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CONSTITUTIONALIST
AUGUSTA. Q-A. ' .
TUESDAY MORNING, NOY. 16,1869
THE MACON FAIR.
The Agricultural Fair, which is opened
for public inspection this day, promises to
be an event for Georgia among the most
memorable and most gratifying since 1865.
That it will be a great success in every
way we do not for a moment doubt, and
we trust it will be but the precursor of
many more to come. It is true that there
will be mountebank shows of various kinds
to mar, in some degree, the purely substan
tial features of the occasion; but these
drawbacks are almost inseparable from
Fairs and cling to them as barnacles to a
stately ship—inconvenient attachments in
deed, but by no means fatal to enterprises
of pith and moment. Beyond these excres
ences, there will be such an exhibition of
Georgia industry and Georgia progress
as will make glad the hearts of all
visitors. It will be worth one’s while
to scan the fat cattle, the labor-saving
machines and the thousand and one mir
acles of skill and development; but the
grandeßtrsight of all will be the stalwart
sons and lovely daughters 6f the South,
whose right to rule over this; goodly in
heritance is stamped upon their brows.
We applaud, the citizens of Macon for
their energy and alertness in making this
Fair a possibility,' and they may well think
nobly of themselves when they contemplate
the bountiful results of their persistence.
Independent of the usual amount of
“spead-eagle” in some of the speeches, we
look for much practical talk. We are re
minded by one of the most prominent
agricultural thinkers in our State that a
leading topic will be the formation of a
Planters’ King to offset , as far as possible,
the well known existence of Liverpool,
Lowell and Manchester Cotton Rings. A
few months ago, we sketched a plan by
which we thought the difficulty of contend
ing against moneyed monopolies might be
obviated. In another column, we repro
duce this article and respectfully submit it
to the calm consideration of our farmer
■friends in council.
Meanwhile, may bright skies, thousands
of strangers and vast success attend the
Macon Fair! No Georgian can look coldly
upon it and we trust that all Augusta peo
ple who can spare the time will help swell
the crowds going toward our sister city.
AN EXPERIMENT WITH FERTILIZERS.
We are permitted, by one of the most
scientific agriculturists in a neighboring
State, to publish the following statement
of his experience with various fertilizers.
We should be pleased to hear from other
parties who are authoritative on the sub
ject :
“ Several of the popular commercial fer
tilizers of the day were applied this year in
juxtaposition, in order to test their com
parative merits on the same kind of land
The soil, when used, was thin from long
tillage, of gray complexion, with red-clay
sub-soil, all apparently of identical texture r
and having originally oak and hickory
growth, interspersed with pine. It was
opened on the 29th of March with a shovel
plow, five or six inches deep, at three feet
intervals, and the fertilizer, at the rate of
807 pounds per acre, equally distributed in
the furrow, and bedded over with a Brinly
plow. On the 19th of April the beds were
opened with a scooter (small* bull tongue)
—the seed, from 8 to tO, dropped at 15
inches distance, and covered with a board ;
the planting followed at night auspiciously
by a fine rain. The cultivation, similar to
the rest of the crop, was performed ex
clusively with the sweep and the hoe, each
of which, from the scarcity of hands, was
used but three times. The first working
was done on the 12th of May, the last on
the 30th of July. The Spring was cold, and
nothing grew off vigorously. There were
occasional light showers during May,
which were followed by high winds, form
ing a crust on the surface. From the Ist
of June, when there was a heavy thunder
and rain storm, to the 27th of July, wheu
there occurred another soaking rqin, there
were only a low showers, with an interval
of Intense heat, the thermometer exhibit
ing 100 degrees of Fahrenheit on the 11th
and 14th days of July, and for three weeks
ranging from 88 to 98 degrees. A similar
spell of heat, in slightly less degree, occur
red In August.
“ The following is a list of fertilizers
used, in the order planted, from east to
west, the rows running uortb and south :
Ist. Dickson’s Compound.
2d. J. T. Gardiner’s Manipulated.
3d. Fatapsco.
4th. Nothing whatever.
sth. J-—.
6th. Baugh’s Raw Bone.
7th. Peruvian Guano.
Bth. Wilcox & Gibb# Manipulated.
“ The stand was not what was expected.
By tedious but accurate count of all the
stalks, it was ascertained that the average
distances, instead of being 15 inches in all
of them, varied from 24 to 28 inches—the
Patapsco having the greatest and the
Bangh the least distance, the others being
Intermediate. The Dickson had the advan
tage of 6 feet to the eastward, where there
was an experimental acre of cotton, plant
ed in holes at 6 feet each way. The Wil
cox and Gibbs on the west adjoined a por
tion of the main crop, drilled with the
same interval of 3 feet.
“On the 24th of June, the first bloom
was observed on the Gardiner tract, and
the next, on the 26th, on that of the Wil-
cox and Gibbs. At that time the ‘ weed ’
of the Gardiner cotton was the largest, the
Dickson next, Peruvian Guano third, and
the greenest in color then and throughout
the season. The first open bolls were seen
on the 11th of Aagust, simultaneously on
the Gardiner and the Dickson. The others
followed in a Sew days, as did the cotton
elsewhere on the place.
“The first and Second pickings were
made on the 35th of August und the Bth of
September, with the following results:
Ist—per. acre. 2d—per acre.
1. Dickson .... 291 lbs. 167 lbs.
2. Gardiner... 215 ‘4 206 “
3. Patapsco,.'. 261 “ 167 “
4. Nothing...., 62 “ 82 “
5. J 116 “ 116 “
6. Baugh 198 “• 199 f‘
7. P. Guano... 197 “ 199 “
8. W.& Gibbs. ,200 “ 160 “
“ The thh'd picking was on the 2d of Sep
tember, the fourth on lhs,2d of October, and
the fifth on the 29tli of October, which will
probably be the last.noted, since the result
could not be materially altered. The two
last pickings will be united to economize
space:
. 3d. 4th&sth. Totalcrop
Per acre. Per acre. Per acre.
1. Dickson. ....490 185 *f,lsJ
2. Gardiner ....491 184 1,196
3. Patapsco.,.. 370 173 971
4. Nothing ....154 123 421
5. J .193 174 699
6. Baugh 387 139 923
7. V. Guan0,.,.875 139 910
8. "W-, d? Gibbs..36l 167 888 >
“The above is a summary of the essen
tial points of the experiment. The experi
ment, of course, while famishing an indi
cation; is hat at all. conclusive of the gen
eral merits of the fertilizers. The season
and the cultivation were alike to all—like
wise the preparatfon of the land, the quan-
the seed themselves, and the
manner of planting, but the deficiency'in
the soil, of certain elements of plant nutri
ment, must be considered. Continued pro
duction of corn, wheat or cotton, for
pany years, with only partial returns in
the form of manures, had abstracted large
ly from the fertility of the land* as fully
exhibited in the tract where nothing had
been applied this year. In the same field,
last year, with a better season, within a
few hundred yards of the locality now
used, the following result was shown:
Seed Cotton
per acre.
No manure 887 lb&.
Peruvian Guano, 175 lbs 1,328 lbs.
Baugh, 175 lbs 1,489 lbs.
“ Here, the nothing doubled the yield of
this crop, the Baugh in both instances sur
passed the Peruvian guano, while now, the
Gardiner, the Dickson [ind Patapsco, all
exceeded the production of both these fa
vorite fertilizers. Further comments may
be submitted hereafter.”
Georgia. —The New York Times thinks
Georgia has made giant strides in recupera
ting her powers. It makes the Times stare
to know that In a large section of our State
every planter’s note has been paid at
maturity in fall.
Georgia is a great State. She rallies
quickly from the awful bruises of war ; her
people make money ; they pay their debts ;
she gives nearly 50,000 Democratic majority;
she is a power out of the Union ; and she
astonishes the New York Times.
