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The Georaa Weekly Telesraoli and Journal &
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Telegraph and Messenger.
MACON, MATS -*870.
Iv the list of delegates, appointed by the
Macon Board of Trade to the Charleston Con
vention, to assemble on the ■ 3d of May, the
name of Hon. Thomas Hardeman was omitted
in yesterday’s edition by an oversight of the
compositor. ,
Personal.—Wo had the pleasure of a call on
yesterday from OoL D. Wyatt Aiken, editor of
the Knral Carolinian, published at Charleston,
South Carolina. CoL Aiken, is on bis retnm
from a trip to the South West and will remain
in the city to see his old friends till this even
ing. He is stopping at the Brown House.
The Annual Council of the Protestant Episco
pal Church in the Diocese of Georgia will meet,
in St. Panl’s Chnrcb, Albany, on Wednesday
the 4th of May next.
Delegates passing on the railroad will pay
foil faro going and be returned free. ’
The Atlanta New Era soems pleased with the
snbstitnte offered by Mr. Cessna, in the House,
for the Georgia bill, and hopes it may pass. We
will wait patiently .and see.
Death op Honorable Richard Yeadon.—The
Charleston Courier of the 26th comes draped in
mourning for tho above gentleman, who was
senior proprietor of that journal. Mr. Yeadon
was in his 68th year. He has been for over
forty years identified with the Courier as pro- ions ‘
prietor, editor and contributor. Along, jnst
and feeling tribute is paid to his many virtues.
We havo received a copy of the charter of the
Louisville and Chattanooga Bailroad, which was
granted by the Legislature of Kentucky. This
will be a direct great trank railway connecting
the above points. If our Louisville friends bnild
this, and the Cincinnati people, through a na
tional charter, bnild the great Southern Bail way
to Chattanooga we will then, indeed, have the
products of the great West at onr very doors.
The Southern Farsi and Home.—Through
the courtesy of the publishers, Messrs. J. W,
Burke & Co., the M-y number of this excellent
agricultural periodical ha3 jnst reached us. It
is more than ordinarily full of valuable and in
structive matter. We were especially interested
by the articles on the analysis of soils, “ The
Folly of ‘ all Cotton and no Com,' ” “ The
Value and Use of Agricultural Clubs.” On fer
tilizers, with tabular statements of the number
of pounds of fertilizers transported over tho
Central, Southwestern, and Macon and Western
Railroads, and found the directions of the Edi
tor for work for the month in tho farm, vegeta
ble garden, orchard and flower-yard, very plain,
practical and correct.
The review in this number of Mr. Boykin’s
“ Memorial Volume ” of General Howell Cobb
is a masterly production from the pen, we be
lieve, of one of onr first scholars and pulpit
orators.
The Editors’ Book Table contains an admira
ble review of many now books.
On tho whole, we cheerfully recommend the
Farm and Home to all Southern planters as a
work well worthy of their patronage and sup
port. V-l ■ * io T
Because Aaron Alpeoria Bradley shows a dis
position to pitch into Gov. Bnllock, the Era
wishes to cast upon him the title of Democrat
Wo do not wish you to deplete your party.
You must stand such as you have, though you
quarrel ever so much among yourselves.
Frigbtinl Accident at Richmond.
In onr telegraphio column will be fonndsome
details of a terrible accident which occurred on
yesterday, daring the trial by the Supreme
Court of Appeals of the case of the two con
testant Mayors of that city. The floor gave way
and many prominent persons were killed and
wonndecL The scenes in and around the
Capitol building are represented as most bor
rowing and heart rending.
Editorial Correspondence—Press Be*
trigs.
Os THE Bo AD SuNDAT NlOHT, ^
April 24, 1870. )
On board: Wright Moore and Walsh, of the
Chronicle and Sentinel; Randall, the poet (and
two ladies) of the Constitutionalist. [P. S. Yon
might , know flail would take a bouquet
along.] Atkinson, of the Athens Banner, Farm
er and Artisan and so on; Christy, of the South
ern Watchman, and late of Congress, where he
tootc outside seat ; Shankbn, of the Rome
Daily; Dwinell, of the Rome Courier; Willing-
lingham, of the LaGrange Reporter; Morrow,
of the Griffin Middle Georgian; Fitch, of the
Griffin Star; Sharpe, of the West Point Shield;
Weaver, of the Georgia Herald; Judge E. G.
Cabaniss, a young editor of the Monroe Adver
tiser ; Styles, of the Albany News; Ferry, of
the Americas Cornier; Weston, of the Dawson
Journal; Bonilly, of the Hawlrinsville Dispatch;
Shecut, of tho Madison Farm Journal; Capt.
Mosely, of the Talladega Mountain Home; and
B. G. Barnwell, Esq., of De Bow’s Review.
We are moving in splendid style in beautiful
cars made by the Bailway Company at their
works in Savannah, and we are under the im
mediate care of CoL Rogers, the General Su
perintendent of the Road. There is also a com
missary on board, and supplies are ample; and
at Millhh our hats were chalked by the company
for the best dinner old uncle Bob. Gray conld
The One Crop System.
The following, from the Rural New Yorker,
though written directly with reference to the
crops of Western farmers, embodies a great
Idea which it would be well for all planters to
take well to heart and act upon the suggestions
thrown out:
Scarce a day passes that we do not get testi
mony from some quarter'of the continent as to
the embarrassment which resnlts to farmers
who depend upon a single crop for revenue. A
Wisconsin correspondent and agent writes: “It
is this year very difficult obtaining subscribers
on account of the times. When farmers are
selling wheat at seventy-five cent3 per bushel,
which they say cost them one dollar per bushel
to raise, they will generally say, * I would like
the paper, but I cannot take it this year.’ ”
Another farmer in Iowa writes: “I staked
my suooe8s the past season upon a single crop,
and I am as flat as a flounder. I am in debt
for my land, and had prices for the last crop of
wheat been as good as the year previous, I
would have cleared offi my indebtedness and
more too. Now I cannot meet my payments,
and unless my’creditors bave the milk of hu
man kindness in their hearts, and long suffer
ing patience, I shall lose all I own. I assure
you it looks bine to me.”
We quote from these two, among scores of
similar letters, to Bhow the effect of the single
crop system, when that crop, or the price of it,
fails. On the other hand, another Iowa friend
writes one of the editors of the Rnral a private
letter, which contains the following: “You re
member you said in one of your letters a year
ago,—‘Now, my dear boy, don’t go into wheat
all over. Don’t yon see that your Iowa fanners
are wheat crazy ? Bay your floor the coming
year, plant more com and potatoes, sow oats
and barley, buy all the hogs you can keep and
feed them well, and yon will win and yonr wheat
neighbors will lose.’ Do you remember writ
ing me that ? Yon did, and for a wonder, I fol
lowed your advice, and to-day I am at least a
thousand dollars richer for it. Iam as easy,
financially, as a flowing river. There are hun
dreds of poor wheat fellows who are not, though.
