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Newspaper Page TextTHE FLOWERS COLLECTION RGIA, TUESDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 18, 1866. n«»w strongly directed to vhich Rollers to them. It *•'«r the test of investiga- rison, and this fact of it* the ultimata triumph of the enU*rpri-e. Capital i> notoriously cautious, and just now none of our corpo rations (municipal or railroad) aro free from embarrassment* and uresiuro of ' their own. Hut the advantages of the road cun now he mndu extensively k —Hnd its merits aro such as to securo for it ilia material aid necessary for its com pletion as soon as tho circumstances of r the country improve. That it offers tho neurcst possible communication botw fcthe navigable waters of tho grout West • wnd tho Southern Atlantic coast, is now generally understood, and the knowledge of this factof itself makes tho success of the road at no very distant day “a fixed fact.” It is a question of time only. Gov. Jenlin^ whs expected to reach Augusta on Saturday last, on his return Irom the North. Tho Chronicle of that day reported an interview with a gontle- who parted with tho Governor a Washington, and learned from him that Gov. Jenkins I tad been very Mi«c« isful in securing tho object* of his visit to Now York—from which wo infer that ho has effected the financial arrangemints ho had in % iow. This is gnodfjiews. Tho Chronicle abo learns that tho Governor wn* successful nt Washington (which may be of interest to some persons seeking pardon?), and that ho "expresses groat gratification at the lone of popular fueling in tho North, and at the result' of the Philadelphia Convention. Uon. Robinson Carolina, has pr ' tho military com John II. Gee, I commanding in North uilgated the findings of i*non by which Major li commandant <•( the .Salisbury Confederate military prison, was tried. There were two charges against him violation of the laws ami custom* of wur, and murder in violation of the laws of WHi—and ho was acquitted of both. Tho commission attaches no re sponsibility to Major Geo "other than for knesfi id felaining his position when .liable to carry out tho dictates of hu- Gen. tlobinson, in approving g, taken, exception to the viow r Geo wn* **»ly to blame fur this F that clUlt 1 in California on Ilia till) ^ar* to have been for local officers spatch from San Francisco ^•eysthat tho "Unionists" (radicals) carried Vtbat city by an average majority of about 1800, that iha vote waft light, and but little interest manifested. This is much less than tho Republican majority of 1S*» 1. We learn from tho Romo Courier that Captain F. M. Coulter is engaged in ox* ploring the Coosa river between Greona- port and Wotumpka, with a viow of as certaining whether iris prac ticable to curry a new steamer over the sh. als of that roc- lion. The idea is a daring ono. The river for sixty or seventy miles above Wetump- ka is a succession of falls and rapids much like tho Chattahoochee between Columbus and West Point. An old friend and resi dent here tells us that a flat bout has coino down tho falls of tho Chattahoochee to this city, and possibly Hat boats rimy also havo descended tho Coosa to Wetuinpkn; but we supposo that no ntun over hud the boldness to attempt to take a steamboat up tho sections named of either river. is In (b .using some scheme cable ai d effective, and not liable to stitutional objections. Prominent among tho mean >s«d is a swooping Stay La' however, would hardly meet the ties of the case—it would not provide dostitute people with food, nor suiti them and their laborers and stock ui thoy could mako the next year’s cr« Besides, tho partial Stay Laws now force in tho Southern States aro consj ered of doubtful constitutionality, telling how long they will pi tqgt tho debtor. A stay of moneyed mands will not onablo those who have money, and who havo raised no pro' Ions, to buy tho necessaries of life. j\ writer in tho Macon Telegraph si gests that there is not currency enoug tho South ; that the old Ranking sys is superseded by the burthens impoi upon it by Congress ; andftkatour peo have not tho means of buying Goveil merit bond* and establishing Nalio: Banks. Therefore ho proposes that t! State issue a circulation to tho amount tun millions of dollars, and lend it to t| people upon tho pledge of their late, if such a measure could bo impar tially carried out—favoring in tho distri bution those Who are most needy, rather tbun capitalists and those able to live without such aid—it would indeed be u gr»*at measure of relief. But we believe that it would bo adjudged unconstitu tional, and that tho Federal Government would lose no lime in having it so pro- nouncod. It is a scheme of interference with tho pot National Banking system which, we believe, no so-called "loyal" ,Slate has yet resorted to, and which would hardly be allowed to States under the ban of Congressional restriction. Tho General Government has laid its *trohg arm upon tho private Banking corporations of nU ibo States, whose con stitutionality was never questioned, bo- cause they wore hold to be in tho way of the Treasury and National Bunking sys tem, and- it would not hesitate to put down a system wfioso constitutionality can bo nltuCKed with stroug plausibility. Tim qur. lion is a very embarrassing u:..', and demands prompt and earnest ieration. Wo aro not able to sug gest any plan of relief free frdtn difficul ties; but wo sincerely trust that the dis cussion now going on" will develop some practicable plan by which the real dia- tre.vs of the people may ho alleviated and ataielunco may bo rendered them in free ing themselves from tho embarrassments of the gloomy present and cheerless fu ture. Henry Ward Beecher and Ilia Con gregation. Tho New Y'ork World of the lid says: In a sermon at Plymouth Church, whose pulpit he is temporarily supplying, Kev. Or. Bui ton, of Hartford, yesterday morning indulged in some incidental lan guage, which, it waa belioved, referred to the Into masterly conservative letter of tho pastor, Mr. Henry Ward Beecher, in sup port of iho policy of tho President and the Philadelphia Convention. The text was Ecclesiastes, 4th chapter, 5th verso: "Bolter thou hudst not vowod than that thou shouldst vow and not pay.” Said Hr. Burton, whoso radicalism is of tho ino.t pronounced kind : "Let a man enter an office, pledged to a well-known set of doctrines, bo true to them for a time, and then lessen and withdraw his adherenco thereto and turn his back on his friends, if he dare, and can afford to. Ho will in evitably lose tho respect and regard of those who believed in him and thought him stable and sincere. 