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The Greorgia "Weekly Telegraph and. *Xprimal <fc Messenger
Telegraph and Messenger.
MACON SEPTEMBER 191871.
News Items?
New York Politics.—The Democratic Cen-
Jtal Committee of New York met in Albany
last Wednesday and agreed to call their State
Convention at Rochester, on the 4th day of next
October. The rural members were very calm
over Tammany explosions, and insisted it was
& New York affair and let New York rule herself
and settle it. As to the State at large, the ad
ministration of Governor Hoffman had vastly
increased the hold of the Democracy upon the
people, and it would poll an increased majority.
Era. Seed.—Tho quidnuncs all prophesy an
other and still more gigantic war in Europe—
in which Russia and France on the one side and
Germany and Austria will be the parties. Thus
wars engender wars. The Austro-Prnssian war
bred the Franco-Germ art, and the Franco-Ger
man breeds a universal European explosion.
He who looks for peace in this generation looks
in vain.
The New England firemen, to tho number of
seventy-five companies, held a monster clam
bake at Portsmouth, New Hamphire, last
Wednesday.
The Tidal Wave.—Pic. says Professor Agas
siz's tidal wave fifty feet high is creating excite
ment in domestic circles. Can’t they induce
Agassiz to waive it?
The same paper says it looks now as if the
last cotton crop would certainly reach 4,500,000
kales.
Eighteen thousand emigrants left Liverpool
for the United States during tho month of Au
gust Thi3 is at tho rate of over 200,000 per an-
from ono port alone.
The Republican Committee of England has
issued the programme of the party which they
claim to represent Tho document expresses
the most advanced Radical and socialistic views.
Expobts.—'Tho total value of onr exports of
domostio productions during the fiscal year of
1871 was 8513,044,273, eleven articles of which
were valnedat $485,258,200. Those were as
follows:
Breadstuff's 8 70,379,187
Raw cotton 218,327,103
Furs on tho skin 1,590,193
Gold and silver bullion 84,505,256
Naval stores 1,694,435
Oil-cake 4,160,021
Refined .and crude petroleum 35,959,000
Bacon, cork and lard 22,992,003
Boof....;. 3,825,666
Tobucoo 19,908,797
Wood and timber 12,916,542
Total $485,258,200
Nearly ono-half of the members of the
French National Assembly are of noble birth.
In the Republican chamber there sit eight dukes,
twenty-seven marquises,forty-one counts, eleven
viscounts, seventeen barons, and two hundred
and four honorables with the prefix lie, La, Les,
Dn, De or Des.
Diamond Digging in Africa.—A Buflalonian
writing to tho Courier from the South African
diamond fields says:
I tell yon it is tho “biggest thing” ont. Dia
monds aro being found every day; some from
twenty to eighty carats. A man, two claims
above mine, found a stone which he was imme
diately offered $60,000 for, which he refused.
He is going to England with it. Snch finds are
quite common, too. Stones varying in value
from $50 to $1,000 aro found every day. In
fact a large fortune awaits several thousands,
and I am determined to be one of the nnmber,
Providence permitting.
Spiritualists Outdone.—the Conner-Journal
reports the performances of Dr. Yon Vleek and
wife, which in the way of spirit writing, table
trpping, rapping, and Davenporling generally,
ont did all previous performances, but the Doc
tor explained it was all deception and legerde-
main.
The Howe family of the United States having
met and adjourned, some quiet little village is
to bo selected for a general gathering of the
Smiths.
Cotton fell an eighth in Liverpool yesterday,
It is presumable they must have some news
from tho crop which we failed to obtain.
Among the novelties in New York is a com
plete female orchestra of twenty performers re
cently imported from Europe.
Col. Wsi. Heiskell.—Tho Knoxville Press
and Herald reports the death of Hon. Wm. Heis
kell, in that county, of Bright’s disease of the
kidneys. Bom in Hagerstown, Md., in 1768.
The Wilmington Journal says a white man
79 years of age applied to the Register for a
marriage license on Saturday. Thewoman is 23
years old. This will make his fifth wife.
The Tidal Wave.—Tho Charleston Courier
Bays the calculation of Agassez “may be right
but wo are no great believers in fifty feet tides
in this part of the world, and 6hall not take to
a tree until we see it actually coming.” It will
be too lato to climb a tree when yon see that
wave coming.
Martial Law in South Carolina.—A Wash*
Ington dispatch, of the 6tb, in the Courier-
Jonroal, says the administration appears to foe
retracing its steps in the proposition to declare
martial law in South Carolina. Tho Cabinet
meeting which was appointed for to-day to dis
pose of the question, has been indefinitely post
poned. Two facts have contributed to this re
sult—tho first is a protest from influential Re
publican quarters against snch a step, and tho
second is tho entire absence of aDy confirma
tion of Senator Scott’s bugaboo stories as to the
condition of affairs in that State. The War De
partment reports from officers of the army on
duty in South Carolina utterly fail to mention
any now outrages, as alleged, and tho depart
ment, therefore, ha3 no intention of issuing a
drcnlar letter of instructions, as has been re
ported.
Barbers should frequently wash their hands.
A stranger whose nose hadbeen gripped for the
eighth time by the offensive fingers of his ton-
eorial manager, Saturday evening, blew tho
soap from his month and suddenly inquired,
“Was the body Indentified?” “What body?”
asked the startled shaver. “What body ?” to-
peated tho stranger in surprise. “Why, haven’t
yon been on a coroner’s jury Y'—Hartford
Times.
’’ -The Macon Ice Factory*
The storm of last week did some considerable
disservice to this establishment,—blowing over
the ont door tanks and forcing in the stone and
brick curbing of their great well for the supply
of water to be converted into ice. This well
has been sunk through superincumbent clay
atd then a bed of granite rock eleven feet deep,
underlying which were found copious springs
of bright and sparkling water, affording an
abundant supply for conversion into ice. Water
from other sources is used merely for mechani
cal purposes.
We saw a sample of the manufactured ice as
we entered the mill, and it was as pure and
transparent as glass. The machinery of the
mill was made at Halle, in Germany, under the
personal supervision of Mr. Memminger, tho
agent, and was imported at a total coBt of about
£25,000. It is a complicated arrangement of
heaters, condensers, pumps, pipes and tanks—
all, however, directed to a very simple process
—that of reducing temperature by the process
of sudden condensation. The agent employed
for this purpose is aqua ammonia, which is put
into a large retort—exposed to great heat and
converted into gas. Tins gas is then cooled by
water and liquified by pressure, and, in this
shape, introduced to the freezing tank or reser
voir. This is externally a largo oblong iron
box, perhaps three to four feet high—five or six
feet wide and about ten feet long—permeated
by a system of pipes into which tho liquified
gas is introduced, and suddenly becomes vapor
again.
