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BY J. V/. BURKE & CO. GEORGIA JOURNAL & MESSENGER J. W. BTOSB & CO., Proprietors. A. \V. REESE, Editor. OFFICE No. 60 SECOND STREET, MACON, GA. RATES OK SUBSCRIPTION. Daily, per Annum $lO 00 “ Six Months 5 00 “ Three Months 2 50 “ One Month J Oo Tri- Weekly, per Annum 5 00 “ “ Six Months 2 50 “ “ Three Months 1 50 Wkkkly,per Annum 3 00 “ Six Months 1 50 DIVISION OK FARMS AND LABOR. Our friend of the Bee, says t lie New Or leans Picayune, lately took occasion to say that foreign laborers would hardly emi grate to this region, so long as they could hope for labor only on large plantations, Where great gangs of laborer-are marched to the field in the morning and come home at night. They would go where but two or three were employed, and these lived with their employer, as in Europe. Until we could give immigrants ample employment of this kind, they would go to the West in preference. To this, which the Bee explained and illustrated at some length, the Bulletin replies, denying the possibility of a change, and begins with this: There is but one tlaw in this plan, and that is fundamental. The large planta tion system in the Kouth was due less to slave labor than to the nature of the staples, especially cotton and sugar, to which it was devoted. We do not know of any mistake greater and more fatal than this; for cotton and sugar can be as readily cultivated by the small farmer here as the products of the Northern farmer in his Western home. True, before the war and ever since it, up to within the last two years, it was thought that sugar could not be cultivated on a small scale, and that a large fortune would have to be expended for machinery to manufacture it on the place, with a cor responding amount of cane production to make it possibly profitable. This was never the case with cotton. On the contrary, it may be easily estab lished that the production of cotton by the sihgle handed planter was more profitable than that of him who carried on his work through overseers and a multitude of la borers. He could have a small gin and power in proportion, and as agriculture is to a greater degree than any other busi ness, one of attention to little things and details in care and economy, the man who has no more than he can personally take part in aud set the example of, will make more money than one who hires others to work for him and does not work himself. Cotton being a very profitable crop, “ gentleman farming ” has been more mouey making when used in it than it has been when grains, hay, etc., have been the articles produced ; hut the same reasons which make “gentleman farm ing” unprofitable work, will make “gen tleman” planting of cotton less profitable than that of the practical worker and co worker. Even in the palmiest days of heavy planting, when the river planter thought no man worthy to be called one who did not have his hundred hands, it was con fessed that the ten-hand planter made more solid money than he, in a term of years. The other was a speculator, who meant to retire upon someone specially fortunate crop, which would prove to be a hundred thousand dollar prize, like that in the Havana lottery ; but he generally went on in his pursuit of it until his mer chant either broke him or got brokeu by him, while the small planter got grad ually rich, and, if he did not invest in ne grpes, kept rich aud is yet rich. The time will come when it will not be thought necessary to have cotton gins on every plantation. Jn the more sparsely inhabited regions this is the case now, and so it was during the war. But this will become the general rule, because in every cotton-raising neighborhood there will be a cotton mill, as there are grist mills where grain is raised, where cotton will begiuued and baled, or ginned and spun, or ginned, spun aud woven, either on shares or for a lixed sum, or thecotton in seed will be bought by the cotton mill. There may be many such in places where there is much cotton, and thus the small est cotton raiser will have every advantage now possessed by the large planter, aud save money. JOHN CHINAMAN AGAIN. It would seem that Sambo as a laborer against Johu Chinaman, even with the Northern people, is going to the wall. The New York Courier says “a number of prominent gentlemen in New Jersey, Pennsylvania aud New York, exasperated by the high price of labor, the difficulty of procuring it in the rural districts, and its general worthlessness when procured, are moving in the same direction. They propose to associate together, aud consti tute a company for the purpose of bring ing Chinese laborers directly to this port. Boston, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Charles ton aud New Orleans, will follow suit, aud thelabor question will bespeedily settled.” The Courier is also of opinion that in ten years time ‘‘there will be fifteen mil lion Chinese laborers in the Atlantic States, and that fifty cents a day will be high wages for ordiuary labor. What a blessing to think that we