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32 _ The Greorgia ^W'eekhy Telegraph and Jprimal &c Messenger. Telegraph and Messenger. MACOX MAY 31, -1870. took to Vo nr Account*: There are bat four nfbre day* “> flrat of 3™Ten all subscribers to this paper who h“e not paid in advance mast be discontinued We are under obligations to the great body of onr patrons who have promptly squared their accounts at our request; butthere are sUU a few in arrears and some of them among the wealth- iest men in middle Georgia. We are confident they will miss their paper just as much as any body, but the payment is a small one, therefore they’neglect it. We can, however, show no partialities in the enforcement of the rule. Onr honor is pledged to keep no name on the sub scription books not showing a balance to credit; and therefore we must discontinue the paper unless they make an advance payment. We hope every one will attend to it forthwith. We do not think any intelligent man or woman within the range of our circulation, can afford to do without the Teleobafh. and Hessen-gee. A Sbot From Greeley. The New York Tribune, of the 23d, says: “ Governor Bullock presents his arguments against the Bingham Amendment to the Geor gia bm and the points of his quarrel with Mr. Joshua Hill, in a long letter, of which the no- ticeablo passages are given elsewhere. In the quarrel the public have no interest, and it is rather impertinent in Mr. Bollock thus to thrust it upon public attention. The point of the ar gument against the Bingham Amendment seems to lie in the fact that its adoption will pnt an end to the official career of Governor Bnllock and the other members of the present State Government. Governor Bullock asks ns to be lieve that such personal fate will be the death of Republicanism,in Georgia. Really we can’t We have a little too mnch faith in the ultimate triumph of trno principle to be easily convinced that the lifo of the party depends on continued office-holding by any parlicnlar man.” A Radical KuKlnxcr-Inciting to As* sasslnation. • ^ We call the parlicnlar attention of Forney ing from^tho'Nei? YbTfrefe«18S9?.i° *h®. follow- a Radical paper. The editor should at once be arrested. We have never read a more deliber ate or explicit suggestion of the assassination of a loyal man. We almost shudder at the writer’s cool audacity in putting so diabolical a proposi tion in print. We demand bis instant arrest and trial by court martial. Let his threatened vic tim get Forney to write another ten page letter to Congress and incorporate this paragraph in it. It cannot fail to arouse the loyal heart of the country in his behalf. Read and prevent your blood runing cold if you can. Horrible! horrible! horrible! John Russel Young, of the New York Stan dard, nominates Dana, of the Sun, for Coroner of New York city. He thinks the man and the office would suit each other singularly well. As a specimen of his reasoning we print an extract: Mr. Dana prints an indecent sensation news paper, for instance—and think of the “sensa tions” that would come into his exclusive pos session ! In the matter of private letters, what unrivalled opportunities! What rare columns of exclusive and interesting information! What chances to invade stricken households, with a trail of familiars as a “jury,” andwrito up the furniture, the bed-linen, the plate, the pictures, the jewels, the packages of letters in secret drawers, the conversation of domestics, the un guarded words of the woe-begone survivors! Bach advantages are priceless. Now let’s see how Dana strikes back. We put our money on Young till we have heard from him. Preparations poe Taking The Census.—Gen eral Walker, Superintendent of census, is send ing out millions of copies of the census laws, schedules, Ac., preliminary to taking the census. According to general instructions assistant mar shals will begin the enumeration of their subdi visions Juno I, and continue it without interrup tion till tho work is complete. Intermission of work will be sufficient cause for removal. No graver offence can bo committed than to divulge information acquired in the discharge of their duty. A Discussion op Polyoasit.—The sermon of Dr. Newman, of tho Metropolitan Methodist Church, of New York, on the subject of polyga my, delivered several weeks ago, having reach ed Brigham YouDg’s dominions through the columns of tho Herald, the reverend doctor has received a challenge to come to Salt Lake City and deliver tho same discourse in the temple. It is proposed that one of the saints shall reply. A large audionoa and perfect security are prom ised. Dr. Newman has accepted the challenge, and proposes to leave early in August. Old Cotton Mather was a sample Paritan. The New York Times resurrects a letter from him, detailing a plan for the capture of William Penn, and the sale of him in Barbadoes for “mmme and sugar.” The letter was signed : “Yours in ye bowells of Christ.” Mather wanted Penn captured and sold, that “the Hbrd might be glorified, and not mocked on ye soil of this new conntrie by ye heathen worshippe of Quakers.” The Rev. “Gin and Milk” Smythe, sometimes known as Charles A. Smythe, has started a church of hia own in New York city. He proachod Ins first sermon Sunday morning, and ' “the congregation, composed of about 100 peo ple, received their pastor with partially sup pressed cheers.” Which raises the presumption that they had been testing some of the hair of the same dog that bit Smythe. The Finnegan Fizzle.—The so-called battle of Huntington, wo suppose, winds up this cruel Fenian farce, and we hope will consign to scorn and contempt tho miserable leaders who have betrayed the Irish into thin inexcusable outrage upon the peace of Canada. The men who get np military expeditions which can possibly re sult in nothing the but useless sacrifice of life and property, are entitled to death by martial law. Wonders or Architecture.—Translated from he French of M. Lefevre, to which is added a chapter on English architecture, by B. Donald, Now York: Charles Scribner «fc Co. This is a small 18 mo. volume abounding in pictoral illus trations, and interesting statistics of ancient and modem architecture. A very interesting pop ular work, as we should juilgo. As a man and his wife, residing in Keokuk county, Iowa, were returning, one day last week, from the funeral of. the last of their three children, who had died of scarlet fever, a thun der storm came np, and just as they were enter ing the gate of their dcsolatod house, the light ning struck their carriage. The man was in stantly killed, and his wife is now a raving ma niac. A Diversified Agriculture. Speaking of the policy ,of an exclusive cotton culture in the South, the New York Tribune says: “If in January and February the plant ers of the South could have met in.conveutions, talked the matter over, and agreed to plant leu cotton and more of something else, they icould have controlled the price, and held it at a quarter of a dollar and over.” Vve have little doubt that if the Southern plan ters could combine in that way and carryout, in strict faith, the policy agreed upon, the price of cotton might be raised to twenty-five cents and beyond; but we very much doubt the practica bility of any such combination, and should doubt the policy of it if it were practicable. But- one thing is dear beyond all reasonable controversy, to wit: that to tho extent that the cotton crop is swelled, to the ’sacrifice of food crops, the planters undermine their own for tunes in four ways, viz: v < • • 1. By increasing the crop of ootton and so diminishing its price. In this way thoy proba bly get no more, or very little more, for. their increased crop, with inadequate food supplies, than they might for a diminished crop with full supplies of grain and forage. 