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THE TELEGRAPH.
MACON FRIDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1809.
From Mississippi.
The Democratic Executive Committee of Mis
sissippi have issued a circular declining to place
a ticket in nomination, and declaring that the
true interests of the State will be consulted by
supporting the condidates of the “National
Union Republican” party. The leading Demo
cratic papers ore all sustaining that ticket al
though declaring themselves none the less Demo
cratic papers, bnt they wish to break down car
pet-bagging in Mississippi. Upon the ticket
they support Thomas Sinclair, a negro, who
runs as Secretary of State, and the Brandon
Republican, a Democratic journal, delivers
itself upon this nomination as follows:
Thomas Sinclair, the nominee for Secretary
of State, is an educated colored man of excel
lent character, who has bought land and mules of
his own and lives in peace and harmony with
his neighbors. All who know him speak of him
in the highest terms of praise. He did not seek
the nomination, bnt as his colored friends asked
to be represented on the ticket he finally con
sented to serve. If elected Tie will get a compe
tent gentleman to assist him.
On the whole, we should say the situation in
Mississippi is very much mixed just now. The
Democrats seem to be verifying the old adage
that “politics make strange bedfellows.” In
Texas it does not much differ from Mississippi.
The whole illustrates to what extremities the
people have been driven by their desire to
emancipate themselves from Congressional and
military domination.
Tribune on Georgia Politics.
Go abroad, says the adage, to learn what is
going on at home. We publish in another place
some revelations by a correspondent of the New
York Tribune, upon Georgia politics, as seen
through Radical spectacles, and which we sup
pose might be qualified to after the manner of
chancery affidavits—that so much as is stated of
his own knowledge is true and so much as rests
upon the information of others is believed to be
true. What the Radical correspondent tells of
the bargains, agreements, hopes and expecta
tions of his own party may be true. What he
sayB upon information in relation to Democrats
will require corroboration of other evidence.
Perhaps the Atlanta papers could tell us about
the truth of his statement in reference to the
wiews of the State Democratic Committee on re
seating the negro members. Is it possible they
took that “servile” and sensible view of the
proper course to be pursued ? The mass of the
people will agree with them.
Nobody* Organ. . j jVo Censor.
The Savannah Morning News, in the course The Augusta Chronicle and Sentinel is unjust
of a couple of articles devoted to scoring the to ns when it says:
Telegraph, speaks of this paper as “the organ" The Telegraph sets itself up as not onlythe
of the Executive Committee of the State Agri- authorized censor of the Press of the State,
cnltnral Society. In so doing he is unjust both bnt actually assumes the right of dictating to the
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former need no organ, and have never consult-1 fight of the Telegraph to speak in either
ed us, or we thorn, upon any subject whatever, capacity. It is true its Editor was made Presi-
The latter is nobody’s organ. It is the inde- dent of the Press meeting which assembled in
pendent exponent simply of its own views and S*tSf bodyXoffico TeratoatS
conclusions, and is a Democratic paper because jjj s right to dictate to the people of the State
the policy and principles of that party coincide | the rule which shall regulate their intercourse
with its own convictions. We have supported bas even less foundation,
the general policy of the Executive Committee Woeutertain no personal unkindness toward
, .? r J I the Telegraph or its editor, and we ceitamly
for the same reason, and Borry wo are to see the should not have alluded to the course of that
opposition it has, as we think, needlessly en- paper if it had not made such a sweeping and
countered from so many of the influential nows- unjust charge against all the papers in the State
, t. which differ from it in regard to State and Fed-
papers of Georgia. eral policy and politics.
As to the Fomey editorial we had disposed of 1
that before receiving the benefit of the counsel
of the News, and we hope to his satisfaction;
and finally nponthe whole subject matter of the
We have not the slightest desire to obtrude
our views upon contemporaries or to criticise the
conduct of their own journals, or to call in ques
tion the motives which actuate them. We have
rasping which the News gives us, we must let it U along stood simply on the defensive against
pass. The TmxoiurH is old and tough anyhow. Buch attecks onr8e lves. The “ dictation”
The judgment and experience of our contempo- to 1q ** « social ^ obliga-
rary are to be respected beyond a doubt and we
do not question the honesty of his intentions.—
But we think he is too inflamable, and the mis
fortune is when he heaps his coals on the back
of the Radicals he can’t burn them to any ex-. . , , ....
. .... - , . .. seems to bo supposed, a Macon committee, but
tent, but when they return his compliments they ... , „ ’ „
1 * •* a n/imrmffna af numawwa «fAnllaman fmtM oil
tions and conduct”—if any has been attempted
or practiced, obviously originated in the criti
cism upon the invitations of the Executive Com
mittee to the Fair. That Committee is not, as
can hurt us badly. It is an unequal and un
profitable game and at the continnedriskof being I
called obsequious, servile and all that, we must
still think it is better to discontinue the inter
change of vindictive newspaper squibs for the
solid brickbats of legislative retaliation.
a committee of numerous gentlemen from all
parts of the State. Although in no way respon
sible for their action, yet approving it in the
main, how can our attitude of simple defence of
the committee be perverted into dictation and
censorship ? How can our efforts to vindicate
ourselves from the charges of servility and truck,
ling and toadyism be charged as dictation to
Arn't You Slow?
That was the question put to us in respect to
the Fair grounds and appurtenances by an intel
ligent stranger who had come from another
county to note progress. ' Arn’t you slow ? Gen
tlemen of the committee tell us there's time
enough; hut we are sadly afraid they are mis
taken. If they find themselves a week or fort
night behind hand when the time comes, no
lamentation or mourning will do away the shame
of failure. If the work is done a week in ad
vance, it will be all the better. If it is not done
promptly, the shame, regret and annoyance will
be past remedy.
Hard Times and Worse Coming.
The food prospects in Georgia were never
darker, even during the war, than they are now.
If left to her own resources, half of the popu
lation of Georgia would probably starve before
another crop is produced. More than one-half
the food we shall consume before next Fall
must come from abroad, and come from a land
of scanty crops and scarce supplies. Already
forage and com are so scarce in the West that
stock is sacrificed to prevent wintering; and
when we come to buy food in those regions and
bring it here, we shall suffer in the pockets.
