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Tlie Greoreia 'W'eeklv Tele£2*ar>h. and. Joumal &: Messenger. Telegraph and Messenger. MACON, JUNE 7, 1870. Railroad From Quincy to Bainbrldge The Qainoy Monitor reports that Mr. Green, trith an organized engineer corps, has been en gaged during the past week in running an ex perimental line from that point to Bainbridge. Gen. M. S. Littlefield and several Northern gentleman of capital are at the head of this en terprise, and we have no donbt (judging from the energy they displayed in the construction of the road from Qainoy to Chattahoochee) bnt what, with a little assistanoe, they will put it through. From the Florida line to Bainbridge, by unit ing with the B. C. & C. B. B., they would have the State aid of tw« road to the amount of $12,- 000 per mile.—Bainbridge Sun. Hal ha! ha! Won’t the North Carolinians laugh (on the wrong side of their months possi bly) when they hear that Littlefield ha« quit them and their squeezed dry, played out, bank rupt old State—that he has shaken its dost from his feet and dedicated his eminent talent as a “deweloper” to the servioe of another State. Why it’s a loss to sat down and shed ooeans of tears over. Littlefield and “other Northern gen tlemen of capital” developed the resources of North Carolina to the tone of four or five mil- lions^or thereabouts, and when the people, in a transport of gratitnde, wanted to entertain him at their expense the remainder of his virtuous nr« v. _. -—- ——. uim uu is—nea to .Florida! We have never known a people so non-plnssed as wero those excitable North Carolinians. We Shouldn't wonder if they didn't send a deputa tion down -after Littlefield yet, and make bim wear all these bl ashing honors, anyhow. We ahonld hate to see any of the developers of Georgia resources—his Honor, Judge Avery, for instance—treat us in that kind of style. And for fear General Littlefield might ^erve ns such a shabby trick, we implore him to stop at Bain bridge. Don't come developing any farther in this direction, if yon please, Littlefield. Ghosts of Prentice. John Russell Young, of tho New York Stand ard, comes out strongly in favor of electing Charles A- Dana, of the Son, to the office of Coroner. If Dana were quite sure that it would secure him the privilege of holding an inquest on the body of Young, he would rather be Cord- ner than President. Bullock says Forney’s Chronicle is very dear to the people of the South. The people of Geor gia certainly found it very dear to them when Bullock paid, four thousand dollars of their money for its influence against the Bingham amendment. . (This is a mistake. B. spent only his “pri vate fortune" in persuading Fomey. And we are going to take np a subscription to reimburse him.) To keep an American man-of-war in servico costs $139,000 a year; to keep a British man-of- war in servico costs $09,000 a year. Annual American stealage per ship, $70,000. Zack Chandles says he both likes and fears Kentucky. He means by this he likes her whis ky and fears her hemp. Decoration Day at Andersonville. We leam that about 700 negroes and proba bly 75 white men, nearly all of whom were U. S. Revenue and Post-office officials, assembled at Andersonville yesterday, for the purpose of decorating tho graves of the Federal dead at that place. Bnllock and Terry, with their re spective staffs, were of the number, and orations were delivered by an Ohio preacher and ex- Oonfederate Mayor, B. H. Whitely, of Bain bridge. We judge that none, or very few of the negroes of the neighborhood were present, the crowd being gathered mostly from this and other points on the railroad. There were no whites present, that we could hear of, except thoso holding office under the Federal Govern ment in this State. The Richmond Election. The Richmond Democrats lost their munici pal ticket by about 300 votes, but they carry 15 out of the 25 councilmen, which gives them practical control of the city government, and will enable them to nip all the nice little Radi cal arrangements for stealage, in the bnd.— Wherefore the trooly loil are wringing their honest palms, and orying aloud for more recon struction. There are many sorry sights in this nun old world, bnt none sadder than to see the faithfnl thus choked off when the pap was al most within reaoh. It is enough to make a Quaker kick his mother. SU11 Afraid of the “Rebels.” The Herald's Washington special, of Friday, says: It would seem that there is still little, if any hope of a general amnesty measure being passed at this session. Since the speech of Senator Ferry on that subject a prominent Republican Senator has made a canvass of the Senate, and he gives it as the result of his efforts that not more than half a dozen Republican Senators would vote for a General Amnesty bill. Tho Bame is also true of the House, according to the statements of prominent Republicans in that body. The President, as already stated, has abandoned all idea of recommending such a measure, so that there is little chance for the ex-rebels being relieved of their disabilities for the present. “Plantation Manners.”—The Herald’s Wash ington special, of Friday, says that in the de bate the day before on the bill for tho revival of American commerce, “Lynch moved the pre vious question on the snbstitute, and a lively debate followed, in which personal compliments of the left-banded order were thrown around promiscuously, and the lie was given and re turned with interest several times.” We thought all that sort of thing went ont with tho retirement of “Southern traitors” from the halls of Congress. We are very sure that taking the lie, did. Sats the New Orleans Picaynne ; It is a bad thing for the Georgians to have such a man as Bollock to rule them, but we fear it will not prove any better for them to have Sam Bard' as their champion to overthrow him. If the Georgians canid only manage to have the two agree to settle the matter by wager of battle in their own persons, (hey might hope to get rid of both. That suits U3 exactly. We'll bo bottle bolder for both, provided such championship promises so refreshing a resalt. Blacking.—Here is the very latest internal revenue decision: Boot-blacks are required to use their blacking just as they ilnd.it when tho box is opened, adding nothing to it whatever. The aot of spitting in the box and smearing the contents with the brush, constitutes tho boot- black a mixer, or rectifier, or manufacturer of blacking, and he most pay the ordinary manu facturers'- license. Ur- THE Sroc-r.—The Western Union Tele graph company has knocked . tho ‘.