1 care not what bo his station, influence, or name, high or low." This was believed by many of tho "religious" Radicals, to whoso thought tho wish was lather, to be levelled at Mr. Boecher, and that hardly indiroctly. Tho unadulterated "equality" men that com* pose the bulk of the Plymouth congrega tion talk threateningly against their naw conservative pastor; and not a few agitate the assertion that if a radical change of view be not immediate on Mr. Beechor’s part, a radical change of salary, or an emigration to a less vengeful latitude will bo the alternative. Mr. Boocber rooccu* j pies his pulpit on tho 10th instaot. Lively Lum At a meeting ot tho count ;, hold in tho Co B. ». Worn!I, K q , Chair, and U. F. Walts reqii.v Secretary. Ur. J. F. Blounttli addressed the meeting, and cl initling for their adoption t! ailed I sled to .-od by, i* follow able id rcsfluli' Whereas, Atthn National l nion Con vention hold at Philadelphia on the 14th, 15th anil lfith days ul August last, an ad dress and resolutions were adopted, in tended to inaugurate a movement that will defeat tho policy of the Radical party, and thereby secure at an early day the restora tion fully of the right# of the South in tho Union, as well as also to promote the views altogether of President Johnson in refarenco to reconstruction Bo it therefore resolved, That wo adopt tho action and proceedings of said Con vention as embodied in *aid addross and resolutions. Ju.tI WirtW>m-fry *nrt then addressed tho meeting in favor ol’tho adoption of tho rosoiutio^ ^ Upon motion, it was carried that tho vote on tho resolution bi. taken by rising, when it was unanimously adopted by every citizen present rising to his feel. Upon motion, tho Secretary was quested to furnish tho Columbus Enqui and Sun, each, with a copy of tho | ceedings of this meeting. roperfy Fxempt from Sale. >r tho laws of Georgia,as they now tho following property of every , who is tho head of a family, shall empt from levy and salo by virtue y process whatever, under the laws is State ; nor shall any valid lien bo .ed thereon, but shall remain for the nd benefit of tho family of tho debt- Fifty acres of land, and five addi- 1 acros for each of his or her children r the ago of sixteen years. This land include tho dwelling hou&o, if tho 3 of such house and improvements not exceed tho Finn of two hundred urs ; provided, that nono of tho abovo 1 bo within tho limits of the city, town illago, and does not includo any col or wool factory, saw or grist mill, or other machinery propelled by water Dam, the value of which exceeds tho i of two hundred dollars; and provi- , also, that such land shall not dorivo chief valuo from other caiiao than its ptalion to agricultural purposes; oi, iou of tho abovo land, real estate in a y, town or village, not exceeding live ndred dollars in value. * Ono farm horse or mule. Ono cow and calf. Ten head of hogs and fifty dollars tb of pfovUions.and live dollars worth itional fur each child. Beds,bodding,and common bedsteads tllcient for tho family. ". Ono loom, ono spinning wheel, and 0 pair of cards,and ono hundrod pounds lint cotton. i. Common tools of trado of himsolf wife. Equipment and arms of a militia er, and a trooper’s horso. '. O.dinary cooking utonsils and table ckory. 0. Wearing apparol of himself and lily. 1. Family Bible, religious works and [hool books. [1*2. Family portraits. Tho library of a professional man, tual practice or business, not oxeoed- broo hundred dollars in valuo,and to selectod by himsolf. )t/icr Side.—A few days siuco wo pied Dr. Forbes’ostimale of the grow- g cotton crop of our Southern States, ado for tho encouragement of tho Indian ton growors; and to-day wo copy from 1 London 'Times an estimate made by agent of tho Manchester epinuors, and -Loir intorost. It will bo soon that tho mate of tho lattor is double that of tho former—each making the beet sort of a .-bowing for tho intorost to which ho is at* Uchod. Tho truth is that noithor of them has any moans of making a reliable osti- mato--they know nothing about tho crop, except au to tho number of acroa planted, and are humbugging those whom thoy address. It is at least to bo hoped that such greatly diverso reports may sorvo to convince tho foreign cotton traders of tho unreliable character of all such oarly css timales, and to vindicate tho Bouthorn planters from tho cffrepealed charge that they habitually underrate the oxtent of the crop for tho purpose of keeping up tho price of cotton. 1 ! - The American Cotton Crop. From tho Lo Mon Thaos.| Thofollp" mg letter illustrates tin* dang er of handling thosrotion question. Dr. Forbes, am Indian officer of long expert* once and t. ulious habits of observation, reports his .judgment, after vigilant per sonal imp « lkm during an oilkial tour, of tho prospects of the American crop for tho current .year. His stati monts aro per fectly definite, and it may bn added that tho late.-t r-mprls of Sou*hern correspon dents in the New .York journal#, whatever may bo worth, tend fully to confirm lniiudd atoly upon this another observer, vhd a run uiuv* that ho also has made a tour f inspection through tho very raiuo territory, unhesitating allcgos that Dr. F<#bos is entirely in error, and that tho crop may I o expected to amount to doublo Jif o-tiui.ito. In this dilemma tho trado in»:st bg1*'ft to choose their own guides. Dr. Fork-9 has » interest except to maintain a high pi’.L’iul .rnpuluation, and tho peculiar-ties o' !ho growth ol all do* seriptlons o' cotton have boon his eepocial duty. Mr, Todd, the writer of tho pro* sent letter, on tho oilier hand, is a member of II • mtntfrcial fir:.i,and hi-views should a kuTu, i ‘ also bo kefu, since thoy tho best possible sti nder Upon m journed. K. F. W Jtion, tho B. S. meeting tbon WouuiJ.i., Ch’ More Discourtesy to the President. 11Bloomington, Sept. 7. ‘2 p. in.