The Emperor of Brazil has appointed a “Board
of Health” to investigate and decide what pro
prietary remedies should be admitted into the
country, and what excluded. After some mouths
session they have reported, condemning them
all except Dr. J. G. Ayer & Co.’s preparations.
Three of those they recommended the Emper-
or to admit for the benefit of thepnblic health,
■while they hold the fourth, Cherry Pectoral un
der advisement for further information respect
ing one of its ingredients—morphine, which,
while so extensively employed and so highly es
teemed as a remedy in this country, is scarcely
known in that. Of all the other medicines be
fore them, the Imperial commission say, no
one of them merits any favor whatever, or pro
tection from this Government, as they contain
nothing new nor any specific virtues not fully
known and used by our own physicians. The
Imperial Government has accordingly prohibit
ed them all from admission through the custom
house, except the remedies of our distinguished
oontrymen above mentioned—a discrimination
by, their learned men, very like that to which
experience has led the American people.—Bos
ton Herald.
Dr. Hunter’s Letter.—We publish in anoth
er column Dr. Hunter’s concluding letter upon
the subject of bronchitis, in which he describes
its treatment by inhalation. The press and
many prominent citizens both of New Orleans
and Georgia have spoken in such uniformly
commendatory terms, of this system of treat
ment for pulmonary diseases, that few can
doubt that Dr. Hunter possesses the means and
ability to treat these diseases with more than or
dinary success.
Decline in Stocks.—According to the Her
ald Now York Central Stock declined from Sep
tember 1 to September 29, CO^- cents—Hudson
River CO J—Harlem 43—Erie 8—Michigan South
ern 31 $ and so forth —the heaviest tumble known
in that length of time.
R. M. Orite.—The Brunswick Appeal says
that R. M. Orme, Esq., of the Milledgeville Re
corder, was in Brunswick a few days since, and
contemplates removing to that city during the
incoming winter.
Severe.—The Raleigh Sentinel’s man’s pipe
has been seized and bound over to appear at the
next term of the United States Coart because
the man who owned the tobacco didn’t have a
re venus stamp on his plantation fence.
The Charleston News.—The News of the
4 th comes to us arrayed in new typographical
apparel. It is one of the most useful and en
tertaining papers on our exchange list.
In article headed “The World’s Benefactors
referred to is Dr. James A. Hunter, of New
Orleans, now practising in this city.
A Handsome Bequest tor the South.—The
following is the codicil of the will of the late
Caleb Dorsey, Esq., of Howard county, McL,
making a charitable bequest for the benefit of
Southern people. The oodicil bears date Au-
rn.'-'i'-* - - ■
“ I give and bequath $30,000 to my brother,
Reuben M. Dorsey, and Governor T. W. Ligon,
in special trust, to apply the same to the relief
of such portions of the people of the late slave-
holding States of the Union as the said trustees
may think moat require assistance on acconnt
of their suffering and want, and the said snm of
money shall be applied in snob manner as they
may deem best to accomplish my purpose.
"If nay personal estate should not prove suffi
cient to pay all legacies, including this of $80,-
900, I direct that so much shall be deducted
from the $10,000 given by the codicil dated
August 10, I860, as may be necessary to make
op this legacy for the benefit of the people of
the Booth.
Management of tlie State Fair.
The following ingenious and original pro- I others ? Certainly we are not muddying the
gramme is suggested by the Griffin Star. The I waters, or playing wolf at the stream.
Committee of the State Fair will meet to-1 As to the Chronicle’s allusion to the official
morrow, and doubtless take it into considers- I position of the writer, we have only to say that
tion: I as it was qnite unsought by us, so we are ready
The State Fair.—One or more of our cofem- to relinquish it on the first opportunity,
poraries have spent a good deal of their valua- Finally, the Chronicle and Sentinel gives us a
ble time in advising the directory of the State true and genuine touch of the dictator in the
Fair, how to run the machine, who to invite, j, ,
etc., etc. Having been requested to shod a ] 10U ° wln S :
little of our surplus wisdom in the same direc-j . Whenthe Telegraphceasesto be.arepresenta-
tion, we modestly suggest the following: That I live of true Southern sentiment it should no
a committee of three, consisting of the editors I longer assume to be the organ of that sentiment,
of the Savannah News, the Chronicle & Senti- Tb e only complaint which we have heretofore
nel, and the Columbus Sun, be appointed, ““d® against that paper was that while it pre-
whose duty it shall be to take positions at the tended to be Democratic it was surely, if notin-
three great entrances of Georgia, to-wit: Chat- I tentionally, working for the success of Radical-
tanooga, Augusta and Savannah, and sec to it I ism. We give it credit for too much intelligence
that no d—d Yankee shall bo allowed to enter not to know that its course would lead, in the
the State, and thus pollute our sacred soil by 1 and, to the inevitable result of dividing the
their presence. They should have free passes I Democretio party in the State, and of strength-
over the State Road while on this business, but I oning the Radicals.
ou no account must “the beast Bullock” be al-1 The Telegbaph must be permitted to exer-
lowed to travel on the road during the time C ; S0 jt s own judgment upon what is Southern
be held e,-
They should be clothed with full power to put cased for entertaining far more confidence in
his “expressilency” to death on sight; and if I the correctness of its opinions on that subject
they come across the Atlanta “slander mill,” than in those of the Chronicle. It was a Demo-
they may mash it all to flinders. It is true the .. , „ . . . ,
chairman of this committee is a sort of Yankee I crab ® paper full half a century before the
himself, but having lived in Georgia over fifty I Chronicle and Sentinel, and we doubt not will be
years, he has rubbed off a good deal of the Democratic longer than that aftor the Chronicle
“contamination.” ... and Sentinel has left the party. Radicalism
The next important measure is to instruct the „ ., , , . ■
door-keeper at the Fair Grounds -to inquire of hvo > fl ? urlsb and grow fat on the policy of
each man when he enters, what his politics is, I the Chronicle and Sentinel—it will die out
and then have different places for each party to speedily on that of the Telegraph.
go. The Radicals should go to the left hand . ■»»» ■
and the Democrats to the right, while splendid I Much Alarm
cushioned seats on elevated platforms should be j is man if est ed by gentlemen of the Executive
prepared for the Young Men s Party. , Committee with whom wo have conversed, at
This arrangement would harmonize every- .
