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Th.© Greorgia "Weekly Telegraph..
THE TELEGRAPH.
HAOON, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1869.
Georgia stale Press Association.
At the meeting in Atlanta, the Provisional
President was instructed to call s meeting of
the Association some time during the progress
of the Fair, for the purpose of adopting a Con
stitution, electing officers, and hearing the re
ports of various committees appointed at the
Atlanta meeting. We propose to have this
meeting on the second day of the Fair, to-wit:
the 17th, in the Council Chamber in Macon, and
ifhb objection is made will issue the call for
that time. We hope the various committees
will have all their reports in readiness so that
the work can be done at once.
The Corn Crop.
The report of the Commissioner of Agricul
ture estimates the corn crop of the United
States as at least one hundred million bnshels
short of last year—that is to say, nine hundred
millions of bushels instead of a thousand mil
lions, or an average of ten per cent. The na
tural effect of so large a deficit will, no donbt,
be seriously aggravated by the intervention of
speculators, to whom a short crop is as attrac
tive as a sore spot is to the flies. The certainty
of a rise being established, every speculator will
secure as largo a holding as possible,^ ffw* *bs.
will add au arSQ/tial tn A natural *£arcity. The
business of tho planter who is compelled to buy
com should be to make a^early and reasonable
-—ugements to secure a supply as he possibly
$an.
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Vac Vicils.
If we credit Northern dispatches, Mr. John
son took his defeat sorely, and for once in his
life turned his back upon his foes. One of these
telegrams says:
Yesterday Johnson was sure of his election,
and the summary manner in which lie was de
feated to-day,.has wholly unnerved him. On the
reception of the news he retired to liis room in
the hotel where he resides, and was visible only
to his most intimate friends, who called to con
dole with him. But even then his privacy was
invaded by an impromptu procession halting
beneath Ills windows, cheering wildly for the
newly-elected Senator, and bearing banners in
scribed, “Moses under a Cloud,” The Real Dead
Duck.” How about the Pocket Copy of the Con
stitution?” “Swingin’ ’round the Circle,” and
other mottoes.
Well I it is the inevitable fate. All men
must come to defeat at last; for if mortal ene
mies foil there comes the cold hand of death to
pluck tlie laurel from the prondest victor’s brow,
and make the hero of a thousand triumphs the
subject of a barren commiseration.
The Decline of Liberia.—A Liberian
newspaper, dated July 28th, declares that the
America-Liberian population are passing away.
A correspondent in the same journal allows one
century for the annihilation of Liberian nation
ality, unless the native element lie vigorously
incorporated. It seems that during forty years
twelve “civilized and evangelized native gen
tlemen” have been produced. The equality
doctrines of the United States Congress have
killed Liberia, and blasted the hopes of “civi-
zed and evangelized native gentlemen!”
The Information Needed.—A leading planter
in Middle Georgia called yesterday to thank us
for publishing the full reports of the Negro La
bor Convention in Macon—saying that it was
just the kind of information needed to enable
planters to control their hands, and he begged
ns to keep the people posted in regard to all
movements among the colored population, re
gardless of the clamor of the ignorant, thought
less and evil disposed.
. When Grant is Course to Georgia.—The
papers are circulating the report that President
Grant will visit the GeuTgia State Fair. This is
a mistake. The President stated to the editor
of the Journal, in a private conversation some
days since, that ho would not be able to visit
the Sonth until, perhaps, very late in the win
ter. The visit would be well received by every
one, and we trust it will be made.—Alabama
Journal.
The Virginia Senators.—Tho Baltimore Sun
says it is said to have been discovered that the
newly elected Senator from Virginia, Mr. John
ston, as well as Mr. Gibson, one Of the Repre
sentatives from that State, is still laboring under
the disabilities imposed by the fourteenth
amendment, which was ratified after the pas
sage of the act of Congress relieving the disa
bilities of Messrs. Johnson and Gibson.
Hancock Superior Court.—From tho Jour
nal, we learn that Judge Andrews passed sen
tence on all the convicted criminals at the re
cent term of Hancock Superior Court, as fol
lows : On Alfred Cooper, fonnd guilty of volun
tary manslaughter, ten years imprisonment in
the penitentiary; on the fourteen negroes fonnd
guilty of assault with intent to murder, four
years; on Thomas O. Jackson, two years.
Receipts at the Ports.—The net receipts
at all the United States ports for the week end
ing Friday, Oct. 22d, are 78,940 bales, .against
67,555 the previous week, and 52,522 the corres
ponding week of last year; exports to Great Bri
tain 22,520; to continent 10,945; stock on hand
and on ship board not yet cleared at all Uaited
States ports, 155,955 bales.
Swiss Laborers in Griffin.—The Star says
Judge Stillwell and Mr. Patterson, of Griffin,
brought from New York, a short time since, sev
eral Swiss laborers, who are giving great satis
faction, and express themselves delighted with
their good luck. We expect to have several hun
dred here next year.
The Earthquake.—All New England was
mightily stirred np by the earthquake last Fri
day, but no where do we see that it was severe
enough to create any serious damage, beyond
breaking a good deal of glass and crockery. The
shocks lasted about a minute.
Bakes Superior Court.—It will be seen that,
by an order of Judge Clarke, in another column,
Baker Snperior Court has been adjourned over
to the 4th Monday in November, in order to give
the people an opportunity to attend the Macon
State Fair.
Mississippi Election.—Judge Dent writes
from Mississippi that his canvass of that State
leads him to believe that the gubernatorial elec
tion will be almost entirely in big favor, and
that the colored men will, with few exceptions,
vote as directed by their late masters.
Eart.y.—The Herald is out very industrious*
ly for Judge Chase as candidate for the Presi
dency in 1872. That is traveling a long way for
a sensation. .
Heavy Cotton Receipts.—The cotton receipts
yesterday were 850 bales—the heaviest of the
season. The sales amounted to 633.
Thanksgiving.—Gen. Grant and Gov. Bui-
lock have agreed on a day of public thanksgiv
ing—to-wit : the 18th day of November next—
See proclamation.
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The Spaniards seem to be in a world of trou
ble about getting a king. If they will only ad
vertise in the Telegraph, we will engage a plen
ty of kings will offer at reasonable prices before
•undown. - 8sBkl> f if \ 1
Tns Rome Southerner has enlisted the
•ci iiocs of Mr. D. Smith, late President of the
^fceiokee Female Institute, as Maori ate editor.
Grand Lodge of Georgia.
The Annual Communication of the M. W.
