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MACON, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1869.
VOL. XLIV.---N0.14
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■rial Convention — Reerptlon of
j l iitmorc—Bnslnces Activity, etc.
lonsnuE, Ky., October 11,1869.
Lj )rJ Jitgrapk : Let me jot down a few
' d interest in ibis city, whiobyou are at
. ! o®»»J oQdeem P^r. Among oth-
! j topics htre Ibo Commercial Convention
assembles on the 14 th inst., is the foro-
Ihc city isshsolntely jammed and over-
alresJy with visitors and delegates.
|<;4 let me say that I had the pleasure to-’
[.''looking upon the mild and bland features
r • ■ Millard Fillmore. He is here
L* purpose of acting in the capacity of
_L 5 t of the Commercial Convention. He
t, pud reception to-day in the east wing of
Leit-hoase. It was a most brilliant affair,
l - |jj;tingnished visitor presided over al
it rise,dignity and grace withwhich almost
country is familiar. I have not the
l y p Te you details of what was said and
jjmy other men of note are also in the
[A*!? whom I may mention ex-Governor
. jjon. John C. Breckenridge, ex-Gov-
; 5.imlette, Acting Governor Stephenson,
George Francis Train, (who lectured
last week in Masonic Temple,) Koop-
l-iip. the agent for Chinese immigrants,
[list of lesser lights.
k committee of arrangements have chosen
llcuisville Opera House, as the place for the
i.,n’.ions of the convention. It has the ca
ll to seat about 2,500 persons, bnt that is
L-sr large enough.
lnold surprise you to see the gigantic
itions which are going on for the groat
which will come off on Thursday
Every artist in Louisville is overran with
jud actively engaged in lettering or de-
Lj.to illustrate tho different trades and
tioas which will be represented in the
i display. Every manufactory, machine
Had foundry will contribute to swell the
; cavalcade. Railroads, telegraph offices,
i companies will likewise lend a helping
Everybody seems fully awake to the
I occasion, and from all the indications
Luonnd me, I am constrained to believe that
Ingoing to have the most splendid demon-
otver witnessed in the West.
! will be benefitted by this conven-
t !■> the amount of ten millions of dollars. It
■give her a notoriety and a more prominent
iamong her sister cities and rivals.
t at the Opera House they commence
Iperfoimance of “Formosa,” a drama which
I mated Mich a sensation in London for near-
Ijear. Of course it will draw immensely,
utued a pleasure on las t Thursday night that
i scarcely describe. It was in listening to
Ivaderful performance of Hernandez, on
lisitar. All tho most difficult positions and
i seem to him as mere child’s play. I
t<u to whether he has an equal in the world
is sweet instrument
«Chapman Sisters ore still drawing finely,
_erHalL No wonder. They are beau-
jdand gifted.
BUSINESS ACTIVITY,
i business activity of Lonisville just now
"ented. So heavy is the trade, par-
on Main street, that it is literally
1 up with goods and tradesmen from dawn
I dark. The railroads are crowded ^vith
. t and every other day refose to take any
t for shipment
t Galt House, than which there are few
1 and no better hotels, containing about
i rooms, is filled to its utmost capacity with
wa. The Convention is mainly the cause of
i but it has a fine ran of patronage at all
■I now strikes me that the Convention to be
Ihcre this week is little else than a mam-
i advertising dodge; but even in that light
a a magnificent enterprise, and I say all honor
tte cool, calculating brain that conceived it.
Iwitt bring together thousands of the best
•uness men in the country, and it is to be
(ted that the result of the deliberations will
| beneficial to both North and South. It will,
i sure, do a great deal toward healing np the
*“J and dissipating the ill feeling engen-
1 by the war.
9 people of Louisville are unanimously
■favor of extending the most cordial greeting
l~ *ho may come, and they hope when the
it throng of distinguished guests depart,
rwill bear with them the gratified feelings
■TOg sojourned among a people always
wbial for the most unbounded hospitality,
pji the remark that there is to be a grand mu-
Mestival every night during the sittings of
pWavention, and in which every body in the
Tvho can pi^y or gj n g i 8 expected to partici-
M close my hurried and incoherent letter.
Yours, O. L. S.
Affairs in Dooly.
Vienna, Ga., October 7. 1869.
12 elcgraph : Our Superior Court, Hon.
&Cole presiding, has been in session this
There has been a considerable amount
disposed of for the space of time
*and a half days,) it has been in session.
>c Asca of any great importance before tho
His Honor still retains to a remarkable
• that vigor of youth both physically and
y, for which he has so long been noted
s of Georgia’s noblest and ablest judges.
Ihave nothing of special note except a con-
of a long and ruinous drought. The
r portion of the county had ordinary sea-
‘ B P to and during the month of June, since
'Uime we had bat two good and general
in our county, the result of which is
and corn both short, though nearly
' of the latter to supply the wants of the
Peas, cane, potatoes, turnips, and late
ts of all kinds acompiete failure. Water
L become to be the one thing needful, the
*od what few springs we have are failing;
c-hes, creeks and ponds are dry and fast
;-ng so. Were it not for the steam mills
vouldbe great suffering for meal anebbread:
• ‘ ; ock of tSl kinds are failing fast for want
||*-'-er; they gather and go in droves in search
stop at houses and look eagerly
• fences, seemingly trying to tell of their
suffering for the cooling draught, which
| - a ily so plentiful in our county.
L*** is now some appearance of rain but we
„ l: will as heretofore, pass off without giv-
“ the cooling and plentiful visitation we so
1 c eed. Yours respectfully,
Pfop In Northwestern Texas.
^ ' ors Telegraph : All crops are remarkably
Wheat has yielded this year from tvren-
, . l birty-nine bushels per acre; barley fifty
^iriy.fi V6 bushels per acre. The oom crop
1 Deld from thirty to sixty bushels per acre,
looks promising. The range is good and
* & t- All we want is more railroads, more
I ^ et i° men, and a set of ofifioers who have the
°f the State at heart. 8. D. Stoui.
*"•Station, Parker to., Texas, Sept. 18.
