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ERROR CEASES TO BE DANGEROUS WHEN REASON IS LEFT FREE TO COMBAT IT.”—Jefferson.
VOLUME XXII
ATLANTA, GA., WEDNESDAY, JULY f>, 1870.
NUMBER 27
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HL'BLIbHKU DAILY AND WEEKLY BY
JARED IRWEN WHITAKER,
Proprlel or#
ATLANTA, GEORGIA,
Wednesday, Ju*y O. 1870.
eitcuilrr P.-orlanialluii,
l lit: attention ot our readers is called to x
pioclamatiuu issued by the Governor, wfikli
appears in this morning's issue of the Intelli-
oknckk, in which a full and tree pardon is ex
tender! to " Vaknkv A Gaskill,” tor teaaoos
therein proclaimed.
The XIXiu Centum?.—By request, this
valuable mayazme waa put upon our daily ex
change lie) aver two months atro, anu notices of,
and extracts from the last number received, (the
May number,) have appeared in the.-e columns
Since then no number oi it, neither the June
nor July, has been received. Our couileay does
nut boem to nave been appreciated.
‘‘Tire True <#eorelan.”
The first issue ot this new daily—being the
huh (the more ihc merrier) now published iu
Atlania, made its appearance on yesterday.—
The publisher aud editor—Dh. Bamuki. Baku
-in his Salutatory, gives Its position in a lew
woida, thus :
“The editor ot thin journal is a true Grant
Republican. The columns ot the paper are
strictly dedicated, however, to the welfare of
Georgia. In a word, we shall do our utmost to
combine the good elements of all parties iigaiust
the violent factions ot the Slate, by whatever
political name they may t*e known. The effort
being put loith by the Bullock Imciiou to prove
U9 a Democratic sympathizer, is designed to
destroy whatever influence we may have at the
•* Federal capital,” in behalf ot this common
wealth. Our record as a moderate Republican
is too well known iu Georgia to need explana
tion "
“Tills brief paragraph is simply intended to
break the t fleet ot lalae statements, n >w heirg
seDt abroad. Read the prospectus ol the “ True
Of rgian,” printed on our first page. It is the
toundatioD ot our action, aud try it we ahall
.(and or tall."
As the “prospectus ” referred to by the editor
of the True Georgian appeared in th< se columns
several successive days, coupled now with the
above, the “ posit ion " of that paper Cannot be
misunderstood by the readers ot this journal.
CALL FOR A IIHKA1' ACiHICCLTI H.VL
CONVENTION.
tirsiid Halit of the County Agricultural
Societies.
To the exclusion of other matter, we lay be
fore ifie readers ot the Intelligencer this
morning, in these editorial column 1 -, tin- lollow-
ing address issued by the Hon Ben. (J. Yanoey
—the President ol i he “State Agricultural Socie
ty"—by which it will he seen that a call lor an
Agricultural Convention, to meet in this city, on
Tuesday, the lfltli dayot August next, lias been
made. Tlie reader’s special at .cm ion is invited
to President Yancey’s uddref-s. In it the im
port mice ot the movement upon the agricultu
ral and other interests ot the State, and the. suc
cess of the State Fair, whi jh will so soon fol
low the proposed Convention, me so forcibly
presented, that it would be supeilluous in us, at
the present time, to add a word in commenda
tion of the recommendation, or call. We have
only to say that, iu our deliberate judgment,
great good t un be accomplished by the proposed
Convention :—
ADDRESS CALLING AN AGRICULTURAL CONVEN
TION.
Plantation Co-isa River, i
■lime 15, lti.'a )
The Executive Committee ot the State Agri
cultural Society have requested the llou. David
W. Lewis to withdraw his resignation ol the of
fice of Secretary of the Society, and that, upon
his withdrawal of the same, I should publish an
order reinstating him iu said office.
His resignation has been withdrawn, aud an
oruer declaring him reinstated iu office haa been
duly published, and he is again in tue office ss
fully in the discharge of its duties as it his resig
nation had never occurred. (See Appendix A. )
Thus, tt is hoped, are ended the embarrass-
tneuls aud the unpleasant issues growing out ol
the measures adopted to till the vacancy iu the
office ot Secretary. So fa r as ihese measures
and the questions rising out ot them have
thought complaint against myself, or induced
attacks upon my official conduct, conscious of
the rectitude and disinterestedness of my inten
tions throughout, 1 can aud do disregard them,
knowing them to be based upon error and a
misapprehension of tacts. I have aimed, in all
my action, at the good of an organization which
1 teel has, in a great measure, been entrusted to
my judgment and mauageuieui. I claim do ex
emption Irom public criticism for any error,
but deprecating the contiuuauco o( strife aud
personalities, tor one, I cast them aside, and
here, now, invoke the oo-operatiou of all who
teel interested in the succtss ot the Society in
this important stage in its history.
Looking, then, to the Inline, with the lights of
the situation, what do we see, uud then what
should we dot* After an existence anil succesa-
tul operation of a quarter ot a century, the So
ciety, with the aids which it has received trom a
public spirited people, has originated and car
ried forward a spirit ot improvement and pro
gress in agriculture and its kindred arts which
is everywhere visible. Iu nothing, perhaps, is
this spirit more manifest than iu the eagerness
and numbers with which the people visit annual
Agricultural Fairs. Indeed, such is the desire
to render available all the menus and sources of
improvement which are to be derived trom Ag
ricultural Fairs and cattle shows, that there is
scarcely au important city m tlie State, and
scarcely a county with its Agricultural Society,
that will not have their Faio-- during the coming
season In this line ol effort, therefore, the ex
ample a.,d influence ol the State Society has
peruap* accomplished its work It may be to
its interest as an organisation, to coutmue its
Anuual Fairs, or at least hold them m connec
tion with some one ot the important organiza
tions in different parti at the State upon terms
ot mutual advautace. Be mat as it may; let
the luiure decide. The uuporiant question now
presents itself, is there not other aud gieater
wcik lor the State Agiicultural Society to per
form, and which no . ther organization can so
well undertake* 1 Are there u u some measures
ot legislation which a united and intelligent ex
pression trom those men pcsonally devoted to
the cultivation ot the soil ought to demand, and
uever cease to demaud until granted ¥ Are
there not great aud ii culcu ahle advantages to
be derived from a closer and more frequent in
tereourse between cultivated mindsrepieseuting
the agricultural interests ot all sections of the
State ¥ Is it not plsiu io the most oidmary per
ception—is it not evident io ev, n plodding la
bor itself, that in its simplest operations it Ts in
daily contact with ootu the revelations aud mys
teries ot science, and is not,. therefore, every
mind and heart ready to euliiroue Science as
the presiding genius ot labor, and to establish,
by liberal appropriations made by law, intimate
relations between them—relations between the
laboratory and the farm as close and intimate as
m iced are the tvlareons ot cause anil effect * Is
not this the mission cd our organization ?
