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The Greorgia "W'eekly Telegraph.. i THE TELEGRAPH. MACON FRIDAY, OCTOBER 1,.1SG9. Stale Fair—Additional Premiums. In publishing the last list of additional prem iums, an error was committed which has been oopied into all the newspapers of the State—the repetition of the work “fastest,” for “best,” in the two last premiums for harness horses. We are requested by the Secretary to beg our friends of the press to notice and correct the error, as the original publication substantially duplicates the premiums offered. They should read as follows: For the fastest single harness horse—trot ting ...$10,00 For tho fastest pair harness horses—trot ting;....',. .. 10,00 (Open to the world.) For the best horse-collar,' for plough and wagon 10,00 For the best single harness horse—open to tho world 10,00 For the best pair harness horses —open to the world 20,00 Manufacture of Agricultural Imple ments South. With the rapid improvement in Southern ag- ricnlfnrc, a heavy demand is arising for im proved agricultural implements — a demand which will certainly grow and increase pan passu with tho demand for fertilizers, the bene fit of which they are needed to supplement and to insure. Every body feels it to bo wasteful to expend large sums of money in gnanoes and superphosphates upon land which has been merely scratched over to the depth of three or four inches, and which, consequently, gives no dopth of loose and disintegrated soil for the free extension of the fibrous roots of tho plant —for tho absorption and retention of stores of moisture, or even for the retention of the soil and manure themselves upon hill-sides, where, with light plowing, they are liable to be washed away by heavy rains. Tho consequence is that almost every pur chase of commercial manure insures better cul tivation of tbe land to which it is applied, and with this better cultivation arises tho demand for improved agricultural implements to effect this end with proper economy. We hope tho exhibition of first class farming tools of every description at the State Fair in Macon, will be so comprehensive, as to post all our people fully in the latest improvements and the most advanced ideas of American Agricul ture every where. But why should we in the South send abroad our money for the purchase of the most effect ive farming tools ? A friend in another county writing privately to us upon the subject, says: “This branch of manufacturing (in the North and West) is now making profits varying from fifty to one hundred per cent. I myself am pay ing to a firm in New York eight dollars for a plough, the prime cost of which is only three dollars. This plough is the universal cotton sweep of the Southern States, and from onef to two millions’ worth are used annually, in every conceivable form for cultivating the fields of the cotton States.” “I am paying a firm in Baltimore six dollars for a plough that they charged me only three dollars for before the war, and the prime cost of which is only two dollars now.” Now, who can donbt that a very successful business in the manufacture of the best class of agricultural implements is at the command of anybody who will establish such an enterprise on a proper foundation of skill and capital?— Labor is cheaper here than in the Northern States, and the lumber, which is the principal material required, does not cost half as much, whilo the iron and castings would probably cost very little more. The protection offered to South ern manufacturers of such goods in freights alone would afford a considerable profit—for the goods are bulky and the freights necessarily high; Why,then,8honld not some portion of our earn ings find profitable employment in a complete, well-appointed manufactory of agricultural im plements provided with everything necessary to turn out as tasteful and substantial work as can be procured anywhere? The common fault with farming implements made in the Sontb, is their roughness and coarseness. But with pro per appliances and skilled workmen these ob jections can all be removed, and large snms saved to onr section and profitable employment furnished our own people, by a little well di rected investment of capital and enterprise. Let some energetic Georgians select some central point accessible by railway to all parts of the State, raise capital, bnild workshops, bny ma chinery and set the enterprise in motion. The State Fair—Invited Guests. The anxiety manifested I by the. Augusta Chronicle and Sentinel, lest the managers of the State Fair should compromise themselves and the State of Georgia by some hasty, ill-con sfdered,' indecorous or unbecoming action in re spect to inviting Northern guests, entitles the latter to the benefit of his opinions, remon strances and protests. We therefore copy a considerable portion of an article upon the sub ject wliioh appears in that paper of tho 25th in stant: We are not so anxious to have them come as to approve the proposition made by Bullock to a Macon editor, and cordially endorsed by the latter that the State should bear the expense of a special train to be sent to meet them at Lynchburg and bring them to Macon. We fail to perceive any reason why these enemies of the State and her people should receive such distin guished consideration. We would much prefer that the five or ten thousand dollars which it would cost the Stato, should be spent in trans porting free of charge the thousands cf worthy citizens of upper Georgia who have been, by the efforts of these “distinguished” Radicals, plundered of their property, and who are now too poor to pay their own expenses to Macon. If the invitations to these leading Radicals have been prompted by a desire on tho part of the State Fair officials to conciliate the wrath and appease tho vengeance of the Radical mind, we think the conduct of the Governor of Iowa in regard to the St Louis Convention shows qnite conclusively that they have made a great mistake. These Radicals, despite the cry of peace, which is always on their lips, are as bitter in their animosities, and as malignant in their feelings toward the South to-day as at any time during the war. If the Committee think they can bny them np by such sycophantic attentions, they are sadly ignorant of their character.— They will accept your invitation, participate in best to be a faithful citizen both of the United States and of Georgia. Gov. Bullock is Governor of Georgia by no consent of ours; bat while occupying that ex alted position; :/ nothing else did, our respect for Georgia would require us to treat him with the consideration due his exalted position, and we should be sorry to believe that a single mem ber of the Board of Management would com- promit himself or the State Agricultural Society by conduct or language to the Governor of Georgia unbefitting the dignity of the officer or the State. We leave the matter in the hands of the Executive Committee, Peeler Cotton. Mr. G. L. Davis brings ns some handsomo specimens of Feeler cotton stalks. One is from Mr. H. T. Johnson’s place—a poor sand ridge— being a stalk from four acres of cotton which have yielded, so far, six thousand nine hundred pounds of seed cotton. This cotton which had sneenmbed to the drought, is now beginning to pnt out an abundant top crop of fonns and flowers—showing what it would have done with timely rain. Also two stalks from the plantation of his son, A. J. Davis, on the Tobesofkee. These grew on bottom land and bolls are jnst be ginning to open. They are so numerous it is not worth while to count them. All are fine stalks from five to six feet high. . An AwfialGold story. The Rome Commercial of Sunday speaking of the gold diggings in Bartow county and of the Gill mines, owned by a Boston .company, says that discoveries will be exhibited that will as tonish all the searchers after mineral wealth, and nothing the like whereof has ever been heard on the American continent. “Some of onr most truthful citizens have seen specimens of the ore and bear witness to the great value of it. It is represented that one ton of the ore, recently taken from the shafts, has been tested and examined, and will yield twenty thousand dollars!” Pbdjtebs’ Union.