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The Teaks -Atlantic Cable.—The New York
Son of the 11th instant contains a communica
tion from J. W. Simonton, Esq., General Agent
of the New York Associated Press, enclosing a
letter from Mr. Simonton to Cyrus W. Field,
President of the Trams- Atlantio Cable Company.
That letter oonvfets the company, through its
agent, Henry Weaver, of London, of tho most
unfair practices, in direct violation of the act
of Parliament granting the charter. It proves
that' in one case seventeen hours priority was
given to a private message over a press dis
patch filed at an earlier date, and containing the
same information. When Mr. Simonton- was
able to pin the company in this case so that it
could not escape confession, he addressed
■Weaver, making the charges. Weaver encloses
his reply—a substantial confession—to Cyrus
Field; but Field declines to pnt it into the hands
of Mr. Simonton. This conduct draws from
Mr. Simonton the lottor to Mr. Field, which is
a model of dignified severity. Mr. Simonton
jnstly says that all public confidence in Trans-
Atlantic Cable communication is at an end, if
such violations of law and the simplest princi
ples of commercial integrity are permitted.
Wheels Within Wheels.—The last perform
ance in the way of bleeding tbo sovereign people
is an order of May 3d, signed Wm. II. Richard
son, Assistant Secretary of tho United States
Treasury, directing all warehousemen to use tho
“American patent seal locks—five dollars apiece
with seals at the rate of $3.50 per hundred—but
tho Assistant Secretary kindly abates a little,
and tells the warehousemen they can have one
lock and 312 seals for $15.08. To show what a
nice thing this promises to be, a correspondent
of the Journal of Commerce says one firm will
bo compelled to expend $1500 and another
$2000 in seals yearly, on all of which, without
the slightest stretch of the imagination, it may
be assumed that the Assistant Secretary has an
understanding with the patentees for a reasona
ble per centom. If not, why an order unwar.
ranted by law ?
A similar operation in almost numberless
forms, has been very common of late yearn in
the revenue department of tho Government
Hovston County Geain.—Wo have received
from I/. J. Thomas, E:q., of Houston county,
several specimens from his growing small-grain
crops. Excelsior oat3, sowed 15th Decem
ber last, are four feet and a half high and may
make good fishing poles if they keep on. Nor
way oats, sowed 3rd of October, aro a little short
of three feet hsga and a Iasty growth. The
Mexican Rust Proof, sowed 3rd of October, are
a magnificent c-lump four feet high, and as
heavily loaded with grain as any wo have ever
seen. Mediterranean Red Amber wheat is not
far from six feet high, and promises an exceed
ingly largo grained and handsome wheat.—
These samples do Mr. Thomas great credit.
Results of Protection.—The census shows
that Maine has decreased in population since
1860. In the preceding decade it had gained
45,550; while since 1860 it has lost 2,263 inhab
itants. The eau3e of thi3 decline is obvious.
The protective tariff, which has killed Ameri
can commerce, has completely annihilated tho
once flourishing ship-building trade of Maine.
- The State, stony and rocky, has no importance
as an agricultural State, and her manufactures
are of little consequence. The chief industry
of Maine has been her ship-building. Now that
ship-building has ceased, tho timbor forests of
the State remain untouched, and her ship-build
ers have emigrated and adopted other pursuits.
The tariff has been moro rapid in its depopula
ting effects upon Maine than upon other States
where ship-building is not the chief or only in
dustry. In time, however, its deadly effect will
tell upon the population of all the sea-board
States which depend in any important degree
upon commerce for their property.
The Dost “Advertising Sheet.”—We are in
receipt of fivo pages of “Music for the Piano
Forte” with an illuminated frontispiece—the
whole entitled “the Magnolia Ham Polka”—
respectfully dedicated to Messrs. McFeoran,
Armstrong & Co., curersof the celebrated Mag
nolia Ham, and published by Louis Tripp.
Surely tins original conception will not bo al
lowed to perish with r. single example. The
Magnolia Ham Polka, will bo followed by the
Lard Waltz—tho Mess Pork Quadrille—the
Clear Side Gallop—the Jowl Grand March, and
so on, nntil we have the whole hog round set
to music. There is a vein of poetry, you see,
even in the pork trade.
Tns New Yore Newspaper Mortuary Re
port.—Tho New York Express says that three
daily Now York city newspapers, two evening
and one morning, have died within a month,
and more must be on their lost legs. None of
the dead journals had along life; but they lived
long enough to lose at least three or four hand
some fortunes. It takes long years of labor
and large investments in capital to establish or
maintain a successful journal, if a live news
paper is printed, with telegrams from Europe
and at home. Since tho Express was establish
ed in this city alone, over sixty daily papers
have, started and died, after losing at least
twenty millions of dollars.
Sham*, if True.—The World, of Friday, asks
if it be true, a.3 currently reported, that ono of
the trans-Atlantic cables is in active operation,
and the company continuing its high tolls on
the plea that, as there is still only the French
cable working, tolls must be high in order to
prevent an accumulation of business. If the
facts sustain that insinuation the cable men
are sharper than wise.
On a Metaixc Basis.—Prof. Kercboff, the
distinguished German scientist, demonstrates
the existence of metals in the sun; but, as the
surface of that luminary is heated to a temper-
atore of the brightest whiteness, it is pretty clear
that the inhabitants must make their money
exchanges in a liquid form, and bullion be com
puted by the half pint or gallon. Shinplastcrg
and greenbacks are entirely out of the question.
Also, postage stamps.
How xo do It.—“Senator Fenton,” says an
exchange, “is unknown to the White House.”
Very true, but, says tho Courier Journal, it is
Senator Fenton’s own fault. Senator Fenton
knows very well that if he will call at the White
House at any hour of the day or night and send
up his card wrapped, in a deed for a genteel
honse and lot, the White House will become
his most intimate acquaintance in fifteen min
utes.
Where Teoops are Wanted.—The Son says
Grant, last week, ordered a port of the army to
South Carolina, where the negroes are tyraniz-
ing over the whites, and on the same day fear
ful riots broke out in Pennsylvania, and Major
Dickinson, one of the colored elite of New
York, was ignominiously refused a drink at the
Astor House, as well as at a tavern in Green
wich street.