I owe you one for my serenity.”
Now, tho editor who wrote that prive letter,
(and had forgotten all abont it,) based his ad
vice upon a rule which he early learned was a
wise one—that is, to abandon the extended cul
tivation of a crop which everybody is going to
cultivate. Every extra day’s labor, dollar, and
aero of land employed in the production of wheat
or corn, or any other one crop, above the usual
average, enhances the value in market of other
orops from which this labor, land and money is
taken; so that if ten men in a neighborhood
sow an extra area in wheat, it is Bafe for one
man, as a role, to double the area he plants in
other crops, instead of doing as his neighbors
do.
Raising Tomatoes.—It may be worth while
for onr farmers to .read the following account of
the French method of raising tomatoes. It is
clipped from an exchange:
As soon as a duster of flowers are visible, the
stem is topped down to the cluster, so that the
flowers terminate the stem. The effect is that
the Bap is immediately impelled into two bnds
next below the cluster, which soon push strong
ly and produoe another duster of flowers each.
’When these are visible, the branch to which
they belong is also topped down to their level,
and this is done successfully. By this means,
the plants become stoat dwarf boshes, not above
eighteen inches high. In order to prevent their
faffing over, sticks are stretched horizontally
along the rows, so as to keep the plants erected.
In addition to this, all the laterals that have no
flowers, and after the fifth topping, all laterals
whatsoever, are nipped off. _ In this way the
rpie sap is directed to the fruit, which acquires
a beauty, size and excellence not maintained by
otther means.
A correspondent writes from Oglethorpe,
April 27th: “Orops look fine for so backward a
spring. Gardens are very good. The late oool
, weather killed most of the fruit Rain is badly
servo up.
Old Bob has lengthenedhis cords and strength
ened his stakes since I last passed his excavat-
He now luxuriates in a two-story wooden
mansion of ample dimensions and is foil of glory.
I find the road smoother than one would rea
sonably expect at tho close of such a winter’s
work and so much bad weather, daring which
the road has frequently run as many as sixteen
heavy trains a day. The right of way is hand
somely cleared, and the track superstructure
pretty sound, bnt it will be placed in prime or-
dor daring the snmme.
It lies through a region of country with whicq
yon are familiar—high when you look up at it
from the bottom of a gully or ditch, and rolling
when you roll it. However, although not quite
equal to the valley of Virginia for secemy, the
young fresh green foliage of spring and the
Honey suckle and Dogwood blossoms give it a
certain beanty and attractions. The young
com is abont four inches high and there are
some sprightly attempts virsible to make a crop
which let ns hope will succeed.
Appearances do not promise foil Association
meeting, bnt some are before and more behind
who are expected. 0.
1 nei escaped going to Congress last' fall from the
Mobile District only by the skin of his teeth.—
And his entire history since the war is & strong
practical illustration of he nnaectionalum of the
Southern people mad t , cordial' relations they
are: ready to establish and maintain with North
ern men who will meet them on the broad plat
form of fraternity and community of interests.
Cel. Mann first entered Alabama as an officer
in the Northern army.
Yesterday, immediately after the sessions of
the two Associations, they went down the river
as far as Tybee light, in the steamer NiokKing.
Nick Ring captain and proprietor. It is a fine
boat, of five or six hundred tons burthen, driven,
by two engines of something over a hundred
horse power each. She runs regularly to Palat-
ka East Florida, making a round trip every
week. Savannah was represented on the occa
sion by a number cf her beautiful belles, the
press, and her city dignitaries. The supplies in
every department wore ample—the humor con-
vivial—the aspect frolicsome—the day fine—the
musio of the Savannah colored band inspiriting.
The shipping in the river dipped their flags end
cheered tii as we passed. We stopped at Fort
Pulaski and walked in and around that fortifi
cation. The old Fort shows many a soar deep
and large from the Yankee bombardment and
has been very incompletely restored. She has,
however, a very heavy amament and a small
garrison, all of which I hope will be useless here
after, forever in a military point of view.
The citizens of Savannah are steadily posh
ing their river improvements forward. Two
dredges are at work on the channel, and the
people say they have eighteen feet at high wa
ter now and mean to make it twenty-one. An
other important improvement has just been
commenced, in the shape of a dry dock on
Hutchinson’s Island. They are going to con
struct a dock large enough for the largest craft,
so that repairs can be made with promptitude
and dispatch.
The excursion returned to the city a little af
ter sundown. The evening was devoted to meet
ings of the various Association Committees. Af
ter twelve o’clock the band tamed ont and they
had a grand pow-wow before the Screven House,
which was kept np several hours. There was
much speaking by sundry gentlemen, nothing
of which I heard for I was abed by times. Hope
the Association will get through to-day.
To-day universal ladyhood in Savannah will
be busy decorating the Confederate graves. The
weather is dark, windy, cool and nnpropitions
every way. It is understood that the press will
assist at the ceremonials as soon as they get
through with their appropriate business. 0.
Savannah, Monday Morning, \
April 25, 1870. j
These Press meetings are going to partake
more of the “highly respectable” than the “nu
merous." In the Southern Press Association,
perhaps fifteen or twenty papers maybe repre
sented, and probably a few more in the Georgia
Press. Thompson and Sneed, of Savannah;
Reordan, of tho Charleston News, and Engel-
hardt, of the 'Wilmington Journal, are all tho
additional faces I have seen of the profession.
