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AJNT> GEORGIA JOURNAL & MESSENGER. \rp ISBYi REID & REESE, Proprietors. The Family Journal.—News—Politics—Literature—Agriculture—Domestic Affairs. GEORGIA TELEGRAPH BUILDING :U BLISHED 1826. MACON, TUESDAY, MARCH 8, 1870; YOL. LXIY.-NO. 32 | For the Telegraph and Messenger. To ujtarim de Harlem,” CSJVEES1XI, OA. , , vmen these pages He before you tears I abed to-night. "tmth the wane tears I shed to-n V.hat cruel verfW I implore you, *wtdch my eoai t!lriri5La bacIt *0® affright. c . that the shadow of my sorrow > r S* T ®, ^ knocked impatient at your door; fcl v0 a know—I think it left the morrow ‘ JjJJur-* 0 ® ’twill cross your path no more! , j ja w weary of this pleading— u for bread and getting but a stone; 5 *Uj 1 not listen to my interceding— tan® 10 P r& y er deaf earB alone. csUbscoM! God only knows how burning jn me heart Uve memaries of the past; <t the pale phantom of that dream returning, - ; r mocks mo with “It could not last1” a call me false! My fault was too sincerely ,iink love’s joy and matchless glory mine; j pour out all my soul’s sweet incense, merely indrd worshipped at a broken shrine. Id! alas! if I had but the power ngiin love’s echoes in my heart, irtil its lonely depths this very hour,, j every slumbering chord in rapture start! nay not be! the strings are broke forever, it once woke sweetest music at thy touch; who in death’s corruption can discover ', [;rc , t ber ever loved in life so much. , jou remember onco I told you sadly ■{or r looking through glass darkly’—see, oh see!" 5 M . you thrust the warning from you madly, d m*ered back, “It must not, cannot be.” itell! persist in your unjust reviling— deali m: cold and heartless if you will— I while with words your fancy thus beguiling Uilyosr heart must hold one mem'ry still. i hard-and yet I think that I can hear it, least Til try—whatever grief may come; daeea the mist and from your eyes will tear it, then, at last, you'll know me as I am ! ■ letter is the last that ever blotted tears, shall leave m7 band to seek your sight; I may your thoughts of me be all unspotted— Wing, farewell! I hid you “Life’s goodnight.” February IIIh, 1870. lotos. |bt bequest.] ■on the Lnington (Ay.) Observer and Common'th. A Bloodless Victory. Appeal to the luring and a Tribute to tho Dead. Away—away, tbpswulecup, 0 tempt me not. '*£ ain , Each eprriliD»S drop within it, In rites to clfdless pain— 8aynot, ■■ fis only native wine," ve wine it be— I cancot-^Ul not—Dare not drink, Ithiibn’&harms forme. Id early IWo I yielded, AndqtfMcd the flowing bowl, hot dra wing of tho galling chains, Then “feng for my soul; Inidf Jo effort to resist k with boyish glee, Asdtllugh remorse oft troubled me, Iguxlfly bade it flee. A! !er Jfeth a fair angelic one, kljt tender love Td gained, AppVrat died me with an earnest heart, And of mv course complained; An instrument by Heaven sent. I heard her strong appeal— Though only words or love she spoke, Rey pierced my soul like steel. Though I had heard the man of God Implore—entreat, with tears, So argnment that he could use, E'er touched my heart like her’s; Ifelt at ones the spell was broke, And ’-pledged eternal hate,” To every vile accursed thing, "Tbit could intoxicate." Ko warrior from tho Bloody field, Cheered by the surging crowd, E'er occupied position, So nobly—grandly—proud; I almost envied her her joy— A mighty work she’d done, Arrested—saved the youth sho loved— A Bloodless victory won. Too pure for earth—long years ago, Tlie Master called her home, t'jtmissively—yea—joyfully, Bhe heard the summons—“Come.” Though I shall hear that voice no more, 0, Heavenly Father, may Tho blessed work sho wrought in me, Grow stronger day by day. Think God for woman’s influence— Braiie to His holy name, ’Tuber’s to smooth life's thorny path— Tbs erring to reclaim. Q Mothers—sisters—fair ones—all, fhrik* then when’er you can; Tempt not—but use ths pow’r you have, To rescuti fallen man. “ The harvest now is fully ripe— The laborers are few,” Then enter in—there sure is work— Enough for all to do; * Jo ‘ a with the noble sons of men TTbc8o banner is unfurled, And never rest till Drunkenness, h banished from tho world. Pt rryviUe, Kentucky. <?. B. O. is the sort of thing that happens in the 3 c * 2na fi street cars: A lady entered the car ?®*Ated herself jetween two gentlemen. one of tho gentlemen glanced at the fjjhd their eyes, met. For a second each j*®dat the other. Then the gentleman ntter- .”hy, Maud, where did yon come from?” . udy answered—“From St. Louis—just ar- ■w-going to join ma at Pittsburg.” Further Imitation ensued. “Frank, married yet?” o, Maud; are yon?” “No, thank God. ? y° a stopped drinking?” “Haven’t a drop since we separated, and never Zr. “On, you’ve been true to your ^j* 8 ? “Yes, Maud, and can I now re- i w* wor ds yon once forbade ?” “No, it .Jr,, worth while; they are written on my UtT, “Well, then, you’ll—?” Blush from and faint “Yes.” ’Utlf ^ 6W Orleans Picayune says; “How the of time brines Around his revenues. Fit0.11 WASHINGTON. Hungcn's Speech—Abases of the Franking; Privilege—Whlttemoro—Georgia In tho Senate—Infernal Kc venue in South Caro lina. ' or » s nmo Dnngs around ms revengi ).], “ ore than forty years the people of New cj», been importing their supplies of New Orleans now manu- JSJ*own ice by steam, and recently the 25* Tee Company received an order from for fifty tons of ice. We shall be ‘■‘•■BagBoston next.” Correspondence Telegraph and Messenger. | Washington, Februaiy 2C, 1870. , Mr. Mnngen’s speech, which wa3 not deliv ered in the Honse on Saturday, bnt which ap peared in the Globo of Sunday last, is racy reading. It has since been expunged from the record of Congressional proceedings; bnt this has not prevented its perusal by hundreds who wonld never have thought of looking at the Glebe had not their attention been drawn to it by the action of the Honse on Monday. Caban belligerency is Mr. Mnngen’s text; and the President, Secretary Fish and Senator Snm- ner are not by any means neglected. Mr. Mun- gen invariably refers to the former as onr “gifted President,” bnt whether sarcastically or with double meaning, the reader must judge. Of Secretary