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The Greorgia Weekly Telegraph and Journal Messenger. Telegraph and Messenger. Revise Vonr Mall Roofcs. Wo ciubo attention of some of onr exchan ges to the fact that there is now no ndt paper asthe Journal and Messenger published here The Telmbaph asp ******* represents that paper, and we beg that certain of our cotempo- raries will overhaul their mail boohs and direct ♦he papers intended for this office to the Tele- obath and Messenger. We ask the special at tention of the New York Times, St. Louis Dem- ^orat, Cincinnati Chronicle, and Knoxville Press and Herald to this notice. We scarcely ever reccivo more than two or three copies, at tho outside, of each of these papers a week. The Last Cotton Crop. Tne crop year will close in sixty days, and a very close estimate can bo formed of the result. Figures in New Yorknowrange between 3,100,- 000 and 3,250,000 bales. The result exceeds anticipations in the South at this time last year by six to eight hundred thousand bales. One year ago to-day tho mass of planters believed the growing crop would fall short of that of 1868, and we all laughed at those who predicted c-vcn twenty-seven to twenty-eight hundred thousand bales. The growing crop, unless some great and signal disaster befalls it, will go into market under the mo3t expansive ideas of its proportions—the estimates of which will proba bly not fall short of three and a half millions. The accuracy of the estimates furnished by tho Agricultural Department has been remarka ble, and will pretty much govern the opinions of the commercial and financial world upon this subject hereafter. We may therefore dispense with all that old world nonsense, which we Some times observe, even now, in tho newspa pers, about the danger of liberal estimates on prices. What the Southern papers say or fail to say on tho subject will amonnt to little or nothing. The information obtained bv cotton , . . »uu a^auuituitu jjcpartniGnt is nc- enrate and general, and will control the ideas of the outside world, and all movements in the market. The best course planters can take is to acknowledge the situation and prepare to meet its difficulties. The great point is to di mini --h expenses by diversifying crops. In this way we shall spend less and get just as much money for the cotton crop. Bravo! General. During the examination of General Bradley Johnson, of Bichmond—who is counsel for the prisoner—before the House Committee appoint ed to investigate the charge against Fat Woods, of Bichmond, for assaulting one Porter, a car pet-big M. C. from Virginia, Beast Butler const ituted himself the principal inquisitor.— The following will show how he fared in that ong* uial role. Br. ler—“Did you ever hear of any other act, good or bad, done by Pat. Woods besides this assault on Porter ?” General J.—“Yes, I have heard of one other good act of his.” ‘‘What was it?” asked Butler, and he and the others of the committee looked at the witness with gTeat interest. General J.—“He carried the colors of the first Virginia regiment for four years.” Butler’s face was a study as he received this reply. He fairly gasped for breath. Butler—“Ob, yes, you were a Brigader Gen eral in the Confederate army, I believe.” General J.—“I was, and I hope the time will nev« r come when I shall not be willing to divide what I have with these men.” What They Say of It.—The leading Badi- cal papers of the North don’t think much better of liutler’s amnesty bill, so oalled, than do the “rebel” Journals of the South. We quote a couple of opinions as proof thereof: From the Sew York Tribune, (Had.) The General Amnesty bill introduced by the House Deconstruction Committee yesterday has the demerit of not being a measure of'gen- t-ral amnesty. The excepting clauses are too many, and the excepted classes too large. The country is large enough to be strong without stint. The odinm under which they can never free themselves, will not be increased by con tinuing what is to them only persecution, and -rh!cl» to radically no pxutceMuii to llw nation. From the Philadelphia Inquirer, (Had.') We are opposed to any half-way measures touching upon pardoning the participants in the late rebellion. And we are, therefore, compelled to express our disapprobation of General But ler’s bill, which shows, by exempting from the privileges of citizenship so many of the late Confederates, that its author is still blind to the fact that the war has been over several years, and that what the South now wants is free and perfect fellowship with the North. A Houston County Corn Field.—A friend was telling us of a forty acre corn field, he saw the other day belonging to Col. W. D. Allen; not far from Fort Valley. This it light upland— a very old field—not a stump in it, and the land pretty thoroughly worn ont when CoL Allen put it in cultivation. This field was laid off in rows alternating three end five feet apart, and cotton seed bedded between the narrow rows at the rate of twenty-five to thirty bnshels to the acre, and the rows bedded with Ettiwan Superphos phate. The stalks are not more than twenty inches apart in the row, and there are about 5,500 to the acre. Tho com is a sight to behold, and is good for forty bushels to the acre, and our informant thinks more. Mr. Allen has plenty of last crop corn in his crib and farms on a solid plan. Cotton at Fifteen Cents.—The agricultural report for tho current month, an extract from which figured in our telegrams of Wednesday, sets out with the following upon tho growing cotton and com crops “Cotton growers seem determined this year to reduce tie price to fifteen cents, with every prospect of doing it. The average of cotton is materially increased in every State, while that _ of wheat, and probably of com, (although the estimates for the entire country do not come in until July first) has decreased. If the neglect of all other interests can only be cured by cticap cotton, the sooner tho production comes the better,” There is too much probability that these prognostications may be verified. Stand from under then, everybody. Lay your plans to cur tail plantation outlays in every possible manner. Save every blade of forage you can, so as to buy no hay. Save every particle of fertilizing matter so as to buy no manures. Study to stop outlays. V e have omitted until the present calling at tention of onr planting friends to the advertise ment of Messrs. Sanlsbury, Respess & Co., as Warehouse and Commission merchants. This house under its new organization is fully pre pared with cash means to afford their customers reasonable facilites to enable them to make their growing crops, as also to advance on cot ton in store the coming season at reduced rates of interest. We think we hazzard nothing in saying that planters will find their interests well guarded should they intrust their business to this house. • Vie understand they have secured the ser vices of that jovial and genial gentleman, Mr Tom. Swift, of Perry, whose name will be a tower of strength with his numerous friends. We further leam that the Bev. Hudson Temples, of Wilkinson, and W. H. Jenkins, of Taylor county, will give their personal attention to the interets of the firm. Kino Cotton is