—The fraternity have been stirred np by onr incidental remarks upon Trades Unions to answer, and we will give their champion & hearing to-morrow, bat cannot in dulge a controversy, because we have very little space. We never have any quarrels with the printers because we like them too well, and don’t believe in family quarrels—anyway. Bnt, nevertheless, we have a private opinion which we never express in public—to-wit: that their Printers’ Union is one of the grandest despotisms on earth. Some of these nights when they go home to supper, and are told by the good wife that the negro women have formed a Union and agreed—that nobody shall go out to service who don’t belong to it—that neither master nor mistress shall fix wages, employ, or discharge— that mistress shall not ply .the'broom, or set the able, or do any work about the house,, or allow her children to do it, and shall not be permitted to use l “little rugger for that purpose," except one to every ten Union servants—when they see this and a good deal more of the same kind of staff, they will then begin to comprehend that the powers they claim and exercise, as a high prerogative, would atop the wheels of soeiety in a general application to business and labor In all their ramifications. On enquiry at the mailing room the clerks say it is forwarded as usual, and we cannot therefor* say what is the matter. We clip the following from the Faria Journal: Tbs unfortunate man; Booth, alluded to in our last issue as having been blown np in a well, near; Rattodge, has since died. ties, break bread at your board, tickle you with their blarney, and then return to their homes, ridicule your pretensions, scoff at yonr good cheer, and find new reasons for continuing their course of persecution and injustice. We earnestly inquire of the State Fair officials if, under the existing stato of feeling in tho North toward the South, it would not be better to attempt no particular parade over the Radi cal Congressmen and Government officials. We do not desire that any rudeness should be shown them. If they have already been invited the rules of genteel Southern society should not be violated. They should be treated in every re spect as all the other invited guests are treated. But we insist that no attempt be made to show them special consideration or particular honors. In regard to the proposition made by Bullock and endorsed by one of the Vico Presidents of the society and the editor of a leading press in Macon, we enter our earnest protest. We see in it an attempt on tho part of Bollock to secure for himself tho notice and association of gen tlemen—to put himself prominently forward at the Fair, and to secure a certain degree of re spectability by his quasi official connection with the Fair. We oppose the proposition further because, if carried out, many Northern and Western gentlemen would be induced to come to the Fair in that way, and we are not willing that they should be forced into association in any way with Bullock. It would be an insult to our Northern friends to place them under the care and subject them to the intimate association oi such a man. Bullock is in no manner, nor in no sense, the representative of Georgia intellect, sentiment or honor. Ho is simply the prema ture accident or cross resulting, from disgusting political wedlock between ignorant negroes and disreputable whites. We have not been advised whether Bullock’s proposition, made to Col. Clisby, has been con sidered or finally acted upon. We know that Col. Clisby, who is a Vice President of the so ciety, and a gentleman of influence with the committee, approves it That we may do this gentleman no injustice wo copy the following from one of his letters to the Telegraph while on the recent press excursion. The italics are our own: Governor Bullock conversed with me to-night upon onr approaching State Fair in Macon. He is exceedingly anxious not only that it shall be in every respect worthy of the State, bnt that it shall secure the attention and attendance of em inent men from other States. He, therefore, proposed to me, as one of the Vice Presidents, that if the Directory should think proper, and would invite a sufficient number, say one hun dred members of Congress and others, he tcnttld send a train to Lynchburg, Va., under the di rection of CoL Hulbert, to take, tbe party to Macon. He, himself, would receive them at the State line, and proceed with them to Macon. The train cannot go further North than Lynch burg. because the guage of the road there takes the Northern standard four feet eight inches, while our roads are five feet. I call attention of the President, the Executive Committee and the people of Macon to this liberal proposition. 1 concur with the Governor in tbe opinion that this movement might effect very salutary re sults.” [Italics interjected by the Chronicle and Sentinel.] Will the Secretary of the Society or Col. Clis by inform the people whether the Society has adopted the proposition of Bnllock? In answer to this inquiry we have to say: that the mere honorary position of Vice Presi dent conferred on the person named, gave him no authority in the management of the Fair. 2 hat is vested solely in an Executive Committee of thirty intelligent and honorable gentlemen— able to take care of their own dignity and that of the State. They will meet on the 7th proxi mo. and we trust and believe they will not hesi tate to acoept the proposition of the Governor, which we understood to be made for no other purpose than in tho interests of the grand ob jects of the Fair. A member of the Board has addressed ns the following remarks npon the general subject matter of the Chronicle and Sentinel’s editorial: “The policy contemplated by these invitations was open and avowed in the face of them. It was to conciliate, it was to counteract the im pressions of Northern people that the South was still hostile to the Union—that life and liberty were not safe here—that we were unjust to the freedmen—that we were intolerant of all North ern men good or bad. “Having such a policy, it was most important for the end in view, that those men who were deemed especially unrelenting and bitter against the South, would come and see for themselves what was the actual state of the case. The invi tations were given with the confident