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THE TELEGRAPH.
MAOON FRIDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1669.
Price or Males and Cattle In Ken
tacky.
We have before ns a copy of the Western Cit
izen, published at Paris, Bourbon county, Ken
tucky, which place is the largest horse, mule
pud cattle market in the State, and from which
point is shipped a large proportion of the mules
■nd horses offered for sale in this and other
Southern towns.
The Citizen quotes two year old mules at $120
to $160; broke mules $150 to $212. One lot of
28 mules brought $149 10; sucklings $45 to $G3.
Another lot of 21 head, two year old, sold at
$180*; yearlings as high as $95; broke mules,
from $300 to $475 per pair.
The cattle market is reported brisk. Sold 12
steers, threo year olds, $72 65; 52 head threes,
$72; 20 head $09; oxen $75 to $135; 24 head
two year olds $G8 83 per head; 22 yearlings
$44 10. Good cattle sustain C cents; common
two year olds brought about 5 cents.
The shipments of stock from the Paris pens
for the week ending 4th instant, amounted to 77
car-loads. -
The Grand Tonrnamcnt.
It will be seen from a correspondence upon
our first page, that the State Fair Tournament
promises to be a splendid exhibition, and we
have no doubt, in the eyes of youth and beauty,
will so far distance Berkshire and Chester swine,
Durham bulls and improved implements of all
kinds, in the grand show, that hardly a thought
will be turned to the latter. Well, we can’t
help it.
The Tennessee Senatorial Election begins
to-day. Andy Johnson is in Nashville in force,
And will make a bard fight for the position. If
he fails he will die kicking and with his face to
the foe. The opposition to him, however, is
heavy. The Banner opens on him with a quo
tation from Juvenal and four solid columns of
invective, superadded to a fosilade of squibs.
We will throw up our cap for Andy if he knocks
them all over; for we believe be is an honest
man and will do good in the Senate Chamber.
However, this is a time when the post nati get
the better of the old fogies all the time.
Game Back to Georgia.—One day last week
we met Mr. — Turner and Mb wife, who stated
they had just returned from Illinois. They had
gone there from Columbus, where they had re
sided for years, to better their fortunes. They
could make more money they said, but the cold
was too violent—it had nearly frozen them—and
they had returned to Georgia to live and die,
where they could occasionally draw warm
breaths.—Columbus Sun.
Beal estate in PMIadelphia, it is said, is
worth notMng like what it was two or three
years ago, and is still declining in value. There
are more houses than tenants, and brick and
lumber are so low that buildings lmilt when
prices were Mgher cannot compete with those
more recently erected. The many Southerners,
too, who during the rebellion took refuge in
FMladelpMa have gone back to the South and
lert vacant dwellings behind them.
Value of Leading Crops.—The following ta
ble represents the value of the leading crops for
the year 1868, the estimates being made upon
home values in the respective States, and fur
nished by the Commissioner of Agriculture at
Washington:
Indian com $ 579,512,460
Wheat 319,189,710
Bye 28,C83,677
Oats 142,484,910
Barley 29,809.931
Buckwheat 20,864,315
Potatoes ■. 84,150,040
Tobacco 40,081,942
Hay 351,941,980
Cotton 225,000,000
Total $1,812,608,915
Mean Temperature of the States.—Accord
ing to the regularly reported tables, the mean
temperature of August last was as follows in the
different States;
, Massachusetts 66 degrees.
New York
C7
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70
76
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77
(rfinr^ia
78
^f\VtATUft ,,
80
TflYllfl
83
Mississippi
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83
80
71
Illinois
75
Fobtx-thbee colored men of Savannah, have
signed and published a card in the papers of
that city, renouncing the Badical party, and
pledging themselves to vote for the Conserva
tive ticket to-morrow for Mayor and Aldermen.
They, further state that they wish it understood,
that hereafter they will vote and act with their
white friends.
The nnmber of killed by the explosion at the
Indiana State Fair is now reported at twenty-
seven, while several of the wounded will proba
bly die. The cause of the explosion is supposed
to have been a lack of water in the boiler.
The Pennsylvania and Ohio Elections take
place to-day. It will be impossible to disappoint
tts in the results, for we have formed no ealen
lations or anticipations on the subject.
The Cntbbert Appeal threatens to present its
leaders with a sheet next week wMch any city
in the land would not blush to own. That’s
olever.—Columbus Sun.
Columbus Cotton Receipts to Saturday night
were 9991 bales—sMpped 7,037—on baud 3,079.
Mb. Hancock, editor of the Amerious Bepub-
lican, was in town yesterday.
Gen. Toombs.—The Washington Wilkes coun
ty Gazette of the Sth says:
We are pleased to announce the rapid conval
escence of Gen. Bobert Toombs from his
reoent severe illness. On Sunday night he was
so very low as to cause serious anxiety to his
friends. Dr. Steiner, of Augusta, was tele
graphed for, bnt the disease was so rapid in its
workings, that the crisis was over and the Gen
eral already on the mend, before the Doctor ar-
■ rived on Monday. Since that time, he has been
steadily improving, and we sincerely congratu
late his many friends upon the happy prospect
of his recovery.
Gone to Work.—Our Charleajpn exchanges
state that the negro longshoremen, who rale the
roost in that city, and whose strikes and riotous
demonstrations have already been noticed, have
gone to work, a compromise having been effect
ed by which they agree to resume labor upon
oertain stipulations therein stated, the most im
portant being that they receive $2 50 per day,
7 o'clock a. it. to 6 p. m., and 40 cents per hour
for work after time. They will not, however,
work along side green hands. We congratulate
the merchants and shippers, as much loss and
inoonvenienee has resulted from the strike of
these “skilled labor” darkies.
The New York Post gives some interesting
facts about the culture of potatoes, in wMch it
■ay* that fifty dollars have been paid for a tuber
oot bo large as one’s fist, for planting, and re
tailed at five dollanf an eye. ‘
The October Atlantic has notMng to say
about the Stowe-Byron controversy; but Mrs.
Stowe’s defence is promised for the November
tnonber. .' V ,/ ' v •». -,
Shakspeabian Conundrum. —: Why should
mercy be ever a benefit to the light-fingered
gentry? Because it blesses “Mm mat takes.”
Ax irritable customer, who bargains much
bat buys little, ia productive of ooonter-irrita-
ion.
The Chronicle and Sentinel.