have made Sambo a voter, and that by his intelligence aud virtue he will counterbalance John Chinaman's ignorance aud vice. The only trouble is that we haven’t enough negroes to make a fair balance. How on earth are we going to get ten or twelve pillion more from Africa to save the pountry 2” So far as the South is concerned, the ex periment is certain to be tried. Specula tion and theory is soon to be reduced to fact. As we have said before, we do not see why this species of labor should not gradually take the place of the negro, to a certain exteut. We do not want all ne groes or all Chinese. Let the labor be di vided between the two, so that we may play off one against the other. We hope to see something come of the Memphis Convention on the 13th inst. The item of cost of transporting them here will, by competition between the Pacific railway and tne various steamship lines, soon be reduced to a very reasonable rate. The Journal of Commerce says: “An enterprising New York merchant in the China trade offers to bring Chinese laborers in his ships aud deliver them at this port for $75 apiece. We understand that his terms will be accepted ii he will change the point of delivery to the mouth of the Atchafalaya River, one hundred miles below New Orleans, and within twenty miiesof a railroad connection with city. Putting in at the Atchafalaya would lengthen the home voyage a num ber of days, aud would, on that account, be a disadvantage to the shipper. As the Louisiana planters are very desirous to import Chinese there is every prospect that a satisfactory arrangement will be made, if not in regular New York packets, then in vessels chartered for the purpose. A Bt. Louis paper recently stated that Chinamen could be brought from Califor nia to Bt. Louis for SSO. The cost of taking them to New Orieaus would be about $lO. It would pay handsomely to obtaiu them I by that route, but they could not be con tracted for on such favor-rouud by sea. In response to the demand for this labor it is | probable that competition will bring down the rates for Chinamen between Bhanghae aud Han Francisco, and that they can be delivered cheap enough across the Pacific Railroad to make it pay to import them by that route. But the voyage round the Horn meets every present wish as to price. Tt seems to be now quite certain that by one route or the other, or both, the tide of Chinese immigration to the South will soon be fairly started, and the troublesome labor problem be put in the way of solu tion.” RESULTS OK—SLATE. The editor of the Montgomery Mail iu a recent letter from Cincinnati, by way of stimulating similar enterprises iu Ala bama, gives an interesting account of the city of Siatiugtou, Pennsylvania, which, now only threeyears old, has 10,000 inhab itants as the results of—slate. We pub lish it for a similar purpose. There are slate quarries in Polk county, on the line of the Curtersvilleand Van Wert Railroad, soon to be built, which we are informed are equal to any in the country, not only in supply, but quality. Inaccessibil ity and consequent high rates of traupor tation have heretofore prevented these quarries from coming into competition with places more favored. The building of the road in question will soon remove that obstacle. Asa good many of our citizens are in terested iu these quarries, we have thought a showing of what similar establishments elsewhere have done, may both interest aud encourage thtm in the development of their valuable property. Hays the editor: We venture to say that not a dozen of our readers ever heard of Blatington, although a city of ten thousand inhabi tants. The reason is that it has grown up iu the last three years It has taken fifty years for the cotton plantiug interest to build up Montgomery, yet we find that the slate interest has built up a town almost as large in three years. 8o much for the value of manufacturing labor over purely agricultural. We have beside us an annual reviiw of the Hlate Trade of Blatington and vicin ity, from January 1, 1808, to January 1, 1869, published in the American Journal of Mining, from which we learn that the total amount of roofing slate quarried numbered seveuty-three thousand two hundred and forty squares, or upwards of seven million thiee hundred thousand feet. Tiie same report states that up wards of three million five hundred thousand school slates, rough aud rnauu faetured, were turned out of factories. Besides these, an immense quantity of flagging, slate for mantles, blackboards, billiard tables, etc., were quarried. All these figures, from all we can learn, are under rather than over the mark. We are assured by those conversant with the business that the total product of roofing slate alone will reach upwards of 180,000 squares, aud the product is constantly in creasing. The present product of these quarries is estimated at $4,000,000. Hlatiugtou is a beautiful town, situated on the Lehigh, and composed of buildings built almost exclusively of slate. The town is about seventy miles north or j