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About The weekly sun. (Columbus, Ga.) 1857-1873 | View Entire Issue (May 21, 1872)
G Q LTJ M BUS. miPAT »?• Beall wood School.— W. F Williams, Esq., has resigned the position of teacher, and Mr. B. M. Thnrman elected’to fill the vacancy. Gzoboe Elkins. —This disreputable ne gro, who was shot at the jail, by Captain Wm. Cash, of the police force, for insub ordination, will get well. Ruining Heb Complexion.— We heard a sable mother, yesterday, yelling to her daughter, who was as black as ink, Put on dat bonnet, Liz, you gwine to run bar headed wid dem white trash till yo’ ’plexshun gwine to be ruined. ” Neobo Militaby Company.— We under stood one has been formed in Columbus, and that it is being drilled very often at night. As all the white companies have applied for arms, and they have prece dence on account of priority of time, we presume there will be none left for the sable brothers, at least for those of this county. Aid fob Gen. Cooper. —Owing to the personal exertions of Gen. R. H. Chilton, formerly Adjutant General of Gen. li. E. Lee’s army, but now the President of the Columbus Manufacturing Company, over S2OO, we are informed, havo been secured in this city for the relief of Gen. Cooper, the Adjutant General of the Confederate Btates. This sum should be largely in creased. Musical Notation. —Mr. W. 8. Acee has shown us a colored lithographed spec imen of the chromatic scale devised by him. The notes are colored differently, there being seven different shades in the composition. The effect is very hand some. A child would be attracted by them und learn and remember the scale much more readily than by the old plan. The now idea is the “object system,” which is proved to be superior to any other. The scale can be prepared very cheaply and possesses much advantage. “A Stephens Democbat.” Bead the communication of “A Stephens Demo crat.” It is the able, mental product of one of our most intelligent farmers. We are a little afraid that some of the new converts to Groelcyism, will be like the man riding a one-eyed horse over a bridge. He was so scared of the no eye that he reined too hard in going it on the one eye, and pitched headlong into a pool of very dirty and poisonous water. We make no exchanges, until compelled, of devils and witches. The Bain Cbow. Gentlemen have been telling us something about rain crows. They said they have often shot thorn. The description is of a grayish brown bird, with a white breast, about the size of a mocking bird. They say its hab its are to secrete itself. The note is a succession of short crooks, and it is most frequently heard before rain falls. In fact it is regarded as a pretty sure fore teller of showers. We know nothing of ornithology and accept the statement as given. The Ice Company—Success Cebtain.— A contract was made with the Columbus Iron Works yosterday to build a Muhl ma chine. It is to be ready in thirty days.' Capt. Brain is the agent for these ma chines. Work on the erection of the building on the site of the Carter factory will commence Monday. The company wants $5,000 more of capital stock. Sure ly Columbus will give it. The mere sav ing in the price of ice, should the compa ny never pay a profit, will be a handsome dividend. Afteb Office—Census Taeino.— We recommended the other day that a census bo taken of Columbus. Four persons applied that morning to Mayor Mcllhenny for the office. They were resolved to speak in timo. We hope that Council will authorize the Mayor to have this enumeration made. The United Statos census of 1870 did Columbus great injus tice. We believe that a fair count will show that Columbus has very near 10,000 inhabitants, if not more. Over the river live 2,500 people who do all their trading with Columbus. In the suburbs—Wynn ton, Beallwood, Linnwood, Utah and Cooleyvillo, are at least 1,500, if not 2,000 more. We believe firmly that within a radious of two miles from the Court House thero are at least 14,000 people. If this were sent out officially its effoct upon the outside world would be much greater than the 7,500 people re ported in the U. 8. census. Macon is about having a census taken. Griffin in creased her population by a late one over 1,000. Mobile is claiming 45,000 inhabi. tants, and is preparing to prove it by a full count. Columbus ought to do the same. Receipts of Cotton in Interior Towns The following table shows the re ceipts at tho named interior towns from September Ist to ‘Friday, May 10th, respectively, for tbe seasons 1870-71 and 1871-72: 1870-1. 1871-2. Augusta 181,720 140,328 Macon 97,086 53,999 Eufaula 37,576 21,700 Columbus 72,111 38,894 Montgomery 95,392 52,076 Selrnn 83,715 58,524 Memphis 478,298 365,211 Nashville 92,932 54,843 Total 1,138,830 785,575 This shows a deficit of this year from the last of 353,255 bales. The stocks on May the 10, were 31,897 against 49,- 786 same date in 1871, showing a deficit of 17,889 which added to the deficit in the port receipts 1,074,113 makes the United States crop in sight last Friday 1,092,002 bales less than the one of last year to same date. Grant Defeated in Connecticut.— j One of the significant signs of the times is the re-election, by the fusion of tho Liberal Republicans and Democrats, of Senator Ferry, by the Connecticut Leg islature, over Gen. Hawley, the Grant nominee. Ferry is a Republican, but he has shown some independence of party and will not obey the nod and beck of the President. Grant was strongly in favor of Hawley, and did all in his pnwer to elect him. He would have been a'willing servitor. This Grant defeat is very sig nificant at the present crisis. The Cincinnati Enquirer “hopes the coming National Democratic Convention will not adopt the famous two-third rule i for the nomination of President and Vice- President which has heretofore been en- j forced in conventions. The rule was , maintained (says the Enquirer) by tho fc outh, because they imagine that there was a check in it against sectional ag ression from, the North, which had a majority of votes. Slavery having pass ed away, there can be no reasons for its further continuance. ” Col. Mosby, in a private letter, speak ing of his interview with Grant says : “I expressly told Gen. Grant that I would support the Democratic nominee, but as between him and Greeley, I was in favor of the South going for the one that would offer us the most generous terms, i. e., that the Philadelphia Convention must outbid Cincinnati.” The New York World now wants the Democratic Convention to nominate ex- Senator Hendricks, of Indiana, for Presi dent, with Judge Church, of New York, for Vice-President. Our Visit to Atlanta, Chattanooga, Nash ville and the Mammoth Cave, Ky. This late trip will be long remembered by the editorial fraternity of Georgia as one of the most pleasant and instructive eras in their lives. The beautiful weather, the cheerful, intelligent company, the boundless hospitality which greeted ns day and night at every place, the endless variety of scenery, the kindness of city and railroad officials, will be ever appre ciated with gratitude and affection. We had no inclination to take notes (even if our health had permitted) and consequent* ly we shall not bore our readers with dry statistics, either agricultural, commercial or mechanical, but speak the spontaneous impressions made on our minds by the fresh inspirations of the mighty works of nature. Men make railroads, tunnel mountains, and build houses and cities. God creates the tall peak and rugged cliff, lifting their majestic heads high above the rolling clouds, seuds the waters dash, ing over the cataract lit by a thousand colors, and utters His voice in thunder or whispers words of mysterious music and wisdom in the silent droppings erystal izing into churches, temples and cham bers, down, down in the depths of our mother earth. They who have gone there, with souls in unison, have seen and heard the grandest wonders of and harmonics of this world. Members of the Pross who returned to their labors from Atlanta have already given expression of thanks and gratitude for the hospitalities so liberally extended to us by the citizens of the Gate City. We can now only echo their voice, and repeat that the entertainments by the accom plished writer of “Heart Hungry,” Mrs. Westmoreland, Col. Crittenden, of