Fish he says: “Onr Secretary of State is floundering about like a fish out of water, and between his desire to help the Span iards and his fear of public opinion in the United States, is doubtless waiting, like Micaw- ber, for something to turn up; waiting for some garbled statements of some of his own sgents, or some hired pimp of Spain to help him ont of the dilemma in which he and onr gifted Presi dent are placed on the Cuban question.” The allusions to Snmner are termed by the Radical press as “nasty,” “foul,” “tooindecent for repnblioation,” etc. The New England Radical journals, at least, need not scrapie to print Mir. Mnngen’s remarks. Can there be anything too nasty or too indecent for their reading ? Most persons will say not, after Mrs. Stowe's nastiness has keen swallowed with such relish. There was even a demand for more af ter her first publication in the leading publica tions of New England, at which all the world cried shame. And why so squeamish now? Simply because Mr. Snmner is dragged from his pedestal, as false gods should be, and stripped of his outward garb of manhood. I qnote the following extract in relation to Mr. Sumner; and let any one who can deny its truthfulness: "When we find persons destitute of physical and moral manhood, what can we expect of them? Some of the worst tyrants in history, despots, leaders of factions, and religious zea lots remorselessly crashed and bloodily perse cuted their opponents, who, when opportunity offered, often retaliated in kind. Yet in the midst of their excesses, deeds of daring and gleams of magnanimity and meroy threw occa sional light on the sombre and sanguinary pic ture. Some unknown band, it is recorded,even strewed flowers upon Nero’s grave. But the rule of unsexed men in the declining periods of the Roman and Byzantine empires, through effete princes, led to a more profound demoral- • M IrnAnm 1TI_ ization than was ever before known. “The in fluence of these things,” says a French writer, “was more fatal than that of the most fanatical or ascetic monks.” To the latter, indeed, were hy their vows denied the joys of matrimony and tho reelings w pmeumj. vr**. tj, B instinctive aspiration was in their breasts, and premuaeu from lavishing itself on the individual family it sometimes touchingly expanded so as to com- E rise in its benevolence the wide family of the nman kind, and to produce a Las Casas or a Fenelon. In their worst phase of character, the misguided and atrocions zeal which lead them to doom others to the stake induced these persecu tors when persecuted in turn fearlessly to face it. The ennnch not only had no experience of those feelings, bnt he even had no conception. A sad monstrosity of man's creation, he conld not rise to the level of human sympathies. He was inspired only by tho most groveling pas sions, and envions of all virility, physical and moral, worked out bi3 insidious poHcy by in trigue and craft. Not his ever tho direct, plain road, bnt the tortuous, slimy path, the devious ways of deceit and perfidy. Not his the tiger like spring of brnte force, the violence of mas sacres and ostentations exeentions. Frigidly vindictive he crawled perseveringly bnt surely to his end, the life-long gratification of envy and of misanthropic spite. His' was the in genious calumny, the private denunciation, the poisoned enp, the secret strangnlation, tho noiseless immurements in the dnngeon’s depths and the frightful torturings which solaced his malignity and unforgiving spirit. His policy, more cruel and more fatal than that of the vio lence which inflicted bleeding gashe3, some times to be cicatrized, npona generation, emas culated nations after his own image, leaving them and their posterity hopelessly degraded and to become the prey of the barbarian. Worse still, daring the centuries and down to onr own time, this spirit and this nnsexed pol icy has fonnd imitators. It was a policy con genial to all cowardly despotisms. There is only one instance in history, sacred the remark, “It is enough that ho retires from the house enshrouded in dishonor. The prece dent having been established, the House cannot do otherwise than continue the work, until it has purged itself of all unworthy members.” It is said Benj. F. Butler will go to Sonth Caro lina and stamp Whittemore’s district to ensure the latter’s re-election. Wonder how big a re tainer Bntler received from Whittemore. ' I copy the Globe’s report of the House pro ceedings yesterday in relation to Georgia: BE ADMISSION OP GEOEGIA. Mr. Bntler, of Massachusetts, from the Com mittee on Reconstruction, reported a bill (H. R. No. 1335) to admit the State of Georgia to rep resentation in the the Congress of tho United States; which was read a first and second time. The question was upon ordering the bill to bo engrossed and read a third time. Mr. Batlor, of Massachusetts. I desiro that action shall be had on this bill now. Mr. Bingham. I hope that this bill will he printed, and that members will be allowed an opportunity to examine it Georgia has already been admitted to representation. Mr. Bntler, of Massachusetts. I can relieve the mind of the gentleman. This bill is in toti- dem verbis the same as the bills which have be come laws for the admission of Virginia and Mississippi to representation in Congress; it is in the exact words with those bills, except the change of names. Mr. Eldridge. Will the gentleman include Massachusetts, and pat her upon the same foot ing? Mr. Bingham. Oh, don’t! Mr. Bntler, of Massachusetts. I cannot. Mr. Benjamin. Is not the gentleman willing to let this bill go over until after the morning hour? Mr. Bntler, of Massachusetts. I will give way for a morning hour if I do not thereby loso my place. Mr. Benjamin. The gentleman can report from the Committee on Reconstruction at any time. The Speaker. If the gentleman yields now for e. morning hour, at the end of that time the Chair will be compelled to recognize the gen tleman from California, (Mr. Sargent,) whose motion to suspend the roles for the purpose of going into Committee of the Whole on the In dian appropriation bill inclndes the rale by which the gentleman from Massachusetts (Mr. Bntler) is authorized to repoit