Letter from c. P. Culver. The Disorders in Jackson County,
541 Tenth Street, Washington, D. C.) .j Florida.
_ October 9 th, 18C9. ) We have already published a brief aocount of
CoL Clisby, Macon, Ga. : a difficulty which occurred at a negro pio-nio
Dear Sir—Allow me to thank .you for the ncar Marianna, Jackson county, Florida. A cor-
~2-yw Ss—a.
rectness of your statements in tho paragraph in count of the murders that have taken place in
your issue of the 5th inst. The opposition of that county. The writer says:
a portion of the press of Georgia to the action , 9 n T ? esda L the 28th nit., the colored people
ti,- T7 , _ . , had a.picnic some two miles from Marianna.
of the Executive Committee in extending invi- The most prevalent report is that the row com-
tations to .Northern members of Congress and menced among the colored women, most of
others, irrespective of their past antecedents, wllom were armed. They fired away, seeming
and the generous offer of Gov. Bullock to meet ? otto ^? ow at whom or for what they were .fir-
a--*' n«u»»s.v^«h.
special train of cars, amounts to a mere “tern- out a motive. Another report is that while the
pest in a tea pot. ” | colored people were quietly enjoying themselves,
I am glad to noto by last night’s telegrams ^ ey we ^ e b y®°“ 6 P art y concealed in
wisely sustained its former action, as well as that Wyatt Sknrlock, colored, who had a child
accepted the generons offer of HisExcellen- ^ arms > was shot dead, the ball passing
cy, Gov. Bollock. No well wisher of tho pres- *?*.*,%? and entering the
- . . . y , breast of Sknrlock, killing both instantly. Sev-
ent and future peace and prosperity of the eral other colored people were woundel It is
State of Georgia can fail to regret the vituper- reported that the colored people swore then that
ativeand malevolent spirit which a portion of of the best citizens in Marianna should be
the press of Georgia have manifested towards , ~ . . c
„ , .. :T . On Wednesday evening, as Columbus Sulh-
cb^those whom the generous magnammi- van, a preacher, who lives some seven or eight
ty of Col. D. W. Leins invited to be present at miles west of Manana, and a colored man were
the ensuing State Fair. Those for whom such returning from the ginhonse, they were fired on.
animosity has been manifested, had more dis- Sullivan was wounded in the shoulder, and has
cermnent and penetration than to have accept- since died. The colored man was wounded in
od the invitation, knowing as they well do, the the forehead—will recover. On Friday evening,
deep-seated ;)£/\M72 prejudices of tho people while the boarders were sitting on the stoop at
of the South against them for acts of military Mrs. Attawav’s, after supper, they were fired on
oppression during the late civil war; and tho by parties supposed to be Calvin Bodgers, col-
fact of the invitation was one well calculated, ored, and two others unknown. Miss Maggie
whether designed or not, to dispel the prevail- McClellan, eldest daughter of Col. McCleUan,
.ng sentiment of Southern sectional hostility, was instantly killed, three balls or bnckshot
and to throw whntever of animosity there might piercing tho region of the heart. CoL McClellan
be between the social relations of tho two sec- is badly wounded. Mr. Coker and several eth-
tions upon tho side of the North. , ers were on the stoop at the time. Coker says
Had the matter rested here, great good, both he recognized the voice of Bodgers giving the
to the agricultural, commercial and political in- command ** fire.” Several colored men have
terests of the Stato would have been achieved been arrested on suspicion. Ono man swears
without inflaming the deep-seated ulcers of the that Rodgers wanted him to join the party who
late civil war. How manifest in all this i3 the did the shooting on Friday evening. OnSatur-
absence of that mncli needed spirit of patriot- day morning Oscar Nicholas, who was pilotinga
ism and statesmanship which can alone steer i party of white men in pursuit of Rodgers, was
our floundering bark into a safe haven. shot dead by some person concealed in the
In our present greatnational peril we need uni- woods, and a Mr. John Mvriek, Jr., was wound-
ty of action—the best efforts of all, North, South, ed at the samo time.
East and West—to serve and save what is left of In all thcro have been five persons killed and
the Federal Constitution and country. Wrong several wounded in and near Mariannii during
is the mother of strife and discord, not right. It the past week.
is malice tb^t has brought upon us our national Great excitement exists. The citizens of all
calamities. Harmony, concord, strength and classes and colors are under arms and in pur-
power are to be found only in fidelity to the suit of tho murderers. Tho colored people are
principles of constitutional liberty by the peo- very indignant at the cowardly assassination of
pie and the press. Sectional malice, strife and Miss McClellan, and are doing all in their pow-
discord, in time of peace, are acts of treason er to arrest the guilty parties,
against tranquility and discord, treason against A white man who has been a teacher of a col-
tho best interest of the South, treason against ored school, and present at tho pio-nic, asserts
ourselves and our country. These are bnt the positively that tho firing commenced among
manifestations of a spirit of despotism. Why the colored women, and that he neither heard
not let it die ? _ nor saw any firing from the woods, and that all
I hope, dear Colonel, for the interests of our the firing he saw was done by tho colored peo-
State, and the honor of our people, we shall have plo.
no more of it.
Very sincerely, your obedient servant,
C. P. Cultee.
Four l*cr Cent. Interest Talked oft
Y/ashington, October, 18C9.
It is understood that the Messrs. Rothchild
The Late Terrible Storm Along the
Bay or Fnndy.
The lete heavy equinoctial-rfo far ag known
the heaviest along the Atlantic ooast, from Vir
ginia northward, in its rainfall, of all tie storms
of the nineteenth century—appears to have
been far more disastrous to property, including
live stock, in the British provinces of New
Brunswick and Nova Scotia than al any point
within the United States. Around Shckville, N.
B., among the damages reported from the tre
mendous tide driven up the Bay of Fundy, are
the destruction of bridges, wharves pikes, rail
ways, telegraphs, ships, houses aid haras, the
sweeping away of thousands of tow of hay and
the drowning of thousands of ctttle. These
losses will doubtless involve muc. suffering in
the inundated districts; and the worst of the
losses have yet, perhaps, to come,.for it is hard
ly to be supposed that in this steeping tidal
wave no men, women or clildren yere drowned.
