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3i Telegraph, and Telegraph and Messenger. _ MACON JUNE 7, 1870. The Southern farm end Home. The Jnne number of this reluable monthly is before us. Its frontis-pieco illustration is a pic ture of Hale’s Early Peach, a variety -which combines the earliest fruitage, with the richness Blze and flavor of the later kinds. This number contains more than fifty articles upon as many different subjects connected with plantation and household economy. Among them we notice that J£r. Gustin contributes a letter upon Deep Culture j Prof. Xeroy Broun has an article upon Frfcts about Roots. Mr. W. W. Turner writes upon Surface vs. Deep Manuring. The Edito rial Departments are also very full The Farm and Home is an excellent periodical. Published by J. "W. Burke & Co., Macon, at $2 00 a year. Bringing in Sheave*—By Rev. A, JB. Earle. The above popular book, by the distinguished evangelist, who recently preached one or two sermons in this city, is now on sale by Bev. Mr. Dorsey, who will afford our citizens an oppor tunity to read it. It contains an account of the labors of Mr. Earle, with many deeply interest ing and affecting incidents: extracts of letters from various pastors as to the permanent effects produced by his revivals; a few. characteristic sermons; among others, one on the “Unpar donable Sin,” etc., etc. - • The book is not denominational, but is filled with faith-inspiring views, doctrines and anec dotes. All evangelical Christians will read the volume with pleasure .and edification. They may not approve all that is said, ncr indorse the correctness of all the theological views here taught, but they will find their religious purpo ses strengthened and their zeal increased. ■ The closing chapter contains the author’s ex perience as to the “Best of Faith”—a subject now agitating the Christian mind in this conn- try and in England. E. W. Warren. ARoon, May SO, 1870. Card from Senator Wooten. Dawson, Ga., 28th May, 1870. Messrs. Editors: Noticing that my absence from the. Committee on the State Hoad is made the subject of comment in the newspa pers, I deem it due to the public that I should make known the cause of my non attendance. I am detuned at home by protracted and serious sickness in my family. It is my earnest desire to participate in t]ie investigation of the affairs of the road, and I propose to join the committee as soon as I can do so, consistently with the claims of hu manity. Very respectfully yours, C. B. Wooten. Kongli on the Puritans. The Cincinnati Enquirer says: A prominent Bepublioan journalist, who had excellent advantages during the war, and who has enjoyed even better opportunities at Wash ington since the war, to study the Paritan char acter, in lamenting to U3 recently that the Re publican party had come so. thoroughly under the control of Now England managers, said of these leaders: “Sir, they will pray all night and steal all day.” The two services are insepara ble with the Puritan—“the services of ye Lord and great gayne for his ministers and people." As they appropriate the public plunder, they say, ‘Tours in ye bowells of Christ.” A re markable human institution is the Puritan. This is awful. Why, its almost blasphemous. We haven’t been so shocked in a month. We print it merely as an illustration of the doctrine of total depravity. Why this ribald mocker might as well say that Frothingham and Beecher are not Christian ministers, or that Sumner does not represent the physical manhood, and Dr. But ler the refinement, honesty, and good looks of the Kadical party. We shudder to picture the fu ture of such a man. A Practical Treatise oh Agriculture; to which is added the Author’s published letters. By David Dickson of Sparta Georgia. Edited by J. Dickson Smith, Macon; J. W. Burke & Co. This is an octavo book of three hundred pages adorned with a portrait of the author; and is the best specimen of Southern Letter-press printing we have ever seen. Indeed, the work is gotten up. in a more expensive and elegant manner than probably consists with that gener al and extensive circulation which it ought to have. We would recommend another and cheap er edition. The contents of the work are in great part familiar to the reader. We have already republished much of it from the South ern Cultivator. The editor, Dr. Smith, seems to have performed his part of the work wjith •are and accuracy.. Water Works.—We observe in the proceed ing* of the last council meeting, that the Mayor and Aldermen Boss, Tarpin, Grier and Westcott were appointed a committee “to confer with parties in reference to the organization of a Board of Directors in establishing the Macon Canal and Water Works.” ^iis proposition is a little enigmatical, bat we should be glad to be lieve that it covered some feasible plan for the aooomplishment of an enterprise so important to the comfort and prosperity of the city. No very great investment of money in a Canal wonld give Macon the use of the whole Ocmulgee river as a water power except such' portion of it as might ba needful for domestic purposes. We suppose it is demonstrable that the interest on an investment necessary for this enterprise, would be covered by the saving in insurance, and that as a private enterprise it could be made a profitable investment. The Rev. Wm. W. Niles, of Connecticut, has recently been eleoted Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church, for the Diocese of New Hamp shire. The Bev. Dr. Coit, of Concord, N. H., was the choice of the clergy, but the laity re fused to ooncur in the nomination, and after six baHottings a committee of conference was ap pointed, which resulted in the election of Mr. Niles. The Bishop elect is Professor of Latin in Trinity College, Hartford, and has charge of St. John’s parish, Warehouse Point, on the Connec ticut river, above Hartford. The New York Son referring to this election, says in no other part of the Union is that Church in a more flourishing condition than in Connecticut. But a short time ago Mr. Dunn, the indepen dent candidate for .Congress in the First Con gressional District of South Carolina, spoke in Florence. He said that Whittemore was a thief, having pilfered several thousand dollars from^ Mr. Shaw, a merchant of Boston. He supported* tiffs assertion with authenticated letters and af fidavits. When he concluded, Bro. Flood, col ored, the postmaster of Florence, mounted the rostrum and said; “Ido not question that Whittemore may be what Mr. Dunn says he is; but I must Inquire, may not - Mr. Dunn, who is also from Massachusetts, be also a thief?” It seems to us that this is rather hard on Massa chusetts. F^*u Wheat.