—-Jlnro tho Frosidont, Admiral Furragut and oth ers woro introduced by Hon. John Ho gan. of Missouri, to tho largo crowd. Tim greatest possible anxiety was man is foaled to roo Gon. Grant. Loud and re pealed rails were made for him, the spoe- (at-.v* lining wild with .nxoilemont. Tho General uppoarod on the platform, and was greeted with v<>< iferous applause. When he retired tho President com- inenred speaking, hut was interrupted by renewed cheers for Grant, and a voico: "Wo don’t want tailors hunting broad and butter at. the homo of Lincoln; 1 ’ to | which Mr. Hogan replied: "All you are I afraid of is losing your bread and butter, 1 and that’s what’s the inattor.’’ Thi~ response raised a general laugh.— °* i l lie President remarked to those who li.-posed to create a disturbance that with Gon. Grant, con- on of tho States. Bo- : i..re ho could say more tho whistle • ■ '•■•<*'jied, and the train resumod its way. juiokonod by From oilhor of ordinary condi- it nothing hut coed, but cotton is the subif-ct Thair^iintjs apart from all olliora in j rovonting any two individuals from being able to agree upon points that should apparently i o as fcimplo as whothor black is black or wl ite is whilo: Sir: With reference t<> tho report of I)r. Forbi . tho Oo t<m Commissioner of •tho Indian Goverttn ut, on the American cotton cl,.- to who i you drew attention on Saturd v, I bai; :o submit a low re marks. D .ring *<’ past e volve months this country has lo i si.nu>,:0,000,0CK> on its imports of cotton, in eensoquonco of tho fallacious estimatos which were circus latod about this time last ycat of the sup ply to bo expected both front India and America; you will admit that it is desira ble that this misti he should not bo re peated this year. Those estimates woro foundod in a groat degree on official re turns. Of 11io Northwestern Provinces of India—the region which supplk ; Calcutta —tho Times’ correspondent in that city last year reported ns follows : '‘Tho Alla habad Board of Revenue has collected no* curnto information regarding tin) growing crop of cotton. Tho estimated ploduco of the crop this year is 'A. .10 mautids of HO pounds each, against. 1,<i .7,7-’>8 mounds cs» timatod, and 1,060,017 actual, l|i-t year. Not only is the aroa some f>0 per. ent. less than last year, hut the ■■•dimatod out turn is less than in at.y ol tho four yo^rs of tho American war. "Tho sudden fall mmsed by the unex pected cluso of the war ruined e<> many nativo traders, that lor tho sowinis of this year no advances were made to Ihe pea santry.’’ This add other kindred had very natural!.' ;» profound upon tho minds of all peiMius in t ton trade. The c • umption was largo and increasing,kind ii th. ?e returns woro true a groat senreity of l otlon might ho expoctod, It was not to bo worn! at that prices rail high, and that many people wore ’.omptnd lc»A.'ioir Tho follo^pg tiguies v. ill hov such roporwiiavo l an. . ilWiiied by tho result: Tho export, ol .Hon f ctfwta from tho 1st of Januoiy yil thodOth of Juno was, in lsr.0. U0-an increase of ‘200,416, or over ‘200 per instoad of thodocreu o of 50 per cent, to which tho Government returned pointed Now, lot us turn to America. Much controversy took placo last October and November on tho supply of cotton exist ing in tho Bo ii the in Elutes at the ond of tho war. Tho durr.fnl oslimatns ranged from 1,500,000 Iwle., to ‘2,000,000, whon what was called at the tiq*e a very im- portant docujr-‘- y sf“o\ given public, Tlie L'eniun Cong;reHa. Correspondence Now York Sun. I Thoy, September 0.—At the afternoon session yesterday tho following perma nent oflicors woro nppoinlod : Jas. Gib bons, of Pennsylvania, President of tho Joint Bossior.s; J. C. O’Brion, Clerk; F. G. Gallahcr, Bpenker of tho Houso. Bomo business of a secret naturo was transacted. A resolution was introduced, although not actod upon, which is intondod to ox- cludo tho press from any information whutovor. Thero aro a plonty of British spies horo and thoy soom to havo an nbun- danco of "tin.” Ono of them approached a dolegato with an offer of $10,000 in gold if ho would discloso tho proceedings of the Congress. But tho bait didn’t tako. Rumor has it that anothor invasion of Canada will tako placo boforo any moro British roinforcomonts can bo sent out. For this purpose arms and ammunition aro being smugglod ncross tho border for tho uso of Canadian Fenians and gympa- thizors. Alroady about fifty organizers aro reported to bo actively at work in tho Provinces, and in less than thruo months it is estimated that 15,000 mon will bo sworn into tho organization in Canada. Thoro is a roport also that tho Govornor Gonoral, Lord Monde, is socrotly in sym pathy with tho movoment for Irish inde pendence. Prosldont Itohurts is firm in his deter mination to resign his otUco, but ho will not relax his oll'orts in bohalf of tho causo. His resignation will bo actod upon boforo tho closo of tho Bossions of Congress, hich is oxpocted to adjourn by Friday ovoning, or B*\turdny at tho farthest. 1. Meehan, of Now Y’ork, and Generals O’Noil and Murphy aro spoken of as can didates for the succession. A largo public mooting wits hold last ovoning, at which spouchos woro made by Messrs. Gibbons, Hines and Morrison, whoso romarks woro received with much applauso. Thoro aro now over 350 dele gates in attendance on Congress. Tins Boston Post on tiik "Soutukun Loyalists.”—Tho Boston Fo&Uhus shows up tho past history of some of tho Bouth- orn ronogados who woro prominont in get ting up tho Radical Convention of tho 3d instant: Tho immaculate Boulhorn Unionists, who aro to hold a Convention in Philadol- phia next month to aid tho Radicals, aro iiko most men who pretend to bo bettor than thoir follows, often not quite as good, Blokes was a furious secessionist and robol; Jack Hamilton, tho Houston Telegraph informs us, "from 1853 to 1858, was a most violent secessionist, insisting on the recis- ion of the articles of annexation of Texas to tlm Union, and socking support for pub lic office on that platform.” Ho was thus in favor of socossion, by "soparato State action,” boforo anybody olso in tho Booth was, in consequence of Northern aggres sions upon tho institution of slavery.— About tho same timo ho was oponly and earnestly an ndvoouto of tho rooponing of the African slavo trado. And last of all, after tho war commenced, ho applied ton leading merchant in Galveston to raise a company for tho Confodorato sorviccl — Gaunt—-tho great Bouthorn Unionist and Radical orator—hold a commission in tho rebel army, and said tho way they served tho Yankees whon thoy caugnt thorn, was to hang thorn to tho first tree. Hahn hold a commission undortbo Confodorato Gov ernment, and so on. Thoro is scarcely a man among those purest who was not a secessionist sumo timo during tho rebel lion--who eilhor encouraged its com mencement, or sustained it afterward.