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* ■« THE DAILY SUN. Thursday Morning June 15. Attorney General Akerruan has arrived at bis home in Cartersville. The Cartersville Express learns that the residence of Mr. Alf. Best was burned a few days ago. v ; Mr. Levi Peacock killed a big black bear last Friday morning, within a mile of Coleman’s depot, on the Southwest ern Railroad. Messrs. J. B. Buchanan and H. B. Elder, of Cuthbert, have each lost a child from scarlet fever, within the past week. It is said that there are no inconsidera ble amount of cotton of last year’s crop still in the hands of planters in Monroe county.—[Monroe Advertiser. The Southern Mutual Iusurance Com pany of Athena held its twenty-third an nual convention lost week, and declared a dividend of 40 per cent, to ite policy holders on the last year’s basiness. The Columbus Snn says 36 miles of fishbar rail have been laid on the railroad from Montgomery to Columbia, and that from eighUi'o ten freight trains are expected to come to Columbus over it every day next winter. The mortality among our colored pop ulation for the past week has been sad and alarming. Last Sunday there were four corpse in the city, and during the few days preceeding, there were ten en tombments.—[Rome Courier. Augusta is to have a fine insurance company of her own, to be called the “ Commercial Insurance Company of Augusta,” with a capital stock of §250,- .000, and the privilege of increasing to a 'million. Seven hnndrdH shares were subscribed for on Saturday. What, promises to “ phn out ” very well. Mr. W. B. Meek informs us that his crop will average fifteen bushels to the acre. The farmers are “ laying by ” corn pre paratory to giving tneir entire time to cotton. Oats are booming.— [Monroe Advertiser. Mr. Alex. Moffat, who lives on Fifth Street near the Southwestern railroad de- jpot, killed a large rattlesnake in his yard yesterday morning. It was very fortu nate for his children, who were playing in the yard, that the dangerous reptile was discovered and killed before it bit either of them.—[Macon Telegraph, 13th. The Lnrnpkin Telegraph echoes the ram chorus, and says some farmers talk of turning their cotton fields out and making pastures of them, the grass is so much better than the cotton: “We heard one say that be could not get bis hands into his fields because the gross was so high they werp afraid of snakes; another says a grasshopper vjpwld have to get on bis knees tobitolira, oven if he could find it, and that whftu fie plows it he has to stoke off the rows to know where the cot xnDistinct print ATLANTA, GEORGIA, WEDN ✓June 21, i87i.- ANOTHER REBUKE TO THE NEW YORK WORLD. Its Inconsistencies--Its Lack of Sound Principles—Its Tainted Record and Its etc., etc. , /We have a verbal report of the action <df the Committee appointed at the re cent Citizens Meeting to pass upon the bonds of certain Radical officials. After fully canvassing the matter on Thursday, it was agreed that C. A. King should moke the bond for the Tax Collector and Miles O. Turner for the Treasurer. The scalawags elect to have nothing to do •with the offices, further than to draw their ill-gotten per cent The arrange ment was deemed best under all the cir cnmstances. The action of the Commit tee will, therefore, receive the ajjproval of the tax payers of the county. Messrs. King and Turner have since made the necessary bonds, and entered upon the discharge of their duties.—[Monroe Ad vertiser. A Webster county correspondent of the Macon Telegraph & Messenger, says “I am truly boity to inform yon that our crops are all of four weeks behind time. We usually have cotton bloom in this sec tion by this date, but do not look for any now until about the Fourth of July. Corn, too, is small for this date, but is doing better than cotton. We have had so much rain, (and now at this time we are so wet we cannot plow,) that the most of our farms are in a deplorable condition for want of the necessary cultu%. There Are many planters that will have to aban dona portion of their cotton crops to save the remainder. It is generally con ceded by planters that there is about 25 per cent, more corn planted this than last year, and about the same deduction from the cotton crop. There is a great complaint of a poor stand of cotton, and by the time the present crop of grass is gotten through with the stand will be : still poorer, as the freedmen are not very nice about stands when the grass is in dheir way. There is an unusual breadth cof oats sown this year, but, unfortunately for ithe planters, the rust has destroyed the greatest portion of them. Those that had