—The prettiest sample of new dheat we have yet seen comes from Mr. B. B. Cox,, of Jones county. Me sends qs a cluster of twenty or thirty heads, which, for size, weight and color, are not .often exceeded. The seed was obtained of Dr. John Hardeman and is as beautiful a white wheat os can be grown. It was sown in drills at the ratp of only fourteen quarts to the acre, and will yield about twenty bushels. The heads range from fifty to eighty two grains, and very large ones at that. Few who have ever tried the American House, Boston, are tempted to leave that pattern hotel fes-wy other. The Presbyterian Re-Union. Our first page discloses the fate of the Re union movements made by the Northern Pres byterians. All the oooing of the Northern doves has gone for nought. “Fine words but ter no parsnips,” sayr, in effect, the Louisville General Assembly; and they uplift their “testi monies” with an ardor and vehemence worthy of Manse Heddlerig in the tale of Old Mortality. The speech of Dr. Palmer actually assails the Northern Assembly for bringing forward their propositions of correspondence, and charges them with an attempt to disturb aud divide the Southern Church. At the same time while the learned Doctor, in his report, reluctantly yields the point of a committee of oonferenoe, he de clares in bis speech that the “conference will result in fusion in three years.” 'The reader will find the reports and speeches on our first-page. We are free to confess that whether these overtures were to be declined or to be acoepted, the action of the assembly does not in our judgment meet the case with either grace or wisdom: and this we say with all the more candor because wo sing out of a Presbyterian 'book. They should either have accepted the invitation to a conference with frankness, or declined with decision; but they have done nei ther. We waive all discussion of' the alleged doc trinal and dogmatic differences—first, because unqualified to treat of them, and second because, if they exist, they should have been conclusive against every movement looking to a re-estab lished union, and should have led to a decisive refusal of the conference. . But Dr. Palmer, in admitting that a conference must lead to fusion, leaves & grave doubt of the existence of any very wide doctrinal differences between these branches of the church. We believe practically that Union of the Christian Churches will be power to the South and tend to peace and prosperity, social and re ligious, and that disunion remits the Southern churches to a disputed jurisdiction in their own borders. But we are quite content to hold our opinion quietly and await the course of events. Whipping (lie Devil Around the Stump. - And now we read the following Washington dispatch: WEST POINT EXAMINATION. By order of the Secretary of War, a Board of officers is directed to meet at the Military Academy at West Point on June 1, to examine the- physical qualifications of the graduating' class, and the candidates for admission into this Academy will commence at once. So far, there has been but one colored cadet nominated to this Academy, and if he proves to be three- fourths black, he is certain to be rejected, under the rules governing the medical examination now in fores Bah! What a lame way of getting out of an ugly scrape! It does honor neither to Radical cunning nor Radical party faith. “Three-fourths colored,” forsooth! Don’t the “three-fourths colored” down South furnish more than “three- fourths” of the Radical vote in this section ? What new little game is this to cheat real black men out of their rights? Mulattoes and mongrels are all well enough, but the pure breed are to he slaughtered by a medical examination that will declare against what as an impediment ? Length of heel, or crookedness of shin, or redundance of lip, or what ? We really want to know. We denounce this dodge as utterly contempti ble. It is a mean, sneaking way of flogging Beelzebub around the biggest, blackest sort of a stump. If the negro is as good as a white man, as these Radicals say, why isn’t ho as good at West Point or Annapolis ashe is in the Senate? Certainly no people at the South have a clearer right to demand admission everywhere the Rad ical party say they ought to go, than the real ne groes of the South. They have served that party with matchless zeal and fidelity.- To go back on them now for the sake of a lot of aris tocratic youngsters at West Point whose fathers endorse and hurrah over negro equality at the South as a most excellent thing, is shockingly snobbish and mean. If the rules governing this medical examination are inconsistent with the full and perfect recognition and practice of that equality so recently proclaimed as part of the Constitution by the Radicals, why not abolish it • at once ? It don’t keep mulattoes out—only ne groes. We think these latter will open their eyes after a while. And we have a suspicion that when they do, there’ll be music in the air for somebody. Cotton Inciting. Watt’s & Co’s Liverpool-ciroular of the 13th nit; Tn this connection, it oiiuuld be farther borne in mat one prominent cause of the high prices attained herein August last (14d for mid dling Orleans) was a widespread conviction, that the available labor of the South was insufficient to pick over 2J to 2j millions balds. Now, how ever, their capacity to pick three millions has been demonstrated, and many suppose that if even a half mitiion more is grown, they will manage in some way to secure it, provided the picking season should be a favorable one. Certainly. It is only by the New York pa pers that we learn that immense crops of cotton rot in the fields of the Southwest for want of la bor to gather it. We never believed that story. About a year ago last February the writer was discoursing with a party of intelligent Alabam ians, who were sure that the cotton crop of the South had attained its maxmum that year, and 'Would fall off rapidly from the diminishing sup ply of labor to cultivate and gather it We maintained then that on the Contrary, it wodj(l swell rapidly from year to year until il had at tuned and passed its ancient volume. But where was the labor to come from ? We could not undertake to say, bat so long as cot ton was worth about twenty cents we were sure it wonld be forthcoming, no matter what per plexities were apparent in the labor question. And it is coming sure enough. The Southern States are so eager to bring it that they care nothing, in comparison, about their own health and comfort. They abandon the production of food indispensable to their own physical well being, in order to swell the cotton crop; and so it is bound to go on nntil Southern agriculture is well nigh prostrate from