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In tho Pennsylvania Democratic Con vention on Friday last, after the tenth ballot for Governor, ex-Governor Bigler wa* withdrawn in favor of Judge Cyrus L. Pershing, who, on the next ballot, received one hundred and forty-five vote*. Judge Uohh receiving ninety-four votes | and a few scattering votes being given .for other candidates. Judge Pershing Wan declared the nominee amid great enthusiasm, arid on motion of Judge 1 toss's brother, who was a delegate, the nomination was declared unanimous. Judge Pershing is a native of Cambria county, Pennsylvania, and was born in - 1825. lie has practiced law at Johns town for many years, and has devoted hifri life to his profession. Although a Demo crat in his convictions, he was not a vio lent partisan, and was often called upon to take a place on the ticket. In 1856 he came within a few votes of defeating Colonel Jidie for Congress in the strong Republican district of Huntingdon, Blair, Cambria and Somerset, and in 1858 he was re-nominated for Congress, but de feated by 8. 8. Blair by some 2,000, although loading his ticket. In 1860 he was chosen to the Legislature and served five years consecutively. In 1860 he was tho Democratic nominee for Supreme Judge, but was defeated by Judge Wil liams by 8,791 majority. Two years ago the people of Schuylkill county, without distinction of party, nominated him for , President Judge against Judge Ryan, and ho was elected by over three thousand majority. Since then he has devoted himself to his judicial duties, and dis charged them most acceptably. That he will be a terror to official plunderers, should bo be elected Governor of Penn syivania, is assured by his sentence of tho throo County Commissioners of Schuylkill county who were convicted of careless and fraudulent expenditure of the county funds. These Commissioners were arraigned before Judge Pershing on Monday last, at Pottsville, and sentenced to two years’ imprisonment each in the county jail, to pay a fine of one thousand dollars, and to be deprived of their office as Commissioners. This vigorous action, of Judge Pershing doubtless had much to do with his nomination for Oovornor. Judge Pershing, like most Democrats, is personally in favor of hard money, when be can obtain it without robbery of the people and the ruin of the country, but will heartily endorse and support the financial policy sot forth in the Democratic platforms of Ohio and his own State. His nomination is deemed equivalent to an election. The Third Term Trouble in the New York Republican Convention. In tho Now York Republican State Convention on Wednesday a debate oc curred on the resolution recognizing as conclusive the President’s public declara tion that 110 is not a candidate for ro noinination, and expressing the sinoerest gratitude for his patriotic services, but declaring their unalterable opposition to the eloetion of any President for a third term. One of the delegates, Mr. Authon, moved to amend by striking out that part which refers to a declension having been made by President Grant. He thought it not only unnecessary, but unjust to the President, by putting him in the position of declining a nomination before it had been tendered. Mr. E. Delafield Smith was entirely opposed to this resolution because the sentiment of op position to a third term did not originate with tho Republican party. General Washington, ho said, retired to private life after a second term, not because he deemed it improper to hold the office a third term, but because he wanted res(. He asked if, in case Abraham Lincoln had lived, it might not have been as wise to re-elect him in 1868 as it was in 1864, and objected to making a declaration on a proposition to which even the Demo crats are not committed. He moved the resolution be stricken out entirely. One of tlio delegates referred to the fact that - Alexander Hamilton advised Washington to become a perpetual President, and said Washington was superior to liis adviser, a remark which was greeted with warm applause. Mr. Sittlth's motion to strike out was then negatived amid loud applause, as was also Mr. Anthon’s mo tion to amend. ■ Tin: Khedive and the Confkdebate Officers. A Washington special to the Baltimore Sun says: “The selection of Joseph E. Johnston for a military posi tiou under the Khedive of Egypt is the subject of conversation among army officers, and the opiuion is expressed that the Khedive has greater confidence in the Confederate Generals than in those * who distinguished themselves in the Federal army. General Sherman says I that the Khedive is not influenced by any views, but that there have been as Hhuuy ex-Federal offioers selected as j there have been Confederates, and rnore ■~rover, that be (General Sherman'S in re sponse to the request of the Khedive to suggest names of able officers, had r, officers from both the North aud the South." From this we suppose we are to under stand that General Sherman is the con fidential adviser of the Khedive. If that potentate has any Piegan women and children to massacre or any “banditti" to hunt down, Tecumseh should have recommended his friend and right bower, little Phil Sheridan, for the service. We have a very pretty aud interesting report about the mulatto Lieutenant Gov ernor of Mississippi. Senator Alcorn, who ought to know, having been once elected Governor by the Republican party of Mississippi, says the loyal Mr. Davis sells offices and pardons criminals for a pecuniary consideration, and he cites par ticular instances. He mentions one where the murderer of a woman was released by paying Lieutenant Governor Davis SBOO. And yet Governor Ames goes away and leaves this charming official to have the entire control of the Executive Depart ment of the State. Are we to suppose, asks the Nashville American, Ben But ler’s son-in-law receives part of this cor ruption fund i Perhaps his friends will *ay he is entirely inuocent, and does not j jenow f‘f his Lieutenant’s little ways that lare peculiar. In either case, he is nnat Kto be Governor. jfaaiuuM Heeltf Sinus. J. H. ESTILL, PROPRIETOR, 'train* in Georrfa. Judge William Gibson thinks it would be economy to abolish the Supreme Court of Georgia. The Atlanta Herald repeats that the charge that Kimball has anything to do with the editorial supervision of that paper is a willful and malicious false hood. General John C. Vaughn, of Brooks oounty, is dead. The Tbomasvilie Time* truthfully re marks : “The Morning News had the fnost copious and comprehensive reports of the late Washington county troubles of any paper in the State. It is never behind in anything.” Brunswick will have anew hotel at an early day. The Treasurer of Bmnswick is named Fakrn, and not Wells, as we stated yes terday. His friends assert that he will prove he is innocent of every charge brought against him. Jesup is lready feeling out for anew hotel. About three hundred pounds of fish were caught in the mill pond of Judge Levy Gallimore, of Twiggs county, last Saturday. . Sore eyes are prevalent in Twiggs county. We regret to learn that Professor Le - Roy W. Broun has resigned the Chair of Mathematics in the State University for the purpose of accepting that of Ap plied Mathematics in the Vanderbilt University of Tennessee. Georgia los< s one of her most enthusiastic and scholar ly instructors. President Davis has written a letter to Mr. W. J. Young, of Tbomasvilie, ex pressing his regret that business engage ments will prevent him from attending the fair in that city. The Marietta Journal says that Mr. Thomas Willcocks, of Cobb county, has an unfailing remedy for cancer. Dr. John I). Andrews, of Thomasville, also has a sovereign remedy for the same dis ease. An intelligent colored man of Spalding county contends that his race are tho descendants of Cain, that Cain’s wife was not a human being, and that his progeny entered the ark umong the wild animals. This Spalding nigger is tres passing upon Darwin's domain. Elberton is about to realize a steam cotton gin. liust is injuring the cotton in tire neighborhood of Muscogee county. Frank Mayo, the actor, is billed for Columbus this season. A youthful cattle-thief was arrested in Fort Valley tho other day. We are under