This tank is filled with a bath or solution of
chloride of calcium, which congeals at a tem
perature far below that which is necessary to
convert water into ice. The water to be frozen
is introduced into the tank in boxes of sheet
7.nc. _ about twenty-eight inches long, three
inches thick and s<»ven wide. It take3 about
five hours, at first, to reduce the bath of chlo
ride of calcium to a temperature of nine de
grees Fahrenheit, which solidifies the contents of
the zinc boxes; but when this low temperature
is attained the boxes are emptied of a solid ice
cake of the dimensions given, onco every hour.
They are taken ont and dipped in warm water,
after which the ice cakes slide ont, and being
piled upon ono another, instantly freeze togeth
er into a solid mass of any desired dimensions 1
The single cake weighs twenty pounds.
The freezing temperature having been once
attained, the process is kept up day and night
without intermission, because it can be inter
rupted only at the sacrifice of the five hours
necessary to attain it in the first instance.
Hence, a double supply of hands is needed, and
there are also two complete ice-machines in the
factory. The aqua ammonia after passing through
the freezing tank is returned with but little loss,
to the retort, to be reconverted into gas—liqui
fied fay pressure—liberated to gas—and con
densed again—thus circulating, round and
round with a loss each time of not more than a
single per cent. The expense of materials is,
therefore, small. Tho cost of machinery, la
bor, fuel, wear and tear, make up tho consid
erable expenses.
The company expect to furnish ice to dealers
at a cent, per pound. They will be in full opera
tion by the last of the week—so soon as they
can repair damages to wells and tanks. The
foreman of the factory is a Prussian, who has
had long experience in managing these machines.
The ice, we repeat, will be as handsome as any
ever furnished by Dame Nature, and New Or
leans experiments go to show that it wastes
more slowly than natnral ice. The power
for this factory is furnished by a very compact
and noiseless steam engine, also bnilt in Ger
many.
Thus it is that the pesky rebels are ruining
the ice crop of New England—for wo doubt not
with increasing facilities and experience, ice
will bo made in all countries where nature fails
to supply it, at a cost below the freight from
Northern latitudes.
Where Applause Drowned the Hisses.—The
Son says that at Wallaok’s Theatre on Thursday
evening, Miss Lydia Thompson, as usual, sang:
May Grant return the lot
Of presents that he's got,
If ever I cease to love.
The storm of plaudits was prefaced by a few
feeble hisses. When tho applause subsided, the
hissing was resumed, only to be again drowned
by hand*clapping. Several times was the feeble
hissing repeated, and each time it was over
whelmed with applause. The hissers numbered
sot more than ten in an audience of sixteen
hundred. Majority for Dr. Greeloy, fifteen
hundred and ninety.
Evert day som’e newspaper tells ns of a wo
man burned to death, and adds, “She was try.
ing to kindle a fire with kerosene." All women
who do not take the newspapers, and who do
take coal-oil, Bhould at once memorize and sing
hourly the good old hymn beginning:
Poor Biddy Brown, to hasten things,
Poors oil upon the ooal:
The neighbors meet at night, and pray
“Have mercy on her soul.”
[Courier-Journal.
Dead.—The Charleston Daily Republican,
the Radical organ of that city, suspended pub
lication last Friday, to use its own language,'
“because tho Republican administration at Co
lumbia, will its death”—tho plaffi English of
which is that Scott refuses to allow it to gorge
at the same swill tnb whereat ho and his cro
nies are feeding to fatness. If nine ont of ten
of the chicken pie concerns calling themselvej
“loyal” papers had their rations stopped in this
manner they would suspend, too.
Letter from Talbotton.
Talbotton, September 9.
Editors Telegraph and Messenger : As the cur
tain of night now hangs heavily over this,at pres
ent, very gay and prospering inland town, and,
as I shall no longer wander forth mid its, ns it
were, labyrinthian folds, I thought I would essay
a letter to yon, though of no special import.
However, were I to dispose of my chemical
compound of clayas my ennui forciblydictates,
I would instantly to my conch, and quite as
soon not be unconsciously snoring an accompa
niment to “When the Swallows Homeward
Fly” (entre deux vius), but parlicipatingly and
quietly paying homage to that great restorer of
health and pleasure.
Seldom have I beenmoro agreeably surprised
in any place than I was in Talbotton—a town,
as I knew, not lying on or very near any rail
road, and hence not accessible to those facilities
necessary to its rapid growth. One (not living
in a place more desirable) might justly envy
the inhabitants of this one.
To-day was quite an important and interest
ing epoch in Talbotton’s history of local inci
dents—a Good Templar’s celebration. We are
informed that everything passed off pleasantly.
The nnmber of member, here is comparatively
large. Indeed, this institution has wrought no
little good in directing and stimulating many
men, young and old, to live a temperate and
industrious life, rather than an immoderate and
utterly useless participation in that which
“stingeth like an adder and biteth like a ser
pent” and which if indulged in too freely will
hurl its votaries precipitously into an abyss of
irreparable poverty, ruin and degradation. Long
may she wave ! .....
The hotel hero is doing a fine business at this
season—a great many transients passing to and
from the Ohalyboate Springs, with other pleas
ure seekers who aro stopping hero for the time.
Among the latter of whom may bo found Gen
eral Holt, wife and daughter, of Macon; Mrs.
Collin3 and daughter, of Albany. I will nay
here, Messrs. Editors, by way of digression,
that the young ladies—the “daughters”—are
particularly fascinating, and if the hearts of
young men were at all salable, could do an ex
tensive business in that line of trade. Several
of tho Talbotton gentlemen can, I know, re
peat, very appropriately, after their departure—
“Lost to sight, bnt to memory dear.” Mr.
Harvey, the proprietor here, is remarkably con
siderate and accommodating, and always has
something good to Batisfy that to which too
many of ns are slaves—the “inner man.” Hacks
from thin place make connection daily with the
trains at Geneva; also, a daily lino is kept up
to tho Springs.
Crops aro poor, as a general thing. Au re-
voir. DuB.
Elsewhere Rest.
• *1 am very tired, Muter; ——
Weary of the day.
Bid me lay my toil aside,
Bleep the noon sway.”
Bnt the Friend who knows and loves me best
Breathes in gentle answer, “Elsewhere rest.”
“Iam very tired. Muter,
Weary of my sin.
Bid Tby Spirit haste its work,
Make me pure within,
Clean and pure in peaoefol whiteness dressed.”
Bat the Muter whispers, “Elsewhere rest.”
“I am very tired. Muter,
Weary of my pain.
One sweet healing touch from Tbeo
• Makes me sound again.
Is there not a Gilead balm confessed ?”
Still the voice respondeth, “Elsewhere rest.”
“I am very tired, Muter,
Weary of the strife
Of the heavy armor borne,
Of the shock of life;
Touch with blessed balm both brow and breast.
Hark! “Fight on, my soldiers—Elsewhere rest.”
“I am very tired, soldier,
When I bore thy pain,
Fought thy fight, and shed my blood
For thy garments’ stain;
Fainted with thy burden on the tree 1
Wilt thou not endure an hour—for Me ?”
‘T am very tired, Master,
Bnt ray love is strong,
I will follow Thee, my Master,
Though the way be long.