Philadelphia, and about one hundred ; west of New York, whither the greater proportion of all the slate mined in the Lehigh finds its way. It lias been built i up principally within the lad three years, j Its growth, although not so rapid as the j towns on Oil Creek, has uot been attended j with the same fltfulness. Here, within a j radius of thirty miles, are upwards of forty slate quarries, and thirteen factories j in which school slates are manufactured, i These quarries and factories furnish em ployment to thousands of hands aud mil- j lions of capital. Throughout this entire; section it would be impossible to find a single shingled house of any description. | Blatington, which has a population of about 10,000, has scarcely a shingled roof in it! Throughout the couutry, which ever way one turns, there is nothing but slate roofs. Iu many instances the entire surface is built of slate, preseming a very handsome appearance. Factories, school houses, churches, dwellings, barns, sta- j tiles, corn cribs —even pigeon boxes are j roofed with slate. ONE OK THE TEX AS PHINOXKH.S, We find in the Harrison Flag, publish ed at Marshall, Texas, a letter from the intelligent and accomplished wife of Mr. C. L. Pitcher, one of the Jefferson prison ers, who has oeen confined in the stock ade at that place for many months. Mrs. Pitcher’s statement is well calculated to create indignation in the heart of every honest man, at the shameful tyranny practiced by the Federal military officers. The exercise of such tyranny is a crime, as distinctly a crime as robbery or murder, aud it should, like them, be punished as a crime. Mrs. Pitcher writes from Jefferson. She explains, so far as she knows, why her husband, with no accusation against him, was consigned to prison. She says that on the 9th of last February she discharged, as a matter of necessity, two of her negro servants, a man and his wife. They were very angry at being discharged, aud ut tered threats as to what they would do. On the evening of the same day a Federal officer entered Mr. Pitcher’s store on pre tense of purchasing some article, and asked, as il'casually, which of the persons present was Mr. Pitcher. On being answered, he walked up to Mr. P., ar rested him, and compelled him to go be fore the commander of (he post, by whom he was sent to the stockade, not a single word being deigned by either of the offi cers as to the cause of the treatment. Having been in the stockade for months, bis confinement became so irk some and intolerable, his health so bad, and his pecuniary loss so great, that, in his impatience and suffering, he wrote letters of complaint, which, on account of their exact truth, exasperated the Com mander. Asa consequence, on the 30th ultimo, on his return from the court room, where he was undergoing his trial, he was shut up ill a yell six feet by eight, the walls being three plank deep and almost air-tight. He was kept iu that horrid and stifling den for twelve hours, when, iu consequence of the surgeon’s giving a written opinion that he would die if he remained there longer, small apertures were made in the cell, but he was not removed from it. Up to the date of his wife’s letter he was kept iu solitary confinement, allowed, notwithstanding the extreme delicacy of his health, only the rations of a common soldier, debarred from seeing his wife, denied the privilege of reading aud even a light at night, and forbidden to see a minister of the gospel or to have a copy of the Bible. Mrs. Pitcher says that she shall appeal in her husband’s behalf to Gen Reynolds and to the President of the United States, but evidently all her appeals and those of others can do no good. There can be no hope that the high functionaries, who have ho long practiced or tolerated the most cruel persecutions with a full know! edge of their existence, will correct them now. The relations between Texas aud the United States, according to Grant’s Attorney General, are the relations of war, the fast-dying Mr. Pitcher is a pris oner of war, and when he shall have been sentenced by the Military Commission and executed, he and his fellow-prisoners will probably be huddled into the ground aud marine guards stationed over their dust whenever there shall be a Federal appre hension that flowers may be thrown by the hand of affection upon their graves. [Courier Journal. —lt is said that fowls are the most eco nomical things farmers can keep, because for every grain they give a peck. "Vi t a sine X* i t e r is M or s es t STATE NEWS. Another Murder. —This morning, about two o’clock, the quiet of the city was disturbed by the firing of six pistol shots, in rtpid succession, in the eastern portion of Atlanta. Our vigilant police repaired promptly to the spot, aud ascer tained that a murder had been committed by a negro named Bam Johnsin, upon the body of Mr. It. Fox Each discharge of the pistol had taken effect, and life was al ready extinct when the police reached the scene. The deceased has a large number of relatives in DeKalb, Gwinnett and Ful ton counties, aud, we learn, left a large family to mourn his sudden taking off. Bam Johnsin remarked : “Dat I cot him stealin’ ini chicken off de roost—l call him tocum down —he no cum -so I focht him down.” The Coroner’s Jury rendered a verdict iu accordance with the facts. As the murderer was a negro, we suppose Bullock’s Blander Mill will not allude to it. —Atlanta Constitution, 28th. Important Decision.