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TUESDAY HORNING, AUG. 21.
Personal. —We bad the pleasure of
meeting on Sunday last, our fellow
citizen, W. H. Young, Esq., who has
just returned from England. Mr. Y. is
in flue health, and has brought back
with him, in addition to other things, a
past fund of intereresting and valuable
knowledge of the manufactories of Eng
land and France. He informed us that
he was enabled to purchase for the new
factory, now in process of erection,
new and improved machinery at such
rates that after paying duty, it can be
laid down here cheaper than that fur
nished by Northern machine shops.
Mr. Y. took occasion to inform him
self as to the cotton supply and matters
connected therewith. He is satisfied
that the present crop will bring a fine
price if planters do not crowd it too
hastily upon the market. He says the
opinion of us abroad is, that if we would
raise our cotton, spin it, and make our
own provisions, we would soon be the
most wealthy and powerful people in
the world.
The Politicians in Council.
There is a great convocation of North
ern and Southern politicians just now at
the Virginia White Sulphur Springs.
Humor has it that some remarkable
measures, rivalling the famous liose
cranz conference of last summer, is on
the tapis. What this can be is at pres
ent carefully withheld; but .it has been
insinuated that it will have for its object
the passage by Congress, at an early
day, of an additional amendment to the
Constitution, declaring general amnesty
for all passed olfences to those engaged
in the late rebellion.
The Decline in Gold.— lt will be
seen from the record of events in Wall
street that gold within the past few
days has undergone quite a decline.
The highest point touched this year
was 1445. Yesterday the price had
yielded to 1325. In other words, when
we were paying for the goods which
we imported from Europe in the spring
gold was dearest. Now, when we are
just about to begin our cotton and grain
shipments to Europe, gold is choaper.
The speculators always manage to profit
by these differences, while the general
public are the losers.— ls. Y. Herald,
19 th.
Greeley Compliments the New
Party Men.—The N. Y. Tribune says
of the late new party movement:
This is a very small business. Re
publicans don’t mean to have any split
in the party, and have no reason for
abandoning their present leader. The
so called “Chase movement” is the in
vention of a handful of wiseacres, who
see signs and portents in the most com
monplace events, and don’t know the
difference between a bout at fisticuffs
and a battle of armies.
Editorial Courtesies. —The Cin
cinnati Commercial called McCullock,
of the Enquirer, a “dirty little Orange
man."' Mack fires back as follows :
Concerning what the Garbage Cart
says when it calls the editor of the En
quirer an Orangeman, it is not worth
while to take notice, except for the op
portunity it presents of remarking that
Murat Halstead is a liar.
Letters op Acceptance Received.
—The Secretary of the Executive Com
mittee of the State Agricultural Fair,
Col. Lewis, is daily reciving letters of
acceptance from the most distinguished
Government officers who have been in
vited to be present at the opening of
the Fair on the 16th of November next,
and from all we are able to learn the
city will be filled with distinguished
visitors on that occasion. We believe
that the Fair will prove a triumphant
success, and are indeed pleased to learn
that everything in relation to it goes on
so swimmingly.— Macon Jour. .V Mess.
Death op an Old Citizen.— We
learn from a letter received in this city
yesterday by a relative, that Mr, Thom
as Nix, for more than thirty-five years
a citizen of Columbus, died at Whistler,
near Mobile, Ala., on the 17th instant,
aged about seventy years.
Don’t Need Watching any Longer.
—The Washington erriespondent of
the Baltimore Gazette is responsible for
the following:
When Ben Butler heard of Grant’s
complicity with Senter and Walker
and Dent and Hamilton, to get up a
“Grant party” at the South, he wrote
here that the General was ambitious of
another term—and should be watched!
When (very recently) it turned out
that the President threw away this
chance at the command of such a pig
my as Boutwall, and threw up his mili
ry cap for Stokes and Alcorn and Wells
and Davis, Butler, shrewdly enough,
wroth emphatically that he was a
and -d fool, and needed no watching
any longer.” Grant has irretrievably
sp it lus party at the South, and
although he is now under the leading
s rings of Chandler, of Norfolk, who
wants to come to the Senate from
Virginia, and will, doubtless, illegally
turn out of the Legislature of that State
the very men he did more than any
body else to elect, still the real mis
chief is irremediable. The whole South
is gone!
Sad Accident.— Yesterday evening
whilst a son of Mr. M. T. D. Gunthorpe,
6 years of age, was playing in front oi
his father’s residence on Conception
street near Jackson, a negro passed by
and handed him an oblong ball painted
the color of a nut. A few minutes at
terwards the little fellow went on the
gallery and commenced to play with
his marbles and struck one of them with
the oblong ball when it exploded, (the
report being as loud as a musket,) tear
ing the thumb and middle finger from
his right hand. Parents should be care
ful how they allow children to play with
such articles unless they are certain of
their contents. This is the second ac
cident of the kind which has happened
in the last six months ; the other being
a ship captain who picked one up near
the Mobile and Ohio Railroad, aiul at
tempted to open it with his knife w.ieu
it exploded, tearing three fingers from
his baud. — Mobile Tlibune.
From Doughertt County. —A let
ter from Albany, Ga., August 18th, to
the Macon Messenger, says:
Corn is now selling at $1.30 per bush
el. I heard an intelligent farmer say,
yesterday, that within ten days it would
fall to 50 cents per bushel. Many com
plaints are made of the ravages of the
caterpillar, the destruction from and
other diseases, but I notice that every
tamer I meet boasts of the excellence
of his crop, and the promise of an
abundant yield. Cotton is beginning
to open rapidly, and next week our
planters will begin the work of harvest
ing in earnest; you may therefore take
it for granted that “a crop has been
made.”
Nigger Official. —A Memphis dis
patch of the 19th says: The negro route
mail agent, Hopkins, recently appoint
ed by the President, was arrested at
Jackson, Tennessee, yesterday, and
brought here, on an indictment for for
gery.
VOL. XI.
The Cotton Nnpply Question and
What Will Become of It.
The reader will find somewhere in
this edition, one of the most condensed
and interesting articles upon the ques
tion of the cotton supply which we have
ever seen. It discloses a grand cotton
deficit of a million bales, in the face of
demands for an increasing consumption
and a succinct statement of the product
and capacity of other cotton producing
regions, which carries conviction that
the foreign supplies must diminish ra
ther than increase.
The cotton supply question is now, in
fact, the grand theme of the industrial
and business world. There never was,
at any time within our recollection, a
degree of attention directed to the
Southern States nearly approaching that
which now exists. The interest in the
cotton situation was intense last year;
but the increasing deficiency has so
greatly sharpened it that there is no
comparison.
Every year’s experience settles con
viction that the Southern Cotton Belt
alone, of all the earth’s surface, unjRR
the physical conditions
produce the best varieties of cotton;
and, as the growing wealth of the world
and its increasing diffusion among the
masses is very rapidly developing an
increased demand for clothing, the
importance and value of this section Os
country must correspondingly increase,
and so must the demand upon it for
occupation, settlement and culture.
