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JOURNAL AND S. BOSE & S. B. BHRR> KDITOKS AND PROPRIETORS. SU ASCRIPTION BATES. $ 1 00 One «-o|*v «*u«* ruoiitn **" 3 00 “ ** * * * 000 *• “ « 12 00 i- So r LrS=«iVfterMpir»tlon of time paid Tor. ——===»-*» Advertish£ Rat«s as Low as Any MACON, TUESDAY, MAY 29. JOB WOBK. If you want any kind of Job Work, such M Poster-. Bill Heads, Letter Circulars, price Lists, Cards, etc., executed neatly, eheaplv and at once, call at the Daily Journal and Messenger Office. MM J M advertising rates. Owing to the different rates of advertis ing, now charged in the city, we have con cluded to have no regular rates for city merchants; but will make such contracts as we think fair to both parties. Our ehargt-s are ndt more than they were be fore the war. Our circulation - nneonai ed by any in the city, and we hold our selves ready to work as cheap as any. iMH I I produce— Those Who Owe Us. We notify our subscribers that we give them no reason for not settling their in debtedness to us, and are willing to receive any kind of produce, chickens,butter, eggs, hams, flour, etc., in payment. There are thousands of dollars due us by men, whom we know are good and able to pay, and who neglect to do so. We request than to attend to It, as they are not doing us justice. Tfj We areiudebted to Mr. Massenburg tor late New York papers. gST The Atlanta Intelligencer says that freight and passenger rates will shortly be reduced upon the Atlanta and West Point railroad. Deaths in Houston.— We aro pained to hear a report that the Hon. John M. OUes died recently at his residence in Per ry, of a wound received from the horn of a cow, which subsequently gangrened and , . 1 1-1 - nr- quished lawyer and most estimable gen tleman. We also learn with much regret the death of John H. Powers, of the same county—» brother of the late Hon. A. P. Powers, of this county, and well known to our citizens generally. Cuba News— Important, if True.— The Herald announces that the South American Republics of Chili, Peru, Boli ver and Ecuador have formed a combina tion for the purpose of Invading Cuba, and the Cubans are ready to welcome their al lies and strike for independence. More authentic, we presume, is the in formation, in the same paper, that num bers of caves have been discovered in Cu ba this year—the resorts of innumerable bats—containing inexhaustible supplies of guano, which will prove invaluable to the agriculture of the Gem of the sea. The Bureau in S Carolina and Courgia. Our correspon lent, says the Herald, with the Investigating commission of Gen eral* Steadman and Fullerton, writes from Port Royal, S. C., and Savannah, Ga. A far more favorable condition of affairs is noticeable among the freedmen in Port Royal, Edisto and the Hilton Head islands. Under the administration of General Scott, the Commissioner for South Carolina,auatters are progressing very sat isfactorily. The same old story of North ern peculation and malfeasance, however, is told in relating the condition of the Sea Island settlers. In Georgia the report is to the effect that the freedmen’s bureau is an obstacle in the way of kindly feeling between the whites and black. This correspondent reports twenty-five thousand freedmen upon the Sea Island, and about twenty plantations encumbered with valid certificates of freedmen—the remainder being invalid and worthless. He says the experiment of making the ne gro a planter, on his own account, has fail ed miserably and signally. Those who were in a position lost year to raise twenty or thirty bales of cotton, have now not a cent, and are subsisting on charity. He •ays they made miserable crops and were robbed by Northern speculators, under the shadow of the bureau, of the little they did •mak*. The Commssiun were able to sec lat one farm cultivated by fheedmen without the supervision of whites, that was in fair condition. On the farms worked by Northern speculators, the negroes were found to be in most wretched condition—hungry and naked. “In nin cases out of ten,” says he, “where w* have come across a plantation poorly cultivated—the negroes hardly worked and miserably fed—that plantation has been leased for a year or two by a man from Massachusetts.' 1 And yet the same correspondent indulges oceasioually in his pleasant little episodes about the Southern planters gradually learning that the negro to a human being—not a brute or a vegeta ble. Have the planters gained this infor mation from the Northern speculators— Massachusetts lease holders or the bureau Officers and missionaries, whose exploits In the way of benevolence and humanity, be has been recording for the past two months? Which of these busy function aries gave the ignorant Southern planter his first lesson in humanity .