the Kimball House, Colonels Adair and Wil son, and the Press and citizens generally, will be ever treasured as white pebbles in the urns of memory and affection. The music is hushed, the foot of the dancer is stilled and the light and music of thous ands of hearts will live on to throb in sympathy with these fair women and kind men. May they ever wave! CHATTANOOGA. At Chattanooga we were tendered the hospitalities of the city and treated at the Bead House like Princes right royally! Our thanksare especially tendered to Mrs. Bead, to whom we are indebted for an introduction to Gen. Forrest, the Murat of the South. If we had the power we would establish a cooking college to be conducted ou scientfic principles, over which Mrs. Bead should preside. We care not how evil a man may be, if with a clean shirt and a meal from the Bead House table, we defy him to do a mean thing. On our return a fellow of low degree attempted to pass off under the cloak of the Press gang and go as a dead head to Atlanta. The excellent conduc tor soon discovered the mistake under which the sneak thief hid, and gave him quickly a ticket of leave—a room in the wilderness. That vulgar dog never could have taken his ease in the Bead Inn, where there be plenty of cakes and ale, ginger is hot in the mouth and you can take it cheap either with or without sugar. The truth is the occupation of the Fool killer would be gone if cooking was a science. The stomach, and not the brain, is the seat of that greatest of mysteries— the intellect. We believe like Falstaff, in sack and bread, and especially when it comes free from the Bead or Boar Head Tavern. We visited the ltoane and Vulcan Iron Works, where was exhibited to us the pro cess of iron manufacture from the crude ora heaved from the bowels of the mine to the rail over which the car (freighted with the wealth of nations,) rolls and rat tlos. The principal of the Works informed us that the production monthly, of the iron, was equal to nearly one hundred thousand dollars. Think of that Master Brook! From the Iron Works we wont in fine carriages to the top of Look-out Mountain where, in Bock city, an excellent lunoh was spread. We wore accompanied by two ladies on horseback. Talk of the beauty of a ship under full sail, a rose, a rainbow, but nothing can equal a woman on horseback or climbing a huge moun tain. The views aro extremely handsome and unspeakably delightful. Lookout, from the city to the top is five miles high. From it, you sec seven States. The Moccasin Bend of the Tennessee, where the river seoms running parallel in opposite directions, washes its base. We were asked to say the distance between and across the apparent two rivers. We replied— “four hundred yards." The questioner (who knew,) answered —“Five miles!” Such is altitude on sight. As the Preachers say, we must hurry on. NASHVILLE. Here we were met by unbounded hospi talities. The Press, the Maxwell and Bat tle Houses, the Committees of the Expo sitions, were rivals in kindness and atten tions. We visited the respected widow of President Polk and family and stood with reverence over his honored grave. His beautiful great granddaughter pre sented us a rose as a testimonial (we sup pose) that the land that gave birth to the Polks was too, the home of our early af fections. That rose is withered, but its fragrance is preserved in our heart. May God bless the child and its intelligent mother! We examined the majestic capitol from turret top to foundation stone. From there, we had the city spread out before us and the Cumberland spanned by its suspension bridges and filled with boats, rolling onward to the clear blue Ohio. The Exposition was a grand success. Everything in fine arts and mechanical implements were on exhibition from an Egyptian mummy three thousand years ago, who sat and drank and lived, loved and wept in the laud of tho Pharaoh s to the child of to-day preserved for anatomi cal science. The copper, iron and mar ble mingled with the bones of the mam moth and the products of tho pencil, the loom and chisel. We were glad to see the Eagle and Pheuix, of Columbus, alive and kicking, the one gazing at the 3Un and the other rising from its ashes in a higher and bolder flight. MAMMOTH CAVE, KY. We reached Cave City for breakfast, on the Louisville and Nashville Railroad, and ten miles from the Mammoth Cave. The party, about forty, were hurled over a rugged mountain in four-horse coaches in two hours. The entrance to this, tho grandest of nature's works, Is thirty yards wide, rough with stones, covered with weeds and sprinkled with water falling from above. You descend and awe creeps over you as you advance. The Italians say, “See Naples and die!” “See the Mammoth Cave,” ochoes the American, and you will never see its like again. True, no Vesuvius here belches out fire, but its wonderful streets of palaces, arch es_and temples in grandeur far surpass Herculaneum and Pompeii. Vespasian measured the steps and arena of the Col liseum, and Michael Angelo hung the dome of St. Peters high above the waters of the yellow Tiber, but God alone here planted the euerlasting pillars, and the houses are not made with mans hands and are eternal as the rocks. To attempt a description of the won ders you see and their infinite variety is foolishness. Virgil, Milton, Dante and Homer caught similar inspirations in their regions of perpetual woe and night, and again Shakespeare uttered its weird sounds and sights when he tells of Prospero’s cell and enchanted island. The sublime and beautiful meet you at every step, and he must indeed be cold of heart whose piety and reverence grows no warmer and pro found on such a spot and surrounded by His mighty works. We held a meeting in one of the cham bers, and Prof. Michell, of the Law School at Athens, was asked to pray. He could not have given a better illustration of wisdom, eloquence and piety than in simply (like a child) repeating the Lord’s Prayer. We have heard the same words sounded in marble walls and stately ca thedrals by lips touched with eloquent fire, but certain are we, that no one pres ent can forget this scene, or whose soul can ever cease to thrill when he utters or hears this holy, humble petition. The sounds of “Old Hundred” and the “Beau tiful Biver” came shortly after, rolling from sevoral fine voices from the mystic “Styx,” filling the arches and corridors and reverberating through the deep, deep caves, with less of earth thau heavenly harmonies. There is but a step from the sublime to the ridiculous, and the fellow who chang ed the following original near the “Devil’s Pulpit,” should be hung without the bene fit of Clergy. “The Mammoth (lave, O! what a spot, In Summer cold, in Winter hot; Great God Almighty ! what a wonder, Horace Greeley, Brown and thunder.” To our faithful colored guide, Billy, and our friend in need who helped us in trouble over rough rocks and wild, deep and dangerous precipices, over and down which the waters were lost, our wit and veteran pilot Matthew, he of the scrip and staff for thirty-five years, we tender our kindest wishes, and hope they may not, after their last passage over the “River of Death,” find a lower deep. To Col. Hul bert, the Bailroad Presidents and con ductors, we wish success to them, their wives and families, and to our brethren of the Press we can confidently say that few' have risen from so low a position as the “Valley of Humility” in the Kentucky cave, to be perched among the Heavens at “Lookout,” Tennessee, or enjoyed more of the “real feast of reason and flow of soul,” than w’e in the last few days. SOUTHERN BAPTIST CONVENTION. This Convention met in Raleigh on the 10th. Attendance largo from all the South ern States. Bev. J. P. Boyce, D. D., was elected President. The death of Bev. Dr. Poindexter, of Virginia, was announced. Convention passed resolutions of sym pathy to Rev. Dr. Mell, of Georgia, who has been the President for several years, and tendering an amount sufficient to en able him to visit Europe. Dr. J. A. Broadus presented to the Con vention, for the President’s use, a mallet made of wood from Mt. Olivet, and the handle from a growth on the Jordan, near where the Saviour was supposed to have been baptised by John. Dr. M. T. Sumner read 27th Annual Do mestic and Indian Missionary report. Re ceipts of the year $38,014 83, being $6,- 791 66 in excess of the past year. Mis sionaries and agents under appointment 177. On the second day the sum of $20,190 was secured towards building a Baptist church in Rome, Italy. There are now' in Italy eight Baptist churches, with 300 members. The Convention received a letter from the Baptist Union of Great Britain and Ireland, expressing their grateful recipro cation of the expression of kind feeling in a letter sent them last year by this Con vention. The Convention adjourned to attend the Confederate memorial ceremonies. Rev. Dr. Fuller offered prayer and Gen. Wade Hampton delivered the oration. On the third day the Convention adopt ed tbe report of the Committee on the Home and Foreign Journal presented by Dr. John A. Broadus. The report pro poses to employ an editor to devote his whole time to the paper and to make va rious improvements in it. Dr. Curry presented the report of the Committee on the Work of the Domestic Mission Board among the negroes, which after discussion, was adopted. The re port recommends that the Board devote as much attention as possible to the color ed peoplo, and that the Board address a circular to the churches urging them to their duty in this work; that efforts be mado to promote the Sunday-school work among the colored people, and to interest them in the mission work to Africa and that the Board be directed to establish as soon as practicable a theological seminary for colored students for the ministry. Convention declined to change sessions from annual to biennial. Among those appointed to preach or spoak at the Sunday-school meetings we note Rev. Dr. Augur, of Baltimore; Rev. Dr. Dixon, of Augusta, Ga.; Rev. Dr. Randolph, of Pennsylvania; Rev. Dr. T. G. Jones, of Nashville; Rev. Dr. E. T. Winkler, of Charleston, S. C.; Rev. Dr. W. T. Brantly, of Baltimore; Rev. Dr. DeVotie, of Georgia; Rev. Dr. I. T. Ticli nor, of Alabama; Rev. Dr. Landrum, of Memphis; Rev. Dr. John A. Broadus, of South Carolina; Rev. Dr. Curry, of Vir ginia; Rev. Dr. Manly, of Kentucky; and Rev. Dr. Boyce, of South Carolina. The Convention adopted the Sunday school report and resolved to sustain the Board and not leave its work to Stato Boards. for Board S9OO. On the fourth day Rev. Dr. Skinner, of Georgia, presented the report of the Com mittee on Indian Missions. The report sketches and commends the work of the Board, and especially commends the early establishment of an orphan asylum among the Creek Indians. Liberal contribution was taken up. Rev. Dr. DeVotie, of Georgia, said it had cost the United States Government $20,000 per head to remove the Seminole Indians to the territory, and the cost of the conversion of the eight thousand Bap tists now in that tribe had been only about one dollar per head. Rev. M. T. Yates, a veteran missionary of the Convention to China, dispatched as follows per cable: “Paris, May 11, 1872. “Well. Voice convalescing. Psalms 107. [Signed] “Yates.” Dr. Curry recalled the interesting fact that at the organization of the church at Rome Dr. Broadus, of South Carolina, and Dr. Randolph of Pennsylvania, assist ed ; and that in a recent ordination there Dr. Tucker, of Georgia, Dr. Anderson, of Philadelphia, and Dr. M. T. Yates of our mission to China, officiated—the rising and setting sun, the North and South, Eu rope. Asia and America, thus clasping hands over our work in Rome. SOUTHERN BAPTIST TUEOLOOICAL SEMINARY. Dr. Jeter announced that the trustees of the Southern Baptists Theological Semi nary had, after mature deliberation, de cided that they would not connect the Seminary with any literary institution 1 that they would leave the place of loca tion to a committee of five, with full pow er to act; that the contested locations, are now narrowed down to Louisville, Nashville, Chattanooga, and Atlanta; that the locality and State to which the Semi nary is removed must raise at least $300,- 000, that the decision be postponed till the Ist of August, to give competition lo calities time to put their offers into legal forms ; but that, in any ovent, the next session will be held at Greenville. He also announced that the Board had elect ed as assistant professor in the seminary Rev. W. H. Whitsitt, of Albany, Ga., late of Tennessee, educated at the Uni versity of Virginia, the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, and Berlin, Prus sia. DAY OF SPECIAL PRAYER APPOINTED. The Convention appointed the first Sabbath in July as a day of special prayer for an outpouring of the Spirit on the for eign mission work of the Convention. The report of the Snnday-school Board was next read by Rev. S. Boykin. It shows that there are 4,333 Sunday-schools connected with the churehes of the Con vention, containing 217,200 scholars. The Board publish 92,000 copies of Kind Words, the Sunday-school paper of the Southern Baptists. The receipts were $14,000. The Convention heard the annual re port of the Foreign Mission Board at Richmond, which was read by Dr. Tupper. It gives a detailed account of the opera tions of the Board in China, Africa and Italy. The Board employs eighteen mis sionaries and sixteen native assistant mis sionaries in China, six missionaries and two assistants in Italy, and fourteen mis sionaries in Africa. The receipts for the last year were $31,000. For the next year the Board ask for $75,000. TO MEET AT MOBILE. Mobile was selected as the place of the next meeting. Rev. Dr. T. G. Jones was appointed to preach the Convention ser mon, and Rev. Dr. Wingate of North Carolina alternate. Criminal Court of Russell County—Decision ofthe Attorney General—Election Remains Ordered. State of Alabama,) Executive Depabtment, Montgomeky, May 14, IS 72 ) Ulysses Lewis, Esq., Solicitor, Ac., Seale Station, Ala.: Dear Sie — A report concerning the es tablishing of the Court of Russell county has been received at this department, from the Grand Jury of that county, which w 7 as referred to the Attorney General, and I now forward to you, with this, a copy of his opinion. The election ordered will, of course, take place in accordance with the procla mation of the Governor. Very respectfully, John 11. Gindeat, Private Secretary. State of Alabama,) Office of Attoeney General, Montgomery, May 14, 1872.) His Excellency, Roht. B. Lindsay: Sir—l have received your favor of the 13th inst., enclosing a communication from the Grand J ury of Russell county. In speaking of the “act to establish a Criminal Court for the county of Russell, with criminal and civil jurisdiction,” they say by the provisions of the act in ques tion, the law creating the Court docs not take effect until recommended by the Grand Jury. I presume the error of the Grand Jnry arose from the 23d section of the act. It is in these words: “Be it fur ther enacted, That this law shall not take effect until after the findings of the Grand Jury. Said Grand Jury may order the Sheriff to hold said election.’’ There is nothing in it that makes the validity of the law depend upon the recommendation or approval of it by the Grand Jury. The word “finding” signified that which may be ascertained.