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JUKE 14, 1870.
G , 7 r om tho Temperance tec-
S** r * c .. Kcv . Daria Wills, delivered
Kity Ill'll, J 11,10 9,1870.
,0 , the enormous evils of intemper-
To *' l *l „ppalling picture, wo remark that
V& fiv0 hundred millions of dollars are
llv expended in the United States for
•ns liqors, involving the destruction of
^ millions of bushels of grain, most of
stf 4 * ht to be converted into bread for the
the world’s teeming population.
*^° r | ;nl cr jiaes committed under the influ-
1** C . jjjg fearful scourge are legion. Six
° 1 mnrders, four hundred suicides, and
tSSAre risonment of tvro hundred thousand
** “‘f, wo „icn yearly may be regarded as a
®*“ . estimate. Its crushing effects on
nod*** 10
® „ „ r e barrowing to every humane mind,
c • ! countless multitudes of them in filth
c! " tbiU « and committing hundreds of thous-
ar,li ri f"them to poor-houses, hospitals and
** ® 1lh institutions. Look, too, at the dread-
dmnta , lf human life occasioned by this
f r j vast g. thousand rational and mor-
n^lTiiil drunkards’ graves every year with-
, limits of the American Union, leaving
t- thousand widows and ninety thousand
’^tahmany of whom are utterly dependent
nnhlic charity.
081 . ^ 0 f tho manifold injuries and in-
imSch are inflicted on suffering wives and
srJ ' . _ cjjjijren by drunken husbands and
starving finally, we must not overlook the
tirfnlk'voc which intemperance makes with the
character and eternal hopes of mankind,
fr, the thunders of conscience, mocking
fiTterrors of death, and peopling the regions
f despair with armies of its miserable victims.
y^t sum of wasted money would be suf-
?. , M -, r en<l the blessings of civilization and
£££& ,L, «* of tt» ~aa-aa- i«®>
,1.. of me n who are annually sacrificed at the
TL 0 f Bachns have bone and muscle enough
ko the uncultivated porUons of our coun-
Lvoom as the garden of tho Lord-and if the
,il of thirty thousand widows and the cries of
Lt y thousand orphans could bo collected in
‘"Great whispering gallery, the volume of
^ices would bo louder than a thousand thun-
^ \Ve Lave seen that in tho city of Macon,
, tosc morals comparo favorably with those of
ether Southern cities, that there are forty-three
licensed bar rooms, ten of which it is estimated
t»ve an income of twenty thousand,’and that
the current receipts of some thirty of them
jnonnt to five thousand a year. Here then wo
have an expenditure annually of at least three
tundred and fifty thousand dollars, without do-
ing the slighest good to any of our citizens, and
which proves the source of, untold crimes and
miseries to our population. It does not requiro
the half of this sum to support all our schools
«,d churches. If this large waste were appro
ved to public improvements, it would make
Micon n “bright particular star” in the broad
jtlexy of cities which shine in the Southern
zone. And yet there are men in our midst of
respectability, talent and influence, who wink
at the gigantic evils of infemperanee—who.will
not lend a helping hand to deliver the land from
this dreadful crime.
Besides the above named bar-rooms there is
a batch of grocery stores where gentlemen keep
their private bottles—their glass coffins con
cealed behind the curtain. There are, also,
many smuggling shops, where * liquid, death
and distilled damnation” are doled out freely
in the dark. Moreover, we are informedthat
the suburbs of tho city are strewn with small
drinking establishments which escape the tax
ation of the town, and which catch the floating
funds of those who trade from the country.—
If all these streams of ardent spirits were set
into a blaze they would create a fibre-sheet like
unto that which enveloped the cities of Sodom
and Gomorrah.
The Cotton Crop.
Inasmuch ns we gave a distinct solution of the
main cause of the unexpectedly rapid increase
of the cotton crop, our friend of the Savannah
Republican was hardly justified in coming to
onr relief as one pnzzled and perplexed about
the matter. The typographical error which
stated the incoming crop at 2,237,000 (instead
of 3,237,000) bales, Bhowing an increase of
eight hundred thousand, was transparent to the
reader. We may accept .some of the Bepubli-
ean's suggestions as cumulative causes—that
tbongh there were fewer negro laborers, they
worked more diligently and contentedly—that
there is more and better stock employed in
cropping—a better system of agriculture, and
more fertilizers employed. These are all true,and
yet wo are confident a main cause of the almost
universally unanticipated increase in the cotton
crop, is the growing contributions of white la-
bor—individually so small as hardly to be
counted, but swelling immensely in the aggre
gate.
We claim noither to bo disappointed nor puz
zled by the growth of the cotton crop, bo long
as it sells at a remunerative price it will grow
rapidly—all prognostications to tho contrary
notwithstanding. Bat when the price sinks be
low the stimulating standard, production will
fall off with equal rapidity. Then commercial
fertilizers will be abandoned, and people will
farm for food and comfort—raise for home con
sumption, and a small cotton product for spend-
money and profits. It is probable Georgia wib
never Bottle down to a prosperous agricultural
career, until she has once more seen cotton so
low that it must be produced at a loss.
Angasta and Port Royal Kali Road
Wo learn from a gentleman who had arrived
from the line of the road yesterday, (says the
Savannah Advertiser,) that the working force
has greatly increased, there now being from
twelve to fourteen hundred bands employed nt
each end, and that fully a half mile of track is
laid each day in addition to the other necessary
work of grading, etc., performed by tho force,
There is also a large corps of mechanics engaged
in constructing about a mile of trestle work on
tho road, about forty miles this side of Augusta.
The contract for the bnildiDg of a drawbridge
from the Port Boyal mainland to Beaufort Is
land, has been awarded to F. Kbeason, of this
city, who will commence tho work of construc
tion in a few days. Although the entire road
was to have l^een completed and in running or
der by the first of December, it is safe to say
that, with the vast amount of labor yet to be
expended in the erection of bridges, trestles,
eta, the road will not be completed and open
to travel before the first day of January next,
Not Comfluientabt.—The World, specula
ting on Whittemore’s re-election and its moral
in respect to negro suffrage, consoles itself by
remarking: “We shall be disappointed if the
natural loaders of the South permit themselves
to be outdone in the arts by which ignorant vo
ters are controlled.”
