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About Weekly chronicle & sentinel. (Augusta, Ga.) 1866-1877 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 11, 1872)
S, ’ "" OLD SERIES—VOL. LXXIX (Ojronirlc anb £mtind. Terms of Subscription. DAILY. One menu. * J <*> Three months f ■*! One year 10 00 TUI-WEEKLY. One year * {** Hix Months * •*> WEEKLY. Hii month* } f|f) Cm# year ** 00 WEDNESDAY BEPTEM HER 11 A CALL FOB BULLOCK. - The New York Tribune calls upon Bullock to face the music, to come out from umler-liis Toronto hat; butspeaks of Bullock as the late Governor. Bul lock is not dead, but sleeps gently under the royal arms in her Britanic Majesty’s dominion of Canada, at the Queen’s Hotel, Toronto. At least, is the last place from which ho hits been heard since ho had caused to be written his Grant manifesto for the New York Times. The Tribune says : “The late Gov. Bul lock seems to imagine that he has some sort of controversy with Horace Greeley, which is a mistake. Having resigned his Governorship and fled from Geor gia, her authorities desire his presence and his testimony with regard to certain issues and endorsements of bonds by him- said bonds being, in their judg ment, the grossest frauds. Now, let Mr. B. face those authorities and square his accounts with the Btate before he gets into trouble with any onoelse. Face the music, Governor !” (IIUNT’H FBI ENDS 1111* FOB THE HOUTII. A few of our Democratic friends af firm that they can see no difference be tween Grant and Greeley, and declare that as for themselves and their house holds they put their faith in the eternal principles of true Democracy, though it should result in the defeat of Horace Greeley and the re-election of Ulysses B. Grant. They say that if Grant even did wrong to the South, Horace Gree ley and the New York Tribune made him do so- forced him to do so ; and that to-day President Grant is the better friend to the Southern people. Certainly, U. B. Grant, President, wields a power greater than Horace Greeley, editor, us tire Government is a greater power than the Tribune. This is a strange confession of the weakness—tlio in tellectual and moral weakness—of the in cumbent of the Presidential Chair. With all tlio prestige of military renown, hav ing, at his command, the army and navy and treasury, and official patronago of tlio Government of the United States, it makes tho President subordinate and inferiorto and a subject of tlio white hat philosopher of the Tribune. Bo weak, so inferior, is he, by the representation of his friends, as to place him so much under control that lie cannot forbear doing wrong, is not free enough to do right. If this bo so, and our “Straight” friends work out tho election of Grant, and tlio defeat of Greeley, it does not appear that Grant can escape the terrible influence of Greeley and tho Tribune , and wo should still have tho philosopher of tho whito hat forcing the President of the United States, against his will and with all his power, to do wrong; to ask for an increase of tho army to put down South ern Kn-Klux, to arrest Southern citizens by Federal bayonets, to declare again officially in a solemn message to Con gress that neither life, liberty nor prop erty, are safe in the South. Grant’s friendship for tho South may be very great—if it is, its exercise is con lined to private channels. Tho public exhibition has been extremely unfortu nate, and has wrought out immenso injury to the Southern people. His Ku-Klux message, in which ho formally, mid under the Hanot, ion of an official oath, declared that neither life, lib erty nor property is safe in tlio South, is the first tiling thrown in the teeth of any unfortunate Southerner struggling to rise from the losses by war, who seeks credit at the hands of Northern capitalists, to move Southern produce, or to assist in Southern enterprise. Ask Wall Street and Wall Street replies : You must submit to an extra shave—wo cannot lend you money or buy your se curities at the same rate as wo would lend money at the North or pur chase Northern securities—we must have something for the risk. President Grant has formally and officially declared that property is not safe at the South. Offer Southern land to a Northern im migrant, and the lirst question ho puts is, how about the Ku-Klux ? President Grant says that Ku-Klux abound, and that neither life nor liberty is safe in the South. If to aid the Northern Shylocksto ex tract usury to the extent of one-fourth or one-third or one-half, is friendship, Gen. Grant has been a friend to the South. If to check the flow of capital South, and consequently depress the prices of cotton, is friendship, Gen eral Grant is a good friend of the South. If to arrest Southern citizens as Ku-Klux, and to send them to Elmira and Albany and other Northern prisons, to work with shaved heads and in striped jackets, .s friendship, then President Grant is a good friend to the South. If to call for on in crease of the army of the United States, to regulate the ballot box in the Southern States as au act of liberty, General Grant is a good friend to the South, and a stanch supporter of life, liberty and property in the South. l>ut we must confess that we can t see the frieudshp. Nor do we appreciate that friendship which waits upon a Cincinnati Convention to extend amnesty, and only investigates through espionage the propriety of extending clemency to the ill-starred natives of North and South Carolina, now in chains in Northern prisons, when Horace Greeley and % the Now York Tribune thunders in his rear. \\ lI.VT W OP Ll' UK TIIR RESULT OK Gil ANT'S DEFEAT? Forney, in a late issue of the Philadel phia /V.-w, dismisses the question which serves us a caption. We reproduce Forney's article as an aid to some of our Georgia Democrats who can see no difference between Grant and Greeley— not that the article exhausts the subject or by any means covers the ground ; but it confesses and proves, wo think, con clusively that there will be vast differ ence in the result of the present politi cal contest. There is one great result which would follow upon the defeat of Grant, the military hero of the war, which Forney omits altogether, and this is, it would make an end of the war and of war measures, and this would give a j rebound in prosperity which few dream j of. We do not propose, however, to discuss the question, but to let our Radical friend enlighten onr Straights : There is nothing to be gained by eith er party abusing its rival candidate for the Presidency. The people are as weary of personal politics as they are disgust ed with personal political rule. Intel ligent men will no longer bo influenced by the first or controlled in their action by the last. The people now look for other results from the success or defeat of parties than the mere elevation of men to power; and, therefore, in pon dering the platforms of contending par ties in the pending political struggle meu look for results of a practical char acter for good or evil to follow tho ex- ercise of the privilege of the elective franchise. In reality there is no prin ciple involved in the contest for Presi dent but that of good government. The jieople, in peace and war, have decided , favorably on all the great issues which , divided parties fifteen years ago—nay, i which divided them twenty years ago so that to-dav it is well understood all i over the land just what is approved and i disapproved bv the governing classes of the country. The question of protection i is well and firmly settled; that of finance i is judiciously arranged; that of internal improvements is fixed, as are all other issues of governmental policy, so that all which now remains to l>e done is to perpetuate the rule of right and secure the policy which has made us what we are to-il'ay—the most prosperous and powerful people on tho earth. The question, then, is, shall all this be changed ? Shall the good that has been done ho reversed in defeating the still greater good to he accomplished by con tinuing the rule of the Republican par ty ? These are tho issues which now really and only divide parties. The first resnlt of the defeat of the Republican party would bo to restore tho State Bights Democracy, which would he practically to put us hack whero Bu chanan left us wlion lie went out of power—with a nnmber of States seceded from tho Union, a rebel army, in tho field, with our navy yards and arsenals robbed, with tho State Courts at war with tho judicial authority of the land, with values impaired, credit