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mm m g?- 1 - V’y-J.gL- The Greoreia ■‘Weekly Teleerat>h and Joumal '4®b ilVXeesengei*. Telegraph J and Messenger. MACON, MARCH 1, !870 The If oil.vo of Barkley A Co. We have tlio subjoined melancholy report And publish for the benefit of whom it may concern: Tbomasyille, Oi., February 18, 1870. Messrs. Editors 2 degraph and Messenger :— Dxas Sms:—The house of Barkley & Co., 5G Liberty street, New York, are using your valua- ble paper ns a medium through which they are swindling people in the most shocking manner I ever saw or heard of. They advertise under the head of Holiday Presents. They offor to sell musical boxes from $2 to $5—playing 25 tones—sent free of charges. I sent after ono, to oost $5, laid down at my town. When it camo the charges were run up to tho amount of $7.25, and when tho box was opened it con tained two lightwood knots and a Roman harp about six inches long, such as could bo bought in any town in tho South for 25 cents. Such is the business that Barkley A Co., 56 Liberty street, New York, are doing. T hold the box and contents subject to inspection, and I hope all honest publishing houses North and Sonth will pass this around. Let tho people take duo notice and govern themselves accordingly. Respectfully yours, Ac., Henry H. Sanpord. It is proper to say that we have no means of protecting our readers against advertisements conceived in fraudulent design. Any order for advertising coming to us with the money, or through a responsible agent, is honored just the same as an ordor for goods would be, under the same circumstances. Tho advertisement in question, wo think, came to us .through an ad vertising agoncy. We are sorry that it has mis led our correspondent into loss; bnt as tho press is often unwittingly employed in the per* petration of similar schemes upon the public confidence, all shonld take warning not to put themselves iu tho hands of such sharpers. It may be assumed with certainty that all wonder ful bargains advertised from tho centres of trade in this country, aro sq many gull traps. Yesterday being the birth day of George Washington, ono of the greatest “rebels” that over lived and worred upon the then “best government tho world ever saw," was not cele brated by his imitators in this section. Such a demonstration might have been .offensive to the “loyal” sensibilities at Washington and Atlanta, and brought d?wn upon ns additional pains and penalties. Wo hope onr motives aro known and appreciated at both those places. A Sliding Constitution.—Senator Morton in his speech on tho Mississippi bill tho other day said: ■ 11 Tie denied the assumption upon which argu ments on *he subject were generally based, that in securing a Republican form of government in the States it was essential that the means should be uniform in every ease. Congress was to bo the judge, not only of tho means, but of their method of application. In a State where the people could not read or write, what better guarantee of a Republican government than the general education of the people /” Thus tho Radicals assert not only a power to ran tho government ontsideof the Constitution, and a power to amend the Constitution, by in timidation and mastery over bogus State Leg islatures, bnt a power of discretion in the inter pretation and application of Us provisions to tho different States* Eight lawfully made cadets out of the twenty- seven allotted the reconstructed States, and the rest not only ultra carpet-bag but bought out right, is tho first whiff from the committee now investigating the little games of tho Southern Congressmen from New England. With this record it is a little hard that brother Whittemore, of South Carolina, should bo the only victim, when so many others of. the car pet bag brotherhood in CoDgross have defiled themselves in tho same way. Congress have, in this occurrence, a golden opportunity to get rid of most of that crowd and take tho chances for men of character and respectability. Finding their Level Again.—Tho Lynch burg Republican says that among a lot of ne groes who had been collected in the border connties of Virginia and North Carolina, and who passed through that city a fow days ago, was one who had been ono of Holden’s magis trates, another who had figured ss president of a registration board, and a third who had served the State as teacher in one of the pnblic Schools. They had all lost their plaaes and got ten out at the elbow, and professed to be will, ing to earn an honest living by the labor of their hands and the sweat of their brows. The caso of the State Treasurer against tho Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance Company, to be heard before tho Supremo Court of Errors at Hartford, next week, is tho most important, pecuniarily, ever tried in Connecticnt. It re lates to tho taxibility of government bonds in the hands of the mutual insurance companies, and involves directly $103,000, and indirectly, very much more. Tho main question raised under tho section of the* tax law in which tho suit is brought, is whether the tax is a tax upon franchise or npon property, and there is an incidental point, whether ascertainedlosses and dividends, declared bnt not paid, constiluto a part of the proceeds of insurance. Tho following scone illustrates the progress of temperance principles in Washington: At a late reception the wife of a moneyed committeeman, in a blissful state, enters the punch-room on her husband's arm. A Radical politician passing, sho greets him: “Say, Charley, won’t you drink some champagne in my shoo 7” Radical politician blushes danger ously. Hushand, appealingly: “My dear, I think the carriage must be ready by this time.” Brigham and the Internal Revenues.— Brigham Young, and his Church, of which he is treasurer, havo been assessed an income of about two miliious of dollars—say a round hun dred thousand dollars tax, which brother Brig ham refuses to pay. They say Gen. Sherman is going to send some collectors after Brigham, with bayonets, to persuade him to pay this tax. Brigham tithes the saints, and tho government wants to titho Brigham. ' Cotton yet to ee Picked.—The Memphis Ledger,' of the 18th, says there are half a mil lion’s worth of cotton now lying in the fields in the region of country tributary to Memphis, which cannot be picked for want of labor. We suspect that cotton is a little stained by this time, but still, if it is there," it offers a situation to people out of employment. A Piova Fraud.—It is said that tho counter feit five cent nickles may be known by the fact that the motto, “In God We Trust," is much larger than in tho genuine. Look out for tho five cent counterfeits, and never mind the fifty cents or the twenty dollars. “Take care of the pennies,” you know, “and the pounds will take care of themselves.” The Ice Cro£.