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The Greorffia "W"eeklv Journal MACON, MARCH 18 l$70. “How Crops Feed.” Is a book for ■which we are indebted to Orange, Judd A Co., 245 Broadway, publishers of this and numerous other agricultural books, and alspipf that sterling paper, the Aasriwa Agriculturist. Thisboo^c is. written by Professor Samuel - W. Johnson, of Yale College, and is a scientific trcatiso upon the origin, character and composition of soils, and the whole - theory and process of vegetable nutrition and development. When a man has studied and digested this book,' he will be able to mature his own theories upon the treatment of his lands and crops and need not blindly follow -the example of others, which may, in fact, be “wholly inapplicable to his own condition. -He will understand the character of his soil—the demands of his crops—the manner in which they dorive nutrition, and can, there* fore* intelligently adapt means to ends. He need not be told whether he should plough deeply or ahallowly, or keep his soil loose and friable or just scrape the surface, during the progress of his growing drops. The Supreme Court Legal Tender Decision. The Philadelphia Press says Mr, J. W. Wal lace, United States Supreme Court Reporter, has reoenlly written a letter which,' althongh private and non-official, mnst be credited with considerable weight. Mr. Wallace does not think that the recent decision of the Court on the legal tender question will be repealed, and giving tho reason of tho faith that is in him, al leges that “the whole history of the Supreme Court of the United States records no successful effortnt such an attempt.” Moreover, ha states that there is no case on the docket now which involves the question, and that it would take two or three years to bring a new one into shape for a decision in tho present crowded state of the list, ‘Mr. Wallace asserts positively that the decision applies to interest as well as to princi- Pri. TherjI are various rumors concerning the fn tare of the bold Butler. One is, that the ne groes are gorng to run him for the next Presi dent on a colored ticket of their own. The other is, that be is to find a competitor for his seat in Congress in one Ben Poore, a newspaper correspondent of democratic proclivities. Of coarse, Butler is at liberty to tako bis choice, just as he has been at liberty for some time past to take whatever he could get his hands on and carry off. Very good for the Chicago Times, but it hasn’t got Poore rightly classified- He- is just about a3 much of a Democrat, as Butler is of an honeBt man. He ought to beat Butler, though, anywhere in Massachusetts, for when Butler was a fierce Democrat he (Poore) was showing his “proclivities” for Radicalism by giving a mulatto ball in tho town of Athens, in this State. If Poore .runs as well for Congress as he did from the nauseated, indignant citizens of that place, ha’ll beat the Beast all hollow. Tux Reconstructed New Era. Should. Con trol Itself.—It has a right perhaps to be a little exuberant, bnt on the whole it is better to be quiet and composed. The Era, in the ex cess of it A friskiness says Bryant denounces the Telegraph and Messenger as a paper “subsid ized by Bollock.” Let the New Era give us the accusation.in form—when and where charged by Bryant—and then we will think over the superfluous work of noticing it. Watson, the poetical city editor of the New Era shares in the general friskiness of that es tablishment. He is ont bragging that Atlanta will outdo Augusta in the show of pretty women. But the troth is Watson can’t tell a pretty wo man when he sees her. • — The Virginia Legislature has passed th6 homestead bill exempting ten thousand dollars of property from execution. That if trno, is really an important exemp tion. It will do away with the farce of collect ing debts by law, which interferes with the right kind of credit and bothers people who wish to attend their own business with sitting on juries. Another Thick.—The pretended caucus of colored legislators at Atlanta, a few days ago, was small—two-thirds of them being at their homes. Soma of Gov.Ballbck’s friends got up the protest against the Georgia Bill, which was telegraphed to Bevels, and signed colored men’s names to it without their knowledge or consent. . A New York letter writer says strong influ ences are at work to prevent the trial of MoFar- land, who killed Richardson. It is thonght he will be admitted to bail and vanish. The in- ves ligation, it is feared, will result in some un savory developments, from the .philosophers, male and female, of the higher law and higher love school. ‘ •. ‘ -■-... An election for Intendent and Wardens of the town of Edgefield, South Carolina, took place on Monday.' There was ho contest, as both parties had previously agreed upon the same ticket, Among the Wardens are a Confederate .captain, the editor of the Advertiser, a “rebel newspaper, "and a negro member of tbe Agency over there. Whew Virginia Colored Emigrants.—A Charleston Courier correspondent 'says the blacks are en couraged to emigrato from Virginia by offers of 'twenty-two dollars a month and transportation paid, and that ov tr the East Tennessee Bailroad five - thousand negroes,all from Virginia, have passed i£ (he last two months. a nice young man in New Orleans ran away and married the daughter of. a highly respecta ble lady, .and came back for the lady’a blessing, which was. freely given, together with the in formation that the girl was not her daughter, bnt a quadroon servant girl. He said it was a swindle, and'went away so rapidly that they couldn’t see his back for the dost. San Domingo.—The Senate Committee -on. Foreign Delations have agreed to report against tbe Treaty of annexation by five to two. What became of the two or three hundred thousand dollars in gold advanced by Gen. Grant to Baez ? Who -irillmake reclamation? t “Utteb Silence Grant” is the last spelling ont of. the President’s initials, by tho New York Son! The'Sun, in its anxiety to make A point, does violence to troth, Grant talks a great deal and very glibly on the important subjects of trotters and.terrier pupa. Let.the Sun do him justice. The’Cqnadians are shipping back thqir'Atnei« lean silver to the United States. It has pester ed them a good deal, being debased about eight per cent. - below standard coin; but it has been usefal in the smuggling business. i The paralytic husband , in Paris who saw his wife murdered before his -eyes finds 'it not an ntier calamity, since tho shock restored him to health. -i - . Gale in Charleston.—The News says there was a' heavy gale in Charleston last Friday night, winch' blew down trees and did some nn- r oofing. -' A Delawars woman is getting a divorce, be cause her husband jumped on the back side of the bed at an alarm of burglars. 