from his com mittee at any time. Mr. Wood. I desire to say to the gentleman from Massachusetts (Mr. Bntler) that he cannot possibly dispose of this bill at this time. Ab a member of the Committee on Reconstruction, I can say that this bill is very far from being the nnanimons report of the committee, and it is probable that one or two amendments or sub stitutes may be offered by members of the committee. This bill presents an entirely new qnestion, one not comprehended in any recon struction measure heretofore passed. I there fore ask the gentleman to let this bill go over until Monday next. Mr. Bntler, of Massachusetts. I do not de sire to block or obstruct the business of this Honse. Bnt it is very important, for many reasons, that this bill should be pnt upon its passage os soon aB possible. In order not to antagonize with the morning honr, if by unani mous oonsentthis bill can come up immediately after the morning hoar on Monday, I will be content to let it go over until that time. The Speaker. That the gentleman from Mas sachusetts [Mr. Bntler] may not bo surprised, the Chair will state that no general consent conld take away the right of the House to sus pend the rales after the expiration of tho morn ing honr on Monday. The gentleman can havo his bill printed and recommitted, and in that way he will obtain more control over it than by having it assigned to any particular day. Mr. Bader, of Massachusetts. Very well; I will move that this bill be printed and recom mitted. Mr. Beck. I desire to have a substitute for this bill received and printed with this bill. Mr. Butler, of Massachusetts. Certainly; I will inclnde it in my motion to print. The motion to print and recommit was then agreed to. Mr. Perry, Supervisor of Internal Revenue for North Carolina, telegraphs to-day about a raid by the revenue officials into Gaston county, in which a number of little one-horse coffee-pot distilleries were captnred and destroyed, and a few poor manufacturers of contraband spirits arrested and held to bail for defrauding the rev- Mr. Perry does not state whether the re ceipts of this ventnre were sufficient to counter balance the horse hire and wages of his raiders. It does seem as though the revenne officers in the Sontharn country might find a more profita ble occupation than that of despoiling a few poor devils in the backwoods of a little whisky of their own making. It is notorious that three- fifths of these little stills destroyed are merely family affairs, the product thereof being con sumed in their immediate locality, and not one time in a thousand ever finding a market or be ing offered for sale. Yet tho war on these stills profane, where an nnsexed person was a j j 8 wa g 61 j with United States troops and mounted Christian; that is the fellow who went down into the water with Philip. Again, the malig nity of these nnsexed creatures is historic. An investigation into the abase of the frank ing privilege is in progress, and Congressmen are becoming chary of their franks. It is not impossible that this investigation will develop facts quite as discreditable as the sale of cadet ships. The trnth will come ont now, I suppose, about franking tranks to tho Pacific coast, and sending dirty linen hundreds of miles, through the mails, to be washed. Not that I pin my faith on sneh reports, which are enrrent enough, as yon know; bnt it will be a comfort to have them officially and authentically denied. Th^n it is whispered that members have sent /ranks home to their families and other persons when they should not; and it is even noised abont that members have been guilty of selling their and armed revenne officials, and the Supervisors manage to cover themselves all over with glory in their reports to the Revenne Department Somebody will find ont after a while that the game is not worth tho powder. Tho specials of the past week have posted your readers as to the movements of Georgians proper, and Georgians “so-called,” at the capi tol, as well as to tho daily aspect of the situa tion. The coming week is believed to bo big with events of more than usual interest to Geor gia. It is not improbable that she will be dis cussed simultaneously in both houses. In the Senate the Senatorial question has to be decided. In the Honse the bill introduced by Bntler, (referred to above), will bo fought over. Bingham and others will oppose it, and, perhaps, will nnito on the snbstitnto to be offer ed by Mr. Beck, of Kentucky, which will be franks; but that I do not beheve. This letter ... . _ ’ , - . .. T . , much more liberal in its provisions—but I very will reach yon under a frank; bnt I do not think «_*»_«.« -n -i there is any impropriety in it An exception i Batler&Company will[prevail as they must certainly be made in favor of matter for' dld “ ^ cases of Vlr » ma and Mississippi. Virginia and Mississippi. Senator Hill has returned home bnt Senator Miller remains. I find the opinion that the bayonet Senators will be seated becoming quite general, though some The Radical papers of this city are seveio on of Q Ja . s friends m more hopofnL Whittemore, the carpet-bag member of Con- ■n gross from Sonth Carolina, who made so dis- the press, which surely is better entitled to free transit than much that does go through tho mails under the autograph of an M. C. graceful an exit from the House of Representa tives, on Thursday last. The Chronicle thinks great credit is due the Radical party for itp ac tion in the matter, and claims that its morality is now established. Not so, however. Wbitte- moro wonld have never been expelled, orforced into resigning, if he conld possibly have been retained. Necessity, not morality, caused his retirement to private life. The Republican im putes anything but honorable conduct to Mr. Whittemore. It says; “He cheated justice by resigning his place in the Honse of Representa tives ; and it was to enable him to do this that he wanted further time when on Wednesday he appealed to the House for leniency. He resigned because he saw that expulsion was inevitable, and he hoped thereby to escape all punishment for big crime. It is a satisfaction to know that he did not escape, for the resolution of condem nation and virtual censure was as severe os ex pulsion conld possibly hove been. On the lat ter qnestion there wonld have been at least a few negative votes.” The Republican oonaoles itself, however, with Dalton. Inspection of Fertilizers Again. On the Uses of a Big Cotton Crop. Editors Telegraph and Messenger In my' Laubxns Hill, Ladbens Co., Ga.