‘Postal Tele graph” folks off their pins. Mr. Washburn, the champion of the latter, has decided not to make any report to the House this session from the Postal Telegraph Committee—which means that the humbug li;u gone “up the spout." The editor of the Hancock (Kentucky) Mes senger, in a farewell address in his expiring journal, regrets that he “has not had the pleas ure of writing the obituary of several of the miserable skinflints of the town.” This'is the bitterness of impecuniosity. “Aktelopf. ” writes the Picayune, from New York, that sales of new crop ootton in Liver pool for September and October delivery have been made on a basis of lOj- pence. In the New York market, sales for September and Oc tober delivery have been made at 20$ and 19;} eats, respectively. Central Rail read changes and Im provements. In company with CoL Powers, of the South western Railroad, and Mr. Scattergood of the Central, the writer yesterday made a reconnoi- aance of the changes and improvements in pro gress and contemplated by the Central railroad, in carrying out its consolidated programme with the Southwestern road. Beginning Eastward, the change will com mence some 3000 feet^beyond the Walnut Creek bridge. From the Walnut Creek bridge io Griswoldville there is an ascending grade of about thirty feet to the mile. The road will therefore commence, its raised grade through Macon, which is about sixteen and a half feet above its present level, half a mile or more be yond this bridge. A short distance this side of the bridge the old line of the road takes a curve to the Southward to avoid the higher hills of East Macon. Here the new track will diverge and follow a pretty nearly straight line, until it rejoins the old track at East Macon near the mashine shop. To accomplish this new and more direct align ment a good deal of expenditure is necessary. The hill beyond George Adams’ old place re quires an excavation of fifteen hundred feet or more in length, and thirty-five feet in depth at the highest point. It is a good old fashioned Georgia day hill and solid digging. The,- con tractor, Mr. Ames, Is busv with a toa» ot *>>;<> excavation, an .', has a serious work of time be fore him. There are 70,000 cubic yards of ex cavation to be done. Beyond this hill, which is a mile from Walnut Creek bridge, the grading will be light. Between this hill and the noxt eminence ap proaching Macon, is a fine running stream, and hero tho ingenuity of Mr. Scattergood is provid ing a grand Reservoir, for the supply of the works at East Macon, and the great Freight Station across the river. The embankment will constitute a substantial dam. Two great culverts of brick laid in cement, are connected with a perpendicular escapement, fifteen feet high, af fording two great water passages, each of six feet diameter. Of courso, whenever, in wot times, the water in the Reservoir attains this elevation it will get immediate relief down these perpen dicular passages and through the culverts be low, thus keeping tho water to a certain height in all weathers. This Reservoir* will cover a basin of twenty acres or more, and make a right good fishing pond, as well as furnish ample sup plies of water for the purposes designated. A£out ten feet from the bottom of this Reser voir a ten inch iron pipe will conduct water through the embankment to the lower side to drive a ram or a water wheel, which will fill a tank for the supply of locomotives. Along the margin of this reservoir and on the high hills of East Macon, it is the ultimate design of the company to locate their most ex tensive works for the. building, equipment and repair of their motive and transportation cars; but this is in the future. For present purposes the joint works of the Southwestern and Central Roads are being transferred to the East Macon shop, and the buildings recently abandoned as a freight depot in that place. Following tho new track Westward, we find it enters East Macon opposite the machine shop of the company at an elevation of sixteen and a half feet above the level of the East Macon freight depot The new track is elevated on tressel work, and the old one, where it intersects, passes under. This tressel work will be filled np with a solid embankment and where the new embankment is cnmnlated upon the old one, a double row of piles has been driven down, to which the upper track will bo secured until the embankment attains the necessary solidity. But let ns stop in East Macon to see what the Company is doing there. The Round House and machine shops, os is well known, are very spacious buildings. The Round House has nine teen tracks for locomotives, but as the compa nies employ abont sixty, the supply is short. Every track ha3 its pit and hydrant, which will fill the tank of a locomotive briefly. East of the Round Honse are the machine shop3 and forges, the former of which are now being filled with the most improved machinery. Among it is an iron planing machine which will work to any concave or convex snrface; bnt perhaps the most wonderfnl contrivance there is a hydraulic press for putting on and taking off car wheels from their axle-trees. Probably every’reader of the Telegraph and Messenger knows that, unlike a common carri age wheel, a railway car wheel does not tom on its axis. The axeltree turns in nicely fitted brass journals, and the wheel is fixed immovably upon the end of the shaft. - Should this wheel get loose, (and the lateral strain upon it, especially in curves, is very great,) the most disastronsTO- snlls ensue. Some years ago it was the custom, to fasten the wheel with iron keys, bnt these wonld work loose; and of late years the only reliance is apon the cohesive pressure of a very close fit. The hole in the wheel and the diameter of the axle are precisely the same, bnt it has been fonnd that in tbe course of boring the hole and turning down the axle, the abrasion of the chis el makes a bevil, so imperceptible as hardly to be indicated by measurement, bnt sufficient to obtain an immensely close fit in so unyielding material as iron. Now these wheels are put on and detatched from the axles by means of a hydraulic press of almost inconceivable power.' Two blocks of yel low pine of three inches in thickness and say eight in length, were splintered -to frazzles in this machine, lengthwise and crosswise, before onr eyes, as easily as the reader wonld flatten a piece of soft dough between his thumb and fin ger ; and this was done with a pressure in the machine of300 pounds to the square inch. Bnt in one case, a day or two ago the master ma chinist assured ns ha used a pressure of 3600 pounds to the square inch before be was able to detach an old wheel from the end of an axeltree. It is wonderful that the greatest mechanical power known should ho obtained by the use of water and a foroe pump. These machine shops rail employ a good many hands and are under the superintendence of Mr. Gugel, an accomplished machinist and n very active and intelligent gentleman. The large freight depot building in the same place has been converted into a car shop. It is nearly 400 feet long including the offices in front, and will be U busy scene of labor in the manufacture and repairs of rolling stock. The road will cross tho river from East Macon over the present bridge upon elevated support ers, and when it reaches the site of the old Court House will bo very slightly below the level of that building. The old track, elevated to tho new- new grade, will be followed to the passenger sta tion house by tho passenger