Till the hot sun eeek3 tho dewy west,
Anil the ‘Elsewhere’ brings the blessed ‘rest.”
PRINCE BISMARCK.
A Visit to fiUs Estate in Pomerania—Ills
Character and Habits,
Colton Crop ol 1870.
We have a circular from the office of the
Commercial and Financial Chronicle, reporting
tho crop of last year as follows:
Year ending Sep. 1—,
1870-71. 1869-70.
Receipts at tho shipping p*ta 4,032,164 2,911,121
Add shipments from Tennes
see, etc. direct to manufac
turers 223,923 153,825
Total 4,261,077 3,064,946
Manufactured South, not in
cluded in above 91,210 90,000
Total cotton crop for tho year 4,852,319 3,161,916
The result of these figures is a total of 4,352,-
317 bales as the crop of tho United Statea for
tho year ending August 31, 1871.
That falls short of our anticipations about
50,000 bales, resulting from on over estimate of
the overland movement. Of this crop Northern
spinners have taken 1,100,196 boles and South-
em 91,240 and the foreign exports bavo been
3,166,742.
The Charleston Courier of the 11th mate3 the
cotton crop of 1870,'4,299,081 bales, and values
it in round numbers at $800,000,000.
The San Francisco Bulletin publishes a pri
vate letter from an English lady of rank, who
accompanied a Countess Blncher on a visit to
Varzin, the country seat of Prince Bismarck, in
consequence of this unceremonious invitation
from the Chancellor: “I say, Countess, mind
yon bring Miss with yon in July. Hike
girls who have the frankness to let me know
that they think me an old humbug.” The fol
lowing is an extract from this letter :
Tho rattling noise of the carriage in the court
and the baying of a band of watch dogs brought
the Princess von Bismark, her daughter and
two maids in Pomeranian costumes to th9 door.
In every respect the Princess is in keeping
with the mansion. She is a lady on, I should
say, the wroDgside of sixty, bnt fresb and come
ly withal. Placid women keep their good looks
far into old age. Have you ever noticed what
a peachy bloom there is in the cheek of a sil
ver-haired Quakeress ? Princess von Bismarck
ha3 this becoming bloom. She is quite an un
pretending person, both in dress and manners,
and does not givo herself any trouble to remind
people of her being a great man’s wife. Yon
must not fancy because of her plain simple
ways that she is vulgar or unintelligent. As the
fashion is in her native province, she received
scientific education in girlhood, and on leaving
school devoted herself to domestio economy,
wish yon could taste the game she pots, or tho
hams that are cured, the sansagesthat aro man
ufactured, the cider that is bottled and the fish
that are dried under her superintendence at
Yarsin. The best part of the previsions con
sumed in the Chancellor’s town-house come
from his Pomeranian estate.
In tho good, old fashioned style, Madam Bis
marck has a branch of keys hung to her girdle
They depend from a gold chatelaine her hus
band picked up somewhere in France. When
sitting in the drawingroom, or superintending
the farm women at their work, her knitting
needles are always going. Everywhere in the
sitting rooms, in the bod rooms one perceives,
in knitted quilts and curtains, netted massacars,
embroidered pillows, evidence of her manual
skill and housewifely activity. Being an old
friend of the countess, she kissed me. When “
was introduced she addressed mo a hearty wel
come in German. Her words had a motherly
ring in them as she kindly said to her daughter,
“You’Jl taka care to be a good sister to the frau-
lein while she is at Varsin.” Then laughing,
she told ns that the countess (Milo. Bismarck)
was engaged, bnt as her “intended” was with her
she would not bo too much occnpied in think
ing of him to attend to tho visitors, of whom I
learned at dinner there were no less than thirty
in the house when we arrived.
Coffee was laid in the drawing-room. Bnt
Otto said that would never do. So be ordered
a regular lunch, at which tea, with thick fresh
cream figured. This repast was a good deal in
the nature of a Scotch breakfast, for, in addi
tion to cold roast mutton, there were thin, hard
baked oat-meal scones, honey, preserves, and a
sort of whisky, distilled from a mixture of bar
ley and potatoes. The furniture used to be very
f lain. Bat Bismarck has brought back from
'ranee carved oak sideboards, tables, and la
huts, equal to what one sees in the royal chateau
of Pan, and probably as ancient Many a Sig-
ncurial residence in France has contributed to
fill his roomy Pomeranian schloss with pleasant
riches. Onr tea, for instance, was served in a
porcelain service, taken from tho Empress’
apartments at Compiegne. This service was
manufactured for Marie Antoinette, at the fac
tory sho founded at Bonrg-la-Reine, and it is
quite unique. The ground is of canary-yellow,
and tho decorative parts consists of landscapes,
most exquisitely done in Indian ink. The
Princess Bismarck, with truly German naivete,
says: “Ah! yon are admiring those littlo mugs.
They belonged to that poor Queen of Louis
XVL My husband bought the whole lot for a
thaler from a soldier. He (Bismarck) sent me
such lovely things from Versailles! I will show
yon the wonderful laces that I am going to have
made up for Leuchen’s trousseau. They were
found by Otto in a most beautiful inlaid ward
robe (which I have placed In my bedroom at
Berlin) in the castle of the Dnchess de Monchy,
that foolish Emperor’s cousin. Mein Gottf
what a foolish man that Emperor was. I heard
the Emperor "Wilhelm say that tho Empress was
also very silly and frivolous, and that she hated
Prussia. Bat she was not wicked, notwithstand
ing her being the tool of Princess Mettomich in
provoking the war.”
Bismarck came in from fishing while wo were
at luncheon. He is a hearty, hilarious, rough-
and-ready sort of a man, with littlo culture of
any sort, but a mine of keen mother wit, which
best comes out over a tankard of beer. With
out ceremony he took me ta the coffee stage of
the repast into the hall to show me a basket
full of trout, fresh from a little noisy brook
that runs into the lake on the garden side of the
house. Bismarck is a patient fisher and a ven
turesome hunter. At Yaizin, nobody unac
quainted with his antecedents, conld see in him
tho stnff for an astute politician. Yesterday,
when he was romping with the gleesome Leu-
cben, he canght my eye scanning his massive
head and soldierly countenance. I wanted to
see whore his astute genius lay, to find ont
where his Machiavellian spiritlnrks. “There,”
he cried, “is yonr English fraulein wondering
that a cloven foot does not show itself throngh
my jack-boot. Bismarck and tho devil are all
one. Isn’t it so, old mother ?” (this was to the
princess.) “What have yon got to say about
the hoofs and horns ? If yon conld only hear
what the Vienna papers are writing about my
pact with Belial, yon’d plead forthwith for a
divorce. Bnt, luckily, yon never look at the
papers, and therefore are in happy ignorance of
my coquetries with his Infernal Majesty.”
