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OLD SERIES, VOL. LXXVI.
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the alleged robbers.
A STATE’S WITNESS CONFESSION.
ITKTHE '. DETAILS OF THE AFFAIR.
How the Bobbery was Committed.
The readers of the Chronicle & Sen
tinel will remember that oo last Sunday
week- the first of this month- there was
published in this paper an aeount of a
very heavy Express robbery, committed on
the line of the Central Railroad on the
twenty-second of last month. Owing to
the very meagre information which our
Reporter was able to get possession of at
that time in relation to the affair, we were
unable to give th!s full details of this singu
lar robbery. At the date of that publica
tion the officers of the Southern Express
Company—the victimized corporation
w; re busily engaged, assisted by the active
and efficient police force of this city, in
woking up the case and endeavoring to
in some duo, other than mere suspicion,
which m<ght load to the arrest of the rob
ber i an l the recovery of the booty. Under
the-o circumstances they were naturally
v ry reticent and unwilling to impart any
nformation to newspaper reporters, far-
I I, a.-, they were, that a premature publi
cation of the facts of the case might
cause the robbers to take the alarm
and defeat the object of their labors.
It will thus be seen that it was a matter
of i at that time to give as
perfi ct an account of the affair as we would
have wished, an l we wore obliged to con
tent ourselves with a few bare facts fur
nished by those in authority after much
' now the bobbery was commuted.
Since tho three arrests made on last
Saturday* night, however, so much of
publicity has been given the matter that
to affect fuithcr coneeiment would seem
the heighth of absurdity ; accordingly wo
present to our readers this morning full
and accurate details of the robbery as
gathered by our Reporter on yesterday.
It is but just to aid that the men at work
on the affair still endeavor to keep it secret
and this account is not given us coming
from those in authority, but, at the same
time we will vouch for its accuracy. On
the evening of tho 22d day of last July,
Mr. Butler Mays, a resident pf Wood
lawn, in the suburbs of this city, and em
ployed in this division of the Southern
Express Company iu the capacity of a
Messenger on the Central Railroad, bo
twe n Savannah and Macon, left the office
of the company in the latter city in charge
of tho money chest and an average amount
of other Express freight. The freight was
conveyed iu the wagons of the Company
to the depot of tho Central Rai'road where
it was deposited in the Express car, and
soon afterward the train started for Sa
vannah. /
Besidos the passengers and employees
ol tho Railroad on the train that uight,
thore wore also on board two train
hand.-, Franois B. Blind and
Lassiter, both of this city, and a third
party, a baggage-master named Har
grove, from Savannah. The train of care,
beside theengino and tender, consisted of
a box ear, next to this a car divided into
two compartments, and known as tho Ma
con express and baggage car—tho first
compaitment being occupied by the Macon
messenger, while the second compartment
was tilled with baggage for Macon—a par
tition, with a door in it, separated the two
rooms; next to this the Augusta Express
and baggage car; then a Bccond class pas
senger car; and following this tho other
passenger cars.
When (lie train had arrived at station
No. Two i'rom Savannah, Mr. Mays left
his car and went with the baggage-master,
Hargrove, into the second-class passongef
car, where a water-melon was cut and eaten
in company, wo understand, with Bland
and Lassiter. Not long after this the
messenger, feeling sleepy, went back to
the Macon baggage car with Hargrove.
Arrived there, Hai grove, who kept the key
of the door between the two rooms, opened
the door ami Mays went to bed, telling
Hargrove, as the latter turned to leave the
Kx press for his own ear, to be sure and
lock the door between them. This was
done, and Mays went to sleep almost im
mediately afterward.
t-cveral hours afterward the train ar
rived at Millcn, where it met the down
night train from this city, and the mes
senger awoke. Taking his safe key from
his pocket he opened his money chest for
the purpose of transferring the money
packages lor Augusta and receiving those
for Macon. It was at this time that the
loss was first discovered. When the safe
was opened the messenger found that four
packages, containing in the aggregate a
great deal more thau four thousand dol
lars had been taken from the ehest.
While he so soundly slumbered some per
son or persons must have entered the car,
searched his person, without awaking
him from his sleep, and taken the key from
the pocket of the sleeper, rot bed the safe
ot the four packages and returned tho key
again, getting out ’undiscovered.
/ / THE SUSPECTED PARTIES.
' When the messenger discovered his loss,
iic wont on to Macon and informed the
Company of the robbery. As soon as tho
officers of the Company had boon inform
ed of what had taken place, General Su
pi riatendenfO Brion and Division Super
intendent Dempsey sot eagerly at work
to discover the authors of the robbery.
After hearing the circumstances which
preceded the robbery, we are informed
that suspicion at once fell on the three pat
ties above mentioned. Bland, Lasher and
Hargrove, but there was no clue which
could load to their arrest. Ascertaining
that the parties, or at least two of them,
were residents of Augusta, the police of
this city were put on their track. Still,
however, for more than two whole weeks
the affair hung fire. Though these men
were strongly suspected of having commit
ted tho robbery, there was co testimony to
sustain the charge, aud any false move
ment, ar> arrest on suspieiou alone, would
ruin everything. Accordingly the affair
was kept as quiet as possible, that the sus
pected parties might not become frighten
ed. whilst the Ipolice never for a moment
ceased their exertions. Up to thefiratof
August, >o quiet had the affair been kept,
that ii t ; newspaper in the State had got
ten if! and on that morning the
robbery was published for the first time in
the columns of the Chronicle & Sentd
N EL.
THE ARREST MADE.
Thus the affair progressed until last
Saturday morning; the suspicions of the
police still resting on the same parties,
but no positive proof having been obtained
of their guilt One of the men, Frank
Bland, was suspected more strong
ly than either of the others;
for, though of -known iwpecuniosity, he
was living in a very extravagant style, and
seemed to be very flush of brads. On the
evening of Saturday the three meu weie all
ascertained to be in the city and it was de
termined that the time had arrived for
striking the blow. Accordingly a warrant
was obtained and the police officers sallied
out aud found and arrested Hargrove and
Lasiter on Twiggs street. Turning over
these two men as soon as arrested to seme
privates, the officers rode rapidly to a bar
room in the upper part of the city, near
the corner of Broad and Campbell streets,
where Bland was also discovered and
captured, without offering any resistance,
though from his well known character for
courage, a fight might have been expected.
The three were immediately taken to the
City Hall and carried before Justice Ells.
The prisoners were searched for the money;
but the search was unsuccessful. On
Hargrove was found only twenty dollars;
on Bland fourteen dollars and a quarter,
and on Lasiter twenty-die cents. Before
Justice Ells nothing concerning the rob
bery was elicited. All three of them stout
ly protested their innocence, and Bland
said, with an oath, that he was “none too
good to do it; but that he never would
have entered an Express safe and only
taken four thousand dollars.” It was re
marked, too, that while in the police
officers’ room and charged with the robbery
he exclaimed that “ so much money was
not taken.” Nothing having transpired
at this time the accused were committed
to Jail, in default of four thousand dollars
bail, which was demanded.
bland makes a confession.
After an incarceration of the prisoners
great efforts were made to induce one of
the three to turn State’s evidence ; for if
that was not accomplished the arrest
would have been of no avail. If this was
done it must be done quickly in order
that the money might be recovered before
it was carried away from the city by out
side parties who must have it in their
possession. These efforts were attended
with such success that on yesterday morn
ing Bland, fearful, it seem*, that Har
grove would leave him in the lurch, deter
mined to anticipate any step of that kind,
and turned State’s evidence himself and
made a confession of the crime.
In his confession he stated that he was
on the train the night of the twenty-second
of'July with Hargrove, Lassiter and Mays.