starvation and bank ruptcy. Bottom’s Horse Power. This celebrated machine is now manufactured very extensively at the Findlay Woxks, Macon, - and we refer -the reader to the advertisement. It is in great demand, and we are informed that the manufacturers have already orders ahead for three hundred. The Telegraph and Mes senger, speakifcg of this power, when it was tested at the Georgia State Agricultural Fair, in Macon, last November, said : ■ Bottoms’ Horse-Power was tested yesterday before the Committee on Machinery. As no mole was handy, six men were substituted for The Georgia Press. The Irish potatoe crop in Sumter county is said to be a failure. Plenty of rain in Sumter county. Americas is to have three new public wells. The Americas Courier says Mr. Needham Cox, whom it reported as shot and mortally wounded last week, was only struck oh the head with a- gun, and not seriously hurt. Sumter county will have a meeting to-day to send delegates to a convention'to be held at Geneva, on the 15th inst., in the interest of the proposed railroad from Americas to Newnan. In the final boat race at Savannah Saturday, for a purse of two hundred dollars and the championship of the river, the Queen was proclaimed the victor. Four boats were entered and the following was the time made.by each: QueeD, 5:42} ; King Cotton, 5:45} ; Aphrodite, 5:47, and Irene, 5:52. The News says; We learn from a source en titled to credence that the “Brunswick” boat- ists are organizing for a grand Regatta, which will oome off on the 4th of July next, and that the Brunswick CluVpropose to open the door to all comers, and especially the champions of the Savannah river, for a race for one thousand dollars and the championship of the South. Father Ryan preached in Savannah Sunday. - The News says: On last Friday evening, at Augusta, Ga., the Catholic congregation of the Old Church met, for the pnrpose of presenting Father Ryan with a testimonial of esteem ana affection,'on the eve of his departure for Europe. Mr. P. Walsh, on behalf of the married men, presented a well filled purse. Mr. P. F. Donne, on behalf of the youag men, presented the Reverend Father with a gold pencil case, a silver match box, and a check for a handsome amount— Parses were also presented by the Societies of St. Alyosius and the Sodality of the Immaculate Conception. • —’ - J The gas question is being especially considered by the Savannah City Council. The contract with the Gas Company expires by limitation in August, and there seems to be a prospect of a hitch in its renewal. At a special meeting of Council Saturday night “Alderman Davidson introduced Mr. Cook, who proceeded to explain the advantages of a Photometer burner which he proposes to introduce, and which,he alleges will produce the same quantity of light with, a two-feet burner now produced by a four-feet burner, thereby saving one half the present ex pense of lighting the city. It appears that the Gas Light Company has declined to enter into a contract to furnish gas for two feet burners, and demands fifty-one dol lars per annum for each lamp instead of thirty- three dollars, the amount paid under the pres ent contract. It seems that there are five hun dred and twenty-nine street lamps, for each of which the city pays thirty-three dollars per an num, besides the expense of lighting the Mar ket and other public buildings at the usual rite per thousand feet. The additional eighteen dol lars per lamp, as we understand it, is demanded for keeping the lamps burning every night with out regard to the phases of the moon. On motion of Alderman Davidson, the Gas Committee was authorized to test the plan pro posed by Mr. Cook, at an expense not exceed ing two hundred dollars.” George W. Evans, yard master of the West- ern and Atlantic Railroad at Atlanta, has beet discharged by Blodgett The Atlanta Sun says: The late rains have greatly benefited the! copied by Eagle and Phoenix Factory opera tives caused a loea of $1200 or $1500—bo in surance. The Sun says: Cotton Squares.—A gentleman tells us he had ootton squares on his plantation, South of Columbus, on the 20th of May. The seed was planted on the 15th of April, live weeks prev iously. The Enquirer says that Dr. Wills, of this city, who preached in the Presbyterian Church there Sunday night and was interrupted by, the alarm of fire, baa been interrupted twice before in Columbus by a similar alarm. The Enquirer: Revival at the African Baptist Church— Baptism—Accident,—For three or four weeks past a religious revival has been in progress at the 1st African Baptist Church, situated near the river, between the Fontaine and Lowell warehouses, during which many have professed conversion and the membership been revived. On Sunday afternoon the pOstor, Rev. E. B. Rucker, administered baptism to some twenty- seven candidates, which was witnessed by up wards of one thousand persons, white and black. Afterward, on reassembling at the church, owing to the heavy pressure, the platform in front 7 of the church fell- through, carrying with, it some sixty persons; though, from what we can learn, no one was seriously injured thereby. , The Eatonton Press and Messenger says Mr. William A. Walker of that county shot and tail ed a wild duck one day last week, with a four- inch barrel pistol, at a distance of one hundred yards. The Rome Courier says : The Etna Iron Company was organized a short time since, with a capital of $50,000, which they propose to extend to $150,000. Ten percent of the stock subscribed has been paid in, and the work of ereoting a furnace near Pryor’s Sta tion, on the Selma, Rome and Dalton Railroad, was commenced last Monday. Col. Vandevere, a Pennsylvanian of large and successful experi ence in the iron business, and & large stock hold er in this Company, has charge of the work. The Company have purchase a large tract of land at the locality above named, and there is every prospect of great success in the enter- prite. A Coweta correspondent of the Chronicle and Sentinel writes that fine rains have fallen in that section—wheat crop good, and nearly ready to harvest. Corn aud cotton looking well, and clean. The Chronicle says there were several very heavy rains in Burke county lost week. On the 20 th the rain was unusually heavy, and was ac companied by thunder, lightning, wind andhaiL In some localities the growing crops were some what injured. The first new wheat of the season made its appearance Monday, in the Augusta market, and sold for $4 50 a bushel. Of crops and health in Jefferson county, a correspondent of the Chronicle writes as fol lows : We have at last bad an abundance of rain, and our people seem to be in a better humor. Crops, though