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itafe .... ft*.- Tlic (jp0ppo*]^ GGklv T©l62[r3jT)li cincL Jouphb;1 JMEgssoh^qi** SEMI-WEEKLY Telegraph & Messenger. j^.TBTTTip WEDNESDAY AND 8ATUBDAY ■WEDNESDAY MOBBING. June 13^0- — Tbe Associated Press. AS few persons know what the newspapers when they talk about the “Associated jfcsss ” and “ Proas despatches,” we have copied irom Putnam's Magazine a very full account of Shis organization, and it will be found on the iiist page- The reader will bo informed and interested in the account. Before the war the Texxobaph was a contributor to this “Associated Press ” in large amounts, considering its finan cial ability. When the war broke out the South ern dailies started an Association of their own, called the Southern Press Association, which still retains its existence, but the business of jsrnishing news has reverted to the New York Association. To this letter the Telegraph kkd Messenger now pajb a large weekly assess- aacnt for the “ press despatches ” furnished its readers from all parts of the world. Grant as Guilty as Wliittemore. The New York Sun (Rad.) declares that the ♦ttnngft must follow up tho principle laid down ha tho rejection of Whittemore, viz: That a man who bestows an office upon an other person in consideration of money or val uable presents giveD to him by the appointee or Sis friends, is himself unfit to hold office; and that the House will do all in their power to ex clude such a man from office. It insists that the House shall not stop with its application to the case of Whittemore, but giro it a wider application. The following ex tract will show what sort of game the Son pro gnoses they shall bunt: Is it not notorious that the President of the Suited States has received presents in money, bouses, lands, and in other forms, from certain persons and their friends, and in consideration thereof has conferred upon those persons and ihoir friends important and lucrative offices? Of the reception of the presents and the be stowal of the offices there is not a shadow of donbt; for this was done openly and ostensibly before all the people. If there be any doubt that the offices were bestowed solely or partial- 3j in consideration of tho presents, is it not the duty of the House to inquire into the matter ? Bo the ninety-six Republicans who voted to purge their ball of Whittemore for selling a cadetship suppose that the people do not see Shat the principles involved apply with far greater force to the sale by tbe President of a seat in his Cabinet, or a foreign mission, or a oofiectorship of the customs ? The House of Senresentatives bavo ample power in both cfesses of cases. They can inquire into the facts, and if they deem them sufficiently flagrant can drive a Congressman from the Capitol, and bring a President to the bar of tbe Senate. There have been many Democratic Presidents af this once free and proud Republic—some, perhaps, not altogether immaculate, bnt no such degrading charge a9 this was ever made against racy one of them, even by the lowest and most •icnrrilous opposition sheet, mnch less by a re spectable newspaper of their own political faith. The Boll Worm in Houston. A friend in Houston sends ns the following, with a-box of the perforated bolls and some of tibe worms r Jfei.trs. Editors—Sms: I have been aston ished recently to see publications, and hear planters talk of a glowing prospect for a cotton crop. I think I am correct in saying that the ysaospects have not been so gloomy for twenty years.. Pirst: It is at least three weeks later Shan, usual. SecondThe grass has materially injured the crop. Third: The lice are doing a serxons damage to it. But finally, and the -woist of all, the boll worm is destroying the Udom and young bolls. In corroboration of Jfcat fact I herewith send yon a package of young Dolls, all taken from one stalk this morning, muuu 5 lUcm tou will find the centime worm and see tho execution done. Mr. Wil liam D. Allen, of this county, well known as job of the most scientific and snccessful plan ners of onr State, banded me the package of young bolls sent you. He 89ys the ravage of 3he worm np to this time is unprecedented in 2h» annals of cotton culture, and predicts al most a total failure. We are blessed, however, with fine corn crops, and hope to have bread to sat if cotton is scarce. Observer. Tori Valley, July 2 d. Vest Point Examination—SInny Fail* ures. Poughkeepsie, June 28.—At the examination at West Point Military Academy, concluded to day, forty-eight out of eighty-six failed, and will bo sent home. It is said to have been the most rigid examination ever held. And this is tho way they get rid of the negro- cadet elephant. Won't tho man and brother want to know, now, why this examination, was tie most rigid one ever held? Was that tho only way to get rid of the two representatives af their race whose advent at the Point has os Jugusted the yonng Radical aristocrats there, who thought negro voting and negro office hold ing down Sonth to punish “rabels," was such a bully thing ? Verily it looks extremely like it. Mss. Governor Alcorn, of Mississippi, de- efines to reoeivo calls from the wife of Lynch, tie colored Secretary of State. Social equality .san individual matter and can’t be regulated by politics.—Exchange. That isn’t Radical doctrine, though. Their tbith^as preached to the negroes, is dead against any distinctions, anywhere, on account of race or color. They want to make whites and blacks associate together in steamboats, churches, schools, theatres, railway cars, etc. Mrs. Alcorn weds “reconstructing." She is Mrs. Govern or by tbe graco of negro votes and Federal bay onets so that to be grateful as well as consistent, afae ought not, while in that position, to refuse any recognition either may ask. Cobx-plantixg.—All the Southern Agricultu ral journals we get are unanimous and strong am the corn-planting question, but it is too late to save the country from punishment. How* ower, all tho editorial talk would not, in any weent, have amounted to much. We have got hewne, as a State, to a point of great embar- aaasmentand distress, before the people will 9M that if the South would be rich she must moke her own food. Georgia. Gibbs Sun Ahead.—At the close of ifcfr exercises of the Academy of the Visitation, st Georgetown, D. C., (a most admirable school Sy the way) the farewell ode snug on the oc casion was composed by Miss Fanny Casey, of Georgia, who also won a crown and gold medal for tho highest honors in the senior circle, oooferred for excellence of condnct. Misses lanrisa Casey, Willie Belt and Ophelia Robert- 0MB, also of Georgia, took silver medals which an given to those winning the second honors. The “Dead Democracy” at Tbeib Odd Tracis.—And now that lively corpse tkq Raci- aals call the “Dead Democratic party” has men, and gone, and done it in Idaho. It has swept that Territory, electing its delegate to Congress by 800 majority, carrying every coun ty,, except one, where the Mormons voted their wires. Oh this “dead Democracy!” What a datum lion unpleasant thing it is to the Radical ;pg>ers and raiders. We are surprised they dm’t bury it out of sight, and be rid of its mc&s. A Slander.