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tiMadfeMM -isr iiip.i... iu. * ' i) t 1 - <gpy-r¥Wf.*.-Twiiu- , ip ... ;‘ -.■-. *-^arI Tb.© Gfeorgia fe \^r. Telegraph, and. Journal & Messenger. Tel^grapli 3iid Mcssoiigci. 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, 19% IK II* 15 @ 2 00 @ 1 28. @170 @ 3 25 @ 2 00 2 00 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