2. By creating an enormous and unnatural demand for Western grain and provisions they add to the price of those products about as much as their policy of unnaturally swelling the yield of cotton takes away from the price of that ar ticle. 3. They tax their agriculture, not only with the enormous freight expenses upon these food supplies, but with the oost of the additional fer tilizers they are compelled to purchase, as a substitute for the barnyard manures which would be collected and used if they raised abundant grain crops and kept up a good supply of well fed stock, as it would be sound economy to do. 4. They harrass their sm all. supply of stock, wear out their wagona, lose their time, pay heavy interest for loans and advances, and vex their righteous souls in a great many other ways, in the pursuit of this big ootton crop policy—all which they would save if their first quest on the plantation were the production of food. We undertake to say if the most prudent and intelligent man among onr readers will take his pencil and figure a little under these heads, he able to sustain ihe’ policy; and we don’t believe it can do so for any length of time. On a crop of 250,000 bales (say 212,500,000 pounds cotton,) supposing th6 difference between the prices paid for tho last crop and the crop before, to nett two cents a pound, the loss on that quantity of cotton would foot up $4,250,000. That, or something like it, was probably the loss under the first head— the decrease in the price of cotton from the in creased product. Under tho second head, let us suppose Geor gia imports fifteen millions bushels of com, and wo think she does that. Now, com last year at this time was worth $115 in Macon—to day it is worth $1 55; and there is a difference, if we mistake not, of $2,125,000 on com alone. And what shall we say about meat, with a dif ference of a cent a pound against ns, whereas we venture to assert that if the South produced her own meat, Western bacon would be five cents a pound less this day? And then there is all the other food and forage which we bring from the West and North, in pursuance of a polioy, wherein we are practically laboring to put tip the price of everything we buy, while we labor as practically to put down cotton, the only thing we sell. Then, under the third and fonrth heads what a vista of enormous losses opens before ns; but we have no time to follow it. Try your own bands. Georgians, think how busy our agriculture is in cutting its own throat! Think how every consideration . of common sense clamors for a diversified agriculture. * New Parties. The New York Horald of the 24th, which for some time past has been diligently suggesting a merger of the democratic organization into va rious somethings else has the following: No Name eor it.—The Charleston News is at a loss for a name for a new party. It discards the title “anti-radical” and don’t like that of “citizens’ party” or “citizens’Reform party.”— Better term it the “no vote party.” You will then come nearer hitting the mark. The fact is, there are now but two parties in the country —the democratic and the republican. The is sues at the next Presidential election will be fought nnder these respective banners; and all the South has to do is to discard all meaningless names, get used to the term “democratic,” cul tivate the negro vote and follow the example of the State of New York—if it wants a democra tic national administration. There is practically bnt one qne a jion before tho country, and that is a government inside or outside the constitution. This proposition embraces every thing of importance before the people, and upon it, there is a clear and heaven- wide distinction between the two parties. The Radicals are confessedly outside the. funda mental and every other kind of law, but such law as is the diotate of their own passions, re sentments and cupidity. They acknowledge no principle of government, except the will of the majority, as expressed by a Supreme Congress. That is the whole story of that party. On the other hand, believing that snoh a plan of gov ernment can lead to nothing bnt misery and mischief to every body, the Democrats raise the standard of the Constitution and a strict construction thereof. These are the issues— the most stupendous which can ever be ad dressed to freemen. They involve the fate of the country and the liberty and security of 6Yery man and. every lawful interest in it. If any brother is so weak as to be deterred from joining the democracy on such an issue, by an ancient hatred of the mere name, his case calls for medical treatment and dry nurs ing. The venerable etandard nnder which that old party has so often triumphed, and will eo often do it again, cannot be changed or lowered to meet his scouples. The Amerioan Democracy mnetxe-eetablish the American Constitution and Government, or they are lost forever. Col. Mebriam, U. S. A., commanding at Fort Bliss, recently started for San Antonio, Texas. On the Concha river, he encountered one of those terrible water spouts by which-Western Texas is so often visited. His wife, child, ser vant and five men were drowned. He alone was lived. Bakes County.—The Grand Jury of Baker County, in their General Presentments on the first P3ge, give an encouraging report of {af fairs in that county. Meat More Profitable Than Cotton. The Winnsboro’ News, of the 24th instant, In an editorial displaying sound wisdom .and good practical sense, says: Commissioner -Wells, in bis last magnifioent report, proves by statistics that tbe number of sheep in the United States has decreased 25 per cent within a few years, being less by millions than in 1860, while the number of sheep-eating men has increased by millions. Recent investi gations prove that this same alarming decrease has also taken place in the number of cattle and hogs in' the United States. The consumption of meat is far in exoess of its production. With onr immense immigration continuing, the de mand for meat, for years to come, is obliged to exceed the possibility of an adequate supply. Every consideration of interest, therefore, should urge onr land owners to pay immediate and continued attention to the raising of stock. Thomas Jefferson was a great stock raiser, as well as a great farmer, and the inventor of the modern plough. He with great shrewdness, employed herdsmen