—We published, a few days since, tfce following paragraph from the Chicago Tribune: In the Episcopal Diocesan Council for Wis- aansin, a day or two ago, the following cannon was adopted: “Every communicant of the ctarch marrying outside of our communion, or married by any other than a clergyman of.the shnrch, shall stand ipso facto excommunicated.” Tho Rev. H. W. Spaulding, Rector of Grace {Shnrch, Madison, Wisconsin, we are gratified im see writes a letter to that paper pronouncing statement an unmitigated falsehood. I*Iiiety-Fonrt.Ii Anniversary of Amer ican Independence. Tbe Telegraph and Messenger will not ap pear again until Wednesday morning. The printers will celebrate the “National Holiday with a pic-ntc at Paco’s Station in Twiggs coun ty, and we wish them much happiness. Resum ing work on Tnosday, our next issue will be on Wednesday, «th instant. The interval of pub lication seems long,but labor is intermitted only a single working day. The country is fast sweeping onward to the completion of the fftst century of its existence, and arrangements are even now in progress for the celebration of its centennial anniversary in Philadelphia, in 187G, on the precise spot where the declaration of American Independ ence was first published to the world. A hun dred years is, or ought to bo, no great time in the life of a nation, bnt the century of our na tional record has never been equalled hereto fore, and perhaps may never be equalled here after in the rapidity of human development and in the rush of grand events. It may be, as the world approaches those grand prophetic periods in which the power of moral evil shall be arrest ed, still more magnificent achievements of mind over matter will be displayed but such a re sult seems impossible in the light of what has beenaccomplished. It appears inconceivable, for example, that travel and transportation should ever again be so much improved on existing conditions, as it was when the locomotive and tho rail and the steamer substituted the slowcoaches; wagons and ships of fifty years ago, and slowly conveyed that interchange of thought and intelligence which now flashes by lightning, in a few min utes, what was no longer than a generation ago conveyed by slow and toilsome steps, consum ing periods sometimes of six months or nine, Forty years ago the editors of the Telegraph and Messenger, as we find by picking np an old file of the papers, got their news from New York seldom in less than three weeks. One of their papers of Jonell, 1821, gives the latest for eign dates from tho Loudon Morning Chronicle of April 13th, which reported Eastern news more than three months old. To-day wo give news from all parts of three continents the next morning. The improvements in communication have, in some particulars, put the inhabitants of tho remotest parts of the East at a next door neighborhood, and for all purposes have plac ed Christendom in more easy intercommunica tion than the capital of Georgia was with the ontlying counties of the State fifty years ago. It is this wonderfnl advance in the means of inter-communication which is producing such great events in so rapid succession as to startle and bewilder the people. Every moral, intel lectual and material agency has been armed by these improvements with a hundred-fold activity and power, so that he who measures and con jectures by the old rules and standards is wholly befooled. We, in the South, overlooked these great changes in the moral and material condi tion in thoso controversies which precipitated the war and in onr anticipations of the final re sult of that struggle. Steam and electricity had concentrated an overpowering world-senti ment against slavery, and it was doomed. Steam and electricity multiplied the material resources of the Northern States a hundred fold. Under the old conditions tho moral and political con troversy would have been slow and never have sharpened into a deadly fight; or, if it had been, the prostration of the South would have been impossible. Steam and electricity are now homogenizing all the people of the earth—breaking down the exclusiveness of the Turk,—the Chinaman,—the Japanese—the Brahmin—the worshipper of the Tjirna.—hrinmne every usace. oDinionand custom to the test of the opinion and informa tion of the world. This rapid, universal and healtfifal circulation of thought, feeling and opinion is vitalizing the world, as the current corrects stagnant water or a confined and pois onous atmosphere. Tho hoary East and many parts even of Earope might have been compar ed to parts of the human body diseased by de ficient circulation, and theso new and grand in strumentalities of an advanced civib'zation are sending the tide of a new vigor to them in strong and healthful currents from the centres of life. Now amid such a general upturning and re volution as this, let us not commit tho folly of measuring the future by the past. It is an era of grand activity. Some of our ideas have fallen before it, and so must some of every other people. Nobody can set np to bo wise above instruction. Oar prophets and teachers of New England have got a great deal to learn, just as well as we unfortunate rebels. If yon do not believe it, just wait and see. Let ns hope that we are getting through tbe hardest part of our lessons, and shall now go easier with every step. There’s a manifest improvement in externals tho past year. The animosity of the Northern people seems to be abating, and they are beginning to understand matters in tho South a good deal better. The hatreds engendered by the war are softening, and it may be that, .be fore the first national centeuniad is completed, this oppressed section will come to bo considered as a part of the country entitled to respect, or at least to some consideration. At all events, we can do no better than mind onr own busi ness, and watch and wait. In this hope we enter upon the year ninety-five, and pass the compliments of the season. The “Good Time Coming.” The New York Herald says “the approaching general conflict between labor and capital will be marked by a revolutionary reconstruction of government and laws the most radical and be- nifleent the world ever saw.” No doubt of it. Work will be only ajfew minutes’ play, at the highest rate of wages. And, at the same time, food trill be plenty ■ and cheap and labor very low. Property will be equally divided and sor did and grasping monopoly rebuked. All will be employers and all employed. All masters and all men. Land will be free as air or water and bear a high price for all who wish to sell Mankind will live without any kind of restraint and order and security be perfect. A universal and perpetual holiday will be proclaimed, and trade and industry reach a point of activity never known before. The ocean will be white with the wings of commerce; and the poor sal lor stay at home in the embraces of his family. The ham of millions of spindles will be heard in the vallies, and hard-worked operatives and factory ftirls, released from unhealthy confine ment shall gather blue bells in the mountains and redden their cheeks in healthful sports in the summer breeze. The fields shall teem with waving grain and the tired plowboy lay asido his whip and hoe and lave his dusty limbs in the bubbling fount orsparkliugstream. The bams shall burst with plenty and make their own re pairs, while tho farmers sport with wood nymphs, dryads, fawns and eatyrtf in the cool recesses of tho leafy forest. This is what the Tribune calls the “good time coming,” and that is tho reason why we have alt been learning how to dance so that we can keep step to the mnsic when we hear it. Extbaobdinaby Heat and Mortality ix New York.