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‘WISDOM, JUSTICE AND MODERATION." ■KM I NIMH sJci ''' ^lUWUBA JMtJ in 3 •4--J Ura^S&Cto rtadK ROME, GA., FRIDAY MORNING. AUGUST 13, 1869. fapm. dmicc. Prop’r.. $3 00 75 ,1 00 00 „ 2 50 g&r- — 125 S- ^bubly nr advance. ® fnve or more ene copy w.H be for- dSa*** 1 M.DWINEbLj Proprietor. !3fi&‘urtratorLExMjora or .rfrt T°erf»y‘^.*“ renoon and three m the » f U “ t Se Court House in the county in i* P” 11 in * pub " Jg$, » iV s f^Xou.l property must %£*** P ublic S“- rtsfw“*j» ^™aoTc«dU«s‘ of Sn eltSe, iS^^&Olbe mud. *&£» tto prf [ f* loure to sell laud must be 'S't^'T^retf’Atoinistration.Guor. • Citotioas to’ let *f, 8 to publisbod 25 days—for Kinship * e -> “T iltitratiou, (three months— '£3? *« ^ for IIM• UTe of Mortgages « Rale*f° r * he ®2!L for four months—-tor t pabUflhed monthly fo space of three -faMS&sc&g®; sSHSss—"” 1 ' ss«Sr^rS?s tax Collect 01 ' 116a,c! {&iui 8 tration 3 00 CituiotiB f or t Gttirdisnship.. ■ * 00 for to ".-“1 oo 4 00 awasMte»---~£ri8 SJJSySKiSr*?®; gssaswi^ ^iTimPAV MOBWIHG, Aug. A Sectional Party, ffe publish the following extraet from , article that orkinally appeared in the Constitutionalist, and was repnblished m the Commercial, with an unqualified en dorsement, merely for the purpose of ex- orcssing ear emphatic disapproval of the 'proponed iSoutlier* Sectional party move ment. It seems to »s that yte have had scc- oW parties enough, and the terrible re sult of thus arraying the people still fills the land with poverty and mourning The principal reason urged for the form ation of a Southern sectional party is that bo considerable number of Northern pien caa be relied on as allies to contepd for a restoration of the government. If they can not be depended on as assistant friends, will they be more serviceable when de nounced as implacable enemies ? And what good is likely to result from arraying the one million efSoutliern votes against the four millions of Northern votes ? No, we do not want a sectional party.-;--. In our judgment, no probable good would result from it, and much evil might be the Resequence. What we do need is a Con- Ailutiaud Union party, that will gather in to its ranks all lovers of our government as St teas, from every seetioa of our common country, and who wifi hcartBy .co-operate' for its restoration. The following is the extract alluded to : “Jut, in the long run, the true men of our section will resume political control, and the united power of the South will have its old weight in moulding national affairs. That this power may be united, and as a unit invincible, we more and more favor the cultivation of a thorough Southern and sectional sentiment. Had the North shown any magnanimity after the war; had she shown any mercy; had she shown any real desire to cultivate the good will of the South; bad she shown any earnest longing for a fraternal Union, we should have hes itated at giving the advice we now give, lut the last fonr years of angry peace have taught nothing if they have not taught us the malice, the vindibljwmjs, the hatred, the peifidiousness of Aite JJflrth. They have taught us nothing, if they jh^ye not taught us that the sectionalizing of the Southern sentimentis the only protection ihe Southern people can rely upon for fu ture contingencies, amid tbs clgah of cor rupt factions at the North. The to he hel Water Works. cil has ordered an election tnrdiy, the 14th inst., on the question of water works or no water works. A plan will be submitted at an ear ly date. It is expected that the whole cost of pipes and machinery will be about $43- 000 for watering the whole city. NEW SERIES—NO 50. Association for the of Ga. and Ala. ird of Directors. Personal.— We received a call on yes terday from Jndge John Foster of Jack sonville,. Alabama. He takes a hopeful view of political matters in his : State, and has a firm faith in its early redemption from the rule of radical scalawags and carpet baggers. He thinks the Democrats have, elected three of the five Congressmen. Address of the Grand Jury on the Fair Question. We commend to the consideration of our readers the excellent address of the Grapd Jury, which appears m this paper upon the advantages of our Agricultural and Me chanical Fair. There is no doubt but that a properly conducted Fair will prove to be the best lesson in agriculture and agricul tural machinery and implements that the people of the Cherokee pountry have ever received. We hope all ; will put themselves in a way to enjoy the fall advantages of it. Read the address of the .Grand Jnry. New Goods at Howell's. Mr. P, HoyelJ, at his store, first door above the book store, has just received a beautiful assortment of sum mgr dress goods trimmings, straw goods, shoes, etc. Mr. H:makes it a point to get just what the ladies want, and then sell the goods quick at a short profit. That is all just right, as far as it goes, and, if, io addition, he would advertise liberally, we would pre dict for him an extensive business, and in the aggregate, large profits. Aug.Ttw-wlt. Very Important Decision. The Supreme Court, in the caseof Bat tle vg. Shivers, from Warren, has decided that an ordinary judgment for money, en tered up in April, 1861, upon which no ex ecution was sued ont within seven years from the date of the judgment, or upon which execution, if sued out, no entry has been made for seven oonsneutivo years, is a dormant judgment,n' twithstanding the acts suspending the Statute of Limitations and enacting stay laws passed in 1860, and at different periods since that time.” In another case between the same parties the questions of dorms 01 judgments and Statute cf Limitations is fully considered, and elaborate opinions {written ont by all three of the