to attend to his stock, exclu sive of all other business. It will always pay to : do so. Why do our planters not import shep herds and herdsmen from Scotland ? Let them not dream of making as much by cotton as by stock raising, for several years; for the high price of meat is not accidental, bnt due to an ex cess of demand over supply, that promises to outlast, by a long time, tbe temporary scarcity of cotton. The impression gains ground in St. Lonis that the burning of tho Republican office was tho work of an incendiary. The total loas was $160,000, with $1ih>,000 insurance. Tbe Georgia Press. The editor of tbe Sandersyille GeorgiarC apol ogizes for lack W effitorial matter by saying he has dysentery. He has been to Savannah, re cently. - ' -j>|fi frirftft-r 1 itfcdA*: 1 There was a good rain yesterday at Talbotton, which seemed to be general all over the county. Thick clothes were comfortable next day. Mr. Charles Mcrtz, an old and respected citi zen of Thomasville, died Wednesday. The Thomasville Enterprise under the head “What is to be Done ?” says : There is a great cry for corn in this section, and it can not be obtained for lore or money. The corn-sellers in the country have become alarmed, for their oat crops, and eat off the supplies of com, lest they should fall short of sufficient supplies for the farms. Com is high here and everywhere, but our wise farmers have all gone teeth and toe nails into rhe ootton business. Suppose cotton falls and yon have do 00m next year? What then ? Why the bankrupt court, and being sold out lock stock and barrel, of course. There were fine rains, Wednesday, at Colum bus and Augusta. At Columbus some hail fell. Tho Columbus Sun is satisfied the city coun cil will subscribe $500,000, or more, to a road from Columbus taRome or Kingston. Mr. D. Averett, a merchant of Columbus, lost a daughter, aged fourteen, a most lovely girl, on Monday night.-' She died very suddenly. On the 12th inst. Mr. A.’s son, aged 12 years, died just as suddenly. In the first boat race at Savannah, Wednes day, tho “Queen” won in 7.46—a mile stretch. In the second race, the “King Cotton” was the victor. Time—7»20.' «•/ T-. , _ ."q ari - -T •* ~ The following is a list of the losers by the Einstein forgery, at Savannah, ay far as known. The entire loss is set down at $70,000: Merchants’ National Bapi, $16,790, endorsed by Meinhard Bros. A Co.; also, $7,000, endorsed by G. Gemenden; Ketchum & Hartridge, $250, endorsed by Meinhard Bros. This same house holds two notes for $1,400 each; endorsed by A. A. Solomons & Co., and it is known that one or both have been altered, from $400 to $1,400. Bltrn & Meyer, from $1,400 to $5,000 on paper discounted by them. Jacob Tries, $900 on note endersed by Meinhard Bros.; L. Fried, $2,000,. on note endorsed by Meinhard Bros.; L. Fried, £2,000, on note endorsed by Meinhard & Bros.; J. T. Rowland, $2,000 on paper discounted; Mayer & Co., from $1,000 to $1,500 on dis counted paper; Savannah Bank and Trust, something near $1,000. This note is said to be genuine, thougliVhe parties,n-canlhat.it is a for T David R. Dillon, a small amount, not known. Besides this a note for $2,000, with A. S. Gibbes’ name on it, has been discovered, and is also a loss. Tho gaming table is said to have swallowed the money. The Sandersville Georgian, of Wednesday, says rains have been passing about that country but in general the county is dry. Crops have not suffered from drouth however. We are satisfied that section had a fine min Wednesday afternoon. 2- Messrs. Yarborough and Huckabee, of Augus ta, young gentlemen of the mercantile persua sion indulged in $5 worth of kicking and shoot ing Wednesday afternoon. Cheap sport, that We find the following correspondence in the Constitutionalist, of Wednesday: Augusta,' Ga., May 21,1870. To Col. J. II. Taylur, A. A. General, Depart ment Georgia.- : Sir : It is a matter of controversy among the legal profession of this city as to whether the General Commanding has complied with there- qust of the Georgia Legislature relative to the stay of executions on all matters prior to June, 1865. I have concluded, therefore, to apply to headquarters .for positive information on the snbjeot. If snoh order has been issued it will come within your knowledge, and the informa tion is respectfully requested from yon. Very respeotfully, John L. Elis. Headq’es Military Diet, or Georgia,) Atlanta, May 23th, 1870. ) Respectfully returned to Mr. Ells. I have not approved and shall not approve the resolution within referred to. Alfred H. Terry, B. M. Gen’L The Valdosta Times, of Tuesday ,says: There has been no rain in this section for many days. Gardens are burned np, and seed planted in the gronnd have scarcely moisture enough to sprout. In counties north of this, there has been no. rain since March. The com crops are standing it finely so far. Rome is'fb have a steam saw mill in foil op eration, in ten days. The Marietta Journal says : Com is growing finely. Cotton thrifty. Wheat excellent, promises abundant harvest. Good rains Tnesday ancT Wednesday above and below here. Passenger trans will commence to run regular ly from Dalton to Selma, on Jnne 1st. From all points on the line of railroad from Chattanooga to Augusta, we have reports of heavy rains this week. Greensboro is cursed with the presence of a lot of Gypsies who have been thieving and swindling right and left. The Griffin Star says Col. C. Peeples, of that place, is seriously ill with inflammatory rheu matism. The Atlanta Era says: Fatal Accident on the State Road.—Yes terday afternoon abont 3 o’clock, as Mr. S. W. Thornton, a coupler in the employ of the State Boed, was in the act of getting on the tender of the switch engine, New Hampshire, his foot slipped, and the unfortunate man, falling be tween the cars, was literally cut in two. Mr. T. had his life insured in the Georgia Mutual, of this city, for $5,000, but not being able to make the first payment, the policy was cancelled several - weeks ago. —... The Atlanta Son, of yesterday says: Maoon seems determined to have Mercer Uni versity. Her people have resolved “that the Mayor and Council of the city of Maoon are.re quested to tender to the Trustees of Mercer Uni versity a suitable site for the buildings needed by the institution, and subscribe ($125,000) one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars, payable in the bonds of the city, provided the said institution is located at Maoon; the site and bnildiDgs placed thereon to revert to the city if said institution is ever removed to any other place.” But the Trustees, before deciding the matter, will count np the doetor’s bills. To which insinuation we reply with this item from the Constitution, of same date. “Trade was brisk on Broad street yesterday evening.