backward, are not ma etrially injured. Corn is small for the time, but with propitious seasons I see no reason why it should not equal the crop of 1869. The first planting of cotton is equally as good as last year; the Btand as a gen eral thing is defective, but the recent rains will soon remedy that I notice where the seed were strewn with a liberal hand the stand is good. We have had an unusual amount of sickness the wheat crop. Some farmers on the line of 1 for this season of the year. We have just pass- uiiun iihhuj• dia aaauaa nuiu ouuakiiutvU 1U1 . •, ’ • j • , . , , _ ■ , j<me mule, although eight is the rule. The rix'' ^L°“ propelled a Forty-saw Gin with great speed. t Three were then taken off, and the remainder found no difficufty in driving it with a full roll, so that three negroes can drive any man’s gin fast enough with that Horse-Power. We un derstand the Committee expressed themselves .highly pleased with the performance. Thomas M Bottoms, of Thomasville, is the invenibr of this Horse-Power, and it has just taken the first premium and honorable mention at Rome and Batonton and here. We have no question that it is one of- the most economical applications of horse power to the purpose of driving plantation machinery, yet invented. Cxbus W. Field is asking Congress to give •him $500,000 a year to construct a Chinese tele graph cable. When the. cable is completed the Government is to have the privilege of porchas- u>g it .at the cost prices, with an advance of ten 'P® oent. for the interest on the money. the Macon and Western railroad have com menced feeding wheat to their stock and put a stop to corn buying. The corn and oat crops are looking very fine, and the cotton crop is in excellent condition. .The Gainesville Eagle says : •Crops, Etc.—There has not been, in years, a better prospect for wheat in this country than now, and unless visited by rust or fatal storms, ■we may look forward to an immense yield.— Corn is very promising—s much better stand in bottom' lands than usual—and the continued dry dry weather has afforded a fine opportunity to oar farmers to get fully up with the grass, and almost every one rejoices in being'at ease. The Eagle says a fatal disease like murrain, has been playing havoc with the cattle in that section, recently. A Gwinnett correspondent of the Griffin Star' says wheat promises to be the finest harvest ever reaped on the Chattahoochee. The peach crop is, also, promising. A gentleman who reached Atlanta Monday, informs the Sun that CoL A. H. Kenan, of Milledgeville, was seriously ill Sunday, and not expected to live. We quote, as follows, from the Monroe Ad vertiser, of yesterday: Fine Cotton.—Within the last week, we have seen specimens of cotton grown this season in Monroe, and rather think they are a little ahead of even Southwestern Georgia. - The specimen famished ns by Mr. William Fonder was about twoi-ro inches high. xir. e. ». LeSeur, left in onr office two stalks of abont the same height as those furnished by Mr. Fonder, bnt with a more luxuriant foliage. Mr. Lewis A. Fonder, exhibited to ns, on Sat urday, a stalk abont fourteen inches high, con taining two well developed squares. The specimens, taking everything into con sideration, are very fine, and reflect great credit npon the fanning skill of those who cultivated them. If any of our farmers have finer cotton than this, we should like to hear from them. Wheat.—Some of onr farmers have already cut their wheat, and others are preparing to do so. Oar information leads ns to believe that something over an average yield, will be harves ted—from which we conclude that fritters will flourish and abound. The Weather.—A very refreshing rain fell in this section last Wednesday, and since then various timely showers have fallen. Farms are in splendid condition, and crops generally, with the exception of oats, are promising. Oats.—From every quarter, we hear com plaints of the failure of the oat crop. The long drouth which was lately the order of the day, has stunted their growth, and caused them to head oat near the ground. The Telegraph and Messenger.—The pros pectus of this journal will be found elsewhere. It is usual in such cases, to give an extended -notice—but what can • wa say that has not al ready been said by ns heretofore, and that the people of this section do not already know ?— With a vagne consciousness of being tautologi cal, or something of that sort, we will Sffcte that it is one of the best papers published in the South. As a news medium,, the Telegraph is efficient, reliable and thorough, and is edited with great care and. ability. ' The Southern Recorder, of Tuesday, “regrets to state that Col. A. H. Kenan is dangerously ill, and we fear that if there is not a change for the better in the next twenty-four hours, his friends may expect the worst. 'His disease is inflam mation of the bowels, and lie has been confined to his bed for the last ten days.” We quote as “follows” from the FederalUnion same date. r; •" ’' :l ~ Revival,—-A revival isprogressing at the Bap tist Church in this city. The ordinance of bap tism was administered to four young ladies ~tiy the Bev. D. E. Butler, on last Sabbath. Several have already joined the Church, and many oth ers seem very seriously impressed on the sub ject of religion. We trust the good work will continue. Death.—We regret to learn that Mis. Fanny Caraker, wife of Mr. Daniel Caraker t of thin * District Fair.—Wo understand a scheme is on foot among some of onr citizens to get up a fair, to be held annually in onr city, for the counties of Baldwin, Jones, Wilkinson, Wash ington, Hancock, and perhaps other -comities. We learn that the 25tn day of Jnne has been fixed on, and the Court-house in Milledgeville the place, for a meeting of delegates from these several oounties for the purpose of organiza tion. We trust the enterprise will' be attended with abundant success. The drouth was brought to 9 close, in this vi cinity, on Wednesday last, by heavy storm of rain accompanied by thunder and lightning and some hail.' During the storm an out-house be-, long to Miss Margaret Paine was destroyed by lightning. Ben. Orme, the colored pressman of the Recorder office, had seventy-five bushels of com and fifteen hundred pounds of fodder stored in this building, all of which wds consumed. “Uncle” Ben had hard luck, having Buffered a similar loss by lire last year. A fire in McAllisterville, across the river frem Columbus, Sunday right, in some hooted 00- ed through an epidemio of dysentery, malignant in type, and stubborn and unyielding to the us ual treatment for that disease.. It has been par ticularly severe amonp children Dysentery is becoming epidemifc