Grand Lodge of the State of Georgia was open
ed in ample form, on yesterday, in the Masonic
Hall in this city, and after disposing of a few
preliminary matters, the Grand Master, Samuel
Lawrence, proceeded to deliver the Annual Ad
dress to the body. The reading of this able
end luminous paper occupied the space of an
honr and secured the most profound and re
spectful attention of the large number of repre
sentatives convened on the occasion. This
highly honored and much beloved officer is a
part of the paper. Not one reader in a hundred
would detect the apparent error, and the result
upon Georgia would be all the same so far as
Northern indignation is concerned, ss if she had
perpetrated the outrages. An impression is
mads of disorder, lawlessness and violence in
Georgia which will never be corrected by the
Tribune or any other Radical sheet. There is
native of South Carolina and is a true type of the abode of an undaunted Democracy—Georgia
FROM WASHINGTON. ,
Washington, October 26 —S. A. Hariowo is ap
pointed Marshal of the Southern District of New
Fork, vice Barlow, who resigns. Marshal H. Col
lins is appointed appraiser of merchandise at Char
leston. Joel 0.' Winch is appointed Attorney of the
—j Eastern District of Texas.
nothing to be gained by an outrage factory for J Assistant Treasurer Butterfield has resigned.—
Florida. That State has been possessed and Grant and Boutwellaro consulting over the reBigna-
fvmhed by the party. She has been made as
helpless and miserable and as serviceable to
Radicalism as she can be! But Georgia is still
BY TELEGRAPH.
the intellectual culture and lofty chivalry which
have long been illustrated in the history of the
people of that proud Commonwealth. He has
been a citizen cf Georgia for a period of abont
twenty years, and during this time has held the
highest offices which Masonry has to confer
upon her distinguished and devoted sons. He
is, we believe, universally regarded as the most
eminent Masonic jurist in the State, and as
fairing rank among the brightest Masons in
America. His writings on the jurisprudence of
the Order evince much learned research and
logical discrimination, and are extensively cir
culated among the members of the Fraternity.
His work on 4 ‘The Moral Design of Masonry” is,
by common consent, a chef-d'eutre, and his poem
entitled “Vision of Achmed” shows clearly that
iha h— •«->» —V «»tho splendid
heights of Patba&attd, bill U ia also a magnifi
cent exposition and affodtidfa&fo febforoement of
the moral duties MtA obligations resting upon
all true and accepted Masons. O or worthy Grand
Master is a native philanthropist and illustrates
beautifully, in his life and conversation, that
sublime charity which he theoretically incul
cates in his official capacity. He is a devoted
and exemplary member of the Protestant Epis
copal Church and holds an important office
therein, and rumor says he has applied for
Deacon's orders from the Bishop of tho Diocese.
There wore three points in the address al
luded to which struck us with peculiar force:
The first point was the pure and noble diction
in which it was clothed. The author is obvi
ously a master of tbo English language, who
puts an idea into every sentence, and makes
every word serve to elucidate and enforce it.
He seems to despise all tautology and tinsel
rhetoric, and to aim, in the expression
of his thoughts, at the greatest purity and
precision. His style reminds one of the majes
tic strength of Milton, and the classical ele
gance of Macauley, with much of tho power of
condensation that belongs to the profonnder
essays of Bacon. As the gentleman in question
is a good churchman, we will venture the opin
ion that he is conversant with the writings of
those celebrated English divines, Jeremy Tay
lor, John Tillotson and Isaao Barrow, which all
scholars agree in regarding as models of literary
excellence. " s
The second feature in this finished produc
tion, according to our apprehension, is the
spirit of goodness, or piety, which pervaded
every part of it, and rendered it fragrant as a
bank of flowers. It possessed many of the
characteristics of a capital sermon, and cannot
fail to exert a wholesome and lasting influence
on the mind and conscience of the Craft.
The speaker distinctly announced the doc
trine that Masonry is inseparably connected
with religion; and whilst it does not propose to
be a substitute for the Gospel, or to teach the
peculiar tenets of any religious denomination,
that still it earnestly inculcates every precept
of the moral law, and that, therefore, no man
can carry out the spirit and principles of the
Order whose life is not in harmony with tho
sublime behests of the Decalogue. If this ex
alted view of the subject were nniversallyprev-
alent, what a tremendous moral power it would
give to the institution! May this millennium
of Masonry soon dawn upon all the Lodges in
the land.
The lost point in this admirable document
which specially attracted our attention and af
fected our heart, was the beautiful and eloquent
tributes paid to the memories and virtues of
two deceased Masons which rendered eminent
service to the cause in their day and generation.
We refer to the Grand Lecturer, George L.
Barry, and to the Grand Secretary, Simri Rose.
When this noble eulogy was pronounced on their
life and labors, the eyes of some melted with
emotion, and the cheeks of others were bathed
with tears.
We should like to reproduce what Grand
Master Lawrence said in relation to these de
parted worthies, in his polished periods and pa
thetic oratory, but as the address will doubtless
be published in due time, it would be a pity to
mar its beauty by making an extract from it.
Prom tie Pew York Tribune, 233.
MOB LAW IN GEORGIA.
Two Counties In Armed Resistance to Uni
ted States Officers—A Call for Troops.
Washington, Oct. 22.—Gen. Kryzanowski,
Supervisor of Georgia and Florida, reports un
der date of October 12, that Jackson and Wash
ington counties, in Florida, are under the con
trol of an armed mob, which has risen to pre
vent the execution of the revenue laws. The
leader of this mob is one James P. Caker, who
is represented to be a wealthy and influential
man. He has threatened Assistant-Assessor Lowe
of Marianna with personal violence,and has chal
lenged him to fight; and the officer writes
to the Supervisor that he can only canvass his
district at the hazard of his life. Assessor Wil
son writes corroborating his assistant’s state
ments. The Collector of Customs at Jackson
ville, Florida, J. A. Dockery, writes to Supervi
sor Kryzanowski, that the State Tax Collector
and liis wife had been brutally murdered in
Washington county, adjoining Jackson county,
since the 3d instant, and that the Deputy Collec
tors and Assistant Assessors of Internal Revenue
are in iminent danger. The Supervisor has call
ed for troops.—Telegram.
The Government will, of course, lose no time
in dealing sternly with the ruffians tcho have risen
in Georgia against the execution of the revenue
laws. They have prefaced their work by mur
der, and mean to do worse, unless we teacu them
that all the crimes of the decalogue are not to be
committed in the Lame of liberty. The assassins
who killed seven men in Jackson county, and
brutally murdered the State Tax Collector and
his wife in Washington county, can offer no plea
whatever. Our laws are not murder-provoking,
nor are our authorities, and the time has surely
come when our Southern States should be pro
tected not so much from disloyalty as from ram
pant villainy.—Edilional comment in the same
number of the Tribune.