We think the World tMB be ditappoinied if ho
believes Southern men will cut under tho carpet
bageers in the arts by which negro voters are
controlled. To say nsthing about the Fifteenth
Amendment bill, which will be vigorously en
forced against them and wholly inoperative on
the other side, we know no respectable Sonthern
man who proposes or feels inclined to play
demagogue to catch negro votes. ©•*
It is thought that one hundred Ohio families
will migrate to Middle Tennessee, In the fall,
PJau of Episcopal Visitation of the
Methodist Church for 1870.
FIRST DISTRICT—BISHOP PAINE.
Western Virginia, Catletteburg, August 31.
Kentucky, Covington, September 14.
Louisville, Greensburg, September 28.
SECOND DISTBICT—BISHOP ll’TSEllUS.
Western, Leavenworth City, September 7.
Missouri, Columbia, September 14.
St. Lonis, Boonville, October 5. r
Illinois, Kinmundy, October 19.
Alabama, Montgomery, December 7.
THIRD DISTBICT—BISHOP KEENER.
White Eiver, Mt Zion, September 28.
Arkansas, Clarksville, October 12.
Indian Mission, Fort Gibson, October 26.
Little Book, Washington, November 30.
POUBTH DISTBICT—BISHOP DOGOETT.
Tennessee, Pulaski, October 5. • " .
Memphis, Brownsville, November 1C. i -
North Mississippi, Water Valley, November
30.
Mississippi, Crystal Springs, December 14.
Louisiana, New Orleans, January 4, 1871.
FIFTH DISTBICT—BISHOP KAVANAUQH.
Holston, Wytheville, October 5.
North Alabama, Gadsden, November 1G.
North Georgia, Augusta, November 30.
Sooth Georgia, Fort Valley, December 14.
Florida, Key West, January 4,1871.
SIXTH DISTBICT—BISHOP PIERCE.
Virginia, Lynchburg, November 9.
North Carolina, Greensboro, November 23.
South Carolina, Charleston, December 7.
Baltimore, Salem, March 8,1871.
SEVENTH DISTBICT—BICHOP MARVIN.
Trinity, Jefferson, October 19.
East Texas, Carthage, November 2.
Northwest Texas, Waxahatchie, November 16.
West Texas, San Marcos, November 30.
Texas, Chapel Hill, December 14.
EIGHTH DISTBICT—BISHOP WIGHTMAN.
Columbia, Dallas, September 7.
Pacific, Stockton, October 5.
Los Angelos, Los Angelos, October 26.
COLORED CONFERENCES.
Kentncky, Louisville, October 19, Bishop
Paine.
Tennessee, Brownsville, October 26, Bishop
Doggett.
Mississippi, Vaiden, November 4, Bishop Dog
gett
Alabama, Selma, November 25, Bishop Mc-
Tyeire.
Georgia, Savannah, January 4, 1871, Bishop
Pierce.
Arkansas, Camden, November 25, Bishop
Keener.
South Carolina, Abbeville, August 5, Bishop
Wightman.
The General Conference for the colored peo
ple will bo formed at Jackson, Tenn., 16th De
cember, by Bishops Paine, Pierce and Mc-
Tyeiro.
Note.—Bishops Andrew and Early, being
superannuated, are without appointment, and
will visit snch Conferences as they find conven-
iant.
“Future Sales” of Cotton.
A correspondent of the Mobile Begister has
some sensible suggestions for planters who have
cotton on hand. He suggests that there is at
present only about 35,000 boles of cotton held
in the city of New York, and, strange as it
may appear, the gamblers in future sales have
sold for future delivery, several hundred thou
sand bales, of which 50,000 to 60,000 are to be
delivered to spinners in the month of June.
The writer asks: How do these men expect to
deliver 50,000 bales of cotton out of a stock of
only half that quantity in the city of New
York? Why, simply by getting up a panic in
the market, without the least foundation for it,
for the purpose of forcing the price down in
the Southern ports, so as to enable them to fill
their contracts to the sacrifice of the planters.
The factors and planters have it completely in
their power to withhold nine-tenths of the cot
ton now in the South from sale, for one or two
months, and thus force these men who are
gambling “in futures,” and selling property
months in advance which they don’t own, to
pay prices to fill their contracts, .which will rain
the last one of them. The spinners have very
light stocks on hand, and are relying on the
purchases they have made from these dealers in
'futures” to meet their monthly demands for
manufacturing purposes. Suppose the factors
and planters refuse to submit (for a few weeks
only) to the present prices, then how can the
gamblers comply with their contracts to the
spinners ? and in that case, what are the spin
ners to do? If there is any concert of action
among the cotton factors, and the planters will
cease drawing on them for awhile, so as to bet
ter enable them to hold firmly for ono month,
or less time, it would have the inevitable effect
to put cotton up three or four cents per pound;
and it would have the additional effect of kill
ing off these “future” gamblers for a long time
to come, for they would be buried so deep un
der the rubbish, caused by the toppling fabrics
they have reared above their heads, that they
would not bo heard of as “speculators in fu
tures” the balance of their lives.
Grand Masonic Display.
Thegrand procession of Free Masons, Wednes
day morning, in New York, was in every respect
a decided success. The weather was favorable
and the ground tinder foot pleasant for walking.
The column formed in ten divisions, the right
resting on Fifth Avenue, at nine o’clock, and
marched throuah Fifth Avenue from Twenty-
third street to Forty-sixth street, to Sixth Ave
nne, to Thirty-fourth street, to Fifth Avenue, to
Twenty-third street, where the right of the col
umn halted, and the Marshal opened their seve
ral divisions, and the ceremonies of laying the
corner-stone then commenced. The different
lodges, with their insignia, presented a splendid
appearance as they marched through tho streets,
and excited the admiration of the assembled
multitude which lined tho streets along the
route of march. The procession is considered
tho finest display by the Masonio Order ever
witnessed in that city. More than forty thou
sand Masons participated in it.
A Centre Shot.
The World hits tho “bull’s eyo” after this
fashion:
The United States Senate has 72 members.
A quorum is 38, and a majority of a quorum, or
20, are constitutionally competent to pass a bill.