thing and everybody. But one more regulation I backwardness of the preparations for the
is necessary, and that is to have a select com- I State Fair, and they beg us earnestly to call on
mittee of picked men-nativeGeorgians-whose the city authorities and the local committee by
duty it shnll be to hang, draw and quarter the ., .. J
“creature” who has ‘‘usurped the Executive eve ^ con3lderat, °n TOnnected the success
chair of Georgia." They must then set fire to of th® enterprise and the honor of Macon to
the Atlanta Opera House, and move the Capitol I arouse in time to save themselves. The race
back to Milledgeville. We suggest as chairman track as to the fair is but a drop in the bucket
of this committee, the editor of the Federal , .,. , . , , *
Ruin, though, confound the luck, we believe he “* d notIuD g elso has been touched. If necessa
came from Yankeedom at some early period of I *7 P u t five hundred men to the work rather
his life, but it is so 1 ong ago, probably he has than bo behindhand. Awake! Awake 1!
forgotten it
Another Extra Train.
If the President or the members of his Cab-
Tlie Judgment ot God.”
The Charleston Courier tells of the following I met and other leading and influential gentlemen
revival of tho appeal to the “Jndgment of God” I of the Radical party will visit the fair, we are
among the Charleston negroes, and represents quite sure that no offensive or unkind words
testimony. a nd other officials of the Government will be
Tho readers of tho Courier will remember tendered a special train from Savannah, if they
that on September 2G, the body of a negro man, come by that route, but wo do not wish to see
horribly mutilated, was found floating in Ash- Bullock put forward as the representative of the
ley river. It will also be remembered that not State to receive them.—Chronicle and Sentinel,
having been identified it was buried on the sub-1 Oth.
sequent morning. That two negroes from I These guests, we presume, would be received
James Island were arrested on suspicion of I______ -V. __ ,, . ...
having committed the horrid deed, and that on tne . mana g ers of th® Fair as the inviting
Friday tho wife of the murdered mnn came to I P ar ty» just as would the guests of the other ex-
thecity to identify the body. It is stated that tra train. For the committee to refuse one train
when the body had been disinterred, the two because it was tendered by Governor Bullock
terring the body. That one of tho accused tbe Central Railroad, would be a very partizan
accidently touched the corpse, when it in- and invidious proceeding; and when the guests
stantly commenced to bleed profusely, and con- by each train arrived, they would intermingle
tinned to do so for some time; this, notwith- I of on,* n u- a
standing the fact that tho body had been buried at ,_ Th0 P *f d t 0113 Cabinet wotdd r ®'
for several days. Seeing this one of the men I cog 1112 ® Gov. Bullock as Governor, and, we dare
in whose custody the accused were, turned ab- say, the Chronicle and Sentinel would have to
rnptly to one of them withjhe remark, “When | be on the watch all the time, lest the Executive
did you kill that man?” The prisoner looked
upon the body, and instantly replied, “It was
about 3 o’clock in the morning.”
This is, in substance, the excitement that is
now raging, and taken in connection with the
tidal wave sensation, almost brings us back to
the days of witchcraft and miracles,
Committee and all the people should treat the
passengers by both trains with indiscriminate
civility and politeness.
The Mission or Secretary Boutwell to
Pennsylvania.—The telegrams yesterday duly
reported the efforts of Secretary Boutwell to
reach Philadelphia in the teeth of storms and
high water, bnt left us to conjecture an explan
ation of the urgent demand upon Mr. Boutwell
to go to Philadelphia. This is probably ac-
From Monroe County.
We clip tho following from the Monroe Ad
vertiser of the 5th;
The receipts of cotton in ibis market have
fallen off considerably. Farmers seem to be
holding for higher figures—a policy which is I counted for by a special to the Charleston News,
sure to benefit them in a pecuniary way. We which says:
advise them to hold it as long as prices are bo- tt " t i. r, - . ,
low thirty cents. 1 ^ he 5 on ; C ® v ° a ® telegraphed that Sec-
There have been shipped from Forsyth, since must - g0 to £ el J?,! ylv £? ia and
the ISthof August, 838bales, asweare^'informed 2^’lnf^b«f IgU W0Ul ^ fUL ,
by Mr. Lake, the clever railroad agent and speaks m PM -
This, together with 90 bales of the new crop ad ^P hla !°- n,ght ’
now in store at the warehouse, swells the re- is the matter with the Pennsylvania
ceipte during the present season to 912 bales. campaign, and how happens it that nothing but
The reviva 1 at the Methodist Church, which a speech from Mr. Boutwell will save it from
wilf JrobablycfntiSue during a peater p<Trtio5 faU “ re ? Ar ° tbe P 0O P la excited about 1110 °P*
of this—has been the occasion of some very in- J era tions in the gold market ? Do they charge
toresting sermons. Mr. Pledger has been as- the kiting to the connivance or the lapse of Mr.
sisted materially by the Messrs. White, and by Boutwell? Are they angry with him, and do
»2£S£
Branham was present during the latter part of way ’
the week. We hope the meeting will result in . , , „
much good. j Andy Johnson’s Chances.—A Washington
Trade has been unprecodently good for the I dispatch in the Charleston News of Tuesday
sastfour weeks—especially in the dry goods says a telegrairitrom Nashville, received to-day,
f?a it fa the opinion of^ported in inch says tfet ex-President Johnson is losing ground
matters that it wilToontinue to improve through I SayS b l0Sing Br ° and
out the season. K as a candidate for the United States Senate. A
Planters are pretty generally preparing their j document is circulating iior the signatures of
land for the small grain crop. We hope they Conservative members pledged to vote against
will consult their own interest and that of the | i 1 j m-
The Special Train for Invited Guests.
The regular meeting of the Executive Com
mittee of the State Agricultural Sooiety takes
place to-day, and they will doubtless consider
and dispose of the proposition to send a special
train for their invited guests.
We have personally no interest whatever in
the conclusion they may come to. It is true,
the writer happened, by accident, to be the
medium of conveying the proposition to the
Committee and the publio, and very honestly
believed that it was in furtherance of the gen
eral policy of tho Committee in inviting the
Northern guests, and, as such, would be accept
able to the Committee.
We had no conception that the tender of con
veyance to their invited guests could possibly
make all this clamor, and change the entire
character of the transaction from one of cour
tesy, honorable on the part of the Committee,
to an act of servility and toadyism, which it has
come to be characterized.
