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AUGUSTA. GhA.
THURSDAY MORNING, NOV. 4, 1869
INTERESTING STATISTICS
The Seventh Annual Report of the Com
missioner of Agriculture will soon be given
to the country. This report promises to
be of great statistical interest. The sub
joined table shows the value of cotton ex
ports for the iast thirteen years :
Value of cotton
• Value of cot- manufactures
Yean. ton exports. exported,.
1866 $128,38-2,861 $6,967,809
1887 1X140,859 6,115,177
1858 131,386,601 6.651.604
1889 161.434,923 8.316.222
1860 191,806.565 10,934,796
1861 34 051,483 16,957,038
1862 1,180,113 2,907 464
1863 6,652,405 2,936,411
1864 9 895,864 1,456,901
1866 5,720,549 3,831,582
1868 281,385,2-23 1,780,175
1867 201 47 >,423 4.008,217
1868 152,820,733 4,871,054
The following table shows the value of
exported during the last thir
teen years:
All breid-
Yean. Wheat Eionr. stuffs.
1856 $15,116,661 $29 275148 $40,010,219
1857 22,240 867 25,882.316 57.915,232
1858 9,061,604 19.328,884 35 569,068
1869 2 849192 14,433,591 23,562,169
1860 4 076,704 15 448-507 26,989.709
1861 38 313624 24 645,849 73,534,544
1882 42,573.795 27.534(-77 84,340,653
18*3 46 754 I°s 28 360,069 89 263,736
1864 31,432 133 75 588,249 63.40!, 353
1865 19 397,197 27/ 22,031 63 502 511
18*6 7.842.749 18,396 686 40 682 336
1867 7,882,655 12 803,775 40,983 168
1868 30,247,632 20,837,793 79,046,187
The exports of corn and corn meal are
thus exhibited:
Tears. Cntn. Corn Meal. Total ralue.
1856 $7 622 565 $1,175,681 $8,798,253
1857 5,184,660 957,791 0,142,457
1858 3 259,089 877 692 4, l r 6,731
1859 1,323.103 994 269 2,317,372
1800 2,599,808 912 076 3 811,883
1881 6,890,864 692,003 7,582,868
1882 10,387,3*3 778,341 11,166.727
1863 10,192,704 I,< 13,272 11,605 976
1864 3,353,280 1,349,765 4 703,045
1865 3.679,133 1,489,886 6,109 019
1860 11,070,395 1,129,484 12,199,879
1867 14,871,092 1.666,585 16.426,677
1868 13,094,035 2,068,430 16,162,460
Sugar has recuperated since the close of
the war, though very far from reaching its
old yield. Thus:
Hogsheads.
*1 cal 6,668
W:::::::...: k
1868..: 84,256
The value of live stock is thus estimated
and compared :
States. 1860. 1868. 1869.
Maine $15,437,693 sl9 974 800 $23,801,314
New Hampshire.. 10.924,627 12,474.020 15,111,118
Vermont 16,241,989 20,418 9V2 22 782,711
Massachusetts.... 12,737.744 19,214 502 22,807 568
Rhode Isl and 2,042,044 2,869,744 3.786,043
Connecticut 11,311079 18,699,012 24,687,141
New York 103.856,290 106.557 969 182,766/60
New Jersey 16,134,693 26,5 2 769 32,595,638
Pennsylvania 69,072,720 112,118,603 121,138,589
Delaware 3,144,700 4,263,973 4 445,632
Maryland 14 607,853 18,992 336 22,178,887
Virginia 35,420,369 35,148 572 37,705,568
North Carol! a... 31130,805 20,052 456 24,434,747
South Carolina.... 23,934,465 10,693.117 16 361 888
Georgia 3*,372,734 26,463,675 34,692,001
Florida 5,553,350 4,19>,484 5,007.939
Alabama 43.411 711 21,126,832 27,255,962
Mississippi 41 891.692 16,816,802 28 545 453
Louisiana 24,546 940 8 492 468 15,162,289
Texas 42,825,447 33,606 663 32 651 895
Arkansas 22,096 977 15,309,989 20,366,380
Tennessee 60 211 425 38,708.702 53,136.552
West Virginia.... 12,382,680 1 5,079,734 17,088 568
Kentucky 61,868,237 40 491.019 49/89,403
Missouri 53 693,073 50,728 286 64,490,717
Illinois 72,601,225 109,799,764 120,589,917
' Indiana 41,856 639 72,796.080 7 ,128,230
Ohio 80,384.819 123,934,351 140,991,600
Michigan 23,714,771 50,084,011 54,420/ 09
Wisconsin 17,807,375 64,851,907 55,507,096
Mlncsota 3,642,841 16,301,354 18 612,171
10wa....! 22,476,293 75,718,514 95,109,517
Kansas.'. 3,332,450 9,962,311 12,902,830
Nebraska 1,128,771 5,169,538 7/ 86,451
California 36,585,017 41.457,732
The Philadelphia Press points to these
figures with an air of triumph and asserts
that they speak eloquently for the benign
Influence of Republican rule. Did it ever
occur to the Press that, so far as the South
iscoucerned, the figures might have been
greatly augmented had there been no such
thing as Radical interference? The South
has not prospered because of Radicalism,
but in spite of it..
The Stowe-Byron Story.
THE CHTVALRIC COUNT JOANNES AND THE
REV. HENRY WARD BEECHERe —DID THE
LATTER AID IN PUBLISHING THE BYRON
LIBEL? LETTER OR A. NOTICE COUNSEL
LOR TO THE PREACHER —A TEMPERANCE
CHURCH DESTROYED —FESTIVAL OF THE
SPIRITS, ON FIRE IN THE LOWER REGIONS,
&C.
To the Editor of the Sun:
Sir: The public approbation given to
my defense of Lord Byron and his sister
against the atrocious calumny published
by Mrs. Stowe, naturally suggested the
legal and moral question whether or not
her brother, the Rev. Henry Ward Beecher,
aided her in writing and publishing the
libel ?
To numerous admirers I reserved my
thoughts, resolving to write to him for his
negative or silent affirmation, whereby to
use the morals of Lord Byron “ to sanction
most infamous scandal by silence.”
Silence is the only answer of the reverend
gentlemen; and as my letter to him is a
readable one, contains some incidents of
interest, and a spirited description of the
burning of his respected father’s church, I
herewith enclose it for The Sun. Mrs.
Stowe lias recently stated that she has re
ceived letters from England upon the sub
ject ; so have I, and some of them will open
the eyes and close the lips of slanderers.
Yours truly, &c.,
George, the Count Joannes.
City of New York; October 25,1869, 39
Park Row.
COUNT JOANNES’ LETTER TO MR. BEECHER.
To the Rev. Henry Ward Beecher:
Sir : On a certain Sunday evening I
shook hands with yon in your church, in
the presence of two thousand persons, we
standing on the steps of your rostra-pulpit.
It was the first time I ever heard you
preach, and it was your memorable dis
course upon the alleged corruption of the
New York Judiciary, when you used a dis
tinct expression, tlie opposite of Arabian
perfume or Damascus aroma. Though a
counsellor of the Supreme Court of this
city and State, and naturally indignant at
a portion of your discourse, yet admiring
your manly eloquence, your outspoken
John Latimer phrases (though yon were
not in his fiery danger), and your good act
ing, tragic and comic powers combined,
and without which neither of us would
have been successful as public orators, 1
was therefore convinced, from what I saw
and heard that, while the histrionic stage
lost in you an admirable actor, yet the
Plymouth Church (to use alliteration)
gained a premium-pew-practical-Puritan
preacher!
Demosthenes, who was taught oratory
by tragedians, as was Cicero, defined ora
tory to be in three parts : 1, action; 2, ac
tions 3, action; and which I interpret
from the ancient Greek to mean a classic
tria,juncla i iuno , viz.: Action of the fea
tures and eyes; action of the body and
limbs, and action of the voice; and all, be
ing harmoniously combined, make the per
fect orator, whether in the pulpit, on the
stage, the forum or the Senate, presuppos
ing all the physical and mental requisites.
On your rostra steps—for in Plymouth
Church you literally have no pulpit—l
shook hands with you, in fervent sympa
thy with your public talent, and heartily
congratulated you upon your independent
• spirit.