—Reports from the Northern loo crop are more encouraging. The New York companies are seonring a snpply of low mid dling short ataplo ice from tho Northern lakes, from five to tight inches thick. Dees is so plentiful in Mississippi this winter that venison is a drug in the market. Tit* Georgia Vat Hard for Coagrnp to Crack. [ H'aiA. Dispatch, (16th^j to Cincinnati Gazette The Georgia case proves to be a hard nut for the Senate Judiciary Committee to crack. They spent the whole of to-day's session at it, and ended this evening just where they began. They are almost unanimous in dislike at the way in whioh things have been managed since the pas sage of the Deoember reconstruction set The chief cause of complaint being that General Terry held a military inquiry as to the eligibili ty of members of the Legislature. Some of the committeemen say this action' was a dear and palpable violation of the spirit of that act, while others content themsflvea with saying it was contrary to the genius of our Institutions. It must be added, in behalf of General Ter ry, that his proceedings were over and over again sanctioned by the President and Cabinet, as they doubtless will be by Congress. The committee hold that if is best, however, to get through with the reconstruction business as soon as possible, and they will probably bring in & bill for the restoration of the State, with the Legislature as it now stands. Governor Bol lock and other State officials set up a claim that they are now entitled to hold their several posi tions for the whole period for which they were elected, beginning at the present time. The committee will reject this claim quite decided ly, and probably signify in the written report, that a new and regular election must be held next fall. The Senatorial question is by no means the least difficult of the issues presented iu this anomalous business. Hill and Miller were elected before the colored members were turned But of the Legislature, and many Sena tors last year argued that the proceedings of that body before this expulsion were all right. The expurgated Legislature has -now elected new men, who will be hero next week with their credentials. Tho members of the committee are not yet able to give an opinion as to what action they will take on this issue. Bullock and the Legislature of last winter undertook to pro vide that the persons elected to the House two years ago, should hold seats to the end of the present Congress, bnt this assumption was set aside by the House itself, two or three weeks ago, and therefore the State will not bo repre sented in that body this session, whatever re sult is reached on the Senatorial question. If Gov. Bullock don’t succeed in carrying his point of counting the term of office of himself and Agency from the so-called organization, his victory will be barren, indeed. If an election is ordered next fall, all his outrages, nsurpa tions and slanders will tarn to ashes on his lips. We can almost find it in onr heart to pity even him, to such an ovent. Never will a desperate conspirator who had staked his all onHhe suc cess of a hazardous plot, have been more crush- ingly defeated. He knows too well what an swer the people would give to him if ho was forced to appeal next fall to the ballot box. We can folly realize with what a lively apprehen sion ho most read such dispatches as the above. AH Ilail. The Northern Radical papers of Saturday an- ranco tho Nebraska ratification and final trinmph of tho Fifteenth Amendment, with r. general shout of “all hail !”• All hail, says the New York Tribune, and all hail responds For ney’s Press. All hail says the Chicago Tribune, and all hail says tho Boston Traveller, and they all keep hailing with the thermometer down to thirty degrees below zero—too cold, in fact, for naturo to sympathize in the general hail storm. Tho Radicals hail it as the acquisition of a bal ance of power negro vote in their favor in tho moro closely divided Northern and Western States. The Democrats deplore it as the most important step yet made in the consolidation of power into the hand3 of Congress, and another and lamentable departure from the true theory of American Republicanism os founded by the Fathers. The proclamation'will doubtless be issued to-day, 22d February. The Tribune winds np its glorification thus: We hope the proclamation which formal’y an nounces that this article is henceforth n part of the Federal Constitution, and must as such be respected and obeyed, may boar date February 22, 1870, being tho 108th anniversary of George Washington’s birth. It is fit that this benign measure of peace and justice shonld be issued on that joyous National holiday. And now for universal amnesty! Our triumph is not perfect so long, as one man shall remain disfranchised and incapable of taking office be cause of our late convulsion. We have fought Secession; tho Ropnblio has conquered; her triumph is perfect. Now, “Let ns have peaco.” Latest Radical News from Wash' inston. " The Atlanta Era, of yesterday, says: odr senators to be ADMITTED. . The admission of Messrs. Farrow and Whitely, is, wo have every reason to believe, only a ques tion of time. Mr. Hill, who claimed a seat in the United States Senate, in virtue of an elec tion in 18G8, by an illegally organized body call ing itself a Legislature, has returned to Geor gia—tbns virtually abandoning his suit. We learn by special advices from Washing ton that everything is working favorably to the early admission of the State to her proper re lations to the Union, and that perhaps ere tho close of the present week, Congress will com plete the work of reconstruction by recognizing tho present as the only legally organized Leg islature in the State since tho war, and by rat ifying its action as organized under the act of December 22d last. We give the above for what it is worth; pre mising that tho Era, very probably, through the author of these identical “special advices from Washington,” gained, not long ago, great repu tation for truth and accuracy by publishing an utterly false statement, that the President had openly and positively assured Gov. Bollock, that Hill and Millor should not, and wonld not be admitted to their seats in the Senate. Tho legal maxim falsum in uno falsum in omnibus, is suggested in this case with irresistible force. Branded for Life. Fallen indeed from the august place it once held in the regard of the whole people, re marks the New Orleans Picayune, “must be the Supreme Court of the United States, when an individual nominated to a seat in it can descend so low, and so far violate all the proprieties of judicial life, as to indicate even to a Senator in Congrejs, his opinion on any given subject, which may come before that tribunal for decis- Yet so wretched a thing has been done by William Strong, of Pennsylvania, who has been nominated by the President as an Asso ciate Justice to fill the vacancy made by the retirement of the learned Grier. Yielding to the fear that he might be rejected by the Senate unless he distinctly made known that he was to be as much a Radical partisan as an impartial judge, this Mr. Strong has written a letter to Senator Cameron, assuring him that he was sound on that pet Radical measure, the legal tender act, as he had ruled it to be