—Neic York, June 29.—The extraordinary heat of the past few days has caused a great in crease in the city mortality, at least an average increase of 75 per cent, upon last week's mor- During the twenty-four hours ending at noon to-day there were 106 deaths against G1 daring the corresponding hours last week. Yes- terdfty there were 107 deaths against 74 last week, and so ever since the hot weather set in. The Georgia Press. «» The "Washington Gazette has reoeived “a nat ural curiosity, in the shape of an ear of corn, with perfectly formed grains of wheat on tbe smaller end. The com is of the kind called six weeks corn, and was planted in the neighbor hood of a wheat patch. Its larger end is cov ered with grains of corn, and perfectly formed; the smaller portion of the cob has alternate rows of corn and wheat, while on the extremity is placed a perfectly formed head of wheat." There was a thunder storm and very heavy rain in Savannah, Thnrsday afternoon. It seemed to have been general throughout South ern Georgia. Among the cargo of the Herman Livingston. from Savannah for New York, on Thnrsday, were 140 mocking birds. The News has the following additional items: Large Oabgo.—The Herman Livington car ried out the largest cargo yesterday she has ever taken from this port, and a very remarkable one for this seasoD of the year. It consisted of 1,531 bales cotton, 25 bales wool, 17 bales waste, 50 casks clay, 130 hides, 85 barrels watermelons, 317 packages vegetables, and 173 packages of merchandise. She also took 53 cabin end three steerage passengers. A Bit of Newspaper History.—When the Morning News was started in 1850 there wore two papers published in Savannah, the Republi can and tho Georgian. Since that time the Evening Journal, the Daily Mirrar, the Savan nah Courier, the True Georgian, the Evening Express, the Mail, the Commercial Index, the Daily Herald, and the Advertiser have been started, and all have passed out of existence ex cept the Morning News, the Republican, and the Advertiser. In addition to the daily papers mentioned above, several magazines have been published during the last twenty years, all of which have passed away. Five dailies were published in Savannch in 1851. . Of the papers that have passed away, some of them have fought stroDgly for life. The Journal was con solidated with the Courier, printing two regular editions, one in the morning and the other in the afternoon, nnder the name of the Journal and Courier. This paper was united with the Georgian, and was continued until 1858, under the name of tho Georgian and Journal, when, from a lack of support, it was suspended. The Daily Herald was united with the Morning News, to which paper was also transferred the good will of the Commercial Index. These data shows how perilous an enterprise is the starting of a newspaper. There was a fine rain Friday, near Columbus. Judge B. F. Coleman, succeds Rev. Dr. De Yo- tie, as President of the Board of Trustees, of the pnblie schools of Colnmbus. The Son has the following items: lx New Colthes.—Onr policemen, fourteen in number, first appeared Tuesday in their new uniforms—double-breasted grey frock coat with brass buttons, and pants of same color, and black military hat. They present a handsome appearance. Death of Mb. Beenard Dolan.—This gen tlemen died yesterday morning, aged about fifty years. For twenty-eight years ho has resided and carried on business in Colnmbns, and has been respeected as a quiet citizen and honest man. He was born in Ireland. Cotton Lice.—Onr Alabama exchanges report great quantities of cotton lice. Senatorial.—Bill Dougherty of Toskegee, Ala., a notorious Radical, and who was suppos ed to lie one of the inciters of the recent nigger riots iathat place, reports'that he was shot by some one in ambush near Chehaw. A little nig ger who was with 'William at the time, says William shot himself sligatly. It is not nnlikely the little nigger tells the truth. Thnrsday was tho hottest day of the Benson in Savannah, though the thermometer only reached 93 deg. The Cartersville Express sums up the situa- tion there as follows: Weather hot; harvest over; good crop of wheat; farmers contending with weeds and grass, and by the last of the week will be victo rious if it don’t rain. The Rome District Meeting (M. E. Church) commenced at Cave Spring, Friday night Largo attendance. Bishop Pierce preaches to-day. LightniDg struck the wall of the ticket office m me depot at xnomson, on n» utu.gi. ._a road, last Sunday, shattering it considerably. Fortunately no person was' in tho tuildingat the time. On Monday last a destructive hailstorm swept over the Southern portion of Newton connnty, injuring crops on the plantations it touched, from one-third to one-half. We scissor a3 follows from the Lagrange Re porter. The Wheat Ceop.—The wheat crop in this county has turned out better than was antici pated. Mr. Geo. S. Bailey, living eight miles from LaGraDge, guessed that his crop would turn out from 80 to 100 bushels, and could hard ly btlieve his own eyes when he saw Messrs. McGee and Jones, proprietors of a Resell Tbresb, measure np 225 bushels. Rev. D. W. Howell made CGjj bushels on one acre and a half, an average of 43| bushel per acre. No rertilizer used bet cotton seed. Jail Delivery.—Wo bad a general jail deliery on last Monday night. AH of tbe prisoners es caped except one who is indicted for murder. They were assisted by persons from tho out side. The Thomaston Herald says: Dead.—Mr. Daniel Denham, an old and very highly respected citizen of Upson, died at bis residence on Wednesday eveuiug lost, after an illness of several months. Monday evening we were visited by quite a lively litile shower. Through other sootious of the country the raiu fell iu torrents,' swelling all the branches in an amazingly short time. Daring the shower the lightning struck a tree a hundred feet or more from onr office, at tho same time prostrating a young man who was passing, and knocking another off a fence. Mr. Nat Teagle, of Meriwether county, gath ered 8G bushels of wheat from 2J acres, this last harvests Referring to the advertisement of n Maoun firm in its columns, the Newnan Herald says: In days long past, our farmers traded almost exclusively in Macon, but later, commerce sought other channels, and our people went with the current, but when the Savunmk, Grif fin A North Alabama roailroad is completed to this place, we see no reason why trade and com merce 8honld not retorn to its original chan nels. Mr. Kramer, of Newnan, has just sold a dog whose only fault was that he sucked Mr. K’s cow. He used to follow her to the pasture, and was caught in the act. The Georgia Press.—Calhoun county has had plenty of rain, and the crops now are quite pro missing. In Early county also, fine rains have fallen, and com and cotton, generally, are in fine condition. West Point Examination.