ruined, and general bankruptcy staring us in the faco on all sides. The defeat of the Re publican party at this time would of courso be followed by a change. Goneral Grant is carrying out the idea of a strietly economical government. He is collecting the revenues and sternly ap plying them to a reduction of the na tional debt; ho is enforcing tho law in tho lately revolted States, and he has given peace and prosperity to the coun try. Now, wliat can wo accomplish by changing all this ? What is there on tho platform on which Mr. Greeley stands to insure a greater benefit to labor and more security for the creditors of tho country than that which it enjoys at the present hour ? A change of men would of course involve a chango of policy as tlio political situation now presents it self, and we therefore look to the defeat of the Republican party as the signal which is to ring tho death-knell not only of national life, but of all commercial and financial wealth and security. Tho American people cannot progress as they have done if ruled by a weak man’s van ity, and a corrupt, factious press. To change the governing powers now would lie to abolish overy influence of politi cal good by which we are surrounded. Horace Greeley claims election on tho ground lie will pursue a different policy from that carried out by Grant. Ho insists that a chango is essential, and tlio party which has adopted him as its candidate will work that change—tho policy which it failed to secure in rebel lion. There can be nothing plainer than this as a matter of fact—nothing more reasonable as a logical conclusion. BULLOCK S FINANCIER A GRANT MAN. The New York World submits to the public documentary proof that Mr. Henry Clows, Treasurer of tho Now York Grant Committee, Financial agent of tlio United States, Bullock’s Finan cial agent “to place” fraudulent Geor gia State aid bonds in tho money cou tres of Now York, Loudon, • and Frank fort on tho Maino, renounced his allegi ance to Queen Victoria, December 27th, 1851, and although entitled, omitted to perfect his naturalization in 1860, dis creetly postponing to do so until May Bth, 1865, twelve days after Joe John ston’s surrender. Os courso Grant and Bullock’s financial agent enjoyed all tho privileges and immunities of an alien British subject during the war, not becoming a loyal Union-loving citizen of the United Stiitos until tho conflict was over. Clews is now, evidently, a prudent, careful greenback, loyal Grant .man that dislikes war, but worships war men. Whew ! Bullock is a Grant man and Clows is a Grant man—all distin guished “financiers /" Tlioro is evi dently a big gift enterprise to be de veloped by these enterprising “devel opors,” or some Stato aid bonds to bo financiered. THE KU-KLUX DODGE REVIVED. Tho Grant organs aro attempting to revivo Ku-Klux outragos to fire tho Northern heart. The Washington Chron icle and tho Cincinnati Gazette affect to give “an interesting report to tho De partment of Justico,” made attractive in head linos of largo capitals to tlio taste of their readors in tho following torms : “Revolting and Sickening Details —Mur- der, Incendiarism and Femalo Violation — . Newly Committed Outrages—A Deplora ble Stato of Society”—professing to bo compiled from official reports from offi cers detailed by tho “Hon.” Goorge H. Williams, Attorney Goneral, to investi gate tlio workings of tho Ku-Klux Kffm in tlio Southern States, which have been received and filed with the Department i of Justice in Washington City. It is said by those journals that theso reports 1 —made to order and upon ordor, with formula furnished—“show to what ex tout theso bold, bad men are going to defeat Grant for tho Presiden cy, and the objects thoy have in so do ing, even to tho fanning into too tho embers of the late rebellion.” Tlio dis tinguished gentleman from Oregon, who is tho successor of tho late lamented Akerman, doubtless desires to retain his post. Nothing short of Ku-Klux out ragos, which would “fan into flame the embers of the late rebellion,” it seems, will avail. Should Grant be defeated, the incumbent of tho Department of Justice retires to tho wilds of Oregon. A Morgan that will hold good until after the election is all that is desired, and lies,well told and officially sworn to, make up the atrocious effigy which are to frighten dupes into loyal adherents and effective voters. The. first of the diabolical outrages with which the readers of these journals are regaledjis the murder of a negro, in March, 1872, at Linton, Georgia, by a man named Thompson, who coveted the negro’s wife. Thompsons are numer ous. Which of tho Thompson family is the Ku-Klux ? In which of tho fifty eiglit thousand square miles of Georgia does he reside ? Where is Liuton, -the scene of this diabolical outrage by the lascivious Thompson ? The legitimate deduction of this startling outrage is that the Ku-Klux Klan, of which this Thompson is the leader, has been organ ized to aid each other in stealing the wives of the “wards of the nation therefore, Grant out to be re-elected to prevent the lascivious Klan of Thomp son from stealing the wives of the “wards of the nation.” If the Gazette will point out tho veritable Thompson who did commit this heinous offense, we undertake to guaranty that Thompson shall have a fair trial before a jury of real,simon-pure, Alpeoria Grant men, for this great of fense against the laws of the United States and the Radical party ; and, i upon conviction, to suffer sneh condign [ punishment as in the judgment of Mr. j George 11. Williams, Attorney-General of I the United States, should be inflicted j upon one who has been guilty of steal j mg the wife of a ward of the nation, and of committing murder to effect his I nefarious object. Thompson is a vil i lain, and bis Klan is villainous—but is i Thompson’s villainy a forcible argument for Grant’s re-election ? Again, the jury system of Georgia is denounced, because “ the names of Re publicans, white and colored, are care fully excluded, apd there is never a Republican on the grand jury.” As suming the statement to be true (in which there is no truth) who devised the jury system? Republicans. Who inaugurated the reconstructed Repub- licaus? Wliat judges preside over the administration of justice ? Bul lock’s appointees; and Bullock, although a fngitive from justice, is a loyal Grant man, and, through the columns of the New York Times, affirms that Grant is tho only man that can save the country, since he (Governor Bullock) has re tired from public service into the Dominion of Canada because of little unpleasantness between him and Geor gia Democrats on account of his admin istration of the public funds. This interesting report, “ as furnished by the Cincinnati Gazette , present out rages of like nature in Mississippi and i Arkansas very harrowing and diabolical. It is not affirmed that the Klan is in existence, but it is af firmed that the Klan is to bo reorganized and vote for Greeley ; and that “every Radical, white or black, will l>c notified a month before tlio election to vote for Greeley, and that there would bo enough at the polls” “to seo that they do as they aro told.’ Verily, there is but little oliance, if this formidable Klan are to control matters, for the election of any one but tho old farmer of Chappaqua on the ides of November noxt. Very naturally these organs concludo that there is “ a doplorable state of socioty in many parts of the South,” if not throughout tho South, except in South Carolina and Louisiana, whore tho Winchester Rifle is the law and Pinchback rules. A PROTECTORATE FOR MEXICO. There is an under current of publio opinion at the North which begins to find its way to the snrface through tho publio journals favoring a protectorate for our ill-starred sister Republic— Mexico. Louis Napoleon’s effort during our late Confederate wai; to convert Mexico into an Empire, with the late unfortunate Maximilian as the head of a royal dynasty, thoroughly aroused Northern sentiment to the liability of such ovont, and tho possibility that the confines of our Great American Re public might bo limited by a vigorous roy al power which would suffer no encroach ment. Os course our land-lovingpublic cannot tolerate such a possibility. ’We, tho peoplo of the United States, will novor permit tho rich mines and fertile valleys to become tho proporty, either directly or indirectly, of any European potentate or power. In due time these must become the possessions of the Great American Republic part and parcel