Dteply uupruaso.i «.th tin- Conviction th&t
there is someihmg more to te d**ue than to
have mere shows aud tuns I recommend, and
hereby cull, a Convention ol tile Society, to be
bed in ati .'.Ia i >. -in), lrtth August. The
bv-iieitti v a.uuiu.u coitc.-pondiuce and per
sonal up, licatiou io the Superintendents Of
rauroaC6, obtainea ihe RKtviLEGK of the Pas
sive ovtii the railroad, both ways, WITH
OUT CHARGE, ot THREE DELEGATES trom each
county agricultural society to two semi-annual
conventions. This privilege ol a p*ss both
ways tree us.coutined to the throu delegates trom
each county society. Aui ather members and
ali audmoual delegates will pay one tare —
A\ here lucre arc two or more societies in a
eouuty, they must unite m it,,* election ot rep
resentatives, as only tuie, cm come trom a
county 1 he county societies sie therefore re
quested, at then- monthlv met-i'ug m July, to
elect their delegates, aud immediately report
their names to tne Secretary at Atlanta, who
will torw ard to them lire x-u. i rmtendeuts* free
tickets. Counties which have uo organized
societies shoo.d organize at cno. (See form tor
! Constitution ol County Agricultural Society,
j Appendix B.)
The following are among the subjects which
i will be submitted to the consideration of the
I Convention:
1. A closer connection and mutual depend-
! enre between the county societies and the State
Society. A plan will be submitted which it is
believed (till give greater vitality and usefulness
to boih
2 A caretnl consideration and examination of
the influence aud bcaria r of the legislation ot
the State upon ihe inteies's ot agncuduie.
3. The system ot taxation has some unjust
discriminations iu lavor ol corporations and
capital—none of any kinJ in tavor ot agricul
ture.
4. Application to the Legislature for a liberal
appropriation lor the es’ablishmenl ol a Buteau
of Agricultural Chemistry.
5. A geological aud agricultural survey ol the
Slate.
0. The reiteration and continual reiteration ol
our demand lor the payment of the annual ap
propriations by the L-gislaiure of I860, of
twenty five hundred dollars—ten years’ appro
pri&tinn now due, and not one ever paid.
7 The delegates fiom the several county
.societies are requested Io bring up with th m
full and detailed reports upon the agricultural
condition of their respective counties. Let
these reports embrace comparative statements
of the probable yield of the crop this year and
the last; the number oi acres in cotton and
grain this year and the last; increase or de
crease iti the grain crop; more or leas attentiou
io the production of meats; changes and im
provements in agricultural implements; changes
and improvements in the modes ot prepar turn
aud tillage; changes aud improvements in con
tracts with and management of labor.
These and other topics which members do ibt
le>s will present to tbe Convention are well
woitb the consideration ol assembled (aimers
and planters.
The time and place are favorable lor a great
step forward in combining the stiength <;1 the
agricultural interests in tavor of important
un-a-urea—favorable, too, for a convivial re
union of representative men from every 1< entity
and interes' in the State. The crops will nave
been laid by. and the time tor the meeting one
of comparative leisure The work on th. im
provements at the Fair Grounds has been most
rapid and successful, and promises, by the rime
of the proposed meeting, to be so near com
pletion as to make an excursion to the gi..uuds
gratifying and interesting.
The extraordinary facilities granted by the
railroads is itself enough, to say nothing .#t the
advantages to he derived from the deiibe arions
aud social influences of such a gatheiii.g of
practical aud progressive men, to induce the
count cs lo orgauize, and to preserve their or
ganizations.
The Secretaries of county Societies, at the
same time they send uo the names of their del
egates, will also send a revised and perfect list
ot their members for 1870. Iu the returns they
will please specify the line, or lines, ol railroad
over which their dilegates will travel.
As this is uot a usual but au extraordinary
meeting ot the Society, the expenses of mem-
bers anil of the Convention will not be ch tgea-
ble to the city under the contract with the city
io pay the contingent expenses oi the Society
lor the year 1870.
Ben. C. Yancey, President.
The Pleasures of Wealth—A Lesson.—
II moral lessons were uot usually useless, it
might he worth while to draw one from the
career, so lately closed, of the two richest celeb
rities ot the Paris world of dissipation, Prince
Demidoti and Count Koncbeleff Both..) these
possessors of unlold wealth literally w<u, : them
selves out iu the pursuit of pleasure. Their
wonderful collections of artistic treasures, and
their sumptuous places which they spent mil
lions in adorning, had no charms f..r their
spoiled minds. They lived in inns and on rail
ways, spending money and finding no satisfac
tion in it. Prince Demidoff even grew weary
of the pretty aciressess whom hi-wealth nought,
and Count Konchelefl’s menagerie lost its charm
lor him. The wife whom he bought for $100,-
000, paying her husband that amount to divorce
her, squandered his immense fortune, and finally
separated from him. The dish of tried parrots’
tongues, costing $500. which was a special deli
cacy ot his feasts, palled upon him, aud epilepsy
closed his life just as he came into the posses
sion of $000,000 a year, at the age of thirty-
seven. Prince Demidoff, whose name among
his parasites was Prince Decomposition, ex
hausted his li e in dissipation. Pars'ysis of the
salivary glands caused him to be afflicted with
the thirst of Tantalus, and wherever the death
like, idiotic lace aud weakened iorni ot the mil
lionaire was seen, behind hint stood a servant
to appease that unquenchable thirst which con
sumed him. Years oi low association uufitted
him for the brilliant society in which he wished
to pass the last years of his miserable existence,
and he passed away, among his ignoble com
panions. wrecked in body and weak in miud.—
Boston Post.
Helmbold's Jehu and iootmen, colored,
struck iu Harlem Lane the other day. The New
York Sun says the little Doctor at once mount
ed the box, seized the reins, turned the estab
lishment around and drove home, leaviog his
discomfftted employees staring in the du9t of
the road. He then lormally discharged the mu
tineers, and set about replacing them witn white
men, four of whom he has secured—all Irish
men. The new whip is one of the smartest in
the country, and formerly drove the fours-in-
nand ot Leonard W. Jerome and August Bel
mont. The Doctor has projected novel liveries
lor his reconstructed Jehus, which will outshine
anything else in New York. They will wear
drab coats, buttoned up to the tbroac, with high
velvet collars and velvet cuffs, and gilt buttons ;
scarlet neckties will surmount immaculate white
dickies, and cream-colored knee-breeches will
appear above high-tip boots.
Tb« Brysnt'Ancler Democracy.
Alas 1 for those would-be dictators to the De
mocracy of Georgia, who some time ago assumed
t>> foist upon the party, to which thev owed
allegiance,’ these two original RepuUicans—
Bryant and Angier—and make leaden of them
in it. Tbe former, when called into the witness
stand, after all the charges which he made ot
corruption by the present Slate administration,
Jailed to sustain even one of them; knew
absolutely nothing; a f li s subeided into
the chair ediio. 1-1I oi u Republican paper,
an object of ricicule it not contempt;
while the latter—but we refrain till the
committee publish the evidence that has
been taken upon tbe grave charges brought
against him, and report upon his actings and
doings as Treasurer ot the State. In the mean
time, we ehall only repeat, alas I for the mis
placed confidence of the Bryant-Angier De
mocracy. We warned them in time, but they
would uot heed tha warning.
