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atti* & Iffesbamgse 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