Grant and the Amendment. —The New
York Herald says:
“If the fifteenth amendment be not
hurried up and proclaimed before the Ist
of January, we may look for the rescind
ing of the New York ratification, and
then for a flat refusal from Tennessee,
Georgia and Alabama, whereby another
battle, in the Fall elections of 1870, will
have to be fought on the question all
over the United States.”
“ Wit on the Bench. —ln the Supreme
Court of the District of Columbia, objec
tion was made to an interlineation in an
indictment, the instrument having been
written in black ink, and the interpola
tion in blue ink. Judge Carter said:
‘ Now, in this period of the abolition of
all distinction on account of color, it ap
pears to me that this criticism is hyper
critical.’ ”
A Good Movement is that urging the
abolition of the custom of sending chil
dren from school to their homes with les
sons to study. Horae should be without
unnecessary cares, even the cares of A
BC.
Going South. —The Richmond Whig re
ports large numbers of negroes leaving Vir
ginia for the far South. We will have to
exhaust the black before the white hive
will swarm.
Brassy. —Gen. Grant, P. U. S., declined
to see Vanderbilt bronzifled. When
Grant is brassifled on horseback, the Com
modore can pay him back in the same coin.
(From the Constitutionalist, September 23J.
Planters and Merchants’ Association.
The combinations which large money
rings can bring to bear upon the cotton
market, the effects of which we witness in
the South from year to year, have bestirred
our people to measures of self-protection.
There have been many plans proposed for
the amelioration of the farmer, but none of
them seemed to be available. We hear of
another scheme bruited about which has
risen from the emergencies of the hour and
is the concotion of a practical and tho
roughly experienced business mind. It is
proposed to form an Association ol' plant
ers and merchants with a capital of say
#300,000 or #500,000. This capital is to be
invested as the President and Board of Di
rectors (to be elected) shall deem best for
the welfare of the company. The securities
will be the basis for the negotiation of a
Joan in Liverpool at the opening of each
cotton season. The funds thus obtained
will lie advanced to plantejs or shippers of
cotton, through well-established mercantile
firms, to the House selected in Liverpool, at
one per cent, per month, without additional
charges for advancing.
The benefits to be derived are:
First, The advantage of direct transac
tions with tiie great cotton centre.
Second, The obtaining of funds at a low
er rate of interest than can be had in this
country to move the crop. It is calculated
that #500,000 invested iu gold bonds, used
as a bonus, would command a sum in the
neighborhood of #1,500,000. Witli the quick
transportation of the present age, this sum
can be turned over every thirty days, and,
during the cottoti season, of five months’
duration, five times #1,500,000 would
amount to #7,500,000, being a greater
amount than the Banks of Augusta afford
ed prior to 1860.
In addition to the great incidental bene
fits such an Association, as outlined above,
would confer on the planting and business
men of a community, there would be a
handsome direct income from investments
judiciously made. With sale, intereßt
drawing bonds, it is reasonable to suppose
that the Association would secure from 5
to 7 per cent, profit on the rate at which it
could borrow, and the one per cent, per
month charged for advancing.
The capital .stock might consist of 3,000
or 5,000 shares at #IOO each, the full amount
to be paid iu when a charter shall have been
obtained and officers elected.
We have only time today to sketch out
the meagre outlines of this project. We
shall recur -to the subject again. Mean
while, it would be well for the wise heads
among our planting and mercantile com
munities to think over these matters and,
if possible, either improve upon this plan
or excogitate some other which will remedy
the evils of traffic now so seriously dis
turbing the great majority of those in onr
midst who believe in King Cotton and de
sire that all conspiracies against his royalty
shall be summarily suppressed. This
scheme, detailed above, is no idle project.
Double the amount required to forward it
is now lying idle in the hands of those who
trade in and with Augusta. They have it
in their power to be independent of the
money rings abroad. Will they exert this
power ?
[Prom the Antl-8 avery Standard.
“ The Man That Gives Brains to the Re
publican Party.”
HIS OPINION OP THE ADMINISTRATION—THE
ELECTIONS.
The late elections do not much change
the aspect of public affairs. The Repub
lican party can hardly be said to hold its
own. Still it remains strong. The most
striking feature is the revival of the old
issues and the interest in new ones. This
shows that we are floating away from the
keen and angry devotion ;to the one great
question of the war—dhe negro.
This should rouse our friends to more
activity—our day is fast slipping away.—
We must work while the day lasts. Once
let public thought float off from the great
issue of the war, and it will take, perhaps,
more than a generation to bring it back
again. Meanwhile, two things are evident.
Unless some remedy is devised, the negro
will stand in peril and use his rights only
at great personal hazard for many years to
come. Secondly, it is as evident that the
Administration at Washington does not
mean to interfere actively in his behalf.
President Grant not only does not plan
any interference, he cannot by any appeal
be roused to allow or arrange any. * *
Several" of the Southern States, most of
them, will fail at first into rebel hands,—
But, in the end, loyalty will And room and
protection.
All things help the right. Only put the
negro on land and thus let him vote free
from fear of starvation, and loyalty has
nothing to fear. The varnish of a few fliie
words and a little forced kindness will
never hide the scars of two centuries. This
generation trembled too anxiously, longed
too impatiently for 1863, and have rejoiced
too profoundly in that great deliverance to
forget it in their day. The kindly African
nature is the most forgiving of all races,
and the most forgetful of injuries. But it
needs no bull dog and no fox for this occa
sion. The gentlest hare knows the hound
when he sees him.
But the Administration is verily gnilty
for its cruel neglect. The garment whose
skirts are full of innocent blood, shed by its
predecessor, it has voluntarily |iut on. j It
is yet to be seen whether it has thrown
away the strength of its party, which to
day is the staff of loyalty. Bnt It needs no
future hoiir to show that it has broken a
nation’s pledges to the loyal men of the
South; and basely left them unshielded to
tih£*F,enemies. No financial success will
give such idlers and fops the credit of states
men. Treacherous, selfish betrayers of
those who trusted them, guilty of blood and
as having slatterned away the noblest op
portunities—this will be their record in his
tory. Waawai-L Phillips.
Here are some fine and passiqnate verse*
which we copy from Appleton's Journal. Paul
Hayne is the most artistic, as well as the most
devont, of onr Southern poets, and whatever he
writes is sure to be charming, pure and in
spired.
The Bonny Brown Hand.
A SONG OF THE HEARTH.
BT PAUL H. HAYNE.
I.
O ! drearily, how drearily the sombre eve comes
down,
And wearily, how wearily the seaward
breezes blow,
But place your little hand in mine, so dainty
yet so brown,
For cottage toil hath worn away Us rosy
tinted snow ;
Yet I fold it, wife, the nearer,
And I feel my love ’tis dearer
Than all dear things of earth,
As 1 watch the pensive gloaming,
And my wild thoughts cease from roaming,
And bird-like, furl their pinions close be
side our peaceful hearth:
So steal your little hand in mine, while twilight
shimmers down ;
That little band, that fervent baud, that hand oi
bonny brown,
The hand which holds an honest heart,
and rules a happy hearth !
O merrily, how merrily our children’s voices
rise.
And cheerily, how cheerily their tioy foot
steps fall ;
Bnt hand, yon must not stir awhile !—for there
onr nestling lies
Snug in the cradle at your side, the loveliest
far of ail;
And she looks so arch and airy,
So softly pare a Fairy,
Sbe scarce seems bound to earth —
And her dimpled mouth keeps smiling,
As at some child-fay’s jjeguilicg,
Who flics from Ariel realms to light her
slumbers oo the hearth :
Ha ! little hand you yearn to move, and smootbe
the bright locks down,
But little hand, bnt trembling hand, but band
of bonny brown,
Stay, stay with me, she will not flee, onr
birdling on the hearth.
O ! fliltingly, how flittingty, the parlor shadows
thrill,
As wittingly, half wittiugly they seem to
pulse and pass—-
And solemn sounds are on the wind that sweeps
the haunted hill,
And murmurs of a ghostly breath from out
the grave-yard grass ;
Let me feel your glowing fingers
In a clasp that warms aud lingers
With the full, fond love of earth,
’Till the joy of love’s completeness
In this flush of fire-side sweetness,
Shall brim our hearts with spirit-wine
out-poured beside the hearth :
So rest your little hand in mine, while twi
light falters down,
That little baud, that fervent hand, that hand
of bonny brown;
The hand which points the path to heaven,
yet makes a heaven of earth.