in Atlanta. Dr. Thomas Powell, an old and respected cit izen of Atlanta, died Monday, of dysentery. The Atlanta Sun learns from a letter from Clarke, county that Wm. Puryear was shot through the head and instantly killed on Friday by liis son-in-law, Wm. Jones. The Sun says the citizens of Atlanta are mak ing np a purse of $2,500, to be offered as a pre mium at the State Fair next fall, for the best trotting horse. H. L Kimball heads the list with $250. Judge Clark has adjourned Sumter Superior Court until the regular term in October. The Americas- Republican says, there is a great deal of sickness among the negroes .of that place. The average deaths for the last ten days has been from two to five per day. The late rains were general in Sumter and adjoining counties, and did great good. Upon the snbject of the subscription by Macon to Mercer University, the Albany News discourses as follows: “Many Citizens” publish a card in the Macon papers objecting to the city subscription for Mercer University. This is lamentable dullness, and is a sad com mentary for Macon. That city is approachfqg a most critical period in her commercial career, and there is nothing more certain than that herculean energy, and bold enterprise alone can save her. We love Macon very dearly, and utter this warning in solemn earnestness and sincere friendship. She must go to work-like other live cities, expend money to save money, and grap ple competition with vigorous extravagance to regain her status. Her natural advantages are superior to any interior city in the State; her railroad facilities are equal to any,, and her po sition for the distribution of provisions and manufactured necessities is bettor than any other. If she falters and fails, the fault will be her own, and she will have no excuse for her lethargy. The State Lunatic Asylum. We find the following letter in the Atlanta Sun, of yesterday; Milledgeville, Ga., May 28th, 1870. Hon. Daniel Pittman, Ordinary, Pulton County : Dear Sir—I regret exceedingly onr utter ina bility to receive the poor unfortunate woman, in whose behalf you write. But wo have over one hundred applications on onr record, and not an unoccupied room in the houso. Some of those applications date eighteen months back. The institution is indeed dangerously crowded. We have two, and oven three patients, in rooms 12 feet square; a condition of things that must militate against their health in hot weather, and at all times, exposes them to the hazard of inju ry at the hands of each other in the night. In my report to the Legislature at the first session in July, 18G8, I urged npon them the necessity of extending the accommodations, and every session since, have continued to do so, more and more earnestly as the necessity has become more urgent. They promise to do all that may be necessary, at the present session, if they ever get regularly to work, - Yours truly, Thos. F. Green. The Sun proposes to turn the State House at Milledgeville into an asylum, and thus provide additional room for the patients. The Effect of One Inconsiderate Ac- 1 tlon. One of our exchanges is responsible for the following highly amusing statement. Gray hairs in Wilmington must be exceedingly troublesome: at this time: . _ Down in Wilmington, some time ago, an old man who was very feeble was helped across a crowded street by a youth of twenty. A mouth afterward the 'rid man died, and as : an expres sion of his gratitude he left the youth forty thousand dollars>—-And now-no rid man’s life is safe in Wilmington. All the young fellows have bad their ambition excited, and as soon as any Venerable man' appears onlhe side-walk a dozen chaps rush at Mm, grab him by the browsers and the collar and the back hair, and try to car. ry him across the street, whether he wants to go or not. When he gets there a lot more fast en on’him and set him baok again, and then present their cards. So the old men in Wilming ton are having a lively time now, and they have got to tack up the street whenever they go out for a walk. Thus far very little cash has been evolved; bnt all the young men study the obi* nary advertisements carefully, and wheD <ney s?e the words: At the age of seve£5 r ’“ £ sixty-six, oc anywhere in that ne^gbborhood, they hurry down to the office "C Register of Wills and pore over 7 **" tsat testament of the deceased. All «•*» go® 8 to how much dis tress oi*° inconsiderate action will 3kuse. Bismarck is to make a tour in Amentaa for his health, and his physicians restrict to three bottles a day hereafter, ■ ■ ' ' Rebri BHMriHHtln. Under this head, the Cincinnati' Gazette, one of the bitterest of all the Western Radical pa pers, lately had an article very unexpected, the source being considered, and showing a de cided change in temper with regard to general amnesty. ' •» 'r|gH ~ ~' *1- r - r '- n As showing the wonders time or something else has worked in Radical public sentiment at the West, we quote some extracts from the Gazette's article—notably what it has to say of Messrs. Davis and Breckinridge. The italics are oars: r . Bat we are met by a picture of the heicona- nees of the crime of rebellion, and are told that to grant amnesty to rebels is to become acces sories after the fast to the murder of our sold iers. And, furthermore, we are frightened with the bugaboo that if the disabilities are removed Jefferson Davis and JohnO. Breckinridge will be back in the Senate. This is a fearful tatti-climax. The rigantio crime of the rebellion against the best Govern ment the sun ever shone on—a crime which our much-strained orators were wont to say is the greatest sinoe the crucifixion—the murder of a quarter of a million of our soldiers—ail taken satisfactory vengeance upon by excluding Jeffer son Davis and John 0. Breckinridge from the Senate. It seems to us that any scale of justice ade quate to this view was abandoned when Lincoln and Grant granted terms of capitulation to the rebel armies, which amnestied in terms all the fighting men of the rebellion. To go around after that, picking up civilians and stragglers to administer justice upon, is rather a small busi ness. And besides, we find it impossible to be scared by the prospective return of Jefferson Davis and John G. Breckinridge to-the Senate. More than that, we gay let them come. We would as lief have John O. Breckinridge as any other Kentucky Democrat We believe him prefera ble to many who practiced Kentucky neutrality, and who Bomehow fanoied that .they conquered, and are anxious to continue the - rebellion. Breckinridge tried ic thoroughly and bravely, and has had enough; and we see nothing in his conduct to indicate anything else than a desire to repair the destruction