3; “ Avery’s Little Game. We published, yesterday, a telegram address ed to two Senators at Washington, sod signed by one W. L. Avery, which contained a most Kicked and infamous slander upon the people cf-tti»6tata . Avery declared, in that dispatch, that the passage of the Bingham amendment had ‘ net the worst elementa.in somety wild, and now, the cry of a damned Republican hurled after a man is as terifio as ever the cry of a damned Abolitionist was, before the war.” This statement, as every honest man in Geor gia knows, is an atrocious falsehood, manufact ured for a special purpose, and that purpose the defeat, by the Senate, of the amendment in question. Bnt Avery has another end in view also, in sending this dispatch. . He is largely in- terested in the construction of the Brunswick acd Albany railroad, which baa the State's en dorsement of its bonds to the amonnt of $15,- 000, in [fold, per mile. The passage of that bill by the Legislature, and the strong suspicion entertained and expressed at the time of the very questionable means used to secure a. fa vorable result, are well remembered by all. One of the conditions of this aid was that fifty miles of the road should be finished by (we believe) the 18th of this month. CoL Halbert was put in charge, and has been pushing it forward with his usual zeal and energy. But the condition is about to fail, and now oomes Avery’s lying dis patch. The cry of persecution is raised in or der to save the company from the penalty of ‘non-fulfillment of their contract If Bullock succeeds in his plans, why Avery A Co., will oome before the Agency with this story of per secution, force, etc., and at Bullock’s nod, who is said to be largely interested in the specula tion, Avery & Co., have their time extended, and perhaps make a good thing ont of it, besides, in the way Of damages. This is the little game, the first card in wbioh was played by Avery’s dispateh. It works two way, politically and financially. It helps to kill tho Bingham amend ment, and by so doing secures a long lease of power in hands that will not exact of Avery & Co., the lawful penalties for non-fulfillment of contract. Isn’t it a neatly put up job ? As to the change made in the Badical paper at Atlanta a day or two since, that interested parties were interfering with, and intimidating the employes of this road, and to oorrect which Tony had been called on for troops; we now ex actly understand it. Avery & Co., have hot paid their laborers, acd the laborers have quit work. They have been receiving the Company’s promises to pay, and have been forced to hawk them about the streets of Brunswick in order to get money to live upon. In no case, as we are informed, bas this sorip realized them more than 50 cents on the dollar. So for a dollar’s worth of work they have been paid half a dollar. This is all the foundation there is for the huge lie about persecution, intimidation, eto. The whole game of Avery is exposed. He and his carpet-bag associates have failed or refused to pay their hands; the hands have very natur ally quit work; the $15,000 in gold per mile guaranteed by the State is about to be forfeit ed; and to save themselves, financially, as well as forward the political schemes of their good friend and co-partner, Bullock, they call on Terry for troops, and send forward to Wash ington a howl of “loyal" anguish to influence the vote of Badical Senators on a measure that digs the political grave of Bollock & Co. This is the milk in Avery’s cocoa nut conclu sively accounted for. The demonstration proves that he is neither to be relied upon as a rail road man, nor as anything else than a malig nant, mendacious Badioal emissary. If. any body knows of a more characteristio attempt, even, on tbe part of any other member of his class, to cover np his own shortcomings as a bus iness man, and at the same time to stab and ruin the'people among whom he is living, in order to gratify partisan hate—we shall be glad to have the particulars thereof. We are sorry the Brunswick and Albany Bailroad bas fallen into such bands. - ■ ■ ■ ■■ P. S. Since writing the above, we have learned some additional facts about Avery that may throw more light upon his little game. He is from Vermont, and is known about Atlanta as “Judge” Avery. He has an office in the Opera House, and it is believed is largely in terested in tbe sale of that concern to the State. He was very prominent in the passage of the Brunswick and Albany railroad bill throngh the Legislature, and was charged with being the party who drew the checks on Geo. Qpdykis & Co., New York bankers, that exercised such a marvellous influence in changing the opinions of certain members. Of course be is a very 'loyal”- man. When Bollock was in Washing ton in December getting his Georgia bill throngh, Avery was one of his bosom friends and allies, and is understood to have materially aided in the passage of the bill. With snch antecedents how could Avery send on to Washington anything else than a real whopper.” Next time he need not sign his name. We assure him. people will not be liablo to saddle upon anybody else tho magnificent creations of his own mendacity. KIck It Out. The Clarke (Va )£ f .“'-icr calls attention to the fact that J. E. Ltppiucott's new Biography teal Dictionary Contains complimentary notices of such creatures aa.that old horse-thief and murderer John Brown, and Beast Butler. To show that we do not do this work injnstioe, we quoterits words-about old Brown.: ‘•‘Brown',^j(John,) orQs8awatt6mie, a disiih- guished champion.of; liberty,” etc. His birth Mid Ufe, and the murderous Harper’s Ferry 'raid are referred to at’ length,' without even a hint of disapproval of- any of-the many deeds of blood and violence that characterized .bis whole career. Of the Beast it say- : ■“BotJerj.CBenjaminFranklipD-.. * * * A great outcry was made against Mm.for his order ‘that any female who should insult an officer oi soldier should bo regirded and lic-’.d liable to’be treated as a woman of the' -town, plying iier avocation,”' which, according to. Parton, “had a salutary effect.” It will be seen that this candidate for Southern pttroaago ap proves what it puts-“«ccordin“ to-Parton.’” Again: “At New Orleans" siys r.irton, “ho was magnificat!’’/ right, both in tbqoiy snd practice.” ; . - . These specimens will'suffice to giro Southern readers' an idea of vib'at they aro bujing, when they invest i$,qne of “Lippincott’a Biographi cal Dictionaries." When suoh characters as Brown' and-’ Butler are apotheosized in a kook that seeks patronage' among those who would not be human' did they not -loathe the ■ veTy names of such bitter, relentless enemies, .it is bnr dnty, as we conceive it, to let the public know it Old 'John BroWh was simply a horse and negro thief and m'mdererj and 'was tried, convicted, and hnng. by an. honest. j ary upon unimpeachable evidence thereof. Beast Butler is hot only our implacable' enemy, politically, but stands convicted, to day, in the estimation of all honorable men, everywhere, of crimes that anywhere outside the Radical party of the United States, would banish bini from decent society. . .., 3 , , , , ... . ; .. - . ; “Judge” Avery. Editor~S Telegrdpti and Messenger—While in Atlanta during the Into session of the Legisla ture, a man, .who had rendered himself conspic uous as a Tobby member, was pointed ont to the writer as Judge Avery, a'Northern man, repre senting some railroad in the lower part of the State—the Brunswick and Albany road, if I am not mistaken—and his object was said to be to procure some additional