Woman Suffrage.
Fiddle taddle ! what’s the use *
You can’t make her a man ;
The great Creator fashioned her
On quite another plan.
Man’s joints are strong and firmly knit,
His thews and sinews tough :
Bnt woman is of daintier mold,
Aud formed of finer stuff.
Men are the prose—the timber half
Os this sad world of ours,
And women are the poetrv.
The sweet fern and the flowers.
Throughout the blessed Book this thought
Runs beautifully and clear,
That woman lives to sanctify,
To grace and to endear.
Don’t let her, then, be smutched and soiled
By mingling in the fray.
But keep her free from grosser nets
To win her own sweet way :
Let purity remain her shield,
Without a blot or stain,
To guard her mental bloom from taint
Or touch of hand profane.
Forbid it, Heaven ! Forbid it. Fate !
Forbid it, men of seDse,
That she herself should aid the plot
To shame her own defense.
She is all glorious as she is—
Why should the fretting few
Conspire to banish from her soul
The fragrance and the dew ?
Why take away her chiefest charm—
The crown that’s bers by right—
The quiet influence that compels
Proud man to own her right V
She knows her power—why can’t the sex
Remain conterted, then.
To rule a? in the good old way ?
Lord love ns all. Amen !
Female Medical Students Hooted by
Male Students in Philadelphia.
Philadelphia, November 9.
The lecture room of the old Pennsylvania
Hospital was the scene of a novel exhibi
tion on Saturday morning last. The man
agers, having opened the doors lor the ad
mission of female medical students to the
clinical lectures delivered there, had the
pleasure of seeing, for the first time in the
history of the institution, about thirty
students from the Women’s Medical College
seated in the little theatre where the “ clin
ics” are held. Three or four hundred male
students from the other medical colleges of
the city were likewise present, as it was
the regular lecture morning. From one of
the upper benches I observed that the cir
cular form of the appartment and the rising
tiers of seats placed the women iu full view
as they sat in a body on one side. Two or
three of the managers, members of the
Society of Friends, were seated on the little
stage awaiting the entrance of the lecturer.
They were “ weighty” Friends, a sort of
moral Doric columns, with soldidity of
person, and a mild massiveness of counte
nance which betokened that they were not
to be diverted from a purpose by trifles.
They were dressed in black, and wore their
broadbrimed hats, and in the few impatient
minutes before the lecture attracted more
attention than the novices themselves.
Presently the cry of “ Hat, hat,” was raised
by a few students, and soon a hundred
voices took it up. They decidedly wished
the elderly geutlemen to be uncovered ; but
it is known that Friends decline to remove
their hats in a public assembly unless their
comfort demands it. This harmless cus
tom, originating in an hour of democratic
purity and religious protest, has the sanc
tion of two hundred years—at all events, is
historical—and might have heen passed
over had these young men been better read
or better bred. But they kept .the cry
while solemnly and silently the managers
sat, not in the least disconcerted by the
clamor. Presently one of them arose, and
was about to pass through a door opening
from the platform to an inner apartment.
The shouts were renewed ; and, as though
patience were no longer a virtue, the mana
ger turned and faced the assembly. There
was nothing brow-beating in his look, noth
ing choleric in his visage, nothing fiery in
his glance. It was a calm, reproving eye
with which this disciple of Penn regarded the
students, but it was not crowned with the
success that attended his great exemplar.
They would not smoke the pipe of peace,
but still screamed “ Hat, hat.” The
entrance of the lecturer at this point di
verted attention, and imposed silence. Dur
ing the first hour medical cases were lec
tured upon solely, and the interest of the
Bubject made the social question quite sub
ordinate. Malaria, sunstroke and dropsy,
illustrated by their victims, claimed the
general ear. Then followed the surgeon’s
hour, in which he had to do with the brain
of a murdered man. With skilful alacrity
the discussion was completed, showing by
the clot of blood, and the lack of disease,
that death had been by violence. The lady
students were then edified by a sight of the
pineal gland, the alleged seat of the soul !
The remains of the cerebal organ being dis
missed, the assistants brought forward a
man with a broken thigh. This was a par
ticularly interesting and melancholy case ;
for the fractured bone had refused to unite.
The poor fellow was placed recumbent on
the revolving couch and the young doctors
proceeded to pull off his boots. At this, a
quick, low stamping, like a growl of dis
sent, ran round the benches. But “ off, off,
ye lendings ” was the rule, and speedily the
natural, unsartorial man lay before us. The
doctor had, however, prepared a blanket for
the nonce, with which the patient was
draped. But in this chamber the surgeon
means business ; and, at times the decorous
conventions must shrivel up before the
needs of science and humanity. In this
case while measuring the fractured limb
there was a momentary exposure whieh
proved the signal for an explosion among
the students—mock applause, clapping
stamping and shouts of wild uproar. The
eyes of half the audienco were on the lady
students, who sat calm and unruffled under
this brutal treatment', their looks riveted
on the lecturer, as if utterly oblivious of
aught else that was transpiring. After
this shameful evidence of low breeding on
the part of the students, it was not surpris
ing that when the classes were dismissed a
number of them were ready to heap more
indignities upon the ladies as they passed
out. So, crowding the footwalks, they
compelled them to take the cartway as they
crossed the hospital grounds, and were un
sparing in their jeers and derisive applause.
Whether mixed classes at clinical lectures
are desirable may be questioned, they may
be embarrassing to the lecturer and impair
his thoroughness; but this doubt is no
mitigation of the disgraceful and unmanly
conduct of the male students, which thor
oughly deserves exposure.
COMMENTS OF THE PRESS.
[From the New Yoik World.
“ It seems clear enough that there are
certain things in clinics which cannot be
taught to men and women together without
entirely breaking down, quoad the persons
who partake this instruction, the bamer
of reserve and modesty which the.customs
of civilized society, If not nature, have
erected between the sexes.
“But that is not at all in point here.—
The young women who attended this lec
ture were there by precisely the same right
as the young men who insulted them. It
was not the province of these sacking Ga
lens to decide upon the question of female
medical education or common medical in
struction. Their action was utterly scan
dalous and scoundrelly. It was dictated par
tially by that bigotry which Is always rea
dy to hootat any innovation, bnt mainly, no
doubt, by the still lower and more sordid
motive of professional jealousy and spite.
A mind so small as to give way to such a
feeling is so small as to Have everything to
fear from the rivalry of au average woman,
and is certainly too small to hold any ra
tional opinion upon the question of medi
cal education for women, as upon every
other question. It is to be hoped that the
authorities of the hospital will take meas
ures for the herding of these unmannerly
youngsters by themselves in the future, or,
in default of that, that the Philadelphian
police will take measures to prevent the
repetition of such an outrage as that by
which these pathological popinjays dis
graced themselves on Saturday.”
f From the Now York Express
“ No gentleman can approve of this con
duct. To say the least of it, it was brutal
and vulgar, and no man who respects his
mother, his wife, or his sisters, would have
been guilty of it. But yfe believe that such
conduct, nevertheless, will always be the
result of any attempt to combine classes of
sexes in the study of professions involving
incidents that are at war with the estab
lished rules which, very properly, govern
males aud females socially and domestic
ally. In short, it seems to us, tint the wo
man who will carry out the neiV doctrine
of woman’s rights in her own person and
course, to the extent of going where and
doing what men consider as belonging en
tirely to themselves, will have to unsex
herself completely* and to nerves of steel
unite a face of brass and a heart stouter
chan the lion-hearted Richard.”
State Items.
The Julia St. Clair arrived at Columbus
on Saturday—the first boat which has
reached that city since the middle of Au
gust, from Bainbrldgp, on account of low
water.
