertained of his recovery. \ The remarkable preservation of the passen gers from tho dangers which threatened them in the common rain and destruction of the train, by fire, i3 attributable to the fact that the cars in advance of the passenger coaches com pletely filled tho break and chasm, leaviag the passengers unharmed on tho track, when the two passenger coaches wero uncoupled from the burning train, and shoved to a safe distance down tho track, by which they were preserved from destruction. Thirteen heavily laden freight cars, locomo tive and the baggage car aro piled in one com mon ruin, with abont sixty or seventy feet of the trestle destroyed by the fire. The origin of the fire is confidently attributed by some of the passengers to matches shipped among the merchandise in the freight cars. Others regard it as having been communicated from the locomotive to the trcstlo, and thence to the freight cars. Negro Emigration from Virginia. The Richmond Dispatch of the 17th instant says: The drought will very probably cause the re moval of a considerable population of negroes from Virginia. We already hear of the depar ture of small bodies of them from different sec tions of the sonthside country—some of them to Tennesseo. The loss of labor thns occasioned will probably be readily made np by the intro duction of immigrants from abroad; but then these immigrants, being white, will not likely be content to go into toe sections of toe conn- try from which the blacks have emigrated, but they will advance across the border into the section where whito labor predominates, and where they will find congenial society. As the whites increase in snch sections the colored people will recede southwardly, and it most be from these retiring laborers that the sonthside must make np its deficit until the wave of white immigration shall cross toe James and take posi tion south of it. It may be reasonably maintained tost this process—this incursion of white labor and re treating of black southwardly—will go off with steadiness until the colored population of Vir ginia shall be greatly diminished, and that ele ment be no longer considerable. The excellent adaption of Virginia to those enterprises for which the African race is not suited will strong ly attract whito population. As time advances, the tide of that population will be immensely increased, and the State be rapidly filled up.— A few years will make a material change in the composition of onr society. Polygamy Defended. A man in Boston has written a .book in de fence of Polygamy. We quote a paragraph in which he shows how too mutual association of friends may ripen into love, and even into a polygamous marriage. He says: For example, there are two female friends re siding together, and mutually dependent upon epch other for many of their social enjoyments and for much of their intellectual and moral culture. A wealthy young man of their ac quaintance calls upon them frequently and ad mires them both, and they enjoy his visits, for neither of them has any other male associates. At length he invites them both to a public en tertainment Neither of them would be willing to leave her friend and go with him alone, nor could ho well endure the thought of enjoying himself abroad with ono while toe other would be deserted and neglected at homo—the other who would enjoy the entertainment so much, and whose enjoyment would so much enhance theirs. Now, if this triple companionship shall ripen into friendship, and toe friendship into love, and the love shall result in a triple mar riage, where is the degradation ? Would it not be still more heartless to desert either of the friends now when each heart is thrilling with toe harmonious music of toe triple love r Grant as a Bummer.—Mrs. A. G. Brower, formerly Miss Cox, of Holly Springs, Mississip pi, in a published letter, makes the extraordina ry charge that General Grant and wife carried off silver plate from her father's house, which they occnpied at Holly Springs. Some of the articles are minutely described, and among them a silver waiter, marked with the name “Mary Annesly, 1750.” “This waiter,” says Mrs. Brewer, will be readily recognized in the Grant mansion at Washington. That and sev eral other articles of value thatfeame from the South may be recognized there.” W. I What Reconstruction will do fob Virginia. By the provisions of toe new Constitution the stay law is abrogated and the Legislature is prohibited from passing any law to stay toe col lection of debts. This will bring most of the land property in the State under toe hammer of toe Sheriff, as soon as the State is reconstruct ed and the new constitution beoomes toe law.