Nor can we now discover the slightest foun
dation in reason for this marvellous transmuta
tion. If A invites a number of guests to dine
at his house, and B makes a proposition, in a
spirit of liberal civility and mutual friendliness,
to transport these guests to A’s house, as neither
of the parties happens to own a carriage, we
cannot comprehend the process of reasoning
which should bring A to the conclusion that he
could not accept B’s proposition, without a
compromise of personal dignify which wonld
change his hospitality to toadyism.
But suppose B should make this proposition
in the presence of A and the invited guests, and
A should thereupon indignantly decline it; does
it not put a new face entirely upon A’s invita
tion ? Did. he honestly desire these guests to
dine with him ? If so, by what right does ho
intervene to deprive them of the advantages
and facilities for going to the dinner offered by
B ? What inference can the guests draw from
such officious interference between themselves
andB, except that A’s invitation was insincere—
that he either does not desire them to come, or,
to say the least, is very indifferent whether they
come or not?
Now this is precisely the case with the pro
posed extra train. If it had been left to the
proposition dropped by the writer in one of
his letters from the Press Excursion, and noth
ing more said about it, no unsatisfactory augury
could, perhaps, have been drawn from tbe fail
ure of the committee to consider or accept the
proposition. But it became, of a sudden, the
theme of much notice and denunciation by a
portion of the Georgia press, and the attention
of the whole country has been drawn to the sub
ject
The question for the Committee to consider,
therefore, is upon what principles of a genuine
and sincere act of courtesy, they should inter,
vene to debar their invited guests of the conve
nience of gratuitous and special transportion to
the scene of hospitalities proffered by the com
mittee ?
We know of none whatever. On the contrary,
we cannot comprehend how, under the circum
stances, a failure to accept the trausportion of
fered, will not be liable to the interpretation
that the committee are at least indifferent
whether their invited Northern guests come or
stay away. Such action wonld not be in the
spirit of a genial, hearty hospitality, becoming
the people of this or any other State.
We are bound to assume that the Committee
want these their invited guests to come, and
that, in accordance with that disposition, they
will cheerfully accept in their behalf every aid
which will insure their coming, as well as every
proffer of hospitality which will make their visit
pleasant and comfortable. Wo hold, then, that
the Committee should accept the proffer of the
special train and send some of their number with
it to meet their guests, in a spirit of unreserved
and cordial hospitality.
BY TELEGRAPH
From Washington.
Washington, October 5.—Boutwell failing to reach
Philadelphia last night (ribs again en Saturday.
The administration is on tbe defensive regarding
chargee of complicity with gold speculators.
The Supreme Court will probably hear the Yerger
habeas corpus case on Friday. The case involving
the constitutionality of the ootton tax will soon be
argued.
In the Supreme Court there is no quorum.
The Revenue office fears that Collector McGee
has been killed, or has absconded. He has not
been heard from since the 21st of August.
There was a full Cabinet to-day.
Benjamin Emery lias been appointed Collector of
the third'Mississippi district.
Hoar decides that Sherman’s recent order, ex
cluding claim agents and attorneys from presenting
claims against the War Department, is illegal.
Supervisor Fresbury reports forty stills seized
and a thousand gallons of liquor captured.
Thirty-five men were arrested in the Virginia
mountains by s squad of Federal cavaby.
Samuel Portae, a negro member of the North
Carolina Legislature, on trial hero for larceny, was
acquitted.
No cabinet developments.
Washington, October G The Supreme Court is
all present but Justice Field. The Court is hear
ing the Gas Light case from Memphis.
Nothing whatever has been received regarding the
Tennessee legislature. The New York Times says
they have advices that the Johnson men elected
presiding officers of both Houses.
Revenue receipts to-day over half a million.
Proceedings at Wilmington against the Hornet
were ordered by the Cabinet.
A report printed yesterday that Fish had been
notified that tho English and French Governments
bad ordered their fleets to pursue the Hornet and.
hang the crew, is untrue.
Attorney General Hoar has rendered his opinion
to the effect that tho Secretary of War cannot pre
clude Claim Agents or Attorneys from prosecuting
business in his Department in all proper cases, but
where there is reason to suspect frauds,the right and
duty do exist to suspend such business intercourse.
It being proper and obligatory to protect the Gov
ernment from fraud, the agents or attorneys should
be furnished with the reasons for such suspension
in order to vindicate the Department,
Tho opinion was rendered in cases alleged to af
fect tbe payment of bounties to colored troops, it
being said by an officer who had investigated similar
claims, that they were tainted with frand.
J. H. Van Alstine, in behalf of New Orleans to
bacco merchants, called on Commissioner Delano
to-day, and asked that purchases of tobacco in Vir
ginia and North Carolina may bo allowed shipment
in bond. Tho course of Mr. Delano promises re
lief to New Orleans and Mobile merchants, as well
as to Southern manufacturers.
In the matter of Benjamin Brown, Eli Wood,
JohnHalligan, Granville Rose, Willian Andrews,
and Phillip Stonemetz, Hon. W. W. Boyce, former
ly of South Carolina, asked leave to. file a motion
for writs of habeas corpus in their cases, and the
motion was directed to bo argued on Friday next.
The prisoners are charged with murder in Texas, in
June last, and it is alleged that they are now being
tried by a military commission.
In the Senate the same protest of the Republi
cans in caucus wss presented, and a resolution was
adopted laying it on tbe table on the ground that it
was manifestly an effort to obstruct reconstruction,
and was in plain opposition to the intention of Con
gress expressed in the reconstruction acts, and in
direct relation of the interpretation of said acts by
the administration.
A resolution was adopted informing the Com
manding General of the organization of the Senate.
Senate then adjonmed. _ ^
The House chose T. C. Crittenden Sergeant-at-
Arms, and adjourned.
Z. Turner, elected Speaker of the House to-day,
is a lawyer, about sixty years old, and one of the
first advocates of the reconstruction acts in the
State. He was an old Whig, changed to & Douglas
Democrat in 1860, and was shortly after defeated
as a Union candidate for the Legislature.
TEA—BI*ek.
Green.'
BUTTER—Ooshen..
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SALT—Liverpool per sack,’.'" o ^5 P UV
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Bourbon * \ i
ALE—Per dozen ■' , 2?