legislation granting material aid by the State to the road which he represents. He. was seen constantly in com- pany with'some of the prominent lobbyists of Atlanta. This is tho axo which he has to griud, and as ho looks, to the Congressional Agency at Atlanta for aid, it accounts for his slanderous telegram to two Senators at Washington. Lot him be recollected when he goes before the Legislature with his project to get State aid to “enable him to spend millions of Northern money in building railroads in Georgia.” ' Observer. Gxxott P>M8y|0 hrakemen smash lanterns over tbe heads at paaMagen who insist upon taking bajppfe brio the aan. The Georgia Bill. - The Richmond Dispatch, of Saturday, has this telegram from Washington. It tells ns some thing we had not heard before with reference to the canse of not holding a second Senatorial caucus: The proposed caucus of Republican Senators that was to have been held this morning to set tle the Georgia controversy,, and determine whether or not the Bingham amendment to the House bill should be sustained was abandoned. - It was discovered that a number of Senators would .not consent that .their aotion should be controlled by a decision of the caucus. Father Greeley, in the Tribune, of Saturday, thus bewails the non-action of' the Senate on the bill. It would seem that the old man thinks it vastly more impertant that the Connecticut darkies sbonld vote, than that Bollock should carry hiis point. We are glad, to know that the white men of Connecticut are to have one more fair opportunity of redeeming their State from Radicalism. ... ..’..'.f , 1 Congress has, for weeks, been entreated to close the work of reconstruction, so as to ena ble the fifteen hundred colored men now dis franchised in Conneetioot to vote at onr next election. This is the last day on which they could be admitted to suffrage by the laws of that State ; and still the President is debarred from issuing the long-expected Proclamation; by'.the delay of the Senate to oonour in tbe action of the House respecting Georgia. Those who have precluded suoh concurrence have invoked a fea- ful responsibility. Gold and Price*. ': i . The Cincinnati Gazette contrasts prices July 8, 1852, when gold was at 1.11 J, with prices March 8, 1870, with gold at 1.10$. They are Cincinnati quotations, and we append a few in the order of dates: Superfine flour, 3.80® 3.90, 4.50® 4.75; white whe^t, 80®4.07; corn, 35® 75; pig iron, 25.00®28.00, 45.00®50.00; bar iron, 2$®3$, 3$®4$; N. O. molasses, 48®4 7, 75®60; coffee, 20®22, 18®24; Cheese, 5,16; mess pork, 9.00® 10.00, 28.00; bulk sides, 4J® ■ 5, 13; lard, 71,13$; sugar cured bama, 8®8$, 17@ 18; N. O. sugar, 8}®9j, 10$®I3. There is a heavy difference in favor of western prodace and iron, and particularly on western meats, which bear almoet three- prices. Why should the West make such a poor showing in trade and paying debts? She is getting comparatively higher prices for her produce than this, cotton planters. Cotton in ante bellum times was worth ten cents, and is now worth twenty; bnt pork was worth nine to ten dollars, and is now worth twentj-aiz. Move Radical Opinion oi' [hitler's Georgia Biii. We published yesterday what ibe Chicago Tribune, the leading Badical pnperof the North west thonght of Butler’s bill Wo publish, tie- low .what tho St. Louis Democrat, another R wi- cal paper of great weight and ability has to say of it : J: """ The object was to continue in power a set of men who were not willing to go before (he peo ple for re-election, and tho fact that those men are Republicans ought not to prevent anybody from realizing that the measure was one of purely partisan legislation. If Georgia is fit for self-government at all, then no man or party has any business to hold power there unless by votes of the people under the Laws of tho State, and if CoiJgress does' not deem it Bafe to give to Georgia self-government in its broadest sense, it bag no other decent remedy except to put «he community under'military power and keep it there. The fact that General Butler and hia committee have never proposed the latter course Shows that they know it will be impossi ble to sustain before the country the claim that Georgia is not fit for self-government. The successive measures of reconstruction devised for that State have all been shaped in some de gree to (jive the power to certain men or a cer tain party, instead of flatly denying tho fitness of the State to govern itself, and have been fo Tar in violation of the principles which we think ought to govern all such legislation. The Re publican party cannot afford to use its national power to legislate its. friends into office in any State. ^ The Democrat .also analyzes the voto on the Bingham Amendment, end shows that from the “Northern States only 48 members voted sgainst the amendment, of whom 24 were from Pennsylvania,. Massachusetts and Wisconsin. But 50 Republicans from Northern States voted for the amendment. From States formerly slave holding, only 7 Republicans voted for the amendment, while 28 voted Against it. Thus 52 of the 11 votes-for Butler’s bill came from the Southern States, Pennsylvania, Massachus etts and 11 Wisconsin, while a clear majority of all the Republicans from the North went against. We do not think the meaning of these figures can be mistaken. 2hey mean that thevicas- : urea \cftish Republicans from, tho South demand are not supported by a majority of the Republi cans at the North, White they are opposed by all the'Democrats." '. 1 It also dewlaps that' the heavy Pennsylvania and, Massachusetts vote .against the Bingham amendment, was the result of a tariff trade with the carpet-buggers, who, for this opposi tion. to the amendment, pledged'their votes to just such a tariff as Pennsylvania and Massa chusetts wished. ■ . .. Convention of S. 'Carolina Editor.*!. To-day the Sonth Carolina anti-Radical Edi tors hold a meeting in -Colombia, to take the political 'situalidn into consideration. If- they see any light, we hope they 'will.point it out and let os see. too. But we are much like tliejoM Dutchman," Who had gathered his vrow and family at midnight, up into the dark garret, in a fearful thunderstorm. After a while, old Jacob called to his son—“Hanna, you looks.out der schuttle andBee what you sees-!’’ -b*Saw vader," says Hans—“I sees notin bnt der daik—and der doonder and der blixen!” - In a few minutes old'Jacob Rpoke again, “Hauns,- yon iooks our der schuttle and sees vat you sees.” “Yaw, vader,” and looking bnt' Hans spied from .behind the , chimney the fiery orb3 of a big black Thomas cat b]azing into his face throngh tho Cimmerian darkness. Shut ting down the scuttle in trembling haste, Hans cries “Vader,-I' sees der. tnjvel--dat'» vat I sees.” “Veil, Hauns, youaots dawn and.looks no more,” said the old man. •' . ; . We-fear the speerings of th3 South Carolina anti-Radioal Editorial Convention will bo at tended- with so better result. They will see darkness “doonder und blixen,” and, we fear, “der tnyvel,” too—bnt_if their better, optics can discern a streak- of daylight, please let as know early—in-time to prepare for it. , New York Cotton Estimates —A New York dispatch to the Western Press, dated the 12ih, says : “The movements of co'.ton are watched with great interest. Tbe tctnl receipts at all tbe ports since the 1st of September, reach 2,258,825 bales, an increase of 518,781 over ti.e corresponding period last year. Tbe crop i9 estimated at 3,000,000. Tbe weekly receipts will soon begin to fall off and a larger stock is likely to be carried over than last year, as hold ere generally are opposed to selling at present quotations. Exports to date, 1,805,253 bales, against 904,118 last year. * Stock, 553,894 bales, or in exoesa of last year by 152,000. A consid erable portion thereof ia awaiting shipment, and the biilA agaiast it are held in this market” From across the water comes the news that Queen Victoria had dent -for Charles Dickens, and that the result of the interview will be a change of the plain Mr. Dickens into Sir Charles Dickens. The-Georgla PressR; Augusta is. doing very well in the divoroe business. The following couples have j'ist had leave to quit. Tallulah J. Sheer va. G. W. Sheer. Catharine A. Sherwood v*. Abram Sherwood- AL Alice Crumpton v*. John B, Crumpton. The Air-Line Railroad —The i Gainesville E .gW of Saturday says : “Woikhan commenced at this end c-f the second section of this road— tbe ball having been opened by Mr. W. P. Woodall on Monday last. Several Companies are making preparations to commence work next week. The E?gle says, that with fevf ex ceptions, people iu that county are - promptly paying their stock assessments* m.** We quote, os follows, from the.ConalitutiDnf. -•< Gamzesville, Ga., JIarch-12,1870- . Editor Constitution : Dear Sir—I believe the Radicals deny paying off the State Koad hands -with subscriptions to tbe New Era. - The etf closed slip of paper was put'in the envelope of Mr. Thomas Hilton, a day.laborer on the.track, of the road> fromCartersyille to Casa,Station, last pay dav, in R t u of .the amount mentioned on the face of it. • Air. Thomas Hiltoh is' the son of Ed. 1 Hilton, both day laborers on the road, who live near Cass Staton. They are poor peo ples ignorant, but honest, and who protest against huving the subscription of a newspaper' tnKeu from their wages, which they never read, and iu this case has neve; been sent to them. Ed. Hilton banded this paper to me. just now,, and desired to know if suit could not be main tained for what the road justly owes his son, who ip a minor.' He has qUittheroftd incon sequence. Youreliuly,—mff i. i. ' $5, ium :i half year’s subscription to l?ew Era. / „ 3 ;„, The Constitution says: - ‘V- •« 1 United States District Court or thk Northern District.of Georgia.—The regular March (Spring). Term, of the United States District Court commenced yesterday' morning. Hon. John Erskine, Judge] presided,' alihough suffering from rhouui'atism,' attd signified his determination to continue to preside asTongas his health would admit. The Grand Jury was organized, tlie Oonrt appointing John Silvey, Esq.,-Foreman. -Judge Erskine then ‘charged them in an able and elaborate manner. T. C. Jackson, Esq., was appointed Foreman of the Petit «fiiry. Robert L. Richards, John E. Toole, J. B. S. Davis were admitted as attorneys and counsel lors of the Court.' There was a fnll attendance of the local bar, and quite a number from oth er cities and towns. There are 107 cases on the criminal docket. A number of cases’ on the civil and criminal dockers were disposed of, not of gpneral in terest. In the case of the United States vs. G. W. H. Anderson, the defendant confessed judgment for $19,703, nnd $108.85, interest. The indictment against David A. Walker; for robbing the mail, was dismissed on motion of District Attorney Amos T. Akerman, in aecord- with a 1 idler of instruction from Postmaster General Cress well. A young tuan named Stover, living near Stone Mountain, bled to death on Monday. The bleedingwasfrom hisno.se: • The “Liquor Dealers’ Association,” is the name of a new organization in Atlanta. Treasurer Augier got back to Atlanta, Mon day, from Washiogton-and left again that night for the latter place. Tho people of Marion connty have had a rousing railroad meeting. They want connec tions with Columbus and Isabella. A conductor on tho Georgia railroad telLs tho local of the.Intelligencer’that the Oconee river was higher on Monday night than he ever saw it. Some of the telegraph poles were almost entirely under water. The Intelligencer has this item: One of the minor excitements of the Capitol, is the presence of three or four jnfelligent young Chinamen, who were in charge of a white guide, on a tour of sight-seeing aronnd the building. What is particular^ noteworthy in reference to them, is that tt have come here for the purpose of entering Hu ward University (negro) and going throngh a oouree of study, after which they will return to China. The Chronicle and Sentinel says: ••• - The Ordinary of Richmond connty .reports in tl:e Free School tor 18091 First quarter, 1,107 children, 17 teachers; second quarter, 1,141 children, 21 teachers; third quarter, 1.214 chil dren, 22 teachers; fourth quarter, 1,580 chil dren, 22 teachers. Besides the above number of teachers' thoro are about eight assistant teach ers. No teacher is permitted to teach more than sixty (00) without employing assistants. The pauper expenses of the city were $10,000, outside of the city $5,000. Tho connty will re quire $43,000 this year. A. S. Abel, of the Baltimore Sun, v.a< in Say* annah Satnrdny. H«TWas returning from Flo rid:. The Rome city fathers are n most accommo dating lot The Courier says: The old Market Honso was considered an eye sore, and was whisked away as if by magic,— The streets needed lighting, and a row of lamps twinkled on Broadway. The streets and stores needed numbering, and they are numbered.— The city needed Water Works, and a contract for $28,000 was instantly rnnde. The floor in the City Hall was not deemed a good one, snd to-day hammers are nailing down a new one. The Madison Farm Journal hRs commenced publication again. ’ ' < * ’ Mayor Obear is reported among the arrivals in Atlanta, Monday by yesterday’s papers. , ;J . We clip the following from the Federal Union of Tuesday: A Fmhlt-The Weather —On Friday night and nearly all day Saturday the windows of Heaven were open, and tbb rain descended in torrents, causing the streams to overflow their banks and flood tho country. On yesterday the Oconee was impassnblo at the bridge,'and our friends on the east side of tho river could not get to town. We learn that the river is in'its banks this morning, and the wood wagons will bo in. s Wo received no jnail from Atlanta or Augusla on yesterday, 1 Wo learn the recent heavy rains have washod away a bridge on tho Macon and Augusta railroad, near Mayfield, and that it will probably tako saveral days to repair damage. We learn'that a difficulty occurred at Mrs. Roberson’s plantation near this city on yester day, between Pen Roberson and. McCoy .on one side, and a young man by tho name of Brickett, who was ovorseeing for Mrs. Roberson, on the other. Mr. Brickett was shot, and is reported mortally wounded; and Sirs. Roberson was shot in the foot. . We liave not hoard the particvlars, The case will probably be investigated by the proper authorities io-day. Since writing the above, we learn that Mr. Brickett is (leak. A. letter for Miss Ida Blanchard, Macon, is held for postage in the Savannah postoffice. The Colnnsbns Sun reports a rumor current, “in high circles,” that a gentleman and his sis ter, both of that city, bad-received notification that a distant relative, recently deceased in England, had lcft them four millions of dollars. The Sun complains of the presence of a num ber of pickpockets in Cojumbns. The Constitutionalist gives tho following ac count of tho freshet in tho Savannah river at that point: The ‘Freshet Damaok—Tiie Danger Over.