belief that those who would come would so bear themselves as to be treated as gentlemen by those claiming to be gentlemen. If the good influences which might result from such intercourse between leading men North and South is lost, it will be a loss to be felt when these Northern men, whose opinions and feeling were to be modified by the look into affairs as they actually existed, shall meet in the next session of Congress with absolute power over ns in their hands and find themselvesstill treated and regarded by the South as thieves and hypocrites and liars. If the good influence is lost it will be mainly attributable to the unnecessary interference of newspapers in a matter which was in perfectly safe hands. “As to the proposition of Col. Hulbert, or Gov. Bollock, to send a special train to Lychborg, to convey invited gnests to Macon, I do no not hesitate to say that so far as the question de pends upon me the proposition will certainly be accepted with the pride and pleasure that every Georgian onght to feel when it is remembered that after all the disasters through which the State has had to pass, she still has a vitality and energy and aim for the fntnre which enables her to do what no other State can do—dart a train of cars, if need be, half across a continent to bring invited gnests to a festival within our borders." ■We do not see that anything need be added to wbat our friend has so forcibly written. The views which actuate the Telegraph seem to dif fer essentially from those entertained by the Chronicle &, Sentinel. We are for peace, and in favor of adopting every reasonable and honor able measure to secure it We shall never wil lingly or knowingly add a single ember to the decaying fire of sectional strife, and having ac cepted the fate of war, and taken the oath of al- legianoe to the United States government, we mean to stand by it in good faith and do onr From Liverpool. BRITISH GOODS AT THE FAIR—FOREIGN SHIPMENTS OF COTTON—ENGLISH PRICE OF MONEY. Col I). W. Lewis, Secretary State Agricultural Society, of Georgia, Macon, Ga : Dear Sir—I have yonr favor of 20th August (enclosing commission) and note contents. Not hearing from you on my first arrival here, I con cluded that you had given np the idea of &p- poing me agent in Europe and took no farther steps in the matter. Now I fear it is too late to get such a display of Enropean goods as I would like to do, but I will do my best, devoting my attention (as yon request) particularly to Agri cultural implements, seeds, etc. I like your idea of making the “Georgia State Agricultural Society" an agency through which members and others can order directly from the producers and manufacturers, and I would not be surprised if this would be the great inaugu ration of “Direct Trade.” Why could hot the members of yonr society form themselves into a great “Planters’ Supply Association” and ship their cotton through an agent appointed by them, selves, the agent drawing for such amounts as they might require for immediate wants, I re ceive the cotton here, sell it to the best advan tage and return the proceeds either in supplies or hard cash ? The advantage of such an arrangement would be, that, should the market decline, money to meet the drafts could be got here, on security of the Cotton or bill of lading for the Cotton, at 24 per cent a year instead of 2i per cent, a month. Borrowers in Georgia have to pay, of course, the Agents commissions and mine; al though very handsome to each of us, thoy would be a mere nothing compared to tho profits Cot ton has to pay in passing through so many hnnd3. I wish you would give this idea your serious attention and see if some such project cannot be carried out. You will hear from mo again when I seo what can be done in the way of con tributions to the Society Fair. Yours very truly, J. S. Hutton, Agent G. S. Agricultural Society, in Europe. T. II. Bivins’ $100 Premium for a Plow. Editors Telegraph: Agricultural mechanics have been a specialty with us for thirty years. During this period we have given to the indus trial husbandry of the Cotton States tho most ecconomical and practical labor-saving imple ment of the age. We appreciate as much as any man the motives that actuates this gener ous offer. Liko all true benefactors, no doubt, Mr. Bivins is striving to ameliorate his own con dition ; and the impulse of a generous nature prompts the alleviation also of his race—in ‘ ‘cast ing about” for a plow by which “two blades may be, where only one grew before.” He may save his money and with one-tenth of it purchase of Messrs. E. Whitmore & Sons, of Baltimore, a two horse “Reynolds” plow with three extra wrought points. In this is embraced aft,that can bo obtained, at present, of the mould board plow adapted to the character of his soil. These gentlemen manufacture, also, and send thousands of them to the Cotton States, one horse mould plows, called “50” and “CO." None that we have seen, or used, can equal these for fallowing the soft and pliable cotton lands of the South. We have employed them for twenty years, under different modifications of the mould board, and had our annual stock for ten years from this factory, and found these gentlemen uniformly just and liberal. In the total absence of all manufacturing in this branch in Georgia, the plow-holders of this State are having a rough time, and the inven tive genius of the land, combated at every step, in the race for superior talent in this section. The capitalists of Georgia are deeply afflicted with “Spindles and Looms” on the brain ; not realizing the result of “cause and effect," and that these are absolutely dependent upon the success and “speed of the plow.” Of the capi tal of the State there is not a dollar, legitimately invested in the forging or manufacturing of plows—an urgent and extensivo demand is an nually anticipated and met, to the amount of three million of dollars by the implement dealers and manufacturers of the North and West, and like mnny of the infamous fertilizers, two-thirds are not worth the freight from the points of do- livery to the fields they mock and plunder. Like onr friendBivens, we have gone through the fire, and, after being badly burnt, applied our own remedy and have been cured. We re gret he did not give his post-office address, that we could talk to him on this abiding subject and “give in onr Experience." Cotton—Fertilizers—Mr. Dicksou. LETTER PROM P. T. GRAVES, ESQ. From the Ilaynerilfe Examiner. I have recently retamed from an extensive reconnoisance of the cotton prospect of Georgia, with an eye directed specially to the use of con centrated fertilizers, and the results. Bringing to my aid (whenever practicable) the demon stration of facts, or, where these could not be reached, forming my judgment from a close in spection of the prospect. My trip was greatly facilitated by tho liberal railroad system of that State—a liberality which invites travel by cheap fare and close connec tions, stopping at such points as promised the most satisfactory results to my explorations. I found the people of Georgia generally enthused on the cotton question. Merchants, planters, lawyers, doctors, women and children, had it “on tho brain” even worse than in this country, with one symptom there, in