Reading doo3 not sesm to Improve some peo
ple, At a meeting of the Mercantile Aibrary
Association in New York, last Tuesday night,
a general row occurred. A pandemonium of
hisses, Bcrearns, yells, cat-oalls, groans and dog-
bark* defeated all business, and finally the po
lice were obliged to clear the hall.
the docision of Kaiser William, is to be single
headed, resembling the American spread eagle.
The breast of the German eagle will represent
the Prossian eagle, and that the latter will con
tain the HobenzoUern eagle.
Editorial Correspondence.
^ — Outbbebt, May 15.
This little city seems to have taken a new
lease of life and activity, under the spur of its
railroad prospects
The arrival of the veritable Kimball, and bis
Lieutenant Halbert, in a splendid Brunswick
car, is the sensation of the bonr. The former ex-
presseshimself charmed with the locationand ap-
pearances of the town, and all doubt as to tho pas
sage throughit of the Brunswick and Albany Rail
road, is now removed. Mr. Kimball appeared in
a novel role on Sabbath, as a Sunday-school
speaker. His address to the children of the Meth
odist school, it is said, was happily conceived
and elicited much applause. On dit, that impor
tant changes are soon to take place in the organ
ization of tho Bainbridge, Cnthbert and Colum
bus Railroad. Who knows that Kimball will not
be made its President ? Some such step is cer
tainly needed to galvanize it into renewed life
and energy. Stranger things have happened.
Quite a number of beautiful and substantial
stores are in process of erection here. The
most popular material employed is a durable and
handsome native stone, which can be bad in
inexhaustible quantities.. Two kinds of this
building rock are quarried within one mile of
tho city limits—one is a very bard species of
white limestone, and the other a blue sandstone
of the finest grain and susceptible of the nicest
finish. Tho latter underlies a stream in huge
masses, and is sawed out in blocks by hand with
groat faoility. By a very simple chemichl pro -
cess it can be made of any requisite hardness.
It is also an excellent substitute for cobblers
soap stone, and the commodity known to com
merce as B.th brick.
Messrs, Elder & Brown, at heavy cost, have
erected a rock steam saw mill, and aro prepared
to cut their stono into slabs or any other shape
that may be called for.
The corn crops in this region are promising,
but the stand of cotton is defective, and on the
grey and sandy lands especially, the young plant
looks spotted and yellow, and is dying out badly.
It affords us pleasure to state, that despite
the heavy rains the track of the Southwestern
Railroad is in excellent condition, and the roll
ing stock in good order.
We have never seen a more obliging and at
tentive corps of employees, also, in all tbo de
partments, and tho passenger has every possible
provision made for bis comfort and safety.
Among the list of gentlemanly conductors, the
came of Mr. R. W. Smith stands forth promin-
ously. He is a strict constructionist, and ad
heres inflexibly to bis card of instructions.
The company are fortunate in the possession of
such an officer. H. H. J.
‘ Equality Riding.”—Sambo oppears, ju3t
now, to have worked himself into a phrenzy
for enforcing the civil rights bill in the matter
of transportation. In New York, on Friday,
he tried it on the Fifth Avenue omnibases,
and having been ejected, is about to bring suit
The street railway cats are open to him, but
Lillifirio llio nmnibnsofi. oiul aapcaiolly ihoea
sacred to Fifth Avenue-dies, liavo maintained
closed doors. On the same day, they tried to
establish a footing in the fashionable bar
rooms and restaurants, and failing, will bring
another suit to enforce grog-shop equality.
Louisville on Friday was in a ferment over a
consentaneous effort of the negroes to enforce
equal rights in the street csts of that city, and
the day was devoted to fights and feuds on that
question. In one case a negro who insisted on
fighting for his seat, was pitched out of tho car
window.
All those doings show what Grant ought to bo
doing with his troops. Instead of sending them.
to South Carolina where they will be compelled
to fight “sassy” negroes^ he should quarter
them round in the cars, hotels, steamboats,
theatres, etc., to enforce an equal showing for
the blacks at the point of tho bayonet. In that
way he will best carry out the grand idea of
radicalism—social and political amalgamation.
Meantime, Sambo will find, when too late, that
the persistent attempt to force himself among
tho whites will be very unprofitable.
Reform Leagues.—Tho Reform League has
been holding a carnival in Steinway Hall the
past week, under the direction of Wendell
Philips, Lneretia Mott, Highland Mary, Cora
Hatch, Moll Pitcher, Julia Ward Howe and
others. The report, drawn np by Philips, says
he wants a good deal of hanging done in the
South. He says “the nation stands to-day just
where General Butler stood at Now Orleans,
Says Philips:
I want Grant to go down into Georgia to
some ex-general who counts his acres by thou
sands, his gold by millions, track him to his lair,
arrest him at midnight, try him at sunrise and
hang him before sunset. Then yon would
never hear ku-klux
again, except in tho nursery legends. It is a
state of war, and what is wanted is war power,
and unless wo have it a Democrat will enter the
White House, and yon have your war to fight
over again. Now, I don’t know whether Gen
eral Grant will follow tho counsel of the ablest
men that stands near him, and that’s the man
that hung Mumford. Charles Sumner said if
General Grant had pnt his whole heart into the
Ku-klux opposition as he did into tho St. Do
mingo measure we should hear no more of it.
As soon a3
THE COWARDS OF CAEOLINA '
are convinced that Grant is terribly in earnest
the Ku-klux will bo crushed.
We don’t know where Grant will find a man
of that description in Georgia, unless it be
among the Radicals.
Attempted Outaage on the Wife of a U. S.
Judge.—Tho Montgomery Advertiser says that
on Monday oveniDg of last week a negro man
named May Lee attempted to outrage Mrs.
Woods, wife of Judge Woods, of the United
States Circuit Court, and a sister of ex-Senator
Warner. Tho diabolical attempt was made at
the extreme extreme end of Perry street, near
Mr. Keffor’s residence, while Mrs. Woods was
walking all alone to the residence of Mr. Koifer,
in the suburbs of tho city. The screams of Mrs.
Woods so frightened the loil citizen that he fled
from the spot unsatisfied.