That himself and Hargrove had previously
made a clot to rob Mays, but that Lassiter
had nothing to do with the affair; that at
Number Two Station Mays went into the
baggage car with them and ate a water
melon ; that subsequently Mays complain
ed of being sleepy and went to bed in
his car, as wo have above described; that
when Mays had gono to sleep Hargrove
opened the door between the Express and
baggage cars and entored the former, while
Bland remained on the outside; that when
Hargrove had entered he took the chest
key from the person of the Messenger,
opened the safe and rifled it; that he then
locked it again, replaced the key and left
the car; that when Hargrove came out to
where Bland was he told the latter he had
only found five hundred dollars in the
chest and gave him half of it, two hundred
and fifty dollars, which sum the latter
accopted. After the robbery was com
mitted Bland and Hargrove came on to
Augusta—they ran between Augusta and
Savannah —while Mays went on to Macon.
Bland says that he had no idea more than
five hundred dollars had been taken until
he saw the account of the robbery in the
Chronicle & Sentinel on last Sunday
week, and that even after that Hargrove
denied taking more than the first named
amount.
WHERE IS THE MONEY?
Bland’s confession seems to fix the crime,
but unfortunately for the Southern Ex
press Company, it has not assisted in tho
discovery of the stolen thousands. Bland
on yesterday pretonded to know where the
money, or rather a portion of it, could be
found and he was taken by the police
officers to the designated house, but noth
ing was found there. During the day the
house where his mother lives was searched
but with the same want of success, and up,
to a late hour last night the money was
still missing. In well posted circles it is
thought that Bland’s confession is not a
full one; that he did get half of the forty
nine hundred dollars which Hargrove took
from tho Express safe, and that he has it
now concealed in this city. Despite the
confession of Bland, Hargrove stoutly
maintains his innooence and has employed
counsel—Mr. A. D. Pioquet—to defend
him. A preliminary examination of the
three accused will take place before Justice
Ells some time to day. Lassiter’s inno
cence having been establ hed we under
stand that he will be discharged from
custody this morning.
EXPRESS ROBBERY.
THE PRISONERS IN COURT
THEIR PERSONAL APPEARANCE.
LABITKR HONORABLY DISCHARGED.
THE TRIAL TO BE IN EFFINGHAM COUNTY.
HIE MONEY STILL MISSING.
On Wednesday morning at 9 o’clock,
the three men, Bland, Hargrove and Lasi
ter, who were arrested on Saturday after
noon, charged with having committed the
recent five thousand dollar Express rob
bery, were brought from the jail to the
Superior Court room, in the City Hall,
where it was announced a preliminary ex
amination would take place. The robbery
and the recent arrests have caused a good
deal of excitement In this city, and on
yesterday morning many persons were
drawn by curiosity to the City Hall to hear
tho examination. At the appointed time
the accused entered the room guarded by a
county constable and two city policemen./^
The prisoner who attracted most atten
tion was Bland, on account of his being so
well known in Augusta and from the
notoriety he has gained by his past career.
He is a tall, heavily built mao with the
form and sinews of a Hercules, and, de
spite his bulk, is said to be very active in his
movements. From his appearance one
would think that he was about thirty-five
years old —though he may be older or
younger. He has dark brown or black
hair of luxuriant growth and worn very
short. His complexion, tanned by
constant exposure to the weather, is
burned a deep reddish hue. His eyes
are of a medium size, brown, brilliant and
roving. He wears no beard ; but his up
per lip is covered with a heavy straw-color
ed moustache. His dress was composed
of a dark, shabby suit, colored shirt, cloth
gaiters and an enormous black slouch hat.
He has just the air and personnel to figure
as the burglarious hero of one of Beadle’s
Dime Romanoes. He seemed to be not at
all affected by his situation; walked in the
room very carelessly, looking often at the
crowd and giving a nod and a smile to his
many acquaintances whom he recognized
in the audience.
Hargrove, the next most important
actor in the alleged robbery, is a Savannah
man and but slightly known in this city.
In his native city the prisoner, it is report
ed, is a tnan of very good social position
and of equally good character, previous to
his recent arrest on a charge of robbing the
bouthern Express Company. He is a man
apparently twenty-eight or thirty years of
age, of medium heighth and rather slender
figure. He has a fair but sallow complex
I ion, light brown hair and light eyes. He
i wore no beard, but a heavy, sandy-colored
moustache. His nose is large and promi
nent and around his eyes large dark circles
were noticed traced—probably produced by
his confinement in jail for the past few
', days; for whether guilty ?r innocent there
| are few men whom imprisonment on such
a charge would not affect. According to
the confession of Bland, who is reported to
have turned State’s evidence, Hargrove is
the most guilty man of the two, and the
principal in the robbery, Hargrove for
some time previous to his arrest was in the
employ of the Central Railroad as Baggage
Master, and ran between Savannah and
Augusta in that capacity.
Thomas Lasiter, the third prisoner, is
quite a young man —much younger than
either of the others—tall in stature and
slender. He also has a fair skin, though
tanned, like Hargrove, and Bland, from
exposure. He is a resident of this city,
and has always borne an excellent charac
ter. Mr. Lasiter attracted less notice than
either of his companions, from the fact
that it was generally believed he would be
discharged from custody, as there was no
testimony whatever against him.
The counsel employed in the case- were
Maj. J. P. Carr for the Southern Express
Company; Mr. A. D. Picquet, for William
Hargrove; and Gen. A. R. Wright, for
Thomas Lasiter.
The examination was to take place be
fore Justice John L. Ells, the committing
Magistrate. As soon as the Court was
Ofened Maj. Carr arose and announced,
pa the part of the prosecution, that he
proposed to dismiss the watrant taken out
against Lasiter. He stated that there wa3
no proof whatever that he was at. all im
plicated in tho robbery of the Express
Company on the 22d of July, and that ha
wished him to be honorably discharged.
Justice Ells informed Mr. Lasiter that
there was no case against him, and that he
was honorably discharged from custody.
After some little delay, while the arrests
were being made, Major Carr stated that
the old warrants against Bland aod Har
grove, in which they were charged with
having taken the money in Richmond
county, had been dismissed, and that the
two prisoners had been re-arrested on
warrants charging them with having com
mitted the robbery in Effingham county.
Mr. Picquet, counsel for Hargrove, said
that he objected to the warrants being
changed in this manner.
Justice Ells interrupted him, saying
that the second arrests had already been
made, consequently there’was now no case
before tho court and he would not hear
his objections.
Mr. Picquet: “Your Honor then re
fuses to hear me. ’ ’
Justice Ells : “I have decided that there
is no case before this court, and I cannot
listen to your objections.”
Major Carr : “May it please your Honor
I would ask, simply as a matter of indul
gence, tnat the counsel on the other side
be allowed to state his objection.”
Justice Ells: “While I still decide that
there is no case before the court I will hear
what Mr. Picquet may have to say in the
matter.”
Mr. Picquet: “I merely desired to read
the Code to your Honor.”
The code was not read, and a few min
utes afterward the prisoners were remand
ed to jail, much to the disappointment of
the crowd, whieh had come to hear the
preliminary examination. If the examina
tion had commenced it would have been a
very lengthy one, as we are informed more
than twenty witnesses had been summoned
to appear and testify in behalf of Har
grove. By the prosecution’s dismissing
the first wauaut and issuing a second,
changing to the county in which the crime
was alleged to have been committed, it was
rendered impossible to have a preliminary
examination of the case before J ustice
Ells, as this it was supposed would have
to take place before an Effingham Justice
in the county of that name. Usually in
such cases the prisoners are sent to the
county in which it is alleged the robbery
took place, to bo kept in confinement until
the trial, but in this instance it will be
otherwise. We learn that by consent of
the counsel for the prosecution and the de
fence, the prisoners will be kept in the
Augusta Jail for the present, and a letter
has already been or will be sent to Judge
William Schley, at Savannah, iu whose
judicial circuit is Effingham county, asking
him to come to this city and conduct the
preliminary examination of the accused.
Whether Judge Scbley will consent to
como is, we understand, by no means cer-
have heard of no morn of the stolen
money being recovered, and the general
impression seems to be that, though the
officers of the Southern Express Company
by their vigilance and sagacity had suc
ceeded in getting the bodies of the robbers,
they did not stand a very good chance to
recover the booty.