It is folly, then, to suppose that im
migration to the South, is, in fact, a
question within the power of her people
to control or restrain to any great ex
tent. We can make no combination
among ourselves which will affect it
very materially one way or the other; I
and the true course for the owners of
the soil is to shape their policy so as to
secure its benefits while they make up
their minds to endure what they may
apprehend as its evils.
As there is really no limit to the pros
pective demand for cotton, so there is
none to the value of good cotton lands,
which would now be considered within
the bounds of reason, when one be
gins to speculate the most reasonably
on existing data, his vaticinations be
come to most people the more wild and
visionary.
If you take the bases which govern
the value of the agricultural lands iu
the North and West and argue upon
them, what ought to be a corresponding
valuation of Southern lands, you will
be derided; and yet it is certain
similar rules must eventually prevail;
and we approximate that result with a
rapidity proportioned to the profits of
cotton culture. It is folly to suppose
that a greedy world is going to look on
idly and see sufficient cotton crops pro
duced and sold at thirty cents a pound
when the area for production is ample
and all the circumstances invite them
to take a share in the business.
Hence, wc repeat, let us look for im
migration—let us anticipate increased
demand for laud and labor, and let us
reconcile our views and interests to a
largely increased product—for it must
come. The necessities of the world
demand it—and we shall have increased
production, till perhaps in ten years
from this time the cotton crop of the
South will far surpass its old volume,
and be the grandest annual trophy of
agriculture that the human mind ever
conceived.
In fulfilling this magnificent destiny
we have, for ourselves, not the slightest
apprehension that the Southern States
will fail to make corresponding advan
ces in every other department. We
torment ourselves with no phantoms of
accumulating ignorance, depravity,
vice, irreligion and lawlessness.
On the contrary, as our wealth will
accumulate in the most natural scriptu
ral and healthy manner, it will be the
most healthful in its effects upon the
character of the people and the condi
tion of society, and it will be employed
in the most rational way. It will be
used iu developing every substantial
interest of the country ; and as ive shall
probably hold the most valuable soil in
America, so we thiDk it will contain the
most valuable people enterprising,
hardy, intelligent, refined, moral and
religious.
The prospects we forecast are alto
gether of a pleasing character, and the
young of this generation will, we hope,
by the mercy of God, live to see the
cotton belt of the South “a goodly land
and pleasant to dwell in”—the abode of
a wealthy and virtuous and numerous
people—surrounded by all the achieve
rnents, arts and appliances of the most
advanced civilization. So mote it be.
—Macon Telegraph.
Mreeley on the Cotton Crop of tike
South.
The Cotton crop of 1869 is so well ad
vanced that we may safely estimate it
at three million bales—half a million
more than last year. Supposing that it
nets the planters 25 cents per pound,
(greenbacks,) it will bring them $300,-
000,000; which is more than they re
ceived for the largest crop ever grown,
formerly, they would have received less
than $200,000,000 for such a crop, and
would have owed more than half of it
to their merchants or factors for advan
ces, and a still larger share to the negro
traders for field hands; so that, when
marketed and settled for, they would
have still been heavily in debt. Now,
they owe less thairhalt they will receive
to their laborers, who will spend the
money at home, instead of sending it
off North to pay for dead horse.
We have often heard that the South
would never again grow a full crop of
cotton; but we think differently. If we
do not produce five million bales within
ten years from the overthrow of the
Rebellion, it will be because the plan
ters can do better growing Sugar, Rice,
Tobacco, &c., than by pushing up the
cottou supply to a maximum, and there
by running down the price. The South
never did a better business than she bids
fair to do this year.
Horace as usual, writes with great
fluency about a matter he knows noth
ing about.
Cruelty. —A friend related to us ■
yesterday an instance of cruelty perpe- j
trated by a father upon his children, that
deserves the condemnation of every
right thinking man. It appears from
the narrative of our friend, that a gen
tleroan in this city has married the
second time, and two children by a
former wife, do not feel disposed to stay
at home. Hence, this reputed father,
who bears the semblance of a man, to
keep them at home, hits bound them to
nether with chains! \ esterday morn
ing when the alarm of lire had called
the father out, the children escaped from
the house and were found by other
parties, sleeping soundly under a bridge
They were carried to the “lock up and
taken care of. Here the father found
them,and drove them through the streets
chained. Language fails us in charac
terizing such gross and inhuman con
duct. The wretch who can exercise
ouch cruelty upon little children, is not
fit or qualified to control children, and
deserves to die childless and friendless,
unpitied, unwept and forgot.
We think such a case demands the
intervention of the strong arm of the
law to protect the weak against the
strong.— Allanta Constitution.
More Nigger.—William U. Saun
ders, the newly appointed special agent
of the Postofflce Department—and who
is duly qualified—is the first colored
man appointed special agent of the de
partment in the United States. His
salary is SI3OO per annum, and $3 per
diem for subsistence.
THE WEEKLY SUN.
OLD SISTER STOWE.
Since the daysof‘Uncle Tom’s Cabin’
old Sister Stowe has not been able to
attract much of public attention. She
has become a frowzy, snuffy, fat, stupid
old woman, who has ceased in a great
measure to lie about and abuse the peo
ple of the South (save the negroes, her
once peculiar friends) and who makes
a living by writing dull and prosy arti
cles to newspapers and magazines,
about her orange grove in Florida, and
how to cure the pip in chickens, &c.
But the old woman has tired of this
slow business and has made a hold raid
on the credulity and pockets of the
Yankee nation.
She has contributed an article to the
Atlantic Monthly on Lord Byron. It
is composed of liberal extracts from Don
Juan and the most horrible charges
against Lord Byron. The chiefest and
gravest charge is that Lord Byron kept
up an incestuous intercourse with his
sister, and that the knowledge of this
was the cause of the separation between
himself and his wife. Mother Stowe
says, Lady Byron furnished the asser
tions contained in her article in the
year 1856. Lady Byron is dead and
cannot deny what old Mother Stowe
says. Lady B. was a very weak, silly
and hysterical personage, who quit her
husband in a freak of jealousy, and
thenceforward for many years insisted
that the British public and the world
at large should share her sorrows, her
tears and her imaginary wrongs. If
she did tell old sister Stowe anything
approaching what the latter has woven
into a magazine article, then most peo
ple will come to the conclusion that
Lady Byron was mad in more senses
than one. There is no necessity for
this, however, for nobody believes any
thing that Sister Stowe says about this
matter, not even Sister Stowe herself.
The truth of the matter is about this :
The world while nursing its adinira
tion for the genius of Lord Byron, lias
also cherished a curiosity to dive deep
er and deeper into the inner life ol' the
man whose romantic career and early
death, have given to biographical his
tory a chapter so charming. Some
months since the Countess Guiccioli, I
the famed beauty and favored mistress
of the Poet, gave the public her recol
lections of the man in his gentler moods.