Sne6d and Thompson are making themselves
very agreeable and indefatigable exponents of
Savannah hospitality.. Both are inseparably
associated with the literary history of this good
old town, and both, I rejoice to say, are as
young as ever. The Halls of the Georgia His
torical Society are or should be adorned with
those beautiful pictorial allegories by Remem
brance, representing the grand set-to between
Thompson and Sneed and old Father Time, in
which Thompson cries “first blood,” and Old
Time is limping off with a rueful countenance,
holding his bread-basket with both hands, and
his backers and bottle-holders are throwing np
the sponge to Sneed. I will take my “davy’
that Sneed and Thompson are this morning
handsomer, heavier and sprightlier men than
they were years ago when they first led my
young feet into the path of duty and happiness,
As for Engelhardt, he is the very man upon
whom the Mobile Convention divided on tho
question whether he were better looking than
Anderson Reese. The point was finally referred
to the young ladies of Mobile, and they rendered
a doubtful and uncertain decision, like that of
the Northeast corner upon the relative saltatory
merits of Tom Brown and Isaac MitchelL
You see there was a terrible contest for the
vote of the corner, between the old Governor
and Dr. Mitchell, whb were rival candidates for
the Legislature; and it was finally determined,
at a quilting bee that the vote should go to the
best dancer—or rather the better dancer. The
Governor and the.Doctor put in their best licks,
you may be sworn; and a jury of old ladies
looked through their specs with profound at
tention. The contest was long and donbtfnl,
and the verdict, as I have said was the same—
for the jury declared that “Dr. Mitchell jumped
the highest, bnt Tom Brown put it. down the
thiokest” So it was in the contest between
Engelhardt and Reese.
I find there are two parties in the Press on
the business question. One of the parties con
tends that there is nothing to be done, and if
there is anything, what is it?
The other contends there is business of ex
treme importance, if one conld only tell how to
get at it, or what it is. The Association meets
at ten and the question is which of these parties
is the stronger.
Meanwhile there is a third party who have
business arranged in a tangible shape for both
Associations in joint session. The first propo
sition is to go down the river in the Nick Ring.
That is for this afternoon. The second is for
to-morrow,- to help the ladies decorate the
graves. The third is for next day, to go and see
the orphans at Bethesda—to take a view of the
lions at Thunderbolt, Isle of Hope, and parts
adjacent and have a grand dinner, etc., and so
on. Amid these conflicting views, I need not
say which party is likely to triumph.
Hazy thin morning—weather warm, and when
old Sol peeps through the fog it will be warmer.
Town is quiet Trade has been very satisfac
tory the. whole season. City improving—people
full of hope and confidence abont the material
future—very doubtful what will befall ns in the
way of political reconstruction—bnt resigned to
what can’t be helped.
- “What can’t be cured
Must be endured.”
O.
Savannah, April 26, 1870.
As you will print the official reoord of the
Press proceedings, I will say little abont these
bodies, exoept that the disposition in both
is to press important reforms, and to make them
prominent in their influence and operation upon
the Press hereafter. The Mobile Register,
Montgomery Advertiser, Charleston News and
Wilmington Journal, are, I believe, the only
dailies represented outside the State. CoL W*
D. Mann, who is owner of the Register and re
presents it in the Association, is one of the sol
diers of the Northern army who settled down in
the South after the dose of the war—identified
himself with the people, and while he is fast
making friends and fortune, is a practical illus
tration of the falsity of the Radioal cant abont
the rebel hatred of the Northern people. The
Colonel has not yet attained the meridian of
life, and ia an energetic, off-hand, frank, bold
and hearty fellow, and will be a leading spirit
in the organization. His paper is fast increas
ing its circulation in the South, and he tells me
it has a larger circulation in the Western States
than it had everywhere else when he bought it
Tbe Press at Savannah.
On Tnesday the Georgia Association con
sumed their entire session in carefully maturing
a bill on the subject of “legal advertising,” so-
called. Copies of which will doubtless be
furnished the Press. The design is to procure
its enactment as law on the first favorable occa
sion. It will protect the rights of all parties
and preserve files of official and legal advertis
ing in all the counties.
During the morning session some very grati
fying civilities passed between the joint asso
ciations and the representatives of the Savan
nah Chamber of Commerce.
The Southern Association having the matter
of a thorough revision of their constitution be
fore a special committee which asked farther
time, adjonmed till after sapper. Daring the
afternoon most of the representatives of the
Press visited the various Cemeteries to witness
the affecting annual ceremonial of decorating
the graves. The weather was highly unfavora
ble—cool, cloudy, windy and dusty. The as
semblage of ladies was therefore less numerous
than usual, but tbe floral decorations were pro
fuse, elaborate and tastefnL Many a grave
without headstone, monument or name was lit
erally a solid mound of flowers in every form of
tasteful arrangement and emblematic design.
The ladies gathered at Laurel Grove were
evidently first-class people, fashionable and dis
tingue rather than beautiful, although many
striking forms and faces were to be seen.
Heaven bless the women—they are a great deal
prettier than any other flowers made by the
Divine hand.
We drove from Laurel Grove to Bonaventcre
—now Evergreen Cemetery—having been late
ly purchased and dedicated to the sacred nses
of a sepulture. The laborers are busy on the
grounds, and the prnners are too busy cropping
off tbe branches of those old live oaks. There
is not on earth's face, a more appropriate place
for a city of the dead. The long magnificent
avenues of live oaks, with their sombre drapery
of moss, far surpass, in their sad majesty and
grandeur, every cathedral or mausoleum erected
by the hand of man. The density of the over
hanging shade darkens noonday to twilight. In
a calm the awful hush is oppressive. The flip
pant tongne is stilled; the most vacant mind is
impressed. Bnt when the breezes, floating in
ward from old ocean sigh through these grand
old monitors of time, it is the xeqniem of the
pitying angels over the guilt, the sorrow and
the transitory nature of man and human af
fairs. The hands of God and man have joined
in making Ufif a model plaoe of Bepnltore.
Oppressed with these thoughts, the party rode
straight to Thunderbolt and took a milk punch,
a few excepted, who were so reckless as to haz
ard a glass of lemonade, and all then returned
to town over the shell road as dusty as millers.
The gardens in these regions are now supply
ing the market with green peas, strawberries,
beets, cabbages, Tadishes, turnips, carrots, let
tuce, onions, and some other vegetables.
The market of Savannah is in happy contrast,
with that of Macon. There you can buy, any
morning, shrimps, crabs, clams, oysters, fish of
many Varieties, fowls, game, venison, lamb,
mutton and beef; all as good as is necessary;
pork in all shapes, (and bad lack to it) and a
vast range of articles more fanciful than sta
ple. In Bhort, I see no reason why a man
should not be able to preserve his health and
vital force in Savannah; but as for the up coun
try, if they persist long in refusing to produce
food, I have a serious apprehension that they
will suffer from it physically and mentally. A
man may delnde himself with the idea that he
can “live long and prosper” on an extensive
diet of bacon and greens, but I believe it will
oorrupt the blood, starve the senses, and on-
feeble the race, physically, mentally and mor
ally.
Tuesday evening the Southern Press Associa
tion had an incubation till twelve o’clock over
tho new Constitution. It is a tight one. As one
consequence of that Constitution, not a reader
of this paper will get.it after tho 1st of June
next, except on a strictly advance payment.