of the American Union, anil pre served under some form of government, to be civilizod and utilized by American genius and enterprise. This is mani fest destiny. Tho death of Juarez, tho lato President of Mexico, who attained and maintained his seat in the Presi dential Chair in the city of Montezuiuas, through aid and support of the Gov ernment of tho United States, again reawakons anxiety concerning tho fate of tho Mexican Republic, so long a prey to faction and a scandal to all Republics. There is somo promise of avoiding tho usual concomitant of Mexican elections— a civil war, in tho name of God and Liberty—by tlio eloction of Lcrdo de Tejada. But tho prospect is not assur ing ; and already wo see somo of the organs of tho Administration suggesting a joint military occupation by Brazil and tlio United States of Mexican terri tory to repress effectually disorder and turbulonco until such time as tho Mexi cans may become trained Republicans, or be brought under tho stars and stripes; and calling upon President Grant and his Cabinot to give tho con dition of Mexico thoir earnest considera tion. CAMERON DENOUNCES CURTIN. lie Says the Ex-Governor Will Go for Greeley—The Administration Has no Use for Curtin—Cameron Will Baulk his Senatorial Aspirations. | Washington (August SO) Dlspatoh to tho Philadelphia Proas—Adm.] Gonoral Cameron arrived lato last even ing, accompanied by tho following gen tlemen, composing a delegation to con sult with tho President and otlior mem bers of tho Administration with regard to tho October election in Pennsylvania: Georgo 11. Smith, momber of tho Legis lature ; John Lamon, ox-Chiof of tlio Detective Polico Force of Philadelphia ; Win. Elliott and Charles A. Porter, members of tho Legislature; Charles O’Neill, and Gen. H. H. Bingham, Post master. NOT NEWSPAPER READERS. Unfortunately for Gen. Cameron and his friends tho President left on the < Now York train last evening for Long Branch, and when they reached the Whito Houso this morning tho only per son present to recoivo them was General Dent. There was no little indignation at the disappointment. The trouble is the Cameron party do not appear to road tho papers, othorwiso thoy might have learned before starting that the Presi dent would leavo for Long Branch last evening. « RAIDING JIIB DEPARTMENTS. At all events they made tho best of their time, and concluded, iu the ab senco of the President, to make a raid upon tho heads of tho departments and tho bureau officers, as well as tho mom bers of tho National Republican Con gressional Committee. Carriages were ordered at an early hour, and as soon as the departments wore opened they wore invaded. down wrrn forney and ai,l offosed to TIIB RING. Denunciation of Colonel Forney was always in order, and whenever the party had leisure they indulged in this past time. It must be said, in justice to General Bingham and Charles O’Neill, that they did not keep company with the ex-detectives nor members of the Legislature, but kept aloof, nor did they join in the general denunciation of Col. forney. A VALUELESS ornnoN. Cameron expressed the opinion that Governor Curtin would go for Greeley. His argument was that there was noth-, iug else left for Curtin. Ho could ob tain nothing iu the Stale, and had no more political status thau Forney or McClure. In fact, they were both in the same box. ANOTHER OATH TAKEN. The old man repeated -his assertions, made for the first time at a dinner given hero by Col. Foruey last Spring, whereat Cameron was a guest, that so long as he (Cameron) lived, lie wonld be damned if Curtin ever held any office of honor or trust, either State or national. Came ron says tliero is nothing left for Curtin but to go for Greeley. According to him, the Administration does not want the services of the great War Governor iu this contest. BETTING WITH TREASURY MONEY. The Cameron party made bets that Philadelphia alone would give 12,000 majority for Hartranft, anil admitted that the ring candidate for Governor would run beliind his ticket by making bets that the other members of the ticket would carry Philadelphia by a majority of 15,000. 1 THE LAST RESOLVE. General Cameron stated to-day that he was not a candidate for United States Senator, but he intended to see that neither Curtin, Forney, nor McClure got it. Rust and Caterpillar. —Both these pests of tho cotton farmer are upon us. The rust is not likely to seriotffiy dam age the crop in this "seotion unless it be in late cotton. The caterpillar works with such fearful rapidity that there is uo telling what damage it may do. Lovick Travis reports that they are eating his up terrible fast. Ben Lockett tells that it will cut off his crop ono half. There is no doubt but what the plague is general in Georgia, and that it will seriously diminish the crop. —Griffin Star. Gloomy Cotton Prospect in Thomas County. —A correspondent of the Sa vannah Hews writes from Cairo, Thomas county; AUGUSTA, GA., WEDNESDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 11, 1572. RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE. A glorious revival is in progress at a Methodist Church in Laurens county. Seventeen have joined the church. A revival is in progress at the Metho dist Church in Newnan. The member ship, in part, has been revived, and four teen or fifteen persons have joined the church. I The religious revival in Marietta is still going on. Some thirty conversions are reported. The meetings for the past week havo been hold at the Presbyterian Church. Rev. T. J. Gumming, for many years tho beloved pastor of Olioopee Baptist Church, in Washington county, has ten dered his resignation,to take effect atjthe close of the year. Rev. James R. Wood reports an oxool lent meeting at Nail’s Creok Church, in Jefferson county. This church was con stituted some timo last year. At tho re cent meeting five candidates for baptism wore received. Rev. Air. Baker reports the most in teresting meeting in tho. Methodist Church in Irwinton that ho has wit nessed since the war. Up to tho time he left eight had joined the church and the meeting was still continuing. A confirmation oeremony was held in tho Jewish Synagogue at Athens, on the 14th inst., on the occasion of a young Israelite, thirteen years of age, becom ing a member of the Hebrew Church. Tho proceedings wore very interesting. Tho Sandersville Herald reports that a meeting of much interest closed at Ohoopee Church, in Washington county, on Thursday last. The additions to the church were not large, but the profound religious feeling prevailing with church and peoplo gave ovidenco of soed sown in good soil, that will produce fruit in days to come. The Wrightsville Circnit, in Johnson county, is reported in a prosperous con dition. At a mooting commenced on the socond Sunday in August, conducted by Revs. Walker, Bush, Webb, Walters and Red, for ono week, 32 persons united with the church. A glorious meeting was held on the Sunday succeeding, at Mason’s Bridge, with several at tho al tar for prayer. A Precocious Colored Girl. —The Wilmington (N. 0.) Post, tells of a prodigy in tho form of a colored girl, only six years old, who roads from the Bible the most difficult passages with a pronunciation almost perfect, and re peats selections from Watts’ Hymns with great fluency, and also remembers dis tinctly when she was christened, which was at three years of age. Smart “gal,” that. Against Close Communion. The Baptist Union advises tho admission of Christians of other sects to the com munion table in opposition to tho old rule in that denomination. It says : “Mere love of soot and denominational zeal aro rapidly losing thoir hold on tho Christian publio,” which, if true of tho Baptist sect, speaks more highly for its enlightenment and true Christianity than could well be said in other lan guage. Itev. Dr. Jeter in England.— Rov. Dr. Jeter, of Richmond, Va., accom panied by Iris wife, arrived at Liverpool on tho Ist of August. From Liverpool Dr. Jeter proceeded to Loudon, where ho found that tlio “ Particular Baptists” had already mloptod a missionary to Romo, and were appealing to the public for $30,000 to build a houso of worship thore. Dr. Jeter hoped, however, to got funds in that field. Bigamy in India. —The English au thorities of Madras proposo to mako it unlawful for a married Christian to ohango his religion. An English mem ber of tho bar tlioro pretondod to be come a oonvort to Mohammedanism, and at onoo gave his Christian wife the company of a liarom of dusky beauties. She naturally oomplained, but tho law could do nothing. Tho ploa of a ohange of religion was a bar to all oriminal prosecution. Church Seats on Pivots.