trains, but the freight trains, after leaving tho bridge, will di verge northward a little, and take the line of a track through the alley between Fifth and Sixth streets. A little in advance of the site of the old Court House, and fronting Mulberry street, will be the new freight station. This will be a fine building of brick, four hundred feet long by eighty feet wide, and advancing from tho centre will be a three story edifice for offices, surmounted by a cupola, at -the top of which will be a clock with illuminated dials. Following the alley between Fifth and Sixth streets the freight tracks will pursue a straight course to and through the freight grounds of the Southwestern railroad, which will be cleared of their present buildings and relaid in new tracks for the convenience of making up western trains. Freight bound eastward will proceed at once across the river and find a similar conve nience and space beyond East Macon. All tbe mechanical work of both roads will be done at the East Macon shops, and the combined bus iness of the two roads will be transacted at the common Freight Station at the foot of Mulberry street. Freight trains bound east will be made up in East Macon, and those bound west will be made np in West Macon, on the old Southwest ern Railway grounds. A large ootton yard will be laid out between the passenger and freight tracks on the ground of the company lying between Poplar and Cherry streets. The new tracks of the railway will be carried upon arches over the level of Poplar street, bnt on Cherry and Mulberry the streets and tracks will have a common level. It will be evident from this hasty review of the matter that the changes in progress are great and expensive, and will require much time, as well as money. They will hardly be completed before a year from next fall, and will demand constant labor and great expense to be accom plished then. We are under obligations to Messrs; Powers and Scattergood for conveyance, information, etc., in making this review. The Georgia Press. Thomas Bams, an old and most worthy citi zen of DeKalb county, died in a fit, Saturday, aged 70 years. The local of the Constitution has seen some stalks of wheat air feet hicrh. crown in DeKalb county. No fertilizer or manure was useu. - From all parts of the State we hear reports of fine rains last Wednesday and Thursday. The Columbus cotton statement up to Satur day, 28th inst., shows total receipts, C6,04G bales, and total shipments, 59,54G bales, leaving stock on hand, 6,500 bales. The Savannah cotton statement, same date, •hows total receipts 44G,659 bales of uplands, and 14,071 of sea island cotton, and total ship ments 425,875 of upland,- and 13,785 of sea island cotton, leaving stock on hand 21,276 of upland, and 286 of sea island cotton. On Saturday, 6,152 bales of upland cotton valued at $610,409 34, and 150 bags of sea island cotton valued at $19,OGO 50, wero cleared from Savannah, for Liverpool and Havre. The Columbus Son has the following items: Supposed Fatal Aitray.—There was on af fray at 6} p. m. yesterday between a white man, Wm. Underwood and a negro, Jack Williams.— Both are employed in hiring hands for rail roads, Underwood for the North and South Ala bama. The difficulty arose about a negro. Un derwood seized Williams and fired a pistol at him. Williams drew a knife from his pooket and opened it with his teeth and stabbed Un derwood in tbe face, throat, left side, stomach, and other places. The wounds of Underwood are supposed to be mortal. He was carried to the city hospital, where he is in charge of Dr. Toggle. The negro was arrested and put in the guard honse. Death by Lightning.—Mr. J. L. Ryan, of Lee county, Ala., was killed by lightning on Tuesday afternoon last. He was the miller at Leslie’s Mill, about nine or ten miles from the city. It is supposed that he was killed abont two o'clock in the afternoon, as he was alone at the mill and his body was not discovered until the next morning by Mr. Leslie. He bore no marks or braises on bis person, bnt a small tree near which he was lying, had been slightly struck by lightning. The knife in Mr. Ryan’s pocket, upon examination, proved to be thor oughly magnetized, so much so that it would attract a needle. Fast Time by Hook and Ladder Company.— The company was ont on Broad street, for drill, yesterday, numbering 32 men, Foreman H. O. Pope in command. They ran 100 yards and mounted a 30 foot ladder, a member, Frank Gnnby, ascended and descended, and the lad der was back on the track and re-strapped in 42 seconds. They then ran 125 yards and did the same work in 49$ seconds. The ran was made through heavy sand. Mr. Robert H. Greene, a resident of Colum bus since 1837, and father of one of the propri etors of the San, died in that city, Saturday, aged 64 years and some months. Mr. G. was, with one exception, the last of the originators of the Columbus Fire Department. Mr. Emory S. Dennis, Sr., for many years a resident of Colnmbus, died Friday, aged 67 years. The Early county News reports the health of that county as never better at this season of tho year. In a difficulty between R. G. Stowe, white, and Sam Alexander, a negro, in Early county, Saturday, the* latter was shot and serionsly wounded. Ho made the first attempt to shoo* - . In Muscogee Superior Court, Saturday, 'Wil liam 'Williams, negro, for the murder of Andrew Boswell, a white boy in Harris county, last March, was found guilty, and sentenced by Judge Johnson to the penitentiary for 99 years, or life. Mr. Lemuel Ragland, brother of the senior proprietor of the Columbus Enquirer, died in Henry county last week, aged 63 years. The Enquirer says: Injury by the Hail.—Wo regret to leam that the extensive vineyard and orchards of R. J. Moses, Esq., about five mile3 from this city, weremuchdamagedby the hail stoma on Wednes day. The hail in that neighborhood fell much faster, and tbe stones were larger, than what we witnessed here. The damage to Major Moses’ fine fruit will be quite a loss to this and other communities. : . . .: Colored Jurors.—The Savannah Advertiser leams that under the act of tbe 15th of Februa ry, 1869, ordering a revision of the jury boxes biennially on the first Monday in June, active preparations are being made for tbe drawing of the jnrors of Chatham county, and that al ready the names of some thirty colored per.-.ous have been taken from tbe books of tbe receiver of tax returns. The Dickson Fertilizer Company, of Augusta, have bought the old Bobbin factory, and will use it hereafter for the purpose of grinding bones and preparing phosphates to be nsed in their business. William Rushton, Jr., a prominent fireman of Atlanta, died Sunday morning. An incendiary fire Monday night, on the premises of Mr. D^B.' Lane, of Morgan county, bnraed two largo cribs, a two horse wagon and a largo com sfielter, causing a loss of $500. The Chronicle and Sentinel says, eleven hun dred hands arc employed at work on tho Port Royal Railroad. Tho work'is progressing simul taneously at both ehds, and the rail is being laid at tbe rate of half mile a day. So says the Barnwell Jonmal. —— Lightning.