On yesterday the negro was arrested by Sheriff
TayV»r, and was identified by Mrs. Wood? as the
negro who attempted the outrage. The case
will be tried this morning, the negro in the
meantime being in tho. jaiL Ex-Senator War-
ner, brother of Mrs. W. M i a the city. Judge W.
himself is in tho city of New' Orleans holdine
court. °
Tlie Chinese Embrogllo Again
In explanation of tho article entitled “An
other war with China,” recently published, and
which our correspondent, “B," shows is likely
to be a reality, full of grave and momentous
consequences, tho writer would simply-state
that his remarks were intended as mere plea
santry, and a burlesque upon the growing dog
ma of female suffrage and woman’s rights.
Tho Pekin dispatches to which he had access
up to that date were very meagre, and gave
none of the particulars so graphically detailed.
If, indeed, tho Burlingame treaty is to be Set
aside, and the lives of our dovoted missionaries
are in danger, tho question becomes one of the
deepest significance and interest to all Christen
dom. * ‘ r ‘*
A squadron of English and American line-of-
battle ships at the month of tho Peiho, perhaps
may bring these arrogant Celestials to their
senses.
Johnny Chinaman is huge at gasconade and
fuss, and wo trust the prompt and united pro
test of all civilized diplomatcs and ambassadors,
will prevent the sanguinary results which aro
apprehended.
The Wars of Domingo.
A San Domingo correspondent of tho New
York World gives an account of the battle of
20th of March, in which-Luperon was defeated,
from tho month ^>f a witness. Luperon had a
force of forty-nine men, rank and file. About
fifteen miles east of the Dominican frontier he
was met by the army of Jean Gomez, consisting
of 200 Dominican troops; and, after several
vollies, the Luperian infantry broke and Red,
leaving fourteen dead and one prisoner behind
them. They also were compelled to abandon
their military che3t, containing $1,800 in Hay-
tien paper, valued at $4.50 in silver. Luperon
escaped by a free uso of his heals—for, having
lost his horse, ho had to take it afoot, and, for
the convenience of running, pulled off his cav
alry boots. ",
District Judges and Solicitors’ Sala
ries—Attorney General’s Opinion.
In response to an inquiry from Governor
Bullock as to whether it ia the duty of the ordi
naries of tho respective counties to levy a tax
to pay the salaries of these officials, Attorney
General Farrow writes an opinion which we
find in the Atlanta Era of Friday, and which is
to the effect that it is their duty, and that after
the tax has been levied it must be collected as
are other taxes by the tax collectors of the sev
eral counties.. If we know anything of the
temper and purposes of the next Legislature,
tho levying and collection of this tax will not
troublo either ordinaries or collectors very much
after that Legislature gets to work.
How Cameron Understands tho
Treaty.
Simon Cameron, os Chairman of the Senate
Committee on Foreign Relations, has charge of
the Washington treaty in that body. How well
fitted he is for that delicate duty, tho Washing
ton Patriot illustrates na follows :
All the documents were read and expounded
by the Assistant Secretary of State and Mr.
Williams, of the Commission. Gen. Cameron
appeared to be an interested and attentive list
ener, as the four divisions were developed in all
their grandeur, with the sovereigns of Europe
figuring as arbitrators for the settlement of
American claims. After this work had been
done, ono of the parties said: “Well, General,
I hope we have been able to make clear the im
portant points, and to convey our impressions
to your mind ?” “Oh, yes,” replied Cameron,
“I understand the treaty pretty well, and it is
excellent in every respect but one. I do not
quite see, if you pay tho Alabama claims, why
tho claims of other States aro left out.
The Ohioago Times occasionally indulge® a
little professional pleasantry, like this: “Mr.
Horace White is the responsible editor of the
Chicago Tribune. The editor of the Times has
hitherto been led to believe Mr. White to be a
more decent person than he is esteemed to be
by the generally of people, and has treated him
as such in journalistic and personal relations.
The editor of the Times is impelled to acknowl
edge his error, and is also impelled to denounce
Mr. Horace White as a lying scoundrel and
cowardly, dirty dog. The editor of the Times
applies this language personally to Mr. Horace
White, and posts it upon his infamous forehead
with the adhesiveness of a sticking-plaster.”
Klio Stole Ike Treaty.
The Tribune of Thursday had tho full text
of the troaty of Washington while its cotempo
raries did not publish it nntil next day. Tho
Tribune man at Washington was either freer
with his stamps, or a more adroit “developer”
than his rivals, and great is the exultation in
tho Tribune office. The Courier-Journal’s
Washington special of Friday sheds some lights
on the modus operandi of its appearance in the
Tribune. It says:
The publication of tho full text of the treaty
without the Senate’s permission will, it is said,
be investigated. The treaty was hawked about
among correspondents last night, and tho ono
willing to pay the highest price secured it. The
document, it is said, was stolen from a Sena
tor’s desk, copied, and then returned.
General Presentments of the Grand
Jury of Mitchell Comity — May
Term, 1871. 1
We, the Grand Jurora chosen, sworn and se
lected for tho county aforesaid, find tho finan
cial condition of onr county satisfactory. After
an examination of the books and papers of tho
Ordinary, we find them faithfully and neatly
kept. We also find the office of the Clerk of the
Superior Court well filled, and the records of
said office kept to onr entire satisfaction. In
onr opinion, these gentlemen deserve much
credit.
In the present depressed financial condition
of onr people, wo recommend no additional ap
propriations of the people’s money, except to
build two bridges across Raccoon Creek—ono
at Stokes Walotn’s and one at Green Jackson’s.
And we do most earnestly and urgently recom
mend that no tax whatever, be levied to sup
port tho thing known in tho statute as a District
Court—presided over by Judge Swearingen.
Wo especially recommend to all our officials, the
utmost economy with the county money. Wo
reoommend that the Ordinary have all necessary
repairs done abonl the Court-house, and that the
jury rooms be furnished with comfortable seats,
and such other furniture as may ba needed by tho
Jury to transact their business; that they bo
kept solely for tho use of tbo juries, and always
be kept locked, except when being used by them.
Wo cannot report that the public roads of tho
county have been kept in as good order as they
should have been, and wo urge upon the Ordi
nary increased diligence in that respect
We rooommend that a tax of one hundred per
cent, upon the State tax be levied for county
purposes.
.It is with great pleasure that we have to re
port a marked decrease of crime of all shades
in onr midst—-which speaks well for the increas
ing morality of our people. Decrease in crime
ever shows increase in virtue.