The Emperor of the French once said :
“ Count Joannes, you are the most magnifi
cently audacious gentleman I ever mot!
and your diplomacy equals your audaci
ty !” The Empress applauded the distin
guished coniplimcut; but the talented and
discerning! New York Herald said more
when the Emperor of the American press
published of us that “ I had nearly as much
brass as yourself! full as much piety (bet
ter than gold and silver); the Old Testa
ment at ray Augers’ ends, and the New at
my tongue’s end, and that I ought to open
a meeting house on tliis side of the East
river in opposition to you,” &c. Now,
while all this' may he true, and a good
hint for Sunday evenings, yet there is one
thing in which I will not yield in equality,
viz.: to dishonor you so far as to believe
that you gave your sanction to the publi
cation by Mrs. Stowe, the authoress, your
Bister, of the atrocious pseudo accusation
against the dead, in the characters of Lord
Byron, the poet, and sister, the Hon. Mrs.
Augusta Leigh, unless you avow it by
words or by silence to this letter.
My motive in writing is a chivalric one.
It is to defend you from the growing pub
lic belief and indignation against you,—
Another motive is this, viz: It is resolved
for public justice that the publishers of the
libel shall be legally proceeded ■ against in
the criminal courts. In the cowardly
crime of libel, as in any other crime, the
law allows of no agents; all are principals.
Therefore, all persons who aided in the au
thorship, or by pre-approval for its publi
cation, and the promulgators, are all in
law Its publishers, and equally liable to the
in such case as by statute
made and provided; and the religions
majesty of the law protects the character
of the dead as' well as the living; other
wise, the next friend or kin would be in
cited .to avenge the wrong.
Upon the foregoing promises 1 respect
fully write to ask you whether or not you
knew of the intended publication, or ap
proved it or condemned it; or, if innocent
of the contents of the libel and Its intended
publication, whether you now approve it,
or disapprove its contents and publication.
From my heart I trust that yon were ig
norant of it, and condemn it, as must, in
the presence of God, every believer and
minister of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, and
every believer in the sacred and more an
cient faith of the Jewish religion. Pagans
teach ns to honor and protect the memo
ries and graves of the dead.
I respectfully state to yon that it is re
solved to regard your silence to this letter
as the quality of tacit affirmation which
wc (before we had lived our century) re
ceived from the softer sex in our sweet
days of honeyed courtship, viz., silence
gives consent and affirmation to the solemn
proposition.^
Excuse my relating a fiery incident of my
early youth ;it bears a moneyed moral. I
was ouce a daring “ fire boy ”, in Boston,
and dared others to follow me into danger,
and in that character I saved an infant’s
life, and I aided to subdue the conflagration
of your reverend father’s church in that
city ; and twice I nearly lost my life in so
doing—once from being bnried beneath an
avalanche of snow from the heated roof,
and then from the explosion of casks of
New England rum and gin, stowed in the
church cellar to increase the rent! Shaks
jieare says : “ You may call spirits from the
vasty deep, but will they come ?” Egad !
they did come from that vasty deep cellar
when called by the demon, Fire! The
stone and towered edifice was named the
Temperance Church of the Rev. Lyman
Beecher ; and we fire boys never dreamed,
in our life-endangered service of the explo
sive spirits in those lower regions ; but
when they arose with voice of thunder, and
clad in mantles of the furious flames, it
seemed as if all hell was let loose upon us,
and the very air became drunk with the in
toxicating, fiery fumes of the cursed spirits
of pandemonium, or, in poetic phrase, those
“ damned spirits of human destruction !”
I am willing again to endeavor to save a
churchman, if not a church, from the fire of
public indignation, though L may be blown
up for so doing. My spirits, ihank God,
arc- my own, and not alcoholic, rather of
the house of Napoleon than Bourbon ; nor
do I Stowe them in the cellar of my brain
for any quiet Pacific rent, nor for a
“ Monthly ” income from any hurricane
“ Atlantic.” [Hear, hear !] As you are a
man of humor, you will appreciate my own.
Had not the authoress been your own
sister, what a theme for Plymouth Church !
compared with which, your judiciary speech
would shrink from life before the great dis
course upon the mendacious libellers of
the dead. Though, as a brother, you would
not attack your sister from the pulpit, she,
however, assailed a brother and sister iu
their graves. Yet what withholds your
anti-judiciary indignation against the pub
lishers? Who in Massachusetts distilled a
upas-tree poison which has oermeated like
a deadly malaria through New York, the
nation and Europe, to our disgrace and
dishonor as a people? It has incarnated
the human mind, changing its psychologi
cal character to animal thought and sug
gestion, as to whether that which was no
crime between holy Abraham and Sarah
can be criminal in the present day.—
(Genesis, xx. 12.)
Titus Junius and Torquatus died from
signals given to the executioners by their
own fathers, Junius Brutus aud Manlius.
Horatius killed his own sister Camilla for
weeping at the glory of Rome, in which her
lover was sacrificed in the combat of the
Horatii and the Curiatii. It is not supposed
that you will imitate even the spirit of
those historic deeds, but it is expected that
you will save your own reputation, and
preach against these lying money-changers
in the Temple of Truth! God points to
you a compound text, viz: “ Thou shalt
not bear false witness against thy neighbor!”
and “Thou shalt love thy neighbor as
thyself!”
Arise! awake ! or, like Lucifer, be forever
fallen ! Or give me your pulpit platform for
a single evening; and though its olive tree
(table) be descended from the tree upon the
holy Mount of Olives, and which sheltered
the Saviour when he mourned the fall of
Jerusalem, yet, God-inspired, I will give
electric vitality even to the rotten ribs of
decaying death, to the moulding bones in
the libelled tomb at Newstead Abbey, to
hear the defender of their living honor de
nounce all libellers into the hell they merit
for basely slandering the dead, and wickedly
abasing mental gifts from God Almighty.
I remain, sir, yours respectfully,
George, the Count Joannes.
39 Park Row.
New York City, Sept. 28,1869,
Coosa River Survey.
The following is the report to the Louis
ville Convention on the opening of the
Coosa river:
To the Commercial Convention:
The attention of the convention is re
spectfully called to the question of opening
the Coosa river for continuous navigation
from Rome, Ga., to the Gulf of Mexico by
the Alabama river, a great importance to
the Gulf States as weli as the country at
large.
The general characteristics of this water
con rse are:
1. The distance between Rome, Ga., and
Mobile, Alabama, is about seven hundred
miles..
2. The difference of level between low
water mark at Rome and tide water at the
Gulf is 690, giving a general slope per mile
of foot 0.81.
3. The upper and navigable portion of
the Coosa river from Rome, Ga., to Greens
port, Ala., 180 miles.
4. The lower portion of the Coosa river,
partly shoaly, partly navigable, between
Green sport and its junction with the Ala
bama river at Wetumpka, is 134 miles.
5. The distance between Wetumpka and
Mobile, navigable at all seasons, is 386
miles.
6. Summing up the two portions navi
gable 596 miles, and their whole fall is
345.5 feet, which gives an average of 0.61
feet per mile.
Various estimates have been made as to
the cost of lhe opening of the river, of from
$500,000 to $2,000,000, but if it were even
more it is a matter of small importance, if
we consider the magnitude of the object to
be attained.
The Coosa and Alabama rivers, made
one continuous channel for traffic, presents
a distance of 700 miles through a territory
which abounds in stone, coal and iron ores
of the finest qualities, marbles of various
kinds, mill stones, flagging stones, fine
proof, lithographic, gray and sand stones,
and a variety of other materials.
Capital and transportation are only
wanted to make this section an immense
workshop, capable of giving employment
to thousands of mechanics, and to turn out
every year millions of dollars of products
of all descriptions.
If wc take a belt of twenty miles on each
side of the rivers, a distance at which the
effects will be felt materially, we find an
area of 20,000 miles, 18,000,000 acres, of
which the Government of the United States
owns several millions in the shape of pub
lic lauds. The increase iu the value of
these lands by this work canuot be less
than $2 per acre, making au increase of
$30,000,000 for the area-.
All these facts taken by themselves, or
combined, are sufficient to ascribe to this
work a character of general and natioual
interest and worthy a special consideration
of the convention.
