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GEORGIA PRESS.
Tire Albany Daily Evening Advertiser
nominates Col. C. B. Wooten for Con
gress.
Gen*. Jons B. Gaedshb, and Gen. L.
J. Gartrell, will address the Democracy of
DeKalb county on tlic 22d inst.
We clip the following from the En-
guircr-Sun, of Colarabus. Tlie sugges
tion is a good one, and why not let Macon
follow suit:
In Augusta a movement is on foot 1 ]
which is in the right direction. It is pro
posed to close all business houses on a
*iven day and the employers give the
clerks a barbecue and picnic at some ap
propriate snot. Some of the merchants
of that city*have agreed to close and sub
scribe liberally. Why cannot something
of the kind be done in Columbus? The
days are long and hot, while business is
such that none would lose by closing for
one day. During the business season the
employes seldom get through until late at
night, and then they are at work eaily
next morning. We think the business
men would iind by giving their employes
a day of recreation, that instead of losing
anything it would pay. Such an act on
the part of an employer to an employe
would certainly make the latter more
zealous in the discharge of his duties. If
we aie shown that our services are appre
ciated we labor more earnestly. It is
human nature. Give the boys a clay cf
rest and pleasure unasked, and mark the
result. The employers will enjoy it
equally*.
The same paper says: While with the
Snapper Club on their annual trip to the
bay. Mr. Matt O'Brien, agent of tlie
Southern Express Company in this city,
secured a small alligator—about three and
a half feet in length. He kept it on exhi
bition at 1 is offiee for a week or so, and
then sent it to the Zoological Garden m
Cincinnati. Mr. O’Brien drew a picture of
an alligator bavin" a man by .the tail of
his coat, with the fellow holding to a tree,
am! underneath wrote: “Did you get it,
or did it get vou?” This he sent to the
secretary, and yesterday received a letter
of thanks for the donation.
The sinking fund commissioners of
Augusta, have 'recently purchased SI5,000
worth of city bonds. The amount of
bonds held by the commissioners is $132,-
7f>0.
Sparta lshmaelitc The return of
Judge Lochrauc to the Democratic party
was not signalized by tlie firingof cannon.
Hancock county will hold its mass
meeting on tlie 21st instant, and select
gubernatorial delegates. The Ishmaelite
advocates the sending ot uninstructed
delegates.
Sparta is agitated over a prospective
$10,000 court house.
Says the Savannah New: The new
company, of which Mr. II. B. Plant is
president, which recently purchased the
Savannah and Charleston railroad, are
perfecting their arrangements lor putting
t!ie road in lust-class' condition. They
expect to spend $300,000 in improving the
roadway and securing a complete equip
ment. They will lay down a new track
of steel rail3 and will reduce the time be
tween Charleston and Savannah to less
than four hours. The contracts for these
improvements have all been made, and
the work will begin very shortly.
The read from Waycross to Jackson
ville, seventy-four miles, is under contract
io be completed before January 1st, and
'.be time from Charleston to Jacksonville
will then he about tea tours. It is now
twenty-four. This, it is thought, will se
cure nearly all of the Florida travel for
the coast line, and a large development of
the freight business in fruit and vegeta-
intoxieation at the time. He is now r&-
covering.
Atlanta Port: A Forsyth corres
pondent of the Macon Telegraph
graphically sketches the successful career
of Mayor Huff, describing the first start in
life of the “little pine-knot boy, with his
one-ox cart,” and follows him step, by step,
as tlie popular railroad conductor, the
business man who never betrayed a trust,”
and finally suggests that the man whom
Macon has honored again and again would
lie a good standard-bearer for that Sena
torial district. The record of Mayor
Huff shows that he always serves his peo
ple well and faithfully in whatever posi
tion they place him. He deserves all the
success that has attended him.
Griffin Neias: An aged colored man,
hastening home from church, was assed
why he was in such a hurry? “Oh, noth
ing in particular, boss,” was his answer,
git right home s
my chickens up. Dat s all.
The Marietta Journal says the popula
tion of Cobb county is 20,094, au increase
of 4,992. Marietta has 2,227.
It also says, that Dr. W. E. Dunwody,
of Macon, spent several days here among
his old friends.
Columbus Enquirer: Early last night
some little excitement was created in
lower Girard by an alarm of lire. It
proved to be at the residence of Mr. Frank
Young, and was caused by someone pass
ing near a mosquito net with a lamp on
which mere was no chimney. The net
was soon consumed, as was tlie window
curtain and a portion of the bed clothing.
The fire was extinguished with a few
buckets of water.
Savannah News: Yesterday morn
ing a committee of five of the Chatham
Artillery, who had remained at home, left
tlie city "on the Central railroad for the pur
pose of meeting the corps at the point
where tlie trains pass and escorting them.
They carried an ample supply of the ne
cessary refreshments, and when the trains
met boarded the down passenger and gave
their comrades, who have been having
such a glorious time at Borne, a very
heaity greeting. The train arrived at 4
o’clock, the trip dawn being enlivened by
accounts of the visit. The returning vet
erans were pretty well tired out, and the
company were dismissed on their arrival
at the armor}*. Several remained up the
country but will be here in a day or two.
On reaching Atlanta, about 11 o’clock
Tuesday night, tlie Cbathamswere met at
the depot by the Gate City .Guard,
and escorted to a tempting table
spread in the depot, and invited most cor
dially to partake of the “good cheer.” As
the time was limited to foity minutes,
there was no opportunity for the display
of oratory, but “the boys” had a’good
time over the glasses in quizzing one an
other and in repartee. When the whistle
blew announcing the departure of the Sa
vannah train the Chathams gave three
hearty cheers for tlie Gate City Guard,
their hospitable entertainers, which were
returned in vigorous style, and amidst the
huzzas of tlie immense erowd that had
collected at the depot the train moved off.
Griffin* Neics says of Mrs. Judge
Eason: This most estimable and
highly esteemed lady died at her
home in this county on Tuesday night, at
an advanced age, and after a protracted
illness. She was the grandmother of
Judge P. M. Brown and Mr. Parker
Brown, both so well known in our com
munity.
Rome Tribune: After the parade yes
terday morning there was a most delight
ful and prolonged social gathering of the
“Blue and tlie Grey” at the Rome hotel.
The party consisted of Gen. Win. Mont
gomery Gardner and Col. C. W. Ander
son, whose brother, Gen. R. H. Anderson,
was in the old army with Genr Gardner;
Albany Neics: Our attention has been 1 ta, lias been up
called to the fact that the contractors of Conyers Academy,
the new road, now in course of construc
tion between Waycross and Jacksonville,
are sending emissaries through this sec
tion, who are taking away numbers of
iarm laborers. Several planters complain
that their hirelings have deserted their
crops, and left them helpless. Promises
are given of most extravagant pay; free
passes are furnished and the darkey, with
out auy regard to his obligation, accepts
the proposition and leaves. It seems to
us that the managers of the Savrnnali,
Florida and Western railway who have,
we believe, the management of this work,
should stop at once this dangerous policy.
It will seriously damage the interests of
that road as well as tho interests of our
farmers. We call Mr. naines’ attention to
this matter, and hope lie will act without
delay. Why not send North and procure
foreign labor for such work?