— This could bo forgiven thorn if thoy woro not so intolerant thomsolvep, and so bra- aott in their pretensions. Southei PlULADKI.l'llIA, Bopt O.—The qilOBtU which lias boon anticipated—tho tot weakness of tho bogus Bouthorn Convoi tion—culminated this evening. A virtui split took placo. Tho address and rcsoll Lions reported in tho morning sossionha been adopted, and tho othor business lm ing beon disposed of, tho “delegation! from tho border .States, Maryland, Ko lucky, and West Virginia, desired to s euro an adjournment sine die. That m tion whs rmulo by Brownlow, of Tonne soo. It immediately created quite a stor in tho Convention, tho delegates from t! non-reconstructod Slates denouncing it a species of infidelity to thorn. Governor Hamilton, of Texas, mado strong appeal against tho adjournmoc reminding tho delegates . from tho Bord States that thoir admission waa only matter of courtesy, and charging thatth courtesy was now being badly requitod. Ho charged, also, that tho idoa which tl Marylanders had was tho desiro to avo responsibility for tho principle of impa liul suffrage which tho Gulf Slatoadcsir to incorporate in thoir address. Finally, after considerable debate, compromise was arrived nt, which v that tho Committee on thoUnroconstru od Slntes should to-morrow roport tfc platform and address; that tho dologa from those States should alono discuss voto upon them; and that such plnlfor and address should bo incorporated ai published with tho regular proceedings. This understanding having beon arrivi at, tho Convention nt 8 p. m. udjourni till 10 o’clock to-morrow. It is understood that tho Maryland ar other Border Btato "delegations” will la! no furthor part in tho procoodings. Tho "dologato” from Arkansas, liogc also rotirod on tho same ground. The Southcru Address. On the fourth day of labor, tho Ct vontion of Bouthornors in Philadclpl brought forth its address to tho poop which has boon lookod for with mu interest. In point of literary ability t address is fair, and in point of Bcntinn it is oxccrablo. Almost tho ontiro dot moot is taken up with scurrilous abuse tho President, and in it wo find si' sontoncos ns this : "Tho infatuated tyrant that stood red to crush Lis own pooplo in Tennoss' whon thoy woro struggling to maintaii Government, erected by himsolf, agui his and othor traitors’ persecutions, v ovon more eager to illustrate his suvf policy by clothing with tho most dospo power tho rioters of Now (Moans.” The addross doos not boar tho ovidor of being a fair statomont by a porsocut body of men, as its authors j)rol'o»s to 1 it sounds moro like a stump speech ir< a VVuslorn politician, who seeks to ox himsolf in tho ostimation of his nudici by outstripping all opposition in villifi tion It roads very much Iiko some Brownlow b vituperative productions, a it is just tho rovorao ol' th 0 kind of do< mont that in oa leu I a tod to cxcitosy inpat from intelligent men in tho North. M ico is m ovory lino of it. Thero is argument nor attompt at argument in from beginning to ond, and it ph* nothing except that its authors aro full spite and vindictiveness toward tho l’r ident of tho United .Stales. YVourosoi that tho moinbers of that Convention hr allowed thoir passions to overcome th judgment in this way. Tho Nortlii pooplo expected that thoy would prosen lair, candid and dignified recital of th alloged wrongs, substantiated by tho pr of their charges; and if thoy‘hud d( that thoy might havo accomplished bo good. Tho course that Llioy havo pursu however, will only be hurtful to them, i will causo thorn to bo viowed in United Biuii. announcing tl tho Uevenuu .South ho ha 1.300,000 bale, in the .South l tho Including the now This loiter, of cours mont. To those wli Mr, M* tho rotm ns nv.ulo by all ports of tho l an o-tiinnto of •lc stock existing of tho war, and up since gathored. kept up the oxcilu- nol behind th Mid To Destroy the Boll Worm. A correspondoot of tho Louisville (Ky.) Courier sends to that paper tho following plan for destroying the boll worm that preys upon cotton. Ho says that it is from the July number of tho monthly report of the Agricultural Department at Wash ington, but does not state by whom it was communicated to that Department. It b now too late to try the remedy this season, but wo copy it tbat ¥ our cotton planters may be enabled to try its virtues in year? to corao: PB0CKS8 FOR DESTROYING THE ROLL- i L ‘ me8 l°°kod tor. worm in cotton. Tho ubovo may account, in part at least, Wo procured eighteen common sized for tho last letter of Mr. Beecher, of h."?a r g , i!“of , v'i n ne( i ar C Sn 0 d f ,1^! ! w0 published a telegraphic roport viouily prepared iir tho proportion of lour ! in yesterday morning’s paper, parts of tho former to ono of the latter, i A so-called Christian community ha6 were set on small stakes or j como to a pretty pass when it requires a poles driven into the ground in the cotton . field, ono to about every threo acres, and reaching a little abovo the cotton plant, with a six inch square board tacked on the top to receive the plate. Theso arrange ments were mado in the ovoning soon after the flies had made their appearance; tho next morning we found eighteen to thirty* five moths to each plate. Tho experiment wa? continued tor live or six days, distri buting the plates over tho entire field, escb day's success.increasing, until tho numbers were reduced to two or three moths to each plalo, when it was aban doned as being no longer worthy of tho trouble. Tho crop that year was but very little injured by the boll-worm. Tho flies wore caught in their eagerness to feed on the mixture by alighting into it and being unable to escape. Taey wera probably attracted by the odor of the preparation, Ike vinegar probably being an important agent in the matter. As the flies feed only at night, the plates should be visited Into each evening, tho insects taken out, and the vessels replenished as -Aucuinstances may require. 