constitution al as one of the judges of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, and had actually prevented-it being declared unconstitutional by that body." If this pitiful abasement ought to brand and disgrace Strong the remainder of his days, what measnro should be meted out to the Pres ident of tho United States who degrades his high office, and insults the supreme judicial tribunal of tho country, by declaring pnblidy that no man shall bo a member of it who does not promiso, beforehand, to decide the act in question to be constitutional? Strong- haa simply written himself down a poor, pitiful creature whoso lust for office is much more pow erful than shame, conscience, self-respect, or a desire for the respect of honorable men. What character, with honorable men, has Grant given himself by his action in the matter ? A Chicopee (Mass.) company is filling a eon- tract for making a peculiar adjustable horse shoe (the invention of a Baltimorean,) which is mado to bo taken off at night, or'when the horse is Dot being used, and put on when want ed, as readily as a pair of boots. The corks of the shoe aro also adjustable, and new ones can befitted when one set is worn out. Horsemen say it is a “big thing.” J Lsok Out Bayers. From thellalnetviUe (A7a.) Rets Ere.. | - Messrs. Wail street Speculators, Stock Gam bian and Swindling Fraternity generally, what a glorious time you are having as lobby mem bers of the different Southern Legislatures 1— What splendid schemes you are devising and executing for the farther impoverishment of the conquered provinces. Row easy it is, and how cheap to purchase the votes of the Hon. 'Sambo Bowlegs, Potnpey Hogthief, Jonathan Sharp and Obadiah Quick, the Senators from the Cotton fields of Florida and onion beds of Connecticut, in the passage of certain bills to put millions in your pocket, and a load of debt around our necks. Tbo financial abilities that have distinguished you as a class, have had ample opportunities for glorious and profitable development, and your gigantic plans entitle you to immortality. How deep an interest do you manifest in our welfare, ye noble philanthropists! How magnanimous to build our railroads, charging us only five times the actual cost, and taking onr bonds in payment thereof 1 Kind and amiable benefac tors we appreciate your unselfish motives, and can scarcely find suitable language with which to express onr gratitude and admiration! You are Bailing now over a smooth and smiling sea, oh swindlers, in company with venal Governors, ignorant negroes and greedy Yankees! But a change must come sooner or later, and you will awake yet from yotur halcyon slumbers to see the lightning in the eyes and hear the the thunder in the voices of an aroused and in dignant people. To be plain with you, they will break the bonds with whioh you seek to fetter them, and .enslave their children. We choose not to work for you, Yankee taskmas ters. Just as soon as we have the power, and the day of onr deliverance is almost dawning, we intend to repudiate all the fraudulent con tracts you have made with our corrupt and ir responsible Legislatures. Take due notice of this declaration. Who is to pay this debt ? Not the Legislatures who make it. They are penniless adventurers. Not the party who placed them in power. Not one-in ten of their number is a tax-payer. But we, we, the former owners of the soil, who are neither represented in the State or National Councils, are expected to be “hewers of wood and drawers of water" for yon and your descendants. If the bonds with which your coffers are filled turn, at some future day, into worthless paper, you may gnash your teeth with impotent rage, and we shall smile at yonr futile threats. You are fore warned, and if you persist in your thievish machinations, you may take the consequences. Our people will see no dishonor in refusing to pay olaims based on corruption, obtained by fraud, and purchased by opon and unblushing bribery. With some modifications, this’ is the exact language that the people of Georgia address to their plunderers, and all who are waiting to take stock in the manifold schemes of jobbery and robbery now pending the clearing up of the Senatorial muddle at Washington. We have sounded public sentiment pretty thoroughly, and we know its purpose. The people of Geor gia, the real owners of her property of every description, the men who own lands, houses, railroads, factories, bonk stock, and everything else that is fax able, will never pay any unjust debts saddled upon them by the greedy adven turers, and mean ronegades, and ignorant ne groes who, as matters now stand, control tho Atlanta Agency. They will fight to the last over every cent of such indebtedness, and those who realize anything from them out of it, will have a merry time, indeed. The credit of the State is as much an object of solicitude and pride with them now as formerly, when they. had it in charge, but they will not pay any swindles and jobs saddled upon the Stato under that guise. We have spoken of this thing before, and wo speak of it again because we have more evidence every day of the determination of the tax pay ers not to be robbed after any such fashion. We want all who are waiting t<v take stock in Georgia’s plundering, to know what they must risk, whether they came from Wall street, or Washington City, or are lying in wait around our own cities. We understand that quite a for midable native lobby has been organized to commence operations as sooh as tho Agency re assembles, and we suppose quite a number of Northern sharks and capitalists will bo on hand when that time arrives. It has donbtiess been given out in New York, Washington, Boston, Philadelphia, and Chicago that the Georgia goose is tho fattest of all, and that it is to b9 picked clear. Well, let those raiders come. We are ready for them, and we tell them now, most solemnly, that unless they realize the cash on their little transactions, they will be plucked instead of the goose. Be tho reign of Radicalism long or short in Georgia,.when it does come to an end, the people will wipe out and utterly repudiate all its financial policy and burdens, just as surely os they will its political iniquities. Don’t let any man in that day, then, be heard whining about repudiation, or clamoring to have bis money back. Ho will deserve no sympathy. All who join hands with the “riDg” now do so at their peril, and with a full knowledge of the risks ahead of them. Wo declare, in the name of the real peo ple of this State, that they will never, never, nev er consider as binding, nor regard as sacred, any obligations laid npon their shoulder, other than for true and legitimate objects and the real needs of the State. Honest ’debts will bo squared, but jobs, swindles, and all sorts of shady claims will join ante-bollum debts, Con federate bonds, et id omne genus, “where ihe woodbine twineth.” Wo speak as unto men who are “sharp,” if nothing else. Let them heed our warning, and hunt other investments. This good old Com monwealth can and always will pay the