The Great Exposition of Textile Fabrics
at Cincinnati.
We are glad to see that the Southern
manufacturers of textile fabrics, and par
ticularly of cotton cloths and yarns, were
largely represented in the Cincinnati Con
vention last week.
Among the list of goods on exhibition
from the South, we find fully stety bales
of brown sheeting and drilling were on ex
hibition. They “were,’’says the Cincinnaii
Gazette, ‘of the most creditable character.
Some jf them were as good goods in mate
rial, manufacture aod appearance as we
have ever seen. The cotton that enters
into their composition is generally of a
superior character, and there is a smooth
ness about the cloth and a firmness in the
texture that has very generally attracted
the attention of visitors, particularly of
dealers. We understand, too, that prices
of those goods are very satisfactory, so
much that our merchants are already en
deavoring to conclude arrangements with
these mills for their supply of these fabrics
instead of looking to the East.’
The Batesville Mills, Batesville, South
Carolina, furnished 1 bale of 4-4 sheet
ings The Granitevillo Manufacturing
Company, Graniteville, South Carolina, 2
bales of 4-4 sheetings, 2 bales of shirting
and 1 bale of drilling. Tho Tallasse Man
ufacturing Company, of Montgomery, Ala.,
8 bales of sheeting,one of shirting, and an
other of drilling. The Prattville Mills,
Prattville, Ala., 1 bale each of 4-4 sheet
ing, shirting, and Osnaburg. The Augus
ta Cotton Mills, Augusta, Richmond coun
ty, Ga., onebaleeach, of 4-4 sheeting, -j
--shirting, 5 fine shirting and heavy drilling.
r Tbe Manufacturing Company* Macon,
Bibb county, Ga,, one hale of4-4 sheeting,
and one of shirting. The Houston Facto
ry, of Houstin, Heard county, Georgia,
two bales of 4-4 sheeting. Kennedale
Mills, Kennedale, Tuscaloosa county, Ala.,
one bale of 4-4 sheeting, and one oft shirt
ing. Fontenoy Mills, Augusta, Richmond
Factory, of Richmond county, Georgia,
one bale of shirting. Pulaski Manufactur
ing Company, Pulaski, Giles county,
Tenn., one bale 4-4 sheeting and one of #
shirting. Jewell Mills, Warren county.
Georgia, one bale 4 4 sheeting, one bale I
shirting, and one bale of Osnaburg Eagle
and Phoenix Mills. 2 bales of striped Osna
burgs and (wo coils cotton rope. Anchor
Cotton Mills, Pittsburg, Pa., 2 bales 4 4
sheeting, 2 hales Glencoe and Magnolia
do. Crescent Cotton Mills, Lawrence
burg, Lawrence county, Tenn., 5 pieces
• standard sheeting. Trion Cotton Factory,
1 bale 4 4 sheetings, Troup Manufactur
ing Company, Georgia, 1 bale t Osua
burgs. Sylvan Mills, Shelbyville, Bed
ford county, Tenn., onebaleeach of tick
ing, I brown sheetings, 3 sheeting checks,
i Osnaburgs, both plain and striped ;
Denims hickory stripes. These goods
are generally of an excellent character.
The stripes, denims, marinos and shirtiDg
are unusually strong and sightly.
E. Steadman, of Covington, Ga., and
the Chickasaw Mills, of Paris, Tenn., ai!
contribute large lines of yarns to the exhi
bition, as did also the Sheffield Manu
facturing Company, of Sheffield Ga.,
Lehman, Durr & 00-, of Montgomery,
Ala., and the Hope Mills, of Pittsburgj
Pa. The Steam Cotton Mills, of Colum
bus, Ga., had a full stock of their cotton
j yarns, rope, &c.
The Southern Manufacturers met at the
Burnet House on the last day of the ex
position, when Dr. N. J. Bussey, of the
Eagle and Phoenix Manufacturing Com
pany, ol Columbus, Georgia, was called to
the chair, and, on J. S. Kennedy,
of Tuscaloosa, Alabama, acted as Secre
tary.
After some friendly talk, the following
resolution was read and adopted :
Resolved, That in accepting the invita
tion to attend the Exhibition o' Textile
Fabrics, for the West and South, we have
been more than gratified.
2. That we tender to the gentlemen of
Cincinnati comprising the committee, and
all officers and citizens, our warmest thanks
for the attentions and kindness shown to
us since our arrival in their city.
3. We hope that this may be the begin
ning of anew era in the history of our
common country ; that it may lead to great;
er prosperity in manufacturing and all
other pursuits, and that henceforth and
. forever our interests may be one and in
-1 dissoluble.
AUGUSTA, GA., WEDNESDAY MORNING, AUGUST 18, 1869
The Cotton Crop.
We continue to receive the mo3t dis
couraging accounts of the cotton crop from
all sections of the State.
The Spring wag a very cold and backward
l one, and hence the crop started full three
weeks after the usual time. By the free
application of stimulating fertilizers, this
drawback was being very rapidly overcome
when the July drought set in, which great
ly retarded the growth of the plant, and in
most sections caused a pretty free shed
ding of the fruit.
The rains began to fall pretty freely the
latter part of July, and have continued
| now for about twenty days. The effect of
| the rains has been to produce that most
| inveterate and deadly enemy of this very
i sensitive plant—rust—and now we hear
! that almost every field in Southwestern
Georgia, and even in the hilly lands of
Middle Georgia has suffered more or less.
Some planters attribute tho wide spread
prevalance of rust to the use of commercial
fertilizers, and much interest is now being
taken in investigations looking to the dis
covery of such fact if it really exists.
Very intelligent planters attribute the rust,
as we think, to the proper cause, the sud
den and extreme change of seasons.
Whatever may have been the immediate
or remote cause, there can be no doubt
but that the crop has been seriously in
jured. To what extent, it is yet too early
to say with any degree of certainty. If
the seasons in the future should be very
propitious, a fair, or even an average crop
may still be made.
Southern Character—Hr. Peabody.
It has been for a number of years a pe
culiar mode of warfare adopted by the
Northern Radical journals, when discuss
ing the condition of the South, or the
character of her people, to charge them
with ignorance, want of integrity, and as
being given to bombast, inflated ideas of
their own importance, and a too prevalent
disregard of personal and national taith.
Since the close of the war these charges
have been constantly reiterated by such
journals as the New York Tribune and
Philadelphia Press, and no occasion has
been lost to traduce and vilify the South
ern people. They have been classed as
unprincipled robbers and merciless cut
throats—have been denounced as faithless
to the obligation of honor, and false to
all the demands of well-regulated society.
These bitter and vindictive falsehoods
have been repeated so often, and urged
with so much apparent fairness,that many
good men at the North have come to look
upon the organization of society here as
offering no security to life, reputation or
property.
On a recent occasion a very distinguish
ed gentleman, a native of the good State
of Massachusetts, and who has, by bis
acts of benevolence and philanthropy,
made his name famous all over the Con
tinent of Europe, and endeared himself
to overy true son of America, gave expres
sion to sentiments in regard to the South
ern people, which have fallen very
harshly upon the ears of modern reform
ers and philanthropists like Forney and
Greeley. Mr- Peabody, in replying to the
resolutions adopted by the Southern
visitors at the White Sulphur Springs re
cently, said :
i ’should be glad if my strength would
permit me to speak of my own cordfal es
teem and regard for the high honor, in
tegrity and heroism of the Southern peo
ple. But that, too, I must leave for the
present.
But I must not omit to say,that of all the
kind words you have spoken, those refer
ring to the Southern educational fund have
been sweetest to my ears. Coming, as
they do, from such a distinguished and
intelligent body, they corroborate the opin
ions already expressed by other eminent
men of the South. The fibres of my heart
are interwoven with its success, as lam
sure are yours, and those of all good men
everywhere.