— first communication I stated what were some of February 24, 1870. the duties of Inspectors of Fertilizers; but be- j Editors Telegraph and Messenger :—I wish to ing satisfied that those who were intended to be | drop yon a few hints to my planting friends benefittedby the law passed for their protection, i through the columns of your vary popular and do not generally understand the duties of an ! widely circulated paper. The war measures of Inspector of Fertilizers, I will make some addi- j the late Southern Confederacy prohibiting the tional statements. The law requires the Inspec-! growth of cotton within her limits, have proven tor to inspect, analyze and brand all fertilizers ! conclusively to my mind, that the cotton crop presented to him. The law makes no distinction j of the United States controls the price of the between a good and a poor articlo as respects : staple in all the markets of the world. This tbn requirement to be analyzed. Neither does j being the case, I think it would be well for the it prohibit a poor articlo to be put on the mar- / cotton growors to have some general under- ket. Bnt the protection consists in securing ths ' standing among themselves in reference to sup- plantor or pnrohaser the means of distinguish- ! ply and demand, and some such concert of ac~ ing the good from the bad, tho trae from the spurious fertilizer. The Inspector is therefore required to give the owner of the Fertilizer so inspected a cer- tion that wonld insnre a good price, permanent ly for all time to come. It is not to bo expected that a full concert of action can be had among the masses of men tificato of his analysis, and any person using {having so many different minds, but when all falsely such certificate, is subject to fine and imprisonment. In order to gain tho proper advantage by the Inspector, tho planter should never purchase any fertilizer without first sseing the certified statement of tho Inspector’s nnalysis, and judge for himself. It is contended that very few planters are able to tell by the analysis anything abont the value of the fertilizer. In many in stances this is the misfortnne of the planter, bnt it does not deprive him of the protection of the law; for, in the majority of instances, he could easily obtain the assisting inforaation of some one who does know. By propereffort all conld avail themselves of the means to jndgo efficiently of the fitness of the fertilizets, by the analysis of their components presented in the certificate. | There are many planters now in Georgia who know little or nothing, scientifically, »f chemis try, who can tell, with great accuraoy, from the analysis, what kind of a fertilizer tiey need. They have tried experiments with different sorts of guanos npon their lands, until they have fonnd ont what per cent, of ammonia, soluble phosphate and sulphuric acid they should contain in order to serve th< purpose. What can be done by some, can be done by all. This may appear to some persons as a matter of 8anvil moment; bnt, when they consider the large amount of money which planters are in vesting in fertilizers every year, and the large amount of money lost by many in purchasing fertilizers of no value, it will be seen to be a matter of the greatest importance. Is it not then an enterprise of great publio utility to pnt the means within the hands of the planter, of protecting himself from snch losses? “Commission Merchant,” in his second com- mnnication, still objects to the law as being im perfect and impracticable; and yet he asserts that he goes in for its improvement. The lat ter position is an admission of the necessity of a law of the kind under discussion, for the pro tection of tho country. As for the objection of imperfection in the existing law, I think it has been amply shown that the law is good and plain and strong enough as far as it goes; but what is needed, is only some addition to make it still moro efficient and protective, and not its aboli tion, by which the gap will bo thrown down and measnrably all protection will be destroyed. Parties violating the law ought to be, can be, and no doubt will be pnnished. I contend that it is practicable. Dr. Means, with the necessary Assistants, can inspect and analyze, so far as any practical test is required, all that passes through Savannah, and not pnt tho owners to unnecessary expense or delay.— He can do it in this way: When a cargo ar rives, he is informed of it, goe3 to the vessel and takes an average parcel of each kind of gnano—then brands tho mass and lets it go through the city—takes tho samples to the Laboratory, analyzes them and gives the owner n certificate of the same. I am informed that Dr. Means has several Assistants, and nsnally is 'conducting qnite a nnmber of analyses at the j are aiming at the same object, it is not unreas onable to suppose that a large majority might be fonnd who wonld be willing to act in concert for the attainment of that object. “Tis trae, and pity tis, tis trae,” that some men, more selfish, more avaricious (and I might say more unprincipled) than the rest, wonld seek advan tages, and try to appropriate themselves more than their share of the benefits resulting from the co-operation of others. For instance, if more attention was given to the production of grain crops, and less to the production of cot ton, thereby making provirions of all kinds abundant and cheap in onr country, and at the same time enhancing the valne of cotton, all men would very readily see the most money in cotton, and some would be selfish enough to try to grasp the prize by planting overwhelming crops of cotton for a few years, at the risk of breaking down ths znarkot, and perhaps, entail ing rain npon themselves, certainly, npon their children, and npon the country at large, for it is certain that the prosperity of the Sonth de pends more npon tne price of cotton, than