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Wednesday, August 11, 1860.
Georgia State Press Convention.
The proposed State I‘i css Convention, as it now
stands, to be held in this city on the 23d instant,
"hangs tire” in many places. When definitely
settled that it will take place, the hour and the
place ot its assemblage we shall announce lor
the benefit of all interested in it.
Grand Jury Presentment* of Fayette
County.
The readers of the Intelligencer in the
good old County of Fayette, will see in this
morning’s issue of it, the presentments <1 the
Grand Jury at the late adjourned July Term of
the Superior Court of that County. From them,
it will be seen that fiscal and other business
matters of the County were duly investigated
with a result creditable to the officers ot the
County, and we learn from a gentleman who
was Hie holding of the Court,
that his honor, Judge Bigby, presided with
great dignity and ability, much to the satisfac
tion ot the jurors, bar, and those having busi
ness in Court. We notice in the presentments
themselves a compliment paid the Judge, as
well as the Solicitor, pro tew, lor their impar
tialily and courtesy.
The Er.llpne and the <ornot
This afternoon at a little before 5 o’clock the
eclipse of the Sun will attract -di eves in our
city to it. But this is not the only right th.il
should claim their attention. Astronomers tor
ten years past have told us, says the Nashville
Banner, and other papers, that during the
months of July, August, and S< plember, in tin
year, the most wonderful comet the world ha:
ever known would re appear. This comet is
on time. It is now to be seen with the naked
eye, any clear night, in the northern p irl ol the
heavens, between eleven'End twelve o’clock, and
trom that time till the morning star rises. As
tronotners assure us that this comet will ap
preach nearer the earth than any comet ever
did before, and that either the earth or the
comet will have to change its course, or a colli
sion is inevitable. This comet is said to
many thousand times larger than the earth It
is a solid mass of fire, with a tail of tire that
would reach around the earth more than a him
dred time.s, and a collision with our planet e
not an event to he very ardently desired
After viewing the eclipse thisf* afternoon, our
readers can gaze at the ron.- :. to-night, “ wind
and weather permitting. ’
On Jonrn»i.
The New York Time- < ■ . -xhibit the
vigor which always character i.ed the writings
of its present Editor. 00-s ot lu . recent lead
ing articles is on journalism, it proprieties, and
the duties ot those who assume its responsi
bilities. Toone of these not a thousand miles
trom Atlanta, we commend the following para
graph which we extract from the article refer
red to. It may do him good, and lead to his
reform.
“There is,” says the Times, “a method ol ad
vocating a cause by denouncing its enemies,
which may lie, and often is, carried to excess
especially by youthful partisans. It is not by
harsh names nor by persistent detraction that
men are persuaded to abandon their opinions,
and those who ply that sort of warfare are
usually less intent on gaining proselytes than in
making a public or partisan merit of their zeal
Noone is lit to be a guide to public opinion
who has not learned that the bad men are not
generally quite so bad, nor the good men quite
so good as the intemperate partisan is disposed
to believe him, and soft words often dissolve
prejudices and errors in our adversaries which
violence and detraction render solid and im
perishable.”
And with regard to personal controversies,
which used to disfigure American journalism so
much, but which we are pleased to sec, only
pertain to a very few journals, especially in the
South, the Times also says :
“Editors can never have a better excuse than
the gratification ot personal vanity for washing
their dirty linen in public. They are simply or
gansot public opinion, and they are false to
their positions when they are betrayed into an
abandonment ot their impersonality.”
Washers ol “their own linen in public." will
doubtless note the above and govern themselves
accordingly.
Colton Prospects—The Rust.
The rust in cotton seems to have made its
appearance in Southwestern Georgia. The Al
bany Ar ies says, “ We have reports from all
sections that the rust is seriously injuring the
cotton. We have seen it ourself, and where it
exists the cotton looks as if a flame of fire had
swept over it.”
Commenting upon which the Columbus Sun,
ot the sth instant, says:
•’his disaster, wo presume, is confined to
cotton manured with guanoes. Much was the
case in this section in 1807. We knew that
year ot plantations where the portion manured
with guano rested to the last row, whibt cotton
not manured, adjoining it, without even a turn
row or fence division, did not rust, but eontiu
ued to grow and fruit up to frost. This’yeai
rust is appearing in this section. Wheth. i it ,
confined to land on which guanoes were used
we have not learned.”
We have also the following trom the. Ameri
cus Courier of the 4tb instant:
“Reports received from ditierent sect ions ot
our country cause us to fear that, it will be me
essaiy to “change our tune” in regard to tin
prospect.”
A reliable gentleman who has just returned
trom Florida, inti rms us that there is no doubt
ot the presence of the genuine cotton catterpil
tel m at least one plantation visited by him near
1 allahassee.”
"Col. Malone, of this city, informs us that be
lias received a letter trom his overseer in Baker
county, informing him tbet there is no doubt ot
the callerpillar being in that section ’’
“Sine* the wet weather set in, we learn th it
the rust is making its appears- .-e to a som. w h it
al inning extent in some sections.”
This is bad news, but we trust that fair wealh
er and the bright sunshine will stop the rava
ges ot the rust, tLau which no mine destructive
enemy to cotton ever visits the field., ot those
who grow the great staple, b \d tnc c.ilerpil
iar prevailing together, and < c bright pr> -
peels of the planter mi be y like led.—
And here we deem it per' ! t.e'>t -k v here is
the corn which the cotton ’ o r m vm i l,
to come trom, should the co,;, n ~t the twlds In 1
blasted or eaten up, which, we trill, will not b<
U»e case.
A Harulii'r.
A Western paper warns the people to look
out lor the large worm which intests the tomato
Vines at this season. Ils sting is deadly poison I
It is <4 a green color, two or three inches long,
and as large as a man's finger. In Wayqe
county, Indiana, a lew days ago, a servant girl
while gathering tomatoes, received a puncture
from one of these worms, which created a sen
saliun similar to that of a lav sting, lu a short
lime the poisou penetrated to every part ot her
system, ami she was thrown into spasm v. ’n, b ;
i.u led in death.
V erj aeu slble.
A lady who has been spending some days at
s hotel at Saratoga, where a son in law ot Com
modore Vanderbilt ami family are staying, tells !
the following story:
“ Calling in the room ol the Commo •
dore's daughter one day she too nd her giving
Uer little daughters some lessons in the homely
work of darning stockings. i tie visitor ex '
pressed surprise that she should bi-tlier herself '
or daughter with such work, when the Commo
dore's daughter replied that there was no telling :
what a woman might be called uj'->n to do iu
thia country, or what tale awaited i.er, and she ■
believed in instructing them in useful arts as a
preparation tor Any reverse that might overtake :
i them.” .