— On Haturday Judge John D. Pope, of Fulton Superior Court, decided that there could not be more than two Constables commissioned at the same time in the same Militia Dis trict. The Justiceof the Peace or the No tary Public in case of emergency might appoint one for that emergency. The case came up from the appointment of a Con stable tiy T. D. Lines, a Notary Public iu a District where two Constables had been elected and commissioned.— lbid. A Brave Woman.— Mrs. J. R. Malo ney, living near B’.one Mouutain, last week killed a rattlesnake between five and six feet in length and having six rat tles. Bhe is not to be frightened by bugs or snakes.— lbid. Death ok L. B. Duck.— Captain L. B. Duck, one of our business men of long standing and extensive acquaintance, died after a very brief illness on Sunday after noon. The attack was probably an apo plectic one, as lie was only prostrated on the day of his death. Captain Duck was about forty-three or forty-five years of age, and had long been engaged in busi ness in Columbus. He was an upright and highly respected citizen, and leaves many friends to regret his unexpected death. [ Columbus En quiver , 28th. A Georgia Patriarch.—The follow ing announcement appears in the Val dosta Times: “ Died at his residence in Clinch county, Ga., on the Bth of April last, Bamuel Reg ister, aged 83 years and 9 months. He was by occupation a farmer—a useful maa, beloved by iiis friends and respected by all. He had seven sons and seven daugh ters—one hundred and twelve grandchil dren—and one hundred and fifty-five great graudchildren, making in the ag pregate an interesting family of two hun dred and eigh(y-one souls.” Fire in Hayneville.—We regret to learn that the residence of Mr. J. W. Ogilvie, iu Hayneville, was totally con sumed at 2 a. m., on Saturday last. A negro returning from a' prayer-meeting discovered the fire, gave the alarm, broke into the house, and with great difficulty succeeded in saving the inmates. This negro deserves the highest praise. The fire is supposed to have originated from the cooking stove. Loss, $2,000 or $3 000. No insurance. But for the still ness of the night, the whole town would have been burnt. With the excep'iou of a few articles of clothing, the family lost everything. The catastrophe was the more deplora ble from the fact that Mr.O. is an afflicted man —having lost both bauds and being nearly blind by the explosion of a shell iu Atlanta. —Hawkinsville Dispatch, 30 th ult. Hale ok a Wife. VVe learn that a few days since a white man, a fisherman, re siding on the Ogeecbee canal, some ten or twelve miles from the city, sold bis wife to another fisherman (white) for sixty bunches of fisu, valued at fivty cents per bunch. The wife was perfectly satisfied with the sale, and is now living with her purchaser. For the information of Messrs. Forney soil Gret-ley. we will ata U. tt.at ell the parties to this transaction are said to be tiooly loil voters of the Radical ticket. [Savannah Republican. Large Farming on a Small {scale.— We have a neighbor, living on the same street and within two hundred yards of our residence, who occupies a two-acre lot. His buildings, front and back yard, stable lot and garden occupy at least half an acre, perhaps a little more. This leaves him au acre and a half, or nearly so, for farming operations. Although uot a far mer by profession, his success on this lot is remarkable. He grows upon the acre and a half forty-odd bushels of wheat and from sixty to eighty bushels of corn, which not only furnishes bis family with breadstuff's, but euables him to keep two animals of the “bovine” species, and fine ones at that, besides raising more tbau enough pork for his family ! The manure used on this lot cost only $15.00 1 We are not advised as to the quantity of' fruit and vegetables produced ny his garden, but they are worth something considerable. Our friend knows how to raise hdgs, too. He slaughtered last Fail three pigs the day before they were eleven months old. One weighed 282, the second 278, and the third 268—0 r 828 pounds of pork in the aggregate. These pigs were of the common stock of the country—no “blood” to rely on—nothing but good feeding. Our friend is too modest to let his name go before the public, but the above facts may be relied upon. [Athens Watchman, 30 th ult. THE LITTLE RAFT THAT CROSSED THE ATLANTIC OCEAN. From the Philadelphia Telegraph. On the 4th day June, 1867, more than two years since, a tiny raft, named the Nonpariel, worked its way out of New York harbor to the broad ocean beyond, and hoisting sail, drifted away toward Europe. The people of