— The heavy rise in the Savannnh river from, the terrific rain storm of Friday and ^Saturday, thanks to a merciful Providence, did not result in tho general overflow ot tho city and destruc tion of property threatened Rt. half-past 10 o’olockon Saturday night, when, as reported in the Constitutionalist of Sunday, the water had risen at the city bridge to the height of 28.feet. Daring Saturday night and Sunday morning the river continued, to. swellin volume, until at 2, r. m., on Sunday, its greatest height was at tained, at 30 feet 8 inches, the highest point reached since 1885. Although three or four feet short of thj height required to flood Broad street and deluge cellars and private residences in .exposed portions of the oityy the backwater, from the canal was forced into several other streets, in sufficient quantity to answer tho de mands of batteau navigation. Oa upper Jones street, a considerable .number of. these light draft vessels were employed lor purposes of convenience to water-bound residents. Forcing itself throngh the sewer from the third level ot the oanal, the water oovered Fenwick street for two squares, from Jackson street east, to the. depth of three or four feet, to the damage of. several bridges and crossings, and the threaten ing of the residents and property holders with a perfect delage from the canal The impending danger to this locality was averted by some of tbe citizens, who, apprehensive of the destrno tionof their property and the endangering of life, repaired to the flobd gates near Urquhart’s mill, the only available outlet to the canal, which they hoisted, allowing the water to seek its level through the South Boundary and outside drains of the city. This water, as discharged from the gates, we regret to learn, flooded a portion of the briok yard of Messrs. Denning A Hallahan, inflicting some considerable damage to their material. - The hydrants of the Turknett Springs witter throughout the city had an injunction served on them Sunday, in consequence of the train logs being disrupted by the high water in tte oanal at this upper end of Broad .street, bnt were all right yesterday. The greatest damage reported within the city limits resulted in the washing of tbe crossings anlthe loosening of bridges, to repair which will require a considerabia. oost for labor and material. .... — Outside of the city we have failed to learn of any considerable damage. Hamburg was threat ened and some portions of the town partial'y overflowed,'but;we have beard of no losses of. property resuitttrgiw'i'-thu^ir * i»«o» v-.U' v. « Some of tbe planters along the river, on either aide, for several mites down, were more or has submerged, and in some instances this will er- tail BUolher preparation of tbe land for the planting season,-some of the planters having al ready prepared their land for the seed previous to the freshet. We have board of no loeees of . oattle or stock onHKe river.lj; - * ■ Tho Chronicle su'd Sentinel sare: Railroad Accid'e.nts —It seems that the re cent heavy rains hive been general throughout the oountry, and their effects felt elsewhere than in this city. The railroads have been tbe principal sufferers;'and two mishaps to them have l>een reported. • At a late honronlast Sunday night; Superin-' tendenl.S. K Johnson,'of the Georgia Railroad, received a dispatch from Milledgeville, stating th'at.irr Consequence of 1 severs! land slides on tbe line of the Macon and Angtistn Railroad,' and the sinking of the benches of two of the bridges,' that no 'trains could' run through to Camak until the damages had been repaired. On yesterday morning s force of labarers nn- Uoftd-Master Printop were -sent 'from this city to the scene of -action; and Supervisor Shipley bas also been dispatched to the Macon road. It is supposed that the road will be in rnnning or der within two orithree-days, but nutil the re- : pairs are finished; no freight will bereceivedtor shipment to points on this railway. On' the' Charlotte, Columbia nnd Augusta Railroad'a portion of the trestle near Pine House 'was' washed away, nnd a land slide oc curred also On the same road on last evening. The train'' from-’Charlotte, which was dne here on Saturday night at half past nine o’clock, did hot reach'the depot nntil Snnday morning at three o’clock.' The train left ns usual on Sun day and yesterday mornings. From the Monroe Advertiser, of yesterday, vre get llie* following items: Bridges.—-The results of the flood last week seeiii to-have been disastrous... We learn that the middle tier of the Wilson bridge on the In dian Spring road has been washed away, render ing it unsafe for travel. 'Active stops will he at once taken to repair the injury, apd it is proba ble that iu a very short time the condition of t tbu bridge will once moro.besuch as to warrant j general travel. We also learn that the new Lamar bridge has gone “the way Ward’s ducks went”—to-wit : down-the river. ..... Cotfek and the Newspapers —The colored brethren have become great newspaper readers of late, and a very large mail, composed mostly of Bryant’s Georgia Republican, the New Era, and Swayza’s incendiary paper, now comes to them, through the postoffloe here. One old moke was discovered the other day busily engaged in reading a Radical paper upside down. He says he can read just as easy that way as any other. It's all in being need to it. Serious Accident.—Mr. Ben. Zeliner, son of John Zgliner, Esq., was dangeiously wounded in the leg some weeks ago, by the accidental discharge of his gun while taking it down from the rack over the door. The limb was amputa ted l>y Drs. Rudisill and Boddey last week. It was feared that inflammation had taken place before amputation, but we arc glad to learn that ho was doing tolerably well yesterday. Coen.—TJhose of onr fanners who had plant ed corn previous to the rains on last Friday nnd Saturday, will probably have their, work to do over again. The recently ploughed lands in many portions of the.country are terribly wash ed, we learn, and much damage done to fann ing operations in various ways. . WnEAT.—The condition of wheat in this see (ion,'from all the information we can gather on the subject, still contipnfS to be very promising! We are told hy those who ought to know that if the seasons are at all favorable, the crop will be something more than an average one. Fruit.