The book was not remarkable for
anything, save that it exhibited the
sincerity of the attachment of its author
to the memory of the subject of which
it treated. The Countess Guiccioli look
ed with lover’s eyes upon everything
that concerned the man who was once
master of her affections, aud wrote of
him as a lover. Y’et light and frivolous
as was her literary effort, it will be a
more valuable contribution to history
than Sister Stowe’s. Further, it will
stand as a monument to the undying
love of an erring woman, while Sisters
Stowe’s article will live as a specimen
of the cool calculation and unscrupulous
mendacity of an out and out Yankee
female. The book of the Countess
Guiccioli was a financial success—
hence the magazine scrawl of Sister
Stowe. In view of this assault upon
the memory of Lord Byron, which was
duly advertised by the Yankee press.
Blackwood’s Magazine reproduced ev
erything authentic connected with the
history of the troubles between Lord
Byron and wife. Since Sister Stowe’s
charges have been made public, the
London Times, the ablest exponent of
British sentiment, has felt it its duty to
pronounce the old lady a liar and a
slaqflerer. This language, sent all the
way from England by cable, might be
considered strong even as against
Sister Stowe, who will persist in petti
coats, if ’twere not not that Blackwood
proves her to be both. This is not the
first time the public has been diddled
out of honest pennies, by people who
have stimulated its curiosity by telling
lies on Lord Byron. A fellow who
professed to have been Byrons friend,
but who in reality was a discharged
valet of his, tried it with limited suc
cess.
If it were possible for us to be shock
ed at anything that old Sister Stowe or
any of her tribe could do, say or write,
we should be astonished at the article
upon which we have commented. If
we thought it could correct the morals
or habits of Sister Stowe and her big
buddy, Henry Ward Beecher, we might
give her a rasping for slandering the
memories of two people in their graves,
and who had their shares of sorrow in
life. As it is we only fear that in show
ing up the debased old harridan, we
have unwittingly advertised her work
and carried pennies to her purse. The
New York World furnishes us with the
following close to our article, taken
from its notice of Sister Stowe’s labor :
Since the pitiable book in which Mr.
Trevelyan vainly tried to make the
world believe that by whipping up a
corner of the dead Byron’s shroud he
had satisfied himself that the poet really
was deformed in person, we have had
no such deplorable tampering with the
grave and its mysteries as this, all
the worse, alas! for that it has been
done in the name of that sweet grace of
charity which has eyes for the sorrows
only silence for the sins of the dead.
From CliHrlostou.
Charleston, Aug. 23. Drought
continues with showers in some sec
tions. The corn crop will be light, and
South Carolina must buy large supplies
next winter and spring. The hot
weather and drought have caused the
cotton to rust and shed in several of
the middle counties, but this crop still
looks well over most of the State.
Picking has begun, and the staple is
opening rapidly. The receipts next
mouth promise to be good. The boa
Island crop looks very fine, but there
are reports of the caterpillar.
From AusrtiflCfi.
Augusta, Aug. 23— Weather hot and
dry; no rain of any consequence for two
weeks in counties of South Carolina and
Georgia, bordering on Savannah river.
Corn cut short and cotton prematurely
opened by rust. Accounts from Cen
tral and Western Georaia report that
rust is ruining cotton.
From Ssvnnuali.
Savannah, August 23—The weather
I is quite warm, but reports trom crops
; in this section and throughout Southern
! Georgia and Florida are good. Slight
i shower on Saturday. Cotton crop too
far advanced to be much injured by
| drought or worms.
Bank Robbers Caught.—The Au
i gusta, Ga., police have overhauled two
negroes who robbed the Banking House
i of John Craig, of that city, of five thou
! sand dollars, some weeks since, and
! have recovered two thousand dollars of
J the money.
COLUMBUS, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, AUGUST 31, 1869.
INTERESTING LETTER.
The following letter, dated Geneva,
Switzerland, July 27th, 18G9, is from
the pen of E. B. Y T oung, of Eufaula,
Mr. Young accompanied his brother,
W. 11. Y'oung, and Henry Meigs, of
this city, who went to Europe on a
special mission to purchase machinery
for the new addition now being erected
to the Eagle and Phenix cotton mills,
in this city. The letter will be found
interesting to many of our readers.—
The parties have all returned to their
homes much invigorated and pleased
with their trip, and the successful result
of their mission. The letter was ad
dressed to the Eufaula News, from
which paper we copy the following ex
tracts. The writer says:
I left New York on the steamer Min
nesota, at 3 o’clock on 23d of June.
******
On the morning of the sth inst., at 8
o’clock, we saw Old Ireland, as we
sailed along the coast, —this revived us.
Before 10 we had a lull view ; passed
Cape Clear, and landed some passengers
at Queenstown, and proceeded up the
channel to Liverpool, arriving at five
minutes past one. Soon landed—we
had to pass through the Custom House
—we are now in her Majesty’s domin
ions.
I was much taken with Liverpool,the
trade and commerce, the streets well
paved and kept in good order. I visited
St. George’s Ilall, this is a magnificent
room, 150 feet long, 85 feet wide, and 90
feet high, aud it is filled with statuary.
They have the largest organ in the
world, lately put up. I suppose that it
is 50 feet wide, 40 feet deep, and about
as high, and it is filled with a 12 horse
power engine, and some of the pipes
sound like thunder. I beard three
pieces played upon it.
I visited the market, and we are in
time for cherries, strawberries, and
other fruits and vegetables. The straw
berries are the largest I ever saw. I
had often read of the fishwomen, but
had never formed an opinion of them.
They are the worst looking part of hu
inanity that I ever saw; they are even
worse looking than any sailor is to a
man. After spending a few days in
Liverpool, I went to Manchester. This
place now contains 500,000 inhabitants.
Here you could hear the spindles run
ning, and the forges in full blast. I
spent a day pleaseutly there, and could
have added more time, but was anxious
to visit other places, and therefore can
not dwell too long at any one point.
So I left for London, IBBJ miles, and
this was accomplished in five hours.
They travel here. The roads are per
fectly smooth ; you can almost write
while traveling. But I don’t like the
construction of the cars. They are some
thing like a coach body, five sit on each
seat, which are opposite, aud you are
locked up. It is hot and poorly ventil
ated ; they let you get out abfrut three
times from Manchester to London, and
five minutes is the longest time you
are allowed. Their cars are not as
pleasant as ours, and you suffer for
water. I think they are behind us in
the way of convenience, but have much
better roads; yet, I think the other is an
offset to the pleasant roads. I would
prefer ours to theirs.
I am now at London and have visited
many places—Museum, Ilyde Park,
Crystal Palace, and above all, the West
minster Abbey, which is the most an
cient building in London. Here its
shrine was erected by Henry 111, in
1269—more than 600 years ago- upon this
arejranslations from the shrine built by
Henry II upon the canonization of Ed
ward, King of England, the last of the
Saxon race. He died in 1065, over 800
years ago. I could almost go down to
this date to give you a description of
each vault that I visited, hut time will
not permit. You can see the decay of
time upon the walls of this edifice.—
There we walked over the dust of reign
ing Kings that sleep in the dust, and
this brought to my mind the frailty of
this life, and it would be impossible for
me to go into a full description of the
tombs aud monuments there erected. I
also saw the chair that all had been
crowned in down to Victoria. Y T ou
might spend hours in reading over
these ancient tombs, but enough of this.