Southampton, England, were astonished on the 25th of the following month to see a novel craft nearing their wharves upon the tide. It was the Nonpariel, and from that day she was famous. When Captain John Mickes, her buil ier, stepped upon her for the long voyage, mauy deemed him more than bold, aud expected to hear or see nothing again of either him or his raft. The suc cess of the enterprise, however, proved that be well knew the capacity of his tiny vessel, aud demonstrated that even the raging deep might bedared almost upon a plank. The Nonpariel now lies at Smith’s Islaud, opposite Chestnut wharf. She is made of three straight cylinders 25 feet in length and 26 inches diameter. The cylinders are made of gutta perclia, en cased in heavy duck covers, and connect ed by means of heavy duck flanges, which form a deck surface 12J feet wide. On the top and across these cylinders are placed a series of thwarts or planks, which keep the cylinders apart, and also afford seats for passengers. An air valve is attached to each cylinder, and iu eight minutes the raft can be put iu readiness for service. The raft, it is said, has a buoyant capacity of 10,000 pounds, and a deck surface of 264 square feet. She is now rigged and equip ped as she was at the time of making her celebrated voyage—the sane water casks, beds, binnacle and tackling being on board. Captaiu Mickes, who is with the boat at Smith’s Island, says that during the voyage across the ocean, the bedding, which was elevated about two feet above the deck, was never wet. He also stated that the raft canuot be swamped or cap sized by serf or sea. A Fearful Risk.—At Echo, on the Union Pacific Railroad, the other evening, three freight trains stood upon the main track, when the word came flashing over the telegraph from the superintendent, “A locomotive and tender, with steam up, and with nobody on board, have broken from a freight train and started down the grade.” Ah! then and there was hurry ing to aud fro! In a few seconds came a second message: “She has just passed Castle Rock station.” Never were three trains got off upon a siding with less delay. Then the workmen piled sleepers high upon the track; lest even that should not stop “her,” and she should do murder further down the road, they tore up the rails below. Justas this was accomplished she fame in sight. She shot through the sleepers like a bullet through a pine board, sending them flying in all directions, and darkening the air with the splinters, but at the broken track she jumped up and down with vexatiou, and finally plunged angrily, head foremost, into a hill-side. Bhe had run twenty-Bix miles in twenty nine minutes—the best time yet made upon the road. — Letter in New York Tri bune. MACON. Jar A.. TUESDAY. JULY (i, 1869. ILUI. Correspond!; n't of the JoanW™C M'^senglr. CROP PROSPECT*. Hatcher Station, Ga., \ June 28, 1869. / Mr. Editor : The late and continued rains, mixed with warm suushiue, has had a salutary effect on the crops in this section. Our ooitou crop, though a little later tbau last year at this season, (except manured crops) looks well, and, until v-ry recently, were in a fine condition; hut the wet weather has brought up an abuudaut crop of grass which is difficult to destroy, as much of our laud is too wet to plow. I have noticed this week, spots on the leaves of a few stalks of cotton which very closely resembles rust, but hope it may prove something less destructive to tiie plant tbau the real rust. Many planters have used commercial manures ibis year, which thus far prom ises satisfactory remits. The corn crop is as good as the land will make it. By the way, I will give you the remit to date, of an experiment Id corn planting, by that energetic, enterprising, and comparative ly young planter o'Quitman, Dr. L. P. Dozier. Between tbe sth and 10th of April, he planted about tiro-thirds of an acre iu corn, which had been previously, thoroughly prepared, manured it heavily with home-raised fertilizers, iu rows vary ing from three and a half to four feet in width, and 18 inches iu driU, and four inches deep. Tne corn is now in full silk, and is not only fine, but maguificent. There are 5,240 stalks, nearly all of which has two fine silks, and some, more. Now if each stalk raises only one ear, his patch of two thirds of au acre will make(ailowing 120 ears to the bushel) 43j bushels corn,and allowing one-fourth of thestalks to make two ears, which it certainly will do, the patch will make 54 bushels corn This patch, Mr. Editor,is on upland, and poor, too—would make, perhaps, eight or ten bushels per acre without manure. The corn is now so far advanced, that with the present rain, its yield is almost beyond the reach of a drought. The Doctor thinks if he had planted eight inches un der the surface it will make with eight weeks’ drought. This patch clearly de monstrates to my mind the advantages of improved culture. Quitman. THE COLLEGE COMMENCEMENTS AND THE RAILROADS. Mr. Editor: I see, last year, several of the railroads in Georgia made special terms