Justice to ourselves require*—even at the risk
of being considered egotistical—that we should
remind the Telegraph that the editors of this
paper are native Georgians—that they never
conducted a Whig sheet—that they did not sell
out their property in this State, or any portion
of it daring the war and hide the proceeds nntil
the storm was over—that they did not withdraw
themselves from the public while the war was in
progress—that one of them served actively in
field from the beginning of the conflict to its
close, while the other,, although in delicate
health, devoted his services, time and money to
the care and attention of the sick and wonnded
soldiers and in other departments of the Confed
erate Government—that they opposed, in 1867,
■the original Beoonstraction Acts of Congress,
and have always, and at all times, defended, to
the utmost of their ability, the rights of the peo
ple of the State against the encroachments of
Badical power, wMle some persons were wMning
for peace and “moderation”—that they have
never been required, by public sentiment, to
retire from the conduct of a paper because its
influence was against the true interests of the
South.
Undoubtedly the editors of the Chronicle and
Sentinel have been governed during and since
the war by an honest purpose to serve Georgia
and the South to the best of their ability. We
have never questioned it—directly or indirectly
—by any charge or insinuation; and that paper
wanders very far from the record to make the
expression of a mere preference of our own judg
ment over its own in respect to a line of policy
which will best subserve the interests of the
South and the Democratic party, the excuse for
personal flings and insinuations like the forego
ing.
They were not only uncalled for, bnt are un
founded in everything in wMch they are de
signed to bo injurious. The writer—one of the
editors of the Telegraph—is the only person
connected with the paper not bom in the South,
but has spent Ms whole manhood here. It has
held Mm and all Ms goods and chattels—affec
tions and interests—for more than a generation.
He parted with no property and concealed none
during the war. In the last year of the war a
physical malady compelled Mm to retire from
the excitement and responsibility of editorial
life, but he did not transfer his proporty in the
Teleobaph until after the surrender. His
whole heart was in the success of the Confeder
ate struggle, as Ms whole heart is nowin the
effort to repair the waste and desolation wMch
.resulted from it, and make the best of our con
dition. We venture no comparison of our pub
lic services with those of our assailant, wMch
were meritorious and important; but only claim
that we did our best. And when the writer re
tired from the Telegraph, he left it with a cir
culation and popularity altogether unrivaled in
Georgia at any time in her history.
It seems strange that the Chronicle and Sen
tinel and its editor in chief should attack any
body for the crime of being wMgs. The writer
was one of those who refused to be transferred
to Know-nothingism, and joined the democracy
against the latter in 1854. He had much dis
tinguished company in Georgia in making that
trip, and regrets that the Chronicle and Senti
nel did not join the “excursion” at that time.
Finally, we agree with the Chronicle when he
says “the public cares little for these personal
matters” and our wonder is that he should in
troduce them. Why should he perpetually im
pugn the motives and patriotism of the Tfle-
gbaph ? Are we not entitled to fair construc
tion ? If our suggestions are ill-considered—
our reasoning feeble—if, as he says, wo do a
good deal of l, w7uning" instead of giving fair,
manly, honest and prudent counsel—the people
can see it just as well as the Chronicle, and will
rate it at its true value. We suggest to our as
sailant, that he distrusts the good sense of the
people when ho manifests so much dread of the
power and influence of the Telegraph.
If the people cannot see that we mean well
and think rightly, and give them reasonable
conclusions, the Telegraph will have little or
no influence. If they find us consulting our
personal whims, piques and animosities, instead
of the reason in the case, and trying to divest
ourselves of all these blind and dangerous coun
sellors when we seek to advise them, they will
rightly reject all our counsel as bastard—the
offspring of passion instead of judgment.
Let the Chronicle liberalize itself a little. Let
it learn to admit that differences of opinion can
exist without criminal intent or moral or mental
depravity. No man should expect to set up
himself or his notions as the sole standard of all
moral, social and political truth and rectitude,
and denounce all mankind into conformity with
them. If he does, he will fail. He will some
times find himself in a minority of one. In onr
judgment, argument, persuasion, conciliation,
good temper, forbearance and toleration ore far
more potent allies of political truth and party
success than all the whips that were ever twisted
by scorn and contempt.
“Hold Yonr Cotton.”
Such is the advice given to the planters by
most of the newspapers of the South. Whether
it be good or badj wo shall not pretend to say.
Perhaps it would be better in such cases to state
facts and leave the planter to decide for himself.
Without doing violence to this subject there are
some remarks wMch it may not be amiss to
make on the subject.
The question may be viewed in a two-fold as
pect—of interest and of duty. The planter is
not always at liberty to decide the point whether
he should sell or not according to Ms fancy or
judgment of the chances.
As regards the interest of the planter to sell,
as before stated, we prefer to leave him to de
termine the question for himself. We may say
though, that, as a general rale, it is safest and
best in the long run to sell as soon os the crop
is ready for market, without incurring expenses
of storage, insurance and loss of weight from
theftana natural causes. Experience hasproved
this inle to be the best, though it is subject to
limitations, in cases, for instance, where it is
evident that combinations have been formed to
keep down the price; and even then there are
risks. With prompt sales, the planter pays off
his debts, supplies the wants of Ms family and
farm without heavy cost in the way of interest
and advancements, preserves hi3 credit and
feels at ease.
But it is on the duty aspect of the question that
we feel at liberty to remark with more freedom,
as we can here advance an opinion and give ad
vice without incurring the risk of leading the
planter into error. When men owe money, and
it is due and needed by the creditor, and especi
ally where the debt has been contracted on the
faith of the crop, they are under a moral obliga
tion to sell, in justice to others, and it is not amat-
ter in wMch they can rightfully indulge a choice.
EsDeeially is this the case when a remunerating
price can be obtained in tMs market, as at the
present time. The planter has no right to make
his factor or other creditor suffer when he can
sell his crop at a handsome profit jnst because
he tMnks he can get more by waiting. Twenty-
five cents per pound affords a liberal margin af
ter the payment of all expenses, and whena plan
ter can get it, he has no excuse for asking the
indulgence of creditors. He should at least sell
enough to pay off his indebtedness, as a matter
of duty ana good faith, and then should he feel
inclined to gamble on the remainder of Ms crop,
it is his own loo’-.out and nobody elso’s business.
These views, we think, are correct, and ad
dress themselves directly to the moral sense of
the planters. Let all act upon them as a rale,
and we shall hear bnt little of “ hard times”
from a dead-lock in the cotton market—Savan
nah Republican'.
Plainly, a man has no right to hold Ms crop at
the expense of Ms creditors. His paper should
be met at maturity, even if, in order to meet it,
he is compelled to sell cotton at unsatisfactory
prices. To hold it is to sacrifice “a good name,
which is better than riches,” and to speculate on
Ms creditor’s money and not Ms own. We have
never advised any man to hold Ms crop at such
a sacrifice of character and justice, because in
onr judgment it would be a very suicidal as well
as wicked polioy. He only who is out of debt or
who can arrange with Ms creditors to postpone
their claims can honestly hold Ms cotton for
rise.