The Commercial Convention is respect
fully requested to petition the United States
Congress to appropriate the necessary sands
to assist the States of Georgia and Alabama
iu carrying out this important work.
For the statistics and estimates contained
iu the above, I am under obligations to
Gen. Eugene LeHardy, Chief Engineer of
the Selma, Rome and Dalton Railroad.
Respectfully,
I. G. Yf.tser, of Georgia.
On Committee River Navigation, &c.
Examination of a Steam Brake by a
Baltimorean. —An exhibition of the prac
tical use of the new Loughridge steam
brake was made oil the Erie Railway on
Wednesday. The exhibition was made at
the request of the njanagers and judges of
the American Institute. The brake is de
signed for steam-cars* and is constructed
in such a manner as to enable an engine to
stop a train at pleasure, without the aid of
brakemen. It is entirely worked by steam,
but is easily attached to the ordinary hand
brake without dispensing with the latter.
It is claimed to possess several advantages
over other brakes, chief among them being
the saving of time in stoppages and pre
vention of sliding of wheels, together with
its great security against accidents. It Is
also asserted by Mr. Thomas B. Oakley,
agent of the brake company, that the mo
tion of an express train can be completely
checked in about 18 seconds by means of
the new brake. The brake is now in use
on the Morris and Essex Railroad, where
it gives great satisfaction.
[New York Times.
A writer figures out that the pld maids
of the present generation are more agreea
bly, less gossipy, and better natured than
any since several generations ago. Won-!
dera will never cease in this country.
The Malden's Ctiolm. V- * <
’Moor the singing birdaand the' lowing herds,
And the clover blossoms white—
The note of the morning’s heavenward lark
Is the music sweet to me;
Aud the dewy flowers in the early hours.
The gemß 1 love to see!
O! give me the breeze from the waving trees,
The murmer of Summer leaves,
Aud the swallow's song as he skims along.
Or twitters beneath the eaves ;
The plowman’s shoot as he’s turning out
His team at set of sun.
Or his merry “ good night,” by the fire-fly’s
light,
When bis daily work is done.
And give me the root and the ineions frnit,
My own bands rear for food ;
And the bread so light, and the honey white,
And the milk bo pure and good!
For sweet the meed ol labor is.
When the heart is strong and true,
And blessings will come to the hearth and the
home,
It our be6t we bravely do.
[Correspondence of the Charleston News.
A Wail from the Seaboard.
DESOLATION IN THE TIDEWATER REGION OF
THE STATE—A GLANCE AT THE RUINED
PLANTATIONS OF BEAUFORT COUNTY —
WORTHLESS CHARACTER OF THE LABOR.
Beaufort County, October 29.
I’ve heard a great deal of the prosperity
of the South, and that one or two more
such crops as the present year’s would
make us as prosperous as before the war.
In many of the best parts of the South, I
don’t believe, with the present available labor,
one hundred such crops as the present
would help; for I don’t believe there is
a single planter in two-thirds of this county
who has not steadily lost money since the
war. I have never yet heard of the first
one who has cleared expenses, unless on
Savannah river rice plantations. Why,
sir, for want of labor, the country has be
come a mere waste —rats destroying the
rice, corn and cotton in the fields—rats and
other vermin in incredible numbers; fenc
ing rotten or burned ; the new houses left
by the enemy going to ruin ; all the best
lands in broomgrass ; cane-briars ten feet
high ; the freedraen preferring to half work
the poorest lands, which are more easily
cultivated. From five miles south of Rob
ertville, I will describe a few places:
Mr. R. H. T.’s place—about 1,000 acres of
opeu land—there used to be made on it, an
nually, about 150 bales of cotton, 3,000 or
4,000 bushels of corn. There could easily
be made ou it 500 bales of cotton. The
present year, there will be made about
eighty bushels of corn and three or four
bales of cotton.
The next place—D. B.’s—some very good
lands, not one acre cultivated.
The next plantation, where 2,000 and
3,000 bushels rice used to grow, aud 130
and 140 bales cotton, aud thousands of
bushels of corn, J. W. R.’s place, some
twenty freedmen have made altogether 300
bushels corn and 3 bales cotton.
The next plantation, oue of the best in
the State, safe rice lands, good for from 50
to 75 bushels rice per acre, and of the best
description, and where 20 to 40 bushels
corn used to be made per acre, and much
of the laud, if well cultivated, would yield
one or two bales, Dickson seed, per acre—
where 140 bales used to be made, and thou
sands of bushels of rice and corn, there
will be made about 16 bales cotton and 500
bushels corn. None of the freedmen tend
ed over two acres each, and of course ouly
nominally tended.
The next place—that used to make 20 or
25 bales, with about fifteen or twenty hands
—will this year make 4 or 5 bales, in all;
and from there south, on the Savannah
river road, some thirty miles, to Screven’s
rice plantations, on which thirty miles
there were flourishing plantations, 7 or 8
bales of cotton will cover all that will be
made tliis year.
Again, going east from Hennis’ cross
roads to the Eulmw, passing one of the best
sections in this State, it is no better, if as
good, as what I’ve described.
South Carolina Items.
On Monday night, about thirty colored
men organized a Conservative Club in
Charleston.
The Mills House, which lias been closed
for about eighteen months, was opened to
the public on Monday. The house, which
has about one hundred and twenty-five
rooms, has been thoroughly renovated and
furnished throughout with elegant furni
ture, carpets and curtains, and supplied
with all the modern conveniences. The
proprietor, Mr. J. Parker, has secured the
services of Mr. John Campbell as book
keeper, and Mr. Geo. McGinlay as caterer
—both of whom are the right men in the
right place.— Charleston Hews.
Rev. W. A. Garnewell, a prominent min
ister of the Methodist Church, died on Sun
day last.
A Barnwell correspondent of the Charles
ton News says an effort will be made to
have anew county formed from a portion
of Barnwell and Beaufort. The people
living near the line have just cause for
complaint; but the return of the court
house here ought to satisfy the citizens of
Barnwell; but the Beaufort people are
worse off than ours, having, in some cases,
to go seventy miles to court. Between
Blackville and Beaufort is over one hun
dred miles, while it is but twenty-five from
Blackville to Orangeburg Court House.
The Charleston Health Officer’s report
shows that during the week ending Octo
ber 80th, there were 36 deaths in the city—
-6 whites and 27 blacks.
Joint Meeting of Citizens of Edge
field and Lexington.—A meeting of the
citizens of Edgefield and Lexington coun
ties, S. C., was held at Batesville on the
30th ult., for the purpose of discussing the
propriety of forming anew county of the
adjoining portions of said counties. Wil
liam J. Barr, Esq., was called to the Chair,
aud briefly explained the object of the meet
ing. Resolutions were a lopted to the fol
lowing effect:
That we believe the forming of anew
county of portions of Edgefield and Lexing
ton to be practicable and necessary ; that it
will add materially to the pi'osperity of our
county, and that a committee of ten citi
zens of each county be appointed to draw
up a suitable petition to the Legislature,
setting forth the disadvantages<md incon
veniences under which we now labor in our
isolated condition, asking them to organize
such county out of the counties before
named, and having some such boundaries
as follows, viz : A line beginning at Hol
ley’s Ferry, on the Saluda river, and run
ning to some point near Horsey’s Bridge,
on North Edisto river, or the month of
Black creek, on the east; and a line run
ning from Chappell’s Ferry, on Saluda
river, so as to include 625 square miles ;
and that this committee meet and report to
this body on the first Saturday iu December
proximo, at 11 o’clock, a. m.
The following committees were appointed
under the resolutions :
For Edgefield.— Colonel E. J. Coggaus,
Chairman ; Captain A. P. West, Messrs. J.
H. Bouknight, J. H. Hriett, J. W. Trotter,
A. Able, Wm. Stevens, Elijah Watson, Sr.,
Levi Lybrad, Rev. E. W. Horn aud Charles
Plunkett, Esq., and Rev. Wiley Lindner
were added.
For Lexington. —Captain U. X. Gunter,
Chairman ; Messrs. Wm. E. Sawyer, Sr., J.
C. Cullum, Wm. B. Jones, Sr., N. W. Steed
man, Wm. O. Rankin, Dr. J. K. Gantt, Rev.