* A letter from Scotland repeats an anecdote told by a physician who, having ordered a blister to be put on a patient” chest, called to enquire what had been the effect. “Oh,” replied the brother of the Invalid, have ua kist to put the blis ter on but we put it on a bandbox, and George is well eneuch.” “Well well,” answered th»_ doctor with a grin, “that’s all right if he’s better.” ■ST We are pleased to learn that trans portation between Nashville, Chattanooga and Atlanta is not materially afi'ected bv distraction of the four Chicatnauga bridges on the State Road. Communica tion is sti!l open by rail between Atlanta and Chattanooga via Cleveland and Dal ton. The freignts by this route —though some further—we learn are the same as those charged by the State Road. Whether to Collapse or not. The extraordinary activity of trade fol lowing immediately after the return of neace-aml favored by a very redundant currency—the common idea that over ex citement and inflation must necessarily be following by correspondent reaction—the financial panic in England—the heavy ex portation of specie, and the rapid decline in the value of greenbacks which has amounted to about eighteen cents within a few weeks-have created a very general impression throughout the country that we are on the eve of a general collapse, like those of nine and thirty years ago; but we confess ourselves totally unable to comprehend how it is to be brought about. Individual embarrassments there may and must be. Goods of all kinds, in the hands of manufacturers, producers, merchants and traders will fall in value, and as the demand is very light, many of them may be forced to submit to heavy losses in or der to meet their payments. The two great sections of the country from which the other two were accustomed to draw their wealth, before the days of Shoddy, are now dry. The West can’t do much trading on the present prices of produce, and the South has nothing to trade upon. All of them have united in cleaning us out so thoroughly that we ought, by good rights, to buy nothing for the next twenty years. But all these will be mere commotions upon the surface. They do not, to any vi tal or even material extent, affect either the quantum or the value of the circula ting medium. They are in no respect comparable with one of those great panics in specie-paying times, when millions of the circulating medium—the life-blood of trade-perished in a day, and became, in stead of so many dollars, worthless paper, classed under such euphonious names as "wildcat, catamount, red dog, yaller dog, and dog-fish,” of which it took from half a peck to a bushel to pay for a breakfast. You have your greenbacks, which are a legal tender; and there are a great plenty of them, although they may be scarce enough In this latitude. You have your National Bank notes, too—based on gov ernment security, and which Mr. Spinner has recently demonstrated are better when the banks are broken than when the banks are solvent-a most encouraging state of affairs, when we consider the prevalent opinion about these adventures in bank ing. All these are right until pay day comes, and it is far off yet. How can any thing break with unlimited credit and no chance of being called upon to pay up ? knowing that even a temporary tightness can hardly endure much longer than a similar condition from inebriety. The money is all in the country, and it must seek and find employment. It will not be hoarded—it will not be employed in buy ing gold when gold is scarce and high—it must be kept moving, and it has but to keep in motion and the “stringency” be comes mitigated at once. We confess we don’t see the first chance for the country, in its present condition, to get up an old-fasliioned, general collapse. It can’t be done. The necessary condi tions do not exist. Men who have been buying too much or living too fast may break—currency may depreciate to a mod erate extent-trade remain very dull awhile—goods, wares, merchandise and la bor go down —but the great amount of the representative of value in trade (called currency,) will remain materially undis turbed and be the more eager for employ ment on account of the temporary stagna tion. English Railways. The Westminster Review, for April, has a strong article in advocacy of so sweeping a “Railway Reform” for England, as shall transfer the property in, and man agement of the English railways, to the Government, upon just compensation —the Government having reserved a right of purchaseafter a periodof twenty-one years, by an act of Parliament passed in 1844, after giving three months’ notice, and upon payment of a sum equal to twenty-five years annual purchase of the divisible profits, estimated upon an average of the three preceding years. The cost of the purchase on this basis is computed at £443,- 000,000. The complaints against the railways, by the Liberal party of Eugland, are founded upon enlarged views of public policy con nected with the elevation of the laboring classes, which, is evident enough, never can or will be met by any system of pri vate enterprise which looks to the quickest and largest returns for outlay. Many in teresting facts are given in this article.