The House has 299 members; quorum, 115 j
members constitutionally competent to pass a
bill 58 Bat the Senate has 28 surreptitious
members and the House 50, so that it is entirely
possible for a law of the United States to bo
rnndo without the concurrence of one single
Senator or Representative having a lawful con
stituency at his back.
And the World might have added that there
was a lot of surreptitious Governors down
South who, with no' lawful constituencies at
their backs, plunder treasuries and slander and
oppress their owners with high hands and out
stretched arms, and the trooly loil government
of these so-called United States takes them to
its bosom and pats their loyal heads with an af
fection exactly proportioned to the amount of
plunder they can boast, and the number and
atrocity of their lies and outrages.
r —
An Outrageous Band.—It is well known in
this community that a band of negroes have as
sociated themselves together as an independent
military company. They have been parading
tho streets dressed in soldier clothes, with mu
sic, guns, swords, banners all other necessary
war implements. As there exists no immediate
danger of tho secession of the wnite people
from tho “best government the _ world ever
saw,” onr people are a little astonished at such
proceedings. We would like to know what au
thority these “colored people" have for such
conduct, inasmuch as the same right is not ex
tended to white people. We know that mem
bers of the old Montgomery Blues desired to re
organize, solely as a remembrance of the olden
rime, and tho privilege was denied them.
On yesterday these negroes all in martial ar
ray, attempted to board the West Point tram,
bound forTuskeegee to join in the negro riotous
proceedings up there. By tho interposition of
Governor Smith the protest of General Clanton
and other gentlemen, they were dispersed.
b [[Montgomery AdterUser.
From Washington.
Washington, June 9.—A terrific storm is
prevailing. [Note.—The Irish telegraphs, are
deranged, causing some irregularities in the
Liverpool reports. I - t-'o >
Mr. Butler in his report from the Judiciaiy
Committee on the indebtedness of certain South
ern railroads, says, most of them, especially
those which made moderate purchases, have
been settled. Several roads most largely in
debted, have set up counter olaims, which are
in litigation. Suits are pending against the
following roads for the following amounts:
East Tennessee and Virginia, $258,820; East
Tennessee and Georgia, $365,331; Nashville
and Chattanooga, $310,839; Nashville and North
Western, $47,101.
These roads, tho report says, came before the
Committee, and while protesting against legis
lation designed to affect the proceeding, the
Court expressed a desire for an equitable set
tlement without litigation, and asks that tho Sec-
retaiyof War or some competent tribunal bo
authorized to compromise the difficulties. The
Committee consents to this, and proposes to
abandon the suits. The bill reported is in ac
cordance with this recommendation.
Bevenne to-day, $716,000.
Assistant Attorney-General Field has re
signed. ~
Delano will be absent till Saturday.
Nominations—O. S. Gleason, Bear Admiral;
Win. Reynolds, Commodore.
Bed Cloud had a final. interview with the
President to-day, and reiterated his petition for
the removal of Fort Fetterman, and for pow
der, rations, etc., varying but little from his
former speeches. The President, in respond
ing, said that Fort Fetterman would not be re
moved; it was needed as much for the protec
tion of Indians from the encroachments of the
whites as to protect whites from Indians, and
so far as he had the power ho would protect
both.
The Secretary of the Treasury sent to the
Senate to-day a copy of tho opinion of the At
torney General and a draft of the proposed bill
relative to eviction of purchasers of lands
sold for non-payment of direct tax in the South
ern States. Tho Attorney General recommends
that defendants in such suits have power to
transfer them to the United States Courts, and
that purchasers then evicted be reimbursed by
the successful plaintiff, the amount of taxes,
etc., paid the United States for the property.
Washington, June 10.—Major Perry Fuller
has given bond before Judge Wylie, of this city,
in fifty thousand dollars to answer certain Cus
tom House charges against him iu New Orleans.
Fuller’s bondsmen are Senators Boss, of Kan
sas, and McDonald, of Arkansas. Fuller was
represented before Judge Wylie, by Congress
man Sheldon, of Louisiana.
10 P. ai—Bevenue, to-day, $1,000,000
Secretary Bout well has gone North, to be ab
sent a week.
The President will be absent a week.
Masterly inactivity seems to be prevalent
with the Executive.
Private dispatches from Oregon indicate that
a member of Congress, heretofore claimed as
Bepublican, is Democratic. The Democrats
made a clean sweep.
Bed Cloud and his party have had a final in
terview with the Secretary of the Interior, when
Bed Cloud reiterated his demand, previously
made, for the removal of Fort Fetterman, and
was informed, much to his dissatisfaction, that
the Fort would not be removed. He reoeived
the news that arrangements had been made for
the departure of himself and party for their
homes on Monday next.
Spurious stamps; on North Carolina tobacco,
have been seized in Baltimore. The counter,
feits aro slightly longer, and the tinted lines of
the genuine aro absent.
The House ordered a special committee on
the alleged false statements by a correspondent
of the New York Post During the disoussion
Gen. Butler said, there was no question of
veracity between himself and the correspon
dent [Note.—It is due to the craft to say that
there is.]
Washington, June 11.—Bevenue to-day $766,-
000.
The officers at West Point have been com
pelled to take pains to secure impartiality to
wards the negro cadet
The Senate Finance Committee will hold tho
house bill reducing the tax for‘a week or ten
days. It will probably go to a Committee con
ference with the income tax stricken out
The Senate Committee will not interfere with
the tax on spirits.
The Democratic Congressional caucus ap
pointed Senators Thurman, of Ohio; Hamilton,
of Maryland; Representative Woodward, of
Pennsylvania and Beck of Kentucky, to pro
pose initiatory measures.
Congressional.
Washington, June 9.—In the House several
members denied tho charges of having been
corrupted by Caban partizans.
A terrible storm has stopped business. The
gas was lit bnt it was of no use. The hail and
rain on tho roof drowned the voices of mem
bers.
A bill was passed punishing unlawful certifi
cation of checks by officers of the national bank
by a fine of $5000 and five years imprisonment,
and tbo bank to be responsible to innocent pur
chasers.
Mr. Garfield, from the Banking and Currency
Committee, introduced another currency and
funding bill. The morning hour was fillibuster-
ed out, when the bill went over.
Philadelphia tobacconists petition for a uni
form tax of sixteen cents.