A beautiful silver service of seven pieces,
costing #4OO in New York, has been dona
ted to the Fair of the Sisters of Mercy of
Columbus, to take place on Christmas eve.
Harrison Bray, one of Bullock’s Notaries
Public, residing in Colqnitt county, near
the line of Mitchell—a notorious cow and
hog thief—recently perpetrated an exploit
in his line, and, finding out that Mr. Greg
ory, the owner of the stolen property, had
proof to convict him, threw up his com
mission, absconded, and now brays in parts
unknown to the officers of the law.
The track of the South Georgia and
Florida Railroad is laid to station No. 2,
twenty-four miles from Thomasville, and
eight miles from Camilla, and in a few days
a schedule train will run to that point.—
The road will be completed to Camilla pro
bably by the 20th inst., certainly by the
first of December.
In Dougherty county, on Wednesday
afternoon, the gin house of Messrs. Jackson
& Little took fire from the heated machinery
and was entirely consumed; twenty bales of
cotton were burnt. The most horrible
feature of the fire was the burning to death
of a laborer in the lint room.
Second Assistant Cornelius Harrigan, of
the Washington Engine Company, Savan
nah, has been presented with a costly and
exquisitely embossed silver trumpet, by his
brother officers.
The Mountain Signal learns that about
one hundred and eighty feet of the long
trestle used for conveying the water of the
Yahoola Company come down with a
crash, on Tuesday night last.
It was rumored in Dahlojiega, says the
Signal , that James Findley,.Ado of J. J.
Findley, of Gainesville, shot and killed a
negro man, a few nights ago, who was
caught in the act of stealing corn from a
pile which had been hauled up, peparatary
to being shucked.
The survey of the route for a direct rail
road between Rome, Ga., and Decatur, Ala.,
has been nearly completed. The distance
Is 115 miles, aud the route a good one.
The Rome Daily brags of a shbt made by
Mr. Lewis Graves, who killed, at a distance
of about forty yards, eight wild flacks, at a
single shot-
A number of the most substantial citizens
of Columbns will make application at the
next, session of Muscogee Superior Court,
for incorporation as the “ Southern Fair
Association of Columbus.” It will require
about four weeks to procure a charter, and
then the company proposes to go ahead
with preparations to hold their first Fair
at Columbus next Fall.
The students of Mercer University have
started a weekly sheet, called the “ Mercer i
an." The five editors are A. J. Beck, I. L.
D. Hillyer, J. J. Brantley, W. W. Landrum
and Wm. W. Sims.
(From the New York Express.
Obituary.
ROBERT JAMES WALKER.
Waihington, November llth., —Hon.
Robert J. Walker died at his residence, in
this city, this morning, at twenty minutes
before eleven o’clock, after a protracted ill
ness. His age was 68 years and 4 months.
Robert James Walker was born in North
umberland, Penn., in 1801. He was gradu
ated at the University of Pennsylvania in
1819, commenced the practice of law In
Pittsburg in 1821, and became prominent
there by putting the name of Gen. Jackson
in nomination for the Presidency before it
had been suggested in any other quarter.
In 1826 he removed to Natchez, Miss.,
where he soon acquired a lucrative prac
tice. He defeated the celebrated Hou. Geo.
Poindexter for the United States Senate in
1835. A debate with Henry Clay, soon
after he took bis seat, brought him into
general notice. He was largely instru
mental in bringing about the acquisition of
Texas and California. He was a strong
and trusty adviser of John Tyler during
that gentleman’s administration, and
brought about the nomination of Polk in
opposition to Van Buren, because the latter
opposed the annexation of Texas. Mr.
Walker was Secretary of the Treasury
under Mr. Polk. He then made a report in
favor of free trade, which was reprinted by
the British Hoase of Commons. He re
sumed the practice of the law when Mr.
Polk’s term expired. His last office was
Governor of Kansas, in 1857, to which he
was appointed during President Buchan
an s administration, and which office he re
signed in consequence of disagreement with
the President. He was in favor of the late
civil war.
The Sleepy Hollow Tragedy—A. P.
Woodward Acquitted.— The trial of Mr.
A. P. Woodward, to which we referred last
week, as in progress at Blackville, 8. C£
resulted in his full acquittal. In alluding
to the trial the Barnwell Sentinel says:
“We greatly admired the firm vet modest
bearing of the prisoner, young Woodward.
He is not vet 24 years old, but has a coo ,
self-possessed manner, ,the result of his
early training. This examination was
very long. Mr. Youmans using all his
skil! and expenence in the cross-examina
tion. without being able to shake his testi
mony in the least particular. So fine was
his demeanor, that’many of the roost influ.
ential and respectable gentlemen of the dis
trict asked to be introduced'to him after
the jury had rendered a verdict of “ Not
Gu ' Immediately after the verdict was
pub ished, Judge Aldrich moved for the
discharge of the prisoner, and said to the
t/ourt, that he was Instructed by the pris
oner and his father, Mr. W. ,f. Woodward,
to say, that their characters having been
vindicated by the verdicts of the jury, they
felt no desire to pursue further these pain
ful proceedings, and although the presiding
Judge had instructed the jury that the
whole blame of that fatal day rested on the
parties opposed to the Woodwards, yet they
requested that the cases for riot and assault,
then in the hands, of the Solicitor, Should
be dropped. The Judge replied that he ad->
mired the spirit, and it would- give hint
pleasure to grant the motion.’’
Sale of a Circus.— Dr. Thayer’s circus
was sold recently in Cincinnati, at auction,
by the sheriff. It was, found impossible to
. sell the circus bodily tor not less, than $26,-
000, as directed by the cbhrt, find It was
therefore sold by piece-meal. The elephant
was knocked down for $1,300 to Adam
Forepaugh. The lions went to Oscar H.
Norman for SB,OOO. The entire proceeds
of the sale amounted toa Uttie over SIB,OOO.
A Cold in His Head.
MISERIES OP A “ DAB FOOL ”. THAT WOULD
HOT BLOW HIB “DOSE.”
BY DR. G. W. BAGBY.
By dabe is Jodes—Daddle Jodes. I ab
the bost biserable bad udder the sud. lab
eterdally catching cold ; by doze is ever
lastingly gabbed up, so that I dever can
talk plaid. I have tried everythig id the
world to prevedt but the cold will cnb
Id spite of be. Subber ad Widter, it is all
the sabe. I breathe through by bouth frob
Jadaary to Decebber, frob the begidding to
the edd of the year. I’ve tried Allepathy,
Hydropathy, Hobeopathy, and Tobsodiad
isb; every syßteb of bedlcid, but id vaid.
All hides of teas, drobs, ad old wibbed’s
dostrubs have bid tried; I’ve swallowed
edough of theb to drowd be; but’s no use.
Dothing udder heaved cad keep my feet
warb, nothig keep be frob catching cold.
I ab dot rich, I ab dot poor; but I had
rather be a beggar, ad orgad grider’s bud
key, the beadest thig you could dabe—ady
tbig—rather thad be a bad with a stopped
up doze. lab very sod of wibben’s society,
but I dare dot go idto cubpady; peoble are
too polite toevidce disgust, but ebery body
becubs undezsy wedever I vedture dear
theb. I wad’t to barry; but doboddy will
have be with by doze—dever! dever! I
ab idcodveivably udhappy!
Sub years ago I fell in love with a char
big girl. Her father was a bad of beads,
ad she was the bost widding little dubscl
id de world. Ad she alode of all the world
seebed dot to bide by bisfortude. Ad I
loved her with a love of udibadgidable in
tedsity; every atob of my beig adored her!