A man in Cincinnati had to pay $10 aud
cos s lor cheering lor Jeff Davis —Ex.
What particular harm there is iu cheeriug
.left Davis, “ or any other man,” who has no
power to do evil to the public, and is not iikely
ever to rise to the political surface again, is a
mystery. In Dahcmey the King cuts off the
head of a subject who utters a word offensive
to his petsonal notions. In Poland, prison and
siripes are the penalty ot “hurraing” lor any
body but the Czar ot Russia, and that must be
done in the Russian language. We are emu
lsting these practices and regulations quite suc
cessfully, it would seem Why on earth, we
ask, should not a citizen of a tdorious Ri public
like this be privileged to hurrah lor Jeff Davis,
or Abraham Lincoln,or B.-u Butler, or anybody
else he may delight in ?
The Princes of the House ot Orleans have
addressed a letter to the deputies oi the Corps
Legislatii on tbe occasion of a motion made by
Marquis Depere relative to the reeali ot the
Princes ot both lines of the Bourbon family.—
The Princes say “ In the presence <»1 this prop
osition we cannot keep silence. Since I84S we
have protested agaiust the law which exiled
us. Nothing has justified that esue since, and
we come to renew our protests. It is not grace
that we demand ; it is our right; a right which
belongs to all Frenchmen, and ot which we are
despoiled It is our country which we ask lor,
I whicn we 1 ve, which our family has always
| loyally sen i, from which none*ot our tradi-
; lions separait us, and whose name uiotie ever
j causes our hearts to beak Nothing can replace
our absent country.”
I The arrangements tor the appeal to the House
j ot L. rds in the il mot divorce case have
beeu completed. It is the opinion ot eminent
counsel who have been consulted on behalf ot
the petitioner that the appeal will be successful,
an l h ,t in. uhunate decision inus- be that
LaU\ Aicidnuiil's u L-ged insauil) v»i;i Lot pre
vent the progress oi tiic sun for ihe dissolution
of her marriage wuh Sir Charles Mord&unt.
All previous decisions bearing on the case are
opposed to the vierv ot Lord PeDzance and his
colleague, aud iu tavor ot tbe Lord Cbiet Baron,
who differed from the majority of the courts.
In Queen Elizabeth's reign there is & report
for ihe year 1580, in which u is stated “that the
mains oi honor desired to have their chambers
ceiled, and the partition that is ot boards to be
made higher, for that the servants looked over.”
Aud about ihe same time it is said that cer
tain young noblemen and gentlemen were guilty
ot si in in indecorous behavior, being fond oi
peepiag over these Boards, to the great annoy
ance ol the ladies when at their toilet, whereat
her majesty was highly displeased, and severely
, reproved iUem.
Another Kimball,
A telegram trom Indianapolis, dated the 27th
instant, says:
“ Gen. Kimball, Treasurer of the State, left
this morning with checks on New York for
nearly half a million dollars This with halt a
million dollars sent for tbe same purpose
a lew days since, will almost, it not entirely,
liquida'e the Stale debt.”
The Kimball family in the West appear, like
those in Georgia, to be engaged in good wotk.
“ May their shadows never grow less !"
Editorial Celebrities Sick.
James Gordon Bennett and Horace Greeley
are both dangerously ill. Mr. Bennett, it is
believed, will not live many weeks. He is now
seventy-five yea:s ol age and is afflicted with
neuralgia and gout. He, however, declines to
teud lor his sou, lor tear ot interfering with the
ocean yacht race. The warm weather of the
last few days has had such an effect as to cause
his triends great alarm. Thurlow Weed was
also reported quite unwell at his residence,
corner ol Filth avenue and Twellth street.
Burke’s Weekly.
The July numbers of that excellent periodical
tor juvenile readers, “ Burkes Weekly for Boys
and Girls," (J. W. Burke & Co., Macon,) are
ticeived. We do uot know of any paper lor
young people that can compare with this. It is
incomparably the best we know. The stories
written by Southern authors of reputation, are
always interesting and morally instructive.
Every weekly number is filled with choice and
well executed engravings, and every department
oi the paper displays ability, close and careful
attention and a perfect knowledge ot what a
paper tor boys and girls ought to be.
The publishers offer as a premium to persons
sending the names of three subscribers—one of
them new—with $6 in money, two beautiful
steel engravinge, “ General Lee at the Grave of
Stonewall Jackson,” and “They Strew the
Sacred Spot with Flowers,” or one ol the pic
tures to any one sending two subscribers—one
ol them new—and $4.
These beautiful works of art are said to be in
trinsically worth far more than the money re
quired for them and the copies of the Weekly.
Volume IV. begins with July. We earnestly
advise our lrieuds to subscribe for it, and get
one or two lriends to subscribe, and thus be
sides a good paper obtain one or both oi the
gems of art to which we have referred. Terms,
$2 per annum.
Snftrage In Alassaelinaelis.
The constitution of Massachusetts provides
that “ No person shall have the right to vote, or
be eligible to office under the constitution ot this
commonwealth, who shall not be able to read
tbe coustitution in the English language and
write bis name.”
It such a clause as this had been incorpo
rated into the Constitution ot Georgia, who
believes that it would have been received and
pronounced Republican iu form, even by the
present Congress ?
Rural Carolinian for July —The great
trouble in noticing the Rural Carolinian always,
is to notice everything worthy of mention, and
yet, occupy only a reasonable space. This month
we give up the task in despair, and shall only
select some of the., principal points. The num
ber opens with a short and interesting sketch of
Mr. Peabody, illustrated with a handsome por
trait of that great philanthropist. This is fol
lowed by an able article on the value ot Sugar
Cane as a seacoast crop. This in turn is follow
ed by a very elaborate and interesting essay on
guano aDd its uses. Two articles on grasses,
one in tavor and the other opposed to their culti
vation, give light on that question. Facts and
Figures lor rice planters is worthy ol special
men!ion, and Col. Aiken gives two firstrate ar
ticles on the mule and the Mississippi Valley.—
The usual large amount of valuable correspond
ence, numerous contributions on different sub
jects, and the editor's invaluable notes and sug
gestions help to make up au amount of reading
matter which will correspond favorably with
the contents of any similar work. A fine'en-
graving of an Ayrshire cow, a full size wood*cut
of the Julien apple, and a picture of the new or
namental edible plant, called the “ Polymnia
Edulia,” are among the many elegant illustra
tions.
P/ice only $2 per annum. Address Walker,
Evans & Cogswell, Charleston, S. C.
Bad on Butler.