—The examina tion at the West Point . Militaiy Academy was conclnded lust Tuesday. Forty-eight out of eighty-six candidates failed, and will be sent home. Five of the cadets at large, appointed by tbe President last year, to enter West Point on tbe 1st of Jnly, have been set asido by tbe Board of Examiners as incompetent, and will not be admitted. The examination was very rigid. Lower Still.—To make room for his fall stock of goods, Mr. Gus. Nnssbaum, on Second street, next to Mrs. Audouin’s, has again marked down his Summer Dress Goods so as to place them w ithin reach of everybody’s purse. Refer to what he has to say in another column. It is interesting reading for those who want fine goods at low prices. Bibb Superior Court.—The attention of this Court was engaged all of yesterday in bearing motions and discussing the same. We understand that the case of Parker vs. .the City of Macon will be carried again to tho Supreme Court In noticing the verdict in this case yes terday we inadvertently ‘wrote that the jury found for the defendant We should have said plaintiff. Court adjourned till 9 a. m., on Monday. Liverpool Stock of Cotton.—It seems a very serious mistake (see despatches) was dis covered in the Liverpool stock of cotton Friday, though it failed to raise quotations. [From Putnam’* Magazine for July. At tli© Associated Fress Office. In thd modest apartments at the corner of Broadway and Liberty street, np seventy-eight stairs, actual count, one will find at almost any hoar of the day or night a dozen men writing away as though for dear life. They do not ■write with peos and pecoils, and on ordinary paper, as ordinary men do, but with styles made, of cornelian and agate, and on, the finest kind of tisane paper. Nor are they satisfied to make one copy at a time; such contortion of counte nance, rolling of tongue, and jerking of head, guarantee no less than a score, whereof the last evidently mnet go right down through _ the top of the desk. Tnis is a veritable curiosity-shop, in more senses than one. It is the headquar ters of the Associated Press—the birthplace of that subtile, indescribable something we enjoy new every morning and fresh every evening, which is commonly called “the news.” Its works go forth every day to the extremities of the earth, and millions of people are interested in them; yet itselfis scarcely known except by name, and to the ontside world the little poste- haste and romage before us are a perpetual enigma and stumbling-block. Daily newspa pers, printed in the United States, have been sent to this very office with “Please exchange” deliberately written across their wrappers; and enterprising business men, native and to the manner born, have, forwarded advertisements with the request to “Please have ^inserted in the Associated Pres3, and send bill.” , Bat before looking in on the central office, it may be well to glance a moment at the natnie, object, and extent of the Associated Press. As its name implies, it is a union of certain jour nals brought about to cheapen news by making one despatch serve them all. The scope of this union is the' collection of telegrams from all points, and of marine intelligence in New York narbor. All other fields of journalism are left to individual enterprise, and for any other than those two objects there is no Associated Press. These papers are tho Tribune, the Times, the Herald, the World, the San, the Journal of Commerce, and the Express, of the city of New York. Bnt their news is not confined to them. By bearing an equitablo share of the expense of gather.ng the despatches, two hun dred papers of the United States and Canada have become members of the union, to all in tents and purposes, whereby the news is pub lished every day, almost word for word, from Newfoundland to California simultaneously. The Associated Press has an army of corres pondents, called local agents, scattered all over the civilized world. In thinly-settled districts, where news is likely to be too scarce to warrant the appointment of regular agents by special contract, the telegraph company, which is alike interested in the lorwarding of dispatches, takes upon itself the service by making its operators ex officio agents of the Associated Press. By such economical means the whole field of oper ations, co-extensive with the telegraphic sys tem, has been covered effectively with no less than fifteen thousand intelligent news reporters. All dispatches from the local agents are sent di rectly to the headquarters at New York, where they are corrected and re-produced by a process of manifold writing, and tne copies distributed to the several newspapers. The services of the telegraph are then required again—this time to scatter the news already collected, to all points of the compass and the farthest ends of the land. The receiving telegraphers at other cities de liver their copies to the Associated Press agents, by whom they are again manifolded and sent to their individual papers, as in New York. Such, in brief, is the Associated Press. These six rooms, called, with a little pardonable im propriety, the General Agency, are the centre of all this complex machinery, radiating thous ands of miles in every direction, and become, therefore, the heart, the distributing reservoir, of the American news system. Here are the offices of the executive and his assistants, who control the details of the vast concern. Here, also, is the committee room, whete the repre sentatives of the seven papers meet every month, and allow tho cigar of peace to osnrp tbe poisoned qoill, while they make and annul contracts with the telegraph and ontside news papers. The next room but one is set apart for the messengers, who deliver the news to the newspaper offices, presided over by an old schoolmaster, who comes as near keeping two dozen fourteen-year-old New York boys from driving crazy every body in the same block as any man ever did or will. Iu that room, away over in the corner, smaller than a cigar store or a box office, sits the cashier, who most be mas- rtf till itm nindfirn Lmsu&sed. Ha takes care of the fiscal affairs, to the extent of mil lions of dollars a year—receives and pays bills in dollars, pounds, reals, francs, and marc ban- cos. This large, light, and airy room in the centre is the manifolding room, where the news is pat in a shape fit for publication. We shall find enough here to engage our attention. Ranged at about a dozen desks sit a dozen men, who are expected to know something of everything under the snn—the ports and pro- dnets of every country, as well as every vessel by name. Parliamentary practice most be at their fingers’ ends. They would be worthless without poetry and the dead languages, where with to correct politicians’ bad Latin, and equal ly so without the living languages. Chronology is indispensable in the nows building; hence Rollia, Gibbon, Hume, Haltan, and Motley must be learned by heart. That great Englisn lawyer, Lord Campbell, said: “There is noth ing so dangerous as for one not of the craft to tamper with our freemasonry.” Consequently these men must have studitdlaw enough to mat ter the statutes and rules of practice of all the States and all the nations. They must be able to “write up,” understanding^, horse-races, regattas, and base-ba'l matches, a3 well as sy nods, conventions, and congresses. Liko po: licemen and soldiers, they must bavo no politics, affections, or opinions; they mast bo stoically unconcerned iu conflagrations, murders, ship wrecks, and battles. Practical printers they must be, certainly, as well, as practical electric- ims. Finally, they must have good sense and j adgmeat, in order to know tho value of news, and a good common school education, that they may write it out intelligently. These extraor dinary men are the mamfolders. They edit the despatches as fast as they arrive, whatt ver the subject-matter may be, and at tbe s.