—We understand that the stable of : Harmon Rowley, Esq., about .eight miles from the city, was struck by lightning one night last week and killed one of a pair of horses, valued at one thousand dollars, and so shocked the other horse that it is somewhat doubtful if be recovers. A Startling Exhibition in Cincinnati. From the Cincinnati Commercial.J Quite an interesting exhibition took place on Elm street yesterday afternoon. A couple of grown men, who ought to have known better, went in bathing in the canal, near tho Vine street bridge. About three o’clock, just when they were having tbe best of the fun, a police man made his appearance upon the bridge, and before they could reach tho bank the blue coat bnd their clothes and 1 was leaving with them. The incautious bathers made a very pathetic appeal for their raiment, but tho watchman was unyielding, and carried the garments away and hid them. Returning to the canal he stoned the pair until ho drove them out of the water. He then chased them, stark naked as they were, along the canal to Elm street, and down Elm,- through crowds of people on every square, to Seventh street. The procession then moved, east on Seventh street, to midway between Elm and Race streets, where one of the naked individuals rushed into a little dwelling, closely followed by his friend. The bathers did not stop' to look at the door-plate to see whether either of them lived there or was acquainted with the occupants of the honse, but threw themselves unreservedly on the mercy of the family. They had reason to congratulate themselves on their choice of a refuge. .The gentleman of the house loaned each of them a suit of his clothes, and wonld not hear of their leaving until the “beak" has disappeared. The Feniaa Battlw-Herele Candact of General O’Neil. From the Herald, of Friday, we get the fol lowing description of the first Fenian fight near St. Albans, Vermont. It is contained in a let ter written from that, place under date of the 26th inst. THE DEFEATED ABMT. The route of the Fenians at the Cook Corner battle yesterday was most complete, and by daylight ihia morning the whole minatnre army of less tii»« taro hundred men was en route to this town, and they are now lounging abont the streets in a a most pitiable condition. Some are discouraged, all are indignant, and few are anxious to join the other branches of^ the invading forces when the prospects of suc cess are more reasonable. The men justly blame General O’Neill for hia indiscretion in patting them against a superior, well intrenched force, and his loyalty to Fenianism and devo tion to the welfare of his command are very sharply criticised. THE BRITISH TROOPS numbered about 200,' being composed abont Balf of volunteers and the other half of armed citizens living in the immediate vicinity. They were protected not only by a dense forest, but by hundreds of ponderous and impregnable rocks, and had the additional advantage of ele vated position, which, claim many of the Feni ans, with good reason, might have been offset by a Binular coign of advantage on their part. Either through stupidity or ignorance, General O’Neill neglected to improve the natural advan tages of position which he assumed, and formed his men m column of fours in the highway. un manntr.nTB vnu GENERALSHIP. The freedom of restraints from military dis cipline which has characterized the movements of tho Fenian troops was most glaringly exhib ited in this instance. Although the attacking party were well informed of the number of their antagonists and the strong’ of their position, they yet neglected to take *. a the common ex perience of military life. The. advance guard consisted of but three men, who marched bnt six feet in advance of the main body, and the entire force were huddled together like so many sheep. Every available man was pressed into activity, and there were no reserves on which to fall back for support. When all was ready for the slaughter, General O’Neill, true to his repu tation, committed what was perhaps the greatest blunder of the Fenian campaign. Instead of deploying his men as skirmishers along the line, which afforded every facility for employment of such a force, and even intrenching them behind the rock fences, bark piles and buildings which abounded, he gave the order to charge in solid column on the heights above. The oc casion reminded one forcibly of the fatal movements upon Fredericksburg during the war of the rebellion, except that in the present in stance the stronger force occupied tbe more for midable position. The men slowly bnt steadily moved forward, their commander deftly taking himself ont of the way and placing the whole of a big house before his body to avoid the danger which might arise from bullets which were ex pected from the brow of the opposite hill. The Canadians, however, had calculated their chances with care. Every point of the. situation had been carefully weighed, and they were deter mined that whatever others might do there should be no charges of violation of the neutrality laws preferred against them. Accordingly they waited patiently till the last man passed over the line,, and then the firing commenced. One volley from the muskets of the Canadian troops, which, by the way, made John Rowe the first victim of tho campaign, [spread consternation among tjje Fenian troops, and they scattered like chickens in search of a shelter from the rain. Some of them found harborage behind the stone fences with which the locality abounds. Others laid themselves down behind the piles of bark, while an unfortunate few, headed by Brigadier-Gene ral J. J. Donnelly, of Utica, sought protection within the walls of an old barn at the right of the road. A scattering fire was then instituted, with no effect on eiither side. O’neIT.T. AGAIN COMES FORWARD. Finally some of the Fenian officers tiring of this dilatory method of doing business, unearthed General O’Neil and demanded permission to charge upon the hill in front. This request was peremptorily refused. Sensible, however, of the fact that something must be done to rouse the waning spirit of his men, General O’Neil ordered a retrogade march to the top of the hill, and here again he displayed his utter want of military tactics, as well as a total disregard for the lives of his men. There were methods of reaching the summit which ought to have been manifest to the merest novice, even before the opening of the fight. But General O’Neil either could not or would not perceive them. This order placed his men in the position of .clambering a steep hill with their backs to the enemy and at short musketry range. Brave men they were, it is true, bnt they could not withstand such a terrible hail of bullets. Thos. Murray fell dead in his steps, and the rest, dreading the future, faltered and seemed half determined to fly from the- fire. Then it was was that General O’Neil made tho inflammatory speech which I telegraphed you last night. Its effect was to hasten the bravest of