There was considerable amusement in the
House yesterday, when Mr. Randall, of Penn
sylvania, arraigned Ben Butler lor striking out
of the manuscript of the Globe report Mr. Ran
dall’s declaration in the House the other day
that Butler was not an honest mau. It seems
that Butler had possession of the manuscript to
revise his own speech, and coming across Ran
dall’s allusion mutilated the report by cutting it
out, a liberty that the proprietors of the Globe
declare to be without precedent. Butler’s con
duct excites indignation among neatly all the
members of the House.
Suu Struck
In New York, on the 27th instant, eight cases
ot sunstroke occurred, only one of which proved
fatal. We have heard of none yet in Atlanta
notwithstanding the great heat which has pre
vailed here during working hours for several
days past.
The Four Larged Cattle la tbe World.
We learn from the Poughkeepsie correspon
dent of the New York Evening Telegraph that
Mr Geo. Ayrault, a well-to-do Duchess county
farmer, who takes great pride in raising sleek,
t&t cattle, has raised tbe tour fattest steers in the
world. The lightest one of them, weighs three
thousand and three hundred pounds, and the
heaviest, over four thousand pounds. Mr.
Ayrault sold these cattle to Mr. Taylor, of Fulton
Market, New York, for $S0Q each, or $3 200 lor
all.
Selling Cold.
The Secretary of the Treasury will sell the
first week in July over two millions of gold
interest saved on the sinking fund. This is in
addition to the regular sales ol gold yet to be
ordered tor July.
Such an amount ot gold thrown upon the
New York market at once, will in all proba
bility reduce largely tbe premium upon it-
Cotton.
The cotton movement tor the week ending
Friday evening was light. The receipts at all
the ports were 12,847 bales, against 15,526 ior
the week ending June 17,17,995 for the week
ending Jtme 10. and 22,441 for the week ending
June 3. The total receipts at ari the ports
amount to 2,813,325 bales. The exoorts last
week amount to 19,898 bales, against 40,332 tor
the previous week.
A Card to the Public. _
Atlanta, Ga, June 28,1870.
To the People of Georgia :
I desire a few words with the people of Geor
gia, in explanation of my conduct as developed
by the testimony before the Bullock-Angier
Committee. Some will censure me because
they desire to do so. Others will look at the
tacts, and make up a judgment based upon the
surroundings. AI1 that can be said against me
is, that I paid Treasurer Angier money tor do
ing what 1 believed the law required of him.—
But law did not require him to labor at extra
ordinary hours, which he did, aud that was
what I paid him for, and nothing else. I uever
asked a bond, till tbe Brunswick A Albany
Railroad had done all, iu my opiniuu^Ohe law
required.
1 am as innocent of any intended wrong, in
this matter, as any citizen ot Georgia.
Dr. Angier thought he had a right to take pay
for extra labor, and I did not imagine it was
wrong to pay him. The Central Railroad ha9
been, from the start, opposed to the State en
dorsement of the Brunswick & Albany bonds
The fight between the roads hi a been fierce. I
had it trom a source that satisfied me fbe au
thorities of the Central Railroad would h&7e
me prosecuted. Knowing that I am innocent
of any intended violation of law, and behwing
that the Governor, from the testimony,‘*hust
see that I did not intend to do wrong, only to
be relieved trom the perplexities ot a prosecu
tion, I asked and got a pardon in this behal!.
I simply desired to be relieved from any un
necessary trouble and expense in the matter I
acted as an Attorney tor other parties. The
State has lost nothing by my act.
1 have been a citizen of this State for u> ar a
quarter ot a ceutuiy. I have obeyed the law,
paid my taxes to support the Government
promptly, and labored for the common welfare
as faithfully as most men. I regret this whole
affair more than any lriend can for me. 1
have labored to maintain an upright life. Barr
ing frailties, to which all flesh is heir, I have a
record, which I am not ashamed to leave*be-
bind, when called to that “ bourne whence no
traveler returns.”
I make these statements because I desire the
good opinion of my iellowmen and to be under
stood.
Such papers, as notice my connection with
this affair, will confer a iavor by copying this
note. V. A. Qaskill.
NEWS ItY TELEGRAPH.
Washington, June 29.—Revenue $697,000.
Nominations—Sherman Conanf, Judge of the
Southern District of Florida; H, W. Scott,
Collector of Customs, Williametle, Fla.
SENATE.
Twenty thousand copies of Ihe 15th Amend
ment enforcement bill was ordered printed.
Mr Cameron’s motion to reconsider the Texas
Paeific Railroad bill to restrict the branches to
20,000 ions foreign irou tailed.
The tax bill was resumed. An amendment
reducing the duty on coal and shale to 50 cents
per ton tailed-IS to 25. The tariff ou live
animals is 25 per tent uJ. valorem —bleeding
animals tree, except iroaj Mexico and Canada.
The present duty on opium is retained.
HOUSE.
The report of the conference committee on
currency was defeated and a new conference
was asked. The line of the argument waa that
the bill reported by the conference committee
involved contt action. The vote agaiust the bill
was 73 to 132.
Charlottesville, June 29— University of
Virginia , June29th, 1870.—The immense crowd
ot both sexes, Irom all sections of Ihe Union,
assembled ia University Hall to-night to hear
an address hefore the literary societies by Hon.
George H. Pendleton, of Ohio. In coming for
ward, he was received with tremendous ap
plause. The subject of the address was con-
staut, regular, unremitting progresa of the
human race in everything which tends to its
civilization aud elevation; that this progress is
the result ot the efforts of individual men; that
every human life aids or retards it, and the con
sequent dutir ot every man is to develop to the
very largest extent every capacity of mind and
soul and body, that tie may contribute bis just
share to the general advancement of the race;
this main idea was enlorced by philosophical’
illustration, comparisons of the civilization ol
the world ot different epochs and in different,
countries, aud by reference to the face of nations
and individuals. Iu the course of the address,
he alluded to the history ot the University
and to lives and characteristics of its three
great patrons- the splendid trinity of Jefferson
Madison aud Monroe. In the course of his re
marks, Mr. Pendleton made the following refer
ence to national affairs: “ It is true we are
building up States in the wilds of the Rocky
Mountains with wonderful rapidity. It is true,
we span the Continent with rail and wire, and’
send our thoughts in an instant across the waters
of old ocean itself. It is true, we are advanc
ing with uequalled speed towards the summit of
national power and renown. So much the
greater reason why we should not lag behind in
the pathway of purely intellectual and literary
eminence. So much the greater reason that
we should at all times remember that there is
something better than uaiional prosperity;
something worthier our efforts than physical
honor in accumulated wealth. Let us find with
hope ar. incentive in the fact that the ages of
the greatest physical activity have been those of
the greatest intellectual impulse.”