In taking leave of his Honor Judge Strozier,
we tender him our thanks for his kindness to
this body, and for the able and dignified manner
in which ho has presided. To the Solicitor
General we also tender our thanks for his kind
ness to this body.
We recommend that these presentments be
published in tho Macon Telegraph and Mes
senger :
John B. Whitehead, foreman.
Paris Reports.—The morning telegrams rep
resent the fall of Paris imminent, and a general
tendency to disorganization among the Com
munist forces. As usual, contradictory reports
are published, but we fancy the dispatch to the
London Times gives about the facts in the
The imperial eagle of Germany, according to case '
Mb. C. Harry Frank, of Delaware, not con
tent with writing his name in the middle, ad
vertises “a series of dramatic performances
previohs to his entering the ministiy.”
Darling G. Johnson,
William B. Seay,
Jerry O. West,
Jerry Hurst,
James R. Hudson,
Joseph T. Spenoer,
Simeon B. Beck,
Israel Maples, Sr.,
. Burtz,
George H. Davis,
James Burnsides,
Joshua P. Crosby,
Joseph F. Steel,
Calvin H. Parham,
EgWt G-. Shanklin,
Thomasp. Powell.
Wright Sellw*,
William H. Lawi«*ce, Charles
James J. Gauldin.
A true extraot from the minutes of Mitchell
Superior Court, May Term, 1&ti .
John W. Peasoe, Clerk.
Washington, May 9.—The Tice meter which
was selected by the late : Commissioner of Rev
enue for use by all the distillers of the country,
and which that class of manufacturers were re
quired to supply themselves with at a total cost
of over $700,000, turns out to be totally useless
for the purposes it was intended to accomplish,
and is to be discontinued altogether, and here
after no meters ate to be used.—Special to Cou
rier-Journal.
This meter was one of those neat little contri
vances wherby some “patriot” of the Jacobin
persuasion, sought, and succeeded, too, in feath
ering his loil nest at the public expense. The
only surprising thing about it is that Tice was
choked off so soon. Why didn't they let him
make his million? We expeot thatTiofl kicked
np on the question of dividing the profits with
somebody. J
Cotton Movements for the Week.
New Yore, May 14.—The cation movement
for tho we& shows a large falling off in receipts
while exports keep up unusually well for the
season. Receipts at all the ports 40,849 bales
against 51,432 last week, 56,685 the previous
week, and 63,042 three weeks since. Total re.
ceipfB since September 3,669,659 against 2,674,-
933 for the corresponding period of tho pre
vious year—showing an increase of 991,726 in
favor of the present season. Exports from all
tho ports for the week aro 76,G20 bales against
51,240 bales tho same week last year. Total
exports for- the expired portion of the cotton
year are 2,763,139 bales against 1,842,240 the
same time last year. Stock at all the ports
360,346 bales against 322,399 for tho same time
last year. Stocks at tho interior towns 40,786
bales against 63,339 last year. Cotton in Liver
pool 966,000 bales against 527,000 last year.
American cotton afloat for Great Britain 240,000
bales against 180,000 last year. Indian cotton
afloat for Europe 282,280 bales against 171,000
last year.' Daring the week tho South has been
visited with cold rains and frost, which ha3
damaged the young plant. In many places re
planting will he necessary.
Richmond, May 14.—Col, J. Luoins Davis, a
graduate of West Point, who fought through
the Mexican war and commanded tho tenth
Virginia cavalry in tho late civil war, is dead.
The tobacoo shipped in bond from Richmond
for tho seven months to May 1st, aggregated
ten million pounds. The amount of smoking
tobacco shipped in tho samo period was three-
quarters of a million pounds. Tho tax paid on
■tobacco shipped in bond in the month of April
alone was over a quarter million of dollars.
New York, May 14.—Tbo Emperor of Brazil
will visit this country in September. He makes
the tour of Europe before coming to tho United
States.
It is stated that ono hundred men left here
last evening, in ah ocean steamer, for an un
known destination.
Arrived, Calabria, ship Lady Dnfferin, from
Liverpool; brig San Quentin, from Barcelona;
schooner Menoroy, from Providence; S. P.
Hall, from Baltimore.
Coburn challenges Mace to fight on Monday
or Tuesday, within fifty miles of New York, for
$5000 a side. Tom Allen challenges Coburn to
fight near Now Orleans for $5000 a side.
Versailles, May 13.—Thirty thousand Ver-
saillists are in the Bois do Boulogne entrenched.
The head of tho column of insurgents made a
sortie from Porto Dauphin, and was allowed to
advance, when 28 shells burst among them, and
the column was blown to atoms. Montretout is
pounding away at Vanvres, which must soon
surrender. Tho troops are entrenched within
thousand metres of Vanvres. Vanvres has been
silent for 24 hours. The Viaduct at Antuil
has been smashed by shots from Meudon. The
troops are ia excellent condition and anxious for
a fight. The cavalry are ready to clear the
Boulevards upon tho entry of the troops. Thirty
ten-inch howitzers are ready for street fighting.
Tho Versailists have captured Fort Vanvres.
Paris, May 14.—Tho demolition of the homo
of Thiers has commenced. The Central Com
mittee has ordered a general search, which
progressing, for arms and persons inimical to
tho government of the Commune. Grous3eI,
the Federal Minister ofTForeign Affairs, has is
sued a protest against tho declaration of Thiers
that the Commune has disregarded tho provis
ions of tho convention of Geneva in regard to
explosive bullets, and retorts that the Versail-
lists have themselves been guilty of the infrac
tions they charge upon the Commune. Com
munal accounts say the attempt of the Ver
sailles forces to throw a bridge over the Seine
has been repulsed. The Federals have evacua
ted the village of Issy. Tho Versaillists con
tinue to gain ground in tho direction of tho
Maillot gate.
Versailles, May 14—a. m.—There is nothing
now in tho lino of military operations. Matters
were quiet last night. Broaching batteries are
now ready to open fire upon tho enciento of
Paris. A circular issued by Thiers says tho
troops have undertaken to open breaches in tho
Bois do Boulogne. Communication between
Forts Montrouge and Vanvres has been stopped.