judges. Chief Justice Brown and Justice MoCay concur—Judge War ner dissents. Hauouy, the candidate for Congress, that was reported to have been fatally shot at Courtland, Ala., last Monday, wasa most hitter radical, and was attacked for assail ing the supporters of Hinds, another car- pet-bag candidate for the same office. Sher rod, the straightout Democratic candidate in that, the 4th District, is probably elect- ■ed. Poisoned to Death. Jlrs. Pickett, of Girard, Ala., sent to the store for a dose of sub-Nitrate of Bis- wnh. The druggist sent her, by mistake, Corrosive Sublimate. She took it, and was dead in an hour. So much for careless ness. The Eclipse of the Sun 1VL 1 ! be nearly trial at this place. It will Mnunence about 4 o'clock this, afternoon, and end a little past six. Have your SSJOk- ^ glass ready, and be prepared to give the children a full explanation of - the cause °f eclipses. You can easily illus- Irate how it is that the moon coming in ex- act 'I 0 ® between the earth and snn, casts a shadow upon the earth. ’ ^l" 3 would occur every new moon if the ®°oa s orbit was on the same plane as that ■°f the earth, but as the orbits are inclined tn each other at an angle of abent 37°, an odipeg of the snn can only occur when a new moon is exactly at the point of inter section of these planes, called the node; and eclipse of the moon pan only take place 7 ei is exactly at the other node at the ’ hni e it fulls. - . * breadth of the valleys of the Colora- i Brazos and Guadnlmu* rivpra in Tafoc ■ ,— 3 a °fi Guadalope rivers,in Texas, -ami 6 S swept away by the re- ~ . floods. The estimated damage on the done is $3,000,000. A Damning Record. We surrender much of our space this morning for the publication of the pleadings in the case of Bullock, Blodgett & Co., vs E. H. Pugho. We shall to-morrow present Pughe's answer, and if wo can possibly do so, wiU try and pnblish some of the affida vits whtch have been filed in Court in sup port of the bill and of the answer. We spent a short time )P the court room yesterday during the trial of the case—of which a full report will be found in our lo cal columns—and after au experience of nearly quarter of a century in court houses and the conduct of legal proceedings, we have no hesitancy in declaring that we have never witnessed a trial in which so much rascality, so mnch double dea’ing, and so much wise owesring was exhibited. In deed, we doubt if tne annuls of the courts of this whole conntry will show a ease of half the dishonesty, rascality and perjury which this affair has developed. We have not time for further comments at this time. When our readers see the whole of the pleadings, they will ba satis fied that oiir judgment is not only not harsh bnt absolutely flattering.—-Chron. is Ken- fine?. North Georgia. An article in the N Y. Tribune has the following paragraph on the resources of up per Georgia: “The upper portion of the State abounds not only in mineral wealth, very imperfect ly developed, but in fertile valleys and pro ductive hillsides, where as fine clover and other grasses may be produced as anywhere in the West, with the proper tillage and in dustry. The air of this region is salubri ous and bracing, and the water cold and refreshing- This division also offers abund ant facilities for manufacturing, not only on account of jthe excellent water-power, but because of the abundance pf iron ore, and 1ft SOBtiguify to the great railroad sys tem of the North. West and Southwest. In short, there is scarcely S oonntry on the earth which combines in such abundance and variety the resources of mineral^gri- cultural, manufacturing, and interna] com mercial wealth. To this section especially we invite the attention of the manufacturer and small fanner. The land can now be purchased for one fifth of what they will- probably bring {five years hence. Now is the time to invest, to emigrate, and build up a great and prosperous communi ty-” Send the Military- A riot;occurred last Thursday morning on the steamer ffubuque at or "-ear Rock Is land/on the upper Mississippi,^ between a few white raftsmen an,4 the negro deck hands, in which five or six negroes were beaten to death or thrown into the river and drowned The affair grew ont of an insult offered by one of the blacks to the raftsmen, which led to a general fight between the too classes The telegraph fails to inform us wljeth. er Hiram Ulysses dispatched a force of bluejackets with rifle and bayonets to pro tect the loil b’acks and enforce the laws. As the disorder occurred in a free State of course hp-^did. Cotton Crop The official - statistics of the agricultural department of the United States as .compil ed by J. 8- Podge, give a total acreage three or four acres but taking basis, we will have a crop of2, 666,GbU bales. AVe think this is about as near the t ruth as can fie arrived at. Any disaster would lessen these figayey- B {!sr ._R l igt in cotton is reported in ^ - - - -"iddle and South- Rome, Ga'., Ang. 5, Board of Directors met—Mr. A. A. Jones elected Chairman, and M. Dwinell requested to act as Seerelffly. The Chair explained the object of the meeting to be to-elect permanent officers for the Fair Association of the Cherokee country of Georgia and Alabama. The ballot was taken with the following result: For President, A. A. Jones. Vice President, Geo. S. Black. Secretary and Treasurer, B. F. Jones. On motion of C. H. Smith, a committee of three was appointed to prepare a Consti tution and By-Laws; also, to secure a char ter for the Association, viz : Chas. H. Smith, M. Dwinell and W. F. Ayer. - Mr. J J. Cohen, at the request of the Board, come before them, and madethc- following liberal preposition, viz.: to "lease them the field beyond the King house and to the left