It is thonght the bill forbidding servile labor
contracts will pass as a party measure, and will
invalidate Koopmanschap’s contracts.
In tho Senate Mr. Dawe gave notice of a bill
to enable Indian.tribes to sue in the Federal
Courts.
In the House a bill was reported from the Ju
diciary Committee to establish a uniform sys
tem of naturalization with a proviso postponing
the exerciso of the rights of naturalization for
discussed, _ Flanagan opposing it, because it
would deprive the Republican party of a great
lever of which they now bad control. He would
use the franking privilege to disseminate papers
among the people of Texas. Replying to. the
former remarks of his colleague (Mr. Hamil
ton,) he maintained that the people were not
the set of cut throats they were represented,
bnt were a high-toned community. He was as
good a Republican as any man daTe, but did
not feel called on to prove the fact by jumping
up and threatening to cut mens’ throats.
Washington, June 10—nOon.—In the House
three hundred druggists and dealers inspirits
petition for taxation at stills, on a capacity
bases.
The bill to regulate credits for good behavior
on the part of convicts has passed, and goes to
the President
The bill creating St Joseph a port of delivery,
attached to the collection distriotof New Or
leans, has passed.
The correspondent of the New York Evening
Post was ordered to the bar of the House to
answer for alleged false dispatches which im
plicate certain members in alleged Cnban cor
ruption.
A resolution passed ordering the arrest of
parties who assaulted Congressman Porter, of
Richmond, for a violation of Porter’s privileges.
They will be arrested wherever found, and
brought to the bar of the House.
10 p. si.—The book publishers memorialize
the Senate for a modification of the copyright
laws.
A bill was introduced authorizing army offi
cers to insure their lives in life insurance offices.
The United States Cential Branch of the Pa
cific Railroad and tho Franking Privilege were
disenssed to recess.
The Senate is in sessicn to-night.
In the House a great part of the day was con
sumed in the investigation ef the alleged falsity
of a dispatch charging Congress with corruption
in Cuban affairs The discussion was warm on
the question that newspaper men, like preach
ers and lawyers, had a right to withhold their
sources of information. The correspondent, in
this case, was brought to the bar of the House.
A motion was made by the aggrived party that
he bo expelled from the reporters’ gallery. It
was finally amended by a committee with power
to send for persons and papers.
The Deficiency bill, as it was returned from
the Senate, was considered.
The Senate made two hundred and fifty-six
amendments. The first, regarding the Court of
Claims, was adopted—provided, that no pardon
or amnesty granted by tho President, whether
general or special, by proclamation or other
wise, nor any acceptance of such pardon or am
nesty, nor oath taken, or other act performed
in pursuance, or os a condition thereof, shall be
admissible on the part of any claimant in the
Court of Claims, os evidence in support of any
claim against the United States, or to establish
the standing of any claimant in said court, or
his right to bring or maintain suit therein, ex
cept where such pardon and amnesty were
granted, and oaths of allegiance and amnesty
taken, in good faith, during tho continuance of
the active operations of the late rebellion, un
der the proclamation of President Lincoln, is
sued in pursuance of the 13th section of an act
of Congress, known as tho Confiscation act, ap
proved July 17th 1862, pledgingthe public faith
for a restoration of the rights of property, and
where all the reg uirements and conditions named
in said act and proclamation have been faithful
ly complied with, and said oath of amnesty and
allegiance kept and maintained inviolate, and
this is hereby declared to be the true intent
and meaning, in this regard, of the sqveral acts
conferring jurisdiction on the Court of Claims,
and of the said proclamation of President Lin
coln, founded thereon.
Without further progress on the deficiency
bill, the House adjourned.
Washington, June 11.—In the House more
petitions come in for a tax on whisky at the
stills on a capacity basis.
Butler, of Massachusetts, asked leave to in
troduce a bill to repeal the Tenure-of-office bill.
Poland objected.
Pat Woods, alias Dooley, of Richmond, Va.,
presented himself at the bar of the House,
charged with violating the privileges of the
Hon. Mr. Porter by beating the member in
Richmond. The matter was referred to the Ju
diciary Committee, with power to send for per
sons and papers. In the meantime Woods is
held by the Sergeant-at-Arms. While the vote
was progressing several members conversed
with the prisonor, which the Speaker decided
out of order. Kerr moved, as the prisoner was
poor, the House should assign him counsel.
This motion was also referred to the Judiciary
Committee, and the Appropriation bill re
sumed.
The Senate appropriated $50,000 as expenses
of the Indians visiting Washington.
10 p. sl—In the Senate the bill relating to
the central branch Union Pacific Railroad, was
taken up and after on excited discussion, which
occupied the entire day, passed—yeas 32; nays
13.
The House took up the Senate amendment to
the Legislative, Executive and Judiciary Appro
priation bill. An amendment was adopted to
pay females employed as clerks the same salary
us males of the same class. It was subsequent
ly reconsidered and rejected. The Senate
amendments for a capitol extension and the
erection of a new building for the State Depart
ment were nonconcurred in. Tho bill goes to
the Committee of Conference.
The report of the Conference Committee on
tho bill reorganizing tbo army waB adopted.
General News.
New York, June 9.—A Southern Women’s
Bureau, having for its object tho assistance of
friendless females from the South, has been
formed in this city,
Montreal, June 9.—At a meeting of influ
ential men in relation to the Fenian raids, Mr.
Thornton’s thanks to President Grant were
considered disgraceful.
IUleioh, N. C., Juno 9.—The Democratic
Executive Committee assembled here yesterday
six months after judgment of naturalization, j
The bill was denounced by Mr. Edridge as the f a nominate d Hon. Wra. M. Shipp ;
malignity, reh-
very embodyment of oartizan
gions bigotry and intolerance.
Mr. Sargeant, of California, opposed the bill
because it would serve no useful purposes.
The bill was farther opposed by Republicans
as cumbersome and calculated to embarrass na
turalization. After further discussion the bill
was laid on the table—yeas 102. nays 62.
In the Senate notice was given of a bill to
allow all Indian nations, and tribes having
rights under existing laws and treaties, to sue
the United States Courts, with the right to go to
the Supreme Court.