addition to its gen eral type here, which greatly intensifies the question, viz: Fertilizers. In this State this feature is sporadic, in Georgia epidemic and confluent. From Atlanta to Macon, thence to Milledgeville and Sparta, thence through South west Georgia to Eufaula—stopping at every place where a fancy operation had gained noto riety to see it, and, of my own judgment form an opinion. As the result of that examination, I give it as my judgment that the crop of Georgia will be greatly less than an average—caused by the late planting, with a general and protracted drought, which had produced rust ana blight to an extent unprecedented. In the most of South west Georgia, abont Fort Valley, Americas, Al bany and Cnthbert, the crop was all open and many fields clean picked. (No worms had vis ited the cotton within the range of my observa tions.) The result of this year's use of fertilizers set tles the question as to its profit with Georgians. The undivided unanimous decision is that it pays and pays largely! Estimates in different farms, made as carefully as I could conduct them, and on a large variety of soils, show be yond question an increase of four to six-tenths in production over similar crops unfertilized (everything else being equal.) Think of that! I visited the farm of David Dickson, near Sparta, Hancock county, to satisfy my mind as to some points which no amount of written ex planation could made clear, to see his land, his implements and particularly to see what he con sidered Dickson's Unproved cotton. The season has been a severe one in his part of the state; no rains since April, and as a consequence his feelings are not pleasant Yet the practical eye recognizes in every routine of that immense farm the evidence of a master in the art of planting. An ignorant man of the qlden time, delving with undeviating purpose to the goal of bis only ambition, viz: To make money. TTis land is mostly sandy pine land, with sound clay underneath. Thousands of acreB are like it in Butler, Pike and other counties. His cotton crop this year will yield from GOO to 800 pounds per acre, while crops in the neigh borhood, on similar land under the same influ ences, worked in the ordinary ways, are so sti fled and poverty-stricken as to be below an esti mate, say 200 pounds, showing that from 400 to GOO pounds are to be credited to deep plowing, surface culture and $12 worth of fertilizers per acre. Mr. Dickson says he never experiments, but that his suooess or rather profit had been invariable from the use of guano, and this year his investment would return him 100 per cent., notwithstanding the drouth which had reduced his reasonable estimate to one half. His fancy patch (fifty acres) is small, yet will make from 1,200 to 1,500 pounds per acre. This is where he raises Ins select feed, and well has he selected that. A rigid conformity to a uniform type has been secured. In so per fect a manner has this been done that I would be nnable to make a selection from it. His en tire crop of 1500 aores is planted in this cotton. His rows are uniformly 4 feet apart with the cotton plants from 8 to 12 inohes, 3 and 4 in a bunch. His nursery, however, has much more space on the row and one stalk. After the crop is planted no plow enters the ground beyond two inches. He uses winged sweeps entirely, which leaves the field as level as the earth’s snrfaoe un disturbed. This applies to com and cotton. Before the war, Davy Dickson was a Georgia farmer, sold cotton, com, wheat, beef andpork. Now cotton is his specialty. Yours, P. T. Graves. The Gold Panic. LIVELY TIMES AMONG THE BULLS AND BEARS. New York, September 24.—The excitement growing out of gold speculation resulted this morning in an absolute panic. At 9:15 a. m., 1474 was bid for gold, and quickly the price ad vanced to 153. At the opening of the gold room tho price was held at 150 bid, and 151 asked; and the bulls offered to make settlements with the shorts on that basis. Few, however, ac cepted the overture, being prevented by the hope that something might be done at Washing ton to relieve the market. The anxiety for news from that quarter was intense, and the hope that the Treasurer might interfere, was strengthened by the fact that numerous and very urgent remonstrances were made to the President and Secretary of the Treasury by parties who there was reason to expect would have influence with tho administration, bnt not a word came from the Government, and while the bears were waiting the bulls were carrying up tho price by rapid jumps to 1G2J. Near noon tho shorts surrendering all hope began to accept the offer of a settlement, and some operators most horribly short compromis ed on the basis of 148alSO. About noon an or der came from tho Secretary of the Treasury to sell to-morrow four millions gold and purchase an amount equal the amount of bonds. The order, however, did not come until the bulls had completed a settlement at abont 150, and the main operations of the bulls having been con summated, there was a sudden drop to 134 by p. M. Contrary to expectation tho speculation culminated without any effort to compel the payment of the extraordinary rate for borrow ing. On the contrary, while the price was bo- ing carried up to over 1G0, the bulls were offer ing from -J to 1 per cent, per day for having their gold carried according to the correct re port. The bull clique claims to have made an even million out of their operations, and losses on the other side mast be equal. One prominent gold broker, Mr. A. G. Speyors, who was con spicuous this momihg for bidding 1G0 for one million in gold when the price was 185, had failed to take up the gold, and in defence, made a statement in tho gold-room this afternoon to the effect that tho gold he bought yesterday was for Mr. TV. Bolden, and, this bid for gold at 160 to-day was on account of James Fisk, Jr., and his inability to deliver arose from both par ties not having given him any margin. He did not explain why he bid 1 GO when gold could have been bought at 135. Mr. Speyers’ conduct in other respects during the day, was such as to suggest the idea that he was under some hallu cination; bnt a report current on tho street that he had been placed in the care of his friends does not appear to have been correct. The enormous transactions in the gold room have produced a complete blank in business. In the gold exchange bank it has been impossi ble to effect all the clearances within the usual hour, and the result has been that brokers were nnable to make settlement of their accounts, and several firms have been forced into tempo rary suspension, with serious embarrassment to the whole. Several firms are placed in a posi tion of having their margins locked up in the gold exchange bank and being nnable to get their funds, are unable to make their account good with their bank, and them fore cannot give their check in settlement of claims. Among tho failures are A. O. Speyers, Belden & Co.; P. H. Williams, Jr. Lotmage, Hunter & Co.; Charles McClure & Co., S. B. Waller7and William Heath & Co. The two latter firms as sure their creditors of their entire ability to make advances good so soon as they are able to get possession of their funds by the completion of the gold clearances, and