It is remarked that this was tie storm pre
dicted by Lientennnt Saxby, of Up Royal Navy,
last December. If so, we have atother evidence
of the value of the late Aiscor nes of soience
touching the laws- and seasons 1 of these great
storms. With a proper telegraph system of
warnings and signals we know that New Bruns
wick and Nova Scotia, even from New York,
might have had twenty-four hours’ notice of this
equinoctial, for it reached its dimax here on
Sunday night, and at Sackville, 5. B., on Mon
day night. Here we seo, then, that with a
proper system of storm signals milions of prop
erty along the Atlantic coast might have been
saved from the destructive consequences of this
late equinoctial.—Herald, 9th inst.
Terrible Tornado la Jliine.
Eastpobt, October 9. via Bakgob, Maine, Oc
tober 9—Twenty-seven vessels ashore in Rum-
mey’s Bay. The schooner Rio was lost in St.
Andrew’s Bay, with all on board. A bark at
New River was lost with all on board, seventeen
in number. The Grand Menane Island was
swept by tho waves and all the weirs and smoke
houses lost. The towns of Lubrec, Pembroke
and Perry lose heavily. Houses and barns were
blown down. This tornado is worse for East-
)ort than tho great fire. The revenue cutter
fosswood was disabled at the beginning of the
storm, and could render no assistance. All the
smoke-houses are down. Immense quantities
of smoked herrings and oil are lost. The loss
cannot be less than $500,000. A largo part of
the town is a perfect wreck.
Boston, October 9.—Two residents of New
Castle report that they were on the beach at 10
o’clock on Monday night last, and that there
was but one tidal wave, which was eighteen
feet high. As they saw it coming they fled, but
one fell among the rocks, to which he clung, the
wave going over him. Itran 125 feet above
high water mark, and in five minutes after there
was no traces of it
Another correspondent under date of October
2d, says:
Oscar Granberry was shot dead this morning
| while in charge of a party that had arrested
Robinson Crusoe's Island. i him. The particulars have not yet transpired.
If there is one spot of earth in which all who I Se™ ral “ en ^ve been arrested, held for a time
speak the English longue may be said to take a ‘ ? nd discharged. Excitement is somewhat al-
common interest, it is the Island of Juan Fer- I Uyed at this hour (4 p. sr.,) and there is a pros-
nandez. The favorite tale of nearly every P® c t that there will be no more blood shed. The
childhood is by most of ns remembered through citizens are patrolingthe streets and scouring
life with grateful affection, and the scene of its the country. ^ At the earnest request of Mr.
marvelous incidents shares in our regard. It McClellan no inquest was held. The most
may be true that the proper RobinsonCrnsoo’s thoughtful of the citizens recommended Ms
Island was not off tho coast of Chili at all, but conrse to the coroner. Inquests will be held as
in the mouth of tho Orinoco; and it may also soon as the storm passes over,
be true that the continent should be called Oo- ■ Tbe Marianna Conner of the ith says: “The
lumbia and not America; but habit has endeared f rleuJ “ “f Colonel J. F. MeOMiun willbepleased
in both cases the existing usage so that imagi- tolearathathi 3 woumSare notas SeriSHHE
nation takes precedence of what is or ought to drst anticipated, and that he is fast recovering
be fact, and the continent will bo America and from “ cffecta -
Juan Fernandez Robinson Crusoe’s Island until Iuaniti, Not Inanili.
the end of the chapter. ; . _ » , ,, ,
As most readers are aware, this classic corner Editors 2 elegraph : I have never troubled
of the earth is in latitude 33 degrees, 40 minutes y° u to correct a typographical error but once,
south, about 400 miles off the coast of Chili, and though they have sometimes actually made my
is about the size of Staten Island. Itis, howev- blood ran cold. After this time, I never expect
er, far more ruggedly picturesque than that to correct another, but shall bear them with
beautiful suburb, and boasts one mountain, | what fortitude I may. In my last communica-
Yungue, that towers 4000 feet above the sea. j tion the printer makes me say inamh, when I
Around V grow in luxuriant abundance various j certainly wrote mumli. What a great blessing
grains, peaches, figs, and other fruits, together it would be to a newspaper—editors, contnbu-
£ith the sandal-wood tree and the cork; and tors and subsenbers-to have a proof-reader
among these disport themselves—or did a few whose vigilanceshouldnoverslnmbernorsleep!
years ago—many wild goats, and not a few wild 1 Doyntz.
horses. Excellent fish are abundant there, and ; Poyntz, your t was made like an l and never
with the sweetest of water and a delicious cli- crossed. The printer was not in fault. And as
mate, a more inviting spot can hardly be imag- 1 1 infallible proof-reader, he has never yet
ined. So thought the early buccaneers, who * ...... . ... „
made it a resort for many a day, and so thought. been found. The man who started out with a
afterward American and English whalers who boast that one book, at least, should be printed
touched there for supplies. For some years the j without errors, made a big blunder in his titlo-
Chill an Government disturbed the solitude of ; The most correct of any books extant
conrtcta^ofe^in revolt, & then wns°somo blood! ! are probably Tauchnitz’s edition of the classics,
shed, a village that had been built at Port and those in a stereotype form have been cor-
Cnmberland, the harbor, was bnrned, and rec tc,i as errors have been discovered for the
the authorities, after ferreting out and put- ^ y ears —|, nt errors are still found,
ting to death the wretches who, on completing J
their work of destruction, had fled to the woods, ; Where the printer makes one error, he usually
abandoned the island to tho goats and horses. ! corrects a dozen in the manuscript.