of the road, or so much of that 28 acres as may be needed for the purpose of the Association, for fire years, with the privilege of extending the time if the As sociation shall choose, in consideration of one hundred dollars, to be paid annually, as rent. Mr. Cohen retains the privilege of cultivating the groundss in such crops as shall not interfere with the nse of tbe grounds for Fair purposes. Mr. Cohen’s proposition was favorably considered and a unanimousjvote of thanks tendered him for his liberal offer. Gen. Black offered the following : Resolved, That Maj. G. H. Smith be, and he is hereby appointed a committee of one to close a contract with J. J. Cohen, Esq., for the lease of a suitable site for the Fair Grounds, and secure a Charter of In corporation for the Association, passed. Also, the following u. Resolved, That C. H. Smith, M. Dwi nell, J. W. Turner and B. F. Jones be ap pointed a committee to call on the stock holders to increase their present subscrip tion, and solio.t others to take stock. On motion, the following were appoint ed as committee of Flan and Arrangements to be submitted with' estimates, etc., viz : A. A. Jones, J A Stewart and C W Spronll. On motion, the following wore appointed a committee on Premium list, yiz : J H Dent, C W Spronll and G 8 Black. Resolved, That the Board of Directors will meet every Thursday at the Counting Room of Ayer & Hills, at 11 o’clock, pass ed. A. A. Jones, Pres’L M. Dwinell, See’y. pro tem. Internal Revenae Decisions. -‘Parties using paper collars most nse .them from the original package; that is, from the box in which they have been pur chased; and a three cent revenue stamp must be attached to each one when put on. AVhen the collar becomes soiled and is turned with the clean side out, it must re ceive another three cent stamp, and most :**.**, *“«•* «r* THE GRAND JURY ON THE FAIR. Mr. Editor—On closing our labors to day as Grand Jurors for this term of court otr attention was directed to the efforts be ing made by. the citizens of Floyd and ad joining counties to get np an Agricultural Fair at this place (Rome Go.) to he held the first week in November next . Correspondence Macon Journal k Messenger. From Lee County, Starksville, Gat, July 30. Mr. Editor; You pan say to any of your friends, who have manifested uneasiness about the report of the fine crops, etc., that this country is not in the connt. Those of us that nsed any of the fertili sers have good cotton weed; bat until Sun day last, we had been dry for eighteen or twenty days, when yro had a good rain. Up to that time,the less of bolls apfi forms, etc, excelled anything I ever witnessed. That I attributed to the use of the fertiliz er. Onr uoupnu?ed cotton (if it should not take the rust) will do pearly as well as that on which so much commercial ma nure has been nsed. We, then, pass the cotton crop down as nothing by any means, to fiojsf pf, The corn crop is only a tolera ble average. I am abundantly satisfied that there are not five farms in this county on which the negroes have worked as they should,and not one that comesnn to former days. We need better laborers and more of them. Sooth Georgia. A Chapter ofAccldents. Last night 38 the Memphis and Charles ton mab train from Memphis, passed Leigh ton, route agent, Burke Decker, in throw ing over the mail bag, put his head outof the oar 8ud it cams to contact with a hox car on tho side track, producing a fracture of the skull over the left eye, “bout two inch es long, and a slight cat on the baok of the head, probably, by striking against the side of tho car he was on. His brains protruded from the fracture. He was brought to the Donegan House ip this city. Drs. Dement andL. D. and J. D. Carter were paljflfi ifi and tiepanned his skull. He is in a very critical condition A passenger jumped off the same train while in motion, at Cherokee, and broke one of his legs. Wm. McBee, fireman, get on the top of the Egppem train from Memphis, when near Buzzard Roost Creek, this morning, and was knocked down down By .collision with the bridge. He was discovered, after a considerable interval, with his neck broken. He was a brother-in-law of Mr Wn». Glenn and Mr. John Glenn, engineers on the M. <fi, C, Road and resident in this city. His body was brought to this pity on the train, whioh arrived at 12 35 to day.— Huntsville (Ala.) Democrat. ^.Sunflowers, when planted on an ex tensive scale, it has recently been asserted by experimenters in France and Holland, will neutralize the deleterious effects of ex halations from marshes, (jfhjs plan hjjs been tried with great success in the fenny districts near Rochefort, France, and the authorities of Holland assert that internut- ten fever, has entirely disappeared from districts where the sunflowers have been planted. Though the above facts appear tobeapproved,jtjp pot yet ascertained what affect the sunflower produges on the atmosphere, whether it generates oxygen like other plants of rapid growth,_ or wheth er, like tho cone-bearers, it emits ozone, and destroys the animal and vegetable gefR’Scf J°i asm producing fever. Receipt por a Happy Home.—Six things, says Hamilton, are requisite to cre ate a happy home. Integrity most he the architect, and tidiness the upholsterer. It must be warmed by affectiopi uaq bfinted np with cheerfulness; and industry must be the ventillater, renewing the atmosphere apd bringing in fresh salubrity every day; while over all, a projecting canopy of glory, and nothing will‘suffice except the UM ilessing of God. has been organized, and that a considera ble amount of stock has been subscribed, fer the purpose of securing the grounds and' erecting the accessary bunildings, and that, a Directory has been elected to' take charge of this very laudable enterprise, and impossible;.make it a complete, success.