JBY TELEGRAPH.
From Washington.
Washington, September 11.—The Departments
and banka are closed.
The Island of St. Thomas had an earthquake on
tho 17th of September, almost equal to those of year
before last.
In the Supreme Court the Yerger case will be
heard on Friday as to the question of jurisdiction.
The Brown case from Texas is to abide by the de
cision in tho Yerger case.
Judge Fisher in the Schnrman case sustains the
motion for tho arrest of Judgment on account of a
defective indictment. 1 here are other counts upon
which Scheurman will bu tried. He is convicted of
stealing notes from the Treasury and forging signa
tures, and altering them. Turner, the late negro
Post-master at Macon, Ga.. is implicated in the
case.
The Court of Claims met but adjourned without
business in respect to Pierce.
Farragut Is getting well.
The President thinks the proposed purchase of
St. ThomaB a bad investment.
A large number of cotton cases are on the present
docket of the United States Supreme Court, having
been taken up on an appeal from the Court of
Cl&imB, in wMch the same questions are involved as
those taken to tho Supreme Court.
Attorney General Hoar will, at an early day, make
an effort to advance these cases before the Supreme
Court, in order that those before both Courts may
bo settled. These cases grow out of claims for cot
ton captured by tho United States authorities during
the rebellion, which was sold and net proceeds con
veyed into the Treasury.
Bontwell is still absent.
General G. B. McClellan will domicile at the Me
tropolitan, during the winter.
Hon. Jacob Thompson, of Mississippi, ia here.
Triumph of the Democrats in Savannah.
Savannah, October 11.—The Democratic vote for
Mayor and Aldermen is overwhelming; out of forty-
four hundred registered voters the Democrats will
poll four thousand, tho negroes generally voting
with them. Everything quiet. Col. John Screven,
Democratic candidate, and the entire Democratic
Board was elected by about three thousand majori
ty. Tho official vote will not bo known until to
morrow. The negroes generally, voted with the
Democrats.
Case of the Caha.
WitMiNGTON, October 11.—The case of tho Cuba
was opened this morning by Mr. G. H. Lowrey, of
New York, who appeared with Col. George Davis,
late Attorney General of the Confederate States,
and Judge O. P. Mears, of this city, for the Repub
lic of Cuba; by reading a commission of Commo
dore Higgins, as an officer of tho Cuban Navy, and also
a formal protest by him against the exercise of juris
diction by the civil courts over his ship, sbo being a
public ship of war, of a recognized nation. After
stating the character of tho vessel, Col. Higgins sol
emnly protests in tho name and for tho honor of
Cuba against any detention or interference with his
ship. The conclusion of the protest is as follows:
And now having, for the dignity and honor of the
republic of Cuba, made a protest against the exor
cise of a jurisdiction over public ships, unknown
among nations, and being willing and desirous to
havo the truth known to all nations and persons,
and particularly tho citizens of tho United States,
and do declare it is certain that the said vessel has
not, in any of her preparations, offended against the
neutrality laws of the United States in tho manner
charged, or in any other manner, and I aver that
tho said vessel is now in the same condition in every
respect as when sbo was purchased from tho Gov
ernment of the United States in the month of June,
1869. except a few immaterial alterations, and not
relating to her character or use as a war vessel, and
except further that the said vessel, since the eaid
purchase and while out of the limits of the United
States, and more than twenty days after the
departure ■ therefrom and after wo had entered
a British port, and had been there seized by
tho public authorities, examined and discharged,
and bad cleared therefrom, and then, and not
till then, was sbo sold and delivered to the
Republic of Cuba, and was fitted out and armed
upon tho high seas and beyond the jurisdiction of
the United States and of all other nations; that all
the proceedings aforesaid is far from being in dis
regard of tho right and dignity of the United States;
were in a careful and true respect therefor, and
under tho sanction of well established principles of
public laws.
(Signed) Edward Higgins,
Commodore Cuban Navy, and Commander
of the Cuban Steamship Cuba.
In order to allow the government time to produce
witnesses, the United States Commissioner, Ruther
ford, continued tho case till Saturday next, at 10%
o’clock, A. JL
From Virginia.
Richmond, October 11.—Gen. Canby issued an
order to-day postponing until after the admission of
the State tho appointment of State proxies on rail
roads. This order will bo likely to leave all the
railroad organizations as they stand at present nntil
the permanent State government gets into effect.
Commercial Convention.
Louisville, October 11.—One hundred and forty-
three delegates have registered, mostly from the
South. Millard Fillmoroheld a reception at the
Court House, to-day.
General News.
Quebec, October 11 A scow in crossing the Mau
rice River from Point Chantan, swamped, and fif
teen men were drowned.
Toronto, October 11.—The volunteers throughout
the country are ordeied to hold themselves in readi
ness for immediate service. The Government ap
prehends another Fenian raid.
Washington, October 10.—Secretary Bontwell, in
his speech at Philadelphia, said he was aware of tho
differences of opinion as to the payment of tho pub
lic debt in tho manner contemplated by tho Admin
istration, and would, therefore, state in a single
sentence, the Administration’s policy with regard to
tho public debt, as he comprehended it. “It was
that tho debt was to bo paid, principal and interest,
according to the teims of the contract, in coin or
that which men will receive as tho equivalent of
coin, without any abatement whatever. [Great ap
plause.*]
Wabbenton, Va., October 3.—Sir : Yonr note of
the second is evasive. If I omitted your offensive
languago it was because I desired no explanation or
apology. My object has been to tost whether you
would fight as a gentleman, and to remove all pre
text for further equivocation. I. now quote yonr ob-
jectionable language. You said that you “could
prove in Pennsylvania that I was a highway robber.”
I now demand satisfaction, not explanation or
or equivocation. Will you fight? CoL Smith has
full authority to act.
Respectfully, your obedient servant,
John S. Mosbv.
To Col. TV. II. Boyd.
New York, October 10.—Tho steamer Euterpe has
departed with her original cargo for Havana.
Foreign New*.
London, October 11 Martin, the Fenian, died
at King’s College hoBpitsl. A thousand people at
tended his funeral, and the mourners wore green
scarfs. Four hundred people met at Notting Hill
in favor of the extension of the Fenian amnesty.—
Speeches were inflamatory, but the meeting was or
derly.