—“ Bouvier Inst., vol. Ist, page 525.” When used in connection with a Grand Jury, it merely means the action of such a body in the regular discharge of its duties. But such finding or action can be lawfully made or done only during the term of the Court in which it has been em pannelled, sworn and charged. When, therefore, the phrase “finding of the next Grand Jury” is employed to designate a point of time, it is equivalent to the next term of the Court. I agree with you that the words “find ing of the next Grand Jury” were employ ed in the act merely to designate the time at which the statute should become effec tive. Yours, very respectfully, John W. A. Sanford. Glennville, Ala., May 15, 1872. Editor of Columbus Sun: In accord ance with the wish of its members we send you a copy of some resolutions pass ed by the Russell County Medical Society, at a meeting held in Seale, on the 14th inst:; Jno. Norwood, Ch’n, W. A. Mitchell. Sec’y. Whereas, It is necessary to the honor, dignity and usefulness of all societies and professions, that certain rules and regu lations should be adopted for their gov ernment; and Whereas, The American Medical As sociation has for the government of mem bers of tho Medical Profession throughout the land, adopted and promulgated what is known as the Code of Ethics; and Whereas, With a view to the further ance of that object, Local Boards and Medical Societies have been established throughout the country, acting under said Code of Ethics, Therefore, be it resolved Ist, That no physician be entitled to membership in this Society who is not a member of such Local Board or Society, provided such organization exist in his city, town or neighborhood. Resolved Id, That no Local Board or Society shall be recognized by this So ciety which does not adopt and enforce the Code of Ethics for its government. Resolved od, That no physician is enti tled to membership in this Society, or to the professional recognition of its mem bers, whose professional conduct is known to be in violation of the Code of Ethics as interpreted by the Local Board or So cietv of his city, town or neighborhood; and Whereas, We, a? a profession occupy a peculiar position, being compelled from the very nature of our business to work on a credit, Therefore, Ic it resolved Ist, That whenever anyone neglects or refuses to pay his physician, no other member will render him medical service. Resolved 2d, That in order to carry out fully the foregoing resolution, that every member of this body be under obligation to furnish to his neighboring practitioners the names of such persons as are in the habit of neglecting to settle their medical bills. Resolved 3d, That we will visit no crfi ployee, unless the employer will become personally responsible, and in every in stance the employee must bring an order from his employer, with the exception of those who have always promptly met their obligations. Confisdebate Monument at Richmond. —The object of most interest to many on Decoration Day in Richmond was the monument which has recently been erect ed by the Oakwood Association to the memory of the 10,000 Confederate sol diers buried in Oakwood. It is a plain but elegant durable shaft of Virginia granite, bearing on one side the following inscription : ‘'The epitaph of the soidier who falls with his country is written in the hearts of those who love the right and honor the brave.” On another: ‘Tn memory of 10,000 Confederate sol diers from thirteen Southern States. Erected by the Ladies’ Oakwood Memo rial Association, organized Mav 10th, 1800.” On the third: ‘‘Maryland, Florida, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Ar kansas.” And on the fourth : Texas, Kentucky, Georgia, Alabama Mississippi, Louisiana.” This monument was crowned with a wreath of evergreen. An interesting feature of the celebra tion was the appearence of Company G, First Regiment Virginia Volunteers, in the cemetery, under the command of Cap tain W. P. Kellam. They turned out in good force, though the notice was short, and presented a fine soldierly appearence. Not Quits Cleab on a Musical Tebsi — An Ohio journalist read in another paper a statement to the effect that “Miss Kel logg has a larger reportoire than any other living prima donna,” and he considered it his duty as a champion of truth to sit down and write an article on the subject, in which he said: “We do not, of course, know how Miss Kellogg was dressed in oth er cities, but upon the occasion of her last performance hero we are positively certain that her reportoire did not seem to extend out so far as either Nilsson or Pat ti's. It my have been that her overskirts were cut too narrow to permit of be ing gathered into such a large lump be hind, or it may have been that they hud been crushed down accidentally. MAMMOTH CAVE,—AGAIN. We have a word more to say about our visit to the Mammoth Cave, and then we are done with it forever. Since our re turn, the curious are anxious to know more of this mighty natural work and we feel a disposition to communicate (as far as we can) the desired information. We took what is known as the short route, or in other words, we went in, a distance, variously estimated, from six to eight miles—making a walk of 12 to 16 miles. The exploration extends 15 miles. In an atmosphere like ours, this amount of exercise would be impossible, to persons of feeble health, but the dryness of the Cave at present, or something else, gives vigor to the limbs and vitality to the whole system until little weariness is experien ced. The excitement caused by the mys- j tic wonders which burst upon the visitor at every step, may be an element in this result. We did not suffer from thirst or hunger and saw but one spring—the water of which was clear and cold. It is diffi cult to compute distance in the interior— as the ascents and descents are often long and steep. The numerous bridges over fathomless ravines are the only evidences : we saw of man’s hand, with the exception of two houses once tenanted by an invalid and innumerable names written, not so . worthy or immortal as Hugh Miller’s, on j the Rocks. We will here in passing, re mark as a most singular fact, that we saw' no medicines advertised on the walls, floors or ceilings of this grand temple. We have seen “Buchu,” “Simmon’s Regulator ’ on fences, rocks, in rivers and on mountains in every shape, but here only, is one soli tary spot where God is especially rever enced and regular printers respected. We witnessed other marks of vandalism, but none iu this particular. All Europe was indignant when Napoleon the Great filled the Louvre with Italian art, why therefore should the works of genius be more pro tected from violence than the effluence of the author of genius himself? The “Fat Man’s Misery” is a low, nar row, winding way, for a half mile, especi ally hard for some of our friends to travel. We should fear for J. B. and our crino line, Dolly Yardens. To us, it was one of the most beautiful and unique features of the grandest temple ever made to awe, astonish and perplex man’s feeble com prehension. The sides are covered with round steiactites of various colors which resemble—from the reflection of thirty or forty lamps—fine shell work. We were anxious to see the eyeless fish from the “Styx, ” but neither Billy or Old Charon (our especial guide and mentor) could cap ture tho mysterious prey. We thought as the aged ferryman carried each one over the river of Death of the beautiful lines from the German Poet, Johann Uhland: Take O! boatman, thrice thy fee, Take! 1 give it willingly, For all mysteriously, to thee, Spirits twain have cross’d with me. The Cave, like Niagara Falls, never can be a popular institution until the public arc better accommodated in the way of roads and hotels. Unlike Virgil’s descrip tion of the infernal regions, it is now diffi cult to both descend and ascend. It will however ever remain the greatest wonder of the world. Age cannot wither, nor cus tom stale, its infinite variety. Time writes no wrinkles on its rocky brow, but it will stand forever a monument of the creative power of an all wise and benevo lent God until the sun itself shall be blown out like a lamp. communicated. Box Spring, Ga., May, 17, 1872. Col. G. A. Miller: I greatly distrust the watchwords “Silence,” “Wait,” &c., so obviously popular at the present writing with Demo cratic politicians and journals. If ex cessively indulged they may be the occa sion, if not the cause, of a disaster they aro designed to prevent. The rank and file of the Democracy have opinions which cannot be bargained away by office-seekers, and will assert themselves at the polls to the dismay, and it may be, to the discomforture of the parties who vainly hope by suppressing expression, to extinguish principle. Give them timely notice that no considerations of policy will move the Democracy to the support of the Cincinnati candidates— not that it ignores policy, but the rather, it does not mistake it. If the Press be that power in the land, so generally con ceded, to what cause rather than the fierce hand of the Tribune shall we at tribute the overthrow of Constitutional liberty and the great upheaval of the political and civil foundations upon which we and our fathers prospered? With con stant and unremitting attacks upon us and our institutions it fanned the prejudices of its people into a blaze of • fanaticism which well nigh consumed the land. The war developed men more destruc tive than Grant. Did peace one so for midable as Greeley ? Had there been no Grant we were still undone. Had there been