the men; bnt after they had reached the top of the hill they seemed disinclined to take any farther action, and looked only for the best methods of self- preservation. Collecting themselves together in something that looked like a heap they talked over the situation. General O’Neil, however, held himself somewhat aloof, and, in company with one Boyle Reilly, walked slowly down the decline of the hill. o’NEECi’s' ADVENTURES. Besides all this it should be remembered that while the fight was the sharpest, when the bill- lets were flying the thickest and his command were penetrating the British soil, General O’Neil was safely intrenched in the upper room of a neighboring brick honse, from where he could obtain an excellent view of the exciting scene. This Honse was owned and occupied by a muscular farmer named Richards, and when ho found the Fenian chief in one of his bed rooms, he very peremptorily ordered him to leave the premises. O'Neil was most reluctant to comply with Mr. Richards’ request, when tho old man with firmness and determination told him that he wonld accelerate his movements if he hesitated, and as he was abont suiting the action to the word the Fenian chief gave a par tial illustration of discretion being the better part of valor, and showed his presenco^of mind by a sadden absence of body. The General then took to a piece of woods in the direction of St. Albans, and, having gono rearwards through the forest for abont half a mile, he ven tured again on to the highway, taking his coarse through the yard opposite another farm honse, oconpied by a Mr. Vincent. As he was turning around the corner he discovered the presence of General Foster, tho United States Marshal; but ihsteatTof turning back he approached the Marshall and saluted him, and was at once taken into custody. There were a large num ber of .O’Neils men in the neighborhood at the time, butffie gaye n<? alarm or signal for them to come to his resoue, bnt seemed to become a voluntary prisoner. Whether the General did actually or not give himself away to tho United States authorities it is impossible to determine; but men openly denounce bim as not only a traitor, bnt an nrbilrary ignoramus. Many'of his followers, particularly his staff officers, sacri ficed good positions tc engage in this promis ing attack upon Canada, and the,shame and in dignation at so early,and ignominious a defeat causes them to direct the most' profane and abusive epithets towards bim whom they be- lieve to have been the cause of their failure. BURIAL OF THE DEAD. The three men who were killed in tho fight were-buried early this morning. John Rowe, of Burlington, who fell on the Canadian side of tho line, was pulled from tho pooi of water ‘whore he was sent by' the fatal ballet, and dragged, partially by the hair and partly by the clothing, up the brow of a hill, and, without shroud or coffin, interred in a grave about three ftet in depth, and when the earth had been thrown over him '^detachment of tnon pitched a quantity of stones upon tho grave sufficient to form & pile a foot and a half or two feet high. He wore a badge of the Burlington Fire Depart ment, which was taken by the sergeant ineliargo of tho burial party. Tho other two victims killed wero bnried on the American side, and were famished with rude coffins by thoir com rades. THE WOUNDED. ' ‘ Among those injured; not already mentioned, are Gen. J. J. Donnelly, of Utica, who received a wound in the spine, which will prove fatal.— He is being cared for by his friends at the Franklin Hotel, in Franklin. Among those slightly wonnded are James Keenan, of Fort Edward, N. Y., in the ankle; Daniel Ahern, of Burlington, in tho left hip; Charles Carlton, of Cambridge, in the leg; Lieutenant Hallaba*, of Boston, in the face. A man named Morphy, of Skowhegan, Me., was taken prisoner after the fight, and also two others whose names are unknown. THB FRONT RIVER FIGHT. U*yS-’l The World’s Toronto 27th special Bays this morning at 8 o'clock tbe 69th regular*, the vol unteer garrison of Montreal and Huntington battallion, all under CoL Bogart, advanced on the Trout river lines where the Fenians had made breastworks of rails leading across the field on the north bank of the river. At 9:30 Bogart ordered the Huntington vol unteers to deploy across the field. The 69th was ordered to advance along the road and the artillery to cross the river and go up the south bank. These movements were performed at once, and the whole li'iA opened fire. The Fen ians fled at once, not firing over twenty shots, the Canadians following and firing as they went till near the boundary, when they stopped. 'The Fenian offioers tried to reform the men on cross ing the line, using swords and revolvers, bnt in vain. None of the Canadians were hurt,, and the Fenians had bnt few wonnded. One is said to have been killed and one taken prisoner. The Fenians number from 1,000 to 2,000, and the Canadians 1,000. Be-enforcements arrived dar ing Hw day, including Prince Arthur, who created enthusiasm by marching to the front with the volunteers and regular* along the New York and Vermont frontier. SUNDAY DISPATCHES. From Washington. Washington, May 29.—The Treasury will sell five millions of gold and buy eight millions in bonds daring Jane, at New York, viz: a million of gold every Wednesday and two millions in bonds the first, third and fifth, and one million the second and fourth Thgrsday. A cold rain all day. The decrease in the publio debt this month will be folly equal to that of last month. w— Movement. The Fenians have advices to send funds in stead of men to the front, to bring the destitute Fenians back. ■; Malone, May 29.—The Fenian invasion is abandoned as hopeless. Father McMahon says he has telegraphed to twenty places for men and money. He advises the men to Btay here until Monday or Tuesday, when a fight can bo had* Montreal, May 29.—The Fenians are in jail at various points. The feeling is intense against them. St. Albans, May 29.—Marshal Foster crossed the lines yesterday to intercede for the sen tenced Fenians. General O’Neal will be bailed on Monday. Cincinnati, May 29.—At a large Fenian meet ing, several hundred dollars were subscribed for a hundred and fifty men who were waiting transportation to the front. Ogdensbubg, May 29.—The Government has information that a simultaneous rising of the Canadian Fenians is expected. The poor sue cess of the invasion causes alarm. Father M0' Mahon passed to St Albans yesterday with a party of Philadelphia Fenians. Foreign News. Paris, May 29.—Labonlaye has suspended his lectures before the law school. The High Court commences the regicide enquiry to-mor row. Lisbon, May 29.—The popular demonstrations in favor of Peninisnla unity are renewed. Salt Lake, May 29.—The Mormons refuse to allow the United States Marshal to use their jail for Federal prisoners. General News. St. John, May 29.—A drunken party degrad ed the American consul’s flag yesterday. New York, May 29.