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Cotton has fallen in the Macon market three and a half cents since 8th Febru ary last, and three and five-eighths in the New York market, and gold which was then 120$ is 8$ cents less to-day. A gold transaction in cot ton, at this time, compared with one a month ago, would show but a moderate decline. While, therefore, it is not perhaps worth while to hold ootton on the probabilities of any important advance,holders should avoid rushing into mar ket in terror of ruinous loss. The Fifteenth Amendment.—“Wallace,” un der date of March 4 th, telegraphs the Richmond Dispatch that the question of issuing the Fif teenth Amendment proclamation was discussed at the Cabinet session that day, and the course to be pursued decided upon. Secretary Fish stated that there were twenty- seven States officially certified as having adopted the amendment besides New York and Indiana. Some slight informalities in some of the certifi cates of these twenty-seven were in process of arrangement. He read the seventh section of the reconstruction acts, passed April 10th, 18C7, as follows “That the proceedings in any of said States shall not be deemed final or oper ate as a complete restoration thereof until their actions respectively shall be approved by Con gress.” He argued that Texas and Georgia could not be counted until Congress approved their acts and admitted them as States. He stated that the certificate from Texas had not been received. The President stated that he would not issue the proclamation until Texas or Georgia was admitted, so the twenty-eight States would be named without counting New York or Indiana. Woman Suffrage.—The Daily Tribune teems with articles upon the subject, pro and con, from female writers, who show that they lack neither point, breath nor comprehension. “Lu- cretia” writes that she, at least, has no fears about the failure of the Sixteenth Amendment, or that the Legislators can ever be induced to force the ballot upon an unwilling majority. She is sharp upon tho woman lecturers, and says: Their consistency is charming! I have seen a young woman with a waspish waist, a huge waterfall, surmounted by the jauntiest of hats, enter a hall dragging an immense quantity of dry goods behind her very high heels, and har angue her audience upon their subservience to fashion 1 We have frequent public opportuni ties of seeing some of the oldest as well as the youngest, exhibit in their own persons the very follies they denounce. New York Dry Goods market. A. T. Stewart and Co’s Circular of the 5th quotes prints and sheetings as follows: Granite 74; Arnolds 8$; Lancaster 11$; Ori ental 11$; Hamilton 12;Pacific 12; American 11$; Gloster 11$; Simpson’s black and white II; Simpson’s black and grey 11$; Donnell's 12; Al bion solids 11$; Cocheco 12$; Oriental shirtings 11; Simpson’s anchor shirtings 11$. Tho quotations for 4-4 give New York Mills at 24; Wamsutta 21$; Toscarora 19; Masonville 16; Hope 14$; Globe A. 10$; Attawangan 15$; Rosebnd 16; Utica 22; Lonsdale 17; Winona 20; and so on. It will be seen the quotations in some cases are higher. Georgia State medical Association. We are reminded that thi3 body will meet in Macon on the 2d Wednesday in April. We under stand that all the railroads leading to this point have determined to pass delegates for one fare, and we hope the State will be healthy enough to allow a full attendance. We are sure our citizens will give these gentlemen a hearty wel come, and extend to them, while here, that re fined and generous hospitality for which Macon is so renowned. The Louisville municipal election, on Satur day, resulted in the choice of John G. Baxter, Democrat, for Mayor, by 580 majority over J. T. Bnnce, Democrat. Last yeat Bonce defeated Baxter. New men generally were elected to the council. Paul, the present chief engineer was overwhelmingly beaten by George W. Levi. The Missing Steamship.—Hope for the safety of the missing steamer, City of Boston, is fading out. The English insurance companies now decline to take farther risks npon her, and ahe appears to be given np also in Halifax, to which place the steamer Druid turned on Friday, after an nnsnccessful cruise in search of her. She has now been ont from New York forty-two days. The Emperor Alexander, of Rnssia, has sent communications by telegraph to tho government authorities at Washington and Pekin, express ing his profound sorrow for the affliction both nations must bear in the death of Auson Burlin game. The Empress has written a tender and consoling letter to Mrs. Burlingame. The Geobgia Legislature.—An Atlanta cor respondent writes ns that Gov. Bnllock will re convene the Georgia Legislature (so-called)— more properly the Congressional Agency, imme diately npon the passage of Butler’s bilL Then look oar for thnnder squalls. “Wake snakes and walk your chalks.” Pop* on Woman’s Rights.—That crabbed, aallow-faced old dogmatist, says: “Woman is bom to dignify retreat; In shade to flonrisb, and unseen be great. Fearful of fame, unwilling to be known, Should seek but God’s applauses and her own." The Southebn Cultivator camo to hand yes terday, and we will look it over and notice it when we have more leisure. Also, the Baltimore American Farmer for March. An attempt—partially snccessfnl—was made on the night of the 1st instant, to bum the town of Camden, Wilcox county, Alabama. Fire broke ont in three separate places about the same hour, and eight business houses were burned. Repeal of the Test Oath.—Senator Robert son, from the Committee on Disabilities, re ported on Friday favorably Senator Ferry’s bill to repeal tbo Test Oath act of July 2, 18C2 and it is believed the bill will soon be passed by both Houses. It relieves all persons of disabili ties exoopt those disqualified under the Four teenth Amendment. The Pbcclamaiton.—Tho Proclamation an nouncing the adoption of tha'Fifteenth Amend- msnt is to be delayed until the admission of Texas and Georgia. A Dull Speech and a Dull Subject.