-tee Southern Debt.
The last 7«<tepen<tent has an article on the ,
luyinent ol the Southern debt, which will ,
carcely betpbjectetl to by the Southern people. ,
n answer to certain queries, it says:
“ One ol our friends, whose communication
vc publish in another column, strongly and
ilainly condemns our view ot the payment ol
he Southern debt, and another asks, * It we are
,o pay the debt ol the South, why not pay for
Jieir negroes and their other losses ? Would it
not be as just? What claim have they on
government ?’
‘‘Just so. Thai’s our opinion. Will our
friend tell us what sort ot a thing ‘government’
is, that it should owe anything to anybody ?
What is‘government?’ Is it aa entity? lias
it a conscience—a heart ? Has it—our own es
pi cially—p probable‘future state?’ We think not.
Our view '.hat national debts aredue bythe peo
ple themselves, and not bythe machinery by
which I- ■' are governed. It is true enough that
the people of the North have no obligation to pay
the debt o' the South, though it might be wise
tor them to assume such. Nor have the people
ol the South, except as one ot the misfortunes
ot their defeat, any part in the debt of the
Union, and yet it would be wonderfully uuwise
lor them to advocate its repudiation. Their
own debt ought not, of course to be psid “at its
lace,” since the greater part of it no “value re
ceived” was ever obtained, ami its present hold
ers gave nothing at all lor it, but a proper ad
justment might be arrived at. As to the slaves,
all their value may be fairly looked upon as
“properly destroyed bythe war,” and the South
has as good a claim to compensation (or losses
received in battle or in siege. They fairly risked
illthat when they took up arms. The mere
imrning of any man’s house, however, does not
liquidwle any just mortgage thereon—nor does it
extend the mortgage over any other man’s
bouse" ’
Halen up Alive.
We see it stated that Charles While, the lion
trmier, traveling with Thayer’s menagerie, was
actually eaten up by the lions on Friday uight,
in a small town in Michigan. He is said to have
been struck on the shoulder by the same lion
that eume so near killing him at Rochester,
knocked him down, and the others at once
prang on him, and before they could be beaten
oil had torn him to pieces and devoured the
greater portion of his body.
“Still Harping.”
Alter taking a “ breathing spell” the “ Consti
tution" resumes its notice of the Intelligence:;,
in its usually verdant style, cot at all compli
mentary to this journal, of course, displaying in
its strictures somewhat of that “ Ramsey Sniffle"
spirit, which Longstreet, in his “Georgia Scenes
and Characters," has so signally rendered. Our
Broad street neighbor is welcome to wear all the
laurels it can wn in i;.. strictures ujion any con
troversy which tbit paper has had, or may have
with the “ / "e never knew, however,
any good to c r -n< ot those that interfered in a
quarrel not the n The reward ol the in
lermcdler, we at least have never coveted. The
“ Constitution" is welcome to it.
But how about that “ Demijohn of whisky”
presented to the Printers lor their festival, and
which reached the office of the “ Constiution ”
and never reached them, if reports lie true ? Al
ter the parade which it made over that little
matter, and its attected scrupulousness in re
gard to press acknowledgements for favors ol
that description received, it would gratify the
curiosity ol some to know, as the Printers for
whom it was designed, did not receive it, who
did ? Will our neighbor gratify this laudable
curiosity and tell us ? We trust we do not in
trude Upon the secrets ol the sanctum or ejjfee ol
the “ Constitution" in propounding this query ?
The Growth of Atlanta.
The surprising growth of Atlanta—it num
bering now some thirty five thousand inhabi
tants according to the most reliable computation,
and havin g v itliin its corporate limits in process
of constrm 'ion, al the present time, some eleven
hundred n-w edifices lias directed the attention
ol capitalists and manufacturers iu this, and
from other Htates, to it. A project, wo learn, is
nowon hand - vvtiich we li.ive assurances will
prove successful—to have here in full operation,
by the first ol November next, a mill lortheman
ulacture of cotton yarns and cotton goods, ol
considerable dimensions. Other manufacturing
projects are contemplated, and we have no
doubt that in a few years our city will become
one of the first in manufacturing importance in
the South. There is no reason, in truth, why
we should not manufacture here, in Atlanta, al
um* everything we need, and the time is not
far distant a lien, we feel confident, this will be the
case. To this subject, and to others connected
with the growth of our city and the furtherance
of its prosperity, we intend in the future to devote
more ot our time and space, than we have hitb
erto done in the material interests ol our city
and State, we feel more interest now than at
any previous period since we have been con
nected with its press, and we shall, therefore,
endeavor in the future to impart the same in
terest to our readers, trusting thereby to pro
mote them iu both.
l.ct the Colored IHen Read This.
Th.- Augusta Constitutionalist ot the 4lii iu
I'tniit says it is “ever anxious to hold up for the
emulation ot their race the example of thrifty
aud industrious colored men. A case ot this
ch irm’ter < one to our knowledge yestenfay.—
Six coL.red meu, engaged on the plantation of
Mr. Joshua Key, in Burke county, came to this
city, aud, backed l>y this gentleman, drew money
en<-ugh ou their tine prospective crop, from one
of our cotton factors to purchase from Messrs
Wyman A Muj’ sir buyqies, with all appur
tenances, out ol them a two-horse vehicle. To
the se vehicles t hey each bitched their own mule,
auimals whii-h evidenced, bj’ their sleek appear
ance, the faithful care they received, and drove
trom tiie city, an illustration of what industry,
good behavior and ihritt will accomplish for the
colored, as well as the white man. Here is an
example worthy of imitation by the many idle
and misguided colored men who congregate
around the towns aud cities, living from hand
to mouth.”
f.et the eoa,. -d men in Atlanta read the foie
and improve upon the lesson which it
teaches them
’I he
The LaGrange Reporter, in publishing the lel
lei of the IL v. Mr. Haygood on the press,says:
White we are appoota «> indiscriminate puf
liue, and hav- ta? a the . vc.tsiou to denounce
it, ae think i> ". y -!. Si ardent and reverend
friend lias Vrat.,.- OV di-iwn the picture of
newspa;>er vena h, n . the Southern press
is concern.:.’ Hi ct rg.-- ot corruption are
ratliei too -a -,.1111; :h. y carry with them a
hltle too much ot the >pim ot over zealousness
magnified beyond the real |>osition ot atlairs.