— Echols sold several mowers and reapers, and William Wood four coffins." The Cowart Honse, Atlanta, occupied as a boarding house by Mis. Jones, was burned Thursday morning—* total loes. House insured for $5,000, sad furniture for $1500. The Constitution says: We learn that daring the present w&k, Chief Justice J. E. Brown purchased 240 sores of land in Gordon county for $9,000. The Oathbert Appeal, of Thursday, says rains have been abundant and general through out that seotion. There was a furious rain and hail storm at and around Oathbert on Wednesday. One farm er had a heavy mule shelter blown down, s val uable horse killed, and a mule badly crippled. Three other animals were cut out and saved. In an altercation at Cnthbert the day of the recent fire, Daniel Taylor, a negro, was shot and killed by Wm. Freeman, a white man. The Albany Hews has the following items Terrific Hail Storm.—Newton, Baker coun ty, was visited by a severe hail storm on Wed nesday afternoon. From information it must have been very destructive to cotton and corn. It fell in stones the size of an egg, and in such quantities that buckets full were easily gathered some time after the storm had passed over.— We have no report of the damage, but fear it was serious. A Glorious Rain.—On Wednesday afternoon the clouds “colligated” and torrents ponied upon tbe parched earth. The rain came in the nick of tame, and was abundant. It was a great blessing, and we are rejoiced to learn extended many miles. The “Wend Democracy.” The New York Commercial Advertiser (Rad.) s^a: r - The Democratic majority in the State Is over eighty thousand; it is over twenty thousand without New York. Indeed, it is claimed they have carried the State without the aid of the foreign vote in the oities of tto State. This faot alone speaks volumes for the vitality of the Demooratio party. Republicanism seems to be palsiedtdmost everywhere in the State. We commend these figures and tbe Adver tiser’s opinions to the Radical pup-suokers and hirelings who are eternally'soreeohing between each mouthful of official rations—“the Demo oratio party is dead.” Thoy know they lie—un der a mistake—when they call it a corpse. But dead or alive, nothing inspires them with livelier fear than this same Demooratio party. A skulking sneak-thief don’t fear the approach of a policeman more than do these Radical chaps the movements of tho Democrats. They know that when Democracy moves it is right against them and their strongholds, where, like the robber barons of old, they hsve entrenched themselves and stored their plunder. It is the instinct of Democracy to grip rogue3 and plun derers by the throat without ado, and shake their ill-gotten gains from their hands and pock ets. The mission of this lively corpse is to punish all tyrants, and especially all mean, smali-souled, cowardly tyrants, such as Radical ism naturally breeds. They are to be inconti nently kicked and enffed ont of the high places into which they have bullied and swindled them selves, and put to making atonement for their evil deeds. No wonder these loyal howlers are always calling Democracy dead and pelting its imaginary coffins with stones. They know that only when it is coffined, sure enough, will they be safe. We can hardly blame them; for, un til that day comes, they are living with ropes around their necks. The New York Democrats that shown them, too, how detuned unpleasant that may fceoome when stretohed too taut. Organs, big and little, bad better go back to “rebel” and Ku-Ktux outrages for texts. Tbe “dead Democracy” becomes rather a sickening ■abject when illustrated a fa New York. ’ “ l ;‘‘ A Point of Clmrcli Etiquette* « . The New York Journal of Commerce, in noticing the rejeotion by the M. E. Church, Sonth, of the offer of union fromjthe M. E. Church, North, says: The Southern M.JE. Conference Jhave decid- Northem branoh. “This determination will be less disappointing to the Northern Methodists than if an opposite coarse had been expected by them. The proposition made by the North ern Conference, was of a character, that evi dently anticipated rejeotion— if it was not put forward expressly to be rejected. Judged by those rules of etiquette which apply as fully to religious as to secular matters, the offer of the Northern Commissioners could not have been accepted without some humiliation and loss of self-respect npon the part of the Southerners In declining it they but acted as the dignitaries of any Church in the world would act under like circumstances. The instructions given to the Commissioners from the Northern Conference directed them first to “confer with the late Commission from the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church” with a view to a union, and afterwards to nego tiate with “similar Commissions from any Me thodist Church that may desire a like union."— The colored Methodist Church is here mention ed by name and pnt first as the principal object of Northern solicitude, while the great Southern Church of the same denomination is only hinted at in language which could not fail to be con strued in the Sonth as an intentional slight.— Had the Northern branch intended their over tures to be rejected, they conld not have phrased a set of instructions more direotly cal culated for that end. The Memphis Conference could not bnt re gard it even as something more than a breach of etiquette. They could not but feel ag grieved that the Northern Chnrch should seem to desire to effect a union with tho Colored Church Sonth to tho exclusion of the great Southern branch. To the latter it appeared, as a matter of course, as if the Northern Metho dists were trying to break up tho fraternal rela tions which unite the white and colored Metho dist organizations of the South, and they could not be expected to do otherwise-than Tesent such an effort by the unanimous action they have taken. If a reunion of the two great sections of the M. E. Chnrch is ever to be effected, it can only be done through the Southerners in terms suffi ciently definite and. courteous, and free from any semblance of political purposes. Tbe re cent attempt was so awkward, and tbe failure so bad, and the feeling left brand in tbe South so very unpleasant, that wo do not cherish the expectation that the broken Church will be re joined for years to come. Gens. Grant And Hancock. The version published by the New York "World of a curtreply recently made by President Grant (through Gen. Sherman) to an application by General Hancock for a change in his command, has led to tho publication of the following cor respondence, wnich is said to be a copy of let ters on file in the War Department. Though it does not contain tho precise language of tho re ply as given by the World, the spirit and pnrpoit are the same : Headers. Armies of the United States,) Washington, April 14, 1870. ) Gen. T7. S. Hancock, Commanding Depart ment of Dakota, St. Paul, Minn.: ; General—I have laid your dispatch of the 18th, from St. Lonis, before the President, who authorizes me to say that yonr wishes and claims for the succession to the command of the Mili tary Division of the Paoifio, made vacant by General Thomas’ death, were fairly considered, and also yonr preference for tho Department of the Missouri, in case of a change of commander, were also known to him, but he has ordered otherwise. < The President authorizes me to