Barnesville Gazette: Mr. James
M. Mann, who resided at Oakland, Meri
wether county, on th.e evening of the 7th
of Jill v, while returning from tirantvilie
with the mail, was struck, about six miles
beyond Oakland, with lightning, which
literally tore his umbrella and clothing
into small fragments. The electricity ran
down his legs into his boots and tore
them open, killing liirn and his horse in
stantly. He leaves a family, consisting
of a wife and four children, to mourn this
sad dispensation of Providence. May He
who has promised to he a father to the
fatherless, watch over them with His
bins. Charleston, says the News and ' Col. A. B. Montgomery, also an obi army
Courier, will, of couise, rece.ye benefit
from this arrangement, as more people
will pass through and many more wili
stop in this city.
A Savannah woman got her finger en
tangle.! among tlie molars of an antago
nist. and had it severely bitten. Swell
ing, followed by gangrene, made amputa-
tlie final-result.
“Chatham” and “Cannoneer,” the
correspondents of tlie Savannah Neics,
managed the Rome trip of the “Chat-
hams” very skillfully.
Mr. G. IJ. Mask, of Albany, superin
tendent of section hands on the Albany
branch road, was killed by lightning at
Kincliafoof.ee bridge on Monday last, says
the Sumter Republican.
Also: On Saturday last two little
negro boys, sons of Catsar Coiner, of Les-
teiviiie, a suburb on the north of the
city, were playing together, in. the ab
sence of their parents, when the younger
one, probably about five years old, seized
a loaded gun and fired at the others
head. The charge of small shot tookef-
lect, killing the boy instantly. It is sup
posed that the little boy did not know the
gun was loaded, or was too young to care
much about it. This should be a warn
ing to parents against leaving loaded guns
and pistols witbiu the reach of their
•children. A3 a general thing, where such
accidents happen, it is the fault of the
parent.
Sumter Dtpublican: We regret to
learn that, on Monday morning last, Lin
ton, tlie little six-year-old son of Rev.
Walker Lewis, accidentally jumped on a
rake and stuck one prong through his left
foot. Wliile the wound is not necessarily
dangerous it is still very painful. Dr. J.
A. Fort is in attendance upon the little
suflerer, who exhibits much fortitude and
is very ebeerfti).
Albany Advertiser of the 13th: This
rooming a yonng colored woman named
Charlotte Washington, went to Mr.Frank
V. Evans’ house and asked another col
ored woman living in his yard, to be al
lowed to come in and rest, as she was sick
and tired. Her request was granted. At
1 o’clock this afternoon, wliile Mr. Evans’
family were at dinner, Mr. E. heard tho
sick negro woman calling to his cook,
saying “Come here, I’m going to have a
spasm.” She stood clinging to the door
of the house she was in, until the other
negro woman reached lier and assisted
her to lie down, and she did, the woman
Charlotte, who was even then dying, re-
„ marked, “Are you going to let mo die.”
These were her last -words, and she ut
tered them with her last breath. The
question was answered while it was yet
on her moving lips.
Montezuma II'ecklg: Everything is in
readiness for tlie fair. The several com
inittecs have discharged their duties faith
fully and - promptly. The exhibition
building bas been put in nice trim and
everything is in readiness for tlie recep
tion of articles for exhibition. The com
mute on race track lias everything ready
for the occasion. Tlierc is nothing that
adds more to tlie success of an enterprise
of tills kind than prompt comniittlBniien.
Wircgrau Watchman: A reader of the
Watchman, after having exhausted all the
known remedies for plant lice, which prey
upon plants, resorted to coal oil, which
proved a complete exterminator. He
says: “I procured an atomizer, and filling
a bottle with kerosene, spread i; over a
camclia to be experimented upon. It was
a very dirty plant, branches and leaves
covered not only witii scales but witli
-black fungus! A very small quantity suf
ficed to vaporize and cover tlie eulire
plant. After tlie fluid had evaporated and
tho plant was dry, tiie scales were found
-dead, shriveled and partly detached, and
witli the slightest touch fell oik tlie black
ftmgus, also, which everybody knows is so
tenacious on tlie leaf, was dried up into a
loose powder, which a shake sent to the
ground.”
.Sfarta Ishmaelite: Last Sunday
night two negroes, Edmund Simmons and
Lewis Bntts, met in tlie toad near Drvc-
rcaux and fought with knives, f Tlie
former wa9 killed and tb
thought to have l
Augusta N< i«
Whether tho said
students are rnale’or fenialo wo are not
prepared to say, hut Henry knows what lie
is about, and we presume they must ho
female. *
A DEsrEitATE fight occurred at Devc-
rcaux station on Sunday night, between
Edgar Simmons and Lewis Butts, both
colored, resulting in tho instant death of
tlie first. Tho jugular veiu was severed
by a pistol ball. Bntts was terribly
carved. _
Augusta Evening Neics: It is rumor
ed in Macon, that J. H. Estill, of Savan
nah, liasjrarchased tho Telegbafh and
Messenger.
Once for all, tho Telegram! and
Messexger, nor any portion it, has
been sold. There have been persist
ent attempts on the part of some of our
contemporaries to sell tire paper, blit no
efforts have been made by the proprietors,
nor do they contemplate such a step.
Qtvivwin TVpim*• rant. W. W.
officer; Col. J. B. Baird, tiie adjutant-
general of the State; Maj- J. Brooks and
Adjutant R. G.Gillard, of Col. Anderson's
start', all of tlie “Gray.”
The “Blue” was represented by Lieut
Wm. L. Marshall, U. S., on Col. Ander
son’s staff, and one of tlie handsomest
officers in tiie service, and Major Sidney
Hei liert, an ex-start' oflicer of the army,
but for over ten years a resident of the
South.
At the battle of Bull Run, July, 1801,
Maj. Herbert was serving with Gen Up
ton on Gen. Tyler’s staff, and in that ca
pacity had charge of Gen. Gardner, as a
prisoner, and treated him with great
kindness, giving him the medical atten
tion of Surgeons Douglass anil Bacon,
and otherwise providing for his comfort.
After the. retreat, and when it was
known that Gen. G. was supposed to lie
mortally woannded, the officers of the
Union army, who had served with him
before the war,wept'to hear the sad news,
so attached were they to their old com
rade.
No more chivalrous soldier than Gen.
Gardner ever drew his swo:d, and few
have suffered more from wounds in bat
tle. In the old army, lie was beloved and
trusted, and in the Confederate service lie
was conspicuous for liis heroic conduct.
Yesterday lie and Major Herbert met for
the first time since the battle in which
Gen. Gardner was so terribly wounded,
nearly twenty years ago, yet their re
union was cordial and happy, _ and they
talked over tlie bloody battle in which
both were made sufferers by terrible
wounds. The entire party present greatly
enjoyed the stories and incidents of tlie
old army and tlie late war, and the re
union closed with the following toast, to
which all hearts responded: “The com
mingling cf the ‘Grey’ and the ‘Blue,’
may it continue forever and forever.”
Eastman Times: Mrs. Guyton met
with a serious accident last night at the
residence of her daughter, -Mrs. Bishop.