The foregoing is a strong exhibition of the
hostile animus of the radical party of which the
Tribune is the leading representative, towards
Georgia. The Tribute’s telegram informs him
that the “outrages” of which he complains have
taken place—not in Georgia, but in Florida—
a radical reconstructed State—fully and accep
tably reorganized according to the Tribune’s
own pattern—seated in Congress and duly re
presented and governed by a pack of adventur
ers from New York, Maine, Michigan and other
Northern or Western States. Georgia has had
no more interest or concern in those outrages
than she had in the butchery of the Wall street
gold bulls ; but nevertheless the Tribune heads
this telegram “Mob Law in Georgia /” and as
proof that this was hardly mere inadvertence,
other editors in quite another part of the same
paper assail Georgia with great fury for these
alleged crimes, and call upon the Government
to deal sternly with the Georgia ruffians.
The philosophy of this extraordinary proceed
ing is apparent The telegram could not readily
be changed, although such tactics have been re
sorted to by the Radical prints for the same pur
pose ; but the object could just as well be ac-
is still unreconstructed and can be dealt with so
os, perhaps, to break her into the traoes *f Rad
icalism. :
Alabama State Fair.
The Montgomery Advertiser of the 21th re
prints a corrected list of premiums to be,award-
ed at the Alabama State Fair to be held i* Mont
gomery on the 23d of November and subsequent
days. The list covers over five columns of the
Advertiser and amounts, in the aggregtte, to
upwards of five thousand dollars.
The State Fair of Alabama is permanently lo
cated on grounds belonging to the Society and
distant about three miles from the city of Mont
gomery. The Fair is under the management of
an Executive Committee of Fourteen, and of
these fourteen, ten are leading, active, wealthy
and influential citizens of Montgom er y Getrnty—
a wise disn^u: - i^wer-and rospon»u.;n lY
wnere they are needed and must mainly be exer
cised. The Secretary and the Treasurer of tho
Society also reside in Montgomery.
The Premium List is divided into the follow
ing departments and classifications, to-wit:
Department No. 7—Class 1. Field crops by
Alabama exclusively. 2. Crops by boys under
sixteen years of age. 3. Farming implements.
Department No. 2.—Machinery and manufac
turers in wood and iron. Class 1. Machinery 2.
Manufactures in wood and iron.
Department No. 3.—Class 1. Alabama man
ufactures in leather. 2. Southern manufactures
other than domestic. 3. Chemical manufactures,
oils and cements. 4. Manufactures in marble
and stone.
Department No .4.—Alabama domestic depart
ment. Class 1. Pork bacon and beef. 2. Dairy.
3. Household. 4. Wines and brandies. 5. Ba
ker and confectioners’ list.
Department 5.—Class 1. Domestic manufac
tures. 2. Sewing thread. 3. Embroideries — in
wool—in silk—French embroidery in scheneil.
Class 3. Braid work—Knitting—crochet work. 4.
Millinery and needle work. Class 5. Ornamen
tal work—wax work—Bead, Paper and Shell
work—Hair work, miscellaneous work.
Department No. 6.—Class 1. Fruit. 2. Fruit
trees and hedge plants. Class 3. Flowers and
vegetables. 4. Poultry, pigeons, bees, rabbits.
Department No. 7.—Horses and mules. Class
1. Thorough bred horses. 2. Trotting horses. 3.
Horses of all work, matched horses, single har
ness an4 saddle horses. 4. Jacks and jennetts.
Mules.
Department No. 8.—Cattle, sheep, hog3 and
goats. Class 1. Ayrshire, Aldemeys, Durhams,
Devons, Brahmin, Native and Grade Cattle.
Class 2. Oxen and Fat Cattle, Work OXen. Class
3. Sheep. Deer, Goats, Merinoes, Saxons, Cots-
wolda, Native and Grades. Mutton Sheep—
Goats,Cashmere, Angdra, Common Goat, Deer.
Class 4. Hogs—Essex, Chester White, Suffolk,
Norfolk, Irish Grazier, Woburn, Ulster, Berk
shire, Common or Mixed Breed, Fat Hogs.
Department No. 9. — Fine Arts. Class 1.
Piano and Music. 2. Penmanship and Drawing.
3. Pictures in Oil and Water Colors. 4. Pho
tographs, Ambrotypes and Melainiotypes.
Statuary, Sculpture and Painting.
Department No. 10.—Minerals; and Depart
ment No. 11, Miscellaneous.
Agricultural Plc-Nic—A New Idea.
The people of Gadsden county, Florida, Held
an Agricultural Pic-Nic, on the 14th instant, in
a beautiful grove near Atapulgus creek. The
exercises were opened by prayer, which was fol
lowed by an agricultural address by Rev. C. D.
Campbell. Then a glorious dinner was served
up, which was succeeded by a handsome exhibi
tion of the trophies of the county from form,
garden, horse lot, fowl yard and the industry of
the domestic circle, which were examined and
talked over at length. All the belles and beaux
were there and they say they had a fine time.
We can readily imagine that justsuch gather
ings in every county of the South might be at
tended with vast benefit to the people in diffus
ing practical and valuable ideas upon farming
and domestic economy—infusing a spirit of emu
lation among the people—and promoting public
spirit, sociability and friendliness. We tlinik
Gadsden bas started a valuable idea. The
Quincy Monitor says of the pic-nic:
There was a very large attendance and all
seemed to enjoy themseves. We noticed among
those present a delegation from our neighboring
town, Bainbridge, with a fair representation of
the beauty of that place. The oration was a fine,
practical one, and received with applause. A
communication in another column gives a full
and interesting account of the pic-nic, to which
we refer our readers, deeming it unnecessaiy to
attempt to give it further justice.
We think the Agricultural Association should
feel proud of their first effort. Let us have an
annual Agricultural Fair.
Cotton Statistics.
We clip the following from the New York Mer
cantile Journal of the 21st:
The receipts at the ports for the week amount
to 70,000 bales, against 53,000 same week last
year; and the aggregate since September 1st is
now 278,000, ageinst 198,000 same time in 1868.
The following is a statement of the exports of
cotton from the 1st of September, and the stock
on hand, as compared with the two previous
years:
1869. 1868. 1867.
Exports to Great Britain.. .56,000 33,000 15,000
" France 22,000 14.000
oth. For. Ports, 8,000 2,000 2,000
Total Exports 86,000 49,000 17,000
Stock on hand 126,000 115,000 115,000
Of which, during the past week, included in the
above, are tho
Exports to Great Britain.. .23,000 9.000 5,000
France 10,000 3,000 ....
other Ports.... 3,000 1,000 1,000
TotalExportsforoneweek.86,000 13,000 6,000
The following is the statistical position of the sta
ple at the latest accounts:
1869. 1868.