—The World says Butler made a dull speech on Georgia Reconstruction. It was after dinner. Another Bald in Prospect. There aeema to be quite a crop of circulars announcing the establishment of Radical weak- lies springing up, here and there, throughout the State. We suppose the fertilizing matter that foroes this crop comes from Atlanta. Bullock, des pairing of bribing honest men who control pa pers of circulation and infiuenoe with his proc lamation printing, has oome to the conclusion that he most build np the necessary newspaper support, “from the ground,” as the saying is. These little handbills and Bmut machines are to stand up to him through thiok and thin, and as the whites won’t read them and the ne groes can’t, must be propped up by pap from the publio treasury. If he succeeds in his scheme of keeping the Agency in power two years longer, he will make that crowd pass a law to force county officers to do their advertising in these handbills aforesaid. It will make no difference, of course, that the people of the country do not, and will not subscribe to them. That is immaterial. The treasury will be plun dered, and Bullock have his organs to lie, and slander, and stir strife and blood-shed that he and his wretched co-oonspiritors may keep the Northern heart fired against Georgia. We wonder if the man knows tho result of a similar experiment in Tennessee. While Brownlcw ruled by law, all the legal print ing of the State wa3 thrown into the hands of Radical papers; every cross-road, almost, had its newspaper—all “loyal,” of course, The people were swindled right and left by these Radical editors and printers for a while, but in 18G9 the anti-Radical deluge came; and the “loyal organs” went twining with the woodbine, and have not come baek yet. That will be their fate in Georgia as sure as Bollock tries the experiment. If he wishes further in formation on the subject we advise him to apply to Brownlow. We tell Bullock and his agency that this cock won’t fight in Georgia. Set that down as a hard fact. It will cost more money even than he can spare from other projects, and end at last in defeat and disgrace. There is but one rule about this matter of public printing, and that is determined by proof of bona fide circulation. The paper that it read and paid for—not gratuitously thrust by a publisher upon the people of a county, who neither want nor will pay for it—is the paper that should have the pnblic printing for that county. The object of such notices is to bring their subject matter before tbe largest number of those interested—that, and nothing more. When this rule is violated the object of the no tice is plainly and inexcusably defeated. If the Agency wish to serve newspapers and advertisers both, and do justice to all parties, let them enact that all legal advertisements be given to that paper having tho largest bona fide circulation in the connty or counties interested. Snch a law as that cannot bo objected to on any reasonable ground. It works no injustice to anybody, and thoroughly serves the purpose of all such advertising, viz.: To have it read by the greatest number of people of the connty. That’s tho whole thing in a nutshell. It is rather too much to hope for such a sensible law from partisans, but if they do meddle with tho matter at all, let it be on the side of right and reason. Grant not to be Re-Nominated. The New York Sun, (Rad.) says: “We do not misinterpret the public judgment when we say that no man ever chosen to tho Presidential office stood so low at the close of the first year of his term, in the estimation of the leading minds of his party, as Gen. Grant does. The natural result of this all but unanimous verdict of leading Republicans is, that not one of them, except he be a recipient of tho Presi dential bounty, contemplates tho renomination of Gen. Grant—a judgment never before en tered np against any regularly elected President at the close of his first year in office.” ‘‘William Edwards, of Georgia.” Under this head, tho Washington correspon dent of the Tribnne, of Saturday, gives the re sult of tho examination by tho Honse Military Committee into the bnsines3 of soiling cadet ships so far as it concerns tho above named party. Says the correspondent: William Edwards, a member of tho Fortieth Congress from Georgia, gave his appointment to tho Naval Academy, signed by him with tho name of tho appointee left blank, to Ethan A. Sawyer of Georgia to sell. Both were in Wash ington at tho time. Sawyer sold it for §GOO to two fellows named BirdsallandMaOarthy, claim agents in Washington, and they filled tho blank with whatever name they pleased. Edwards, when tho trade was reported to him, got angry and told Sawyer that ho had been cheated—that tbe appointment was worth §1,200 or §1,500. Edwards demanded §500 of the money, bnt Sawyer gave him but §350, to enable him to pay his hotel bill and get homo. Afterward Ed wards drew on Sawyer for §100, bnt ho refused to pay the draft. Mr. Edwards ho3 mode no defense before the Committee. Reconstruction of Tennessee. The press dispatches announce that the Re construction Committee have decided that Con gress has power to reconstruct the State of Tennessee. That is a step farther in the line Congressional usurpation. The excuse in the case of Georgia was that the work of Recon- tion had not been finally perfected by the ad mission of her Senators; and the excuses for future interference with all the Southern recon structed States will be that such were the conditions under which they were admitted into tho Union. But none of theso pretences can apply to Tennessee; and the declaration that Congress has the right to turn her out of tbo Union for remodelling, are as valid in respect to any other State as in relation to Tennessee. This is, in all probability, a movement to pave the way for the reconstruction of Kentucky, Ma ryland, Delaware, New Jersey, New York or any other State which dares to support the Demo cratic ticket. Yes, Indeed. A Western Radical editor gets off the follow ing, which he doubtless considers a superlative ly fine illustration of killing irony: “The surrender of E. M. Yorger, ths assas sin of CoL Crane, of Mississippi, to the civil authorities of that State, for trial beforo the ordinary courts, will perhaps be claimed as a ‘great Democratic gain.’ ” We answer with the above caption. It is, un doubtedly, a Democratic gain. Whatever is a gain for the rightfnl, bnt much abused liberty of American freemen, is a gain of that kind. It is a gain of civil law and civil justice, over bayonet law, and arbitrary, and too often blind, merciless, brutal power. This Radical sneerer, unconsciously has dig nified his columns, and astonished his readers with the enunciation of a grand and glorious truth. Let him try again. Pabtial Resumption. — Some of the New Fork drinking.saloons are giving change in sil- Their profits will be fair. Afraid to Trnst Rim. A good story is told of the eminently pions ex-cobbler, Wilson, of Massachusetts. When Revels, tbe Mississippi negro, was admitted to his seat, Wilson proposed, by w;ay of a joke, to Thurman, of Ohio, to seat him (Revels) on the Democratic side of the Senate, alleging, as a reason, that the Radical side was full. .He ex pected, of course, that Thurman would indig nantly objeot; but he didn’t. “All right,” said he, “put him hero by me, and in less than a week he will be thoroughly converted, and will vote with the Democrats on all questions that oomo np.” Wilson got scared, Revels