Mr. Peabody’s name wason every North
ern lip, his praises sung by every unfledged
Yankee Poet, and his kind deeds enumerat
ed in every issue of the Northern Radical
journals, until he had the temerity to give
utterance to the- above just and Catholic
views. Since his unfortunate associations
at the Virginia Springs, the Radical pa
pers here dropped him as no longer worthy
of notice or regard.
They do not pretend to meet his state
ment with facts or proof. They dare not
attempt to volunteer a simple denial
without some evidence to show that he
was wrong, and as such evidence does not
now and never did exist except in the blind
and perverted prejudices of unprincipled
journalists and penny-a-liners, the Radical
crew have simply let his statement pass
without notice. We reproduce it for the
benefit of our Northern readers.
A Flourishing City.
We find in one of the Atlanta dailies
nearly three columns of Sheriff’s advertise
ments for the sale of real estate in the city
of Atlanta to pay State and county taxes.
We counted one column, and found thirty
two lots advertised for sale: at this rate the
three columns would give ninety-six lots
for sale in one month, to pay legal taxes.
Atlanta must be a flourishing place to
afford so much work for printers, lawyers
and sheriffs—it lea3t, we should judge
that those classes of her people were just
now quite flourishing.
Effects or Cabinet Interference in the
Tennessee Elections—Johnson's Re
turn to the United States Senate Se
cured.
The Washington correspondent of the
Herald writes to that paper that promi
nent Tennessee Republicans, supporters of
Governor Senter, but strong opponents of
Andrew Johnson, write to their friends in
Washington city that Secretaries Bout
well and Creswell’s letters endorsing Stokes
have contributed largely to the probabili
ties of Johnson s election to the United
States Senate. These letters of endorse
ment had the effect of exasperating those
Republicans who supported Senter in good
faith upon the platform and principles
ennunciated by the Chicago Convention.
They assert that they have always, in con
nection with Senter, stood, and now stand,
upon that platform, while Boutwell and
Creswell have sought to ignore it so far as
the franchise question is concerned- These
Republicans say that Andrew Johnson and
his friends shrewd enough to take ad
vantage of the fact that those two Cabinet
officers were arraying 'the administration
against the most prominent of Grant’s sup
porters in Tennessee, and that therefore
they were to be whipped in like a set of
curs upon the caprice of ambitious aspir
ants for the Presidential succession in 1872-
It being well understood that Andrew
Johnson would be the most obnoxious per
son to General Grant and his Cabinet that
could he sent from Tennessee to the United
States Senate, a sympathy for Johnson's
success in that regard has been aroused on
the part of prominent Conservatives who
would otherwise have opposed him with
strong probabilities of success. This sym
pathy for Mr. Johnson has also been ma
terially heightened from the fact that Gen.
Grant has neglected or refused to contra
dict or qualify the terms of these mischiev
ous letters of the Secretory of the Treasury
and Postmaster General. Private tele
grams predict that Center s majority will
reach 50,000.
Andrew Johnson for Repudiation.
-Ex-President Johnson, in a speech of
over three hours’ duration at Blountsvilie,
Tenn., the last he made before the election
in that State, took the most open aod un
equivocal grounds in favor of national re
pudiation. The bondholders, he said, had
already received the amount of their in
vestments. The greatest enthusiasm was
manifested throughout the address, at the
conclusion of which three hearty cheers
were given for the ex-President.
Avenging Wounded Honor.
In a recent discussion between the Rus
sian Cesarewitch and his chief of staff, Col.
Hunnius, a German by birth, the Prince
remarked that “when one deals with Ger
mans one is sure to be cheated.” The
choloric German retorted, “if your High
ness means that observation to apply to
me, I must beg you to understand it as
both offensive and unjust.” Whereupon
the Prince made answer by coolly slapping
the Colonel’s face. As this insult coaid
no : be avenged upon the heir of the Throne,
and as it was one which chivalry could not
endure to live under, the cbivalric German
deliberately blew hi.- own brains out with a
pistol rather than survive such black dis
grace-
Before committing the rash deed he
penned a note to the Prince, in which he
said, “Yourlmperial Highness has offered
me a mortal insult. \Vhen you read this
letter 1 shall have ceased to live.”
It is somewhat consoling to know that
the Emperor was greatly displeased at
this affair and gave orders that the Colonel
should be buried with great pomp, and the
Prince having attempted to prevent these
orders from being carried out was ordered
by the Emperor to attend in person the
funeral of the poor victim.
Many sharp, and many very just criti
cisms have been indulged in by public cen
sors against what they have been pleased
to cal! the “chivalry” of the South, but
we venture to say that, with all our hot
blood and excitable nature, nothing has
ever occurred here whieh approximates in
the remotest degree the superior eontempt
for life under insulted innocence as was
displayed by this choloric German.
Radical Compliments.
The Cincinnati Gazette, in reviewing the
salutatory of Mr. Bigelow, the new editor
of the New York Times, takes occasion
to say that while B. lays down some good,
though trite ideas, he has himself 1
lacked rancor in discussion." The Ga
zette then proceeds to pay his compliments
to Dana, of the Sun, .Stanton’s Assistant
Secretary of War, in the following choice
terms:
The bad example of a successful N. Y.
journal whieh began by supplementing
news by its own fabrications, has been
followed by others who use this method of
seeking notoriety at the expense of repu
tability. The N. Y. Sun is a had speci
men of this attempt to build itself up by
this disreputable course. And its canards
are telegraphed over the country for .the
sake of the advertisement that the lie
gives, upon the deliberate calculation of its
manager that disreputable notoriety is
worth more than reliability and good re
pute. Its name to a report is ground fora
strong presumption that it is false. Its
editorial articles are equally lacking in hon
esty and common decency. It is conduct
ed upon the theory that ajournal, in order
to succeed, must dispense with all those
qualities which are regarded as necesary to
manhood.
Rust in Cotton- -Gloomy Prospects
in Southwestern Georgia.— The edi
tor of tho Albany (Ga.) News , says : “We
have reports from all sections that the rust
is seriously injuring the cotton. We have
seen it ourself, ants where it exists the cot
ton looks as if a flame of fire had swept
over it. We are having too much rain for
ootton, and if it continues a day or two
longer, all hope of a full crop will be at an
end, for what the rust leaves the caterpil
lar will destroy.”
The Caterpillar.— Tho Washington
correspondent of the Baltimore Sun says :
“The Commissioner of Agriculture has
received information from South Carolina
of the appearance of the dread and de
structive cotton caterpillar among the
crops on the Sea Island. . The insect has
not yet appeared in large numbers, and it
was hoped that the hot and dry weather
of May and June would prevent its re
turn altogether. 4
From Clay. —The Chattahoochee Mir
ror of Friday has tho following :
Weather and Crops.—Rain falls al
most every day, which is a little trouble
some to farmers on account of gathering
fodder. Corn crops are reported as being
in fine condition. Some farmers entertain
fears that the continued rains "fill be very
injurious to cotton. It is reported from
different sections of the county that the
caterpillar has appeared, and it is feared
will do serious damage to cotton.
The Press of Georgia..— ln the New
York World of last Thursday we find a
lengthy account of the Southern Press.
Below we publish what the author says of
the newspapers of Georgia. We are glad
to see that the great enterprise in the col
lection of news, which characterizes the
management of the Chronicle & Sen
tinfl, has not escaped attention and rec
ognition :
Coming to Georgia, this terrific State,
where horrent Ku-klux defy the great
heart of the nation and its gizzard, and
Congress to boot, there is a large and.re
spcciable press. In Savannah are three
papers, the Republican , News and Ad
vertiser. The two prior were seized on by
some pressmen attached to Sherman’s
army when that force reached the city,
but both of these editors have since
died, and the papers have reverted to
Southern men. The editor of the News,
it may be mentioned, is Major W. T.
Thompson, author of “Major Jones’
Courtship.” Both papers are strongly
conservative, as is also tho Advertiser,
where it touches on polities, which is not
often, its field being commercial matters,
in which it is quite reliable and does well.