not half so royal as ho was at this time last year; but mention King Corn and people prick np their ears at once. Planters catch themselves every now and then, looking TJie Cnba Resolutions. Our telegrams yesterday contained the re sponse of the Senate Committee on Foreign De lations to Gen. Grant’s Cuba message, and it was as severe a rebuff as was ever meted ont to any message of Andy Johnson to Congress. The resolutions of the committee take ground on all important points diametrically opposite the rec ommendations of the Cuba message. The Pres ident assures the Senate, in substance, that the Cnba struggle has never attained the dimensions of a war—that the Cubans have no government —no political status—no ports—no anything to entitle them to the recognition of the United States; and the Senate responds to his views and assertions by proposing to recognize the Cabans as belligerents, and putting them upon the same footing in respect to neutral and bel ligerent rights as Old Spain herself. And what makes the case worse, there seems to have been no minority report. The entire committee joined in flouting the message di rectly in the face, and there is no evidence that the President had one advocate, apologist or defender in that leading committee of the Sen ate. There never wa3 anything more blank— no frustration or mortification more total and complete. We reckon it was ont of an indis position to make a total and universal breach with the administration that the Senate, after hearing that report, confirmed the Cabinet nomination of Akerman. To have pushed mat ters further that day would have been throwing the administration overboard without a plank. Speaking generally of these resolutions, we may say that they are thoroughly Sumnerish in tone. They strut out—“Chawles” all over— dictatorial and dogmatic to the last degree—full of that offensive assumption of superior intelli gence, power, position, rectitade of purpose, and virtue and holiness of character, which are the solid supports of Sumner’s character and career. From the august height of this self- conceived political, financial, martial, moral and religious elevation, the resolutions lecture the inferior Hub fallnwo outside, loose, and have the preposterous impu dence to call themselves nations. Charles gives the whole posse of them fits; and especially those who claim territorial possessions on the American continent. He tells them they had better be making their qnit claims as soon as possible; and as for the idea of keeping np this kind of jurisdiction in America, the sooner they drop it the better. Christendom, or apart of it> may splatter over this lectnre. And then the sublimity with which Charles discourses about the “pretension of property in man” can only be equalled by the unsparing severity with which dram-drinking is sometimes denounced by apostles of teetotalism just picked ont of the gutter. It is a little too soon for the United States to set np as a preacher to foreign nations on that subject. However, notwithstanding the Foreign Dela tions Committee threw that brick as if they meant it, the funds were undisturbed—Gold was heavy at 11and we suppose the outside world looked upon the whole matter as a piece of mere buncombe, which would amount to nothing in substantially changing the foreign at titudes of the government. Confirmation of Akerman. After all the fass, the Senate confirmed Mr. Akerman as Attorney General “without objec tion or debate.” The opposition herein have rained an old proverb, and proven thatthere are cases where there can be a great deal of smoke and yet no fire at all. This nomination evoked a wondrous external show of conflict. A powerful combination of carpet-bag Senators, hailing from tho South, and of ultra radical Senators hailing from every other point were inexorably committed against it. The President was the victim to such an ex ternal pressure that he would be compelled to withdraw the nomination. The Senate had sent for Akerman’s application for amnesty, where in, unlike his numerous brethren who, in divers ways had been mysteriously coerced into rebel lion, Akerman had evinced tho manliness to say that he went voluntary into the business, It was said this confession would make a case of him. It brought up the vital question wheth er any man who “went voluntarily into the re bellion” should thereafter forever be allowed any post of trust or confidence—much less a place in the Cabinet. Particularly scandalised by this confession was the virtuous Captain Foster Blodgett—Blod gett, who headed the opposition of the Georgia Dadicals, aud was going to run it with the same speed and success with which he directs the State railroad. And we are bound to admit he has made good the proposition. Ho is off the track as usual. Mr. Blodgett’s mental repose must be shocked. What is goiog to become of tho country when men who ‘Vent voluntarily into the rebellion’ go smoothly into the cabinet, while martyrs like himself who were reduced to the extremity of tak ing a command in the “rebel army” or a enp of cold pizen, are turned out of postoffices and can’t get into the Senate ? What is to bethought about the ingratitude of republics now ? We sympathise with Captain Blodgett. His dis tress must be great. Where’s the farther use of any montrons powers of deglutition in respect to the iron-clad, if voluntary rebels are to go into the Cabinet ? The business of hard swear ing is ruined. The stock will not be worth twenty cents in the dollar. Is it not enough, as Squeers says, to turn the milk of human kind ness into curds and whey? All these and many other thoughts crowd upon us in respect to this nomination, and the way it slipped through the Senate “without ob jeetion or debate,” notwithstanding Akerman was a “voluntary rebel,” and not a victim to the atrocious tyranny of Southern Ku-Klnx and slave-driving rebels. The fact that there is one man in the nation in harmony with the admin, istration who was a “voluntary rebel,” and was not forced to take the fatal vow against “the old flag” by a band of ferocions rebels armed with whisky, tobacco and Colt’s revolvers, who, in the darkness of midnight surrounded tho bound, helpless and kneeling victim aud de manded, in snpulchral tones, “Do this on die.” Think of it—there is one Badical who was voluntary rebel!”—his name is Akerman and he is in the Cabinet. The Tribune says this is a peace offering to the rebels—to obliterate the bitterness of the war. That may be. But it is more a peace offering to truth, courage, candor and honesty, and it is a practical implanting of the right foot into the posterior regions of that scaly crowd of so-called Southern loyalists who conld take the iron-clad oath—which, however true as to a few of them—of the great mass it can be said that hadeecession proved an accom plished fact, they would have been among the foremost to have claimed the honor of achieving Southern independence. With the lights before ns we believe Aker- man is an honest man though an ingrained Bad ical, and in mental caliber he will be at the head of the Cabinet. He has probably the clearest head in the concern. ‘Develope Her Latent Besources.”