—Notwithstanding tbe freeze last week, we still think, the fruit prospect very good. Soma of it is killed, without a doubt, but if no disaster befalls .tbat-. wbioh remains, there will be enough for “home consumption.” “Rip Van Winkle” Jefferson passed through Atlaiita, Sunday, going North. The Atlanta Constitution says the Stone Mountain Granite Company has received ah or der fora block of marble over thirty feet long, and woighing.some 42,000 pounds, fora monu ment m Augusta. It will require three ears to transport it. - It is rumored in Atlanta, that Senator Post master Dunning will resign when the Agency meetsagain. • A Greensboro correspondent of the Constitu tion, under date of tbe 14th, writes as follows: Yesterday, the 13th instant, occurred a fatal rencontre between Mossrs. A. II. Evans and .Jesse Nunn, of Taliaferro - connty, in- which Evans, with a rifle gnn, shot Nunn throngh the thigh, cutting a large artery therein,'and killed him within a lew hours. The homicide occurred .at ot near Evans’ house, abont four miles from Crawfordville. Evans is- still at large. P\ ., Georgia .Gold liliNre,—Under this head,'the Atlanta Era says : Somewhere in Cherokee comity, ne-ir the Etowah river, is .one of those mines that has for years been regarded ns one of tho richest in the whole region. It is called the Pasco mine, after the name of the man who first owned and dug there for gold. He realized well from his labor. He died soon, and it is related of a truth tbat his widow herself dug ont eighty thousand dulUrs of gold in a few years. It then became too great a thing even for anindustrions widow. It went into tho hands of a cumpnny which failed just as they liad placed "in position ade quate machinery to work it. Then came law suits and doubtful titles, and first' and second mortgages, until the thing got to wherb anybody was at raid to touch it. It was sold, a short time since, under the sheriff’s hammer, snd Cspt. Reinhardt and Maj. H. J. Spray berry, of this city, were.the'fortunate purchasers. There are seven veins ruuniiig the whole length of the property, varying iu width from two to twenty feet. A shrewd, capitalist of this city has bought a third interest iii this mine, and it may be expected that specimens of this ore will lie taken from all these deposits at a very early day. ’. The suit of Mrs. Patterson, against the Equi table Life - Assuranoe Company to-recover a $10,000 policy held by his husband in that company at tbe time of her death, resulted in a verdict for the plaintiff, in Chatham Superior Court on Saturday. - The Columbaa Sau gives tbe following par ticulars of a horrible murder committed on Sun day, in Harris connty: Mr. Wm. A. Boswell lives near Waverly Hall, in Harris connty, nineteen miles from Colum bus. ^fe had.a littie.boy about thirteen years of age. When John Robinson's circus was go ing from here to Hamilton, a'negro about nine teen years of age, by careless driving, broke one of the wheels of a wagon, which bore a por tion of the apimala, for which be was severely whipped: and discharged from the company. This happened near Mr. Boswell’s place. Need ing hands, he.employed the negro on the 17th of February. The colored man had behaved himself very well since as a laborer. On Sunday, Mx B., with hia family, went vis iting after dinner, aud, left behind his little boy and this negro. All returned about 3 r. m., when, they found the house ransacked from one end to the other. The ohfld was discovered ly ing dead, on the floor of the ben house, with a hole made by a pistol ball through hia head. The weapon had been fired so dose that his hat wiis ringed by the burndngpowder. The negro whs gone. There was no money or valuable portshles in the house to move, but a pistol had been stolen. The supposition woa that tbe ne gro had robbed the house and been-cUsoovsred by the boy, whom he had killed \o prevent hia telling, .. .. The negro waa caught, Monday morning, near Elieralie, Harris county, but the Sab did not learn what disposition had been made of him. The Sun glinka the Georgia negroed who memorialized Congress per Revels, are hard to pleaan. They say they are not allowed to vote freely, when some of them-Voted ten ora dozen times at the last election, and would have voted oftener it the day had been longer. Tha, Savannah Republican wants to hear from the February business of the State road, and asks, waft it all required to electioneer with at 'Washington ? We gave 'Bro. Sneed, credit for more wisdom than asking such a question would seem to imply. Tfie Sandersville Georgian reports very heavy rains in that aecton. Bain commenced falling Friday afternoon about five o’clock, and contin ued till Saturday night at 12 o'clock, almost without intermission. Water courses were very much swollen and some damage done to mills. About sixty feet of Dr. Parson’s milt-dam was carried away and the.mill-house.came near go- i»g- ti sM The Georgian, stales that Mr. W. M. Moses, late of Columbus, has bought a farm in. Wash ington county for the purpose of raining frnif, pcaobes principally. The Georgian Bays r _ . , Mr. George H. Brantley, of tbis county, has laid-npon our table an.eagle’a foot measuring about eight inches from point to point. Mr. Brantley tells .ns that these monster birds have become very .destructive to sboep and pigs iu the lower part of the county. He has killed four of them, .one of which measured nine feet from tip to tip of wing. ‘ ‘ The Sparta Times and Planter says those who have examined the peach tree3 of that section report the fruit materially injured, if not total- ly destroyed, by late frosts. 'Three cases of meningitis are reported in Hancock county, one of which proved fatal. Mold, Prices, mid Ws*e*. There is a great daal at apprehension at ^ time among mechanics, laborers, and wotkia, men of all kinds, concerning tbe prospect op' stilt farther redaction of wages than such a* m,* have taken place during die past year. The! is wide-spread talk about lower prices for even thing. There is a loud demand for a deoreiL * ’ I frtf a /1iniinnti/vn in a . ™ ; TheProsprets of the Year. From the Xav York Mercantile Journal. 1 It is rarely, indeed, that the history of com mercial nations presents such singular anoma lies as may be noted in the bnsiness position of the United States, at this moment. After a year of great agricultural success, of heavy im migration from abroad, and rapid Settlement Ihronghout the West; with the South swiftly recuperating, and th'e first grand link between tbe Atlantic and Pacific seaboards completed iu the Pacific Railroad, we find trade dull, in all directions. We are daily told that the national debt bas been decreased by nearly $100,000,000, and tbat gold haB been forced down from 1.45 to 1.11 ; that we have nearly, if not quite, got possession of San Domingo, and that our for eign relations are as amioable and pleasant as ntir domestic affairs are calm and conciliatory. In a word, we are assured from official qnarters that all's well, and that if anything seems to ns wrong, the trouble resides only in ohr imagina tion. 