Later.—The Versailles forces have occupied
Vanvres. The Federal garrison made its escape
by a subterranean passage to Fort Montrouge,
Fifty guns, eight mortars and a few prisoners
fell into the hands of the Versaillists.
The death of Auber, tho musical composer,
is announced, at the age of 89.
Paris, May 14.—Dombrowski has ordered
officers refuoing to obey their suporior officers
to be shot. Dombrowski reviewed five thou
sand troop3 at Neuilly this morniDg. It is said
that seven men and a number of young women,
with an ambulance bearing tho red cross were
refused quarter. Tho committee on tho war has
been abolished in consequence of differences
with tho Central Committee. Montretout is fir.
ing heavily on Paris. Gon. Rossil is reported in
Belgium. Six government gunboate have ar
rived at Sevres. Tho troops in tho Bois do Bou
logne are advancing. Tho entry into Paris is
imminent.
Versailles, May 15.—Sixty cannon - were
found in Vanvres. Montretout continues to
demolish the Paris walls and protect tho ap
proach of the besiegers.
London, May 15.—A Times special says Pyatt
openly declares tho fall of the Commune immi
nent. The National Guards are declining to
march, and talk of opening the gates to the
Versaillists. Dombrowski’s orders are not
obeyed. The women of Paris interviewed tho
Commune and demanded arms to fight tho Ver
saillists. The Telegraph’s speoial says the Ver
saillists were driven back to Long Champs from
the advanced position they had taken in the
Bois de Boulogne. Tho Gaulois reports two
Versailliist battalions decimated on Friday
night.
Paris, May 15.—Bialay, who has-been called
the father of the Commune, retires because tho
residence of Thiers was despoiled. Last night
passed quietly. General La Creila now com
mands Petit Vanvres. The corps commander
will command the Arondissementsand be repon-
sible for their defence. Torpedoes have been
ordered at all exposed points.
Washington, May 15.—The Senate took no
action on the Bloodgett and other contests for
seats, but went immediately into executive ses
sion on the treaty. The Territorial Govern
ment for the Distriot organized this morning.
The offioers are republipan. -
Washington, May 16.—The Court of Claims
adjourns on Thursday to November. The Com
mittee on Foreign Relations reported the treaty.
Morton made a brief speeoh explaining its pro
visions, when the Senate adjourned.
New York, May 15.—The delegates to the In'
stoanoe Convention may report to George W.
Miller, at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, where quar
ters are provided.
At the Methodist Preachers’ Dr.
Curry held that the General Assembly could
control the bishop, and even abolish the office
altogether. .In reality, there are only two
olasses of Christians—the laity and ministers.
Bishops possessed no judioialpower. A disons-
sion followed, most of the speakers oqncnrring
with Curry.
Philadelphia, May 15.—There was an im
mense peace procession here to-day four hours
long. Most of the large establishments were
olosed. In some instances French, German and
American flags were entwined, J
Wilmington, May 15.—The statement made
in the Northern papers, based on a'telegram of
the Associated Press sent from this point, May
10th, that the Robeson-county outlaws are
Ku-Klax, is erroneous. Lowery. Applewhite
and Strong, the reoognized loaders of the band,
aro all negroes, and it is not known, that a sin
gle -white man is connected with the band.
Rochester, N. Y., May 15.—Henri Dray ton,
tho baritone singer, is paralized. - -
Atlanta. May 15.—The Atlanta Agricultural
Industrial Association has decided to hold tho
fair on tho ICjh of Ootober next, at Oglethorpe
Park.
Versailles, May 15.—Tho bombardment con
tinues. Several breaohes have been made in
the wall. The Auteuil gate is entirely destroyed.
Luxembourg is closed and oeoupiea by*the
military, in anticipation of a rising on the part
of the population.
London, May 15.—The trial of Boulton, and
Park, implicated in tho woman personating af
fair, resulted in their acquittal.
The Congress of mnnioipal delegates,' called
by partisans of the Commune at Bordeaux, is
a failure.
St. Johns, May 15.—The Assembly is deba
ting tho Washington treaty, which meets with
great opposition.
Paris, May 15,—Afternoon.—The Vorsaillists
aro under tho walls of Paris, exchanging shots
with tho Insurgents, who lino the ramparts from
Fort De La Muett in arrondissement of Passy
to Porto de Issy. The Insurgents have been ex
pelled from the trenohes between Forts Vanvres
and Issy. A battery has been erected in the
Tuilleries garden to pour a flank fire into
Champ3 Elyees.
The evidence is indubitable that a wide-
spead conspiracy exists in Pari3 against the
Commune.
New Yore, May 15.—Commodore James
Glynn is dead.
In the Foster easo for the murder of a mer
chant while leaving a street car with some ladies,
the panol exhausted without obtaining a jury.
Foster was brought into the court handcuffed.
The court was then cleared of all but the jurors,
counsel and reporters.
This being done, and an eve kept open to its
continuation in the future, the farmer can turn
all bis remaining, talent and ability toward the
cotton supply. If this course was invariably
followed by every farmer, and had it been gen
erally followed ia the time past, we would not
to-day have the world overstocked with cotton.
Not that I advocate the policy of planting less
cotton to produce a cotton famine, for the high
abnomal price resulting from it would in its turn
produce a surplus and a corresponding low price.
But if every one would attend first to home sup
plies the quantity of cotton would be as much
less as the amount required to buy these home
supplies.. This would amount to over two mil
lions of bales if every year were to repeat tho
lessons of the present or passing season. Cot
ton has been lower than other artioles tobe pur
chased with cotton money. Now, I don’t thick
the price of cotton will over be what it has been,
for the reason that we can produce so much of
it. We can produce all necessaries for comfort
able living at homo, and more cotton than we
ever produced. This is on account of the.many
improvements in agriculture and the improve
ments also ia the seed of the cotton plant.. An-,
other reason why this can bo done is found in
the fact that many of tho colored race who were
once dependent on the fanner for a support now
derive a precarious subsistence on small acre
lota of their own. In this way and by tho rea
son of 'a change in our system aU tho non-pro
ducers of the colored race are burdensome only
to their natural guardians. Therefore, the large
farmer and all who till the soil require less of
corn and meat than formerly to make the same
amount of ootion. Consequently, we see too
crop of cotton yearly increasing. Many think
this is entirely to the derogation of all cereal
crops, but such is not altogether tho fact. The
cotton crop having increased, the seed from that
crop, if applied to the corn crop as it naturally
should be, the same area will produce much more
com than it would without tho seed as a manure.