While in the midst of a pleasant conver
sation with the family, she suddenly fell
from tiie porch to the ground. She was
either seized with vertigo or got the rock
er. in which she was sitting, too near the
edge, and lost her balance. Her family
and relatives here are 'very much dis
tressed at tiie unfortunate circumstance,
and are sparing no pains to alleviate her
sufferings.
Columbus Enquirer: On Sunday night
at 10 o’clock Mr. Ed. Reese died very sud
denly of heart disease, at Warm Springs,
Meriwether county, Ga. Mr. Reese was a
resident of Russell county, Alabama, and
lived near Uatchechubbee. He was about
04 years of age, and leaves a family. The
remains reached the city yesterday, and
will be taken to his home for interment
to-day. He was well known to many of
otir citizens.
Rome Tribune: Wednesday morning
a colored man and his wife, who had been
jailed to answer a charge of larceny, were
released by a withdrawal of (lie prose
cution. The old woman was fairly over-
K , and fell upon the neck of her dc-
>r and wept in her gladness. The
scene was touching and atibeting in tiie
extreme, especially when tlie old
woman, with the tears of joy coursing
down her cheeks, exclaimed: “JIassa
Blank, doan’t you trus^ dese niggers;
watch Yin all, and—doan’t. ftirgit to
watcli me, too. for niggers will steal.”
Tlie prodigal returning with a calf
couldu't hold a candle to this feeling epi
sode.
Cartersville Free Press: On Sun
day night, the 4th instant, Mr. Rob
ert N. C'unyns, a young merchant ofStiles-
boro, was dealt a heavy blow with a rock
by an unknown person near bis home on
tlie public road, which knocked him
from his horse and canto near resulting in
his death.
Mr. Gunyns was returning home aftera
visit to some young ladies at the residence
guardian care.
Augusta Chronicle: We are glad to
know that the subject of disease in water
melon vines, first agitated by the Chroni
cle, has received due attention from prom
inent authorities. We learn that the State
department of agriculture, in connection
with Mr. F. J. Berckman’s, President of
tlie Georgia Horticulturist Society, lias
been investigating the watermelon dis
ease which has been threatening this deli-
cions fruit in Richmond county. It has
been discovered that the disease is in the
nature of a fungoid growth dependent
upon the -condition of tho soil aud atmos
phere. A series of experiments, looking
to the discovery of a remedy, is to he in
stituted. The melon crop of this section
of the State is a very important one, and
if the experiment is successful, a large
body of farmers will be placed under pe
culiar obligations to the agricultural de
partment.
Sandersville Herald: During the
past week rain showers have been quite
frequent in various sections of the county.
Goru crops are very seriously injured in
consequence of the long continued
drought; cotton, however, looks well and
promises an abundant yield. A general
complaint is that vegetable gardens are
completely destroyed, and as for fruit,
sucli as peaches and apples, which in
former years were so abundant at this
time, hardly any are to be seen on cur
streets this year.
Dawson Journal: We had hoped to be
able to give a full report from our enu
merators this week, but one of them being
too busy to make it up, we will have to
defer it until next week. We understand
that the whole population of tlie county is
10,453, an increase of about 2,000 siuce
1870.
Hawkinsville Dispatch: Mrs. Polly
Aim McDonald, wife of Mr. M. McDon
ald, of Dooly county, died on the 30th
ult., aged fifty-six years. Mrs. McDonald
had been confined to her bed about thir
teen years.
Atlanta Post: At Decatur, yestcT
day, there occurred an accident that may
have a fatal result. •
Tom Davis, a tinner in the employ
ment of Hunnicutt & Belliugrath, was on
the top of a house these gentlemen are
bnildiug for George Ramspeck, in Deca
tur, engaged at work, when stepping back
ward he fell to the ground below, a dis
tance of thirty* feet. An examination
showed that three ribs on the left side
had been broken ar.,1 that internal in
juries had been sustained. Yesterday
evening he was brought to his home, on
Decatur street, in Atlanta, where he is
now in a critical condition, though hopes
of his recovery are entertained. He is
attended by Dr. Diggers.
Dr. H. H. Carlton retires from the
editorial charge of the Alliens Banner, on
account of iil health and business engage
ments of another character. He is suc
ceeded in the editorial department by Dr.
E. D. Newton. We wish both success in
their new fields.
TnE Seaport Appeal in its description
of tlie storm on last Sunday grows poetic,
and no doubt thought his time had come,
Ha says: 8
At 7 o’clock we had the grandest aud
most awfully sublime exhibition of
electric pyrotechnics the writer ever be
held—sheet lightning, keen flashes, forked
tongues of angry fiaine, rivers of liquid
fire, and lurid ’lights from earth and
clouds, as if all the elements from earth
and air, water and fire, electricity and the
vet unknown agency, were iu deadly con-
Xiict witli all things living—at war with
matter, and in battle witli time itself.
Above, beneath, on all sides, every
where the sulphurous element played and
blazed as if earth, ocean and air, trees,
bouses and being were suddenly meta
morphosed, while tlie bursting thunder
tore the atmosphere into fragments, and
made the earth tremble as if all the
heavens bad turned loose their artillery
to annihilate the material world,
Savannah Neics: Capt. W. W. Gor
don, commanding the Georgia Hussars,
has received a communication from Capt.
Clarke, of the Richmond Hussars, of Au
gusta, inviting tho Georgia nussars to
send a detachment to join a crusade which
will be made next June through the prin
cipal cities of the Northwest and %
North. It is proposed to organize from
the several Southern cavalry companies a
company of sixty-five tilters, who will
leave Augusta next June for » Northern
and Western tonr. The command will
be handsomely uniformed, and will carry
their horses with them. They will visit
Atlanta, Nashville, Louisville, Cincin
nati, St. Louis, Chicago, Buffalo, Sara
toga, New York,. Philadelphia, Baltimore,
Washington and Richmond, stopping
from two to four days in each of the cities
named and giving exhibition tilts. The
♦our will consume about thirty days. The
invitation will be laid before the Hussars
at their next meeting for action.
Chronicle and Constitutionalist: A
young man named Benjamin Weeks,
about twenty years of age, son of Nathan
iel Weeks, was killed by lightning near
Richmond Factory, Wednesday afternoon > And it was his martial cloak and shroud.”
M. C. T., writing to the Augusta News,
says:
Mrs. Rebecca Barnes, of Macon, is in
Atlanta, visiting Mrs. Dinimick at 67 Ma
rietta street. Mrs. Adelia Griffin, of Ma
con, sister of Col. Thomas Hardeman
tlie prominent candidate for governor, is
visiting the family of Judge F,. E. Brown,
at268 Peachtree street., t
Buena Vista Argus: There are some
places in the county where there has not
enough rain fallen in eight or nine weeks
for watejr to puddle on the ground, unless
it fell yesterday,'and the corn will not
make more than twenty- five per cent, of
a crop, while others have had plenty of
rain all the time.
Augusta News of the 15th: Yester
day a young man named Benjamin Weeks
cauie to the city with a wagon load of
watermelons. After selling his melons
lie started home, lie living a distance of
fourteen miles from town. When within
a mile of Richmond Factory he was
caught in the rainstorm which prevailed
at-tlic time, and is supjiosed to have been
killed by a stroke of lightning. After
dark his team was found- grazing in an
old field, and search being made for Weeks,
his body was found under a tree, in a sit
ting position, and his umbrella shattered.