'yiere ii no difficulty—we only think there is. So reasoned tha German saeant with his neighbor at tho dinner-table:—“My dear sir, >-aid he, “we do not really exist; we only think that .we exist!" At that very inslant, a blundering waiter f-pilled a plateful of Bcalding soup down the sa vant’s back, whereupon the learned man uttered some very genuine groans and imprecations. “My dear sir,” now retorted the neighbor, be calm 1 be calm! you are'not hurt,—not scalded,—you only think that you A1” It would be quite a job, we imagine, to make our tradesmen believe that all their pangs aud pinching are mere fancy work. They Bee, not a gain of one hundred millions in tho traffic of the nation, but tbe sheer loss of many hundred millions. Even the i-udden downward rush of gold has inflicted ncinging deficits npon some of them, and in ihe prei-ent shilly-shally policy of tho powers that be. ihcy find no consolation.— Even onr foreigu affairs are in snch shape as let ting them take care >.f tiicinselvva usually brings abont; and all the nations of the earth will ab stain from making war npon onr cringing fee bleness so long as we know our subordinate place and hnmbly keep it. San Domingo may, indeed, be a stupendous fraud, bnt, like the Alabama claims, (so styled,) it serves to amuse the groundlings. And why is all this ? _ The hand of Providence has showered plenty on oar fields; no pestilence has ranged onr populous cities ; our race is as robust, energetic, and enterprising as ever; the spaces open to our cultivation have widened, aud onr numbers have increased. What ails ns, then ? Wnat blight has fallen upon our facul ties ? A grave question, requiring a serious answer! If the reader will, without losing sight of the query thus propounded to him, cast his gaze tor a moment beyond tho Atlantic, he will see that the very first effort of each country that had recently stepped into the ranks of progress iH to de-centralize power, or, in other words, to emancipate the various provinces and interests of each land from the deAtfa-grip of tbe capital city. Austria, under the wise Yan Beast min istry, is rapidly doing this. Italy, under Victor Emanuel, has, for three or four years, been straggling toward the same goal, and now, France is openly calling for the like action on the part of her rnlers. On this side of the Ocean, the impulse, strange to Bay, is in the opposite direction. The movement here is, decidedly, toward the concentration of all control in the hands of the Central Government. This reaotion against our free municipal forms began amid the exi gencies of a terrible intestine war; bnt, instead of ceasing with that war, has gathered force in some directions, since its close. Alarmed for our National autonomy, onr people learned, be tween 18C1 and 1SC5, to look to Washington City as the. citadel of safety, and to bow to every decree that issued thence, and the habit has remained now that conflict is over. Thus, too, even the grand trade centre of New York has pinned its financial faith to the general gov- erninent’a financiers, and has fluctuated, dan gled, vibrated, shivered, and trembled with every puff of rumor from the Treasury and Congress. Within a few months we have Been the whole monetary surface shaken here, as by an earthquake, in consequence of whisperings, real or pretended, from the vicinity of the White Honse, also; and, since then, business has hung suspended, bnt withont animation, on the prom ise of this or that financial measure from the Capitol. Herein is the line secret of our trade stagna tion—the growing dependence on Washington, and the concentration of money influences there. The nation is paralyzed, iu order that a few cfficiala may be enabled to make a delusive show of good management, and of prosperity that don’t exist—of ready payments to foreign creditors, while home' industry and trade are goipg to the dogs—of that return to specie pay ments (in sums Jess than one dollar!) which, to our starving mechanics and onr rained mer chants, is the very insult of deception fl muted before their eyes, like a glittering toy before the gaze of thoughtless children, while they are decoyed from the real and substantial benefits to which they are entitled. If our trading classes will be oontent with this delusion', then the prospeots of the year are more than donbtfnl; since, once again, they torn from the solid land of sound legislation and well directed effort to the mirago of artificial liquidation of the debt, and make-believe re sumption of speete payments. Gold is the Will o’ the Wisp that haunts and misleads the many, still; and things look as though business would go dancing and skipping after it, until it lands in the financial mire. of rents, for a diminution in the oost of tl necessaries of life, and for cheaper goods, white of course there is also a demand on the part ! employers for a decrease in the cost of labor In the meantime, it is urged on behalf of thi industrial, operative, or laboring people tbn they cannot live and “make both ends meet ' with any reduelion of the present rate of wao« while at the same time it is nrged by the bmL ness, mercantile, and manufacturing classes ■< well as by the property hold.ru, that it is possible to bring prices to anything like fonn»,‘ terms as long as wages are so much aW. old-time rates. Ta Within the last twelvemonth, there hasten, a decrease of wages in many departments of labor, and a diminution of prices in *ome kind, of goods and supplies. Houses can now h. erected at rates more than thirty per cent to low. what they cost a year ago* and the redne tion in the wages of labor during the je.r i« over twenty per cent. Even the bricklant, and plasterers, who two orthree years‘.Jo struck for and obtained higher wages than were ever paid for any nort- of mechanical labor this or any other country, have been forced to consent to a reduction of from twenty to twee ty-five per cent. In many other trades there has been a great redaction of pay within a re. cent period ; and the Rime may be said of thei vast body of men in the city who are clas&ia-,!' as laborers. The diminution in the price of provision and the various necessaries of life haa been ir regular. Floor is bnt half the price it was fiy* years ago, and can be'bought at about ante-wn rates. Beef and other meats are as high ta they were when nt their highest. Sugar hu fallen to one-third its war price; coffee and butter have fallen considerably; so have pota toes ; coal has fallen largely; while cotton goods have latterly been approaching peace rales Though-the wages of many kinds of mechanics and laborers have been reduced within the' Ui-t few months, or daring the past year, wages gi e yet, on an average, twice as high, nomim,lly as before the war. Since the heavy f„li in gold, employers have been very generally (n . gaged in discussing the necessity of attempt ing to bring the rates of wages somewhat nearer the peace standard than they have bem at any time for the last eight or ten yecis. It is not unnatural, therefore, that the wages-tWi should display some apprehension in view of the present state of affairs. They vigorously protest against the threatened reduction of wa ges, and demand its postponement at least nntil there is a general and established decrease in rents and prices. Tn regard to rents especially the complaints are loud and wide-spread; for the rents of the cheaper order of houses hart thus far been kept up at the highest war-rates, which pro more than double the rates that were prevalent