Subsequently two or three wandering Chilians j
found shelter there and eked ont a livelihood The Rolhscliilds Propose to Negotiate
that the generous soil for the most part easily j a Loan to Enable tills Government
supplied, by selling to passing ships vegetables to Buy up its _Entire Liabilities—
W$d water. In 1849, when the memorable rash ‘
was made for the gold fields of California, some
of the ships bound thither round Cape Horn |
touched at Juan Fernandez. They found there are desirous of negotiating a loan with this Gov-
besides some half a score of Chilians, including emment, at a reduced rate of interest (presumed
women and children; the mate of an American t 0 j,o four per cent) to enable it to buy up its
whaler, who, like Selkirk, had left his vessel j en ti re liabilities. M. Frignet, a representative
from choice to dwell upon the island, and who Q [ t j, 0 Rothchilds, and a partner in the Amster-
had a family by one of the Chilian women, i dam house, is at present in New York, with full
This man looked not unlike the pictures of authority to complete the undertaking as soon
“Robinson Crusoe,’’ having garments of goat ^ the Secretary of tho Treasury shall have re-
skins, a long beard, and that expression of pro- ceived proper authority from Congress,
found yet melancholy calm which people who \ similar proposition, but at a larger rato of
live in solitude are prone to have. He seemed, interest, had previously emanated from some
notwithstanding, to be contented, and spoke not nnmmn capitalists, which, coming to the ears
of leaving the place or of any wish to change his 0 f the Messrs. Rothchild, thoy determined to
condition. A grotto near the shore he pointed underbid them.
out as Robinson Crusoe’s Cave, and showed oth- j£ tVij a project is carried out, it must decide
er spots identifying them with localities spoken the question as to what the bonds are to be paid
of in Defoe’s story. He appeared to regard him- i n- Tt will largely decrease the national liabili-
self as Selkirk’s representative, and to take pride- ties.—Baltimore Gazette.
in being so accepted. j *•*
Twenty years seem to have passed after this ' A duel - 8 in progpect over in Warrenton, Va.,
without any other or more definite use being betW een Col. John Mosby, tho famousConfed-
madeof Juan Fernandez; butlast winter it was erata CoL Wm. Boyd, of the 21st
ceded by the Chib an Government h> acompany p ennS yi van j a Cavalry. The latter is Sheriff of
Fauquier county,
Canby, but is bi
— f - , has used every
purpose to make it their home. They number it £g 8a j^ caused very grave charges to
some sixty or seventy individuals, ana have ^ pro f erre a against Boyd, and an investigation
taken with them cows and other cattle, swine, or( j er6 a by Gen. Canby. CoL Lee made an
fowls, all kind of agricultural implements, wn examination, which resulted in favor of Boyd,
boats and fishing apparatus, and tools for the 8at urday Mosby and Boyd met. Boyd ap-
varions mechanical trades. It is said that Mosby in a threatening manner. Mos-
Wehrhan left Germany eleven years ago, and, . “gj^ i am unarmed and a smaller man
after passing some, time in England, wasen- ^ yotl] hut I am willing to meet you where
gaged on railways in South America, while can be periled equally against life.” It is
there he conceived the idea that he has now ^ that Boyd, instead of desisting when he
carried into effect. This is a repetition, on a be ard Mosby was unarmed, attacked the Con-
larger Beale of the experiment of Pitcairn s Is- f 6( j era ta Chieftain in an unjustifiable manner,
land, without, of course, the criminal proface resu jt ba8 been that Moeby has challenged
that stained the history of the crew of the Bonn- an( j the latter is said to be in trouble
tt. The world will watch the career of this lit- abont a second, die people of Alexandria are
tie colony with deeply interested eyes; for, mnc h excited over the affair,
apart from the cariosity and sympathy natural- .....
A Trotting Hatch.
At a certain evening party, a haughty young
beauty turned to a student who stood near her,
and said:
“Cousin John, I understand your eccentrio
friend L is here. Do bring him here and
introduce him to me.”
John went in search of his friend and at length
fonnd him lounging on a sofa.
“Come L——,” said he, my beautiful cousin
Gathrine wishes to be introduced to you.”
“Well, trot her out, John,” drawled L ,
with an affected yawn.
John returned to his cousin and adtised her
to defer the introduction to a more favorable
time, repeating the answer he had received.
The beauty bit her lip, but the next moment
said: “Well, never fear, I shall insist on being
introduced.”
After some delay L was led up and the
ceremony of introduction was performed. Agree-
ly attracted by the experiment itaelf, no mote Charleston and Savannah Rahsoad.-
emmtnne spot could have been chosen in which - Lius . , _ ,
tomake it than that which is cherished in so The Savannah Morning News, of Saturday, con-
manv hearts as Robinson Crusoe’s Island. taina the following item:
‘ J [2V. T. Times.
Office Georgia State Agbio uetubai. Society,
Maoon, Ga., O ctober 9,1869.
The bark Atlanta arrived here yesterday from
New York with a cargo of three thousand three
hundred and twenty-nine bars of railroad iron,
consigned to the Charleston and Savannah Rail-
I herebv appoint Mr. W. W. Collins as Super- road Company. The work of completing this
intendentof Tournament, whoee duty will be to important connection between ^the two mties is
arrange all matters connected with this branch being rapidly earned on. The Ibndge for the
of Uufentertainment for the Fair, subject to a crossing of the nver has been pid out, andthe
revision by the Executive Committee. All cor- work of construction commenced in thisatyat
resDondence will receive proper attention from the work-shop of Mr. J. J. Pale,
him All suggestions as to order of arrange- reasonably anticipate the wlnstle of the looo-
ments, Mat ofprizea, eta, will be thankfully re- motive, whitffi will P TO ° f
I ^jygd. V D. W. Lewis, Secretary. terial reconstruction has been finished.
A New Freight Line from Colnmbun
to he Established.
Our oity was visited on Thursday by a railroad
delegation to inspect the river steamers of the
Barnett lane with a view to their purchase. The
result is that they have virtually bought all the
boats that ran to Columbus, except the two
steamers of the Central Line—in all, Borne seven
first class steamers. The intention is to ran
them in connection with the line of steamers to
New Orleans, and also with the railroad now in
process of completion to the river.
The delegation consisted of Captain McDon
ald, of the O. S. A, son of ex-Governor McD.,
of this State, President; Major Burns, of New
York, Engineer, and Colonel D. P. Holland,
Legal Adviser of the Jacksonville and Mobile
railroad now running from Jacksonville, Florida,
and Savannah to Quincy, the ulterior aim of
which is to connect with the Mobile and New
Orleans and a Southern Pacific railroad. They
were accompanied by Mr. Barnett, chief owner
of the boat line. They left here for Albany to
examine the steamer Jackson, now on the Flint
river.