I passed thruugh thirteen miles of
Railroad under the city. There are
three that run above this; one above the
other.
I visited" the Tabernacle and heard
Spurgeon preach. He gave a plain
sermon. I have heard many a better
one. This building in built in an oval
shape, 300 feet long, 150 feet wide, and,
I judge, about 90 feet high. It has two
rows of galleries that go around the
building, and is capable of bolding 5,-
500 persons seated. They told me that
it bad held 8000. Y"ou have to get a
ticket for admission as it is overflowed
every Sabbath. He has a stage erected
about one-third ol the way out, with a
balustrade. This is, I suppose, 20 feet
high, and made circular, with two rows
of seats, one above the other, and capa
ble of holding about 200 persons, The
lower seats was occupied by the male
Sunday School, above and surrounding
the preacher, the principal members of
his Church. This will give you an
idea.
I called on J. P. Benjamin and had
about half hour’s conversation. He said
that if he could be of any service to me,
to call on him. From what passed be
tween us, I do not think he will return
to the United States to make it a home.
He requested me to call on Mr. Davis,
which I did in the evening, and was
agreeably entertained for an hour. I
took a cup of coffee with him. He
spoke very freely to me, but what he
said, I shall not repeat. He is living
quite retired; yet he spends some of his
lime with the nobility in the country.
His health he says is tolerable good at
this time, and he intends returning
sometime this Fall to Mississippi.
I left London by Railroad to N. Haven.
The land all along the roads are in culti
vation down to the track. In many
places I saw them mowing grass on the
embankments that were hard to stand
upon. Again I saw cabbages, peas,and
ail kinds of vegetables in other places,
and flowers of every discription bloom
ing. The fact is, it was filled up with
something; not a foot is wasted. We
took a steamer to cross the channel be
tween England and France. The wa
ter was smooth as a lake, and run the
trip in 41 hours—73 miles. We landed
at Deippa, in France. Such a change
. in that short distance in the looks of the
people, and in the language ! The wo
men mostly wear caps, and the chatter
going on, was as bad to me as a pareel
of swallows.
We left Paris, passing Rouan. The
lauds are considerably broken, yet, like
in England, are in a high state of culti
vation. The hill sides looked like a
piece of patch-work, as some places are
in squares not very large. They had cut
wheat and were going to cut grass.
They say this would give it a different
appearance, then perhaps oats wasturu
i ing. So on, in the different shades, it
j had the appearance that I spoke of.
The road was smooth, sometimes over
! the houses. At one place we were
j about half-way as high as a church j
! steeple, then again you would go in a
tunnel of 2or 3 miles. It took 12 hours
from London to Paris, 313 miles. I
have now brought you to Paris and it
would take a dozen pages to attempt to
give you an idea of what I have seen,
and as I told you in the outset, I would
not be able to undertake to describe all,
but give you a brief sketch. To sum
up all, I think Paris the finest city that
I ever saw, as you might spend two
months there anil would not see halt.
The streets are generally wide, well
built up, and I say that it is the cleanest.
They are all the time watering to
keep down the dust. They have finer
parks, laid out with taste and decorated
with every variety of flowers, to please
the eye and elevate the mind. I would
like, if I did have the time, to paint to
you some of the beauties of the city, but
I must pass on, after remaining a week,
and on the move all day. I did not
visit one third of what was to be seen.
I would walk until I was not able to go,
then ride for some distance, but you
cannot see as much by riding. I have
to stop, for I cannot find room or time.
We left Paris for Germany. This trip
was accomplished in twenty hours, and
the most uncomfortable and fatiguing
ride that I ever had by railroad. They
put 8 to 10 in a car, and like in En
gland, no chance to move about, lock
! you up, and there is no air passes
; through. You are seated like in a
j carriage, only you have 10 instead of 4.
They don’t stop 5 minutes, and don’t
give any warning. If you move away
a few feet, you may be left, as they lock
the door and no chance to get a plat
form to put your feet on. l’ou can
neither get anything to eat, or a drop
of water to cool your tongue, and all the
sleep you can get is by sitting up straight
This Railroad passes through Moun
tains, and there are many tunnels to
pass through. We arrived at Geneva.
This city, I do not know what to com
pare it to, without it is fairy land. It
is situated on both sides of the lake,
and this is a beautiful green water, and
so clear that you can almost see the
bottom in any part. The water is like
a large mirror spread out before you,
not a ripple to be seen. It is surround
ed by high and lofty mountains, on
every side, and you can see Mt. Blanc
towering above them all. It has the
appearance of a heavy white cloud in
the horizon, and is 60 miles off. We
were here at full moon, and to see the
moon come up over Mt. Blanc, it looked
as a spire run up through the moon that
divided it into two parts, and when it
ascended above the mountains, it lit up
the lake as with a thousand diamonds.
To aid the scene, the gas lamps around
the lake helped to deck it off. The
beauties of this place, with this sheet of
water, cannot be surpassed. I could
stay a month and indulge in its beauties.
There John Calvin was born, and with
in two miles of this place is the line of
France, and where Voltaire lived and
died. We are preparing to ride out to
see the place. I must now leave you,
as we start again in the morning. 1
have not the time to look over this let
ter to see what I have written, and had
to do it hurriedly. Ido not expect to
have a chance to write again.
Yours respectfully,
E. B. Young.
From WaNliinicton.
Washington, Aug. 23—The Cubans
have advices giving the following po
litical news.
Volunteers are exhibiting purposes of
their organization that of wresting the
island from Spain.
Everywhere throughout the islaud
the Juntas are in concert with the
Chiefs at Havana, and now Deßodas is
under the same control which expelled
Dulce from the island.
It is reported that a formidable organ
zation of Spanish in the interest of Ces
pedes’ government against volunteers
has been exposed by a spy.
It is reported that Deßodas eomtein
plates returning to Spain, believing that
a continuance in his present position
would detract from his reputation.
Washington, August 23.—The In
dian Commissioner, Dodge, telegraphs
from the far West very hopefully, re
garding the disposition of Indians for
peace.
The Cubans have dates to the 13tli,
which says: Jordan had quite a fight
at Puerto Padre. The fight lasted
nearly the whole day. Cubans lost
about 150 killed aud wounded. The
Spanish loss is reported mneli H rsator
In this fight the Cubans were dislodged
from their camp, but rallied, and finally
drove the Spaniards.
Revenue $70,000.
Amos Kendall, recently quite sick, is
convalescent.
It is stated that Bailie Payton advo
cates Andrew Johnson’s eleetion to the
U. S. Senate from Tennessee.
Fish is expected to morrow.