there is apparently good probability none of the other names men tioned will prove to be permanent failures. The Express says the closing of the day, which was the most eventful one in the history of Wall Street, was comparatively calm, although in all directions were gathered small crowds of brokers and speculators,talking over the exciting scenes. It is stated officially that the gold exchange bank will be able to make their settlements by 5 or 6 o’clock this evening, when the leading brokers will make a settlement with Wall street Some, however, may not be able to straighten out their affairs before to-morrow. Yesterday’s clearances of tho gold exchange bank, represent ing Wednesday's business, amounted to §324,- 523,000, but to-day’s transactions must have largely exceeded that amount. The treasury an nouncement is as follows: New York, September 24 — Notice. — The Government reserves the right to accept the bids made at 12 o’clock to-morrow in excess of four million, for gold or bonds, in its discretion. By direction of the Hon. Secretary of the Treasury. [Signed] Daniel Butterfield, Assisstant Treasurer. Running Freight Trains on Sunday.—This is prohibited in Georgia, as will be seen by the following extract from the Code: “If any freight train shall be run on any rail road in this State on the Sabbath day (known as Sunday) tho superintendent of the transporta tion of such railroad company, or the officers having charge of that department of the busi ness of the railroad, shall be liable toindictment for a misdemeanor in each connty. through which such train shall pass; and on conviction shall be fined for each offense a sum not exceed ing five hundred dollars. On sach trials it shall not be necessary to allege or prove the names of the employees engaged on such train, but the simple fact of the train being run. The de fendant may justify himself by proof that such employees acted in direct violation of the or ders and rqles of defendant.” Labor on Sunday is also forbidden under heavy penalties. A Remarkable Old Man.—Mark Twain thus describes, in the Buffalo Express, a remarkable citizen of that place: “John Wagner, the old est man in Buffalo—one hundred and four years —recently walked a mile and a half in two weeks. He is as cheerful and bright os any of those other old men that charge aronnd so in the newspapers, and is in every way as remark able. Last November he walked five blocks in a rain storm, without any shelter but an um brella, and cast his vote for Grant, remarking that ho had voted for forty-seven Presidents— which was a lie. His second crop of rich brown hair arrived from New York yesterday, and he has a new sot of teeth coming from Philadel phia. He is to be married next week to a girl of ono hundred and two years old, who still takes in washing. They have been engaged eighty years, but their parents persistently re fused to consent until three days ago. Buffalo Hunting.—Buffalo shooting on the plains must bo famous sport, unless the letter- writers are all Munchausens. Tho heroine of one story is Sophie Tallniadge, of Golnmbns, Ohio, who was in the party of Gen. Cnstar, Lords Paget and Waterpark, and other swells. “Ten miles of prarieland,” says the account, “had been ridden over when Custargave the view halloo, and the entire party charged upon and scattered a herd of buffaloes that appeared to the westward. Foremost in the wild dash thofleet courser of Miss T&llmadge bore her, until she found herself on the track of a huge bull. Fall five miles of the prarie the bay spumed beneath his heels before the Bide of the old fellow was reached. Two quiok, well-direct ed shots from a Colt’s revolver, that Miss Sallie carried, brought the bison to a halt. The big bull settled slowly to his knees, bellowed and rolled over—dead. Her blood was np. Quiok as a flash, she wheeled and made for a second quarry, another sharp gallop, three shots, and the thing was over. Eighty buffalo were slaught ered in this day's hunt. Cnstar killed nine, Lord Paget six, and Lord Waterpark five, but it may be easily imagined that Miss Tallmadge was the heroine of the day.” Sophie’s farther exploits are sleeping only three nights in a bed, camping out all the rest of the time. Pretty Shard.—It seems that the President has settled the great controversy over the Louis ville post-office by appointing a woman to the position. So the men cannot be jealous of each other, and they are too gallant to be jealous of • lady. , / BY TELEGRAPH. '■ • . From Washington. ■ Washington, September 27. .— The weather is dear and cold. No disasters are reported to coast ers. Those as late as due have arrived. Arriyed, the Cromwell, City of New York and City of Paris. General Williams, who has been made a public character in connection with the Virginia Senator- ship, is misrepresented. He would accept the posi tion as the choice of the people of Virginia, but never represented himself as the choice of General Grant. If General Williams comes to the Senate, he desires to come as the chosen representative of iho legislators for Virginia; All Government property at Harpers’s Feny will be sold at auction on the 30th November. This de feats the hopes of a re-establishment of the arsenal there. Bevenue to-day, §641,000. Fish and Delano will return the latter part of the week. Applications for office addressed to the Execu tive will hereafter have no consideration—they must go to heads of Departments. Major Haggarty had a long interview with Grant, who expressed a determination to vindicate the judgment of the Senate by giving him a better posi tion than the Glasgow consulate, whore he was re fused Exequatur on account of Fenian ism. New York Money Market. New York, Sept. 27 Suits have been commenced by attachment against Alexander Belden and Alex ander McKinley and Georgo W. Hooker, for secre ting property to defraud creditors, etc. Charles Callender, National Bank Examiner, de clares that every national bank in the city, including tho Tenth is Bound and conservatively managed. The monoy market became much easier in the afternoon, and at the close call loans were freely supplied at 7 in currency to gold. Gold quotations during tho stoppage of tho board aro more or less nominal. Strict prices during tho day varied from 131% to 135, closing at 34(535. Exchange quiet and firm, but quotations nominal at 8. Stocks im proved at first with easiness of money, but closed lower, dull and unsettled. Tho dead lock in the Gold Exchange Bank contin ues and causes much embarrassment. There have been no transactions in the gold hoard in conse quence, and after ineffectually endeavoring to ob tain statements of Thursday’s and Friday’s busi ness from tho Gold Exchange Bank, the board ad journed until to-morrow. Several injunctions have been issued by the courts restraining the Gold Exchange Bank from paying over deposits and checks, which tends to complicate affairs and retard settlements. Tho Supreme Court has issued a number of in junctions against the Gold Exchange Bank and sev eral Wall street brokers. Build Them Up.