wasn’t trusted in snob a dangerous neighborhood, and a seat was finally found for him between Wilson and Carpenter. Alack, Tennessee! Butler, in his tirade upon Georgia, in the House, on Friday, warmed himself up on Ten nessee. He said: The State of Tennessee, for instance, believ ing herself beyond the power of Congress, had proceeded to abrogate every law and every con stitutional provision on which she was admit ted to representation. If the judgment of the Honse went with his own, he proposed to. ex hibit also to Tennessee the power of Congress against wrong and rapine and murder. The Governor of Tennessee had sent a message to the Legislature stating that he was utterly pow erless to protect the citizens of Tennessee against organized bands of robbers and murder ers ; bnt the Legislature had adjourned without providing any suoh means. Hundreds of men were being murdered weekly in Tennessee, and there was no redress. He proposed to bring the condition of that State, very soon, to the attention of the Honse and the country. _ Mr. Hawkins, (rep.) of Tenn., inquired of Mr. Butler where those murders were commit ted. Mr. Butler—In Tennessee. Mr. Hawkins—Whereabouts? Mr. Butler—All over the State. Like the man with the smaU-pox, they break out all over. (Laughter.) Mr. Hawkins—I have never heard of such things. Mr. Butler—None so deaf as those who will not hear. I have the presentments of two Grand Juries in that State, saying that they are utterly powerless against the bands of organized rnfiians there, and we ought to deal with Geor gia so as to demonstrate to the world that we have not abrogated and abnegated the power of Congress to deal with men, wherever they may be, under whatever sort of State obligations, who render the life and liberty of the citizens of tho United States unsafe. Ha gave notice that he wonld offer an amendment to the bill providing that the power granted by the Constitution of the State of Georgia to the General Assembly to change tho time of holding elections and to prescribe the day for tbe meet ing of the General Assembly shall not be so ex orcised as to postpone tbe election of mem* bers of the next General Assembly beyond the Tuesday after the first Monday in February, 1872. He explained that the object of the amendment was to give tho loyal men who had been elected to the first State Legislature their full two years of legislative service.— Ho would treat the negroes who had been turn ed out of tho Georgia Legislature precisely ns he would have treated the loyal Legislature iu 18GI, if there had been one, who had been turned out by tho rebels; that is, he would re store them to their positions and keep them there for their full time. Aware of her danger, Tennessee has moved with the utmost possible caution. Her Consti tutional Convention, fortunately a smi.ll body, composed of the most experienced, well in formed and prudent public men of that Stato, seemed to have been eminently successful in avoiding every ground for exception which tho arrogant and tyrannical majority in Congress conld possibly take; but wo see it all amounts to nothing. Butler declares “she has abrogated every Constitutional provision on which she was admittod to the Union,” and ho shall propose to mako her an illustration of tho power of Congress against wrong, rapine and murder! and he then proceeds with a wholesale denun ciation of her social condition, which is so glaringly false as to be simply incredible. The troth is, that the party in Congress of which Butler is the exponent, recognize tho ex istence of political opposition as a ground for reconstruction. They mean to extinguish the Democratic party in the South by act of Con gress, and propose to punish and worry the peo ple into voting the radical ticket, by recon structing them as often as they vote the other way. Mississippi, Texas, Virginia and Alabama they have reconstructed on these principles. The whole of tho delay and palaver about Vir ginia arose, all know, really upon the question whether sbo would stay radical as reconstruct ed. Tennessee is in trouble simply because, although she elected a radical Governor, she is likely hereafter to vote democratic. The sum and substance of it all is, that under tbe cry of universal suffrage, the desperate plotters are determined to destroy suffrage unless they can control it for their own purposes. Gnashing of TcctSi. and Snatching of Hair. Our information from Atlanta is to tho effect that the passage of Batter's bill, with Bingham’s amendment, kicked np a most tremendous bob bery among tho faithful. Some of them swore the dispatch was a Kn-KIax forgery, and others declared that it had not been received at all. Arcrand tho Opera House the crowd muster ed strong, and suoh cursing and groaning, such pulling of wool and rolling of eyeballs was scarcely ever seen. The general impression was that Bullock & Co. were everlastingly smashed—laid out cold as a wedge, though of course this was “inside” talk. A good many members of the Agency who resides in Atlanta, were almost fit to burst with regret that they had not realized more ont of their places, and swore they would make np for it while the snn did shine. The prospect of having to go to work after November next, was terrible both to white and black loafers, and they filled bar-rooms and cake shops with their lamentations. Altogether, the occasion was not by any moans a joyful one to the interesting crowd at Atlanta who condescend to help empty the Treasury. We are informed that tho excitement was so great the two organs thore, in the confusion, ac tually spaced ont a batch of proclamation print ing to double its present “‘richness.” One can judge from this circumstance how tho nows must have fluttered tho “ring.”