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Telegraph and Messenger.
MACON, JULY 25, 1871.
A Has vest fob thb Paris Lawyers.—Almost
Innumerable legal questions and “chosen in ac
tion” hare grown out of the late civil war In
Paris. Demands amounting to seven hundred
millions of francs have been made upon the
insurance companies for risks upon property
burned by the Communists, which the under
writers refuse to respond to under the exception
able ciroumstanoes of the case, wherefore plain-
riffs bring suit. There are said to be, also, more
three hundred thousand cases of contro
versy arising between landlords and tenants,
out of the repeated interferences of the differ
ent governments de facto with the contracts be
tween those parties; and a myriad of suits act
cruing on bills, drafts, notes of hand, and other
kinds of obligation and covenants, due course
of proceeding whereon has in like manner been
interfered with. It is a fat time for the Paris
lawyers. ‘ - r .
"What is a Democrat ?—This question, says
the Paris True Kentuckian, was addressed to a
Democrat in a political conversation a few days
since bya “red-hot” Republican., “I would
like very much to be what you call a good non
est Democrat. Be kind enough to tell me what
change I will have to undergo to become such,
and how I will know that I am changed.”
“Well,” replied the Democrat, “go to some
chickan-roost, and if you can.pass it bv without
feeling an inclination to ‘confiscate,’yon are
an honest Democrat; bntif yon cannot resist
the temptation to bag the fowls, you are a Rad
ical still, and have not experienced a change.”
The anxious inquirer had no more questions to
propound. ;
Law ox Marriage.—The Sun says that in New
York Judge Barnard, a short time since, affirm
ed the existence of a marriage between a hus
band and wife upon no other ground than that
the man had introduced the woman as his wife
to a boarding-house keeper, the woman con
senting to the representation, and that the two
had, thereupon, lived together as if married,
and the same doctrine has just been affirmed in
Maryland. Marriage may be contracted in both
States by a simple private agreement between
parties. The Sun thinks this law should be
nullified forthwith. How is any purchaser to
be secure against claims for widow’s dower, etc.
etc., when men can be married mid nobody
know it? _
The Bainbbidge Argus.—This sterling paper
is about take a new departure in the road to
fame and extended usefulness. Brother Rus
sell announces in his paper of the 15th inst.
that having secured the editorial assistance of
Prof. Josiah Lewis, of Emory College, and Mr.
John R. Allen in the business department, the
Argus will shortly be enlarged and appear in a
new and beautiful dress. Always sound, pure
and Democratic to the core, we shall rejoice to
chroniole the increased prosperity and success
of our esteemed contemporary. The Argus has
just claims to the patronage and support of
Southwest Georgia.
A Big Gbab.—The Tribune, .of last Friday,
says that four members of the Civil Service
Commission before leaving Washington drew
§500 from the Treasury as compensation for
their services thus far, and that such draw was
at the rate of $50 per day. That eminent ju
rist, Dawson A. Walker, of Dalton, was on© of
til©TOOT y SO Wo suppose wim enst —puai taao-
in his pooket he is now, par excellence, a verita
ble Saul among the trewly loyal prophets. That
sort of pay would convert almost any red hot fol
lower of that fiery secessionist, Joe Brown, from
the error of his ways.
Cotton Facts and Figures, and Spec
ulations.
The Chronicle, of Friday night, makes the
visible supply at that that date 1,839,102 bales
against 1,546,849 at, the same date last year—
showing an increase or 292,253 bales. The in
crease Bhown Friday night, the 8th, was 338,-
000 bales; The sales for future delivery during
last week inNew York readied 72,15a bales, ana
included several lota for January next at nine
teen cents, Sales for immediate delivery were
14,104 bales, ranging from sixteen to Twenty-
one cents—the latter for middling. Low mid
dlings ranged from 10J to 20§.
Mr. B. F. Nourse, a .correspondent of the
Chronicle, in along article, the spirit of which,
(though not the figures) is endorsed by the edi
tors of that paper, says it is high rime to put
the brakes on the ootton trade. Sinoe May 8th
prioes have advanced in American markets forty
to forty-five per cent, on the better grades, and
sixty to seventy-five per cent, on the lower, and
twenty-fivei to thirty per cent, in Europe. ' The
prevailing tendency of cotton literature, he
says, is to understate the existing supplies—
underestimate the prospective supplies and ex
aggerate consumption.
The simple truth is good enough for the pro
ducers—-first, in the recognition of the faot that
cotton, during the past season, was too cheap—
not in relation «> y. i .. .i;-. nnni Om f&mk
A New Idea.—Certain New Orleans capital
ists have rented a large iron building on Camp
street, in which they propose to establish
place for the perpetual exposition and sale of
goods, under the title of the Southwestern Ex
position Company. They will rent space in it
at a certain rata per square foot, to owners and
exhibitors of machinery and every species of
the produots of art and mechanism. Tne
lower floor is devoted to machinery—the second
to the house furnishing department, and the
third to sculpture, painting, musical instru
ments and all ornamental products.
The New York papers are laughing at the last
ootton pronunciamento of the Agricultural Bu
reau, and call it as wise as an owl—an opinion
as is an opinion after the manner of Jack Bons-
by. WeD, let them give ns a better one. The
department took a range of eight hundred thou
sand bales, in order to come out right, and this
shows a cautions regard for prophetic veracity
worthy of all praise. Let the speculators give
us a better opinion. - -
The Physical Cause op Cheist’s Death.—
The Appletons have lately republished a work
which appeared some twenty-five years ago,
from the pen of a distinguished London phy
sician, on the physical cause of Christ’s death.
The author, Dr. Stroud, says that, considered
as a natural event, the cause of the Saviour’s
death was a laceration or rapture of the heart,
produoed by intense and overpowering mental
agony.
The “hoodoos” inNew Orleans this year ac
tually frightened one negro out of his senses.
'While going through their hideous African
orgies, “dis nigger” conceived the idea that
they were going to offer him up as a burnt of
fering to the devil. He broke and fled, and
they pursued. He threw himself upon the po
lice for protection, bnt soon showed symptoms
of insanity, and was placed in the lunatic
asylum. j.c
Insurrection in Jamaica.—Kingston dis
patches of the 15th say that the negroes of the
island have planned an insurrection, whioh has
been arranged for the 19th or 20th. The oon-
stabuIary,government troops and volunteers had
been put in readiness to meet it, and were de
termined, if they did rise, to teach the negroes
better manners.
Needless.—We see by the Charleston Courier
that the negroes fixed the municipal election
there in Augnst, so as to hit upon a time when
the whites wore away—at the springs or the
North. That was rather ungenerous in Mr.
Nig., considering his vast majority there on a
full poll of all the white population.