obligations to Mr. J. K. S. Davis, of Thomasville, for a bottle of his indelible writing fluid. Judging from the sample, the ink deserves to come into popular use. Mr. Davis will shortly begin to manufacture it in quantities for sale. An Elbert county negro has been ar rested for rape. Mrs. Win. Boyd, of Griffiu, was very seriously injured by a base ball the other day. Her recovery is doubtful. Two or throe years ago Mr. R. M. Goodman, of Marietta, placed a small alligator in his mill pond. Another alli gator lias made its appearance in the pond, and tho two are often seen swim ming around together. It is opposed the new comer is au immigrant from Florida. A Cobb county man drank a pint of brandy the other day on a wager. Tho Bainbridge Democrat remarks: “ Will the press of Georgia do our town the justice to state that for the past two years there have been not more thnn six white deaths within our corporate limits, and that there is not a healthier place in Southwestern Georgia ? Au impression prevails that Bainbridge is a very sickly town, which is very erroneous —hence we ask the favor of having it corrected by our contemporaries.” Col. J. S. Pinckard bus been elected Mayor of Forsyth. Columbus is bragging considerably (aud with good reason ) of her Florida trade. Mr. T. D. Worrall, of England, will deliver an address in Griffin to-day on the subject of Direct Trade. Col. John Jones, of Chattooga county, has been again stricken with paralysis, aud now lies in a vory precarious condi tion. There are considerable complaints of drought in Southern Georgia. Mr. Jacob Harrell, of Bainbridge, was married recently to Miss Ella Jones, daughter of Judge Jones, of Blakely. The Forsyth Advertiser says that Judge G. J. Wright presided during the last week of Monroe Superior Court to the entire satisfaction of lawyers, jurors and all interested parties. He is very cautious but firm in the administration of dis oipline, holding every one to the observ ance of the rules with strict impartiality. There was talk of a duel in Augusta on Monday. Col. Sawyer doesn't quite agree with Col. Grady’s article on Southern writers. The fact is. Sawyer seems to be some what of a Southern writer himself. Ellijay will shortly have anew hotel. Cel. 11. B. Hilton, of Tallahassee, is endeavoring to show the Macon Telegraph what irony is. He has a big job before him. Let the Colonel write again. The Atlanta Herald solemnly announces that Max Miller has anew volume in press. This is not a Georgia affair, but if Muller was around he would interview the Trained Journalist of the Herald. Marietta Journal: Senator Norwood's speech, delivered at Emory College and published in that newsy and able journal, the Atlanta Constitution , was perused by us with a good deal of pleasure. Like all of his speeches it was grandly beautiful, ably eloquent, and intellectually great. He says that the war was waged by the North through mercenary motives, and as they loved the Union better than the} did the Constitution, they fought for the one to the destruction of the other. He says the negro was given the right to vote to retain power, but as the negro always votes for men. not measures, the South will eventually add him to her own power, then the Radicals will demand his disfranchisement or colonization. Perry Home Journal: Old Guinea Joe, a native of Africa some seventy years old. aud formerly a servant of Dr. R. C. Bryan, killed a rattlesnake la--d week with eighteen rattles, and which was eight feet long. Old Guinea earefully cut off its head, skinned, dressed and fried it, and had a regular African feast, no says it was better than chicken. Joe has a great reputation as fire-eatt r and conjurer. We have seen, him eat a hand ful of the brightest, hottest hickory coals that could he burned out of barrel hoops; aud while you could hear a terrible frying and hissing in his mouth, and clouds of smoke issuing from it, we gave him a thorough examination and found not the least bum; there eould be no humbug in it. Griffin New: At a religious meeting a few miles from the city a short while since, after the principal part of the pro gramme. such as shouting and patting of feet, had bees gone through with, a colored brother, who is looked upon as one of the big men in the Baptist Church, was eailed on to go into the pulpit and give bis experience. He did so by say mg: “Bredden, do pulpit is too little to hold me, I want to De down here on de floor where I can hab elbow room and ex patiate myself. De udder night when I was asleep 1 had a trace and went to heb ben; de golden gates was opened and I walked in glorifying: I looked all around and way ober in de fur comer I seed two great big fat Baptists setting over dar eating possum and de grease was just running down dar chins. ” This was de livered in a regular sing-song style, and in a voice as strong as the whistle of a steam engine, and the hearty amens and groans that went up from the crowd showed that they believed qvery word he was saying. We are assured this is literally true. Ellijay is sending cattle to Atlanta. The Supreme Court have decided j against Nick Thompson, the negro who 1 killed Captain James H. Hunter, of Brooks county, some time ago, and he j will consequently be banged. A negro woman whipped a colored girl to death recently in Sumter county. A Gilmer county man found eight hun dred and odd dollars in an old log the other day. Americus had received seven hundred and fifty-five bales of cotton np to the 14th. An Atlanta father locked his two little children in a house recently, and left them to starve. They were found in a pitiable condition. Columbus is holding open air religious meetings. A Kentucky editor named Bowen de serted his wife above Atlanta recently. Moody and Sankey have been invited to Atlanta. Col. Moody, we believe, is the man who said he had frequently seen Southern slave-owners chase their bleed ing negroes with dogs to the Canada line. We trust he will come and see how clever and mild-mannered the slave-owners are. There is trouble among the Macon lire companies. The Athens papers seem to be prosper ous. Both the Watchman and the Georgian come to us this week printed on new type —the latter in enlarged form and with anew heading. Grady, of the Atlanta Herald, has a well-considered article on Southern newspaper writers. It is the best article Grady has written since his famous ac count of a visit to Col. William Saball’s shuck-pen. The small-pox cost Oglethorpe county nearly, if not quite, two thousand dol lars. An eighteen pound wild-cat was killed near Macon recently. A champion fox chase will shortly occur in Jones county. Oglethorpe county has raised a stalk of corn nearly nineteen feet high. It is said that Eli Perkins is coming to the State Fair, an announcement which, we trust, will not drive off any custom, if Perkins is coining we don’t see how the management can keep out the side shows and the prize-candy men. It would be odious discrimination. The falling of an elevator in Atlanta the other day came near killing a Mr. Bryant, who was engaged in repairing it. Kimball has goue North for the pur pose of purchasing the machinery of his now cotton factory. The Thomasville Enterprise is always saying something nice. Here is a sam ple: “The Savannah Morning News, always ahead, has recently enlarged its borders: beautified its columns and dis tinguished its reportorial staff. If we had no other exchange we could edit a cipi tal paper from the columns of the News.” Mr. James Laurence, a bar-keeper in a Columbus saloon, fell in a deep ravine while going to his home in the suburbs of that city the other night. He was in stantly killed. Judge D. W. Spence, of Covington, is dead. The chicken cholera is raging near At lanta. Gordon county crows eat grasshoppers. Atlanta correspondence Augusta Chron icle: I think I can with safety say that the two newspapers here will soon con solidate, after the fashion of the Nash ville papers. From a private but reliable source, I learn that negotiations are pend ing looking to that object. In case they should in less time than sixty da> s, a lit tle independent paper will shoot out from strong hands and become the people’s pa per. Parties are at work now figuring up for