—We have a letter from an Ohio correspondent who writes that he thinks there is “a good chanoe for a large number of men of the right stamp to go South who will deTelope her latent resour ces.” We think so, too, and do not doubt he is writing in good faith. But he should drop that expression, now. Down here “developing re al a field of cotton and saying, I wish yon were j sources” has come to mean stealing, and has ® ora * ceased to be need in honest circles. The Georgia Press. Mr. John Wilson, who lives about five miles from Talbotton, killed a large golden eagle last week. It measured six and a half feet between the tips of its wings. The Talbotton Standard reports heavy rains for a week, untillast Monday. Crops consider ably damaged. Uplands badly washed, and bot toms overflowed. Wheat considerably injured. Wm. Foil, formerly a sergeant in Captain Wilkins company (C. S. A.) of Columbus, bat more recently residing near this place, died in Columbus Wednesdey. Heavy rains fell, Wednesday, near Augusta. In Columbia county, nine miles from Augnsta, there was a very heavy fall of very large hail stones. The Colnmbus Sun’s local being pushed for on item, Wednesday, gets off the following: It has been discovered that if two young la dies will take, each, a pole of a galvanic battery in one hand, and complete the circuit by kissing each other, a sensation is produced upon the lip3 like the pressure of a moustache. A large number of pocket batteries have been ordered for Columbus. How can the fair being3 tell the sensations are similar unless they experi ment upon real hairy lips. The members of the Slipper Club are ready to have their mous tache made martyrs of. A Liberty county correspondent Cf the Savau nah Bepnblican says the negroes are working better and the crops promise a much more abundant yield this year than last. The Savannah News says: Proposed Fere Alarm.—The Fire Committee, as we expected they would, yesterday reported favorably upon the recommendation of Chief Engineer Boberts as to the construction of a fire alarm telegraph for the city of Savannah.— The cost of its construction has been estimated at ten thousand dollars, which is, we think, a moderate one. An ordinance was ordered to be drafted embracing the views of the commit tee, which will be submitted at tba next meet ing of Council, when the real fight over the mat ter will be inaugurated. The Thomasville Enterprise says a tremen dous rain fell there Tuesday, injuring crops, j nuaUug Helds U11U 1UUUS DaClly. A Side track on the A. & G. B. B., at the depot, was considerably damaged. Of crop prospects in Thomas county the En terprise give the following good report: The reports of the crops throughout this re gion are flattering. The drought seems to have done very little damage after ail, and the timely rains have repaired that little in a great meas ure. Even the oat "crop is far from being a failure, although some fields dried up for the want of rain. The corn and cotton fields will fully make up for the loss in oats, and we are having splendid weather for peas and potatoes, which should now be planted abundantly. Mr. E. M. Bain, of Thomas county, has found twin eggs joined together like the Siamese twins, in his fowl yard. The ligament is not larger than a pipe stem. One of the eggs con tains the yolk, and the other the white of the egg- The Augnsta and Port Boyal Bailrond seems to be in a bad way for an early completion. The Constitutionalist, of Thursday, says that Messrs. Schanb and Lawton, sub-contractors, not having received their pay last pay day, the 15th inst, were not able of course to pay their hands, many of whom quit work and came to Augusta. On Tuesday Messrs. Schaub and Lawton saed out attachment against Mr. Chap man, the contractor, seizing his entire personal effects, “consisting of bnggie3 and hoises, quar tered at Poumelle’s Grey Eagle stables, and elsewhere in the city, together with the entire office furnitore of tho contractors, which is un derstood to be of the most modern design and luxurious pattern, even extending, as street ru mors assert, to §3,000 worth of silverware, pro vided to give eclat to the receptions of Mr. Chapman. All this magnificent paraphernalia of the contractor ha9 been seized by an officer of the law, and is now held to respond to a claim of $10,000 entered by Messrs. Schanb and Lawton. In behalf of the contractors, Mr. Abbott makes issue against the claim of Messrs. Schanb and Lawton, claiming that they have been over paid $4,000, rather than being creditors to the extent of $10,000. The matter caused considerable excitement in railroad and financial circles yesterday, and it is said that over the wires came from Mr Chap man, now said to he in New York, an intima tion that if Messrs. Schaub and Lawton did not resume tho prosecution of their contract he would forthwith dispatch 200 John Chinamen railroad builders to tne resene. xin»u gentle men were not particularly alarmed by this threat, whilst many of the unpaid employes announced their intention to give the threatened Asiatic deluge a true California reception.” The Borne Courier, in response to our enqui ry concerning Judge Underwood’s status, says: We have only to say that when wo last saw Judge Underwood he was to all intents and purposes a Democrat, but as the old Judge says, we hav’nt seen him since breakfast!” We take this occasion of saying that Judge Underwood’s political character has been put under a cloud by this statement of the Washing ton correspondent and the Baltimore Sun, and we hope that he will put himself right before the people or tell them the worst. We have been frequently asked to give bis political sta tus, but prefer saying nothing until we know something to say. W. B. Whitman, a revenue official, has been put under bond at Dome for cutting a gash with a pistol in the head of a one-armed bar-keeper of that place. Two little girls, each aged about nine years, and named Bosella Spencer and Mary Hood, were killed by lightning, at Warrenton, Wednesday-. The Marietta Journal mokes this good point: Cotton Seed fob Manure.—Wo see an arti cle nnder the above caption going the ronnds of the press. What is the nse of dismissing that question when this year nearly all the cotton bids fair to go for manure ? If it goes for ten cents it will take a few bales to pay tho bill for fertilizers, sure! A religious revival is in progress at Marietta. The attendance is large, and tho altar of the Methodist church is crowded with mourners. The recent heavy rains have injured the har vested wheat in Cobb connty considerably. Un harvested wheat not damaged. Cotton very fine, and com even better. Noah Davis, a negro brakeman on the State Boad, had his brains knocked out by his head coming in contact with a wall while a train was in motion, at Dalton, last Saturday. The Citizen says: Farmers, Crops, etc.