Bismarck’s study is situated on the ground
floor. It has the prosaic, nncomfortable ap
pearance of an attorney’s office. Long-legged
desks, break-back,bolt-upright hair-cloth chairs,
and sofas imported from London by way of
Stettin; brass-handled endless drawers, all dock
eted and numbered; many maps; unsightly,
ponderous volnmes bound in calf-skin; files of
etters ou a square table, solid as if made for
playing billiards, have held their own against
the charming French importations which em
bellish the other rooms of the schloss. We, the
visitors, pass onr time jn riding, fishing, boat
ing, botanizing, eating, drinking, singing and
dancing. Small as the village iB, it has its Or-
pheonist Society, which sends a brass band to
play every evening in the garden of the schloss
while we are at supper, for we dine at half-post
2 and sup at 7. The farm laborers and their
wives and daughters are allowed often to dance
on a broad qnadrille space. The Chancellor
enjoys tho fun, and sometimes orders beer to
be served to the rustic dancers. I rode this
morning in the forest with Lenchen Otto and
Connt von Luxbnrg, a Bavarian nobleman of
old family and large estates, the affianced lover—
the Chancellor’s daughter. We cantered throngh
some lovely glades, Btartling as we went along,
hares and other kinds of game. The Count is,
nati “
The New York Snn says that while Sheriff
O’Brien, of that city, was taking his usual
morning walk dnting a recent visit to Saratoga,
'he was met by an elderly party who boaslingly
informed him that sho had jnst drank fifteen
glasses of Congress water. “Well, don’tlet me
detain yon,” was his quiet reply.
coarse nose, and a harshly square jaw. Her
fine skin and animated manners alone preserve
her from extreme plainness.
Bismarck banishes politics so far as it Is pos
sible from Yarzin. Bucher and Brass, his sec
retaries, have orders to Isolate him so far as in
their power as much as they possibly can from
the outer world. Lenohen tells me that the day
on which the telegraphic wire oommunicating
between her father’s study and Berlin brought
the news of Eenedetti’s rupture with the King
of Frnssia at Ems, he had given orders not to
be' pestered with offioial business. When Dr.
Bucher handed the telegram to him he was ly
ing on the bank of the little river Wipper,
watching some rooks' flying over a rookery on
the other eide. A book which he had been read
ing was lying on the moss beside him. Of all
other books in the world, it was Gessner’s Death
of Abel. There were no visitors at the schloss,
and the Chancellor and his family were to dine
with tho village schoolmaster, the worthy and
erudite Herr Fizervitz, for whom he entertains
esteem and sympathy. On glancing over the
dispatch, he started to his feet, and without let
ting fall a word, rushed to the house. Meeting
his wife at the door, he kissed her affectionate
ly, and informed her that in half an honr ho
must be off to Berlin. “I may not return for
another year. Do yon see to tho harvest and
everything connected with tho farms, fori must
not bestow a thought upon them. War in a few
days jjth France is certain and I shall accom
pany tte King andMoltke throngh the cam
paign.” Next day he met William and Fritz at
Brandenburg on their way from Coblenfz to
Berlin, where they were going to puBh forward
military preparations.
.torally, in 1% army. Every German nobl9-
on'is. Bnt he is a diUeiantl also, swears by
Wagner, and sings sentimental songs exactly
like a tenor of the Italian Opera Honse. He is
mild as a moonbeam, and of the same pale com
plexion. Lenchen thinks him an Apollo dis
guised in tho uniform of a hussar. For my
part, his hair is too silvery, his eyes are too
celestially bine, and his checks of too pnre a
red and white to please me. The fiancee will
be the governing power in the household when
she becomes the wife of Luxbnrg. She is sin-
i gnlarly like the'Chancellor, which is tantamount
to saying that she has a deep-set, merry eye, a
A yonng lady, in a communication to the San
Francisco Chronicle, makes indignant complaint
of the unreasonableness of men in asking women
to marry. She says:
I am pestered with offers. Now, I like men
I like gentlemen’s society better than that of
my own sex. I like them because their associ
ation is to me pleasing and profitable. I want
information and knowledge of tho world, and
all the wisdom I can acquire, and this I can
better derive from personal association, and
masculine association at that, than from all the
books or the women in tho world. Not that I’m
going to put myself up as a thorough bine-
stocking, angular, shrunken, sharp-featured,
withered, spectacled, and strong-minded. My
blood circulates pretty lively, and I am not
averse to the feel of a coat-sleeve or the sweep
of a moustache to fill up the pauses in the con
versation. Bat moderation, judgment and pru
dence in all things say I. Because champagne
is exhilarating that is no reason why any one
should drink themselves into any sort of a gut
ter. Now I never offered to marry a man; !
never had the presumption to say to a gentle
man “ If yon will be my exclusive companion
for life I will support yon; and I wiil be a
mother to yonr children. As to congeniality,
why I’ve only seen yon in company dress
but you please me in that, and I’ll take ii
for granted that in all their intriacces and
complications onr natures will como into
perfect sympathy and consanguinity with each
other.” Bnt men will make snch propositions
after a six weeks’ acquaintance, when in reality
they know no more of tho woman whom they
ask to marry them than they do of tho man in
the moon. There are men who will propose
marriage to ns, whose business would keep
them two-thirds of the time in tho wiids of the
continent. They seem to imagine that the honor
of their name and alliance would bo a sufficient
compensation for a life spent two-thirds in the
condition of a grass-widowhood, or of one en
tirely subj e ct to the privations of the backwoods.
There are others, confirmed invalids, who, be
cause we are pleasing to them, elect ns to the
station of the'i nurses for life. Others are poor
as poverty, yet not for a moment do they heel
tate to offer ns shares in their poverty. Sc
they go. None of these gentlemen in the mat
ter of association are unpleasing. All are pos
sessed of qualities which render association with
them agreeable. Bnt the law of to-day seems
to be that the moment a single lady sees in a
man something to admiro, and allows him to
become aware of such admiration, that moment
his lordship must imagine that she is head over
heels in love with him. It is then that he either
demands or importunes a return of his passion,
it is then that he either becomes furiously jeal
ous of all her other male associates, whom she
may have known and esteemed for years; and,
to be sure, if she doesn’t comply with his de
mand or importunity—if sho doesn’t feign
an affection which she may not feel—his
lordship goes into spasms either of despair
or rage. He threatens either snicide or revenge.
(Mr. Editor, I ve got a trunk full of just snch
desperate letters, and I’m half inclined to pub
lish one occasionally, without signature, of
course, just in order that some of their lord
ships, who daily carry their heads very high on
Montgomery street, may see how their insanity
looks in print.) I ask again: Why may not a
lady enjoy congenial masculine association,
based on propriety, which might prove mutually
profitable, without being continually pestered
to marry? “Marry! marry! marry!” That’s
man’s eternal cry. “Marry and settle down.