The bill to regulate the length of spans of
bridges over the Ohio river, was debated in
formally upon a motion to make it a special
order. Messrs. Morton, Cameron, Drake and
Scott, favored the motion upon the importance
of the bill to the Mississippi Valley, in protect
ing the navigation of rivers. Mr. Boreman op
posed it as infringing upon a compromise al
ready made between the Pennsylvania coal in
terest and the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, as
to the length of spans. The motion was re
jected.
The House apportionment bill was consider
ed,-and the Senate Committee amendment to
make the number of representatives three hun
dred was adopted, and then laid over till next
week.
of Mecklenburg, Attorney-General.
Cincinnati, June 9.—A rope supporting the
scaffolding, breaking away, Geo. Jaynes fell
from tho St. Paul’s Church steeple and was
killed, to-day.
New York, June 9.—The steamer Herman
takes out one hundred thousand dollars in
specie.
Galveston, June 9.—The corner stone of the
first Jewish synagonge in tho State was laid to
day, in this city. The ceremonies were per-
formed by the Grand Lodge F. & A. Masons.
New Yobk, June 9.—The Grand Lodge of
Masons, of this State, elected John H. Anthan
Grand Master over James Gibson. Vote, 1767
for Antbnn and 563 for Gibson.
New York, June 10, 10 p. m.—Tho Grand
Lodge of Masons to-day abandoned the scheme
to establish a National Grand Lodge.
The elevated railway is successfully operating.
Patronage limited.
From Louisiana
New Orleans, June 9.—Justice Bradley, of
the United States Circuit Court, rendered an
opinion in the e:,se of Myra Clarke Gaines vs.
the City of^New Orleans et al., carrying out the
decree of the Supreme Court of the United
States in her favor, and ordering that she be
placed in possession of properties described in
possession of the city at the time of the filing
of the bills. The Times, commenting on the
decision, says: “The result is quite a disap
pointment to the plaintiff, and quite a victory
for the city, aa it only adjudges A right and titlo
to four vacant squares. The largo claim to the
property sold by the city in 1836, the principal
basis of Mrs. Gaines’ claims and expectations,
a still in dispute. .
From North Carolina*
Wilmington, June 10.—The Bepublican Con
vention to nominate'a candidate for Congress
for the Third District, closed at Lumberton,
last evening, after the stormiest and most ex
citing session known in the political annals of
North Carolina. After the yrithdrawal of a
number of delegates, O. H. Dockery,- present
incumbent, was nominated on the first ballot.
Mr. Dockery refused to endose the administra
tion of Gov. Holden. The anti-Dockery fao
tion are extremely bitter, and avow their inten
tion of running an independent candidate or
voting for the Conservative candidate. Gallo
way, a negro Senator, and one of the delegates,
pledged New Hanover county against the nomi
nee, before he withdrew front the Convention.
Andrew J. Jones, it is thought, will be the inde
pendent Bepublican candidate. Prominent Re
publicans declare that the disgraceful scenes
enacted in the Convention surpass anything of
the kind ever witnessed.
Raleigh, June 10.—Papers from different
sections of the State represent the growing
crop as being badly damaged by recent heavy
rains. :i ^
Death of Charles Dickens.
London, Juno 10.—Charles Dickens died at
twenty minutes past six, last evening, of paraly
sis. • ;
Later.—The London Globe, in its last
edition this evening, startled the community
with the announcement that Charles Dickens
had been seized with paralysis, and was lying
insensible at his residence at Gad’s Hill, near
Rochester Hill, in Kent The news spread
rapidly and created tho most profound regret;
but the worst is still to come: Telegrams have
since been received which announce the death
of the great novelist a qnarter past six this
evening. Mr. Dickens was at dinner, on
Wednesday, when he was seized with the fit
Dr. Steele, of the village of Stroud, who was
informer years the family physician of Mr.
Dickens, was immediately called and remained
till nearly midnight The condition of tho
patient becoming worse it was deemed advis
able to summon physicians from London.—
Telegrams were promptly dispatched, and this
morning they arrived at Gad’s Hill. A consul
tation was held and tho case was at once pro
nounced hopeless. The patient sank gradually
and died at fifteen minntes past six, in the
evening. Mr. Dickens had been ill for soverl
days, but not serously; he had even visited
Rochester and other points daring the present
week.
Latest.—Tho death of Charles Dickens has
plunged the nation into mourning. All the
London papers have obituary articles this morn
ing. Tho Times says the ordinary expressions
of regret are now cold and conventional. Mil
lions of people feel a personal bereavement.
Statesmen, savans, and benefactors of their
race, when they die, can leave no such void.
They cannot, like this great novelist, be an in
mate of every house.
Tho Daily News says: Without an intellectual
pedigree, Ms writings form an era in English
literature. He was generous, loving, and uni
versally beloved. He leaves, like Thackeray,
an unfinished story.
The Morning Post says: Mr. Dickens did
more than any contemporary to make English
literature loved and admired.
The Telegraph regards the distinguished dead
as a public servant whose’task is nobly ful-
fiUed.
Foreign News.
London, June 9.—The alarm among farmers
over the continned dry weather amounts to a
panic.
TelegrapMo communication with Bombay is
complete.
D’lsraelli is about retiring from politics. He
will be raised to a peerage.
Florence, June 9.—The insurrection at Luc
ca has been suppressed.
BoansAY, June 9.—The chplera is raging in
different parts of India. It is particularly
severe at Madras.
Paris, June 9.—The Emperor attended the
Longchamps races.
Deputy Gambetta is sick.
The counsel for the Regicides were allowed
to see their cliento the first time to-day.
General Mellinet declines the Grand Master
ship of Masons.
The Empress Eugenie has sent 10,000 francs
to Constantinople.
The Pope has written a letter to the Bishop of
Tarbes sustaining, in positive terms, the dogma
of infallibility.
Madrid, June 9.—The question of a future
monarch was discussed in the Cortes yesterday.
Amotion was made that a King be elected by a
direct vote of the people. After some debate
this was rejected. The proposition requiring a
candidate to receive a majority equal to ono- ’
half of tho whole number of the votes of depu
ties was carried by 138 to 124. This is regard
ed as having utterly destroyed the chances of
tho Duke of Montpensier, as well as all other
candidates who have thus for been named.