—The farmers are bnsy cutting wheat. From various sources we learn that the yield this year is above an average. If we can have dry weather for a few days, it will be safely garnered. Com and other cereals look promising. From indications in this im mediate section, we may safely count on a year of plenty. Business Dull—Provisions Scarce. — We never saw duller times in the business world than are at present. Onr merchants are doing nothing beyond the selling of absolute necessa ries. In the way of eatables, Dalton is minus. Batter, eggs and chickens are numbered among tlie things mat were. The Albany News says the rain down there continues, and planters are dropping their crop estimates about half. As matters now look, a half crop will satisfy the greediest man in the connty. The Chronicle and Sentinel says many im portant changes have just been made in the officials of’the South Carolina railroad. Mr. John E. Marlcy, the agont at Augusta, goes to Columbia as agent, and is succeeded by Edward W. Hull, formerly of Georgia, but more re cently of Pennsylvania. Mr. John Tames, for many years a conductor on the road, has been appointed Assistant Superintendent. The of fice of General Passenger Agent, held by Mr. W. England. has been abolished. The number of conductors has been rednoed, they are now required to make “round trips.” Five delegates to represent Augusta in the pick and barrow brigade of the Air Line rail road, have just left that city. A number of merchants who -have negleoted to make returns and pay their quarterly-taxes, were to be tried therefor, yesterday, by the Be- oorder of Augusta. Three keepers of gambling houses in Augusta have been put under bond for their appearance at the next term of Bichmond Superior Court. From the Chronicle and Sentinel we clip the following crop items sent to that paper by cor- respondents: Franklin County.—In consequence of the long drouth, the oat crop will be very light, and the wheat, which is now being harvested, is low and short headed, but the grain is very plump and good. No rust. South of the Chattahoochee the peach crop is very partial: between the Chattahoochee and the Blue Bidge the peach crop is heavy, but northwest of the Bidge it is light and partial again. The corn and cotton is promising in spite of the too frequent rains. Banes County.—We have had fine rains for the last three weeks which have much improved the growing crops—producing a fine crop of grass and giving farmers plenty of work to do. Com looks well. Cotton unsually small, and nnder the most favorable circumstances cannot make more than two thirds of a crop. The wheat crop is near all harvested. The yield is fine, and it is much needed. Com is selling at two dollars per bushel and scarce at that, and will be higher next year. Oats have come out to be very fine. The abundant apple crop will afford fanners a pleasant time in drinking new cider. Morgan County.—Last Wedesday, in Morgan county, on the plantation of Mrs. Walton, while some bands were threshing wheat, a flash of lightning from a passing cloud killed a negro man who was on a cart load of wheat. The same bolt also killed one of a pair of oxen. In the same neighborhood on Saturday, the 18th, there was a great rain, daring which another ox was killed by lightning. Crops in this portion of Morgan county have been injured by the late May rains. Taking the entire county, however the prospect for a crop is good, and I would say the same of both Newton and Jasper counties, except the oat crop, which is not so good. Scriven County.—ThAre never was a better prospect for cotton. Corn prospects, however, not good, but enough, it is hoped, will be made to subsist on next year- Since the rains crops have become very gras3y, especially those at- ton/iaU l.y fifteenth amendments. The fruit prospect is very fine. Peaches, pears, apples and cherries are in abnndanoe. Watermelons are not doing well. The rains have injured them very much. Gen. Joseph E. Johnston and wife left Savan nah. Thursday, for the Virginia Springe, where they will spend the summer. Charles Deed, a negro who vas employed at Dixon & Johnson’s saw mill, seven miles from Savannah, was killed Tuesday by a large log rolling over him. By the accidental discharge of a pistol in the hand of Mr. Henry Heyisler, a conductor on the Savannah, Skidaway and Sea 1 -d railroad, on Thursday, a negro boy who vao standing on the platform of the car was killed. Col. Montgomery Cnmming, cf Savannah, a prominent citizen of that place,’died Wednes day, in Whitfield county, near Dalton. The Savannah News has has the following notice of a deliberate suicide committed Thurs day, on one of the most public streets of that city: Yesterday morning about ten o’clock occurred upon tho most public thoroughfare of the city one of the most deliberate acts of self-destruc tion wo have ever known recorded in the annals of suicide. The tragedy occurred on Bay street, north side, between Montgomery tnd Jefferson streets. On reaching the scene, we beheld the victim lying on his back on the pavement, the blood gushing from his mouth and ears, with two well defined bullet holes in his body, one about the centre of the breast, just below tho collar bone, and the other immediately fatal wound, in the left breast just over tho heart. Upon inquiry, wo learned that the name of the victim was Joshua Keen, a well known ship carpenter, and a resident of Savannah for the past ten years, but a native of Portland, Maine, where he has relatives consisting of a brother and sister. No assignable cause could be given for the commission of the act, but as appears from the evidence adduced before the jury of inquest, the deceased had been drinking heavily for some time past, and though apparently so ber at the time of the self-murder, was evident ly laboring under mania a potu. A negro boy named Fred, son of Primus Walker, pastor of a Baptist church in Colum bus, was drowned in the Chaltahoochee river, Thursday. The Enquirer 6ays $4 was paid, Thursday, in that city, for a half bushel of very fine peaches. They were raised in Bussel county, Alabama. Wo get the following from the Sun: Drill of Hook and Ladder Company.—The company was ont last afternoon with 43 men, and presented an unusually handsome appear ance. One of our leading lawyers wagered punches for the company that they could not run 100 yards, raise a ladder, a member ascend and de scend, and have the ladder strapped on the truck in one minute. A member promptly-ac cepted. A 30 foot ladder was employed. The member won, the company doing tho task in 52 seconds. Tbe run was made with the three longest ladders on the truck in 20 seconds. Sold Out.—We are reliably informed that Mr. John D. Gray has sold out his interest in the firm of John D. Gray & Co., contractors on the Savannah and Memphis Bailroad. Colonel Colt is the only remaining member of the firm, and is combining with him strong men to push the work on vigorously. There were six large contractors in Opelika yesterday. The census of LaGrange shows a population of 2,352. Mr. Archibald Lawhon, for thirty years a citi zen of West Point, died Tuesday, aged 90 years. Gen. A. C. Garlington, of Atlanta, will de liver the annual address before the two literary societies of the University of Georgia. Tho Atlanta Constitution says: ' Death of Jesse F. Owen.