He was about nineteen years old. It could
not lie determined by those who found his
body whether lie was in tlie wagon or had
gotten out and gone under the tree for
protection from tlie rain. As above stated,
the only evidence was the shattered um
brella, which was found bv his side. An
investigation will be had to-day.
McVille has an open cotton boll.
Amkricus is agitated over sheep lins^
bandry.
Houston selects her delegates nest
Wednesday. , i
Macon’s big meteor was seen as far
south as Brunswick.
Mb. Charley Alexander, of Wash
ington, lias a grove of pecan trees.
Mr. Henry A. Dumas and Miss Marie
L. Berance, of Savannah, are married. ”
Mr. Gus STEWAitT, of Oglethorpe
county, killed-foutteen possums iu one
tree-
good one “thoro’s millions in it.”
Lumpkin Independent: Hon. A. O.
Bacon is a candidate for tho United States
Senate, to fill tho vacancy caused by the
resignation of General Gordon. Major
Bacou is well known throughout the State
and will make a strong race. His career
as speaker of tlio bouso for several terms
in a great measure qualifies him for tlie
responsible position he is row seeking,
lie is a brilliant, clear-headed, eloquent
debater, a skillful parliamentarian, a close
student, and would make asplendid Sena
tor.
Count Pulaski’s Banner.
Interesting Relic and Sketch of
the Gallant Pole.
There is a romance and sadness con
nected with tho career and death of tho
Count Pulaski which has always inspired
a weird interest in his history. Recently
there lias been resurrected from tho mu
seum of tlie Maiyland Historical Society,
tho identical banner which has been
made famous in verse by the genius of the
poet Longfellow. In the words of a cor
respondent of the Baltimore Sun probably
there i3 no poem in tho lauguage better
remembered by American youth than Mr.
Longfellow’s “Hymn of tlie Moravian
Nuns of Bethlehem at the Consecration of
Tnlaski's Banner, beginning, “When the
dying flame of day through the chancel
shot its ray,” and going on with descrip
tions of “glimmering tapers,” “cowled
heads,” and “censers burning swung,
where, before the altar, hung the blood-
red banner that with prayer had been
consecrated there; and tlie nuns’ sweet
hymn was heard the while, sung low ill
the dim mysterioua aisle,” concluding
with the lilies:
“The warrior took the banner prond
while on his way home from Augusta,
It is supposed that he got out of his wagon
and went under the tree for protection
from till' storm, and that, while sitting
therewith his umbrella hoisted, light
ning struck the tree, glanced ofl'and killed
him. The umbrella was shattered.
The banner of Pulaski preserved in
Baltimore is twenty inches square, made
to be carried on a lance. It is of doilbie
silk, now so much faded and discolored
by time that its color, whetlicr’brigiiially
crimson or white, cannot he determined.
On both sides designs are embroidered
Bainrridge Democrat: Last Sun- with wljat was yellow silk, shaded with
day Mr. John D. Ilarrell was informed | green, and deep silk fringe bordering,
that tlie baby of, an abandoned woman j On one side are tlie letters “U. S.,” and
had been left in the woods iu the city j in a circle around them the words “Unita
suburbs to die. Mr. Harrell immediately | Virtus Fortior;” on the other side in the
notified Col. Fleming, chairman of the j centre is embroidered an All-Seeing Eye,
comity commissioners, of the fact. A aud the words, “Non Alius Regit,”
A BIT OP HISTORY.
Generals Meade and Hancock:
MACbNjJuly 15,T8S0.
Editors Telegraph apd' Messenger
In your report of the Hawkinsville ‘ad
dresses, in this day’s issue, Gen. Phil
Cook is reported as. asserting that Gen.
Pope “decapitated two of our 'Superior
Court judges, Messrs. John T. Clarke and
Reese, for daring to resist his tyrannical
mandates. He likewise arrested aud im
prisoned many of our innocent and unof
fending citizens.” In truth, it was Gen.
Meade who deposed Judge Clarke, and
arrested and imprisoned our Columbus
citizens. The truth of history demands this
statement; and the present is a -good op
portunity to put on record tlie course of
Gen. Meade in Georgia, that it ,may be
contrasted with that of Gen r Hancock in
Louisiana.
In 1S68, by general orders of Meade, the'
courts had been forbidden to allow any
ono to serve oi. a jury of any sort unless,
he was a registered voter, and they had’
also been ordered to have the jury boxes
revised, leaving out all unregistered vo
ters and putting in all registered ones.
This was done under the reconstruction
acts of Congress, and it excluded many of
our bestmen, at the same time preparing
thei way to get all tlie-negroes into the
juries. ■ MrMTt* y
The general’s order required the judge
to compel each juror to make and file with
the clerk of the court, an affidavit that be
had been duly registered; and without
such affidavit none, was to he allowed to
serve. "
It will be remembered that the so-called
constitutional convention of 1S6S adopted
a constitution and ordinances which were
to be submitted for ratification by tlie peo
ple at tlio election iu December^ ISOS.’
But, in the meantime, Gen. Meade issued
courts to lie made of material, and in a 1
way violativo of the laws of Georgia;-
bas, by general order No. 37, imposed
upon tlie rightful jurisdiction of ' the
courts restraints which cannot be sub-
niitted to consistently with Jhe aforesaid
oath of the judge; and lias, by general
order No. 42, announced and threatened
that any civil officer who shall “fall or re
fuse” to obey any order issued from
him in regard to the official duties of such
oflicer, shall be tried before a military
commission, and, on conviction there
of, shall be “lined or im-
prisoned, or bothand, whereas, the
said Meade is in command of military
power sufficient to enable hiiu to enforce
such illegal, unconstitutional, oppressive
and dangerous orders and menaces; and
the civil courts are powerless to protect
themselves and their officers against the
unjust .violence threatened for a faithful
’and conscientious discharge of sworn du
ties; and, whereas, in our opinion, it is
imprudent and undignified and useless to
tlie public for a court to bo held under
ram restraints, interferences and menaces
from those in actual power; therefore it is
hereby ordered that the Superior Court
for the county of Early, which by appoint
ment of law should sit on the first Mon
day in this, month be adjourned to the
first Monday in June next, or until such
time thereafter as may admit of a free,
useftri, valid and honorable discharge of
the duties of said court.
It is further ordered that tho jurors
drawn for the April term of 1SGS, of said
court do appear and serve at such ad
journed term, or at the next regular term
should such adjourned term fail; and that
the clerk do enter this order on the min
utes of said court.
Witness oiir official signature.
John T. Clarke,
J. S. C., P. D
an order commanding a'.l courts and civil | This action found its wav into the pub-
officers to enforce such ordinances at lie prints; not by Judge Clarke’s order,
however, and subsequently, influenced by
it, doubtless, Gen. Meade made known
through the papers in an unofficial way,
that he did not mean by his orders to re
strain the freedom of judicial action. Up
on which announcement Judge Ciarkc on
the third Monday in April, 1868, organ
ized and held the Stewart Court, conduct-
He expressly ruled that the action of the iug the business in entire disregard of all
pnnrftntinn tvoa of no fniw fill ' militftrv Ardors. TTnnn liia rotnht ltrnna
once.