caused by the war to his own fortunes and those of the common wealth. “ ‘ Jr- * True, he will-probably continue his relations with the Democratic party. ? But if by fidelity to our slain soldiers we mean the exclusion of Democrats from Congress, let it be distinctly said. And, if we do not mean this, let as rec ognize the distinction. So it is probable that Jefferson Davis will con tinue his Democratic partisanship. He could not be elected Senator from Mississippi unless a Democratic Legislature were elected. If there be a charm in his name that would elect a Dem ocratic Legislature, if his disability were re moved, it .would anyhow; for hjs disfranchise ment gives him even a stronger hold upon the sympathies ef the Southern people. If this he the case, we must stand it. Bnt if we are to have a Democrat for Senator from Mississippi, is it not mortally certain that we shall have one who fully sympathized with secession and aided it ? And if so, we would as lief have Jefferson Davis' as any other. His ability is-unquestioned: He has large experi ence in the affairs of our Government. The Senate needs such members. The leading South ern members were always good watchmen of the public Treasury.' That is what is most needed now. The debasement of the Senate, both by the number of Senators who lack that element of re sponsibility which is made by adequate constitu encies, and by the number whose position is so temporary and unnatural that it lacks all the elements of responsibility, has given such ease to profligate schemes that the country needs the aid of all the forces that would oppose them. Thiais now the most practical patriotism. The conviction has been forced upon the pub lic mind that the experiment of governing the Southern States by.oslracising the great body of tax-payers and alt those'who, under the natural conditions, came into the administration of gov ernment, and by foisting over them Northern so journers, freedmen's bureau men, and the most ignorant of the natives, has worked badly, and that the services of the former governing elements are needed for the protection of the people. The name of loyalty is too dear at the cost of such a system of plunder, as, for example, that in South Carolina, under an Ohio carpet-bagger. There is a talk of a willingness to removo dis abilities as fast sb these men give evidence of a return of loyalty. What are the signs of this loyalty? Let its conditions be plainly set forth, that the Southern rebels may know what is re quired of them. Does it mean an oath of alle giance to the Constitution; of the United States ? That certainly should be indispensable. Does it mean that they shall join the Republican par ty, or that they shall support tbo next amend ment to the Constitution ? If that is the mean ing, let it be set forth in plain terms. Bnt in fact, it is very hard to state any rational condi tions for continning these disabilities; and, on the other hand, there are many and argent rea sons for removing them. An Ugly Business. Kentucky and Kentuckians are much scandal ized, just now, over a bitter quarrel between Honorable Thos. L. Jones, M. C., from that State, and Gov. and U. S. Senator elect, ^even- son. It all grows out of the Senatorial election last winter, when Governor S. defeated the present Senator, McCreery, and when, among other objections to McCreery, it was urged that he had signed' a recommendation to a Federal office for one General Burbridge, a Federal offi cer, and who was peculiarly obnoxious to the people of Kentucky on account of his infamous treatment of them during the war. The state ment was circulated by Stevenson’s friends on Jones’ authority, Stevenson having declared that he (Jones) had told him (Stevenson) that he (J.) had seen McCreery’s name to a paper recommending Bnrbridge for the position. Jones now declares that he never said any such thing, for the simple reason that he had ne^er seen any such paper, and charges Stevenson with an attempt to prove him a liar before the people of Kentucky. The upshot of a very voluminous correspondence between MBCreeiy, Jones and Stevenson is seen in the ^following paragraph from Jones’ last seven-column letter to Steven son. We suppose pistols and ten paces, or thereabout will be th* wind np of the affair. Here is the paragraph: ' ■ “Hence from my sight and memory forever 1 go thou—shall I say, Bar, slanderer,, coward?— from the presence of honest men and gentlemen; and if before this unhappy strife shall end, blood shall flow, whether I or another may fall, I brand thy brow with the blackness of Cain; wander up and down in the earth; wear the mask as long as thou liueth; and when thou diest thou shalt surely so appear before thy God.' ~ The Act to Enforce the Fifteenth . Amendment. The Fifteenth Amendment itself is worded in lees than a half score of lines; bnt the act re cently passed to enforce it wouldfili three of our ’ columns, and is arranged in twenty sections. It is one of those legislative extravagances which are the offspring of a sensation—an idea pushed into disproportionate and incoherent promi nence at the' sacrifice of more important mat ters—an act which men are surprised at and ashamed of when they get sober—that is, when they recover the balance of common sense. It is legislation which defeats itself by leading to suicidal results and intolerable consequences; for, to go no farther, the sixth section of this act puts every white man in the South, in re spect’to his liberty and property, at the mercy of any negro who may choose to tramp np an accusation of an “attempt to pm vent, hinder, control, or intimdate ’him fmm exercising the right of suffrage." It is ahill which so far an nihilates the constitutional control of the States over the suffrage that a State inspector of elec tions in the exercise of his sworn and lawful duty, **“7 easily subject himself to the extreme penalties of this act. la a Word, it ie of such a character that so ultra a radical paper as tije. St, Louis. Democrat is compelled to say, “it is little less than an endeavor newly create these United United States; to bring a political miilenium by one act” , . Pamirs Havana advices state thi$ the Span iards intend to plaoe a loan of fifty millions on the United StetesmarWt, 5 girinff 3 Cfeba and its revenues as security? * ■ ; •- L-- V. „• t .n l County Aflklr*. The GraadJary presentments yesterday stated the income of the Bounty the past year to have been $42,597 of which $88,472 hid bees dis bursed in current expenses. The Jury recom mend the following levies for the current year: For Educational expenses. $10 000 Court expense 7 000—Jail 2 500..., 9 500 Panpera and Hospital - 4 000 Roads and bridges..