npon that of all her other resources combined. Tell me not of her railroads, her factories, her salt works, her tobacco, her lumber, her turpentine, her fisheries, her orange groves, her rice, her sugar, and hor minerals—these all sink into insignificance when compared with her great staple in conducing to the general prosperity. , We see, then, that “Cotton is King,” bat he will not bear to be crowded, lest he might be “weighed in the bGances and fonnd wanting,” and distribute poverty, instead of riches. Then all of ns wonld be fonnd with empty pockets, begging the crumbs that fall from the rich manufacturer’s table. This may not be alto gether a picture of the imagination; and now while we havo the game in onr own hands, it is of the utmost importance that we should all endeavor to keep it there by a judicious system of planting. And if I might be permitted to suggest a sys tem, I wonld say let every planter have two- thirds of his land planted in provision crops, and apply two-thirds of his fertilizers to those crops, and one-third of his land and one-third of his fertilizers to the production of cotton. Such a system I think wonld never over stock the markets, and wonld always insure a good demand and remunerative price, so long as the commercial affairs of the world stand as they do now. If I am not mistaken, it has been as certained that a crop of two millions bales in the United States, null sell for more money than a crop of four millions. If, then, money is the object aimed at, I ask, in the name of common sense, why waste time and labor and capital in the effort to make a four million crop, when the half of that crop will command the most money. And, besides the time, labor and capital saved in making the smaller crop of cotton, conld be most profitably employed in raising an abundance of grain, rais ing young stock for the farm, meat for the la borer, luxuries for the table, eto., or in making comfortable buildings and other improvements npon onr farms, or in collecting manure for the next crop; or if we conld find nothing else to do, it wonld pay as well for all hands to go a fishing, bait or no bait. My idea is this, if we make less money by continually working and poshing for a big crop of cotton, and exhaust everything else in the efiort to make it, it wonld be acting wisely to abandon snch a practice at once, and exert onr skill and energies in that way which makes the most money and best secures onr independence, and, at the same time, surrounds ns with most of the comforts and conveniences of life. To my mind this appears so plain that the wonder same timo, and that he does inspect and analyze me j a> w ky a u others do not see as I do. the principal part of fertilizers that pass through j I have been indneed to moke these sngges- Savannah. Some parties, who want to keep j tions by seeing such extensive and expensive * ' I ihn nnvf nvnn rtf AAfinn onri 1 f predict a collapse occasionally to get them through without their ' kot before the next crop can be gathered and being analyzed. Bnt those parties are liable to J sold. If it does happen, somebody will be , , , . . .. . . . T v hurt. It costs fifteen cents to make cotton. I be prosecuted, fined and imprisoned, and I have haY0 heard of one planter fa our State who haa no doubt some of them will bo severely dealt bought $35,000 worth of fertilizers, and all of in. :a a °i j ...a aaUa« rru; n with. Bnt tho planter can control this business very easily, by refusing to purchase a single ton with- ont first seeing the Inspector’s analysis; then tho party who runs tho blockade wonld find no sale for his fertilizer. ‘Planter and Commission Merchant” admits the law needs an improvement. He will bo a it tcTbe used on his next crop of cotton. This is making 'a stupendous effort to inorease the crop, and if it is not “running the thing in the ground” it is certainly putting a good deal of the thing in the gronnd. I hope that the fertilizing mania may pass off without hnrting anybody. I had rather see every pound of fertilizers used npon provision crops, and make what cotton we can on the natural land. We have made it in that way, and public benefactor if he will give a praotical j can do it yet, and get more money for what we statement of what those improvements should ‘ do make. ‘ be. . Let ns hear from him, and let him not de- j ^ am through. If these hints do no good, it cline to do his country a benefit if it is in his would be useless for me to throw ont any more, power. • Meechant AND Planteb. and whether any one may profit by them or not, * I shall at least have the satisfaction of believing [FOB THE TELEGBAPH AND JIESSENGEB.] i ^ at * {eyr bla “? t., . „ of safety, enough to keep any one from losing What Is to Become of It ? I tra( £ if ^ ohoQB6 & trave! it. Is there a plethora of money in the pockets : of certain Southern people ? Ts there more • currency in Atlanta than can bo judiciously . invested? Are there no objects of charity in this stricken region? By whatotherhypothe sis can we account for a proposition that ap peared in the Constitution, some time since, Oh, cotton sinner! stop and think, Before yon further go; Your coarse may take you to tho brink ad 1 Of penury and woe. “Coining events cast their shadows before." Fabmeb. Cotton and Gold. A Plague of JIioe.