Convention or the Unorganized.—Col. E
Hnlbert calls a convention of the corporators
of the several unorganized Georgia railways
whose chattels provide for State aid, to meet
in Atlanta August 16, for consultation, and
devising somo plan to put their scheme afloat.
The Ku-klux Investigation-. —The Commer
cial Advertiser, a Republican paper, says:
The Committee of Congress Audit difficult to
make a case against the South. The stories of
wrong and otftrage are generally disproved.
The latest witnesses called say there is no a»n.
ger of further rebellion, but they do not like
the idea of black domination. They represent
Georgia as quiet, and the State Courts as suffi
cient for restraint and punishment. They wel-
come Northern men, and they know nothing of
the Ku-klox. Such has been generally the sub
stance of this examination heretofore. Itis ex
pensive and laborious, and the farther it Is push
ed, the less is discovered. A General Amnesty
would have been far preferable to, and far more
beneficial than a Foroe Bill. Congress will one
day wake up to a realizing sense of this faot.
never controls prioes; but in relation to the
gold value of all other marketable commodities.
Second, in the actual increase of consumption
by reason of low prices; and third, in the
alarm respecting the extent of future supplies.
What the facts are he goes onto state at length.
As to consumption the heaviest increase known
before the war was in 1860, and was only 4,356
bales a week over the weekly rate of 1859—or a
little nnder ten per cent.
The latest official returns show 32,000,000
spindles in the united kingdom, against 30,000,
in I860, and the maximum increase can there
fore be only twelve per cent., reaching the
limits of capacity. True, the machinery has
been Improved, bnt the yarns and fabrics have
been reduced in weight. The English consump
tion in 1870 was the same as in 1860, but the
nulls were not worked to full capacity, and it is
possible that this year the increased consump
tion may reach 12 per cent. Of that excess one-
half or more has already been supplied, and
only five to six per cent, remain to be furnished.
Thb total consumption of 1870 was 2,797,090
bales, or an average of 53,700 per week. The
highest rate-for any three months was about
54,500 bales of the average weight of that year.
Adding six per cent, we have 57,770 bales of
the greater weight of this year—equal to 3,'
004,000 bales for the whole year if nothing oc
curs to reduce consumption. These estimates
.are sustained by official figures taken under act
of Parliament, which show that the actual con
sumption for the first five months of the current
year was 1,265,041 bales, or at the rate of 57,
500 bales per week.
The consumption of the continent, allowing
ten per cent, inorease upon the full work of 1869
and taking into aooount relative weight of bales,
will be 1,900,000—or 36,700 bales per week.
The home consumption he reasons at length
to be 950,000 bales, or an average of 18,270
per week. The total requirement of the world’s
consumption for the full year, he estimates at
5,786,300 bales, or an excess of only 468,000
bales, against the requirements of last year.
To meet this excess he says the excess in the
American crop of last year alone Is 1,120,000
and in other countries it promises to be 230,000
—so that we have a crop excess of 1,350,000
ua,oa
468,000 bales—leaving 882,000 bales grin in
stook during the year; to which add 750,0Q0 as
the stock October 1,1870, and we have 1,632,
000 bales surplus as the stock on hand Ootober
1,1871.
All this is very alarming, and we wish to
blow the biggest kind of a trumpet over it.
We wish the everlasting cotton farmers to see
that, though cotton may be worth 19 cents when
they have got none to sell—by the time they pick
their crops it may not be worth 6 cents; because
the world haB got enough to rattle its mills on for
about four months after October next, and
never bny a single bale from a planter. It is
in the condition of a man wbo baa got his coop
full of fat chickens, looking into a country
man’s oart. He’s mighty indifferent about buy
ing more, and he won't buy until you make it
to Tits interest to buy. You must come down
handsomely or go home with your chickens.
Keep your chickens home till his coop is empty,
and he is a great deal more polite and accom
modating. 7
If our fanners ever see the day when it be-
becomes to them a matter of great indifference
whether they sell cotton in October or in July,
they will see the same change in cotton-buyers
and cotton consumers. Butin order to get on
that footing you must make ootton a side issue
—surround yourselves with abundance of food,
and farm so that you can be fat and happy
pretty much on the resources of your own land.
Everybody In this world is ready to oblige a
man who has no favors to ask; and when the
farmer has little to bny, and, therefore, be
comes very indifferent about Belling, he will
find just as good a market before as after Christ
mas.
The Boston Foot and Mr. Adams*
The Boston Post took to interviewing last
Saturday and sent a reporter over to pump John
Quincy Adams. Mr. A. was found bronzed and
hot from oat door exercise on his farm, whioh
is a model in its way; bnt he good-naturedly
submitted to the process, remarking that it was
about equivalent to a stump speech. As to the
new departure he took it two years ago. The
war enfranchised the blacks. They were whol
ly unfit for it, and the misgovenunent in the
Southern States is a fearful Impeachment of the
attempt to found republican government on un
diluted ignorance; but the remedy is to modify
it by proper suffrage qualifications. Massa
chusetts refused to modify her suffrage require
ments lest winter though charged with disfran
chising fifty thousand voters, and this was done
by a legislature almost wholly repulioan.
We hate got far enough to show that const!
tntions praotieally mean just what they are con
strued to mean, and there is nothing in the
amended constitution to prevent a toning down
of the country from the dangerous rate in which
we are going. The Ku-klux and election bilis
were the rub ; for they put into the President’s
hands every power necessary to raise him to
Empire. The policy of the Democracy should
be “eqnri and exact justice to all.” It should
have a negro polioy no more than a German or
Irish policy. That is Democracy. Grant would
undoubtedly be nominated and the issues of
the next canvass should be based on his past
administration.’ The Republican party, with
all its patronage and discipline, can hardly
carry such a dead weight.
The dull incompetence and stolid ignorance
of the President, his shameless nepotism and
partiality to gifts, his unblushing negligence of
duty, may all be glossed over, for we all feel
kindly to the man who finished the war ; but
the disgraceful incompetence of jhe finanM^
management of affairs should be unpardonable
by a people supposed to be as shrewd as ours on
that head. 4
The Democratic financial policy mnat be
squarely in the direction of free trade and a
general reduction of taxation. The shameful
gnorance whioh has persisted in wringing such
enormous sums from the people at such a criti
cal time when they needed all their energy to
rally from the exhaustion of the war is farless
pardonable in my eye than this negro policy.
Condition of Louisiana and What it
Teaches.
A letter just received from one of the profes-
ors in the University of Louisiana gives a gloomy
account of that Radicalized portion of the
South. The writer says: “Financially and
politically we are in a most distressed and em
barrassed situation in Louisiana. Daring the
illness of the white (carpet-bagger) Governor,
Dunn (a big black negro) governs the State.