— Composed, as this Directory is, of some of onr most energetic and pnbfic spirited citi zens, we feel that every encouragement and assistance that the people^jf the Cberokeeq u f a cti conntry of Georgia and Alabama can ex- ordinary tend to them will be amply Repaid by the yboot blai many advantages that will^Bccfcic from; not only to onr agricultural and man ufacturing interests, bnt to the general wel fare of onr people. If there has not been stock enough sub scribed to com; a lively appreciation of the great- good which can be attained by a well conducted Fair, will at once induce those who may be able, to make np the deficiency by snhserib tog additional stock. Bi}t it may be asked, What great good is this of which we speak ? What are Agricultural Fairs, aud to what manner do they promote onr interests f Let ns reflect a moment, and the answer is dear. •. The means ot snbsistance and all the necessary comforts of life are brought within onr reach—not by chapeo, or by ffi® gratuitous gifts of Providence, unaided by exertion on onr part On the contrary, we have to labor for these blessings. We have to plow, sow aud roap; we haye to plapt, cultivate and (rather; we have to dig for qseful ores, and manufacture them into implements for onr nse; and we have to erect mills to grind onr grain, and prepare it for bread. Ma chineries, too,{for spinning and weaving the necessary fabrics for making onr dothing, must be constructed. We must have ves sels of wood, metal oqd clay. We must have agricultural implements—plqws, hops, rakes, seed planters, cultivators, reapers, mowers, fans, threshers, separators, horse powers, steam-powers, and a thousand and one other things. And, besides this, we must have a prac tical knowledge of all the things enumerated to render them efficient, aud to enable of, through their instrumentality, to lighten the burden of life, and fill to overflowing 1 .the horn of plenty. Through the instrumentality of well con ducted fairs, we not only become acquainted with the improvements ip labor-saving ma- chines, bnt are made familiar with their application to onr various wants; and, be sides this, an interchange of views takes place to reference to stock raising, the soi- ence of agriculture, the mechanic arte, etc., imparting useful knowledge, which, in a lifetime of individual effort, unaided by as sociations and fairs, we would fail to ac quire. An Agricultural Fur, as contemplated, is simply a great school, through which in telligence is brought to bear in guiding and directing onr various laudable pursuits ofindustry. It enables ns to find relief from many of the usual drudgeries of life, and to render pleasant and agreeable {.fie labor necessary to oar snbsistance. W M Shropshire, Foreman most be assessed twenty per cent on the amount thus derived and invested, which D H Herron, RT Hargrove, C C McKenzie, E H West, E H Colclohgh, CE Hills, John Holbrook, JoJinGpgn, J L Camp, G W Watters, John A May, 'Allen Bolt, Gabriel Jones, C WRush, W B Turner, J H Roberts, Robt, A Holt, W C Howell, JR Ford, J A Stewart, SB Sale, Thos. J Perry. A Ne>v and Valuable Invention.— Wo harp been ipiormod bj thp inventor, Sir. Thos. j. Mel), of this pity, fhe giodej of a railroad car or house ventilator, for which he obtained a patent from the de partment at Washington, on the 18th day of May last- We cannot sufficiently or clearly explain tf) the reader the modus oper- and! of the invention, bnt any intelligent person will immediately see its virtues by examining the model or a .drawing of it, with Mr. Mell’s explanations. We will ray, however, tljat it is a method for ventilating railroad cars ojr houses ot tho top, while at the same time it is perfectly secure against leakage in hny Kind of weath- We have scarcely a doubt that it will work a revojptiou to the present style of architecturo for ear khousebuilding, when its virtues shall beco ne known and tested. We understand that Mr- Well will soon put his invention into practice, and he feels certain that it will meet all the require ments necessary for thorough ventilation.— Macon' Tel. lie Quickest Trip on Record. The Conaid steamship Russia, on her last ontward trip from New York to Liv erpool, is claimed to have made the fastest time on record, vijt: eight 4»jn. tow hot? 1 * and forty-five minutes. In this trip she beat the Scotia, who had made the fastest time on record, either way, by two hours and a half, that steamer having made the rnn to eight days seven hours and. fifteen minutes.. A vote of thanks and a hand some testimonial were presented to Capt. Loti by the passengers on bis arrival at Vv erpoob The Macon Telegraph has been donated by Mr. J. H. Otto, of that city, with a beet fjiich weighed,when taken from the ground, twenty-seven pounds- Tb? seed of this beet was planted in March. of England increase but 3,180 to their them * aa_The Wesle; slowly, having membership the total of 345,562.' They hate °oi. up the loss of 1851 to 1855, during which period a large numebr of their membeiship seceded, fo form another Methodist bo- be used a second time, but must be destroy ed in the room where emptied; and the as sessor famished with a ceitificate of the fact. D - thrown out a: the window, or car- tied ont in the coalscuttle or wash tub, !snch boxes will hcsohject to export dnty. “Boot blacks arc required to use their blacking just as they find it when tho box is opened, adding nothing to it whatever.