—It is reported that assis tant district Attorney Fellows Bncceeds Morris- sy in Congress, and that Collector Grinnel and Sickles will exchange places. Eleven thousand emigrants arrived here las week. _ _ A Drunken Man Sent up in a Balloon —Narrow Escape from Deaihi From the Rock Island Argus, Hay 18)] The balloon ascension last evening, caused a large crowd of people to assemble in the vi cinity of the open lot adjoining tbe Baptist Church. It was to have transpired at half past one o’clock in the afternoon, but owing to the high wind, was deferred. One of the poles that sustained the balloon broke before the performance began, and a new pole had to he substituted. This delayed the ascension until sundown. A furnace to convey hot air to the balloon had been built, and a great wood lira was roaring underneath. The bal loon begaa to fill, and soon rounded itself into an immense oval- A dish of alcohol was placed underneath and the smoke burnt out, and everything was ready to. “let go.” The balloon was a patched up affair of hemp linen and the basket little larger than a market hand basket, was fastened to it by small ropes. When everything was in readiness, a bustling, tall, thin man, with a blonde mustache, who was the proprietor, of the balloon, as we learned/and who was supervising the affair, ,walked to the hack end of the lot and said, “Come oq, Bill,” and a wretched, blear-eyed, drunken man came staggering up, his hair and garments dripping with the water that had been dashed upon him to waken him from his drunken torpor, and he mechanically came forward, as one whose ideas were con fused, and, staggering up to the basket put one foot in. The word was given, the ropes were loosened, the poles dropped, and the balloon shot into the air, and the drunken man, stand ing up and clinging to the rope?, waved his handkerchief to the lessening world below. As it was a hot air balloon of small dimensions, it took its own course, and came down any where as soon as the'hot air that upheld it was cooled aud exhausted. Everybody expected him to drop in the river, but it sailed over and beyond it, and when it reached the^Davenport Bluff, it began to descend quite rapidly, just grazing the roof of Otto King’s house. When over Mr. Claussen’s premises. Western ave nue and Seventh street, near Mr, Iving’3, the balloonist, who was hanging to the netting, let go, and fell a distance of thirty feet, in lus fall breaking through the roof Mr. E. Claus- inU’s summer house, and very badly injuring himself. No bones were broken, but he was hurt internally, and may possibly die of the injuries received. A Timely Prayer. Before the adjournment of the Alabama Legislature i.i Montgomery, at its last session, a pious divine, who was in the habit of pray ing for the convicts in the renitentiary at We- tiunpka, having the love of truth and the fear of God before him, was requested by the Speaker of the House to open the: proceed ing with prayer, which ho did in the following manner: ’ " c “0 Lord, we pray Thee that Thy mercies may bo extended to these poor men, who have been sent here from all. parts of the United States, convicted of various crimes and mis demeanor.-; have meroy upon them, we be seech Tike, while they are here serving out the time tor which they were sent, and when they have served and are dismissed from these walls, may they return to their Northern hotues better men," and in. time may they be come useful and upright citizens and honora ble^ members of the society from whence they came, we ask in the name and through the merits of Christ, our Redeemer. Amen.” As soon as he had closed, old one-ami Richardson, alias Steel Trap, so called mem ber from Wilcox, sprang to his feet, aud in a stentorian voice exclaimed, “Mr. President, 1 move to strike out Wilcox countyHis amendment was unanimously rejected, amidBt a scene which can be better imagined than described.— Wilcox Vindicator. The PifteM «■< HaMyrtwfc Correspondence Cincinnati Commercial. ] . Columbia, & CL, April 24.—“What floe large honse is that standing over there, surrounded on three sides by a high brick wall, and in front by an ornamental iron fence with marble pillars at each corner ?” I inquired of a citizen. “Oh, that’s old General Preston’s and it is said to be the finest laid off grounds in the Booth. There’s a whole sqanre or four acres of it, and all inside is every kind of shrubbery that yon can think of. with gravel and shell walks running all through it.” “Does Preston live there himself?” “Yes, considerably, bat I believe he spends most of his time in Europe. Has got consider able money invested there in one way and an other. He prophesied the war wonld oome np along time before it did, and so to be on the safe side he sold the most of his niggers, and Invested his money in Europe.” What relation is he to the Hamptons ?" CoL been speaking of." “The old original Preston of all of cm came here years and years ago. He was from Virginia, and was on his way to Florida to get cured of the consumption. He was a young man then, about twenty years old, ana traveling along towards Florida, he passed through here and concluded to stop, as he liked the climate. He went to school here awhile,- married and settled down. About that time old General Wade Hampton, who had been a Colonel in the Revo lutionary war, settled here, raised a large fami ly, and got rich. Preston also got rich, and the families afterwards became connected by mar riage. They owned a great many plantations, ana kept gettine richer and richer until the war come up. Of course they all wen: wUli tho South, and many of them lost nearly all of their property. General Wade Hampton owned a very costly residence just out of town, which the Yankees burned np. Ornamenting the grounds around his honse alone cost him sixty thousand dollars. Now, all his fine shrubbery are turned out and the ruins look bad enough. On top of the war came a lot of security debts, and the General had to take the benefit of the bankrupt law. They say he is now getting started again in Mississippi, and will come out right side up. “The Hamptons and Wades are great work ers. Yon may make them, poor, but they won’t stay poor. Wade has one brother in Mississip pi, I believe, who is very rioh. Besides being rich, they are all popular men, and if it hadn’t been for the war, there’s no telling what the two families would have come to. They wonld have owned the State after awhile. But they were very much set back daring the war, and some of them killed. Thomas Hampton, son of the present Wade Hampton, was killed in Vir ginia when he was only twenty-one years old.