Both State and city are deeply, and many think
hopelessly in debt. You are in every way much
better off in our good old State. I have lived
in several States, and traveled by slow moves
from the sea coast of Georgia to Middle Ten
nessee, and from there to the shores of the Gnlf
of Mexico, but after all my wonderings, I find
that the “old State” is the best, and her sons
the noblest and truest.” n ■
Let ns learn wisdom from these utterances,
and whilst contemplating the terrible expe
rience of South Carolina and Louisiana under
the fruition of Radical principles, resolve, as a
people,-that no quixotio notions, or impractica
ble theories, however correct in the abstract,
shall be allowed to divide us. By the strength
of her own right arm, and the purity of her
sons, Georgia has risen,like a Hercules, from the
blood, and ashes, and humiliation .of the des
perate straggle in which she won imperishable
renown. Undaunted by the presence of bay
onets, and the myrmidons of despotic
her people have vindicated at the ballot-box
their right to make their own laws and govern
their own soil- Boon she will be called upon
again to unite with her sisters in hurling from
power a corrupt and tyrannical administration.
. The best and most effectual means of accom
plishing this great result, Bhouldbetho one
thought and study of every patriot. Hence
sound common sense, and sober, practical rea
soning from the most feasible standpoints,
should rule alike in primary meetings and the
grand councils of the Democratic party.
The pertinent question now is not what the
South Is entitled to, but what she may achieve
in the straggle which awaits us.
‘While we should concede nothing, and sur
render nothing of constitutional rights and pre
rogative, it becomes ns to pursue such a concili
atory course towards our friends and the oppo
nents ofJXeneral Grant, as shall best conduce
to their suooess, and the overthrow of the Radi
cal regime. This is the grand, tangible, all per
vading question of the hour.
A LATTER DAT BORGIA.
A Baltimore Lady in High Life Arrested
For Wholesale Poisoning—A Horrible
Story. ■
Last Saturday, at Baltimore, the Grand Jury
of the Criminal Court found two true bills
against Mrs. Elizabeth J. Wharton:
“First, For feloniously, wilfully and with
malice aforethought, kilting and murdering
Gen. William Scott Ketchum, United States’
Army, by administering tartar emetio, or
some other poisonous drag, oa or about the 28th
day of June, 1871; and, second, for at
tempting to kill and murder Eugene VanNess,
by administering poison, about the same
time. There were eighteen witnesses before the
Grand Jury, among whom were Mr. and Mrs.
Eugene VanNess, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Snow
den, Dr. F. C. Williams, Dr. S. O. Chew, Gen.
W. W. Brice, Paymaster United States’ Army,
and Dr. Aiken, Professor of Chemistry of the
University of Baltimore. The Grand Jury was
composed of some of the most influential citi
zens of Baltimore, one of the members being a
prominent State Senator.”
' This case has 'created the most intense ex
citement in Baltimore, Mrs. W. moving in the
most aristocratic circles of that city, and to all
appearances being in comfortable circumstances.
Her husband died under suspicions circUm-
hut her high standing was a
shield to investigation or even suspicion.
fifteen months since, her son, aged 27, died
suddenly of the same symptoms as those of his
father. A few weeks previous to his death he
obtained a policy on his life for $40,000 in fa
vor of bis mother, and the money was paid to
her. Six or eight weeks after her son’s death
her only daughter was taken suddenly and vio
Iently ill, of precisely the same disease as that
of her brother, hut after lying at the point of
death for several weeks, finally rallied and re
covered. Some time after the death of her son
General Ketchum advanced to Mrs. Wharton
the sum of $2,600,'taking her note for the
lount. June 23d General Ketchum left Wash-
ton for Baltimore, and being intimate with
Mrs. Wharton, as a friend of her husband,
went to her residence intending to make her a
brief visit, and, it is said, to request the pay
ment of the note he held. June 24th, the day
after his arrival, he was taken suddenly, vio
Iently sick. A physician was called in, but his
efforts failed to relieve him. June 28th he died.
His remains were taken to Washington by his
relatives, and his funeral took place on the 30th
ult, full accounts being given in the newspapers
at the time.
On the 24th of June, while General Ketchum
was lying ill at Mrs. Wharton’s, a young man
named Eugene Van Ness, a banker’s clerk in
Baltimore, and well acquainted with Mrs. W.
called at her house. Other gentlemen were
'present, and Mrs. W. offered them as a refresh
ment, beer, into which, as a tonic, she said, she
had put a few drops of gentian. All drank with
out experiencing any unpleasant symptoms, ex
cept Van Ness who was soon taken so violently
ill as to render it necessary that he shonld be
put to bed in Mrs. W’s house. While there
milk punch was administered to him, in which
was notioed a white sediment whioh was exam
ined and pronounced tartar emetio. Proper
treatment was ordered, and Van Ness soon be
gan to convalesce. The discovery of the poi
son in the milk puneh, ooupled with Gen. K’s
death, created a suspicion of crime, and Gen.
K’s remains were disinterred and the contents
of the Btomach analysed, resulting in the discov
ery, therein, of at least twenty grains of tartar
e metio. The proof was considered Btrongonough
to demand aninvestigation and the result was the
findingof the true bills referred to above, and
Mrs. Wharton’s arrest the night before Bhe ex
pected to start for New York whence she had
made arrangements to sail for Europe. On last
Saturday she was taken to the oity jail, wherefshe
now is, and where she will remain until her
trial takes plaoe, and the question of her guilt
or iunocenoe is definitely settled.
Latest from Stanton’s Railroad.
The Nashville Banner, of Sunday, says:
Thursday night a baud of men, the number
of which ,is variously estimated at from 30 to
300, surrounded the Round House of the Ala
bama and Chattanooga Railroad, in Chattanoo
ga, seized the watchman and locked him np in
tho oil-room; and then proceeded to disable all
the . engines therein, by removing the link
blocks.
During the day Superintendent Ross' suc
ceeded in arranging a compromise with the men
by entering into a written contract with them
to ran the road for twelve or fifteen days, and
agreeing to pay the hands at the end of each
trip from the money collected on the trip.
Trains will therefore ran regularly between
Chattanooga and Tuscaloosa for at least that
length of time.
The New York Riots.—The World of Satur
day says:
The sad events of the “Bloody Twelfth” still
form the subject of universal conversation
throughout the city. The feelings excited are
notably oalming down, and every one is better
prepared to hear the story of the “other side.”-
tost painful soenea were witnessed at ~ the
Morgue and hospitals. All the bodies exoept
one have been identified. Five additional
deaths have oooorred, raising the death roll to
fifty-six. Many funerals have taken place, and
the aooount given of the deaths of some of the
unfortunate slain In harrowing. There will be
military funeral of Private Page and Sergeant
Wyatt on Sunday.