Vienna, October 11.—The Emperor Frauds
Joseph, and Her Imperial Majesty Eugenio, are at
Constantinople, and will remain until October 24tb,
when accompanied by the Sultan, the party proceed
to Suez via Joppa and Jerusalem. The French, Aus
trian and Turkish fleets will convoy the party.
Paris, October 11.—The coal miners’ strike in
Aubier continues. A large meeting in the Avondfaso-
ment of Belleville, was fordbly dispersed. Several
men were hurt. There has been a large meeting at
Murlansen, of manufacturers, which considered the
American cotton question and other collateral sub
jects. The meeting denounced the recently con
cluded commercial treaty, and urged the substitu
tion of customs tariff.
Madrid, October 11.—General Pierrod, recently
captured and imprisoned at Tarragona, escaped.
Paris, October 11.—A defeated party of Spanish
Republicans, driven across the lines, were promptly
captured by the French authorities.
A Republican demonstration at Madrid is appre
hended, but the government is taking great precau
tions.
FBOH TEXAS.
Sufficient Season for Silence— Polities—
Cavnam Opened—Wtmt an Election foots—
Wild Work on tbe Bio Grande—Cotton
Crop Eight.
Richmond, Texas, October 4th, 1869.
Editors Telegraph : Two attacks of fever—
one bilious, succeeded by intermittent—is apol
ogy sufficient for a silence that was becoming
somewhat protracted. Mercury and quinine are,
good in their places, bnt “they are ho doubt
not very fillin’,” and are certainly not prolific in
begetting ideas.
Within a week or ten days the canvass maybe
said to have folly opened. Jack Hamilton is
talking to the sovereigns in the eastern part of
the State, and Boulds Baker, candidate for
Lieutenant Governor, is addressing them in the
western counties. Wells Thompson, the most
promisingman of his age in the State—an original
Union man, bat fighting gallantly on onr side
when the State elected to secede—is haranging
the people in the northern counties for the office
of Lieutenant Governor. There is another
prominent candidate, whose name I have forgot
ten, for the last named office, who is not idle in
the canvass.
Congressional candidates, and there are plen
ty of them, are beginning to manifest som6 in
terest and activity in the cavaBs.
County candidates for the Legislature and
other minor offices are doing the usual amount. -
of bushwhacking, or rather they would be, but
that the open praries afford few bushes for
whacking. So yon sec the prospects before us
are what might be called promising for lively,
if not profitable times. But profitable they can
hardly be to the defeated candidates, and many
a man, once promising, date his downward
course in life to his election to a paltry county
office.
Apropos of what it costs to be elected to a
county office in a closely contested election.
Many years ago, B***bridge, which is now a
handsome city, was a little one-horse town, Mr.
S***borongh was a candidate for Legislative
honors from D*cat** county, in your State, and
was elected by one vote / Mr. S. was a merchant,
and years after he assured me that he thought
he should never get through paying for that one
vote. A dozen times a week a sovereign would
claim a pair of boots as the legitimate reward
for that ono vote, which he was certain he hnd
cast. Two or three matrons would daily eater
Ms store, and with their blandest smiles say, “I
made the old man go to the ’lection, and he gin
that savin’ vote for you. Had it not been for
me he wouldn’t a gone; now you must give me
a pair of shoes for bubby or sissy.” What was
poor S. to do ? He was too gallant a gentleman
to say nay to these soft insinuations, and so he
went on paying for that one vote, day after day,
until, by the time be bad to start to Milledge-
ville, he had but little left except empty shelves
for his clerk to look after. lie was no more a
candidate! ! It was too costly a luxury.
Candidates for office, however, in tMs part of
the State will spend but little electioneering.
They never arm the electors now and ask them
to drink. Even the wildest Radicals do not
bark that high on social equality. Still, a short
quarantine and thorough fumigation after the
election, would he no disadvantage to some of
the candidates before entering the presence of
their amiable “frows.”
They have wild work on the Bio Grande.
The Mexicans steal cattle and kill Americans.
The latter you know are not a race quietly to
submit to such treatment, and after we make
due allowances for the usual amount of exager-
ation, there is still no doubt but murders on
that frontier line are of daily and nightly occur
ence. Neither side of the river is settled by the
best men of either nation.
On the Nueces and Gaudaloupe, for months
past, horse stealing by regular bauds who ran
them off to the frontier has been the regular
order of the day, until the citizens, in self-de
fence, banded together, hung a considerable
nnmber, and broke up the rest. All is quiet
along this line, and has been. The Brazos is a
quiet country.
Cotton will not turn out here as well as it was
supposed it would soon after the worm stripped
it Tho wet weather has caused many of the
partially opened bolls to rot.
We hnd a pretty tight “norther” for the sea
son last Sunday, which lasted over threo days.
Heavy coat3 were comfortable. Pab Foes.
Tbe State Fair Tournament.
Albany, Ga., October 7, 1869.
The Superintendent of the Tournament, Macon,
Ga.:
Dear Sir—Your list of prizes and regulations
for the tournament is before me, The order of
arrangements are very good (with one or two
objections) as far as they go, bnt I do not think
they are explicit enough, quite. As one of the
knights from this county, I most respectfully ask
to submit the enclosed copy of rales to be laid
before the knights of Macon, hoping that they
will think proper to adopt them.
You will see that I propose nine ring9 instead
of three, and three hundred yards instead of
one. My reason for that is that all tournaments
are gotten up for the purpose of contesting the
skill and horsemansMp of each knight, and don’t
you think that he could display both to better
advantage by running three hundred yards than
at one hundred; and with nine rings, if there
should be a tie between knights, it would be
more easily decided than with three; and also
with tho latter number there will be so many
knights who would take the ring the same num
ber of times, that one day would not give them
sufficient time to decide who the champion ri
ders were. The time, “thirty seconds,” is plenty
long, shonld be less, if anything; “race-horse
time that distance is sixteen seconds.”
In your order of arrangements you did not
make any provisions for the crowning of the
Queen and Maids of Honor, nor for the Tourna
ment Ball which is always understood, and is
one of the principal attractions for the ladies.
I hope that you will not think me too presump
tuous in submitting the witMn rales, or in sug-
iting any changes to those already made by
you. I know that our object is the same, whioh
is to see that Georgia is not second to any State
in anything that she undertakes. There will be
visitors there on that day from every State in
the Union, and from Europe, and let us show
them that though “deluged” by numbers and
our country under the heel of the despot, yet
still we are not broken, “although very badly
bent."
A a matter of course any changes that you
may think proper to make in the witMn rales,
do so, but I would like for you to adopt the
nin? rings and three hundred yards. I would
be pleased to' htear from yon on the subject.