Washington, Aug. 23.— C01. Rafle,
Quesada’s brother, commanding Cuban
General, arrived at New York in the
Arizona, from Aspinwall.
Quesada reached Jamaica a month
since from Cuba, in a sailing vessel.
Quesada bears important dispatches
and gives glowing accounts of the sit
uation of the Patriots ; says 42,000 are
in arms, and will be 35,000 more armed
by the middle of September. Slaves
are volunteering by the thousands, wil
ling to work in trenches and do camp
drudgery. They procure and cook all
the provisions, giving armed troops the
entire time for drilling and discipline.
A number of machinists who went
over with Jordan, made a foundry near
Palma Sarino and have cast very fair
specimens of artillery.
There are in the interior $7,000,000
worth of produce which will be offered
in exchange to Americans as as soon as
the port is opened.
Quesada does not disclose his object.
Fall River, Mass., August 23.
The manufacturers of this city have de
termined to run only three days in the
week. This puts 500,000 spindles on
half time.
Paris, Aug. 23.—The La France
says however painful it may be for
Spain to accept the suggested solution
of the Cuban difficulty, there is no other
plan possible. It is the only way for
Spain to save some fragments of the
wreck. The value and duration of Cu
ban independence under the protection
of America is another question. The
desire to absorb which characterizes the
Americans, and qualifies them very
badly to perform the part of platonic
protectorate. It is very probable that
they are trying to bring about the se
cond edition of the history of Texas.
Eugenie departed Eastward to day.
From Pennsylvania.
Philadelphia, August 23. Weather
cooi and pleasant, and no rain yet.
Water growing scarcer. Council meets
this afternoon to devise means of sup
plying water.
No rain since August 4th. All reports
agree that corn is suffering throughout
the State.
Councils have appropriated $25,000
for families of canal boatmen, detained \
low water.
From Mississippi.
' Jackson, Aug. 23.—Gen. Ames has
| issued the following order to the com
manders of military posts in Mississip
i pi : The Commanding General directs
j that you do not obey in ' the future any
writ of habeas corpus issued by the U.
i 8. District Court or Circuit Court, or
j any order mad? by such Courts for the
release of prisoners in your custody.
| Should such a writ or order be served
upon you report the fact by telegraph.
Settling Up.—Gen. John A. Dix,
late Minister to France, was arrested
on Wednesday, at the suit of John
Mitchell,“the Irish Patriot,’’who charg
es him with illegal imprisonment. Mit
chell, it will be remembered, wasarrest
-led in New York and imprisoned at
Fortress Monroe by Gen. Dix in the
summer of 1805, and upon this fact, he
brings suit for $25,000 damages. Gen.
! Dix gave security to the amount of $20,-
, 000 to answer the charge.
WEDNESDAY MORNING, AUG 25.
Rice Crop. —The Charleston Courier
says the planters in that vicinity are
harvesting a fine rice crop.
The Atlanta Constitution says Messrs
Grant, Alexander & Cos., purchased in
that city, on Monday, twelve mules at
$225 each.
The Latest prom Radical Head
quarters.—Bullock has pardoned a
nigger burglar.
Hulbert has turned over twenty-five
thousand dollars of the earnings of the
State Road. Blodgett has not got his
hand in yet.
Mr. James C. Dobbin, a particularly
promising young lawyer of North Caro
lina, and a son of the Secretary of the
Navy under Pierce’s administration,
was killed on Friday last by falling
from a window in the third story of his
residence in Fayetteville.
State Tax to be Assessed. — We
learn from the Governor’s proclamation
that the officers authorized to do so
have ordered the collection of a State
tax in Georgia, for the year 1869, of
four-tenths of one per cent upon the
value of property returned by each tax
payer.
Ocean Steamship Line.— The com
mittee appointed to consider the pro
ject of establishing a line of steamers
between Norfolk, Virginia, and Liver
pool, England, have called a meeting
of the subscribers to the company for
the first of September next, in Norfolk,
Virginia, for provisional organization.
The committee has reported in favor of
chartering British steamers for the line,
to sail under the British flag, and the
sum of $300,000 has been subscribed
therefor.
General Toombs.— General Robert
Toombs, the distinguished Confederate
General and eminent lawyer of Georgia,
was in town last week, and was the ob
ject ol much attention. He was hos
pitably entertained at Dr. W. S. Chip
ley’s, an old friend with whom he
served iu the Georgia Legislature,
where he met his old confrere. General
John C. Breckenridge, and other prom
inent cit’zens. Gen. Toombs is one of
the most agreeable gentlemen in con
versation it was ever our pleasure to
meet—abounding in anecdote, and with
the keenest relish for humor imaginable.
It is no matter of astonishment that the
people of his native State are so much
attached to him, for to abilities of the
first order he adds the manners that
always attract men of all class. He
visited during liis sojourn here many
places of interest, including Woodburn,
where he was delighted with thorough
breds and short-horns and Alderneys
and other stock congregated on that
celebrated breeding farm. —Lexington
( Ky. ) Gazette, Aug. \Sth,
'l'he University of Ainbniua.
The University of Alabama, like those
of the other States which have fallen
into the hands of niggers and carpet
bapgers. has lost its prestiaonnd useful
ness. The regents of the same elect
ed a faculty of ignorant vagrants, and
the natural consequence was that no
respectable youth of Alabama would
attend the sessions. The said regents
have made another attempt, and with
no better success, as would seem from
the annexed account which we take
from the Montgomery Mail. That jour
nal says:
A negro named Cyrus Northrup is
elected President of the Alabama State
University. We have known Cyrus
some years as a very respectable darkey.
He formerly belonged to the Northrup
family at Wetumpka. Cyrus is elected
with the hope that he and Cloud can
borrow money from the banking house
of Northrup & Chick, 6 Wall street,
New York. Mr. Hiram Northrup is an
old friend of ours and we beg him not
to lend Cyrus money.
Maj. N. R. Chambliss, sou in law of
Gen. Hardee, is elected by the Board of
Regents Professor of Mathematics at the
University. A tub to the whale !
Vernon H. Vaughan, Esq., is to be
Professor of Logic and Metaphysics at
the University. This remind us of the
Scotchman’s definition of metaphysics
—“When the students dinna ken what
he talks about—that is metaphysics.”
A Vairmount carpet bagger, old J.
De F. Richards, is to be the Professor
of Astronomy at the University. Good.
—a vacancy in the Senate. Randolph
will make him see stars on the cloudiest
night.
Loomis is to be Professor of Ancient
Languages at the University. Who is
Loomis ?
Collins, the murderer of Ilaughey, is
elected Professor of Rhetoric at the Uni
versity.
Bill McConnell is to be continued as
Commandant at the University. Bill
is playing it fine. He is no more a Rad
ical than his father would have been if
he had lived.
It is said that Judge Rice has been
urging upon the Board of Regents to
move the University away from Tusca
loosa. We would not have credited the
report if the Judge had not promised to
vote for Buckley.
Shocking; Tragedy in Monroe.