. The SonlL Carolina Legislature. The following classification of this distin guished body, which we find in tho Columbia correspondence of the Charleston News, is in teresting : Tho General Assembly is composed of one hundred and fifty-three members—thirty sena tors snd one hundred and twenty-three repre T sentatives. Of this number seventy-oue are white, forty-four black, and thirty-eight of mixed blood. Twenty-one are Democrats, (all of whom are white,) and one hundred and tuirty-two Republicans. That is eighty-two negroes to seventy-one whites. We have called it a “distinguished” body, and there is certainly no parliamentary body in the whole world which has gained so much distinction. The Radicals throughout the “nation" jostly point to it, as embodying the most complete triumph and realization of their cherished ideas, and yet, nevertheless and notwithstanding, it enjoys an ‘unconstitutional distinction, for it is a “distinction on accountof color and raco,” which everybody knows is “agin tho Amendment,’’and contrary to the civil rights bilL We commend this view of the sub ject to tbe U. S. Grand Jnrors. Should not that illegal distinction be abolished? ijaiiiMiyistaiiiriiai An Enterprising Firm. While in Augusta, a few days since, wo call ed to seo our friends Dr. Wm. H. Tntt and Land, one of the principal drag houses of that city and the State. These gentlemen are, as are many of onr Georgia houses, engaged largely in tho manufacture of specialties. For the manufacture of their pills, oelebrated for cure of fover and ague, they have a machine which will make one thousand pills per minute. They are also selling quite largely of their Golden Eagle Bitters, though they have not been much advertised. If they go so readily on their merits, they will have to look cut when they are placed constantly before the publio by the newspapers. We wish them great suc cess. . Dr. Tutt finds time, however, to deyoto to tho great Fair which Is expected to come off in November next in Angusta. He is President of tbe Association. The Georgia PreM. Mrs. Hernandez, well known in Savannah theatrical circles, who was Bhot by her husband a few weeks ago, died last week in Illinois. Judge Alexander, of the Southern Circuit, will hold oourt this mouth in Wilcox, Berrien, and Irwin counties. • A train ran through from Charleston to Sa vannah on the Charleston and Savannah Rail road, Sunday. Business was very brisk in Savannah, on Sat urday, the News says. The prevailing fair winds brought in a number of coastwise sails, mostly laden with guano, which business has assumed immense proportions in this port. Henry Hyman’s grocery store, in Savannah, was Batlerized to the tune of §700 worth of goods, on Friday night. Capt. A. F. Butler, late agent of the Central Railroad, at Augusta, has accepted tho Savan nah agency of the Charleston and Savannah R. R. Nine thousand three hundred and twenty-five pieces of pitch pine timber, measuring 860,G47 feet, and valued at $18,133,82. were shipped from Savannah,' on Sunday. The Savannah News speaks of those pestil ent little nuisances, “slingers,” as follows r We endorse every word of its advice to parents and police Dangerous Playthings. — Notwithstanding the orders of the Chief of Police, the use of ■‘slingers” Btiil continues, and from time to time we hear of accidents or very narrow escapes, from these dangerous playthings. On Saturday we were witness to the damage done by two ballets thrown by one of them, and with an ac curacy which showod that they were fired with an evident design to injure some one, as a bul let entered each window, one embedding itself in the wall and the other smashing two panes of glass. Parents should promptly punish children found using “‘slingers” in their yards, and the Police should immediately arrest any boy who has one in the streets. Possession of a “sling- er” is good evidence that it will bo used. Miss Annie Pierce, daughter of Bishop Geo. F. Pierce, was married, last week, to Mr. Jas. A. Harley of Sparta. The Standard says Talbotton needs a good barber. “The barber we have here at present makes jolly ginger cakes, but he is not much on the shave. We think a good barber who won’t make a man swear twenty-seven times while he is being shaved, and who will devote all his talent to barber-ism instead of paying so much attention to ginger cakes, would do well here.” The Sparta Times and Planter says twice as much guano will be used iu that county this year as was last year. Active preparations are being mado for a large crop this year. From tho information it can gain from tho planters occasionally, there will be nearly as much cot ton planted this year as last, except in some instances, where it has been impossible to ob tain the required number of hands. The Hancock “Planter’s Club” is to be re vived. As soon as stock subscriptions to tho amount of §3000 are received the club will or ganize regularly. The par value of the stock will be §25 per share, We quote as follows from the Monroe Adver tiser of yesterday: Tho Griffin Star says the Savannah, Griffin and North Alabama Railroad will soon be completed to Senoiaand that in a abort time it will doubtloss bo either tho County Site of Fayetto county, or of a new one. It seems probable to ns that btforo long Fayette county lines will be so changed as to throw a portion of tho county to Clayton and another portion to Campbell, with eounty Site at Fairburn, in which event by throwing a portion of Coweta and Merriwether to Fayette, Senoia would be the most suitable and available place for the county Site.” One Mobe.—A negro was brought up beforo Jastice Ay cock last Saturday, on what is, for hia race, an .entirely unique charge. It ap pears that he hired his son ont for the year, under a contract with which he seemed to bo fully satisfied. Being, however, of a practical turn, and possessing withal a shrewd talent for speculation, he concluded to take advantage of the example set him by some of his white friends. Ho prevailed npon his son to break his contract, and, if we are not misinformed, hired him to some one else. Wo allude to this case merely to show to what an aggravating ex tent this decoy business is carried. When ne groes begin it, we think it is time for white people to stop. Fbuit.—From observations, we judge tbnt the fruit crop was not entirely blasted by the recent freeze. Tho very early kinds were injured to Some extent, but those of a later va riety escaped tbo evil effects of Jack Frost. Tbe majority of peach trees are just now in full flower, and wo still entertain lively hopes of in dulging—more or less—in our favorite dish of “nnlk and peaches.” Convebted.—We saw a colored brother the other day who was just in just the humor to join a temperance society. He was an un doubted convert It appears that he came to town a few days before, and, having a few dol lars on band, visited the nigger store below Proctor’s Hotel, and invested a quarter in “rip- gizzard” whisky. His experience is worth something. He related it in this forcible style: “ ’Fore do Lord, it wuz de sarchinest sperits I ever seed. I felt zazkly like I’d eat a arth- quake. I never toeh it any more, ef de Lord spars me." CoaN —During this month, if the weather is favorable a majority of the farmers of this sec tion will plant their corn. We are inclined to think that tho area of land devoted to this im portant crop will not be very much larger than last year. Indeed, from the vagnereplies which we recoivo to inquiries on this subject, we fear the cotton fever is growing in intensity instead of abating. Wo trust our fears are not well- founded. The Gainosvillo Air Line Eagle has come ont in a foil suit of new feathers. May its flight be long and lofty. Mr. W. 0. Boeks, of Griffin, has