Settlo down into a honse—“two story back,
perhaps—settle down into a kitchen, a cook-
stove, a wash-tub, a cradle! and so keep set
tling, settling, settling into a weary, worn, faded
woman—on whom the male importuner, after
five or ten years of exclusive companionship,
may look and congratulate himself on having
accomplished a successful rain! Yon men are
deluded on this subject of matrimony. Yon
meet a woman attractive to you, and forthwith
yon conclude that the be-all and end of her ex
istence here is a place in yonr own private cage,
where she is to sing for yonr own exclusive bene
fit. You conclude because she is outwardly pleas
ant in yonr company that all is serene and qniet
within. Yon have yet to learn that the best
specimonsof womanhood yon see are fast catting
loose from this old-fashioned idea that marriage
is the sole end ana aim of her life.
“Ouida.”-Justin McCarthy writes as follows
to the New York Mail:
Speaking of novel*, I need not ask if yonr
readers know tho beautiful and charming work
of fiction written by the Anglo-French lady.
Miss de la Ramayo, who chooses to call herself
“Ouida,” or as the Pall Mall Gazette translated
it upon ono oeeasion, “Yes, sir-ree.” Ouida, a
sort of Guy Livingtono, in petticoats, has come
before tho world with a new book, “Folio Fa
rina,” which appears to be very sad, cynical,
flatulent, and, of course, immoral. This lady—
by-the-way, she was at the famous pigeon-
shooting tho other day in company with a tre
mendous military personage who looked like
one of her own athletic heroes—has fought her
way into a sort of celebrity despite the invaria-
riable contempt and denunciations of all the
critics.
No English authoress of onr day has had half
the critical wrath and scorn poured out upon
her which has been shouldered npon “Oaida,”
and she seems only to thrive on it. I fancy
her novels have a better circulation than those
of any other authoress here. Not a healthy
sign, surely; but it is curious as showing how
little high-class people can now do to affect an
author’s popularity. I know of two distin
guished members of the Honse of Commons
who went to the aforesaid shooting match for
the sole purpose of seeing “Ouida,” and I
don’t believe they would have crossed the street
toseo Jean Ingelow or the authoress of that
charmiDg story, “Archie Lovell,” or perhaps
even George Eliot herself.
The Abut Worm in Mississippi.—A corres
pondent of tho Charleston Courier, writing from
the rich cotton county of Madison, in Missis
sippi, gives tho following picture of the pros
pect for a cotton crop in that county. Tho writer
says:
Tho army worm is upon ns In myriads. One
of our best farmers ten days ago was confident
of making one hundred and fifty bales of cotton.
Yesterday I was told that he says he would bo
pleased if ho knew he would make thirty bales.
I saw swarms of the worms on a few twigs ho
had gathered at random from his fields and
brought to town with him in a tin pan. The
cotton crop i3 so uncertain in this county as to
defy any accaraoy of estimate.
On This.—In reply to inquiries on the sub
jeot, we would state that freight and passenger
trains are now running on regular schedule
time, on all the railroads leading ont of Macon,
except on the Macon and Augusta Road. The
damage this road sustained by the late freshet
is being repaired as rapidly as possible, and
trains will be running over it by tho latter part
of tho present week.
Not True.—It was not true, as reported to
us yesterday, that two locomotives collided on
tho Macon and Brunswick road on the day be
fore. A rear car of a train became uncoupled,
and being on a grade, it ran back upon a loco
motive, breaking the glass off the head light
For the Telegraph and Messenger..
Jlannl'actnres and Agriculture—jtfo. 1
There is no question of so great importance
to the people of the State of Georgia as the sub
ject of the introduction among ns of manufac
tures. And before commencing the considera
tion of this important question, if we refer bnt
for a moment to the history of. the nations of
ancient and modem times, we will see that no
race of people have ever risen to great eminence
and power «'ho have not combined a good sys
tem of agriculture with the skill and art of
manufactures. Those nations of antiquity who
have left behind them monuments of learning,:
and have illustrated the capaoity of the human
mind in the science of architecture, the me
chanic and fine arts, and developed the mind
to the aohieving of the highest position of rea
soning, philosophy and poetry, have been that
people who have oombined these two great sys
tems of human progress.
Among those pre-eminent may be mentioned
the Babylonians, the Egyptians, Grecians and
Romans. We find that among them the me-,
chanic and manufacturing arts were carried to
the highest perfection, and, at the same time,
the earth was cultivated with a wonderful de
gree of skill. Hand in hand these great twin
brothers of power and wealth fed, clothed,
armed and protected the people in the enjoy
ment of their liberty and happiness. And in
cident thereto oomes wealth, and, when joined
to a parity of the publio mind, gives the great
support of a good government a system of ed
ucation for the people. Foremost among the
people of the present day are the inhabitants of
the British Islands, a country whose people
were the first among the civilized nations of the
earth to enjoy, in a complete extent, their per
sonal freedom, and whose country, in the wealth,
influence and bappininess of her people, stands
the first on the globe. While carrying a system
of Agriculture to a great degree of perfection
they have joined therewith manufactures to a
greater extent than any people, and as an at
tendant thereto their commerce and trade ex
tend to all parts of the earth.
While Southern and Eastern Europe import
in a great measure their manufactures, we find
them deficient in the enterprise and enlighten
ment that so strongly characterize.Central and
Western Europe. And especially may be in
stanced Prussia and the German States, whose
people have paid more attention to improving
the system of Agriculture than any other coun
try, they being the first to establish schools and
colleges for that especial purpose, and they have
also combined therewith and increased to a won
derful degree of late years, their manufactur
ing interests, and connecting therewith superior
educational advantages. Their great power as
a nation of people has lately been exhibited and
is now beheld with awe by tho civilized world.
Before the late war between the States of this
Union, agricultural and manufacturing interests
of these United Slates moved with harmony to
gether and onr people seemed content to till the
earth and sell the products of onr country to the
people of the North who manufactured, exported
and zesold them to ns again. Bnt then, and
especially so now, do we recognize the fact that
the Northern States are too distant from us that
we should derive any benefit by the distribution
of wealth among them. That which enrioheth
the people of the State of Connecticut does not
enrich the people of the State of Georgia. To
iUnstrate with bnt a single example of the
wealth distributed in a single Northern State by
its manufacturing interest, take the State of
Rhodo Island, with reference to the manufacture
of a single product of the Southern States.
Rhode Island is near the size of some of the
larger counties of the State of Georgia, with a
soil extremely poor, and with a population of
less then 200,000 people. The average annual
amount received into that State for the cotton
goods sho imports clear of all cost of purchase
and manufacture, is near $15,000,000; besides
her other manufactures of wool,mechanios’tools,
etc., more than double said amount. This
striking illustration of the wealth of the manu
facturing interest in the United States, shows
ns how great the benefit would be to onr people
did some of these streams of wealth, of which
we are the source, so bend their course that
both the source and the outlet might bo in onr
midst. There is no reason in the theory that
an agricultural peoplo as we are cannot bo also
a manufacturing one ; and tho reverse of said
proposition is now being shown and exemplified
in tho groat southwestern portion of these
States, where, from Ohio to ‘Wisconsin, a coun
try teeming with the produots of the earth and
cultivated with great skill, i3 also checkered
with the manufactories of iron, cotton, wool,
leather and other materials of use and con
sumption—a country moving in front of tho
agricultural interests on this continent, and
whose influence is fast growing to bo tho con
trolling element in tho United States.
