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k‘V, : i Ipti. rjjY & REID, Proprietors. The Family Journal.—News—Politics—Literature—Agriculture—Domestic Affairs GEORGIA TELEGRAPH BUILDlNft [liBLISHED 1826.} MACON, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1869. VOL. XLIV.---N0.14 Telegraph Building, Macon. ■atjcs of subscription: L ...irH-forone year.—... 110 00 months..................... 5 00 wrttrpsrioii? One Dollar per month. pi , ‘J. I ;\Vr*si.TT*t*OE*PH—one year.. 4 00 Telegraph—six m’tha 2 00 «i» ■ 5rrfeLT Tileobaph—one year 3 00 ftt Jpotsi.r Telegraph—six months 1 SO fgpPayeibU aheayt in advance.'C* ,. nn <l Job Prlntlna *JJ5it essented *t reasonable prices. by mall with Postmaster’s certificate a . [ISV HXK correspondence. ■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, .