There are hundreds of planters who have ig
nored entirely the necessary comforts of life and
devoted all their time, resources and talent to
the production of cotton—thinking it steady at
high prices—but while thisisso it is nevertheless
true that thousands of farmers have considered
homo comforts the subject for first thought, and
have been surely and steadily increasing the sup
ply of life’s necessities. These have done this qni
etly, and without ostentation and show, &3 the
large and exclusive planter of ootion ha3 not.
His devotion to cotton has required many sac
rifices which he now begins to see has been of
fered before a merciless King and made upon
an unstable altar. Now he would cry out and
say we cannot raise cotton at less than twenty
cents per pound. Of course, 20 cents would bo
moro remunerative to both producer and laborer
Toronto, May 16.—Tho government press,
at Washington, while tho opposition papers, on#| similar correspondence. Because we would buy
the contrary, aro very decided in their expres- less of necessaries at high prices and sell more
sions of disapproval—holding that to grant to cotton. But I set out to prove that cotton
tho citizens of the United States tho right to fish I - conld be made remunerative at present or even
, _ , lower prices. Of course I have not the time
m Canadian wafers may make it unnecessary I an ^ S p aC0 to uso £he forcible argument necessa
for the American government to adopt tho pol- j ry .to convince the all-cotton-men of the truth of
icy of reciprocity. Nova Scotia and New Bruns- this assertion; consequently I shall not use any
wick journals and those representing the French ^ wou ^ b 0 we -l an( * good for these to
,. ... . . - seek some more lucrative avocation and leave
speaking population of Ontario are in favor of the field to mora 6acc03sfu i competitors. Now
rejecting all parts of the treaty affecting Oan- 11 would drop a word here for the benefit of those
ad^. The Globe thinks seif-interest should’di- who have followed thi3 suicidal course for some
reel tho people of Canada in any consideration I ^ n| 3 give advice whichth8y will find prof-
of tho treaty, while at the same time it recom
mends that differences of opinion in the matter
between GreatBritain and the Dominion should
be avoided.
London, May] 15.—In the Commons to-night,
the Secretary of Foreign Affairs said the Govern
ment had not received the exact copy of the
itablo if followed. Hava yon a farm of 500 or
1,000 acres? If so, andyop find at this time
you have nothing on it for man or beast, try to
get through this year on borrowed capital.
Next year rent yonr farm to freedmen or some
good, reliable white man who will bo able to
sub-rent it to freedmen, and yon can live com
fortably on the income. If yon have never be
come acquainted with tho plough and hoe—Ja-
Washington treaty, whereupon Disraeli post- I boring with your own hands—yon need not ex-
poned questions. Gladstone promised that the
treaty should bo submitted immediately upon
tho receipt of an authentic copy.
In tho House of Lords Russel gave notice of
an address to tho Queen adverse to tho treaty
were arbitrators bound by conditions other than
the law of nations and th9 English munioipal
laws existing daring the civil war.
Cotton at Old Prices to Become Re>
inaiicralive to tbe Planters, or the
Planters to be no fflore.
• Editors Telegraph and Messenger : I prom
ised to give some ideas on tho subject of cotton
—its price and other matters connected with it
as our chief staple for profit.
In tho first place, I would state that tho pro
duction of cotton should bo remunerative at ton
to twelve cents. That is, planters should so ar
range the plantation and its necessary auxilia
ries that they can produce cotton at that priee
and still have ten or fifteen per cent, of the en
tire crop of tho farm as proof of it. Of eonrsa
many will say say at onco that they, cannot do
it. But let us look at the matter closely and
consider it in all its bearings. Tho plantation is
tho first thing to be cared for. Tho world needs
cotton, and many think any price will bo paid
for it. This idea is somewhat erroneous, and
the practical carrying out of it* has been the
poet to succeed with hired hands. It requires
a practical knowledge of ploughing and hoe
ing to insure success—so with any avocation in
which the employer of help wishes to get a day’s
work of the employee. Now, as most all the
cotton made before tho war was made with ne
gro labor, the man who expects, from the fact
that this samo labor has to bo paid for, that cot
ton will ncceesarily demand a higher price to
enable him to pay his hands, will find he has
reckoned without his host. So, in my ad
vice to tho planter who has not a practical
knowledge of work, I think it best to re
mind him of this fact; for, if tbe negro
made the cotton as a slave, he can, when
we consider solely the matter of physical
labor make jnst as ranch of it as a free man.
Tho simple fact that tho former owners have
now to pay him for his services does not, in tho
least, enhance -tho valno -of tho production of
his hands. The samo lands aro here—wo have
tho samo season, and, in fact, the samo cotton-
prodneing fc.oo, bnt the relations of master
aDd servant aro different. Tho advantage wo
onco held above all other cotton-growing conh
tries wo have lost by tho reverses of war. This
would, if lands, climate, and all other things
equalled ours, give tho other cotton-growing
countries tho advantage of U3. When we como
to consider all these facts, it behooves both
planter and farmer to look well to improve
ments and to study out a new plan in carrying
on all farmteg operations. We must live at
homo and practice the most rigid economy,
Boast of noth-
the
Dr. W. B. Wells 7", *
Augusta died ve,y 4s
The wheat crop of Wilt y ’ .
Not hai&* crop will be
The Savannah Advert;SJ
cantite failures and one cut C*
m that city, last week. i a l d ,° at Vj
$200 worth of stock was il* ht ete?
$3000 worth of debts. " tor W^
Mr. Berry, an engineer on
board and Skidaway Itailroafi^*
by , a ° a that r <»<3, last £
A. O. Hodgson, of Athens,
tea as midshipman at the B s 5®
at Annapolis, by Hon. W p p . &-
the sixth district, on the reco- ^ 110 *
faculty of the ‘
mentonons student in the
- Tho late Catholic fair 3ft**
the auspices of the Sisters J*1?*^
$1300, which will ba.wJV 1 ®***
building the new cathedral tW ^
Mr. Oscar Ulmer, who lives 7
mfles from Savannah, was r7 - «
near that city, by the downl^ 01 ^
from Macon, and bis leg,
ss?*" 1 -"“SSia
The
Off for the Dby
the Revenue Curmn
graphic dispatch was nestS 633 ® - —A t
House, by Colonel RobhoSS Ettte Ct
few days ago, from the 8
ry, instructing him to order ^
Nansemond to proceedfortS^ 0 *
F , lo . rida > “4 thero report to
shal Sherman Conant, who
prisoners, wlm-m ^
■Hipitce.