Mr. Peudleton said the true test of the worthi
ness ot the age is the worthiness of ourselves
which each thinking man should put to himself
in the secrecy of his heart, “ learning by ex
ample.” The address wasr considered a very
eloquent effort, aud gave great satisfaction to
all hearers, and M.r. Pendleton was frequently
interrupted with applause during its delivery.
Senator Yates, oi Illinois, passed through
here this morning sn route tor While Sul
phur Springs.
[ Gov, Walker, of Virginia, arrived here at
^midnight en route to Lexington.
! New Orleans, June 29.—The Florida and
: Gulf mail lo Havana has been awarded to San-
f lord Hite, oi St. Louis, at a subsidy of $58,000
: per annum for four years. The initial point
fixed at New Orleans.
The British ship St. Lawrence, loading for
‘Havre, with over 2,000 bales of cotton and other
ties, is belore me. I have - read President^-.argo on board, took Are and was pumped full
Yancey's circular-letter to the County Societies -•! water. The vessel and cargo will be saved
The New Era, of this mohnino, coutrftiB
the following article: £
AGRICULTURAL INTERESTS OF GEORGIA—INTER
ESTING CORRESPONDENCE.
June 22,1870.
Dear Sib : Your note some weeks ago ad
dressed to President Yancey, proposing an
interview upon the best policy to be adopted to
encourage the formation ot County Agricultu
ral Societies, was duly received, and is on file in
this office. He is now absent at his iarm in
Alabama. 1 have but recently visited him, ano
while there, he prepared a circular Jor publica
tion which will appear shortly, and which main
ly has in view the object referred to in yout
letter. He requested me to consult with you
on the subject, and to make such additions to
this circular, ol suggestions bearing upon this
point, as you might ofier.
I have now, in accordance with the Presi
dent’s request, to call upon you for such sug
gestions, aid or advice, as I am sure it will be
your pleasure to ofier.
Very respectfully,
Dav. W. Lewis.
To Mr. H. 1. Kimball, Atlanta, Ga.
Atlanta, June 23, 1370.
D. W. Lewis, Esq., Secretary:
Dear Sib—Your favor of tbe 22d instant, in
answer to mine to Col. Yancey, in regard to the
encouragement of County Agricultural Socie
with great intereet, and am very much pleased
with the suggestions it contains, 1 shall, at all
times, be moBt happy to co-operate with you lor
the encouragement of this work, and at the
time ot the Convention, will arrange so as to
have an excursion to the Fair Grounds, which
I trust will be both interesting and profitable.
Having identified myself with the Agricultural
interest ot the State’ I am very desirous of mak
ing the acquaintance of the representatives oi
the Agricultural Societies from different counties
over the State, and will be gratified to meet
with you In the coming Convention. 1 am very
anxious- that our County Societies shall make a
good showing at our Fair this fall, and tor the
purpose of encouraging them to an effort, I
hereby authorize you to offer the following ad
ditional prizes:
To the County Society having the largest and
best organized Camp and Equipage —a magui-
ficent camp chest, worth $150, name ot society
and county lo be engraved on silver- plate. To
the County Society which shall be headed by
the best band, a silver bugle, (or cornel) as may
be selected for the use ot the Society Band.
It seems to me there is no reason why Geor
gia may not become one ot the greatest inanu-
iacturiug States in the Union, and while we are
turning our attention largely to agriculture, let
us ever remember a greater diversity ol pursuits
will add to our wealth and promote the geueral
welfare of our people.
To the end, that a more general interest may
be awakened regarding this important subji-ci,
I hereby authorize you to offer to the County
Society that shall exhibit the best average pro
ducts of the greatest variety of pursuit, a splen
did silk and gold banner, with the name of the
society and a commemorative inscription there
on.
Trusting that the-foregoing may meet your
approval, believe me, dear sir, respectfully yours,
H. i. Kimrall.
Twenty-one Years of Silence—There is
a woman in the town of Harmony, Chautauqua
county, who has not spoken to her husband for
twenty-one years. In the year 1849 her husband
contradicted her harshly in the presence of com
pany, and she threatened that it he didn’t be
have better toward her 9he would never speak
to him again. He retorted that he wished she
wouldn’t; and she has not since spoken to him.
They have continued to live together peacefully,
and during the long silence have had several
children. Everything goes on at their house as
usual with farmers. The husband is attentive,
aud does his conversing with his wife through
one of the children. For instauce, he will ask
a child at the table, “ will your mother have
some more meat ?” Or, at another time, “ is
your mother going to town with me to-day ?”
The family is wealthy, and belongs to the better
class of Chautauqua farmers and respectable
citizens.—Jamestown. (N. Y) Journal.
No Western politician, in the d.ghts of his
most impassioned stump orator), could so sud
denly descend trom the sublime lo i he ridicu
lous as does a quack corn doctor at Bir gham-
ton, N. Y., who thus “ opens up ” tos qualifica
tions in the local paper “Life has its temptations,
sorrows and trials, bat tbe greatest oi all,
although not dangerous, it will be readily ad
mitted, are corns, bunions,” e;e.
a >1 t):a Cl. lie
>1 *>aYanrra!i.
1 ho Savaucati News, oi tne'datb lusi&ut, says ;
“ It becomes our sad duty to announce the death
ot Mr. Edward Padelford, one ot Savannah’s
eldest merchants and most worthy and re
spected citizens, who departed this life at his
residence in this city last evening between five
and six o’clock, in the seventy-third year of his
*g®-” _
Inquire Within—The mouth is like a house
to leu However pretty it may be externally, it
is impossible to judge ot its merits until you
have seen the insideT If behind the ruby doors
there are plenty ot pearl-white fixtures, yon will
exclaim at once, “ H.»w beautiful!” To impart
the utmost possible bnili&ncy, there ts nothing
like Fragrant SozodonL
“ Spalding’s Glue ” mends everything.
" je24—lw
The Argument of Facts — With the con
sent of the parties eoncerneu, toe loll owing tacts
are made public: On the 23d ol October last,
Levi M. Phillips, civil engineer, reading in Har
lem, was suffering from an obstinate and severe
billions affection, accompanied try gT&it bodily
weakness and utter loss of appetite. Incom
pliance with the wish of a irieud, (Mr J B La-
trobe, of 49 Amity Place, New York,) Sir Fuil-
iips commenced taking Plati'ation Bitters. He
had no faith, be said, but would “ make the ex
periment.” We give the re.au t. ns reiatcU oy
Mr. P. nimselt, at 53 Park Piao ,..... l ,o,h of
November. “I met Latrobe the other a ay in a
restaurant,” said he, and told him that the pre
paration saved iijv lilt:. I say so now. 1 weigh
tuiirt. er p .iindr more than 1 <i;J n. .-
alii qtlile well, and OS IO ea'mg — well, -i-k me
io amuer and you’ll see.” Facts Uke in esc are
worth a thousand assertions, and Mr. Phillips
and his friend are at all times ready to endorse
them.