TOBACCO—Low grades per pound 50
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The Case of the Caban Privateer-
Wilmington, October 5.—This morning the case of
the Cnban privateer was carried before General
Allan Rutherford, United States Commissioner for
tho District of Cape Fear. Judges Poerson and
French appeared for tho Government, and George
Davis, Esq., and Jndgo O. P. Meere for defendants.
The parties were arraigned on the charge that they
did accept and exercise a commission to serve a
foreign people in war, to-wit: To the people of Cu
ba against the people of Spain, a country with which
the United States is at peace, and did fit ont and
arm, and did proenre to be fitted ont and armed,
within the limits of the United States, a certain ship
or vessel called the Cuba, with intent that said ves
sel shall be employed in the service of the people of
Cuba to cruize and commit hostilities against the
people of Spain, a country with which the United
States is at peace, and did enlist and serve on
board of said vessel, with intent to cruize and com
mit hostilities against the people of Spain, in viola-
From Louisiana.
New Ordeanb, October 6—This morning’s Pica
yune, in an article on custom houso frauds during
Kellogg’s regime, mentioned the British schooner
Harkaway as a vessel that cleared for Honaluiu
with a cargo of whisky that one twice her capacity
could not have carried. This evening’s Picayune
says they have had some light thrown upon the mat
ter. J. 0. Forbes & Co. threw the whisky on the
market from their bonded warehouse, and endeav
ored to cover the matter up in this way, and says:
“Tho bonds, which were mere bonds of storage,
was accepted, after some hesitation, by the bond
clerk, and the papers went through the custom
house until they ■ reached the entry clerk, who, on
comparing the tonnage of the vessel with the cargo,
at once saw the fraud and reported the same to Mr.
Kellogg. .The bogus shipment was consequently
stopped.,’
Probable Release of the Cuba.
Wilmington, October 6—The entertainment on
hoard the Cuban aloop-of-war, Cuba, was attended
by a large number of ladies and gentlemen this
evening. There are no new developments concern
ing the status of the Cuba, but the public mind
here is unanimous in the opinion that she will bo
released as soon as investigation has been made.
Her releaaeby the UnitedStates authorities at Phil
adelphia, and by tho British authorities at Halifax,
and tho fact that she is a vessel of war, regularly
commissioned by tho Cuban government, and not
fitted out in any Unite 1 States port, seems conclu
sive that there is no justification for her detention.
Hon. Geo. Davis, ex-Attorney-General of the Con
federate States, is one of the counsel for the Cubans.
General News.
Concord, N. H., October 5.—The storm is violent.
The telegraph is interrupted, and the river is rising
The damage is considerable. At Troy the
fast.
flood is nnprecedented and three men were drowned.
At Hartford the storm prostrated the telegraph
wires and prevents returns.
Hartford gave a Democratic majority of seven
hundred.
Hartford, October 5.—Full reports of tho flood
show immense damage. Bridges and factories have
been swept away. Several lives lost.
New York, October 5.—The Herald's Madrid
special reports that tbe Espera troops lost twenty
killed and thirty-eight wounded. The Republicans
were one thousand strong. After losing forty killed
and sixty wounded and a number captured, thoy re
turned to the mountains.
New Orleans, October 5.—The morning papers
here publish a card from ex-Collector Kellogg, in
relation to an article from the Picayune, telegraph
ed here September 24th. in which he denounces
said article in unmeasured terms,as a fabrication,
Philadelphia, October 5.—The flood is subsiding
and freighting and travel are resumed,
Omaha, October 5.—Tho car shops of the Union
Pacific Railroad have been burned—loss very heavy.
New York, October 6.—A chinaman named Kong
killed Ckas. Archoe. his own wife and himself, on
acconnt or jealousy.
A negro butcher killed a white man.
Medmm;..?. perp ° M(1 »
Good... „
@155
9 5 oe
i 1 ?
1 s
« 70
.85 ijjg
Vi i>s
Family 1 0 55 fW 50
Fancy Family Brands....' 10 ™ ® !! 00
Now per barrel. ^ 00 ® 13 0,1
Bright Virginia.
Fancy.
GRA.IK AND DAY
OORN-Yeliew, Mixed and mite. 150 ©j.
a 1«
OATS... ^ 9175
WHEAT-Per bushel ,22 91 00
SEED RYE 150 @ 1 (ft
SEED BARLEY
FIELD PEAS..,
HAY—Northern
Tennesse Timothy.....
Herds Grass ”*•**’
Tennessee * w
@175
@250
1 to * 1 50
1 93 @200
200
DOXKSTlcg.
Domestics—3-4 per yard..
Shirting—'7-8 nor yard
4-4 fv?.. ;;;; Jf*@u
Dbhuno—Heavy Brown per yirf' ,5
Heavy Georgia Stripes.. 'if ® 20
06XABnBGS—No. 1,8 oz... @21
No. 2, 7 oz @ 223i
Richmond @21
Milledgeville, No. 1. ix
Hint River. No. I Tf
ShaiXbx—Cuthbert, per yard..
UACOIVO ?KEB AID TWIsk
BA-GGHJG—Borneo. 2$£ lbs. per yard. ' „
Kentucky Roll. « <• 3 « _ 91 .
BALING TWINE, per round “ 27 ^1
IRON TIES—Arrow, per pound...].',' ‘j
LATEST MARKETS BY TELEGRAM
Domestic Markets. "’I
YoaK ir 0ctober6 ’ noon —iStock* stroMwj
tending up. Money ea&v at 607 r .1
short Gold 30*. 1862s ife
coupons 62X; new, 52. Virginias, ex-ew5JSS I
new 52. Lomaianas, old, 71; new, 66; leSi I
8s 84. Alabama 8s 91; 5s 62. Georgia 6a I
North Caroimas. old 49; new 50k; 1 '*'*■ |
Flour steadier. Wheat a shade firmer. Cot,, I
changed. Mesa Pork dull at 31 25. Larddtfllkl
pentiue 45. Roam active; strained 2 2o<r>£l
Freights firm.
Cotton quiet at 28.