In the face of these orders, Judge
Clarke went on, according to the Jaws of
Georgia, drawing juries from the regular
jury boxes, and refusing to allow any
question about their being" registered vo
ters, aud allowing and. compelling all to
serve according to the laws of the State.
buggy was procured, and these two gen
tlemen repaired to the scene. The baby,
a girl under two years of age, was found
in the woods and covered with ants. The
While historical research and indispu
table facts have brushed away nearly all
the pretty garniture which Mr. Longfellow
had thrown around this interesting relic,
poor little thing Lad fallen asleep from the fact remains pretty well substantiated
sheer exhaustion. Col. F. called to tlie j that Pulaski procured his banner in Beth-
cliild, and asked if she wanted something j Icliem of the Moravian sisters, who did
to eat, when she awoke and ravenously ! not lead a cloistered life, and who really
clutched the nourishment which his fore- sold their work to support their house.
But for tlie Baltimoreans the relic has
even a greater interest than if it had been
consecrated cs described by tbe poet, for
it is tlie flag of a legion recruited in Balti
more and brought out of the fire of tbe
siege of Savannah by
Tbe Count
of Congress a
convention was of no force till rat'fied, J military orders. Upon Ills return home
aiid that the military order, attempting to lie found the following order sent by mail
give effect to such ordinances, in advance awaiting him.
of their ratification, was an act of usurpa- j Headquarters Third Military
tion, aiid void. In no respect would he [ District, Department of Georgia,
suffer his courts to be affected by anything j Florida, and Alabama, Atlanta, Ga.,
but the laws of Georgia. All military or- j April 21, 1868.—Special Orders No. 8k—
ders, as to the mode of discharging judi- I. John T. Clarke, Judge of the Superior
cial functions, were, for some months, | Court, Pataula district, State of Georgia,
openly set aside by him. In one case, j having published in the Early County
where an ordinance of said convention had j News, an order adjourning the Superior
forbidden the levy of fi.'fas. and sales Court of Early county from the second
thereunder, ho held that such prohibition J Mopday in April until th9 second Monday
was (1) void because —-»- -*- * * — ! — ! r -—'-
FATES BE F0IS GBAS.
A Description or Goose Culture in
Mratburg,
The conquest of Strasburg by tbe Ger
mans has added tothe empire a city of fifty
thousand people and several millions of
geese, one hundred and fifty thousand of
winch are devoted to strange uses. These
geese live, and die for the benefit of the
lew exquisite livers aud the many men and
women, especially men, who like to
act the part of gourmand and arc will
ing to pay for it, as well as to indulge
in a culinary fib occasionally. The
geese are educated with a sole regard
to their livers, the latter being used for
the pates de foies gras, which make le tour
du inoiide packed in tin boxes Or the
pots of Saargemund. The first pate of
goose-liver on record was made by the
Romans. In order to get the liver largo
and fat, the geese were placed in iron
cages, their head3 sticking out in such a
way as to make withdrawal impossible
and life wretched. To make misery com
plete, a fire was kept burning close by,
keeping up a temperatnre In which three
geese out of four perished, while tlie fourth
succeeded, on the strength of three or
four enforced meals a day, to develop a
miserable body and an enormous liver.
Roman gentlemen occasionally bad their
anseraria where tlie animals were fed on
figs, as Horace says:
Pinguibus et fieis pastum jeenr anseris—
Of juicy figs they make food for tbe liver
of the goose.
“When the luxury oi Rome was swept
away by the Teutonic migration of na
tions, it is reported that the Jews retained
the secret of goose liver, and tho whole
secret of the modern pate was divulged
by tiie French revolution, although the
“philosophers” who helped to bring it on
enjoyed the dish hugely, provided It was
saturated with the aroma of truffles. The
Jews had a mild preference for onions,
but the glorious Close, a native oi Nor
mandy and chef de. cuisine to Mar
shal Contate, who was commander in
Alsace from 1702 to 1788, decided that
a lirge, fat goose liver was loo good for
onions and garlic; lie filled it with truffles,
surrounded it with daintily chopped veal,
enveloped the affair in the richest
dough, aud gave it a slow stew. But he
insisted on an enormous liver, the Peri-
S rd truffle and appreciative feeders. Tho
;ter were found readily among the male
and female beaux esprits■, the higher cler-
gy'and the intellectual liberals; men of af
fairs are occasionally too prudent to be
gourmands. In 17SS Close decided to find
a constituency of liis own; he set up for
bimself in the Rue Mesange, and now the
dish enjoys a national reputation. The
Russians admire it greatly; it is liked in
France and England, and much used in
America. The Germans call 'it Leber
mse contrary to the con- in Jane nest, assigning as cause of such America,
stitution of the United States, against' adjournment, the exercise, on the part of. pastue, and are now quite up toils renne-
“iiil pairing tlie obligation of contracts;”.' the major-general commanding, of illegal, nrents. _ . ’ ' « I
(2) of no force, because not ratified by the unconstitutional, oppressive aud danger- A“ ieri , c J will never produce much of
people; (3) that the convention itself, Ions orders and measures, tbe said John this food for mellow palates unless all ot
called not by any civil authority but as- . T. Clarke, Judge as aforesaid, is hereby ll ® preyention-of-cruelly societies adjourn
- - 1 ^ — - - - sine die; for the whole process of making
it is unnatural and not specially appetiz
ing. The geese are purchased when
about nine months old, and they are
placed in a dark, damp cellar, where they
are tied on stone tables with their backs.
seinbled by military command, and com
posed of such material as tlie military in
dicated, (excluding from voting, at the
election nearly all of our best citizens, and
excluding the same, also, from member-
removed from office.
By order of Major-General Meade.
R. C. Drusi,
Assistant Adjutant-General.
Official: C. D. Emory*, A. D. C.
sight had provided
The child was thus rescued from a hor
rible death, and was taken to a good lady
who now lias it in charge, and where it
wili receive every attention. All honor
to these noble and kind-hearted gentle
men.
Ogetoorpe Echo: A Perilous
Descent : On the steep side of Lookout | commissioned
mountain there is a ladder, extending corps of 68 horsey........ ...... ...... Uon , nni«n wiui-mi» unma, «>« »<= ; . , . ... . .. ,
several hundred feet perpendicularly, by , 200 foot equipped as light infantry. ; IIe And, in spite of all sucli so-called , regarded in tlie main as a fair and lion-: j 4 penod of uulL rtoi^naUon,
which a few daring and cool-headed was allowed also tlie privilege of enlisting J ant i lor ity, Judge Glarke had the fi. fas. to 1 orable gentleman, it will-bo seen how the 11 151 ® or S1S ^ Ji
* i naA A n /i WI.MI iinn 1 man in otiir witli t.hfi C ontinental : , ° it i . • u. • * i _i «in two hours, or rattier iorceci to digest
dings of stewed com, buck-
. . . . , , . a., i ver, overruling tho excuse. VThen a conn- , we may well conduce that he is a man i «■l““ d LnJrtlTan!
him in charge ot a colored nurse. During headquarters in Baltimore, and the legisla- sel objected to an unregistered voter as j tho country can trust wiih presidential »h*
the day tlie pair was missed, and in glanc- ture of this State placed his legion on the „ ot com „ e t e ,u i, e overruled the objectiou. power and influence. But my main ob- j lnia,s app'oacli their naairal end,' a
ing over tbe precipice tbe nurse was dis- same footing in Mary and with other Jl0 forbade the ofl j ceK 0 f the court to dis- jeet iu giving you this is to do justice to a sroat point. ui to kill them ju-t before.