•* There is but one opinion in regard to Sea
Mon Farine. All spnk in its praise, and all
like it. It is found to be a great favorite with
all classes of our people, and will prove a great
blessing to tbe poor. It is very cheap, and will
go a long way.”—Home Journal.
je!3—d&weod
in a damaged condition
Richmond, June 29.—Jeter Phillips, who was
To have been hung Friday for wife-murder, has
been respited by the Governor till July 22d.
Thermometer to day 99. A violent thunder
and rain storm this evening.
London, June 29—There is an active de
mand tor money at tbe banks and on the streets.
Jqo. Bright’s health is restored.
The uew tea proves inferior.
Pari3, June 29.—The French Government is
negotiating a heavy loan to complete the regen
eration ot Paris, inaugurated by Baron Hans;
man.
Florence, June 29. -It is reported that Gari
baldi is quite ill.
Cork, Jud* 29 Quiet was nominally re
stored, but commerci »1 uneasiness continues.
The Government persecutions are unabated.
New York, June 29 —Nuralet Lemus, the
Cuban Minister to the United States, is dead.
Boston, June 29 —E. Porter Dyer, Jr., for
mer Cashier of the Newtonville Bank, has been
sentenced to six months imprisonment and
$36,000 fine. This is the last ot the State street
irregnlariiies.
Pittsburg, June 29.—During tbe terrible
storm, prostrating houses aud trees, lightning
fired 2 000 barrels of oil and tank of the Eclipse
Refinery. The Citizens’ Refinary was struck at
the same time. The Eclipse tank exploded,
and the burning oil floating down the river
burued the Sharpsbnrg bridge. One person was
burned to death.
Washington, June 29.—The Senate dis-
cusaed the lax bill all night.
New Orleans, June 29.—At New Iberia,
Louisiana, three squares ot the center business
portion of the town was destroyed by fire this
morning. Including three livery stables, the
two hotels, three coffue houses, the court house,
and sevaral large business houses. Forty houses
were destroyed. The loss ia estimated at $250,-
000. Insurance unknown.
Paris, June 29.—It is said Emperor Napoleon
and Generals Prim and Serrano, acquiesced in
the abdication ol Isabella, on condition that no
Prince of the House of Orleans should succeed
to the throne ot Spain.
M. Pessenz had an audience at Ems this week,
with the Emperor of Russia, who readily en
gaged to protect the Protestants in Lithuania
irom persecution.
London, June 29.—The Funeral of the Earl
of Clarendon took place to-day. Iu accordance
with the wishes of the deceased, the ceremony
was strictly private.
Vice Chancellor Sir Wm. Jas. Hasber was
apnointed Lord Justice of the Court of Appeals.
In the case of Lyons vs. Thomas, where the
defendant was sned for the abduction of Esiher
Lyons and her conversion trom Judaism, the
plaintiff was non-suited.
The cable correction make the loss by fire at
Beauvais in dollars and uot in francs.
Madrid June 29.—The press of this city pro
test against the restoration of the Bourbon dy
nasty in the person of the son ot Isabella.
The law authorizing civil marriagta goes into
operation on the first of September.
Paris, Jane 29.—Dispatches from Rome
contradict the report that the vote on the dogma
of infallibility would be postponed and state
that it will probably be taken to-day, and that
promulgation of the new dogma will take place
to-morrow.
One of ihe largest carpet manufactories in
Beaavais was burned to the ground last night.
Six buildings with all their costly machinery
and large stock of raw and manufactured mate
rial were destroyed. The i r-s a em mated at
over 1 000 000 irancs. Eight hundred operatives
thrown oat of employment.
Washington Line 29 — l’t.e ri-9 r nee of the
,-ai‘ aud co .I isrifi i.< ihe Coriiu>..iiee, aeieats
*cll<Jll this S-3-t »u
Iu ih floti-c me tieu&ie t>rU, amendatory to
the bill oi 67 protecting the rights oi actual
scalers, passed.
The Senate bill confirming entries to public
lands in Ahibsm t in terrain cases, passed, and
gor— ir. i:,c Pn-Mdeut.
~vira *- .'-T and ;»!.itecliug
O&liuohi CwAAiotci iJtkioetJ, seuU io lil©
President.
The Reconstruction Committee postponed the
Amnesty bill to December, a majority of tbe
Committee to try to make tbe postponement
plausible by argument that the present session
was too shore
The Senate is discussing the tariff.
San Francisco, Jane 29—E. M. Holbrook,
ex-delegate trom Idaho, was assassinated at
Idaho City.
Havana, June 29.— Gonzalez Junix, an insur
gent leader who surrendered some time age to
the Spanish authorities at Villa Cl ora and par
doned, was tried and convicted last week lor
crimes committed while a rebel leader, and
was executed this morning
;The Work Before Attorney General
Akerman.
A telegram to the Richmond Dispatch from
Washington, says that Akerman’s resignation
of the position of United States District Attor
ney for Georgia, has been accepted, and that he
was to receive bis commission as Attorney Gen
eral yesterday, though his duties will not com
mence until August 1st. Immediately upon en
tering upon his duties, he will begin the work
of reorganizing the Attorney General’s office
iuto the Department ol Justice. The Solicitor
General, two Assistant Attorney Generals, a
chief cleik, and several additional clerks will
have to be appointed to perfect the organiza
tion. The Solicitor’s Bureau of the Treasury,
with the secret service divisioua, comes under
the new department, together with all the cot
ton and abandoned property, and claims ior cot
ton and property, etc., before the Treasury De
partment. All the sugar and tobacco cases, in
ternal revenue seizures, penalty cases, etc., also
come under this department, as well as the legal
bnsiness of all the departments of tbe United
States, District Attorneys, Marshals, etc,
throughout the country.
This means work fer Mr. Akermau in his
position as a member oi the President's Cabi
net ; more than has ever before been assigned to
an Attorney General ol tbe Government. From
what we know oi the gentlemau, and hi9 habits
oi life, he will bring to it at least those com
mendable qualities ot industry and business
perseverance which seldom distinguish the class
ot uieu upon whom such honors are conferred.
A Lost Art In New Ensland.
The New York Standard, a Republican paper,
says that agriculture is a lost art in many parts
ot New England^ The whole State ol Rhode
Island is a succession of barretf, unsightly hills
and huge chimney stacks. The laboring man
ia despised, and both political parties join in
disfranchising an Irish workingman because he
is au Irish workingman. New England is last
becoming a copy of Old England; there is the
same oppression oi factory operatives, the same
hatred ot the Irish character, the same w ant ot
a broad aud generous policy.
—« «
A Bad Year for tbe New York Merc hauls.
Supervisor Dutcher, ol New York, reports
some very interesting facts about the income
tax. While the amount collected in his twelve
districts (which Include New York and Brook
lyn) for the year will be $6,718,250, about the
same as last year, in some of the wealthier dis
tricts there is a great falling off. A. T. Stewart
does not return an income of one hundred thou
sand dollars, while hundreds of houses show
but small profile. Thousands of merchants
swear to losses for the year. Mr. Dutcher says
it has been a terrible year for merchants.