The company proposes to be ready to take
freight from Columbus by the 15th of Novem
ber. On the break of railroad between Quincy
and Chattahoochee, a distance of twenty-two
miles, five hundred hands are employed, and
the iron is ready at Quincy as soon as the
road bed is finished. "Wien Gen. Cobb com
manded this division of the Confederacy, he
The Qualities of Franklin Fierce.
The 'Washington Chronicle, of Saturday, con
tains a long and feeling tribute to the memory
of ex-President Pierce. That paper oomes ont
in moorning. It calls upon the City Councils of
Washington to make some appropriate expres
sion of regret.
We state these facts to the credit of Forney,
who has never before that we know of shown
himself to be capable of experiencing, or at
least of being governed by, the feelings whioh
move other men in such circumstanoes as those
which called forth this tribute from bis pen.
We quote some extracts from his really eloquent
article:
“Let ns think of Franklin Fierce as a man of
that greatness of heart which constitutes the
trne nobility of ebaraoter, and whioh constantly
exhibits itself in words, looks, tone and accents,
and works of kindness. Kindness of heart was
his great quality. No exaltation of station, no
degree of prosperity, no applause of men, no
adventitious circumstances whatever, caused
him at any time to overlook, mnch less to neg
lect, an appeal for aid by the lowly and suffer
ing. Thought of othere was his distinguishing
quality. Were any successful and honored, he
gave them the full—shall we not say more than
the full ? expression of his gratification! Were
any straggling, who so quick to come unasked
to their relief by words and acts of kindness ?
Were any in distress or prostrated by disease,
who in aid so soon as he with a sympathy that , , . . . , _ .. . .
took a substantial form, and was not confined to ! ? ad , ^ elv f. n ^ 68 .8™ de f Chattahoochee is
mere words alone? Who in private life or at jg? 8 * <*«*».AgatajMcola
the bar, or even in publio position, was more
ready to stand by the neglected and the perse
cuted ?
“■Whoso forward as he to see virtue in the
the junction of the Chattahoochee and Flint
and twb hundred and eighteen miles from Co
lumbus.
As soon as this line is opened, we of Colum-
stepped backward, and raising her glass sur
veyed him deliberately from head to foot; then
waiving tho back of her hand towards him,
drawled out:
“Trot him off, John! tiothimoff! That is
enough. _
Wheee the Sun does not Set.—The follow-
iDg graphic passage is from the description of a
scene witnessed by a Mr. Campbell and his
party, in the North of Norway, from a cliff
1,000 feet above the sea:
The ocean stretched away in silent vastness at
our feet; the sound of its waves scarcely
reached our airy lookout; away in the North,
the huge old sun swung low along the horizon,
like the slow beat of the pendulum in the tali
clock of our grandfather’s parlor corner. We
all stood silent, looking at our watches. _ When
both hands came together at twelve, midnight,
the full orb hung triumphantly above the wave—
a bridge of gold running due North spanned the
water between us and him. There bo shone in
silent majesty, which knew no setting. We in
voluntarily took off our hats: no word was said.
Combine, if you can, the most brilliant sunrise
and sunset you ever saw and its beauties will
pale before the gorgeous coloring which now lit
up ocean, heaven and mountain. In half an
hour the sun had swung up perceptibly on his
beat, the' colors changed to those of morning, a
fresh breeze rippled over the flood, one songster
after another piped up in the grove behind us—
we had slid into another day.
freight will be reduced. There are already a
number of steamers plying between New York
and Fernandina, one of the finest harbors on
the Atlantic coast. Railroads also connect with
Savannah. The route is 164 miles shorter than
the former “Atlantio and Gulf Railroad Line”—
humblest guise, and to recognize and respect it two 3 ? ules to New Yort
w ? uc * 1 . 0 '“ oro the subject it of itwere gSg*JS?3ggt
highest in name and of the loftiest lineage ?
“ The peer in eloquence and oratory and ar
gumentation of his contempories at the bar and
in public life, yet who so prompt to express en
comium of the great efforts of others ? In fact,
he had no disposition for rivalry, and was a man ™ 6 . 10 . .
without envy or jealousy. ■ ? 2 £ y n . ver ™ ^ rad - and Flmb ™ er ? av -
“Of human feeling the unbounded lord, and 11 6 atl . on } 8 a J olded * 260 - m ' les 8 ^ r ^
therefore the charm of the social circle, who via Apalachicola andFeraandma. Thelinewill
was so strickenby public or private misfortune? « d Columbus greatly by offering competition.
Whoso profoundly awed by the dispensations and hence reducing freights on cotton, etc., and
of Divine Providence? Who was si tenderly beneht merchants, planters andthe general
solicitous for the youne or the aged ? Whoso ; oommunny. .... . , , ,
fast a friend, though tho clouds deeply lowered ! , ^? e c ^ n ^ ny ’ is a strong one, backed
and the storm of assail waxed strong? Sixteen ? e '!iw rIc J? api it* 18 v’ h z V6 n? chartered rail-
years ago General Pierce pronounced a eulogy roads , ? at ^en the line to Chattahoochee is
on the occasion of the death of Daniel Webster
He used the remarkable expression, “The great ‘ j 8“ 2 PP € ^7' Fe ^ Iia ^ ma > Savannan and
heart of tho country beats heavily at the portals Jacksonville.-CW'/mSHS&m.
of his tomb.” So now we do not hesitate to say
so high were the personal qualities of General
Pierce, millions of hearts will be saddened at
the news of bis death, and eyes will be snffused
with tears that are unused to such signs of sor
row.
“ In the respect of attention to age of either
sex he seemed to have been taught in the school
Horrible Outrage near Linwood, Ala
bama-The Perpetrator Hanged.
Passengers by the Mobile and Girard Railroad,
yesterday, report a terrible outrage which hap
pened near Linwood, the terminus of the road,
on Thursday last.