H. A. Smith, Lewis Shealey and Dr. A. IF.
Langford.
Athens and Rabun Gap Railroad.—
We are indebted to Mr. John H. Newton,
one of our delegates to the Louisville Con
vention, for some facts in reference to this
enterprise. Being local in its character, it
was not deemed proper to present it to the
convention, but an interview was had
with the directors of the Louisville and
Knoxville Road, in which we are assured
that if the road from Knoxville to the Ken
tucky line is completed, the remainder of
the work in Kentucky will be done. Our
delegation were unable to get official in
formation as to the progress of the work
on the north end of the Blue Ridge Road,
but they are satisfied that it will be com
pleted before the extension from Athens
reaches Rabun Gap. As there are three
railroads in operation between Louisville
and Cincinnati, and as other lines will ex
tend to the West from Louisville, it is
thought best that lines from this section
should make their main route and con
nections to and at that city, thereby se
curing the most direct connections with
the East aud West.
As the delegation will make a full re
port to the Town Council, which will be
published In the regular proceedings of
that body, we deem it unnecessary to en
ter into further particulars.
yAihens Watchman.
The gin house of Capt. S. H. McNeill,
near Aiitaugaville, and about 18 bales of
cotton, were destroyed by fire on Friday
night. There was no Insurance on the
property.
. 1l! " items.
The Telegraph reports that them wsre re
ceived in Macon Tor storage aud sale dur
ing the month of October, closing bn Sun
day last, 17,466 bales of cotton. The sales
for the month flmoont to 10,695 bales. Re
ceipts at this point for the correspondin' l '
month last year, 10,885 bates; safe for
same time, 6>,037 bales. So October, 1869,
leads October, 1868, in receipts 6,581 bales;
and in sales, 4,658.
The Courier is authorized to state that
President Holt offers to assume half the ex
pense of building a road from Americas to
Preston, to tap the Bainbridge and Colum
bus Road at that point. The road will cost
about $12,000 per mile.
The Columbus Enquirer reports that an
old gentleman named O’Bannon, the ftSher
in-law of Dr. Tuggle, fell out of the back
door of the latter’s residence on Saturday
night, and was so seriously injured by the
fall as to die on Sunday night. Mr. O’Ban
non was 88 years-of age. "
The negro, George Rolling, says the En
quirer, arrested by Deputy Marshal Col
viu, on Saturday, has been fully identified
as the murderer of Mr. Watson, near Ope
lika, on Friday last. He is now lying in
jail, awaiting a requisition from the Gov
ernor of Alabama.
Mr.Wm. L. Clai k, of Columbus, has re
ceived the appointment of Superintendent
of the Mobile and Girard Railroad.
Mr. Wm. G. Irwin was admitted to the
practice of law, at Fulton Superior Court,
on Tuesday.
The Democratic/nominees for Aldermen
of Atlanta are Messrs. W. H. Brot.herton,
M. T. Castlebury, J, H. Calloway, Vottiey
Dunning, Jas Kelley, W. C. Anderson, E.
P. Howell, M. Mahoney, A. Murphy, A.
L. Fowler.
The Argus says notwithstanding the
charter of the Bainbridge, Cuthbert and
Columbus Railroad does not appear in the
private edition of public laws passed at the
last session of the Legislature, the bill was
passed, signed by the Governor and certi
fied copies of the same can be shown.
Senora Carfana, a Spanish actress aiul a
stranger to Southern boards, made hei* first
appearance before a Savannah audience
Monday night. She selected the difficult
and hazardous role of Mary Stuart for her
debut. The Republican highly compliments
the actress, but says the remainder of the
company afforded her no support, being
behind in their parts.
On Monday morning there was sufficient
frost in Savannah to destroy the tomato
vines, which have heretofore escaped.
The Macon Telegraph ■, of the 31st, says:
“We noticed yesterday that Mr. J. E.
Goulding was building a large and beauti
ful velocipede rink between the race track
and laboratory, for W. A. Huff. The track
of the rink is to be a dead level, one-eightli
of a mile in circumference and fifteen feet
wide, and when completed will be equal to
anything of the kind in the country.”
The journeymen tailors of Macon recent
ly demanded an increase of wages. The
leading merchant tailors acceded to the
demand, and there was no strike. The
Telegraph says a journeyman tailor under
the new schedule gets s2l per week. For
making a black frock or dress cloth coat
sl2 is charged, making a pair of pants
$3 50. The general advance in wages and
job work is about 25 per cent, upon old
prices.
The Columbus Sun relates that a sen
sible planter in that section lias employed
as a guard at his gin house, a faithful Con
federate soldier, at S3O per month and
board. This guard has suppressed two ac
cidental fires, and his employer is congrat
ulating himself that, by an expenditure of
a bale of cotton, he may save an hundred.
A young lady, Miss Barnes, of Twiggs
county, whilst riding through the streets
of Macon, on Friday, accompanied by her
father and brother, was thrown from her
horse and so seriously injured that her re
covery is thought to be doubtful. Her col
lar and breast bones were badly fractured.
The Rome Courier Reports the death of
Rev. J. F. Swanson, a Baptist preacher, of
Pollc county-,.0n Thursday last. His disease
was consumption.
Col. W. Rice proposes to start a weekly
paper at Rutledge, Morgan county, on Lhe
Georgia Railroad, to be called the Railroad
Advertiser.
It is proposed to organize a fire company
in Madison. A good move.
The Rome Daily reports a bale of cotton
in Saturday’s receipts from Jacksonville,
Ala., containing more rocks than cotton.
Rocks at 22V£c. per pound pay handsomely
for shipment, especially from a section of
country where rocks are plentiful.
The Legal Giants Dkclike Rattlb—-
The Macon Journal and Messenger, of the
2d, says:
The important case in which certain
stockholderN of the S. W. Railroad obtained
an injunction from Judge Cole, against the
purchase by the Central and S. W. Railroad
Company, of a large amount of the stock of
the Albany and Gulf Railroad, owned by
the city of Savannah, was bromrhjt up yes
terday before Judge Cole, on motion to dis
solve the injunction.
By consent of counsel on both sides, the
case was submitted, without argument, and
Judge Cole promises to give his decision at
an early day.
There was a brilliant array of legal talent
representing the parlies. Geneinl Toombs,
W. Hope Hull, E<q , Messrs, Nisbcts and
Jackson, arid Col. L. N. Whittle appeared
for the parties seeking the injunction, and
General A. R. Lawton. Messrs. Lyon, &
DeGraffenried, Messrs. Hartridge & Chis
holm, and Messrs. Johnson & Montgomery
for the parties who seek to dissolve the in
junction.
Judge O. A. Lochrane represented the
State of Georgia, which has been made a
party in the case.
The South Carolina State Fair.—A
correspondent of the Charleston News
writes from Columbia:
“The indications from all parts of the
State are that the crowd at the Fairncxt
week will lie unprecedentedly' large.—
Especially from the up-country comes in
the information that everybody with his
wife and family is making ready to spend
three or at least two days here during the
Fair, So well established in the public
mind is this fact, that a party of gentlemen
from St. Matthew’s are coming prepared
with tents and camp outfit, to entertain
themselves during their sojourn at the
Fair.
“ The tournament idea seems to have
taken with the young men, and knights
from several parts of the State, especially
Columbia, Wiunsboro, Union aud Abbe
ville, are known to be girding themselves
for the trial of skill. The fear of t6o large
a crowd of knights seems to have deter
mined the juvenile—perhaps I wouffl be
nearer the idea by saying the juvenilior
folk—to get up a more youthful tourney,
where the lance instead of the broadsword
shall be the implement used.”
Excitement in Abbeville, S. C.—The
Abbeville Press, of Friday, contains the
following:
A number of our citizens from the neigh
borhood of Calhoun’s Mills were arrested'
and brought to the village on yesterday, by'
the State constabulary, under charge of be
ing concerned in the election disturbance
on Wednesday. As there is much excite
ment and conflicting accounts, we find it
difficult to give definite statements, and"
therefore forbear comment. From the.
character of the parties accused, we feel
assured that they will be able to vindicate
themselves at the proper time.