, Massachusetts 9$, Connecticut 115, New > pot/overed witli pure and tasteless fat,
I York 104, Pennsylvania 113, and stewed for about five hours. Tlie ar-
f4 , - , GO, Virginia 85* North Carolina 109, len- ? ticle is now rQSL( \ y f or the market of five
j >T S rtTST’S*s-StfrarSSi“'SB&’SWSatf&SiSS!
lama Pet„a„: “ u ” ^i|• S3
Much to the surprise of every one, V»il- , were bayoneted. Inhis subsequent o^-| was lo!( i t |, at as i ong as Judge Clarke ■ stales which grow the bulk of seed-leaf to- w :.hhi*life
lie Wyatt, who attempted suicide at orations in thebouth.l ulaski receued his acted at a u i, e would be a Georgia judge, i ba cco—name! v, Connecticut, New York " *
Ponce de Leon Wednesday last is still, mortal wound in the groin irotn a swivel i ff onrrtnTii <im1 Atlf/irPA !i« IftW lllltIk— ! J TI-...am <»AM*aSn»tliaSi> nwu. I
and
was
Speaking of the
cently shot himself
y — <i and rc c°guize and enforce as law' noth- : anc [ Pennsylvania are increasing their pro-
alive witli a chance for .ail ultimate recov- sliot^at the sie a e ot Savannan, uctoocr J, ing but ,j, e V alid law of the laud; and duct. Of the States pitxlucingshipping and Democratic Meeting in Macon
erv. Dr. Ridley, the physician, is of the li7J. ' ! that in deciding wliat the law was, he ■ manufacturing smoking tobacco North) County,
opinion that a recovery is possilfle vet lie ( Gap.am Bentalou, of Baltimore, ivas j woiiid act freely. . j Carolina alone shows an increase in acre- I o*u t-titoi-uk Julv IS 1SS0
exprcssesfwchope. Wyatt is perfectly ra- wounded at the same tune, and tliev were | About March 1868, Gen. Meade ifsqed over last year. Tho decrease m j n n . nt v> v iou? uoftce ’a larve
tional at all times and readily recoguizes both conveyed on4he UnuecI States bri^ ■ a g en era] order declaring that any civil Maryland aiul Virginia was caused by the i t i. e Tv ni0 c r ntic rartv of Maeon
all who come near.- lie has not made Wasp, then with the French fimt, Pulaski, 0 jjj Cer w j, 0 should fail w; refuse to recogr ravages of the fly on tho plants, render- , i t ,. !s div at the court
mention of his fearful work and tlie ! dying two days- •ton™*s.J«£ ^as tHe: mz0 and enforce any military ordere om- ffigThnpossibfe to procure them in many county assembled this_ day at the court
‘ ’ —’ ‘ vhicli re-
re ported
tobacco
cred, and was afterwards, in 1826, 1 J a11
duty in the central part oi the city he no- . * red » an " al tenvairus, in lb-o, acc>- t ] l(J following letter to, Gen. Meade:,
S a colored ma.. named Ileur/ Brown ! dentai y killed in Baltimore ,by a fall CuthSert, Ga., March 25,186$.
r « l./vncn nUnntoii mi through the httcbwav of a warehouse. urni. dpji. \Tpath>l commamlina Thu
The Crawfordsvilfe Democrat tells of 2"***“^,gSSTuratad
to lire Monl.nl HI0-
Tuf SSTSi£&U ii Jeon, "' tare . “ sl » !ed
and she ambled along quietly. Twoliours’. 18 treasurea. ,
reflection in town, however, convinced Ler | Count Pulaski wasjustly regarded as one
that this was but another instance of ( 0 f the preux cAerafiers of the first revolu-
min’s tyranny over the feminine grade-, tioaary war . He was especially noted
and therefore resolved to put her winning * *1- u—i,;« «!<«««.« ami i»?a
ways in lull force aud let female influence
exirt its sway uncontrolled and uueon-
Lotise in Oglethorpe, for the purpose of
appointing delegates to the gubernatorial
convention at Atlanta, on the 4th of Au
gust next, and also delegates to the con-
- . „ - gressional district, and the senatorial con-
sect ions of the country the prospect lor a ^ ntioa for tllQ thirteenth senatorial dis-
Maj. Gen. Meade, commanding Third
Military District, Atlanta, Ga. —Sir:
Soffie time since it was reported in the
public prints .that in answer to some in
quiry in regard to the application of your
full crop is good,
oats.
Tlie condition of crops planted for the
whole countiy is but slightly below that
of last year. The condition of the oat
crops show some improvement since
general order No. 11, you replied, that i j mie reports, aud is now 90 against 73 in
tlio “Relief Ordinance,” enforced by that 1 j u „ e . Xew England and Middle States
order, was subject to tlie construction of K port a high condition, but from Dela-
“Vox Femin.e,” in .tlie Advertiser, ad
vocates the keeping open on .Sunday of
of Captain T. C.~ Slid]man When he j regular bar-rooms.
had nearly reached his store in Stiles- THEM was another regatta at tho Islp
boro he received the blow above alluded j of Hope yesterflay,-this time between the
to just behind the left ear. When he ! shad boats and batteaux. i.q» - *■
awoke to consciousness he was pulling i The population of Muscogee county is
himself up beside a fenee a mile from tiie • 19,154—an ino-case of. about . twenty pgr
„ spot where he wai stricken, and near a cent, since tlie last census. i i j-,’--c . - 1 *, .
j. • graveyard, it was thraght at first that' Fort Valley proposes not to be out- oh .tkq Affamuha *« hafti .that, toe nee
u ■, a'h.ii’iT" „i„,i i robbery was tbe motive of the assassin, ‘ done in anything;- therefore, lias seulcd . crop ,is ip,-jin}; cciidifton, hut. that up to
u i but a ihflcie'it conclusion was soon arrived , upon a gigantic barbecue for August. j d*tijbe crop ol this yeqr . lias cost .nlucll
prirate at tlie ar- a'. Probably the most correct theory is, : The country is awaiting to sec the Con- • more thai^^hit ptjast yeqc. Owing tothe
finfed. Accordingly when she readied the
summit of the western hill she let fly
both heels and the air was filled with
dust and fragments of rock, and the people
for miles around thought a rock quarry
had burst. One piece went hnrtling
southwardly through the air, and in its
passage grew red-hot by friction, aud the
Macon people heralded it far and wide as
a mete«r “ramboosting” around.
Sparta Times and Planter: Our com
munity was shocked yesterday morning
when it became known that Mr. Charles
Whitehead had been found dead in bed.