None of these will be able to get 179 votes, the
number required by the passage of this resolu
tion. There is much excitement among all
classes of the people. General Prim made a
personal explanation. He quoted from a dis
patch of the Philadelphia correspondent of the
London Times, relating to his connection with
tho proposed Cuban Junta. He pronounced
tho dispatch a malicious invention. There had
been no negotiations between him and the
American government, or between him and the
English capitalists, as stated in the dispatch.
Dispatches from Cadiz state that the Brig
ands have been captured and a portion of the
ransom money recovered.
Havana, June 10.—Nothing later has been
received from the .Upton expedition.
DeRodas’ official dispatches report three bat
tles, in wMcb, respectively, there were killed
twelve, fourteen and twelve insurgents.
It is reported that the now tariff goes into
effect on the first of July. The duties on. cat
tle will be reduced one-half.
Lisbon, June 10.—A general amnesty has
been promised for past political offences.
LATER.
Amnesty has been decreed for political of
fences sinoe the first of Maroh-
Madbid, June 10.—Montpensier has asked
for a passport to England.
A deputy to Corte3 from Porto Rico advocates
the abolition of slavery.
London, Jane 10.—John S. Fiske, of Leith,
Scotland, has bsen-arrested. The Times says
the arrest is in connection with the Boulton
masquerade. Bail was refused.
Holiday at Manchester to-day.
TheEgeria won Wednesday’s yacht race by
one minute and forty seconds, though the
Gloriona housed first. The Egeria had tonnage
allowances.
Paris, Jane 10.—A severe drought prevails
throughout the agricultural districts.
Tho police have discovered eighteen more
wheel shaped bombs, and made five fresh ar
rests
London, Juno 11; noon,
Lasr
povision be made in the reduotion of sugar du
ties for a drawback on the stock in store and
refinery, on the 12th of April.
Several members attacked the Government
on the subject of sugar duties, charging it with
bad faith.
Mr. Gladstone and Mr. Lowe replied to the
charges, end opposed the resolution.
London, June 11. night.—The Irish telegraph
is still imperfect, causing delay.
Gustave Flaurens, French Radical, is here.
Upon announcement of the death of Charles
Dickens, the Queen hastened to send a letter of
condolence to-the afflioted family. The last-
letter written by Dickens is dated June 8th.
This contained expressions of tho deepest rev
erence for religion, and is quoted iu the news
papers to-day as repudiating any contrary im
pressions wMch might be derived from acci
dental expressions in his books.
In hi.s will. Dickens leaves All the Year
Round to his son, with many valuable sugges
tions about its management.
The Messrs. Laird ask for a suspension of
opinion for a time, respecting the new turret
sMp Captain, just built. •
Violent election riots occurred to-day on tho
Isle of Wight. Many persons were injured,
buildings sacked, windows broken, etc. At last
accounts the authorities had succeeded in re
storing ordsr.
Berlin, June 11.—Bismarck has been forbid
den to work, and is ordered to England for his
health.
Florence June 11.—The Minister to Portu
gal has been recalled.
Another revolutionary movement is impend
ing. The Government is on the alert.
Athens, June 11.—Tho brigand cMefs have
escaped into Turkey.
Cairo, June 11.—Tho obstructions in the
Suez Canal near Lake Temasee have been re
moved.
Boulton, June 11.—Masqueraders, including
tho American Consul, Mr. Fisk, have been com
mitted for trial.
Paris, June 11.—Messrs. Mellinet and Carnot
refused the Masonic honors recently tendered
them.
Postal negotiations have been renewed, with
the probablo acceptance of American terms.
Exclusive privileges to the French cable were
formally abandoned to-day by the contracting
parties.
LATER.
On Monday, 20th inst., will take place the
Corps Legislatif interpellations on the subject
of the St. Gothard Railway. This work was
to bo constructed by Prussia, Baden, Switzer
land and Italy, jointly. The occasion is looked
forward to with some interest, as the ministerial
journals in the city have recently asserted that
the commerciel interests and security of Franco
and Austria will not allow this railway to be in
the bonds of Prussia, and that France must pre
vent its construction.
Madbtd, June 11.—The attention of Cortes
has been for the most part monopolized daring
the past week, in debating a proposition look
ing to the abolition of slavery in the Spanish
colonies.
The bill for opening colonial ports was well
received and has ahead been read twice.
There is still some excitement over the ques
tion of the future ruler of Spain.
The Orleanists, in Cortez, have been joined
by those who recently adhered to Espartero.—
These now all favor the Duke of Montpensier,
with Marshal Serrano as second choice, if the
Duke does not accept, or cannot be chosen.
Madrid, June 11.—Early next week, Castilar,
one of the deputies in Cortes, will bring for
ward a proposition for the complete and imme
diate abolition of slavery in the Spanish colo
nies, with indemnity to present owners.
London, Jnne 11.—It was reported to-day,
that the new West India telegraph company,
have offered one thousand pounds reward for
the deteotion of the person who fabricated the
dispatch announcing the loss of the Dacia.
Constantinople, Jnne 11. —It is impossible
to say how many lives were lost during the
conflagration. Some pnt the number at three
hundred, others at tMrteen hundred. The Sul
tan has been active in extending relief to the
sufferers. More than one thousand houses of
Turks’ have been thrown open to Christians
who were burned out. Large sums of money
have been subscribed for them by the people,
irrespective of sect.
FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL.
Daily Review of the Market.
OFFICE TELEGRAPH AND MESSENGER,F
Jems 11-Evening, 1876. J
Cotton. — Receipt# to-day, 17 bales: sales 29
shipped 70.
The market opened firm with a good demand, but
closed weak this evening at 19% cents for middlings
—the best calling for 20 oenta.
MACON COTTON STATEMENT. *"
8tockon hand Sept. 1,1809—bales.. 179
Receipts to-day.. 17 y'- .
Received previously 78,854—78*871
79,050
Shipped to-d&y :.. 70
Shipped previously .72,429—72,499
Stook on hand this evening
6,551
Slagnation was the leading feature iu tho general
market to-day, and ecarcity of money the subject of
general complaint. Com and baoon, however, atand
firm and give no indication of a decline. We still
quote:
BACON—Clear Bides (smoked).... $ 19 @
Clear Rib Sides (smoked)... 18X@
Shoulders
Hams (sugar-cured) " ®
BULK MEATS—Clear Sides... 18 <g
Clear Rib Sides 17%(3
Shoulders - 14%@
GitAlH AND HAT.