I deterbided to seredade her. Accordigly
I shut byself up id by roob ad waited a log
tibe, udtil by dose albost edtirely well. At
last, wud fide Autub dight, I vedtured
forth, wrapped up to the eyes id cloaks,
over-coats, shawl's, hadkerchiefe, ad what
dot; od by feet I wore the thickest kide of
gub shoes. A bad of busiciads wedt alog
with me. ’Twas after eleved o’clock whed
ws reached her residedce id a fashiodable
ad retired street. After the bad had played
a dubber of flde tndes, edough I thought
to have waked her, I ordered theb to stop,
so that I bight sig. I had studied several
sogs, all bore or less sedtibedtal ad belad
cboiy, udtil I thought I was perfect. But
do sooder had I pulled the had kerchief off
by doze ad bouth thad I caught cold. I
cobbedced.
to have waked her, I ordered theb to stop,
so that I bight sig. I had studied several
sogs, all bore or less sedtibedtal ad belad
cboly, udtil I thought I was perfect. But
do sooder had I pulled the had kerchief off
by doze ad bouth thad I caught cold. I
cobbedced.
“ ’Twas ted o’clock wud boodlight dight;”
it sonnded very badly, so I thought 1
would try
“ Wired twilight dews arc falling fast;”
but that was albost as bad as the first.
But I had cub there to sig, and sig I bust.
So I sug at the top of by voice,
“Cub, oh cub with be.
The bood is beabig;
Cub, oh cub with be.
The stars are gleabig,
And all around, above,
With beauty teabig;
Boodiight hours are beet for love!
Tra la lala la, aud so forth."
While I was going on with “ tra la lala
la,” codgratulafing byself bedtally upod by
suceess, a yug fellow livid" id the badsion
udjoiding by sweetheart, threw up a wid
dew and shouted, “ Blow your doze, you dab
fool! blow your doze /” Ad ali the bad of
busiciads laughed log ad udfeeligly. Fad
cy by feelings ! Sbakig by cledched flst at
the yug scoudrel in the widdow, I adathe
batized hib with the bost awful ibbreca
tiods I thidk of, udbirieful wha bight hear
or who bight dot. Os the Iddecdt aud nd
feeling busiciads.l took do further dotice
thad to hurl tbeb their pay upod the
ground. Thed I barched bobead retired to
by apartbedt, frob which I'did not eberge
for budths.
Death of an Old Citizen of Bavan
natt. —Col. Augustus Seaborn Jones, an
old ancl much esteemed citizen of Savannah,
died in that city on Saturday. The Re
publican contains the following tribute to
his worth:
Col. Jones was seventy-four years ox age.
He was.a native of this State, we believe,
and resided for the greater part of his life
in Striven county, where he followed the
vocation of planting, and accumulated a
large fortune. Some fifteen years ago he
moved to Savannah, and has ever been re
garded as among her best and most public
spirited citizens. His mind was active
and well stored with useful information,
chit fly of a practical kind. He was a pu
pil of the celebrated Dr. Nott, and a gradu
ate of Union College, New York. At sun
dry times he filled responsible public posi
tions at the call of the people; served sev
eral terms in the Legislature, and was an
active qnd influential member of the con
vention that voted Georgia out of the
Union in 1861. He was devoted, heart and
purse, to the cause of Southern independ
ence, and saw his means swept away with
composure, under the belief that his loss
would be his country’s gain. Like the
“ Lost Cause,” he has passed away, and
like.it, his memory will long be cherished
by l»ls friends.
A Two-Honored Mile Race. —A novel
race occurred over the Bay view Park
Course, San Francisco, on the 31st of
October. It was a contest of endnrauce in
the saddle between two young men, named
Weil Nowry and Wm. Walsh. The stake
was SI,OOO a side and a gold medal. The
distance to be run was two hundred miles.
Each man was allowed twenty horses, with
no reserve. The contest began about nine
o’clock, a. m., ancl was finished in less than
nine hours. Up to the one hundred and
tenth mile the chances favored Walsh, aud
the score stood: Walsh, 110 ; Mowry, 107%.
After that several of Walsh’s horses shied
and broke, and the severe exercise of mount
ing and dismounting with sufficient rapiditv
began to tell upon him, and Mowry gained
until the one hundred and twentieth mile,
when the score stood even, and he com
pleted his two hundred miles in eight hours
fifty-eight minutes. His rival accomplished
the same number of miles in nine hours
fifteen seconds. The horses were of varied
stock. Sporting men regard the race, under
all the circumstances, as the greatest ever
run on this continent.
Imported Sermons. —A certain preach
er, who was accused of importing his ser
mons by the barrel, and remodeling them
to suit the home market, was on Sunday
morning interrupted in a brilliant intro
duction by the entrance of a grave old
gentleman, who seated himself close to the
pulpit and listened with profound atten
tion. At the close of the next rounded
sentence the divine was interrupted by the
emphatic pronunciation of the name “ Til
lotson,” sounding from the stranger’s cor
ner. The parson frowued and proceeded a
little farther on, and “ Sherlock ” was pro
nounced with equal emphasis. A slight
commotion was visible in the audience.
Resuming the thread of liis discourse,
“ Blair,” “ Herbert,” “ Spurgeon,” followed
successive periods. Forbearance was no
longer a virtue. “ Sexton,” said the par
son, “ put this fellow out instantly.”—
“ Original,” responded the impurturbable.
A peanut-picker was among the new la
bor-saving machines exhibited at the Vir
ginia State Fair. Hitherto the huts have
been picked off the vines by hand—four
bushels a day the fair average for a hand.
A farmer who raised 1,000 bushels required
ten hands for nearly two months to save
his crop, at a cost of fifteen cents per bush
el. The crop raised on the south side of
James river, between Petersburg and Nor
folk, is estimated at 1,000,000 bushels a year.
To save this crop would require the labor
of 6,000 hands for two months, at a cost of
* $200,000. The new machine, it is. claimed,
' saves much time and labor.
\Baltimore Sun.
The stockholdrs of the N. C. Railroad
have indefinitely postponed the leasing of
the road, which is equivalent to killing it.
General Lee limits the newspaper scholar
ships in his college to twenty-five.
INFORMATION FOR OUR FRIKNDB.
We have been asked by several of our friends
who have become interested in the advertise
ment of '.be Henderson, Kentucky, Prize
Scheme, whether it is similar to, or likely to
terminate as, the St. Louis Paschal House af
fair did, and we take this as the briefest method
of answering one and all. Without donbt the
Paschal House affair terminated essentially as
a swindle; and we have nothing but the most
ntter contempt for any one who’ would be
guilty of managing any enterprise as that was
managed. But such a termination ol the Ken
tucky Scheme Is simply impossible, as both the
FrUdl dud the funds arislug from the sale of
tickets are in the hands ol commissioners, who
are bound by a most stringent charter to see
that all the conditions of the enterprise are
fulfilled, before the owner of the properly can
obtain a dollar of the money. Our friends can
therefore patronize the Scheme with every as
surance that the whole will be conducted with
the most perfect fairness towards every ticket
holder.— Ex.
COUGHS, HOARSENESS, AND THE VA
rious Throat affections to which Public Speak
ers,' Military Officers and Singers are liable,
relieved v hy’ Brown's Bronchial Troches
Havtng a direct influence to tbe affected parts,
they allay Pulmonary Irritation. The freedom
from all deleterious ingredients makes the
Troches a safe remedy lor the most delicate
female, or youngest child, and has caused them
to be held in the highest esteem by those who
use them. noyl&tuthaa
CITY ITEMS.
Ah Excellent Work —Mr. R. B. Potts
is now canvassing our city in the interests
of the New York University Publishing
Company, who have just issued a work,
edited by Gen. R. E. Lee, entitled “Me
moirs of the War in the Southern Depart
ment of the United States." The author of
these memoirs was Gen. Henry Lee, “Light
Horse Harry,” the father of our own illus
trious hero of a greater war. Asa pious
and filial duty, the renowned son con
tributes to the fame of his celebrated fath
er and incidentally to the historic informa
tion of our earlier and purer days. Gen.
John B. Gordon says of this work: “It is
the best ever pnblished of the campaigns
in the Sonth, and as Gen. R. E. Lee is in
terested in the sale, I do not donbt it will
find a ready sale."
We cordially add our testimony to this
statement of Gen. Gordon’s and hope
many of our citizens will become purchas
ers of this interesting and splendid volume.