no Greeley who can assert that there would have been no war ? Grant is a rocent enemy, and within himself a weak one. Greeley is life-long in his hatred of us, and our wounds attest his ability. But Grant is fickle—is not Greeley capricious? Grant deceived us—we regret Greeley never did. Greeley, unneeded, was a bail for President Davis, which Grant supposed, by the terms of surrender, was unnecessary. It w ould be a little difficult to determine W'hether Greeley’s bond or Grant’s parol would be least available in an emergency. Political ethics aro cer tainly inimical to the laws of the land if they tolerate the purchase of votes in consideration of bail. l r et, for such service, our votes are about to be de manded. Aye, but policy! Well, if Greeley can defeat Grant with the aid of such Democrats as will support him, such a division of the Radicals assures a Demo cratic victory. If there be no Democratic candidates, Grant will be elected, for despite every effort which can be brought to bear a majority of the party will with hold their votes rather than profane them. I speak from the people. Yours truly, A Stephens Domocbat. From Savannah to North Alabama. — A writer in the Savannah News has pub lished three communications showing the pressing need of a short trunk line be tween the Mississippi river and the South Atlantic, and that this can be accomplish ed in the cheapest manner by a line from Griffin, Ga., to Decatur, Ala. This was conceived by the late President R. R. Cuylor, who, in 1833, had the route sur veyed. The engineer, Emerson Foote, made the distance from Griffin to Deca tur 225 miles. Is the writer aware that a road called the Savannah and Memphis is now being built rapidly forward. It is now com pleted and cars are running 31 miles above Opelika. Ten more miles are to be added by the Ist of July. Would it not be to the interest of Savannah to aid this line, which is progressing so rapidly to the West ? Pittsburg Landing, on the Tennessee river, will be the probable des tination. It is backed by Northern capi talists, and Columbus has large interests in the enterprise. A New York correspondent, writing on the 11th instant, says: “Rumors come thick and fast from Washington to prom inent politicians here that anew Republi can combination is on foot whereby, in order to preserve the unity of the party, General Grant and Mr. Greeley both are to be dropped at Philadelphia and some new man taken up. Tho overtures to that end are sufficiently definite to excite con siderable apprehension on the part of the Democratic managers, and there is much telegraphing in consequence between the Manhattan Club, Fifth Avenue, and the New York delegation in Congress. What it all amounts to we shall probably see in a day or From the New York World Shall the Democratic Party Commit Political SuicideV The life of a political party is its prin ciples. When it renounces or abjures these, or consents to subordinate them to views of temporary expediency in a scram ble for spoils or plunder, it forfeits its self-respect, and ceases to be respectable. For what are political parties organized? Either for the sordid purpose of gaining the emoluments of office for some of their members (a base and despicable motive,) or as a means of carrying out principles thought to be conducive to the public wel fare. Politics is the most degrading and contemptible, or on the other hand the noblest and most elevating, of human pursuits according as the one or the other of these ends is the predominant conside ration. The only argument we have heard for indorsing Mr. Greeley by the Democratic National Convention is, that the ticket would succeed. But what would such suc cess be t earth? It would no doubt enable Mr. Greeley to distribute the Federal offices among Liberal Republicans and Democrats in such proportions as he might think expedient; but of what value are offices purchased by a sacrifice of princi ple? Os all the prominent public men of the country there is no one between whom and the Democratic party there is so wide and deep a gulf as between it and its life long assailant, Horace Greeley. The dif ference does not relate to merely transient and temporary questions; it goes down to the very roots and philosophy of govern ment. The expediency of nominating him does not at all resemble the expedi ency of nominating Chief-Justice Chase in 1868, or the expediency of nominating Charles Francis Adams now. Judge Chase was an original Democrat; it was not on centralizing Federal principles, but on State-rights principles, that he enlisted against the pretentions of Southern slave holders. He maintained that the States were entitled to a voice as to the condi tions under which they were bound to sur render fugitive slaves, and that the Fede ral government had no right to thrust slavery into the territories in opposition to the local will. Charles Francis Adams, who first came into national politics as candidate for Vice President on the same ticket with Martin Van Bnren, a thorough going State-rights Democrat, has never, that we are aware of, impugned or ques tioned the reserved rights of the States. But Mr. Greeley has been, throughout his political career* an ardent, bitter oppo nent of the fundamental philosophy of the Democratic party. Ho has not only op posed its particular measures, but the underlying principles of which these meas ures were the outgrowth and logical con sequence. In this respect, Mr. Greeley has been entirely consistent, and he has never given any symptoms of a change of view's. Not to do him any injustice we will permit him to express his total dissent from Democratic ideas of government in his own pungent language: 4. There underlies the practical politics oj our time and country a. radical di versity OF SENTIMENT RESPECTING THE APPROPRIATE SPHERE OF GOVERNMENT. On the one hand, republican government is regarded as the natural friend and servant of the people, w'hose proper function it is to lighten their burdens, to increase their facilities of intercourse or intelli gence, and to contribute in all practicable ways to their comfort and happi ness. On the other, government is re garded w'ith jealousy and distrust, ns an enemy to be watched, an evil to be re stricted within the narrowest limits. The mottoes of this latter school are significant: “The world is governed too much.” “The best government is that which governs least,” ii Laissez faire ” (“Let us alone,”) Ac. Now these maxims seem to me un wisely transferred from governments di rected by despots to governments con trolled by and existing for the people. They are nowhere recognized by the democracy of Europe, which plainly con templates the institution of governments more pervasive and efficient than the world has yet known. Free education, insurance by the State, the right to labor— these are but a part of the ideas of like tendency, which the European democracy stands ready to realize whenever it shall have the power. Its policy is constructive, creative, and beneficient, while that of our self-styled “Democracy” is repulsive, chilling;, nugatory—a bundle of negations, restrictions, and abjurations. Can there be a rational doubt as to which of these is the true democracy ? Who does not see that the fundamental ideas of our party democracy are as radically hostile to common schools and to tax-sustained com mon roads, as to a protective tariff, a national bank, or to the national improve ment of our rivers and harbors, if it dare but follow where its principles lead ? 