Stock in Liverpool..... 425,000 ' 407,100
Afloat from India 226,000 334,000
Afloat from America 20,000 17,000
Stock in London 56,000 72,818
Afloat for London 140,000 141,000
Stock in Havre 78,000 48,076
Aflcat for Havre 68,000 63,049
Stock in Bremen 4,344 8,660
Afloat for Bremen 301 7,585
Stock in theinteriortowns... 127,768 108,810
Stock in United States porta. 21,219 19,497
tiou.
There will be no regular Cabinet to-day as Grant
departs northward at noon.
Revenue to-day $289,000.
Geo. Butler, Benjamin’s nephew, has been ap
pointed Consul-General to British India. His head
quarters are at Calcutta.
Delano decides that vintners selling their own
products at the place of manufacture aro not sub
ject to the special liquor tax.
The President has pardoned Anderson, Patterson
and Elsom, sent from Richmond to the Albany peni
tentiary for conspiracy to defraud the revenue.
Grant will bo absent until Saturday.
The brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers in the
United States and Canada, and nearly every State
and province, represented lately in the session at
Baltimore, visited Grant, who said, - in reply to a
speech;
“Geiitlenleii—I am very glad to meet you as the
representative daB8 of ono of the branches of in
dustry of our country, which does more towards its
development than any other. Without the aid of rail
roads, the interior of bo vast a country as we have
could bo made of but very little use. You have my
-Lnst wishes, geuUenmn, lor your success and pros
perity.”
Tho Court took no action in the Yeiger case to
day, tho Attorney-General and Yerger’s counsel not
having agreed upon the manner of proceednre.
Washington, October 27.—Revenue to day $340,-
000.
Mr. Ewing is fully restored to health.
Tho conscience fund in the Treasury amounts to
$113,000.
The Paraguayan Minister, McMahon, thinks Lo
pez’s position is stronger than ever before, and that
tho announcement by the allies, of tho war being
over, is a mere pretext for withdrawing troops.
' Virginia lias paid $2,194,000 revenue on tobacco for
the seven months ending with September.
Chief Jostico Chase said, in the Supremo Court
to-day, that tho question of jurisdiction In the Yer-
ger case having been decided, the cflunsel could
make a motion for a writ of habeas corptis whenevo
they thought proper.
THE TOBACCO CROP-HEAVY; FALLING
OFF.
Washington, October 27.—A report received at
the Agricultural Department indicates ^falling off in
the tobacco crop of one-third in Virginia and Mary
land, and one-tenth in Kentucky and tie West. The
estimated falling off in tho West will be largely in
creased by early killing frosts, which have badly
damaged the uncured tobacco- Tbo bulk of tho
crop has been saved.
Tho Democrats of California elected eleven out of
fourteen District Judges.
Belknap, the new Secretary of War left Keokuk
yesterday for Washington.
Assistant Treasurer Butterfield had intimations
from both Grant and Boutwell that his resignation
w*« desired- Grant wants a solid business man in
that place.
A widely circulated I'epdl-t that Justice Swayne
dissented from the Court’s opinion in the Yerger
habeas corpus case, is incorrect. Justice Swayne
anhouncea from his seat that Justice Miller, who
was absent, dissented, which led to the mistake.
The papers publish a reported interview between
the President and Senator Thayer, of Nebraska, on
the subject of the Mississippi election, from which
it appears that the President supports Alcorn.
Tobacco is now paying the bulk of tho Internal
Revenue.
Fisher, Commissioner of Patents, attends the
Macon, Ga., Fair;
. IMPORTANT DECISION.
New York, October 26. — The celebrated cotton
case, the United States vs. Vernon K. Stevenson,
was decided to-day in favor of Stevenson, the Judge
holding that tho cotton in question never belonged
to the Confederate Government, and, instead of
being shipped to New York in violation of an act of
Congress, was shipped from a Confederate port to
a foreign country, in violation of the blockade of
Wilmington; but this could not change title, or
work forfeiture to the United States, unless seized
as prize of war.
OUTRAGE IN WARRENTON.
Augusta, October 26.—Edward Cody, a citizen of
Warren ton, Warren county, was taken from his
house last night by a party of federal soldiers.—
While being carried out of town Cody escaped with
two gunshot wounds. The Sheriff reported the out
rage to the military authorities. Tho affair creates
much ill feeling.
TRIAD OF TIIE OFFICERS OF THE CUBA.
Wilmington, October 26.—Tho case of the officers
of the Cuba was resumed before the Commissioner
today. Mr. Davis, for defence, wanted to intro
duce some of the officers as witnesses. Mr. Phelps,
for the Government, objectod. After some discus
sion, the Commissioner decided the officers as com
petent as witnesses. After the examination of two
witnesses, and eliciting nothing of importance, the
Court ad j onrned over until to-morrow.
FROM VIRGINIA.
Richmond, October 27.—Two hundred members
of the Society of Friends from the North passed
through here this evening to attend tho annual
meeting at Greensboro, North Carolina.
A freight train on tho Chesapeake and Ohio Rail
road ran into an accommodation train on the Rich
mond and Fredericksburg railroad this morning, at
the Junction, smashing two cars and slightly injur
ing the conductor and three others.
O. W. Fitzgerald, late a merchant of this city,
committed suicide this morning, in Amelia county,
by blowing out his brains.
The Synod of Virginia mBet here tomorrow.
Rev. H. 0. Alexander, formerly of Princeton, has
been elected Professor in the Presbyterian Union
Theological Seminary.
Ice formed here last night.
Lyxchburq, October 27.—It is very cold here to
day, with ice one-fourth of an inch thick.
The fair is better attended to-day.
THE CUBA CASE AGAIN.
Wilmington, October 27.—The trial of tho offioera
of the Cuba was resumed before United States
Commissioner Jas. Dennison, this morning. Ono
Enginoer Davis, a marine of the Cuba, Capt. Maf-
fitt and Capt. Bolles, both'old naval officers, were
examined for the defence. The testimony is very
favorable to the defendants, and greatly weakened
tho evidence of Gordon, principal witness for the
Government. Davis testified that he had been of
fered $20 to give evidence against the ship. The
impression is very general now that the officers will
be discharged. _• I
FOREIGN NEWS.
Havana, October 26.—The decree of the constit
uent Cortes, establishing unrestricted liberty of re
ligion in Cnba and Porto Rico, has been promulga
ted and has gone into effect as a law of the land.
The document, accordingly liberal in its terms, de
clares Spain cannot remain removed from the gene
ral movement of Europe and the world, and adds
that this consideration is more powerful for the An
tilles, because they lie near a continent where lib
erty of religion is recognized by law. One clause
of the decree provides that no person shall be pre
vented from holding office under the government by
reason of religious belief. The decree was received
with general satisfaction by the populace. The
city is very tranquil.