Tho sterility and poverty of the rocky soil of
tho New England States, compared with the ev
idences of wealth on every side, often strikes
tho traveler with surprise, and the qnestion of
how aro theso great cities built on these rocky
shores, is answered by tho tall columns oi
smoko and tho busy hum of tho manufactories
on every side. Tho expense of transporting
tho raw material for tho purposes of carrying
on theso manufactures is very great, and all
things being equal, any country without this
cost of transportation would have a considera
ble advantage over this country, poor in soil and
olimate.
Let ns, now, look at onr own State—devoted
nearly exclusively to agriculture for its wealth.
Let ns consider its position and its capacity for
manufactures. The State of Georgia has four
rivers of considerable size that flow throngh its
territory, viz: The Chattahoochee, Flint, Oc-
mulgee and Oconee, all of whioh flowthrough
an undulating country from the north toward
the south, and on all of which are various rap
ids and shoals. And npon theso streams and
their tributaries there is water power sufficient
to propel machinery that will employ a large
population and more than sufficient for any
purpose that may be required.
In the mountains of Georgia, and adjacent
on tho Tennessee and Alabama line fie beds of
coal and iron, inexhaustible, and capable of
furnishing material for ages to come. On these
and other rivers of this State, lie great bodies
of land covered with forest trees thatare capa
ble of famishing the finest quality of timber
for the manufacture of farnitnre, wagons,
wooden and hollow ware, to almost an unlimit
ed extent. The yellow pine timber in the south
ern, and the granite in the centre of the State,
are sufficient for building material for any pur
pose that may ever be required. All these re*
sources and materials lie undeveloped around
BY _ TELEGHAPH.
New York markets.
We come now to the great question, how are
we to develop these great resources which the
God of nature has placed around ns? How can
wo expect to successfully compete with the
great wealth and firmly established capital of
the northern and eastern manufacturer?
That wo should be enabled to begin, be the pro
gress ever so slow, of maintaining onr commer
cial independence and developing the resources
of onr State, to the end that it may add to the
wealth, education and prosperity of onr people
is certainly to bo desired by every good citizen
who wishes the wellfare of his State and her
peoplo.
[to be concluded.]
A Third Candidate.
Tho Washington Patriot predicts that there
will be three candidates in the field in the com
ing Presidential election, viz—the Democratic
candidate, the candidate of office-holders (Grant,)
and the candidate brought forward by the mass
of respectable republicans who cannot swallow
Grant. In concluding a lengthy article npon
this subject, the Patriot remarks:
“It may, therefore, be almost assumed, that
the renomination of General Grant will be the
signal for a movement in the Republican ranks
to bring forwardan independentjeandidate. Cir
cumstances most determine upon whom that
responsibility will fall. Various names have
been suggested as likely to be received with
favor, and to make an impression on the publio
mind. Judge Trumbull, Mr. Sumner, Mr. Julian,
and others are named by their friends as repre
sentative men, who would-command confidence
and support, and oonld not be shaken in their
impose or faith, by the scare-crow of a “regu
ar nomination.” Although the new movement
is ns yet bnt in the incipient stage, the seeds
have been planted in good soil, and are destined
to bear abundant fruit. The President may suc
ceed in dictating his nomination, bnt it will be
discovered when the offloe-holders shall have
thu3 exhausted their power, that a new and
formidable element must be confronted in a
sound public opinion, which their arts cannot
reach, and their menaces cannot disturb.”
Tho wish, we fear, is father to the thought
with the Patriot. Grant will be renominated,
and the whole Radical phalanx trill vote for
him like lambs. If there is any third candi
date it wiil be some Communist affair, under
the lead of Wendell Philips. The Sane Gul-
lottes suffragists and tfagtCommnniate and agra
rians, under the name of labor reformers, will,
like enough make a national demonstration next
year, and begin fo blow-rap a hurricane. They
may not show much, but they will have a bolder
start than the abolition party did thirty-five
years ago.
NewYobe, September 10.—Cotton has been
noted as -buoyant with a steady advance in
prioes and a fair amonnt of business. The
sales for the week reached 102,500 bales of
which'89;500 bales were for future delivery, and
13,000 bales on the spot and to arrive. Of the
spot cotton, exporters took about 5,500. bales—
5,425 bales went to spinners and 5,650 bales to
speculators. Hog produots have advaneed al
though the finctnations were irregular at inter
vals. Beef and dairy produots have been firm.
Tobaooo has been steady with a good business.
Whisky and petroleum have declined. Hops
have advanced with considerable speculative
movement. Wool and tallow have been dull.
Naval stores have advanced in spirits turpen
tine, and declined in other articles. Goffeo is
higher on a large movement. In other domes
tio products the changes have not been impor
tant. The domestio produce markets were quite
active daring the week with an upward move
ment in the prices of the leading products, at
the produce exchange. The breadstuff market,
has exhibited increased Btrength, and prices
have advanced owing to the decreased receipts
and a fair demand for export.
Colton Movements of the Week.
Tho cotton movements for the week show a
decrease in receipts and an increase in exports
as compared with last year. We commence with
this week the new cotton year, and make com
parisons accordingly. Receipts at all ports for
the week 9,137, against 7,579 last week, 7,844
previous week, 7,630 three weeks since. Total
receipts since September 1, are 9,137, againBt
11,104 for the corresponding period of the pre
vious year, showing a decrease of 1,967 in favor
of the present season. Exports from all ports
for the week are 10,193, against 3,704 same
week last year. Total exports for the expired
portion of the cotton year 10,198, against 3,701
same time last year. Stock at aU ports 95,890,
against 54,723 at the same date last year. Stock
at interior towns 10,221, against 13,638 last
year. Stock at Liverpool 521,000, against494,000
last year. American cotton afloat for Great
Britain 58,000, against 16,000 last year. Indian
cotton afloat for Europe is 683,694, against
478,140 last year.
The weather South during the week was gen
erally unfavorable, and cyclones and rain storms
have prevailed on the South Atlantio coast.
These have extended into the interior to a cer
tain extent, and there is reason to fear damage
to the crop thereby.
New York, September 10.—Controller Con-
oily yesterday informed a reporter that he had
no intention of resigning, and Mayor Hall, hav
ing decided to take no part in the case,
Tweed’s constituents will hold an open air
meeting on Saturday evening, at winch Con
gressman Roberts will preside, and Mayor
Hall, Judge Cardozo, and others will speak. The
Police Commissioners unanimously dismissed
John Foley’s complaint against police sergeant
Hicks, for a refusal to arrest the alleged disturb
ers of the municipal reform meeting. In the
Harlem Times’ money article this morning, that
paper says the recent heavy fall in Hannibal
and St. Joseph Railroad stock is dno to the
troubles with the City Hall Ring, which holds a
large amonnt.