1 have tried t^nexperiment, with remits equally satisfactory, ami shall continue it until a hotter one is adopted. The report of tho g*oc«edings of Jack Hamilton's Convention on tho question of adopting the Address lo the country, is but a fair *amplo of the wrangling, intern- perance and confuvion that prevailed throughout. A cage full of hyenas, *olve 3 and catamounts could not better have represented the ferocity and discor- ‘Lat malignity that was tho governing bailment. Finally tho Northern and ‘oany 0 f t j, 0 “border .State" delegates withdrew, and then tho Boulhern extre- *® h t*had tho field to themselves and “ca- alone. f*port of this tceno may be found 'fourth page We copy from tho ^ork Evening Post, a Republican ter to conform to a party creed—in other words, makes politics instoad of re ligion tho standard of Christianity. Ex-Governor C. C. Clay, of Alabama, (father of tho Senator of tho samo name, who represented Alabama at Washington and Richmond) died in Huntsville, on tbo Gth instant, o,f paralysis. He was ubout seventy years of ago, and was justly es teemed as a great and good man. Wo observe that dispatches to tho Western papers raport the death of C. C. Clay, jr., instead of his lather; but wo 3 received the Huntsville Independent of the 8th, which shows that they are mie- laken. ^ m Still Looking Up.—Tho Macon Tel egraph of tho 9th inst. says : "Governor Jenkins disposed of half a million of Georgia bonds in New Y’ork, somo days ago, at ninety cents in tho dollar. A dis patch was received in this city yesterday, stating that they had gone to ninety-five. This is better than other Btato bonds, but they should bo ono hundred.” Fearful Mortality at Memphis. Tbo Avalanche of tho Gth contains the fol lowing paragraph : We learn from Captain Simons, of tho lower police district, that not less than fifty deaths occurred yesterday among the negroes in and around the Fort. This is a learful mortality; and with no one to minister to their wants, no physician to prescribe for them, no kind nurse, as in days gone by, to see that they are kept clean and tbair every wish gratified, j* >* „ny wonder that we should look upoa great change in their condition wit* MJj thirg nut disgust for tho hypocruy ana empfy Cbri.t;.nity which brought .t about 7 Cholera at Augusta. The Augusta papers of the 111L inst. publish tbo following official statement of Burgeon Lawton, in charge of tho Fruod- rnon’s Buroau Hospital. Wo copy it to counteract exaggerated reports concerning tho cholera at Augusta, that may obtain circulation in this part of the Btato: Augusta, Ga., Bopt. 10, I860. On yesterday (.Sunday) morning, somo fifty United States recruits arrived in Au- gut-la, to bo distributed among tho regular troops bore and at * ivunnah. They left Nowport Barracks, Kentucky, ono week ago, and woro then all well, but they worn delayed in Nashville a day or two and were confined in tho barracks there and fed upon poor rneut. A few cases of chol era had already occurred in that city, but when this detachment left Na-hville nono were reported on tho sick list. Before reaching Atlanta sovorrl were taken sick with diarrbuia. Upon arriving in this city somo twenty or moro cases were reported. Surgeon Mugruder, attending at tho Arse nal, Burgeon Lawton and Surgeon Tuul- mon, together with some of our city phy sicians, gave Ihtir personal attention to them, and live cases of undoubted cholera were discovered. Four died during tho night, and two or three other cases were sent to tho Hospital this morning. Tho dead were at once buried, and every pro caution was taken to limit tho disease. Early this morning General Tillson di rected all the recruits to bo sent somo threo miles from the city, to a placo callod Fox Spring, west of tho city. A double guard was placed over the barrucks, and tho militury and municipal authorities consulted together and adopted such measures as aro considered best for tho health and safety of the city. Several cases of diarrbuii were reported during tho day, but no now cases of cholera oc curred since morning, audit is trusted and bolievod tbo diteaso will speedily disap pear. Tho troops woro in tho city onlyuday and woro confined to tho barracks ; thero fore thoro is bolievod to bo no reason to apprehend a spread of tbo disease among the citizens. Wo notice, in nn advertisement in Early County News, a call for a meeting of tbo farmers of Clay, Early, Calhoun, Miller and Randolph counties, Ga., lo bo held at Fort Gainos on the 25th inst., “for tho purpose of selecting a good, honest and competent rnan, and send him to N Orleans for the present season us th commission merchant, to receive and sell their cotton, purchase all necessary gro ceries, such as bacon, corn und flour, and ship as may bo needed, and thus bring tho Now Orleans muTket to Fort Gaines, and realize from $25 to $30 moro per halt our cotton than wo can get in our markets on tho Chattahoochee river; besides got- ting all of our groceries at least fifty p cent, cheaper than we can at home." There may bo good economy and con siderable advantage in this enterprise, i* they succeed in getting tho rij/>»t ' ,r t ot H man. ^ Louisiana Election. New Orlxanh, Bept. '..— Ihe Gover nor’s proclamation, ordering an election on the 3d of'September for members to the Convention in the unrepresented par ishes. J* 1 ® boen totally disregarded. No eleotAm baa been held Fortress Monroe. September 7th.— William B. Reed, of Philadelphia, one of Jefl. Davis’ counsel, arrived horo early this morning, and was iu consultation with his client nearly all day. The object of his visit, beyond a more private profes sional or.e, is unknown. Tiik Fkvjan.h Throw Cold Water on the Radicals. At a recent meeting of tho Fenian Brotherhood, at Buffalo, tho following resolutions were adopted . Whereas, Tho Fenian Brotherhood aro ined to see, and havo just causo to bo displeased ut, tho efforts made by wiry politicians, who care moro for tbo advance- uent of their private interest and party nd than any real, hoartfolt sympathy for ho cause of Ireland; thorofore, bo it Resolved, I. That, desiring tho friend ship of all true lovers oi' Irish freedom, wo, as nn organization, discountenance all connection with American politics, of a purely private nature, which each indi dual must settle botwoen his country d to his God. ‘2. That wo deprecate all attempts to in troduce firebrands of this naturo into tho organ!: atlon, and no such subjects will* for a moment, be toiornted in any circle. That tho individual who attempts to mako political spooebos or capital out of tho Fenian Brotherhood is gn onotuy to our sacred cause, no matter what his pro fession totha contrary may bo, and should bo mubbed und denounced by overy well- wisher of Irish independence. 