Yesterday was to be devoted to winding np
the business of the press associations, a visit to
the Orphan Honse at Bethesda—a trip to the
Isle of Hope and a grand dinner given by the
Board of Trade. Having been in some aort forced
to deplete your editorial bureau so long, I could
not ask to prolong absenoe, when it had ceased
to ly a matter of duty.
Our Savannah friends have treated ns with great
hospitality, for which we shall remember them
with much gratitude and affection. Onr edito
rial brethren Thompson and Sneed have given
themselves up to the entertainment of their
brethren. Long life to them and their city and
let Savannah rise and go ahead.
The Georgia Press.
Speaking of the Lunatio Asylum, the Mflledge-
ville Union of the 26th, says:
Those who take an interest in this charitable
institution of Georgia, will probably remember
that a small appropriation was made by the Leg
islature at its last session for the purpose of
supplying the Lunatic Asylum with pure water.
This appropriation has been very judiciously,
and we rejoice to say, very successfully, used
by Dr. Green and his subordinate offioers. They
have finally succeeded in bringing a plentiful
supply of water from springs more than two
miles distant into the buildings of the institu
tion. The pipes discharge over three gallons
per minute, and by means of reservoirs will be
competent to supply the institution with all the
water needed.
J>\ The Grand Jury of Washington oounty, at
the late term of the Superior Court, thus speaks
of the state of feeling existing between em
ployer and employe in that county. We have
no doubt the same is trne throughout Georgia:
“ We are gratified to note the increase of confi
dence and good feeling between the planter and
their employes; and notwithstanding the unset
tled condition of the country, and the influence
brought to bear upon the susceptibility and ig--
noranoe of the latter class; they are conducting
themselves well, and indeed deserve onr com*'
mendation.” V
In the local colnmn of the Columbus (Ga.,)
Son, we find the following:
Not Anxious to See Him.—The negroes were
having a revival last week. Some of the sister-
ing became very happy, shonted all church time
and all the way going home. A few of them
stopped at Goetchius’ shop to shout. The bell
rope had broken, and a man was in the Bteeple
fixing it, jnst as the shoutefs arrived. The honr
was late. The women were yelling, “I’m so
happy! I want to see Jesus! Want to see him
bad! Ccme Jesus right now!” Jnst then, a
voice come from the belfry, “Send that woman
np—I want her.” The darkies heard the voice;
as though it was something not of earth, stopped
shouting and darted. •
The Savannah Republican, of the 24th, pub
lishes the following account of an—
Outrageous Assault and Battery and Rob
bery.—At abont 4 o’clock, yesterday morning,
three negro men forced their way into the honse
of a widow lady residing on Jones street lane,
between Ball and Drayton streets. One of them
seized her by the hair and held her, while an
other beat her in the face with his fist. Whilst
this was going, the third villain collected all the
clothing of the lady and her children, with
which the party left the honse. The lady’s face
is so terribly bruised that her eyes are nearly
closed.
A few days since, some children playing on
the hillside near the gas works in Savannah,
found a box containing tbe body of an infant
abont four days old, buried in the sand.
Mr. S. M. Vamadoe, the Principal of the
Valdosta Academy, died suddenly in that town
on Friday night last, from apoplexy. The de
ceased was a prominent citizen of Valdosta, and
highly esteemed for his many virtues.
From the Augusta Constitutionalist of the
26th we take the following account of—
Matters in Warren County.—From a letter
received from a friend in Warrenton, we get the
following additional information concerning the
arrest and imprisonment of Mr. H. Martin by
Norris, the military sheriff foisted upon that
county by General Terry:
“On Friday morning CoL E. H. Pottle, coun
sel for Mr. EL Martin, required the military
sheriff to show cause to the Court of Ordinary
for the imprisonment of Martin. Norris refused
to answer the demands of the coart, claiming
that he was amenable to General Terry only.
There. being no civil officer in the oounty to
serve an order from the conrt, Dr. R. W. Hub
ert, Ordinary, called on Major Torbett for a
detail to assist him in vindicating the law. Maj.
Torbett refused the request, and Martin has
been illegally confined in jail ever since.”
• The following order, from military headquar
ters at Atlanta, exhibits the character of the
espionage which has been established over the
citizens of Warren county, completely overrid
ing all the rights under the provisions of civil
law:.
Hdqbs. Mtt.ttabt Dis’t of Georgia, >
Atlanta, Ga., April 23, 1870. j
Bet. Major F. H. Torbett, Warrenton, Ga.. I
Sib: The Brevet Major General Commanding
directs that yon report at the earliest moment
practicable, and in full, tbe evidence on which
H. Martin was arrested. You will not permit
him to be produced in the Court of Ordinary,
or released on bail until decision in the premi
ses is rendered at these headquarters.
Very respectfully, your obd’t servant,
J. EL Taylor,
Ass’t Adj’t Gen.
A true copy.
F. H. Tobbet,
Captain 18th Infantry,
Brevet Major, U. S. A.
Says the Chronicle and Sentinel, of the 26th
instant:
Scott’s “Higheb Law.”—Some days ago a
supply of Winchester rifles and ammunition
were sent by Gov. Seott to Hamburg, South
Carolina, to be used in arming the militia. On
yesterday afternoon, at 6 o’clock, the dusky
wonld.be warriors assembled in the village, and
the company having been made np the arms
were issued. The uniforms have not yet ar
rived, but are daily expectede Seott seems to
be issuing numerous copies oi his “higher law”
to the colored troops who will, no doubt, “fight
nobly.” ■ ■ ■
The Rome Daily reports the wheat prospects
of that section as very good. The cold snap,
of some days ago, instead of being an injury
was really a blessing in restraining the flow of
sap and thus checking the disposition to rust,
Tho Atlanta Constitution is sorry to learn,
from authentic information, that Capt. Wallace,
the efficient and popular Superintendent of the
Selma and Meridian Railroad, is to be removed
in a few days, through Radical machinatiom
Regardless of his skillful management o$ the
road, and the peenniary loss that will necessa
rily follow the removal of a popular officer like
Capt Wallace, he must needs fall at the behest
of the fanatics, who at present, to the great det
riment of qui country, rule simply that they
may ruin and wreak their political vengeance
upon all who dare to resist their ill-gotten au
thority. ,
In addition to his business saooess the Oolo- all sides.”
Of our “model” President an exchange says:
“Grant ia like an old tin kettle—very dirty on
A correspondent of the New Era reports the
people of Habersham connty delighted with the
wheat and frnit prospects. The people of Clarks
ville hope to hear the whistle when the North
eastern Railroad is built.