A young lady named Mary Cunning- ;
ham, aged about twenty-three years, j
daughter of a widow lady, and most re- '
putably connected, died from poison on
Sunday night, in the town of Monroe, ■
under very distressing circumstances.
The young lady had borne a good char
acter until recently, when letters were
found revealing a liaison of long stand
ing with a young man in the town,
whose name we have forgotten. These
letters were written by her to him, and
gave, with disgusting particularity, the
details of an abortion which she had pro
cured on herself, and in which she
boasted that she had fooled everybody I
even her mother and the doctor. The
existence of these letters caused much
comment, and it was expected that they,
with other evidence, would be placed
before the grand jury, and that the
young lady would be indicted for the
shocking crime. She expressed a de
termination to commit suicide before
she would go before the court. • The
mother also is said to have declared her
desire that she should die before making
such a disgraceful exposure. The let
ters were pronounced forgeries, and the
innocence of the young lady was assert
ed in the most solemn manner by her
and her mother. It is proper to say
that the physician who attended her at
the time of her alleged abortion, and at
the time of her death, has conclusive
evidence that the charges were true and
the letters genuine.
On Sunday night about midnight her
mother raised the alarm that her daugh
ter was very ill, and when Dr. Young
arrived she was in a dying condition.
A cup containing strychnine was found
on the table, with the dreg3 of a cup of
coffee. She died iu a few moments.
There were circumstances in the con
duct of Mrs. Cunningham, which, taken
in connection with her previous declara
tions that she preferred that her daugh
ter should die rather than be indicted—
\ which strongly indicate her complicity
I in the shocking tragedy, and we learn-
I ed that the matter was before the grand
jury for investigation.
It was a sad affair, such as we are
seldom called on to record in this lati
tude.—Athena Banner.
A Tribute to Democracy from a
Life-Long Foe.
We find in a late number of the Mem
phis Avalanche, the report of a recent
speech from Mr. Etheridge, delivered
at Dancey ville, Tennessee. The speech
is a very able and interesting one, from
the beginning to the end, and we regret
that our limited space will not permit
of its re-production in full. We give,
however, that portion of it which con
tains a just and manly tribute to the
National Democratic Party, aud we
most earnestly commend the words of
Mr. Etheridge to those gentlemen who
are actively engaged in makiug pre
parations for the funeral of the Democ
racy, and those also who are indulging
the utopian fancy of forming anew
party to consist of nothing but pure
men, moral ideas, constitutional prin
ciples and progressive improvement.
The tribute to the Democratic party
does not come from one who has seen
service under its banner, or who has
enjoyed the honors and rewards of its
past victories. It comes not from one
who was learned in its principles, and
trained in its practices, but from one
who was for years its persistent and
formidable foe.
Surely the words of such a man
should have some weight with those
whose hands are lifted to strike down
the only bulwark which has stood be
tween them and a Despotism worse
than Death. When Mr. Etheridge can
so speak of a party still alive in num
bers, talent and organization, those
who are indebted to that party for their
personal liberties, and for the privilege
of illustrating the freedom of the press
in the South, should at least hold their
peace.
Mr. Etheridge said there were many
persons in the State who expressed
much concern about the fate of old
parties, and the formation of new. It
was especially so with some most re
spectable Old Line Whigs. lie said he
was the last Old Line Whig elected as
such to the American Congress; he had
some right to be as sensitive as other
Whigs, but candor compelled him to
say now that he cared nothing what
ever for party names. In this progres
sive age no party name could very long
represent very exact or well-defined
principles. He was so glad to have the
privilege of voting once more that he
wonld take no offense at being called a
Whig, a Democrat, an Opposition man,
or a Liberal—indeed almost anything
but a Tennessee Radical. This party
of Tennessee proscriptionists was so
objectionable he would not consent to
bear its name for a moment. It had
been in all respects sui generic ; it had
no paternity, and he prayed Heaven, in
dying, it might leave no progeny. He
said he was with those and of those
who struggled for the preservation of
constitutional liberty here and else
where. But these old Whigs insisted
that they could • not formally join
this old rotten, effete Democracy.
He did not ash them to do so ; hut he
did ask them to co operate with good
Democrats, aud all others who were
striving to maintain the public liberties.
You object, said he, to affiliating with
the Democratic party of the North; that,
unlike the Whig party, it never aban
doned its organization. Further, that
a large majority of the Southern Demo
crats went into the rebellion and still
adhere to the Democratic party. Now,
if all these things were true, as stated,
iho objections amount to nothing.—
Grant, said Mr. Etheridge, that the
Democratic party has preserved its or
ganization, (and this is true only of the
Northern States, the Pacific States and
Delaware, Maryland, Kentucky and
Missouri,) and that everywhere the
Whig party has been disbanded, it only
proves that the Democracy was stronger
in numbers or vitality, or both, than the
Whigs. Admit, what is true, that most
of the Southern Democrats went into
the rebellion, the same thing may be
truly said of most of the Whigs, and
especially of their leaders and represen
tative men. Admit that the Southern
rebels now pray for the success of the
Democratic party in all the States where
it is organized ; they are joined in their
prayers by every intelligent Whig in
the South, who is not, or has not sought,
to be an office-holder under the State or
Federal Government ? Was there ever
anything in being a Democrat deserving
reproach ; or in being a Whig that of
itself entitled one to peculiar honor ?
If so, we were wholly unconscious of
the impassable gulf which divided us in
former times. It is certainly true that
the Democratic party was often inso
lent in power ; its leaders were some
times unscrupulous in their efforts to
retain it. It is true that the best chap
ters in its long and sometimes splendid
administrative career were often soiled
by pages devoted only to party expe
diency ; sometimes blotted by party
crimes, which are inseparabic from
long-continued party success.
But to its eternal honor be it said, it
despoiled no man of his liberty, it did
not originate or favor great monopolies,
it did not become the champion of high
taxes or subscribe to the modern maxim
that a “public debt is a public blessing.”
More than this, it imprisoned, it tried,
it punished no man, without the judg
ment of his peers, and the laws of the
land. No Military Commission or drum
head court martials were convened in
time of peace, or within the limits oi a
peaceful jurisdiction, during its long
career. Finding no bastiles- to pull
down, it left none as monuments oi its j
lasting disgrace. The despot’s maxim, j
salus populi suprema lex, was never
spoken by its leaders, and found no i
place in its political vocabulary. And
if all the Southern rebels were Demo
crats, then we must admit, that during
the years they governed the State at
Nashville, during the four years they
governed the Confederacy at Richmond,
they did not disgrace themselves, by
passing laws that a union man should
not vote, because he prayed Heaven to
give victory to the flag, a safe retun to
the soldier boy he claimed as his own
These things neither rebels nor Demo
crats did while war was flagrant; it re
mained for radical camp followers to do
so when war was over. I assert, said
Mr. Etheridge that the course and con
duct of the Northern Democracy, as a
party, since the beginning of the war,
j especially siuce 1862, has not only been
most honorable to them, but entitles
1 them to the lasting gratitude of every
lover of constitutional liberty through
! out the world. But for their compact
i organization; but for the heroic manner
| in which they resisted the threats and
blandishments of power ; but for their
sole battle cry, “the Constitution as it
i is, the Union as it was," our public lib
! erties would have been overthrown,and
that Imperialism, which is now hut the
hope of the bond holders, would have
been an accomplished fact.