— The average cost to the railways of En gland for the transportation of passengers is (reducing to Federal currency) $1 27 per hundred miles, and the common charge for first-class passengers is about three times that sum, but it varies greatly on different roads. The cost of hauling coal is about thirty-three cents per 100 miles, and the actual charge, from three to five times that amount. The estimate of cost includes everything which can enter into the cost and is based upon official re ports. The average of passengers to the train is about fifty, and it is assumed that upon a system of very low fares four hun dred would be transported per train with comparatively little increased expense. The experiments of cheap excursion trains, and of competing roads running in one case so long as eighteen months on a reduction to one-eighth of the ordinary charge, show’s that the actual loss to stock holders in dividends was never greater than half per cent., and it is maintained that if such exceptional and spasmodic re ductions were made universal and perma nent, so that the masses of the English population could adapt life to them, the actual profits of the roads would increase, as in the casse of the system of penny postage, where temporary losses were sub mitted to by government, before the re sults of the reduction could be fully de veloped. But it is useless to anticipate the adoption of any such policy by private companies, which must make certain and regular dividends, or fall into loss and dis grace. Again, it is maintained that the railway interest has already become adau gerous power in the State—that the Com mons numbers among its members now over two hundred railway directors, and it is hardly problematical that this vast pecuniary interest will grow, in time, to control absolutely the legislation of the realm. It is evident that this question is assuming au important place in the do mestic politics of England. [COMMUNICATED.] Horrible Affair in Sumter County. Mrs. Gresham, Sumter county, Ga., a highly intelligent and respectable lady, about thirty years of age, started to a neighbor’s house on a visit, about half a mile distant. When about half way, a ne gro fellow of notoriously bad character in the neighborhood, met her, and drawing a pistol and knife, forced her several miles distant into a dense swamp, whereshe was detained for about thirty-six hours, and brutally outraged. The particulars have scarcely a parallel in the history of crimes, and are too horri ble to relate ; and were made worse by the fact that Mrs. Gresham was near confine ment. , , • At the end of two days and a night the frantic woman was released by her fiend ish captor, who threatened her with death, if it were ten years hence, if she exposed him. After wandering for several hours through the woods and swamps, she came to a house, covered with mud and dirt, completely exhausted, and her mind near ly gone. She was taken home, and the awful ordeal through which she had pass ed was revealed to her husband. The whole country around was then out search ing for her. They were notified and start ed in pursuit of this devil incarnate im mediately, but they failed to arrest him. He, however,returned to the neighborhood a few days ago, was arrested and taken to Americus for his commitment and trial. The outraged wife recognized him. The injured husband could no longer restrain himself; he advanced upon him, and with three well directed shots sent him where such fiends, it is hoped, will meet with punishment commensurate with such crimes. Mr. Gresham was immediately arrested by the authorities, and gave Jbond in the sum of $20,000 for his appearance at the next term of the Court. "Muckalee.” Pen and scissors There are at present only 486 soldiers in Georgia, and good order prevails through out the State. The army rolls snow that Tennessee furnished 28,123 negro troops to the Feder al service during the war. The Natchez Democrat recommends a planters’ convention to secure uniformity in laborers’ wages. An Havana correspondent describes the Island of Cuba as ”the land of the flea and the home of the slave.” **- - - terprise is forming in New York —10,000 miles of wires to go everywhere. At a Sunday school celebration in Brooklyn on the 22d instant, it is esti mated there were 25,000 children in pro cession. At the recent meeting of the Presbytery of Tuscaloosa, Alabama, Mr. William B. Bingham, who was a Confederate soldier, prosecuted his theological studies carefully while a prisoner on Johnson’s island, was licensed to preach. Our readers will re collect that in the officers’ prison on John son’s Island schools for all the various pro fession were diligently carried on. The Gentiles are said to be pouring into Utah in great numbers. They will soon be in majority; in which case Mormonism must either knock under, or else pull up stakes and emigrate to the Sandwich Island. The chief of the Freemen’s Bureau in West Tennessee, General Runkle, admits that the negroes are responsible for the origin of the riot at Memphis. Inter-State Courtesies. In March la9t, His Excellency, Governor Orr, addressed a communication to the Executives of all the States of the Union, informing them of the destruction of the Library of the court of Appeals, and of the Legislative Library in Columbia, by the fire of January, 1860, and requested them to send to his department duplicates of all statutes, codes, journals and reports of the Supreme Courts of their