The day before he was on tbe street, at
tended prayer meeting at the Presbyteriau
church late in tbe afternoon and went to
bed at liis regular time for retiring, appar
ently in good health. Tlie ladies of. the
household being absent Mr. Whitehead
and his son, Frank, and Capt. Frank Bur
net went tp.breakfast with Mr. William H.
Burnet. When about to start for Mr.
Burnet’s residence Capt.Burnet reminded
Frank that it was time to wake his father
for breakfast.
Frank entered his father’s room and
discovered him lying on liis left side dead.
He was in a natural position as though lie
died without a struggle. He is supposed
to have died of heart disease. Tiie sad
event has cast a gloom over tlie commu
nity. Mr. Whitehead wa3 a quiet, unos
tentatious Christian gentl rinan. We ten
der our sympathies tothe bereaved rela
tives-and friends. The funeral service
will take place this moruing at 10:30
o’clock. J* i
A Huge Rattlepnau’e. —South Geor
gian:- Last Tuesday some negroes, em
ployed by Mr. Thomas ‘Norfleet,-of our
town, while a' work near Aiigator creek,
a few miles distant from this place, suc
ceeded in killing a huge rattlesnake.' Tt
also for tho beauty of his chargers and liis
accomplished horsemanship and skill in
tiie use of the sword. The following inci
dent wliich we glean from an exchange is
vouched for as authentic:
During the. retreat of the American
army through New. Jersey, in the darkest
liourot oui national adversity, Pulaski
w as, with a small party of lisrsemen, pur
sued by a party of British cavalry, the
leader of which was as good a horseman
and mounted nearly as well as Pulaski.
Pulaski rode in tlie rear of his detach
ment, and the British captain came in ad
vance of those he commanded. Tlie
morning sun was shining brightly, casting
oblique shadows, and, as the pursued
party eutered-a long narrow lane, Pu-
’ laski, having satisfied liiiLS“lf of the
superior speed and command of liis
horse over that of his pursuer, slackened
his pace and kept his horse to the side ot
the lane farthest from tlie sun. The pur
suing .officer came rip iu hot haste, liis
sword elevated so as tp r ,make the decisive
cut upon Pulaski- Os soon as he could
reach him. - Pulaski rode as though lie
heard not tlio advance upon him—yet lie
kept his eyes fixed warily upon the ground
on the side of his horse toward the sun on
his right. As soon as he saw his pursuer’s
horse gain-upon him, and found that tlie
horse’s brail, by tbe shadow, bad gained
about half the length of liis own horse’s
body, lie cave the sudden sword cut ot St.
George, with his powerful arm, and saw
tlie decapitated head of tlie English oflicer
follow tbe stroke. . j n;
His mathematical eye liad measured
ly Ip!led by those in--jinrsnit.’ It'meas-
urod seve'n fipet ioiig, and had rattles in
proportion we presume, but ns they were
knocked off by either age or accident, wo
djd not see them. Tlie skin, which boldi
ne,uly half a bushel of bran, can be seen
at the store bf Mr. Norfleet.
Brilbsiciai iJCtiecrtiser: From planters
. ho was put n
■. mi: it.vi.-,.,. ,u iv"! that the assassin took him for another man stitution “show np” HlKimball, according . mild winter, tlie entire stubble o, last year
■UempUd fuiirije ,a ' aiul was mistaken in liis victim. ! to promise. Private reports assure |is that Was still grqeu, and it had to be lioed off
lingtho i.-aiiinr ar-I 3Ir. C unyus lay. for %«ve;al days in a the said journal .will do no such thing. ;—and-uot burned, as usual. One man, in ■
. Ills call arquseri very precarious condition. The blow and 'LaGrasok has made the license fpr any.given time, cQjild burn oil and clear-
it was tightly bound bruises received in falling from b' ' " M i-At.,..
I reach the a-senal were very severe. V/eaie clad tosay
V.i.i.h ha 1 b!eJ pro- l.c is now up, though a little feeble, atm Ii rucy nave HW wwyijas. u,(• wn uu*.,ni|, .
his acc-pted theory of the assault is core - Selling in quantity smaller than a gal- good seaspns, it wrlfoh.e iiolhiiig jh tlift against such love as this, i akin- -e
l.jjer was Buckler, reef, feels under no obriga'iontu Ihefeliovr loft has been prohibited. ; news of tbe battle AT;w thousand dollars hn arms, and weeping like a child, from
in ohabiy indu vd lie who looks !d:e him. , Henry F. Richardson", Esq., of ATan- additional ou a good rice crop is a tery that day Le became a temperate man.
IUUK , J
tlje cross stroke of his pursuer must have
hecu made at a much shorter distance to
have taken effect, that the pursuing officer
lost liis head before he suspected that liis
pioximUy. was known, or that a blow was
‘ A Father’s Testimony.—A drunken
father arose horn liis sleep one day, after
he had been drlnkitlg, and saw Ills littlo
daughter preparing food, and - turning to
her in a tone almost tender, lio said, “Mil-
lit, what makes you stay with me?”
“Beeafise vou arc my father, and I lovo
yin,’’ said tlie child. “You love me?”
answered tlie wretcliod fatiier. “Millie,
wjiat makes, ymi fovc me ?- , PfflsOnly a
miserable drunkard: Everybody else de
spises me. Why dcii'tyon?”- ■
j“DcarfaUier’;” said Millie, her eyes fill
ing with tears, “my mother taught me to
love, you,'and-everv night it seems, in my
dreams, as though she stood by my bed
| aiid said, ‘Millie, don’t lcavc your poor
' father,he will get over the power of strong
, and then lipw happy you
poor heart could not stand
the judiciaries like otherState laics. By sub
sequent order, (No. 37,) you have declared
in present force, all those provisions of
tbe proposed constitution, on tlie subject
of debtors, “homestead and relief” from
all debts accruing prior to June 1st, 1865.
Ferinit me to enquire whether those pro
visions also are submitted to the courts,
subject to that uutramineled freedom in
their construction which has heretofore
been tlie prerogative and duty of the
sworn judiciary as to all pretended laws,
and, in the exercise of whieh, the consti
tution of the United States has ever been
held supremo.
It is the more needful that we should
learn your views of this matter, since yon
have, by a still later order, (perhaps No.
42), announced that any civil officer “who
shall fail or refuse,” to obey any of your
orders in regard to liis official duties,
shall be subject to trial before a military
commission, aud “on couviction be fined
or imprisoned, or both.” That there may
bo no room for future misunderstanding,
and, especially, as by my official oath, I
am bound to support, above all, the con
stitution of tlie United States, and there
under to enforce the laws of Georgia, I
beg to be informed whether I aui, under
your late order, as judge of the Superior
Court of Georgia, to decide what I may
conscientiously believe to be tlio law, or
whether your orders are to he understood
as requiring me, under threat of fine and
imprisonment at the hands of a military
commission, in spite of any convictions
which I may have to the contrary, to de
clare as law whatever you have emit
ted in military orders.
An immediate reply will oblige, sir,
your most obedient servant,
John T. Clarke,
. Judge of the Pataula District.
Tlie only reply vouchsafed to this letter
was the transmission by mail to Judge
Clarke of an official copy of order No. 87.