Coming to Augusta, there rre two papers
of great weight throughout the State—the
Chronicle & Sentinel and tho Consti
tutionalist. Both possess a respectable
antiquity as things go, the former having
been established in 1785 and the latter in
1799. • Save when the Constitutionalist
was closed by some poor creature who
philandered about herein 1565, it is not
known thai there has been any intermis
sion of publication with either of these
papers since they were started. The editor
of the Constitutionalist is James R. Ran
dall, the author of “Maryland, my Mary
land,” “There’s Life in the Old Land
Yet,” and other favorite Southern poems.
The other paper, the Chronicle & Sen
tinel, is managed with much tact, and,
on occasion of matters of interest in the
State, has been known to present a colum
or two of special intelligence by telegraph
—“no great shakes” for a leviathan like
the World, but a thing not often ventured
on down South. Atlanta possesses the
Intelligencer, the Constitution, and the
New Era. The Intelligencer is an old estab
lished paper,of stroDgly pronounced Confed
erate antecedents, but now charged with
an undue weakness forthe person who sur
reptitiously assumes to be Governor of
Georgia, ‘-Captain-General, Governor, and
Commander-iu-Chief in and over the State
aforesaid,” as the old style of Georgia law
hath it. Out upoti him ! The Constitu
tion is anew paper and a newspaper, is
in favor with the workingmen in Atlanta,
and is said to prosper. The New Era was
Bullock’s paper, but is now “agin” him.
It is for Grant, however;' always has been,
its editor claims, and, to appearance, truly,
to have been the first to nominate that
eminent dummy for the Presidency, and
it do seem hard that, while any number of
wild niggers are violently thrust into fat
consulships, there is nothing for this warm
first friend of “Me personally. ’ A pleas
ing little tale is hereabouts extant on the
Jupiter Tonans of the Era. When recon
struction first came about he said he would
take no sides as yet—“a cautious advance
and an open rear. ’ No w, this rear re
mained open so long after almost every
other paper in the State had come out
against the horrible dogma of negro equali
ty, that Bill Arp, an up-country Georgia
humorist, sent word to our editor that he
had better take an astringent and close his
rear. My modest pen blushes to write
these thiigs, but what would you? Are
the ecentricities of genius not to be noted?
The corruscations of wit to be forgotten?
In Macon, Georgia, are two papers, the
Telegraph and the Journal & Messenger,
both edited with ability, though the tone of
the former is not relished by some of the
old leaven. The Journal & Messenger is
edited by General Wm. M. Brown, at one
time one of the four colonels who acted as
aids to Mr. Davis, and a writer of precise
elegance. Columbus has two papers, the
Sun and Enquirer, both old papers, and,
as befits journals iD the very penetralia of
King Cotton, conservative to the core. The
editor of the Sun is that gentleman who
acted as secretory of the convention which
framed the constitution of the Confederate
States, a document, by-the-by, that is the
Federal Constitution over again, with some
few improvements it might be well we
should adopt, among others that provision
whereby a vote of two-thirds of each House
was necessary to pass a money bill. This
would put a stop to some of the thieving.
Brunswick, Albany & Eufaula Rail
road. —From Mr. William Hazlehurst, of
Macon, who reached this city from New
York Tuesday afternoon, we learn that
the management of the Brunswick, Albany
& Eufaula Railroad has recently been reor
ganized. The following is a correct list of
its new officers:
President, Chas L. Frost, New York.
Treasurer, Henry Clewes, New York.
directors.
O. D. T. Grant, P. J. Avery,
J. B. Taylor, H. S. Wells,
C. B. Connant.
By reference to another article in this
morning’s Chronicle & Sentinel it> will
be seen that Judge Schley has granted an
injunction which will suspend work on this
Road for the present.
Observations of the Eclipse.— On
Tuesday morning we published a dispatch
to the Chronicle & Sentinel from Pro
fessor W. L. Brown, ot the University of
Georgia, who, with Professor Charbonnier,
also ofjhe University, and the four honor
men of the recently graduated, went to
Bristol, Tennessee, to observe the phenom
ena attending the total eclipse of the sun.
This morning we publish a letter from one
of the party, Mr. W. S. Bean, of this
city;
University of Geokuia, |
Athens, August 9, 1809. j
Chancellor Lipscomb :
Dear Sir: —The party, consisting of
Professors Brown and Charbonnier, and of
Messrs. Bean, Hammond, Vau Epps and
White, sent on by the Trustees of the
University for the purpose of observing
the total eclipse of the sun, returned this
afternoon.
We left Athens on Wednesday night,
August 4th, and proceeded to Bristol,
Tenn., arriving there on Friday evening.
Through the interest otGovernor Bullock,
we received free passage frem Atlanta to
Bristol, and on reaching the latter place
wo found rooms awaiting us.
On Saturday, August 7th, wc busied
ourselves with preparations for the grand
event of the day, and succeeded in secur
ing an advantageous position. Several
members of the U. S. Coast Survey, un
der Gen. Cutts, were also located at Bris
tol, and were very kind in furnishing us
with such necessary data as we did not
have time to compute for ourselves. The
morning was cloudy, but a breeze from the
North favored us, so that we had a clear
view of the eclipse, and witnessed all the
usual phenomena. Full notes of the most
striking features of the eclipse were taken
by the various members of our party; and
as these will soon be prepared for publica
tion, I will attempt no further description.
In short, the expedition was a complete
success, aud very gratifying to our Pro
fessors.
Yery respectfully,
W. S. Bean.
Andrew Johnson for United States
Senator.— A special dispatch from Wash
ington city to the New York Tribune says
that a dispatch has been received from
Nashville Which states that the prospects
of Andrew Johnson for election to the
United States Senate are now considered
almost certain, as the majority of the Con
servative members of the Legislature elect
are already pledged to him. His only op
ponent of any strength will be Col. Bailie
Peyton, but efforts are making to induce
the latter to withdraw from the contest.
The dispatch adds that :,he Radicals are
divided in opinion regarding their candi
date, with a strong probability that Stokes
will be their final choice. Other advices
state that the Republicans who supported
Senter tor Governor will bolt the Conserva
tive ticket if Johnson is nominated, and
assert that his strength is mainly confined
to the Old Line Democrats.
Gen. Grant on the Test Oath.—
The New York Herald °ays : “it seems to
be pretty generally understood here now
that President Grant will not permit his
Cabinet to practically nullify the results of
the late Virginia election by exacting the
obnoxious test oath. lam informed that
the President is fully resolved to abide by
the popular verdict, and that, too, against
the advice of so ne of his constitutional
advisers, who are well known to be of dia
metrically the opposite opinion. This in
formation is strengthened by an article in
the Richmond Enquirer of' this morning,
which says : “We have it in a most direct
manner that the test oath will not be ex
acted.” The words are italicised, and
seem to bear the impress of authority.”
The Suez Canal.— The Herald thinks
that in the completion of the Suez canal a
splendid future now seems possible for the
ancient land of the Nile, and if its rulers
are granted good sense, and the European
Powers are not foolishly jealous of each
other, there is no good reason why that
future should not be realized. It refers to
the past history of this interesting coun
try, and the commercial value always ac
corded it by all the great rulers, from
Alexander downward. It says the trade
of the Mediterranean has increased mighti
ly since the railroad was opened, some
years ago, and Egypt has increased in
wealth and importance, becoming again
the highway to India, and the cities of the
Mediterranean coast are sharing the bene
fit as of old. But, it says, useful as the
railroad is, it wants the Suez canal, and
that opened, the ancient country will soon
assume somewhat of its former import
ance. It does not wonder that the Sultan
has become jealous of his vassal, for Ismail
Pacha is already, in the eyes of Europe
and America, a more important person
age than his master. It surmises, if the
Viceroy plays his cards well, he may not
only soon be an independent prince, but he
may soon have many cities, any one of
which will be more important thau Con
stantinople.
Another Railroad Injunction Case.
—The Savannah Republican says that on
Saturday last, at the instance of parties
interested, Judge Schley granted an injunc
tion restraining the President and Direc-.
tors of the Brunswick, Albany and Eufaula
railroad from all acts looking to the con
struction of such road. We have not seen
the application and shall be able to speak
of the matter more fully and advisedly
hereafter.