New Yore, September 10.—The steamboat
Norwalk, running botween New York and
Coney Island, while coming np to tho city this
afternoon, when of Robin’s reef, at 3:45, ex
ploded her boiler, killing and wounding a nnm
ber of persons. Sho was towed to the city.
Later.—The reported explosion of the Coney
Island steamer Norwalk, was false. An accident
occurred to her machinery which caused a panic
on hoard, although there was no danger. One
man jumped overboard, bnt was picked np.
Passengers WQre soon quieted. The steamer
was towed to her dock without farther trouble,
John HcCaully, baggage master on the New
York and Harlem Railroad, killed Thomas
Murphy.
Rochester, September 10.—Rev. A. G. Hall,
thirty years pastor of the Third Presbyterian
Church, is dead.
Hudson, N. Y., September 10.—A strong
guard appeared around the Catholic church in
this place, bnt the obnoxious priest not appear
ing tho crowd quietly dispersed.
Washington, September 10.—Judge J. M.
McKenney, who sailed from New York for Key
West yesterday, telegraphed the U. S. Marshal
of the Southern Judicial District of Florida, to
have all processes returnable on the 18th inst.,
when the Judge will hear all casc3 connected
with wrecks caused by recent cyclones.
San Francisco, September 10.—Of the last
Lower California emigrants who have arrived,
fifty ont of three hundred and fifty have died.
Memphis. September 10.—General Brown,
who killed Captain Adams, was released oh
$5000 ball.
Norfolk, September 10.—Pat in, schooner
Enoch Moore, from Georgetown for New York,
laden with coal. She collided this morning in
the Chesapeake Bay with an unknown schooner.
The Moore was damaged on herport bow.
Charleston, September 10.—There have been
no fever deaths in the last twenty-fonr hours.
Charleston, September 10.—Arrived, schoon
er Palma, from Georgetown for Now York, put
in for a harbor. The steamers are detuned by
a heavy northeast storm.
New Yore, September 10.—Arrived, Wiscon
Bin.
London, September 10.—Cardinal Bonaparte
has gone to Rome, carrying a letter from the
Emperor to the Pope. The clerical party in
Rome are preparing for th9 demonstration on
the 20th. The Reds are determined to make a
counter demonstration, and trouble is antici
pated.
Paris, September 10.—A conspiracy has been
discovered at Toulon to bum the arsenal and
liberate the convicts. Gen. Manteuffel, after
announcing the consent of his government to
evacnate the departments around Paris, dined
with Thiers, Dncrotand Chansey. The northern
forts will be evaonatod first, when the troops
will be moved at the rate of 30,000 daily. The
deaths in Paris tho past week were 943. Ty
phoid fever is becoming an epidemic.
Chicago, September 11.—Bishop Whitebouse
paid an Episcopal visit to Christ’s church yes
terday, and finding Mr. Cheney in the vestry,
withdrew. It is stated that the candidates for
confirmation unanimously declined presentation
to the Bishop, except throngh Mr. Cheney,
lawyer read the services and Mr. Cheney pre
sided.
St. Louis, September 11.—An excursion
railroad train ran into a farnitnre wagon con
taining a picnic party of nineteen persons two
miles from East St. Louis. Three were killed
and two mortally and five seriously hurt Only
three of the nineteen escaped unhurt. The
wind was blowing in the direction of the ap
proaching train and the party were singing. The
horses were the first to apprehend danger, and
one of them darted forward and the other held
back, leaving the wagon dead still on the track.
The railroad employees were exculpated.
New Yore, September 11.—Services yester
day in Emanuel Chnrch, were conducted by
Rev. Mason Gallagher, who prefaced the exer
cise by an address. He stated he had always
been in the habit, when conducting service in a
building not under the control of the Episcopal
Chnrch, of using snch forms as occasion re
quired ; bnt now, having determined henceforth
to use the Union prayer-book, it seemed proper
to withdraw from a chnrch, the liturgy of which
he should cease to use.
Hiram S. Ramsey, the negro minstrel mana
ger, is dead.
Three thousand persons attended the fnneral
of the youth who was killed while defending a
yonng woman from insult in Jones woods.
Oswego, N. Y., September 11.—A slight frost
here last night.
Bloomfield, III., September 11.—A fire on
Saturday nigbt destroyed $200,000 worth of
property in this oity.
Hartford, Conn., September 11.—Three
deaths have occurred here from mistaking toad
stools for mushroons.
Wilmington, September 11.—The ooroner’s
jury in toe case of toe R. E. Lee explosion, exoul-
ate the captain and officers, bnt oensnre the
nited States Inspector for allowing the boat to
ran four years without inspection as required by
law, and hold him in a great degree responsi
ble ; as he granted a certificate for this boat
without being in toe State at the time^ It is toe
dnty of the authorities to examine this matter,
and if toe Inspector has been negligent (which
toe evidenoe goes to prove) he should be held
aooonntable.
Norfolk, September 11.—Passed in for
Baltimore, bark Wanderer, from Liverpool;
eassed ont, brig Conoord, for toe West Indies.
Sailed, ship Bardman, for New York; brig
Evening Star, for Liverpool: barks Andes and
S. W. Holbrook, for Portland, and a fleet of
seventy-five coasters. The school ship Constel
lation reports she passed, on the 7th, abont
fifty miles north-east of Sandy Hook, a vessel
bottom np, about eighty feet keel, and no cop
per on. Could not learn her name.
-London, September 11.—The Times editori
ally censures toe importation of foreign work
men,--and sustains, on morel and
grounds, toe British strikers for nine ho^j?
Queen Victoria has entirely recovered.
The potato disease is spreading in
shire.
Madrid, September 11.—King Amad,
indisposed, and the royal progress throne?
provinces ha3 been stopped.
Lexington, Kt., September 11.-—A w,
murder was committed last night at th#
deuce of John Harper, owner of the race
Longfellow, near Midway, Ky. Jake and
Harper, brother and sister of John fa,
had their throats cat by some unknown
son, supposed far the purpose of * 0 u
Some negroes living within a few feet of
Harpers residence knew nothing of the oc
rence till this morning. No clue is obtain*?
the perpetrators of the bloody deed.
Later—Three of the negroes living oaj,
Harper’s place have been arrested as the •
derers of Jake and Betsey Harper. Bw
found on their shirts, and toe evidence aa
them iB very strong. Other negroes ernS
on the place are missing, and it is believed
are implicated in the horrid affair. A ra&j
citizens have started to hunt for the ^4,
negroes.
Lewistown, Me., September 11.—AdU
at two. o’clock says the Republicans ars
ahead. Last year it went Democratic by e ;
majority.
Later.—The vote in this city for Hall,
is 2,174; Kimball, (Dem.)18S5; scattering!
majority 271 against 411 last year. 5 f
Portland, Me , September 11.—The Tab I
toe city is light—result close.
New Orleans, September 11.—There %-
fire at Minden last night. Two blocks fa r
business part of the town were destroyed, u-
$100,000; insurance $25,000.