We have the statements of two of the
managers, very reliable men, that every
thing passed off very quietly until about
two or three o’clock in the evening, When,
at the instigation of some of the constabu-.
lary. an attempt was made by the negro
guard to clear tlie polls, when the whites
resisted, and forced the 'constabulary to
leave. ThefcTwas no blood shed—much
excitement; but no damage done to any
oDe.
The presence of the (State constabulary
here is a constant source of irritation to
our people, and ever must be so.
The Blue Ridge Railroad.*-—-A. corres
pondent of the Charleston News, writing
from Columbia, says:
The resident presence of Messrs. Patter
son and Creswell, two of the contractors*
for the finishing of this road, in Columbia,
and their foundry operations in getting out
iron works here, conducted by Mr. Steers,
a sub contractor, confirm the rather dn-’
bious public mind upon the question of the
bona fide character of that contract. We
are now folly assured that there is none of
the Sprague-Pierson Columbia canal dodge
General Buckner has recovered all his
property in Kentucky, but is still without?
his Chicago estates, which are of immense
value. When he seceded he conveyfecPthis
property—which, really belonged to his Wife
—to her brother, to hold for her. The
brother married, entered the Union army,
and was killed. A little posthumous son
became, heir, but be and his mother, who
succeeded him in the inheritance, both died
also, and the father of General Buckner’s
wife’s brother’s wife now claims the prop
erty. The courts will be calied to the work
of taking out the tangle.
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[Associated Press Dispatches.
WASHINGTON.
Washington, November 3—Noon.—The
following are the latest returns from New
York: Nelson’s majority in the State will
not exceed 10,000. The Senate will be De
mocratic and the House slightly Republi
can.
lu New Jersey the Republicans gain a
member of the Assembly in Hudson coun
ty. In Michigan, the Democrats carried
Detroit by 600. In Wisconsin, Fairchilds’
majority is estimated by the Republican
State Committee at 8,000, with the Legisla
ture about the same as last year. In Min
nesota, Austin’s majority is estimated at
3,000 to 4,000.
The Committee of the Louisville Conven
tion visited Grant to-day. The details
have not transpired.
Washington, November 3— P. M.—Bout
well has employed counsel to protect the
interests of the Government in the matter
of prize money claimed by Farragut’s fleet,
for the capture of New Orleans. The case
involves a million of dollars. The suit is
pending in the District Court of this Dis
trict. The court grants the Government
thirty days to purpose its defense.
Revenue, three and a qaarter million.
Ex-Virginia Governor Wells interviewed
the President to-day.
The iron-clad Miantonomah is ordered to
the West Indian squadron.
Government receipts of gold at Boston
are short of disbursements, therefore Bout
well declines selling gold there.
The delegation appointed by the Louis
ville Commercial Convention called upon
the President. The Chairman, Gen. Wal
brklge, spoke as follows : “Before adjourn
ment, the late Commercial Convention at
Louisville deputed the committee I have
the honor to represent in the high and deli
cate responsibility of expressing to your
Excellency sentiments of gratitude, re
ciprocation and Jiearty good will for the
success of the great objects for which the
convention convened. Originally called
to discuss the exclusive interests of the
Southern States, its theatre of usefulness
was subsequently enlarged until it em
braced the material prosper! ty of every sec
tion of the country. Delegates were in
attendance from Vermont and Texas,
Georgia and Minnesota ; thus national in
its character, it was pleased to receive en
couragement at the hands of the National
Executive. Its deliberations were confined
mainly to the great questions of flnance,
taxation, immigration, internal improve
ments, transportation and necessary meas
ures by which the industries and great
national resources of the South could be
brought in harmony with the new era of
prosperity upon which the republic has
entered. One sentiment animated the en
tire convention, namely : to stand by the
plighted faith of the nation iu the full pay
ment of the public securities as stipulated;
and forgetting all differences of the past,
the desire was universal that all sectional
interests should lie ignored, and citizens of
the United States should hereafter be a ho
mogeneous nation—one, entire, united and
■ inrlivisable. In conclusion, we desire to
congratulate your Excellency on the suc
j cess which has thus far marked your ad
ministration. Enough has transpired to
demonstrate that before the expiration of
your second term, the public debt may be
more than half extinguished, aud Americau
securities demand a premium iu every
part of the globe.”
Grant, in reply, said he was very much
gratified to receive such a delegation, rep
resenting not only the great commercial
interests of the nation, but also the new
condition of affairs. The good fellowship
which ought to unite a common brother
hood, and which so happily inaugurated
and invigorated at Louisville, he hoped
would extend and permeate throughout the
entire Union, until every vestage of bitter
ness or unkindness should forever be eradi
cated. He believed within a year or two
the South would be far richer and far more
prosperous than ever she was before, and
the people have it within their own power,
by judicious policy and wise acts, to ad
vance their interests, and those of the
entire country, with marvellous rapidity.
As to his second term, he could assure Gen
eral Walbridge be felt now very much as
he did at West Point in his cadet days,
when he counted every month with eager
mss to get out of his position. Fie had not
son • lit his present position, as ever3 T body
km w.
Bon. H. W. II illiard, of Georgia, was
glad to have the opportunity of saying' to
the President that lie concurred in the cor
dial appreciation which all parties must
give to the sentiments just expressed by
The President, laughingly, asked
Colonel Duncan, of Kentucky, what, the
people of his State thought of his adminis
tration, and whether there was any hope of
Kentucky ever turning from her present
politics.
Col. Duncan assured him Kentuckians,
witii rare exemptions, fully appreciated the
President’s honest intentions to do what
he could for the good of the country ; arid
that, the telegraphic message sent by the
President to him for the convention, and
the now reuewed assurances of' kind feel
ing towards the people of the States lately
suffering so much would augment and
strengthen the respect which they already
entertain for the Chief Magistrate. As to
Kentucky, he would say, however, that
oven the fifteenth amendment would create
very little difference, as the colored vote
would he divided, and go very little lo-
W-ards breaking down the ninety thousand
Democratic majority of the State.
After an informal and pleasant conver
sation of half an hour, the delegation with
drew.
In New Jersey, the Democrats gain one
Senator and two Assemblymen.
In Kansas, the Democrats carried Leav
enworth and Atchison.
In Massachusetts, the House stands 75
Frohibitionists to 123 Licensists.
VIRGINIA.
Richmond, November 3. —The great suc
cess of, and the interest manifested by the
farmers in the State Fair is regarded here
as the best sign of returning prosperity of
the State. There were quite twenty-five
thousand people at the grounds to-day,
nearly all Virginia farmers or citizens of
other States. To-morrow is the city peo
ple's day. At noon the blooded stock was
paraded and over two hundred pure blooded
horses were in line—a greater show than
was ever made in Virginia before. “ Hot
spur,” a Philadelphia horse, won the six
hundred dollar prize given by the Society
for fastest trotting. The display of agri
cultural implements is better than ever had
here.
Commissioner Caprou, of United States
Agricultural Bureau, arrived to-day.
NEW YORK.
Port Jervis, November 3.—Six cars,
loaded with cotton aud tobacco, were burn
ed to-day. One man was roasted to death.
New York, November 3.—Latest re
turns indicate a Democratic majority of
7,000 to 10,000. Senate—l 7 Democrats,
15 Republicans. The Democrats gain
2. The House is very close. Present
estimates give the Republicans 60; Demo
crats, 62, with several districts doubtful.
TENNESSEE.
Nashville, November 3. —A resolution
was to-day introduced in the Legislature
declaring Cooper’s election void. A mo
tion to suspend the rules, for its immediate
consideration, failed by a vote of 30 to 32.
The motion was referred to the Judiciary
Committee.
OHIO.
Cincinnati, November 3.—The Superior
Court, to-day, issued an injunction against
the Board of Education excluding the
Bible aud sacred music from the public
schools. The case will be heard Thursday.
ALABAMA.
Opelika, November 3.—The East Ala
bama Agricultural Fair is a great success.
There are thousands in attendance.
Mcßride & Cos., ot Georgia, take the pre
mium for the greatest display of silver and
silverplate.
Generals Buckner, Clanton and others
will be here to-morrow.
WEST VIRGINIA.
Wheeling, November 3.—-Thirty-Bine
counties return to the lower house: Re
publicans, 15; Liberal Republicans, 9; De
mocrats, 21. Eleven counties unheard
from.