Anothr Nigger Law Maker Lost.
—The Huntsville Democrat of the 20th
instant says:
The “official journal” of Huntsville
announces the death of “Mr. Jeff. Me
Calley,” one of the Madison county
| members of the Radical Legislature oi
Alabama. It speaks of his death hav
' ing occurred in the Northern part of
1 this county. We heard that he had
been residing in Tennessee for six or
eight months past. It is said his re
mains have been brought to Huntsville,
his old stamping-ground, for interment.
This is the second negro Legislator from
Madison, who has died since the meet
ing oi the last so-called Legislature,
Columbus Jones, the predecessor of D.
C. Humphreys, being the othe. Jeff’s
death will involve the necessity of an
election to supply the vacancy thereby
occasioned.
Dr. Thomas Butler and his wife were
shot and seriously injured by a negro
in Griffin on Sunday night last.
NO. 25,
Greeley Grows Sarcastic.
After professing great love for the
1 Southern people, great sorrow overtheir
! political troubles, aud promising to use
his influence to give the white portion
1 of them that will agree to vote the Rad
i ical ticket, such privileges as the bayo
net and the Radical Congress have con
ferred on the ignorant negro, old Greely
indulges his natural and inherent hatred
to Southern gentlemen aud furnishes to
his readers something that suits their
depraved tastes. His latest effort
this kind is embodied in the following
editorial paragraph:
Whatever else may be said of Mr-
Pollard’s late book, it can never be de
j nied that it was written by a perfect
j gentleman. The author’s description
of Mrs. Jefferson Davis sufficiently at-
I tests his claim to be regarded as a chev
alier without shame and Without re
proach. Mrs. Davis, according to Mr.
Pollard, “is a brawny, able bodied wo
man, who has much more of masculine
mettle thau of feminine grace. Her
complexion is tawny, even to the mu
lattoism ; a woman loud and coarse in
her manners, and full of social self as
sertion.” The South for half a century
has been charging the North with alack
of good-breeding ; and we venture to
say that in all the North nobody could
have been found to write and then print
a description of a lady’s person so com
plimentary as this. There are, it must
be confessed, certain graces of character
in which we are still deficient.
Pollard is not regarded as a perfect
"gentleman” by the Southern people.
He is not credited as a man or a writer
save by the people of Greeley’s section
and party. All of the respectability of
which he can boast is such as arises
from the social recognition given him
at the North. Ilia bread is made by
service in an office bestowed by a Rad
ical, and in writing slanders upon the
best and purest of the people, who dis
own him and disavow his sentiments.
Pollard is known and recognized as a
“perfect gentleman” only in that sec
tion where they are so scarce that a
Shoddy King, Mr. Jerome, of New
Y r ork, was compelled to offer a reward
for one to gratify public curiosity.
Destructive Tornado. —The Ma
cou Telegraph says:
We learn from several planters in the
city yesterday, some of the details of a
tornado twelve miles west of the city,
Sunday afternoon.
A planter who lives at Mims’ Cross
ing, on the Macon and Western railroad,
says about 4 o’clock two dense black
clouds flying in diametrically opposite
directions, one from the South and the
other coming down lrorn the North,
came in colliaon over his plantation. A
dull, heavy roar immediately followed,
and looking heavenward he saw the va
pors in terrible commotion.
In an instant, as it were, the wind
leaped to the earth, running as a cy
clone and lapping up trees, fences aud
everything of light character. It was
funnel shaped aud covered a circumfer
ence of about one mile. Taking a
southwest direction it passed into Mon
roe county, carrying destruction in its
path. Corn and cotton, trees and
fences were torn up and scattered
abroad. Many houses were unroofed,
but we have heard of no loss of life.
The tornado was accompanied with
awful peals of thunder and flashes of
lightning. It lasted only fifteen min
utes at any one point. Water fell to
the depth of several inches, flooding the
fields and roads.
We have not heard the distance it
traveled, but it must have passed
through Monroe and into Upsou couu
ty. It is impossible to tell the extent of
the damage sustained. It was greater
upon corn than any other species of
crops—tearing it up by the root carry
ing the stalks in many fields entirely
away. All cotton open was more or
less stained aud well nigh ruined.
No rain had fallen in that section for
many weeks, but the scope traversed by
this cylone certainly received all back
rations due.
Counterfeit Currency. —The fob
lowing letter from the Treasury Depart
ment at Washington has recently been
received by E. L. Roquemore, at Box
Springs, Ga., and sentto us for publica
tion. The matter is self explanatory :
Treasury of the United States, i
Washington, August 14, 18G9. {
Sir : In reply to your letter of the 9th
inst. I have to inform you that Dailey
& Cos. do not violate the laws of the
United States against counterfeiting,
but that they either swindle their dupes
out of the whole amount sent them, or re
turn small photographs of United States
notes or something else which cannot
be used as money. This Department
can, therefore, take no action against
them.
Y”ou arc at liberty to publish this let
ter should you deem it desirable.
Very respectfully,
E. L. Tuttle,
Asst. Treasurer U. S.
River News. —Capt. Abe Fry, of the
steamer C. D. Fry, was in town yester
day morning, but left iu a yawl for his
boat, at Weems’ Shoals. lie informed
us that the Fry struck a rock about 3
o’clock on Sunday and sunk in live feet
water iu a few minutes, having received
two holes in her hull. He thinks he
had about SIO,OOO worth of freight on
board, only about one third of which
will be damaged, lie expects to have
her raised and all right iu a few days,
lie came up for the Barnett.
Anew fertilizer is to be brought into
notice. A French agriculturalist pro
poses that the vessels occupied during
the summer in cod fishing, should in
other seasons be employed in collecting
and transporting to the Azores the
seaweed which is to he found in large
quantities west of those islands. This
seaweed, it is asserted, covers in dense
masses a space seven times larger than
all Germany. Analysis has discovered
that these weeds possess the same fer
tilizing qualities as the weeds employed
for manure on the coasts of France.
The vessels, it is proposed, shall convey
these marine plants to the Azores,
where they could be pressed and dried,
and the potash and other salts extracted.
These floating meadows, it is estimated,
will produce every year sufficient mat
ter to manure over 1,350,000,000 acres.
Early Receipts.—Fourteen bales of
new cotton were received iu Macon
yesterday. The very disasters which
are cutting the crop short are of course
precipitating its maturity. The dry
weather—the scorching sun—the rust,
which is denuding the plant of leaves—
are all combining to open the bolls
rapidly, and the high price is bringing
it in as fast as it can be packed. We
are sorry that so pleasant a story as the
cotton crop of 1869 should he cut oil in
the middle.— Macon Telegraph.