—We regret to chronicle the death of our young friend, Jesse F. Owen, the result of the careless handling of firearms by bis own cousin. Jesse bad been out on Thursday morniug practicing with a pistol, and left it, unloaded, atsColonel Boyd’s. That night as he and his cousin Bobert Boyd were go ing to supper, Itobert, in a freak of fun, picked up tho pistol (which unfortunately had been loaded by his little brother) and remarked, “Jesse, I am going to shoot you.” Before ho had leveled the pistol fairly, it went off, placing a ball just above Jesse's right eye. Jesse lin gered for twenty-five or thirty minutes in a speechless condition. A letter for Harry M. Brown, Macon, is held for postage in the Atlanta office. For walking off in broad daylight with atierco of lard valued at $C0, from the store of B. F. Wyly, of Atlanta, Friday, Wm. Thornton, 15th A., goes to the chain gang for three months. Coweta comity farmers report corn and cotton small for tho season. Such of the harvested wheat as has not sprouted in the field, is good. A Carrel county correspondent of the Newnan Herald, nnder dnte of the 20th inst., writes as follows: We have had an abundance of rain for the last two weeks: crops generally look finely, bat are getting in the grass; some complaint of cot ton dying: wheat generally very good. It is thought that wheat will not sell for more than one dollar, and some say seventy-five cents per busheL Butler’s Cleverness.—The Cincinnati Times winds np a tributary column to the talents, ac complishments and energies of Bntlerwith tho following personal anecdote, whioh may well bo termed oharaoteristio: A year or two ago daring the discussion of a Tariff Bill, when tho paragraph on bunting was reached, 'tis said that Butler arose to higher flights (of eloquence) than wero ever soared by onr proud American bird; that he apostro phised Yankee Doodle with grandiloquent em phasis ; that he stigmatized it os an outrage and mming shame that wo should be compelled to buy the very bunting typical of onr glory of tho monarchies of Europe; therefore he proposed, out of gushing love for the Yankee eagle and the flag of our Fourth of July, to double, aye quadruple the duty if necessary, to protect onr glorious bunting manufactures. The effect was electrical His proposition carried. Joke : He owned tbe only bunting manufactory in the United States! That was.clever, at all events. TAKING THE CENSUS; Or, Tbe Chicken Nan’s Experience in the Tallapoosa District, BY THE AUTHOR OF “SIMON SUGGS.” The collection of statistical information con cerning the resources and industry of the coun try, by the assistant marshals who were' employ ed to take the last census, was a very difficult work. Tho popular impression, that a - tremen dous tax would soon follow the minute investi gation of the private affairs of the people, caus ed the census-taker to be viewed in no better light than that of a tax-gatherer; and the con sequence was, that the information sought t>y him was either withheld entirely or given with great reluctance. The returns, therefore, made by the marshal, exhibited a very imperfeot view of the wealth and industrial progress of the country. In some portions of the country the excitement against the unfortunate officers—who were known as the “chicken men "—made it al most dangerous for them to proceed with the business of taking the census; and bitter were the taunts, threats and abuse which they receiv ed on all hands, but most particularly from the old women of the country. The dear old souls could not bear to be catechised about the pro duce of their looms, poultry yards and dairies; and when they did “come down” upon the un fortunate inquisitor, it was with a force and volubility that were sure to leave an impression. We speak from experience and feeling, on this subject; for it so happened that the Marshal of the Southern District of Alabama, “reposing especial confidence” in our ability, invested ns one day with all the powers of assistant Mar shal ; and arming ns with the proper quantity of blanks, sent us forth to count the noses of all the men, women, children and chickens resident npon those nine hundred square miles of rough country which constitute the county of Talla poosa. Glorious sport! thought we; but it didn’t turn ont so. True, we escaped without any drubbings, although we came unpleasantly near catching a dozen, and only escaped by a very peculiar knack we have of “sliding ont;” but then we were quizzed, laughed at, abused and nearly drowned. Children shouted: “Yonder goes the chioken man!” Men said: “Yes, d—n him, he’ll be after tho taxes soon; and the old women threatened, if he came to inquire about their chickens, “to set the dogs on him,” while the young women observed “they didn’t know what .a man wanted to be so partio’iar about gals’ ages for, without he was a gwine a courtin.” "We have some reminiscences of our official peregrinations that will do to laugh at now, although the occurrences with which they are connected were, at the time, anything bnt mirth inspiring to ns. Wo rode up one day to the residence of a widow rather past the prime of life—just that period at which nature supplies most abundant ly tho oil which lubricates the hinges of the femalo tongue—and hitching to the fence walked into the house. “Good morning, madam,” said we, in our usual bland, and somewhat insinuating manner. “Momin’,” said the widow gruffly. Drawing our blanks from their case, we pro- ceeded—“I am tho man, madam, that takes the census, and ” “The mischief you are!” said the old ter magant. “Yes, I’ve hearn of you; Parson W. told me you was coming, and I told him jist what I tell yon, that if yn said ‘cloth’, ‘soap’, nr ‘chickens’, to me, I’d set the dogs on ye.— Here, Ball! here, Pomp!” Two wolfish curs responded to the call for Bull and Pomp, by coming to tho door, smelling at our feet with a slight growl, and then laid down on the steps. “Now,” continued the old savage, “them’s the severest dogs in this country. Last week Bill Stonecker’s two year old steer jumped my yard fence, and Boll and Pomp tuk him by the throat, and they killed him afore my boys conld break ’em loose, to save the world.” “Yes, ma’am,” said we, meekly; “Bull and Pomp seem to be very fine dogs.” “you may well say that; what I tells them to do they do—and if I was to sick them on your old hoss yonder, they’d eat him up afore you could say Jack Boberson. And its jist what I shall do, if you try to pry into my concams.— They are none of your business, nor Van Boren’s nuther, I reckon. Oh, old Yan Ban- buren 1 I wish I had you here, you old rascal! I’d show you what—I’d—I’d make Bull and Pomp show you how to bo sendin’ out men to take down what little stuff people’s got, jist to tax it, when its taxed enough a’ready!” All this time we were perspiring through fear of the fierce guardians of the old widow’s por tal. At length, when the widow paused, we remarked that as she was determined not to an swer questions about the produce of her farm, we would just set down the age, sex, and com plexion of oach member of her family. “No sich a thing—you’ll do no sich a thing, said she; “I’ve got five in family, and that's all you’ll git from me. Old Van Bttren must have a heap to do, the drotted old villyan, to send you to take down how old my children is. I’ve got live in my- family, and they are all be tween five and a hundred years old; they are all a plngny eight whiter them you, and TrHcthcr there are he or she, is none of your conearns. 