5. There is another point on which I must speak frankly; and I ask you not to take offence at but earnestly ponder it. You and I prefer the society and counsel of those who walk, so far as we may judge, in the ways of virtue, to that of the reckless, ostentatious servitors of vice. You, I am confident, will not stigmatize the preference as aristocratic, nor seek to confound poverty with vice, in the paltry hope of making capital out of the natural indignation of the former. The great city of my residence is, perhaps, a fair sample politically of the whole country its parties almost equal' in numbers, and each composed of rich and poor, native and foreign-bom, informed and ignorant. Doubtless the great mass, of whatever party, sincerely desire the public welfare; doubtless rogues and lib ertines are to be found in tho ranks of each of the great parties. But point tcherever you please to an election dis trict which you will pronounce morally rotten, given up in great part to debauch ery and vice, whose voters subsist mainly by keeping policy offices, gambling-houses, grog-shops and darker dens of infamy, and that district will be found at nearly or quite every election giving a large ma jority for that which styles itself the“ De mocratic” party. Thus the “Five Points” is the most “Democratic” district of our city; “The Hook” follows not very far behind it, and so on. Take all the haunts of debauchery in the land, and you will find nine-tenths of their master-spirits active partisans of that same “Democra cy." What is the instinct, the sympa thetic chord, which attaches them so uniformly to this party ? Will you con sider ? Democracy is, I know full well, a word of power. I know' that it has a charm for the hopeful, the generous, the lowly, and the aspiring, as well as for many darker spirits. 1 know that he who aspires to influence, office, and honors, rather than to usefulness and an approving consci ence, will naturally be led to enlist under its banner, often drugging his moral sense with the sophistry that he who would do good must put himself in a position where the power to do good will most probably attach to him. But I know also that names must lose their potency as intelli gence shall be diffused more and more widely. I know that to be truly demo cratic is of more importance than to w'in and wear the advantages connected with the name. Os that democracy which la bors to protect the feeble and uplift the fallen I will endeavor not to be wholly destitute, while of that which claims a monopoly of office and honors as the due reward of its devotion to equality, I am content to be adjudged lacking. Os that democracy which robs the effeminate Mexican of half his broad domains, and j regards with a covetous eye the last of de clining Spain’s valuable possessions— | which plants its heel on the neck of the j abject and powerless negro, and hurls its | axe after the flying form of the plundered, j homeless, and desolate Indian— may it he I written on my grave that I never was A FOLLOWER, AND LIVED AND DIED IN NOTH ING ITS DEBTOR. Salem, May 8, 1872. To the Editor of the Boston Tost. — Seeing the views of a so-called Young Democrat in you? issue of to-day, I am led to a reflection that he must be very young indeed to advocate the nomination and election by the Democracy of the United States by Horace Greeley, who of all men in the country has opposed, de graded, vilified and more outrageously lied against the Democratic party than any other man in the nation, and it is only the influence of his paper, by its con tinual lying against the Democratic par ty, that the country is brought to its pre sent tyrannical, deluded and almost bank rupt position, and which, in the eyes of foreign nations, as a Republic, is almost a failure. If the Democracy of this coun try have got so low' iu capacity, intelli gence and general ability as to endorse such a stupid nomination as Horace Greeley, then for one from such a party and such a nomination I say Good Lord Deliver Us. Someone told Voorhees that his speech in Congress against Greeley was made in the interests of Grant. In parliamentary language he pronounced the statement false. He also said, in answer to a ques tion whether he would support Greeley in case of his nomination at Baltimore, that he never bolted a Democratic nomination. The Press Excursionists—Final Card. On their arrival in Atlanta, on the morn ing of May 15, 1872, the excursionists of the Georgia Press Association repaired to the Kimball House, and in the spacious vestibule of that magnificent structure, at sunrise, a meeting was hurriedly organ ized, when Col. E. Hulbert, the amiable, intelligent, untiring and companionable cicerone of the party, was presented with a superb gold-mounted walking cane, in a brilliant impromptu speech by Col. C. W. Styles, Vice-President, on behalf of the excursionists. Col. Hulbert responded in a brief, pointed and feeling manner, al together characteristic of the man who never for a moment during the entire ex cursion lost sight of the great undeveloped wealth of Georgia and Tennessee, and his anxiety to see the same partially if not wholly developed. The presentation ceremonies over, on motion, G. A. Miller, of tho Columbus Sun, S. R. Weston, of the Dawson Journal, J. B. Gorman, of the Talbotton Standard, C. H. C. Willingham, of the LaGrange Re porter, and C. R. Hanleiter, of The Plan tation, Atlanta, were appointed a commit tee to draft resolutions expressive of the delight of the party at their reception and entertainment, on their return from Ken tucky, by the press gang, authorities and citizens of Chattanooga—with instructions to furnish copies of the same for publica tion in the several journals of Chattanoo ga and of Georgia. The Committee, in the discharge of the agreeable duty assigned them, unanimous ly agree upon the following: Resolved, That the cordial reception and princely entertainment accorded to onr party by the members of the Press, and the Authorities and Citizens of Chat tanooga, on our return from Kentucky, were such as to merit our unbounded ad miration, grateful remembrance and pro found thanks. Resolved, That we do not hesitate to declare that, while our entire excursion, from Atlanta to the Mammoth Cave, iu Kentucky, and return, has been one of the most pleasureable of our lives, our stay in Chattanooga was peculiarly gratifying. Our extended drive through aud around the City—our visits to her splendid Iron mines, works and mills, our trip to and over Lookout Mountain—the magnificent sce nery—the generous repast furnished us in the rugged mountain gorge, rendered ab solutely charming by the presence of lovely women and the brotherly attentions of intelligent and warm-hearted men—and the superb entertainment at the Read House—all combined to impress us with lasting wonder, admiration, gratitude and pride. Resolved, That, as the rear guard of the Press Excursionists, after a calm retro spection of tho situation, we unhesitating ly declare the Excursion in all its details and appointments a grand success, and recommend that similar reunions of the Press-gang of Georgia shall be held at least annually hereafter. C. E. Hanleiter, Sec'y pro tern. The Last Scene at Appomattox—Speech of a Federal Officer. There was a re-union of the Society of the Army of the Potomac, held at Cincin nati, on the 7th instant. At this celebra tion the oration was delivered by General Stewart L. Woolford, of New York, and from this oration wo make the following extracts: The morning crept slowdy on—first into gray dawn, then into rosy flush. Still on! still on! The mists crept upward and into line you wheeled, and on your mus kets lay dowm, each man in place, to get scant rest, which even in the exhaustion of those tliirty-six hours of terrible march ing, you neither sought nor heeded. You were squarely across Leo’s front, and had closed forever his last line of retreat. The enemy reaching your cavalry ad vance, saw the serried line of Union troopers. Gordon gathered and massed his men for their last charge. Tattered and hungry, w'om by ceasless marching and fighting, with no hope of victory, with little possibility of escape, they closed their lines with a fidelity of discip line and a soldierly resolution, to which words can do little justice—but which each soldier’s heart must recognize and honor. As the old guard closed around their Emperor at Waterloo, so these men closed round the flags of their lost cause. My heart abhors their treason. But it warms beyond restraint to their manhood so grandly brave, even in disloyalty. Slow ly they advanood to their lajst, attack- No battle yell, no crack of the skirmisher’s rifle broke the strange stillness of that Sabbath morn. Steadily, silently they came, when Sheridan drew back his horse men, as parts some mighty curtain, and there stood the close-formed battalions of your infantry, the cannon gleaming in the openings, quietly aw'aiting the coming of Gorden’s men. Instinctively your enemy halted. Mean while Lee has turned back to meet Grant and surrender his command. Sheridan swung his cavalry around upon Gordon’s left, and was