been unani mously elected final orator of the Phi Kappa Society, of Franklin College. Capt J. C. Allen, one of Pike county’s best citizens died last week. The Atlanta Constitution “understands that a number of gentlemen of means propose start ing another paper in Columbus, and that a well known editor and politician will control its columns.” The Atlanta Intelligencer is “pleased to learn from those who profess to know, that as yet there is every prospect for an abundant frait crop in this section.” The Constitutionalist announces the death in that city, on Sunday night, of Mr. Thos. S. Metcalf, one of the richest and most prominent citizens of tbe place. He was born in Provi dence, Rhode Island, 1799, and came to Angus ta in 1318. He had seen probably as many nps and downs in cotton speculations as any man at the South. His wife died about ten days ago. Dr. W. Harry Clay, lato of the firm of Har ris, Clay & Co., of this city, has gone into the drug business in Angusta. A negro boy named Sheflon, was run over by an engine on tbo Georgia railroad at Angusta, on Monday, and had his thigh badly crashed. A letter for Miss Sophie Green, of Macon, is held for postage in tho Savannah Post-office. Letters for Mra. L. Holmes, and Berry Craige, of Macon, aro held for postago in the Atlanta office. Patti caught cold, on Monday, going down the Georgia road, and did not sing that night in Augusta, as advertised. Mb. Jas. W. Wabe, formerly of Golumbns, and well known in commercial circles there diod in Russell county Alabama Saturday night. The Ohroniole and Sentinel, of Tuesday says: Says the Era of Tuesday The English Opera.—To-morrow Mr. A. 8. Panyer, agent of the Etchings English Opera Troupe, will be here to make arrangements for the appearance of that fine treupe in Atlanta. It is one of the best and most popular companies now traveling, and is splendidly headed by Mrs. Caroline Richings-Bernard. It embraces no less than forty-six first class people, and gives the legitimate opera entire. The troupe is now playing to crowded houses in New Orleans. It will visit Mobile, Montgomery, Columbus and Macon on its route from New Orleans to At lanta. The Sun says a load of corn in ths streets of Columbus “attracted general observation,” on Monday. Heavy rains in Columbus Sunday night. The river rose several feet A correspondent of the Atlanta Constitution, writing from Walker connty, says the prospects of the wheat crop in that section are very fine, and an unusually large crop has been sown. The Atlanta Era gets off the following burst of sympathy for a very much oppressed class. Pitiful.—It is pitiful to see the young men of the present day, in whom oenter the hope of society, and the security of State and National Governments; young men, who are, perhaps, the hope of doting parents, npon whom fond mothers look for support during their declining years; young men who ought to be buoyant of spirits and lightfooted as deer, with no burden npon them save the ordinary duties of life, it is pitiful to see such young men forced to the ne cessity of bearing the bnrden of the immense neckties whioh are now the fashion. They are to be pitied; yet they straggle with them like heroes and boar them as patiently as a lady does the mite-y bonnets of the peried. Cornelius Horrigan, for fifteen years member of the Washington Fire Company, of Savannah, and a gallant officer in the late civil war, died Monday. Baldwin Superior Courts was in session last week. Two murder cases—the State vs. Ohas. Matthews, and George Hollinshed—were tried, resulting iu a verdict of not guilty. Ben Brook ins, for larceny, was sent to the Penitentiary for threo years. On tbe common law docket the most impor tant cases disposed of were those involving re lief, in all of which tho amounts were liberally scaled. The Rome Daily learns that the work on the Selma, Rome and Dalton Railroad is being rap idly pushed ahead, between that point and Dal ton. Unless too much rain falls to interfere with the work, trains will run through by the first of June. The Agricultural Fair for Cherokee Georgia and Alabama, will commence at Rome, Novem ber 11, 1870, and continue four days. Amongthe premiums we notice the following:. Largest orop of cotton on oue acre, silver pitcher, worth §50; largest crops of oats, corn, barley and rye, on one acre, each a silver pitcher worth §25. We beg to make our sincere acknowledgments to friend Styles, of the Albany News, for the following opinion: Macon’s proudest and most important institu- tution is the Telegraph and Messenger. It is a great paper, and is conducted with discrimi nating taste and consummate ability. Of that ‘’orrid hale” Styles drank up here, and our notice of it, he says: That Ale.—The allusion by the Telegbaph and Messekgeb to our complaint of bad alo at a “fashionable saloon” while in Macon last week, was couched in such quizical language that we may be justified in dignifying it with an expla nation. Our “tipplings” do not extend to the distilla- ted cereals, and the malt is so infamous of late that wo seldom risk either ale or beer. On the occasion referred to, we took three glasses cf draught ale, and three hours afterwards we had almost lost all power of locomotion, as well as our senses. It produced heavy stnpor in the head, dull pain throughout tbe system, and finally inertia and sleep. We were poisoned ! And so will others be, to a greater or less ex tent, who drink draught ale. It is made of Co- culus Indicus instead of hops, and tbo only question as to producing death, is tho amount ono drinks. We are sorry onr friend Reese conld think of no more appropriate incident as a text for the courtesy intended by the paragraph, for, though he meant kindly, he furnished a cue for scoun drels and blackguards to besmear with their filth, and boslime with their slander. A number of experienced divers representing the “New York Monitor Wrecking Company,’ have arrived at Charleston and will go to work right away, removing the obstructions in that harbor. Their first work will be on tho Housa- tonic, which, it will be remembered, was sunk by tbe torpedo boat daring the war. They have already made a descent and state that they saw tbe ball of the torpedo boat and tho bodies of the men who perished in her. The boat, they state, is very little injured, although the bodies aro very much decomposed, and they expect to be able to raise her in a very short time. In tho Fifzwilliam Museum, at Cambridge, England, is Queen Elizabeth’s music book, con taining compositions for the virginal or piano forte of her time. The Queen is said to have been a skillful musician. The so-called Legislature of South Carolina has repealed the charter of the Air line railroad. ..Associated Press News.