this event. Atlanta Constitution: Not long since a worthy merchant of Barnesville left for New York to purchase goods. During his absence his wife, to whom he had been married about two years, gave evi dence of aberration of mind. One night she screamed out and grew worse. The next day friends were in the room dis cussing whether to telegraph her condi tion to her husband or not. She turned to them and remarked, “You need not telegraph him. The good Lord has ena bled me to apprise him of my condition.” But they telegraphed to the husband, and in a very short time he was at home. The husband says that the night during which she screamed out, he dreamed that she was in the condition he found her in, aud when the telegram came he was fully aware of her condition. _ We learn that she is lying now in a precarious condi tion. Can any one account for this cir cumstance ! Was the premonition con veyed by spiritual means, by the odic force, or what?. Macon Telegraph : Among the beauties of Central City Park are three beautiful fawns, now about three months old, and as handsome as four-footed auinjals usu ally get to be. But it seems that these creatures have au enemy which is seeking their destruction. All night before last a ferocious wild cat was prowling around after them, and yesterday tho ugly “var mint” was seen in broad daylight. We are in favor of its being hounded down and killed “without regard to race, color or previous condition” of ferocity. It would be a pity to have the deer slain by this marauder. It is bad enough to have them killed by the hungry curs which infest the city. If the cat would only let the deer alone and come into the city and go to killing dogs, we would be in favor of voting it a badge and the freedom of the city. Atlanta correspondence Augusta Chron icle : In my judgment, there should be a convention of the people of Georgia. The Constitution of the State was made for the people by men chosen under in fluences which do not exist to-day. It is the right of people who control the State now to make a Constitution for •themselves. There is not the slightest clanger that anything would be done to disturb the relations of this great State to the United States, nor would any measure he adopted to deprive any class of the people of their civil or political rights—a national spirit would animate the Convention. A Constitution would be framed in harmony with the senti ments of the people who desire to restore to the State its full prosperity and glory. While the present Constitution continues to he the organic law of Georgia there will be a general desire to frame one dictated by the people who comprehend the true interests of the State, and who will confine the task to the representa tives who enjoy their confidence. Macon Telegraph: If any man is in doubt as to the quantity of cotton that will be gathered in the comities southwest of Macon, and lying along the Southwest ern Railroad, let him get on that road and ride out liis ticket either to Albany or Eufaula. If that doesn’t convince him that a half crop is all that is in sight now, he is past conviction. The writer has had au opportunity this week to see for himself and make careful inquiry on the subject, and such is his candid opinion. The only thing that can bring these figures up, is exceptionably favorable seasons and a very late frost. Those two events may give the squares brought forward by the August rains opportunity and time to come to maturity, and thus increase the product. But there must be just such a favorable conjunction of circumstances to do it—of that there is.no Question. If Macon has to depend upon Southwestern Georgia to hold her own in cotton re ceipts this season as compared with last, she leans upon 5 broken reed, indeed. New York correspondence Macon Tele graph: I have for the past few Says been off and on a spectator at the Cotton Exchange in this city. This result of my observation is. that I am satisfied that it is in the power of the farmers of Georgia, Alabama and Mississippi to destroy a gigantic fraud on their interests. The amount of actual cotton on hand is un usually small, but these gamblers, ex pecting that the farmers would rush their cotton in as they did last year, are selling futures nearly one cent per pound below SAVANNAH, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1875. what the actual cotton itself will bring on the market. Now. if your grange or ganization is worth anything, act on this at once, and prevent the planters from bringing to market only such cotton as they are compelled to bring. The re ceipts in Georgia, Alabama and Missis sippi, if moderately small for even the next ten days, will smash to atoms one half the cotton gamblers of New York, and cause cotton to advance from one to two cents per pound. Atlanta correspondence of the Augusta Chronicle: The suggestion of Hon. Her schel \. Johnson for Governor has en listed a hearty response from numerous persons in this section of the country who have not yet given any expression of preference between the candidates now before the people. They look upon ex-Governor Johnson as a man who does not seek the position, and one who, if elected, could enter the Executive chair untrammeled by any sort of obligations or pledges to any man or set of men. This much, they claim, cannot be said of the majority of the candidates now be fore the people. The greater portion of them, they say, are either designing poli ticians who are turning heaven and earth to obtain the nomination, or who would be willing to uncumber themselves with objectionable obligations to obtain it. They can support Gov. Johnson, they say. without any apprehensions of such intriguing on his part. Columbus Times : Georgia was origi nally intended to be a silk growing coun try. For various reasons this intention has never been carried out, and it is now rare to see any attention whatever paid to silk culture in this State. An old lady who lives in Meriwether county brought some beautiful silk thread to Columbus a few months ago, and when it was told that she raised the worms and spun the silk with her own hand, it was looked on as something of a curiosity. Occas ionally old ladies bring it into the city, but there is nothing like a general rais ing of silk worms in the State. The silk interest is becoming one of very great importance in this country. Ten years ago not a yard of this beautiful and costly fabric was made in the United States. Now there are one hundred and seventy establishments engaged in its manufacture, and American-made silks are now considered fully equal, if not superior, to the imported. The manu factories in this country consume about 170,000 pounds of raw silkier diem. The raising of silk worms is quite profitable and can be carried on in our climate as well as anywhere in the world. If it re ceived proper attention it might become anew and very profitable branch of in dustry in Georgia. Letter from the G. M. State Grange. Editors Telegraph and Messenger : My recent travels over many parts of* Georgia have convinced me that the crops are materially curtailed by the hot sun and dry weather, not only of July, but also of this month. The rust has added much to the disaster of cotton. We bad the promise that late cotton, after the hot and dry weather so materi ally cutting off the early crop, would make a good yield ; but the recent drouth and excessive heat has been fully as de structive to the late crop as the -July weather was to the early. The crop of peas, turnips, potatoes, etc., has suffered much from the present drouth; but I trust our farmers will not be discouraged with the loss of many turnips, but renew the planting—good crops can yet be made by liberal fertiliz ing, which should always be done to make turnips. As stated in my last, I reiterate the great, the indispensable necessity of the farmers and planters planting largely this fall of small grain. Don’t let it be said by a single member of the Grange, or outsiders that plants, that they have not land or seed to sow. This will be a shame to any member. And let every one cast about at once, looking after land, looking after seed, looking after time to do this work. It is gratifying that the subordinate Granges ar6 