The American and European merchants are
| making contracts for the coming crops.
Paris, October 26.- r The prefect of police cautions
Total 1,158,942 1,227,495
Deficiency in visible supply 68,553 bales.
Stock of cotton held by Manchester spinners at
the mills—now, 45,000 bales; same time in 1866,
125,000 bales. Middling Orleans—now, 12%d; then,
lid.
Colored Emigrants from Virginia.—The At
lanta Constitution of the 26th says three car- I
loads of colored emigrants, from Virginia and ‘ all good citizens to guard against imprudent curiosi-
North Carolina, passed through that city on ' oaity, which may expose them to danger from the
Tuesday, en route for Mississippi. ; enforcement of the law against mobs.
; “— 4,1 ■ — : — . 1 Madrid, October 26 The Cortes, equally with
A Freedmans Theological Seminary has the Cabinet, is divided regarding a candidate for the
been founded in Richmond under the name of throne. Unless a compromise is effected the es-
the Colver Institute, and has above forty stu- tablialiment of monarchy is impossible,
dents. It is under, the patronage of the Axneri- : Madrid, October 26.—The three principal parties
can Baptist Home Missionary Society. in the Cortes have each appointed seven deputies to
hold a conference and try to oome to some t agree-
IIere is an instance of the way they do jus- meat in regard to the selection of akiDg.
tice in Texas. A black marc was stolen from a . There was a disturbance at Barbaetro, Aragon,
h-,. ,, livery stable, and after search was beard from in a yesterday. Cries were given of “the Republic,”
. ^ ^ ® ®. 06 g these distanttown. The proprietor afterward received and other seditions demonstrations were made; but
crimes In Georgia, and an editorial invocation t a dispatch as follows: “Your mare is here; I the outbreak was inconsiderable and easily aup-
ot Federal vengeance on the State in another will bring her; thief huug.” pressed. The town is now tranquil.
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Deputies to the Oortes from Porto Rioo have pe
titioned the government not to legislate for that
colony for the present.
. Serrano threatens to resign in case of a rupture
between the Unionists and Progressionists.
' Trieste, October 26.—During the insurrection at
Caltara the rebels captured a fort and massacred
the garrison. The Rebels were repulsed at all other
points.
Paris, October 27.—The city is tranquil. No dis
turbances whatever have occurred.
The Emperor attended the theater Francais, last
evening.
Paris, October 27.—La Patrie says a wide spread
conspiracy has been discovered in Turkey, con
nected with the revolt in Cottaro. Austria and
Turkey aro acting in concert in suppressing the
conspiracy.
Madrid, October 27.—Prim has published a letter
announcing that Minister Senor Zorilla accepts the
modifications made by tho other members of the
Cabinet, in the ecclesiastical finance section of the
Treasury budget, reducing the amount thirty per
cent. The Ministerial crisis in Madrid has, conse
quently, terminated.
GENERAL NEWS.
San Francisco, October 26.—Riley and Cannon
fought ninety-three rounds, when darkness inter-
teiruptefl proceedings and the battle ws# de
clared dra wil>
Buffalo, October 26.—A. Stiver'S snow storm pre
vails. Two inches of snow at Toronto. Two feot
have fallen at points north find West.
New York, October 27 The old North Dutch
Church, comer of Fulton and William streets, over
*■ «onfnry old. was burned to-day.
To-day’s Tribune sfiyr.'eaitoriaUy: *• we do not
say that General Butterfield was guilty of acts which
unfitted him for the office of Assistant United States
Treasurer in this city. We do say that it is a good
thing for the Government that he no longer bolds
the office. Whether General Butterfield acted amiss
is to be the subject of an investigation, which we
hold it the part of fair dealing not to prejudge;
that he was generally distrusted and so capaklo of
injuring the credit of the Government, was a matter
that needed no investigation, but called for prompt
action. Tho administration here, as in previous in
stances, has shown its determination to have its
officials above even the suspicion of evil; and now
why not relieve the Treasury of its gold surplus by
sales in the open market; pay our debt; stop in
terest, and relieve alike all temptation, and all cause
for fear about speculations in Government gold.”
Omaha, October 27.—One hundred Indians were
burned by a prairie fire near Fort Rice.
FROM CUBA.
Havana, October 27.—The steamship Columbia,
has arrived.
Castanon, editor of the Yoz De Cuba, has chal
lenged Gilpie, editor of the Preusa. Gilpio refused
to fight.
Register Your Lands.
Office State Agricultural Society, >
Macon, Ga., October 27, I860.)'
All persons in Georgia having lands for sale
would do well to register in this office,before the
opening of the Fair, a plat or survey, and full
description, embracing the number of acres, the
number cleared, tbo number In timber, the
quantity of water, the sizes and courses of
streams well defined on the plat, the location of
houses, description of dwelling and out houses,
all improvements, condition of fencing, the
character of the neighborhood for schools,
churches, morals, etc., distance from railroads,
distance from village, town, or city, etc.
The correspondence of this office shows that
the demand for improved property in the State
by visitors from the North will be great. If they
aro notified, as they will be on arrival, that such
information as to lands can be had in this office
it will serve to bring buyers and sellers imme
diately into personal communication.
* Papers throughout the State please copy.
David W. Lewis, Secretary.
From Monroe County.
IVe clip tlie following from the Monroe Ad
vertiser of tlie 26th instant:
The President of the Agricultural Society,
Mr. Geo. W. Adams, informed the Society that
the President of the Macon and Western Kail-
road had assured him that there would be a
train leaving Forsyth every morning, and re
turning every evening, during the Fair at Ma
con.
Dr. Lawton, corresponding Secretary, report
ed that he had a personal interview with Col.
Lewis, Secretary of the State Agricultural So
ciety, and that he was assured that members of
his Society would be furnished quarters on tlie
Fair ground. Members who have horses, or
stock of any kind, for exhibition, would be pro
vided with stalls and food for their stock. He
had been autlioratively informed that the Kail-
road fare would be nominal.
The proceedings of the Golaparchee Agricul
tural Club, printed elsewhere, will be fonnd to
be exceedingly valuable and interesting. The
experience of Mr. Taylor who is one of the
most successful amateur fruit growers in Mid
dle Georgia, is worthy of a careful study by
those who wish to excel in pomology. We are
glad to know that the Colaparchee Club is in
such a vigorons condition. In the absence of
our regular correspondent, we hope that the
Secretary, Dr. Shi, will keep ns .posted in re
gard to the general proceedings and discussions
of the Club. Monroe county now has two of
the best disciplined and most efficient Agricul
tural Societies in the State.