New Yoke, October 6, evening — Cotton »e!aa I
easier: sales 3000 bales at 27%. I
• shade firmer on low grades, with more & I
mg. Wheat a shade firmer and more doing fora- V
port- Com closed quiet and unchanged. Mess Pit I
dull at 31 00@3150. Lard unchanged. Whish KI
at 118Cgl 20. Sugar steady. Coffee dull »dJ ban I
Molasses quiet. Naval stores firm. Freight* a I
changed. I
Money closed easy at 6<a7. Gold doted tt a I
Sterling quiet at 9. Stocks weak and unjetift I
Governments steady. Southerns weak.
Baltimore, October 6—Cotton quiet at 2iJ£
Flour quiet and weak. Wheat steadv. Coni 4*.
Southern white 105@110 Oats 57® 58. ByellMI
120. Mess Pork S3 00. Bacon firm; shoulders 17> I
Whisky flat at 1 21<§>122. 1
Virginias, old, 45 bid.
tion of the statutes of the United States, of the
We come now to a word about the propriety act of Congress of tho 20th of April, 1818.
community, by putting in a large area of small
grain of all kinds.
The town is filled with negroes in attendance j
on the camp-meeting. Whole herds of them
have left their homes in the hope of getting a
good “square’’ meal.
Columbus Cotton Receipts to October 4th
were 7718 bales. Stock on hand 2577.
Rumor.—It was rumored on thi i-treetsyes-
The scarcity of country produce, at this sea-1
-EfficieutMedicallnstruments,” the gentleman Amoveme^
beef, and tough at that. This is precisely the
state of the market.
Will Keep them Away.
The brutal attack by the Macon and Savannah
Should the rumor prove true, it will bo rathor
a heavy blow, wo learn, to the ever faithful and
| watchful Democracy.—New Era.
Going ito put in Blodgett ?
of inviting these Northern guests. It is one of
the most singular facts in journalism, that of
all the newspapers which have assailed the ex
tra train with so much bitterness and contempt,
not one, so far as we have noticed, has con
demned the inviting of these guests! It is true
some of the invitations have been denounced
but as to the general propriety of inviting North
ern people to come down and see ns, and see
the Fair, we have not observed that a single
journal has condemned it.
But when you concede that the invitations are
proper, everything in this connection is conced
ed, because it is manifestly one of the plainest
laws of hospitality that nothing conducive to
the enjoyment of the guests, and within easy
compass by the host or entertainer, can be law
fully omitted. If all the railroads should pro
pose to bring all the invited guest, without
charge to them or to the committee, it would
manifestly be an act of inhospitality in the latter
to decline the proposition. The whole reason
is therefore conceded when you concede that
the committee did right in inviting Northern
guests.
And what was, after all, the main reason
which governed this body in extending these
invitations ? It was one pertaining to the via
dication of Georgia from aspersion and re
proach. For four or five years it has been con
stantly charged that Northern men are unsafe
here—are persecuted—are rudely treated. That
political and sectional persecution is rampant—
that society is disordered—the poople violent,
intolerant, unfriendly and evil disposed; and
upon these allegations is founded the whole
system of sectional and federal persecution from
which we suffer.
The design of the Committee in inviting large
numbers of prominent Northern men to come
down to Georgia and spend a considerable
time here, on an occasion in which they could
mingle with a vast number of our people, and
learn their feelings and opinions by personal
intercourse, was conceived ia wisdom and pa
triotism.
So tbe Committee were also anxious in this
way to make known the material resources of
the State—to invite immigration, investment
and improvement, abd finally to contribute in
directly in everyway to the inauguration of a
better state of feeling, and through it to the es
tablishment of the securities of good govern
ment, law and order and the advancement of
the best interests of Georgia and the Union.—
Can it be necessary to defend so enlighted a
policy ?—and when you concede its wisdom, yon
concede everything which has of late been made
the subject of an ill-timed and needless invective
and clamor.
papers upon General" Benjamin F. Butler on I A nartv Water Power.—
account of the Macon Committee solieilinR ’his t ^- 6 n Yor baT ® P ar *
attendance at the November State Fate, at m£ K f 7 ^ , Ga £ land and
con, Georgia; will undoubtedly keep away arost f ^ Ct ° f7aD<J :
of the Republicans who have received similar water mw**
invitations— Washington Chronicle. rotaSSoSKSSL ? kRp ~
Just as we expected. The fool-killer has a 980,000.—Frederwksbyrg
large work before him yet The Democratic * m
AnRAHAM Lincoln is still at Frankfort,
♦f people in Georgia. The_ people desire j Germany, living in great retirement, andTiti
to see men of all parties at the State Fair, j very unpretending quarters.
They will be cordially received and provided I „
for.—Atlanta New Era, 5th. Gov « walker, of Virginia, who ia only thirty-
This is the first intimation we have received j Stlte ^ yonngest Governor th®
that the New Era contemplates suicide,
Ambrose Hmvim nf TOnff ilu 1 IsAA0 Tr Fowler, whose defalcation and dis-
the »pP««anoe many years ago, when postmsster at
realized $1200 from the proceeds «l six acres 1 New York, is well remembered, died on Wednes-
* of broom oorn this season. day in Chicago. - mea-on -n-eanes-
From Pike County.
Zebulon, October 5, 1869.
Editors Telegraph; Our crop prospects are
pretty good, considering the excessive drought.
We are making plenty of com. It is generally
as full a crop as the land will produce. We are
making about a half a crop of cotton, where fer
tilizers wereused, and a very scanty crop indeed
where none was used. If guano was cot so
high we. oould do better.
A Majority of persons living in the South
are predisposed to diseases of the Liver, and
most, of the pains and aches complained of are
owing to a deranged state of, that important or
gan. The Simmons Liver Regulator is the great
remedy for the diseases incident to a disorgan
ized Liver, Dyspepsia, Constipation, Sick Head
ache, Female Irregularities, etc.
One says : It has dome me more good than
any medicine I ever used.
Another says: I consider it an invaluable
remedy.
Another says: My son, who was so long con-
The Government not pressing the matter, the
parties were not required to give bonds for their ap
pearance at a time specified, but were placed in the
custody of United States Marshal Neff, who released
them on parole, on their personal assurance that
they would not attempt to leave. The counsel for
tho Government made the point that the vessel had
been fitted out in the United States, as charged in
the indictments to cruise and commit hostilities
against a Government with which the United States
is at peace; to make it a prima facia case they asked
for a continuance to allow time to seenro tho pres
ence of witnesses for the Government, from New
York and Washington.