taking this important move in hand, and proposing to inspect, during next season, the crops of their members, either by committee of a few or of the whole Grange. This is a favorable omen, and let no member be caught without a good portion of his land sowed down in small grain, and planting quite as largely in corn—an abundance to make our farms self-sustaining, and supply those of r,ur fellow-citizens not producing, but en gaged in other callings. The Grange organization is spreading its influence widely over the country, and sinking its roots deep into the good opinion of good men of all classes. Its efforts to establish direct trade with Europe surely has the endorsement of all classes. All are deeply interested, and let us link our shields together for the accomplishment of this, the grandest en terprise of the nineteenth century, We have now Dr. Worrall, a commis sioner from an English society of great wealth and large numbers, canvassing our State and our section in the interest of this great move. Ho has now appoint ments in our State as follows; LaGrange, 13th: Griffin, 15th; Hawkinsville, 18tb; Albany, 20th; Thomasville, 22d; Savan nah, 24th; Augusta, 25th; Thomson, 27th; Conyers, 28th; Gainesville, 30th; October the Ist, Marietta, and the 2d, Dalton. These three last appointments are changed to suit the convenience of Dr. Worrall, who did not wish the ap pointments so far distant. Notice did not reach him in time. I presume there is no paper in our State that will not advocate direct trade with Europe—when they know that propositions come to us from such sources as is now represented by the English commissioner, who is the -di rector of the Mississippi Valley Associa tion, with twelve American directors, the headquarters of which is in Louis ville. Ky., who co operate with an equal number in England, with twelve direc tors there of Englishmen and one Amer ican. They do not propose to handle auy of the money or stock subscribed on this side of the Atlantic, aud we do not claim to manage that stock. They propose, so soon as two hundred and fifty thousand dollars are subscribed on each side, to invest their two hundred and fifty thou sand in ships. The investment of our stock is entirely under the control and management of our board. Seven stock holders suggest the building of depots with part of our stock, for the reception and storage of all goods consigned to them by manufacturers, etc., and some to be reserved to advance on cotton to be shipped. There is a foolish idea that has gained some credence by croakers, that the money we put in as stock is in hazard. Well, all I have to say, if the South can’t find London directors to manage its interest, it is a lamentable state of things. But I will not pretend to discuss the great question. I trust that all interested in this great move will attend someone of the meet ings advertised, when Dr. Worrall, with prominent members of the Grange, will address the people. I trust that all papers in Georgia that sympathise with the movement of direct trade, will at least contribute as much as advertising the meeting throughout the State, as stated above. Yours, truly, etc., T. J. Smith, Master of Ga. State Grange. Mr. and Mrs. William E. Baker, of Wellesley. Mass., will celebrate their crystal wedding on Monday, September 20, by a pork and bean reception. Invi tations to the entertainment are sent out in little wooden boxes, which contain a small glass pig, filled with white beans, and who bears upon his back a printed request that the recipient will be present. Appended to piggy’s curling tail is a card iu the shape of a large bean giving neces sary information as to trains and detailed programmes. A correspondent writes from Naragan sett Pier that the style of bajhing cos tume used there is very striking. The ladies appear in striped stockings fas tened above the knee, and the gentlemen with “low neck and short sleeves.” Florida Affairs. The Pensacola Gazette has an account of an Arab by the name of Abra Cader, who provoked an altercation with Mr. J. P. Stevens, of that city, and dangerously wounded him with a knife, Mr. Steven’s using only a stick in the fight. The Key of the Gulf says that Key West has 11,700 inhabitants. General Spinner, late United States Treasurer, proposes spending the coming winter in Jacksonville, and has already engaged his residence. Anew cable is to be laid between Key West and Punta Rassa. The County Commissioners of Marion county have taken vigorous measures to reduce the future issue of scrip and bring the expenses of the county down to the minimum figure. Two hundred long wool merino sheep, from Vermont, passed through Jackson ville Wednesday on their way to Volusia county. Somebody entered a colored man’s house in Palawu the other day and stole the treasure box of the colored Methodist Church. The A. G. & W. I. T. Company’s Rail road has recently put in operation an iron and brass foundery at their machine shop in Femandma. The first cask of iron was rur off on the 2d instant, and was suc cessfully done. A man at Mayport, down the St John’s river, took in “out of the wet” at one Tiaul of his seine fourteen hundred and firty fine mullet, and sold them in Jack sonville the same day. The Palatka Herald remarks : “ All the talk about political ostracism you will find to be faMtied ; on the contrary, you will uev 1 be asked what your politics are, and if you will treat with toleration those who differ with vou, aud mind your own business, and act as becomes a gentleman, you will be protected in your rights as a citizen, and be as kindly treated in social Florida, as you will in any other State in the Union.” The Jacksonville Dress says that a won derfully large school of fish were disport ing themselves in the river the other day, presenting an extremely interesting aqua tic eight, and exciting the cupidity of chronic anglers, whose indignation was thoroughly aroused on account of the lack of respect shown to their wishes, the fish flirting out of sight before the watchers could recover from their sur drise. The same paper says that Bishop Verot arrived in Rome on Monday, 6th inst. He received the Papal blessing of Pope Pius IX for himself, the faithful of Florida, the Sisters of St. Joseph, and the Irish Catholic Benevolent Society of that city. Bishop Verot presented the Holy Father with a purse containing two hundred and fifty dollars in gold. Orange county shows a good state of affairs. A correspondent of the Union sums up thus: “At the close of the war there were not exceeding five hundred souls in Orange county. The last census —lß7s—shows a resident population of over eight thousand whites and two hun dred blacks. There are now over fifty mercantile houses, ten hotels aud board ing houses, twenty schools, six churches (one the prettiest in the State), nearly five thousand acres cleared and planted in orange trees, nearly a million seedling orange trees, twenty new Post and more than a hundred wealthy non residents planting and preparing winter homes, and about fifty invalid physicians, but not one doctor living by his profes sion. We have many settlers who came here without a dollar who are now worth from one thousand to thirty thousand dollars, and the finest court houie in the' State. More than half our progress has been made in two years or since the panic, and we expect to double in two years more. The assessed value of pro perty is nearly one million, and more than one-half of the property is on home steads not taxable, and in five years it is sure to amount to $4,000,000. There is nearly a quarter of a million acres of the finest land in the county still vacant— government land—and at the rate settlers are coming in it will all be taken in twelve months.” Palatka Herald: One of our river pilots, Abe Wylie, was murdered on Fri day night the 3d, by William Billiard at Newtown. Newtown is a community of colored people where Wylie had his residence. Billiard gave himself up, and reported that he found Wylie in the house with his wife, and that he beat him, and followed him into Wylie’s own lot, where he drew his knite and cut a gash in his throat, and an ugly gash on his arm, just above the elbow. The victim died immediately from the effect of the