respective States. From nearly all the States, a favorable response was received, and the Governor has had the pleasure of presenting to the Library of the Court of Appeals one hun dred and sixteen volumes. In his letter to the Chief Justice and Associate Justices of South Carolina, His Excellency gracefully observes: “ While I have the liveliest appreciation of the generosity of all the States to whom my appeal was addressed, it is but an act justice that I should specially refer to the very liberal offer from the State of Massa chusetts, of ninety volumes of Massachu setts Reports, ordered by special resolution of the Legislature of that State; from the State of Virginia, of forty-four volumes, also ordered by special resolution of the State of Virginia; from Governor Cony, of Maine, thirty-eight volumes of Maine Reports, and from Governor Jenkins, of Georgia, twenty-six volumes of Georgia Reports. These courtesies between the several States of the Union, embracingall sections, furnish the best evidence of the restoration of friendly feelings, and commend them selves to our unqualified commendation. In reply to this letter, Chief Justice Dun kin writes as follows: Columbia, May 9,1866. Sir: Your communication to the Court of Appeals, on the subject of the Library, has been received, and I am instructed by the Court to express to your Excellency their appreciation of the prompt and effi cient measuresadopted by you. The books already received constituted a valuable ad dition to the library. We concur cordially with your Excel lency as to the manner in which your ap ■ plication to the Executives of the several States was met and responded to. It is worthy of the spirit which characterized our aneient relations, and affords a cheer ing hope of their entire restoration. With great respect, I am your Excellen cy's ob’t serv’t, . ■ • • Bextj. F. Duncan, Chief Justice. It is proper to add here, that the liberal responses from many of the States have not yet been received, but the arrival is daily expected.— Daily Carolinian. More About the Riot in Quincy, Fla. —We learn bv private advices that a riot it Quincy, Fla., on Sunday night last, resulted in the killing- of Jesse W. Dickson, Town Marshal,and the wound ing of four other whites, by freedmen. The extent of this disturbance* we are un able to state, and no more than that a large reward is offered for the apprehen sion of two of the negroes, who were iden tified—Gabe Zeigler, and another. The rumor on our streets is to the affect that freedmen made an organized attack upon the whites, and for effecting their design in a concentrated manner, rang the bells and all whites who left their homes to learn the cause of so unusual an occur rence, were fired upon. The whites there upon gathered on the square and repulsed the freedtnan by an organized attack.— Cambridge Georgian , 23d. . ■ ■•» ‘ Job Work of all kinds neatly, cheaply and quickly executed at the Journal Sc messenger office. Our prices are war* rants reasonable and satisfactory. MARKETS. Journal and Messenger Offkn, l Monday, May 28, 186*. j Our market reports are compiled from different reports, (as some merchants sell cheaper than others,) but are to be rtlied on ; and we will take pleasure in jefer ring any one to the parties giving W quo tations, and they guarantee to sell as quo ted : i 1 . M ACON COTTON MARKET The market is somewhat improved. There is. a fair demand forstriet middlings at 27@32 cents. liacork.— Stock ample, with a good de mand. We quote Clear Sides, 23® 24<y; Hams, 22@25c; Shoulcfers, 18®20c ; Hbg round, 20; Sugar Cured Canvas Hams, 25@30c; Sugar Cured Uncanvassed Hams, 25c. Lard. —The supply continues equal to the demand, which is limited to small or ders. We still quote Prime Leaf in tierces at 20@25c, according to quality. Flour. —The stock remains ample, with a good demand, at unchanged prices. Su perfine, $lO 50@.1l 00; Extra, 11 50@12 00; Extra Family, sl3 00©15 DO, as to quality; Fancy Brands, 16@17. Corn. —In good demand, and stocks We quote, in Targe lots, $1 40; smaller job lots, $1 45. Mixed $1 40; White $1 55. Prime White would command $1 55 by the car load. Corn Meal. —Stocks continue equal to the demand. Prices unchanged, viz: $1 60® 1 75,-according to quantity. Nice.—ln small supply, and nothing do ing, except in a retail vay. We quote Coast, 20c; Country, 15@L6c. Coffee. —Bio in ample supply, and there is a good demand at 32®34c. There is but little Java on the market, and we quote 45® 50c. Rio retails at 40c, and Java at 55. Salt. —Prices are unchanged. Sales oi Liverpool in sacks have been made at $3 <5; by the ft. we quote 2J-@3c. Virginia, in barrels of seven bushels, $7 00 by the quan- Sugar and Molasses.— The market con tinues well supplied with Sugar, and prices are about the same. We quote A Sugar at 23c; B, 22c ; Extra C, 21c : Yellow Cof fee Sugar, 21c ; Crushed and Powered, 26c; Porto Rico, 21@24c; Choice New Orleans, 19@21c: Georgia, 16® 18c. Sorghum Syr up, 56c; Country Cane, 81c. Syrup in better demand. Fish.