— An anoma lous gonius, who vibrates between Troy and North Adams, is responsible for tho uniquo idea that tho seats of our cliurchos bo arranged on pivots, so that tho devotional portion of tho congrega tions who enter church at a seasonable hour may more conveniently turn around and examine the elaborate toilettes and decorations of the late comers, whoso entry fifteen or twenty minutes after service has commenced is apparently de signed to be speotaoular, and attract the notice and admiration of the andionce,, in utter disregard of the annoyance it oc casions tho minister. Camp-Mebing Busies m Out West.— They have at Urbana, Ohio, the “na tional camp-meeting” of someone of the half-dozen Methodist Churches. On Wednesday a contribution was being raised for some purpose, when a negro gave his silver watch. The watch was immediately sold at auction for SIOO. This started tho blaze, and tho faithful began to strip off their jewelry and per sonal valuables. A Mrs. Uhder, of Ma rion, Ohio, passed up to the altar her solitaire diamond ring, another gavo her ear-rings, another her bracelets, another her Geneva watch. Tho gentlemen, on the whole, were poorer, or else more dis creet, and aro only credited with a pair of sleeve buttons and a Mexican dollar. The amount of these offerings wore reckoned at $1,50° The brother who had the affair in charge very honestly offered to return privately anything that had been given in excitement, and wu have not yet learned how extensive the reimbursements were. Baptist Church in North Carolina. 1 —The Baptist Church in North Carolina which numbered only 7,000 in 1790, now lias 100,000 communicants in that State, or one to every twelve out of tho entiro population. This is more than all the other denominations eau show put to gether ; the Epicopalians counting only 3,300 communicants, tho Quakers 8,623, the Presbyterians 14,264, the Disciples 3,475, the Free Will Baptist 3,300, and the Methodist 60,000. The colored pop ulation are chiefly Baptist or Methodist. The first Baptist church in North Caro lina was organized at Shiloh, Camden county, in 1727, by ono Paul Palmer, a Marylander, who was baptised in Dele ware by Owen Thomas. Thomas was a Welshman, who emigrated to America in 1701. Thus the North Carolina Baptists trace their history, not through Roger Williams, but through the Welsh Bap tists. A Mysterious Corpsb —A Woman’s Skeleton Found in. the Woods.— A Cave Spring correspondent writes the follow ing to the Rome Commercial: During tho first part of the past week, there was found a skeleton of a woman in Polk county, three miles from Cedar Town, on the Cartersville Road, and about one hundred- and fifty yards east of said road. She had greenback money in her pocket-book, too rotten to tell the amount; two rings on one finger. All her teeth were in her mouth; supposed to be a young woman by that. Her skull was broken in two places. No clue as to identity. The prevailing opinion is that sho was brought there from a dis tance and murdered without her friends and relatives knowing anything of her whereabouts. She was evidently killed late in the Spring. The woods had been burned iu the Spring, and would have burnt her clothing, which was not even scorched. LETTER FROM TALIAFERRO. Death of an Old Citizen—Religious Re vivals—Cotton Prospects. Ciiawfordville, Ga., } August 30, 1872. i Messrs. Editors Atlanta Sun : Our entire community wore a sad and melancholy aspect to-day. The stores are all closed, and general business sus pended. This is in respect and regard for Major John Hammock, who died yesterday, after a painful illness of sev eral weeks. He was ono of tho oldest, as well as one of the most esteemed citizens of the town and countv. He had nearly reach ed his 81st year, but was unusually ac tive in body and mind for one of his age until seized by tho last malady—the dropsy. . The' ceremony of his funorol and buri al to-day was tho most imposing and impressive of any of the kind ever before witnessed in this place. A long proces sion of the Masons, headed by the voner able. Worshipful Master, Singleton Harris, and the Sunday school children, conducted by their teachers, with the large following concourse of others, black and white, numbering in all over five hundred, attosted the appreciation in which his virtues were held by those who knew him. He was born tho 7th of September, 1791, within a few miles of whore this village now stands. Then the whole country was but a pioneer settlement. His life was spent in the same vioinitr. For upwards of forty years he was aioal ous membor of the Baptist ohurcli, and, until his last affliotiou, he was an active leador in the Sunday school. He died in the assuranoe of a blessed immortal ity. Peace to his ashes, and honor to his memory ! religious revivals. Other incidents added to the solemni ty of the day, giving it the appearance of a Sabbath. The services in Bird’s Chapel (th# now Methodist Church) which had been going on for several days under tho ministratipn of Rev. Alien Thomasand.Bev. Luther M. Smith,D.D., wore brought to a close with tho addi tion of ten Hew mombers. These make about fifty-five additions to the churches m this place (Baptist and Methodist)* 1 within the last four weeks. rust in cotton. As to other items of news there is nothing of special interest in this locali-' ty, except that tho rust has made its ap pearance in the cotton on several planta tions, and serious apprehensions are felt that it will greatly damage tho crop prospect. Taliaferro. • [From tlio Atlanta San.] The Terms of Office of State Officials. As this is a matter of publio interest and general importance, wo append be low a synopsis of the bill passed by the Legislature at its recent session, defining the terms of office of the several State < officials. GOVERNOR. The offioo of Governor shall begin on tlio Ist of January, 1873, and expire on the Ist of January, 1877, being a term of four years. SENATORS AND REPRESENTATIVES, The term of offioo of tho Senators elected at tlie ensuing election will be gin on tho Ist of January, 1873, and ex pire in four years thereafter—on Ist January, 1877. The torm of office of Roprosontutivos will begin on tho Ist January, 1873, and oontinuo for two years, expiring Ist January, 1875. JUDGES OF THE SUPREME COURT. The term of office of tho sucoessor to tlio Judge of the Supreme Court (now Judge McCay) appoiutod for a torm of four years iu 1868, will begin on tho Ist of January, 1873, and oxpiro in twelvo years thereafter. Tho torm of tho successor to tho Judge appoiutod in 1868, for oight yoars, will begin on Ist January, 1877, and continue for twelvo yoars. The position hero re ferred to is now occupied by Judgo Montgomery, who sucoeoded Judge Warner when ho was promoted to the Chief Justiceship. Tho torm of tlio successor of tlio Ohiof Justico will bogin on Ist January, 1881, and continue twelvo years. This posi tion is now occupied by Judgo Warnor, who sucooodod Judgo Loclirano, re signed, who also suoooodod Judgo Josopli ( E. Brown, resigned. Tho Judges hereafter to be appointed will eaoli bo rotainod for twelve yoars, ono being appointed ovory four yoars. JUDGES OF THE SUPERIOR COURT. The torms of the suooossors of Judgos of the Superior Court appointed in 1868, for four years, will bogin on Ist Janu ary, 1873, aud terminate at tho expira tion of oight years thereafter. The torms of office of tho successors of Judges appointed in 1868, for eight years, will bogin Ist January, 1877, and expire iu eight yoars thereafter—in 1885. The term of office of the present incum bents, therefore, expire on tho Ist Janu ary ensuing. ATTORNEY-GENERAL AND SOLICITORB-GHN- H BRAL. The torm of office of .the successors of tho Attorney-General and Solicitors- General, who were appointed in 1868, for four years, will begin Ist January, 1873, aud oxpire in four years—on the Ist January, 187 T. STATE HOUSE OFFICERS. The torm of officers of the successors of the present Secretary of State, Treas urer, Comptroller-General and Suveyor- Gonoral, elected in 1868, will begin Ist January, 1873, and continue for four years, expiring simultaneously with that; of Governor. ORDINARIES. , Tho torms of office of th# successors 1 to the present Ordinaries, elected in 1868, will begin Ist January, 1873, and continuo for four years. OTHER OOUftTT OFFICERS. The terms of office of the successors to the