— His remains were brought home, and passed right along the street, followed by over a hun dred of his negroes, most of them crying, for they loved their young master. This was in the fall of 1864. The following February here came Sherman with fire and sword, and destroyed a great deal of property belonging to the two fam ilies, so that they were crashed by all kinds of misfortunes. It was all that could be done to keep the army from burning that tine honse that we were speaking of. Bnt they left it, and that’s abont all they did leave.” There are several graveyards in and around Columbia, belonging to different churches, and in one of them are the graves of the Hampton and Preston families all in one corner and par tially to themselves. Finely wrought marble slabs are over them all, upon which is engraved the name and date of death. The insatiate reaper has been at work among these families, for side by side repose the ashes of some twenty-five or thirty of them. They are fighting stock for one of the oldest tombstones bears this inscription: “General Wade Hampton, colonel in the rev olutionary war, and major-general in the war of 1812. Died in Colombia, February 4,1835, aged •ighty-three years.” Another, but recently erected, has this in scription : “Lieutenant Thomas Preston Hampton, son of General Wade and Margaret Hamptom, bom November 26,1853, killed in battle near Peters burg, Va., October 26, 1864.” Upon this tomb was lying a large wreath of flowers, but the warm April sun had partially faded them, and they were fast dying. Like the body under the slab, they had been cut down in the spring time of life, just as they were blooming into fragrance and beauty, Young Hampton fell when he lacked but a few days of reaching man’s estate, which makes his death the more sad. Death is a cruel monster any time; but when he cuts down the young, buoy ant and hopefrd, he seems doubly so. The Hamptons and Prestons all espoused the cause of the South when the straggle began, and, considering their location and interests, it is bnt justice to say that such a coarse upon their part was naturaL They were in earnest, and not actuated by selfish motives, let their deeds testify; when the die was cast and the battle came, they were not fonnd shirking. The families are both very popular with the negroes; their old servants will not leave them, bnt remain as faithfnl to their interests as before the war. Wade Hampton is as staunch a friend to the negro as he can be, and remains in the Democratic party, and he always befriends them, both in public and private, when occasion de mands. The negroes appreciate his noble stand in their behalf, and I am not sure bnt that he wonld make inroads into the ranks of the Loyal League, if he should ran for an office. There is no danger of that, however, as he is too busily engaged in trying to build, up his shattered for tunes, to go into politics. Nevertheless, as loud ly as we may shriek .“Rebel’* and lash ourselves into fury over the misdeeds of the great families of the South, on sober, second thought, it is evi dent that it would be better for the colored peo ple, better for the State and better for tbe nation, to have Wade Hampton in Congress rather than Cadet Whittemore; at all events it would save the Republican party some disgrace, which is desirable. When it comes to such men as Whit temore, the party might cry ont with one of old, “Oh, deliver me from my friends!" ,i ... Avert. A Mam Who Believed he Hteoveo. "•* I The Muscatine (Iowa) Journal tl instant publishes the following »IvU* 1* scene at tbe death-bed of Major Pv*? <3 Fulton, who died at Uttumwa. in on the 28th of last March: " At about 6:30 o’clock he sank the arms of death, all thinking th heard the last whisper from his KnT* lying thus for some ten minutes he with the exclamation, faintly n !uL?7 auto us, O, Father, but unto' TheeA” A glory. Pausing a moment, he t • i “Five millions I R His wife, lraninv^H said, “Newton, what does ie Then followed the conversation W .. in tho familiar terms in which it rately reoorded by the members of the * within a few hours aflerftis death His wife then asked, “are they ~ spirits?” Answer—“Yes. Some terday; others just getting in.” rpl then arid, “Andyou, darlm! swell ber. Assented to by “yea.” She the? “are they coming to welcome you Answer— yes. Newton asked l do you know them?” Answer— that I knew on earth.” His wife tdSPj you see father?” Answer— 1 “which ^ (During the night anddayp revio ^ his failing sight, he had been repeated J if he could see certain persons standir- Father Mast was then standing hr aide—hence his reply—he doubtim. , •he meant spiritual tight! Jr* “FatherFulton” (diedlx ieam J * swer-‘ W Question by the you see li ttle sister Mary, who died wi ago in Virginia? * Answer—“yes.” s c. i® exclaimed, “then we do know earl, 1 «i“?i with a faint smile, expressive of I “ and surprise at the doubt, and whis tainly.” Newton then asked, “ChnWl heaven then a reality?” Answer-'T^ His wife then asked, “Charlie, do mfZ] Answer—“Yes.” (At this point the iWj over death seemed complete—the trinau great thAt glory rather than gloom fiM death chamber. A . feeling ofexulS] nearness to and symjpathy with spirit^ possessed each heart in a degree entiitiya known and unexperienced before.) Ben* gasps he then whispered, “I am so-vajo me rest, and then I will answer your * tions.” _ 11 After waiting, a moment Newton tfc “Charlie, have you any strange feelia Answer—“Yes.” Question by same- 1 ] you any pain?” Answer—“Onlv gei pausing, he proceeded between gasps, a,„ “Understand me—I mean corporal suJtS not spiritual.” Question by Newtoa-'rJ lie, is there any fear, any trenidation'. Answer—“Oh, no.” Question by the si “Then is it so terrible to die?" Awn. “No.” His wife answered this hy door that opens to admit us into a better 'iji Answer—“Yes.” Question by the a*| “Darling, are you happy?” “Oh, yed .By the same—“Does it look bright?’’ AwJ —Sunnv and fair,” admitting aninstactria ward “I am just catching glimpses.” Qj tion by his wife, “Brighter than anything^ ever saw on earth ?” Answer—“Oh, jaj He' was again asked if he saw Jesus. Ae —“Yes.” Question by his wife, “Is he t you?” Answer—“Yes.” She then exelaia “O death, where is thy sting; 0 grave, v! is thy victory ?” Newton asked, “Charlie,! death any sting ?’’ Answer—“No.” And* sank away and. the last word had fallen fe Jus lips closing in death, and thus ended i triumph which was the natural outgrowtif a life, the motto of which had been the goids rule and “Peace on earth, good will io its The queens of song have their differences, as persons have who follow less fascinating occu pations. A week or two ago the publio were charmed to hear they were soon to be visited by the new “Swedish Nightingale”—for.even poor Jenny Lind’s soubriquet is taken from her— Mile. Christine Nilsson. Since them we have heard that Mile. Nilsson is disposed, as a jock ey would say, to “fly the track,” her reason be ing that she had discovered that Mile. Adelina Patti, who is also soon to come to the United States, was to receive higher terms than her self. , The increased terms were agreed to by Mite. Nilsson’s proposed-manager, when lo! it now appears that Mile. Patti refuses to oome over, claiming that by her own engagement, with the same manager, no one was to receive terms so extravagant as her own. The quarrel as it stands, is a pleasing one. When John O. Calhoun’s body lay in state at Charleston, Col. John T. Sloan, of Colombia, took up a white rose from among the profusion of flowers that lay upon the