The particulars, as far as we can glean them,
are as follows: On Thursday last, as two ladies
All the mills at Lawrence, Mass., were
stopped on the 6th inst., by the flood. Over
one hundred acres of the city were overflowed,
and many houses were surrounded by water.
At Minneapolis, on Mood4y last, the Eastman
tunnel, a half mile long, being excavated for the
purpose of making a water power on Nicolet Is-
'and, pierced a sunken water cavern in the island,
below the level of the river. Tbegatesattbehead
of the tunnel were closed, but the rash at water
could not be arrested. Early Tuesday morning
a large whirlpool, near the shore of the island,
was discovered, disclosing the month of the
cavern. All efforts, yesterday to close up the
hole by rafts, cribs, trees, bales of hay, etc.,
were fruitless, and the river threatened to cut a
new channel. The mills on Henneper Island
are in danger. The ground is caving in from
the passage of water beneath. One thousand
men are at work night- and day constructing a
coffer dam around the mouth of the whirl pooL.
If necessary a section of the dam will be blown
out to lower water, which is very high. The
danger of a new channel is imminent.
The Effects of Alcohol on the System.—
Dr. Letheby states that the effects of alcohol are
much modified by the substances with which it
is associated in different alcoholic liquids; beers
and and ale, for example, act on the respiratory
function by reason of the saccharine and nitro
genous matters they contain; wine, also, as well
as cider and perry, have & similar action; and,
in proportion to their saccharine and acid con
stituents, brandy and gin lessen the respiratory
changes, and the latter acts on the kidneys by
reason of the volatile oil it contains; whisky is
uncertain in its effect upon the lungs; while
ram, like beer and ale, is a true restorative, as
it sustains and increases the vital powers; and
he says that the old-fashioned combination of
rum and milk is the most powerful restorative
with which he is acquainted.—Medical Record.
Miss Gbay is a young milliner in New York
State who has fallen heir to seventeen millions
by an English lover. : ■ L
Items front the Constitution.
Delegates to the Commercial Contention.
A number of delegates to the Commercial Con
vention at Louisville, passed through here yes
terday evening. Among them we noticed B.
H. Trne, of Madison, Hon. Nelson Tift, of Al
bany, and others. S. A Echols, Esq., editor of
the Rural Southerner, went along.
Who Pays the Pepeb ?—We learn that Gov.
Bollock left with a special train yesterday even
ing, for Louisville, l£y., to attend the Commer
cial Convention there. His train is fitted np in
fine style, and he takes as many of the Georgia
delegation as w\H go with him, and we under
stand, proposes to feed them, while en route
there.
they were suddenly surprised by a negro man,
named Carny Gilmore, jumping np behind the
buggy and catching them around the waist The
vehicle was immediately stopped, and threaten
ing them with instant death, he forced the
young lady to dismount and attempted to rape
her person ,but fortunately, being strong and
aotive, by violent resistance Bhe foiled the at
tempt, receiving a broken arm in the effort
Being frustrated in his design, he then made an
onslaught on the married ond, and she being at
weakly constitution, he succeeded in accom
plishing his fiendish purpose. The young lady,
suffering with pain, and being sorely fright-
enedi was unable to prevent the outrage upon
2* SSfSuh all her might
satiated his hellish propensities, he
tied “the ladies together by the hair of their
heads, and after enquiring of them if they
knew him, and they happily feigning ignorance,
he left them thus and made off for the woods.
The ladies soon managed to get loose and give
the alarm in the neighborhood, and the excite
ment became intense and widespread. Fnrsnit
was commenced at once in every direction and
the fiend captured, and hung on Sunday near
the veryspotwherehehad committed the crime,
and np to the last accounts liis carcass was still
hanging there.
His expiation was as just as it was summary.
Such occurrences are becoming entirely too fre
quent^ and it is bigh time they were stopped.
If the law is too tardy and uncertain to effect a
cure, let punishment condign and instantaneous
overtake all such offenders.
We learn that this negro has been in the em
ploy of the lady’s husband; that by misconduct
had been discharged, and was probably actua
ted by a spirit of revenge in the crime commit
ted.—Columbus Enquirer.’
Opening of the Suez Canal.
From the Herald of the 1(XA.]
The Suez Canal, look at it from what point
we may, is one of the great events of the age.
It haB been in some quarters too much bepraised
and in other quarters too much decried; but,
Bpite of praise or blame, the great fact remains
that a new thing has been done—a thing whioh
men, and great men, too, have been thinking of
and deeming not impossible for more than a
thousand years, but which has not by any man
or combination of men been reduced or promo
ted to the region of fact. That the Suez Canal
is, in November or' December or January, or at
an early date, to fulfill all its high promise no
one can yet say is certain; bnt as little can any
one deny that such a canal is now possible. Our
latest news seems to imply that the cloud which
has for some time been gathering on the Eas
tern horizon is breaking up, and that, after all,
the opening of the Suez Canal is likely to take
place under the fairest and happiest auspices.
Our latest telegrams have it that the Sultan,
enoouraged first of all by the presence of the
Viceroy in Constantinople, may consent to ap
pear on the soil of Egypt, and that he may ac
tually preside over a grander scene than Sultan
Saladin ever dreamed of. If the Viceroy goes
to Constantinople the Sultan wiil go to Egypt.
We give this question a first place, for it is un
deniable that if the difficulty between the Snltan
and the Viceroy had not been amicably got over
the Snltan could not have gone to Egypt, and
the absenoe of the Sultan would have made
it impossible for the crowned heads of Europe
or ih«ir representatives to be present at the
formal opening of the canal. Etiquette still
means something in high places in Europe. It
is agreeable, however, to learn that the Viceroy
means to visit Constantinople; that the Saltan
is disposed to return the visit and take his prop
er place in the grand ceremonial; that Francis
Joseph means to encourage the Sultan by his
presence, and that the Empress Eagenie fully
intends to be Queen on the grand occasion.