wounds. It has been current among the colored people that the law would not hold a man accountable for killing another when found invading his do mestic premises. Doubtless, such was the opinion of Billiard when he mur dered Wylie. The perpetrator of this foul deed soon found himself committed upon an unbalanced case. Previous to the trouble, Billiard had been in the habit of beating his wife, and his cruelty caused her to leave him and seek a room in Newtown, where she was living under her own roof. Billiard’s wife de clares that Wylie was not in her house that night, and some of the jury of in quest give it as their opinion that Wylie was called out of his own house and killed. He was found dead on his own steps. All things considered, the case goes to show that it was a premeditated murder, and that the woman would have been murdered also hut for her escape. Wylie stands fair with our people. He was considered one of the best of his class. His loss is very much regretted. It is well that no political capital can be manufactured out of this case. Quincy Journal: The Rev. W. Wat kin Hicks, editor of the Fernandina Ob server, State Superintendent of Public Instruction, member of the Legislature from Dade, has commenced action against the editors of the Jacksonville Press for “defamation of character,” and places his damages at twenty thousand dollars. The Press has proven too strong for the Rev. Watkin, and instead of his killing it out, as he boasted, it is about to kill him out. So he appeals to the courts to defend and protect him from the conse quence of the war of words commenced by himself in his famous “open letter” and his editorials in the Observer, in which he invited the scrutiny of the Press into his past character, which it has done, and for which the Rev. Watkin claims twenty thousand dollars damages. If these proceedings are intended for any other purpose than damages, they will fail. The language used by the Press has been fully as moderate and considerate as that of the Observer, and no intelligent jury in Duval county, or the State of Florida, would give one cent damages against the former. If the action is merely intended to cripple the Press, in that it will also fail, for that paper has a large and growing influence, and is fast becoming indispensable to the Democratic party, has already established itself as the leading Democratic papier in the State, and all efforts of Hicks or the Radical party that works through him to break it down will only increase its cir culation and extend its deserving influ ence. The people of Duval county, and of Florida generally, and the honest and conscientious judge that will preside will see to it that justice will be dealt out, and no political persecutions allowed in this case. A Pious Thief. —A man who said he had been for nine months out of work, applied to Mr. Charles Duvan, of West Hoboken, on Friday night, fop aid. Mr. Duvan to fit him in and provided him with sup r. His air was exceedingly sanctimoi: ous and the tone of his con versation -.wry pious. When the family were about to retire for the night, he asked to lie allowed to lead them in prayer. The privilege was extended to him, and Mr. Duvan and his wife and family knelt with him. Y’esterday morn ing, when the family awoke, they dis covered that the stranger had left, taking with him S3OO of jewelry and silver ware. South Carolina Affairs. The gardens in Aiken and vicinity need rain very badly. Maj. James Pagan, master of Ridge way grange, brought to Ridgeway the two first bales of cotton of the new crop. They weighed 454 and 460 pounds re spectively. and were purchased for 13 cents by Gladden & Bro. The Republicans of Aiken have nomi nated Dr. P. G. Rockwell for Mayor. The census of Oconee county has been oompleted. The aggregate population foots np 13,897, against 10,536 in 1870. The number of whites is 10,067, and of colored 3,830. The residence of Mr. B. D. Dean m Bel ton, Anderson county, was destroyed by fire on Monday last. The religious excitement still continues throughout Oconee county. Protracted meetings have been held at South Union and Beaverdant Churches, in the south ern part of the county, and also at Fair view and Old Pickens. Many have joined the church and much good done thereby. The first bale of new cotton which was brought to Honea Path was sold for 17 j cents a pound. The merchants of Florence are laying in heavy stocks of goods for the fall trade, and it is believed that there will be a greater amount of business done this season than ever before. New stores are being opened, and the business of the town is getting lively. Mrs. Jones, mother of Mr. Lewis Jones, died at Edgefield on Monday last. Oconee’s first bale, of new cotton was jraised by Mr. Thompson Bearden. Sold for 14 j cents per pound. Mr. B. N. Ward has been nominated by the. Conservatives of Horry county to fill the unexpired term of State Senator Dunn. Two colored men, January Evans and Harvey Cousar, on Fry & Keefee’s tur pentine farm, about five miles from Or angeburg, between whom there had been ill blood for some time past, had an en counter on Saturday night last, which re sulted in the death of January Evans, who was stabbed five times by Cousar. Mr. Keath Durham raised the first bale in Pickens oounty, and got fifteen cents a pound for it. Sumter is to have street cars. The Abbeville Press and Banner, with that liberality which is so characteristic of the up-country press, offers a year’s subscription for the best bale of cotton left at the Press and Banner office. Newberry College, at Walhalla, has opened under brighter auspices than ever before. Many new students have made their entrance to the college, and the President and professors are hopeful of a large attendance. The Georgetown Times says: “The rice harvest. has fairly commenced, and in a week will be general, except perhaps high up on the Pee Dee, where the water may for a few days interfere with the plans of the planters.” Henry Kennedy, living in Gravel Town, Newberry county, during this year gath ered twenty one and a quarter bushels of wheat from one and a quarter acres, aud has now on the same spot a crop of flourishing corn and peas, from which he expects to reap forty bushels. Kennedy is a colored man, and his industry is highly creditable. Mr. Christopher Whitman, of New berry county,’while coming out of a well he had been cleaning, when just at the top, fell backward from the tub, and, striking his head against the curbing, was instantly killed. It is supposed chat the foul air in the well caused him to faint. A colored man named Gabe, was killed last Friday by a fall from a scaffold at Mr. Bischoff’s plantation, in Colleton county. A destructive lire occurred in Little River village on last Saturday morning. Two stores, the church and the Masonic Hall were all destroyed. The loss will be from six to seven thousand dollars, with a partial insurance. Trial Justice Solomon Pinckney, of WaUerboro, died last Friday of consump tion. Bamberg, one of the most thriving towns on the South Carolina Railroad, received sixty bales of new cotton on the 4th instant. The trade of Branehville last year ex ceeded by fifty thousand dollars that of any previous year. There are 306 white and 265 colored children in the town of Spartanburg be tween the ages of six aud sixteen years, making in all 571. Cotton stealing is just now extensively practiced in Orangeburg county, and several parties are now in jail for that practice. A colored man, named Esau Ward was drowned at Oak Point mines, Bull river, Beaufort county, on Friday last. One hundred and twenty-five bales of cotton wero sold in Orangeburg last week. The census of Oconee county has been completed. The aggregate population foots up 13,897, against 10,536 in 1870. The number of whites is 10,067, and of colored 3,830. From the Ist of January to the Ist of July, 300 tons of fertilizers were landed at the depot in Darlington. Henry Kennedy, living in Gravel Town, Newberry county, during this year gath ered twenty-one and a quarter bushels of wheat from one and a quarter acres, and has now on the same spot a crop of flour ishing corn and peas, from which he ex pects to reap forty bushels. Kennedy is a colored man, and his industry is highly creditable. The first bale of new cotton was brought into Greenwood on Tuesday last, and sold at 12i cents per pound. A man was killed at Trankeef’s turpen tine distillery, in Orangeburg, on last Saturday. Two colored men who had been drinking heavily got into a fight, and one cut the other’s bowels out. The wounded man lived for several hours, and died in great agony. The murderer has escaped. Theodore Tilton’s Engagements.