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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*