about to charge, when Cus tar reached Longstreet. Assurance of surrender was given, and the end had come. That Sabbath day, with tears and in sorrow, Southern men folded the banners of the “Lost Cause,” and their bravest and best sought honorably to bury them from sight forever. How sad it is that poor ambitions, jeal ousies of race, the wretched greed of pelf and place, and the miserable hates of so cial rivalries, should so often disturb the hearty reconciliation of that surrender and for a time revive the bitterness which you then sought to bury in a common grave. This hour is no time for politics. Mine not the lips, I trust, to introduce them here. But w'hen I think of that heroic past, w'hich your faces and presence so vividly recall, and then how trading, trickster politicians, forgetful of what baptism of blood sealed the new birth of the nation seek to array races in needless hostility, to excite the ignorance of the one and the brutal prejudices of the other, I would like to summon a guard, half from the rebel army of Northern Virginia and half from the loyal army of the Poto mac, take such malcontents out, give them drum-head court-martial, immediate execution and soldierly burial under the apple tree at Appomattox. Mr. Editor: —Will tho Philadelphia Convention nominate Grant ? This seems to be the first great political question. If not, then who will they nominate? The answer is, “One on whom the Republican party can agree. ” Suppose this one should be the nominee of the Cincinnati Conven tion. How w'ould the open-mouthed Gree ley-Democrats (save the mark) stand, in such a contingency ? It is by no means an impossible one. Politics makes strange bed-fellows. Who ever thought of having certain newspapers say “Wo Democrats.” Quod? REMARKS BY THE EDITOR. ; We suppose tho present sucking Gree : leyites, would stand firm in the contingen cy supposed—accept the situation aud fling \ up their hats (white ones too) and call it a i Democratic victory— just as they pre \ dieted!! Important to Lawyers. —W. A. Hemp- I hill & Cos., of the Atlanta Constitution j with the usual enterprise marking the conduct of that establishment, have pub j lished the Decisions of the last term of ; the Superior Court in pamphlet form. : Price SI.OO per copy. They can be had ; at once, by addressing W. A. Hemphill & Cos., Atlanta, Georgia. The Decisions, iu this form, arc very convenient for re- j ference. We return thanks for a copy. Episcopalians generally will be inter- . ested to hear that tho contest which has | been going on in England for some time past concerning the retention, modifica tion or discontinuance of the Athenian Creed, has ended in victory for the creed, the votes in convocation being sixty-two : for and seven against its being retained. Dean Stanley is, of course, disappointed, j Hall’s Vegetable Sicilian llair R;;~ : newer now stands among the first, ;uul at • the head of all articles for a similar pur pose. The testimony of onr physicians is inclusive as to its value; and wo are per sonally acquainted with scorees of cases where it has been used with the best of results. It will restore gray hair to its ; original color, and leaves it glossy, and in a healthy condition; while, for heads troubled with dandruff, or any disease of the scalp, it acts like a charm in cleans ing them. Try it, and you will not be dis appointed.— Lowell Courier, May 2,. 1868. . TELEGRAPHIC. FOREIGN. London, May 1C. —The London Globe in its issue to-day has an article allowing that the claim cf direct damages in curred by the destruction of vessels by tho privateer Shenandoah, amounts to $0,500,000, while tho prize money claimed by officers and by the Shenan doah amounts to $1,100,000. The Globe also publishes the detailed log of the Shenandoah, giving the name and value of every prize captured by that vessel. London, May 17. —The papers regard the delay of America in acting upon the supplemental article as fatal to the Treaty of Washington. Indications are strong that the Treaty of Washington will be a failure. Madrid, May 17. —News has been re ceived of a fight at Maubria, aud the de feat of tho Oarlists, numbering 5,000, by the Insurgents. Loss 100 killed. Madrid, May 18. —Don Carlos has cer tainly escaped from Spain. WASHINGTON. Washington, May 16. —At the night session last night the House passed a bill to punish the tampering with jurors in the United States Court. A bill to repoal the statutes of July 2d, 1862, and July 11th, 1868, prescribing an oath of office: also a bill providing that the act of March fid, 1867, prohibiting the payment to any person not known to have opposed the rebellion, and to have been in favor of its suppression, shall not apply to sums due for services rendered prior to April Ist, 1861, in carrying the mails, or in taking the census. The delegation from Georgia, repre senting the Atlantic aud Great Western Canal, called to-day upon tho House Committee on Commerce, and had a pleasant and satisfactory interview. They also paid their respects to Vice-President Colfax and Speaker Blaine and were duly and cordially received. The Committee is now waiting for the report of the engi neers who made the survey of the route, when Congressional aetion will be urged. The prospects are said to be flattering. The bill authorizing defendants in the U. S. Courts to testify in their own behalf passed. The tariff duty on guano was reduced from sis to 10 per cent.. Saltpetre was put on the free list. The tariff on Bay rum was fixed at 50 cents. A long discussion on books and papers resulted in the uniform reduction of all kinds of paper to 00 per cent, of present rates. Butler, of Massachusetts, offered a reso lution for the final adjournment from the fid of June to the last Thursday in Novem ber next. He explained his motives for proposing to adjourn till November, in stead of sine die, as being to keep in force the act authorizing tho suspension of ha beas corpus, and which expires at the end of the present session. This proposition extends the session legally till tho day fixed in November. lie was proceeding to state why the committee should take this recess, owing to the state of affairs in the South, but was called to order, and tho Speaker decided that such a range of debate was not in order for a final ad journment. He proceeded to speak of the prevalence, in the South, of rape, murder and robbery. (Loud calls to order.) Beck declared that all Butler's statements were untrue. (Calls to order.) Butler, not being permitted to proceed with his remarks, said he would grant to the other side of the House the mercy of silence, and would move the previous question. The previous question was not seconded by 64 to 106. Dawes then moved ns a substitute, a resolution for adjournment sine die, on Monday,fid of June, at 12 o’clock. Agreed to —yeas 142; nays 57. Senate.—The Baltimore and Potomac depot bill passed. Bill granting the right of way through the public lands to the Louisville and Pensacola Railroad passed. Senate is sitting to-night. The extension of the suspension of ha beas corpus conies up to-morrow. Washington, May 17. —A card from Gen. Hancock disavows the disrespectful epithets attributed to him towards Grant, saying: “My instinct as a soldier would never have permitted me to use any lan guage ivhich could be construed into dis respect or disparagement to my superior officer.” Full Cabinet. Nominations: Nolton Goff, Attorney of West Virginia. Senate.—River and harbor appropria tions. The bill increases the appropria tions for removing the Red Rive# raft $50,000; dredging the St. John’s River, $7,000. House bill amending the steamboat law passed. • Tho Ku-Klux bill occupied tho remain der of the day. House.—The Tariff bill, with Sheldon’s amendment, was adopted. An amendment making tariff receivable in legal tenders, passed by a vote of 24 to 63. Washington, May 18.—The Senate is discussing adjournment. The House passed awards to the South ern Claims Commission. It is now con sidering individual bills. The President has gone to Maryland. Returns Monday. Commissioner Douglass sustains the de cision that brokers must pay tax on bor rowed money used in banking capital. Senate.