New Orleans, July 17.—Albert Myers was
shot dead this morning by Michael F. Rodgers;
cause, jealousy. The murderer was imprisoned.
-' Francis Monteath, clerking in Chopper’s store,
St. James’ parish, was murdered May 10th ancl
his body thrown into the river, and the store
robbed and burned by four negroes. A jury
oomposed of six white and six colored men to
day found them guilty of arson, burglary and
murder. The penalty is death. -
Washington, July 18.—The Czar has made
the Crown Prince of Saxony an honorary *_ field
marshal of Russia.
Reuben J. Dolph was sentenced to five years
imprisonment for blackmailing the Bnffalo
physicians.
A destructive storm occurred last night along
the Louisville and Nashville Railroad. A
freight trafii was blown from a switch across the
main-track and threw the passenger train off.
No lives lost. . ‘
Sabatog a, July 18.—Dispatches say Mr. Hat
per will start Longfellow for a four mile dash on
the last day of the August meeting, in order to
beat, if possible, Lexington’s time.- General
Bufora says he will bet $20,000 that his four
year old bay colt, Enquirer, by Lemington, dam
Lydia, by Lexington, can beat his half brother,
Longfellow, at that distance. Shouldihese two
horses oomo together in the dash of four miles
with Kingfisher and other fast ones doing the
pushing, there will be one of the finest races
ever ran in this country.
Private dispatches state that the steamer
Oceanic passed Fostrict at 7J a. m. on Monday,
and was at Queenstown a few hours later, and
the City of Brussels had not arrived
yesterday. — L - - -
New York, July 18.—It is reported that the
yaoht Jessie upset in the storm of Sunday.
Commodore Sherman, alone, was saved of the
members of the Ooeanic Yacht Club aboard.
New York, July 18.—Arrived,, Hammonia,
Manhattan. Arrived out, Assyrian.
London, July 18.—A telegram from Hong
Kong to. Lloyd’s, announces that a typhoon vis
ited Hiago, Japan. Seven steamers were blown
ashore or sunk, and the place inundated.
Dispatches reporta riot between the Socialists
and Ultra Montanes at Vienna. Many people
were injured. The police were powerless. The
military suppressed the emeute.
The magazine of the Greek war steamer
Eunomia exploded in the Grecian Archipeligo.
Her crew, of forty men, were nearly all killed,
and the balanoe were hurt. The vessel was de
stroyed.
Versailles, July 18.—The Minister of Fi'
nance announced to the Assembly his desire
for the continuance of the twenty per cent, im
port duty on ootton.
Washington, July 18.—-F. G. Clark has been
appointed Assessor of the Second Alabama Dis
trict.
The action of Boutwell in referring back the
appeal of the railroad tax matter to Pleasanton,
is a mere matter of routine without significance
in the imbroglio between them.
New Yobk, July 18.—The grocers' board of
trade was organized. W. A. Booth, President;
Ohas. E. Hull, Geo. W. Lane, Benj. B. Sher
man, Thos. G. Arnold, Vico Presidents.
The reported drowning of several members
of the Oceanio Yacht Club is false. All were
picked up by a passing schooner. The yacht
was picked up at sea and towed ashore.
A mad bull, on Ninth Avenue, injured two
women seriously and a ohild fatally.
The board of officers, consisting of Colonels
Morey, King and.Hunt and Majors Dodge and
Alexander met under special instructions for
the army board of health.
Brooklyn has adopted stringent regulations of
quarantine over small pox patients’own houses.
Sabatoga, July 18.—Abdel Kerr, won the first
race. Time 1:61$. Kingfisher .walked over
the track in the second race, as did Nellie in
the third. ..
Cincinnati, July 18.—Two men were seriously
injured by the explosion of a soda fountain,
One had both thighs broken.-
A coal oil can with which a man was lighting
a fire exploded, killing one and terribly burning
another of his daughters.
The people of Greenville, Ohio, are about
hanging a negro for rape.
Chicago, July 18.—Governor Palmer,
Illinois, will assist the sheriff with the whole
power of the State in arresting the persons
xr—- ™Vin whipped his ohild to
New Obleans, July 18.—Governor War-
month’s sudden arrival from Pass Christian
this morning created a sensation among the
politicians. The Governor at once took charge
of the Executive office.
Augusta. July 18.—There have been heavy
rains accompanied by destructive winds for
several days. The dams of the Langley
Cotton Factory and both the paper milk,situated
on Horse creek, six mills from Angusta, broke
at 4 o’clock this morning. The volnme of water
striking the South Carolina Railroad, swept
away the embankment and track for a half mile.
The damage to the road has been repaired, and
trains are now running. Some three hundred
operators in the mills arc thrown out of employ
ment. Loss $50,000.
London, July 18.—German Lloyd’s Bteamship
company has contracted to carry monthly
mail between England and Venezuela. Yellow
fever has ceased to be an epidemic at Buenos
Ayres.
Washington, July 18.—The Secretary of tho
Treasury has approved the report of the Steam
boat Supervising Inspectors. The report covers
some four hundred pager. It increases the fa
cilities for saving life, and imposes more strin
gent rules upon the managers of steamboats.
The condition of the telegraph lines South,
forbids au elaborate abstract prepared.
New Yobk, July 18.—In the U. S. Distriot
Court, the Brooklyn steamer Cleopatra has been
declared forfeited to the Government for a vio
lation of the revenue laws—the act consisting
in the smuggling of $400 worth of oigars by the
employees on board. The Judge recommends
that action be takenby the Attorney General
against the parties directly concerned in the
violation of the law, as his deoision only affects
the owners of the BteSmer.
San Fbanoisco, July 18.—Gen. Cook, .with
five oompaniesof cavalry, fifty picked Mexicans,
and a number of the beet native soouts, have
taken the field against the Apache Indians in
Arizona. J
London, July 18.—The Qaeen has made the
Emperor of Brazil a Knight of the Garter.
Pabis, July 18.—The Salute cites the exam
ple of the United States after the warof the re
oellion, in justification of increased taxation.
Madbid, July 18.—Serano has proposed to
the King to decree the outlawing members of
the International Society in Spain, and recom
mends a rigorous policy on all questions of pub
lic order. Minister Scowella, on the contrary,
favors a liberal policy, as most conducive to po
litical rights and tho publio peace.
Washington, July .19.—A new trial for Shu
man, the abortionist, was refuted.
McCartney, the recent post-office defaulter,
is dead. .
Foreign , Miscellany.—Tho Pope recently
declared to the College of Cardinals a Latin al
locution that “all is lost, and only a miracle
can save us.” He sees no possible help from
man, and recommends his bearers to seek in
terposition from the Almighty.