NEW JERSEY.
Trenton, November 3. —The result of
yesterday’s election was : Senate —Demo-
crats, 13; Republicans, 8; House—Demo
crats, 33; Republicans, 4. The Democrats
jgaln Conjoint ballot. . .
MARINE NEWS.
Savannah, November 3.—Cleared: Bark
Exchange, Havre.
Charleston, November 3.—Arrived :
Schooners Lilly, New York; David Col-
lins, Philadelphia; Marcus Hunter, Port
land.
Wilmington, November 3.—Arrived:
Steamships Gary, Baltimore; Volunteer,
New York.
MARKETS.
London, November 3—Noon.—Consols,
93%. Bonds, 83. Tallow, 47s 3d.
Liverpool, November 3—Noon.—Cotton
—uplands, 12%; Orleans, 12% ; sales, 10,000
bales. Western Flour, 23s 6d. Corn, 29s
6d. »
Laier —Sales of cotton estimated 12,000
bales.
Liverpool, November 3—Eveuing—Cot
ton—uplands, 12% ; Orleans, 12%; sales.
12,000 bales; speculation aud export, 3,000
bales. Common Rosin, ss. 3d.@6s.
Paris, November 3.—Bourse quiet.—
Rentes, 71f. 35c.
New York, November 3—Noon.—Stocks
unsettled. Money strong at 7. Sterling—
long, 9; short, 9%. Gold, 127%. ’62’s, 14%;
Tennessees, ex coupon, £O%; new, 51% ;
Virginias, ex coupon, 50; new, 52% ; Louis
ianas, old, 65 ; Levees, 60; B’s, 83 ; Alabama
B’s, 90; s’s, 60; Georgia 6’s, 83 ; 7’s, 91% ;
North Carolinas, 47; new, 38%.
New York, November 3— P. M. —Money
active at 7. Sterling weaker at 8%@9.
Gold, 127%. Stocks steady and strong.
Governments closed steady. ’62’s, 15;
Southerns quiet.
New York, November 3 — Noon. — Flour
heavy. Wheat unchanged. Corn declin
ing. Pork dull, S3O. Lard dull. Cotton
shade easier, 26%@26%. Turpentine quiet,
47. Rosin quiet—good strained, $2 22%@
5. Freights drooping.
New York, November 3— P. M. — Cotton
heavy, % lower; sales, 2,000 bales at 26.
Flour strongly favors buyers. Wheat
opened steady and closed shade lower.—
Corn lc. lower. Mess Pork lower—s 29 25.
Lard—kettle, 18<§18%. Whisky lower—
sl 15@1 17%. Groceries steady. Naval
Stores dull.
Cincinnati, November 3.—Corn firmer ;
good demand; old, 85@86; new, 58@60.
Whisky nominal, $1 06 offered, $1 08 ask
ed. Pork unusually dull at s3l; shoul
ders, 16% ; clear sides, 19%. Nothing do
ing in Lard; held at 16%.
Louisville, November 3.— Pork, s3l.
Bacon—shoulders, 16%; clear sides, 20.
Lard, 18. Whisky dull at $1 10.
Wilmington, November 3. — Spirits Tur
pentine quiet at 42%. Rosin firmer ; strain
ed, $1 55@1 57%. Crude Turpentine un
changed. Tar steady at $2 05. Cotton
steady at 24%@24%.
Mobile, November 3.—Cotton—sales,
600 bales; market closed dull; opened at
% and closed %; middling, 24%@24%; re
ceipts, 1,983 bales; exports, 62 bales.
New Orleans, November 3.—Cotton
active and lower, 24% ; sales, 5,350 bales ;
receipts, 7,443. Corn, nominal, market
bare. Oats firmer, 65. Mess Pork, nomi
nally, s3l 50. Bacon scarce and firmer,
17%, 17% and 20% ; clear, 20%. Others
unchanged. Gold, 127%. Sterling, 38% ;
Sight, par@%discount.
Charleston, November 3. — Cotton low
er but more active; middling, 24% ; sales,
700 bales; receipts, 1,131 bales; exports
coastwise, 106 bales.
Savannah, November 3.—Cottou—re
ceipts, 2,698; exports, 1,065 ; sales, 800
bales; middling, 24%; market dull.
Augusta Daily Market.
Office Daily Constitutionalist, )
Wednesday, November 3—P. M. \
FINANCIAL—
GOLD—Buying at 12S and selling at 130.
SlLVEß—Buying at 123 and selling at 128.
BONDS—City Bonds, 87.
STOCKS—Georgia Railroad, 105.
COTTON —Market opened quiet at 24 for
Now York middling, and closed dull at same
figure. Sales,62B bales. Receipts, 695 bales.
BACON—Finn with an advancing tendency.
We quote C. Sides, 22; C. R. Sides, 21%;
B. B. Sides, 21 ; Shoulders, 18: Hams, 21 %@
36% ; Dry Salt Shoulders, 17 ; Dry Salt C. R.
Sides, 20%.
CORN—Small supply. Wc quote choice
white, $1
WHEAT—We quote choice white, $1 70@
1 75; amber, $1 60 ; red, $1 50.
FLOUR—City Mills, new, $7 50@9 50; at
retail, $1 18 barrel higher. Couutry, srt(%9,
according to quality.
CORN MEAL —sl 40@l 50 at retail.
OATS 90®$1 50.
PEAS —None.
CITY ITEMS.
Lecture of Rev. R. A. Holland.— The
capacity of Masonic Hall, last night, was
fully tested by the brilliant aud apprecia
tive audience convened to hear the second
lecture of this distinguished divine. His
subject—the title of a novel—“ What Will
He Do With It?” comprised a finely con
ceived application of the query to man’s
nature and endowments—their use and
abuse. Laying the ground work of his
lecture in the declaration that with a sound
body and sane mind, man had a good capi
tal with which to begin life—a capital,
however, which is loaned, and not a perma
nent possession, and which is to be returned
to the lender with usury—the eloquent
speaker, in a most effective, beautiful
and impressive manner, inculcated the
great moral responsibility resting upon
man for the proper care and culture
of the faculties of body, mind and soul
to subserve the purposes of his crea
tion. Within the circumscribed limits at
our disposal, it is quite as impossible to
give an adequate conception of the pucnliar
force and beautiful imagery of this lecture,
as with an inch sample, clipped from a
wreath into which had been woven a thou
sand gorgeous flowers, to represent the
harmony and beauty of the unmarred
whole. We have merely indicated the
ground-work, without attempt to portray
the brilliant and gorgeons superstructure
of poetic thought reared by the lecturer, as
he traced his fruitful theme in the varied
and suggestive lines of discourse.
Counterfeit Tobacco Stamps. —The
new counterfeit tobacco stamp, recently
detected, is regarded of such a dangerous
character that the Commissioner of Inter
nal Revenue has issued circulars to all col
lectors and supervisors of internal revenue,
describing the counterfeit, and directing
that an examination be made of all tobacco
in each district upon which the old stamp
of the denomination of sixty pounds
is affixed. The points of difference be
tween the counterfeit and the genuine
stamp are so marked as to be easily de
tected by the glass. They are as follows :
First.—' The imprint in the counterfeit is
badly engraved, and a trifle larger than the,
genuine. The words “ Continental Bank
Note Cos., New York,” in the genuine are
small, distinct, and not connected, each let
ter standing separate, while in the counter
feit the letters are heavier, and more crowd
ed, larger, and closer together, and in the
word “ Conti nental ” the “ i ” joins the “n,”
making the “ i ” and “ n ” look like an “m,”
with a period at the end of the imprint in
the counterfeit, which is omitted in the
genuine.
Second. —ln the sky of the counterfeit
over the mane of the horse, will be observed
four small dots; In the genuine the sky Is
made of straight lines.
Third. —The ornamentations resembling
small stars on each side of the vignette in
the lathe work of the counterfeit look im
perfect and blurred, while in the genuine
thev appear bright.
Fourth. —Over the white-faced figure “6”
on the left side of the stamp in the genuine
is a small black figure, a part of the lathe
work pattern, which is wanting in the coun
terfeit, and the imitation lathework of the
counterfeit has a muddy appearance, while
in the genuine the patterns are clear and
distinct.