An enormons amount of freight is passing
over the Macon and Western Boad. Four freight
trains are now running daily bet week Maoon
and Atlanta.
The “Hon." George Clower—so-called—was
the fourth Yioe President of Jeff. Long’s Labor
Saving Convention. We suppose the whole af
fair was about np to George’s calibre—and he is
undoubtedly the biggest fool-nigger in the State.
A horse auction was one of the features of
Forsyth last Saturday. A Kentucky trader re
sorted to this mode of getting rid of the residue
of his drove, and several fine animals were
brought under the hammer. Very fair prices
were obtained.
The negro shot by Dr. Stephenson, the par
ticulars of whioh were given in oar last, has
since died. His tragical end is not deplored by
the well-disposed of those of his own race who
are acquainted with the facts.
Judge Hiram Fhinazee has laid ns under ob
ligations for specimens of his farming. ia ‘he
shape of com and potatoes. There are thirty-
six ears of upland com in the lot—the finest we
ever saw. These thirty-six ears of com average
one foot in length and eleven inches in circum
ference, and several contain twenty-two rows of
grain. Wo presume these are average samples
of Judge Phinazee’s crop. They can be seen in
onr office. The potatoes were the finest we have
seen this Beason. Speaking after the manner of
editors, the yams were immediately “inserted
as inside matter.” Judge Phinazee informs us
that he made five hundred bnshels of oom on
twelve acres. His best acre prodnoed fifty-
three and a half bnshels, and the Becond best
forty-six bushels. We call this farming to some
advantage. ■
Big Cropping.
We clip the following from the Albany News:
Col. Lockett’s Brag Patch.—We are pleased
to leam that Col. B. G. Lockett will enter the
produot of his brag cotton patoh, at the State
Fair, for a premium. Capt. Allen, the agricul
tural wizzard who planted and cultivated the
patch, is confident his system is the highest
point yet attained in the science, and is willing
to rest his skill upon the yield of this patoh.
The ground will be accurately surveyed, and
she cotton will be weighed, ginned and packed
this week, and we are almost certain that we
thall be able to announce seventeen dales, of
500 pounds each, from six acres.
The Monroe Advertiser of yesterday says:
The Maoon Telegraph has enlarged for the
business season, and apologizes therefor. Now,
the more we see of the Telegraph, the more we
like it, and we don’t aee the necessity for apolo
gy. The Telegraph is a good paper—one of
the best in the oonntry; its editorials able, ge
nial and sympathetic; its news columns pre
pared with great taot and industry ;• and its
financial reports made with great precision.
We should be glad to see the clever gentlemen
who run. the Telegraph enveloped in the mys
teries of a triple sheet.
We ought to lift onr hate very high to such a
compliment as that from such a source.
Cotton Receipts to Latest Dates.—Macon,
25,217'; Montgomery, 25,36$; Columbus,
15,678.
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FINANCIAL AND G0MMEBCIAL.
Weekly Review of the Market.
OFFICE DAILY TELEGRAPH, \
October 27—Evening, 1868.)
Gen Aral Remarks.—The - Maoon’ market during
the week ending this evening has been generally sc*
tive, and a lively wholesale and retail trade in all
branches has been done from day to day through
out. The condition of the dry goods and grocery
market is moBt excellent, and prices during toe
week have ruled steady and strong.
Financial.—There is scarcely that ease in the
money market that prevailed on the date of our last
weekly review, and tho market is now tightening a
little. There is no scarcity, it ia true, but money is
a little harder to borrow than it was a week or two
since. ’
The stock and bond market has been mostly quiet
during toe last week, but, notwithstanding, prices
are stiffening a little and a moderate demand exists
for toe better grades of this class of securities. Af
ter carefully reviewing quotations, we give them
without change:
EXCHANGE ON NEW YORK.
Buying i .%©% dis.
Selling par
STATES CURRENCY—LOANS.'
Pol* month. .7.......... Wtf4W per ?ept
GOLD AND SILVER.
Raying rates for Gold $1 25
Selling 1 31
Buying rates for Silver 1 20
Sewing.... 1 25
RAILROAD STOCKS AND BONDS.
Central Railroad Stock..-. '. 118
Central Railroad Ronds 100
Macon & Western Railroad Stock., 130
Southwestern BallrcmdStock .... 96
Soutwestem Railroad Bonds 100
Macon & Brunswick Stock ;.... 35
Macon & Brunswick Railroad Endorsed Bonds... 88
Georgia Railroad Stock ........102
Georgia Railroad Bonds 100
Muscogee Railroad Bonds 92
Atlantic & Gulf Railroad Stock 37
Augusta & Waynesboro Railroad Stock 88
South Carolina Railroad Stock 40@45
Cotton States Life Insurance Stock . 105
Cotton.—Receipts to-day 936 bales; sales 323;
shipped 496.
Receipts for toe week ending tliiB evening, the
above included, 4215 bales; sales for same time
2452; shipments 2C72—showing an increase of re-
ceipts for the last week over those of the week be
fore of 544 bales; increase of sales 223 bales.
There has been a good demand all the week, but
prices have generally tended downward, and conse
quently tho offering stock has been rather light.
Prices have declined daring the last week %c per
pound, the market closing quiet this evening at 23%
for middlings—a decline of %c on yesterday’s fig
ures. The bulk of sales during the week has been
at 23%@23% cents, but today the unfavorable Liv
erpool reports dampened the ardor of buyers, and
sellers were forced to make a concession of %c.
Tho market will hardly open at over 23 cents this
morning for Liverpool middlings.
MACON COTTON STATEMENT.
Stock on hand Sept. 1,1869—bales.. 179
Received to-day 930
Received previously 25,038—25,974
26,153
Shipped to-day'.. 496
Shipped previously 16,040—16,536
Stock on hand this evening 9,617
FREIGHT on cotton from maoon.
Freight, all rail to Savannah $0.5511100 lbs
Freight, sail Savannah to Boston... .%c t? lb
Freight, sail Savannah to Liverpool.9-16d, and Id P
lb by steam.
Freight, through by rail and steam to
New York $1.35 B100 lbs
Freight, through by rail and steam to
Philadelphia 1.35 P 100 lbs
Freight, through by rail and steam to
Baltimore 1.35 P100 lbs
Freight, through by rail and steam to
Boston, via New York 1.70 p 100 lbs
GROCERIKS AND PROVISIONS.