He makes the “situation ’ more terrible than it
really Is, and Hie morals ot the press more des
jH-rate than the ‘‘truth of hc-tory” warrants ”
Iron THE 4TL4NTA INTKI.I.IuKNr »K ]
A Terrible Dilema.
tn yesterday s Intelligences, quoting from
the Nashville Banner and other journals, you
ay, “either the earth or the comet will have to
change its coarse, or a collision is inevitable.”
At lirst 1 was frightened, aud was about de
clining a laud trade I had ou band, tor, if titles
and possessions were to be thus unc< remoni
onsly swept away, 1 thought it would I* n fad
and I Uiui 110 money to bise.
But considering that the " manifest destiny ”
01 the •'Um' raid Yankee Nation” was not to
be influenced lythe Dutch, Irish, Chinese, or
any other “foreign element,” (not even a
comet's,) I ‘.-It re-assure.l, shall attend all the
real estate sales, and avail myself benefits ot
the homestead iiw. Atlanta
I hr hcLirsK ol the sun last (evening was
nothing compared to lhe Eclipse in 1836. The
writer of this article was on his way home from
Mai on With wag-ms and carte, between Grape
< reek and I lint River, near the placcof Griffin— i
then in the woods. It was about one o’clock |
1.51., on a clear day—but during the eclipiee it
ws-s ro dart that we could hardly see to drive the *
teams—aud yet we made our way along through '
Uufi rugged path gj Use uuul todaj. >
The following important opinion ad- '
dressed by Attorney General 11. P. Frrow, to
Governor Bullock, on the lime of holding
elections for County Officers, has been banded
to us for publication. We invite the attention
of our readers to it:
Attoknet Uxnkrai.’s OvrtCK, I
Atlanta, Ga„ August 7, ISti'J. i
Governor:—Your communication of the 3lst
ultimo, with the enclosed papers, came duly to
hand ; and I have given them that consideration
which the importance of the question presented,
demands.
The question submitted, and upon which you
ask lor iny written opinion, is one Inch has
been propounded to me by a numbi • f ”ounty
officers who were not, under the law. emitled
to the opinions of the Attorney Ger.?r;;i, id to
whom 1 did not therefore feel at libti. > t > reir
der any opinion. There is great di” o nce ol
opinion among the people as to when tin-next
election for county officers will take place, and
it is very proper that the question should be
authoritatively answered and put at rest.
The Constitution itself, and not the Code, de
termines the term lor which county officers have
been elected ; and those who insist that the
election lor county officers will lake place next
winter, betray great ignorance ot the Constitu
tion upon which they have so recently voted.
The Dili Article ot the Constitution says ;
"The county officers recognized as existing by
the laws of this not abolished by this
Constitution shall, where not otherwise provided
for in this Constitution, be elected by the quali
fied voters ot their respective counties or dis
tricts, and shall bold their offices lor two years.”
Therefore, it is clear th: tby virtue of the Sth
. Article of the Constitution, county officers
will hold their offices for two years
i unless it is otherwise provided lor in
the Constitution. Does the Constitution other
wise provide? and il so Io what extent? It
docs otherwise provide in the case ot every
county officer elected in the election which
commenced on the 20th day ol Aprial 1868.
That election was held under and by virtue ol
an ordinance adopted by the Constitutional Con
vention on the 10th of March 1868; and all
civil officers elected under the Constitution, by
the people, were then elected, except Justices of
the Peace.
That ordinance provides that all officers
elected at that time shall “hold their offices as
though they were elected on the Tuesday after
the first Monday in November 1868,” and it
moreover provides that they “shall continue in
office till I lie regular succession provided for
after the year 1868, and until successors are
elected and qualified.” The Constitution itsell
affirms the validity of that ordinance and gives
it all the force and power to be derived from a
Constitution,—hence the present county officers
will hold their offices for more than Iwo years
from the time they were elected, but after the
first regular succession such officers will only
hold for two years,—except in cases where the
Constitution fixes a different term, as in the
case of the office of Ordinary which is for four
years.
Those who contend that the old election laws
contained in the Code, and found from Section
1345 to 1350 inclusive, are still of force and
must control the next election lor county offi
cers, and bring on the election nearly one year
before the offices can possibly become vacant,
should remember that all our laws governing
elections were rendered entirely inoperative,
obsolete null and void by the Reconstruction
laws and our Constitution. 11 these sections ol
the Code are ol force now of course they have
been of force all the time since they were fust
made a part ol our law. II they were of force
al the time ol the election on the2olh of April
1868, then it follows that there lias been no
election ol county officers under the Reconstruc
tion 1 .awn II that election was not volkl, then
the whole Reconstruction ol the Southern States
was without authority of law. If, on the other
hand, it is admitted that the present incumbents
were legally elected, then it fellows that the
Reconstruction Laws and the Constitution pre
vail over the said sections of the Code, and that
at tha time those sections were superseded, obso
lete, and void. It they were void, then what
has since re-enacted them ? They were inoper
ative and void then, and are to this day; lor
when a law is once annulled it is annulled for
ever, and can onlj’ exist again by ie enac.ment.
If il had been the purpose of the Irani- rs of
the Constitution, who also tram .• thi ordi
nance, to recognize these sections of in Code
as still of force, why would they Lav* disre
garded them in the last election ?
There can lie no doubt that under the changes
wrought by the Reconstruction Laws, and the
new Constitution, those sections ol the Code,
under which it is contended by some, the elec
tion lor county officers should be held next Jan
uary, are entirely obsolete, and that the General
Assembly must provide, for an election and suc
cession, just as it has in the case of Just ces of
- the Peace, before any election can be held for
f county officers. If there should be no provision
s made by the General Assembly at its next ses
sion tor an election and regular succession, then
• by virtue ot that provision of the Constitution
' which provides they shall hold till their succes
sors are elected and qualified, they would simply
’ continue in office until the next Genera) A-sem
bly could provide for an election.
Therefore it is my opinion that there is at
‘ this time no law regulating the time tor the
. election of county officers, and that, before any
• election can be held there must be further legis
t lation. lam Very Respectfully,
> Henry P. Farrow,
Attorney Genera).
His Excellency Rufus B Bullock, Governor of
. Georgia.
From the Aucusta Chronicle & Sei llnel, 6th iust.
I Tragedy in EdgrflelJ-Two Men Ambus
caded—One of them Killed and Another
Serlouely Wounded.