4. That wo, as a people, aro a power in this lurid, and aro competent to carry out tho great work now undertaken by tho Fenian Brotherhood, viz: the indopen donee of Iroland, without compromising tho pooplo or Government of tnii coun try. whoso interests we havo always main tained, even with our blood and treosuro (Special to tbo Cincinnati Enquirer.! St. Louis, September 7.—An order is issued to-day in tbo name of Govornor Flotchor, disbanding tho partisan militia, who3o organization without warrant of law has created so much disaffection among tho Conservatives. A report from Western Idaho says Gon. Steele,with nn escort of oighty men, nad beon attacked by Indians. In mak- ng Lhe ; r escape tho General’s party were from thorn. Indians came noar cap- j cut off, in which aw- named Perry was recently caught by the Indians near Ruby City, Idaho. Wooden pins were driven through his body into tho ground, and thon b arms Hnd legs wei ful condition how Cotton.—Thero has boon a good de mand for cotton through tho week,though buyers aro few and transactions light. There has boen a decline of about ono cent during the week, the market closing firm at 10 to 17 cents for ordinary, good ordinary 19 to 21, low middling 23 to 24, middling and strict middling 20 to *27. Tbo stock on hand is about 2600 bales. Freights to Mobile and New Orleans two ami threo dollars per balo respectively. Exchange on New York, par to 1 pre mium; exchange on Now Orleans par to j premium.-—Alonty-^ A at:., J th, A correspondent of tho Charleston Courier writes from Now Y’ork, Beptom- ber 6tb There was a largo gathering of soldiers in Union Square on Monday night to on- dorse tho President's policy. General II illy or. Adjutant. General to Gon. Grant, presided, and mado a loroible speech, in which he boldly assorted that bis popular chieftain was soul and heart for tbo re union of tho Btates undor Andrew John son’s plan. The feature of the ovoning, bowevor, was a speech to tbo "boys in blue." by tho Confederate Colonel Giles M. Hillyor, of Mississippi. Ho mado a manly, straight-forward addross to the “boys,” and received thoir enthusiastic applause. A number of banners hung from the three speakers’ stands, with ap propriate mottoes, among which waa tho following : "May we live in perfect }ieace and har mony with that enemy whose manhood, however mistaken the cause, drew forth such Herculean deeds of valor"—Grant, scones there is a great charm about an offi cial estimate. They have little idoa of tho ignoranco ami carelessness of tho clerks employed, ami 111- ir consequent liability to deception, and they forget that a large proportion til liio-o who are very honest among oac^w-lher wil^hcnl the Govern ment without the sTqUwht hesitation. Many people rather delight in "cram ming" Government officials and obsorv-* ing how much they will pwallow, espe cially whon they may thus raise the price of wliut they havo to sell, is not, thoro fore, bo surprising as it may at first sight appear that, whereas Mr. McCulloch’s ofl*- timate wa 1,300,900 bales, there have boen already received at the ports, 2,419,- 000 bales—an i xee-s of 1,1 I'M id bales— besides ut lou^t 150,000 bales which havo boon tent overland to tbo North. Bo much fur offi al eatimaU 1 Now, having recently, more recently I think than Dr. For be*, traveled on a zigzag courso from Texas through tho heart of tho cotton States, I, too, ought to know something of the condition and prospects of tbo present growing crop in America, and I unhesitatingly allego that Dr. Forbes hn been a ogregmusly "cram med’' as either Mr. McCulloch or tho AI* lababad Board of Revenue were about tho supplies of ln*t your, und 1 wurn th ton trado if they act upon such estimates as those he lias reported lo the Indian Government they will court a repetition of the disappointment of last season. 1 am prepared to Blake my own reputation, and 1 am confident that I may slake that of tho firm, .Messrs. Neill Brothers & Co., in which I arn a purteor, on tho correctness of this opinion. In order to^how that 1 do not usually speak at random, 1 may bo pardoned I »r referring to tho results of tho report which I made la.-lyear on the Btato of Texas. In consequence of that roport my firm, iu thoir crop circular of Decem ber last, e-timated the supply in that Btato al 190,000 bales, whereas tho gonoral opinion among local authorities was that it would not exceed 125,000 lo 150,000. Tho crop may now bo said to bo all in, as only driblets of 200 to 300 bales per week are now roaching tho ports, and tho receipts till date amount to 188,000. Jl would be very easy woro it not that il would Ires pass too much on your valuable space, to give facts and quote authorities to provo that in ouch Btato which Dr. Forbes par ticularizes tho crop may, und with a luto frost and good picking season, probably will doublo liis estimate. J know nothing of Dr. J’orbes, and it is painful for mo to bo compelled so emphatically to challenge his report and disputa his conclusions, i have no motivo whatever for doing so ex cept my interest in tho general prosperity of tho trado, but 1 feel that the trade at largo cannot Hand anothor season of losses Iiko that Irani which wo aro juBt emerging,and, having had tho experience of several years tp enable mo to judge of the cotton crop, ahd so lately as last month tho op portunity of sooing how it was progressing in sovoral Btates, J havo felt iL my duty to protest against tho fallacies (as I consider thorn) which aro so authoritatively put "Loyal Blackh.”