Killed by Lightning.— lt is stated in
the Atlanta Constitution, of Thursday
evening, that Mrs- Ozcnore aod child were
struck and killed by lightning Ain Monday,
in DeKalb county, near Wesley Chapel.
There were no others on the premises at
the time, her son being at work in the
field some distance off.
New Currency.—The latest conterfeit
ten dollar greenback is so very similar to
the original note that the authorities at
Washington are preparing ‘.tp issue an en
tirely new series of notes from one to one
thousand dollars inclusive, under the di
teci supervision of hole-in-the-sky Bout
well. who has apparently discovered a hold
in the Treasury as deep as the other was
high. On these virgin notes we are
pleased'to learn that there will appear no
graven image of any living man. They
will probably soon be circulating around in
the place of money, unless some half a
dozen millions fully completed, except the
signatures,' should again be missed from
the Treasury building. In that case the
spectacles of Mr. Hole-in-the-sky will be
in requisition a second time.
The First Bale.—The first bale of
new cotton was received at New Orlerns
from Texas, on the 3d instoDt, as we have
been advised by telegraph. This is seven
days earlier than last season, when the
first bale was received at New Orleans
from Texas on the lQth August.
Cotton—Cause of the Rust.
We published last week a letter from an
intelligent planter of Burke county, in
which some interesting facts iu regard to
the rust were given, in connection with the
use of certain commercial feriiliz >rs. In
that communication the writer invited
from his brother farmers their own views
and experience on the subject.
In the last issue of the Central Georgian
we find a letter from Bartow, Jefferson
county, in whieh the same phenomena are
stated to have been developed as in the case
of our own correspondent in connection
with the use of Soluble Pacific Guano. The
writer in the Georgian says :
“The rust is in almost every field, espe
cially where feitilizers have been used
liberally. I have noticed several fields of
' cotton which have been manured with the
“Soluble Pacific Guano,” entirely ruined
by rust, or it resembles rust. This is where
250 to 300 lbs were used. Where less
quantity was applied, the injury is less.
Up to 20:hJuly, the “Soluble Pacific”
was believed to be the bast commercial
fertilizer in use iu this community, hut
wherever it has been liberally applied the
rust is very destructive-, more so than with
other fertilizers.”
This is a very important subject 10 our
planting friends, and wc invite their atten
tion to it. We shall be glad to have the
views of every planter in the State who
has used commercial Fertilizers this year,
We think planters owe it to their tellow
planters that they should, in this wide
field of experiment, give the benefit of
their own experience to the public. We
will publish such reports with much pleas
ure, because we know that they will prove
more interesting to our readers generally
than any other reading we could give them.
Let no planter be deterred from writing
because of the fear that he cauuot write
grammatically. We want facts—not gram
mar, and we will undertake to dross and
trim any communication whieh may prove
too crude for publication without revision.
Fatal Duel of Augusta Bloods.
The Chicago Post , under the above
heading, gives an account of a duel be
tween the brothers Cresswell, Charles and
C. D., in which one was killed an 1 the
other mortally wounded.
The Post is again wrong. It never can
get its Southern news right. By some
sort of Radical fatality its errors are gen
erally so gross as to carry their own refu
tation with them. No duel has been fought
near Augusta—neither of the Qresswells
were residents of Augusta—they did not
fight each other with pistols or other
weapon.
The two Cresswells were assaulted in the
public road a few miles from Edgefield
Court House, S. C., and nearly or quite
thirty miles from Augusta, by two of the Ad
disons of the same neighborhood, and one
of tho C.’s killed—the other seriously
wounded.
The Negro’s Friend.
The Mayor of Enterprise, Miss. , A. E.
Moody, by name, is a Radical scalawag of
the strictest sect. Like the balance of that
pestilent crew, he has been blatant in his
professions of love and regard Cor the
“man and brother”—the poor negro-
Recently, for some slight provocation,
he assaulted a colored man in the sireets os
the city over which he presided af
chief magistrate, and then ordered
him locked up by the marshal in
the guard house. After dark, boiling
over with wrath, he procured the key of
the guard house, unlocked it, and took the
man and brother out and carried him, with
pistol in hand, to the river. After reaching
the river, a correspondent of the Meridian
Mercury says he “told the negro that he
had either to jump in the river arid swim
across, or take one hundred lashes on his
bare back.
The negro, supposing that he wanted
him to swim over so that he might shoot
him while in the water, and thus conceal
his body, declined to swim the river, and
elected to take the whipping, whereupon,
his honor, the Mayor of Enterprise, the
appointee of Ames atid worshipper of
Henry Musgrove, the man that fills all the
offices in Clarke and Jasper, stripped said
negro, and with a buggy trace whipped
him Radical style, to hie heart's
content.”
As Moody is an appointee of General
Ames, the Radical military commander of
that State, it is not probable that the
wretch will receive the punishment justly
due for this inhuman outrage.
Every day developes mote clearly the
vbolesomc truth which we have for three
years sought to impress upon the minds of
the colored men iu the South—that their
truest and best friends arc 1 1 be found
alone among the respectable white men of
the South.
What is Ecclesiastical Law ?
In delivering this decision in the celebra
ted Cheney case which has been before
the Chicago Courts for a few days past,
Judge Jemison thus sets at rest the claim
whieh has been set up in some auarters
that Ecclesiastical Courts in this country
have exclusive jurisdiction to hoar and
determine upon the rights es person and
property, lie says :
“ An ecclesiastical court, in this country,
is nothing more than a mere voluntary
association of individuals. Not to state
tho fact invidiously, it is perfectly true
that an ecclesiastic tribunal or church as
sociation is no more in the eyes of the law
than an association for any temporal pur
pose whatever, a base ball oiub, a lyceum,
or an organization for the construction and
operation of a railroad, and the courts
place the right to int-rtere in these cases
upon the violation of the contract or stipu
lations which constitute the association.”
The Cincinnaii Exposition.
We condense from our Cincinnati files so
much of the aeoounts as wili interest the
public of our section. The exposition it
self seems to have been a complete success.
We hope it marks the beginnir- of more
intimate relations between the West and
the South, and inaugurates an era of close
commercial and social intercourse bO im
peratively demanded by the reciprocal in
terests of these two sections of the great
republic.
In the award, the Eagle mills of Colum -
bus, Georgia, received the premium for
the best piece of cotton warp tweed. The
premium was awarded to the Pulaski
Manufacturing Company', of Giles county,
Tennessee, for the best hale 36 oz brown
cottons. To the same Company was
awarded for the best baleof 7-8 brown cot
tons.
The premium for the best bale 36 in
medium brown cottons was awarded to the
Macon Manufacturing Company. The
premium for the best bale of Osnaburgs
was awarded to the Prattville Mills, Pratt
ville, Alabama; and for the best pair of
cotton blankets to the Eagle and Pecenix
Mills, of Columbus Georgia.
special mention.
Cotton Manufactures. —Os the follow
ing manufacturing companies: Granite
ville Manufacturing Company, 4-4 sheet
ings, Graniteville, South Carolina; Crescent
Cotton Mills, 4-4 sheetings, Lawrenceburg,
Tennessee; Eagle Cotton Mills, 4-4 sheet
ings, Alleghany, Pa. ; Macon Manufactur
ing Company, 4-4 6heetiDgs, Macon, Ga.;
Kennedale Mills, 4-4 sheetings, Tuscaloosa,
Ala.; Zanesville, Cotton Mills, 4-4 sheet
ings, Zanesville,Ohio; Pennsylvania Mills,
4-4 sheetings, Pittsburg, Pennsylvania;
Indian Hill Factory, 4-4 sheetings, Pratts
yille J Alabama; Jewell Mills, plain Osna
burg,'Warren county, Geirgia; Manassas
Mills Company, plain Osnaburg, Carrol
ton, Mississippi; Gould, Pearce & Cos.,
Cincinnati, Ohio, yarns, twines, seamless
bags, &c. ; Lehman, Dunn & Cos., cotton
yarn, Montgomery, Alabama; Stonewall
NEW SERIES, VOL. XXVIII. NO. 33
Manufacturing Company, cotton yarn, En
terprise, Mississippi; Fontenoy Mills, rof
ton yarn, Augusta, Georgia ; Hope Mills,
Pittsburg, Pennsylvania.