, On yesterday evening we were informed by a
gentleman just from Edgefield Court House,
that the Cresswell difficulty had culminated in a
tearful tragedy. As our readers arc all aware
of lhe nature of the aflair out of which the dif
ficulty between the Addison family and Mr. D
Cresswell arose we will allude to it in this con
nection; but merely give the history’of the re
cent tragedy as given to us by our informant
On last Wednesday afternoon Mr. D. Cresswell
and an older brother, Mr. Charles Cresswell,
' left this city in a buggy to return to their homes,
. near Ninety-Six, South Carolina. Late on
the evening ot that day the two brothers
reached E<igefield Court House and stopped
for the night at the village tavern. On
yesterday morning, la-tween eight aud nine
o’clock, the Cresswells again started on their
journey, taking in lhe buggy with them a six
teen slmoting Winchester rifle as it anticipating
trouble. They bad not been gone long when
some one came into the town and said the twon
and said the two men had been murdered. A
party immediately went out to a-certain it the
rniHt-r was correct. A mile and a half trom
Edgt field, on the rnap to Ninety six. the bodies
of the Gresswells were found. The older,
Charles Cresswell, was perfectly dead the body
being almost riddled with bu< kshot. D. Cress
well was seriously it not fatally wounded. One
hand was pierced by two balls ; the other hand
by one; the chin was also struck ; one ball en
tered lhe side, another tin- stoinacti. The latter
is reported to have said that two men cone -aled
Ly the wayside and fired simultane--nsly as they
saw the- buggy—altei waid making Uu-ir escafie.
He identified one ot the party as George Addi
son, jr., a brother of the young lady ot the
atiair. The wounded Cresswell is now aa in
mate of a priuate house iu Edgefield. No ar
rests have yet been made.
Fixk thousand negro insurgents made a mid j
through Puerto Principe on and ’
destroyed property and provisions worth til v i
thousand dollars before they were driv> u oat. j
There is a dearth ot provisions at Santiago de |
Cuba, aud the patriots are expected to attack the i
city at an early day. More imp rtant seques
trations are eijiected.
Twenty thousand Fenian sympathizers j
| marched in procession in Limerick, Ireland, on 1
Monday, and aiterwards held a meeting and ■
I adopted resolutions deraandingnt Mr Gladstone
I lire release ot the Fenian prroeu rra. Everything
I was conducted in the m ~t rwderly manner, ..id
J do disturbance took place. ' '
The National AMMoeialion ol'Cotton Bian
iitacturers and Planters.
We have before us a pamphlet containing the
proceedings ol the first annual-meeting of the
National Association of Cotton Manufacturers
and Planters, held in the city of New York on
Wednesday, the 30th day of last June, Ainos A.
Lav rence, of Massachusetts, being President of
the Association, and among the Vice-Presidents
we notice the names of gentlemen from South
ern States, W. E. Jackson, Esq., of Georgia,
being one of them. The proceedings of this
meeting arc unusually interesting, and from
them much valuable information iu regard to
the manufacture, as well as growth ot cottcn
may be obtained. The report of the Secretary
tells us that the Association was organized on
the 291 h April, 1868,by gentlemen from all parts
of the United Stales, who were engaged in the
culture and manufacture of cotton, a.id who
had convened in New York, pursuant to a call
issued by the leading cotton manufacturers ol
the country.
In it there is a large amount of statistical mat
ter valuable to the planter as well as the manu
factures ol the South’s great staple, but we can
not help seeing cropping out, here and there in
the report, a leaning more to the manufacturer’s
interest than to the grower, of cotton. But to
this, more anon. From the Secretary’s report
we make the following extract:
'"in 1860 the United States supplied 84| per
cent, ol the whole import of cotton into Great.
Britain ; in 1866 they supplied 38 percent; in
1867, 42if per cent ; and in 1868, 43J per cent.;
the crop ol the United States being lor these
years respectively, as folloss
bales
ISfo-b •.>.342.116 “
iw-fi" ....: .. ::::2:3iJ:660 »
lUO7-S ..2,599,241 “
“Thig falling oil is to attributed in part to
a succession ot unfarerar ie reasons, in part to
the short supply ol .Jr >md its temporary dis
organization.”
"These causes ok dee? are but temporary.
Propitious seasons wi 1 ', n - doubt, again cheer
the heart of the cotton grower. Labor will be
reorganized on the new basis which the social
changesol the past six years have made neces
sary, and the farmers of the South will make
more cotton to the acre and to the hand than
the planters heretofore have made. Still for a
longtime to come Ihe cal) for more labor will
be importunate. The activity of the South, no
longer concentrated in the single channel ot
cotton culture, will press into new and varied
industries. Manufacturing and mechanical es
tablishments will spring up through the country,
gathering the people into villages, making in
creased demands upon the farmers for food
crops, supporting storekeepers and other trades
men. These villages will attract the lazy and
the pleasure-loving. They will attract, too, a
lietter class by the advantages they will otter
for the education of the people and their child
ren. Many men and more women and children
have been drawn, and will continue to be drawn
Iron: Ibe fields and their places must be sup
plied.”
That such will be results of the great change
that has been brought about in the South, we
have not a doubt. In the future, the South is
destined to be the manufacturer as well as the
grower of cotton. Our citieswill become to a
great extent manufacturing cities, and not the
least among them in that respect will our own
"Gale City” ol the South become, ere many
years shall roll around.
But upon the following which appears also iu
the Secretary’s report,we do not (eel inclined to
place that endorsement which we have put
upon the foregoing extract. He says :
“To regain our ascendency in the cotton
markets we must be able to lay down cotton in
Europe at 6d or less per pound. With cheap
cotton the demand lor cotton goods, now check
ed by the absolute want of means to buy, will
be greatly stimulated. The spindles ot Hie
world will be hard driven,and their number will
be rapidly increased. New demands lor cotton
will be made, and lor the labor to grow it. Our
great duly now is tv encourage emigration to
the cotton regions. This Association and its
officers can hardly be more usefully employed
than in collecting mW diffusing information in
trrjrnr.i to 11.0 <Lmi:>i-*:.>r labor, and to the ad
V intages aud iudui'et-d.-nts which Uiilcinil sec
tions offer to immigrants.”
Cotton reduced to 6d. per pound may do very
well lor the manufacturer but not for the pro
ducer. We think the grower of the staple is en
titled to at least a fair profit as the.reward of his
labor and skill, and six pence per pound for cot
ton will never, under the present system of labor,
nor any other we apprehend that will be initia
ted in the South, give him this. Here it is that
we see “cropping out” in this Colton Manufac
turer’s and Planter’s Association a leaning more
to the farmer’s Interest than the latter’s. Other
wise the Secretary’s report, as a whole, will do
very well.
From the report of the “Committee on Statis
tics,” we extract the following :
i 'rom information received in answer to ex
tended and careful inquiries throughout the
I niled States, the Secretary makes the follow
ing estimate ol the cotton mills from which re
turns have not been received, and ol cotton used
by them :
, , Mil's. Spoillee. I'otlon used,’lbs.