before the rebellion. We do not believe that wages can at ibiu time be reduced to the anti-war standard because gold has fallen to tbe present low quotation. There will doubtless be a further adjustment of wages and prices, of production and labor, cf rents and property values, ss well as of gold and currency, daring the present year. Bnt the fact that they are nil related to each other, and are all of common and mutoal interest, cannot possibly be disregarded in the regulation that must necessarily take place. We have no donbt that the industrial and laboring classes will be quite as ready in preparing themselves to ac cept the facts of tbe situation as the businee* classes and property boldais. It is recognized op all hands that the inflated prices of the test eight or ten years cannot be upheld forever. If labor is cheapened, production mnst cheapened; if wages are lowered, so also must be the cot of living. We hope the adjustment will be ef fected withont the prevalence of those wide spread and destructive strikes which were tb6 agency of securing the necessary rise oi wages some years ago. We hope it will be ef fected without causing renewed derangement of business and industry. We have had a number of strikes in the city and its vioinity within tbe last few months—none of them, we believe, to obtain an advance of wageH, bnt all of them to prevent the diminution of the wages-rate by em ployers. We do not think that any one of these strikes has been^successful The present are as suredly times in which there is a load call upon bnsiness men to> act with caution, npon work ingmen to move wi:h intelligence, snd npon nil sorts of men to live economically and prudently. There will be better times for the whole people after business and industry have returned to thetr legitimate basis, aud when values and pri ces are established with something like assur ance and permanence.—New York Tribune. Mr. Georgia-—The Protest Against Bingham’* Amendment. The following was laid before the Senate yes terday by Senator Revels: Atlanta, Ga., March 10, 1870. Jinn. Hiram Ji. Herds, United States Senator from Mississippi, United States Senate Cham ber The undersigned Senators and Represent atives in the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, desire you to present this protest to tho Senate of the United States when the Geor gia bill comeB np for discussion, as yon are tbe only representative of onr race and cilor in that body. We urge you to do all in your post er to prevent the adoption of Mr. BingbamV amendment to the Georgia bill, the result of which will be to deliver na bound hand and foot into the hands of our most hitter and relentlew enemies. We ask your aid and influence. Shall we ask in vain ? Atlanta, Ga , March 10, 1870. To the honorable the Senate of the Uni td States : We, as colored men and members of the Senate and House of Representatives of the General Assembly of Georgia, representing over UO.OOO voters of the State, desire earn estly and solemnly to protest against the adop tion by your honorable body of the bill for ib« admission of Georgia as amended in the Boose by Mr. Bingham, of Ohio, and we do so bccansa that to give protection and the enjoyment of equal rights to all classes of our citizens, it te necessary that snch legislation shall be had o» will secure the passage of such jury laws >3 will insure justice to the colored men, of a bill for the promotion of eduo.tion among nil ciasstP, and also snch amendment of the election law 8 as will give a fair, free expression of e ch citi zen’s political views. If elections take place this fall the passage of snch bills which are necessary for our salv. ioa will engender the most bitter strife and hostiliiy on the part of the white citizens against oaf race and color. Yiolence and bloodshed wifi mark the course of such elections, and a f” ,r expression of the will of the people cannot he had. We shall be driven from (he polls, as in the Presidential election, by armed and organ ized bands of rebels, and our State given ovef to tbe guidance and control of the most extreme men of tbe Democratic party. Wo respectfully ask yonr honorable body that the bill passed December 22.may be given full effect Signed by three Senators' and sixteen mem bers of the House of'Representatives of Geor gia. Coin iu the United-Slates. The New York Financial Chronicle, of tbe I2ib, has the following: The official returns of the banks for the year I SCO show that at the close of that year there was $83,000,000 of specie in the banks. To this mnst be added the amount of gold and sil ver in general use outside of the banks, which, if estimated at only $2 per head of population, would amount to $65,000,000. It is perhaps reasonable, therefore, to estimate the supply of coin in the oountry, ten years ago, at about $150,000,000. If these estimates are approxi mately accurate, we reach the conclusion that the stock of coin in the country is hot-materi ally jn excess of the stock of 1860. A ScccecSob fob Whiitemose.—The Ches- tetfield (S. C.) Democrat advises the white peo ple of tbat District to join hands with the re spectable negroes and elect a colored tu«u to Congress in the place of the lamented Whitt*- more. The editor is opposed to swindling car pet-baggers, scalawags and Yankee free negrot?' He goes for a South Carolina negro, and says: We are ante there are nnmbers of decent ne groes who hold the conduct of WhitR-more i« contempt, and would Nke to have the opportu nity to vindicate themselves from tho snspicioa of endorsing such a mam Let a decent intelligent negro be put np >° nomination at once rather than a low, dirtl- tricky, dishonest white man, who Las no iatei- eat in tbe country, no attachment for the p*°' pie, no idea of justice, no regard for truth. n° respect for himself or anybody else. Nxw York Dry Goods Market.—The Finan cial Chronicle of Saturday says ? The excitement which prevailed in - the dry goods market during the two- weeks preceding the date of oar last report was too great to last a long time, and we have now to reporta com paratively quiet market for the last seven days. The large offerings of important lines of goods at a material reduction from current rates, as- Hated by the simultaneous decline in gold acd oottou, haa natorally had the effect of breaking the whole dry goods market, end baa also un settled the purposes of buyers and nrerwuled the nr from laying in any considerable stocks, un less they could purchase at such price as they considered to be a decided bargain. WmiTEMORE Forbvkr 1 —A letter 0#* Darlington, South Carolina, says Bro. Wliit ie more was insults d in the cars on hi.- 5 tr 51 ! Darlington at several place*, and lias !** n burned iu iffigy in nearly every, town in ^ District, but bis friends are active, and rt‘f ,,li his return to bi-» seat in the house as <vi!* !n ; An enthusiastic uia<s meeting bad Uen in Uariingtou, in which Kbits and black took part, and Whittemorc-’s statement “f ease was received, with great applause. Duarxo the month of February, aboe^J hundred laborers were forwarded to by the German Society of Chicago. A* v migrants write word bock that they arc go pleased with their new homes. sic*#