—There are, within a radius of five hundred yards of this office,Yuliy one hundred vacant lots that ought to have neat and conveniently arranged dwelling booses upon them. Such build ings are now in great demand, and they would pay capitalists a very handsome dividend if they would put them up. We know of at least a dozon small families now boarding, who would gladly pay a reasonable rent for small residences, convenient to the heart of the city and to their business. The writer of this article has boon hunting, during the last week, for a small family residence within four or five hundred yards of this office, but has failed to find it; but in his travels has found many a va cant and beautiful building lot, lying as dead capital in the hands of their owners. On each of these lot* could he erected small family residences, at a cost of $1200 or $1500, which could be easily rented for $30 or $40 per month. . It is true that two or three houses in the outskirts of town are advertised for rent and one or two are offered for sale; bnt they are too far from the heart of the city for a man to walk, at ten or twelve o’clock at night, or after business hours close; and hence we see those gentlemen who would gladly pay good rents for. houses near their busi ness, seeking hoard at the hotels and hoarding houses, at about double what it would cost to keep house, to say nothing of the comforts of. feeling at home and living as one pleased. Go to the bulletin boards of our real estate agents and see what chances you have to rent a neat little family residence, near the bnsinesB portion of town, and you will not find a solitary one offered for rent, and the agents will toll you there are no such resi dences vacant and they cannot supply you. . If the vacant lots to which we have alluded had residences upon them, we might have nothing to say on this subject; but as long as they lie there in idleness, wo can but believe, ay, we know their own ers are losing money on them. Now they are bring ing in nothing and all the while taxes are being paid upon them, but if they were moderately improved, they would not only pay their taxes, but also pay a handsome dividend upon the cost of improvements. We write the foregoing in the hope that it will call tho attention of real estate owners and capital ists to the subject, believing that they will see and feel the importance of carrying out the suggestion. It will most certainly “pay.” Marine Disaster, New Orleans, September 27—The steamship Trade Wind, Capt. Morrill, which sailed hence on the 22d inst. for Belize, Honduras, went down at sea on the 24th. There were only three passengers and the crew on board, who took life boats, one of which, (in charge of Henry Arnold, a colored pilot of the Belize,) with four persons, including two passengers, reached the Sonth West Pass yesterday. He parted company with the other boats on Friday evening. When ho last heard of them, the weather was very rough. A steamer has gone in search of the missing. General News. New Orleans, September 27—Mayor Leslie, of Jefferson City, has resigned. Tho Crescent newspaper establishment, including a four-cylinder hoe press, has been purchased by tho Republican. The weather is cooler; the mercury at 68. Collector Casey has gone to Washington. There are no farther tidings of the Trade Wind’s boats. The roughness of the Gulf causes appre hension for their safety. New York, September 27.—Latest advices report no naval disasters from the equinoctial gales. : Admiral Poore has departed for Key west in the Powbattan. Cincinnati, September 27.—Seventy masked men took a negro from Lancaster (Garrard county, Ky.) jail and hanged him. The same party cowhided Sutton and Hutchinson, and ordered them to leave tho county. Sr. Paul, September 27.—A deluge has occurred throughout Minnesota. The estimated loss is five million bushels of wheat and two-thirds of the hay crop. San Francisco, September 27.—J. H. Porter, first officer of the Confederate Bteainer Shenandoah, whilo that vessel was engaged in burning the Pacific whaling fleet, and recently commander of the steam er Constitution, plying from San Francisco to Mex ican ports, died at sea on the 15th instant. Buffalo, September 27.—Prince Arthur, Gover- nor-General of Canada, and suit, visited Buffalo and lonchod with Mr. Fillmore at the Tift House to-day. St. Thomas, September 27-—Three shocks of earthquake occurred on the 17th. Stores were closed and business houses suspended. Foreign News. Paris, September 27.—The Emperor attended the races. Madrid, September 27. — Pierrad has been ar rested. ■ , A fight took place at Barcelona between the troops and volunteers who protested againBt Pierrad's ar rest, which resulted in the defeat of the volunteers and seventy arrests, including two members of the Cortez. San Domingo, September 9.—Baez has defeated the robels who wero besieging Azua. The advices of Salnavo’s defeat were received sorrowfully by Baez. Marine News. Charleston, Sept. 27—Arrived, schooner Con servative, New York; schooner E. M. Baxter, New York; schooner Isabella, New York; schooner D. Talbot, Rockport; schooner Joseph Long, Boston; schooner Zetapsa, Boston. Sailed, bark R. W. Dodge, Georgetown; schooner Myrover, New York; schooner Nancy Smith, New York; schooner Mato- aka, Washington; schooner Trade Wind, George town; schoonerldaRieordson, Georgetown; schoon er J. M. Richardson, Georgetown. Savannah, September 27. — Arrived, schooner Mary E. Yandeuf, Boston; schooner Czar, Port land; steamship Rapidan, New York; steamship Pent, New York. Cleared, schooner Donna Anna, Providence. Horrible Outrage.—On last Friday a young lady named Jennie Conley, residing near Den mark, Ark., was knocked insensible in her house by a negro named Jeff. Johnson, who in flicted several blows upon her head with an iron bar, then carried her to the woods and ravished her. The negro has been arrested and lodged in jaiL He was pardoned out of the peniten tiary two years ago. Miss Conley is not ex pected to recover. A Washington letter says: “Secretary Bout- well intends to scour the Sonth—the excuse be ing an attendance at the Georgia State Fair— the real purpose to forestall popular opinion among the Radicals in his favor. Ben. Butler will have something to say about all these move ments as soon as Congress assembles. He has pretensions to the Presidency himself, I learn. Bontwell will be accompanied by the great traveler, Mr. Delano." The Negroes in Cuba.—It is said that the negroes in Cnba are now becoming impatient of restraint. They claim to be free—the revolu tionists having declared them so—and Cuba, under any eventual rule, will have her bitter dose of turbulent Africanism to deal with. The Christian Advocate says that Rev. Mr. Richardson, of Washington, Ohio, is probably tho oldest living' American clergymen. Yet he appears by no means superannuated; for, al though one hundred and six years of age, he walks five miles on Sunday ana. preaches a ser mon. It is reported that not enough wheat will be raised this year in Great Britain to suffice for the consumption of the people by 75,000,000 bushels. To supply this deficiency will cost abont $100,000, in gold, to say nothing of other kinds of food required to be imported from abroad. It is said that the Czar has changed his mind about removing the. Russian capital from St. Petersburg to Kieff. The Western Union and Atlantio and Paoifie States Telegraph Companies have consolidated. The Louisville. Journal chronicles the fact that martial law-leesness is still kept np at the gouth. Caught.