—- The act of spitting in the hox and smear- '-~ M e contents with the brush constitutes (otblack a mixer, or rectifier, or man- and he must pa^TKe rer’s license. Each i, for which the sum of five by the wearer, must receive, _ nse of the bootblack, a four and three quarter cent stamp. “All Englishmen, by the name of Hale, who are engaged in the business of pro nouncing (he name withont the H., shall be considered mannfactoreis of 'ale, and miist pay the license required of all brew- erg and distillers. “Parties engaged to building castles to the air with the proceeds of thp highest prize in fntnre drawings of the lottery, twenty per eenf shall be paid to gold.—At. The Irish Church Bill, This momentous measure has gone through several exciting phases to the last few days. The Lords sent the bill to the Commons disfigured with amendments, and botched out of all proportion. Qne feature to par ticular grafted on it by the peers, was to dispose of some 50,000,000 for the benefit of the disestablished church, when the sur plus property was only about $3^,000,000 as estimated'by Mr. Glanstono. The Commons met the issue boldly, vot ed down promptly the objectionable amend ments,and sent back the bQi to the peers, denuded of its grotesque embellishments. The peers contended hotly, and finally, after a long and fiery dis~ossion, rejected the preamble, winch did not contain their above feature for grasping the chnreh prop erty. Tlje excitement was intense. The min istry stood finu. Gladstone did uot waver. The people seethed with hostility to the Lords. The press with unmeasured au dacity, attacked the peers and threatened them with popular retribution. It was a trying time, and the situation was fraught with danger to the aristocratic order. The more sagacious and pfudeiit of the noble? raw the'ominons portent, and conndled con cession to the threatening stonn. ‘ A compromise was finajlv arranged. The original date of the disestablishment, Jan uary 12,1871; was inserted, the properly question was left over, none of the surplus to be used save by consent of parliament, i Lords haye acted with wisdom. The 1 success of the measure was inevitable. Their rejection of it would have bat result ed to Gladstone’s withdrawing the bill and _ eqliogto the people; and the verv exis- tense of tho noble order was involved to saoh a movement The bill passed, the Commons yielding a little to soothe the Lords, and the Queen has approved it. Disestablishment is, therefore, the law of England.—At. Const. Trade In Herbs and Roots. An editorial letter to tho Wilmington, N. 0 , Journal, dated Sparkling Catawba (rings, lfith, pays: Among the most popular, and at present, I believe, the most lucrative occupation in this immediate seption is the collection of “herbs and roots,” and thoir shipment to Northern markets. I was not prepared to see the extent to which it is carried here. These herbs and roots are pnt up with mnch care, in bales ohont the size of cot ton bales, weighing from three hundred to three hindred and fifty pounds, but _mupj} neater to their appearance. From Hiokory Station, the shipments average almost a car load a day, bringing to the railroad about twenty dollars. Those shipped from that station are from Catawba, Caldwell and Ah&oud? 7 bounties. They are sent, prin cipally to Boston oqd Philadelphia, and I raw bales directed to Chicago and Re- tprifc From Mr. Henry Wilfong, an enterpris ing merchant at Hickory Tavern, I learned that he was raying the following prices for the ywi.118 8*40!^ m&fcmjm ft® neighbors fbphrougljt them to for hgiter in greater or less quanties. It will be seen that many of these articles are tc be found qreat abundance to onr section, and Id be gathered with more profit: Roots—Angelico 6 cents; Blood 6 cents; Butterfly 10'cents; Indian Turnip 10 cents; Pink 20 cents; Wormwood 13 eents; Snake 25 to 50 cents; Parsley 14 cents. Leaves—Sage 12 cents; Boneset 5 cents; Cnmfrey 10 cents; Elder flowers 10 cents; Thornapple 10 cents. - Berries and seed —Prickly-ash, 20 cents; Sumac 6 cents; Snnflower seed 12 gents; Watermelon seed 10 to 12 ’ cents; 'Pnckly hark 10 cento. Blodgett’s Appointment. According to '‘Quondam,” the Georgia correspondent of the New York Times, prominent Republican Legislators are Tery much outraged at Bullock's appointment of Blodgett as Treasurer of tho State Road. They say “if he goes much further in tho same direction he will certainly be impeach* ed and convicted.” Contracts with Citizens of Rebel States. Judge Lowell, pf MMrachuseRs, has just made a decision of much im{io'rUhce in re- tatien to tho validity of contracts with the citizens of rebel States. In 1862,the bark Lamplight was destroyed by the Alabama. Among her owners were four citizens ot Itatcs. Mr. Payne, the master, col lected the insurance and paid it to the own er jiyipg in Me^phuratis; holding that those living ip the rpbei Spites had po tjti? to participate. One of the four owners,who lived in Sooth Carolina, recently brought suit against Mr. Payne’s administrators, 1 and now recovers by the decision of the court, ■=^-T Chinese as Laborers, Letter Itreon Cm. Maarjr. Lexington, Va.. July 10,1860. G. W. Gift, Esq,—Dear sir: ITonr letter of the 5th reached me this morning too lite, owing to our mail connections, for my reply to reach yon to time for your meet ing of the 13th. , Chinese labor is mnch more ii.telligent, skillful and effective than negro labor, and I consider the introduction of it, nuder proper regulations, would be highly bene ficial to the South. -rrs fint After Jamaica,; Trindad is the largest of the British West India Islands, and that it did hot pine and dwindle as ' Jamaica has done, is, I am assured by residents there, chiefly owing to the introduction cf. labor. nese arethe most faithful crest ’ world. I have beeniu the have paid gome attention to their trials '- of character. As domestics and-AgBorers, gardeners, and cultivators of the >ieil gen erally, they are not surpassed by-any other people. From