say to you that it. belongs to his office to select the Com manding Generals of Divisions and Depart ments, and that the relation yon choose to as sume towards him,officially and privately,absolve him from regarding yonr personal preferences. The order announcing these changes will be made public in a very few days, and they will not tonch tbe Department of Dakota or the Mil- litary Division of the Missouri. I am, with respect, yours truly, W. T. Sherman, General. Headqurs. Department op Dakota, f St. Paul, Minn., April 27.) General TK T. Sherman, Commanding Army of the United States, Washington, 1) C.; General—Yonr letter has been received de tailing the reasons the President gives why my claims to a more important command should not be regarded. I intended by my dispatch to ask for a Divis ion, if the existing Divisions wore all continued, otherwise .for the Department of tho Missouri, if changes made it practicable, not as a favor, but as a claim to & command to which I thought ray rank entitled me. As the President leads mo to believe that be cause I bare not his personal sympathy my pre ferences for command will not be regarded, notwithstanding my rank, I shall not again open the subject, but will add, in conclusion, , that I think it is an unfortunate precedent to establish, that military rank in time of peace, especially in the assignments of general officers to com mands of Divisions and Departments, shall not have the consideration hitherto conceded to it. I am, very respectfully, Your obedient servant, Winfield S. Hancock, Major General, U. S. A. The people of the United States are just abont sick of the name of Bullock. - One can’t read anything from Georgia which is not coupled with Bullock.. Washington has had such a dose of Bullock that if somebody would only extin guish Bullock, wo dare say the capital would cheerfully take up a subscription for that ‘ ‘some body” as a national benefactor. A Senator re marked last week that Congress had “Bullock on the brain, and that Bnllock had Congress in his breeches’ pockets. ” The idea is a little mixed, but ’twill do to express the general feeling npon the snbjeot of Bnllock. It is said that Bullock has gone to Georgia and will break out afresh in that State. This makes ns wish that there were ho such things as newspapers, post offices or telegraph stations in Georgia. What candil date for a glorious immortality will take this Bullock by the horns and give him his quietus ? The people are yearning to erect a national mon ument to somebody, and tho man who will ex punge Bullock is the man they want. Northern and Sonttern, Presliytepiaas.r Lewisville General Assembly. Reception of the Northern Delegates. Cordial and Loving Speeches. Wo copy from the Louisville Courior-Joumal of Thursday the following highly interesting report of the reception and speeches of the dis tinguished delegates from the Philadelphia Gen eral Assembly: —.aitfq 01 resolutions or the general assembly of the PRESBYTERIANS OF THE NORTH. Whereas, The' General Assembly believes that the interests of the Kingdom of our Lord throughout the country would’ be greatly pro moted by healing all unnecessary divisions, and Whereas. The General Assembly desires the 6peedy establishment of cordial fraternal rela tions with tho General Assembly of the Presby terian Chnrch of the United States, cofiamonly. known as the Southern Presbyterian Church,upon terms of mutual confidence, respect, Christian honor, and love; and Whereas, We believe that terms of re-union between the two branches of tho Presbyterian Chnrch at the North, now happily consummated, present an auspicious opportunity for the ad justment of relations ; therefore, be it Resolved, That a committee of five ministers and four elders be appointed by this Assembly to confer with a similar committee, if it shall be appointed by the Assembly now in session in the city of Louisville, in respect to opening a friendly correspondence between tho Northern and Southern Presbyterian Churches, and that the result of such conference he reported! to the General Assembly of 1871.. Resolved, That with a view to the furtherance of the object contemplated in the appointment of said committee, this Assembly hereby con firms the concurrent declaration of tho two As semblies tfHch mbt in the city of New York last year, viz: “That no role or precedent whioh does not stand approved by both bodies shall be of any authority in the 7 re-nnited body, except in so far as such rule or precedent may affeot the rights of property founded thereon.” Resolved, That two ministers and one elder of tho committee appointed by this Assembly be designated as delegates to convey to the As sembly now in session in Louisville, Ky., a copy of these resolutions, with onr Christian saluta tions. J. Trumbull Backus, Moderator. Cyrus Dickson, Permanent Clerk. The Moderator invited the delegation to seats on the stand, receiving first Dr. Backns, who addressed the Assembly as follows; ADDRESS OF REV. 3. TRUMBULL BACKUS. -..Mr- J^ft^r0i«7- l &i^2%rSr' , A¥se^bTy‘oflhe Presbyterian church now held at Philadelphia, at an early period of its session, passed a reso lution, whioh has been read to yon, appointing a committee to wait npon yon with reference to them. It might have been in due form bad they simply sent you these resolutions in the ordinary way, but they wanted to pay a mark of respect to you, and appointed the committee to come before you in person, and present their Christian salutations and state before you the spirit that animated that body. I feel it a very high honor and a very great privilege that I have been appointed upon this mission, and as I stand here I feel at home in this body. I look arouud me and see those with whom I have been associated in my ministerial lifo, and in the great work which calls you bore. I see not a few with whom I entered that minis terial life, living with them,, eating at the same table and sitting in the same class-room, while we songht to prepare ourselves for this work.