—J. W. Simonton, E-q., General Agent of tho New York Associa ted Press, met m this city on yesterday Col. A. R. Lamar, President, and Capt. F. W. Dawson and W. W. Screws, Esq., of the Executive Com mittee of tbe Southern Press Association. This 1 interview had reference to bettering the news system for the Southern papers, and we are gratified to learn that it will result in a way en tirety acceptable to all parties interested. The present news servioe will be greatly improved. On Saturday last, leaf tobacco, in the Rich mond market, touched the highest figures of tho season. A sale was made at §151 00 per 100 pounds. Cold Snap.—Monday night was quite cool— the meroury was at the freezing point more than half an hour after sunrise Tuesday morning. Good Reading for Western Radicals. The New York Times, good Republican au thority, we thiuk, gives some figures to sustain its position against the swindling high tariff that now curses the country. We should think them good reading for Western farmers espe cially. Says the Times: “The farmer receives 24 per cent, less for his flonr than he did 10 years sgo; 14 per cent, loss for his wheat; 7 per cent, less for his rye; less for corn; less for potatoes. For hay he gets in onr market 36 per cent less than in 1860; for wool 24 per cent less. But when he must buy, all his necessaries are advanced. Turk’s island salt is 110 per cent, higher; English bar iron, 70 per cent; carpets, 41 per cent (in gold); men’s bools, 27 per cent higher in gold; red load paint, 40 percent; cut nsils, 41 per cent.; lime, 66 per cent; and brown sheeting 50 per cent higher in 1870 than in 1860.” Horrible I Pauls, March 7.—The Oaulois gives ah ac count of a horrible and mysterious affair in Spain, whioh it says it would not believe had not the details been confirmed by a letter from its own correspondent The story is, that on February 17th a band of people broke into a house at Aloiera, a village near Valencia, by making a hole in the roof. The owner of the house was M. Boluda. He was in bed with his wife. The invaders pulled them out of bed and put gags in their months; then they went to the rooms where six children were sleeping, whom they bound with cords and then in sight of their parents tore out their eyes and tongues. After ward they cutoff the feet of M. Boluda and his eldest son, named Vincent, but purposely left the teudon near the heel nnsevered; then they hang them np head downward. After this thoy ransacked the larder, made a good breakfast, jeering at their victims all tbe time, and left the bouse at daybreak. Two of the villains have been arrested. Continuation of the Debate on Bnt- ler’a Georgia BUI—Bingham “Goes” Tor BnUoelc. We give, below, a telegraphic synopsis of the conclusion of this debate. It will seen that Bingham knows Bnllock pretty thoroughly—al most aa well as we do here in Georgia : The House at 3 o’clock resumed the conside ration of the Georgia bilL Mr. Peine offend an amendment, that noth ing in the bill should be construed to prolong or renew the term of office of Representatives from Georgia. Mr. Bingham addressed the House in opposi tion to the bill, and offered an amendment that nothing in the bill should be construed to vacate any offices now filled in Georgia, either by elec tion or appointment, nor to extend the official term of any officer, nor to deprive the people of the right to elect Senators and Representa tives in 1870. He remarked that the amend ment suggested objections which he had to fill, except the further objection that there was no occasion for further legislation whatever touch ing the right of Georgia to be represented in Congress. He would count himself a dishon ored man, breaker of his oath, if he ever re corded hia vote in favor of. the bill without the limitation that he proposed Mr. Butler, of Massachusetts, asked him whether he wonld vote for the bill with the amendment Mr. Bingham said he wonld reserve the privi lege of determining that question for himself, should the gentleman from Massachusetts vote against the amendment Mr. Butler—I certainly shall. Mr. Bingham—Then it is on the ground that judicial officers there are to be discontinued, from the Chief Justice down, and a new Bet of nominations by Gov. Bullock, who would make a good thing of it in putting in his pocket all the proceeds of the State railroads—$200,000 a year. He declared his conviotion that the passage of this bill wonld change the Fifteenth and Four teenth Amendments; and for anght he knew,the Thirteenth Amendment. Mr. Davis, of New York, made a speech in advocay of the bill,in the course of which he de fended the character of Gov. Bullock. The New York Son concludes a long article on the administration of General Grant as fol lows : General Grant has, at the. close of his first year, proved bo lamentable a failure, both as a statesman and a politician, that ho well-inform- ed and far-seeing Repnblican contemplates his renomination as a possibility: while a large body of the wiser and more cautious members of tbe party apprehend that his oourse must in evitably break it in pieces before the next Pres idential election. Mason awl North Georgia We notice, with the greatest pleas this projected road is beginning to aUra* serions attention of the people along ^ Publio meetings of the oitisens are bJat? at different points, and the indl»»ti ffna that the originators of the enterprise wyT. 1 the active end earnest oc-ope ration of tk* pie most vitally interested in its success/L is as it should be, for it is an entermiJ* which not only the people of North Georrt,’ deeply interested, but those also of the and lower parts of the State. It is proposed that the road start at m,. mid ran by way of Covington and this the State line, in the direction of KnojjjJ Tennessee. A glance at the map will gho*S this wonld be a remarkably straight line who are acquainted with the country ka’oi/' the greater portion of it is most favour., the construction of a road. Particular)..S true in regard to the oountry from Covim^l this plaoe, and from here to Cleveland J vo connty. ’ Running as it will, mainly parallel *jth d watter courses, over an elevated platteai -5 one that may be easily and cheaply ca/’-' —, i besides, it will penetrate a country hitherto wholly destitute of jgaJJ facilities, and one that is inexhaustible mineral resources, affording almost unU^ water power, with extensive forests of tht est timber; abundant in the production^7 cereals, fruits and vegetables, and one th» ? the pnrity of its water, the salubrity ofy? . mate, and its grand and attractive seen, unsurpassed by any portion of the hsk;lt globe. These are but a few of the mam w* resources of this section that would be a 1 oped and made available by the buildino • road. 8 ° !f It would add greatly to the business interest,-, Macon, and from the known enterprise 0 fu citizens, and the efforts being put forth to n* 1 her a great railroad centre, we hope to see 1 enterprise receive that attention from her talists that its importance deserves. ' To the people along the line, and esuecaf of North Georgia, its advantages are incaC ble, and we feel snre they will do all in a power to insure its success.