-- The agents of Theodore Tilton have ar ranged that he shall lecture in New York on September 29, the same night that Mr. Beecher is to be received in the Brooklyn Academy. He will lecture in Brooklyn on the following night, and in Boston on the next night. Already three hundred applications have been filed for his services, but he will not lecture more than two hundred nights, and if his health continues good, possibly two hun dred and twenty-five nights. Mr. Tilton does not expect, even in the most remote way, to speak of the scandal, and his agents say that he will not allow his inti mate friends to broach the subject. Mr. Tilton receives one hundred dollars a night for his lecture, and more in larger cities. He is to speak every night except Sundays and Christmas until the Ist of June. It seems that notoriety, however in famous, attracts as well as popularity. Beecher and Tilton as lecturers and preachers draw now better than ever. We wonder that some enterprising mana ger does not trot out Elizabeth for a lecture season. She would attract rousing au diences no doubt. The New York TritcAne, in noticing that such riots as have afflicted Missis sippi are unknown in Virginia, North Carolina and several other States, says it is because these States are out of the hands of the men who steal the very land from under the plow of the planter and whose petty oppression lashes the people into desperation. Governor Ames has sown the wind and is reaping the whirl wind. This hits the nail pretty squarely upon the head. AMERICAN SYSTEM OF FINANCE. The Crushing Evil of the Tyranny of Capital Over Labor. The Northern Masses Aroused to the Danger of the Crisis. Revolution Against Monarchy in 1776. Revolution Against Monopoly in 1576. [From an Occasional Correspondent of the Morning News.] Philadelphia, September 12, 1875. Editor Morning News: AU classes of laboring men, farmers, mechanics, miners, manufacturers aud clerks, as well as merchants of a well known class, feel that it is time some thing definite should be done to improve business and to mitigate the severity of the times, with the masses of the peo ple of all parties and all sections of the country, now pressing upon all with more or less hardship. Therefore it is that the Ohio and Pennsylvania political financial platforms are so popular. It is generally conceded both States will be Democratic. The leading political moralism of nearly all the country laying east of the Alle ghany Mountains and north of the south ern boundary of Maryland is simply the inevitable subjugation of the labor of the farmer, mechanic, miner, factory oper ative, clerks aud “help” generally, to the power of capital. The natural effect has been that of enormously inflaming the pride of capital, and correspondingly de pressing aud creating innumerable flun keys among the laboring classes. The idea of conscientiously abstaining from all injustice, according to the Christian standard, “toward the neighbor,” who may be some “poor devil” too poor to go to Long Branch in the summer, is as scarce east of the Alleghauies and north of Richmond as pearls in an oyster. How can it be otherwise with tho present leg islative system ? Our laws encourage the highest sanction for esteeming the pos session of monopolies, and with them capital, far above the every day worker for his bread and meat, and sanctions the treating him with condescension and scorn. There is, however, always an unctious cant and shabby sophistry which prevails on this subject, but which now seems to be fooling but few. It is said the proposed “American sys tem of finance” will make as great a change in the prosperity and happiness of the many, as distinguished from the few favored ones, as did the declaration and success of American independence in 1776. As long as truthful American Republi can government lasted there existed no cause of quarrel between the people and the acts of their “public servants.” It is said the effect of the “American sys tem of finance” will be that there will exist no longer any necessity for quarrel or jealousy between capital and labor. Capital then will be as much the creature and servant of labor as labor is now of capital, with the moral distinction of a sympathy and fellowship of lubor with capital. The European or Oriental system of finance only requires a prick with the smallest pin of science, and it plainly sots forth its injustice to the masses and its egregrious imbecility. The talk of the New York World about rag money, soft money, etc., etc., is the puniest flunky nonsense. It seems the old Courier and Enquirer revived, with its fifty-two thousand dollars stimulus. The entire traditional doctrine that the few have a right to hold the money by the strong arm of European monarchial precedent— in short, that capital has a right to con trol labor, is, in Republican government, irrational and abhorrent. Iu one aspect it censures the divine goodness, in another the divine power. The European or English system of finance, from which our present and past is photographed, converts capital into an aggravated bully, intent and industrious in displaying its pomp in enslaving and keeping in bondage thefiabor of the coun try; always exercising a power disgusting in its details beyond every other product of our sensuous imagination. Its main feature is to operate for profit upon de pendent labor, through the “bully” and love of family. Such oppression stalks everywhere east of the Alleghanies and north of Mary land under the long-contmupd influence of a vicious system of finance, transmit ted to us with many other evils from the “ mother country.” With nearly one hundred years of independence we have held on to this vicious system, which has proved to be so many inevitable chips or waste material,disturbing progress,breed ing numerous governmental thieves and public and private plunderers, demon strating great unfairness and defect in the system. The system is evidently op posed to harmony, love and wisdom. Nearly all the evils that afflict us to day originate from our partial financial, internal improvement and monopoly laws, and the defective social institutions based thereon. It is these laws that have created and continue the antagonism be tween capital and labor. Selfishness has led the individual, and “rings” of indi viduals, to violate the laws of his and their being; and every man who has pro gressed to the moral scale seems to yearn to eradicate this evil at once as disas trous to human harmony and happiness. It seems an easy thing for capital and its flunkeys here and elsewhere to sit in judgment upon the behavior of labor in the coal mines and elsewhere, and pre sumptuously villify “strikes;” but It is quite another thing to be on the throne of wisdom and to judge with a righteous judgment, not from selfishness and ap pearances, but from truth. Most of the discords in social society are traceable to the antagonisms natural under the pres ent financial system. Get rid of these formidable antagonisms of capital and labor, and we should see in the future no petty strifes, no political thefts, no mon opoly cupidity as compared with the present. If our financial system creates unwise distinctions between capital and labor, and the present social disturbance, a change in the system may furnish the cure. If a change will yield liberty of the laborer in exchange for slavery, let us have it, tnat harmony, ease and hap piness may follow. It is an arbitrary question which the highest wisdom, freed from selfishness and guided by be nevolence, must decide. In a Republican government it is the province of the peo ple at the ballot box to decide for their own special regulation and government to produce the greatest good and happi ness to the greatest number. Extravagance rules. It has enthroned