Wm. Crichton & Sons.— ln our adver
tising columns, this morning, Messrs. Wm.
Crichton & Sons present their claim for a
share of public patronage In the way of
commercial fertilizers. The fertilizer made
by them is guaranteed to contain elements
of plant food fully equal in quantity and
quality to auy commercial mabures now
on the market and at a price something less
than the best of them. For particulars we
refer the reader to Messrs. Jenulngs &
Smith, their agents. Messrs. Wm. Crichton
& Sons are among the most reputable of
Baltimore merchants and wc recommend
them and their fertilizer to the planting
community.
Scott’s Monthly for November.—
Messrs. Phillips & Crew, publishers, an
nounce that they have sold out their in
terest in this publication to Rev. William
H. Wyley, of Savannah, and whatever
changes are contemplated in the manage
ment or character of the periodical will be
announced in the December number. This
number opens with a tale of Bloody Mary’s
reign, by Miss Barnwell. King Arthur
ancl his times ; Jones and Brown, or What’s
in a Name; The New Testament under a
new aspect; A Peep at Fompeii and numer
ous other papers make up the contents.
Recorder’s Court.— The following cases
were disposed of yesterday morning:
James Barnett—Violation of the 17th
section: firing pistol in the street. Plead
guilty, and dismissed on payment of cost.
Caroline Hale—Violation of 18th sec
tion. Dismissed.
Louisa Hill—Violation of the 18th sec
tion. Fined $5.
Gin House Burned.— The gin house and
cotton press of Mr. T. Daniel and his
brother, near Hopeful, Burke county, with
eight bales of cotton aud five hundred
bushels of cotton seed, were destroyed by
fire on the night of the 10th instant. The
fire is supposed to have been set by an in
cendiary. Loss, $1,700.
Nominations for Aldermen. —The
Nominating Committee appointed to select
candidates for Aldermen for the Second
Ward Democratic Club, at their meeting,
yesterday, nominated Kent Bisell, John
Davison and John B. Pournelle, subject to
the ratification of the Club, which meets to
night.
Fourth Ward. —The following commit
tee has been appointed for the Fourth Ward
to assist in nominating a Mayor:
General Stovall, F. Coggins, G. T.
Barnes, C. A. Rowland, Chas. Baker, M.
G. Dunn, B. Doris, C. V. Walker, M. J.
Jones, Will. Mulherin.
Distinguished Arrivals.— Gen. Wade
Hampton and family, and George Bonham,
of South Carolina, aud Gen. S. B. Buckner
and Judge A. G. Foster were at the Plant
ers Hotel last evening, on their way to the
State Fair at Macon, Gi.
The 19th Century.— The November
number of this magazine is very creditable.
Ex-Gov. Perry continues his reminisences
of great men. Calhoun is the present sub
ject essayed. There are several other clever
sketches in prose and verse. Altogether
the 19 th Century is an honor to the South.
Off for the Fair. — A large number of
our citizens, among them quite a number
of ladies, took passage last night on the
Central Railroad for the State Fair at
Macon, which commences to-day. Six pas
senger coaches left the Union Depot, filled
with passengers.
Personal. —Mr. John A. Moroso, of the
Charleston Courier , favored us with a visit
yesterday afternoon.
BY TELEGRAPH.
[Associated Press Dispatches.
WASHINGTON.
Washington, November 14.—1 tis assert
ed with much positiveness, and will be
- . i
[Associated Press Dispatches.
WASHINGTON.
Washington, November 14. —1 tis assert
ed with much positiveness, and will be
widely published in the morning, that
points in Sumner’s epeech against the
Alabama treaty emanated from R. J. Walker
and were furnished with the view of pro
ducing complications which would lead to
the annexation of Nova Scotia.
Washington, November 15 —Noon.—
The President has appointed Jas. R. Wheel
er, of Mass., Consul at Kingston, vice
Aaron Gregg, suspended.
Incendiary fires of stables are semi
weekly occurrences. The last instance was
the destruction of the Douglas stables, the
construction of which cost SB,OOO. Gen.
Williams lost a valuable horse in the
flames.
The Bishop of London preached Pea
body’s funeral sermon at Westminster Ab
bey to-day. There was an Immense at
tendance. The Bishop said : “No untitled
commoner has ever gathered such a con
course of sincere mourners around his
grave. He labored to relieve the wants of
the poor, and by them be was beloved, as
by all those who sympathize with pover
ty and honor benevolence. It was his busi
ness to gather and his joy to give. Two
nations would ever reverence his name,
which forms another bond of union be
tween England and America.”
The J ribune says,editorially: “Thefirst
testimony in the drawback frauds was
taken on Saturday and so far opens the case
that the public can name the principal
Conspirators; these frauds have been going
on for five or six years, and the parties in
the work must have robbed the Treasury
of a vast amount of money. Bamuel T.
Blatchford was the leading spirit, his assis
tants being R. B. '-Canid well & Cos., Cus
tom House brokers. Rbmeyn, Milligan
and Francis, A. Howard, a clerk in the
Revenue Bureau at Washington. The
most important witness thus far is a clerk,
named Korn, who was familiar with all
the transactions, Was an interested party to
some extent; he was arrested last January,
but not seeing the justice of suffering alone,
while the leading offenders went free, he
told the whole story to the District Attor
ney. Several parties whose names are
withheld are under arrest and Judge
Plerrepoint is determined to sift the matter
thoroughly. The examination is adjourn
ed until next Friday.”
Washington, November 15—P. M.—
Revenue to-day, $870,000.
The sheriff’ of Philadelphia has arrested
Revenue Supervisor Sutton ior seizing a
distillery.
Walker’s final illness interrupted a sta
tistical article going to show that New
York would, in time, exceed London as the
commercial centre.
The American Bank Note Printing Com
pany have resumed printing Federal cur
rency.
Examination into alleged irregularities
having been concluded, the examination of
the affairs of the National Bank Company
commenced, to-day. Their operations were
suspended until the completion of the in
vestigation.
Treasurer Spinner is quite sick. , '
NEW YORK.
New York, November 14.—The strik4 of
brakemen continues extending. Afr engi
neers’ strike is apprehended.
New York, November 15.—The Cuban
Jnnta have honorably discharged the offi
cers and crew of the Cuba, detained at
Wilmington.
GEORGIA.
Atlanta, November 15.— The excursion
train left here this morning with Hon.
Simon Cameron, Hon. G. W. Woodward,
Gen. Horace Caprou, Col. J. W. Forney,
Hon. Columbus Delano aud daughter aud
others, for the Fair at Macou. The engine
(Governor Bullock) was decorated with the
Stars and Stripes, and the engine and
coaches adorned with the mottoes: “To
Georgia’s harvest home we come,” “ A com
mon interest joins our hands,” “ Glad plenty
laughs,” “The valleys ring, reviving cinn
merce lifts her head,” and, “He who’s
stoutest at the Plow or Flail will be the
knight to flay the dragon’s tail.” The
guests have been received everywhere with
marked respect and treated with the ut
mostjcordiality by the committee from the
Georgia Agricultural Society, Col. Halbert
and Gov. Bnllock.
Macon, November 15. —-. The city is
crowded. Trains in all directions were
unable to accommodate the people. The
Fair building and grounds are stacked
with articles for exhibition, but all is con
fusion, and a good many of them arrived
to-day. A large quantity of stock also ar
rived. The extra train, with thirty dis
tinguished visitors, arrived to-day at noon.
ALABAMA.
Montgomery, November 15. —The Ala
bama Legislature met to-day. The Gov
ernor’s message was read in both Houses.
It is very conservative. He combats the
calls made for martial law, and says there
has been no necessity for it. He sets forth
the general peacefulness of the people, and
the advantages offered in this State for im
migration ; favors a reduction of taxes and
a limitation of the State endorsement to
railroads.
The message is generally regarded as
more moderate and conservative than was
expected.
Raining to-day.’