^. 10 000 General Expenses................ 3 500 Interest on County Bonds 5 000 Making a total of.'......,... $42 000 The Grand Jury find a balance of 16,441 to the credit of the Court House fond, which in cludes the proceeds of the sale of $6,000 in county bonds, and recommend the issue of $50,- 000 more of bonds for this purpose, which will make $100,000 in alL They also find $17,041, to the credit of the Jail Fund. They complain of the oondition of the Roads and in a series of resolutions advise the Ordinary to expend ten thousand dollars upon repair contracts made with the lowest bidder. The Grand Jury com pliment the Ordinary and Mayor for their man agement of the joint County and City Poor House aud Hospital, and find the books and ac counts of the Ordinary and Superior Court cor rect, and kept in a neat and systematic manner. From this review it.will be seen that County taxation will probably be about the same as last year—that the new Court House is going to en- gulph a considerable sum of money and give the people a long and solid drag. That the jail whioh is most needed, onght to be first built, Ond that.- there is enough money in hand, pro- bably, to begin the structure in a - shape to en_ large it so as to meet all the wants of the county, at some future time when we are not so hard 0P ' Th© Nineteenth Century For June leads off with a: long article npon the status and prospects of the negro, in which the writer harrasses himself with some very gloomy , views of the future, not only in respect to the existence and prosperity of the negroes, but also upon their political and social relations with the whites. He thinks Sambo will go to the bad every way. He says Sambo is lazy, and migttfc have added that the same is more or less true of everybody. The number of people who prefer mental or physical labor to a good arm chair and cigar, a lounge, a siesta or a good dinner is la mentably small. He says Sambo is sensual, sanguinary, indifferent to marital and parental obligations, fickle, fond of change, whisky, dress, extravagance and snperstitous, &c. and so on; strong ethological characteristics, no donht, but still unfortunately not altogether peculiar to the African race. Sambo must work out his own destiny, and we have too many troubles of our own on hand to expend any extraordinary sympathy on him just now;. Nothing is more certain than that if he fails to hoe-his own row he must go under. This number of the Nineteenth Century also contains a continuation of ex-Gov. Perry’s pa pers, of Storm and Sunset, by Henry Cleveland, and of Moma Everley. The Nineteenth' Cen tury is conducted with spirit and ability. Sontbern Presbyterian Pastoral Eet- ter * in the General Assembly at Louisville, Mon day, Dr. Palmer, from the Committee on For eign Correspondence, reported a pastoral letter of the General Assembly to all churches under its eare. This letter is in regard to a reunion of the Northern and Southern Assemblies, and the recent action of the Southern AssemWy daring its session here. After a long discussion, the letter was adopted. The letter claims that whatever obstructions may he In the way of ec clesiastical fellowship were not created by the Southern Church, and that they could not allow themselves to be placed in a false position be fore the world as parties who had been guilty of wrong to the Northern Fhurch. Effect of Intimate Acquaintance.—In D. C. Forney’s counterblast to the Senate judiciary report on the Bullock Investigation, Forney complains that the committee insisted npon see ing his books, implying that they would not be- Heve him under oath. This demand Forney resisted to the uttermost, bnt finally comphed with. Not only did the committee decline to trust Forney on his personal o&th, tyit they even suspected the ledger of lying, for “they held the pages to the light to seo if .no alterations had. been made, and then applied a microscopic glass to the figures." “Valuable Citizens.”—The House of Rep resentatives decided on the 23th that all pen Stoners of the war of 1812 must take the iron clad oath or forfeit their pensions.- The policy of the Gqremment is to make the late rebels the only valuable citizens of the United States. They will be allowed to reoeive nothing out of the Treasury and required to pay in freely. The remainder, drawing out in the way of pen sions, salaries, bounties and subsidies as muoh as or more than they pay in, will be a privileged class, but of no value to the country. The pol icy of the Government looks to the creation from the rebel States ef an aristocratic class of useful citizens. Ith*^ Freoa 8*eea Con Bt , A letter from Montezuma dated «* “Plenty of rain. Crop* looking fine op one stalk of ootton six forma, n 1 old Texan Burr variety. I saw son* Early Prolific with two forms.” Another letter of same date, from 0 says: “On the' 26th and 27th two fine rains—the first for nearly seve ** They gave gardens and crops a fine th? cool weather, after the rains has mads ^ lice appear on the plant, and they ar e • it a good deal Much of the cotton during the dry spell has come up and h welL Gardens are fine. The laborer county are working well. So far, thev better than heretofore.” " ’ From tram ford County. _ Knoxville, June 1 u-. Editors Telegraph and Messenger; ’ We have had fine rains. The farm ■ busily engaged in plowing and pla n &| pea crops, weeding cotton, etc. TmT^I are doing well with but few exception - A Union meeting of the Primitive ^ - L was held at Montpelier, Monroe cn^l Friday, baturday aud Sunday ]a=t° U \r J ' , l tended on Sunday and there friends, all in good spirits. A thoLn ^l sons were, uo doubt, on the ground t polite and hospitable people I have never^l The ladies, God bless them, vrere<b(.J^ IB M all the taste and fashion of our Elder John Bassett, of HoustotfiH preached the 11 o’clock sermon. from the writings of Paul, and he v ***1 persuaded me to believe. Such **1 we have not listened to in manynion-4 is blessing those people.. Although^ was half of the congregation that S get into the house, everything wm« ^ ■out of doors as in the house. I haved people I never met, both V,’ a Iv.ol white. ^**1 After the preaching everjbody v iS wJ to a long spread table by those nobler*,? and sucha dinner. It could not be evrZp any country. Forney, Bullock & have been present to have seen their faw^ partaking of the good things prepared- Si might have gone and done as Judas did’ V1 ternoon, Rev. Mr. King preached Sfehl by Rev. John Fields in one of Snnnra hortatione, and such a feeling among (vl turns and sinners I have never witnessed 1 As ever, Fun- From Carroll Uounty-St»vana*kl Griffin & kortli Alabama ItailroML | • : Carrollton, May 23, isto. Editors Telegraph and Messenger: The surveyors of the Savannah, Griffin*! North Alabama Railroad have about finiljl their work between- this place nndNeml The route surveyed, so far, is a very practia-I hie one, and does not near reach the preseiwl steepness of grade. J A grand soiree was given at the fed House for the benefit of the surveying coral last night. A fine and luxurious supper n! prepared. They participated free!vmfe| roll hospitality with real enjoyment.' a!