>. ne time write them out in good English, twe -ty copies at once. As may be supposed, men having all theso qualifications do uot present themselves every day. How many has this office been obliged to turn away, who were weighed in the balance and found wanting—how many college graduates, philosophers, lawyers, yea, even editors, who, like Fielding’s hero, promised much in the prospectus, and per formed nothing at all; who, upon trial, per sisted in inventing new and non-existent geo graphical localities, like the Isle of "Wright, the titraita of Andover, and the city of Cmcinnatti! The “manifold writer” is now no new thing. Almost every body knows that it is a simple con trivance for bringing forth a number of copies at one writing, by nsing a hard peacil on a book of oiled usaue-paper, with carbonized paper laid between the leaves. But do:s every body think if there was no such contrivance the Asso ciated Press could not live ? The manifold writer has been introduced and rejected in every counting-house. Its practical uselessness in the ordinary affairs of business has been demons trated time and agaio, yet in this office its value is incalculable. One man does tho work of a hundred. Manifolding has been brought to an astonishing degree of perfection, by the inven tion of a gentleman now seventy years old.— For a quarter of a century he has supplied tho Association with tho very peculiar paper re quired for this service, and that he alone knows how to make. With his paper thirty copies may be made easily, and it is often necessity to have so many, while eight or ten copies is the maximum claimed by other manufacturers for their paper. For forty-two years the secret of this old man has baffled imitators, who have not scrupled to lark about his manufactory un der cover, of the night, and to invoke the aid of tbe ablest chemists of the land. Bat he has a family of vigorous sons, and the Associated Press has not borrowed any trouble as to what the effect might bo if the secret died with him. The “Agency” is the heaviest customer of the telegraph, hence it has been placed so near at band, that despatches are trundled across the street, from the one to the other, by three miniature elevated railroads, to the apparont be wilderment of humanity below. These rattle to and fro, night and day, bearing nows from all quarters of the globe. Bnt the manifolder is always ready. He knows full well that, in this land of telegraphs and fourth editions, news is perishable property; “It dies in an hour;” so in much less than that time the most startling intelligence is among the types everywhere, and almost a forgotten thing of the past. In the daytime the manifolder takes twenty oopies of the despatches, which are distributed to the Herald, the Times, the Tribune, the World, the Son, the Journal, the Post, the Express, the Commercial Advertiser, the Staata Zeitung, the Brooklyn Union, the Newark Advertiser, and the Newark Courier, and to tbe reporters of the State press, the Boston press, the New England press, the Western press, the Bonthern and the far Southern press, leaving one copy for the offloe reoord. After the last evening edition is printed, fourteen copies are sufficient. When the despatches are manifolded, all the copies are stamped with the office seal, or die; a precautionary measure to guard the editors against the use of fraudulent “despatches,” furnished by malicious persons. Then the messenger department is called on; the sheets are quickly separated — pat into envelopes already directed; a noise like the voice of many waters prevails for a moment—(for Mercury is no longer winged, and there are Beventy-eight stairs to go down)—and the despatches are on their way to the types. The average day’s work is one hnndren and fifty sheets, containing thirty-five thousand words—thirty or forty routes for the messen gers. Oa the oooasion of a President’s mess age, or an interesting discussion in Congress or the British Parliament, so mnch news is sent ont that the papers are obliged to issne supple ments, to make room for it. Indeed, if &U the news furnished at this office were printed in fall every day, there would not be room for mnch else. Congressmen forward their speeches by express, in advance of delivery, and people all over the country mail an avalanche of details that are not important enough tobe telegraphed, with the hope to see them appear as telegraphic despatches. The most of such news is' smoth ered in the inexorable editorial waste-basket. The old lady who was lost in the contempla tion of the multitude of Jobs in the printing business, would often find her counterpart in the unsophisticated visitorto the General Agency. Mr. More is apparently the name of the local agent at Philadelphia, at Baltimore, at Wash ington, and at one or two hundred other places —for so he signs himself in the despatches. When the law was enaoted requiring an inter nal revenue stamp on telegrams, the Associa ted Press mounted with occasion, and proved itself in possession of the true jurisprudential profandity. By an innocent fiction the local agent, who usually sent a dozen dispatches a day, was enabled to send one only by regarding the first elfivea as merely parts of despatches, signing each one “More,” or “More Coming,” and affixing his name in fall to the twelfth, at midnight. The practice of signing More still adheres, though the reason has long since van ished ; and there is no signature more honored in the Associated Press office. Always on the lookout to guard against polls and first-of-April messages, commonly known as “sells,” this of fice 8cratinizes first the signature, and More or More Coming isprima facie evidence of genu ineness A newly appointed agent at Norfolk, Ya., who received a despatch from New York, chronicling the arrival of the ship Black War rior in the following regulation form: “New York, 30th. Black Warrior arrived. More Com ing,” signalized his advent on a new field of labor by startling the people of his quiet city with the news that a delegation of thirty black warriors had arrived in New York, and more were hourly expected. The regular Associated Press telegrams are what would be called in Earope, “semi-official.” The special dispatch is colored to snit the par ticular journal, bet the press despatch is strictly non- partisan, for it goes to papers of all poli tics and all religions. Tho local agents, on ac count of their presumed fairness, and because they have it in their power to bring despatches before so many readeis, have the ran of official records everywhere, often where the “special” would not bo tolerated. The government ap preciates the power of the Associated Press. The Washington Agent frequently has his news brought to him by tbe heads of the Departments. But the Washington news is not always start ling. The decisions of the Internal Revenne Commissioner, aud the proposals of the Naval Constructing Bureau, are