Trade in this line has been brisk all the week and
prices have been remarkably steady. We give care
fully revised quotations, with the remark that the
grocery and provision houses of the city are now
generally well stocked:
BACON—Clear Sides (smoked).... $ 22%@
Clear Bib Sides (smoked)... 22%@
Shoulders 18%@
Hams (country) 28 *@ SO
Hams (sugar-cured) 28 @ 30
PORK—Mess 36 50 @37 50
Prime Mess 33 00 @34 00
Rumps . 30 00
BULK MEATS—Clear Sides 21
Clear Rib Sides 20
Shoulders 16%
COFFEE—Rio 22 @
Laguayra 30 @
Java 43 @
DREED FRUIT, per pound 10 @
RICE per pound 9%@
50 @ 2 00
Green 2 00 @ 2 60
Mobile,
ceipts 1154:
offering;
New ~
bales;
firm; middlings 25.
Flour ” -
treble 6
*115. <X
dull and
32 00.
and c
Lard
20
33
45
12>
12>
BUTTER—Goshen.
50 @
Tennessee Yellow 40 @
40 @
22%@
23 @
“ ©
60
50
50
27
25
20
70^
_ 123*
@ 2 50
Country
CHEESE—According to quality...
LARD—
SOGAB-Accoriing to grade 10
MOLASSES—According to grade.. 65 _
FISH—Mackerel, bbls, No. 1, 2,3. 15 00 @24 00'
Kits 2 75 @ 5 00
Codfish per pound 10 @
SALT—Liverpool per sack
Virginia 2 50
WHISKY—Common Bye 120 @150
Fine 2 50 @5 00
Com 1 35 @ 1 50
Bourbon 350 @500
ALE—Per dozen 3 00 @ 4 00
TOBACCO—Low grades per pound 50 @ 55
Medium 60 @ 70
Good 75 @ 80
Bright Virginia 85 @ 1 00
Fancy 1 25 @ 1 50
FLOUR Superfine per bbl 8 00 @8 60
Extra 9 00 @10 00
Family 10 00 @12 00
Fancy Family Brands 12 00 @13 00
GRAIN AND HAT.
CORN—Yellow, Mixed and White. 1 45 @ 1 60
MEAL 1 50 @ 1 60
GRITS @ I 75
OATS 90 @ 1 00
WHEAT—Per bushel I 50 @ 2 00
SEED RYE @ 2 00
SEED BARLEY @ 2 50
FIELD PEAS 2 00
HAY—Northern 1 90 @ 2 00
Tennesse Timothy 2 00
HerdsGrass 2 00
Tennessee 2 00
BAGGING, TIBS AND TWINS.
BAGGING—Borneo, 2% lbs. per yard.. 31 @82}£
Kentucky Roll. 2>£ “ “ “ .. 28!£@30
BALING TWINE, per pound........... 25
JRQK TIEfl- Aium, perpouna. • • r»v«T" 8
latest markets by telegraph.
Domestic Markets.
New York. October 27. noon.—Flour unchanged.
Wheat and Com 1 better. Mess Fork quiet at 3125
@3150. Lard quiet. Turpentine quiet at 47@47>£.
Rosin firm; strained common 217%@2 20: good
strained 2 22%@2 25. Freights quiet
Cotton quiet at 26jf.
Stocks dull but firm. Money 6@7. Sterling, long
9%; short 9K. Gold 30. 1862s 203*'. Tennessee*,
Carolines, old 47J£; new 38>£.
New York, October 27, eTenlng—Cotton firm;
sales 2200 bales at 26)£.
Flour 5@10 lower; superfine State 5 25(35 60; com
mon to fair extra Southern 6 30@6 80. Wheat open
ed 1 better, but dosed 1@2 lower; winter red West
ern 142@143X; Illinois 1 S5@l 40. Coro 2@3 bet
ter; mixed Western 105@110. Mess Porkqniet and
steady. Lard firm; kettle 18@18^. Whisky 1 21M
@122. Groceries firm and steady. Turpentine ana
Rosin steady. Freights very firm; cotton, per steam
J^d, per Bail flour, per sail 2s7%d.
Governments dosed weak; 1862s 20%. Southerns
active. Money easyat5@7. Discounts dull at 10
@12. Sterling very dull at 9@9%. Gold exceedingly
dull at 29%@S0. Stocks very dull at dose.
Baltihorx, October 27.—Cotton 26.
Floor favors buyers, but prices are unchanged.
Wheat steady; Maryland red 1 35@1 45; Western
1 33@1 40. Com, white 112®1 15. Oats 57@59.
Provisions firm but quiet. Whisky 120(31 21.
Virginias, old 45; 1867s 49; coupons, new 54 bid.
Savannah, October 27—Cotton receipts 3254 bales;
sales 500; middlings 26; market firm. - 3-V ;
Auousta, October 27 Cotton market active, bat
prices easier and irregular; middlings 24@24%; sales
727 bales; receipts 1133.
Charleston, October 27.—Cotton sales 400 bales;
receipts 1591; market quiet bat steady; middlings 25.
Wilmington, October 27.—8pirita of Turpentine
a shade better at 42%(343. Rosin quiet; No. 1 3%
better. Crude Turpentine steady at 1 60(32 70. Tar
2 00.
Cotton, better feeling at 84@84%.
Louisville, October 97.—Provisions steady. • Mess
Pork 31 00. Bacon, shoulders 17; dsar sides 90%.
Lard 18. Whisky 112.
OnrarNNATi, October 27.—Whisky sad Provisions
nominally unchanged. Oom in good demand at 9&
8t. Louis, October 27.—Whisky 115. Mess Fork
29 75. Baoon dull; loose shoulders 16: packed shoul
ders 16%^ deer rides 19%. Lard doll; steam-18.
i, October 27—Cotton sales lino ui "
>*; exports 4328; demand good^TJ^ fc
=» market dosed firm;
October 26.—CbWTtSL.
■dee 3200: exports, to Havre ^
udd!lngs25.
Oats
I clear
higher
- lower; prime *■
Baoon retailing „—aucumera 1 q. > — 1 it
” sides 21; hams, sugar-cured ^
I: tierce 18@19; keg 20(a20v’
d, UMfiltti'; yellow darifi4
3@«4. Bran 1 0001
27 00. MeesPoTk <£&$•}
ig at—shoulders
dull,.
centrifugal,
lasses lower new
prim# 16%'@17.1 w ..
Gold 80%. Sterling 41%. New Y«k
% discount. ■
Foreign Markets.
London, October 27, noon^—Coneol* 931^
Tallow 47eSd@47t'fid-
Liverpool. October 27, noon—Cotton on*,.,
steady but quite aotive; safot 12,000 biles.
Red winter. Wheat 9a5d.
Ltvertool, October 27, evening.—Cotton
lands 11%@12; Orleans 12%@12%; wdeg foreh
and speculation 3000.
Naval Stores closed dull.