present Sheriffs, Clerks of the Su perior Court, Tax Collectors, Tax Re ceivers, Comity Treasurers, County Sur veyors and Coroners,elected in 1868, will begin Ist January, 1873, and expire Ist January, 1875, continuing only two years. The bill further provides that when ever the terms of office of Judges of the Supreme aud Superior Court shall exr piro, they shall not be deemed to oxpiro until the inauguration of a newly elect ed Governor, who shall bo empowered to make appointments to fill tho oxpirod torms. The bill furtlior provides that all offi cers shall hold their officos until their successors are qualified; and, in case of a vacancy, tho successors to any and all the previously named officos shall bo elected or appointed, as tho caso may be, for only tho remaining of that term. Instructions to Tax Collectors. ExHCtrrrvß Dhpabtmhnt, ) Stats of Ghobgia, > Atlanta, August 22, 1872.) Pursuant to section one of the act ap proved August 19th, 1872, entitled “An act to provido for tho payment of the debt due to teachers and Bohool officer# who did service under tho public school law in the year 1871," whioh authorizes the Governor, with tho assistarieo of the Comptroller General, to levy such a per centago upon tho taxable property of the State, in addition to the per centage authorized to be levied by the tax act approved 19th January, 1372, as shall replace in the Treasury all the funds appropriated by law to the support of common schools, which have been drawn out and used for other purposes, since i the 4th day of November, 1871, * * It it Ordered, That one-tenth of one per cent, be assessed and collected upon tho amount of the taxable property re turned by or assessed against each tax payer, and upon the value of all proper-, ty in the State subject to taxation ad valorem; suoh per cent, to bo assessed in addition to the four-tenths of ono per cent, assessed by Executive Order dated •25th July, 1872. (Signed) Jambs M. Smith, Governor. Madison Bell, Compt- Gen. That Stolen Biblb Returned.— The' Atlanta Constitution says Alderman Leyden, on Thursday, received per ex press from Michigan the old family Bible stolen during the war from the residence of W. Herring. It has beep out of the family eight years, and it was like greet ing an old friend to see it. It has been well kept, and even the Sunday School card and certificate of baptism, in it at the time it was carried off, were re turned. Judge Hook Not a Candidate. Augusta, Ga., August 31st, 1872. Editors Chronicle & Sentinel : I find the following in the Central Georgian, of this woek, which, in con sequence of my absence from home, was not seen by me until to-dav: Personal. —-Hon. Dudley M. Dußose, member of Congress for the Btli Congres sional District, dropped in our office on Saturday last. General Dußose seems in fine health and spirits, and is looking around Ms district as a candidate for re-election. In tho • last election Gen eral Dußose ontered the canvass with a Radical majority of nearly 8,000 against him, aud beat the race, jnd he thinks that this circumstance should have some weight with the people in seouring him the nomination a second timo. Ho has several competitors in the field—among them Gen. A. R. Wright, Col. Mathews, of Oglethorpe county, and Judge Hook, are the most prominent, and the can vass among Democrats seems likely to become lit ely and interesting. The Convention to nominate candidates for Congress meets in Augusta, on 12th September next, and our people would do well to be represented there. Now, I hare never declared myself a candidate, and am therefore not the competitor of Mr. Dußose or anybody else. It has always boon my opinion that office should neither be sought nor declined, unless a mail's oircumstanoes were such that he could not in justioeto his family hold the position. I have never hesitated to say that an eleotionto Congress would be esteemed by me as a vary gratifying compliment, yet I feared I was too poor to enjoy the honor. I dosire to say now that I am not a can didate, and that, I dare say, out of tho nnmber of able, gallant and trno men who are' before tho District as candi dates, the delegates in the Convention to assemble on the 12th prox. will make a judicious selection every way satisfac tory to the people—to which I shall say amen most heartily. Thanking those partial friends who. have talked to me on tho subject, as well as those' who suggested my name through the papers of the District, I desire to say, in conclusion, that while I am not a candi date for Congress, I hold myself ready to aid in any way in my power to move forward tho Greeley column in Georgia to a triumphant victory. Jas. S. Hook. [From the Washington Gazette.] A Little Scrap of Georgia History. From tho records of Wilkes Superior l Court, it appears that Henry Osborne, of Augusta, was Judge of the Superior Courts of Georgia in 1790. Ho diod ou St. Simon’s Island wltiia on the circuit, Novembor Ist, 1800 ; which shows that ho was Judgo for at least ten years, and that tlioro was but ono Judicial Circuit in the State at that timo. Tradition has it that he was an Irish man by birth. It is said that ho challenged Govornor James Jaokson, wont on tho field aud recoived his fire without returning it. It is also stated that ho was impeached for having ordered tho polls closed at an election earlier than allowed by law. From this it would seem that Judges had powers then of which thoy have since been shorn. From a pamphlet published by his grandson, it appears that at tlio time of Ilia death ho owned fifty thousand acres j of land in Camdonoounty; that ho owned and laid out the town of St. Mary’s, and that, by his will, dated at Augusta, No vember, 1792, ho loft all his property to | his wife Catherine during her life. She ( lived to ho nearly ono hundred years old, and died at Soottshoro in 1868. 1 After the death of Judge Osboruo she marriod a man named Fitzgorald. Sho was considered, wlion young, ono of the most elegant and accomplished women of lior (lay, and was, in eonso quonco, solootod to bo tho partner of Goneral Washington in tho dance wlion he visited Augusta, and had tho honor of presenting him with a nosegay, as boquets were then called; wliioh dfstinc tion sho considered tho groat event of hor life. A few yews since I had the pleasure of conversing with an old timo gentle man of Augusta, who spoko most rap-, turoualy of lier eloganco aud stylo ; aud only a few days sinco I mot a lady who know aud conversed with her in Scotts boro in hor latter yoars and when bod riddon. ‘ Sho represented her as taking dolight in nothing so muoli sb talking of tho groat ovent of tho nosegay presenta tion, and that sho wore out all her friends in requiring them to read every thing that had boon written about Gon. Washington and his times. The life of tnis old lady is one of the many instances of tho longevity of thoso. who havo life ostatos, with waiting and anxious hoirs growing gray with hope deferred. I also mention the fact for the benefit of life insurance agents, and charge them never again to ask mo to avail myself of tho benefits of insurauoe. It is also worthy of notice that danc ing, in those old days, must havo been looked upon more favorably than it is by many now ; and that it was one of the essential features of all grand and i state festivities. Even Washington, the loftiest, grandest, most stately and dig nified of men, considered it becoming in him, aud probably essential, that he shoiild “trip the light fanlastio tee,” and mingle in the merry danoo. How would Gen. Grant or Horace Greolay, or ‘the prospective candidate of the “Straight Outs” look threading the mazes of a modern quadrillo, or whirl ing around through the gallop olasping a fashionable maiden of modern days in his arms! Suoh a sight would destroy all ohances for success on the part of oither. Many of the finest plantations on the coast of Georgia are included in the large life estate, which seems to have been sold for the debts of the last hus band. , The grand-son, James H. Osborne, inliorited the property at the death of the old lady, and it is gratifying to know that ho is showing extraordinary liberality and generosity in its disposi tion. Historicub. Too Much Widowbmd. —An article on corpulency for the Oalaxg “Club- 1 Room” for September winds up with the following: I hare reserved for “positively the last” a story told me the other day, which proves most conclusively the utter lioartlessness with which fat peo ple aro treated. And as even my slen derest