matters that the gov ernment is more interested in getting printed everywhere than the publio is to read. A wag- ish manifolder once headed one of these doc uments with the words, “Government Adver tisement.” Instantly a storm of questions came from the newspaper offices, as to who would be responsible for the bill. Bat the 'editors, on being informed that the matter was really tele graphic news, for which they would be expect od to pay five cents a word on the next Saturday, printed it with the other telegrams, leaded and garnished with head lines. It would certainly be strange if political bias and prejudice did not occasionally crop ont in the twenty mill'ons of despatches received at this offico annually. Once or twice a year the Democratic editors formally complain of the radical complexion of the Eastern aud Western news, and the Republican editors, in their re- j have a valid set-off v -bil tone qf the Southern dispatches. Bear and forbear is generally the motto, until the inscrutable Penn sylvania election comes, when the Associated Press makes due amends by imitating every body ehje in electing both tickets for a week or so, until the mail advices comes to hand. The stranger in this office will noto that the despatches fiom the East come early, and tbeso from the West late; but the wonder will ceuse precisely at the moment when tbe reflection forces itself udou him that the world is round, and revolves eastwardly. Tne great interna tional boat race at London, in August last, was completed at six o’clock in the evening, bnt the fall details were printed here at half-past two. The closing markets at London and Parts, dated at five in the' alterncon, are invariably printed here before three; bnt the despatches from San Francisco, not half so far away as Paris, are the last received at night, and sometimes do not ar rive until the next day. The notion prevalent in some quarters that tho Associated Press is a gigantic moneyed Cor poration, grown rich by the sale of its news, and that itd own bills are met with the profits received from others, need scarcely be seriously dealt with. The regular morning journals form ing tho Associated Press, pay about fourteen thousand dollars euch, per annum, for the news service or this office; those having Sunday edi tions fifteeen thousand. Tho evening paper, the Express, pays about eight thousand, as do also the Post and the Commercial Advertiser. The money paid gives a fair idea of tho pro portionate amount of news furnished. The evoning papers pay rather more than one-third of the total bill, aud receive fonr ninths of the total amount of nows. How many hundreds of thousands of milc-s of land-wire, and what scores of submarine cables, are pressed into the service every day to satisfy this awfnl craving of the American people for the latest intelligence! It is a novel sight to stand at the depots, so to speak, and watoh thoso little aerial railroad-trains, as they sweep in at the windows, freighted with news, now from Washington, then from Chicago, then from London. Many of thoso dispatches are in the French and oilier foreign languages ; many are so condensed and squeezed together that they might as well be to another than a manifolder; some are in “ cipher,” a sort of abbreviated language, known only to the manifolders, where one word stands arbitrarily for an entire Eng lish sentence; and others, again, . though in open English, are so corrupted and blundered by frequent re-writings at repeating stations on the telegraph lines, as to be almost unintelligi ble. Bnt the manifolder sticks at nothing. For eign languages, legal and.uautical technicalities, the mysteries of the arts, sciences, and all known trades and professions, he is expected to pre pare for the printer's hands at a moment’s no tice, ready to ran the gauntlet of universal crit icism. While tho individnal newspaper moat have its musical critic, financial editor, and sporting editor, the details of a great battle, the price of land, Congressional proceedings, an obituary, a Democratic triumph, and a confla gration, all come within the prehensile grasp of tho manifolder. Given an Associated Fress in 1570, and the Shakespearian problem becomes easy. The devices of the distant agent to convey much in little, and thereby innocently defraud the telegraph, are many of them perfect wond ers of invention, and are only matched by the ingonnity of the manifolder in restoring the words left to his imagination. In the dispatch es, serening and smorning means this evening morning, fob, free on board, swells, as well as, and certain high-sounding capitals are degraded to York, Rio, Orleans, Bayres, and Frisco, Bat the manifolder is not always absolutely perfeoti Sometimes he negleois to expunge the eoonomi- cal abbreviations of the local agents, which were never designed to get as far as the printing of fices. Then conservative old philologists file protests against the creation of suoh verbs and participles as burgled, ezeurted, injuncted, in terviewed, incendiaried, sleeting, and confer grat ing, and the Associated Press is held to a rigid accountability for “ pouring a stream of cold poison into the Englis language every morning. ” It is said the Americans nave preserved many old words which the passion for Johnsonian dic tion has banished from conversation in Eng land, bnt it is doubtful whether these are of them. In order to save the expense, dispatches from remote cities, especially those by the cables, are ent down to mere hints. Notwithstanding the columns of Enropean news printed every day, it remained for a member of tbe Association itself to proclaim to the world that the Associated Press had not reoeived an average of a hundred cable words a day since the cables were laid. Surely, after such inoonoclasm, it can be a se cret no longer that the two words “Vesuviaa grows,” were once metamorphosed into the fol lowing IMPORTANT NEWS FROM ITALY. “ London, March "25.—Telegraphic dispatch es just at hand from Naples annonnea that the eruption of Mount Vesuvius is continually in creasing in power and grandeur. Deep rumb ling sounds, like detonating thunder, arer con stantly heard, and the affrighted inhabitants of the neighborhood are fleeing to places of safe ty. A dense volume of smoke is rising from the crater, visible a hundred miles away. The ashes and dost fall in elonds, and at night the lurid glare of the flames, reflected in the calm bay, impart to surrounding objects a ghastly and sombre aspect. Enthnsi&Bts may praise the musical Italian, the facile French, aad the majestio Spanish, bnt th^Associated Press has demonstrated that the copious English is also the language of brer; Ity. But it must be confessed this was a mem frolic of the manifolder. Though the mail dates received subsequently sustained the florid de scription, he was reprimanded, but escaped mnch easier than his companion, who headed one of the stereotyped despatches from General McClellan’s army, “ All quiet on the Potomac,” with the words ileus nobis hoe otium fecit. He was discharged as incorrigible. The strangest freaks of lightning occur in the telegraph offices. The jubilant telegraph per sists in having doubted doubled, being bring, mediate meditate, com coin,and nine none, and it is a question whether the names Waverly, Binghamton, Owego, and Ithaca