the good fortune to sow the large yellow, <or, as some call them, the anti rust oats, will make good crops. As to wheat, there is.so little planted I hardly think it necessary to place it in the cata logue of crops, as this portion of South western Georgia h 88 very nearly aban doned its culture. , Tlie Treaty in England. From tho Baltimore Gazette The New York World is at last satis fied. It has something that it can en dorse. Itrnns up the flag of what it calls progressive Democracy, and it steers boldly forward for the harbor of a “political future,” which meaus being on the side of the party in power, with a finger in the pie of political patronage. We needed no assurance from the World that it was determined to yield to the “logic of events.” This, is what it has been endeavoring to do for years past, on ly it has always fuiled to comprehend exactly what tho logic of events was. Its conservatism was a delusion. ITS DEMOCRACY WAS A SHAM. During the war it was the shambling policy of the World and tho party which supported it, which did more harm to the cause of the South and of constitu tional liberty, than the open attacks of enemies. It professed to want peace, yet it cried for war, and even when, af ter the nomination of Gen. McLellan and Mr. Pendleton, the latter was in duced to proclaim, from the balcony of the New York Hotel, that the West must have a free route to the Gulf of Mexico, by peace if she could, by force if she must, “the party of peace,” of which the World was the organ, privately de nounced Mr. Pendleton, because,” even with this declaration, he was not to be counted upon as a War Democrat at heart. When the World accepts the situation, it is only doing OPENLY WHAT IT HAS DONE SECRETLY for years, although it has not had the manhood to acknowledge it. It does not pretend now to discuss what is right or what is wrong, or what is best for the interest of the people whom it pretends to guide, or what is the duty of the statesmen of the country. Its only aim is political fortune, and it evidently de sires to attaint by the shortest cut. THE SOUTH HAS ALREADY ACCEPTED THE SIT UATION. To its views, its notions and its schemes, the World, with the Democra- —**“>- AS -fa.U.2S_. we, of Maryland, are con jernedTwe have long since accepted the situation, as they have done in our sister Southern States. Sambo is an equal as far as the law makes him. On this point we are rigidly punc tilious. We give him all his rights, and we assert our o yu. ■ Besides this we pay an income tax, v i support the revenue by buying French wines and silks and German toys. We keep our accounts in National banks, and occasionally we are sufficiently loyal to invest in Government bonds. What more does any one want ? Is not this accepting the situation? What else need we do. DO THEY WANT US TO TELL FALSEHOODS AND BE HYPOCRITES? Does any one suppose that we will make ourselves any the more respected by pleding our solemn words that we do these things because we like them, when every one knows that we only do them becanse we cannot help ourselves ; and is it not plain that we only make our selves contemptible by trying to obtain our object by a sneaking trick, when we have not the independent manhood to attack persistently until toe triumph by principle ? - v - , EXPOSING ITSELF TO ATTACK. The great blunder which the Northern Democracy makes is in setting up a plat form as a mark for its antagonist. The outside party wants no platform. Its policy is to get in. When it succeeds, then it can shape its aim and purposes to meet the necessities of the situation.— For us, in Maryland and in the South generally, we have but one thing to do— to accept the candidate, if we can, who may be nomiuated, to vote solidly, to hold our tongues, so as to give the Radi cals no opportunity of distorting our sim plest expressions, and to trust to the fu ture. fy If some of our Northern friends had adopted such a policy, they would not now have been in a position where they feel compelled to take back what they swore" by a few years ago. simply because by so. doing they think they have a bet ter chance to win, changing their princi ples as a gambler dues Lis stakes. ABUSING MB. DAVIS. L v There is one thing, however, winch we cannot understand, and that is why the World, in accepting the situation, and proclaiming, as now, its articles of faith, should go out of its way to indulge in a vulgar diatribe against Mr. Jefferson Da vis. The epithets which it applies to Mr. Davis, and the abuse which it heaps upon him, for saying “that troth is great, and in the end principle must prevail,” are really so low that we forbear to re produce even one small extract. We cannot see what the World has to gain by vilifying a gentleman who, since; his release from persecution, has been singu larly reticent, and who, when he does speak, speaks as a philosopher; nor can we see what in the world the utterance of a great truth has to do with the World’s “new departure.” If the World thinks that Mr. Davis and it are not already wide '!lough apart, it can set itself at rest.