— It will be a source of much hardship to all who owe heavy debts, and have large judgments re corded against them. A large portion of the judgments are In .favor of Northern creditors against merchants who in turn hold judgments against the fanners. The practicability of a single-rail railway has been thoroughly tested in France, and with suc cessful results. The novel feature of the inven tion consists of a single rail, like a long ribbon, extending along one side of the road. One wheel, placed at the forward part, alone bears on this rail, while the other two wheels rest on the ground. The oars are furnished with two wheels, placed underneath in their long axis, whioh rest on the rail and rapport their weight, Grand Jury Fresentmenta of Marlon County. We, the' Grand Jurors, sworn, chosen and empanneHed for the September Term of Marion Superior Court, in bringing our labors to a dose, beg leave to make the following general presentments: After careful examination of toe exhibit made to our body forinsolvent costs by the officers of toe late County Court, we have approved and aRowed to toe Judge, $52 30; to toe Solicitor General, $253 75, and to the sheriff $25 00: Upon examination of the Treasurer’s books, we find that he has receivedfor county purposes toe sum of $4,153 27; and has disbursed, for whioh has proper vouchers, $2,202 77; leaving a balance on hand of $1,950 50; of pauper funds we find he has received toe sum of $3,250 32; and disbursed, for which he has proper vouchers, the sum of $1,88G CO; leav ing a balance of $1,863 72. In view of toe favorable condition of our finances, we recommend that toe Ordinary as sess a tax, not to exceed one hundred per cent, on toe State tax for the ensuing year. We are pleased to be able to report the books of tho Clerk of too Superior Court and Ordi nary in superb condition, reflecting great credit upon those officers. The roads generally in tho county are report ed in good condition, especially in “Kincha- foonee”nnd “Cut off” Districts. In Red Bone District there has been no Justice, and conse quently toe roads have been neglected. The fault wo understand is with the Governor, who failed or refused to commission toe duly elect ed officers. We are unanimously of opinion that it is toe duty of toe Ordinary forthwith to appoint a commissioner for this District, and see to it that he have the roads in his District worked immediately, so that the crops now ready for market may be conveyed over them without delay or danger; and we earnestly in vite his attention to this matter. We recom mend that toe road leading from Glenalta to Talboton from near William Walker’s to As kew’s house, on the opposite side of the creek, be done away with. We recommend that the road from Bon Powell’s to where it intersects the road leading from Daniel Lane’s to Bell's Mill bo made a public road, and hands along too same bo assigned it. The road from Colum bus to Americus, from Jeff Day’s Old [Here occurs a hiatus in tho copy furnished. The paging in toe manuscript is all regular, and the word “old” closes page two. Page three then begins as follows.—Editors Tele graph :) We Tecommend that the bridge at McLaugh lin’s Mills be repaired at once, as it is over this bridge that moBt of our citizens transport their crops to market, and it is represented to be in an unsafe condition. We also request that toe Or dinary confer with too Ordinary of Talbot coun ty on the propriety of building a new bridge at Chandler’s Mills. Our Court-house and Jail are found to be in very bad condition, and we in vite the attention of the Ordinary to the recom mendation of onr predecessors at toe April Term on this subject. Wo congratulate our fellow-citizens on the evidence of peace and harmony that prevail among all classes of the community, worn down and exhausted by a pro tracted and devastating civil war. Stripped of too most of our property by toe action of toe Federal Government, and left unaided to begin toe race of life anew, and procure a competen cy for ourselves and families, with old debts pressing upon us and new ones accumulating, we have abandoned pursuits onco a pastime, and pleasure and betaken onrselves to toe great and paramount business of attempting to build up our waste places and to recover to some ex tent at least, our fortunes. Men thus engaged have little leisure or desire to disturb the peace of society, but on toe contrary, respect toe laws and aid, to the extent of their ability and influ ence, in seeing them duly executed. Such we believe to be toe state of society in this county. “Let us have peace;” we pant for it as toe hart panteth for the water-brooks. Whatever may be toe state of society in other sections of onr once proud and noble old commonwealth, we send greetings to all within our own limits and beyond, that we are in a state of profound peace with ourselves and the rest of mankind, and humbly crave that the hand of power, State or Federal, may not be raised to disturb it Let us have peace. In takfog leave of His Honor, Judge Johnson, we tender him onr thanks for toe prompt and impartial discharge of his duties, and to Mr. Solicitor General Thornton, onr compliments for courtesies to this body. James H. Dunham, Foreman. Samuel Greene, Wm. P. Webb, Samuel T. Jones, Wm. H. Morgan, Geo. W. Youngblood, John J. Drew, John J. Smith, C. W. Epps, Kilby Moore, T. C. Brown, M. T. Hollis, Benjamin Powell, Alfred Chalkley, Wm. C. Glaze, J. W. WigginB, John McMichael, N. T. Wall, Barnabas Hart, Reuben