—About ten days ago we chronicled a most dastardly mean and contemptible act which a man named Donalson had perpetrated on a widow lady in Atlanta, enticing her, under false promises, to sell all her furniture and follow him to this city, where, he said, he would give her and her children employment at good wages, and after getting the proceeds of the sale in his possession, brought the lady and children to Macon and then deserted them —among strangers and without a dollar. An effort was made to arrest the scoundrel but he made his escape, for the time. We learn, however, that he was arrested on Saturday last in Augusta, and that an officer of our police force started last night for tho purpose of bringing the wretch back, and will not only make him return the money to the woman, if ho has it, but will hand him over to the author ities as one of the vilest swindlers that has passed through this section for years. Spottswood Hotel.—By this name the Byington Hotel of this city will hereafter be known. Mr. James D. Sublett, senior proprietor, has been con nected with several of the best and largest houses of entertainment in the country, and is one of the immortal few who “know how to keep a hotel.” Mr. Charles W. Byington, junior proprietor, is a young gentleman so well known and so popular with the traveling public that nothing we could say would add anything to his well-earned repntation. Under the direction of Mr. Sublett, the hotel is to be immediately remodeled on the inside, and when the changes proposed are completed, they will add vastly to the convenience of both guests and pro prietors. A choice suit of porters and servants aro being collected and every arrangement made to make the Spottswood Hotel equal to any in the cctui- Ly- ... Rain On the 26th of August last we had a shower of rain, accompanied by much thunder, lightning and wind, and from that time until yes terday forenoon, not one drop of rain fell in the city; but at that hour a most refreshing rain fell, and was followed by others, at intervals, during the rest of the day. The shower which fell about two o’clock, however, was the shower of the day, and was introduced by a pretty strong and festive gale which treated the handsome young mailing clerk of this establish ment most scandalously, as it blew out at the win dow of his private room in this office, and into the rain and mud oh the streets, sundiy articles of soiled wearing apparel, which he was laying aside to turn over to his washwoman, so soon as he could raise the “spondulicks” to settle the bill. From the look3 of the garments as they lay scattered about the streets, we opined that a little rain mixed with soap instead of mud, would not hurt their appear ance much. State Fair Bulletin.—An advertisement of this valuable document appears in our columns, and by perusing it tbe reader can get full particulars as to its contents and the purposes for which it will be is sued. Twenty-five thousand copies are to be dis tributed during the first and second weeks of Octo ber, and. it will, of course, be the greatest adverti sing medium to business men ever offered in the State. Mr. N. Pinbbam, the gentlemen who will is sue this Bulletin informs us that business men are handing in their cards with great rapidity, and those who do not desire to be left out in the cold, had better attend to the matter at once. For items etc., refer to the advertisement, or address N. Pinkham, Macon, Ga. The Weather.—Since onr last the weather baa undergone another complete change. After raining till about midnight on Saturday, the wind veered around to the North and by daylight on Sunday not a cloud could be seen and the temperature of the atmosphere was lowered fully ten degrees. Yester day was a beautiful day, and the streets being free from dust, we noticed many ladies out shopping—a matter they have not had a fair chance to attend to during the last month. - Mayor’s Court.—Tkare were four cases docketed in this Court yesterday, one or two of winch were oif rather a graver nature than usual. The first offender brought up was a negro named Allen Johnson. Ho had been stealing, as the testi mony clearly established, and was ordered on the streets for thirty days, or he could pay $20 and get out of it. Like a sensible fellow he planked down the cash and departed. Officer Plunkett then introduced a man to the Court who had imbibed intoxicating beverages until he did not know how to behave himself. The in discretion cost him $5 and costs. Henry Donton’s case—an attempt to violate the person of a little child—-was continued. Henry is a half idiot negro, who has been in the hospital for some time, and it was near that institution the at tempt was made. David Lewis, a negro thief, was then brought for ward by officers Pridgen and Wood, and a bare statement of the case was sufficient to prove the fact that David had been stealing; so he was pat on the streets to work for thirty days. Served him right. Stock Raisino.—Col. Hawkins, of Barbour coun ty, Alabama, was in our office yesterday afternoon, and informed ns that he had just returned from the '‘blue grass” region of Kentucky, where he had pur chased a horse worth three thousand dollars and about twenty-five brood.mares, and intended to try stock raising in his part of Alabama, during tbe next few years. He lives in a very beautiful and favorable portion of the State for such an enterprise, and we have no donbt will be successful. We take special pleasure in recording all such ef forts on the part of Southern men to work ont their own and the country's independence. Why may we not raise our own horses and mules, our own sheep, cattle and hogs ? Why may we not manufacture onr own clothing and raise our own breadstuff* ? Why, in a word, may we not be independent ? Eighth Georgia Regiment—We see it announc ed in the papers that Dr. J. A. Pamour, of this' city, proposes to write a history of this regiment, from the date of its organization to the dose of the war, and requests all parties in possession of any impor tant facte connected with the organization, to com municate the same to him by letter. A awhile occurred or eight and frogs, were the them Shower strangers know think leaped, the naturalist < “When i the young der tempt 1 iower or Frogs. 