According to a London correspondent Napo
leon visits town everyday, and generally strolls
along tho sunny side of Bond street, or haunts
the bow windows of a club house. He is very
jopular with the working classes, who cheer
lim, and he is getting very fat. The Emperor
and Empress of Brazil are industriously “do
ing London.” . • . ,
The future Emperor and Empress of
Germany were snubbed by the Qneen on
their recent visit to England. Her Majesty re
fused to let them in at any of her palaces, and
they were obliged to lodge with a common am
bassador from. Germany. ~. 7,7
Jackson, July 19.—The publio printing ques
tion will be called in Chanoery Court to-mor
row. The opinion prevails that Kimball &
Raymond, the old incumbents, will lose the
case. If so, they will at once appeal, hoping
thereby to cause delay and force the Governor
into a compromise. The Pilot’s attack upon
the Governor has rendered that paper quite
unpopular with the Republicans, and it is
thought it will have little influence in the com
ing canvass. Governor Powers and other
leading Republicans endorse the Governor’s
course.
Pabis, .July 19.—The inhabitants of Metz
have sent a petition to Thiers asking the par
don of Rassel. The Journal de Paris attacks
rigorously the circular of the Prefect of the
Seine, whioh deprives the oconpants of famish
ed lodgings of the right to vote, if they do not
inhabit the premises continuously for twelve
months. ... ■ •'
The Parisian press put forwards partial list
of candidates for the municipal election, which
appear satisfactory to the publio. M. Rauher
announces himself a candidate for the first va
cancy in the National Assembly.
Pabis, July 19.—It is reported that Mr.
Washburn, the American Minister, has assured
the Frenoh government that no person oonricted
of criminal acts in Paris against tho National
Government, during the reign of the Commune-,
will be permitted to reside in the United States.
London, July 19.—Hie Standard says Glad
stone will abolish the system of purchases of
army commissions by royal warrants. Several
members of the royal family have visited the
Emperor Napoleon.
The small-pox is decreasing in London.
Princess Helena, wife of Prince Christian,
about to visit the continent to seek relief from
an affection of the lungs. .- "aSrSn ---.—a
The Hague, July 19.—The Upper Chamber of
the Parliament of the Netherlands, by a vote of
16 to 15, has postponed indefinitely, tbe further
consideration of -the treaty for the cession of
Guiana to England.
Quebec, July 19.—Ship Minerva, from Liv
erpool, with 285 passengers, for Montreal, was
wrecked off Cape Breton. All on board were
saved.
San Fb an cisoo, July 19.— The National
Guards returned from Amador county this
morning, work haring been resumed in all the
mines.
Washington, July 19.—Collector Robb, of
Savannah, is here.
Governor Bullock is in New Yort ' . - .
A daily mail has been ordered on tbe Savan.
nah and Memphis Railroad, between Opelika
and Dadeville. - • --
New Yobk, July 19.—The second triennial
reunion of the Army of the James, occurred to-
&ay.'
A letter from London of the 8th, says Thur-
low Weed, is not as well as when he left.
: Specie shipments to-day $456,000.-
Dr. Alva Blaisdell, convicted of defrauding
the revenue; has been pardoned.
.New York, July 10.—A committee .of King’)
county medical sooiety reports 1354 cases, ef
small-pox in Brooklyn for the year ending July
1st, with not a few fatal cases the past month.
Baltimore, July 19.—The Democratic State
Convention nominated William Pinkney White
for Governor. v■'-*>-• .
Cincinnati, July 19.—The body of Captain
Blodgett, late of - the steamer Carlisle, missing
since midnight on Monday, has been found in
tho river this morning.
St. Louis, July 19.—The Supreme Court of
the State decided a case upholding the county
tax collectors in seizing the stock of delinquent
railroads.
Pittsbueo, July 19.—S. M. Loveridge, form
erly general agent'for the Mutnal .Benefit Life
Insurance Company, was fatally shot at noon
to-day. - -
Havana, July 19.—Gen-.Falanca telegraphs
on the 13th that engagements occurred on the
day before, in which one hundred insurgents
were killed and the rest dispersed. Nine Span
iards were killed and ten wounded. According
to the Hanzanilta correspondent of the Diaro,
two expeditions of fillibusters from Venezuela
have lauded. Quesada’s proclamation an
nounced the sailing of three expeditions, in the
steamers Virginia, Bolivar and another, the
name of which is not known. No official con
firmation of a second landing has come to
hand. ■'
Pabis, July 19.—Tho decrees of the6thrand
19th of September, 1870, levying ari import
duty of three francs and sixty oentimes on eaoh
bale of cotton, have been abrogated, and it ir
thought the Minister of Finanoe, Ponyer Quer-
tier, has concluded to abaudon the proposed
duties upon raw material.
New Yobk, July 19.—Arrived, Ismalia, from
South America.
Savannah, July 19.—Arrived, steamships
Magnolia and Catharine Whiting, from New
York ; Tonawonda, from Philadelphia; North
Point, Baltimore; bark Savannah, Liverpool.
Cleared, schooners M. B. Bramhall, New York,
Fannie R. Shaw, Darien.
.Charleston, July 19.—Arrived steamers Jas.
Adger, New .York; Sea Gull, Baltimore; bark
Caroline, Bull River, 8. O. Sailed.steamer
Georgia, New.York; bark Carmen, Malaga.
Synopsis of Weather Statement.
Was Dep’t, Office Chief Signal Octtoeb,' _
Washington, D. G., July 19, 7:40p. m. j
The barometer-has fallen since Tuesday eve
ning at the Rocky Mountain stations, with i
slight increase' of temperature and southerly
winds. The area of lowest pressure has passed
from Lake Ontario southeastward, and is now
central over Delaware. The barometer continues
low on the Gulf coast, and has risen decidedly
from Lake Ontario to Missouri and northwards.
.The temperature has fallen from the middle and
esI^winfepTevaiY’ra the Middle"and Southern
States from the southwest and from the north
west. On the lakes threatening and rainy
weather has prevailed from the Ohio valley to
Lake Erie and to Florida, as also on the Atlantic
coast. Clearing np weather is nowreported from
Lake Huron to Kentucky and westward.
Probabilities: It is probable that the short
but heavy rain wilt pass over Maryland and
New Jersey, and possibly,Connecticut'; but -a
rising barometer and clearing weather, with
fresh northwest winds are probable for Thurs
day from Illinois and Wisconsin, eastward to
the Atlantio coast. Threatening weather will
probably continue in Northern Florida, with
partially oloudy weather in the interior of the
Gulf States. • ... .
New Yobk, July 19.—Deaths in. New York
during past week, 857, and Brooklyn. 346—both
showing heavy inorease.
Rev. Dr. Ewers, of Christ Church, has sailed
for Europe. '
Another effigy of Gov. Hoffman was suspend
ed in Brooklyn this morning.