last cent of her just debts. But she will not live in poverty and shame, and bequeath to her chil dren, to the latest generation, an intolerable legacy of debt in order that tho carpet-baggers may go back home with their pockets staffed to live in marble palaces and -ride in gilded coaches. Therefore; let speculators, capital ists and all others who are mustering for the grand raid, be not deceived by the false lights of the wreckers of the lobby and the “ring. Soathern Trade SJeet. The Boston Courier sends out what it styles s “Southern Trade Sheet,” designed as an organ of Trade communication with the Southern peo ple from the Hub. One of the singular facts of the times is this: That while Boston, New York and Philadelphia are stretching out their Bria- rean hands to compass Southern trade as the only kind of trade now going of much value, their whole force in Congress is spent in inflict ing vindiotive and embarrassing legislation npon the people with whom they are seeking to ex tend business relations. They are asking for more trade,-but doing their “level best” to de range society, cripple industry, disorder govern ment and impair the capacity of the people for a large end safe trade. These things, it is claimed, are done in the interests of the African population of the Sonth who, it is said, are the real Southern producers; but we do not see that the Northern traders make any effort to open commercial intercourse with the Southern blacks.- Their dimness, it seems, is with the whites altogether, and their polities tot the blacks altogether. We would submit to a oounoil of Congoes, whether this is “ toting fair." Whatever exportable value is produced annu ally by Southern labor, white or black, is as purely a trophy of capital, and intelligent, in tellectual and physical white labor, as are the products' of any other seotion. Without the whites these values would no more be created than the wonderfal internal and architectural improvements of the North wonld be created without the best financial and intellectual ener gy of that seotion. It is true, that much of our field labor is done by the Southern blacks; nnd so it is also true, that moat of the coarser rail road, and manufacturing and bnilding labor of the North is done by foreigners. Bnt the actual results in both cases are due to the capital, en ergy and intelligence of the intelligent people, and are created and controlled by that people. Hence wfyen Congress, at ihe solicitation of the Massachusetts, New York and Pennsylvania politicians, labors so diligently to put the intel ligent force of the Sonth at the mercy of the Ignorant and unenlightened, and sodnlonsly en deavors to deprive the owners of tho soil of all control over thoir own affairs, even the taxation which shall be imposed npon them, it strikes the most deadly blow possible at tho productive energy of the Sonth. Let tho Northern merchants send ns just and wise legislation and that will be better for them and for ns than any trading sheets they can cir culate. Bat not mnch is to be accomplished by sending by one and the same mail trading sheets and disqualifying and vindictive statutes, de signed to put the Southern whites under foot— to take away from them all control of their own affairs and put it into the hands of adventurers to be nsed in plunder and oppression. - Tlie Uses oi Cotton Seed. We have, in this edition, reprinted an article from tne Cincinnati Gazette, whichj it seems to ns, is well worthy the consideration of planters. If the statements of this article are trne, • the question of subsisting plantation stock without the help of Western com is a very simple one. It can be done with the oil cake meal, supple mented with a few oats and long forage, leaving the com, if needed, for bread. By the force of these statements, an enor mous waste is made to appear in nearly the whole oil producing resources of the enormous mass of Southern cotton seed. A few of these oil mills exist, for example, at Mobile, Now^)r- leans and Memphis; bnt there ought to be one in every important planting centre, and it shonld be combined with the manufacture of ferlili- rs. A bill was passed some time ago for tho in corporation of two companies in Georgia for the manufacture of acid3. These ought to be manufactured in Georgia, because the freights upon acids (being very dangerous) are very high, and the acids constitute a largo expense in tho manufacture of superphosphates, which are certainly among the most efficacious ma nures for cotton. It i3 high timo that wo shonld begin to consider the economies of a successful agriculture. Bradley’s Biography. We are indebted to the Gourier-Joumal for a full, true and particular history of Grant’s last appointee as Supreme Court Judge. For con venience we divide it into five chapters: chapter west. He was bom at Berne, New Jersey. CHAPTER SECOND. In his boyhood he wore homespun and drove a charcoal wagon. CHAPTER THIRD. Ho has a brother in Springfield, Massachu setts, who is a shoemaker. CHAPTER FOURTH, He was ohieflly instrumental in getting up the subscription to buy and present to Grant a cottage at Long Branch. CHAPTER FIFTH. He has pledged himself to decide the legal tender act constitutional. "What reoord could give more satisfatory as surance of his eminent fitness for the high po sition he has been thrust into 7 Leaving Out Yieqinnt.— The Lynchburg News, of Monday, says: One hundred negroes, men, women and chil dren, left hero Saturday for the South. The most of "them were destined for Mississippi, where they have been employed to work on the farm of GoL Huff, of that State. According to a recent estimate the popnla tion of the globe is 1,228,000,000 souls. Of this number 552,000,000 belong to the Mongo lian race, 360,080,000 to the Gaueassiau 190,- 000,000 to the Ethiopian, 176,000,000 to the Maylay, and 1,000,000 to the Indo-American ce. The annual mortality is over 83,000,000, The “gaieties of the season” are now toler ably numerous in Washington. A belle of the capital recently visited seven social entertain ments in one night, and declared, as sho con cluded her half hour at the seventh, that she had “two more to go to” before daylight. THE COTTON TRADE. Interesting Statistics from the London Times. The following interesting statistics of the cot ton trade in Europe are given by the London Times: The import of ootton into Great Britain in 18C9 amounted to only 3,882,620 bales, weighing 1,198,354,550 pounds, or 277,510 bales (93.603,- 380 pounds) less than in 1878. The decrease has arisen chiefly from a deficiency in the crops of the United States and of South America. The imports from India exceed those of 1SGS by 44,540 bales, and those from the Mediterra nean and miscellaneous sources by 36,190 bales. The total import into all Europe in 18G9 amounted to 4,565,000 bales, (averaging 353 ponnds each, of which 3,383,000 were received into British and 1,182,000 into Continental ports. Of the 3,383,000 bales into Great Britain, 792,- 000 bales were re-exported to the Continent— making the total snpply to foreign Europe ],- 974,000 bales, and leaving 2,591,000 for British consumption. The deliveries to English spin ners in the year were 2,G28,000 bales, and 1;- 9G6,000 to Continental spinners. In bales of 400 ponnds each the deliveries to spinners were: 1869. 