In Northern States. 43 NlOOo 3,164 340
In Southern SHt u 7 13.V00 <»4,5M
G3,»IOO 5 246,930 lb? ct u spun
< otton otherwise n-ed" m faille 14,000,000’
Cotron conauined, but not reported
(ustiiuated) 19,248.930 pounds
lotal Consumptii’H in year 1867-8.
North known 4 9.6(41.833
KetimaMM 17,181,340
„ „ . 426 878,173
soulli, known 35,869 750
Estim.-;ted.................... 2,064 590
- , , , 464 803,513
Dvduct for exceptional case? (i., .... -h the
Quantity reported is the usual conauming
capacity, and not the -n tna consumption) 14,803,513
Total consiiniptioh i.. • ;c ni!L 450,0.0.000
Our space will not C w us to make but one
other extract from thepn edtags of the Associa
tion, and to that we in \ '-e special attention of
our readers, and all engaged in the growing and
manufacture of cotton. < e take it from the re
port made by one of the Vice-Presidents of the
Association, Mr. J. M. Wesson, of Mississippi, and
in it the reader cannot fail to perceive and ap- 1
preciate the assertion of nne great truth, that J
the South is nc‘ only the onlj' place to grow
cotton, but the place, beyond all others to man
ufacture it, profitably. Read the extract ■
“To manufacture the coarser fabrics of the 1
South in which less skill is required we have '
many advantages over the East. In the interior, |
where 1 live, we buy seed cotton about three
cents less, and cotton iu the bale one and a half 1
less than it is worth at the seaboard. The east
ern manufactuier has to pay this and nearly 1
two cents more in freight aud expenses to get
the cotton to his mid, besides a loss in baling,
iron ties, aud a heavy accumulation ot dirt, say
au average ot 4 cis, a pouud on cotton, or 25
per cent, when cotton is 16 i ts. Our labor, un
skilled, it is true, costs us less because of its
redundancy, because also of cheap food, and
also because of cheap rents, or rather no rents
at all, and as land is so cheap every family has
vegetables ail Hie year. Budding-sites cost lit
erally nothing. Fuel costs the same, and has
to be used but three or four months in the year.
Board is much cheaper with us, partly in conse
quence ot cheap vegetables and cheap beet—
good beef in market costs fromß to 10 cents.”
“The same skill and labor at the South that is
used iu the E u-l can be made to produce a much
finer yarn, tor the reason that the climate is
mild and soil, and the cotton is in its virgin
parity, like snow-flakes as it tails from the gin.”
“To sum it all up; Eastern skill operated al
lhe South can make 25 per cent, more profit
than in lhe East, and can produce a finer yarn
than has ever been made on this continent, or
as tine, as can be made on the globe. The
1 uikei-s have taken the premium in the world’s
exhilHliuii ot mechanic arts, .1 id they can do so
in luc manufacture ol lhe fin< st yarns and fab
rics, it they will but apply their skill at the
South, where the climate harmonises with tbeir
objectejuid where the pure snow-tlake fibre as il
tans trom the gin, aids in their purpose.”
“ Yellow Jack ” at Work.
A telegram dated Halifax, Angnst 3 snvs that
eighteen dealiis from yellow lever occurred on
board the man-of-war Eclipse, on her passage
from Rio Grande to Halifax. Among the vic
tims wen-the commander and lust lieutenant.
Auothei ship, tiie liarracouta, arrived to-day
with fever on board.
An Exeeuiloß.
Bob Arnold, the colored man who was con
victed vt the murder of Mr. Thos. Thaxton,
the Washington (Wilkes c 0.,) Gazette ot the 6th
iuMant say-, was hung on Friday week last.
1 hat paper says he was a hardened wretch to
the end, and that death seemed to have no ter
rers lor him. i
Supreme Court of Georgia—June Term
1869.
Order of Circuits and uumber ol cases from
each:
Pataula Circuit.. 22 cases
Southwestern Ce- I 1 32 “
Middle Circuit 7 “ '
Eastern Circuit 3 “
Cherokee Circn 14 “
Blue Ridge Cir< 1 “
TallapoosaCirc.il 9 “
Atlanta Circuit 8 “
Flint Circuit. 9 “
Northurn Circuit 8 “
Western Circuit. 1 “
Chattahoochee Circuit 12 “
Macon Circuit 7 “
Ocuiulgee Circuit 3 “
Rome Circuit 4 “
Friday, August 6, 1869.
Argument in the case ot Reese and Burts—ll
legality from Oliallaho > :lv: was resumed and
concluded.
E. G Raiford Esq., to, till in error, ami
D. H. Burts Esq., ford ’ > b.nt in error.
No. 10. Chattahoochee Circuit—Hutchins &
Billingslea vs. Bigham, was dismissed on the
ground that the evidence therein was not certi
fied by the Judge below.
No. 11. Chattahoochee Circuit—Lovelace vs.
Smith & Farley, was argued by L. L. Stanford
Esq , by brief, fur ijjainlifi in error, and L. E.
Bleckley, representing J. M. Mobley for defend
ants in error.
No. 12. Chattahoochee Circuit—Walker vs.
Jackson, was continued on motion ol Judge R.
F. Lyon, who suggested a dimunition of the
record.
No. 1. Mueoti Circuit—Douglass w. Thom
son &. Marlin, was argued by Col. Washington
; Poe, for plaintifi in error, and by Judge R. H.
Clark and Mr. B Hill for defendants io error.
’ No. 2. Macon Circuit—Frurid sfc Ite.leneske
vs. Hellman & Sous, was withdrawn, because
ol an incomplete record.
, No. 3. Macon Circuit—Jones et al, vs. the
Macon & Brunswick Railroad Company et. al.,
was transferred to heel of this Circuit.
No. 4. Macon Circuit—Thornton & Co., lor
the use of Plant vs. Solomon & Faulk, was
argued by Hon. Cliflord Anderson tor plaintifls
in error. No appearance for defendant in error.
No. 5. Macon Circuit—Plant & Cubbedge vs.
the Eufaula Home Insurance Company was
withdrawn.
No. 6. Macon Circuit - Clark vs. Napier
withdrawn.
Pending the reading ot the’record by Mr. E.
Hill in the next case lhe Court adjourned till 10
a. m, to morrow.
Saturday, August 7, 1869.
Argument in the ease of the Executors of
Ezekiel H. Adams vs. the Administrator of
Eliab Jones, was resumed, pending which the
Court adjourned till 10 a. m , of Tuesday next.