—We arc familiar, in this conntry, with the plagne of grasshoppers, army worms, and other noxions animals, bnt have happily been spared from the devastations caused by mice in large bodies, snoh as have not nnfreqnently ravished portions of Europe. Quite recently certain parts of Hangary have been terribly afflicted in this manner, to so great an extent, indeed, that in a single district the entire crop of sixty thousand acres of grain was completely oon6nmed. In another district ten thousand acres were destroyed in two weeks, not a grain, nor blade of straw, nor root being loft—entire fields having been cleared, accord ing to the statement, “are bare as a floor.” Every attempt made to reduce the hordes of these animals failed. Ditches were dug and filled with water; but they soon became choked up with the dead bodies, the nnmber destroyed being counted by hundreds of thousands, and yet without any appreciable impression being made npon the supply. The country was filled with immense numbers of hawks, eagles, owls, and other predaceous birds, together with foxes, weasels, wildcats, etc.; but the devasta tion still continues, and there is no telling where it will end. Mb. Bbight’s health creates deep anxiety in ISoglftsd. Tho New York World, in an editorial article to raise funds for defraying the expenses of commenting on the low rate of gold on Thnis- Anna Dickinson and others of her stripe, on; day, says: “The most important cause of the ... ~ . i reduction is one with which the government an expedition to the capital Oi our State, with j jj 3( j no thing to do, as it has no control over the object of ventilating tho doctrines of the j the weather and the seasons. The decline in new school ? Shades of our fathers! Do not, 1 gold has resulted from several causes, of which ,»d will «*irmptions of tho Goths Mow £ each other O succession sufficiently rapid ■ chase of foreign commodities, and cotton being without our inviting and paying for them ? Is as good for this purpose as gold itself, an abnn- it possible that the originctor of this idea is a native of the South ? merce. According tothomostrecentestimates, ‘ # _ tho cotton crop of tho last year does not fall The old fashioned married state is in danger short of three million bales; and as the price is of passing away, and there is a chance that double, this crop is equal in value to six million it will, i» .few secretion,, bo nocbet.d ttith ft the things that were. Witness tho facility payment of duties at the Gnstomhoose. The with which divorces are obtained in certain supply is in excess of the demand, and, as a sections, the progress of the ideas advanced Son^rop toS o^mted in by these men m women s clothes, and females another manner. It has carried into the Sonth in male apparel, eto. Some new relation will j large sums of money, of which only a prat has be devised-for men and women will continue to live together—hut tho old} holy estate oi • The planters reserve out ot their prooeed3 tho matrimony will be gone, and God grant that money they will need for tillage, wages and the substitute may be better than tho original, familyexpensesuntilthe next crop is brought . . .. . . ... , , ... to market; and the deficiency of banns in that but it is hardly possible, and perhaps nothing gcotion causes much of this money to be locked new will be devised after all, as there already. up in private safes and desks, thus withdrawing exist certain terms of association between tho j£/ ron ? circulation and practically diminishing ,, . , ,, .. ., _ r v. l ... the volume of the currency. The effeot is, so sexes that probably suit the new lights better far as it goes, to lessen the disparity between than any thing that can be invented. the valne ot gold and the valne of greenbacks.” POYNTZ. The Freight Blockade. KoThronRh Shipments Sonth for the Past Two Days—Condition of Affairs at Chat tanooga. From the Kashville Manner. The doors of the Chattanooga depot re mained closed Thursday and yesterday to all shippers offering through freight—that is, to points south of Chattanooga. Some hope is entertained that the blockade will be raised to-day, but we have heard no official intima- tian on the subject In the meantime, busi ness is at a complete standstill, and our grain trade, particularly, is seriously crippled by the delay. Orders from the South are being re ceived on as liberal a scale as ever, but, of course, dealers cannot fill them at present There is some complaint that the Nashville and Chattanooga road is receiving corn from the Cairo packets in preference to local ship ments, but the steady accumulation of such freight on the wharf appears to bo sufficient to refute this idea. The real trouble is, we understand, the difficulty experienced by the Nashville and Chattanooga Hoad in gettin back its cars from Chattanooga and beyon that point Owing to the altogether unprece dented activity in freights at present, the de lays would be even more serious were it not for the fact that the Nashville and Chatta nooga road, in order to avoid another block ade at Chattanooga, has permitted its cars to go considerably south of there. Although' this plan is attended with considerable incon venience and loss of time in the return of the cars, it certainly appears to be preferable to having whole trains standing loaded on the track at Chattanooga, awaiting their turn to go forward, as was the case when the block ade was first declared there sometime hack. # It was intimated yesterday that a system is to be adopted by which nearly one-third more freight maybe stowed in the Chattanooga depot. This, we hear, can be accomplished by excluding the drays from the building and filling up freight in the central space now used as a roadway. The drays_ could unload at the doors without material inconvenienoe. The Chattanooga. Times of yesterday says with regard to the situation there: “Col. Bryant was sent here some ten days ago to dear away the blockade, and he has succeeded very well. He described himself as striotly a railroad man, and professes to know neither religion nor politics in his rail road management. Mainly through his efforts we believe the blockade has been been entirdy removed, and all the cars received from the other roads are sent forward daily.” From the Times we.also obtain the follow ing comparison of freights over the Western ana Atlantic railroad under the old (Hulburt) and the new (Blodgett) administrations: Old Rates. New Rates. Inorease. Corn (bush.).., Oats Potatoes (bbL). Coal Stock Baoon (100 lbs), . 10 11 01 . 12 11 — . 07 08 01 . 22 68 46 . 35 48 13 .25 00 .15 00 48 00 23 00 16 56 1 56 .20 00 35 00 15 00 .15 00 18 00 3 00 .40 00 60 00 20 00 . 