About Weekly Georgia telegraph. (Macon [Ga.]) 1858-1869 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 15, 1869)
i4bIk The Greorgia "Weekly Telegraph.. 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 l > €>nnfiylvn™ a 70 76 -, Nat*) 1 77 (rfinr^ia 78 ^f\VtATUft ,, 80 TflYllfl 83 Mississippi TVvnriPRSAf* 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- _ ■■ —» 11 • Fxwe*.—There was a right sharp frost» ^ tkm yesterday morning—the teat we h»« season. Tbe weather yesterday waa ctai^ beautiful.