Equality of Races and ot Men,
Much is said and written upon this subject,
but seldom with as much force aa the following
which we clip from the Imperialist. “Who is
there,” that paper says, “that, to-day believes in
the equality ol mankind ? Can a man be found
who is willing to pin his political faith to the
skirts ot such a transparent falsehood ? It so,
wc should like to see and examine him. Under
the hand of the phrenologist '_his bead would
reveal the development of faculties never
dreamed ot in the philosophy of that much
abosoil science. We should like to sound the
‘.'ur knessof his skull with .a sculptor’s mallet,
and take the measure of his brain with a tailor’s
tape We are not ambitions of taking him by
the hand, however, lor any man who admits no
superiors and recognizes the existence of none
who are interior to himself can neither fear
God nor regard man. Burrowing under the
lowest, substratum of human society, such an
one would find his proper sphere in lite.”
The I'alipxe.
Tlie Knoxville (Tenn.) Press <£• LferoiiZ gives
the following account ot the eclipse, as il ap
peareU in ilial < iiy t.iji Saturday :
“Perhaps no' ving (citizen of Knoxville ever
before wiliie-sed ■ scene so awfully grand as
that present I l«y ie heavens yesterday during
the eclipse < t tne sun. The most careless ob
server, as he wabnied lhe brilliant orb grow less
■until its bright light was extinguished, could
not fail to be impressed with an overpowering
sense of lhe sublime spectacle. The sky was
remarkably clear, and at the instant of lime
when but one slight edge or fringe of the sun
was visible, and the moon stood out in relief
with its crown of brilliant rays, the. Northern
horizon was, perhaps, 'he most grandly beauti
ful spectacle upon which ti e eye of any of us
will ever rest. Even the dumb animals turned
and looked, and for the tear and tremb
ling seized hold upon them. The fowls sought
their perches, and we know of one instance in
which they allowed themselves to be taken un
resistingly from the roost.”
We publish a short from
“Atlanta,” and we hope by this time he has re
covered from bis tright in consequence of the
possibility of a collision between the earth and
comet. The only sate refuge is in God, who
rules the earth, comet, and all things else.
Why were the people in Atlanta yesterday
evening like the chickens ? Because they went
to roost. We suppose the eclipse ot the sun
was the cause of it.
Singular Suicide of a Bank Robber.—A
dispatch trom Crewe, an important railroad cen
tre, thirly-four miles from Liverpool. England,
says : “A man, name unknown, committed
suicide here to-day, by throwing himself under
the wheel of a passing railway train. Upon an
inquest being held, a number of securities of
various kinds, part of the proceeds of the Ocean
National Bank robbery at New York, some time
ago, were found on his bodj'.”
Two convicts in the Auburn (N. Y ) Prison
fought a duel according to the regular code on
the 30th ultimo. The weapons were knives,
and the scene was the ice house. Both the men
were wounded, but not dangerously.
The magazines and newspapers, ol late, have
been gathering inscriptions from grave stones.
We copy trom a New Yoik paper one, said to
be on a handsome monument, in a city cemete
ry, in the central popion of that State :
“Mary Lillie, child ot George M. and Maria
L. H , and grand daughter of the Rev. 8. N.
11 . Our child and wc were invited abroad
on a paily of pleasure, which is to last forever.
Her conveyance was ready first, and she has
gone on her way rejoicing before us. We shall
soon follow.”
The Comet.— For ten years past astronomers
have told us that during the months of July,
August and September in this year, a wonderful
comet would appear.
This comet is on time, though we have not
seen it. We are told that between 11 and 12
o’clock al night it can be seen in the Northern
pert oi the Heavens, ft is said to be many
thousand times larger than the earth ; and that
. c''ll approach nearer the earth than any comet
e-wr <’td before.
Theatrical.—John Templeton and bis
troupe are doing a good business in Maryland.
Manager Ford, of the Holiday Street Theatre,
Baltimore, will vi.it Savannah, Macon, and
Augusta; also other Southern cities the coming
season.
The Chapman Sisters will also come South.
Blance, with her rich soprano voice, and Ella,
charming by her life and vivacity are now in
Buffalo.
We trust that Collier's Hall will be finished in
time lor the season. The broken and disfigured
wall of Dav's’ Hall, surrounded by broken
bricks, burn; 7;: » nd blackened mortar, by a
bold stretch c nation, may be said to re
samble (.'/Zus l r ur;u sitting lonely amid the
ruins of Carthage.
We had a call in our office this morning
from Mr. Lou L. Parham, Agent for the Gazette. ,
The Gazette is published in Charleston by Mr.
L. C. Northrop, editor and proprietor. We
can recommend it with pleasure, particularly to
1 our Irish citizens. <
Our Weekly Local Department.
LO. O. F. Grand Lod<;i. -Wc learn froaP
yesterday’s TeU'jraph, that lhe (oilowing officers
of the above order were elected at lhe mccliuß
in Macon, on the 4lh : 8. W. Mangham, Lodge
No. 20, AL W. Grand Master ; J. T. Thomas,
No. 9, R. W. Deputy Grand Master; F. A.
Lantznestcr, No. 44, R. W. Grund Warden; J.
G. Deitz, No. 1, R. W. Grand Secretary ; T. A.
Burke, No. 20, R. W. Grand Treasurer.
The next annual meeting ol the R. W. Grand
Lodge of the Slate will lake place at Griffin.
We noticed recently an advertisement lor a
foreman who could place every man’s advertise
ment al the head ot I lie cola i" , and for a local
editor that could please ' ;':<ybody. Well, in
answer to that advertiseir- “ .be num will gain
what the little ix-y did wno ci-ed for the moon.
We are frequently m id enough to eat ice
cream with some man, al hearing him say, “ 1
get my living by the swe it of my brow, white
you are trifling lime with papers,
and fixing up one little column.”
Think of it—hunting news all the lime; at
tending dental conventions, and hearing essays
read on jaw-breaking subjects; go to dinners,
and be made sick eating things we are not ac
customed to; accept invitations to eat supper,
and then be tossed by nightmare while others
are sleeping; go to picnics; that recubans sub
teyminefayi, is all lovely to write about, but the
practicality of the thing is red bugs, f pidcs,
want ol water, and sun-burut nose. Then,
the local must walk lhe streets in the hot sun,
or go out when cold or wet —go any and every
where—and some ol his readers will be delight
ed il his industrious search is rewarded by some
knowledge of ill ol a citizen, while other readeis
will censure him lor puLlisiiing il. The local
must become an eavesdropper around the city,
listen to the whispers of the walls ; observe the
secret arts of ternate toilet, the intrigues of par
lots, aud have his sight sharpened with ail the
watchful and laborious curiosity imaginable; be
thinks he has found somethiug good lor his
leaders, has it iu print, and white-one reader is
amused, another is looking up the local lor ex
posing his secrets, ai u<d with a cane and pistol.