CORN—Yellow, Mixed and White. 1 50 Q 1 55
MEAL... Q....W 1 65
GRITS..... 175
OATS ,
WHEAT—Per bushel 1 40
FIELD PEAS...... 3 00
HAY—Northern..... 190
Tennesso Timothy
Herds Grass..... 2 00
Tennosseo .2 00
Without a Parallel.—The demand for Dr. J.
Bradfield’s Female Regulator is beyond precedent in
the annals of popular remedies. Orders come in
so thick and fast that the proprietor has, hereto
fore, been unable to fill them alh He iB happy to
state that arrangements are now complete by which
he is prepared to manufacture Female Regulator
on a scale equal to the emergency, and the public
may feel assured that their wants can now ho sup
plied. Physicians, of high repute, are uaing this
great remedy, iu daily practice, all over Georgia.
Hereafter no woman need need suffer from sup
pressed, suspended or irregular menstruation.—
This valuable medicine is prepared by L. H. Brad-
field. Druggist, Atlanta, Ga., and sold at $150 per
bottle by respectable Druggists throughout America.
Liftman's Great German Bitters are simply a
medicinal cordial, in which are the concentrated ex
tracts and juices of some of the rarest and best
herbs and barks known in the medical kingdom, and
are expressly imported by the proprietors of these
bitters, put up carefully by German chemists, and
impregnated with choice spirits to prevent them
from souring. They are daily winning golden opin
ions from our leading men, and ladies will find them
the best strengtbener and invigorator known, bring
health to the sick, and despondent will be made
heerful by a timely use of them.
May27d,o-w4w tf J. B. Ross & Son, agents.
Koskoo.—This medicine is rapidly gaining the
confidence of the people and the numerous testi
monials of its virtues, given by practitioners of
medicine, leaves no doubt that it is a safe and re
liable remedy for impurity of the blood, liver dis
ease, Ac.
The last Medical Journal containing an article
from Prof. B. S. Nowton, M. D., President of iheE
Medical College, City ot New York, that speaks in
high terms or its curative properties, and gives a
special recommendation of Koskoo to the practi
tioners of medicine. This is, wo believe, the first
instance where such medicines have been officially
endorsed by the Faculty of any of tho medical col-
eges, and reflects great credit upon the skill of Dr.
Lawrence, its compounder, and also puts “Koskoo”
in the van of all othor medicines of the present
a»y. * marl6d-wt
A Wonderful Microscope.—Rev. Daniel Wise,
D. D., editor of the New York Sunday School Advo
cate, thus Bpeaks of the celebrated Craig Micro
scope :
“Its eimplicity, cheapness and great magnifying
power struck me with surprise. Then I was exam
ining a fly’s eye by its aid, and was struck with
wonder at the skill and power of the Creator which
ia displayed in its structure. When I saw a state
ment in an advertisement that the Craig Microscope
magnified one hundred diameters, and could be
bought for $2.60, I thought it was one of the hum
bugs of the hour, for I had paid $20 for a.micro-
scope not long before. But now I find it to b* a
really valuable instrument which I should like to
see introduced into the families of our. readers in
place of the manifold useless toys which please for
an hour and is then destroyed. This Microscope
would both amuse and instruct them, and I advise
every boy ana girl who wishes to know the wonders
which he in little things to save his money until he
has 62 75, which will pay for the Microscope and
the postage when sent by mail.”
As a holiday gift this Microscope is unsurpassed,
being ornamental, instructive, amusing and ohe&p,
and never loses its interest. Agents and dealers
supplied on liberal terms. A sample will bo mailed,
■In tho House of ! post paid, tc any addreps few $2.75, by E. H. Roes,
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I.ATEST MARKETS BY TELEGRAPH.
Domestic Markets.
New York, June 11, noon. —Stocks are irreg
ular and feverish. Governments aro dull. —
Money. 4@5. Exchange long 9%; short 10%. Gold
13%. Bonds 12. Tennessee ex-coupons 02; new
Virginia ex-coupon, 68; new, 68. Louisian os
, 76%; new, 71. Levee 6's 75; S’a, 92%. Ala
bama 8’s 101%; 6’s, 76. Georgia 6s 83; 7 s, j5.
North C&rolin&s old, 48; new 24. South Carohnas
old. 93; new 82.
Cotton dull and unchanged: uplands 22%; Orleans
20^/. 400 *v • Ai a ‘ '
Flour shade "firmer and wanted. Wheat one a two
better. Com shade firmer. Pork quiet and steady.
Lard unchanged. 2\&val stores dull but steady.
Freigeta unchanged. ,
New York, June 11, evening.—Cotton quiet; sales
800 bales; uplands 22. '
Flour active, steady; State 5153.6 20; Western
510<g6 75; Southern common 6100685. Wheat
quiet and firm: winter red and amber western 142@
146. Com, quiet and steady; new mixed Wes
tern 1 CO to 1 08. Pork firm at 20 05. Lard dull
at 1G%@17. Whisky 16%@1 700. Rice steady; Car
olina 8%@8%. Sugar firm. Coffee quiet Molas
ses firm. Naval stores quiet Freights firmer.
Money 4g5 with exceptions at 3. Gold 13%(B13j>§.
Governments higher and firm; 62s 13 to 12%.
NEW TORE BANK STATEMENT.
Loans decrease $3,066,000; specie decrease $2,-
425,000; circulation decrease $142,000; deposits de
crease $5,492,000: legal tender decrease $1,131,000.
Monev easy at 40 5 with exceptions at 3. Gold dull
hut steady; export to-day $337,000; for the week
$843,000.
Governments higher and firm; Coupons’81, 18%
@18%: 62s 12@12%; 4s 11%@11%; 5s 11%@11%;
now i3@14; 7s 14@14%; 8s 14%; 10-40s 8%@8%.