Brown, Wm. P. Smith, H. J. Philips, Joel Y. Rushin, A true extract from the minutes of Marion Superior Court. Thomas B. Lumpkin, Clerk. Washington Irving’s Early Attach ment to a Beautiful Jewess—Why he Never Married. A correspondent of toe Jewish Messenger gives a new explanation of toe reason why toe late Washington Irving always remained a bach elor. Speaking of Miss Rebecca Gratz, a Jew ess of Philadelphia, distinguished for her zeal in works of charity, who has just died at the ripe age of 88, he says: “Twenty years ago I heard toe story, a story that has long been current in Philadelphia in Jewish cirdos, among her friends and acquaint ances, and which has again been revived here since her death. It runs thus: Many years ago, when Miss Gratz was a young girl, Wash ington Irving then already risen in literary rep utation, came to Philadelphia and became a vis itor at toe house of her family. It is said that in youth she was very beautiful and very good; and as her acquaintance with Irving increased, toe beauty of both her character and hef fea tures, together with toe fact that she was a liv ing representative of that nation whose whole history is romance, so wrought upon his heart that ho became deeply enamored with her. It is needless to say that had his attachment been ever so strong, with her strength in her faith, it would have been wasted. As it was, it was wasted. Irving left toe city, but he not forget the lady of his love.” The writer adds that Irving subsequently mentioned to Sir Walter Scott his intimate ac quaintance with toe beautiful Rebecca, of Phi ladelphia. Scott, it appears, was writing, or about to write “Ivanhoe,” and upon the descrip tion of the Jewess, so firm to her faith, named his heroine Rebecca. The New Passenger Depot.—This structure, which was commenced in 1860, is now finished, except as regards painting the top, and plaster ing and painting the offices and rooms. Dar ing the war and until last year work was sus pended. Tho building is quite a handsome one and admirable for the purposes for which it is used. It is airy, well lighted and ventilated, and could not be made more convenient. Three tracks have been placed within. The frontage, on the South, measures 127 feet, and the inte rior of the building 81 feet in width. The ex treme height, from toe floor to the top of the ventilator, is 41 feet. The brick walls are 22 feet high. At the South end are placed two picket offices, and in one wing, a ladies room fitted up with taste and provided with every convenience, and in the other, apartments for baggage. The comfort of gentlemen has also reoeived attention. Being open at both ends, the engines can pull or back through the shed, and toe passenger cars always kept under shel ter. This is a great advantage in disagreeable weather. Since this depot was built, (and all the trains have just commenced running into it) the number of visitors to the arriving and de parting trains has largely increased. It is toe only respectable depot erection that Colnmbns can claim. The structure was designed and ex ecuted by Barringer & Morton. Both the orig inal and altered plans were drawn by Capt 1C, of the firm.— Columbus Sun. A man named Daniel Bryant, who “took to” the swamps in 1862 to avoid the draft, was dis covered by some negroes, near Newborn, N. G., a few days ago, and informed that the war was over. He went to Newbem with the intention of leading a civilized life, but soon discovered that he waa not in a civilized part of the gjobe and immediately returned to the swamps. A Solar Steam-Engine. M. Mouchot is at present exhibiting in Paris what he calls a solar steam-engine—an exceed ingly interesting piece of mechanism, the novel ty and ingenuity of which are equally striking. A spherical mirror, or reflector, of a hollowed form, plated with stiver, is placed in a position to receive toe full strength of the falling sun beams, the intensified heat which is communi cated to a boiler formed of glass or crystal; the water contained in whioh boils after the lapse of a few minutes, and the steam, playing upon the piston, _ sets a small engine in rapid motion, which, in turn, moves an Archimedean screw, which forces a body of water np a considerable height The inventor entertains sanguine hopes that his machine, once constructed to work on a large scale, will be universally pre ferred for all industrial operations in intertropi- cal countries, where toe ardent rays of toe sun for eight months in toe year will insure regular ity in working, and constitute for them the most economical motive power. It remains to be seen whether operations on a large scale will be as brilliantly successful as toe experiments at present performed by toe ingenious model. Opinions are much divided concerning the prac tical working qualities of toe invention, some maintaining that it is only an interesting toy, and others that it is destined to operate another revolution in the walks of science and industry. Cotton Crop Statement of the Financial Chronicle—The Financial Chronicle sums up the total crop for the year • I860 at 2,439,039 bales, which it disposes of aa follows : Total crop of toe United States. 