42 52J 10J These rates, it is complained.by the Times, show a very marked discrimination against East Tennessee in favor of the West. The great cause of complaint, however, at Chatta nooga, is the refusal of the Western and At lantic railroad to make a through tariff from that point to Augusta, Macon and other South ern cities. The only through rates the road is now giving are to N( — and few York via Charleston In a distance of eleven blooks on Broadway, A petrified sea-serpent bae been fonnd in In- New York, there ore sixty-three stores and diana, 180 feet beneath the snrfaoe. offices to let. . . . . The Western Freight Blockade. Commenting npon the unfortunate situation of affairs, the Nashville Banner of Sunday has the following: The reason of the freight blockade, which has existed to the southeast of Nashville, is very plain when certain facts are understood. The Sonth last year ongaged entensively in the cul tivation of cotton to the exclusion of grain, and it is the flow of com and wheat and baoon into the cotton-growing States from the Northwest that causes, with an exoessof merchandise, a blockade on many of the roads, not only in this bnt other States. If we understand the facts in the case there has been in reality no blockade on the Nashville and Chattanooga railroad. The company has an abundance of cars and conld move promptly to Chattanooga every ounce of freight that is offering. The difficulty lies at the other end of the line. The Western and Atlantic Road, from Chat tanooga to Atlanta, has ponring over it an im mense business. The four hundred cars owned by the road are fonnd a long way inadeqnate to the emergency. The East Tennessee Road, the Memphis and Charleston and tho Selma routes are all delivering large quantities of freight for this road, and it is not singular that the line should be blockaded. The Western and Atlantic road has a sufficiency of power to move all the freight bnt a deficiency of cars.— So long as the. Chattanooga Road could allow itecars to pass through Chattanooga without transferring freight things went smoothly, but when two weeks ago, so many of the cars of this road were sonth of the eastern terminns, that the road began to suffer for lack of trans portation, the Superintendent returned to the tedious system of transferring freight at Chat tanooga, getting through only abont fifteen or twenty car loads. The only trouble is with the Western and At lantic Road, which cannot receive the immense quantity of freight offering. All the difficulty lies there. The road is doubtless doing the best it can with the facilities which it possesses. The Chattanooga Railroad has an immense freight house at Chattanooga, which will probably hold 500 car loads. This might be piled fufi, but merchants and dealers here prefer to wait until they can get through receipts. The consequence is that the depot here in Nashville is filled to overflowing with through freight. There is no blockade as to local stations, and the merchants of Nashrille feel the difficulty very little. It falls heavily upon the produce and grain dealers. There are probably 10,000 saoks of com in Nashville to-day, awaiting shipment Sonth—150 sacks making a car load. The Lonisville and Nashville Railroad now has 254 cars sonth of Nashville, which we believe does not inolnde the Green Line cars, which ran through with out transfer of freight. This freight blockade is no new thing; it has been existing ever since navigation opened in the fall, and large ship ments of grain for the Southeast began to pour into Nashville from the Cumberland. The Wes- tean and Atlantic Road is getting new ears con stantly, bnt the accnmalation of transportation is a matter of time, and the difficulty of freight blockades to the south of Nashville will doubt less continue until the first of April, when the roads will be able to handle with ease all the freight offering. As we stated at the outstart, it is the large quantities of grain and provisions demanded at the southeast which'causes the difficulty with the railroads. If the Sonth devotes its labor to the raising of cotton to the exclusion of other products, the railroads will be compelled to provide themselves with increased facilities for transportation in tho future, otherwise there will be serious impediments to trade and com merce generally. The blockade has not only involved senous loss to shippers on account of the long delays, bnt has also caused a material inorease of rates. Tho railroads of the South seem, by unanimous consent, to havo taken advantage of the present rush of business, to raise their freight tariff np on almost everything. We oannot take up a Southern exchange without finding an article giving their local railroads pretty sir >ng cen sure for their policy in regard to freights. The Editor of the Times Attacked by Three Men and Two H ome*—Fire Blondes Three of the DJirepqt»< ble Party Arrested and Taken to the Armory. ii( , . - ifA mk The simple circumstance was that Wilbur F. Storey, Esq., editor of the Chicago Times, was assaulted near his own house, on Wabash av»* nne, abont 5:15 o’clock on yesterday eveain^ as he was proceeding to his dinner in company with his wife. The assault was made by five per sons—three of whom were men and two women —with a rear guard of men and women who sat in a carriage. Three of the assaulting parties are known to have been one Henderson, who styles himself manager of the Lydia Thompson troupe, Lydia Thompson herself and Pauline Markham, who were arrested and taken to the armory. The other two persons of the assault ing party are not actually known, they having made their escape, but they are supposed ana said to be a clerk at a prominent hotel in thin city, and a man formerly connected with some Chicago newspaper, who has recently attached himself in some capacity to the tronpe which has been giving entertainments at the opera- house for the past week and more. The details of the assault were these: About 5 o’clock, JIrs. Storey called at her husband’s office, and they walked together toward their home, which is situated on Wabash avenue, between Peck and Eldridge courts. Reaching the comer of Peck court, Mr. Story notioed, on the opposite side of the street, a man and wo man, who, seeing him, turned and walked back as far as the carriages (two of them,) which stood two or three doors north of Mr. Storey’s residence, when another woman and two mea stepped ont npon the sidewalk. As Mr. Storey came np to the party of five, one of the men approached him, and asked: “Is this Mr. Storey?" “Yes, sir,” was the reply. “My name is Henderson,” said the