The Green Line Convention met in Atlanta
on the 26th, The Constitution notices, among
those present:
M. W. Smith, General Freight Agent Louis
ville and Nashville; Major C. W. Anderson,
Nashville and Chattanooga; C. EL Williams,
General Freight Agent Atlantic and Golf Rail
road; H. S. Haines, Superintendent Atlantio
and Golf; Capt. A. J. White, President Macon
and Western; J. M. Selkirk, Superintendent
Rome; CoL L. P. Grant, Superintendent At
lanta and West Point Railroad; A. L. Harris,
Master of Transportation Western and Atlantio
Railroad; A. Pope, General Freight Agent; D.
EL Cram, Superintendent Montgomery and
West Point Railroad; Edgar Vleet, General
Freight Agent Selma, Rome and Dalton Rail
road ; Ed. Warner, Georgia Railroad and South
Carolina; Thomas E. Walker, Claim Agent.
CoL L. P. Grant presided over the delibera
tions of the htidy, and R. O. Robson acted as
Secretary.
Lsdbu Rollin, the prominent French Repub
lican, who has retained to his native country
after an exile of over twenty years, has, it is
stated, become very wealthy by the rise of the
value of real estate in Paris, in consequence of
the Improvements in that oity, carried out by
his enemy, the Emperor Napoleon HL Ledru
Boffin's wife, an Englishwoman, it is reported,
inherited from her father a large tract of waste
land in one of the ontlying districts of Paris,
beyond the old bariier of the Oetroi, and in
1849 worth very little. The subsequent exten
sion of the city of Paris to the fortifications,
and the laying ont of wide avenues, has brought
this and other similar tracts within the bounds
of the municipality, and has increased their
value to an almost incredible amount Land of
this description, that in 1840 brought 50 cents a
square foot, has recently been sold for $100 a
square foot.
Governor Bullock and Foster Blodgett have
returned to Atlanta
THE BARNWELL AND SULLEN
RAILROAD.
Progress and Prospects of the Work
From the Barnwell Journal. | "gj jj.
The corps of engineers selected for this road
have been actively engaged for tbe last ten days
in the preliminary survey of this important en
terprise. With transit and levol, the old line
baa been accurately and closely traversed from
Blaokville to Barnwell, (a distance of exactly
nine miles) and, with one or two exceptions,
the work still to be performed is so inconsider
ate that it may be safely estimated that with
fifty hands, under skillful and experienced man
agement, thts portion of the road can be made
ready for the rolling stock in less than ninety
days, at - the inconsiderable sum of fifteen or
eighteen thousand dollars.
On the 11th instant, under the supervision of
Messrs. Mixon, Saunders and Summers, the
corps of engineers again continued their line of
survey from Barnwell, crossing both Turkey
creek and Saltkahatchie swamps (a distance of
one-half mile each), with entire satisfaction,the
grade on the line of descent, from tbe village
hill aoross the swamp being forty-two feet to
the mile. By this preliminary or air-line sur
vey it is the intention to cross at ornear Stin
son’s Bridge, and intersecting with the Port
Royal road near the river at Brown’s Landing,
a distance of fifteen or twenty miles from Black-
ville, on the South Carolina Railroad.
The objective points or termini of this line of
railroad are at Milieu, Ga., and Sumter, S. C.
Retracing, then, this line, we pass from Sumter
(should it be deemed expedient to make thaj
point the terminus), through, perhaps, Orange
burg, which last point might be the terminus
instead of Sumter, for at least the present. We
then continue on to Blackville and Barnwell;
thence across the Savannah River, at Brown’s
Landing, on to Millen, Ga. These indications
are sustained by the act of Assembly, passed as
amendatory to the original act chartering the
Barnwell Railroad Company, and thus comple-
ting'this important line of railroad.
That it is an important and advantageous en
terprise may be, therefore, quickly received
when taken in connection with other roads.
When constructed it will necessarily open
more speedy and direct communication from
Wilmington and the whole north with Beaufort
or Port Royal, Savannah, Macon and Augusta.
It will be more direot to traverse the line from
Sumter, Kingsville, or Orangeburg to Augusta,
Macon, Savannah, or Port Royal over a portion
of the Barnwell road than it will be by any
other way. These, in connection with addi
tional facts no less significant; that both Millen,
the terminus of one of the lines, and Orange
burg or Snmter, one of which must :be the ter
minus of the other end of the Barnwell Rail
road, and both of which termini must be neces
sarily all-important junctions of other roads,
will unquestionably and conclusively demon
strate not only tbe feasibility, but the prac
ticability, the utmost importance, and abso
lute necessity of this line of travel. Let
any ono use the map, draw a line from Sumter
or Orangeburg to Blackville-Bamwell; thence
across the Port Royal road and Savannah river,
on to Millen, Ga., an important junction con
necting it with all the leading roads in the West
and South, and the above statements can bnt be
verified. A railroad, therefore, affording such
naturally great facilities, traversing a scope of
country possessing so many natural advantages
and resources undeveloped, and forming such
importune connections by extending so short a
distance, (the distance from Orangeburg to Mil
len not exceeding seventy miles,) is a project
which should be Dot only liberally patronized
and freely encouraged on the score of pnblio
convenience, bnt also as an enterprise promis
ing a handsome profit—an abundant dividend
for those fortunate enough in having secured
such an investment
All Cotton—No Corn !—The York Journal
of Commerce quotes a Calcutta letter of Feb-
ruarv 8th, as follows:
'The famine still wastes Ajmere and Raj-
pootana. The defeat has led the government
of India prematurely to stop the relief works;
the looal authorities are clamorous bnt helpless,
and the United Presbyterian missionaries, who
have done so muoh, are overtasking their
strength. The official estimate of deaths from
famine in the little district of Ajmere alone is
already 70,000, and if this is tbe case, half a
million is not an excessive estimate for Baj-
pootena.”
“This quotation, says the Augusta Chronicle,
offers a striking commentary upon the theories
of AU-Cotton-No-Com Planters of the South.
Possibly the cotton lords and manufacturing
princes of Manchester and Lowell may contrib
ute an infinitesimal amount from wealth accu
mulated by manufacturing the staple, but they
leave the task of staying the ravages of India
famine, which slays half a million cotton grow
ers, to the exertions of a few “United Presby
terian missionaries.” Millions for cheap cot
ton ! Not a cent for tillers’of the soil who perish
by starvation, is the cotton lords’ motto.