New York, September 11.—There mj
proceedings to-day in the Supreme Courtja
garding city affairs. The Judge directed
fendantsto produce on Thursdays compv
statement of the liabilities of toe city upjij
date, issuing an injunction. It was discovey!
that the vouchers for 1870 had been sic!*
The heavy glass in the door leading to theh
reau where the papers were kept wa3 Lrcfa
throngh whioh the burglars entered.
The coroner’s verdict in the Mary RussefaJ
resulted in a verdict against Mrs. Brown,
was committed to await the action of the G. j
Jury*.
Toronto, September 11.—Rev. Mr. Hi*
professor of natural history in the United
of Toronto, is dead.
Saratoga, September 11.—The Ward q
won the five oared race to-day, in 24:24. ft
came in two.lengths ahead. The Tynet"
won the second, leading the Biglins and Taj! |
Wiships by a half dozen lengths. ®
Newbubyport, Mass., September 11.-
boiler of Curtis’ hat factory* exploded to£
killing six. Several were wounded and disc
Charleston, September 11.—Arrived, set*
er May Mom, Jacksonville; bound northl
put in for a harbor, the schooner Palma, ait-
port, from Georgetown for New York. She;
ports springing a leak and other damage.
One'yellow fever death in the last twenlvf-
honrs. i ,
Savannah, September 11.—Arrived, schoa ;
Ida S. Burgess, New York; brig Martha, h» I
for New Haven, pnt-back leaking. Tho nil
sail was split. She will repair aid proceed
Versailles, September 11.—Thiers n
r-- ; : I
e Itu, 1
;t ion ‘1
dinner in honor of Chevallier Nigro, the II
Minister. 4 .
Paris, ■ September 11.—The evacuation L
the German troops of thefour departmentseJ
tiguoua to Paris will be completed cn the i,'4
Negotiations have commenced in relation to
evacuation of the whole of. France.
Lewistown,’Me., September 11, 8:30 p.t-
Androscoggin county goe3 Republican by
majority, against 400 last year.
Portland, Me., September 11.—bine
give a Republican majority of 886. Last,
the same towns gave a democratic majority
304. This includes Bangor, where the Re]
lican gain is very large—too Democratic
date last year being a resident there.
Bangor, Me., September 12.—Only a Irj
thirds jvote was polled here to-day. Peril
1466; Kemball 1119. Republican gain
The Republicans elect Representatives
county officers by about the same majority
the Governor and Democratic Represented!
were chosen last year.
Washington,September 11,10:30 p. x-Al
this honr the returns from Maine indicate a SS
ling off in the Democratic vote—reports thJ
far showing Republican gains.
It is stated that the accounts in the TreaJ
mint are undergoing investigation. They ea
much mystified.
Little Rook, Ark., September 11.—ha
convicts, in attempting to escape from the pal
itentiary brick yard to-day* were shot and "
by tho guard. .
The cotton worm has appeared in many
calities in the State. No rain for nearly
weeks, and both cotton and corn have suS
from drouth.
The troubles in Boone county are creati
considerable excitement. A few days since
circuit judge ordered toe militia out with ti
ostensible purpose of protecting his court, n
kept them during hi3 term, They are reports:
to have committed depredations, and attempt
the . assassination of one or two prominent Bo
ocrats of that oonnty. The difficulties appft'
to have grown ont of differences between ii
judge and sheriff, both of whom are Repnk
cans. The latter was deposed by the fores
and the coroner substituted. The sheriff refuse
to surrender his office. Tho Governor has be
sought to solve the difficulty. Tho judge toa
toe militia with him to hold too Marion Circri
Court.
Lexington, Ky., September 11.—The rats
were well attended, and toe sport excellent li
time made is considered slow for this track. '
is accounted for by the dost, which, in sec
places, was nearly a foot deep. The race •>
three year olds, mile heats, six started, was vc
by Saucebox—2,1,1,—beating Bnfbid’s b. I
1, 4, 2, and Ginger, 3, 2,—distanced. ’Em
1:41 J; 1:354; 1:36J. The second race,
dash", was won easily by Billy Williamson, Gt
berhenzio3d. Time, 1:45J.
Late Mexican Sen s.
"Washington, September It—Tho merciari
of Tampico refuse to pay tho government ta:= ’
exacted by the revolutionists. The troops, es*
sequently, aro engaged in closing commerce
houses, tho merchants protesting. The pec?
aro alarmed. There is much excitement at 9
oapitol over the primary meeting of Congress
General fears of conspiracies are entertains
Nothing from Oaxica. Three hundred revo!:
tionists are operating in Zacataoas. Promise-
frontier chiefs—Carallea, Vargas, Torino, G« :
ago end Martinez, are prepared to issue a p
nunciamento, if Juarez is declared elected.
politicians a: Mntamoras confidently state tL-
itiedro has joined Juarez, which, if true, seeme
th6 election of Juarez.
In a fight between cattle thieves and Ems
eros, near EJinsburg, two thieves were ku.=-
Cortina threatens retaiiiation. The Banctej
are preparing to wago tho war more vigoroci.
Tho high barometer which was Sunday
noon over Michigan and Wisconsin, now exU^
to New England, and the pressure ha3 &
southeastward to Georgia and Florida. Noy--
easterly winds prevail over this entire regi®
with clear weather in New England and cn a-
upper Lakes. Cloudy and hazy weather fKf
the Middle and South Atlantio to Lake Ific?
gan, and the barometer has fallen during
day from Missouri to Louisiana, and clone
weather with light rain has been reported i
the Gulf coasts. Tho temperature has fa"-
dscidedlv in Louisiana.
Probabilities: The barometer will probaW
continue stationary from the lower Lakes sot-
and eastward, with cloudy but not rainy weat>;
The pressure will probably fall on the &F?;
Lakes with increasing southerly winds &
cloudiness. Cloudy weather with rain is
able for Taesday from Missouri south into 1 :;
Golf. Easterly winds with cloudy weaiber-
the north Atlantic States and Florida. ,
San Francisco, September 11.—The Bep-
Hearns have elected all their Congressmen.
Paris, September 11.—Thiers proposes."!!
the Assembly take recess from the 17th mg
to too 1st of November. It is now
that the evacuation shall oommence at f .
Charenton, which will be tho first delivered :
to the French by the German commander.
Fondness fob Hot Watee.—Russia apP 6 ^-
to be singularly anxious to get into tree • ^ i
New York dispatch to too Western P^l
Bays: .*
A letter from St Petersburg says the Em®
Government has of late evidenced the
anxiety to complete the reorganization oi *-
army, and the conversion of itsTSmameE
Large orders for guns and rqitralleuiesand p
jeotik-s have been given in England, A®**
and Belgium. Some orders have also been g
to manufacturers in the Fienoh departmt -
but in all cases tho stipulation has beon » ^
for speedy delivery. Moreover, work is j.
on day and nigbt in toe arsenals and doesy
at St Petersburg, Cronstadt and Uicolay* 0,