reader may now feel fatigued, I leavo the anoedoto to speak for itsolf. A Wostorn showman was exhibiting a giantoss who kept the scales in the vicinity of six hundred pounds. She was "like heavenly pastures, largo and fair,” and proved a very profitable eard. In order that those voluminous ' and profitable charms should not be so quostorod from him, the showman soour | ad a lifeinterostinthorn bymarriage. Un fortunately the bride sickonod even un to death, and a oounoil of physicians doolared her reoovory impossible. The 1 disconsolate showman wandered out of the village whore “ unmerciful disaster” had overtaken him, and loaning over a fenoe, gave wiy to a flood of tears. A sympathetic bystander, learning the cause of his grief, attempted consolation by dopiotiug what the future might have in storo for him. “ Oh,” said the psoudo widower, “that is all very well, but the thing that worries me is what I am to do now. You see she’s so big that I’m pestered to know whether I’d better coax her into a graveyard to die, or get up two expensive funerals. The caterpillars have mado their ap pearance in this section by the million. I was in a patch of cotton yesterday; I saw that thoy were eating right ahead on it. I saw but sow grown worms, yet they had eaten the top leaves so that they looked like net work. I think they will eat it out entirely in another week. Two months ago the crop was as prom ising as it was ever known in this sec tion; but it is changed now, for the rust has injured early cotton very seriously, and the boll worms have done, and are still doing, much damage to the crop. The cotton weed, where the rust did not kill it, has grown unusually large, and some farmers oomplain of their cotton rotting in the boll, owing to the wet weather. I think the rust, caterpillars, boll worms, and other disasters alto gether, will cut off the crop fully one half. A railroad brakeman in Bt. Louis near ly twisted his wife's ear off in his sleep recently. He dreamed he heard the long whistle. Some women have no momory; when they want to remember a thing they should write it down and stick it on the looking glass. THE METIS DISASTER. Bereaved Friends Claiming TUcirOw/t. A correspondent of tho New York World, writing fi'om Stoniugton, Con necticut, gives some touching incidents relating to the Metis disaster: * As I walked to the village station this afternoon, there was a little knot of men gathered around four plaiu pine boxes which lay at one cud of the platform. They were discussing tho disaster in subdued tones, and one was loaning 1 against one of the boxes. As I passed a tall, fine looking man, who was standing at one end of it with liis eyes fixed upon tho blue, sparkling waters of the Sound, turned and said, in a broken voice, “Please don’t lean on that, gentlemen. It’s no harm, I know, but in that is all that was my wife.” His lip twitohed, and slouching his hat over his eyes he turned again to that treacherous soa which ripplod so gently against tlio shore. There was a reverential pause, and the little crowd drew back, aud I saw that tho box was marked “ Mrs. W. E. Sheridan, Boston.” Her story is one of the saddest, if there aro degrees of comparison in this aorne of misory. She, with her husband, was on tho hurrioane deck, and olung to it for some time. As it fell in the trough of the soa a huge wave washed her away, loaving him safe in hiß perilous placo of safety. He hoard her call him again and again, and he plunged in to find her, but in the dark ness of the night he oould not, and hor voioe growing fainter aud fainter, warn ed him to expeot what he found the noxt morning, when hor body was picked up miles from the scene of the wreck. As I turned from this tad sight two little coffins wore brought upon the' de pot. One contained the Dody of th# little child of Mrs. Gorrard, who fast ened her two chilron to her b#il when tho raft broko np and struck out for shore. This ono was lost in the boiling surf, after beating and buffeting it till its life was gone, tossod it high upon the sands, and mercilessly spared its mother and sister. In tho other was tho corpso of Lanra Brasher, of Boston, a child five years old, connected with whoso death is a piteous talo. There > were on the propeller a mother and throe | children, ono Nannie Brashor, a lovely girl of eighteen, and the others twins of tho ago mentioned. When tho vessel fonndered these four were on the hurri cane deck, eaoh belted with a life pre server. Tho mother took one child in her arms, the daughter tho other, and hand in hand they stood upon the fragile raft when it was floated off upon tho ocean. The first sea that swept over them they .withstood, but another quick ly following boro them away. Still clasp ing each othor’s hands and clinging to tlioao thoy wore risking thoir own lives to save, they floated for somo minutes that soemod hours when a heavy spar ditrting by struck one of the children, crushing itahoad and killing it instantly. Still its proteotor clung to it till a heavier wave buried them deep in the water, aud involuntarily they elung to eaoh other for safety. Wlion it had passed both children wore gone. Then tho mothor and daughter turned to each other, but tho oxposuro told fearfully upon tho oldor woman, and in a little wliilo she know that she must die. Her daughter endeavored to onoourago her, but something more powerful than words was wanting, aud with the words “Trust tho Saviour, Fannie, ” sho yielded and her head dropped upon hor breast. Her daughter hold her in her arms for hours, ; her fast stiffening hand clutohod con vulsively in hor hair, till at length they were torn apart, and the daughter lost all consciousness. Sho had boen in the wliter eight hours when rescued aud carried to tho houso of tho Rov. A. G. Palmer, in Stoniugton, whero ono of tho infants whoso body was found was ou ooffined. A telegram brought hor broth er from Boston, who had not learned that his family was ou tho fated vossol, and whoso first oxelamation ou sooing his sister was, “Whorois motlior?" Duatii iv a Well —A Singular Case. —Mr. George Book, living noar Dun barton, in Barmvell county, South Caro lina, concluded a sow days ago to have his well cleaned out. On Saturday, the 24th ult., with the assistance o( his brother, ho iiroooodod to that duty, wlion a very offensive odor was observed issu ing from .the bottom of the well. Ho oamo out, and collooting a quantity of pino straw, throw it in tho well and sot it on fire, hoping to destroy tho dis agroeablo smell; and on tho following Tuesday ro-outerod, for tho purpose of examining what progross .he oould mako, but found, aftor proceeding but a short distance, that it was very difficult for him to breathe freely. Ho immodiatoly oamo out, but in a short time entered again, and pro ceeded but a short distanoo, wlion ho foil a lifeloss oorpso, Mr. Book’s father and Bovoral othors soon arrivod, when one of the party persisted in go ing down for the dead man, but was prevented by the others, and the unfor tunate man was taken out by ropes. A fowl was tied to a rope and let down into tho well, and before it touched tho bottom its life was extinct. Mr. Book was a hale, hoarty young man, loved and rospectcd by all who knew him, and his sudden and untime ly doath has cast a gloom over tho com munity in whioli he lived. Joseph E. Brown as a Farmer.- Governor Brown owns some vory valua ble land in Cherokee eonnty, which he has cultivated to advantage and made quite profitable to himself Before and since the wur. He turned his attention to tho eultivation of hay very soon aftor tho war, and last year his income from his hay crop alone was about SIO,OOO. This year his wheat crop will yield him about $6,000. Last Winter and Winter before last we saw very large quantities of corn forage (baled fodder and shucks) in this market for sale, which was grown on his farm in Cherokee. Last year he planted some eotton and succeeded very well with it—so woll, in deed, that it paid handsomely. This year quite a number of his noiglibors have followed his oxample, and for the first time in that soction a large amount of cotton is planted. We fear ho has sot, and they have followed, a bad ex ample.—Atlanta Sun. The Dahlonega Agricultural Col lege.