The Committee of the Medioal Society report
1354 small pox cases in Brooxlyn for the year
ending Jnly 1st.
The horse plague is affeoting the stables of
Brooklyn City and Coney Island Railroad Com
panios.
The funeral of. Clinton Gilbert, a victim of
the Brooklyn whisky raid, to-day, was largely
attended. Much excitement exists among the
revenue officers of that district, and rumors are
thick that extreme repressive measure will be
taken againsi the illicit whisky region. .
A World’s special from London, July 19tb,
says Gladstone rill state in the House of Com
mons to-morrow that the Government has de
termined to abolish the purchase system, in de
fiance of the resistance of the Lords, or, failing
in this, to resign. The Times' London corres
pondent says the claimant of the Tichbome es
tate is an illegitimate son of old Sir James Tich-
borne by his cook, Mary Orton, and that the
real Sir Roger perished, as has been reported,
in 1859.
St. Louis, July 19.—It is currently reported
that Senator Bchurz will soon sever hi3 connec
tion with the Westliche Post. A serious shoot
ing affair occurred in a saloon in Hay’s City,
Kansas, on Wednesday night, between some
soldiers of the Sixth.Gavalry and a party of citi
zens, in which .Charles Harrison was killed.
Sheriff Lamber appeared on the scene and com
manded the peace, when he was fired upon, re
ceiving two shots in the breast, mortally wound,
ing him. Two soldiers, a man named May-
and a Mexican teamester, were also wounded.
Memphis, Tknn, July 19.—A storm occurred
last night which surpassed anything here in'
years. Telegraph poles were prostrated, trees
uprooted, and vast damage done to orops. The
night express train on the Memphis and Charles
ton Railroad, hence for Chattanooga, when near
Grand Junction ran through a trestle washed
away by the flood. 'The engineer was killed
and 12 or 15 passengers wounded.
San Francisco, July 19.—The steamer O wybeo
has sunk on upper Columbia. No lives were
lost.
A rumor is ourrent that the Central and Cali
fornia Paoific Railroads have been sold to the
Pennsylvania Central, causing almost a panic
in Sacramento. A heavy decline in retd estate
there is anticipated if the rumor proves correct.
Paris, July 19.—The debate on the Italian
question in the Assembly is fixed for Saturday.
Dupanloup, bishop of Orleans, is expected to
speak.
London, July 19.—A Sheffield express train,
going south ou North Midland Railway, ran
nto a freight train near Chesterfield station.
Two passengers were killed outright, and thirty
reported injured—some of whom Will die.
Prince Frederick William has left Ems on
his return to England. He comes direct to Os
borne, where he remains with the royal family.
St. Thomas, July 14, via Porto Rico, July
15 —The steamer Virginia has returned to the
Island of Trinidad unable to take her expedi
tion over to Cuba. The Spanish war steamer
Trinidad,' at Porto Cabello, rill probably go to
Trinidad. ' J '
A lady whose husband was killed in the ser
vice of his country was dismissed from one of
the government departments in Washington,
and left with her two children absolutely with
out means of support. To plead her cause,
Judge Bond, Of Baltimore, went to President
Grant and argued after this fashion: '‘Now,
Mr. President, if we should put petticoats on
ou and turn you into the streets, don’t you
lieve you’d starve pretty quick ?” *“No need
. do that, Judge,” was the frank response, “I
have come pretty near starving with a coat on.”
The annual report of an educational institu
tion In an Eastern State mentions the resigna
tion of one of the teachers, a young lady, to “in
dulge in domestic relations. ” i
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Got. Bullock’s Pardons.
The sohedule of Gov. Bullock’s pardons dur
ing his term of office, even as explained by the
Secretary of the Executive Department, strikes
us as alarming. We append a table, showing
the relative number of pardons granted and
pardons refused during his term of offioe:
OFFENCES. PARDONED. PARDON REFUSED.
Murders, including 15
commutations.'....
Manslaughter........
Assault with intent to
'murder.............
Burglary.............
Larceny.... .7
Assaults and assault
and battery
Assaults 5, robbery 8,
stabbing 3.........
All other crimes...-...
Here, then, are nearly eight pardons granted
to every one ref used,so far,during Gov. Bullock’s
official term, showing, as we conceive, about
eight chanceB to one that, if a criminal is con-
victed, he will escape, either wholly or in part
the penalty of the law. It seems to us that
snob a course of proceedlngmuat inevitably tend
to enoourage crime and disorganize society.
We suppose it is a fact that out of a hundred
petty crimes and misdemeanors committed in
Georgia, on an average, not five are brought to
trial. Take petty larceny for instance—from
the field, inclosure or house—prosecution in
volves so much trouble, loss of time, disagrees
bio. publicity, eto., that tho perpetrators, one
may say, unless in heavy cases, escape punish
ment altogether. The household, kitohen, gar
den, fowl-yard and field are, in consequence;
the subjects of such systematic depredations
that the losses have come to be accepted as mat
ters of course.
Bat unquestionably these are, in the aggre
gate, really a more serious hindrance to the
prosperity of the county, than even the graver
offences which are considered too heinous to be
passed over, and are therefore made the sub
ject of indictment and trial, and all the cum
brous, dilatory and expensive machinery of the
courts. But if, of these graver crimes, par
dons must emanate in the proportion of seven
or eight hundred per cent., we submit that there
is small return for the awfnl bills of judicial
expenses which the people of the State are com
pelled to pay. - ' ^
To Correspondents.
We have received a communication from a
medical gentleman, we suppose, in vindication
of the recent action and past history of the op-
penentsof the Atlanta Medical College. The
article is well written and doubtless correct in
its statements. No name, however, acompan-
ies the paper, and we must adhere to praotice
in such cases. We are unwilling to open our
columns also, to a protracted controversy,
which, if commenced, shonld be open to both
sides. Our limited space forbids such a pro-
ceedure, while to many of our readers, this war
of the doctors would be far from entertaining.
Let it be remembered that all communica
tions must be. accompanied with the writer’s
name, and to insure attention should be written
upon one side of the sheet only.
FINANCIAL AND COMMEBCIal
Weekly Review or tbe Market.
OFFICE TELEGRAPH AND MESSENGER-
July 19—Evening, 1871/f
Cotton. — Receipt* to-day 40 baled aales i
shipped—» i.-r .-. ' . c -a. - j.- .’ .
Receipts for the week ending this evening i
bales: sales 58 ; shipments 39.
From tbe above it will be seen that operation
have been extremely light daring the last west
owing to the dullness and decline of prices in
New York market. Bnt, really, there is very lit^
cotton now offering in this market, and but I,
buyers present. Prices have declined fully one
on the week’s operations—the market closing qnjj
this evening at 18}£ for Liverpool middlings.