—Gainmiile Bm CAPTURED COTTON. An Interesting Case Wherein Loyalty Failed to Pay. Washington, March 7.—Supreme Court— United States vs. Henry Grossmeyer; appeal from a Court of Claims. Grossmeyer, prior to the rebellion, was a citizen of New York and had claims for loans and other indebtedness against one Einstein, a resident of Georgia, which, after the war commenced, through a friend who passed pack and forth, he directed to be invested in cotton for his use and benefit by Einstein, and it was so done. Subsequently the cotton was captnred by the army at Savan nah, where it was sold by the Government and the proceeds paid into the Treasury. The Court of Claims finding that Grossmeyer had been within the rebel lines, and was loyal throughout the war, gave him judgment for the amount of the proceeds, §80,496. 'This court nowreversesthe judgment of the Court of Claims Justice Davis delivering the opinion,holding that intercourse between the two sections closed and became illegal npon the outbreak of the war without the enactment of any law on tho sub ject; bnt that Congress, not intending thera should bo any misapprehension among the peo ple concerning what it had expressly declared a fact. It wonld have been unlawful, therefore, for Grossmeyer in person to have done acts claimed to have been done by his agent, and if the act of the principal wonld have been unlawful, that of the agent must have be unlawful also, and it follows that -there was no authority for the purchase of cotton for the claimant by Einstein, and there being no au thority for its purchase, of course, no title pass ed to him and he was not owner of the property and has no rightful claim to the proceeds. The opinion; takes ground that there could be uo valid agency created after the commence ment of the war, to do any act for or between citizens adhering to different sections, and that the whole transaction was consequently void. THE GERMANS IN AMERICA. A Glowing Tribute. Emilio Castelar, the eloquent member of the Spanish Cortes, has recently written a letter .to the editors of the New Free Press, of Vienna, in reply to the many letters rooeived by him from different portions of Germany, congratulating him on his speeches upon religion and monarchy. After giving an analysis of the Spanish charac ter, he explains the principles and plans of the Spanish Republicans, and states that their ob jects are to form the United States of Europe upon a similar basis 03 tho United States of America. The true law of social grouping, he says, will constitute of freemen a municipality; of free municipalities, a canton; of free can tons, a State; of free States, a federal republic. In concluding, ho says: Turn your eyes to the groat republic that the German races have founded in that paradi30 of the future, America. There all men acknowl edge one country, and all consciences one altar. The hut of its humblest citizen is more to be envied than the palace of the first of onr kings; periodicals bud and grow in its cities like leaves in a wood; associations form there as regularly as forms tbe organism of the untural world; churches support themselves and exist in com plete independence of each other; every mu nicipality is a separate State, which calls all its members to the same political life, and renders them all legislators, magistrates and sovereigns. Tbe school and the library, those disseminators of ideas, educate tho people to self-government. It has discovered steam, and centripled human forces; it has concentrated the lightning, in vented the telegraph, laid bare unexplored for ests, populated improvised cities, and united the Atlantic and Pacific by a line of railroad. It has plunged into the abysses and eternal si lence of the waters, and suspended there a tel egraph table. Why should not we, the people of Europe, with all our applianoes of art and civilization, follow in the footsteps of America. Shrinkage in Slaughtering.—The shrinkage of hogs in butchering varies from one-oighth to one-fourth of the gross weight A well fattened hog that has not been fed for sixteen or twenty- four hours before slaughtering and will weigh 300 pounds gross, will weigh about 2 GO pounds dressed, while one poorly fattened that will weigh 200 pounds gross, will balance little over 150 pounds dressed. It is believed that hogs that have attained maturity, or about 20 months old, when well fattened will shrink less than those that are from 9 to 12 months old. Beef cattle will, on the average, shrink about 40 per cent, in slaughtering, i. the meat will equal nearly 60 per cent of the gross weight. In the case of both cattle and sheep mnoh depends up on whether they are well fattened, and some breeds, as Short Horns and Sonth Downs, show less shrinkage than others. An Iowa widow who indulges in the luxury of woe at Des Moines, deolares that life insurance is the duty of all men. Her first husband was insured for $20,000, which will set her second husband np in a first-class grocery. Alex. T. Stewabt says: “He who invests one dollar in business shonld invest one dollar in advertising.” Robert Bonner says: “My success is owing to my liberality in advertising.” Barnum says liberal advertising made him a million dollars in ten years. Stephen Girard said; “Constant and persistent advertising is a sure prelude to wealth.” The Drew Golden Wedding.—A very pleas ant affair was the golden wedding of Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Drew, last evening at their mansion on Union square. The principal feature of the evening was the presentation to the venerable conple of a massive gold and silver flower stand, the gift of the members of the St. Paul’s M. E. Church. The presentation was made by the Rev. Dr. Ridgeway. A noticeable incident was the appearance of Mr. Thomas Drew, brother of the host, who celebrated his golden wedding two years ago. The wives of the brothers are sisters, and during the presentation oeremony they all sat in a group surrounded by their chil dren, grand-children, and great-grand-children. If. Y. Com. Adv. iith. Thebe is considerable talk in New York about running A. T. Stewart for Governor next fall. The idea has been started in tho Union League, and has taken well. The expectation is that his known ability and honesty would bring a num ber of Democratic votes to hia side, besides which be has the advantage of not being ob noxious in a partisan sense. The women out I in Wyoming are having prompt notice that the privilege of voting in volves various duties that they have not been accustomed to perform. Among the jurors drawn for the March term of the Albany Coun ty court were eleven women, some of them the wives of the most prominent citizens. This turn of things rather astonishes the she's of Wyo ming, but why it should ia not quite apparent as tbo jury duties naturally go with the right of suffrage and the other duties of citizenship. San Francisco, March 4.