by which visitors to the several Commencements in the Btatecould go aud return for one fare. Will they be consid erate enough to do so this year ? Will those who refused last year be kind enough to come into the measure? Will it be asking too much of them now, that they have reduced the fare, for those wishing to visit the watering places? Or is it neces sary, for the benefit of the multitude of pleasure takers, and to prevent the roads from iosiug by their ha ; f fares, that full fares should be continued for the few who consider it better to attend a literary fes tival than to visit a watering place? Pcrhajsj it may he ; but if so, does it uot show that literafure is at a sad discount among our public men ? I beg, Mr. Editor, that these things be considered: 1 That portion of the community who favor the interests of education and relig ion in our own Btate, are entitled to some little consideration, as well as those who have time aud means aud diiqosition to go to distant Btaies, and «|>end tiieir rnouey there in pursuit of pleasure. 2. The cars mutt run, and the trao»|>or tation of these few will add little or noth ing to the ex|»enwe of the companies. 3. A Commencement ouoe visited by a parent or youth, may awaken the desire for education, increase the number of pu pits, and so give many future trips over tiie road. 4. Travel always multiplies itself. One visit makes a return visit necessary—ooe pleasant trip induces a desire to matte anotiier. 5 The roads running soon—u»- cuuh; thm ii to ■* .. .Mk' ass t per haps, were this suggestion acted lm, bring many persons to tiie Commencement of the Wesleyan Female College—au institu tion that has been the occasion of much travel over them for many years, and which brings into this city thousands of dollars annually, most of which goes to add to the profits of the business men of the commut.ity, and consequently benefits tbe roads. The appeal here made, then, is not solely for the benefit of the few who can only travel at cheap rates—though they deserve some consideration—hut it is iu behalf of a very important moneyed inter est to the community. The writer hopes the suggestions will share a better late than the effort made to get tbe trash filled that has been for a year or two undermin ing the College fence. Perhaps, however, since the race track, outside the corpora tion, has been put in order by the city hands, time may now be found to savethe College fence from goiDg down to the Vineville Branch. One ok the People. bachelors and flirts. BY JOSH BILLINGS Borne old bachelors git after a flirt, and don’t travel as fast as she doz, and theu conclude awl the female group are bard to ketch, and good for nothing when they are ketched. A flirt is a rough thing to overhal un less the right dog gets after her, and then they are the easiest of awl to ketch, and often make the very best of wives. When a flirt is really in love she is as powerless as a mown daisy. Her impudence then changes into mod esty, her cunuing into lear, her spurs into a halter, and her pruning hook into a cradle. The best way to catch a flirt is tew travel the other way from which they are going, or to sit down on the ground and whistle some lively tune till the flirt comes round. Old bachelors make the flirts, and then the flirts gel more even, by making the old bachelors. A majority of flirts get married finally, for they hev a great quantity of the most dainty titbits of woman’s nature and alwus have shrewdness to back up their sweetness. Flirts don’t deal in poetry aud water grewel; they hev got to hev brains, or else somebody would trade them out of their capital at first sweep. Disappointed luv must uv course be all on one side; this ain’t any more excuse fur being an old bachelor than it iz fur a mau to quit all kinds of manual labor, jist out uv spite, and jine a poor house bekase he kan’t lift a tun at a pop. An old bachelor will brag about hiz freedom to you, his relief from anxiety, hiz indipendence. This is a dead beat past resurrection, for everybody knows there ain’t a more anxious duj>e than he iz. Ail his dreams are charcoal sketches of board ing school misses; he dresses, greases hiz hair, paints hiz grizzly mustache, culti vates bunyons and corns, tew please hiz captains, the wimmeu, and ouly gets laff'ed at fur his pains. I tried being an old bachelr till I wuz about twenty years old, and came very near dieing a dozen times. I had more sharp pain iu one year than I hev had since, put it all in a heap. I was in a lively fever all the time. The Survey.—A business letter re ceived yesterday from Col. Harkie, Chief Engineerof the Bainbridge, Cuthb.ert and Columbus Railroad, dated “In Camp, Miller county, June 19, 1869,” says: “The survey has progressed twenty-four miles from Bainbridge ou an exact air lineso far, and if nothing unexpected occurs, I shall continue this air line to the Southern boundary of Randolph county. The country is fine for railroading—smooth surface and well timbered. I began the survey at noon on Monday last.” Col. Harkie expects to reach this city—nothing occurring to prevent it—by the 10th or 15th of August.