We call the especial attention of cotton
manufa turers to the Clements patent for
manufacturing yarn from seed cotton, which
we deem worthy of their examination. We
congratulate the country upon the advance
made in manufacturing West and South
the last few years, and should the same
progress be made in the next twenty years,
our section of the country need depend no
longer on the Eastern and Northern manu
facturers for our supply of cotton goods of
any description.
The first day’s “trade sale” was confined
almost exclusively to woolens, iu which
was included “cotton blankets” of the
Eagle and Phoenix Mills of Columbus,
Georgia; and these “sold above manufac
turers’ prices.
Upon the soeond day was sold, says the
Cincinnati Gazette,
HEAVY COTTON.
The heavy brown cottons were generally
sold by the bale, and went off with a whiri.
Nearly all these goods brought first-rate
prices, some of them goiog decidedly be.
yond their value. These were purchased
by some for purposes of advertisement,
others were sought because of their novel
ty, while many were bought for their real
intrinsic worth, since these goods were
principally from tho South and of excellent
quality.
Tho premium 4-4 brown sheetings of the
Pulaski Manufacturing Company, Pulaski,
Gilescounty, Tennessee, were sharply com
peted for. It was Chicago against Cincin
nati, and the bidding, which was exciting,
terminated iu the triumph of Cincinnati,
the purchasers being Gotlieb & Ezekiel, of
this city, at 19| cents. The premium 1
brown shirtings, of the same mill, sold at
164 cents, also to Cincinnati.
The best bale of 4 4 brown sheetings of
the Macon Manufacturing Company of
Macon, Ga., that took the premium for
best medium goods, was purchased by
Bowen, Whitman & Winslow, of Chicago,
at 17 cents—trom 1 toll cents above their
market value. The Macon shirting brought
154 cents.
The first hale of shirtings sold was that
of the Batesville Mills, oi Batesville, South
Carolina, the first shirtings that reached
the Exposition. They were 4-4 goods 34
yards to the pound. They elicited brisk
bidding, and brought 141 cents. A satis
factory results:
The goods of the Graniteville Manufac
turing Company, of Graniteville, South
Carolina, were next reached, and sold at
full prices. Their heavy A A 4-4 sheet
ing sold at 153 cents; E E 4-414 J cents; R
R 7-8 shirting 14 cents; C 3-4 shirting 11}
cents. Their drilling brought 16 cents.
Tho Tallasse Manufacturing Company’s
goods, of Montgomery, Alabama, were dis
posed ot at satisfactory prices, the 4-4
sheeting, 7-8 shirting and 7-8 drilling sell
ing, respectively, at 153, 14 and 103 cents.
The products of the Augusta, Georgia,
cotton mills scarcely brought what they
deserved, and were carried off by Chicago ;
the 4-4 sheeting at 15c ; 7-8 shirting, 12c;
3-4 shirting 11c, and heavy drilling, 16J.
The Houston Factory, of Houston,Head
county, Georgia, sold two bales 4 4 sheet
ing, each at 15.3 c.
The goods of the Kennedale Mills, of
Kennedale, Tuscaloosa county, Alabama,
4 4 A sheeting and 7-8 A shirting, sold at
16 and 14c respectively.
When the striped Osnaburgs of the Ea
gle & Phenix Mills, Columbus, Ga., was
put up, Chicago again made a dash, and
wrestled vigorously for the ownership, but
was compelled to succumb to Cincinnati,
that took them at 17fc. The second bale
sold at 164 c.
The 4-4 sheeting, 7-4 shirting, and the
Osnaburgs, of the Jewell Mills, of Warren
county, Georgia, sold at 15, 13, and 17
cents, respectively ; the kerseys, of the
same mills, all wool fillings, at from 36 to
414 cents.
The five pieces of standard sheeting,
beautiful goods, exhibited by the Crus
cent Mills, of Lawrenceburg, Lawrence
county, Tennessee, sold at 17 cents.
The 4-4 Trion sheeting, of the Trion
Cotton Factory, Georgia, sold at 16]
cents.
The | Osnaburgs of tho Troup Manu
facturing Company, Georgia, went off at
214 c.
The premium plaid and striped Osna
burgs of the Sylvan Mills, Shelbyville,
Tennessee, sold at 15c and ICc. The l
and 3 sheetings, of the same mil), 124 c.
and 11c., whiic the tickings were disposed
of at 21c.
The goods of tho Bell Factory, Hunts
ville, Alabama, a large line of Osnaburgs,
cottonades, tickings, &c., were all sold,
divided between Cincinnati and Chicago-
Extra 4-4 and I ticking brought 35 and 25
cents, respectively ; the check Osnaburgs,
19 cents; plaid cottonades 2G cents,plain
Osnaburgs 194 cents. The 4-4, 7-8 and
3-4 sheetings sold at 14, 13j and 11 j cts,
respectively.
The Indian Hill Factory, of Prattvi'le,
Alabama, 4-4 and 7-8 sheetings sold at 16
and 13cent3, respectively.
A half-past twelve o’clock the last ar
ticle was knocked off, and the sale was
formally closed.
WHAT HAS BEEN ACCOMPLISHED.
This has closed one of the greatest
events connected with the business history
of the city. It has secured the concentra
tion of forces hitherto acting independent
ly ana remotely; the organization of our
active business talent in such manner as to
tell perceptibly upon the future commerce
of the city. It has brought us in contact
with the people of the great South, with
whom we are to deal, and to whom we are
to look, to a great extent, tor our future
growth ‘and prosperity. It has demon
started to us that we can provide much
more largely for ourselves than we have
ever done ; it has brought many obscure
but skillful manufactures into tho full light
of a great commercial centre, and laid the
foundations for them of future trade aud
fortune. It has given us some idea of
what we may become by the diligent use
of tho means with which a kind Providence
has abundantly supplied us. It has
taught us what may be accomplished by a
very few men, animated by a desire to
promote the common good, and determin
ed ■ to proceed in the prosecution of the
work. It has stirred the bus ness inter
ests of the city to the foundation, and
awakened a spirit among our merchants
that will greatly aid us in going in to
possess the land that shall. be opened to
us by the completion of opr great Southern
Railroad. The gentlemen who have been
instrumental in bringing about these happy
results have labored hard, but they have
achieved great results, and have made an
impression on the city that «iH go down
with i. to all time.
Ybe Truth from a Radical,
There is much truth in the oomments of
the Gazette upon the recent Tennessee
election. That paper says :
The Democracy will probably have a
large working majority in each branch of
the Legislature, aod doubtless will topple
over a good deal of the work which has
been done during the period of the Brown
,low ascendancy. The present condition of
affairs in Tennessee, unfortunate as it
doubtless is in many respects, is due to the
incompetent management of the weak men
to whom the Republican party of that
State gave power and influence. The re
turns indicate that E nerson Etheridge
has been elected to the Senate, and J. B.
Brownlow, Parson Brownlow's son, who
ran as a “Ben(er”candidate for the Senate,
defeated. Etheridge has the ability an l
the will to make legislative business lively
for all parties. .Moreover it is hinted that
he is an aspirant for the position of United
States Senator. It is understood that
Ex-President Johnson is also of the will
ing ones. There never wa.s any love l ist
between these two men, and it they now
come into rivalry the contest will be fierce
and bitter. The conduct of tho campaign
by Gov. Senter has developed one ol me
weaknesses of the Constitution of the
State, which very likely, now that trio pow
er has passed from their hand.-, the Be
publicans wili not be unwilling to have cut
out.