1- Yesterday TT'"" aAer the teat and heaviest shower d about 2 o’clock, a gentleman broufi t small fiogs into our sanctum m hi' roundly asserted that we bad had a show and there was the proof of it. He hick on the side-walk andstreet North, r Presbyterian Church, and he saw 2^ » hopping about.on.the ground. ot 5 ers to the locality, as they did Lot ^ Uj There to go. They were very lively ! ^ 14 smd be, “Mme down from the clou*, 1 Onr friend labors under a popular error wi, [presses the sober opinion that the little h ed from the clouds. They came from opposite direction. On this point . , • "' says: it is remembered that etch female fh , hundreds in a single locality may produced ng, which hide in crevices in the earth and ^ stones, ready to come forth to enjoy the ? summer showers, there is no necessity f or i * tempt to explain the appearance of the* frog tudee by supposing them to fall from the dottf has been behoved even from the time of (T’’,,** the supposition that they have beentSaT’ some marsh by a whirlwind and let fall d ^ l; the latter occurrence, on a small scale ; ssible, in exceptional cases. The frogs'^ appear bear marks of their recent metinwrr i in the remnant of a tail and other 5 ‘ rling, as they naturally would, into tlieeTV swelling of the earth from rain wotOh3 • out by compression." (See article oa the New American Cyclopedia.) ,rc ° s In addition to the foregoing we would eta'ert small frogs now before us are young (bHfonida) and during a long diy spell through which we have just passed, are rarelv se unless we overturn a rock, log or something of Jv sort; but so Boon as it rains they seat fiw earth surface, and in a twinkling are leaping about wit* great life and activity, under the refresh^ mi „ vivifying influences of the long needed shower if these little fellows had fallen from a height of" od or two hundred yards on a pavement or hard best® street, does onr friend suppose the fall would not have injured them in any way? Ifiha will reflect s moment, or read Messrs. Jenyns and Bell on fror he will give it up that there is no such a thing u j shower of frogs. r by I fromi impossible, thus Bis, crawling, the them ( the Hold Your Cotton—A gentleman just returned from New York, who has had great experience w , cotton buyer, and has really done nothing else sines the war closed, informed ns yesterday that tbs planters of tbe South were now playing into th e I hands of speculators most admirably, in rushing their cotton on the market. It was just what tin New York buyer* and speculators wanted. Three weeks ago cotton was firm in New York at 35 call per pound, but just so soon as the planters got ready to sell, tho price immediately receded tots and 80 cents, with a strong effort on thepartol the bears to still further, reduce it. Our friend stated that there was not a cotton buyer in hn York, of any intelligence or reliability, who dees not believe that cotton will go to 35 or 40 cents pa pound in that market, by or before the first of ner, May; and they candidly and openly express such c opinion among themselves; and are laughing s their sleeves at tbe rush the planters are cow mil. ing upon the market Jnst so soon as the bull of I the cotton crop iB ont of the bands of planters, aai I a close guess can be made of the year’s crop, tbes you will Bee a reaction in the price that will ote- ishyou. Onr friend expressed real mortifistics and shame at the manner in which the pluten were blindly injuring themselves jnst now, and ex pressed the belief that even before Christmas,tier would rue their present snicidal policy. We have the foregoing from a gentleman vbo knows, perhapB, as much about cotton andthtcci- ton market as any gentleman in.Georgia: onevhc is familiar with the present animns of New Toil speculators, and knows precisely what their gas J is, and we give his views and advice as worth some j thing. Representation in the Commercial Owmat We find the following basis of representation in tbe j Commercial Convention, to be held at Iiouisville, Ky., on the 12th of October, pros., in the Augnri Constitutionalist of Thursday. We gave the | pointments for Macon in yesterday’s paper: The Governor of each State and Territory may ip-1 point a delegation at large, not exceeding one to j each Congressional district. „ The city authorities of each city of 8000 inbabi- j touts may appoint one delegate for each addition:! [ 10,GOO inhabitants. Each incorporated railroad, steamboat, minnto-1 tunng or mining company, in actual operation, hir-1 ing over $50,000 cash capital paid in, may appoint | one delegate. Each Chamber of Commerce or Board of Tr*k I may appoint one dalegato for every hundred roes- J here, or fractional hundred. Gentlemen invited by the Committee of Amagfr I ments are to be considered honorary members of I the Convention, entitled to the privileges of tie J floor, but not entitled to speak or vote. Each delegate appointed is requested to infos I CoL Blanton Duncan, Chairman of the Comnrit* I of Arrangements, at Louisville, of his intention H I attend the convention, giving his address and till interests which he will represent, and to pttl® j himself with the proper credentials, that no tiifiA-1 ty may arise in determining the delegate’s right J seat in the convention. Office Georgia State Agricultural Socieit.I Macon, Ga., September 24,1363. ) The Executive Committee met. The Chains* I Col. Maxwell, being absent, the duties of the oS* I were imposed upon Hon. Geo. S. Obear. ■ I )rhe minutes of the previous meeting weror*! and confirmed. I Present—Messrs. Obear, Greer, Collins, And* I son, McBumey, Winahip, Whittle and Col. j Absent—Messrs. Maxwell, Plant, Nutting ^1 Gustin. I Reports of committees being in order, tbe Oo*-1 mittee on Grounds reported favorably—that 4*1 work was progressing rapidly. I On motion of Col. Whittle, Messrs. Winship®| McBumey were appointed a committee to aect(& I and make suitable arrangements for getting tf [ gine, putting np shafting, etc. j A communication from the “Teutonia j clior” was received from the Secretary and 4*1 which, on motion, was adopted and ordered®* | published. j Tbe Committee then adjourned, to meet th« «| week at 5 o'clock: COMMUNICATION. . Invitation to all German musical socie&» ^ * 1 State of Georgia, and of the South generally to I tend the “Saanger-Fest” during the SUteFur: I Whereas, vocal music is much negto^ ® j section of the oountiy—a negiect which bM I a by-word and reproach to our people; and w® I the formation of Vocal Musical Societiee an ^ I cultivation of vocal music is greatly condo®” I the refinement and devotion of tbe mind 48 I purity of the hearts of the people—all wbW| turn, exercise a mysterious but palpable ind I favorable to tho invigoration of the body ; ^ Bi . ^ I Whereas, The “Tentonia ktonnercbor <> j city, coinciding with the views of th® Committee of the city, have already iM®® 3 I invitations for such vocal German ® ocl ^' 49 w^| present during the first week of the ho'dio* ■! State Agricultural Fair, and participate . j * I Festival and Prize Binging at the Fair that time. Several societies have already the invitation; It is therefore _ . p | Resolved by this Committee, That sU ’ jl sical German Societies South be, *“4, *5® S^rr 1 hereby cordially invited to attend said for the purpose of organizing and esUD»rj Central Committee of the Southern States , ,1 view of holding semi-annual “Sa®ngec;f®"£ I such points which such Committee may »PP°7j pi Resolved, That the Executive ComBUttc* ,* city are amply prepared with all Ample arrangements are being mad® jpl Those societies who cannot attend m 4 TAJjo I •end a quartette or a delegate to represent ft 1 The Festival to continue for three Tv&vtfrtnVtt’m uMrAU DAT. W* Mayor’s Court—Hie Honor had a light morn ing’s work yesterday. He dismissed a case of flgkh- ing, aad sent Bob Ridley on the streets five day* tor getting *■*">*— 1 “ • tber psrtioubrs, address Secretary Georgia State | ^Beorstary Teutonia MwnnMobor, UtcoUi , of «***! Mislaid.—Several small bundles, on® I was a glass lantern, wae left in some 4to *®%tnl about the 10th or 12th instant Thenanw a owner. y .r.» 4*