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About Weekly chronicle & sentinel. (Augusta, Ga.) 1866-1877 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 18, 1869)
OLD SERIES, VOL. LXXVI. cLhvoniclc k JfrsttuL A.U<il HTA. GA : a IDXK4SA i iwiiia. august uT THK i;XPK i ;■*.*> KOBBKKY TJIKKK AKP.ESTB MADE. 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.