«J crowd was out to meet them, notirithstM&l the rain during the evening, of ever tl»| hundred persons, consisting principally stockholders, fine young ladies, fast votatl men, with about fifty Bowden collegians. Thi crowd was neither thirsty nor hungry, «| merriment was the order of the season jNicopEnra. Dead.—We regret, sincerely, to learn of fi»| .death, at Griffin, yesterday afternoonabootiilI past five o’clock, of Mrs. Sparks, wife of Ci I Wm. EL Sparks, and sister-in-law of onr tour I man, O. G. Sparks, Esq. Her remains will e. I rive here by the 1.30 p. m., passenger tnia® I the Macon and Western Railroad, and will bi ] buried from tire passenger depot. In a recent work, entitled Ten Years in W j Street, the following story is told of Jim Fish I Jr.: “While the future impressario animus-1 cierwas peddling in Vermont, an old lady com-j plained to him that his father hail cheated k I cm a ‘ ninepence’ yard of calico. ‘Well, nor,’ I said Fisk, whose regard for his father's lota I burned as brilliantly then as in Ms subsegud I career, T don’t really fhinlr father would tell i lie for twelve and one-half cents, though b| might tell eight of ’em for a dollar.’’’ ■ Welcome News.—The Lynchburg Yirgink j of Saturday, says: Our noble old chieftain, General Robert El Lee, passed through this city yesterday aftes-1 noon, on his return from the South to hishoH| in Lexington. It will rejoice all our peopktJ hear that the General’s health was greatly in | proved by his Southern trip, and his appeal-1 anco is far better than it was when he was j - ' 1 k some six weeks ago. Some subscribers will miss their papers th morning. If anyone gets it who has not; np, it will be by mistake. We hope they 1 all, however, let us hear from them immediir| ly and resume intercourse. Official tables,.taken from the books of the commissioner of immigration, and giving the comparative number of Irish and German emi grants daring the last twenty-three years, show that there have arrived in this country from Ireland sinoe 1847 only 7755 more emigrants than have reached here from Germany alone during the same period. For example, there arrived in the last twenty-three years from Ire land, 1,624,009; from Germany, 1,639,254.— More than this, during the first five months of the present year the emigration from Germany has amounted to 25,500 against 24,461 from Deland. The New York Democrat states that some body, who is troubled with Grant cn the—we had nearly said brain—took a vote in a railroad ear, the other day, on the question of re-nomi nating Grant for the Presidency. It stood thirty-eight for Grant and two against. He rushed off and had it printed in a Syracuse paper. Now he is oondned to his bed, the re sult of learning that the ear was loaded with convicts, who were being transported from one iprison to another. The two votes against Grant were cart by the two keepers who had the con victs in charge. The English Ritualists are beooming bolder in their aims. One of the organs of the party openly recommends that boxes for oonfessions should be introduced in all churches where con fession is preached, so that the penitents may not, as st present; have to go to the private houses of the priests, but that “the Sacrament' of Penance” may be administered in “the ofily place consecrated for such purposes.” Some of the more advanced members of this party are, it is believed, about to secede to the Greek CIhurch. Mb. Reeves, M. O. fromNew York, proposes to tax aH the dogs in tbs oountry, and the Tri bune backs him up. It says in Maine alone, last year, In only flve Counties, the number qf sheep fcffled by dogs was 1,400. Mkbsbs. Qh arias J. Folge* and Charles An drews, have been elected by the New York; Radicals, Judges for-tbw-Geurt of Appeals.— They, with the Chief Justice (Qhurcb;) and the tout Democratic associate judges, will oonsti- iute the (Start. ' ; At the recent, municipal election in ( tralia, Illinois, James T, Jackson, a Radiol 4 the Ethiopian wing of that party, was eit&| alderman against 0. H. Day, a white Bri»| The Radical newspaper sheet at that place! the eleotion of the negro was a movement.’” “Imitation,” says the Couriei-Jonmil, the sinoeiest species of flattery.” The Nafltl for a long time sneered at the Southern cuttos j of setting apart a day to memorialize onr fG’J braves. They have concluded their peri«-| mances by setting apart, by law, as a ratio* | holiday, a day for the same performance s l respect to their own dead. The SoalfeBI tournaments have been a standing boll of Norti-1 ern ridicule, but now tourneys of their oti> 18 1 -.beooming fashionable. The United States and Mexico!—Gen. If Rosecranz is circulating a pamphlet of brent? three pages, in which, in behalf especiiUj® Mexico, he develops and enforces a pob'<7^ “complete political, commercial and indnstrid fraternity among the republics of the wadi The General certainly demonstrates that ioo is sadly in need of a guardian. The arrangements for the forthcoming star musical festival, in New York, are proi^* ing. Maretzek, Peck, Bristow, Bergn*® Anschutz, Zerrahn and Gilmore will act 43 ^ ductors. Six opera companies will sing the operatic selections. Miss KelkfS be among the soloists, as well as the two r- tenors, BrignoK and Lefranc. The diw^® intend to pay all the artists liberally, vk* they malm any money out of the not; but, at the same time, they expect to a handsome harvest. The clerks in the Richmond.post-o&ooart' a strike. Their “boss, u a Miss Van Lev’s so}e recommendation to the office was ti® that she had been a Yankee spy during ^ turns owl to be a regular martinet in peffi* 1 * and works them beyond their strength ef requirements of law. Tljere is no tyrant in world like a pettiooated tyrant. women bossing men in r11 the governs)s* 1 flees. Why the poor fellows would Tee'S 11 ' scores, a thing heretofore unkn9wn. New Orleans Cotton Stattmzv 1 '- till ootton receipts of New Orleans up to' , day, May were 1,150,213 bales; and burned, 1,039,570 bales; leaving ^ hand, 110,643 bales, I TS3 tariff Mercer Unttersitf .—-W0 have to attend the 86th tnidverearyof tkeCi Soeiety of Meroer Unfversity, fit JT*! Ofasppd l?th of' Jin®; ’ 18?0. We time cone to at.