The Dry Goods Trade.—The imports of for
eign dry goods at New York for the month of
March fall a fraction behind the corresponding
total of last year, but are still very large for the
season. The amount landed there during the
month, reckoned in the foreign gold value,
freight and duty not added, was abont thirteen
millions of dollars. The warehousing move
ment for the month, has been as usual, a little
in favor of the market, the withdrawals from
bond being almost a million ia: excess of the
corresponding figures of last year. The first
three months of 1867 were larger, the total be
ing $31,943,066. The decline in gold and the
unsettled condition of financial affairs have con
spired to limit the profits of the season’s busi
ness, as well as to diminish the volume of trade.
If importers can make both ends meet, and
carry their capital intact to another year, it is
thought it is as much as a majority of them can
hope to accomplish.
The Defeat and Death of Lopez—Official
Account of the Affair.—New York, April 21.
the Anglo-Brazilian Times, of March 25, pub
lishes the following dispatch from General Ca
mara to the Brazilian Minister of War:
“Gamp on the Left Bank of the Aquidilon,
March lBt, 1870.—I write to you from Lopez’s
encampment in the Sierra. The tyrant was
routed, and having refused to surrender, was
killed before my own eyes. I intimated to him
fo surrender when he was completely defeated
and seriously wounded, and refusing, he was
killed. I congratulate you on the termination
of the war and the complete vindication obtain
ed by Brazil over the tyrant of Paraguay.
General Resquim and another officer have fallen
prisoners.”.
Air-Line Railroad.
We are able to announce this week, from per
sonal observation, that tho work of construction
on this road is progressing in the most satisfac
tory manner. The track on the first section is
being laid at the rate of a half a mile a day, and
it is expected that the train will ran to Norcross
by to-morrow. When this is done, the whole
forces will be placed on the seoond section, and
we are assured that the work will be prosecuted
with the greatest energy.
The contract for the construction of the road
from this point to Charlotte, North Carolina,
has recent been let to P. P. Dickinson & Go., of
New York, who have bound themselves to con
struct and put in complete running order this
part of the road by May, 1872. We are informed
that this company has ample means and will
promptly fulfill their contract. This places the
early completion o' this great enterprise beyond,
a doubt, and be gratifying news to our
readers. ’
Great credit is due the officers of the rold
for the determination they have manifested and
the skill displayed in surmounting the many ob
stacles which have been thrown in the way to
defeat or retard this enterprise; obstacles be
fore which many would have quailed; and
while all these may not now be entirely re
moved, the indications are that they may be
easily overcome. All that is now necessary is
earnest and harmonious co-operation, and the
early completion of this great enterprise is as
sured.
THE SNOW STORM.
The unexpected show storm on Sunday morn
ing took everybody quite aback. It came on
suddenly, with a perfect winter rush that car
ried sad forebodings to the hearts of thousands
who were already hard ran to mnke provisions
to save their stock from starvation. The storm
continued all day at intervals, but melted as
fast as it fell, except in the mountains, whose
summits are yet white.—Air Line Bogle,
(Gainesville) 22<£
A Pennsylvanian complains that his loving
wife knocks him down with a poker, kicks him,
and then has him arrested; and he wants a di
vorce, or a new amendment, or something.
Our planting readers will find an advertise
ment of a pea dropper, the description of
which, leads ns to believe that it will prove
quite a usefal invention.
Removal ef Dereer University.
The following proceedings of the Georgia
Baptist Convention we find in the Constitution
of the 26th:
Nkwnan, April 23.—Mr. Clarke resumed his
speech. He stated that while only seventy per
sons from, a distance visited Penfield daring the
last commencement, the cars were running for
several days, filled with visitors going to Athens
to attend the commencement of the State Uni
versity.-i. :
Mr. Clarke discussed several points of less
importance ; the want of unanimity in the loca
tion of the College at first; the opinion of the
former and present Boards, and of good breth
ren scattered over the State, that removal should
be earned oat After recapitulating the points
he had dismissed, he called upon the President
of the Board of Trustees as to the opinion the
Board now held on the subject of removal, and
then took his seat.
Rev. D. E. Butler then arose and read the
following paper, which had been adopted by
those whom he represented.
Resolved,- That while tbe Board, as such,
will not raise before the Convention the ques
tion of removing the University, yet if that
question, being before the Convention, the
opinion of this Board, be called for by any one,
the President be authorized to say, that the
presenjt location is unsatisfactory, and that a
better one can be chosen : and that we think
the choice of a location can be safely left to
some mode of future consideration with a good
hope of satisfactory concurrence of views on:
that point.
He then made a short and forcible speech in
avor of removaL It was well and wisely lo
cated by its founders for that day ; it was a suc
cess up to the great upheaval of our country by
the war. Bnt it can never succeed again in
Penfield. The University was located at Pen-
field because the Manual Labor School was al
ready there.
If dfficuliies are to be met, let us meet them ;
if financial troubles are ahead, let us look them
in the face; if law suits are unavoidable, the
rights of parties must be tested; but ratherket
us not go to law with one another, but choose
out wise and good men to settle onr prelimina
ries. «
Ear. Wm. L. Davis followed in opposition to
removaL He asked what we wanted with a
Baptist College in Georgia. WaB it simply to
afford facilities for an education in literature?
If so, we may well dispense with it. But if the
object be to disseminate truth, then some such
retired spot as Penfield was better than any
populous city in the State. The distinguished
men who graduated there are the best illustra
tions of this fact. By leaving Penfield we
would lose onr buildings, which are worth $40,-
000. First decide upon the location, and then
remove, and if yon put your shoulders to the
wheels and your hands in yonr pockets, wo will
be found at your side.
Rev. Mr. Irwin thought ia man should first
deoide whether it was best to remove, and then
ushere. He did not admit that the College was
a success before the war. He took issue with
the President of the Board on that subject.
Mr. John L. D. Hiller, a member of the sen-,
ior class, begged leave to represent the views of
the pupils of the College. Out of the 78 young
men now there, 65 desired removaL ’They
loved society, but had no social pleasure,
r There were comparatively no young ladies.
They made a great sacrifice of these pleasures
in going to Penfield. But few fathers would
force their sons to make the sacrifices which we
are. making, and which we only make because
of our love for the University. If the question
is not now settled, it will continue to be agita
ted till it is removed.
Dr. Landrum arose, knowing the time for
adjournment had nearly arrived, simply to se
cure the floor on Monday morning.
The discussions were conducted with much
dignity, deference and fraternity.
Dr. Hillyerpreached suable and eloquent
sermon at night, to a very densely crowded
house.