— Columbua Sun , 30th ult. The Caterpillar in Florida.—A private letter from Mr. G. A. Ellis, one of the most experienced planters in East Florida, dated Ellisville, Columbus coun ty, June 23, says: “There is no doubt about the caterpillar being here, though, they are not doing any harm as yet; but they are here, and have webbed up in some places, but in small quantities. The fly can be seen almost everywhere. Ido fear they will take the preset crop. If so, I don’t see what will become of the people. Charleston Newt^th. TIIE COTTON CROP, Its Culture aud Probable Amount. The following letter from Mobile, which was addressed to, and which is takeu from, theNew York Journal of Commerce, contains statements in reference to the present difficulties in the way of cotton raising iu the Houth, which are strictly true, and which promise to limit its growth for many years to come : Mobile, June 18, 1869. We observe your article of the Blh on the cotton crop now growing. Believing your desire is to impart ouly correct in formation and conclusions, we propose to state some facts on the subject. In our opinion, foundedon personal ob servations and knowledge of the facts, the cultivator of cotton is letter prepared to make a crop than last year in one particu lar ouly—l. e. in the better force of his team and implements, and iu proportion to his means to purchase these articles. You wili observe that all the eastern por tion of this cotton region falls off largely iu receipts as compared to last year. Only the fresher lands of the West have made in the increase. In all the country which has been long in cultivation, the lands are washed, worn and deteriorated in value, aud require more work and more teams than heretofore. In these sections the farmers have no great iiinraine of means to buy teams, tools or bacon. As bacon cannot now be raised in any county densely populated by negroes, a large amount of a short crop goes for meat, now very high. Buch is the condition of much of the larger tract of country now planted in cotton cultivated by negroes. They object to worK in the heavy, wetand mud dy lands, which are the most productive. Many of the freedmeu who become able to do so, decline to be employed by while men, or fail to make cotton at all until they spend what they have made, aud will only go to work as driven by necessi ty. With them sufficient for the day is the evil thereof. The women, who were the best cotton pickers, will not engage as bands, except to a limited extent aud at short intervals. The young negroes will not do to rely on except wheu they have fathers who worn pel them to work The number of old and trained laborers from various causes, natural and otherwise, is clearly becoming less and less efficient also, so the number of acres and the product to the avre is also less. The breadth of laud cultivated in cotton is in our opinion not increased as a whole, though there is a gain iu some sec lions. Much of the best cotton land now lies waste. The past winter and spring were decid edly me worst for the preparation and planting ever experienced, The contin ued rains and overflows required greatiy more labor both of man and neast. Neither can do more than a certain amount, and that is not likely to be large in bad weather; the mule is driveu by the freed man, who in very careful not to expose his health in the mud through bad weather or by over exertion. The crop, even until the last ten days, has been worked under most unfavorable circumstances—is much of it yet iu the grass, very small, and, as a general thing, a month behind lime. Time and hot sun, with rain only enough to cause the earth to work easily, is absolutely essential for cotton. Avery favorable state of events, with a dry fall and a late float, may enable us to make an average crop, but no more; the crop must open late iu any ease. Picking the cotton out of the field is the great labor, and the weather must be favorable aud the fall long to enable the planter to save a moderate crop. Haviug been born and raised on a cot ton farm, and engaged in its cultivation for thirty years, we claim to know—what many without much experience write and theorize about— cotton and its present or future prospects. We do not hesitate to make the assertion, from the facts we know to be facts, and the lights before us, that. Uuicron of town will i„ wMiiuiiu beed two atm a half million hates, and very probably several hundred thousand less. I he crop of 1808 is sold ; we are not now interested in writing the market up. The people of the United States have permit ted the foreigner again to buy the cheap cotton ; they now have to pay for it, be- i cau«e they would have it that the crop of ! 