-—The Hon. W. P. Price, of Dah lonega, writes as follows to tho editor of tho Gainosvillo Eagle, under date of tho 21st ult : Dear Sir— Tho North Goorgia Agri cultural College at Dahlonega has, by an arrangement botwoon the trustees of that institution and tho trustees of the State University, at Athens, become an integral part of tho State Agricultural and Mechanical Colloge of Goorgia. The details will be given to tho public in a short timo. Tho Dahlonega institution will open in January. Tho arrangement is ono overy way calculated to benefit both institutions, and I am ploasod to stato that tho most amicable feelings exist betwoen tho friends of Athens and Dahlonega. . I have the honor to remain your obe dient servant, W. P. Prick. The Arkansas, Western Tennessee and Northern Mississippi Cotton Crop. —Advices from Arkansas to the Mom phis factors state that owing to long drouth, no rain having fallen for several weeks, tho yield in Arkansas will be cut short a third, and in some sections one half. Little Bock dispatches up to the 28th confirm this news. Planters from West Tennessee and North Mississippi state that tho drouth is causing the cotton to rust and shed, and unless thov havo rain vory soon tho late ootton will be an entire failuro, and the early planting will suffer very se verely. A Onavan Caricature.— We notioe on exhibition in the office of the station house, a colored poncil caricature of tho soenes connected with the late Legisla tive investigation of broach of privilogo. Without entering into a detailed descrip tion of its features, we must acknowledge it to be the cleverest hit of the day. We advise all who desire to enjoy a little fun to go and see it. It was presented by Mat O’Brien, of Augusta, to the city police, and reflects credit upon its designer.— Atlanta Herald. ‘‘Sal/’ said one girl to another, "I’m so glad I hain't got no bean now." "Why so?” asked her companion. "Oh, I can just eat os many onions os I please r NEW SERIES—YOL. XXV—NO. :17. Senator Steadman's Law for the En couragement of Manufactures. [Special Correspondence of tho Savannah News.]' Atlanta, August 28. One of the most important and bene ficial measures passed by tlio Legisla ture at its lato session was the bill in troduced by Senator Steadman, of New ton county, for the encouragement of ! cotton and woolen manufactures iu Georgia. Tho act exempts from taxa , tion for a period of ten years all mills and factories that may bo hereafter built in tho State for the purpose of manufacturing cotton and wool, whether into cloth or yarns. The exemption includes county and municipal, as well as State taxes, and embraces the real estate, buildings, machinery and other property employed in tho business. Tho aot covers not only now enterprises, to be undertaken hereafter, but all addi tions to okistiug establishments, thi: development of oun SUPERIOR MANUFACTURING RESOURCES. The offoot of this law upon tho pros perity of the State will bo in tho highest degree bouoficial. Wo may confidently expect a largo amount of tho idle capital l of the North to be attracted thither, especially if Mr. Greeley should be elected. Thors is no reason why all tho cotton grown in Georgia should not bo manufactured upon our own soil. Fuel and labor are cheapor here than in the Northern States, and the climate is far better, while there is unsurpassed water power at Columbus and Cartorsville, sufficient to spin and weavo up ovory bale of cotton aud pound of wool wo shall ever be abl# to produce. Indood, thore is hardly a oounty north of a lino drawn from Columbus, on the Chatta hoochee, to Augusta, on tho Savannah, in which thoro is not an amplo supply of labor, fuel and water power to work up all the wool and cotton grown within thoir respective limits. All we need is capital, and this Mr. Steadman’s bill was designed to invito from more fortu nate communities. THE LAW WILL ENCOURAGE THE GROWTH OF WOOL —A DOG LAW. It is hoped that this law will havo an other good effect—to encourage the growth of wool. Efforts have been made, for several yoars past, to havo a law en acted requiring all owners* of dogs to pay a tax on tho same. A hill of this kind was introduced during the session of tlio Legislature just closed, but it found little favor among the ambitious aspirants for public honors. A local bill was passed for Brooks, Hancock and Terrell eountios, taxing tho owners of dogs in those eountios, except widows, one dollar a head, and applying the fund thus raised to educational purposes, but the Speaker of tho House failed to sign the bill before lie left tho city, and henco it goes for nothing. A general law like this, if honestly onforcod, would in crease tho production of wool a thou sand per cont. in two yoars. AN HXI'ENHIVK AND USELESS CANINE POPU LATION. It is not known how many dogs thoro are in the Stato, but allowing one to overy voter, there must be at least 220,- (XX). But put tho number at 200,000, and thu cost of maintaining thorn a day at five cents . apiece. At this rate, it would require SIO,OOO a day or $3,650,- 000 a year, to feed tho dogs in Georgia, or nearly eight times as much as is re quired to support our entire civil estab lishment. In this calculation no allowance is made for the sheep killed by thoso two hundred thousand dogs, or for other loss occasioned by them. It would bo safe to say, however, that the people of Geor gia, directly and jmlirectly, pay tho enormous sum of $4,000,000 per annum for tho privilege' of hooping as many curs as thoy want. Thoso figures, coupled with our lan guishing slioop husbandry, show how important it is that wo should have a ju dicious dog law without delay. Ono watch dog for every owner of a farm or plantation might bo allowed, on condi tion that tho owner was hold responsible for all dumago done by tho animal to his neighbors’ stock; and in certain localities dogs for the chaso might bo permitted; but upon all beyond this, a prohibition tax should be assessed and collected. A law suoh an bore indicated would lead to , an immenso increase in the production of wool, and would do more to stimu late our woolen manufactures than the act alluded to iu the first part of this letter, A TAX WOULD IMPROVE Till! DREED OF OUR DOGS. Such a law would also improve tho brood of our dogs, aud instead of tho forty thousand ours aud fico, for exam ple, which mako the night hideous in Atlanta, we should havo a sow hundred good dogs, that would hold thoir tonguos, if thoy had nothing else but tho moon to bark at. Ogeeoheb. Death op a Stranger.— Last Satur day a woman reached AthonH, aud pre sented a paper to tho Mayor and sovoral oliaritable citizens, which represented that tho boarer, Mrs. Anderson, was a widow, in needy circumstances. Tho paper was signed by Wm. Smith, Esq., Rev. Goo. Hamoll, liobort Bradshaw, John Brown, and others, who gave her from 50 cts. to $2 eaoh. Sovoral oitizens here gave her small sums. also. This Sapor was dated August 15th. On Sun ay she was taken soriously sick, at tho house of Mrs. Page, on Millodgo avenue, near the Fair Ground. She was attend ed by Dr. Jones Long, who pronounced her oase hopeless. Ho continued to at , tend hor until Tuesday, when sho died. She was deoently buried at tho expense of tho city. Ou her person was found a pdoket-book containing $4 in bills, two niokles, and some keys. In it was also a pass to the boaror, Mrs. Ida Smith, from Augusta to Columbia, sighod by Ohas. Estes, Mayor, and dated August 14th. Tho pocket-book also contained a medical prescription signed Notting ham. Sho loft at Mrs. Pago’s a bundle eontaining a dress, combs, looking glass, pair of gold spectacles and a set of false teeth. It is stated that sho gave still another namo to ladies to whom sho ap plied for assistance. She also said that a son-in-law and daughter had rocontly diod in Oglethorpo oounty, leaving several helpless ohildren. She had the appearanoe of being a worthy woman, though it seems quite mysterious that sho should pass by different names.