itself in high places. It has sapped in tegrity and hushed the voice of patriot ism. With these follows taxation and oppression, and an appalling stream of official corruption and waste. In the ratio, or 1 ‘as the compensation of labor diminishes, and as enforced idleness and want come home to the hearth of indus try, official salaries are doubled, or largely increased, and exorbitant taxes wrung from the people, which is plundered by thieves, or wasted, by incompetents, until distrust and despair have become wide spread throughout the land.” Financial statutes in the interest of capital alone, directly opposed to the productive ener gies of the country, are enacted to mock the laborer and the calamities of trade. Every national bank becomes a borrower, offering premiums for deposits, thus drawing all the money they can from le gitimate channels of business, not to be let out without they can imitate Shylock. Thus it is that hundreds of thousands of wilting hands are unemployed, and the want that is felt by families of unem ESTABLISHED 1850. ployed labor is worse than despair. Th: industrial classes want capital to be mu. or come out from its hiding place* ' that trade may start its thousand sinew again. They know that when money ws, plenty they were employed, their wares had ready purchasers, and all classes wer. liberal consumers. Empty pockets am: hungry stomachs are arguments with tie voters that all the eloquence and disputa tion of the monopolies, Shylocks ami hoarders for usurious interests, cannot answer. The ablest conventions ever held in Ohio and in Pennsylvania have deliber ately and dispassionately proclaimed for the “American system of finance;” the latter State by a vote of more than two to one. The tidal wave of ring smashing, mo nopoly destroying, government thief catching, has struck the masses, and it can no more be turned back by the puny efforts of the common disturbers of har mony than a steamboat could be arrested in its course by a line of gill nets. The education which a proper amount of experience has in this ago of free gov ernment stamped upon the huuiim intel lect, demonstrates that monopolies and class legislation tn money or anything else regulated by law, is a misuse of representative power, and when perse vered in is inevitable slavery or bondage of the labor of the country. This is now well understood in all its political lengths and breadths, and its ruinous effects are now towering over the heads of the labor ing classes, including a large majority of the farmers, mechanics, miners, factory operatives, clerks and “help” of all kinds, to the everlasting rebuke of State Legislatures and Cougessional flunkeys, to the gold-bearing, bond-creat ing, monopoly-loving, and labor-enslaving power, by and through the Oriental or European financial system. The question, it now seems, is: Shall the people of the States and tlio Union follow this “learned ignorance” or “honest cupidity” any further, or in 1870 declare another independence—a freedom from European finance —as pur fathers did in 1770 of monarchy. Monarchies have filled the world with “soul cramping theories,” and systems of obedience to Kings, nobles and lords, and nothing but the greatest perseverance and energy in 1770 rid us of it; yet, we were so “salivated” with it that it is not now perfectly eradicated, and requires that we should make another declaration of independence in 1870, to rid ourselves for ever of the European financial system, invented and practiced with monarchy and imperialism to enslave labor. Ameri cans now understand it feelingly. W. LETTER FROM JACKSONVILLE. The itiiMincNH nti<l Crop Outlook-Jour nalistic Motes—The “Press,” the “Union” and the “Mew (South”—City Improvements. [Special Correspondence of the Morning News.) Jacksonville, September 15. Business is looking up, our merchants, city and country, are receiving their goods by steamers and vessels. The very low rates of freight are of advantage—forty cents per barrel by steamer and twenty live cents per barrel by vessel from New York —and should enable our merchants to sell as low as any Southern city. From the fact that some of them are en larging their stores they mean to do a larger business. the olio is still look favorable and promise at least an average; cotton especially is turn ing out well. Anew feature showed itself in Alachua county last year. Buyers from the Bast came down and purchased directly from the planter ginned and un ginned cotton, which they rehandled, carefully sorting and baled up, shipping it directly to the factories. They paid cash down for large or small lots, and gave employment to many people. Ido not know the amount they purchased, but learn that it was some three hundred bales. They probably made a profit, but if they paid fair home prices it was an advantage all around; the planter saved bagging, twine, ginning, time, interest and risk of prices; the home merchant could ask and sell his goods for cash, and all those vicissitudes of freight, factors and great cotton operators are avoided. The factories, too, could well afford to pay good prices, as their buyers select and prepare just such an article as they want, and get it direct, paying only one com mission or salary for buying. If the ex periment was successful, it no doubt will be followed up. THE ORANGE CROP. The trees since the long drought are growing most vigorously. Some of the large owners are laying down gas pipe in their groves so as to convey water ai all times. Mr. Markham of your State has already laid down ten tons of pipe. There are some new groves of large extent, em ploying twenty to thirty laborers each constantly. At this rate the product will be enormous in a few years and bring a large annual income to the State. As they bear transportation well, they find markets at great distances and their superior quality will drive out all others. EAC GALLIE. As this humbug is, in time of getting to and from, as distant as Europe, we do not hear much from it. It is said that some of the prisoners have left, but, as this is no unfrequent thing at the Peni tentiary itself, no one is surprised. Adju tant General Varnum is an energetic man, but, if he ever is successful in building or running an agricultural col lege down at the place called Eau Gallie, I’ll lose my guess, THE UNION Is a Republican paper according to its own declarations, hut the editor, Sawyer, has a kind of a way of asking why Walks and why any and every Radical, black or white, has either no character or fitness or capacity for oxfice, so that many of the Radicals do not hanker after him. When Preacher Scott, our colored Collec tor of Customs, asked his brethren at camp-meeting to pray for the Uniun, Brother Sawyer did not appreciate it, hut goes right on sinning (politically as be fore. THE PRESS. This sterling Democratic paper is doing yeoman's service—only aggressive when hearty blows are needed. The editors are not to be cajoled or threatened, as some sycophantic and bullying officials have already found out. The failure of previous Democratic papers here (from bad management; has been rather in the way of securing the patronage of our people for the iSren, hut it will soon over come this and be well supported, as it should be. THE NEW SOUTH. This is the administration paper, of course, as its editor is postmaster: and, under such a forced course, it has to fig ure in a triangular fight with the Umor. and Sentinel, Governor Stearns’s organs. These Radical scrimmages, however, only last until the nominating conventions, when all hands unite ; for, once the party is defeated, it would be a final rout. The different editors, however, out of their sanctums, like lawyers out of court, seem to fraternise soeially. THE SEMI-TROPICAL. This magazine was to have been out in August, but owing to the delay of the en gravings will not be out until the fifteenth of this month. I have seen some of the proof-sheets, and the publishers will do all they promise. In paper, type and press-work it will be fully equal to any magazine published, and resembles very much Lippineott’s in appearance. As for the matter, that also will be good and varied, although confined mostly to sub jects of health, climate, agriculture, hor ticulture and other special matters of the South. THE NEW MABKET SYSTEM Since the wholesale clearing out of the old market the old occupants have located themselves in groups of threes or more in different parts of the city, a decided improvement every way, being con venient, avoiding crowds, especially loafers, are neater and more cleanly, and the natural rivalry and competition will regulate prices and attendance on cus tomers. It is to be hoped that the old plan will not be restored, and as the marketmen themselves prefer the present system the public will join in opposing any return. BUILDING continues, without any diminution, in the city. The material is now being placed to build four brick warehouses, which fill up the last vacant lot on Bay street from the railroad to the ferry, about half a mile. The fires since 18G5, which cleared out the old-style buildings on Bay street, really proved a benefit. They were more or less insured, anr i ~ owners of the lots have replaced tfir-,. with better buildings in style and finis’ - . Many of the fronts are of Philadelpn . brick, which so far do not tarnish i.