— Whatever may be thesius or the failing- of the Ex-President,^vaut of prindpleis uot among them; and whenever the World, uncertain as to what is most safe and profitable, sets itself up iu the Democrat ic .political ring to the highest ladder, it ueecl not fear that it will encounter auy opposition from Davis, or indeed, those who, like him, firmly believe that ill-ad- I vised, expediency is only too apt to, make A cable dispatch of the 12th instant, from London, says: In the House of Commons, this even ing, Gladstone, in reply to the question, , said, that the 6th article of the treaty of I ndecencies., j Washington prohibits the use of neutral ports for the renewal or augmentation of arms and supplies to belligerents only when they are intended for use against other belligerents, and not when export ed in the ordinary course of commerce. This was, he said, the understanding of President Grant and Minister Schenck. It was understood, however, on toe presentation of the role for its acceptance by other powers, that the statement on this point should be clear. He stated that he had received the assent of the United States Government to the pro posal to submit these principles of the treaty to the European powers for their acceptance. He concluded by praising the tone of America throughout the ne gotiation. In the Hbnse of Lords, Earl Rnssell, moved the address to the Crown against the ratification of the treaty of Wash ington. Earl Derby hoped that Lord Russell would withdraw his motion for the rejec tion of the treaty, which America would now take as a direct insult. He accepted the treaty as an accomplished fact, tak ing the evil with the goodf. He hoped no pressure would be applied to Canada to interfere with the exercise of her free will. Earl DeGrey and Ripon defended the treaty and conduct of the negotiations. He scouted the lamb-like meekness of British Commissioners before the shear ers. It was true they desired to concili ate the Americans, but nothing more. Several proposals made by the Americans had been persistently declined, although they were not preposterous. An apology for the escape of the Alabama inside the conclusion of a good treaty possible. The settlement of the neutrality questions was a vast gain, as neutrality was to be England’s future policy. The omission of any provision for commercial recip rocity was unimportant, in view of the progress free trade was making in Amer ica. He defended the articles concern ing the fisheries on the ground that Can- rda would be really benefitted by them. Lord Cairus deprecated the motion of Earl Rnssell. The treaty was as binding as if it had been ratified, although it was badly drawn and obliged England to sub mit to principles hitherto unknown to the country. The Lord Chanceller sustained the treaty. The Marquis of Salisbury declared tinu tlu; trier, ry sacrificed the right neutrals to American araaccptibilitles. Earl Russell then withdrew his mo tion, and the debate was brought to a close. AN EXTRAORDINARY CASE. Death of an Army Major Gen eral in the Tombs. Major General Charles Mundee, of Tallahassee, Florida, for twenty years, and until recently, when he resigned, an officer of the regular army, and a man of conspicious social position and large wealth, died in the Tombs on Sunday night, in a fit of delirium, after having been committed to a cell on a charge of larceny. It appears that a few weeks ago General Mun- dec left his home to attend the re union of the army of the Potomac, at Boston. He-afterwards came to this city, and Visited, among others, - Generals Wright, Newton and Ham ilton, who had formerly served with lnm * ww '**f ■ ]' r>i ‘;. He subsequently (probably, were suffering from temporary insanity) bought for $250 a partnership in a low drinking saloon, No. 110 West- street, and sat daily behind the bar. although he took no active part in the business. On Friday his bar keeper was arrested on‘ a charge of stealing from a customer, and on the following day Genr’l. Mundee was also arrested as a confederate and locked up. On Saturday evening lie was seized with convulsions and died in two hours. The body will be for warded to Florida by Generals New ton and Wright, Shaller and Hamil ton, General Mundee leaves' h wife and six children. • General William F. (Baldy) Smith will take charge of the body after the inquest . and for ward it to his family.