Currencies 14@14%; Tennesaees old 62%; new
61%; Virginias old 69; new 67%. Louisianas
new 72; levees 6s 75; 8s 92%. Alabama 8s 101@
101%; Georgia 7e 95; North Carolina old 147%; new
124. South Carolians old 93. "
New Orleans, June 11.—Cotton in f Mr demand;
middlings 21021%; sales 1500; net recoipts 260;
coastwise 276; total 626, exports to Havre 41; to
New York 407; stock 100,776. ^
Flour, firmer; superfine extra, at 6 00@5 50 ;
XX 5 75; XXX 6 25. Com dull; mired 110; white
117. Oats 67368. Bran 17020. Hay 24 50. Whisky
100@1 10. Mess Pork 31 25. Bacon, shoulders
14%; dear rib sides 17%; dear sides 18%; hams
21021%. Lard, tierce 15%@1G%; keg 18%@19.
Sugar easy at 11%@U%. Molasses firm; reboiled
65is70. Coffee, primo 18; fair 16%@16%.
Sterling 24%. New York Sight % premium.
Gold 13%.
Cincinnati, Juno 10.—Flour firm and quet with '
better feeling; family 6 00. Com is dull at 90.
Whisky, old process 103. Pork held firm at 30 00.
Bacon’unchanged. Lard 16%.
Savannah, June 10.—Cotton dull: middlings 20%;
sales 60; receipts 383; exports coastwise 101; Btock
22,600.
Charleston, Jnne 11.—Cotton quiet; middlings
21; sales 150; receipts 268: exports to Great Britam
1330; coastwise 454; stock 7,786. 1
Mobile, June 11—Cotton easy; middlings 20%;
sales 400; receipts 382; exports to Great Britain1346;
coastwise 311; stock 33,133.
Norfolk, Jnne 11.—Cotton quiet; low middlings
20; receipts 200; exports coastwise 530; stock 1944.
Augusta, June 11.—Market very dull and prices
lower; sales 40; receipts 24; middlings 20.
Foreign Markets.
London, Juno 11, noon.—Consols 92%. Bonds
89%.
Tallow firm.
Paris. June 11, noon.—Bourse opened quiet;
Rentes 74f72c.
Liverpool, Jane 11, noon. — Cotton opened
dull; uplands 10%; Orleans 10%@11;- sales 8,000
bales; stock afloat 283,000—American 185,000.
Breadstuff’s quiet.
Liverpool, Jnne 11, evening. — Cotton, closed
dull; uplands 10%@10%; Orleans 10%; sales 10,000;
export and speculation 1,000. —*v <
Bacon, Cumberland cut 57s6d. . ■* ^
Paris, June 11. evening.—Bourse dosed quiet;
Rentes 74176c.
London, Jane 11, evening.—Consols 92%. Bonds
quiet.
Frankfort, Jane 11.—Bonds opened firm and
quiet, 95%095%. , -
The bill to abolish the franking privilege wa* the decree, SO as to embrace only the lands in
Commons last night, Mr. Crawford moved that 313 Locust street, St. Loms, Mo.
COTTON GINS REPAIRED!
—BY—
P. C. SAWYER,
- AT DIXIE WORKS.
MACON, - - - G-.EORGTA.
C OTTON GINS made as rood as new. at from'one-
third to one-half the cost of a new Gin, and
made equal to the beat Gins manufactured in the
United States. . ...
Large Uius reduced to any required site.
None but the best and most experienced workmen,
from the shop of the late Sam’l Griswold, are em
ployed, and all work guaranteed to give satisfaction
or money refunded. I keep a large supply of tha
different kinds °X Ribs used by the several Gin-
m Refer' to hundreds of planters in the Bounties oi
’Wilkinson, Laurens, Twisgs, Pulaski. Houston. Bibb.
Crawford, Monroe and Upson, among whom are tha
following; Wilkinson, AI. J. Carswell; Laurens, Joel
Coney: i^uiaski, James Bohannon, M. F. Grace;
Houston, C. N. Roantreo, Rev. B. F.Tharp; Bibb,
Pulaski Holt; Monroe. Jatnrs Tripp; Upson. Rev.
James Lyon: Crawford, David McGee; and to Harde
man A- -Sparks, of Macon. ... i, • .
Send in your Gins early, in order to give mo timeto
fix them up right. . B- C- SAW YRB,
mar20-eod-ew-w-4m Dixie Works. Mac«n,6ai
A. B. ADAMS. RMBAMMOa*
ADAMS & BAZEMOBE, ~
Cotton Factors ana Commission Mere&aBtsi
MACON. GEORGIA.
W ILL carry on the Warehouse and Commissioa
business after the cIoeo of the present Cotton
season, at the Planters’ Warehouse, on Fourth Street
near Passenger Depot, and opposite the Brown and
Spotswood Hotels, where they will be pleased to tee
all their friends. We are r-repared to extend the
usual accommodations to planters. We hare secured’
the services of J. E. CrosUnd, of Twiggs eounty, who
will take charge of the books and financial depart*
ment of the establishment. . -
The friends of Judge Peyton Reynolds will find him
on hand at all times to welcome them. We bespeak
for our firm a share of the patronage extended to the
old firm, pledging ourselves to leave nothing undone
on our part to merit their favors, etc. . . .
P. S.—Mr. Crosland will be pleased to see hi
friends at any time and render them ail 1 *»«tanc
in his power. XwiHttSwjtt
COUNTRY SEAtToR SALE.
O NE of the most delightful RESIDENCES in Mid*
die Georgia* on a commanding eminence, half ft
mile from Griffin; large six room house, eight yean
rid built in modern style. All necessary out-build-
in, x g conveniently arranged. Twenty-seven and ft
half’acre3 of land, subdivided into Gardens, Orch
ards, Lot*. Pastures, etc. A constant sir ram ot water
running through. A well o{ the coolest water. Ap
ply to Speer & Beck Gr^ Jt^BRoi°*
apr!5 d3aw Macon* Oft.
REWARD.
JEA8ELTK
At a regular meeting held by this Lodge tbiiihrt
the fo'lowing resolution was adopted :
J< Prougnton, atia luTiS » ,
i*ed to pay said reward, upon the delivery of t
U eery G BOSS to the sheriff of Rlbb c^unl^j
that this authority be extended lor the term of
Bjontts from date. f
Donvby ord^oUh^l^^^ ^
Attest: C J- Stbobjro, R, 8. mjS9-«w*wF