the first that acme, I like to haveacook'knd two house servant*? Please let me kuow how to proceed to or der to procure good ones, and oblige yours truly. M. F. Maury. Protestantism In Spain. A letter to the New York Times, from Madrid, rays: The Spanish Protestant Chinch here is making steady progress. It is now con ducted in a large hall in the Calls Madera Bajo, Np. 8, capable of holding qver Qne thousand persons. Services are held in' Spanish Thursday evening and twice on Sundays. Pastor Root's congregation keeps np. Last Sunday morning, for to* stance, I was therewith the thermometer at over one 100 degrees Fsrenhoit, and yet every sitting and standing place was occu pied, even out {beyond the door and into the street. So intense was the Interest that not oce of the one thousand or eleven hundred persona present tried to leave the room, notwithstanding the intense heat. ■ rw—■■ - r .ABASIA ELECTION*. maj cal, 5,848. Pioquez, Democrat, waa elect- ed to the Legislature. Montgomery city gives Buckley, Radi cal, for Congress, 3,085, and Woithy, Dem ocrat, 1,015. Mobile, Ang. 4,—Mann’s majority Mobile, as'far as heard from is 1,459, with several precinct? .to be heard from. The county will probably give 1,800 majority for Mann. AT V-~'q 1/ 0-3 from the Court Bouse of Bald- aajoritiee The returns from the first Dig- '«rtitssra5JisstK£32s gresa m tins city resulted as follows : m • , r.- - . - , . - f I ~ ■- nrm TT 1_ D,I- The Third District is very close, and one . - ^•^'-'DnaervaLve^d,108; Buck, Rad hundred votes will probably decide. ’ state that a negro mob took Old Jesse.—The number and variety of stories which are told °f old Jesse Grant, ths individual to whom we are indebted for oar present stable Government, are post computation. Here is the last one : A young man over to Covington the oth er day met and accostedold Jesse, ahhongh ignorant as to who ho was and requested him to famish hint with change for a five dollar, bill. He acceded, and while malting the necessary transfer, being loath to |ooy an opportunity for making himself known, he toqk occasion to say, “Young man, do you know that yon are talking.to the father of the greatest man to this conntry ?” fc.o was immediately informed by the par ty addressed that he was not aware that he stood in the presence of one who had that prond distinction. “Yes resumed the gar rulous Jesac, handing pv« the’desired change, “l am the father of the most illus trious hero this oouutry ever produced.” The young man looked at him for a moment with an expression of grave astonishment on his face, and then exclaimed, “What, you don’t tell me your are the father of Stonewall Jackson ?” ! The paternal author of onr President tamed upon his heel and- wslked away supremely disgusted.—Gincm natti Enquirer. possession of the polls, beat a white man, and preventedany Democratic negroes from voting. There were a few riots that the Sheriff coold not eontroll. .That ■ precinct >4. 'gives Buckley 220 majority. * ; A private telegram from Montgomery, Alabama, addressed to a government jfl| cer in 'Washington, says that Buckley, the Montgomery Distriot, Back, of Mobile, and Hays, Radical, are elected to Coe- gfess. The third District is doubtful. Ma son, Elmore, and two other counties give Republican majorities. The full return from Lee county has not yet been received; as far as heard from, Parkinson. Democrat, has 1,000 majority. .'_ Selma, Ala., Aug. A—The election passed off qnietly. The reports from sev eral beats show a considerable falling off from the vote of last year. The vote in this city resulted as follows j • Buckley, Republican, 2,038; Mann 571. Republi can loss 511; Democratic loss 182. In Union beat Mann has 328, Bock none. Montgomery, Ang- 4.—The election news is meagre. As far as heard from, the vote is less than last year.. The probabili ties ate in favor of Parkinson, Democrat, in the Third District, by a handsome ma jority. The contest between Worthy, Democrat, and Bnekley, Repnblican, to the Second District, will be mnch closer than expected, and the latter’s friends are fearful of his de feat on account of thegreat falling off in the negro vote. In Dallas county tho entire vote was for Back, 5,732; for Mann 1,339 In the same county last fall the vote for Grant was 7,135. For Seymonr 1779. The rads have fallen off 1403 and the Democrats 440, In the 5th District, Judge Dox, Demo crat, is nndonbtedly elected, His majority iq Ohetokee eaonty is re ported to he 550; in Calhoun 357; Etowah 275- At Cedar Bluff Dox received 78, Haralson none At Center Dox vote just two to one Cross Plains, Dox 114, Haral son none. Jacksonville Dox 413, Haral son 356—a.large number of whqrp yfere railroad hands. It ig helieved that tho following Rem>, crats are elected to Congress : Mann to the 1st District, Parkinson in the 3d and Dox in the 5th. Prom the If aeon Journal and Messenger Aug, f How the Crepe Look from LypcMurg to From a gentleman living ip this city, who has jnst returned home via Lynchburg and Knoxville, we learn the following con iine the crops in that section. In Vir ginia toe grain crop jnst 'harvested shows au extraordinary yiejd—by fqr the largeat since tho war; qqd in several ooontleB the yield of wheat surpasses ^ that of any year previous or doling the war. The tobacco seen along the railroad from Alexandria to Bristol, Tennessee; looks finely and promis ee weU- The ooru- to this same section looks equally good, aad will prodnoe un- Fiom Bristol to Knoxville, and along the road to Cleveland and Dalton, owing to the drouth of the past month,the wheatjnst thrashed out has not done so well,the berry being yejy small, although the yield was rather more than average one. The crop, also, from lack of nun, is hardly np to mark, bnt a few good showers will doubt less relieve many minds^is far as a small yield is concerned. From Atlantq,dQWq oq the Macon and Western Railroad, the gotten looks beanti* tolly—small but healthy stana,well flowered oat,'and every evidence of a good yield. The corn, although somewhat behind that to Tennessee to size, still is withont the blistered and twisted apoearance of the lat- r,qu<j> vitLout qopbf, will shownsplen- cjowip.' An Awtul Goar.