1867. 1860. Great Britain 2,854.000 2,348,230 2,817,950 France 607.250 645,750 674.250 Germany A Holland.530,GOO 454.250 438 500 Best of Continent. .551,260 TIm Trade In Cadetsfefp*. The Herald summarise® the testimony before the Military - Committee in the fallowing.— Nothing illustrate* the character of the parties more clearly than the cant In whioh they give their testimony: - ^ The House Militaxy Committee had several witnesses before it to-day, among them B. F. Whittemore, of South Carolina ;A.; H. Sypher, of Louisiana, and E. P. Brooks. Mr. Wbitte- rnore "who, it Will be remembered, waa accused of selling a cadetship, e£T“ he.??™ the oommit- tee to explain and give his yersioii of which is in substance as follows: He statea E. P. Brooks offered him two thousand dollars for his cadetship, but that ho refused to sell it He subsequently gave,it to the son of a perso nal friend from Massachusetts who had moved iuto his district in South Carolina. He admit ted that two thousand dollars had been sent into his district to be used for educational purposes and was put to bis credit This, he said, camo from a friend bnt it is understood that he did notexplaiu to the satisfaction of the committee whether that friend was identical with the one whose son he appointed to the cadetship. Mr. Whittemore says the letter produced by Mr. P. H. Kegler, proposing to'sell a cadetship for $500, is a forgery. He never was offered less than $2,000 for it. Mr. E. P. Brooks was .re called, and substantiated Whittemoro’s testimo ny, so' fAT as the offer , of the $2,000 is con cerned. J. H. Eypher, of Louisiana, also one of those accused of selling cadetships, appeared, before the committee to explain the evidence offered against him. He said there wasn’t a word of truth in it; that it was a sot-up job on tho part of certain persons who wished to revenge -them selves on his brother in Philadelphia and him self. He intimated that it grew out of the pub lication of the private correspondence which ap peared in a New York paper last fall, and which oreated considerable interest at the time. Ho stated that E. P. Brooks, the witness who testi fied against nim, came to him last winter at his hotel and proposed to talk business to him. Mr. Sypher, in reply to the question whether Brooks oould talk business to him, replied that it depended npon the character of tho business. Mr. Brooks then said that he wanted to buy his cadetship, to which Mr. Sypher replied, “Brooks, you can’t talk business to me on that subject.” Brooks then said he wonld see his brother in Philadelphia abont it; to which Sy pher says he replied, “You can do as yen chooso about that.” When the conference ended Sy pher, says Brooks wrote to his brother at Phila- delplUh, but received no answer; whereupon' he. Brooks, went over to Philadelphia, saw J. R. Sypher, but received no satisfaction. - This is J. H. Sypher’s version of the story. Upon being asked what he did with his cadetship, he replied that ho had appointed a boy from Lou isiana, upon the recommendation of the Gov ernor of that State. 628,750 681,750 4.611.-000 Total 4,043,000 3,887,000 There are now, by the latest official returns, 32,000,000 spindles in the British Kingdom, against 30,000,000 in 1860. The falling off in the home consumption of cotton goods has been attributed by temperance advocates to increased habits of intemperance, leaving the working classes less money to spend on clothing., By the advocates of reci procity it was attributed to the French Treaty having inundated our markets with French fab rics, whioh undersold our own in the homemar- ket The truth is that the war (in America) completely changed the relative positions of the textiles, and cotton, instead, of being the cheapest, beeame the dearest article of clothing. The production of wool and flax was stimulated in an extraordinary degree by the advance which immediately occurred in prices, and the con sumption of woollen and linen fabrics was enor mously inoreased, woollen cloth superseded f na tion, and worsted dresses took the place of cot ton prints, and calico shirtings gave way to woolen and linen. And, although the price of cotton has experienced a marked decline from the highest point, it is still fifty per cent, above the rates which gave to it complete supremacy over the other textiles; and our people have become so accustomed to the wear of the wool len and linen substitutes, that they will only be won back to the old style of clothing by a re turn to something like the former range of values. The relative production of Cotton, woolen and linen goods, during these last four years, as compared with four years ending I860, has been: Exported. 1858-61. 1866-9. Colton, percent. 774 82.7 Woo’en 5.9.3 67.4 LinenT 50.0 54.0 Homo Consumption. 1858-61. 1866-9. 22.3 40.7 60.0 28.8 17.3 32.6 4G.0 25.3 Total 71.2 74.7 The woolen figures are exclusive of the shod dy trade, and of tho wool derived from slaugh tered animals of which we have no trustworthy statistics. The probable supply of Cotton this year will be 1,275,000 bales from America, 1,600,000 from India, 550,000 from Brazil, 230,000 from Egypt, Ao., and 150,000 bales from the West Indies, <to. This gives a probable import for 1870 of 3,760,000 bales. This, after deducting 850,000 bales for probable export, will give a total sup ply to British mills of 55,000 bales per week, against 50,000 last year, leaving a surplus stock at the end of the year 60,000 bales in excess of what it was at the end of 1869. “Draw Poker,” with Bio Stakes.—A Wash ington correspondent gives outsiders a lively inside view of divers little gambling games that are all the rage now at Washington. Among them is draw poker, which loads all the rest. Rumor says that a room at one of the leading West-End hotels is devoted exclusively to poker playing, ono of the proprietors taking a hand himself. A night or two since, at one of these gatherings, a visitor was mulcted to tho tune of five thousand dollars. Among the Congressional Representatives present at this party were the “knight of the white mustache,” -the would bo Tycoon of New York city, (Fernando Wood,) the “knight of tho big moustache," who sits with the ma jority and represents tho Stato of Illinois, (Lo gan—and by tho way is said to bo the acme , of poker-players,) and the “knight of the stubby moustacho,” from Ohio, (Schenck,) who holds the cards more in his hand at the round table than he did as a-General in the Federal army. At this game, a straight flush is allowed to beat four aceq. White moustache held one of these marvels on Friday evening last, and caught an opponent to tho tune of a cool thou sand. Tho “Picayune Game,” before alluded to, takes place also at one of tho leading down town hotels. A Western Senator and ex-Gov- emor, a Western Representative and