— Mackerel are scarce, and in good demand, at unchanged prices. No. 1, in kits, $5 00; No. 2, $4 25 ; in J bbls., No. 2, $8 00; No. 3, $7 50; in Jbbls.,No. 1, sl6 50; No. 2, sls 00@16 00; No. 3, sl4 50; in bbls., No. 3, $25 00. Candies.—Supply ample. We quote Star, 25c; Adamantine, 25c ; Sperm, 65c, Para fine, 50c. Butter and Cheese.— We quote Northern Butter at 45®50c; Country, 35@40c.- The demand is good. The stock of Cheese is light, with a fair demand, and prices unchanged. New England Dairy, 34c; Western Reserve, 28c; Hamburg, 29c; New York State, 30. Nails.— ln good supply. We quote, by Iron!— SVial?? loi®l] n j fic hes, B©l2Jc; stock ample. 4 to 12 inches, 15c; stock ample. Plough Steel, 4 to 12 inches, in good supply, 15@lHc. Axes, s22per dozen; Trace Chains, $1 75 pair. Both in good supply. Shot. —We quote Drop at $4 50; Buck, $5 00. Teas.— The market continues well sup plied, at unchanged prices, and with only a limited demand. We quote Black, in chests, at $1 25©1 50, as to quality; Green, in chests, $1 25@1 75; 6tolo ft cans, $1 75. Faints and Oils.—We quote Linseed at $2 00 per gallon ; Tanners’, $1 75.. White lead, sls®2sper cwt. Glass—B by 10, $8 50 per box ; 10 by 12, $9 50 ; 12 by 16, sll 00 ; 12 by 18, sl2 50; 11 by 15, $lO 50; 25 by 35, $25 00. Putty, 15c per pound. Bagging and Hope. —We quote Gunny, 35c® 36; Kentfcky, 34@35c. Richardson’s Green Leaf Rope, 19c; St. Louis, 20c. Stock ample. Tobacco. —Common, 30@50c; Medium, 60@85e; Prime, 95c©$l 25; Choice, $1 50 ©1 75. Supply large. Smoking, 40c@ $1 30. Demand good, especially for the lower grades. Hides. —We quote Dry Hides at 10c. and Green at sc. ft. Leather. —In good supply, at the follow ing quotations: Harness, 40@45c —the lat ter figure fora choice article; Upper s3o@ 50 per dozen; Kip Skins, S4O dozen; Sole, 15@25c lb; Prime Oak Sole. 45@ 50c; S-lcirting, 60c lb; Bridle, $45@65 dozen. Domestics. —Macon Sheetings, 25@26c; Augusta, 24@25c; Yarns, Nos. 8 to 12, $2 50@2 75c. per bunch. Liquors. —We quote Whisky—Recti fied Corn, $2 50 per gallon; Rye, $4 50 %,7 00; Bourbon, by the case, sl2 50. Hen nessy Brandy, $9 00@12 00; Gin, $3 00; Rum, $3 50; Am eri canJßrandy, $4 00@ 4 50 %Jgallon; Woll'e’sSchiedam Schnapps, per case, sl7 00 for quarts, $7 00 for pints; Port Wine, $3 70(0>6 00; Maderia, $8 00; Wolfe’s Otard 1860 Brandy, S2O 00 case. Stock equal to demand. The following Bonds are still in demand, at unchanged prices, viz: Central R. R. Bonds, 95@97£. South-western Railroad, 95@95|. Georgia 7 cents (New Issue) 86@90. Old Georgia 6’s (Short) • 82J@85 City of Macon, 80 STOCKS. South-western Railroad, 05 to 95| Macon and Brunswick R. R.,37£@40 Georgia R. R. Stock, 80 Gold, 135 Silver, 125 Coin advaning, with fair demand. SIGNATURE WITH A CROSS MARK.— The mark which persons who are unable to write are generally in the habit of making instead of their signature, was referred to recently in an exchange as an illustration of the ignorance of ancient times —and the fact that this practice was formerly followed by kings ami nobles was spoken of as affording additional proof of that ig norance. There is some truth in this, but 'the signature of the cross was not invaria bly a proof of ignorance. In the middle ages the use of this mark was not confined to illiterate persons, for among the Saxons the mark of the cross was attached to the signature of those who could write their names, as an attestation of good faith, and also served as the mark of those who were unable to write. In those days, also, if a man could write, or even read, it was gen erally taken for granted that such knowl edge could only belong to one wbo was in holy orders. The clericus (whence is de rived the word clerk) became synonymous with penmen; and this personage general ly all the writing that was to be done with in a wide district of country. But this was not much. Asa natural consequence, the laity, who were not clerks, did not feel the necessity for the use of letters, and many well-informed persons were unable to write. The ancient use of the cross ac cordingly became universal, alike by those who could and those who could not write. It was the symbol of an oath from its re ligious associations. It is in reference to this usage that the editor of the Pictorial Shakespeareexplainstheexpression, “God save the mark,” as an ejaculation similar in character to an oath—an explanation which certainly appears plausible.—Jour nal Commerce. Constitutionality of the Test Oath. —The Savannah Republican of Tuesday reports the argument of District Attorney Hetfry S. Fitch, in reply lo Gov. Brown and Judge Law upon the Constitutionality of the Attorney’s Test Oath. The Court has not rendered its decision. In 1860, Illinois produced only six bales of cotton. The total yield in 1865 is estimated at 10,000 bales, twice as much as was exported annually from the whole country at the beginning of the century; twice as much as wasgrowu by Kentucky, and nearly as much as Virginia in 1860. The cotton is said to be equal to that of Tennessee in quality. BY TELEGRAPH TO THE JOURNAL AND MESSENGER ispatches. REBELLION IN THE HOUSE. Washington, May 27.