Oilb, Oils. —We iuvite the special atten
tion of those who deal In, or use, oils of any
kind to the advertisement of Mr. W. H.
Barrett, successor to Barrett & Carter, who
has in store a full supply of the very best
quality, which will be sold at the lowest
market prices. The well known drug and
chemical house of which Mr. Barrett has
become sole proprietor has been established
over forty years, and during all that time
has dealt extensively in oils, furnishing fac
tories, machine shops, railroads, and other
large establishments, and, therefore, has
every facility for procuring the purest and
be9t. Mr. Barrett has also an extensive
stock of drugs and chemicals, medicines,
perfumery, &c., to which he invites the at
tention of the public.
Change of Schedule.— Note the change
of schedule to be made on the Augusta and
Summerville Railroad, on Saturday next
Auction Sale of Horses and Mule*
At the Ken tacky and Tennessee Stables, on
Friday morning next, Col. C. V. Walker,
auctioneer, will sell a fine lot of Kentucky
horses and mules at auction. Captain
Toler, the proprietor off the stables, it will
be seen, designs to make these auction sales
of live stock a permanent feature In con
nection with his stables, the sales to be
made on Wednesday morning of each week.
This will prove a great convenience alike
to sellers and purchasers, aud will, we trust,
be fostered by general patronage.
Democratic Executive Committee. —
Members of the Executive Committees of
the different Democratic Clubs are request
ed to meet at the office of Henry Jones,
Esq., this evening. It is important that a
full attendance should lie present, as mat
ters will be presented for consideration
which deserve attention from all of the
gentlemen who have been chosen by their
fellow Democrats to represent on such
occasious the views and interests of their
respective organizations.
TnE Pope and the Free Masons.—As
the Pope has included Free Masons (in
combination with Bible Societies) as par
ticular subjects for censure at the (Ecu
menical Council, the Grand Master of Ma
sons in France has summoned a General
Convention of the Masons of Europe, at
Paris, on the Btli of December, in which
Free Masonry is solemnly to affirm the
great principles of universal human right,
which are its basis and its glory.
Death of Mrs. H. B. Bonnetheau.—
The many friends aud acquaintances of
this lady will regret to learn of her sudden
death, which occurred on Thursday last at
Georgetown, the place of her residence, on
the St. John’s river, Florida. We have
been advised that the death of Mrs. B. is
supposed (o have been caused by an affec
tion of the heart. Her remains were in
terred at Jacksonville on Monday.
Georgia Masonic Life Insurance Com
pany.—By the recommendation of the
President in his report, which was adopted
by the late convention, agents are author
ized to take persons who have heretofore
been excepted from membership. 1. Per
sons who held demits over five years—pro
vided they become members of some Lodge.
2. Persons who have joined the fraternity
between the ages of forty-five and fifty years.
Not Allowed to Marry. —lu the Early
county jVews, Mr. W. B. W amble gives the
following notice to the Ordinaries of Geor
gia : “You are hereby notified not to issue
any license for matrimony to or for D. B.
Wamble, or, in full, Daniel Barton Wam
ble, until after the Ist of March, 1873, he
being a minor.”
Railroad Indicators. —The railroad in
dicators, patented by E. B. Marshall, of
Atlanta, and owned by Gen. Walker, have
been placed on each passenger train on the
South Carolina Railroad. This indicator
gives not only the time of day, but denotes
the time when the train is due at each
station.
What Boys Can Do—A Pregnant Ex
ample.—A youug man of an adjoining
county, “ not yet nineteen years old,” aid
ed by his brother, between twelve ami
thirteen years of age, and a pony, has this
year, on .rented land, cleared three bales of
cotton and one hundred and fifty bushels
of corn, and “lots of potatoes,” besides
supporting his mother and a little sister.
He also has cotton yet to pick. He is the
son of a deceased Confederate soldier. He
will commence the next year with the fol
lowing capital:
Three bales of cotton, at 23e $345
One hundred and fifty bushels of corn,
at. $1 50 225
$570
and his pony.
He contemplates hying a mule, and hir
ing a hand and more ground. He culti
vated thirty acres this year.
[Columbus Sun.
Strength of the Masonic Order. —in
the published report of the proceedings of
the Grand Lodges of the United States of
the Order of Free and Accepted Masons, it
is slated tint the membership of the order
in tiie different States and Territories and
the British Possessions reaches 454,355, in
eluding 4.791 in Maryland, 1,783 in the Dis
trict of Columbia, 8,000 in Virginia, 11,184
in North Carolina, 13,167 in Georgia, 29,850
in Pennsylvania, and 16,969 in Tennessee.
Hard Times Out West.—' The Chicago
Tribune says the financial prospect is not a
satisfactory one. Throughout the north
west the general prosperity depends so
largely upon the grain crop that the pres
ent low prices make everybody feel poor,
and have a depressing effect upon all
branches of business. It is probable that
this Fall’s business will he done for very
small profits, and in many instances no
profits at ail.
Notice to Manufacturers.
JPBE UNDERSIGNED offers his Services
to Individuals or Corporations designing to
engage in the manufacture of COTTON or
WOOLEN GOODS. Ills experience in Practi
cal Manufacturing, and his knowledge of Cot
ton and Woolen Machinery, enables him to
draw up Plans of Buildings, as well as for all
tiie different Machines uecessary to accomplish
whatever may be reqnired to be done, and to
state the amouut of power requisite, whether
of water or steam.
Having recently visited some of the principal
Machine Shops and Manufactories in America
ami Europe, he is prepared to state the proba
ble cost of the necessary Machinery aDd the
best, places at which to purchase, and to give
any other information necessary to start a
Manufactory.
The Commissions will be very reasonable,
and tbe information gi veu would save largely
to projectors not entirely conversant witii the
business. Persons wishing information will
do well to apply in person, being prepared to
stale wliat description of goods they design
manufacturing, and the extent of the contem
plated enterprise.
lie refers to Dr. N. J. Bussey, President
and to Wm. H. Young, Esq , and tbe other Di
rectors ol the Eagle and Phoenix Manufacturing
Company, of Columbus, Ga.; to J. R. Clapp,
Esq., of tbe Columbus (Ga.) Manufacturing
Compariy; to General A. J. Hassell, Presi
dent Roswell Manufacturing Company, Ros
well, Ga., and to W. J. Russell, Esq., Prince
ton Factory, Athens, Ga.
HENRY V. MEIGS,
octl-law3m Columbus, Ga.
VILLA ROSA,
Aiken, S. 0.
This large establishment is now open for
the reception of BOARDERS. The House has
been provided with entirely new Furniture,
aud is, in every respect, a first class Private
Boarding House. Located in the midst of the
Pine Groves, it offers peculiar inducements to
persons suflering from a teudency to Con
sumptive or Throat Complaints. A vehicle
will always be in readiness at the Depot, on
the arrival of the trains, to take up Boarders.
TERMS very moderate. Address
Mrs. MARTHA A. MACK AY,
Villa Rosa, Aiken, S. C.
REFERENCES:
Aiken—Rev. E. C. Edukrton, Rector St.
Thaddeus’ Episcopal Cburch; Frederick A.
Ford, Esq.; Col. Wm. Feionnbau Finlbt;
Thos J. Hbtwabd, Agent South Carolina
Railroad.
Augusta— John E. Marlet, Agent South
Carolina Railroad.
Charleston— Lawrence C. Hendricks, Gen
eral Ticket Agent Bonth Carolina Railroad,
Office, John street. oct27-wl*tu3
STATE OF GEORGIA, RIOHMOKD OOUN
TY-—Whereas, Abner P. Uobeitsoß, Adminis
trator of John O. Greer, applies to me lor Letters of
Dismission:
These are, therefore, to dte. and admonish, all and
singular, the kindred and creditors of said deceased, to
be and appear at my office, on or before the first Mon
day In December next, to show cause, If any they
have, why said letters should not be granted.
Given under my hand and official signature, at office,
in Augusta, this 31st day of
augSl-Sm Ordinary, i
Notice to the Competitors
*OBTHE ‘
Mathewson Prizes,
Under the Award of the
COMMITTEE OF THE AGRICULTU
RAL CLUB OF RICHMOND
COUNTY, GA.