ex-Sen- ator, and a big Representative from Kentucky, being among tho nightly participants. Unlike its rival at the West End, this gamo does not assnme a sporting character. Strangers are not allowed a hand, and the game is kept up purely for amusement. These private “sports” seriously affect the faro banks, and lessen the number of thoir visitors and tho amount of their receipts. They tell a good story of a certain well known Professor of Natural Science. It was tho custom of the Doctor to encourage his ge ology class to collect specimens and bring them into tho class for analysis and classification So one day a number of specimens were laid upon the table, and amoDg them one broken bit, which, although streaked and stained to impose on the Doctor, was really nothing but a piece of jomcaon brick. In due time the Professor came to the specimens. Taking up one, he says at a glance: “This is a piece of baryta from the Cheshire mines;” holding up another, * This is a piece of feldspar from the Portland quanies; the next is a piece of quartz from Haddam ; and this,” coining to the brick, “is a piece of impudence from some member of this ola&s.” Philadelphia Southern Trade.—Tho Phila delphia Press of Saturday says: Onr city’s Southern trade is daily increasing, bnt the lack of means of transportation Sonth is a serious drawback. Yesterday morning a line of drays four squares long was left stand ing unloaded because the Savannah and New Orleans steamships were already overcrowded. Messrs. Sonder & Co.’s Charleston lines were also unable to accommodate shippers, and at noon were compelled to refnse freight. Is not this sufficient proof that more steamships for the Southern trade are needed? Is there not enough enterprise among Philadelphia mer chants to provide this necessity? The Transit of Venus, in 1874, has engaged the attention of the North German Confedera tion, and a scientifio commission has reported upon the best means of taking the observations. The report recommends that four parties of scientifio observers be sect out, two. to differ ent points in the Northern hemisphere, and two to the Southern hemisphere. By this plan the North German Confederation will collect the necessary elements to determine the sun’s par* allax without depending upon observations taken by other nations. The Cold Snap in Charleston.—The News of Monday says: The sodden cold change of Friday night has proved very disastrous to vegetation on the farms in the neighborhood of the city. Ioe of considerable thickness was formed, and the sur face of the ground frozen hard. Green peas, tomatoes, and the earlier vegetables were nipped in the bnd; peach blooms were destroyed, and all growing crops injured. There was a cold rain yesterday morning, but the weather subse quently cleared, and by night it was quite mild. Black Specks in the Face.—These specks, usually supposed to be small worms, may be squeezed out by a gentle pressure, but will come again in a few days. A permanent cure can be effected by tho use of the following pre paration : White brandy, two ounces ; cologne, one ounce; liquor potash, one-half ounce. Wash tho face with warm water, use a rough towel, then apply a little of the preparation. This receipt has sold as high as a hundred dol lars, and is certainly worth trying. Bound to go Back to her 9a. From the Milwaukee Wisconsin Feb. 7. A curious scene was recently enacted at the Union Depot. A young, newly married eoople from a neighboring city came in on the train from Chicago, their destination being Minne apolis. From the young man’s strry it was learned that They were married in Chicago and went up in the vicinity of Minneapolis, where he worked in a mill. A few weeks ago the two went to Chicago to visit the girl’s parents, and having paid their visit, were now going back to their home. While sitting in the ladies’ room in the depot, the wife went to the ticket offioe, and asked if there was another train for Chica go night. Being told that there was, she turned to her il^band, and said: “Jim, yon can go on to that wooden CCWtrv if you want to, I'm going back (o Chicago to-night.' The poor husband was thunderstruck at this intelligence, and asked his wife what she meant, bnt she vouchsafed no reply, save this : “You go your way to the North, Jim, and I’ll go back to Ohioago.” Poor Jim’s eyes began to fill with tears, and, taking his better half one side, he talked to her in' a very- low tone, and evi dently pleaded his casq^very earnestly; bnt the Bhake of the hood, and occasional sniffle of the wife, showed that she had made np her mind and would act accordingly. After Jim had tearfully pleaded some time, she turned to him and said, just to spite him: “It ain’t no nee, Jim; I’ve gotsick of this thing, and it might jnat as well be wow as any time; I’m going home, and yon may go where yon please.” “But, Susan, only see how it looks-”. “I don’t care how it looks—I’m sick of it, and I’m sick of yon too, Jim; I’m going back to my mother, and yon’d better go on. Good-bye. Jim.” Jim was not .going off in any such way as that. Never mind what had become of the hpggago- He had before only shed tears, bnt now he sobbed in downright earnest, and really seemed to take he matter much to heart. The wife called him a booby and fool, but in spite of all that Jim kept on crying, and clung to his wife nntil the night train was ready to move off, and then went on board, the last heard from him being a sob and a- pleading entreaty that Susan would give up tho foolish notion in her head and go to Minnesota with him. Some of the looYers-on pitied him very mnoh, while others laughed at his misfortfines, and really felt'that he was a booby, a3 his Susan pro nonneed him. . Scarcity of Labor in Southwestern Tennessee. Owing to tho want of labor,.much of .the cot ton in tho region adjacent to Memphis has not been picked, and will ba'a loss. In the region tributary to Momphis, it is estimated that $500,000 worth of last year’s crop has gone to waste in the fields. A plan has been suggested, though too late for this season, which appears both novel and feasible, to secure cotton-pick ers for two months in the year from East Ten nessee. It is proposed to send responsible agents into that end of the State to gather np men and boys, who in the fall season have little work to do, and bring them to West Tennessee on good pay, and when they are done to take them back. The railroads have signified their willingness to transport such parties at a mere nominal price.—Memphis Ledger, 18th. A Strange Meeting of Two Couple.