In an article, which appeared in this paper a
few days since, it was suggested that the Ceme
tery be the location of the monument to be
erected by the Atlanta Monument Association
to the memory ol the Confederate dead, whose
ashes now reposes in the burial ground of the
city. It will be seen that the monument to be
erected is a special and local monument—erect
ed to the memoiy of the Confederate heroes, who
are buried in the Cemetery, and erected by tbe
Monumental Association of Atlanta. The idea
of a general monument to the memory of the
dead of the State did not lor once enter our
mind when the question of the most eligible
site for this monument came first to be agitated.
In tbe remarks therefore which was unlimited a
few days since concerning its location, of course
the idea of a general monument was in no man
ner alluded to, nor had we tbe lea9t intimation
at tbat time that any such monument was en
tertained by the ladies of the Association.
From an editorial that appeared in the col
umns of a city contemporary a few days since,
it may be inferred that some members of the
Association do entertain tbe idea that the monu
ment is not confined to the Confederate dead in
the city Cemetery, but is erected as a central
monument to the dead of the State. Under
these circumstances our opinion would un
doubtedly change, as the city Cemetery would
be decidedly inappropriate for the location of
such a monument, with such a purpose. But it
appears to us that such is not really the case.
It is as we learn, a monument to tbe Conleder-
ale dead in tbe Cemetery—some 5,000 or more
in number—and erected not by sister Monumen
tal Associations throughout the Stale, but by
tbe Memorial Association ot Atlanta. We still
think, tberetore, that the most appropriate and
eligible situation ior tbe memorial granite shaft
iB beside the graves of the heroes whose mem
ory it is to embalm in our hearts, and whose
virtues it is to perpetuate iu our lives.
There has bet-n some tallt about the City Park
being a proper place for the monument. Al
though according to our view of the case, the
Park will not do at all lor the purpose, it may
nevertheless be said tbat this place will not be
free from barrassing law suits for the next ten
years, lor we are informed by the prosecuting
attorney for r covery, that if the Mitchell heirs
be defeated iu their present pending suit, they
intend immediately to file another bill lor its
recovery upon grounds different from those upon
which the present one rests. We say, therefore,
that the Park place is out of the question, if
no action by the Legislature la taken in the pre
mises. It the Legislature has the power to dis
miss the suit now pending against the W. & A.
Railroad, and then, on making a deed ot the
Park to the city, enjoin ail parties Irom inter
fering with its peacable possession, the Park
under such circumstances might, with propriety,
be suggested as an eligible site lor a Monument
to the Georgia Confederate Dead. Under any
circumstances, it would be inappropriate lor the
location of the Monument lu the Confederate
Dead, now lying iu the Atlanta Cemetery.
Another place has also met with some favor,
the City Hall lot. Indeed this would be an
admirable spot for the monument, if one is ever
to be erected, to the memory of Georgia’s dead.
As tbe city holds a bona fide deed to the property,
and as the present political complexion of the
Council is encouraging, permission to erect one
would probably be an easy matter. But the
fact is, the Association of Atlanta do not con
template such au enterprise. When our own
people once more get possession of the govern
ment, the Legislature, at the instance and peti
tion of the noble women ot Georgia, will carve
a monument from her granite hills and plant it
in this great Phoenix metropolis,'to catch the
first sweet blush of morn and the last fading
flush ot eve, a silent and eternal monolith to the
immortal braves whose names are writ upon
“ —— the living sky
To be forever read by every eye.”
Mb. Leonard Greeley, an uncle of Horace
Greeley, has just died in a poor-house at La-
Croeae. He was 77 years of age, destitute and
low-spirited, and went there about a month
since, nearly penniless and sick. And yet
Horace, bimseit, is the prince oi philanthxo- ( Advices trom the interior report both parties
pists i I as killing prisoners
The following constitute the Board of Direc
tors of the Richmond and Atlanta Railway
Company:
A. S. Buford, President- A Austell, S- B.
Hoyt, Anthony Murphy, E. P. Howell, Atlanta;
E. AL Johnson, Hall county; J. W- Harrison,
J P. Reed, Anderson, ri- C , W K. Easley,
Greenville, S. C.; Gabriel Cannon, Spartanburgh,
8 C; R Y. McAdam, Charlotte, N. C.; W. Y.
Hmheriin, Danviue, Va; J. Wilcox Brown,
Bitiuinore, Md.
Gray hair resumes its original color under
the opera ion ;i Pi-alon’s Vualia, or Salvation
for tbe H nr. wM.-h i.-oura^ u.-ihiog dirty, is
transp^i. m, wiiUjui 3 Jiiu^ui. inus no stain
on the scalp no unpieasaui oJq/ m the hiir.
Sold by ah druggists and fancy goods dealers.
_______ j-30—It
Aver the Evil —If mothers would give Mrs.
Whitcomb's Syrup to their children when sick,
mortality would be less among them, It coats
only 25 cents. je30-lt
To ALLAY itching of the scalp, use Hall's Veg
etable Sicilian Hair Renewer. Sold by all drug
gists. je3Q-lt
Boots and Shoes.—G. H & A. W. Force
have just received a large and handsome assort
ment of Ladies’, Gents, Misses’, and Childrens’
Shoes, lor summer wear; Misses and Childrens’
Boots ol all color: Croquette and Maria Anto
inette Slippers—latest styles, all colors.
je28-3t
STATB NEWS.
Rom*.—Ames’ circus gone) taking several
thousand irom the 15th Amendments. “ Boys
in blue ” make the Romans think they are liv
ing in a territory. A delightful place for young
men, the rooms oi the Library Association
Mr. Hamilton’s address at the Festival oi St
John much praised.
Columbus.—Great railroad festival; grand
preparations. Major J. H. Sikes issues a pros
pectus of the Georgia d Alabama Real Estate
Journal. Watermelons abundant A runaway
match. Examinations in publie schools —
Weather rather 14 warmish;” 92 degrees,
Augusta.—Superior Court dragging its slow
length along. Enlargement of Augusta can&i.
Savannah.—(Sty Court in sesuon.
The Great Wahoo Coming.—We learn that
a newspaper was recceived here yesterday by
one of Bradley’s friends with the following au
nouncement in pencil on the margin:
“lam well—things look well. Georgia must
be shivered. The Bollock stock is greatly be
low par. I am coming soon to sound tbe glories
oi the Ogeechee. A. A. B.“
Aroma from street gutters not pleasant. Isle
oi Hope train crowded. Clover grass growing
beautifully. Suicide of a handsome young mau
in tbe Planters Hotei. Elegant music box to be
raffled.
Eatonton.—Locals scarce. U. W. B, Jones
marries Miss More. Beet 19 inches in circum
ference, an editorial presen i. Col. Coates, agent
for Pntnam county, Sor sale cf " War between
States.” Crops good—little, grassy.