I am very respectfully,
your obedient servant,
O. H. Camfield.
C. M. Camfidd, Albany, Oa. :
Dear Sib—I was right glad to hear from the
first gallant knight of glorious old Dougherty,
and take the opportunity of requesting you to en
roll all yonr comrades in one company and elect
a captain. Let that company be a large one
and take the prize wMoh is offered for discipline
and numbers. The prize list, though imperfect,
was the best that could be gotten up in the press
of business and has led you'-to err in many
points. I will try and elucidate the programme
and alter it whenever practicable with yonr sug
gestions. The seat of contest will be a circle
230 yards in circumference, wMch will almost
give the distance whioh you propose (300 yards.)
TMs circle will be in the centre of a vast am
phitheatre, capable of seating vast numbers of
people, who are expected to pay a nominal sum
for witnessing the engagement. TMs is done
to increase the revenae of the Agricultural So-,
ciety.
Again—There is to be one day allotted to the
company from Albany to pick out the best men
from her company, one to Augusta, eto., thus
consuming five or six days in choosing the select
men from eaoh company, who will contend for
the prize, to be given to the Queen of Love and
Beauty, wMcli will entitle the winner to the
championsMp of Georgia. Observe, that each
company on this day, in the amphitheatre, takes
a prize for its most skillful knight. And your
suggestions as to the maids of honor will be fol
lowed ; also as to the judges. The nine foot
lanoe and 2£ inch ring had been adopted before
yours oame to hand. The tournament ball is a
necessary oonsequent and will certainly be held.
There will be a regular band of music in attend
ance.
‘ A full and revised final list will be sent von as
soon as other knights are beard from. .In re
gard to a meeting f' the knights a day or two
before, to conaide. change of rules, etc., I
would suggest that it would be impracticable and
unnecessary, for yon are enough of a soldier to
know that each a proceeding would lay the toftt-
nament liable to disorder, and of coarse would
not do. The knights of Macon will not have
any more power than other companies.
Your suggestions are all good and mainly shall
be adopted;
The Wights of Bibb county have not elected
their leader as yet
Organize your company and give it a worthy
name and order a place for camping early, prac
tice as much as possible, and Georgia will boast
of as fine a tournament as was ever held.
Get yonr paper to call a meeting, and let all
attend. Recollect yonr time is short, and in the
field there will be brother “foemen worthy of
yoorsteeL” Very respectfully,
W. W. Collins.
Common Salt—An Anti-Bnst Manure.
From the Eufaula Ifews.J
On a former occasion, I suggested common
salt as one of the remedies against the rust in
cotton. The reasons then assigned were, that,
in England it has been observed for many years
that wheat, growing near salt water and a few
miles inland, is never subject to the rust, whilst
it prevailed everywhere else on the Island.—
Drawing an inference from these well authenti
cated facts, it was argued that land sown in salt,
in winter would, in all probability, have a bene
ficial effect against the rust in cotton.
Since making those suggestions, strong evi
dence of their truth has been furnished in that
valuable and able Southern paper, The Macon
Telegraph. We quote from its columns the
testimony of “One .of the most successful plan
ters in the South.” He says; “I have used salt
tor fifteen years or more. I find It essential to
success on all lands like mine, and most of the
cotton lands are like mine. Three hundred
pounds, (6 bushels) of salt and two hundred of
land plaster to the acre are almost a total pre
ventative of rust, which is one of the worst ene
mies to cotton the planter has to contend with.
Salt makes cottqp bear longer in the season and
stand drought better, it increases the quantity
andimproses the quality, of the staple, it acta
equally well on corn, oats, and other grain,
toughens wheat straw, and causes less waste
from the heads of wheat breaking off when cut
I use eight hundred bushels, bnt many cannot
use it on account of the price.”
The evidence of experience begins to roll up
and truth moving slowly will finally be acknowl
edged. In less than ten years, if the price shall
permit, common salt mixed with plaster and
other compounds, as an Anti-Bust Manure, will
be as extensively used as guano. Practice and
experiments will have to establish the quantity
to be used and the best mode of its application.
It is known that common salt is present in
every cultivated acre of land in the world, in
greater or less proportions, and enters into
plants as a necessary part of their food, and as
a constituted of their stems, leaves, and fruit.
It abounds more in rich alluvial lauds, but less
and less in thin and poor soils. On every plan
tation, the rust generally makes its appearance
in the same fields and localities. These portions
of land suggest attention and treatment. .
In speaking of salt, custom refers only to
common salt, bnt all salts are compounds of
Acids with Earths, Alkalies, and Motallie Ox
ides, and they aro vastly numerous. Nearly all
these salts feed and nourish plants. Common
salt feeds man, beast, and plants. >
Dickson’s compound manure (I quote from
memory) consists of equal parts of common
salt, gypsum, soluble bonednst and Peruvian
guano. Except tho guano, and it contains the
salt called phosphate of lime, but principally
valuable for its ammonia, all the other constitu
ents are salts—gypsum being the sulphate of
lime and soluble bonednst the phosphate of
lime, whilst common salt consists of cMorine
and sodium. The functions these salts perform
go beyond stimulating the growth and feeding
the plants; they also ameliorate the soil, de
compose organic matter and neutralize poison
ous acids.
That common salt is a manure of great value,
when properly applied, is not only attested by
experience, but from the farther fact that chlo
rine and soda are found in most plants, in nearly
all of them on analysis.
Unskilled planters may not, at first, succeed
with its use, and we are all unskilled groping in
the dark and studying onr horn-book in agricul
ture, but we must never despair, but progress
every year in knowledge derived from thought
and experience.
Some rich lands may abound in common salt—
and such do not need its application; but
poor soils requirff all the salts of tho earth to
enrich them.
■ How does common salt act, and how is its in
fluence wrought on vegetation ? It is a deliques
cent salt, it absorbs moisture from the atmos
phere and retains it in the soil, thus keeping it
moist in droughts, equalizes temperatures, and
acts generally as an ameliorator of noxious
acids and the soil—preparing and supplying food
for plants.
Tho poisonouB acids, and the variable temper
atures of soil, in its natural state, alternating
from rains and droughts, by damaging the steady
and healthy development of the cotton, invite
the animalculfe, which are the cause of rust, as
well as of all epidemics in man and plants—de
nominated contagions.
Now if the two preceding propositions are true,
and I tMnk both science and experience will
sustain them, then is common salt not only a
good manure, applied on lands deficient in it,
bnt also an anti-rust manure. 'When put on land
and plowed under, common salt, like all the oth
er thousand salts of the earth, goes to work. It
is no idler, it does not lie still and do notMng,
bnt its two elements, chlorine gas and soda are
active partners underground. All material sub
stances, but more particularly their constituent
parts, are ever active and striving to move and
form new combinations. The “las Inertire” of
philosophers will do as a relative idea, but if
meant as a fact, it is contradicted by every atom
in the universe.