—Tho New Herald shows how ridiculous is tho oft ropoutyd uxprossion of Norlhorn Radical -ralor'i and udUors, Svho, \n fpemMu* ©i froodmon, coll thorn tho "loyal blacks ’ of tho South. Wo quote: These Radicals must laugh in their sleovos when thoy talk about tho “loyal blocks.” They know well enough that but few of tho poor nogroes know what is meant by the word loyalty. It is an insult, to tho intelligent citizens of tho country to reiterate such nonsonso. It would bo just as sensible to talk of tho loyal chil dren who aro only just learning tho alpha bet, or of tho loyal baby in its mother’s arms. Yet, those Radicals complain that tbo South is not put undor tho control of tho poor benighted blacks. They unblusli- ingly claim that half this continent, and that tho Holiest and most important half, shall ho put into tho hands of liiu nogroes. Seven or eight millions of whites, tho intolloctiml pooplo of our own blood and race, witli all tho vast interest* of the future of tho Bouthorn Btates, to bo turned over to throe millions of ignorant negroes who scarcely know the right hand from tho loft! How preposterous 1 What an insane proposition I It is too absurd for serious argumont. None but tho craziest fanatics, who ought to bo in lunatic asy lums, or tho most dosporato revolutionary politicians would over ontertuin such a thought. A Radical contemporary wants to know why tho South doos not accept tho amend ment to tho Constitution proposed by Congress? Why demand of tho South that it shall accent as part of tho organic law what Thaddous Stevens said ho would not give “tho snap of his linger” for, and Mr. Boutwel! has denounced as a humbug and a cheat, and Wondoll Phillips has de clared to have been passed by Congress with no serious intent of securing its adop tion by tho Legislatures of tho Btates oithor North or South—but was intended only as a means of bridging over tbo full elections and securing to tbo Radicals a longer lease of power? Thoro i* no sense in putting such a question to the Boulh until the Radicals lmvo first answered it for themselves. They cannot ozpocfc that section to adopt what they repudiate on the instant of its passage by Congress.— Wondoll Phillips spoke tbo truth in call ing it un electioneering dodge; that is the preciso uso it is being put to now. [7ioa(o?t Post. Important Decision.—A suit whs brought in tho Augusta, Georgia, City Court, at tho last term, to recover tho amount of a policy of life insurance granted by the Bouthorn Mutual Life Insurance Company, of South Carolina, to a resident of that city, who was forced into the military service, and whilo in that service died. It will bo remembered tbut tho Insurance Company domurred paying, on tho ground that thero was ombodied in the policy or insurance a provision that tho insured should not ontor tho military sorvico. On tho other bund, tho ropro' sontutivo9 of tho doceased claim that ho did not violate tho compact of his ... accord, banco tho Company should pay tho utnount. J udgo Snead has announced hi* decision and sustains tho Company in their demurrer. Tho case will be carried up to tho Superior Court. forth. , your obedient Charles M. T Manchester, August 20. •La.) , of Au- ugh tho parishes of Tho Shrevoport gust 31#t, says; Wo havo passed thr« Bossier and Claiborne, tho county of Union, in Arkansas, a convorsod with many of tho best pluntc They all concur in tho opinion that the attempt to cultivato the soil with freed ne groes this year has proved a failure from many causes. The heavy and continued floods in tho spring retarded operations, and caused tho grass and weeds to tako possession of thoir Holds, This wet season wa* followed by a two months’drouth, which utterly destroyed many crops of corn and cotton, and injured those in more favored localities fully to tho oxtent of two-thirds When the grass sod was romoved from tho tender cotton plant it was almost up rooted, and although fresh dirt was sup* plied by plows, it rapidly withered away under the scorching sun. We do not bolievo that over u fourth of a crop, on an average, will be mode, either of corn or cotton, upon tho lands planted, and not over one*tenth of the crop under the old slave system unfavorable light by lair and impar men.—A r . F. Sun, (Repub.) monstratod ono important point in ret to ocoun tolegraphy. It has been cbii by thoBo who havo doubted the prac bility of this great onteipriso, that th< tion of tho water would scon destroy insulation and rondor the cablo worthless. But it is now shown that ono year of sub* morsion hns had not tho slightest dotri* mental efl’oct upon tbo old cablo, and that tbo theory of the doublors is groundless. This fact will doubtlossgive an additional incentive to tho construction of new lines, and it will ubo havo tho prosont good ef fect of doubling tho facilities for inter continental communication and, wo may hope, of diminishing tho uxcossivoly high rates now charged by tho company. Thoro now Booms to bo no danger to ap» prohend concerning tbo practicability of ocean telegraphs, and in two or throe years we shall probably havo a score of telegraphic connections with Europe. l AewYork Sun. The Presidency.— From assaults on Frosidont .Johnson tho Tribune 1ms ad vanced to attacks upon tho Presidency, which is. represented us too oxpensivc. For tho jobs and extravagance of Con gress, the Tribune had tho most kindly forbearance. With tbo President on u holiday tour it has no j)ationco,bocauso of its cost. Tho Boston Commonwealth,an other Radical shoot, declares itsolf inoro manfully. It objects to tho Presidency as an institution, and oxults in tho strife between tho President and Congress on tho ground that il will lead to tho aboli tion of tho oflico of President I The country "can do very well without a Chief Magistrate,” is tho conclusion rived at by tbo Commonwealth, which a ivocat.es a chango of tho Constitution, to remove all check upon tho action of Con- greps. VVhere would tho Radical plans end? First, in disunion; next, in anar chy.—New York Times. Philadelphia, Boptombor 0.—Tho I Bouthorn Convention has appointed a committee to travol to Bt. Louis by the route tbo President has taken and after ward* to visit tho gravo of Abialmm Lin coln. Tho following is tho delegation : Messrs. Botls, of Virginia; Durant, ol Louisiana; Blokes, of Tennessee; Hamil ton, of Texas; Francis Thomas, of Md.; Ilraiscomb, of Missouri; Griffin, <>f Ala.; Stockbridgo. of Maryland; Campbell, of West Virginia, and Judge, of Toxas. Tho routo is to be through New .Jersey, Now York, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Ohio, Indiana and Illinois, Tho parly will arrivo iu Chicago October 1st. It was moved that Fred Douglass bo added to the committee, but tho chair ruled tho motion out of order, on the ground that Douglass wus not u raembor of the Bouth orn Convention. Tho Now York Herald tho other day mado a contor shot at tbo Fred Douglas Philadelphia Convention, when it said: Rochester lias choson Fred Pouglus . appear on its bohalf, and tho Tribuno ol this city recommends that ho bo made officer cf tbo convention. We socond tho The Philadelphia Fizzle.