•All this is well It is wise and encour
aging. If the Austrian Emperor Francis Joseph
goes to the opening of the canal; if the
Empress Eugenie goes and takes her place, we
may safely take it for granted that the crowned
heads of Europe and the best blood of both Eu
rope and America will be well represented. Na
poleon cannot go, bnt the Empress will well sup
ply his place. King William, of Prussia, can
not go, but the Crown Prince will be a satisfac
tory substitute. In a few days, if our latest
news proves to be correct, not a single govern
ment of Europe but will seek its place in this
great tournament on the soil of Egypt—a tourna
ment which shall be held less in the name of re
ligion than of civilization,whioh will have agrand
and undying purpose, and the names connected
with whioh will have a more enduring celebrity
than those of Saladin, of Bichard the Lion-hearted
of Philip Augustus, of Berengaria, or of Edith
Plantagenet. The latest of the Crusades prom
ises to be the best.
the feet of the Gamaliels of the land in his Con
gressional life. Of him the highest honors*by
the American people were predicted by John O.
Calhoun. He had the confidence and friendship
of Silas Wright, and ever had a place in the af
fections and at the hospitable board of Daniel
Webster. He was loved and confided in by An
drew Jackson, who bespoke for him an exalted
political career.”
Brunswick and Albany Railroad.
A Brunswick correspondent of the Milledge-
ville Recorder says:
Then we have the Brunswick and Albany
Bailroad. True, it is not so near completion as
the road to Macon, but still it is a road and one
that we are proud of. The road-bed is now
cargo'&1$fi £ a Ar^-.&u G fi&er8 are drily
expected. The amount of work done on this
road in less than two months is truly astonish
ing. On the 9th of August the Engineer and
Superintendent began to organize their force.
By the 20th they were prepared for work, and
on the 20th September the road hadbeen graded
fifty-nine miles, more than half the cross-ties
had been cut and delivered on the road, several
bridges were erected, and the work had pro
gressed with such rapidity that a large number
of hands had to be discharged in consequenoe
of the great expense of transporting provisions
to them. As soon as the track is laid to near
the point of leaving off, a new force will be
put on.
This company is not by any means a bogus
concern, as our enemies choose to call it. They
are men of real, solid worth and wealth—men.
who are noted for their sagacity and great busi
ness talent. They foresee the importance of
this road in connection with the Southern Pa
cific, and are taking hold of it in earnest. This
road is a great enterprise, and is the only route
which will secure to Georgia the terminus of the
Southern Paoifio on her shores. Georgia will
yet be proud of this important road, and her
people through the entire State will reap benefit
from it.
Then, we have a beautiful site for a oity.
Nature has been lavish in her gifts to Bruns
wick Live oak trees ornament the greater por
tion of the city. It is laid off after the plan of
Savannah. Our waters abound with fish, oys
ters , clams, shrimp and turtle. Wild deer and
turkeys are killed daily, within an honr’s ride
or sail from the city. Living is cheap; health
of the city excellent There has never been a
case of cholera or yellow fever here sinee its
settlement, more than one hundred and thirty
years ago.
Oglethorpe College.
Tho Milledgeville papers contain the following
appeal to the men of Milledgeville and Baldwin
county:
The Oglethorpe College in your midst lost
most of its funds by the war and was taken for
a Confederate hoepitaL The building and
grounds cost about $75,000, and are now ont of
order, and need repair. Taking advantage of
this, a strong party has arisen who desire to re
move the College to Atlanta. The people of At
lanta offer to give $10,000 if .-the Trustees will
remove it there. , «
Men of Baldwin; business men of Milledge
ville ; will you not help to repair the houses and
keep this noble school at home ? The danger is
immediate; a few days will decide the matter.
We invite you to a publio meeting at the Court
house, on next Saturday, October lGth, at 11
o’clock, A. H.
, Rev. Robeet O. Smith,
Samuel G. White,
William McKinney,
R. H. Ramsay,
Rev. Charles W. Lane.
The Recorder of Tuesday says about it:
There seems to be some discontent among
the Trustees relative to the present location of
the College at Midway, and they are anxious to
remove it to some other location. Atlanta, as
usual, getting wind of the matter, offers $40,000
in property or money, if the College ib located
in that city. Macon is also on the bid, or at
least it is nrged by some to offer $50,000 for its
location there. It will be the height of folly
for the Trustees to.listen to any such induce
ments ; and as men- of common sense, they
know that the influence of a city to boys is any
thing bnt good. Instead of removing the Col
lege from Midway, they should resolve that it is
the right place for it, and all that is needed to
make it a first-class institution, is that Presby
terians should be true to themselves and to their
faith. . If they allow or send their sons off to
other colleges, of course the Institution will
suffer. There are enough Presbyterians in
Georgia, South Carolina and Alabama to give
tone to Oglethorpe, and if it is in a languishing
condition, it is because of their indifference, and
not on account of the location.
The brave'Hindoo widow who married Mr.
Moroba, Canoba, has received thousands of ru
pees’ worth of presents, and it is proposed to
start a general fund for the endowment of
widows who wish to marry again. This is rather
hard upon Hindoo spinsters.
Labor-saving Agricultural- Imple
ments.
The Savannah Republican of Tuesday says:
The Fair will be very largely attended by the
planters of the low country, and one or two have
suggested that there are certain articles of agri
cultural machinery which they would be glad to
see exhibited, and which the Committee would
do a publio service by looking after and net
trusting wholly to the movements of the con
tributors. The operations of labor-saving ma
chines, especially, are objects of great interest
among planters, and the Committee might very
well provide for such an exhibition. The in
ventors or dealers in such agricultural bupl*-
ments as steam-ploughs, horse reapers end
mowers, drill planters, cultivators, horse rakes,
horse thrashers and forks, etc., etc,, might be .
written to and a practical exhibition of the
working of their various inventions requested at
the Fair. It would lend great additional inter
est to the occasion, and perhaps, result in a
complete revolution in our system of planting.
A negro has no time to throw away when he Is
iut to work up to a machine, and the mace we
lave of the latter, the more work we get
out of the former. Just compere the leading of
a dray in the street with the handling of ootton
at one of our steam presses ’
"We have been informed there is every reason
to anticipate a very large and complete display
of agricultural implements at the Fair.
BnslnoKK Developments at the South.