—[New York Evening Post. * -■ ► • < • Prospects of the Cotton Crop. ADVICE TO A NEW WRITER Another negro w.as knocked on the head in this vicinity on Tuesday last, on the plantation of Mr. Clayton Vaughn, about a mile from town. Two negro meu, James Nelson and Sam Jones in his em ploy, were working together in lie field; and Jim asked the other what timeqf day it was. fie answered that it was about twelve o’clock, judging from his shadow. As the sun was obscured by clouds, this method of determination did not suit the philosophical mind of Jim, who gave his companion the lie. The latter raised bin hoe in a menacing manner, saying that if lie repeated that, he would kill him.—- .Jim then jumped back a step and struck Sam upon the head with his hoe, killing him almost instautly. Jim then took to his heels as he saw some one approach ing, and made for the river about two miles above town. The Sheriff was im mediately summoned with his blood hounds, and succeeded in trailing the murderer fpr several miles, across the M. & A. R. R. bridge, and down the opposite bank about a milej where it was discov ered that he had broken a boat from its fastening,- and takes to the water, as LLs only means of escape. Ho concealed • himself some whore, and up to this time _ _ _ no further traces have been discovered — t hose who resort to it contemptible in the [Milledgeville Recorder. end. I860. Cotton (new).... $191,806,655 Breadstuffs 20,583,516 Gold and Silver 56,916,851 Tobacco.....' 19,289,975 Petroleum Nil. Provisions 16,612,143 Naval Stores 1,969,612 Tallow : 1,598.176 Total... $308,807,157 Grand total exports. 373,189,284 A correspondent asks us. concern ing the condition of the cotton crop generally—whether it has everywhere been greatly damaged, by rain, as in his section. We have for several days been carefully examining our ex changes for information on this sub ject, and we are satisfied that the great damage by excessive rains is ’general but not quite universal. We do not make extracts from the papers of the several localities noticed, because their account* *are so very similar as to sacrificed" the rigiito <>£ araouhFTb almost literal repetitions. 1 Suffice’ it to say that throughout the great “cotton belt,” extending from the Atlantic to the Mississippi river, there are very few spots indeed that have lately been dry enough; for the vigorous and healthy growth of tho cotton plant. In very many lowland localities the cotton has been drowned out, and the stand lost; and on the uplands the cotton has become so grassy that a view of it is very dis couraging indeed. The job pf clean ing it looks as formidable as : did the fabled one of the Augean stable, that required the strength and skill of a Hercules. Much of the cotton in this “belt” has not yet even been thinned out to a stand. From the important regions of Southwestern Georgia; from the rich country around and below Montgomery, including the prairie lands of Montgomery, Bullock, Lowndes, &c.; from the fertile and productive “canebrake” region of Western Alabama, and from the rich bottoms of the Alabama river, come the same accounts of overwhelming and long-pro tracted rains, overflow and grass.— In Florida the rain appears to have been more partial, but in many parts of that State, too, the season has been far too wet for cotton. In the country north of this “ cotton belt” and east of the Mississippi, the rains have not been so disastrous, but none of this region produces cotton very largely, except West Tennessee and the valleys of the Tennessee and Coosa rivers in Alabama. Our in formation from the heavy cotton pro ducing regions west of the Mississip pi is not so general as from the sec tion east of that river. Our accounts lead ns to the conclusion that in Ar kansas and Texas the rains have been partial, as in Florida on this side of the Mississippi, but that great dam age from rain has nevertheless been sustained in these two States. In $66,274,129 Louisiana, both east and west of the Mississippi, the rains appear to have been as disastrous as here. Accounts like these have very ma terially reduced the estimates of the crop of this year. We do not believe that any one in the South now thinks it at all prqbable than more than three millions of bales can be pro duced. The prevailing estimate ap pear to range from 2,600,000 to 28,- 000,000, but some are confident that the crop will not exceed 2,500,000, bales.