—A gen tleman who wus in Philadelphia at th© Disloyal Miscegenation powwow, informs tho editor of tho Augusta Chronicle that it was in all jospecta a failure. Thero was no enthusiasm, no harmony, no policy, no nothing, but a promiscuous crowd of lunatics and freo negroes, with hero and (hero a third rato political hack ns fuglo- man. Our informant heard tho loading spirits of tho Convention express great mortification nt tho result of tho demon stration, and ho thinks it will confirm and strengthen tho influence exerted by tho Philadelphia Convention. Ilo thinks that thero is a ground swell springing up ovor tho North, which in duo timo will drown out the Radicals and sweep thorn from power. Lemont, III., Sept. 7.—The President and other prominont members of the party woro introduced by Mr. Seward, who asked how many States aro in tho Union ? A man in tho crowd replied "thirty- “If you tako out ten,” Mr. Sow&rd coni tinned, "bow many will remain ?" "Wo don’t allow any to bo takon out,” was tho rosponse, "but Congress doe*.’ Another voico—“BewaruV you are in good company.” Mr. Seward—"Yes, we are very life,” j destroyed, and tho telegrAph lino cut. Tho office, which was outside of tbo fort, was not injured. The operator and his assistant took to tho bills, and have not beon found yot. Tho samo party at- tacked u train of Mormon emigrants at V/ agon Mound, and onpturod ninety head of stock, bosides killing several head. A dispatch from Topoka, Kansas, says it is rcporLcd from Fort Sarah Junction, of Fort Riley and Smoky Roads, that sovonty Chovenno Indians have started for 1‘ickot Weir sottleinont to recapture two children takon from tho Indiana in tba Bund Crock affair, and then clear the Smoky Hill route of all whites; while eighty-flvo moro Cheyennes havo started tho Arkansas to commit depredations thoro, and that thoy havo sent Invitations to tho Sioux, lviowas and Caraanchea to join thorn in sweeping tho whole frontier, from Kansas to Colorado. Tho Plattes broko up two settlements on tho Salmon, and ravished a number of women. They swear the whites shull not occupy their territory. Gov. Gorman writes that ho has not troops to protect tho ostromo frontier set tlements. From Mexico. New Orleans, September 6th.—Brownsville dates to tho 2d stiito that President Juarez bus issued a deer^o from Monterey. Ilo does not rccoKuizo either General Curavajal or Connie.* as (lovornor of Tumuulipua, and bus appointed General Jupia a* Military Commander and Civil Governor ol tbatStato. Jupia left Mon- lerey ou tho 31st ultimo with fifteen hundred nion, and a convoy of morohuudlzo and specie; Eacobndo is in command of Monterey. Canales hold tbo government of Tamuulipiu. Cortina issued a proclamation from Camargo, dated August 21 at, announcing himsolf Governor. IIo warns merchants at Mutamoros that all merchandize, Ac., louving that city under au- tbority ot Cunalea will bo subject to eventu alities. ^ ^ ^ ^ Statement, ol' Hi© Public Debt Of th■; 1,'nilcl States, on the 1st of Sey.% lember, I860: JJcbt Beariny Coin Interest. Fivo porct. bonds,$198,091,350.00 Six por ft. bonds, of 1867.1808. 18,323,001,80 Six per ct. bonds of 1881, 283,734.800.00 Six per cent. 5-20 bonds, 776,422,800.00 Navy Fonsion fund, 11,750,000.00 front of tho convention should bo bin and tho fact that tho Frosidont of tho United Btates, with Grunt and Farragut, is honoring tho whilo Douglas nt Chicago, whilo Radicals aro honoring tho negro Douglas at Philadelphia,will significantly mark the difference between thorn. Monsieur Glaishor, the celebrated .... glish mronaut and meteorologist, has written to tho Timef nowspapor to cal' attention to a singular phenomenon ... . hie in the neighborhood of London, where the cholera roigns supremo. It appears that a thick mist of a blue color, has hung ovor Greenwich park for moro than a week, and this mist has not boon dis- period (as 1m the case with ordinary fog), ovon by the violent winds which have boon Mowmg for some days. Moniiour Glaiiber state* that a similar mist was perceived in 1854, when tbo cholera was in London, and ho concludes that tho origin of that disease is in tho atmosnhoro. It is further stated that at tho timo tho scarla tina raged in London, a dense yellow mist hung over the oity for several days. Michigan Pom tics'—Tho Democrats and IhoConservativeRepublicunsofMich- igan havo agreed to support ono ticket for , l fi l teS tate °ffl° eM ‘ wen. Williams, an old Whig, waa nominated for Governor, ihe r<*it of the ticket is about equally divided botwoon men who voted for Liu- coin *nd men who Toted for McCtellen in Debt Hear inn Currency Inin Six per ct. bonds, $8,202, Temporary loan, 45,538,000.00 Throo-yoar com pound int’t notes, 155,512,110 00 Threo-year 7-30 notes, Matured debt not presumed lor pay ment, It Debt Hearing No Intercut. IJ. States notes, $300,003,692.00 FracttiT currency, 2<],:M3,yUfc.3J Gold cortifioatc* of deposit, 15,480,220.00 -$1,288,322,541.80 Currency, $132,831,067.7: Ain’t of Debt, less cash in Trous’y $2,595,683,168.23 The foregoing is a correct stutemout of tba Public Dobt, a* appear) from tho books and t reasurer's returns m tho Department on th« 1st beptembor, i860. HUGH McCULLOCH, Secrotary ot the Treasury. From New Orieaus, New Orleans, Sept. 7.—There were 17 deaths from cholera, and 17 from yellow i’evor, yesterday. From Ouachita river r«fcion, we learn that heavy rains havo fallen, causing * resumption of navigation. Tho army worm has appeared upon th# river lands, and, whon ten day} ago they expoctod a bale to tho aero, the prospect it a total failure. “Billy Goats” and CuoLERA^The St. Louis Republican gays: Capt. Frank Burritl, of ihoMobileMc- Piko, has discovered that "Billy Goats’^ are a sure antidote for cholera, and that.* is imuondiblo tor both to exist iu the uii locality, and ms n consequence ibtreprbaa secured ono of tho afoiesaid goatar »ince which thero has not been a aingl/ ms of sickhess on his boat. /

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Weekly Columbus enquirer. (Columbus, Ga.) 1861-1873, September 18, 1866, Image 1