man, who then Btepped back, and the woman, known as Lydia Thompson,advancedbriskly and struck at lir. Storey with a riding whip. The objeot ap parently was that he should be whipped by ■ woman, evidently determining that this should not be done be rushed towards the woman and endeavored to take the whip away. At this Henderson and another one of the men fell up on Mr. Storey, who quickly threw them off. The Thompson again stepped np to use the whip, and Mr. Storey again tried to B8ize hold of her, when Henderson struck him a severe blow on the temple with the loaded end of a sort of cowhide, which had a stunning effect for tho moment. Mr. Storey recovered himself, sprang toward Henderson, and wrenched his loaded whip from him, turning to give his attention to the third man who had approached. In the meantime, Henderson drew his revolver, at tho same time making a retreat. At this, the attacking party desisted, qnite a crowd having gathered abont, and Mr. E. 8. Alexander poshed the men and women toward one of the carriages. At this jnnotnre a polioe- man came np, and was told to take charge of the disrepntable party making the assault. One of the carriages, however, had already driven off; the other, containing Thompson, Mark ham, and Henderson, was taken in charge and driven to the armory, where the trio were locked attorney other law matters. No one making any com plaint except the policeman, the party waa held on the charge of disorderly conduct simply, in bail of $100 each, to appear on Saturday morn ing at 9 o’clock.—Chicago Times, 26 th. Mr. Webster’s Death. It wes past midnight, when, awaking front one of the slumbers that he had at intervals, bn seemed not to know whether he had not already passed from his earthly existence. He made • strong effort to ascertain what the consaione- ness that he could still perceive actually wail, and then nttered those well known words, “£ still live!” as if he had satisfied himself of tin fact that he was striving to know. They wen his last coherent utterance. A good deal later he said something in which the word “poetry” was distinctly heard. His son immediately re peated to him one of the stanzas of Gray’s Ele gy. He heard it and smiled. After this respi ration became more difficult, and at length it went on with perceptible intervals. All was now hashed within the chamber, and tons who stood, waiting, there were bnt throe sounds in nature, the sighing of the antnmn wind in the trees, the slow ticking of the cloek in the hall below, and the deep breathing of onr dying friend. Momenta that seemed honn flowed on. Still the measured beat of time fell painfully distinct npon onr ears; still the gentle moaning of the wind mingled with the only soandthat arose within the room; for there were no sobs of women, no movements of men. So grand, and yet so calm and simple, had been his approach to the moment when we must know that he was with us no more, that he had lifted ns into a composure, which, bnt for his great example, we conld not.bave felt. At twenty-three minnutes before three o’clock hie breathing ceased; the features settled into % superb repose, and Dr. Jeffries, who still held the pnlse, after waiting a few seconds, gently laid down the arm, and, amid a breathless si lence, pronounced the single word, “dead.’* The eyes were then closed, the remains were removed from the position in which death came, and all bat those who had been appointed to wait and watch, slowly and mournfully walked away.—Geo. T. Curtis. Fires at Sea. There is a universal association of horror with the ory of fire npon a ship at sea; and yet that is the place where a fire should be manage able, because a great foroe may be immediatety concentrated upon the point of danger. Som years ago, a California steamer left the Isthmus for- New York. On the afternoon of the day ot sailing the captain called the passengers to the deck and made them a sensible little spee^. He reminded them that they were a great multitude npon a ship, and that, as they knew, fire wee one of the possible penis to which they were exposed, bnt that a little care wonld deprive the! chance of its sting. Ha then proposed that a suf ficient body of the passengers should agree to aot in concert with the crew, incase of necessity He called for a certain number of men to han dle axes, who, at an alarm, were to put them selves at once under the orders of the ship’* carpenter, whom he introduced. Others were to act as guards to prevent the frantic rush ing of passengers, and were to be armed for the purpose and to obey certain officers whom he named; others wero to protect the boats; others were to repair to certain points and serve the hose. And so a sufficient number of the passengers were simply organized, and made to understand precisely what they were to do shonld an alarm bo raised. Suddenly the next day an alarm was given ; and snch was the self possession, produced by the oonsoiounneaa of intelligent and powerful organization, that every man went quietly to his post; there wan no panio whatever, and the passengers learned to their great satisfaction, that the cry had bee* raise merely to test the efficiency of the organi zation. There were some grumblers npon the ship, who said that it was too bad in the captain to excite by snch a plain appeal and system the imagination of the passengers. Bat became some men choose to be OBtriches there is no reason why others shonld not prefer to remeia men. A lightning rod upon a honse is a oon- stant reminder of the danger of the thnnderbott. Is it, therefore, “too bad'” to protect the hone ? Tins French Atlantic Telegraph Company, at their last meeting, declared a dividend of If per cent, for five months. The qnestion is mooted as to whether the cadets, whose positions were obtained by par- aisr ' " J " ‘ ‘*’* chase, can bo dismissed; and it Is reported I the Attorney General has decided that they MS- not, but, however that be, the law clearly em powers the President to make the removahl ta his discretion. Sevebsl severe shocks at earthquake have ) " ‘tad of Has centiy occurred on ths Island of Hsmrii. The summit at the volcano of Hfeyetoe issfcroeied In smoke, iedtoating that the crater fit active.