were ever car ried a hundred miles away from home in a tel egram without orthography. Such errors as these the experienced u.auifulder corrects at a glance; bnt there are times when the tele graph surpasses itself and reduces him to his wit’s end. This was the case when the steamer “ Cena ” was announced at a southern port. The manifolder knew there was nonesuch. Bnt what should it be ? After ransacking ship lists, and cudgelling his brains to no purpose, as a last resort he wrote down the telegraphic char acters for “Cena,” thus —,and saw they were preci aly those that would be used to write Iona; and that was the answer to the puz zle. In this way are corrected the mistakes of careless telegraph operators, made, perhaps, a thousand miles away, and perpetnated at every repeating station. So long as tnese mistakes are hnge blunders, not mnch harm can come from them. Bnt occasionally they are insidnons, and no amount of watchfulness can detect them. A recent despatch from Omaha contained the words, “Company Fifth U. S. Infantry attacked by indians on the plains. All scalped.” It was a pretty serious matter, but the despatch was plain enough. 'While the manifolder was copy ing it, and reflecting on the affliction it most carry to a thousand hearthstones (if he ever have time for such reflections), another despatch came to hand, reading: “Chicago. Correction. In onr Omaha, for scalped read escaped,” and peace flowed into his soul. The bustling manifolding-room contains, also, the bureaus of the provincial papers, which de pend upon tbe Associated Press for their supply of news. The country journals are grouped to gether, according to their geographical posi tions, in order that the despatches may be dis- tribted more conveniently and expeditiously. The groups are called the Western press, the Eastern press, the Philadelphia press, the State press, the Boston press, the Southern press, the Far Southern press, etc. Each of these or ganizations has reporters in the manifolding- room, night and day, who have access to all the Associated Press news, and who send snch parts of it as are likely to be interesting to tho peo ple of their respective sections. As fast as they compile their reports, they forward them to the telegraph offico by the elevated railway route before mentioned, duly directed “ State press,” or “Southern press,” as the case may be, when their responsibility ends, and that of the telegraph begins. Let the State press be taken as an illustration of the manner in which the telegraph performs the distributing service. At certain specified hours, convenient alike for the telegraph and the particular editions of the newspapers to be served, the operator, with one manipulation of his niagio key, transmits the news simultaneously to Poughkeepsie, Hud son, Albany, Troy, Utica, Syracuse, Auburn, Elmira, Owego, Binghamton. Rome, Oswego, Rochester and Buffalo, New York, to Rutland and Burlington, Vermont, and to Scranton, Pennsylvanix These stations are not all on the same wire, nor on the same ronte; bnt by a certain combination, through an American in vention called the telegraphic repeater, they are LxuiQihisn in effect, and the news mifihi lm sent to a thousand offices as easily as to one. The other groups are served in like manner. But it must not be supposed the Associated Press supplies these organizations only. They are tie chiefest, certainly; but despatches are sent every d-y lo London, and thence all over Europe; io Havana and thronghout Cuba; and on steamer days snmmaries are forwarded to Aspinwall, which are used wherever there are telegraphs in Central and South America, and’ are then resent from Panama to Australia and New Zealand. The San Francisco agent, in the same way, exchanges his home and Euro pean news with news-gleaners at the Sandwich Islands, in China, Japan, etc.- It would be rather more difficult to tell where the Associat ed Fress news does not go. Over in the corner of the manifolding-room still another little railroad train stands ready to trundle messages across the street, diagonally to the Commercial News Department. This new feature deserves attention for a moment. The American prices of stocks, bonds, and pro duce have always been regulated in good part by those of London and Liverpool The mer chant who receives the first advices is enabled to forestall the home market. Ever since the celebrated financial achievement of the Roths childs, which their first knowledge of the result of Waterloo rendered easy, this desire to get ahead in matters of news hkely to affect mark ets has gradually grown to be a monstrous evil, and opened the door to all manner of cor ruption. False news, fraudulent quotations, and stock-jobbing “despatches,” to deceive and defraud, were circulated every day, and the subordinates of tbe telegraph and press made to run a terrible gauntlet of temptation to prove false to their trusts. Partly to correct this evil, and partly to provide a new source of revenne, the Associated Press and the telegraph formed a copartnership for making all com mercial news, immediately on its receipt and before publication, the property of the public everywhere. The Association, on its part, fur nishes its commercial and important general news despatches, domestic as well as foreigo, and the telegraph distributes them, at a trilling cost, as nearly simultaneously as possible thronghout the Union. But this system, while it erects a bulwark against fraud and stratagem for the business community, is not without one slight disadvantage. Fonr-fifths of all Euro pean despatches are commercial in their char acter. Bat an Associated Press cable-telegram carries the prices of fifty staple articles, and which, by this distributing process, must go far towards meeting the wants of every business man in America. The threo cables axe not crowded, nor are they likely to be for twenty years to come. “Multiplying the facilities” may be a trifle overdone, as any company which lays a new cable within that time will probably find to its cost. Consequently this doubling np, whereby one commercial despatch serves tne tarn of tne whole American conti nent, cannot bnt make great inroads on the private revenue of the cable companies. By parity of reasoning one would think the interests of the Associated Press antipodal to those of the telegraph—that a system which saves six sevenths of a stun to the one must ne cessarily lose it to the other. But the press is the sheet-anchor of the telegraphs. In 1860 the telegraphic service of combined continental Earope, for despatches of all sorts, press, so cial and commercial, aggregated less than two hundred and sixty millions of words. In that year the American newspapers paid one domes tic telegraphic company alone fifteen millions of dollars for three hundred millions of words; and the greater part of that immense mass was sent at night, after business hours, when the telegraph lines would not have been otherwise occupied at all. If there were no such organi zation as the Associated Press, the individnal papers could not bear the enormous expense of the news that is now published every day ; and if they could, the telegraphio systems of the world would not be sufficient to carry it. Con sequently the mails wouldsupersede the telegraph as a transmitting medium, except in great em ergencies ; journalistic enterprise would be no more marked in America thyi it is in Germany, and we should soon cease to have six newspa pers to any other country’s one, as now. This associated system, then, is in strict keeping with onr national institutions; for, while it may op erate harshly in isolated cases, its tendency is to bring the news within the reach of alt, to foster cheap newspapers and tints promote the cause of general education. The moat grateful words to the manifolder are “Good-night.'' Good-night is the signal for closing the reports until the next day, and is understood wherever there are telegraphs or rewspapers. The western news is all sifted through the hands of the agent at Cleveland, which iaoneofthe great news toons. No southern news can rearF^** without first coming to the When these agents, therefore, tele?