—The New Orleans Pioayune says: —Some years since, a respectable merchant of this city, then living in another State, was di vorced from his wife. He left the place of his domestic misfortunes and came hero. Time cured the sting of his lacerated affections, and he married again. His divorced wife married^ too. This was known to both, bnt no comma- Dication, by letter or otherwise, was kept up . and so the years went by, and each was almost forgotten by tho qiher in tho new ties they had formed. Bat accident has some queer meet ings, and fate plays curious tricks. It so hap pened that the divorced wife and her present husband came to New Orleans some weeks since, and on Sunday attended church. Being strangers, they were shown to a vacant pew,and prepared to engage in the service. But just then the owner of the pew and his wife came in. It was large enough for all, and the strang ers were requested to remain seated. There was something, however, in the gentleman’s ap pearance that attracted tho attention of the lady visitor, and watching him closely, their eyes met in mutual recognition. It was the divorced wife and husband. After the lapse of many years they met in this strange way. They kept their counsel, however, and when the service was over parted as strangers. It is current newspaper gossip that more than 70 per cent, of Ihe children bom in Romo are illegitimate. By tho “old saw,” it is to be taken for granted, therefore, that ho is a wise son in Rome who knows his own father, even if he has a Roman nose. The inference is rather dam aging, however, to the popularity of another “old saw," that “when you’re in Rome yon are to do as Rome does.” God be, the seoeding Mormon elder, is the husband of fonr wives and the father of seven teen children. Upon being excommunicated he told his plural wives they could have divorces if they chose, and he wonld divide his proporty pro rata between them.- They preferred to re main. A negro in South Carolina will occupy the woolsack of the supreme bench, whereby we shall have the phenomenon of a nigger with wool at both ends of him. “Antt-Rcbder Stick.”—A New York editor has been shown a wonderful invention, termed an “anti-robber stick,” in the handle of which is located a small galvanic battery. A slight pressure causes the instant throwing ont of a strong steel needle at the othtr end, and pene trating tho highwayman who comes in contact with it. The galvanism of the machine at once paralyzes him, and it becomes an easy matter to capture or get away from him. The editor aforesaid saw the inventor experiment on a dog. He touched the animal with tho Be' din, and instantly the dog became B3 stiff and ..till as a poker, being unable to wag even bis tail. The only objection to this invention seems to be that tho robber conld use it wilh just tho same effect as tho honest man. Its utility, therefore, is questionable. Very questionable, indeed. -But tho honest men must patent it, and then demand a certifi cate of honesty from all buyers. - Anyhow, though, we should like to “try it on” the horde of unclean birds who are whet ting their beaks and talons to rend is :d devour the substance of the people of this State. If we could paralyze them, the inventor wonld deserve and receivo all tho honors and rewards a grateful people conld bestow. A Veritable Mermaid;—A correspondent of The Delhi Gazette, writing from Benares, on Dec. 19th, says: “Some Mahomedans of Ben gal have recently brought here a mermaid pre served in a case. It exactly resembles a fi-Ji covered with scales in the lower half, and a monkey having a head and two arms with fin gers and nails in tho upper. Of course it is a curious thing to look at. I was quite astonished to learn from some of my friends that a real mermaid, exposed in the chouk of this cityj could be seen on paying a single prioe. So, as this filled my mind with great curiosity, I went there yesterday, and saw that it was all true, and that a man Bitting at the door with a bell in his hand was inviting the passers-by to that spectacle. I, with two friends, went in, saw the animal, and felt it with my own hands. I couldn’t make out anything fictitious in it On inquiring of the man who was present there, 1 was informed that it was a real mermaid, found in the sea near Japan, and that the man bought it for 500 rupees at a public auction in Calcutta. He farther told me that another of the same sort, but as big as a man, was sold there for- 1,400 rupees. The length of tho one I saw here was almost a foot and a half. Now I am at a loss to find out whether I shonld rely on his ve racity and believe the matter. So I ask those who can inquire into the subjeot minutely, in order that the truth may be elicited.” Suffering on the Plains.—A letter from Fort Abercrombie says that Friday, the I lth in stant, was the most tempestaons one that has been experienced on the Plains ibis winter. On that day Charles Warner, in company with six solders and an Indian scout, left Fort Rous seau for Fort Abercrombie. The soldiers and the scout were soon left behind, and Mr. War ner heard no more of them until Saturday even ing. While he was stopping at a station on the route the scout cams in, badly frozen and hardly able to talk, reporting that the soldiers, the day previous, had got lost in a driving storm, and unhitching their mules had camped out on the prairie, all being more or less frozen. The Indian covered four of them in the snow, the other two preferring to remain in the open sleigh, and he started for assistance. He trav eled most of the night and next day and finally arrived at the Btation, but he was so badly frozen and exhausted as to havo no clear idea where the soldiers were left buried. His tracks having been covered by drift, it was impossible to follow them back, and no scorch had been made for the missing men. They are probably dead.— Wcrtcni Press Dispatch. A chap in tho interior of New York is making money by committing suicide. He goes to a hotel, tells a pitiful story of loss of funds, and that he has no one to love or caress him, and finally goes to his room and takes “pisen.” The crowd rush, to his room, give him an emetic, he throws up the “magnesia,” a purse is raised for him, and he goes to the next town and per forms again. This is the sharpest practice yet, and if his Btomaoh holds out he i* good for a fortune. Woman suffrage has been defeated in the Colorado Legislature. Important Fart* with Relation i Cette* Market. A writer in the Southern Review, in ln . article, glances at the efforts which havai*U made to encourage the production of cotto^I India, Egypt, Brazil and other countries, after tracing hurriedly the causes 0 f the ent failure of these attempts, says: We have thus reviewed the whole zone of the earth; we have examined the 1 tent of each possible source of supply , seen to what extreme degree of stimuli Li ton culture has been subjected by the hu! prices resulting from the great sectional » in this country; we have seen, too, ho»i ki considerable and transient the result, and tCi Southern cotton has not really lost its emiiH OVCr the marts of the world.. If this has Cl achieved, however, to cite the language ofS| Revue des deux Mondea, ‘ it was not for SI want of the utmost exertions. EverywherlJ that the climate and soil permitted the trig! it was made with the feverish ardor to t~I duce as much as has been supplied by |bi United States.’ ’ Before the war the per cent | age of Southern cotton used in Great Brittiil was seventy five; all that the EconoaSl claims since the war is a reduction of tea VZj cent., leaving us still sixty-five per cent. | It has been asserted, and is currently U i lieved in England and the North, that ind^ j trial necessities led to improved machinery!* j which the short fibres of India may be p/ 0 c, j ably spun. We have sought for evidence of this, but found none; we have found stron. circumstantial evidence, however, to the os>». trary. As we have said, for tho forty years imm, diately preceding the war, the United St»tes exported domestic produces to the amount $5,311,000,000, of which $3,067,087,127 were I for three Southern produets, cotton, rice yvi tobacco, leaving only $2,243,912,873 for th» j other exports of the country. Of this U, suna the- Southern States, we may add entitled to claim a very large portion, also. In 1864 the exportations ofEng- ‘ land to the United States were es timated at about $31,000 OOf, Her importations therefrom 21,500^000- Balance in favor England $9,500 0(0 But no sooner had the war ended, and’tl* I productions of the Southern States bw a thrown once more into the commercial scales, as in 1866, than the case stood thus: Importations from the U. S. $154,000,0(0 Exportations to the U. S. 76,000,0(0 j Balance in favor of the U. S. $78,000,000 The cotton of the South consumed in Great Britain in 1866 was estimated at $126,250,- 000, while that of India stood only $oi ' 500,000. - * In 157, $250,000,000 were invested in m- j chinery and mills for the manufacture of cot ton in Great Britain, and two million tons of I British shipping were employed in the con veyance of the raw material, (three-fourths of I which came from our shores,) and in the sub- sequent distribution of the fabrics throughont the globe—fabrics estimated to be worth it least $500,000,000. Even now, under every possible industrial and political disadvantage, upon which we have no occasion here to dwell, the Southern States are contributing more to the exportation of the country than! all the rest of the United States. _ In conclusion, we repeat that no other por tion of the globe has ever had a staple with a hold so firm and vital on the commerce, tho indastry and thc^ necessities of man, as the cotton of the United States. Every section 1 of the country is equally interested in the pro motion of its culture and its permanent su premacy in the markets of the world. Stricken down by the iron hand of war, the industrial resources of our potton region have been fear fully crippled, so that on all sides broad fields which Once teemed with the richest products that ever rewarded human labor, are new overran with weeds, thorns and brush-wood Railroad Sleeting in Americas. In_response to a call in the city papers, a meeting of the citizen of Sumter was held in tka Court House in Americas, to-day, to take some action in relation to the-bnilding a branch road from some point on the Brunswick and Albany Railroad, through Americas to Columbus. Col. Wm. J. Patterson was called to the Chair, and AY. B Guerry requested to act as Secretary. The Chair being called on, in a brief, bat clear and forcible address explained the objects of the meeting. He also read a Charter pre pared by himself to be presented to the General Assembly, After considerable discussion of the matter— On motion of Allen Fort, Esq., a committeo of five were appointed by the Chairman to cor respond with the President and Directors of Brunswick and Albany Railroad, the authorities of Columbus and others interested in the enter- prise—also to prepare and publish an address to the people urging the importance of the ■work. , The committeo appointed were: W. J. Pat terson, Chairman, (on motion) A. A. Adams, J. J. Grcnberry, S. H. Hawkins and W.-C. Dodd. (Mr. Fort being excused by his request.) The Committee was required to report.at a meeting to be held on the 3d Saturday in March next. On motion it was Resolved, That the citizers of the adjoining counties, interested, are invit ed to meet with ns and participate in our delib erations at the next meeting. The proceedings requested to be published in the city papers, and other papers favorable to the objects of the meeting. The meeting then adjourned to the 3d Satur- day in March next Wm. J. Patterson, Chairman. W. B.-Guebby, Sect’y. February 19, 1870. [Republican, 22d. • —«n Tire Sonihern emigrants to Brazil. A correspondent of the Tribune, writing at Rio de Janeiro, January 7th, says 5. I have said that the emigrants who have coma to Brazil daring the past few years are now seeking to return, home again. This is general- ly the case with emigrants from the United Kingdom, and is especially the case with those included in the recant emigration from the Southern States of the United States—and emi gration that at one time cortainly looked as though it were destined to be considerable, and even formidable. This latter element is now al most to a man striving to get back. Already the Home Government has, by time ly orders to the navy, furnished free transporta tion for a number, and the American Benevo lent Society of Rio de Janeiro has freely ex pended its funds for the samo purpose. The number of Americans, however, still remaining in the country and who want to return is very large. The “Emigrant Home” is to-day crowd- ed with them. They declare that the Brazilian Government has not fulfilled its engagements with them, and that they have been grossly de ceive A I am glad to state, however, that they do not want for the proper official protection. The American Minister and the Consul are no- bly exerting themselves on their behalf, and Will soon, it is believed, effect some arrange ment with the Brazilian Government by which the claims of the emigrants will be satisfied, and a passage home furnished them. The Cincinnati Southern Road. The Kentuckians appear to be much divided in respect to giving the right of way to the Cin cinnati Southern road. The Lonisville interest strongly opposes it; but at a late meeting in Lexington, whioh was addressedby Gen. Breck- enridgo, among others, the following re-sola- tions were passed unanimously: Resolved, That the proposition of the city of Cincinnati to bnild, construe; and equip a grand trank line of railway through the State of Ken tucky free of all expense, taxes or costa to the citizens thereof, is liberal and generous, and should be met by the people of this State with great favor and moral support. Resolved, That the bill now pending before the Legislature of Kentucky to grant a charter to the trustees of Cincinnati Southern railroad; to construct a railroad through the State cf Kentucky, shorn as it i.. of every objectionable feature, such as empowering counties to vote bounties, subsidies, Ac., and making ample pro visions that the jurisdiction of tho state Courts over said road and the employee* thereof, shaU not be questioned^ fufiyand cordially endorsed by ns, and we hereby instruct our Representative to give it his earnest and undivided support Equal rights *re said to have assumed tv alarming feature in Washington. Boughs in vade reception* and devou the dainties pro vided for invited 1