—1n the House yesterday, the Tax Bill being under con sideration, Mr. Thad. Stevens offered an amendment taking from the Secretary of the Treasury the appointment of special Conurikeioner of the Revenue and provid ing that the latter officer shall be elected by Congress. Mr Stevens remarked that he offered the amendment because the Secretary had said he would appoint to office only those who support the President. It was true (Mr. Stevens said), to build a wall to pro tect those who support us . The Secretary was a recreant tool of a recreant Presi dent. Mr. Hale, (Republican) reproved Mr. Stevens and showed that Congress has no such power of appointment. Mr. Delano, (Republican) defended the Secretary, who was not a slave, and thus prevented from speaking his sentiments. Dare he not have an opinion of his own? Must we all square opinions by a regular line at Nthe dictation of an individual. Just such acts as these of Mr. Stevens were creating a very bad sentiment throughout the country. Stevens, thus discomfitted, withdrew his amendment, promising to renew it on Monday. NEW YORK. Mew York, May 27,—The city is re markably healthy. All fear of cholera seems abated. Gen. Robt. Andsrson (I ort Sumpter Anderson) is severely ill here. GREAT CONFLAGRATION. Oil City, May 27.—Half the business portion of the city is in ashes, including seventy-five stores, eight hotels, forty dwelling houses, a church and seminary. The loss amounts to millions. HABEAS CORPUS. Toronto, May 27.—The writ of habeas corpus has been granted in the case of a Fenian prisoner and made returnable next week. DAVIS’ COUNCIL. Fortress Monroe, May 27—O’Conner arriyed here to-day. r unr.iGiN jNEYVS. New York, May 27.—Steamship City of Boston arrived here to-day from Liver pool 27th. In the Liverpool Cotton sales of the last two days are reported at 13,000 bales. Middlings up lands 13@13}. Consols 86f@87J. U. S. Five-Twenties 65^@66. GENERAL NEWS. The war question remains unchanged, though the chances of a European Con gress are improving. More failures are reported. In both Houses of Parliament the bom bardment of Valjjaraiso has been noticed in terms of indignation*; but the neutral attitudes of the British Admiral was de fended and fully endorsed by the govern ment. The English press and people loudly de nounce the act os Spain. An indignation meeting at Liverpool adopted strong reso lutions of protest, and also returns \ ex pressions of gratitude for the exertions of Commander Rogers of the U. 8. Navy. FROM BRAZIL. Washington, May 27.—The State De partment has received information that the Brazilian Government was resolved to open the coastwise traffic to ships of ali nations. SPECIE SHIPMENTS. New York, May 27.—The Specie ship ments of Saturday were nearly six millions and -of Wednesday over five millions— making the total shipments of the week eleven millions. This is the largest ship ment of specie ever made from this port in one week. , Night -Dispatches. CONGRESSIONAL. Washington, May 28.—Nothing done in the Senate to-day. In the House a resolution was adopted directing the Secretary of the Treasury to report the amount of gold sold since May Ist, and at what rates, and also what agents were employed therefor. Williams submitted a preamble and resolutions requesting information from the President as to whether any govern ment ee, in the Southern States has offered public honors to dead or living Confederates. Nicholson objected to the resolution, and it was laid over. Thad. Stevens introduced a bill declar ing that the States lately in rebellion have forfeited their rights under the Constitu tion, and cau be re-instated in the same only through the action of Congress. It provides that they may form valid Govern ments, the present ones being continued for municipal purposes until they shall be duly altered, and their Executives and Legislatures recognized. Constitutions are to be formed by Conventions, and sub mitted to the people, a majority of whom is necessary for ratification. All male per sons above 21 years of age to vote. No Constitution is to be presented for Con gressional sanction which denies civil rights to any person, The bill was committed to the committee of the whole on the state of the Union. Thad. Stevens offered, a resolution in structing the Committee to double the pensions of Federal soldiers. Resolutions directing the committee to extend the provisions of the pension laws to Provost and Deputy Marshals and Eu rollingofflcers killed or disabled. The reso lution not being modified, so as so make it one of inquiry, it was dropped— yeas 65, nays 55. Whaley-offered a resolution directing the Committee on Printing to report a bill lim iting the hours of labor for employees in the Government Printing Office, to eight hours per day—rejected. Lynch, from the Committee on Banking and Currency, reported against exempting the currency of State Banks outstanding the Ist of July, from the tax of 10 per cent, imposed law —laid on the table. During. the debate Saturday, Thad. Ste vens referred to a recreant and apostate Senator, and was understood to mean Doo little of Wisconsin. TRIAL OF COL. PAULDING. Washington, May 28.