—The rich ^ deposits recently discovered in New Me; and of which mention was made in yesUtiv dispatch, are situated near the boundary lit. Aarizona Territory, and in the heart of u Apache oountry. No small party of whites* safely venture in tho neighborhood of the mis* as the Indians are fiercely hostile. The disru erers located their claims about the first of Fc ruary, and brought a quantity of the ore toti city. It consists of blue and black snlph^ —the silver ore assaying as high as §2.000 ate The principal “lo'de” oonsists of a mass of 1 ver oie 3,600 feet in length, 1,000 feetinviS and projecting 1,000 feet above the level of! surrounding country. The distance from? defined points to the mines are given asfoll^ From the line of the projected SoutliemPs: Kailroad, 3 miles; from Fort Brown, 40 1 from the|Mimbree settlements, 80 miles; Pinos Altos, 100 miles; from San Diego, miles, and from Sheridan, where supplies e be obtained, 800 miles. There is an abaodi of wood, water and grass in the neighborly and some fertile lands. The Effect of Gorging the Auieric Eagle. An Eagle Which Prefers to Pick t? C« with the Pigeons.—Mr. Dorsey’s attempt ( set tho captive eagle free, from the roof oftl engine house in Pawtucket, R. I., oaThn.4tj was made in the presence of a large crowds I with a band at hand to play the “Star Sptad| Banner,” “Hail Columbia,” etc. A poem n* read, and then—but we will not abbreviate!] remainder of the story, which the Providi Journal tells thus: “After three cheers each for Mr. Dorsey 1 Monitor Engine Company, and while the b was playing ‘Hail Columbia,’ his majesty 1 liberated by Mr. Dorsey, assisted by John Ba ly, under whose care the bird had thriven 4 ing its confinement. He needed no second: vitation, and in a moment was in the air 1 the prolonged cheers from tho multitude, were prepared to watch his proud flight 1 alas! the good eare he had received, and c bounteous freedom dinner he had beau giwj were too much for his so long untried wia and he was compelled to alight on a hoi scarcely a hundred yards from his old cs where ha sat in proud contempt for i expectations of the people. In &: ment snow balls from the hands of small toi flew thick and fast around him, but a coda the head and a look of ‘Shoo fly’ was the mi] notice he deigned. As the band coEEEie ‘Yankee Doodle,’ he started a second time,u for a moment seemed likely to reach hia a broad blue; but as he receded from the ima ing strains of the music, tbe attraction tows earth was too strong, and he began slowly j descend, till in. attempting to light in a lis elm tree his talons became entangled in a twigs, and the proud emblem of our na;ba was trailing in the air, hopeless, and hua enough to gratify the most traitorous hoiaj Here he hung, till a young man, Robert S*S bury, climbed the tree and attempted torel' him, when, with a touch of his native fen lie went for Robert’s head in the most appi bird-of-prey manner, with beak ar.d talons. £ a lively straggle ensued, Robert finally coal off victoriously, and tbe eagle again in the £ But high living was the ruin of him, andlj gradually fell to tho ground, and wae til back to his old quarters, where he awaits t action of his would-be liberator, Mr. Dorsey-1 That is only an illustration in nature of 1 ■we daily discover in politics. The Ansfi eagle is flying very low just now becnnail has been fed too heavily from tho publics He is gorged with spoils and yet seems to j plunder to glory,and scratches the face of body who would have him plume himself,( his ancient and lofty flight ia blue ether, has been so long caged and trained by ’ and corrupt politicians that he prefers top np com in the Radical barnyard. It is sir that the Providence Journal should fail to a the moral of his story. It is asserted that within the Last eight months ex-Queen Isabella, of Spain, hast over five millions of her capital. James Robinson, tho circus rider, die! s denly at Cinoinnati, recently, from hemon of the lungs. A Notice npon Prince Pierre Bonapart* been served, to answer in the matter of torNoir homicide. Robebt O. Loosns, a telegraph operator at Pass a 1’Outre, Louisiana, was drowned near there on Wednesday by the upsetting of a small boat. The anxiety about the missing City of Boston and Smidt, say the New papers, is fast sinking into despair. Complaint is general by the press of £ against the Frenoh.Govarnment fornotcltf up the alleged conspiracy against the r" ana life of the Emperor. ' , n, j-am "Whittkmobz is now called by a Repubj paper, “a long-bearded, fall-bellied, naj headed, smooth-tongued carpet-bagger.' is indeed personal. The feasibility of the project for a ship* across the isthmus of Darien ia fuliy acquit in by Com. Edwards who surveyed the : across the isthmus in 1854. The amount of United States bonds pu daring the last year, which the Secretary®! Treasury has now on hand, amounts to J 1 * rMd mjt cnt-I V> A Dispatch has been received from States Minister DeLmg, dated YobohaeM raary 1, that the wreck of the Oneida b 31 * discovered, and corroborating the list of 1 saved previously reported. Advices from Brussels state that evetj 3 is being made to induce the American bis who are now in Rome to declare for P*PfJ falibility, but so far the ultramontane*^ been unsuccessful in securing their adher” The ground is being well broken for ! General George 1L Thomas Grant’s *£* for the Presidency. Tho Cincinnati Co^ cial indicates its preference for Thom* 1 ' urges the movement forward. - A Fair Hit.—Referring to the threat* 11 j nexation of the British Provinces in the United States, the Ottawa ‘that a country afraid to hold up it* he**. Spain should not menace a Proviuo# J®*! joys the protection of the British fl*g- Secretary BoutweH iebutton-hoHbg - every chance he can get; and urgingpP 1 ",. the importance of immediately pass®;!. J aoheme—tbe Funding bSL He improvement in American credit been so rapid Within the padt few confidence 1 in- bis ability to fnnd/»] law wto of -Interest ia greatly t‘ When there is a contested seat ® ^ York Legislature, it has been caste® 3 ?? j State te-pay the lawyers of both P 31 *?? - uwiJL to allow the unsnew^** own «rneir»ir