—Bill authorizing Orange, Alex andria and Manassas Railroad to trans port passengers and freights into the city, introduced. Bill issuing bonds for those destroyed or defaced, passed. Senate recalled its resolution to adjourn May 29th, Several appropriation bills passed. Col. Forney and Gov. Scott dined to gether yesterday. NEW YORK. New York, May 16. —A Philadelphia, Pa., paper relates that one of Bamum’s Fiji cannibals died there, aud that tho other cannibals were making attempt at eating the remains, but they were secured aud the mutilated, remains were qnietly buried. The Methodist Conference elect Bishops on Tuesday next. The resolution to ex clude quack doctor advertisements from the church publications, referred. Ilemptonville, Ontario, has been large ly destroyed by fire. The Stair-builders’ Association have re solved to strike for 8 hours. Rochester, May 16.—The Delegates-at large : Jno. T. Hoffman, 11. C. Murphy, James Lord. Albany, May 16. — Hoffman vetoed the i New York charter. New’ York, May 17.—The Irish strikers and German laborers had an extensive fight at the Metropolitan gas works. The Methodist Conference adopted j the plan of paying Bishops by congrega tional contributions. New York, May 18. —The forest fires ! still rage. It is feared that Carbondale will be burned. « A Cuban letter states that 200 Spaniards surprised a camp of 25 women, 6 children and 12 old men iu the woods, between Guantania and Arrogist, and massacred , all of them. Tho Spaniards subsequently were pursued by the Cuban revolutionists and many of them killed. Mass meeting of carpenters rejected j the proposition for an eight hour system j November Ist. All carpenters aro order- j ed to stop work Monday. The Methodist Conference passed a res- ! olution to elect eight new Bishops. CALIFORNIA. San Francisco, May 46,-The steam ship Japan, from Yokahoma, April 23 l'l arrived. Her cargo includes 1,872 pack ages of tea, 290 of silk and fiOl of other merchandise. It will be sent overland A frightful fire occurred in Yedd during a severe gale, destroying habit-, ° tions covering a space of two l, y miles. Tho fire originated in one' of th Prince's late palaces, which was occupied by troops. The flames lapped over whole block of buildings and set fire to places „ mile distant from the building i n wllic)i the fire began. Immense amount of pr 1 ,* erty was destroyed, and wounded and lame were unablo to escape. The officials slashed right and left with their swords and thus saved many persens from a more awful fate of burning. Thirty thousand persons are homeless. The Government opened rice store houses and fed all wh , applied. The occurrence of this fire le j the Government to permit foreigners to lease land in Yeddo, owners being com pelled to make monthly reports. This act will cause foreign money to be invested there. Tho Japanese Fair is to be opened soon at Kbote, the former residence of Mikado and hot-bed of the anti-foreign p avlv Foreigners, on depositing S3OO with their Consul, as guarantee for their good be havior, may visit the fair seventy day*. This movement is made us a test of the disposition of foreigners in the countiy toward natives if they are troublesome to tho Government. Iwaukara will be ordered to keep the Japan seal for some time longer. JAMAICA. Kingston, May 17.—The steamer Ed-mr Steward, with w'ar material for Cuba landed a boat load of men, who failed to return. A number of Cubans aboard seized the steamer, but was chased by a Spanish cruiser and restored to her com mander, who brought the vessel here re porting her in distress. The captain charged the mutiny upon the crew, who charged tho captain with fillibustering. The vessel was put in charge of tho naval authorities of the United States, who will send her to Key West, from which point she cleared. SOUTH CAROLINA. Charleston, May 19.—National Dem ocratic Committee having called a con vention to meet in Baltimore on tho 9th of July, we think it advisable that our State should take some action iu regard to this. We therefore respectfully recommend that a convention of the Democratic party be held in Columbia, Tuesday, 11th June, next. Wade Hampton, Ch’n. W. B. Stanley, J. D. Pope, T. W. McM asters, T. W. Barker, John E. Carew, . J. P. Thomas, Central Executive Committee. NEW YORK. New York, May 19 —Greeley and Brown headquarters have been established at'St. Mary’s Hotel, Washington, until the Con gressional organization for tho campaign is perfected. All communications may ho addressed to Jno. J. Dcfrees, at the above place. Lists of names are requested. Documents, speeches, &c., will >e fur nished from these headquarters to all parts of the country. ARKANSAS. Little Rock, May 19. —Tho Claytonite Convention declared for Grant. MICHIGAN. Detroit, May 1. —Resolutions favor Grant’s re-nomination. The Presbyterian General Assembly of the Northwest here has five hundred dele gates. Judge Ross Wilkins, appointed by An drew Jackson, is dead. VIRGINIA. .Richmond, May 17. —Tho General As sembly of the Presbyterian Church, South. Dr. Welch, of Arkansas, Moderator, lias one hundred delegates present. KENTUCKY. Lexington, May 17. —The first race was won by Bazanie, 1:45], 1:42. Frogtown won the second, time 3:07; the fastest time recorded by J second. Lexington, May 18.—The races wero run in a heavy rain storm. The favorites wero beaten. Elsie won the first —time 1:544, 1:574. Florence J. won the second —time 2:23]. ARKANSAS. Little Bock, May 10. —Orders issued by the Confederate Courts are regarded by the Administration as void. OHIO. Cincinnati, May 17.— The Diocesean Convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church amended the canon, when a cler gyman is tried, a majority is required upon the final judgment. NEBRASKA. Omaha, May 17.—The Republican Con vention delegates were instructed to vote for Grant and Colfax. TENNESSEE. Nashville, May 18. —Annie B. won the first—time 1:55. Arizona won the second —timo 1:54], 1:51 J, 1:53]. MICHIGAN. | Deteoit, May 18.—The Moderator said, i in making the committees, that he paid no attention to distinctions between the old and new school Presbyterians. MISSOURI. St. Louis, May 18.—Col. N. B. Brown, a wealthy stock raiser near Kansas City, was killed, it is said, by a brother of a girl whom he seduced. The Indians stole 120 mules from a bat talion of the sth Infantry. MARKETS. j London, May 18 —Noon.—Consols i»3|. j Bonds 801. j Liverpool, May 18 Noon. — Cotton i opened steady; Uplands ll£d;Orleans 11 j. j Later.—Cotton closed steady: sales 10,- j 000 bales; for speculation and export 2,000; i shipping at Savannah or Charleston 11 |d. New York, May 18.—Cotton quiet and steady; Uplands 24] e; Orleans 24 |c: sales G3O bales. Stocks strong. Gold steady at 113s. ! Money easy at G per cent. Exchange, j long lOOf, short 1104. Governments ! dull bnt steady. Flour dull and heavy. Wheat quiet ! and heavy. Com a sliado firmer, l’ork ! quiet; new mess §l3 85@13 00. Lard quiet and unchanged; steam !>]<S>9fc. P. M.—Cotton quiet; sales 4,500; lp lands 244; Orleans 24§. Sales of futures to-day 3,550 bales as follows: ]May 23J; June 23], 24 July 24 13-16; August 24; September : x: I October 20]; Noevmber 10 0-10. Bank Statement. Loans increased j §750,000; specie increased §575,000; le | gal tenders increased §1,500,000; depos its increased §2,000,000; circulation in j creasd §750,000. New Orleans, May 18. —Cotton quiet; i middlings 23c; net receipts 02; exports 1 to coastwise 4,301; sales 2,100; stock | 453. Charleston, May IS—Cotton quiet; mid dlings 22; net receipts 231; sales 10*4 stock 11,635. Savannah, May 18. —Cotton very firm with good demand; middlings 22]c; net re ceipts 134; sales 250; stock 1G,303. State Endorsement. —We alluded a few days since to the fact that Governor Smith had given assurances that the bon is of the North and South Railroad would receive the State endorsement. This is creditable to Governor Smith. Being a sound constitutional lawyer, he thus rec ognizes vested rights, and by this recog nition. has not only removed many obsta cles that overhung this young giant of an enterprise, bnt benefited a large portion of Western Georgia. His action in the premises meets with the hearty approval of nearly every one. Even those wao have been arrayed against tho road, can not, nor do they dissent. Officered as tho road is, and with their rights guar anteed, wo predict an early completion, and a blessing to tho growth and goneral prosperity of the city.
