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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.