The counsel for defendants opposed the motion
for a continuance, contending that the United
States had not tho right to hold them, as the vessel
was commissioned by a regnlarly organized Govern
ment, the republic of Cuba; that she put in at
Smithville in distress, and that it was contrary to
the laws of nations to detain her. Commissioner
Bnthorford declared it was a prima facia case, and
granted the Government until Monday, 11th inst.,
at one o’clock, to produce witnesses.
From Virginia-
Richmond, October 5.—Tho Legislature convened
at noon, with a full attendance. In the House,
temporary organization was effected, with Wm.
Slaughter, of Rockbridge, as Speaker, and H. G.
Jones, of Albemarle, Clerk, and adjourned till to
morrow, when permanent officers will be elected.
Bowden Wells, Republican, protested against any
officer, temporary or permanent, taking his seat
who had not taken the iron-clad oath.
The Senate met, with Lient. Governor Lewis in
the chair. Organization has not yet been com
pleted, but it will bo that of the caucus of last
night—Davis, the old incumbent, Clerk; Wirt Har
rison, old incumbent, Sergeant-at-Arms; Minor, of
London, first, and Abraham Hall, (colored,) second
Door-keeper.
The Senate elected all the officers named in the
noon dispatch. A Wells Republican made the
same protest as wsb made in the House, against
their entering office without taking the iron-clad.
Tho Senate then adjourned till to-morrow. Roth
parties caucus to-night; the Wells men to repair
their ticket for Speaker, General D. B. 1711110, who
was nominated for that position last night, being
regarded as objectionable to General Butler, he hav
ing challenged him when ia this city. White has
withdrawn and the tickets will be changed to-night.
Tho Wells Republicans ran a regularly nominated
ticket for officers in the Senate to-day, which re
ceived six votes. There is little talk about Senator-
ship to-day, hi view of the more immediate interest
in tho choice of Speaker, by the Walker men, ia
caucus to-night.
Robert Douglass, Private Secretaiy of President
Grant, is in the city to-day.
Staunton, October 6.—A man named MeOkltoD}
from Pennsylvania, was killed at Charlottesville to-
day, in attempting to leap on a train.
Great preparations have been made here for the
Valley Agricultural Fair, which commences on Tues
day.
Richmond, October 6.—In the Houso to day two
resolutions that the ironclad oath be now adminis
tered to members and temporary officers of the
Houso, were referred to the proper committee, when
it shall be appointed. A protest, adopted by the
Republican caucus last night, was presented. It. is
framed with a view to answering Attorney General
Hoar’s argument, and -protests against any acts of
the Legislature at this session, the members not
having taken the ironclad oath, and the body being
therefore illegal. It was referred.
Tbe following nominations were made for
Speaker; Zephaniah Turner, of Rapppahannock; J.
T. Maddox, of Chesterfield, and John B. Crenshaw,
of Richmond. Turner, who was nominated by*
Conservative, obtained 87 votes; Maddox, nomi
nated by a Wells Republican, obtained 41 votes; and
Crenshaw, 5. Turner was declared elected.
From Cuba.
Havana, October 6.—The first Cuban cable ia un
serviceable. The second cable which lands five miles
cast of Havana, commenced woiking to-day.
Savannah, October 6.—Cotton receipts 17Mb6tt I
exports 1203; gales 600 bales: market fins mi I
dlings 25}£. I
Auousta, October 6.—Market opened witti fw I
demand and clostd firm at 25 for middlings,- I
420 bales; receipts 611. j
Charleston, October 6 Cotton firmer; eilaT* I
bales; middlings 25^@25^ : receipts 99S bales.
Wilminqtos, October 6.—Spirits Tnrpentiisfcr I
at 41. Rosin BtroDg; strained 1 65: No. 2, lit I
Crude Turpentine 150(^2 50. Tar 2 50.
Cotton quiet at 24%@25 for low middlings.
Louisville, October 6.—Provisions qniet. Ms |
Pork 32 00. Bacon, shoulders 17; clear sides 2® |
Lard 19. Whisky heavy at 120. ’ 1
Cincinnati, October 6. — Whisky unsettled nil
held at 117@118. Mess Pork in fair demsr’cl
3100. Lard lower at 17- Bacon unchanged *bJk I
sales.
Foreign News.
London, October 5—The ship Susan Smart, off
Boston, recently capsized. Only four of the crew
saved.
Madrid, October 5.—Martial law baa been pro
claimed in Andalusia and Catalonia.
FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL.
Weekly Review of the Market.
OFFICE DAILY TELEGRAPH, >
“ 9.f
October 6—Evening, 1869.
The wholesale and jobbing trade of the city has
been heavy during the week ending this evening,
bnt not quite so heavy as it was for the last week in
September. Tho numerous large bills in circulation
here, of the denomination of $500.and $1,000, lias
embarrassed trade a little and subjected business
men to not a little inconvenience.
Money is easy, and the hanks are now affording
accommodation to all A1 paper at the usual rates
of discount. We give revised quotations:
EXCHANGE ON NEW YORK.
Buying i dia,
Selling..... par
UNITED STATES CURRENCY—LOANS.
Per month lj£<ji|2 per cent
GOLD AND SILVER.
Buying rates for Gold $1 25
Selling LSI
Bnying rates for Silver I 20
Sellling I 25
RAILROAD STOCKS AND BONDS.
Central Bailroad Stock 118
Central Railroad Bonds '. 96
Macon A Western Railroad Stock .125
Southwestern Railroad Stock 96
Soutwestcm Railroad Bonds 95
Macon A Brunswick Stock J... 35
Macop A Brunswick Railroad Endorsed Bonds... 90
Georgia Railroad Stock 107
Georgia Railroad Bonds 98
Muscogee Railroad Bonds 90
Atlantic A Gulf Railroad Stock 37
Augusta A Waynesboro Railroad Stock 88
South Carolina Railroad Stock 40@45
Cotton States life Insurance Stock. 105
Cotton.—Receipts to-day 581 bales; saleB 371;
shipped 307.
Receipts for the week ending this evening, the
above included, 3400 bales; Sales for same time
1571; shipments 1421—showing an increase of re
ceipts for the last week ovor those of the week be
fore of 390 bales; increase of sales 106 bales.