. Accordingly, Capt. Colesberrv *
«A LV'AIAWUAA Ub ‘t O C10C& It i S fill yr,' U ^
jecturo who tho prisoners are
been no tnal m conviction of jty Unife
prisoners in
lions of Florida, and who have
whole army of detectives under
Krzyzanowski, who succeeded finsll, fa
tho birds,, and appropriating
and machinery. This is the '•
supposition that the knowii ao -L,„
at, and, possibly, the fleeingaW?
lector, Gonld, may be among fle
ho was last heard of —"• ■
of Florida.
“ downward progress” of tho cotton market. ., -
Now, let tho world want cotton, but every man I Mako no unnecessary display,
who expects to swell the grand aggregate of its 1pursue an even, unvanablo lino of
supply look first to tho important wants of his ?otten. For we can easily see wo aro blessed
own farm and household. Ho who goeth out to I possession of many comforts and re
do battle for his country seoth first to the wants I Eoarces whish other cotton-growing countries
of his family, and a wise man will mako provi-1 ^av© not. I have now como to tho gist of tho
sion for them so they will not suffer during his “Jflument in favor of profitable cotton produc-
absenoe. So should tho wise farmer see well to I tew figures, but for fear I weary you,
tho wants of his own home, and provide plenti-1 Messrs. Editors, I will have to crave tho indul-
fully of everything needful before engaging in 8 ence of J 01lr readers for another week. Bo
the production of a crop whioh is to help sup- patient, my dear friends, and I will surround
ply tho wants of tho world at large, 1 '* ‘ ”
you with figures and enlighten you with illustra
tions next week. And, Messrs. Editors, let me
at this time proffer yon my thanks for your
kind-consideration in publishing my rambling
artioles, which, however lacking in point and
general symmetry, I hope may bo of benefit to
some. I wish you great success and an increased
circulation for your valuable journal among
farmers. Respectfully, etc.,
P. IVellfellow.
Macon, May 12th, 1871.
Let us consider next the wants of the farm,
and tho manner of supplying them. Every
fanner who hires hands should get them as
cheap as ho can. Then he should hire only as
many as ho can provision at homo without bny-
ing bread and meat. If he has more laud let
it lie idle until he has so increased his supplies
of bread and meat as to increase the number of
his hands. Some ono, perhaps, would ask how
!o produce bread and meat. In my former ar
ticle I gave a few ideas about planting and cul-.
rivaling the bread, that is corn; bnt I said A Man in Illinois committed suicide by drown
nothing about raising meat, that is hogs. Tn ing lately in six inches of water. He couldn’t
the first place I have mo a pasture and woods fcave done it alone, but his wife, with that self-
for my hogs to live in. Then I cot tho hoes .. - , .. , , , , , .
ana put them in thero. I never plough and hoe slicing devotion and helpfulness so charac-
my hogs; so in that lino of expense they cost Eristic of tho sex, sat on his head.—fasten
me nothing. They do their own ploughing and
per day. In this way my hogs get along pretty I cratch dog. Mr. Collins came home late that
well, and cost me about five cents per ponnd. j night. His wife says that his trowsers can’t be
Now if any ono who has been engaged solely in mended. Tho dog’s skin is for sale cheap. Mr.
the production of ootion for five years past— I ^ , J? .. . .. . . .
buyiDg meat and buying corn, and everything I GslIms hopes tobe able to sit down in a few
in doors and out—would like to get to raising I 'weeks.—Boston Post, perhaps.
hogs, I would say get a sow of tho big Guinea „ „
stock and a boar of tho Berkshire breed, and Greeley tells an inquirer that thero is no
put them in an enclosure of one hundred acres I trouble in raising geese for market if you don’t
woodland and old pin© fields, and attend to J wean them too young. Let them trot around
them onoe per day, and soon the cotton man hu
will have meat to sell, besides a plenty for all [ °NIewatiil their bridle tooth are grown,
hirelings. Somo claim that tho stealage is so C “ K then transplant them to the forcing
great they cannot raise hogs. If we do away frames without wilting.—Boston Post.
with fences and turn all stook out on the high-
ways, we may expect to lose them. Let every I North Carolina Ku-klux.—The last ontra^e
fanner, instead of abolishing fences, redouble | occurred inLinooln oounty, where “a colored
thus irreverently addressed:
_ ^ | . Dear Sir : You must either quit
we can’t raise anything. This is the way to I Poaching or quit stealing hogs. £. K. K.
raise hogs, and as I have said, they do their own , r , „
ploughing and hoeing. - - I Mb. A. Billow edits a paper at Crestline,
Now, there are other wants specially pertain-1 Ohio. The wild wave is saying what ho can to
^ do I 6 ? 7 demoralizo a notion that he carried away from
well on breaa and meat, though milk does help I _ v . .. _
them out amazingly. But toe white family j printing-office somo wood type that
need sugar, coffee, beet, butter, eggs, chickens, J 44a’t belong to him.
and all kinds of fruits and vegetables. All these | The following birth notice glitters in the ool-
exoept coffee oan be raised upon the farm, and I umns of a country paper in Ohio: “Ou Mon-
there should be a sufficient surplus of butter, I day morning, April 17, to W. B. and Jennie
eggs, vegetables and fruits to sell, not only to I O. Hearn, a daughter. Shall vote when she is
buy coffee and sugar, but many articles of doth-121.”
ing. Now all these wants can be snpplied.by a Them is a great deal of theology in toe idea
little care and attention, without drawing a'sin- of toe little girl who wished that she could be
gle dollar on the cotton crop. Many of these I good without obeying her grandmother. She
are luxuries, and can be produced at homo. How sa id it was easy enough to read books and pray,
blessed we are, and yet bow careless and un- bnt pretty hard work to mind grandmother,
grateful I Now, if uiy ootion man- wishes to I London waters some of its streets, in the sum-
more or disprove what is above written, let him mer> w ith a weak solution of carbolio acid, as a
give these produels as fair a obanoe he does sanitary measure, and the effect, is very satis-
oetton, and in nothing wilihe be disappointed, factory
do »oi A p.p« thtf *
Chinamen were seen in a hair s dresser s nego-
nrflfflT Tflri or firm olivliirul tiating the sale of their “tails,” whioh were
toally purchased at the rate of $3 each, to be
well prepared beforeaowing. Somecottonman | into 1«<W “switohes.”
may not have tho oowstopeu; if not he oan use
ootion seed; they are-exoeUent for all crops
exoept cabbage and turnips, and some other
vegetables subject to toe depredations of insects.