—Snooks got off the fol’owing dreadful “goak” yesterday, after taking a drink of ic? water, with * fy W Why is a fellow that take* his lunch to a drinking saloon every day like an instru ment for indicating the weather? ■ Ana.—Because he is a bar-room eater! (barometer.) Urtftl HtaU, dissolved to skim milk . restore crape. Ribbons of every kind should be washed to oold suds and not rinsed. Ifyour flat irons are rough mb them with fine salt and it will make them perfectly smooth. If you are buying a c»fpet for durability choose small figures. A bit of soap rubbed on the hiogea of a door will prevent its creaking. Scotch snuff pnt to holes where crickets come out will destroy them. Wood ashes and - common salt wet wift water will prevent the cracking of* stove. - ;.i. Strong lye pat in water will make it soft as rail water. t-> Half a cranberry, it is said, bound on a corn will soon kill it. Igj)r. John Early, of Virginia, one of the bishops of the M. E. Chnreh, South, is dangerously ill at his home in Lynch- First Bale—Our telegraphic report ag nonnees the receipt of new eottoo. It caste from Texas, and was received at the same port on the 10th of August. Leva’s Pap. ' There has been enrolled oyer one hun dred negro applicants for appresttoeahlpto the GovernnieDt Printing (wee to Wash ington since the decision of the Chief of the Bureau in their favor. Of this large number only nine were needed in the offiee. Cuffee is an apt scholar—a striptij iwitative animal—an dp* goop found that Govern ment pp was good for blaehl 5 a» well as whites. In fact, be loves papas strongly and yearns after it aa ardently as your reg ular sirtoapnre carpet-bagger. SWOtct a hundred wagons passed through Matiooe, * Illinois, raeeatiy, the teamsters being bound for Missouri to gath er honey. Mobile, August 6.—Last night a seri ous riot occurred in this city, beginning at an put-door radical mfleiiqg, to celebrate the triumph of the radical candidate for this Congressional District. The meeting was a large one—all ne groes except a few white leaders. Daring the whole of yesterday, ramora were in cir culation that the negroes were very mnch excited, defiant and threatening, and meant to born the Democratic candidate fop - Con-, gross, Col. Mann, iq effigy. Several Citizens called on the Mayor and somp <?f tho Radical leaders, and advised them that it would be better to . postpone the meeting; for if the effigy throat wascar- riedjeut the white people coold not he re sinned from an attempt to rosent the in dignity by force. It was thought that these representations had the d®S>rad ef fect, aqa there would he no meeting. At eight o’clock the tar barrels were light, and the negroes began to flock . in until they swelled into a crowd of a thousand or fifteen hundred. Many of them came arm ed with gnus, hut a majority of them with concealed weapon^—pistol?,'kniYes »°d ra zors. Nothtog occurred to disturb the harmo ny of the meeting, except the inflammatory talk of the carpet-bag speakers, until about ten o’clock', when a jocose' dispute between (NO cltisens, pq a subject entirely foreign to politics, or the meeting, attracted some attention, and to pressing np to see what it was about, a white accidentally trod’ on tho foot of a negro. Jnst as the altercation abont this was set tled, a pistol shot was heard, *qd this was the signal far q general firing. The whole orowd dispersed immediately. The firing was continued a few moments, as the crowd scattered, and to ten minutes a dead qui et reigned, broken only by the tread of white patrols. A detachment of United States troops were stationed at the guard house ag the reqapat of thq Mayor, to an ticipation of trouble; they took no put to the fray except to march up town to look after and pnt a stop to some firing. It is not known who fired the first shot. It was the natural result of the excitement. There were not OTer a hundred white men OS lookers on at the meeting! The easaal- ties were small, considering tie number of ALABAMA. Montgomery, Ang. 4.—Enough re- tarns have been received to indicate the certain election of ParkinsoD, Democrat, by several hundred vot*3 in the third district. Buckley, Radical, is elected in this dis trict. | I 1 - ri- Fennsylvanina. •Philadelphia, August 5.—Patterson’s bonded warehouse, on the foot of Lom bard St. containing 40,000 barrels of whis ky was burned. Loss_about eleven mil lion dollars. The fire is attributed to a break in the floor over the engine room. The streets are flooded with burning whis ky, impeding the firemen. Later.—At noon to-day, the fire was still raging, and there is a chanae of it ex tending. Loss now estimated at five mil lion dollars. No liveslort. The Jnniata has gone to sea. The Dic tator sails to-day. The Prrnstitwtira has gone to Norfolk, where she will remain as receiving ship. The double-terreted moni tor, Maintonomah and the steamer Cam bridge are fitting for sea. Markets. New York, August 5.—Stocks steady. Money 6a7. Sterling Exchange 91. Gold 5 *** t ^*S° ; - Flonr dull, unchanged. Wheat le. bet ter. Corn la2c better. Pork doll at 33 00a33.12}. Lard steady; steam 18Ial8}. Cotton qniet at 33?. Liverpool, August 5, noon.