«\W “good-nights” to this office, vAich ^^ do from one to fonr o’clock in the day’s work is considered done, words are quickly caught np and sent aT** gleaming wires from the Atlantic to The manifolders. in the fulness of th write them at the foot of their W it newspapers, and editors, reporters - , tors, pressmen, sweU the long choms to Good-night. B nonw of Pul* | Choice of Coaretifcrate states w I dent. I We published alettir, a dsy 0 r ♦*„ • written by Hon. A. M. Clayton, of Missi^ ' to tho Memphis Appeal, in which the ■ ment was made that Judge Martin Jr ***** of Colnmbus, Georgia, had told him (c*^ j at the time of the election of President T* I Confederate States, that Mr. Stephens hail & Georgia’s first choice for that position L C ( tho Georgia delegation were satisfied n*" was the choice of the oilier States thev • I to urge Mr. S. for Vice-President.’ Thi/]^ has called ont Judge Crawford in th a rvi , Snn in a letter to the editor, from whi^ following is an extract. As a contiibuUc. ^ the history of the stirring times that Southern Confederacy launched upon ita si ^ career it will prove of public intercsi, ° ,V The mistake into which Mr. Clajtcn f«]i • that I should have said to him that Georgia ?u desired Mr. Stephens as President. Oa contrary, Georgia desired Mr. Toombs, delegation in conference upon the the morning of the election had so and if upon inquiry Sonth Carolina or rS had not determined to cast their rotes for v* Tlawio tin \Tr TAAmKa 1 ma. * i *‘ Davis, then Mr. Toombs' name lo i» brought forward. To ascertain how thisma*t stood was made my duty by the de!ewii 0 7 lr j with positive instructions from Jlr 'jv.J 5 that his name was not to be presented if tb 5 States had declared for Mr. Davis in their j* arate meetings. This they had done, ardS made it necessary to act upon the subjV rmT 1 of the Vice Presidency as agreed upon is^ meeting of the Georgia delegates, which *7 that in the event Mr. Toombs’ name wu m i presented for the first place, Mr. StepherJ should be for the second, and I had be«ihri requested to see whether that would Le acestk ble to the other Slates, hence my interview v» Mr. Clayton. I intended to say to him, and hi always supposed that he so understood me th; onr State intended to present a name for & Presidency, bnt tho action already taken bt some of the States would prevent that, aiJl had called to see him for the purpose of ism! tainiDg whether or not Mr. Stephens would U an acceptable man to his delegation for Via President. Mr. Stephens never entertained an idea of I tho Presidency, and indeed thought that it woij not be proper for him to have it. This I hot I because whilst the subject was being con-idg. I ed some members of the Congress mention I tho matter to him, and he very promptly I that his name could not bp used in that to, After these gentlemen left our lodgings he aii to me, in his usual frank manner, that he bit not been a leader in the movement which n about to result in the establishment of a w I government, and that “to make him Presila I would be liko taking a child out of the hanhd I its mother and giving it to a step-mother 61 raise.” “Bnt,” continued he, “someonevhI has been identified with the cause should it I chosen, and whosoever he may be. he slnti L: I the benefit of whatsoever experience and ali j ty I can bring to his support. We are enteihf I upon new and untried fields, and I greatly foe I that onr people are not prepared for the grat I responsibilities which are ahead of them. Bi. 1 Georgia, whose sovereign will I am boned tt obey, ha3 taken her course, and that assigns tie to my position, and in tint, I will . v : | her my duty honestly and faithfully, and ii 1: last we shall lose all, I do not care to sturhe the liberties of my country.” I give in substance, if not in word 1 , theta- guage of this great and good man in the tort of onr repose from the great duties then dew ing upon us, and which neither he nor I era expected to be brought before the public eu. 1 Tbe Augusta Factory—Annual State J meat. We find the annual report of tbe President o£ I this Factory, in the Chronicle A Sentinel of K-1 day. As it is one of the most profitable itta-1 tutions of the kind in the country, paying 11 regular quarterly dividend of 5 per cent, at j readers may feel an interest in it: Augusta Factobl j Angnsia, Ga., June 30,18M| To the StoeUiolders : \ I submit to yon the result of the operitks I of the Company for the year ending the Hi I inst., also, its financial condition, together i£| a list of the Stockholders on that day: Gross earnings, interest received, &0 .7. $175,3:-: From which is deducted— Expense act $26,742 09 Repairs act 5,886 29 Taxes and Water Rentpaid 14,972 11— 47,• Leaving as net earnings §127,7.'? 51 From which four dividends were made, in July,. October, January and April last, of 5 percent each, amounting to §120,iu" 1 Enabling ns to add...........? $ To profit and loss; and ranking the amount now to the credit of that account §233,3 It affords me pleasure to state that the I nnder the direction of our attentive and®®! enced Superintendent, Mr. Francis Cogin- b’T run with remarkable regularity, the ptoi«di*J been very good, and the entire profit'd® complete order. Respectfully submitted, W. E. Jacks®, Preside REPORT FOR THE YEAR ENDING lllHOF JYX J; ' , " , | Capital Stock..; $COaOOO<!j CHARGES AGAINST STOCK. Mills, Machinery and Beal Estate.. Commercial capital §1747"^ - I Bel. Profit and Loss aco. 12th June, 760 225,51560 Gross earnings, in terest reoeived,&c. 175,380 22 Commercial capital and surplus prof its .'..»400,S95 82 Less ex- peuse account.. 26,742 09 Rto Less repairs ■ret ncsount.. 5,886 29 Less taxes and water n rent pd.. 14,972 ftp, Less Div’s 41, 42, Bfiti Surplus profits., capital. .§403,2 GOODS MANUFACTURED. Pounds. L... 1,475,841 ............. <>o3,53.> 258,071 Drills 184,855 Pieces. 112,946 50,520 29,920 14,101 2,472,302 207,437 lltjl 4,46^1 546,^1 ^ I DALES OF MANUFACTURED GOODS- 4*4 x X On band 12th June. !#».. 89 4 d Made to U*h June, 1870.5272 2S£913,6 Sold to lltltiJun*. 187a. 5311 7383 1434 . 5260 2SJ U24 51 25 10 2,90: BH Colton oonsnmed Avfgage oost of cotton Whole number of Ioobm....... Average number of looms running Average yards per loom per day-..--- Average number of hands employtA..^-; Aggregate wages paid Aggregate sales Average per. day p«* warp spindw Mr. W. E. Jackson wanJw-ate#** and Messrs. EdwM&ftttCM* Tbo*. 0 and J. B. Ottfimiet DijeotoMof the' Tm BHnm