—[Columbus Enquirer. While one of the lady converts at a re cent baptism in Noblesville, Ind., was being led into the river by the pastor for immersion, she slipped and he slipped, and they both sank into the depths to gether. They were fished oat all right, however, though it was some time before they could remember what they went for. Our Slaughtered Exports. According to the British Board of Trade returns the value of imports into Great Britain from the United States during the year 1870 was §249,024,645, the largest amount ever recorded. This’ official statement furnishes the best re ply. to the assertion that the present tariff, by raising the price of home products, virtually excludes them from foreign markets. It reveals the startling fact that under this tariff the country most interested in free trade is increasing its detnand for our merchandise. The largest quantity of cotton we ever exported was 3,746,835 bales, in i860.— We received for it §191,806,555. We exported only 2,167,323 bales in 1870, and received for it §219,373,805, for cotton was worth in 1870 nearly double its worth in 1860. This alone would enlighten the Tribune did its delusions arise from ignorance merely; but the falling of the cotton value which will be shown in the exports of 1871 may let daylight into the dark ness it would diffuse. In 1860 the total value of our exports amonnted to §373,189,284. In 1870 the export value was §506,948,514. From these totals we will now take the export- values of eight principal articles of ex 1 port for the two periods respectively, consisting of agricultural products and bullion, thereby showing the amount of export of manufactured articles or handi craft, which for nine years have been fos tered by the most corrupt class legisla tion: 1870. $219,373,805 64.636.922 66,097,317 18.090.923 35,666,302 29.001.441 5,426,037 2,481,638 $440,674,385 506,948,514 Oiir manufact'rd expts $64,382,127 The balance of value left for manufac tured articles for the two periods and the relative per centage on the aggregate amount of exports were thus : I860, $64,382,127; per centage on the whole. abont r : 17 1-4 1870, $66,274,129; per centage on the whole about 13 1-16 Deplorable at this falling off of the exports of our handicraft is, the worst remaius to be told—namely, we have increased 30 per cent in population, to say nothing of increased wealth. The farmer who does not want his product protected, has more than come up in his exports to the standard of the increase of population, for we find an increase of over- 300 peer cent, in breadstafla and over 80 per cent, in provisions. If our manufactured exports had mere ly kept pace with the rate of population increase, the value of manufactured arti cles exported would have been in 1870, as follows: Amoaut exported in 1SG0 $64,382,127 AUd St> per cent, for increase of populatiou.19,314,638 Rightful export in 1870 Actual export in 1870. $84,196,725 66,274,129 The slaughtered condition of our ex port trade for manufactured articles is as clear as 18 per cent,—New York World. By “Gris.” I received the other day the following note of inquiry: "%• «*it- Deui Sib; I think I have got tallunt into me to rite.,. J want to tri it but don’t no how to begin.— You, lno, hev*had spcrianso. Will yu plese rite and give me iuformaahuu on the folwiu pints, two-wit, namely:. VVhat to rite on. When to rite. - ' ' ' Where to rite. 4r.- (S How to rite. How much to rite. . What paper to rite for. With cuuynther hints on tho snbjeck that may otur to yu. Yures truly, Am bishuk. I am gratified always to be able to im part any information iu my power to one about to begin to write, although he may never begin to write with me. Strug gling genius I am prone to encourage. I am not like some in the profession, who keep all they know about writing to themselves that poor people would not suspect they knew anything about it.— As far as writing is concerned, ohiro- grapbic pugilist that I am, I always stand ready to “let go my write.” “What to rite on.” I generally write on a table or desk. I prefer a desk when I want to desk-ant profoundly. Some of my desk-antics are fearfully and wonder fully made. Don’t try to write on a multiplication table, unless you are a complete master of figures, especially figures of speech.