CALIFORNIA.
San Francisco, November 15.—The east
ern bound Western Pacific train and the
Alrnada Ferry train,each traveling twenty
five miles an hour, collided. Eleven dead
have been taken from the wreck. It
appears trie accident happened from a
switch .tender mistaking the gravel for the
regular train, and said, “All right—go
ahead.”
OHIO.
Cleveland, November 15.—J. G. Bael,
cashier of the Second National Bank, sui
cided. Cause, losses during the late gold
panic. The officers of the bank publish a
card pledging themselves individually for
the bank’s obligations.
NORTH CAROLINA.
Raleigh, November 15.—The Legisla
ture met here to-day. No quorum. Ad
journed until to-morrow.
FORTRESS MONROE.
Fortress Monroe, November 15.—Ship
Golconda sailed for Liberia with a number
of emigrants.
ILLINOIS.
Chicago, November 14.—The journeymen
tailora have struck.
FOREIGN.
Madrid, November 14. —The Bishop of
Havana has been arrested at Cadiz.
Madrid, November 15.—The Minister of
Colonies said in the Cortes that the treat
ment of the colonies would be such as to
make their inhabitants proud of being
called Spaniards. The Minister added that
the question of the abolition of slavery and
compensation to owners would soon be
solved in a way to cause the least injuries.
Answers were elicited by interrogatories
(rom Porto Rican deputies. Subsequently
the Minister said the Government proposed
to treat Porto Rico ns a province, not as a
colony, and that lie agreed with abolition
and indemnification to owners for losses.
Paris, November 15.—The Emperor re
viewed troops at Campeigne and was en
thusiastically greeted by people and troops.
Many electoral meetings ; neither distur
bances nor arrests.
MARINE NEWS.
Charleston, November 14.—Arrived :
Steamer Saragossa, New York; schrs.
Fawn, Philadelphia ; H. G. Hand, Albany,
N. Y.
Sailed : Schrs. J. A. Griffin, Philadelphia;
M. KFenwick, Wilmington, Del.
Charleston, November 15. — Arrived :
Steamer Gulf Stream andschr. J. S. Burges,
New York. Schr. W. B. Thomas, hence
for Philadelphia, put back with loss of
sails.
Sailed: Bark A. B. Ayinan, Liverpool.
Savannah, November 15.—Arrived
Steamers Herman Liviuestou, New York ;
America, Baltimore; barks St. Many’s,
Eastport; Delta, Boston; ship Marlborough,
Liverpool.
Wilmington, November 15. — Cleared :
Steamer Rebecca Clyde, New York.
MARKETS.
London, November 15—Noon.—Consols,
93%. Bonds, 83%. Tallow, 475.
London, November 15—4:30 P. M.—Con
sols, 93%.
Liverpool, November 15—Noon.—Cot
ton steady; quotations unchanged ; sales,
10.000 bales. Corn, 295.
Later. —Cotton unchanged. Lard, 71s. 6d.
Liverpool, November 15— Evening.—
Cotton steady ; uplands, 11%@11% ; Or
leans, 11%@11%; sales, 12,000 boles, ex
port aud speculation.
Paris, November 15—Noon.—Bourse
opens firm. Rentes, 711. Gsc.
Havre, November 15—Noon.—Cotton
opens flat for both ; spot, 140; afloat, 131%.
New York, November 15—Noon.—
Stocks heavy. Money, o@7. Sterling—
long, 9; short, 9)4- Gold, 126%. ’62’s,
15%; Tennessees, ex coupon, 59%; new,
52% ; Virginias, new, 53; Louisiana*, old,
65; Levees, 59; Eights, 80; Alabama Eights,
91% ; Fives, 60; Georgia Sixes, 81 ; Sevens,
90; North Carolina*, old, 46%; new, 37% ;
South Carolioas, new. 65%.
New York, November 15—P. M.—Gov-
ernments closed dull but steady at 15%.
Southerns dull. Money more active;
closed at 6@7. Sterling dull at 9@9%.
Gold closed at 127. Stocks unsettled, but
prices generally tend upward.
New York, November 15 — Noon.—Flour
heavy. Wheat unchanged. Corn I@2 bet
ter. Pork quiet; old, S3O 75. Lard quiet.
Cotton quiet and firm at 25. Turpentine
quiet and steady at 47047%. Rosin dull;
common strained, $2 17%@2 20; good
strained, $2 22@2 22%. Freights dull.
New York, November 15—P. M.—Cot
ton shade firmer; sales, 2,000 bales at 25%
@25%. Flour heavy; superfine State, ss@
5 25; common to fine extra Southern,
$5 75@6 30. Wheat more active and firm
er; State, $1 42@1 43; Winter red West
ern, $1 38@1 41. Corn—mixed Western,
$1 0201 03. Pork shade firmer at S3O 75
031. Lard shade firmer; kettle, 18018%.
Whlskv firmer at $1 0601 10. Groceries
dull. Naval Stores quiet. Freights low
er ; cotton, steam, %; flour, steam, 3s.
Baltimore, November 15.—Cotton quiet
at 24024%. Flour dull and weak. Wheat
steady at $1 8501 37. Com dull; white,
new, 90; old, sl@l 06. Oats, 53057. Rye
nominal. Pork, SB2 50. Bacon firmer;
shoulders, 13%. Lard firmer at 18018%.
Whisky firmer at $1 06. Virginias, old,
45% asked; ’67s, 49 bid.
Cincinnati, November .15. —Corn firm
and scarce; old, 88; new, 70. Whisky
firm at sl. Pork dull; new offered at S3O.
Lard, 17%. Bacon—bulk shoulders firm
at 12%; skies, 18%@16% packed.
Louisville, November 15.—Corn steady
at 85. Provisions quiet. Mess Pork, S3O.
Bacon —packed shoulders, 16%; clear
sides, 20. Lard, 17%. Whisky, 97.
St. Lours, November 15.—Whisky,
$1 10. Provisions dull. Pork,' $29. Ba
con-shoulders, 16%. Lard, 18.
Wilmington, November 15.—Spirits of
Turpentine advanced % —42%. Rosin
firmer at $1 57%@4. Crude Turpentine
advanced 10015 —$1 75@3. Tar un
changed. Cotton quiet.
Mobile, Nov ember 15.—Cotton — demand
good; stock offering light; closed firm at
outside figures ; salts, 1,500 bales; mid
dling, 23%@23% ; receipts, 3,323 bales; ex
ports, 515 bales.
New Orleans, November 15.—Cotton
firm; fair demand at 23%@24; sales, 4,200
bales; receipts, 3,850 bales; exports to
Vera Cruz, 229 bales. Flour firm at $5 25,
$5 50 and $6 25. Corn scarce and flrin;
White, $1 25. Oats firm at 64065. Bran
held at $1 25. Hay scarce and firm at SB2.
Mess Pork, $Bl 50. Bacon, 17%, 20% and
20%. Lard dull; tierce, 17%@18%; keg,
19@19%. Sugar firm; prime, 12%; yellow
clarified, 13. Molasses—prime, 72; choice,
78. Whisky—Western rectified, $1 15@
1 16. Coffee quiet; fair, 15@15%.i Gold,
128%. Sterling, 87%. New Ybrk Bight,
% discount. : - ...iiioelai -ill
Charleston, November 15.—Cotton in,
demaUd, bkt market bare 6f stock; advanc
ed %@%; sales, 825 bales; middling, 23%
@23%; receipts, 1,525 bales.
Savannah, November 15.—Cotton—re
ceipts, 2,417 bales; sales, 800 bales; mid
dUpg, 28%; market firm.
j.OFFICJLDArLTCONaTITDTIOHALieT, )
Moniuy, November 15— V. M <
FINANCIAL-• ' 7
at 120 and Be^lD K at 128. ’
SlLVEß—Baying at 122 and Belling at 127
BONDB—City Bonds, 85@87.
STOCKS—Georgia Railroad, 107@108,
COTTON—The market opened brisk at 23@
23% for middling, but closed firm at the same
figures. Sales, 413 bales. Receipts, 893 bales.