Therefore, all theso acids, alkalies, earths and
their compounds, exert an universal and never
erring effort to make new combinations and
transformations. Hence the importance of ap
plying to exhausted lands the salts of fertility
—the phosphate of lime, the chloride of sodi
um, guano and many others. Mixed manures
are much better than anyparticular one. Com
mon stable manure well housed, contains am
monia largely, and nearly all the valuable salts.
The power and efficacy of common salt on
cotton may be seen in the long staple of the
Sea Island variety. This cotton, I believe, is a
native of one of the "West India Islands, and
was transplanted to Georgia on the Islands be
low Darien and extending to Savannah, by the
Turnbulls, Spauldings, Tatnalls, and Leakes.
Be it remembered that under the equator, the
coarsest sheep’s wool, and the shortest and coars
est cotton staple grows. Tho cotton staple is the
coarest in the warmest latitudes; and so is
sheep’s wool.
As we recede from the equator—north, the
cotton staple becomes longer and finer, until we
reach the latitude of MempMs, Tennessee, where
the upland staple arrives at its greatest perfec
tion. CoL Pope, of MempMs, Tennessee, took
the premium at the World’s Fairs, both in New
York and London, years ago, for the fipest up-
land cotton. ‘ 1 v ’ ' 1
Whilst this is the law of nature, that in low
warm latitudes the cotton staple is the shortest
and coarsest, yet we know, and everybody knows,
that common salt from the Ocean and Gulf of
Mexico, carried in spray by the winds and tem
pests even thirty miles inland, improves the
staple and makes it the longest and finest of all
varieties. In further corroboration of the direct
power of common salt on cotton, it is known
that all attempts to raise Sea Island cotton in the
np-country, beyond the influence of salt water,
have resulted in failures. Gov. Hamilton tried
it on the Hope Oswichee Bend plantation, below
Columbus, Ga., over tMrty years ago, with a
signal failure. Therefore, the power of common
salt is manifest and visible onootton, and as the
Southern planters are now awaking up from
their sleep of ignorance, it is to be expected that
by many trials, experiments, observation and
experience, we will conquer the rust. We pro-
fees to teach no one; we confess our ignoronce
in all agricultural matters; but, as Horace said
of himself in Ms He Arte Poetica, we propose
to exert the office of a whetstone: “not sharp in
itself, but capable of sharpening the intellect of
others, by exciting investigation.”
If we are called upon by our interest to nse
common Balt as an anti-rust manure, as well ss
a general fertilizers, we must have it at a rea
sonable—paying price, or forego its nse.
Before the war, steamboats would put down
salt on the plantations on all the Southern rivers
at $1 to $1 25 per 3 bushel saok. This was the
case on the Chattahoochee, Apalachicola Bay,
and the steamboats conferred great comforts
and blessings upon planters. How is it now ?
That mammoth monopoly, the Georgia Central
Railroad, if I mistake not, charges $1.42 for
freight alone, from Savannah, Ga-, to Eufaula,
mating it oost hero about $3.00 per sack. We
cannot manure with it at that price. In Eng
land it costs only 10 cents per bushel—and they
nse 10 to 20 bushels per acre on their lands.
The Central Railroad is killing the goose that
lays the golden eggs. A wise forecast as well
as profound political economy should teach
them—that low tariff charges on salt for agri
cultural purposes would pay them ten-fold in
the increased production, and the invigorated
prosperity of the country.
All extortion, tyranny, and oppression are
hateful in the sight of God and man, and sooner
or later will pay the penalty of their crimes
against the peace, prosperity and happiness of
the people.
Will that distinguished assemplage, at the
State Fair, soon to convene at Macon, Ga., take
this matter into consideration ?
Should the members at the Fair make an ap
peal to the Central Railroad Company, to re
duce their charges on salt to a nominal price,
for their own interest, as well as that of the peo
ple, perhaps it might be heeded.
It was not the genius of Napoleon, but the
publio opinion of the people’s giving utterances
of their detestation to all tyrannies, wMok waft
ed Ms banner in triumph over the continent of
Europe. Husncua.
A Remarkable Slate Quarry in Chero
kee Georgia.
We have before us a specimen of slate taken
from a quarry on the Coosawattie river, seven
miles above Besaca on the Western and Atlantic
Railroad. The quarry is located on the farm of
Chief Justice Brown, wMch lies directly on the
river, a navigable stream for steamboats from
it to Besaca, having been nsed as such previous
to the war. The slate is of very superior quali
ty, and when quarried, can be laid on a fiat or
other boat and oarried directly to Besaca, (which
is on the bank of the river.) in a ran of less than
three honrs. The bank of the river, for nearly
a half a mile, is, we learn, a bluff of solid slate
rock, in places twenty-five feetMgh, and extend
ing downwards to an indefinite depth. The quar
ry runs back through Chief Justice Brown’s
land more than half a mile. The whole sub
strata, after going down three or four feet,
is a solid mass of slate. The quantity is so
abundant as to be inexhaustible for generations,
and its quality, as we have before observed, is
the very best. It is entirely free from grit, is
soft, and splits finely. It is as fine as the best
nsed in school rooms, or for roofing purposes,
and enough of it to roof every house in Geor
gia. No other slate quarry that has been dis
covered in the State, we are informed, can be
compare® with it, in advantage of location and
convenience of transportation. The specimen
on onr table was taken from near the water,
where the river runs over it all the winter, and
the atmosphere acting on it during the summer,
it is not as perfect, superior as it is, as if taken
from the quarry where it is not so exposed.
The discovery of this extraordinary slate
quarry, we learn, was purely accidental, and it
evidences the fact that the mining and mineral
region of Cherokee Georgia, is nch in its Md-
den as well as exposed treasures. Samples of
this slate will be exposed at the Macon Fair. In
the quarry there is a mine of wealth to whom
soever may devolop or work it Most fortunate
is Governor Brown in being the owner of the
form under wMch it has so long been hidden.
We will take pleasure in exhibiting the sam
ple of this slate, in onr office, to any one desir
ous of seeing it.—Atlanta Intdligencer.
Astounding Phenomenon.
N About the hour of 1 p. m. yesterday, the 6th
inst., the community was startled by a terrific
explosion in a direction apparently northwest
from tMs, accompanied by a dense volume of
smoke. One gentleman compared the report
to tho simultaneous discharge of a park of ar
tillery, and distinctly saw the column of smoke
which roEe in the quarter from which the sound
proceeded.