1 ' We told her wo would report her to the Mar shal’ and she would be fined, but it only aug mented her wrath. “Yes! send your marshal, or your Mr. Van Buren here, if you’re bad off to—let ’em come” —looking as savage as a Bengal tigress—“Oil, I wish he would come”—and her nostrils dilated, and her eyes gleamed—“Fd cut his head off!” “Ihat might kill him,” we ventured to re mark. by way of a joke. “Kill him! kill him—oh—if I had him here by the years I reckon I would kill him. A pretty fellow to be eating his vittils out’n gold spoons that pore people’e taxed for, and raisin’ an army to get him made king of Ameriky—the oudaeions, nasty, stinking old scamp!” She paused a moment, and then resumed, “And now, mister, jist put down what I tell you on that paper, and don’t be telliDg no lies to send to Washington city. Jist put down ‘Judy Tompkins, ageable woman, and four children.’” Wo objected to making any such entry, but the old bag vowed it should be done, to prevent any misrepresentation of her case. We, how ever, were pretty resolute, until she appealed to the couchant whelps, Bull and Pomp. At the first glimpse of their teeth, our courage gave way, and we made the entry in a bold hand across a blank schedule—“Judy Tompkins, ageable womanand four children.” We now begged the old lady to dismiss her canine friends, that we might go out and de part: and forthwith mounting our old black, we determined to give the old soul a parting fire. Turning half round, in order to face her, we shouted— “Old’oman! ” “Who told- you to call me old ’oman, you long-legged, hatchet-faced whelp, you ? I’ll make the dogs take you off that horse if you give me any more your sarse. What do you want ?” • “Do you want to get married?” “Not to you, if I do! ” Placing our right thumb on the nasal extrem ity of our countenance, we said, “Yon needn’t be uneasy, old un, on that score—thought you might, suit sore-legged Dick S- up our way, and should like to know what to tell him he might count bn, if he. come down next Sun day!” ‘ “Here, Bull!” shouted the widow; “sick him, Pomp !” but we cantered off unwonnded, fortunately, by the fangs of Bull and Pomp, who kept up the chase as long as they could hear the cheering voice of their mistress— “S-i-c-k, Pomp—sick, sick, s-i-c-k him, Bull— suboy! suboy! suboy!” Our next adventure was decidedly a danger ous one. Fording tho Tallapoosa river where its bed is extremely uneven, being formed of masses of rock full of fissnres, and covered with slimy green moss, when about two-thirds of the wav across, wo wore hailed by Sol Todd from tbe bank we were approaching. We stopped to hear him more distinctly. “Heilow! little ’squire, yon a chioken hunt ing to-day?’ Being answered affirmatively, he continued —“You better mind the holes in them ere rocks —if your home’s foot gits hitohed in ’em you’ll never git it out. You see that big black rock down to your right ? Well there’B good bottom down below that. Strike down thar”outside that little riffle—and now out right into that smooth water and come across!” Wo followed Sol's directions to the letter, and plunging into the smooth water, we found it to be a basin surrounded with deep ledges of rook, anu deep enough to swim the horse wo rode. Bound and round the poor old black toiled with out finding any place at which he could effect a rinding, so precipitous wore the sides. Sol ooca sionaUy asked us “if the bottom wasn’t first rate,” but did nothing to help us. At last we scrambled out, wet and chilled to the bone—for i - was a sharp September morning—and contin ued our journey, not a little annoyed by the boisterous roaring laughter of the Baid Solomon, at our picturesque appearance. We hudu’t more than got out of hearing of Sol’s cachinatory explosions, before we melons of his neighbors, who gave us to understand that the ducking we had j ast received, was but the ful filment of a threat of Sol’s, to mak« the “chick en-man'- take a swim in the “Buck Hole.” He had heard of our stopping on the opposite side of the river the night previous, and learning our intention to ford just where we did, fixed him self on the bank to insure our finding the way into the “Buck Hole.” This information brought our nap right up, and requesting Bill Splawn to stay where he was till we retained, we galloped back to Sol’s and found that -worthy, rod on shoulder, ready to leave on a fishing excursion. “Sol, old fellow,” said we, “that was a most unfortunate lunge I made into that hole in the river—I’ve lost twenty-five dollars, in specie out of my coat pooket, and I’m certain it s in that hole, for I felt my pocket get light while I was scuffling about in there. The money was tied uptight in a buckskin pouch, and I must get you to help me get it,” This of course, was a regular old-fashioned lie, as we had not seen the amount of cash men tioned as lost, in a “coon’s age.” It took, how ever, pretty well; and Sol concluded, as it was a pretty cold spell of weather for the season, and the water was almost like ice, that half the contents of the buckskin pouch would be just about fair for recovering it. After some chaf fering, we agreed that Sol should dive for the money “on shares,” and we went down with him to the river, to point ont the precise spot at which our pocket “grew light.” We did so with anxious exactness, aud Sol soon denuded himself and went nnder the water in the “Buck Hole,” “like a shuffler duck with his wing broke.” Puff! puff! as he rose to the surface. “Got it, Sol!” “No, dang it, here goes again,” and Sol disappeared a second time. Fuff! puff! and considerable rattle of teeth as Sol once more rose into “upper air.” “What luck, old horse?” “By jings, I felt it that time, but somehow it slid out of my fingers.” Down went Sol again, and up he came after the lapse of a minute, still without the pouch. “Are you right sure, ’squire, that you lost it in this hole,” said Sol, getting out upon a large rock, while the chattering of his teeth divided his words into rather more thin their legitimate number of syllables. “Oh, perfectly certain, Sol, perfectly certain. You know twenty-five dollars in hard money will weigh a pound or two. I didn’t mention the circumstance when I first came out of the river, because I was so scared and con fused that I didn’t remember it—but I know just as well when the pouch broke through my pocket, as can be!” Thus reassured, Sol took the water again, and as we were in a hurry, we requested him to bring the potich and half the money to Dade- ville, if his diving should prove successful “To be sure I will,” said he, and his bine lips qnivered with cold, and his whole frame shook from the same canse. The “river ager” made Sol shake worse than that, that fall. But we left him diving for the poach in dustriously, and no donbt he would have got it, if it had been there! Our next encounter was with an old lady notorious in her neighborhood for her garrulity and simple.mindeduess. Her loquacity knew no bounds; it was constant, unremitting, in terminable, and sometimes laughably silly. She was interested in quite a large chancery suit which had been ‘ ‘dragging its slbw length along” for several years, and furnished her with a con versational fund which she drew npon exten sively, nnder the ideathatits merits could never be sufficiently discussed. Having been