—The general Court-Martial, Gen. Augur presiding, con vened to-day, to try Lt. Col. Paulding for depositing Government funds in the Mer chant’s National Bank. TRIAL OF JEFFERSON DAVIS. Washington, May 28* —The stated counsel of Jefferson Davis will demand an immediate trial, and if the Government asks postponement, which is possible, they will demand his release on bail, and are ready to give bond to the amount of $lO,- 000,000. STEAMSHIP LINES. New York, May 28.—The interest f>f Messrs. Spoffard, Tilleston & Cos., in the Havannah steamships, the Brazil steamers and the Savannah Empire lines have passed under the controll of Messrs. Gar rison & Allen, of this city. THE DERBY RACES. New York, May 28.— The Derby was won by Lord Lyons, brother of St. Albans. 24 horses were started. PRINTING CLOTHS. New York, May 28. —Providence, Rhode Island advices states the sales of printing cloths during the week were 34,500 pieces, at an advance of 2@3 ets per yard. DECREASE IN DEPOSITS. New* York, May 28. —Bank statements show a decrease in deposits of eight and a half million. NEW YORK MARKETS. New York, May 28. — A sharp decline in Erie Stocks is reported, based upon appre hended call for a special meeting of the directors to-morrow. Stock was at 62} at the second meeting of the board. Rumors of troubles and over issues are darkly hinted. There is increased activity in Petroleum and Mining Stocks to-day, with a general advance in prices. Flour dull; State 7 30@8 80; Ohio 9 40@9 45; Southern 10 80@16 75. Wheat dull. Mixed Corn de clined I@2 cents. Beef steady. Pork buoyant at 30^75©30 75} per hundred. New York, May 28.—Cotton steady. Gold 137}. Sterling dull. Banker’s loans (60 days) 9}. MOBILE MARKETS. Mobile, May 28.—Sales of cotton to-day nominal. No disposition on the part of buyers to operate. Rev. Dr. J. P. B. Wilmer, of Elk Ridge, Maryland, on the 18th inst. was elected Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Diocese of Louisiana. Bishop Lay was the only other principal candidate voted for. BgL, The bill for reducing the rate of in terest of the national debt, and for fund iug the same, which was recently intro duced by Mr. Sherman, and which was approved by the Secretary of the Treasury, has been reported from the Committee on Finance, and is now before the Senate for consideration. List of Consignees per M. & W. R. R. Macon, May 28, 1860. G Bernd, Burdick & H, P B & Cos, D Daly & Bro, Bowdre & A, Russell <6 P, H P Redding & Cos, G l' R & Sons, Lawton &L, Flanders & H, S Waxel baum & Bro. * New Advertisements. A notion Sales THIS DAY, TUESDAY, AT 10 O’CLOCK, BY LONGLEY & WALSH. R. B. CLAYTON, Auctioneer. may29-lt Sight Exchange on New York AT PAR. AT First National Bank of Macon, W. W. WRIGLEY, may29-lt* Cashier. BACON! BACON!! 5 CASKS PRIME WESTERN SHOULDERS, 5 do Dried Salted Shoulders, 2,000 lbs. Ga. Cured Hams, 2,000 Sides, 2,000 “ “ “ Shoulders. FLOUR. 250 bbls. Flour all Grades. FOR SALE LOW BY SEYMOUR, JOHNSON & CO. may 29-. St "BACON AND FLOUR? A LARGE SUPPLY JUST RECEIVED. Call If You Wish a BARGAIN. J. N. SEYMOUR. may29-lt CHANGE OF SCHEDULE^ Centrai. Railroad, > Macon, Ga., May 28,1866./ ON and after Wednesday, May 30, a Daily Train will leave for Station No. 13. Central Railroad, at 11:15 A. M„ connecting with Brown &Co.’sSt,age Line for Station No. 11, Central R. It., where they connect with the Central Train arriving at Savan nah at 6:05 the following day. A Dally Train will also leave Station No. 13,Cen tral R. It., at 10:lfe A. M., for Macon, arriving here at 2:25 P. M. The above Trains will meet at Gordon, and con nect with the Train for Milledgcvtlleand Eatonton. Freight, to go by Passenger Train, must be prepaid and delivered at the train thirty (30) minutes be fore It leaves. By order of the President. G. W. SCATTERGOOD, may29-lw Road Master. A CARD. TirK now occupy the “old Stand" of R. P. Mo- IV Lvov, on Mulberry St,., which was built EX PRESSLY for a Crockery Store, and respectfully call the attention of our friends and customers to the removal, which was made to obtain room for the exhibition of our new and splendid Stock of Goods, lately bought In New York at greatly re duced prices, and which will be sold correspondly. Our first irriportatation of Foreign Goods will be received on or nbont the 15th of July, after which time we will deal almost exclusively with the Potteries of Europe. We can offer rare inducements to Country Mer chants, and invite them especially to call and ex amine our Stock, which will comprise a general assortment of Crockery, French, China, Parisian Granite, Yellow and Rockingham Ware, French and American Glass Ware, Lamp Goods, Keroslne Oil, etc., etc. Respectfully, may 29-fit WALKER & FLINT. New Advertisements. State of Georgia Bonds, NEW ISSUE, FOR SALE AT THE First National Bank nf Macon. npHESE BONDS can bo ex«h a W|d »t optlrai of 1 the holder, at any time before they matons. for w sy ““ 6 * rori-ANT. r—T. A Good Chance to Invest Yoor A Tone. County all under fence. One hundred Lerea HeS the balance well Umbered. It 1- good farming land. adaptM for CotU.n or Well watered, and for pasture purpose*, uusur nassed It Is the proper distance from town for a andVinevard. Society good, loca tea?