Contracts for “futures”, have also decliued in tb
New York market about one cent Binee the date
our last weekly review. They closed to-day as fcj
lows. For July 19)*; August 1913-16; Septembe
19%; October 19}g.
slaoon cotton statement.
Stock on hand Sept. 1, -18 <0—bales.. aw
Beceived to-day...'. 40 m
Received previously .'...98,468—08 501
Mubdeb and Retribution.—We are informed
by gentlemen from Albany, that on Monday
last, a Mr. RuBh, the overseer on Mr. Ben. H.
Hill’s Mud Creek plantation, had a difficulty
with a negro employed on the plaoe, in which
the. negro attempted to strike Rush with a sin
gletree, and Rush shot at him bnt without effect.
The negro then left, and on Tuesday returned
with a double-barrel shot' gun and, and ap
proaching Rush when in the field, remarked to
him: “ I am now armed and on unequal foot-
incr with ron.”- Bush replied, “all right,” and
when in the act of leaping from hia horse, the
negro shot him in the side with a load of buck
shot. Rush fell from his horse mortally
wounded and the negro ran. The negroes in
the field who had witnessed the affair, imme
diately started to a neighboring plantation for
a dootor, and on’the way they found the negro
who had shot Rush, lying dead in the road with
the top of his head blown off and his gun by
his side. Itis supposed that he accidentally
discharged the other barrel of his gun and
killed himself or, thinking that he was being pur
sued and would be caught and punished, stop
ped in the road and blew hia own head off.
A Loyal Ku-klux.---Lowery, thq great chief
of the North Carolina African Ku-klux, is the
most loyal man in the South. The Wilmington
Star of Monday says :
- We were informed yesterday that the bold
and daring villain, Henry Berry Lowry, had the
audacity to go to Mr. John McNair’s house, in
Robeson county, yesterday morning, and de
mand his breakfast. This was given him, when
he told Mr. MONair to go to Lumbartonand in
form Sheriff McMillan for him that if his wife,
who is now in jail at that plaoe, was hot set at
liberty by Monday next, he wonld drench- the
county of Robeson in blood. Mr. AIcNair re
sides about four miles above Buie’s store, the
latter place being the general rendezvous or
headquarters of the Sheriffs who are trying to
effect his capture. Our informant conversed
with Mr. McNair, who was on the train yester
day en route for Lumberton, to inform the
Sheriff of Lowery’s threat, and obtained the
above facts from him.
it seems from the dispatch printed on Mon
day, that Lowery did set to work early Monday
morning as he promised, and killed two promi
nent men of Robeson county and wounded an
other—ambushing them on the highway. Low
ery is worthmore to Grant’s Ku-kluxprogramme
than any other man in the country.
Monboe County, July 17th, 1871.
Editors Telegraph and Messenger: -1 would
call the attention of the authorities and citizens
generally of Bibb oounly, to the great necessity
of having a bridge built across Tobesofkee
creek, at Dr. D. B. Searcy’s milL The old bridge
was built during the Confederate war, some ten
years ago, so the old frame must be decaying.
The armies are too far apart and the bridge has
no protection on the sides, and is too near the
mill dam. The planters of Monroe and .Upson
counties do not feel safe in risking their teams
and loaded wagons on the present bridge. Will
Macon look to her interest ? Whilst I am speak
ing of the bridge, allow me to say to you that
the roads are almost impassable. The merchants
of Macon should look to this. The authorities
of Monroe and Upson counties are looking well
to the interest of their marts.
.The cotton crop is the poorest I have seen
since the war. The corn is rained without rain
in a few days. Health of the oounty generally
good. - A Friend to Macon.
Shipped to-d*y
Shipped previously....
Stock on hand tide evening ...
101.;;. i
.'.’.’.‘..'99,158—99,15 ; S
Tsiil
There is nothing whatever of interest to report
in the money or stock and bond markets. The oti1
is easy and tho other as quiet as a box of dried her!
rings. Nochiigeinprieoe.
Tho general trade of the city has been moderatel-J
good during the week, the bulk of it, however, hel
,ing done in grain and provisions. Com is very fin: a
at 115 by the carload; retailing from stores at 125.1
Wheat, prime western white is worth 1 G5@17; j
Oata 90 cents. Bacon dear rib aides 10%@10}{ 1
shoulders
morning Jlarket Report.
New Yobk. Jnly.19.—Cotton quiet; middling i
lands 20%; Orleans 21; sales 375.
Turpentine Sim at 50(5)51. Rosin quietat 312'-
@3 25 for strained. Freights quiet.
Flour dull. Wheat quiet. Cora steady.' Porkds
at 14 75@14 87. Lard firm.
Stocks stronger than at the opening. Gold ate*
at 12%@12%. Governments steady and dull. Bti
bonds duli. Exchange; long 10%; short 10%.
London, July 19, noon.—Consols 93%<S935 3
Bonds 92%.
Paris, July 19, noon.—Rentes 56f 15.
Lateb.—Rentes 55f 15c.
LrvKBFooL, July 19, noon.—Cotton opened quiet
uplands 8%; Orleans 9%; sales 12,000; speculate
and export 3000. ___
Harkels—Evening Report.
A Test or Broad and Narrow Guage Rail
roads.—The Toronto Express says with regard
to Canadian railways, we will soon have an op
portunity of comparing the practical working of
railways of three different guages, the standard
Canadian, 5 foot 6 inch, the standard American,
or 4 foot 8J inch, and that adopted by the To
ronto nairow-gauge roads, or 8 foot 6 inch.—
The Grand Trunk will furnish foots for the first,
the Great Western, as now reduced, for the
seoond, and the new roads from Toronto for
the third of these gauges. What the ultimate
result will be, what the percentage of working
expenses to total revenue, on eaoh of these roads,
will not he known for some time to come, but
we do not doubt in the least that, other things
being at all equal, the narrow-gauge roads will
be found to have been built,'equipped, and run
at a cost surprisingly below that of either of
the two great tines with whioh they will be com
pared.
A Sahib Cleaning Machine.—The New Or
leans Picayune of Saturday chronicles the suc
cessful operation of a new Ramie cleaner, as
follows:
The new invention for cleaning ramie has
been suooessfully tried in the presence of prac
tical men, and the result is It has given entire
satisfaction. An English gentleman who came
to this oity as went of parties engaged in ramie
culture in the west Indies, upon witnessing the
operations of the machine, immediately wrote
to his correspondents to oommenoe the plant
ing of ramie on a large scale, as there vras no
doubt the cultivation would be largely remuner
ative.
New Yobk, Jnly 19.—Ootton active; eales 183}
bales;,uplands 29%; Orleans 21%.