bier, ca.Tied if home and planted a slip. It throve, and, after four transplantings, is a fine large, tree in CoL Sloan’s garden, and is called the. “Calkotm Rose. 1 * ’ ' From Baker County. - err Newton, Ga , May27, 1870. Editors Telegraph and Messenger : Presum ing yon wonld like to bear from the condition of the crops in this section, I take occasion to say through the columns of yonr valuable Journ al that the prospects are good, and the promise is for an abundant yield. The cotton is growing ra pidly, and is looking well, and from the amonnt planted, I wonld say, that in Baker oounty, at least, an overwhelming crop will be made. What little corn there is planted, is progressing upwards with surprising rapidity, and from the present stand point, promises to do all that oonld be expected. Bright anticipations of the future, however, are but seldom realized ; and disappointment larks in the paths of the expect ant men. From what I can hear, very little com is planted, the example of Madam Ceres, in this respect by her disciples and followers being oast aside and forgotten. Corn is her favorite, be- - , . -s hib*» cause its the bread of life, She invented and ori- than the writer s countrym . i ginated the art of its production. And of it hex '“’'hann nnrl tar more .,1 golden tinged erpwn is made. -It ia a great pity to see the old woman, in this age of progress, so rndely neglected, none bowing at her throne, and in worshiping tones saying: ‘‘To thee, fair goddess, we’ll a garland plait, Of ears of corn, to adorn thy temple gate,” Abide thy time, , oh, Geres, spare thy anger, the day is coming when thy worshipers will be many, ancLwfcsu thy wayward sons will throw off their allegiance from King Colton, aud again swear for thee—Obedience hi thy preoipt will then be esteemed a privilege—hasten tbe day, for where thou raleat, oh Queen, plenty reigns, 'lonitivw ru * tva t 411 ”’* ^ ■ For the first time in many days, we were on Wednesday last visited -by a heavy shower of rain, aooompanied with one of the most terrific hail storms ever witnessed in this country, even by ■ the oldest inhabitants. The stones were large, solid and oompaot, and the earth was liter ally covered with these congealed masses of water. And the blades of corn in the very small belt of country over which the storm swept, were torn in shreds. * Fortunately, it extended over a very small, scope pf country, thereby doing very little damage- The (storm lasted about fifteen minutes, daring which time old Jupiter was not idle, bnt moment after moment was belohing forfib btete#! paala at, thunder, like the roaring of ^rtiliery, and brandishing hia lightning flash aftsr flash, as if though, warning the frail in habitants here of the power and strength of his empire—Ite will, avar^be-remembered by those who witnessed it, as one of those remarkable and not often reonrrlng phenomenon of nature, such as is seldom beheld bnt once in & life time. Respectfully Dudley. f. Prize Candy.—Commissioner Delano has de cided that dealers in prixe eandy are subject to the same interaai revenue tel as gif t enterprises, vfz-. $150 per ttudm. In Beliair of the Birds. The great value of birds—suck as ties ling, the sparrowB, the crows, the jay?, e!t- that feed upon the most destructive lid 1 i.i sects, has been, until very recently, uui predated. Most of them have been treasdi outlaws, and in repayment for their sia services have been neglected or jjerseaui until the unchecked and enormous increisei the most noxious insects, throughout the® tinent of Europe has become a subject of id founded alarm, calling for the intervention the Government, both for their immediatei struction and for the protection of those 1c that feed upon them.. From these fact? a prominent conclesions have been pretty set reached: first, that birds are indispensiHe! European agriculture; and second, that tin birds most generally protected and know the “useful birds” are as a general tbinji very little service in arresting the iGcreaa those insects the ravages of which are j most to be dreaded. These lessons are u s nificant to us of America as to the agrifl lists of Europe. When will our own in! gent farmers awaken both to their danger's the only Temedy ? An agricultural journal, the Bund, . lished in Berne, with much ability and ft demonstrates that the enormous losses I ing’European agriculture can only be s when man himself'shall not only cease til turb the great equipoise of Nature, asj longer iu mere wantonness, prejudice,W stition, or on other equally worthless gr« persecute mid destroy the natural exten tors of insects, but instead shall estadj them the greatest possible protection, £«] the nourishing and caring for them in» wintry season. While this same journal finds much tel joice at in cantonal laws for the protectitfj useful birds, and yet more in the generi c iu which they are observed, it urges cts- attention to instructions upon tke;e satfl in schools, and dwells wita much pern: upon the radical incompleteness of tleK The following is as well adapted to oar ; meridian as to that of Switzerland: “W* ample, when we see the-sparrow (whis* been acclimated at such great expense in A** ica,) the crow, the raven, and others#,j most useful birds still outlawed in inatn'* cantons ; when we sec the hunting of our® ing birds still allowed at certain Others, and in yet others, that prote’ll only given to the smaller ones, omiung far more useful owls, buzzards and jaw® we can hut admit the. incompleteness oi, enactments, and are forced to an earner., that in all those cantons where this islation exists, a change may soon K that shall place them more in contonM the present stand-point of science- . These exhortations are pregnant witn. ing and with warning to us, for we ! intelligent legislation, and far more ^ ; careful investigation, the diffufK® and the dissenunation of truth, foe* of the Bund would surely demonst^, fhe farmer’s best friends are the veg _ ^ now most frequently persecutes. j, between his crops and their destroy^ j, are his standing army, his admirable powers of flight, their yet • , derful gifts of vision, and their inStl , mity to his foes, most marvellously to do duty in a field where maa powerless.—Atlantic Monthly. Human Taste yob Blood.—In rian Countess, named Elizabeth, ^ girls into her palace „on varioos P ^ then coolly murdered them; for tfl bathing in their blood. The spe ct ®,. y ts suffering at last became such a “ Ayd that she wonld apply with her o ,^1 most excruciating tortures, kaemy j,* shrieks of her victims. In this way ^ to have murdered 650 persons beto was brought to an end. Black Sj iscks.—Those black face, usually supposed to be smaJ , squeezed ont by a gentle pressure, ( again in a few days. A pennane effected by the use of the following ! 5 ^ White brandy, 2 oz.; oolonge, X ’ ^ teas, i oz. Wash the face wrtfj> ^ a rough towel, themapply » kitle ^ ration. This reapelhas hundred dollars, and m certainly • w. ■»».#■> ritigiEiSP Grand Jury Presentments, SWHfOW. m Fornet’r golden calf—the (***&* Boston Poet- • -