The Crobs.— Our friends in the coun
try will do a great favor to the public by
sending brief reports of the growing crop
for publication in the Chronicle & Sen
tinel. We want our friends in this Dis
trict to keep us fully posted.
The Caterpillar.— One of our Burke
county subscribers sent us by mail last
evening a specimen of the “veritable cater
pillar,” found on his plantation. He says
that he heard of none before elsewhere in
the county this season, but presumes they
are general, or wiil be in a few days.
The late Rufus Lord, of New York, who
died recently, bequeathed the bulk of his
estate, valued at four millions of dollars,
to two of his brothers. Two other brothers
and a sister receive only moderate sums.
Charitable societies receive twenty thou~
g and dollars.
IOUK TKAVKLIIVH COKRKSPOSDENCE.
On the Wing, August TANARUS, 1869.
| Editors Chronicle & Sentinel:
On the morning of the 3d instant I ar
rived in Chattanooga and ,’Utup at the
Burns House, nearest the pa senger shed,
which is kept in a manner everv way satis
factory. The proprietors are clever gentle
men, attentive to their business, and
evince no ordinary taste in the management
of a first class hotel.
The grain trade, to which Chattanooga
owes its principal importance, was quite
brisk, and the demand fully up to the sup
ply. Corn was selling at ninety-five cents,
and flour from seven to eight dollars per
barrel. A quantity of apples, peaches and
melons are on the market, the latter raised
principally in Southwestern Georgia. The
town is said to be improving, new and sub
stantial buildings going up, and the pros
pect is of its becoming quite a -business
place. Situated on a never failing navigable
stream, and being the terminus of several
important railroads, I see no reason why
it should not attain a high degree of pros
perity.
The scenery around Chattanooga is quite
romantic, abounding in forests, hills and
mountains. The summit of Lookout
•Mountain appears not over a half mile
distant, but I learned it was near three
miles. A livery stable gentleman kindly
proposed to furnish me with a conveyance
to visit this sublime observatory, but I
was too unwell to accept the offer aud en
joy the feast, but hope to do so on some
future occasion. I learned there was a
good hotel ana several private boarding
houses on the mountain, with ample
accommodation for quite a number of
guests. The air is said to be cool, pure
and bracing, and highly conducive to a
healthy and vigorous flow of spirit. This,
together with the sublime scenery, are
about the principal attractions,
.Dalton, Kingston and Cartersville were
almost completely destroyed by Sherman’s
army. Every store, and nearly all the
private residences and their contents were
reduced to ashes. When those who refu
geed to save their lives and their families
from insult and outrage, returned, they
found their homes a desolation, and them
selves divested of all the means for their
restoration.
But they went to work and, as the result
of energy and perseverance truly commend
able, they have built up neat and substan
tial towns that will compare favorably with
any in the State. Cartersville is now the
county site of Bartow, and a very superb
Court House will soon be completed,which
will be quite an addition to the many
handsome buildings of the town. This is
said to be the best place to buy grain on
the State Road. The merchants were
buying and shipping quantities of wheat
which seemed to be of good quality. They
thought the market would he amply sup
plied if the price and corn prospects would
warrant it. But corn iu most places is
suffering seriously for rain, and the crop at
best must necessarily be short. It is the
general belief that farmers will make a sup
ply for home consumption, but little if any
Traveller.
Kentucky.
We copy from the Louisville Courier-
Journal the following summary of State
news:
The farmers of Woodford county have
about completed the harvest of thoir wheat
crop, and report the finest yield that has
been raised for a number of years. The
average per acre will be from twenty-five
to thirty bushels.
A. G. Roberts, Esq., of Shelbyville, has
a pig five months old that weighs 250
pounds. It is a thoroughbred Berkshire.
The Russellville Herald says of tobacco :
The reports we have from planters, in Lo
gan, and from all sections of the State, in
dicato that the growing tobacco crop is fte
most unpromising we have had for years.
It will be-short and sorry—at least such is
the tenor of our information.
Col. I. C. Trabue, of Livingston, has
raised one hundred and eighty-six pounds
of Irish potatoes from two pounds, which
he planted in the Spring. He expects to
raise another crop this year.
The prospect for a fine crop of corn tu
Madison this season is extremely flattering.
Although the SpriDg was backward, corn
is growing rapidly, and promises a heavy
yield.
Buyers of wheat on the Memphis
branch are offering $1 05 per bushel; but
farmers generally are not disposed to sell
at that, expecting to get $1 10.
An old farmer near Taylorsville, sowed
eighteen bushels of wheat and reaped from
it four hundred and twenty bushels, weigh
ing sixty-four pounds to the bushel. The
seed was of the “Alabama red.”
WHAT IS HOlNfi ON.
lowa increased its wheat fields this year
by 224,000 acres.
There are 700 acres of grapes in a single
county in Minnesota.
The sharks which frequent northern
waters are entirely harmless, and remarka
bly timid.
An emigrant westward passed through
Ohio last week on a velocipede.
Chicago is eating California plums at 10
cents apiece.
A relic speculator offers the stump of a '
segar smoked by Grant for sls.
The wheat exports from San Francisco
for July were 280,000 sacks, valued at
$500,000.
The Chollar Mining Company of San
Francisco has declared a dividend of S2OO
per share, new issue.
A Hungarian woman of 115 years has
tried to poison her family because it was
growing so large.
Killing a cat is cruelty to animals in
Montreal, and costs $lO.
Grasshoppers are at last utilized. “lowa
is teaming with grasshoppers.” says a
paper of that State.
| A. crazy Indianian evinces his insanity by
buying coffins for all his friends and send
ing them on with his compliments.
General lloseerans, late United States
Minister to Mexico, arrived in San Fran
cisco on Wednesday, and was serenaded by
the Young Men’s Democratic Club,
The nautical instrument store of F. W.
Lincoln, Jr., was robbed in Boston pn
'i hursday night of money, watches and
marine glasses, valued at $1,500.
A barber named William Sehupkezel,
living in Muscontah, 11)., was brutally
‘ murdered in a saloon on Wednesday after
' noon by Henry Galth, a butcher,
j Eugene Carr, fireman on the Boston and
! Maine llailroad, had both his legs crushed
1 od Thursday, in attempting to get on the
j engine while it was in motion. Ho will
probably die. •
The Chicago Ecclesiastical Court met on
Thursday. A long protest against the ac
tion of Judge Jameson was read and adopt
ed. The Court then adjourned until
September.
A Detroit woman carefully took off hor
bonnet so as not to get it wet when she
drowned herself, which she then proceeded
to do.
Wheelbarrows have come down to us
through six centuries, and have hardly
experienced an improvement since the first
invention.
The Indians used to get large quantities
of lead in Wabashaw county, Minnesota,
hut the strictest search has failed to reveal
to white men the whereabouts ol the mines.
A Cpuple of Frenchmen, unused to the
customs of the place, actually brought a
case ol livery-stible extortion before the
Saratoga Courts, and won their case.
An Illinois woman had her husband ar
rested a few days ago for whipping her.
He was find $3, and the woman claimed
half of the fine for informing on her hus
band.
Information in regard to tbs crqps in
North Missouri is to the effect that the
farmers in that section have secured the
largest yield of wheat ever harvested there.
A conundrum has been spoiled by a
baby elephant in lowa. The little beast,
so we are assured, wandered away and
climed a tree, from which it was only re
covered by cutting down the tree. And
now wby is a hog like an elephant?
A man in Michigan who had the mis
fortune to have a finger crushed by a cider
mill decided upon amputation. This he
accomplished by holding a chisel on .he
maimed fiDger while a neighbor gave it a
blow with a mallet.
M. Louis Ulbach thinks Louis Na
poleon’s moustache a mark of weakness,
aDd in general he thinks this ornament is
worn to conceal the weakeJnets that would
be apparent if the upper lip were allowed
to be seen.
Three United Slates steamers have been
ordered to assist Marshal Barlow in his
detention of the Spanish gunboats recently
seized by him, on the plea that they were
intended operate against Peru.
The National Convention of Ecuador
has declared that Kepublic in a state of
war.