BACON—Fair demand with a downward ten
dency. We quote C. Sides, 22 ; C. R. Sides,
21%; B. B. Sides, 21; Bboulders, IS; Hams,'
21@26; Dry Ba]t Shoulders, 19; Dry Balt C r’
Sides. Yo. r
CORN—Small supply. We quote choice
whit3, $1 35@1 40 from depot.
WHEAT—We quote choice white, |1 65@
1 70; amber, $1 60; red, II 50.
FLOUR—City Mills, new, |7 25@9 50; at
retail, fl barrel higher. Country, |6®9,
according to quality.
CORN MEAL—II 85 at wholesale; II 50 at
retail.
OATB-85@fl 25.
PEAS—None.
Notice to Debtors and Creditors.
STATE OF GEORGIA, RICHMOND OOUN
TV.—Notice is hereby given to all persona hav.
tng demands against Henry DeLaigle late of said
county, deceased, to present them to me, properly
made out, within the time prescribed by law ; and all
persons Indebted to said deceas and are hero y re
quired to make Immediate payment to me.
A. C. HOLT,
Administrator of H. DeLaigle.
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STATE. OF GEORGIA, RICHMOND COUN
TY.—Whore.-is, .T'-el N. Freeman, Executor of
estate of Thomas W. Ere cm >□. applies to me for Let
ter* of Di.mlstnoh from said eatnc:
These arc, therefore, to cite and admonish, all and
singular, the kindred and creditors of raid deceased,to
be and appear at toy office, on or before the diet Mon.
day In December next, to show cause. If any they
have, why said letters should not be granted.
Given under my band and official signature -« office
au!2-3m BAM’L LEVY, Ordinary R. C.
STATE OF GEORGIA, RICHMOND OOUN
TY.—Whereas, Mathew Sberon, temp rary Ad
ministrator of John M. Bhe;on, am.lien to me for Let
ters of Dismise'on :
These are therefore, to cite rnd admonl-b, all and
singular tbe kindred and creditors ot said deceased, to
be and appoar at my office, on or before the first Mon
day in December next, to show cause, if any they
have, whv said letters should not be granted.
Given under my hand and official signature, at office,
in Augusta, this 31stday of August, 18.9.
SAMUEL LEVY,
ang3l-3tn Ordinary.
STATE O? GEORGIA, RICHMOND COUN
TY —Whereas, Kllon Sboron, Administratrix of
Charles Sberon, applies to mo for Loiters of Dismis
sion :
Th' se are, therefore, to cite and admonish nil and
alugulartho kindred and creditors of said deceased, to
be and appear at mv office on or before the first
Monday in December m xt, to show cause, if any
they have, why said letters should not be grunted.
G von under my hand and offic al signature, at office,
In Augusta, this elsi day of August, 1869
SAMUEL LEVY,
aug3l-3m Ordinary.
I?)TATE OF GEORGIA, Rtcitmosd Oockty ■
All pertons indebted to J. S. Wilcox, late of said
county, deceased, are required to make immediate pay
ment, and those having demands against hie estate
are hereby notified to pretent the same witbiu the time
prescribed by law.
P. J. WILCOX,
W. W. WILCOX,
POVIQ-law6w Administrators.
JH OUR WEEKS after dato will he
made to the Court of Ordinary o Richm n 1 couuty
lor leave to sell th t tract of land in Olurob a county,
containing five hundred and sixty five a 'ice, an t
bounded t>y land of Allen, Kirkpatrick A Leitucr,
and Newson A Merc r.
FREEMAN 3. PALMER,
Administrator o'lra ,c Palmer, dec ecd.
A boost a, October 4,1869.
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Debiors and Creditor-.’ Notice.
L PERSONS indebted to the estate of Hen
rietta Pool, liit i of Richmond county, deceased, are
requested to make immediate paymen*, and those
having demands against said estate nte requested !o
present them, duly attested according 1 o law, to
HENRY JONHS,
oc'7-lawtw Administrator-
STATE OF GEORGIA, UICITMOKD COUN
TY.—Whereas, Abner P. Robert l or, Adminis
trator of John C. Greer, applies to me lor Letters ol
Dismission: ,
These are, therefore, to cito 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 aniflutters should not be granted.
Given under my band and official signature, at office,
In Augusta, this 31st day of August, 1809
BA MUEL LEVY,
/71KHKGI A, RICHMOND I’nrißTv __ wi.-- 1
VI as. Mail ow Rice, Admln'strntoron fheest^^
of Hugh Ric ■. applies to me for Letters of PlsmVnit,, -
These are,, therefore, to cite and admonish,
singular the next of kin and creditors of said doc.-a c.)
to he and appear at my office, on or before the ti -i
Monday in March, I*7o, to sbowcau<e, if any they
have, why said letters sh in'd not he granted.
Given under mv hand and offi ial signature, at ofher
in August', title 9th day of November, 1-69
BAMUEI. LEVY,
tiOylo-401aw Ordinary.
~7v‘T OT l OlC.—Foil' weeks after date apnlleatinn
J-l will Ist made to th r onri of Orifnaiv >t
Ki hmorid county for leave to sell tra -i of I and t»*
loiiglr.g to t.’ic- esia'e of Wm. J If oil decans il.
W. W RHODES
JAB W RHODES,
novl4-aw4w Ex.cntors,
N otic« to Man ufact u rers.
r I.^EIE UNDERSIGNED .",s his Services
to Individuals or Corporations designing to
engage in the manufacture ol COTTON or
WOOLEN GOODS. His experience in Practi
cal Manufacturing, and hie knowledge ol Cot
ton aDd Woolen Machinery, enables him to
draw np Plans of Buildings, as wel! as for ail
the different Machines uecessary to accomplish
whatever may he required to be done, and to
state the amount of power -requisite, whether
of water or steam.
Having recently visited some of the principal
Machine Shops and Manufactories in America
and Europe, he is prepared to state the proba
ble cost ol the neecst-iiry Machinery and the
best places at which to purchase, and to give
any other information necessary to start a
Manufactory.
The Commissions will he very reasonable,
Snd the information given would save largely
to projectors uot eutirely couversaut with the
business. Persons wishing information will
do well to apply In person, being prepared to
state what description ol goods they design
manufacturing, and the extent of the contem
plated enterprise.
He refers to Dr. N. J. Bussey, President
and to Wm. H. Young. Esq, and the other Di
rectors ol the Eagle and Phoenix Manufacturing
Company, of Columbus, Ga.; to J. R. Clarp,
Esq., of the Columbus (Ga.) Manufacturing
Company; to General A. J. Hanselu, Presi
dent Roswell Manufacturing Company, Ros
well. Ga., aud to W. J. Russell, Esq., Prince
ton Factory, Athens, Ga.
HENRY y. MEIGS,
octl-law3m Columbus, Ga.
s' ASTRAL OIL
W ° CHANGE of lamps
Jhunmatmg CKI-Stiicdy
Mtttarq, No Qajricals— WHlnot Expltxfc-
Scpß-eod6m
NEW LARD.
REFINED
FAMILY LARD.
Wo are now packing NEW LARD of this
aoasou s make. Tierces, Halt Bbid., Kegs, 81b.
51b. and 101 b. Caddies, 601 b. Cases. For Price
Lists, address
PROCTER & GAMBLE,
CINCINNATI, O.
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WANTED,
To PURCHASE, a small TRACT of LAND,
from 20 to 60acres, either improved or unim
proved, within six miles of Augusta.
Address, through the Post Office, KEY BOX
245, giving location, &c.
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Fresh Norfolk Oysters.
A. CONSTANT supply of fresh “ selected ”
NORFOLK OYSTERS, in packages of gallons,
hall gallons and quarts, received daily and for
sale at the Angnsta Ice Honee, opposite Sooth
Carolina Railroad Depot. Also, best quality pf
Savannah and Brunswick OYSTERS, in qnan
titles to suit purchasers.
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