New corn is being brought to market
and is selling at $1 per bushel. We
saw some specimens of the corn crop of
Mr. Jesse Reynolds, the other day,
which were very fine. It is thought
that “Hog and Hominy” wiil be plenti
ful next winter. —Bainbridge Argus.
New Orleans, August 24.—A duel
was fought at the Oaks yesterday, be
tween a Mississippian and Orleanian,
with Mississippi rifles, forty paces. At
second fire the Mississippian, the chal
lenging party, was wounded; it is be
lieved mortally.
THURSDAY HORNING, AUG. 26.
Ureeley's K< joinder to Mr. Stephens.
In the Tribune, of the 21st, Horace
Greeley makes a feeble effort to reply to
the letter of Mr. Stephens which we
published a few days since. Ho lias
been frequently used up by people with
whom he has provoked controversies
but we have never known him to be so
thoroughly punished and demoralized
as at the hands of Mr. Stephons. He
attempts to dodge the argument on the
question of the right of secession by the
following flippant and untruthful asser
tion :
The American revolution was right, be
cause impelled by righteous indignation
against British tyranny, usurpation and
abuse of power ; the Southern Rebellion
was wroug, because its most potent lm
pulse, its cardinal purpose, its para
mount object, were the territorial diffu
sion of Human Slavery and tho conse
quent augmentation of its power in and
over the Union.
The Southern States resorted to the
exercise of an undoubted right, a right
then acknowledged by Greeley, bocauso
they had been grievously wronged for
a long series of years, and because a sec
tional party threatened to destroy their
rights under a written constitution, and
to deprivo them of their property.
They were unable by forco of arms to
make their right cause good, and after
defeat were compelled to submit to rob
bery, and all of the punishments aud
insults a cowardly peoplo could invent
and inflict.
Being cornered, Greeley admits that
he was in favor of telling the Southern
States to go in peace, provided the people
of those States were in tavor of sece
ding from the Union. But he still as
serts that the people ot these States were
not in favor of any such measures. Re
ferring to the election in Alabama ho
says:
But one poll (iu Shelby County, we
believe) had given 200 Union majority,
electing two Union delegates for the
County by 160 majority. Tho returning
officer for that strong Union district waH
coaxed away on a hunting party, and
so plied with good eheer that he stayed
away for a week, failing to return the
vote of his precinct, (as was intended :)
so tho defeated Secession candidates
were returned instead of the elected
Unionists, giving the former four ma
jority in the Convention, and the
organization, of course. Withh this
capital, operations were begun: one
delegate from a strong Union County
being promised a Major Generrlehip for
betraying his constituents , and others
bought with such lure as would serve,
until secession was ultimately voted :
Yeas 61 ; Nays 39.
The truth of history does not sustain
his assertion, and before an intelligent
auditory it must fall, when Mr. Stephens
himself a Union man and a Southerner,
declares that the issues were fully ar
gued before the people, and a common
conclusion deliberately taken. To jus
tify the war Greeloy quotes as follows
from Jere Clemens:
“Before I declare this meeting ad
journed, I wish to state,a fact in relation
to the commencement of the war: Some
time after the ordinance of Secession
was passed, I was in Montgomery, aud
called upon President Davis, who was
in that city. Davis, Memminger, the
Secretary of War, Gilchrist, the mem
ber from Lowndes county, and several
others wore present. As l entered, the
conversation ceased. They were evi
dently discussing the propriety of firing
on Fort Sumter. Two or three of them
withdrew to a corner in the room ; and
I heard Gilchrist say to the Secretary
of War. l lt must be done. Delay two
months and Alabama stays in the Union.
You must sprinkle blood in the faces of
the people.' ”
His witness who played fast and loobo
with both sides is utterly unreliable,
and having proved false in one respect
I is, according to rulos of law, falso iu
I everything. But admitting everything
to bo true that Clemens is credited with
saying, and putting it by Greeley’s con
fession that he was willing to let a peo
ple go in peace who were unwilling to
stay, his attempt to justify the war is
adding insult to injury. And after such
a confession, how, we ask, can the cru
elties, the outrages and oppressions put
upon the people of tho South since the
war, be justified or even palliated ? Wo
would like to know where Greeley gets
the information that tho people of the
South, by fair election, after full discus
sion, accepted negro suffrage and polit
cal equality, and chose to disfranchise
tho worth and intelligence among them?
A Mississippi politician of very doubt
ful repute has recently written a letter
to Grant’s brother-in-law, Judge Dent,
which has been made public. He inti
mates in that letter that the coming
generation of Southern men may have
to avenge the gratuitous insults heaped
upon their fathers. They will have to
do it. And they will do it, when op
portunity offers, with a will. And in
view of the confession of Greeley,
which must be taken as the then senti
ment of his party, that if the people of
the South wanted to go, they had the right
to go, and go in peace, it seems to us
that centuries of time, and torch and
sword, will not give to the coming gen
eration of Southern men opportunity
sufficient to avenge the wrong* put up
on their fathers’ wives, mothers and
sisters, or to properly punish the insti
gators and perpetrators of these wrongs.
The Byuon Scandal.—The press of
the entire country, so far as we have
seen, denounce Mrs. Stowe for her out
rageous slander on Lord Byroa and his
sister. They discredit the story from
beginning to end, and are not choico in
their comments on the old she hyena.
Horace Greeley alone stands by her.
He believes Mrs. Stowe—says her tale
is true ; that he has been aware of the
facts for many years, and praises her
article highly. We know of no punish
ment that would he fit for this couple
hut to have them married to each other.
The Griffin Star, of the 21st, says :
“Cotton fields that promised, a month
ago, to yield 1000 to 1200 pounds of cot
ton to the acre, will not, at best, make
more than two thirds, and without a
great change, will not yield even half.
Six to a dozen dead bollson a stalk will
drop at the touch. Bolls are very small,
and forms dry up, die arid drop off.
“Mr. Sol. Bloodworth, just outside of
Grifliu, has an acre of corn, planted
about the first of June, ditched on both
sides so as to throw moisture through
the subsoil, which will yield 100 bushels,
lie has ten acres adjoining which will
make about fifty bushels to the acre—
not manured.”
James L. Clarke, Esq., a resident of
Columbia, South Carolina, and for
many years an officer of the Branch
Bank of that State, was thrown from
his buggy on Thursday last and almost
instantly killed. He was about seven
ty-three years of ago.
Law Suits. —On Saturday a bill was
filed in Fulton Superior Court by H.
P. Farrow, Attorney General, on the
part of Gov. Bullock, vs. N. L. Angler,
State Treasurer, for SSOO, amount re
ceived as interest on State funds depos
ited in bank. Rich developments are
expected to be made by the defense.—
Is the Governor authorized to give a
retaining fee of SSOO in said case?—
Atlanta Con.
A Probable Leader,—Hinton Row
an Helper is ambitious of being the
leader of the new party which some
people are trying to form.