—Cotton; firmer; uplands 12Jd, Orleans 13al3Id; sales 12.000 bales. Others unchanged. A Big Thing, A gigantic swindle, involving no less . thaq 115,000,000 acres of public lands, has just been brought to light. A compa ny of speculators^ styling themselves the “Southern Pacific railroad of California,” have, it seems, managed to smuggle into a law of Congress a provision that virtually grants them the dominion and ownership of 115,000,000 a ores of the publio lands. An attempt on their part to seize the land, without building the road designated to the law, haB brought the matter to light,, to the shape of remonstrance from (ho set tlers, which was presented on their behalf to the Commissioner of the Interior,on the 6th nit., by Messrs. Britton Sc Gray.—Sav. Rep. A Negro in the Sayannan Post Or pice.—The Republican, of yesterday, an nounces that for the first time in the histo- ty of Savannah, a negro was on Monday inaugurated in one of the most respecta ble positions of the post office. L. B. Toom- cr has been assinged to the General Deliv ery, the department in which he will be most thrown in contact with onr citizens. We know nothing of his qualifications, bnt it is a rare thing fat. adncxipJL whita nun to possess thataptness for decipheringphiro- grapltynecessary for the correct distribution and delivery of letters, and it is hardly to be expected to an imperfectly educated ne gro. It is rumored to Northern society that Commodore Vanderbilt, now seventy five years of ago, and a widower of a few months’ standing, is about to lead to the matrimoni al alter a miss of sweet sixteen. Doubtless this miss is not alone in desire to become a millionairess. Coffee Owns Sooth Carolina.-In South Carolina a negro Senator recently told a large assembly of his constinents (blacks) : “The white people ray they are going to bring Coolies and white emigrants to this conntry. Bnt this country is ours; we’ve got the Legislature, and we won’t allow it—and we woa’t. We’ll put the white man ten feet under ground, and as to the Coolies, we’Jl put them twenty feet,” shots and the dose quarters. Many shots must have been fired in the air. Three ne groes were killed outright; fonr police offi cers were wounded, also, five negroes and three white men were wonnded. The Mobile Register of this morning com meats onto riot as follows*? M iqw£. f nd Last night’s work, done after our editori al of this morning was in print, is a sharp and quick commentary on to dangers we forecast from to present aspect of affairs. It is a burning sliame that to community should be exposed to outrages tike this.— And the oommunity owes it to itself, to talff) mesratOji to protect itself against a rep etition of them. * As to where the blame lies tore is no room for qnertioo. These deeds are the direst outflow of to maddened passions cf negroes, inflamed aad lashed into fury by the pnblie harangue? aad private instiga tions of to foreign radicals ip our midst. It is a question for the public to decide, how long these incendiaries shall be allow ed to diatarbthe peace o.f society and to safety of women and ohildren. We hope that a public meeting will ije held to an swer these questions. The election tn to first Congressional District is uncertain. It will take to offi cial connt to decide. Montoomeuy, August 6.—The returns are still meagre, but enough is-known to tender it certain that Buckley and Hays, Radicals, have been elected in the Second sad Fourth Districts, by negro majorities. Dox and Sherron, Democrats, are elected in the Fifth qnd Sixth districts, by whit* Sea Gulls in Augusta.—There must have been a stormy time Seaward, says the Chronicle of Tuesday. Flocks of sea gulls have been seen passing over the city for the past two or three days aad several have been shoe by our amateur sportsmen. These birds are “curiosities of Nature” in these parts. •a_The following hearty words spoken by Mr, Peabody, in response to tlie onmpli- ihu ment paid him at the White Snlphnr I Springs in Virginia, have a special sig- ■ nificance in these days of Radical oppres sion: I should be glad, if * my strength permited,to speak of my own cordial esteem and regard for the high honor, in tegrity and heroism of the Southern peo ple. At the Foot of the Hill. — Geuer- j al James Longstreet, the Surveyor of the : port at New Orleans, has nominated an-1 other colored man for position in his office, ; which nomination will be Confirmed by Secretary Boutwell. S&-There is some talk in Washington of a plan to re-establish the District of| Colombia in its old limits by Congress, on j the reconstruction of Virginia ; resuming | control of thewhelo ten miles square, :n.| eluding the town of Alexandria. It is] said that President Grant favors the pro-j ject. ■STAn exchange says President Grant? has a new policy—provided by an insurance j agent. It is not stated whether the policy! was a presentor not, but be thatas it may,; it is certainly the best policy he everr had. The amount of money sent through the mail by postal money orders is increasing at the rate of one hundred per cent annual ly. This year tho aggregate foot? up thirj ty million dollars against sixteen million* last year, and it is estimated that thiq amount will again double text year. Jt@“A Washington dispatch ofthe 31st says: The chief commotion in the Inter nal Revenue Bures is the selection of stamps for whisky and locks of distilleries and bouded warehouses. There are at least half a dozen different stamps, each one of which claims the pre-eminence, and to number ef samples of looks is enormous. The special boards appointed by to Com missioner to examine and report upon these matters have been changed by adding to or taking from them half a dozen times, mnch to the chagrin of the inveqtors and their friends. The Whisky Stamp Board was changed again to-day, and consists now of five instead of three members.