Flour quiet and heavy; oommou to fur
5 90<®6 60; Rood to choice 6 65(5)9 00. Whisky quii
and fiim. Wheat a shade easier for poorer grad
prime firm; winter rad and amber western 14:
160. Com active and a shade easier at 70@71, B_.
quiet at 8@8J£. Pork.14 50(514 62%. Lard intc-
tive. Navals steady. Freights firmer.
Money easy and unchanged. Sterling dull ut
unchanged. Gold 12%@12W. Governments dsi
and steady. State bonds dull, exoept Georgia set.
one, which are strong; Tennsssees 71K; new 71
Virginias 66%; new 72%. Louieianas 68; new 6I5
Levees 72; 8s 85.- Alabamas 98; 5s 68. Georgia
86; 7s 94. North Carolinas 44; new 26. Sout:
Carolines 72; new 58%.
Governments, 81s, 15%; 62s. li%i 64s, 18%; 65s
13V; new 12J(; 67s, 13; 68s, 13; 10-40s 13.
Baltmobe, July 19.—Ootton market closed quid
middlings 20%; net receipts 21; gross receipts 31
exports coastwise 7; 'sales 125;. stock 980.
Cincinnati, Jnly 19.—Flour, new dull and iowi
old unchanged. - Cora drooping at 54@55. F<
dull but firm at 14 50. Lard drooping; lOoffi
Bacon in fair demand at lower rates; shoulders 6k:j
clear sides 8%. Whisky active and advanced at 92.
Louisville, July 19—Flour weak. Com 72. Pro
visions weak. Fork 1500. Bacon, shoulders 6;(
clear aides 9. -. Lard 10@11.Whisky 92.
Sr. Louis.. July 19.—Flour firm. Com Iowa
sacks 57@58. Whisky 93. Fork doll at 15 (XL
Baoon lower; shoulders 7@7%; clear sides 9%. Lui
quiet.
New Orleans, July T9.—Cotton dull; middling! 1
2Q(a20%; net receipts 748; gross 1074; export'
-to Great Britain 1676; to Amsterdam 1294; com;-
wise 1147; sales 600; stock 54,278. .
Flour scarce; superfine 4 75<S>5 00; double 5 253
5 75; treble 6 00@6 25. Com firm; mixed 71@72;
yellow72; white 77@78. Oats dullat 67(568. Bria
1 00. Hay, prime 30 00; choice 32 00. Fork doll
mess held at IS 75. Bacon dull; shoulders 7%; rii
sides 9K; clear sides 0%; sugar-cured bams li@15,
choice 15^317. Lard quiet; tierce 10%@10%; keg!
ll%@ll%. Sugar, good common 1044- Molasses,
nothing doing. Whisky quiet; western rectified 95
<@93. Coffee 13^@15Jf.
Sterling 21%; Sight % premium. Gold 12%.
Wilmington. July 19—Cotton quiet; middling:
19%; net receipts 10; export coastwise —; sales-;
stock 1000.
Auousta, July 19.—Cotlen market closed steal;
18%' for Liverpool middlings; sales 100; receipts 51
Savannah, July 19.—Ootton inactive; middhc:-
19%; net receipts 137; exports coastwise 72; sales
10; stock 6392.
Charleston, July 19.—Cotton qniet; middling!
19%; net receipts 121; exports to Great Britain t.';
coastwise —; continent —-, sales 100; stock 4227.
Mobile, July 19.—Cotton closed dull; middling!
10%@19%; net receipts 114; sales 25; export*
coastwise —{. stock 9Q89.
Galveston, July 19.—Cotton dull; good ordinar;
16; net receipts 190; exports to Great Brittis
—; coastwise 29; sales 100; stock 15,664.
Boston, July 19.—Cotton dull; middlings 21%
net receipts 50; gross receipts 5910; sales 3l0; etod
5000. . '
Norfolk, Jnly 19.—Cotton qniet; low middlings
19%; net receipts 64; exports coastwise 110; sale:
—; stock 659.
. Liverpool, July 19, evening—Cotton closed steady
uplands 8%; Orleans 9%.
Cumberland cut 31s; short rib middles S5£36e.
The Ootton Supply.—Mr. Editor: I had
read Mr. B. F. Nonrse’s letter in the New York
Commercial Chronicle of the ICth of July, 1871.
It was so fall of false statements and deceptive
coloring, that I became disgusted and paid no
attention toil, as X saw the Chronicle refused
to endorse his - statements and figures. The
visible supply of ootton (by the Ghroniole) giv
en on the 15th of July, 1871, was 1,839,102
bales. Mr.. B. F. Nourse says the consumption
of cotton in the world is 113,200 bales per week.
Now multiply 113,200 bales by fifteen week?,
and you have as answer 1,698,000 .bales. De
duct the 1,698,000 from the visible supply of
1,839,102, and the remainder is 141,102 bales,
the visible supply of ootton for Europe and this
oountry. So you see Mr. Nourse’s 1,632,000
bales that is to be on hand, is all false and moon
shine, and totally-at variance with the truth;
so he had better put the brakes on bis false
statements, as the impetus in that direction is
growing too strong. The reason the Chronicle
would not endorse Mr. Nourse’s figures, was be
cause it knew they were false. But how the
Chroniole can endorse the spirit of a communi
cation written on false assumptions and figures,
is incomprehensible, to me. The only way to
get at the truth in the matter, is to ascertain tbe
amount of tho visible supply of ootton, then
learn the consumption of cotton per week, mul
tiply that by fifteen weeks, and you will sea tbe
small stock that will be on hand at the end oi
fifteen weeks—for they cannot get any of the
new crop even at that time. Macon.
Charleston Mail Matter.—A gentleman was
complaining, yesterday, of the fact that mail
matter from this point for Charleston is sent
via Atlanta, thence over the Georgia, Road to
Augusta, and. thence to Charleston; and, as the
different roads do not make close connections
by this route, it takes a letter three or four
days to reaoh Charleston, whereas a letter from
Charleston to Maoon makes the trip in a day
and a half. How is that? It is a bad rale that
won’t work both ways.
Excused.—OoL Thomas Hardeman received
a telegram yesterday from the Ku-klux Oon>
mittee, notifying him that he need not visit
Washington, in obedience to the summon re-
centiy served upon him to testify before the
Committee. Consequently, the Colonel wifi
not visit Washington, perhaps, until he goes to
be inaugurated as President on the 4th of
March, 1877.
Swbbt FotaAizs.—Mr. A. Moffitt brought-io
this market yesterday, from hia place in the
lower edge -of the oounty, a few bushels of very
fine sweet potatoes of the yam variety which
ho readily sold out at $6 per bushel. He pre
sented us with one weighing a pound, and but
for this we would not have gotten a teate of the
palatable esculent thus early in the season.