warned of her propensity, and being somewhat harried when we called upon her, we were disposed to get through business as soon a3 possible, and without hearing her enumeration of the strong points of her law case. Striding into the house, and drawing our papers— “Taking the census, ma’am!” quoth we. “Ah! well! yes! bless your soul, honey, take a seat. Now do! Are you the gentleman that Mr. Van Buren has sent ont to take the sensis ? I wonder! well, good Lord look down, how was Mr. Van Buren and family when yon seed him?” Wo explained that we had never seen the President; didn't “know him from a side of sole leather;” and we had been written to, to take the census. “Well, now, thar agin! Love your soul! Well, I ’spose Mr. Van Buren writ you a letter, did he? No? Well, I ’spose some of his officers done it—bless my soul? Well, God be praised, there’s mighty little here to take down—times is hard, God's will be done; bnt looks like peo ple can't git their jest rights in this country; and the law is all for the rich and none for the poor, praise the Lord. Did you ever hear tell of that caso my boys has got agin old Simpson? Looks like never will git to the end on it; glory to his name! The children will suffer, I’m mightily afeerd ; Lord give us grace. Bid yon ever see Judge B ? Yes? Well, the Lord preserve us! Did you ever hear him say what he was ngwine to do in the boys’ case agin Simpson? No! Good L>ul! Well, ’squire, will you ax him the next time you see him, and write me word; and tell him what I say, I’m nothing but a poor widow, and my boys has got no lamin’, and old Simpson tuk ’em in. It’s a mighty hard ease on my boya any how. Thoy ought to ha’ had a mighty good start, all on ’em; but God bless you, that old man has used ’em up twell they aint able to buy a creeler to plow with. It’s a mighty hard 'case, and the will oughtn't never to a been broke, but ” Here we interposed and told the old lady that our time was precious—that we wished to take down the number of her family, aud the produce raised by her last year, and be off. After a good deal of trouble we got through with the descriptions of the members of the family, and the “statistical table” as far as the article “cloth.” “How many yards of cotton cloth did you weave in 1850, ma’am ?” “Well, now! the Lord have mercy! less see! You know Sally Higgins, that used to live down in the Smith settlement? Poor thing, her daddy druv her off on the ’count of her havin’ a little ’un, poor creatur’! Poor gal, she couldn’t help it, I dare say. Well, Sally she come to stay ’long wi’ me when the old man druv her away, anil she was a powerful good hand to weave, ami I did think she’d help me a power. Well, alter she’d bin here awhile, her baby hit took sick, and old Miss Stringer she undertuk to help it—she’s a powerful good hard, old Miss Stringer, on roots and yearbs, and sich like! Well, the Lord look down from above! She, made a sort of a tea, as I was a-saying, and she gin it to Sally’s baby, but it got wuss—the poor creetur—and she gin it tea, and gin it tea, and it looked like, the more she gin it tea, the more—’’ “ “My dear madam, I am in a hurry: please tell mo how many yards of cottou cloth you wove in 1840. I want to get through with you and go on.” “Well, well! the Lord-a-mercy! who’d a thought you’d ’a bin so snappish! Well, as I was a sayin’, Sail's child hit kept a gittin’ wuss, and old Miss Stringer, she kept a givin’ it the yearb tea twoil at last the child hit looked like hit would die any how. And ’bout the time the child was at its wust, old Daddy Sikes he come along, and he said if we’d git some night- shed berries, and stew’em with a little cream and some hog’s lard—now old daddy Sykes is a mighty fine old man, and he gin the boys a heap of mighty good counsel about that case— boys, says he, I’ll tell you what you do; you go ” “In God’s name, old lady,” said we, “tell about your cloth, and let the sick child and Miss We began to get very tired, and sienisir^ same to the old lady, and begged ahe W n n u ^ swer ns directly and without any circumW ".*>»• “The Lord Almighty love youT& tla ». honey, I’m tellin’ you as fast as I kin. Tho ^i they got worse and worse; after thevM °' t ' 1 old Speck and all her gang, they went to on ’tothere; and Bryant (that’s one of m T m he 'lowed he’d shoot the pestersome creetn^ and so one night arter that, we hearn one Kt’ and Bryant, he tuk the old musket and ° Uet ’ out, aud sure enough, there was owley thought,) a settin’ on the comb of the honw. he blazed away and down come— 8,1 airth did.oome down, do yotueokon, whenn 0 ® ant fired?” * acn % “The owl, I suppose.” “No sich a thing, no sich! the owl warn'i i) Twas my old house-cat come a tumblin’ / r ' spittin’, sputterin’ and scratchin’, ana tCT - a flyin’ every time Bhe jumped, like von’/“ busted a feather bed open! Bryant ii a .. 8 the way he come to shoot the cat instead r.'tv’ owl, he seed something white ” * *• “For Heaven’s sake Mrs. Stoke3 c i T , the value of your poultry, or say you win Do one thing of the other.” **• “Oh, well, dear love your heart, I r6c i.._, had last year nigh about the same as TV. 001 this.” 8« “Then tell me how many dollars worth have now, and the thing’s settled.” u y °® “I’ll let you see for yourself,” said the wis Stokes, and taking an ear of corn out of a between the logs of the cabin, and shellino » a handful, she commenced scattering the all tho while screaming, or rather strceerh, “chick—chick—chick—-chick-ee—.chM- chick-ee—ee!” tee ~ Here they came, roosters, ana hens and mi lets, and little chicks—crowing,cackling C M ing; flying and fluttering over beds chakCZl tables; alighting on the old woman’s head n! shoulders, fluttering against her sides, pecKT at her hands, andgereating a din and eonfwp altogether indescribable. Tho old lady seeiMi delighted, thus to exhibit her feathered' 1 ‘stock* and would occasionally exclaim—“a nices/mi; ain’t they—a nice passel S” But she never wonli say what they were worth; no persuasion coS: bring her to the point; and our paper at b'as% ington contain no estimate of the value of iv widow Stokes’ poultry, though, as she said he* self, she had “a mighty nice passel!" Letter from Athens—The Senior Er aminntioug. Athens, June 22, isto. Editors Telegraph and Messenger-. Yourco* respondent reached this literary centre « Thursday, the 16th instant, and is sharia" the warm-hearted hospitalities of Dr. Lipscomb the courteous and distinguished Chancellor of the University of Georgia. We can say, in ah truth and soberness, that we have never wet with a nobler Christian gentleman, a more fin. ished scholar, and a more faithful and success." ful governor and instructor of youth. The col- lege here was never in a higher state of pros, perity, and if the State would appropriate about twenty-five thousand dollars for the purchase of apparatus to illustrate the more recent discov eries and improvements in science, then, in. deed, would this venerable institution be a crown of glory to the commonwealth. The library, also, lacks a supply of the more im portant works which have been issued within the last quarter of a century. The examination of the Senior class is pro. grossing with great satisfaction to all parties. It is conducted