— Therefore yon may well know that I feel at homo among you, and that your honor, your happiness and yonr prosperity I feel to be bound up with mine. I need not, with these resolutions before yon, undertake to speak of reunion. We did'not come here to propose organio union;, we-are not authorized by onr Assembly to do so; and we are well aware that the time has not yet como. But we have hoped that a conference of brethren in mutual respect and in Christian honor and love, might open a door by "which this step can bo taken. And, sir, I feel that there is so muoh tree piety in this chnrch and in that to whioh I belong that *we cannot meet without devising means which will attain this end. And now, sir, may grace, mercy and peace rest npon you and this whole audience over which you preside. Rev. Dr. Vandyke then came forward and spoke as follows: - . *: *. * - \ .:il - foil HlW■ • .' ill. : .. ADDRESS OF REV. HENRY J. VANDYKE, D. D. Mr. Moderator and Brethren—"VYhen-1 came into your city audbeheld your rapidly increasing growth and numbers, I thought how rapidly peace brings plenty ont of the chaos of war, how prompt are the instincts of commerce to provide for future development; and I thought in my heart that with such a bridge, with such strong foundations connecting the North and the South with closer ties, what should be the ties existing between the two great bodies of Presbyterians which we are appointed to negotiate between. Sir, I confess that I am somewhat embarrassed as to how I should proceed with my remarks. It would be manifestly improper for me, in the position which I occupy, to argue a question be fore this Assembly; yet sir, I am exceedingly anxious that every member of this Assembly shall understand the true nature of the paper before you, and if in the warmth of my feeling I seem to speak out of my province, I throw my self entirely upon your kindness and Christian forbearance. First—Wo are not here to make propositions for an organio union between' the Churches. We are not authorized to say anything npon that subject, for we recognize the faot that neither of the two bodies is prepared for the considera tion of such a subject. We da not contemplate an organic union, but something, higher, better, without which a union would be a dead form. What wo contemplate is a union in'the spirit and in tho bonds of peace—a union which your Master and mine prayed for when He stood with His foot on the threshold of the holy of holies and besought the Father that those who were given to him might be one. -Sir, if these two great bodies of Presbyterian Christians in the United States can be made one in spirit, it will send dismay into tbe ranks of onr common ene my, and make more joy in heaven than the re pentance of ninety-nine sinners. I desire, in the first place, sir, to notice that that paper does not propose to make an inter change of corresponding delegates. We are prepared to take that step, so far as I can judge, and we come now to see, first, whether or not you are prepared It only, proposes to appoint a committee on each side to see whether we are prepared. I desire you to notice next that it neither makes nor asks any humiliating conces sions. We"do not comehere to cry peccavi, and' we do not ask you to do so; for I tell you that Presbyterians can’t be reconciled in that way. There is too much militant blood in them for that. Their convictions are too deep and clear for them to do so. I do not want you in any way to humble yourselves before me, and I will not consent. that the body which I represent shall do such a thing; but let us humble our selves before God and stand up face to face be fore the world. In the fourth place, that paper recognizes tho existence of difficulties between ust—diffi culties which stand in the way of even bd in terchange of correspondence; and it proposes a plan for their removal—a plan whioh L think is consistent and scriptural, and promotive of onr common good. It is the plan proposed by the apostle Fanl, in the YI chapter of his epistle to the Corinthians, in which he says: “Dare any of yon, having a matter against another, go to law before the nniost and not be fore the sa nts ? Do yon not know that the saints shal judge the world ? And if the world shall be judged by you, are ye unworthy to judge tho smallest matters ?” Shall we then go to the court of Cresar ? . We have appointed nine men with especial reference to their adaptation to this work, and we aBk you to appoint ajmmiler committee in a similar spirit, to see if all these difficulties, .growing out of the questions of jurisdiction and chnrch property, with all matters pertaining to the past and future, can be settled in a Chris tian spirit, and report the same to the General Assembly. , {J 1 ® fifth plaoe, I desire yon to notice the faot that, preliminary to entering npon these formal negotiations, and with a view to the removal of all obstacles on all aides, tbe Gen- eral Assembly has passed a resolution, whioh deo^ares that no rule or proceeding which does not Btand approved by both bodies shall be of any authority in the reunited body, in go far as such rule or precedent may affeot the rights of property founded thereon. Let me say, in regard to the concluding clause, that it refers to ~ iuuu ui mo uoaro, it means simply 1 that, while we didn’t intend to repeal history or the aots of the Assembly, those acts which our Southern brethren considered offensive and dangerous to them are deolared to he no longer inforw. -They creaitaply laid upon the shelf. If the aet of 1865-6 were in existence we could not offer nor you aoeept any negotiations, therefore, in a spirit of Christian kindness, we have declared them no loDger in force. And now, Mr. Moderator, I wish to say that I have been familiar with this whole movement on the part of the Philadelphia Assembly from its very inception. I think I understand it as thorough ly, with the intellect God has given me, as it can be understood, and I would say as one reason wby I am connected with it that I believe it has been brought forth in kindness, baptized in Christian love and designed solely to promote the oause of Christ and the great Presbyterian Churches of this land. Tbe unanimity of the Assembly as now constituted is remarkable in many respects, and to some, perhaps, surpris ing. But to my mind nothing in the proceed ings of that Assembly has so far been so unan imous as the adoption of the resolutions now before you; and the entire unanimity with whioh both the Assembly and tbe Committee of Delegates have acted convinces me that it is not the work of man bnt the work of a better spirit. God, Mr. Moderator, is accustomed to pre pare the hearts of his people for the events of His providence. Yon and I have often noticed in the case of old experienced believers what a mellowness comes over the heart as they are pre pared for their departure. We call that ripening for heaven ; and I believe a similar mellowness comes over the hearts of Christians to prepare them for similar events which is the beginning of heaven on earth. ■ I believe spih influences have guided the Philadelphia Assembly to send ns here. And now, sir, after these few explanatory re marks; allow me to say that I have endeavored todisoharge what hasbeen the most difficult duty ever imposed upon me. Iam perfectly aware tliatl have discharged it in meekness, bnt I must add at the same time, paradoxical as it may seem, that it has been a delightful duty. It is delight ful because it gives me the privilege of standing here and'speaking to this Assembly, and to acj^. dress you as its Moderator ; because it gives me an opportunity to look upon your faces, many of whom are familiar, and . all of whom I respect and honor. It is delightful to me because it en ables me to occupy, in some bumble degree, the position of a peace maker. And now let me say that when I stand in yonr presence my heart has yearned towards yon with a - fondness whioh is insuperable. My heart has yearned towards yon with the fondness of a son whose father and mother have quarreled, and who clings to his mother, and with warm affection desires to see them reconciled without stain or dishonor to either. Now, is this feeling peculiar to my self? There were other tears shed and other hearts that beat with a quicker pulsation when hearts anxiously waiting yonr response. And now, if there be not a full fellowship of the Spirit, let ns at least demonstrate to those we represent that even if it be not possible that our union be closer we shall at least recognize each other as independent Christian bodies.