- color. Our brick-yards in the iiumedi . vicinity furnish good brick at reasonab' rates. No Northern brick are now brougL here, except the pressed for fronts, when, desired. Brick or wooden buildings can be built here as cheap as at the North, and as well in every respect—indeed, as cellars are not necessary, one can build twenty-five percent, cheaper. THE BAG .BABY is in favor here, and is evidently growing to large proportions, and will prove a lion in the way of coutractionists and gold advocates. It is not so long since the Republican party boasted that green backs wins the best o irrency of “ the best government the world ever saw: ” they api>ointed a United States Supreme Court to decide it a legal tender, and *•- ruled any one who would not subscribe to their opinion as a rebel or disloyal, and onw, forsooth, this Republican party- • u,, rag currency, and clamor to have gold, and gold only; to have a continued reduc tion of the public debt and contraction of the currency. We. of the South, are paying the debt contracted to conquer us, and want a long pay day. For the pres ent, at least, the farmer, mechanic and manufacturer want money, and the greenback is tin only currency possible. Make it criminal for the Jay Cookes, Duncan, Sherman & Co.s and Ralstons to swindle, and send to the penitentiary those officials, who, in high places, steal the people’s money it;, will remedy the present state of depression and restore confidence. the los’. There is a legal gentleman here who is looking up law with a view of gottiu, out. a habeas corpus for the Indians con fined at St. Augustine, lie says they have never had any trial, civil or military, and in this day of civil rights he does not sea wby.the Indians should bo excepted. We hear nothing more of the families of these ludians coming down hove. the buna wavs. The devilish proposition made by a United States official to send to Florida the runaway negroes and half breeds will find universal opposition hero. The idea of turning loose upon us such a thieving, murderous set of devils, could only have originated in the brain of a rascal or half witted humanitarian. If they do come they will be exterminated, " root and branch. We do not propose to have Florida made a Botany Bay. IMMIGRATION. That immigration to this State is con stant and increasing is evident from the daily shipments by water and rail of lum ber and materials for building houses, the addition of steamboats for the upper St. John’s, and the opening and extension of routes. Two schooners now regularly go to New Smyrna; a steamer is running on Indian river, and new steamers on the Ocklawaha, Duval, St. John’s, Putnam, Volusia, Orange, have at least added in the aggregate fifty per cent, to their pop ulatiou in five years, and as much to their valuation, while other counties have not increased so much. I venture to say that, there is not a county in the State which will not show a handsome increase. From all accounts immigration will be very largo the corning winter. The West par ticularly being stirred up. This summer ”.ef been a week N have come ijsWn to look for anew hotue.\giyU. h* v genctoUy purchased. Wheii the rich lands of Middle Florida shall be made known abroad, those now abandoned and un filled will be occupied. Never was there such a good opportunity for people to buy good lands; there nre many kumi plantations which only need ii: Vk' h to crop, and in some cases the bulletin, ,-i are already on the spot, no the pur.-Le ( ’r has but to transfer himself m a fo day’s journey to go to work. Tkuthftjl James. The Freedmen’s Rank. In reference to an inquiry from the late Cashier of the Freedmen’s Savings Bank in Richmond, Va., R. 11. T. Leipold, one of the Commissioners, writes • “When we shall have got in tho Treasury of the United States the sum required for the payment of twenty per cent, pro rata—say about six hundred thousand dollars—v, shall declare a divi ■ dead, and advise and ifors accordingly through the public pr>a ; and by sued other means as may suggest themselves to us at the proper time. When so do clared we shall pay the dividend to depos itors, other than those at tho Washington branch, by our checks on the Assistant Treasurer of the United States in New kork, drawn to the order of the depos itors respectively. To get these checks depositors will have onJv to send us tdeir pass-books by mail, or through any back or bankers. Upon receiving tho books we shall enter tho payment thereon and return them, with the proper check in closed, to the depositors in such manner as each one may direct. These, checks any depositor ought, and no doubt will bo able, to got cashed at any bank in yo|jc city without cost, and with no other trouble than that attending the necessary identification. Just how soon we shall be able to declare a dividend we cannot say. Of the •‘5600,000 required we have now in hand some §515,000. If you will be at the trouble to explain to depositors the plan above indicated, and wili add thereto that the Commissioners advise them to hold on to their books until a dividend shall be ready, and then to .-end them direct, or through some reliable bank, you will have done them such ser vice as is at present possible.” It would seem from the above that it is still very uncertain when tho promised dividend will be paid. But the feature of the commissioners’ announcement that will not fail to attract the attention and excit the suspicions of the swindled de positors is the requirement that they shall send their pass-books to Washing ton in order to get their moiety dividend. This method of doing business is both expensive and risky. To send the books through the Post Office will cost postage, while they are liable to miscarry in the mails. Besides, what guarantee have the depositors that their pass-books, their only evidence of the amount deposited by them in the bank, will be returned to them V The bank has already defrauded, them out of millions of their hard earn ings. The question will readily suggest itself to unsophisticated minds, Wii! not the bank that hat; stolen the poot negro’.-; money also steal his pass-book, and thus deprive him of the only evidenco he has of the bank’s indebtedness ? Two bankers named Willmersdoerfer. at Augsburg, in Germany, have been h< u tenced to four and three years’ imprison meat respectively, for defrauding the so called Brown Sisters, a union of unmar - ried women for the purpose of prayer and good works. Two years ago the Sisters drew the first prize of 1T5,000 florins in the Bavarian State Lottery. The bankers offered to get the money for them, but instead of handing them specie they delivered Austrian paper mwe- , which was then 23 per cent! beiov, pr They produced, moreover, only ifi in *■ for 1,000 florins each, pretending tha they had forgotten the other 11, who upon, the Sisters told them to keep t. latter for their trouble. On the death of their Superior recently, the Sisters brok up the society and divided the property Dissensions arose in the course of the distribution and some of the Sisters called in the service of lawyers. TlmA - suit was, that the fraud was