Paris, October 27, noon.—Bourse *
Rentes 71f55c. ° pen9
Paris, October 27, evening-Bourse , ,
Rentes 71f65c. "Wedfiia
Frankfort, October 27, evening
active at 88. K 1Jonda ope Cft j
Havre, October 27, noon Cotton
The Colored Labor Convention
Which assembled in Macon last week tnnV
“inventory” of toe State, andhereiavfhattu 11
Bay of the condition of things in ”
Washington County.— Getting alone
well; good wages this year. Two school It 7
rage ten dollars per month. No mnrdere. sT
enty-schoUrs hi school. Daily waees T ’
Prejudice gradually dying out. Ycents.
Very much obliged to them f or so much U
it- seems they cannot quite go “tho .
Mg
mean by that ? Is it that prejudice nn
of the blacks agatost the whites is dvfog onf?
vioe versa ? Would like to understand - 01
ter fully, but presume that tho comSeSi
to say that the prejudicehvismess was all on rt.
part of the white people, and that thev T
ing in at last gradually. Well, let the truth t
told though the heavens fall. There never
have been any trouble, “prejudice" or
thing of the-kind between whites and llaclst
this county, whites and blacks in this cotmlr
further than the distinction between the races-
for which heaven, not earth, ir responsible—rtj
there been no strolling vagabonds visitinVC
and sending out their pernicious documents
poison and prejudice the minds of the colored
people against the whites. Ea
We are truly gratified to know, however tkt
our county stands first in the approval of era
these fault finders who have constitoed thee
selves the judges in these matters. N»
is laid against Washington at all, while >Jh e el
jority are severely censured. Many of the fa™
charges alleged against counties of high saai
ing, we are folly persuaded, are without fou%
tion; but we leave the accused to speak hr
themselves.
As expressed in the Convention, the colored
people desire to have their children educated
This is praiseworthy in them, and they should
be encouraged in it Some of them want to be
come lawyers and doctors right away, and seea
to think that their youths and maidens are read
at once to “enter college” and be graduate!
without further delay. They will leam after
time, that primary schools are much more i
keeping with their wants than higher institut
of learning.
The “Labor Association” has done aboat
it will do, except to get them into trouble.
Tho Convention, at the instance of “Hoi
George Wallace, passed a resolution extent
the right of fellowship to John Chinaman
any other man,” no matter from what “dij
country or previous condition,” and bidding
a hearty welcome.—Central Georgian.
The Colored Convention in !la|
From the Federal Union.1
So far as we have hoard, Jeff Long’s c«
Convention has passed off withont pro J
an earthquake, and Jeff is as well as cc
expected. Some people were afraid the i
people would demand wages which the]
could not afford to give, and tbns para"
planting interests of Georgia for the
year. We rejoice to leam that these fe: rere
unfounded. On tho whole, the colored r *“-
tion passed off very much like the L
Convention, without doing much harm !°°A
Our colored friends are naturally imi T ® in
their disposition, and Jeff Long, no dot h®* 1 '
ing that the white folks were about hat a “8
convention, immediately determined 2 “j-
colored folks must have a convention '• » c< *
when the convention met, the same Sknlty
pervaded toe colored convention whii ^eemed
to affect the Louisville convention, fo oM
seemed to know why they had come g^bej
or what to do now they had got then So,!*-
ter mature deliberation, they passed 1 tatio^
made speeclms, and adjourned. 1
that most or those who attended t to®*!
convention were convinced that Jeff! pSPr 4
the convention merely for the sake f
a big man of himself and don’t belie) $ at
were paid for their trouble. From vap 9 P°“"i
in Georgia we leam that the most p 601
feeling exists between the two f* 8 ;
parties have fonnd out that it is f” r . .
to be on good terms, and to mutv”!, e,?
assist each other, and this feelhf*”*
come universal if not prevent^ by pouu*
incendiaries and carpet-baggers** 3111 toe
One thing we believe has beert 00 much R‘8'
lected by both races: It is thfaterest of
white and colored to make p/manentamn,
ments for a number of yeas wherever it «
be done. This will enable-* 18 coloredpeoi
to improve their houses, Anti surround tn
selves with many comfort/which they e . u1 ®*
er do whilst the custom O changing their n
every year continues.
An Exciting See/* in the Snpren»
Coart Koomtat Washington.
The Washington correspondent of the Bnfr
more Gazette writy to that- paper on the
inst., as follows- . . . .
“There was a.ecene of much interest
alarm in the Storeme Court room this
noon. Mr. Philips opened the arguments
case in which'Thomas Ewing, Sr.j|had
oounsel twenty-five years, and was follow^
Mr. Carlisle, Mr. Ewing had listened with w"
than usual Attention to Mr. Phillips, andseco 41
' much excited by that gentlemans
mem. Mr. Ewing, in reply to Mr. Phillips,^
with more energy than he had displayed
years. After speaking for twenty mm**
complained of indisposition, and
gSS^^^attempted to
proceed with it, but fell from his chai
scions. The Court instantly adjourned ^
the officers of toe Court and oounselloa f“**T
hurried to his side, and tho Judge* X_
peared, with marked anxiety, to «cer»“
condition. Cushions were quickly bwng M
the benches, of which a bed was made i°?
on the floor. In toe course of fifteen nan ^
his consciousness returned, when he v®
moved to the room of the Clerk of th®
physicians were summoned, and Pf 000 ^*
the ailment to be exhaustion of the vigor ®
heart. Two or three hoars pn^edbefor
organ fully resumed its functions. “ ean \ll
members of his family and other relation* _
apprised of his critical condition, j,t*r
his two sons, Thomas and Charles; hisd»ng“
and General Sherman, his son-in-l**-
physician, Dr. Miller, to-night pronoun^
ing in an improving condition, and
vnU recover. He still lias at the CapitoL-
Ewing will be eighty yean of age next
ber.”
James M. Mason, for a long time one
United States Senators from Virginia, ^
representative of the Confederate States .
Court of St. James, is now a resident
nary Hill, and almost daily drives into ^
an ordinary no-top spring wagon witn
body, and behind a dark brown horse
means remarkable for its looks or 8“'” 1
ex-ambassador wear* a blaok felt h»t _ .
broad brim, a bob-tailed beaver-cloth ^it
gray breeches, the lega of which are
a pair of heavy boots, endlong bucks*®*^
lets. He holds toe reins and handles tne^
too, as though he had not forgotten m* ^
days; and toe hale, hearty old
going into the bank or the stores an&w ^
presents little of the appearance of #go
guished gentleman who but ashori 0
waa acting a conspicuous part m
life where the scenes were lad among "* p
and pajaoes, and when a
object sought tat,—Alexandria Gantt*
this place. The cars from
passengers from the
BHIHrit