2,439,039 Stock on hand commencement of year (September 1, 1868:) At Northern ports...... 30,203 At Southern ports 7.927— 38,130 Total supply during year ending September 1, 1869 .2,477,760 Of this supply there has been exported to foreign ports during the year... .1,448,020 Sent to Canada by railroad direct from the ‘West 18,000 Nowon hand (Sept. 1, 1869) at Northern ports 9,536 At Southern ports 2,807—1,487,363 Total consumption inUnited States for year ending Sept. 1, 1869 bales 998,806 Consumption in Southern States 80,000 Leaving consumption in Northern States. 918,806 Not Acquainted with Her Name.—As the Or dinary’s office was abont being closed the other afternoon, a negro man of some fifty years of age applied “for do contrac wherefore to web- lock a woman,” as he expressed it The docu ment was commenced, Julius Caesar written, when toe name of his intended was asked. He scratched his head and said he’d forgot—would try to remember. If fumbling in his head with finger-nails developed anything, it did not bring forth the cognomen of his “belubed wlsat-you- call-her.” The officers becoming impatient, he begged them to remaiu until he could go to her house and acquire the desired information—he was obliged to marry in the morning. He soon returned with toe information desired, and per mission to “weblock” was quickly granted. Two dollars were then demanded of him. This pro duced consternation, bnt finally he gasped out, if they wouldn’t marry him just a “quarter’s wuf ?” all he had. He. secured toe license.—Co lumbus Sun. Three Dollars a Day.—Cotton picking has fairly commenced in Tennessee, but the plan ters are so pinched for hands that they are offering for them three dollars a head per day to save toe crop. This deficiency of pickers, we suspect, results from the removal of large bodies of blacks from toe plantations to the towns, where, with tho new excitements of town life, they prefer the chances of a job from day to day to toe monotony of regular work in toe country. Bnt toe Radical white friends of these idle town negroes doubtless could, and ought to, persuade them to go to toe relief of toe planters—for we are all interested in saving toe cotton crop—whites and blacks, South and North.—Hew York Herald. ^ The editor of a Texas paper offers hia paper while two other wheels^ destfoed to preserve for six months to toe man that brings him the the equilibrium, are placed outside. «fa>rmnlon. largest watermelon. Gen. Tom Jordan, of whom people in Char leston cherish recollections a good deal more lively than agreeable, seems to be_catting quite a figure in his new role of Cuban liberator. He has addressed “to toe people of the United States," in behalf of the revolutionists, an ap peal, written in that inflated and frothy style which marked his official papers while chief of staff, and by which so much undeserved ridicule was brought upon the unconscious Beauregard. Cuba, he tells us, does not need men, though veterans would be welcome to a country the difficulties and dangers of which have been much exaggerated. She does need, however, shoes, clothing and medicines. “Hundreds of brave men,” he writes, “are standing in my sight almost naked;” and of the Cubans, be says that men more willing to become soldiers he never saw. This is what Jordan thinks of the Cubans. Vie shonld like to hear what the Cubans think of Jordan.—Charleston Hews. Virginia.—The Herald says a plot has been set on foot, it is charged, by Radical office-hol ders in Virginia to have toe question of admit ting that State go over without action in Con gress until the session commencing in 1870. It is proposed to get up evidence of outrages and frauds by the Walker party, and by the aid of filibustering in Congress and references to the Reconstruction Committee have the whole ques tion adjourned. By this means the present office-holders will be permitted to serve at least twelve months longer. The originators of the scheme, it is said, receive the strong support of both Butler and Boutwell. Sad Affliction.—We are very sorry to learn that Mrs. L T. Tichenor, wife of Rev. Dr. Tich- enor, died at Montevallo last week. Dr. Tiehe- nor has also recently lost two children. He has the sympathy of the Montgomery people, by whom he is so well known and beloved.—Mont. Advertiser. Mrs. Tichenor was formerly a Miss Boykin, of this place. Grand Fbee Barbecue.—The citizens of Wills Valley, give a grand free barbecue at Allen’s Spring, 44 miles from Chattanooga, on Satur day, toe 24th Inst., as a compliment to toe capi talists engaged in constructing the Alabama and Chattanooga Railroad. This is a compliment well merited, and will, no doubt, be highly ap preciated by toe parties.—Constitution. Hiqh Prices for Singing.