*" V« B M omju™ WP.J. u, "asjasßs* “ "s°bwk. Water Falls-Newest Pattern*. THEY may be found at the corner of Eighth and Buy streets, of the latest Parisian consist of a moderate sized Terra pißHhel h. *2 which either extra hair or feathers oan hv a newly Invented Chinew Cement, twl *oon, & the number is limited, and demand very ac # and elegance^f°the^irtlcK o, Ladl'®» wUl* sonally? No specimens sent examination. MAD. LOU JRK' AlA may 29-2t* STRAYED or STOLEN, aDout twelve years. Ha Id Mare has a scar a eight Inches long on her right fore-leg. Any one returning her will be liberally rewardjd.AJ»d any Information concerning thankfully received. C. C. CHAMur-iws. may29-:itdh NOTICE. ASffiSKSSSK liberally OFFICt may29-lt ' FOR RENT. SEVERAL very pleasant DWELLINGS on Col lege Hill. m ALSO, THE WAGON YARD, with Buildings and.Gar den attached, on the V 1 neville Bram h "sygX'-“ and ‘--yg.'rsga&Rw.K. NOTICE. -- V « uertsoy noil lieu not u> pay any note or account unless presented by me or mv written transfer on the back of them. And the public are warned not to trade for any note made payable to me, without my transfer. Souie °ma > yI J -/wi a “* ° Ut ° f J/^TbURGE. Mineral Waters. • ■■■—— —• • • CONGRESS WATER, E mpir e W ater, Oak Orchard Acid Water, Rockbringe Alum Water. FOR SALE BY MASSENBURG, SON & HARRIS. may27-tf WOOL! WOOL!! I AM PREPARED TO EXCHANGE GROCERIES AND PROVISIONS For Wool free of burs, and will allow Twenty (20) Cents per pound for any quantity delivered to me in Macon. J. N. SEYMOUR. Macon, May 27. 6t COOK’S HOTEL, CENTRALLY LOCATED, Corner Broad and Crawford Sts., COLUMBUS, GA. SHIVERS, WYNNE A CO., PROPRIETORS. No pains or expense spared for the comfort of guests. Barber Shop, Warm and Cold Baths In the Hotel. mayZT-tf 1,000,000 Pounds of Wool W ANTED, For which the HIGHEST MARKET PRICE will be paid, by E. A. WILCOX, may27-dlw*w2t INSTORE. 25 Bbls. CANE SYRUP, 40 Bush. Choice SWEET POTATOES, 20 Boxes LEMON SYRUP, Just received and for sale by :J. H. ANDERSON <fc SON. may26-tf Tennessee Extra Family Flonr. 75 Sacks best Tennessee Family Flonr, 75 Bbls. Superfine Extra and XXX Flour, 300 do Lime, 200 Bales choice Timothy and Herdagrasa Hay, 50 Reams Wrapping Paper, 20 Bbls. White Beans, 200 Bushels Ground Peas, 40 Boxes Chewing Tobacco, 5 Cases Dixie Smoking Tobacco, In store and for sale low hv jnay26-3t* McCALLIE, JONES A DAY. AT NEW YORK COST. BOOTS and SHOES. WfK are now offering a large and well *•’*** t *’' l V V stock of BOOTS AND SHOES AT NEW YORK COST. Our stock consists of the latest styles of ladles' Shoes. Gentlemen's Calf, Kid and Patent leather 80-its and Shoes. Also, a full assortment of Staple Goods for Planter’s. Country Merchant* would do" well to call and ex amine our Stock before purchasing. w . . , _ , ANDERSON A WOODS, West aide Third, bet. Mulberry A Cherry Stt. may2s-10t * 100 I Linen Duck 8 J Os superior quality, and custom-work, and at ONE-HALF THE qJ 50 1 SUITS of GRASS Lsj I VERT m t just the thing for Ih* . . 300 BROWN LINEN SIJ 5 . AND j OF ALL GRAM - FRENCH DRAB DtETE I AND I PANTs CLOTH COATS DOE SKIN White and Black Silk W Another large lot of th# ah*> fine quality ami sty!#. ju«t re.*; „•. WINSHIF A CAU. \ A t ; . Summer Cassini ere Sr* A LARGE ■TOCK—aELI.Iv, nr». 100 suits FJtitY um Anew lot, suitable for Ftw4«ws CALL TO-DAY AND GET BARGAINS. WINSHIP & CALLAWAY may 14-tJulyzi First Class Mercta Tuhm THE undersigned ha* te.w te K -• of the largest and mwt <opq >•- - CLOTHS, CASBIMERK-. Vl>T Ac., ever offered in the market I* *: -i in part of Broad Cloths, both black and - Doeskin, Fancy El-Buff Cassiniere-, - new,) Austrian Battise, elegant for - in.. French Somone* ami Rmal Mt< - meres, superb for suits, English Corduroy, light and and Latest styles Silk, Ca-hmere an. X** les Vestings, Also, Marseilles suitable for *u.u These GOODS, will he triune- * made up in the best possible mao* * am determined to be surpa—ed -y t J. i. s*n: Draper and Tailor, s- -nd * apr2l-tf J. F. TROUTMAN'S Livery Stnhl» PL UM ST., oppotUt Puurvpr CARRIAGES. Phwtons, Bur. • hire at the following rales, Carriages per day do do Buggy and Hone per day... do do V* and» ... Saddle do per do do do ), d<> A. W. CUAFXAV sr may22-tf _____ Building Lot for 5 • VAC ANT LOT, North Cor. Mulberry and 2: i Apply to I. C. FLA** mayii-iot* iSforlcK. assistant as>- ■* T* r.s. inti. Mmaa, t>*.. *•’ «* I am now prepared to rr. • and enumerated articles, fur l-» UMS, to May Ist. IMS. Also, all application* fur !-’<• •>» P * ed by the 10th of Jane uexL W.J *• Am'l A—e— »r. >W» tM]4Ml* 14 0,000 SII IN' % WANTED ! • r Bridge. j, * KJ.T. i > XT. > f“s XV.OKIKH. )tr I „myis-2w STOP THE THIEF STOLEN oat of mr kit In Crnw*>*d<' miles north of Knoxville, win. i 19th Inst., my small errant-rotorel lb four years old, raised hr Isaac I«r«n the sale of bis estate. The Horne t« la-» ' 1 order, with some mark* from sholdera and sides. Alan. a *addf* • ' - - die cloth. I will pav a literal iv* »rd *«' ery of the Horse, Saddle and Tbi»* them to me. J. C.VsTU Ft* l msyn-lw* COW WANTED A GOOD MILCH COW, with a young - be purchased from a responsible eeOrc. *' * ing at the oflks of tbs a JOURNAL AND M T****' may36-tf