The undersigned, the committee to whom
has been entrusted the charge of awarding the
Premiums offered by J. O. Mathbwson, Esq
of Augusta, Ga., for the purpose of ascertain
ing the greatest quantity of COTTON and
CORN which a single acre of land can be made
to produce by the skillful application and
proper use of the SOLUBLE PACIFIC
GUANO, under scientific culture, do hereby
announce that they desire to make up the list
of contestants, and to obtain all the informa
. tion necessary for an impartial award.
The Prizes are in possession of the commit
tee. These Prizes are:
For Cotton.
Ist. BILVER PITCHER, value, $75 ; for the
greatest growth from One acre of land.
2d. BILVER GOBLET, value, SSO; for the
next greatest growth from one acre of land.
3d. SILVER CUP, value, $25; for the third
greatest growth from one of land.
For Corn.
Ist. BILVER GOBLET, value, SSO ; for the
greatest yield trorn one acre of land.
2d. SILVER CUP, value, $25 ; for the next
greatest yield from one acre of land.
3d. GOLD MEDAL, value, $25; for the third
greatest yield from one acre of land.
The Conditions
Upon which the award will be made are as
follows ;
Ist. That thaSOLUBLE PACIFIC GUANO
only and no other fertilizer shall have been up.
plied to the land.
2d. That each acre, either of Cotton or Corn,
.-.hall he measured by two disinterested persons
familiar with the planting and culture, who
shall certify the same to the Committee, and
shall also certify to the character of the con
testant.
3d. That contestants for cotton premiums
shall furnish the Committee journals, showing
the date ol each picking aud the quantity picked
of seed cotton.
4th. That the ginned cotton shall be sold in
■jhe Augusta market, be inspected by the Com
mittee, who shall be furnished with the market
samples thereol, and have the privilege ol re
sum pling and the warehouse weights.
sth. That the corn shall be hauled from the
field iu the presence of two respectable farmers
of the neighborhood, who shall record the
number of wagon loads and the dimensions ol
the wagon-bodies used, that it he shucked and
measured in the eqr by barrels, the gross
weight of each barrel filled, and the weight of
the empty barrel recorded, eacli fourth barrel
aud all fractional parts to he shelled, and the
shelled corn weighed, the whole record certi
fied and sent to the committee, together with a
small sample of each shelled and ear corn.
All planters or farmers desiring to contend
for the foregoing prizes will furnish to Dr. J.
B. Walker, Chairman of the Committe, Au
gusta, Georgia, their names and post office, and
the names of their factors, to whom, also, all
communications should be addressed.
The lists will be closed on the 10th day of
NOVEMBER next, and all applications should
be made on or before that day.
J. B. WALKER, Chairman.
A. R. WRIGHT,]
A. BAKER, I
• 8. D. LINTON, [ „
J. G. TUCKER, fUommittep.
J. J. COHEN, |
G. BRYAN. J
octß-thsntu6&c2
FARMERS!
INCREASE YOUR CROPS OF
Wheat, Rye, Oats, Potatoes, Turnips
aud Grass,
AS WELL AS
ADD TO THE FERTILITY OF YOUR SOIL,
BY A JUDICIOUS AND ECONOMICAL
MODE OF
MANURING.
Surely the man is a public benelactor who
mikes
*’ Two spears ol grass to grow
Where but one grew before.”
1 will give a "Money Guarantee" of the
u’riiy of each “ Manure” I sell.
1 keep constantly on hand, and offer for
sile /
Pure No. 1 PERUVIAN GUANO, froßi Chin
> ru« Islands
j‘iqe SOLUBLE PACIFIC GUANO, “John
8. Re. se & Cos.”
I nr# GR.>UND BONE FLOUR, ui.burnt and
uristeained.
Pur. GROUND LAND PLASTER, at S2O per
ton.
LIVERPOOL SALT.
J. O. MATTIE vVSOV,
285 Broad si re, 1," Align-la, Ga.
ocirt-eo.ls.tiAt
J. J. BROW E.
GILD.KK, LOOK! (i GL,\%S
ANI)
PICTIfR? FRAME MtKER.
OLD FRAMES REGUILT TO LOOK
EQUAL TO NEW.
01,0 PAINTINGS CAKBPIILLV
CLEANED, LINED AND VARNISHED.
135 BROAD STREET, AUGUSTA, GA.
jy2s-6u3m
OUR WEEKS Afterdate application will be
made to the Court of Ordinary o Richm-nd county
for leave to sell the tract of land in Columbia county,
containing Uvo hundred and sixty-five acres, and
hounded by land of Allen, Kirkpatrick & Leitncr,
and Newson A Mercer.
FREEMAN 8. PALMER,
Administrator of Isaac Palmer, decersod.
Augusts, October 4,1869.
oct6-lawlm
Notice to Debtors and Creditors.
STATE OF GEORGIA, RICHMOND COUN
TY.—Notice Is hereby given to all persona hav
ing demands against Henry DeLaigle late of said
county, doeea«c3, to present them to me, properly
made out, within the time prescribed by law ; aud all
persons indebted to said deceas and are here y re
quired to make immediate payment to me.
A. O. HOLT.
Administrator of H. DeLaigle.
ocl6law6w
STATE OF GEORGIA. RICHMOND COUN
TY.—Whereas, farah Jane Wilcox and William
W. Wileox apply to me for Letters of Adminis
tration on the e-talc of Jonathan S. Wilcox, lato
of said county, deceased:
These are. therefore, to cite and admonish, all and
singular, the kindred and creditors of said deceased,
to be and appear at my office, on or before tbe first
Monday in November next, to show cause, If any
they have, why aaid letters should not be granted.
Given under my hand andofiloial signature, ul office
m Augusta, iu said county, this 26th day of Sen
'ember. 1860. SAMUEL LEVY,
sep26-lawtd Ordinary.
STATE OF GEORGIA, RICHMOND COUN
TY.—Whereas, Joel N. Freeman, Executor of
estate of Thomas W. Freeman, applies to me for Let
ters of Dismission from said estate:
These are, therefore, to cite and admonish, all and
singular, the kindred and creditors of said deceased,to
bo and appear at my office, on or before the first Mon
day in December next, to show cause, if any they
have, why BuiJ letters should not be granted.
Given under my hand and official signature > t office
Ip Augusta, In said county, this 11th day of August,
1860
aul2-3m BAM'L LE VY, Ordinary R. C.
STATE OF GEORGIA, RICHMOND COUN
TY.—Whereas, Mathew Bhoron, temporary Ad
ministrator of John M. Sharon, applies to me for Let
ters of Dismission :
These are therefore, ta cite end admonish, all and
singu'ar the kindred and creditors ol said deceased, to
bo and appear at my office, on or before the first Mon
day iu December next, to show cause, If any they
have, whv said letters should not be granted.
Given under my band and official signature, at office,
in Augusta, this fristday of August, 1819.
SAMUEL LEVY,
aug3l-3m Ordinary.
STATE OF GEORGIA, F.IOUMOND COUN
TY.—Whereas, Ellen Sheron, Administratrix of
Charles Sheron, applies to me for Loiters of Dismis
sion :
Those are, therefore, to cite and admonish all and
singular the kindred and creditors of said deceased, to
be and appear at my office on or before the first
Monday fn December next, to show cause, If any
they have, why said letters should not be granted.
Given under my hand and offle al signature, at office,
in'Augusta, this tflat day of August, 1869.
SAMUEL LEVY,
aug3l-3m Ordinary.
STATE OF GEORGIA, RICHMOND OOUN.
IY.—Wherear, A. O. Holt applies to mo for
Letters of Administration on the estate of John M.
Hills, late ot said county, deceased:
These are, therefore, to cite and admonish, all and
singular, the kindred and creditors of said deceased,
to be and appear at my office, on or before the first
Monday in November next, to show cause, if any
tbev have, why said letters should hot be granted.
• Jiven under my hand and official signature, at office
In Augnsta, In said county, thlehrt
oct2 lawtd Ordinary.
Debtors and Creditors* Notice.
PERSONS indebted to the estate of Hen
rietta Pool, late of Riohmond county, deceasod, are
requested to make immediate payment, and .these
having demands against said' estate are requested to
preehnt them, duly attested according tq law, to
HENRY JONf.
eotl-iawOw c ~"Mer,