— I'have frequently written on my knees, but I am aware mauy people have a re pugnance to getting on their knees, ei ther to write or to do anything else. There may be occasions when you will be compelled to write on the top of your hat, "but it hurts one’s (s)tile to do it ha bitually. Literary men often affect eccentricities regarding what they write on. Shelley, I believe, wrote his “Shellies of Ocean” on his thumb nail; Byron wrote on gin, and Edgar A. Poe wrote on a drunk. . “When to rite.” Write when you feel like it, but be sure you feel like it. Some people think they feel like it when they don’t, which produces a good deal of suf fering among readers. I would lay it down as a general rule for young men of “ambition” like yours, when you can’t find any employment that will pay for your salt, then write. “Where to rite.” That depends a good deal on where she is. If slie is in Chicago it would be manifestly absurd to write to Montreal. “How to rite.” Is it possible that in this land of commQn rchools there is any young man who doesn’t know how to write ? You should consult a writing- master, and not me. “How much to rite.” Better leave that to the editor to whom you setfd your contributions. He will tell you “for How Much.” “What paper to rite for.” The best paper to write for is the Cincinnati Times and Chronicle, but it will be no use writ ing for it unless you enclose the stamps. Our terms of subscription are cash in ad vance. Liberal reduction to clubs.— [Cincinnati Times and Chronicle. We learn that a number of farmers in this and the adjoining counties have ad vanced the wages of employees .since the harvest season opened at least 50 per cent. It is not believed that the farmers are justified in paying this advance, aud that they will come out in debt.—[Monroe Advertiser, —* J o ‘ w TELEGRAPH .NEWS Special Dispatctol^Se Si. • By Atlanta and Nashville News Agency. FOREIGN NEWS. The Butchery fMi M-anMjMHblt In Ihe rout. Paris, June 14.—The executions still continue. Numbers of workmen dre daily shot by the Versaillists in the dis tricts where dissatisfaction still exists. Baron Haussman has entered the field as a candidate for gubernatorial honors. The Bonaparte party, it is understood, will be largely represented at the forth coming elections, aud its candidates will probably poll a heavy vote. Trorhu Sprain— Tri ml at Rochefort, Versailles, June 14.—In a speech de* livered before the Assembly yesterday, General Trochusaid the defense of Pans, by the French army against the Ger mans, was an act of heroic folly to save the honor of France. He, from the very first, had always considered the resis tance that was then opposed to the Ger mans, to be utterly vain. The trial of Rochefort is appointed for Monday next. The defense will claim that the tribunal before wbioh fie is arraigned, is incompetent to try bis case, and will demand a trial by "jury, The event causes much interest among all classes. The announcement of M. Ferries, as Minister to Washington, has been re tracted. Jbmerlemne MWm mm Jfwwnl. - London, June 14.—The United States envoys in Enrope have opposed the va rious European powers interested in the negotiation of a fresh international agreement to a treaty for the protection of property at sea during times of war, the treaty to be equally binding pn America and tho signatory powers. It is doubtful whether the consent of France or England can be obtained to the measures. Athens, Greece, June 14.—King George has made arrangements to visit Copenhagen, aud goes via Trieste., Rangabe, now minister to Washington, has been appointed Ambassador. London, June 14.—The steamer knnn. Smith has been wrecked near the English coast. Ten lives were lost, has been postponed. ' ‘ Klrt ■ The Committee of the Assembly on Budget is known to favor VUifoaising of funds by loan. tBT • A special to the Standard say9 that there were twenty-one executions yester day in the Bois de Boulogne. Y Bkeslan, June 14.—The Stodt Th$$pe has been entirely destroyed. San Philip, June 10.—A strong rebel position in Guerrero has been taken by the government troops. The bombardment of Tampico is con tinued. Tho rebels have inspired great terror by their fire, and have silenced the government batteries. Paris, June 14.—The Bank of France holds twenty-two milion francs bullion. Hr* trust ion of a Theater. ; '.q) Breslau, June 14, P. M.