The night is here which is to usher in the
Sabbath. The emblem of death rests npon us,
only to be lifted by the light which brings with
it the type of the rest that remains for the good
and holy. Sweet day. May thy hallowed hours
bid our hearts rests peacefully in thy Lord, and
thy holy privileges bear to onr souls messages
of Divine love and blessing.
On yesterday we received the dispatch which
will be found below. It seems that the Conven
tion finally decided to remove, and without
farther information we presume the matter may
be placed in the hands of a business committee
to arrange for its location. We hope onr friends
who desire its location here will meet at once
to secure so desirable an object:
Newnan, Ga., April 26, 4870.
Telegraph and Messenger : The Georgia Bap
tist Convention decided to remove Mereer Uni
versity by a vote of 71 to 16. J. W. Fears.
We assume that the Senate will not sen.
—or, at least, not successfully—attempt Jr
role the deoision of the House that, fortb
decade, the number of Representative* 5**!
gross shall be two hundred and serenft!*?')
with such additions only as the admission j
States may, from time to tune, involve^^ tr*I
will hardly exceed five in all, or one from I
Montana, Idaho, Wyoming, and Dakota
shall severally be admitted. (We
New Mexico will de admitted at this _
that her member will be one of the 275~\’ ua ’ *1
In the following table, we present l n. j
total population of each State, as retU JM
the Cenros of I860; 2. The estimated pomM
of such State according to tbe CensusXj?!
be taken; 3. The number of its present p? ^I
sentetive in Congress; 4. The number to,
it will probably be entitled under the o' I
bus. We think this will vary but one eac.hr
the actual number in any oase, and not f?'
most instances. * "U I
Probable do ^
States.
Population
■ , ■ 1860.
Maine*... 628,279
N. Hampshire 326,073
Vermont ;.... 315,098
Massachusetts 1,231,066
Connecticut....... 460,147
Bbode Island 174,620
New York 3,880,727
New Jersey 672,034
Pennsylvania 2,906,270
West Virginia...;. 824,010
Virginia .....1,272.069
North, Carolina.... 992,667
South Carolina...'. 703.812
Georgia......... ..1,057,329
Ohio 2,839,698
Indiana 1,350,941
Illinois 1,711,753
Michigan 749,112
Wisconsin 775,873
Minnesota........ 172,022
Iowa........ .: 674,948
Missouri 1,182.317
Kansas 107,110
Nebraska.......:.. 28,841
Delaware .112,216
Maryland 687,034
Kentucky.’.........1,155,713
Tennessee Ui...jUBai8lit
Alabama.: 964,296
Mississippi 791,396
Arkansas 435,427
Louisiana 709,290
Florida.; 140,439'
Texas..: -602,432
California .... 380,016 -
Nevada.
Oregon
New Mexico...
52.464
83,009.
1876.
700,000 c
350,000 ?
325,000 »
1,450,000 in
560,000 i
200.000 s
4,700,080 ft
830,000 5
3,500,000 or
350,000 “Z
1,350,000 »
1,050.000 ?
715i000 i
1,100,000 7
2,600,000 ia
1.600,000 j?
2,500,000 u
1,100,000 j
1,100,000 s
500,000 j
1,100,000 c
1,500,000 s
400,000 i
200,000 l
130,000 1
900.000 2
1,300,000 10
1,200,000 8
1.000,000 6
900,000 4
500,000 s
800,000 4
160,000 i
800,000 4
500,000 3
100,000 l
120,000 1
150,000 .
TIIE CHATTANOOGA ROE DISC MUX.
Further Particulars In Relation to its Or
ganization.
From the, Chattanooga Times, April 22.]
We learned yesterday from interviews with
several of the members of the new Rolling Mill
Company, the following additional particnlars
in relation to its organization :
The Roane Iron Company, with a paid-up
capital of $300,000, becomes merged in the
new Rolling Mill Company, and the whole is to
be known aB the Chattanooga Rolling Mill Com
pany, with a capital of $525,000. Of this addi
tional amount abont $100,000 has been sub
scribed in Chattanooga, and the prospect of
obtaining the additional amount is considered
very favorable. The rolling mill is valued, by
the Southwestern Iron Company, at $225,000,
including 153 acres of land in Chattanooga.
Tho terms of payment agreed upon are $56,250
onJuly'l, 1870, and the balance in equal pay
ments on one, two and three years time.
General Wilder and Mr. Rockwood have gone
to New York to conclude the purchase.
The new stockholders in the enterprise are
W. P. Rathburo, O. W. Vinson, JohnL. Divine,
W. Crutohfield, D. M. Key, of Chattanooga, D.
Baldwin, General J. J. Elwcll and Mr. Strong
of Cleveland, Ohio, Parks Foster, of Ely via,
Ohio, Mr. J. 0. Hazelton of the Etna Coal
Mines, has taken $25,000 stock payable in coal
delivered here at 14 cents per bnsheL
Mr. J. O. Stanton, Superintendent of the
Alabama and Chattanooga Railroad, has offered
to donate $5,000 to the enterprise, to take 100
acres cf the land of the company in Chatta
nooga at $50,000 if they desire to sell, and has
proposed to contract for all the T rails needed
on his road not already contracted for, at $83
per* ton, and to transport all freights on the Ala
bama and Chattanooga Railroad from the Vul
can property, belonging to the new company,
near Rising Fawn, to Chattanooga, at the rate
of one oent and a half per ton per mile.
We congratulate the people of Chattanooga
upon this consummation of what has been their
dearest hope for the past five years. The es
tablishment of this rolling mill upon a perma
nent basis is but the commencement, the nu
cleus, of a vast number of manufactories which
will in less than ten years make Chattanooga
the Pittsburg of tho Bouth.
Routes by which Cotton has been Received.
The following is tho statement for the years
18G8-9 and 1869-70, respectively, from Septem
ber 1st to the present date :
1868-9
1869-70.
3,460
19,650
3,896
6,569
30,965
63,530
Southwestern Railroad 2,536
Mobile and G.' “ 12,584-
Opelika : “ 4,809
River! 4,902
Wagons 22,295
Total. 47,126
Through and Columbus Cotton.—Since Sep
tember 1st to Saturday last, the Montgomery
and West Point Railroad has brought from
Montgomery, en route for Savannah, SO,988
bales/and 3,896 for Columbus warehouses from
way stations; total, 34.8S4.
For the week ending Friday, the Mobile and
Girard Railroad brought to Columbus ware
houses 142 bales, and 9 for Savannah. Since
September 1st, it has brought 19,650 bales to
Columbus, and 5,361 for Savannah; total 25,-
011.—Columbus Bun, 24th.