The local attends a temperance lecture, or
sebocl examination, thinking il will please or
interest some reader, he makes an item, and
perhaps lhe first one who opens the paper will
scan the local column to see if we have raked
into the private and concealed evils of those
around ; like lhe ben jhat loatlis the meat that,
is placed on the clean floor, scratches in a bote
to find some musty grain. We lately read of a
mother who laid aside a paper because it con
tained so lew deaths, white the daughter looked
at it with disgust for its want of life.
The home ot the rich m m, the cottage of the
poor, the offices at the Opera House, the family
chamber, nothing must escape the search ot the
local. He must know and nose everyone;
must be familiar with the allairs ol citizen, or
stranger, act Paul Pry in their business, no mat
ter what peril he may encounter, what danger
risk.
Some readers ol the local would have you
tell that the sun will be in eclipse on the 7th ;
would know of its changes, reason why lor a
time its brightness is destroyed and then re
stored. Some would have him write ol nature,
why some plants are ciotued with the verdue of
a perennial Spring, while others like a neMtss
youth lavishes away the bounties of Heaven in
one Summer’s gayety, and stands naked to the
succeeding frosts ; others would not read such
locals, but have ears like cupping glasses that
attract the most noxious humors, and are for
sucking in malicious reports, obscene or horrid
relations; ask only foi statements ol the Na
tional Hotel tight, the Foy suicide, aud lhe pe
rusal of “Paps” letters to bis dusky lady love.
One reader would make the local column a pi ii-e
current for flour, bacon, corn, laid and leather,
to lhe great disgust ol his daughter, who would
read ol the Grecian Bend, charming dances,
“walking down broadway,” loves of hats, and
cake, and cards, received
It is a medley to be a local—dm ing the same
morning he may be called upon to see a tight,
participate at a funeral, witness a marriage, be
at lhe dinner, when a new hotel is opened, at
tend a fire or witness a loot race.
The Local must deal promptly and accurately
1 with all matters; he is called upon to investi
gate thousands ot subjects dr ring the year, and
’ write about them intelligent. He must pho
tograph the daily life of ; e city; pass an opin
ion on a book of poems as well as one of law.
He must criticise a prima donna’s singing, as
1 well as the minister’s sermon; must know how
to judge of the movements ol a danseuse, as
well as give au opinion ot a cotton press; be a
, fine judge of good liquor as well as ol a tem
. perance lecture; he must do all he can to aid
, benevolent institutions ; familiarize himself with
' the wants and wishes of the people; the condi
i tion ol streets and sidewalks ; must notice nni
i sances; do justice to enterprise; apply the lash
where needed, and praise when merited.
The local must be acquainted with astronomy,
, botaay, natural history, and everything else.
He must tell all the city tales of joy and sor
• row, ofcrime, and of woe; expose what is
1 wrong, and commend that which is good.
Such’a local is advertised for. When found,
we would like to take his hand and go with him
to Redwine & Fox’s or Jack’s Ice Cream Sa
loon.
Clam Chowder served at the National Ho
tel Restaurant at 10 o’clock A. M. to-day.
Officer Pitchford was up before Judge
Smith on yesterday, charged with the false
imprisonment ot Tom Btown, alias W'Hiam
Daniel, and bound over.
We were the recipient of a line aud delicious
watermelon from Mr. Charlie Hughes on yester
day. He received a large aud fresh supply at
h stand on Alabama street this morning. Go
and see him.
Real Estate.—Messrs. Wallace and Fowler
wdl sell to-day a house and Jot on McDonough
strset, adjoining Dr. D. Young’s property, and
I fronting Mr. Billy Solomon’s residence. Sale
to-day at 3 o’clock p. m.
There were no obstructions between the
Sun and the space oi earth occupied by this
city on yesterday—nothing like an eclipse. It
was fully as warm as we care to feel it.
Mr. Mark W. Johnson, who keeps the best
qualities of fertilizers, and also a good assort
ment oi winter and flower seeds, has moved his
guano office and seed store to Parker’s building,
on Broad street, nearly opposite his old stand.
Col. Adair will soon be in the city again.
From our advertising commas it wi’i be seen
that on the premises, the 13th day of August,
he will sell 40 lots, known as the Horton
property.
Notice.—There will be a meeting of she
officers and members of the Central Presbyte
rian Church immediately after sei vice, to mor
row morning in the church, to receive the re
port of the committee appointed to recommend
a suitable man for pastor.
A Long Train.—Fifty-two cars, and ten of
them loaded, drawn by one engine, came
through over the Georgia Railroad on Tlims
day.
We are gratified to learn that nndt r the effi
cient management of the road it is doing well.
The freights oi the road are increasing, particu
larly in corn and bacon.
A Business Ch/.ge.—Mr. Paul Jones, Jr.,
has removed his place of business f rom Peach
tree street to the building on Broad street for
merly occupied by Mr. Dobbins. Air. Jones is
now in the Western market, adding to his
already excellent stock. Asa wholesale dealer
in liquors, his reputation is thoroughly estab
lished. He will keep up his supplies regularly,
and the quality and prices of ai ticks sold by
him will not be excelled by any .house in the
city.
Personal.—Washington Poe, CoL L. N.
Whittle, Barney Hill, Maj. Cliff. Anderson, and
Hon. Richard F. Lyon, of Macon, are in the
city.
Uaution.—Local Editors should be very cau
tious how they play cards in the bai k room ot
a certain drinking house al the early h< ur ol 9
P. M. Alley views frequently tell distasteful
talcs.— New Era.
The local ol this paper has been asked several
times who the Era refers to above -if to us.—
The local of the Intelligencer is unacquaint
ed with the cards, consequently he presents
neither alley views at drinking houses or any
where else.
The Era should lie more explicit as to what
local he refers to.
For San Francisco.— Wc are gratified to
sec the enterprise and energy displayed by our
railroad men during the past twelve months
Every convenience, condo.' and economy
is now brought forth to benefit and an) travel
ers. No man connected with railroads is mak
ing more exertion than Col. Hulbert, and exer
tion that tells and is appreciated.
By reference to our advertising eoluruus, it
will be seen that Col. Hulbert has jHirlected an
arrangement by which tickets can be bought at
this place lor California. On and after (he 6th
of August lhe Western A Atlantic Railroad will
sell through tickets to San Francisco, California,
via Memphis A Charleston Railroad, for SIBO.