Lumpkin.—" Stock low •" written down in
the telegraph. Efluit made *0 raise a Do-Noth
ing Club. Bible Society met aud adjourned.
Americus.—Trustees meeting of Female Col
lege. Been hot somewhat Lice eating up cot
ton. Farmers uneasy. Has a population ot
6,000. Boys at academy had a dance. Bad
language spoken on street common thing. Ma
sonic festival grand and imposing. Tableaux
vivaut by college young ladies at College Hall.
Penitentiary.—The number of convicts as
registered in the Penitentiary Convict Book, is
427; whites 70, blacks 357, ot which 14 are fe
males. With the exception of some dozen
within the walls, the rest are upon the railroads.
The very place for them in our opinion.—South*
em Recorder.
Population of Milledgevillb.—Mr. Wm.
M. Giay, the census-taker ol Baldwin county,
informs us he has about completed the census ot
this city, and gives us the following figures:
Tatal population 2.81S
Whites—Total number.. 1,126
“ Females 61H
“ Male* SIS
Blacks—Total number 1,1SU
“ Female 66s
*• Male J.... Si1
Total number or wb te voters 261
“ “ black “ sis
[Federal Union.
Death among Negroes.—We learn that on
last Sunday there were buried in this city four
negroes and one on Monday. Three of these,
it is said, died with consumption. We have
heard it said, moreover, tbat this disease is be
coming prevalent among the race and is due to
their mode of living since their emancipation,
Instead of the old corn bread, bacon and greens,
that upon which they have been raised, they eat
wheat bread, chicken, beef, etc., thus superin
ducing the disease.—Rome Southerner.
Senior Class of the University of Geor
gia.—The following young gentlemen received
the honors ot the frraduating class at Athens —
There were 40 in the class :
1st. Honor. A. S. Campbell, Augusta, Geor
gia ; N. E. Harris, Jonesboro^, Tennessee. 2d.
W. Dessau, Macon, Ga. 3d. W. B, Hill, Mkcon,
Georgia; J. B. B. Smith, Atlanta, Georgia. 4th
A. E. Trimble, Hoganavtiie, Ga.
Appointments—^U. L. Bartlett, Monticello,
Georgia; J. D Hammond, Atlanta.
Honorary Mention—C. A. Key, Jonesboro; T,
J. Jones, Hogansville; D. B. Fitzgerald, Flor
ence; J. A. Morris, Jonesboro.
Lost in the Woods.—Captain Johnson, of
the steamer Carrie, irom Augusta tor Savannah,
when about, thirty-eight miles from Savannah
was hailed by a German who was In the swamp,
perfectly emaciated and evidently lost. He hove
to and took the unfortunate man aboard, attend
ed to bis immediate wants and carried him to
the city. We learn that the man, a recent arri
val, started from Savannah some four days ago
to come to Augusta, got lost in the swamp and
was picked up as above stated.
He was sent to tbe City Hospital, where he
will receive the medical attendance his situation
demands.—Constitutionalist.
The track over the Fair Ground, is nearly
completed. It is a most beautiful one, and
reflects much credit on the Committee. The
lumber has also been placed on the ground for
the inclosure, or a portion oi it. Houses, stands,
<fcc., will be finished in ample time for tbe exhi
bition in October.—Oartersnlle Repress.
"Death Loves a Shining Mask.”—This
was fully verified on-last Saturday morning, at
a quarter past 9 o’clock, in the demise of our
fellow citizen, Col. Wm. H. Pritchett. The
news of his death fell with a heavy weight on
all hearts, for we all loved him; he had won
our affection and esteem, by a rare combination
of good qualities, both of head aud heart He
was kind to all; his hand was open to the
needy; none in distress were ever turned away
unrelieved; his was a sympathetic heart, it felt
and responded to the appeals ot the destitute;
in manners, he was as genial as the soft breath
ot a May morning; in the discharge of his
duties, firm and unflinching. He was a Chris
tian gentleman; bis faith in Christ, unbounded
his dying testimony left no room for doubt; be
built upon tbe rock, and it was firm under bis
feet as he passed “through the valley,” and to
day, he stands with tbe redeemed above, and
raises his voice in the “new song,” oi eternai
praise to God.—lb.
Death of bias. Thomas Evans.—We were
surprised and pained to Kara the death oi this
amiable and excellent lady, Sue died on Thurs
day morning about 4 o’clock, of typhoid dysen
tery. We knew her in childhood—a sweet
little girl, whom to see was to love. Bhe has
been tne subject oi severe afflictions since her
marriage and her health tor years has been very
delicate. Bat she is gone, and her bereaved
husband and tour children live to mourn with
them their lose.—Central Georgian.
J. J. Walker, of Grifflo, has thrashed out
two hundred bushels of wheat from eight Acrej
of Americus Courier.
A firr occurred in Carrolton a few days azo.
destroying the Hotel ot Mr. J. A. Daniels, the
grocery store ot W. B. Conyers, the Masonic
Lodge and tbe store below. Many of the inmates
of the hotel barely escaped with their lives.—
There was no insurance on any ol tbe property
destroyed.—lb.
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A Well Drawn Picture ef Ben. Butler,
The Richmond Whig presents Its readers the
following well-drawn picture ot Ben. Bntier .
Ben. Bntier ia certainly a character, and by
no means a character to be admired. Scarcely
a week passes without exhibiting him in some
new and unpleasant light He appears to be
always in motion, and his activity is exercised
in a most unscrupulous manner. He is a of
talents, of information and ot labor. But he is
utterly destitute of moral sense—and dining
the moral sense that governs the msss ot man
kind. He tramples recklessly upon all the con
ventionalisms of society. It be bad one nark
ot sensibility, he would cease to be dangerous,
tor he might then be f l, * i f!l into a lemsla&ce
of virtue. But no exposure brings tbe W"t h to
bis callous lace. He defends his miad^f W ffh
an audacity^that carries him through successfully,
and knows so thoroughly “the ins and
the oats?’ of all his political asMcfstse
to be enabled to meet every charge
against himself with one as dauugsing against
every assailant. He is so quick-witted and has
such fertility of Invention that he is always
ready with a reason, an explanation and a jus
tification, no matter what Is atiraed against him.
His policy is to face down me enemies ana
asuilants, and to defy the public. Nothing cows
him. He knows that he would be ran over
anu crushed if he gave bade an hurh. or showed
any sense oi shame. He therefore puts on a
brave lace, cocks his eye fiercely and make,,
battle with au effrontery that has enabled him
to survive a thousand His last per-
iormance is related elsewhere. Damaging ss U
would be to any other man, it will pass off
without at all hi« standing and influ
ence in Congress. Tne fact is that Bailer is
one of those aingnUr creatarM that sometimes
turn up in tbe world and play a considerable
part—distrusted by everybody, and yet employ
ed, listened to and followed. Ho “ lives by the
badness of his character,” and has no idea ci
giving up this means ol sqjaiateace.