The explosion was heard by two tMrds of our
citizens, and some assert that the shock of an
earthquake was plainly felt.
Addison, an intelligent colored man in the
employment of Mr. William H. Brooks, says he
was at Beall’s mill when the event occurred, and
in company with a white man, saw what resem
bled a sheet of flame descend from the heavens
towards Lumpkin, northwest of Cuthbert, and
heard at the same moment a terrific explosion.
The true solution of the mystery may be
found, perhaps, in the sudden projection from
the moon or some other heavenly body, of a
vast aerolite or metallic mass in a state of fusion,
which lies, doubtless, deeply embeded in the
bosom of mother earth. We shall anxiously await
devlopments.—Cuthbert Appeal, 1th.
President’s Thankgiving Proclama
tion.
Washington, October 8.—By the President
of the United States, a proclamation:
The yearwMch is drawing to a close has been
free from pestilence. Health has prevailed
throughout the land, and abundant crops reward
the labor of the husbandman. Commerce and
manufactures have fully prosecuted their peace
ful paths. The mines and forests have yielded
liberally. The nation has increased in wealth
and in strength. Peace has prevailed, and its
blessings have advanced every interest of the
people in every part of the Union. Harmony
and fraternal intercourse is restored, and is ob
literating the marks of past conflict and estrange
ment. Bardens have been lightened, means in
creased and civil and religions liberty are se
cured to every inhabitant of the land whose soil
is trod by none but freemen. It becomes a
people thus favored to make acknowledgement
to the Supreme Author from whom such bless
ings flow, of their gratitude and their depen
dence, to render praise and thanksgiving for the
same, and devoutly to implore a continuance of
God’s mercy.
Therefore I, Ulysses S. Grant, President of
the UnitedStates, do recommend that Thursday,
the Sth day of November next, be observed as
a day of thanksgiving and of praise and of
prayer to Almighty God, the creator and rulor
of tiie Universe; and secondly, I do further re
commend to all the people of the United States
to assemble on that day in their accustomed
places of public worship and to unite in the
homage and praise due to the bountiful Father
of all mercy, and in fervent prayers for the con
tinuance of the merciful blessings he has vouch
safed to us as a people.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my
hand and caused tbe seal of the United States
to be affixed, this the 5th day of October, A.
D. 1869, and of the independence of the United
States of America, the 94th. U. 8. Grant.
By the President
Hamilton Fish, Sec. of State.
Withdrawal of Troops from Wilkes
County. i
We copy the following from the Washington
Wilkes County Gazette, of the 8th instant:
The Company of U. S. Infantry stationed at
this place some months past, for the protection
of the Internal Revenue Assessor, left on last
Friday, bonnd—we understand—for Warrenton.
Their duties have been very arduous, consisting
principally in answering names at roll calL Mr.
Belcher’s representative has called on them only-
once, that we are aware of, and that was to ar
rest two gentlemen from Hall county who passed
through on their way to Augusta, Ga., with six
horses to selL As these gentlemen were not
liable to revenue tax at home as horse dealers,
they did not suppose they would be liable away-
from home and although they were perfectly
willing to pay the tax, still the military were
called out, and a non-commissioned offeer and
six men sent to arrest six horses; this they suc
ceeded in doing without the loss of a man—or
horse.
In justice, however, to the officers and men
of tMs company, we must say that we have never
known a more orderly or well behaved set of
soldiers. We have never seen one of them the
least intoxicated, nor have we heard one word
of complaint against them by our citizens.
Delegation from Augusta.
At a meeting on Saturday of the Richmond
Agricultural Society, Gen. Wright in the chair,
the following gentlemen were appointed dele
gates to the State Fair: '
Gen. B. Y. Harris, James A. Gray, Robert
ScMey, J. C. Fargo, J. M. Newby, A.K. Wright,
Geo. A. Oates, H. W. Carr, Gen. G. W. Evans,
Gen. W. M. Gardner, CoL J. _G. Tucker, Jos.
E. Burch, Adam Johnson, Philip Malone, Alfred
Baker, John S. Davidson, P. J. Berckmans, J.
J. Cohen, T. P. Stovall, Gen. Goode Bryan, S.
D. Linton, D. B. Plumb, Henry Moore, J. R.
Randall, W. O. Jones, John A. BoMer, Jesse
Turpin, J; O. Mathewson.
A farmer, who wished to invest the accumu
lation of his industry in the United States secu
rities, went to Jay Cooke’s office to obtain treas
ury notes. The clerk inquired :
‘‘What denomination will yon have them in,
sir ?”
Having never heard that word used excepting
to distinguish religious sects, the fanner, after
a little deliberation, replied:
“ Well, yon may give me part in Old-School
Presbyterian, to please the old lady, but give
me the heft on’t in Free-Will Baptist.”
Where Ignorance is Bliss, etc.—A Fact.
Party (who has brought back tbe musie-etool in
disgust)—“Looks’ ’ere, Mr. Auctioneer, thjs
plagy thing ain’t no manner of use at all; I’ve
twisted on round, and ol’ woman’ve twisted nn
round, but oorm a bit of toon we can get ont of
un 1” ’
Tm» Fair Gbouitob—Quite a aunibtt oT^T*
>de out to the Fair Grounds on ”***
at, for the flrat time since the Leborato^ t!?**
looted as the place for holding theFab*^J^?V*'
*as going on and bow they Eked ti>. trr.i. ****
hot one was disappointed, whikt many
sunutoe at what had already been done a^T,
theComm.ttoe.ffil propose to do. The*«£«
will be completed this week and all the broth* 4
undergrowth on the grounds cleared off so ^
ford an unobstructed view of the track
speed and bottom of horses are herns
track is very nearly level, fa one mile arJL ^
about 40 feet in width, and the driving
been done on that part of it already L.^^ 1
made it quite smooth and Ann, and till thT«!r ***
Fair opens it will be a favorite place of reset?
the fast stock and boyB of the city. “
P. 8.—Since the foregoing was written, we i«
that a movement fa on foot which will doubt]
be suooeesful, to secure about 500 laborers
contractors on the Macon & Brunswick rail™
assist in grading and putting fa good orderT?®’ 40
leading from the city to the Fair Ground.
the upper and lower Vfaevffie roads will be ^
up into good condition. After this fa done* 0 ^
will engago such a large force but a day or
laborers wifi then, probably, be put to worV^ -T
switch of the Macon & Western railroad
to be built between the present track of th *
and the Laboratory. The grading of this
already been done, bnt so long since that it will
quire some additional work to that of puttined **"
the crossties and laying the iron. - ao,ni
From the vim and spirit with which the jw,-
Committee are now pushing matters, we fed ,
fa assuring the people of the State and of the JT
country, that such preparations will be nud ^
will fully meet the demands of the great oocml **
November. There fa much work to be done-fa?
then, an ample force has been secured to d 0 it! sL
men of energy and ability are at fie helm to dim?
and control.