—The Stadt Theater was destroyed by fire last night. The audience and performers escaped. , , - v , .. Mutilated Treasury Notes. A question having been raised as to the application of the rules govern ing the discount of mutilated U. S. notes, and the use of printed dia grams, subdivided into twentieths, furnished for use in estimating the deduction, the Treasurer has made the following reply: “Deductions are made for only the aggregate propor tions missing, and this diagram is divided into spaces merely ’ for con venience in estimating the loss. No matter how many parts of spaces may be missing, no deduction will be made unless the aggregate loss is more than one-twentieth of the original propor tions of the note, thus: There might he one-tenth of each of nine spaces missing, but as the aggregate loss would exceed not one-twentietli no deduction would be made; for a loss of more than one-twentieth, hut not more than one-tenth of the original proportions of a note, hut one-twen tieth of the face value will he de ducted; for more than one-ten th, but not more than three-twentieths, but one-tenth will be deducted, and so on until the loss equals, half of a note, in which case one-half will be deducted.” LATEST GEORGIA NEWS. Columbus has sufficiently aroused to talk about a park. Columbus, in one afternoon, subscribed §50,000 for a Merchants’ and Mechanics’ Bank, and it was not a good afternoon for subscriptions either. Col. P. W. Alexander is lying in a very critical condition at Columbus. The editor of the Newuan Defender has some oats seven feet high. He wants three dollars a bushel for them when they are threshed. In addition to the decisions of the United States Conit, at Savannah, and the City Court of Augusta, declaring the relief law passed by the last Legislature unconstitutional, the Superior Court has also decided against its constitutionality. In a case iu this latter court yesterday tne defendant iu a case coming within the perview of the relief law, moved that the plaintiff’s suit be dismissed, on the ground that the affidavit of ihe payment of taxes had not been made and filed. This motion was refused by Judge Gib- sou, who declared the sections of the act requiring this affidavit to be unconstitu tional.—A ugusta Chron. & Sentinel, 14. * Mr. L. P. Taylor, of Vermont, is at South Bend, Indiana, on a short visit for tlie benefit of his health, the five Mrs. Taylors whom he left at home having proved too much of a load on his mind. They are after him, however, and he wants one of those swamp-angel divorces that will shoot in five directions at all WASHINGTON NEWS, hr Jlotcrn, the Hlg-amht— The Ku-Khtx Commit tee—-fifen. Toomba to be Summoned* r/; "Washington, June 14.—Strong efforts will be made, on the return of the Presi dent to-morrow, to have Bowen pardoned. His friends here have already commenced, through newspapers here, to enlist pub lic sympathy in his behalf, and they claim that he was a victim of circum stances, and also that the prosecution against him was urged by South Caroli nians. Several'Sonth Carolina witnesses were examined by the Ku-Klux Committee to day. Among them was Mr. Hopper, a District Attorney, who stated that the State Government was rotten to the core. All the testimony from South Carolina shows extraordinary corruption by the Radical State Government. GeS. Toombs and Horace Greeley will be summoned to testify. Gov. .Lindsay, of Alabama, testifies that there have been no disturbances since the political meeting last summer, and looks upon the State as being jn a more peaceful condition than it bn« been iu during the last fifteen years. He points t6 the quotable price of securities, and quotes statistics of Wade to prove this. Gen. Forest has been snmmoned to appear pefore this Committee, and is ex pected to arrive next week. The Coming- Cotton Crop. Washington, June 14.—A careful esti mate of the cotton crop for the year places the whole - number of bales as low as 1,900,000. Another estimate as to the decrease in acreage plaoes it at 1,000,000 acres—Texas not being estimated. In North Carolina the falling off in planting reaches 15 per cent. The weather has been cold, wet and unfavorable, and cot ton is unusually poor. South Carolina has one-fifth less cotton under cultivation this year than she hud last. The crops are very inferior and unpromising.— Georgia decreases her acreage about 15 per cent. Mississippi decreases 12 per cent, with the weather unusually un favorable. Arkansas decreases at the same rate. Louisiana decreases her acre age about 10 per cent In this Htate the weather is more favorable than in the other Southern States, and the prospects for cotton are very fair. DOMESTIC NEWS. Drp Ooele Sunk. Memphis, June 14.—Two sections of the Dry Dock sank to-day in 90 feet water, while taking on a steamer. Lues §50,000. w ; ,, r luaufurat ion. Concord, N. H., June 14.—This has been a gala day with the Democrats of New Hampshire. At suurise, a salute of 40 guns were fired. The people poured into the city by every road and manner of conveyance, to witness the inaugura tion of tbe Democratic Governor. It waa a grand affair. Bridge Completed. Keokuk, Iowa, June 14.—The bridge over the Mississippi is completed, and the trains are running.