— She was of medium size, with glossy black hair, and about 45 years of age. Her case is a sad one, 'and - elicited much sympathy from those who attended her and heard her melancholy story. Hor little effects are in the hands of Mayor Beusso, who will give all the particulars of her sickness and death to any friends who may seo this statement. —Athens Banner, 30 th ult. Cotton —Great Change for the Worse. —Six or eight weeks ago it was 1 believed that tho largest yield per acre ever known in this county would bo gatliored this Fall. About that time tho unprecedented lint weather set. in. Since then disaster lias followed disas ter until tiie crop of last year will probably not bo realized. In various parts of tho county tho caterpillar has made its appearance, and in somo lo calities has, together with the rust, stripped tho stalk of all its foliage, A gentleman, told us yesterday that on ’throe hundred and fifty acres’of eotton on his plantation, about half of it did not contain a leaf. As yet tho cater pillar has not molostod tho boll, but unprotected from the rays of the turn ing sun, tho boll is opening prematurely and no late crop appearing. Ono of our best farmers says ho never saw such complete destruction by rust in all his lifo. This early in tho season he says tho best hands should not bo able to pick more than seventy-five or one hundreds pounds per day. As an evi dence of tno unnatural maturity of the cotton, hands are able to pick from one hundred and fifty to two hundred and fifty pounds per day. On his plantation but little cotton is loft to opon horoaf tor. The samo state of things exists throughout the neighborhood. Somo favored localities in tho county have escapod thus far to a groat oxtont, but from the statement of farmers from all parts of tho county these places are few and far between. . A planter of largo oxporionoo givos it as his opinion that tho bulk of tno oot ton crop of Washington county will be in market boforo tho first of Ootobor.— Sandersville Herald. In Savannah a Singer sewing machino was decided to belong to a lady who had made several payments on it, on the ground that tho company had not proven that it was a corporate body- or that it had a charter. Tho total bonded debt of the oity of Columbus, including $63,000 ordered, but not yet issued, to tho North and South Railroad, is $644,400. All bear soven per cent, interest. Tho rovonuo of the city is about $115,000 per annum. The Gold Mines op North Carolina. —Wo arc indebted to tho Charlotte • Democrat for some interesting facts, re lating to tho gold mines of Mecklenburg county. The writer of the nrticlc—a communication—in tho Democrat men tions throe mines, two of which aro worked at present. Tho Wilson Mine, 1 belonging to a gentleman living in New Haven, is rich in the sulphurotio brown oros common in tho quartz formation of that county. The superintendent sent some of the ores to New York to be tried by fire assny. The result of tho experi ment proved the oro to bo worth $755 per ton. Tho mine lias been worked down to tho depth of five hundred feet by an inclined shaft, through which all the oro and wasto dirt from tho mine is drawn up on a railroad by means of a largo steam engine which affords amide power besides for milling purposes. But without stopping to take out tho oro, except as they cut through it with tlicir tunnels, tlio miners have been pressing on, exploring tho mine, until they havo established its permanency beyond a doubt; and it is now ono of tho best mines in tho United States. Tho McGinn Mine is situated on tho samo side of Mocklonburg county with tho Wilson Mine, and very noar tho celebrated Capps Mine, it being ono of tho veins leading from Capps Mino. This mine is also in successful operation under tho management of an intelligent California minor, who is using a stamp mill with coppor platos differently arranged and differently prepared for catching the gold from anything over used in that county, and it is understood ho is pro ducing wonderful results from it in tho way of making gold, and no doubt will bring about a groat revolution in tho mining interests of tho county. One of tho most valuable of tho Mecklenburg mines is tho old Capps Mines. It is not workod at present, though thore is no doubt a fortnno awaiting somo energetic minor. Thore have boon as sow failures in tho minos in tho Meoklenburg-Cabar rus section as thore have been in Cali fornia and Colorado. The average yield is said to be richer than that of Western minos. Tho advantage of North Caro lina over California is that wo can work our minos all tho year. Hands cost loss and provisions and wood aro nothing liko so high as in California. Chinese Converts in California.— John Chinaman lias occasioned some curious religious complications in Han Francisco. Somo members of tho Third Congregational Church had formed a class of intelligent Chinese, taught thorn the rudiments of tho English language, and also instructed them in matters of religion; and aftor awhile tho leaders of tho movement thought their pupils suffi ciently advanced to bo permitted to wor ship in the church every Sunday. This was bitterly opposed by some of tho con gregation, and wlion a vote was taken thore were iifty-two in favor and eighteen against admission. Tho minority made things so lively that tho admission of tho Chinese converts was postponed six months, and in tho meantime tho pastor, having got mixed up in tho dispute, was oompollod to resign. Tho opposing fac tions aro now left to fight it out among thomsolvos, wliilo tho poor converts, who had boon temporarily abandoned by both sides, aro loft exposed to tho enemy of souls. Narrow Gauge.— A meeting of tho Carolina Narrow Gauge Railroad Com pany was hold at Lincolnton, N. 0., on tho 27tli proximo. Chester anil York oountios of South Carolina, and Gas ton, Lincoln anil Catawba oountios, North Carolina, wore represented Tho etook, as required, was fuILC represented. Organization was com pleted by tho choice of A. H. Davega, of Chester, S. C., for President. The following nnmod gentlemen com prise tho Board of Directors, viz : B. F. Whooloy, Yorkvillo, H. C.; J. T. Hmyor, Gaston, N. 0.; W. D. Motz, Lincolton, N. O.; and A. G. Ford, Catawba, N. C. Each county’s dqlogatos wero instructed to plodgo the company to carry tho road through tho counties named. The road will bo one hundred miles in longth from Ohestor, in South Carolina, to Lincolnton, N. C., and present pros pects of completion are vory flattering. Newspaper Thrift and Enterprise.— Tho substantial Towards of journalism at tho South are ho rare that wo cannot help tondoring our hoarty congratula tions to such of our cotemporaries as win a remunerative patronago somewhat proportioned to the labor and expense essential to prodneo a first-class daily journal. Among tho loading journals in tho South which havo attained a sub stantial thrift woll deserved, tho Charles ton News ranks among tho foremost. Wo congratulate our cotcmporary upon tho erection and occnpation of a hand somo and finely arranged new office on Broad street, as tho result of pationt and woll-diroctod enterprise on tho part of tho accomplished and energotic pro prietors, Messrs. Riordan & Dawson, who havo made their journal a power in the South. Wo trust that a discrimi nating public will accord them tho full measure of success to which they aro entitled. Southern Cultivator. —This old and favorito agricultural monthly, for Sep tember, has been received, and main tains tho excellence for which it has long boon appreciated. We note that Professor W. L. Jones, who has so ably edited this periodical for tho past fivo years, has becomo solo proprietor of tlio paper, having resigned his profes sorship in tho University of Georgia in order to give his undivided attention to his journal. Tho patrons of tho Culti vator will be largely the gainers by this clinngo, and wo take pleasure in com mending this journal to all who desire a first-class homo agricultural publica tion. _ Ooletiiori'E College.— By reference to tho advertisement it will be seen that Oglethorpe Collego will open on tho first Monday in October. Tho last commencement oxercises in July aro said to havo compared favorably with those of any institution in tho country, and gave great proiniso of tho future. Tho Rev. Dr. Wills, ono of tho most learned divines and greatest pulpit orators in tlio United States, is Presi dent. Tho faculty is complete. Murder in Buciianan. — Through tho kindness of a subscriber in Bitofianan, Haralson county, we learn that Mr. Kil gore, a young Democrat, was killed on Monday by Mr. A. D. Woods. Mr. Kil gore keeps a grocery store in Buchanan, and was a young man of good character, though rather dissipated. On Monday ho loft his store with Mr, Heard, the A[ r , Gentry drew down on but ids cap snapped Mr. Woods then fired on him ; the first shot brought Kilgore to his knees; Woods then let the other barrel into him, and Kilgore fell dead. Woods and Gentry were ar rested at once and carried to jail. They stated oponly that they had accom plished what they came for, namely, to kill Kilgore. Wo could not get the motivosof tho caso. —Home Commercial 30<A ult. Joseph E. Brown, President of the* Western and Atlantic Railroad, has paid tho $25,000 monthly rental to tho State for August.