—I bog leave ex plicitly to state that on the 7th of February last, I concluded, with Mad’lle Nilsson, a formal con tract for a six months’ tour through the United States, to commence in November, 1870, and for which she was to receive 100,000 francs a month in gold—a Bum equivalent to $26,000 in green- backs. Clifton W. Tayleubb. A PmruL Truth;—The New York Express says: The hotels are full of Southern men. These people, notwithstanding the harsh treat ment they are receiving, do nothesitate to come forward and spend their first money since the war among, and for toe benefit of, many of their persecutors. They make a princely return for the plague of carpet baggery. Fine Cottok.—A Mr. Sayre, of Montgomery, Ala., has near that city & patch of Peeler cotton containing thirty-eight acres. He has picked one-half of the cotton, amounting to thirty-eix thousand pounds in toe seed. The whole crop of the patch has been sold in Boston at forty oents, to be delivered in December. The pugilistic fraternity of New York are in a state oflively excitement at the arrival from England of the celebrated Knight of the Fist, Mr. James Maoe. This distinguished gentle man is Baid to be in excellent condition, and as his friends say he cornea here in punrait of pro fessional business, we may look oat ere long for another “great mill,” The Avondale fond is so steadily increasing that there is little donbt now but that it will reach the $250,000, which ia desired and needed to make a permanent fond. There is now a grand-total of $45,316 50 from all sources, and of this sum, $1,021 was raised in toe town of Pittston, Pa, on Saturday. The bulk of the subscription thus far has come from New York. Ths senior editor of the New Orleans Pica yune, on his return from a two months’ stay in the North and East, remarks that “with public opinion at ths North far more tolerant than aver before, with on earnest disposition there to carry capital to the South rather than take it away, and with a bountiful crop insuring inde pendence at home, we may all be hopeful. The future of the South wifi be one of progress and improvement.” . A BANQUET was given at Belmonioo’s Tuesday evening in honor of the Harvard crew, They have, aooepted the hospitalities of the, city of Nmht Fuuobt and Accommodation Tain. the Southwestern Railroad The people °! Southwestern Oeorgia, living below Fort Vsiler Jm be greatly pleaeed to loam that Mr. Virgil Superintendent of toe road, has determined to nT*’ night freight and accommodation train between y * con and Eofaul*. Tho schedule of ti mo fot TT running of the train ia now being prepared an ’ 6 soon as it is completed, it will be tamedi&tei. " in operation. ’’““‘eiypat Heretofore the Eufaula freight train hae left v. con early in the morning and immediately in .. wake of the Albany freight train; henceforth it»m leave at an early hour in toe evening, and will t ■ along with it one or two passenger coaches for tb! accommodation of tho traveling publio. tin,# 8 not all the freight cars which will go out withthf night train will contain through freight, or at i freight for points between HmithviUe and Euf and passengers will, therefore, meet with no <i e U^ The daily passenger train will leave Macon at t ' X., and arrive at 5:45 p. M., as heretofore. i This is an admirable arrangement for the Deo 1 of Southwestern Georgia, for it wifi enable thenr 6 visit toe city at much less expense, baneaci a a ? business and get home fully twelve or fifteen ho- J * sooner. Aa the matter now stands, a ^ f 318 Americus, visiting Maoon for the purpose »f t, acting a few hours’ business, arrives here&Z?t f. m. ; he remains over night, and before he ex tend to his business the next morning the t *" leaves, and he is forced to lie over all dayamj other night before he can start back. ([i " new arrangement he will arrive ono evening part the next, if be has to remaiu during the djv or if he wishes to return the next morning after hii arrival, he can take the regular 8 o'clock aomfc- passenger train. * The night train above alluded to will also be i great convenience to travelers who arrive by the 3 -30 p. m. train on the Macon and Western road, and to those arriving by the 6:40 P. x. train on the Central as it will enable them to go on South imtnmodieteli without lying over to await the next morning train! A Colored)Labor Society.—We understand that an organization of this character Ins been effected in this city, and has been in operation for sone time, having for its object the raising of waga among all classes of the colored race, from the me- chanic down to toe ordinary field hand and house servant. Now, while we have no objection to the end which the Society has in view, and are alwats glad to see honest toil well and fairly paid for, vet we must say that until the propensity to steal and the disposition to idle is removed from a large por tion of tho colored population, the objects oi the Society can never be attained. If fair wages are claimed, fair labor and fair dealing on the part of the laborer must be performed. We understand, also, that the Society has adopted a schedule of prices which each member of the So ciety must observe in contracting for labor. For is- ] stance: A negro woman applied the other davit the residence of & citizen for a situation as a cod and washer. Sho was asked what she wonld hia for by the month, and she replied fifteen