Judge Clarko at once prepared and
sent to Early and Miller Courts the fol-
a lowing order f which now appears on the
records!>'• ' >i ‘ ‘
At Chambers, Cuthbert, Dandolph
County, Georgia, April, 1868.—Whereas,
in order to the proper administrat ion of
legal justice, it is not only absolutely nec
essary that judicial officers be left free to
discharge the functions imposed upon
them by law, and to interpret tho consti
tution and the laws according to their
own judgment, in the light ot argument
and precedent, uninfluenced by the
hope of reward or the fear of vio
lence; but that it should be man
ifest to all that their administra
tion is thus free and nncorrupted;
nnd, whereas, every judicial offi
cer of this State is required, before assum
ing his office, to swear to support tlie con
stitution of this State and of the United
States; and, whereas, the State of Geor
gia is at this time undor the military do
minion of the present majority of the
Federal Congress, contrary to tlie intent
and plain provisions of both said constitu-
i tions; and, • whereas; Major General
George Meade of tlie United States army
is in actual command of tlie third mijilary
district, Including this State, and, as sucli,
claims the right and exercises tlie power
of interference with the freedom of the
civil courts; has ordered the juries in said
ware to the Gulf the condition is very
trict, to be held respectively at Hawkins-
ville on the 1st day of September next,
and Amcricus on the 18th flay of August
next. ' „
On motion of Col. W. H. Willis, Hop.
J. D. Frederick was called to the cliair,
and J. M. Greer and J. A. Edwards were
requested to act as secretaries.
Col. W. H. Willis, prosposed the fol
lowing named gentlemen to be balloted
low, except in portions of Texas, where . fo{ . a J r i Ian i em !' n delegates, viz: W. H.
tho average is high. 3 ennessee reports F . F J Snead, E. B. Lewis and Dr.
only a per cent, of 04, owing to drought, j, q’ Engram-
Kansas and Nebraska, from same cttise* \ \y, Jl. Reese proposed the following
report only 84 m the former and G, m the . t]emen to be balloted for as Colquitt
latter. j 'delegates, viz: W. H. Robinson, J. D.
POTATOES. { Frederick. W. J. Collins and J. E. De-
Thero has been no change in the area Yaugn. The ballot then proceeded and
planted in potatoes in tlie wliole conntry, j xesuUetl as follows:
the deficits of one State being connterbal- j The Hardeman delegates received 171,
anted by the increase iii another. The j au j the Colquitt delegates received 147-
condition of the crop’s very favorable— Majority for Hardeman, 24.
i "* Tha .meeting then proceeded to elect by
acclamation delegates to the congressional
and senatorial conventions, respectively,
with the following result:
To tlie congressional convention, W.
H. Willis, J. D. Frederick, William Mi
nor and S. T. Drauglion, with power each
to appoint Ins own alternate.
To tho senatorial convention, J. B.
Murray, H. N. Gardner, L. O. Niles and
J. A. Edwards, with power to appoint
tlieir own alternates.
On motion of Col. L. M. Felton,
Resolved, That the true Democrat and
eloquent Col. Walter H. Weems, of Lee
county, is the choice of this convention
for elector for the third congressional dis
trict.
The following named gentlemen were
elected by a vita voce vote as the Demo
cratic executive committee ofMacon coun
ty for tlie next ensuing two years, viz:
J. H. McClung, W. H. Fish, D. B.
Frederick, T. M. Bryan, Louis Turner,
J. B. Murray and J. H. English.
On motion
Resolved, That the secretaries forward
a copy of tbe proceedings of this meeting
tothe Telegraph and Messenger and
the Montezuma Weekly, and requests
them to publish the satne.
On motion the meeting then adjourned
sine die. JohnM. Greer,
J. A. Edwards,
.- •• m . . Secretaries.
J. D. Frederick,
Chairman.
fatly as good as in 1879. In all the South
Atlantic States the condition of the crop
is rather below that of last year, while in
the Western and Son'hwcstem States
it is reported above a full average.
RYE AND BARLEY*.
The condition of rye and barley is
fine in all tlie States where sown, except
in the State of Nebraska, where tbe con
dition is very low, owing to drought.
WOOL.
All the States show a wool clip equal to
or greater than that of last year, except
New Hampshire and California. Kansas
reports an increase of 42 per cent, and
Nebraska !o. A vast increase in the ter
ritories is indicated by fire reports received,
amounting to 20 per cent.- In Texas
alone 15 per cent, increase is reported.
APPLES.
A full average condition is reported
everywhere in apples, excepting in the
Southern, Atlantic and Gulf States, where
there is a falling off.
PEA CITES.
Tlie reports show tbe Condition of tbe
peacli crop to be about tlie same As apples
—a full average, excepting on tlie Pacific
coast.
GRAPES.
Tlie grape crop is reported favorable in
all localities, and as having enjoyed bet
ter conditions for growth so far than eith
er applesorvpeacho»J S.l A
■VjTiy We Prefer Hardeman,
• 1 We have been repeatedly asked recent
ly why we prefer tbe nomination of Col.
Thomas Hardeman for governor to Col
quitt; Lester, Ot others. Some of our
reasons are briefly given as follows:
He is eminently qualified for tbe posi-
“Joxes, why don’t yon have your boy
taught music?” “It wouldn’t be any
use:” “Why not?” “He hasn t any car
. „ - , for it” “How do vou know lm -m*' 1 •
tion. He bas done more for tlio cause of tl j t ; t]ie f ar ,ii y . I haven’t any ear
Democracy since the war than any private fnr it W)lV if a *ma„ should bring me a
citizen in the State. He has spoken in i, an< j‘ an’that would play‘Old hundred,
more counties to more people, and at a < j cou idn‘t get more than seventy-five out
oi it.”
greater personal sacrifice, and without
reward or the hope there
of, other than discharging a patriotic duty
to liis State and people,- than any citizen
ot Georgia. Duty lias never called but
met with a prompt response from him.
He lias spoken in our schools and colleges,
before the Granges and agricultural gath
erings, in every section and at all seasons.
Iu politics he is true and tried, and his pa
triotism has never been circumscribed by
county or district: lines, but bis voice lias
been heard from the mountains to tlie
seaboRid, upon every important issue.—
Cuthbert Appeal.
Dii. Johnson’s WtGS.—Dr. Johnsons
wigs were in general very shabby, and
tlieir fore parts were burned aw a> by tho
rear approach to tbe caudle winch ms
shortsightedness rendered necessary m
reading. At Strantham, Mr. Ihrale s
butler always had a wig ready, and as
dinner was announced the servant would
remove the ordinary wig and replace it
with the newer one; and this ludicrous
ceremony was performed every day.—
Galignani.
The first State elections this year will
occur on the following dates: Alabama,
August 2; Arkansas, September 0; Ver
mont, September 7; Maine, September 13; _
Colorado, October 5; Indiana, Ohio and $8.25 a day as a gen
West Virginia, October 12. day as field allowanc
A Fat Office —Major General Sir
Garnet Wolseley received in South Aiiica
a salary of $30,000 in addition to a smil
allowance of $10,000, “unattached pay of
eneral officer and $10 a