A few statements we gronp together below ad
monish us of the vigor with which the Sooth la
pushing forward in the work of recovering and
establishing its material prosperity. The ootton
crop of the year is worth three hundred millions,
the corn crop two hundred, and tobacco and
sugar and wbeat another two hundred, or seven
hundred in alL This will go far to equalize tho
valuation of productive industry North and
South, and will make a good balance for ns in
the European market. Two-thirds of the cotton
will go abroad. Arrangements have been made
by the Selma and Memphis Railroad to sell
land on time to whites and blacks, and
to take pay in labor or installments. As
an inducement, they promise to “ dead
head” the transportation of the purchasers
for one year. Other railroad oompanies are
doing the same, and the Alabama Land Com
missioners propose to sell lands cheap for oash
to any settler. In that State the poll tax of.
$1 50 collected from each male inhabitant, and
one-fifth of the revenue, will be appropriated to
the school fund by the next Legislature. There
are more than thirty colored schools in progress
in Montgomery connty, and the white residents .
have cheerfully come forward and aided the col
ored people to build school bouses. An Emigra
tion Society in Newberry, S. C., has brought in
three hundred emigrants. An agent will spend
November and December at Castle Garden, to
solioit laborers to go South. The Charleston
News says the stores of that city are full of
goods, and that there is great commercial rival
ry in the seaports. This very day (October 9,)
the steamer of the new line from Charleston to
Liverpool sails from the latter port. The Vicks
burg Times says the South will welcome North-.
era capital and Northern energy. It says that
the Northerners who come South are as “good”
as those who have peopled the West. In Nor
folk and Richmond Va., there is much new
building, and real estate advances in price. A
farm near Macon, Ga., was sold in 1806 for
$9,000. Three good crops have since been made
and the farm was sold the other day for $18,7501
[2V. 7. Commercial Advertiser.
monument to Adam.
The New York Times says: ; ; •_
We do not know how much truth there is in
Rodgers, of England,* is about to get np a'suS-
scription for the erection of a monument to—
Adam, the father of mankind l A company, to
be entitled the “Grand International Adamite
Monument Association,” is to be formed, and
the monument is to be erected upon tho sup
posed site of the Garden of Eden, in Mesopota
mia. The expense, no doubt, will be great It
is the custom to make a monument never smaller
and generally much larger than the mortal body
of tile hero whose immortal deeds it is intended
to commemorate; and, as there is a well-authen
ticated tradition that Adam was nine hundred
and thirty feet high, his monument cannot, in
common justice, be less than one thousand feet
in altitude. But it is estimated that a penny
subscription from each one of the surviving
descendants of this truly great and good man—
and it is impossible that one of them should be
unwilling to contribute this small sum—would
amount to enough to pay for the erection of the
monument, and leave enough over to procure a
handsome testimonial for Dr. Rogers, who has
been the first to suggest that it was time to wipe
away “the stigma long attached to humanita
for having left the memory of the first hero in
its history—a man whose name, fame, actions,
death, and spiritual influence are constantly on
our Ups—without commemorative stone to tell
the stranger who could appreciate it what he
had done.” A great many hard things have
been said of Adam; bnt it Bhould not be for
gotten that we owe him much, and.that, with all
his faults, he had many virtues. When Dr.
Rogers’ subscription paper is sent over here, wa
shall be ready with our penny, and, if he will en
large his plan so as to include a monument to
Eve also, we wiU be happy to double our sub
scription.
The Georgia State Fair.
From all the present indications, we have ’
strong assurances that the State Fair will be ■
great success. The first element of success—the
presence of a great crowd of visitors—is now
beyond a doubt, unless Providentially prevent
ed. Not only a large crowd of onr own citizens
will be present, bnt many from adjoining States
and from the North will take this time to visit
Georgia and spy out her resources and the in
ducements she can offer to immigrants and to
capital. Some, no donbt, will be. here from
Europe.
Under all of these circumstances it u of vast
importance to us as a people and Stato that we
make a favorable impression upon opr visitors.
Men are never satisfied or pleased with anything
when they are nncomfort&olo. It is^ therefore,
of the first importance that arrangements be
made to accommodate the crowd that will be
present At this time of the year, the country
through which our railroads pass is not calcula
ted to make a favorable impression upon strang
ers coming from the North. We most depend
upon the products of the country on exhibition,
and upon the statistics and reports froth various
sections of the country to make a fair exhibit of
the resources of the State. We hope every seo-
tion and every oonnty in the State will be largely
represented in its various products and manu
factures, so that the stranger present may be
constrained to make a favorable report. There
will be many a “Chiel among us taking notes,
and faith they will print them.' —Federal Union.
A ooBBxsroKDXNT of the London Daily News,
writing from New York city, gives a picture of
the shameful corruption which prevails among
the custom-house officials at that port. He as
serts that his baggage was subjected to a most
rigid examination; the inspector pried into his
boots and poked his fingen into the bottles of
pomatum, “because,” he observed, “watches
and jewelry maybe concealed anywhere. ” Some
gloves and a few boxes of cigarettes were dis
covered, and on these the traveler waa obliged
to pay a duty. But not to the government alone,
for the derks, as well me the inspector, smoked
the cigarettes, andthe latter begged a box for s
cousin, asked for a pair of gloves, and, to cap
the climax, intimated that through his interfer
ence the duties paid had been considerably
lighter «*»»» the law provided, and, with a
greedy, cunning look, he said, “Now, don’t you
think eadthe victim “ responded with seme
dollars,” when the officer was men no more.
Perhaps some of the color in this picture is doe
to the oontompt whioh most Englishmen feel for
A batch of bread, consisting of eighty-one
loaves, that was put into an oven at Pompeii
nearly eighteen hundred years ago, has just been
dug out, and is found to be somewhat overdone,
wmoh is certainly not surprising. These loaves, - , VJ
which were found in the course of recent exea-! the customs of this Worsted country, you
tions, are about nine inches in diameter, rather) know;” but after making all requisite allowance,
flat, and divided, by eight lines radiating from enough remains to form a forcible argument in.
the centre, into segments. favor of a radical tofqpTO ** civil service, .