dollars, as she was a member of the Labor Society and cool] not accept a situation for less, as that.was the pnx the Society had fixed upon for female labor. Ska also stated that male field hands conld not wort for less than £30 per month, and mechanics Lila charge from £2 to £5 per day, according to their pis- ficiency. Of course Mias Dinah failed to get a “ei,'' and nearly nine-tenths of her class making applim- tionfor labor under similar circumstances will iho fail. There is not a planter in Georgia who Clif ford, even at the present high price of cotta to pay field hands 61 per day and feed them; toris there a small family in Macon who can afford t:psj $15 per month for a woman to do their cooking, ca lces said woman will “tote” fair with tho mat flour, sugar and other provisions, and not eat ate: three times as much as any of tho whito people oc toe place. Within the last twelve months we ta changed our cook a half dozen times at the rated 87 per month, for mean work, and appropriating® supplies whenevor an opportunity presented itsel For a good, faithful and honest cook, many belli of families would most cheerfully pay 815 or eva I 620 per month, but when such a cook is found, M | a rare jewel, and no mistake. But we suppose that when Jeff Long's Lata I Convention assembles in this city on the 19th c! I October, this matter will be folly discussed ani ventilated, and wo Bhall then have in an official I shape the terms upon which “white trash” canhiva I their work performed. Magistrate’s Court.—Justice Logan had th: I following case before him yesterday: A negt I named Jordan, a few days since, sold to anode I negro named Henry Sledge, a mare for the same! I 640—representing the same to be entirely eorni J and agreeing, if she proved unsound to refund & I money and receive back toe animal. After thi I trade Henry discovered that the mare was tsoi; I diseased and demanded of Jordan the 849 and n-1 turned the animal. Jordan refused to give up tkl money; and npon tho application of Henry, Justus Logan issued a warrant against Jordan for cheuttl and swindling-. When the case came up for 1 her I ing yesterday, Jordan struck his colors and settat I the case, by paying Henry 835 and settling the I of the warrant. The Value of Honest Men and Good S®| papers.—We gave toe particulars, in Sunday mcc I ing’s paper, of the recovery from a thief of a -*P^| did gold watch, by Hon. George M. Logan. S>| owner oi the watch seeing the article, immeduall called on Mr. Logan, accurately described it, i^ ; l waa returned to him. Now, if tho watch bad a* J fallen into the hands of an honest man theo**! would never have received it: and if the TeiT'^I had not told who had it the owner might not 1**1 found it in a long while, during which tim* *1 might have suffered great mental agony, «Wl sibly, to relieve himself, have committed We say ho owee toe Judge one for recovering ®l watch, and ought also to subscribe for tho graph twelve months for announcing it. Two Much tor Him.—The local of tha j Intelligoncer complains that Northern cap-o'l are sending to that city 81000 and ^500bhJ’^l which to purchase cotton, and objects to th** ty tho score that nobody there can be found *•'1 ney enough to change said bills- Would like for a3 many bill* of the demonic to be sent to Maoon as a mule could pull do* 1 ' on ice. There are plenty of men here wW change them. Why, we even know one edW ‘ this way, if be could borrow a little top 1 ' . what he already has, could change * ^ | That’s no money at alL A Fink Gold Watch Recovered Yesterday morning awhile before bre»U*sL Geo. M. Logan, who lives in Yineville. R* 8 to his front gate to do a little marketing. & v so engaged a ragged, dirty and rough looting ^ walked np, with a guard ring and splendid goldwatoh sticking ont of his Mr. Logan asked him what time of th® d*f ‘ , and the negro drew the watch from hi* P® 11 * ^ see. When he did so, Mr. L. asked to ^ watch, and it waa handed to him. ^ gro that it was a very fine time pi® 08 - *” where he get it. He replied that his he said was living in Monroe oounty, hong year with toe proceeds of his cotton crop, ^ be had borrowed it from his father ^ months sinoe, to keep the time while ** J the Macon and Brunswick Railroad. * jji I a sensible man would lend such a watch 0 J purpose, and where the chances wero so PJJjr lose it, rather shocked the credulity Magistrate, and ho so expressed him®«“ # that he thought the watch waa 8tolf ®' , denied it Mr. L. then offered him . watch; but it was refused. He then to W t to walk down in town with him after teeeB^ he would have toe matter investigated watch was not stolen he would return * would not do so otherwise. The negro ^ ^ and Justice Lagan entered his ho®* ^ breakfast When he returned to toe g*"^l gro had gone off some hundred or t*® was standing close up against toe^Ur in* for some one, or briag to hide- pi called to him and started toward gro took to his heels m if “oM ***** him, and made good his socape. , The watch is alarge and very fl°® J and ha* peculiar marks which the scribe, and by »o doing can recover w*