Of, perhaps, if he thinks as did a pineywood’s
settler, that the virtue lain the treading, he oan
use a maul and pestle it down well before put
ting on toe manure. Pestling may do for the
man who has other uses for his cotton seed." Ho
oan then use the seed to manure his cotton.
Now, I have enumerated the wants of toe
plantation and given some views as to the means
* supplying them in ample quantity at home.
of
manufactured into ladles'
A mother was amused the other day to hear
this bit of “argument” from her little boy.
“Mamma, I don’t see how Satan could have
turned out to be such a bad fellow—there wasn’t
any devil to put him up to it!”
The Pittsburgh Gazette raves at the custom
of dropping the “h”from Pittsburgh. The “h”
ought to be there, perhaps, but everybody un
derstands that the end of Pittsburgh is the be
ginning of h—1, and nobody wants to hart the
old girl’s feelings by reminding her of what she
must eome to.—Courier-Journal.
The Coffee county com crop kateenti
damaged by the heavy rains. Then'
cotton planted in that county.
Pierce county is infested with “theq
but as a compensation boasts i
wherein there has not been a conit tells
the war.
Mrs. F. Y. Clarke, a wellknoimindBxl
tunable lady of Savannah, died in MeB
Henry county last Friday.
Mrs. Martha Culver, of Haneode
last Friday.
Tho news from Burke connty is Hut fesl
been enough com planted to last the codj|
years.
Col. E. W. Cole has been re-elected Pfj
of tho Georgia Railroad.
Tho Sparta Timas says there hssmtlj
more than half as mnch cotton planted a 1
section this season, as last.
An unknown disease threatens toeita
toe swine family in too vicinity of ted
Thomas Thomas—arrested forrotbaj-
attempting to OBcape from the DejdjS
of Newton county, last Tuesday night, i
and killed.
Commodore Hunter, of Wilkea coidd
certainly have been bom under an unlsit^
Ho has not fully recovered from a I
Iar bone, caused by being thrown
buggy not long since, and on Sunday wai|
thrown out again and very bwly braied
Tho following aro true extracts from the J
Grand Jury presentments of "Wilkes t
We guess they aro about right on both p
Upon investigation, we find that th»D
Court, as organized, is clearly illegi'
opinion; and i3 a nuisance, and we ■
commend that tho Ordinary donotkqi|
for tho support of said Court.
Wo beg leave to say, in referesetbi.
Mathews, onr Solicitor General, that
conviction, from his intercourse wiixj
he is wholly incompetent for the d
office, and wo. would, therefore,:
that ho resign.
Tho Savannah News of Saturday SJjiih ; |
vannah dry dock will bo completed
for use next month. It was comneNediril
and, when finished, will cost $230,000, t
too largest ono this side of Hewlett
mansions are: Width at bottom43Mi*
at top 80feet:- depth.18 feet;
350 feet. At high tide it wili afford
18 feet of water, which will be remove
of Lebby & Due’s rotary steam . ■
vention of Mr. N. Lebby, of Chir-:-^ J
driven by an engine of SO-horso P 3S ; r tyj
pable of discharging 20,000gallons■ — |
minute.
The Savannah Republican, of £
A High-Hauded Proceeding.- _, _
Steamer—Ku-klux, etc.—Some \
negro deck hand on board the s.( ■ •
King was suspected of stealing
on board said steamer, and tsufS
in tho act in ono instance, to r
aminedand found to contain
at over one hundred dollars, the P.JeJJ
planter well known here, and ia _.
consisting of valuable clothing.
reported to tho agents of the s.eam J
they declined to prosecute, andi».
tho steamer. On the last tnp of .
to this port, when about to lea™"
schedule time, tho passage o. ^ >
terruptedby a number of arffl £ sherif
said that they represented the 1
United States Commissioner and » -
and judicial authorities
asss&sgBSSP
was allowed by these negro Ku-Unxwr
on bprvovage. n| -
A Modern Palace in Gotham.'^,
now may, wito truthbe cahed ^ flB w|
New World. It is the “ J
home of money and of a» 1B . 3rc ], 0 f ]
sort of Mecca, for &&***££ ft#i
nre. ■ It also has too finest hot*
A New York journal desenhe* ®,
Control Hotel on Broadway **, ^
hotel edifice on the Contmem- ^
tuda of ita dimensions, the B P le ” u ,,^ii(yi«|
tiomof its appointments, audits
heart of the metropolis, ien
worthy of its name, toe GBisnt . ^
without doubt, too largest he*. £
For nearly two years, three to®. ^
men were continually employ**’ cB r
A gigantic work, for this h^^tfo
lows almost on entire block, '
dollars were expended to rear
fiee. Within its spacious walls*" t
tions for nearly two thousand^
unparalleled by any hotel on fooDl*
With all its magnificence, it *•“
for its guests. lbs convenient
principal places of amusement,
of horse-oars and stages, todtn ^
ted retail stores, afford ladiee to ^
facilities to do their shoppi®#-
general exportation, but
lublio want, its terms are uno*®!^ pen
>eing only from three to f onr Ty
*’ to location of roome-’^
Lvman Power^ to nef
e land. A guest of ^
is Mr.
keeper of the l—— —o _ «no
to esteem him. Travelers can ijdJ
quarters than toe GrandUen jjacipl
already toe Gotham resort of the P |
of our State. m
Well, what is it that 0*“®“^*!
the ooean?” inquired
tie boy.” “Tbe oodflah, w** t® 0 H I