— And though we go np as different tribes to pos sess the land, let ns go np as Israelitiee; Mid let the banner over us be the banner with the cross upon it—the banner of King EmanneL Dr. Vandyke was followed by Hon. "VY. E, Dodge, who spoke as follows: ADDRESS OF HON. W. E. DODOS. Mr. Moderator and Christian Friends—I can not say, like my brother who preceded me, that I fee’ at home on account of fraternal relations hitherto existing between ns, bnt I have no hes itancy in saying to yon, as I look into yonr faces this morning, that I do feel at home be cause I am in the midst of Presbyterian breth ren and Christian brethren. "When I had the honor of this appointment and returned to my hotel, I told my wife I was expected to leave for Kentucky, and that I hesitated about leaving the duties end responsibilities then resting up on me. She said to me : “Husband, this is God s calling ; go bear the love of this Assem bly to tbe Assembly of the South, for God has called yon to the duty.” My brethren who have preceded me have re ferred to tbe unanimous vote on the these reso lotions whioh we bear you, but it is hardiy pos sible for'us to convey to you the feeling of that vast assembly of six hundred delegates and the galleries, who, not satisfied with the unanimous Yoto, broke out, contrary to all tho rules of the Assembly, in one universal demonstration of satisfaction that the Assembly at Philadelphia was sending sentiments of love and affection to its brethren assemble in Kentucky. And now we are here,, dear friends, to say that we bear from the Northern Chnrch to the Southern Chnrch love, affection, Christian and Christian confidence. And now that'the clouds of onr darkness have passed away, and light begins to break, letus, animated by Christian sympathy and love, strive only to excel each other in the cause of the Divine Master. As we stand looking over this broad land, this mighty field of love and labor, let ns not engage in altercations among ourselves, but nnite hand in hand and heart to heart in build ing np the canae of Christ. We are all Presbyterians, and if we cannot be a unit let ns have snch kind and friendly rela tions that we shall be ready to sympathize with each other and side with each other in advanc ing the cause of onr Redeemer, “forgetting the things which are behind and looking to those that are before,” and the prize of our high call ing in Christ Jesus. Let ns look to the great reward that is before us. Let us feel the re sponsibility resting npon us; let us labor and pray that the spirit of God may descend npon our churches and upon ns as individuals, thus softening and warming our hearts, that we may forget, in the fullness of our love, our former dissensions. We have taken this journey of sixteen hundred miles nearly, to stand these few moments before you, and to say that we love you, esteem yon, and hold yon to be our Christian brethren—that we have no nnkind feelings in onr hearts: Permit me to say, as a layman and as a North ern merchant, that in looking over the Sonth we merchants remember the relations which form erly existed between us, and we would love to have them renewed, not from any selfish motive, but that there may be cordiality, confidence and love between us. Now that God in His Provi dence has united the world by the swift rail road and the swifter telegraph, should we not pray that the North and the South be united in one grand unit of American citizenship, rejoic ing together and building np this heritage on earth. -t 5 . a-iti *: . May God bless you, sir, and this Assembly, these men and women, with the spirit of peace, loveand joy in the Holy Ghost. RESPONSE or REV. R. >L. DABNEY, D. D. Gentlemen of the Delegation—It becomes my duty, on behalf of this General Assembly, to reciprocate the kind sentiments which yon'have just given expression to. I know that I can with safety express, on behalf of my brethren, a great pleasure and satisfaction for the kind and courteous terms in which you have ac quitted yourselves of your task. I know that no. Presbyterian can look back to our co-operation of many years without feeling of sensibility. The words of peace are indeed sweet, venerable words; and it would ili-beoome any brother, much leas any minister in Christ, to feel otherwise than that a spirit of love and Christian amenity should prompt us in the reception of assurances of your kind and Christian regard. Whether it is consistent with this great obligation that we should be united is the question presented for our consideration. Wo are not insensible of this lesson of the Apostle when ho says, “the fruits of righteousness are sown in peace,” and that ho further says, “the wisdom whioh is from above is first pure and then peaoeable, cheerful and easy to be entertained, full of mer cy and good fruits, without partiality and with out Lypocraoy.” The Assembly has heard the very cordial and generous sentiments and dec larations whioh you have made, and I have no doubt will, through its own appointed voice, give answer in an equally respectful and cordial manner. "T-.SSvaK With every assurance of our personal consid eration, we would affectionately invite you to remain, as spectators, with us, in the considera tion of the interests of Zion, as long as yonr convenience will allow. At the conclusion of the remarks of Dr. Dab ney, Dr. Robinson offered the following resolu tion : Resolved, That this body, duly appreciating the marked courtesy and kindness of the Gene ral Assembly now sitting in Philadelphia, i commissioning of brethren so peculiarly accep- table to us a delegation to be the bearer of its resolutions to the Assembly, will take into care ful consideration the preposition presented by them, and that, in order to proper deliberation tind care npon so important a matter, these res olutions, together with the message and exposi tion of the delegation, be referred to the Com mittee on Foreign Correspondence with instruc tions to report at the earliest possible time, rec ommending an answer to the proposition. mw Condition ®r Georgia . -I Prospects—Inducements gratlon. *> Extract from a private letter from a Ctu, yer, in Georgia, to Ms father, in thi, cUtT 1 *! This country is filling up rapidly - keen, and a very good olass too. so gT 1 V nuflr>1 ner Mnullv 4c* kma. “*■ T... get here the better it will be for von^f hi I ties coming South for the purpose ^ here travel half fare over the Southern rJf^l or most of them. All those that h a «‘"S here are doing well, so far, except on«\> who knew nothing about fannies '>] men had better not come, unless thev L. HI tal, and plenty of