Receipts of the crop of ’69 to date, 14,547 bales.
The market daring the week under review has
been qnite steady, and there has been no fluctuation
in prices worth special mention—middlings ranging
at 24@24cents all the week, and once or twioe
touching 25. The market was quiet but firm to-day
at 24j£c for Liverpool middlings—something nicer
bringing an additional}(.
MACON COTTON STATEMENT.
Stock on hand Sept. 1,1869—bales..
Received to-day 5S1
Received previously..131768—14,349
Mobile, October 6. —Cotton in fair demand ul
closed steadv; sales 1200 bales; middlings 21V-I
ceipts 748; exports 231. t
New Orleans, October G.—Cotton active it 25^ I
sales 5050 bales; receipts 3553; exports, Biroeloeil
210, I
Oats 60(261. Mess Fork held at 3400. Bico:l
shoulders 18j/. Sugar, prime, 14K@14K. Coffee I
fair, 14%@15j^; prime, 16j{®16^. Others o|
changed.
Gold 81. Sterling New York Sight
count.
Foreign Markets.
London, October 6, noon.—Consols 93%. Basil
84*.
Havre, October 6, noon.—Cotton firm ia both c|
spot at 143 and afloat at 139. .
Liverpool, October 6, evening.— Cotton finne I
uplands 12%-. Orleans 12%; sales 12,000 bfisl
whereof 1200 bales are for export and speculriol
Red Wheat 9s 3d. Lard 73s 6d. Turpentine
3d. 1
Havre, October 6, evening. — Cotton closed fix I
Cotton Receipts.—For the seven data »til
Tuesday evening last, 5th inst.. the Southwestel
railroad received for shipment to Macon, Sivirttl
and points beyond, 8035 bales of cotton—1937
of which were delivered at this point for stonge u|
sale. We give each day’s receipts in taboUrfc
for future reference: a
Dale. From Columbus From Evfanla
Fort Gnines
Sept. 28.
371
and Albanv.
192
29.
378
215
30.
418
239
Oct. 1.
869
274
2.
455
404
4.
622
264
5.
200
821
Totals...
3313
1909
Fro- I
Grand total “through” ??l
Grand total to Macon........' *1
Total receipts for the time specified ‘j
To Whom it may Concern.—If the fello*^!
slid into our seat on Sunday morning lasted I
nounced our departure in the manner which
will call and introduce himself, we’U showH^I
minimum spaco of time it takes to bung
eye. Tho paragraph has cost us a dozen W^l
ready and we don’t know but that the vat
who wrote it, got half of them. Every nu." i:I
who had trusted ns to the amount of 5
a half, after reading the article, rushed
ing room to see if he was broke, or for *®\, A
we had fleeced him. That man had b^rterbe Y
out of town on business until the Etora P^'l
over, as it is one of the winds that will blow am -1
good. I
Night Train to Eutaula.—A friend living l
bany ia interested in the running of the mg-
-ytfrtf I
179
Shipped to-day... 397
Shipped previously • •.... 8,643-
14,528
Stock on hand this evening 5,!
FREIGHT ON COTTON FROM MACON.
Freight, all rail to Savannah....... .$0.55 V 100 lbs
Freight, sail Savannah to Boston....^c tHb
Freight, sail Savannah to Liverpool.9-16d, andld
lb by steam.
Freight, through by rail and stoamto
New York .$1.35 t* 100 lbs
Freight, through by rail and steam to
Philadelphia w......v..... 1.85 V 100 lbs
Freight, through by rail and steam to
Baltimore - 1.35 V 100 lbe
Freight, through by rail and steam to
Boston, via New York. 1;70 «! 100 lbs -
and accommodation train on the Southwestern I
road, and wishes to know if thero wflD** J
run from Albany to connect with this nig* 11 ,
Smithville ? We reply yes, and so stated >
week. ;
We believe the night train will make
on Monday night next, though we aie not»
so informed. -
Lost.—A poor widow lady lost her pociwt-t»>®-J
terdav, containing a $100 greenback bill m I
of the sale of a bag of cotton from Coffins ^
Warehouse, with other papers and perhaps *
two or fractional currency. Only a portion
money lost belonged to the lady and she is m _ J
distress about it. The finder will please V* I
pocket-book and contents at this office.
OROCEIUE8 AND PROVISIONS.
Trade in this line has been quite lively the pats
week, and prices for leading articles, excepting corn,
have been steady and firm throughout. We give
carefully revised quotations:
BACON—Clear Sides (smoked)....® 23 @
Clear Rib Sides (smoked)... 22J4(iji i i ,.«i
Shoulders.'.V.-...... '
Hama (country)
Hams (sugar-cured)
PORK—Mees....
Prime Mess
Rr.mpe 30 00
- . - M
18i^@
25 ©
36 50
33 00
sidered a hopeless case, is now in' blooming he was not diaqualified .by the Fourteenth Amend
health, from using the Simmons Regulator.
For Bale by all druggists. clerk.
In the discussion the point was pressed that Tnr- i
ner now has an application before Congress for the BULK MEATS—Clear Side*.
ramoval of hi* political disabilities ; and it was ex- Clear Rib Bides............ 20
plained that, though notable to take the test oath. COFFEE—to)? i 1 *!! (S'
Lsgnayra +. 80 <£
Beggar, the old incumbent.'was elected DRIKD^PBuir, per pound'.' /.”."* ' ! Iff, %
■ ‘• WCapwrpoMBd., 8 g
27J*
27*
@37 50
@31 00
Pugh's Gallebv.—A fine likeness in s
makes a handsome ornament for tbe parbt
ing room. You can obtain- both at Pugb s ^
graph Gallery, and at prices that will ind®*-
invest. If you prefer your likeness in »
able form, h‘e can supply you with » to®
very low price,' and can then make you 4,10
to fill it in such elegant style that yo° m ,,
be proud to show them to your friends, •
children will rise up and cali you biassed,
ing them such a sacred legacy.
Mayor’s Court.—All three of tbe «•*** _,,
- . 0 rest to i, f _.T,\ » .. .. .
to roaterdiv^ in this court, ts eontmw
missed, aa no evidence sufficient con™ ^
ties at r&iuge<l could be adduced. Butj
\ra* ou fbe docket gp
mdtmi.