Macon, Ga., October 1869
Local Editor Telegraph-. In the local colnmnof
your paper of the 9th fast., you tdlnde fa a circular
received from Noyes A Co., 65 Wall Stree*
York. Your remarks upon the same inducesVa fa
believe that you think the firm mentioned, reallr
propose to rumfah counterfeit money to aU appij.
cants. This is a mistake. . The dealings of the
firm are “queer,” yet there fa no “queer” about it
although the whole thing is a vile swindle, yet th*
operations are so conducted that the law nor the
authorities can take no cognizance of it.
Persons ordering this trash, who receive and p»y
for the same, afford the best illnstrafion of the ‘-hi-
ter getting bitten" that I ever saw. What use c«
any honest men have for counterfeit money? They
certainly cannot desire it for any legitimate purpose.
The only inference is that they want it to ‘'shore,*
Therefore when they open their packages, and in-
stead of counterfeit greenbacks, find only photo
graphed fac simile, (card size) of different denomi
nations of genuine unsigned Treasury notes-ther
find themselves “sold”—and it fa a question who it
the greater rogue, the one who proposes to sell
counterfeit notes or the one who proposes fa buy,
and does pay his good money expecting to get a
large amount of counterfeit money, but only gets t
picture. Tho laugh fa certainly on the purchaser.
It fa very strange and surprising that so many of
our people, after having been so often cautioned
through the columns of your own, and other pipers
to avoid these swindles, should continue to patron
ize them. But if they want and must havo “coun
terfeit money,” they ought to buy notes that are
signed. .< One Who Knows
Art and Artists We are glad to see that the
Committee of the State Agricultural and Mechini-
cal Society, have decided to offer some encoarts- .
ment to art and artists.. In all cultivated comnrri-
ties art flourishes, and almost fa exact proportion
to the refinement and intelligence of the people.
It is true that we have but a few artists fa Geoigii,
and hence the importance of extending encourage
ment to them. While tho premiums offered are bnt
small, it is to be hoped they will, nevertheless,
cause to be exhibited some fine pictures. Tfatora
to the Fair would be pleased to see the walls of the
large room in the second story of the laboratory
decorated with fine specimens of art, in tbe way of
paintings and photographs. Photographists, how
ever, have very little encouragement to become ex
hibitors, as there are no premiums offered except
for a view of the Grounds; but this should not de
ter them from putting specimens of their work oa
pxhibition, as that alone will he worth avast deal
more to the artist than the paltry sum of a few dol
lars. We have the word of the Secretary, CoL Lew
is, that all objects of merit and excellence, although
they*may not be found fa the premium lists, jot
will receive attention and will be suitably rewarded
We hope, therefore, to Bee the artists of Georgia
make a brilliant display of their genius, fa tbe shape
of pictures and specimens of paintings and photo-
fcraphs, and are sure they will receive whatever at
tention and distinction their merit may originate.
Not Ant, Thank You.—Yesterday’s mail brought
us a lithograph circular letter, purporting to he
from the house of Noyes & Co., 65 Wall street, Xew
York, which says:
“We have in our possession a large Btock of euct
copies of the genuine United States Treasury Notes
(executed by the most skilled men in the art, out-
Bide of the State prison,) which we dosire to inline-
di&tely dispose of on the following very -liberal
terms', viz : ' .
Packages representing $200 fa various denomina
tions, price $15; packages representing $500 in va
rious denominations, price $30; packages repre
senting $1000 in various denominations, price tad;
packages representing $2000 fa various denomina
tions, price $80.”
This fa a very hold and daring effort to “shore
the queer” which we think a little attention on the
part of an United States detective officer would soon
bring to grief and place the guilty parties in compa
ny with those rascals inside of the State prison to
which they refer. Thousands of these circulars
sent broadcast over the country, and we earnestly
warn every man who fa in straightened circumstance*
and might be led to seek relief in patronizing tbi
infamous scheme, to beware ! It will be expoa^
as sure as the world, and woe be to the disbone.
dupes who have purchased their counterfeits. lh*
government will hunt themdow. and punish th®
with many long years of hard labor in the pc nit* -
tiary, and their names be forever blackened ui
dishonored among men. Treat all such docurn® 3
as the one we now expose, with silence ana* 2-
tempt. They are nothing more than efforts tos*
only swindle you out of your money, but to deiWJ
your good name and character.
The Back Yesterday.—Another very large crori
assembled at the race track yesterday to witness»
mile dash for a purse of $100 between seva* 10
the fastest nags of this and Jones oottnty. ^
trance fee was ten dollars and six nags were®****”
in the following order: “Carrie Pollard, ’‘““r,,
Freeman,” “Kate Spiers,” “Jones Count? Scrti®-.
“Ardell” and “Molhe Doyle.”
It fa unnecessary to go into lengthy detail*,
we are crowded for space we will merely state
before the horses started, the betting < ? u
lively and about $5000 changed hands on
the result
‘Scratch” was the favorite against the field, *“
backers went in steep on her speed, if ahe ’ r °
only keep the track; but this was where *be *
for, after all the nags got s good send off »
was a full length ahead, she bolted the trw*
running about two hundred yards, and ^ , r V !(
could be gotten on it again, her charfees to
hopeless, though she gallantly overtook and
two or three of the nags fa the race, after the?
ran fully four hundred yards - ahead of her.
lie Doyle,” therefore, easily won the race b?
forty yards over her nextbeetoompetitor,
and with the stakes, die carried off all the ^
At the conclusion of this race, another ^
mediately made up for $100 a aide between
Spiers” and “Mollie Doyle”—miledash,
Kate won by a half length, and Mollie lost
of her honors. It waa a beautiful and , t
and there was also some lively betting
right sharp pile of money again changed
It was unfortunate for “Scratch” that she ^
fa the first race; otherwise she would ®*“£ ef0 r
won it, as we never saw an animal do p»
much faster running than the did after
again pot upon the track. Mott®'
The sport of the evening waa very fine- ^
citement and interest ia rarely wiiueoaod » _
race anywhere, than waa manifested yeeterw-
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Fxwe*.—There was a right sharp frost» ^
tkm yesterday morning—the teat we h»«
season. Tbe weather yesterday waa ctai^
beautiful.