it. But men wWW ^ 1 capital, knowing how to nse it, and are J-HI work, can do, afl things considered, betu, EI, l than in any country known of. \’ s ‘ _r | who has been here since 1865, remark^ 6 Hi CAn' Brow. RnnepBRfitim .1) tv... It, I is a surer crop, and never winterddfk^H I oats and rye. Com does well, but don't vi u acre as much. This is a very backward , yet our Irish potatoes are in full bloom ™ is headed out and in full bloom. Garden da plentiful, so are strawberries. We sowwwH I ****** ««* VAA.J uajx, Name e^ertreC I does there, he can’t help doing better. He * j expect disappointment, and bad crops t ^ 1 hero as any where, butin no place on earths ? I grow such a variety. If liis wheat rusts fails, it never winter kills here, he can ri com and sweet potatoes, and make a pood on tho same ground. One great nustakA 0 '* Southern planters make is this: they folio ^ same old rule, plant eotton and purchase thing else. Any man who does so win hard, and live, and die a poor man. Those ■ follow the opposite rule are, without exeeJhf doing well. They are out of debt, have civ’ hand, and plenty to eat. They are th« ~rS class who had anything when the war wm a? Chicago Times. T(l Work It Out. Wo copy, from the Philadelphia Ledger tfc i following arithmetical problem, with an ia% tioh to “cipherers” to work it out: A liquor agent of a New England town tbe office for one year, .at the close of which)! gave the following statement of his * viz: Amount of oaah received upon assuming the office.. jj-i I Value of liquor received at same time i; .4 j Cash received for sales of liquor during thevear , ictifl a——. r -.a u^uur nought daring Amount of salary of agent.. Value of liquor on hand at the end of the 1 .1 J®"— £ I Does the agent owe the town or does the ton] owe the agent ? and how much? 1 Alexander H. Stephens. A letter from Crawfordsville, Ga., the la, I of Horn Alexander H. Stephens, says: I I spent the day recently with Mr. Stephan, 1 at his residence here, (Liberty Hall,) ThhkJ an unassuming country house—a white f.-mj building, erected with an eye to comfort sa j convenience, which end its proprietor has mx I successfully attained. It is the cosiest, coo:* [ most inviting bachelor’s retreat I ever visited-] opening upon a grassy lawn, unusual oaks.h] casts, etc. I found Mr. Stephens looking pale and emaciated, reclining in his invalid chu 1 and intently discussing some law points in I murder case with a legal friend. Though a-J tremely feeble, when interested or excited he ] would sit np erect, his remarkable eye wodi I sparkle with its old fire, and he would addral his hearers in an animated and always courat I ing strain. It is his oostom, when the wMtht I is fine, to sit in his easy-ohair in his veradii, I and, as he converses, wheels himself slowly I back and forth by a convenient arraugema: I which costs him but little offort, arid, as he says, j exercises and strengthens his arms and cheat j When the snn gets low he calls for his cruets I and hobbles slowly over the lawn and ihrosjl his Well-kept garden, in which he seems mu I interested. Having bnt a partial use of ha I legs, Mr. Stephens walks with difficulty on Id crutches. He says his hip is dislocated, ini thinks he will never be able to lay his crutch* aride. What the Telescope is Doing.—Qno of Ik largest telescopes in the world, it is wellkncm is owned by the Chicago University. The if I tined work.of this wonderful instrument is kj make, in connection with nine chief obeem I tones of Europe and America, an entirely ta I catalogue of 250,000 m*ra, determining Ik I right ascension and declination of each pardcu- j lar star, so that by observing its position, a 1 tronomers may, in far off ages, be ? ble to pit-1 nounce authoritatively on its motion, and XI declare in what direction it has proceeded I through the illimitable voids. At tins nomad I it is slowly and surely performing its sublim I work, and furnishing those far-off astronoma | the data upon which to base their eajculatica] respecting that mighty problem, tho direct: lion of the snn through space. ' When this is solved, data wil' also hi abundant for liJCating the position (f the g^l central sun,, around which million^ upon mil lions of other suns, popularly dtoominatal stairs, do, in all probability revolve. The lahffl being divided among the ten principal oj seryatories in the world, Will make the shtff of its falling to the Chicago observatory, -’V] 000—upon each of which the most cirewl observations will be made and recorded. SI will require about ten years to aceompi this stupendous work, and when it is 4*1 we may expect some most important r nomical discoveries.—The Index. Hew Higgins Gently Broke the Sw Prom the Galaxy. “Yes, I remember that anecdote,’’ the S*1 day school superintendent said, withiheaf pathos in his voice and the old sad look iaj-jl eyes. ‘‘It was about a simple creature udsJ Higgins, that used to haul rock for old Mfll by. When the lamented Judge Bagley trippl and fell down the court-house stairs and br»J his neck, it was a great question how to bi®|I the news to poor Mrs. Bagley. Bat fii*| the body was put into Higgin’s wagon *m*| was instructed to take it to Mrs. B„ but very guarded and disorcet in his lauding and not break the news to her at once, out* it gradually and gently. When Higgle there with his sad freight, he shouted tui * Bagley came to the door. Then he said: “Does the widder Bagley live here? “The widow Bagley ? No, sir!” . “I’ll bet she does. But have it your way. Well, does Judge Bagley lives be!*' | “Yes, Judge Bagley lives here.” “I’ll bet Be don’t But never nui. r ain’t for me to contradict Is the Judge u- “No, not at present’ 1 “ I jest expected as much. Bean*, know—take hold o’ suthin, mum, for 1 * jj going to make a little communication, I reckon may be it’ll jar you some. bPJ been an aocident,” mum. I’ve got iw ,1 Dangers or thi Bra.—An English *1 Trade has just been startled by the re*w* ^,1 investigations into tbe condition of B< *rgl vessels. The great age of many of tlw , employed not only in the trans portitR® uublo cargoes, but of passengers, wm ally alarming feature of the report m** I Board. ^ Eighty years and over was a oom’fJL#1 The report addnoed this as a proof of struotibility of tbe marine. Bn* r ? een M4 ail| on the British coast have proved more in another direction. In the anj“r pi winter of 1863 there were 930 wreck*pi same season of 1866 there were 790; )| total number of wrecks in 1867 M 1859 there were 343 ships destroyed <a,gl coasts in one gale. It is not to be | a moment that these were all properly manned and loaded, and it is known “r j were chiefly the oldest. We mention w’m tish instance, but the same ttcXsi yl marine of other countries. At til very painful experiences of the last »* ^1 should awaken the public mind to subject, no as to induce some systems ed of insuring perfsei arrangements proceeding to sea. Convicted or Murder.—At Com! last week, Jeff. Nisbett and II son, colored, were tried and eonviot ^ t\ murder of John Jordan, oolored, for ^ T. C. Nisbett’a plantation.