Cotton at Montgomery.—Receipts past week
433; totalreeeipts 67,495; stock April 21, 1870,
6,943.
Cotton at Eufaula.-—Week’s receipts, 385;
total receipts, 31,213; stock April 20th, 8,525
bales.
In the Honse of Representatives, on Wednes
day, Gen. Logan, of Illinois, said:
“It is an utter impossibility for any set of
politicians on earth to make their reoords con
sistent, and they have no business to try it ”
[Laughter.] ...
A New bubo clergyman suddenly stopped In
the midst of bis sermon on Sunday and sat
down. This groused the sleepers, gad he then
arose and said he did not propose to preach to
persons who were sleeping under fate sermon,
had taken this ooures to eeeuro g ^
ake andtesee. He had it.
Total ..*31,443,790 38,340,000 241 25 !
•This total includes the population of the bijw.
to 295 tr? bla and aU the theQ TerHtoHes - amoanSjf !
Note.—The population of the Federal District
and the Territories probably exceed 500,000
raising the aggregate population of the United
States and Territories to about 39,000,000. Tit
majority of estimates carry it above 40,000,005,
which we think the actual enumeration will faj
to sustain.—N. Y. Tribune, 21st.
Financial Condition of Producea
The slowness with which collections are mid*
especially in the Middle and Western States, hi
to some extent unsettled confidence in the fioa
rial soundness of farmers and planter—the gre« I
producers of the country—and in this distrust I
some of the commission houses which have am-
nections with and depend more or less upon
them are somewhat involved. The Nev loi
Financial Chronicle, however, doubts whether
these apprehensions have any substantial bass,
for the reasons, first that the cotton crop is so
large, and the planter, if he has received lest
for it, has been paid in currency whose purchas
ing power has largely increased; that the tobac
co crop, although deficient, especially in Ken
tucky, has resulted in the maintenance of verj
extravagant prices in a constantly appreciating
currency: the full pork crop, with the reaction
in prices and appreciation of currency since Oc
tober, will bring the raisers of swine ont abont
even, and in regard to grain, while the view a
not so favorable, considering the great decline
in wheat, there have been few failures of bonses
having breadstuffs connections, and the fsums
with large stocks on hand are still far from bill-
ruptoy, and will soon adjust themselves to tie
state of affairs, although they cannot novitlp
feeling poorat wheat at seventy.five cents,vim
it was so short a time that it brought $1 50@tL
In conslusion, the Chronicle argues that there is
no real 1 cause for alarm as to the standing of
either producers or commission houses. Tbe;
have met with losses the past season, bnt the;
have secured large gains daring previous set-
sons; and although the planters and farmes
and graziers are slow.of payment now, the;
are still prosperous, and there are reasonable
prospects of a decided revival of trade as sooi
as the uncertainties which hang around the fi- I
nandal future of tho country are removed.
An Example Worthy of Imitation.—On yes
terday Messrs. Huff and Massey, who are
“crapping” together on the Upatoie, broughtto
town three heavy wagon loads of com, seven
sacks of No. 1 country-cured hams, and twenty
pounds of as fine butter as ever came to market
—all to sell. The sight was such an unnsual
one on onr streets as to attract tho attention
and approbation of all who saw it. These men
are of the right stamp. They make their own
living, pay their debts, borrow no money, ud
have produce to sell—simply because they hive
not run crazy on cotton. \Ve cannot look for
the permanent return of prosperity until the
example of these men is largely imitated. When
our planters devote their main energies to pro
ducing their needful supplies at home, and tbs j
excess of labor to raising cotton, we shall con
template the return of the era of peace and
plenty. It is folly to raise cotton only for thi
purpose of sending the prooeeds West for con
and bacon. Well done for Huff and Masse;'
[Columbus Bnquirer, 24th
A Bad Accident.—A terrible accident befell s a» I
latte man named Richard Bedding, yesterday mot? j
mg, on the track of. the Macon and Brunswick raS-1
road near this city at what is known as the jmr- J
tion. He had started out on the morning Bra*- j
wick trrin on a fishing excursion, with a partyof J
gentlemen front Marshallville and his emplojer-1
Mr. Milo S. Freeman of this city. He was in a bo: j
car in charge of the refreshments, tackle, etc., o!
the party, and when just beyond the Macon wi I
Western depot, he hurriedly sprang to the door id j
the car to speak to some one standing on the i
of the track, and, losing his balance, he fell oatot I
the low embankment at that point and slipped dov)
on to the track, and four cars passed over his legs-
His right leg Wts cut off just below the knee and
his left fo « jsked to a jelly. Richard is repw j
sented to good, honest and faithful
and he a (the sincere sympathy of all who bs 1
him.
The train a |J-stopped a3 soon as poesible, wl j
Richard was taken to a house near by, where Dr.
H. Wright amputated his right leg and a portion ol
his’ left foot. The party of excursionist, hel<**
they started on their journey, made up a I
pony purse for poor Dick’s benefit, and he ** I
taken to his home in Collinsville.
Advance in Corn and Bacon.—If we are *
much mMskan in the present appearance oi *
western provision markets, those planters m* 9
South who staked their bottom dollar ob cotton V
year, are going to have a rough time of it from w* I
until the next com and bacon crops are m»* I
Prime white com on the 27th day of April, one
ago, was selling in this market at 9105 per bnabA
by the car load; it it now worth 9150—a differ® 9 1
of 45 cents per bushel against the Southern oo£* I
planter. Bacon at this time one year ago w J
at 18 cents for clear rib sides. It is now 6tn I
these figures with an advancing tendency. 8o 3 * I
clear that there must be a very heavy decline,*!
least in the price of ooro, or the planter will hi* j
to shell out a much larger amount of cash i° r I
staff of life this than last year. But will tbiewl
cline occur ? Evidently it will not, for our com d«* j
ers, even ai the present high prioe, are barely w* j
to keep pace with the demand, and from all J
tors in the west we hear of a general eoarfl? I
oom, and a daily advanoe ia prices. Per j
On the 27lh day of last \prii planters were I
holding cotton in this market at 25 cents per p
now they are offering it quite freely at 21
So here is another hard rub—a decline of |
cents per pound in the prioe of cotton,
vanoo of 45 cents per bushel in the price of ^
To meet tbe emergency, many planters
flooding this market with warehouse
borrowing money at the sate of P® Mg
month to get bread and meat, and that, to*
having spent ail their ampins oaah f» '
order to saaie a large crop of return!
ophy of the policy which many Geo*®*
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stifltty. We&atsaderstead
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