Applications for tickets should be applied tor
al t he general passenger depot.
Hackmen and Express Wagons Viola
ting Contracts.—As the City Council license
Hacks, Express Waggons and Drays, for the
protection ol strangers ami others who employ
them, 1 really think il ought to pnnisli severely,
by a fine, or lhe withdrawal of their license, or
both, where one of these hacks, express waggons
or drays, violate their obligations, and are re
ported to lhe Mayor.
Last evening, having important business >n
another part of the Blate, and stepping within
lhecily limits, about a mile from the car . <al.
I employed a City Express Waggon to ci>” tor
me this morning at 7 o’clock, telling the driver
1 wanted logo ofl on the 8<- >ck train—agree
ing to pay him bis price m. me aud hep?wnt«-
iny to be prompt, etc., but tq- this time, two
o’clock, p. m., he has not < ~e, and 1 missed
the cars.
1 repeal, that 1 think the City Council ought
to look to these things, and provide against such
cases as this. This is the second or third time I
have been thus disappointed.
A Traveler.
Mortuary Report.—ln the subjoined re
port will be found the list ot interments in the
city cl Atlanta lor the mouth of July, 1869:
DCATBS.
Whites over ten years. . ... 12
do under ten years js
Colored over ttn years ;&
do under ten years 14
Total 70
It will lie perceived that a large proportion ot
those reported are children. An unusual fea
ture iu the list consists in the fact that the deaths
among the whites for the month are considera
bly in excess ol the number reported among the
colored.
The mortuary record for the past three years
is here reproduced in order that this tact may tie
more fully appreciated.
DEATHS.
Whites. culoiiep.
1866 - 311 379
’ 1867—5?13 *»53
I 1808-156 265
1 The small pox prevailed in the community
during portions of the years 1866 and 1867,
■ which maj' serve iu part to account for the large
1 list of mortality during those periods.
The majority ol deaths reported for the mouth
just closed, occurred during the continuance ot
I lhe excessive heat that pievailed iu lhe early
portion ot the month.
J N. Simmons,
Chairman Board ol Health.
Notice This,—Mark W. Johnson’s Guano
> Office and Seed Store is removed to Parker’s
I building, opposite his old stand, Broad street,
. Winter Vegetable and Flower Seeds, just re
-1 ceived. a ug 7-2 t.
We leirn that in a certain village debating
society recently, the subject of debate was,
’ which event is lhe most rare, dispensing with
luxuries in order to be charitable, or paying
tailors in advance ?
1 Fayette Superior Court—July Adjourned
Term, 1869
] We, the Grand Jury selected, chosen aud sworn,
make the following presentments, to-wit:
We have examined, through our several committees,
the books of tlie varions county officers, and find them
. neatly and correctly kept, reflecting much honor on the
3 aforesaid officers.
f We find that the County Treasurer has received two
thousand two handled and ninety-five dollars, and has
■* proper vouchers amounting to one thousand seven huu
-1 dred and two 27-tOOths dollars, and after deducting the
amount of vouche-s and commissions at 2X per cent.
] on the who'e amount, leaves in his hands five hundred
! aud thirty five 35-100ths dollars. We also Hunk proper
. to state that we have found two without the proper re
ceipts attached, but are well satisfied of lhe payment of
! the same, aud caution this officer to be more particular
in the future. We recommend him to pay the Jury out
of the present fund.
We find that lhe Tax Collector’s books show the fol
lowing :
( Gross amount of county tax <4,112 67
Insolvent list of propeity 47 04
l eaves <4,055 63
Collector’s commissions 284 59
Leaves $3781 04
Receiver’s commission 142 29
Leaves <3,638 75
Amount deducted on double tax 27 00
Leaves $3 fill 75
Vet to be collected ... 260 26
Leaving in the Collector’s ha -ie <3,451 49
Paid to the County Treasurer pec
vouchers <2,247 00
To Ordinary for educational pv:-
poses floi <ls
Pa id to Overseer 601 90
Total paid out by Collector <3,451 85
bbowlng that Collector paid out more than
collected .36
We find that the overseer of the poor has received
<6Ol 90, and after deducting commissions, leaves <570
48, and has. paid out <569 16, for which he has proper
vouchers—leaving in his hands due the county <1 32.
We find that the Ordinary has received <>iol 95. De
duct <".O commissions, and it leaves <571 86. Brom
which deduct <570 83, amount of credits, and it leaves
iu the Ordinary’s bands due the county $1 03.
W-- recommend the payment ot the order of T. J. Ed
mondson, as Sheriff, for extra services in 1868, and en
dorse the action of lhe Ordinary in the other cases, to
wit: lhe order t.O J. H. Jones, for fifty dollars, and the
other Io W B. Faller for four buudred dollars.
We find a portion of the roads in bad order, and re
commend the attention of the Ordinary to the same.
We also recommend the Ordinary to take steps to ex
amine and have repaired the court house.
We take the liberty of condemning, in lhe strongest
terms, the conduct of some unknown persons, for turn
ing loose the water in Bennett’s mill pond, on last Wed
nesday uight. contrary to lhe wishes of the good people
of our county, and in utter contempt of the request of
our b- dy aud the Court, which was well known to the
perpetrators, thereby jeopardizing the health, and per
haps the lives, of mrny. We have always viewed the
said mill pond aa a public nuisauce, aud more especially
is il a nuisance in Us present condition.
In taking leave cst bis Honor, Judge Bigby, we tender
him our thauks for the able and impartial manner in
which he lias presided over the deliberations of our
< OU-1 the present week. And also to the Solicitor Gen
eiai pro tem., Col. A. J. Smith, tor his courtesies toward
our b»dy.
We request lhe publication of these presentments tft
the Atlanta Inteluiosnoeu and Griffin Star.
J. F. SHROPSHIRE. Foreman.
James M. Davis, Wm. C. Davis,
. Reuben R. Rogers, Samuel T W Minor,
Sterling Elder, William N. Cook,
Josiah V. Brcwn, Robert E. Johnson,
Jas. C. Hightower, Wm. Whatley,
Robert C. Bridges, George W. Ware,
Alexander Dunn, Thomae J. Edmondson,
Arthur J. Hand, Joseph J. May,
John C. Brassell, Jas. L. Heabgood,
Laymen Colman, James J. Speer,
Mikill J. Smith, Wm. A. Godsley.
Ordered by the Court, t hat the foregomg presentments
Ire publish, d in accordance with the request ol the
Grand Jury. ANDREW J. SMITH,
Solicitor General pro tem,
A. true extract from the minutes.
augi- it A. E. TUKE.S, Clerk,