entirely in writing, and each morning the papers preparedby the class the prs. ceeding day are submitted to the board of visi tors for examination. On Friday last, Prof Waddell examined the seniors on Plato’s Apology and Crito, and on this interesting occasion more than forty noble young men of Georgia proved themselves to be Grecians of no mean order. Some three or four hours were consumed in an swering, with the pen, the questions previously prepared by the teacher, and each stndeut took a pledge of honor not to open a book or speak a word on the subject tiil his literay labor was completed. It was my privilege to examine with some care the analysis of Plato's argument for the immortality of the soul, which was pre pared by two young gentlemen of Macon, to- wit: Messrs. Dessau and Hill, and I assure yon that this exhibition of scholarship and taste would have done honor to the most cultivated intellect in the land. Messrs. Hugnenin and Solomon, from your city, also have a fine stand in the class. Stringer, Daddy Sykes, the boys, and the law suit go the devil. I’m in a hurry!” “Gracious bless your dear soul! don’t git ag- jrawated. I was jist a tollin’ yon how it come .1 didn’t weave no cloth last year.” “Oh, well, you didn’t weave any cloth last year. Good! we’ll go on to tho next article.” “Yes! yon see the child hit begun to swell and turn yaUer, and hit kept a wallin' its eyes and a moanin’, and I knowed ” “Never mind about the child—just tell me the value of the poultry you raised last year.” “Oh, well—yes—the chickens, you mean. Why, the Lord love your poor soul, I reckon you never in your bom days seen a poor creetur have the luck that I did—and looks like we never shall have good luck again; for ever sence old Simpson tuk that case np to the chancery court ’’ _“Never mind the case; let’s hear about the chickens, if you please.” “God bless you, honey, the owls destroyed in and about the best half what I did raise. Every blessed night the Lord sent, they’d come and set on the comb of the house, and hoo-hoo-hoo, and one night particklar, I remember, I had jist got np to get the night-shod salve to 'nint the little gal with ” “Well, well, what was the value of what you did raise?” . ‘ 'The Lord above look down! They got so had—tho owls did—that they tuk the old hens, as well’s the young chickens. Tho night I was telling ’bout I hearn somethin’ squall J squall / and says, I’ll bet thMt’s old Speck that nasty ou- daeious owl's got; for I seen her go to rooat with her chickens, up in the plum tree, fornenst the smoke house. So I went to whar old Miss Stringer was Bleepin’, and says I, Miss Stringer! Oh, Miss Stringer 1 sure’s you’re bora, that stibkin’ owl’s got old Speck out’n the plum tree; well, onld Miss Stringer aho turned over ’pon her side like, and says she, what did yon say, Miss Stokes ? And says I—■— Law Department.—On last Saturday a mock court was held in the Chancellor’s Hall, Pro fessor W. L. Mitchell presiding. The usual forms of legal procedure, as to the organiza tion of the court and the conduct of business, were rigidly observed. The case tried was Mercy Ann Wright vs. Georgia Bailroad Com pany, the former having instituted an action against said company for damages sustained by the death of her husband in consequence of an accident on tbe cars. Attorneys for the plain tiff vero Hamilton Yancey and Samuel B. Hoyle; for the defendant, Howard B. Van Epps and W. M. Finley. W. W. Trammell acted as clerk,and B. M. Jackson as sheriff. The points made as to the “liability of com mon carriers;” the clear discriminations ns to the nature and degree of responsibility in volved ; the logical aocuraoy of the statement of the facts and tho ready vigor with which the principles of law were brought to bear on them; the genuine legal scholarship and yet more the facile power with which their knowledge was used; struck me as quite remarkable in these young men. What I particularly noticed was the evidently broad basis of their general cul ture, together with those special instincts that form na "ore’s contribution to thelawyer. I hnTC seldom passed three hours more pleas antly. For manliness of intellect; for good old fashioned pungent Anglo-SaxoD, for that military directness of mind which asserts itself in all forcible lawyers when viewed as speakers, I have seen nothing more worthy of downright admiration. Of course there was some excess of eager sensibility and at timeB, a little over wrought rhetoric, but never to the injury of the argument, and never at the wrong moment. If there had been no faults, I should not have en joyed it so finely. They were faults, that if properly managed will aid the virtues of these .young men; and I am sure that no sensible man will quarrel with exuberant foliage if it hang around strong boughs full of fruit, any more than he will quarrel with the foam of the ocean —as necessary a product of its strength as the majestic sweep of its waves. The New Chair of Modern Languages.— The professor, Dr. Smead, is laboring zealonslv to win for these studies, in- the enlarged field of University instruction, a place commensn- rate with their growing importance. In the German and French particularly he recognizes the exponents o&the two great diverse forms o: civilization which are already leavening and must inevitably modify onr national life- means of a vast immigration from central at" western Europe and tho rapid inter-comar-m- cation now establshed, that continent is pok ing into this country her modes of thought iW expression, her science, her literature to glo with ours. It is vain to shut our e f es ^ these facts, as it would be unwise not to cate onr youth to meet the demands of Am 811 ' can society as it will be. The professor aims to impress upon his F““ pils tho necessity of pursuing a living 1» E S“??“ in a two fold direction; the one as it is usww the familiar intercourse of daily life, the om in the higher style of written literature. endeavors, as far as possible, to meet both requirements. In the first half of the cj>n» his instruction is in a great degree oral. , which he trains his classes to a ready u 38 ot .'T v idioms of conversation as they are employed ‘ day in Paris and Berlin. These exercises w companied with written and oral translate so as to secure the utmost exactness, second half of the course the student, dropping the written exercise, reads eriM . some of the best authors, when, as ° ccas! f.-j! fere, not merely the language, but the nan characteristics, literature and philosopny discussed. The professor seeks in this mam* • to unite the practical with the scientific me of instruction, leading his pupils through r . idomatic spoken tongue to the connected ature, through tho living present to tho I wiU send you another article to-morrow-^ The Leading Wheat-Growing States- - "-^ following table, prepared for the New 8 Tribune, shows how the great wheat-gm _ States stand, not only in order of but in respect to the number of person: States—1869. Bush. Illinois .2 7,200,000 lows.. eSiJjOOOjOOG Wisconsin. - ....24,000,000 California. .. ..21,500,000 Indiana . 20,600,000 Ohio 20,400,000 Minnesota 19,000,000 16,800,000 Pennsylvania 16,500,900 Bosh, per e4 P iti 11 20 19 39 12 9 85 13.5 5 ’ 5