1808 was a largeroue. Men wholly igno- I raut of the subject are again announcing j the crop of Ibis year to be a larger one. We boldly make this prophecy: ”1 be day for a crop of three million hales is gone by.” The present system of labor j will never make and pick from the rteld three mil ion bales of cotton. We shall be i wonderfully fortunate if we average two ! aud a half million ; but all the indica ! tions here are that the extent of the crop ! of the United States will gradually de crease. Certainly, unless we obtain a dif ferent class and style of labor. John a. Winstein & Cos , Cotton Factors, Mobile, Ala. avncai. report or the aiggsta fag. 'I OR V. The printed Annual Report of the Pres ident of the Augusta Factory for the year eudiug June 12th, is before us, through the courtesy of a Stockholder. Like all of President .Jackson's reports, it is brief, perspicuous and business-like. It tells the history of the operations of the past year in a very few words and figures. The total earn jngs for year have been [ $160,783 75 The expenses have been. 49.046 ST The net earnings have been 120,717 38 The quarterly dividends of five per cent, have amounted t 0... 120,000 00 The balauce of profit over divi dends is 717 38 Which, carried to the credit of profit aud loss, make the accrued undivided profits amount to $225,515 60 on a capital of six hundred thousand dollars. Mr. Jackson says the results “are better thau anticipated,” when the relative price for the year of manufactured goods and raw material are taken into consideration. These results may be briefly stated as fol lows: The mills have been kept full up to the standard of flrst-elass mills, while run with ‘‘remarkable regularity.” The stockholders have received four dividends, amounting to twenty per cent, and a small balance added to surplus profits, while so many North and East of us have either not paid dividends at all, or have paid greatly reduced dividends, aud have been kept running only on short time. The operations of the Augusta Factory during the past year, which has been so unfavor able for manufactures, with the results stated, will enable our Northern friends to make a fair estimate of tiie advantages of the two sections for manufacturing. The following tabulated statements afford data of interest to skilled manufacturers : GOODS MANUFACTURED FROM 13TH OF JUNE, 1868, TO 12th OF JUNE, 1869. Pounds. Pieces. Yards 4-4 1,300.310 99,538 3,937,048 4-4 flue 34,441 3,113 36 '23 X 725,046 66,969 2,651,866 % 197,554 23,500 945,390 Drills 149,781 11,542 447,709 2,397,132 303,653 8,008,235 BALES OF MANUFACTURED GOODS. On hand J une 4-4 4-4 tine % % Drills. To'l 13th 1868.... 53 00 35 24 7 119 Made to June 12th 1868 .. .4637 96 3119 1064 664 9580 4690 96 3154 1088 671 9699 Sold to June 12th 1869... 4651 96 3150 1030 663 9590 On hand June 12th, 1869... 39 00 4 58 8 109 Pounds Cotton consumed (equal to 6,362 hales) 440 lbs. each 2,799,826 Average cost of cotton 25,09 Whole number of looms 508 Average number of looms run ning.... ' 508 Average yards per loom per day 51,62 Average number of hands em ployed 449 Aggregate wages paid f 167,939.22 Aggregate sales 1,032,648.86 Average per day per Warp spin dle 8.51 ozs. [Chronicle <fc Sentinel, 30<A. How Grant Selected his Last Sec retary.—The Washington correspon dent of the Herald is responsible for the following. We take it that such a way of making up a Cabinet for such a man as Grant is ahout as good as any : “The President, it seems, met Mr. Robeson, the new Secretary, for the first time at West Point during his recent visit there. At that time he was on the look out for anew Secretary of the Navy, and took a fancy to Mr. Robeson.” DECISIONS OF THE SUPREME COURT OK GEORGIA. Delivered at Atlanta, Tuesday, June 39. Reported Expressly for the Constitution, by N. J. Hammond , Supreme Court Re porter. 8. T Crawford, vs. E. H. and E. Ross. Motion to dissolve injunction, from Lee. McCay. J. 1. The revocation of au order appoint ing a Receiver, is a matter which may he heard aud acted upon by the Judge, on the usual notice in vacation. 2. Tbe extraordinary writs aud remedies granted by the Chancellor, before a trial, on the merits, ought not to be granted Without caution, and unless there is im mediate danger to the rights of the com plainant, if they lie denied, and if the Court becomes satisfied that the danger does not exist, it is his duty, on proper notice, to discharge them. 3. In this case theCourtdid not err in dissolving the injunction, aud vacating tiie order appointing a Receiver. 4. It is the duty of the Judge, if he is satisfied there is a bona fide intent to ex cept to his judgmeut, so to mould his or der as that the excepting party may have a reasonable time to file his bill of excep tions, and obtain a superceuteas before the statu* of tbe case can be materially changed. Judgment reversed. B. H. Hawkins, for plaintiff' in error. W. A. Hawkins, G. M. Warwick, for defendant iu error. H. J. Cook, vs. Frank P. Bmith, and D. D. Bmith. Motiou to dissolve injunction from Baker. McCay, J. When a bill was filed against Frank P. Bmith, and D. D. Bmith, by a creditor of the former, charging a combination be tween tbe defendants to defraud the cred itors of Frank P aud D. D. Bmith, alone answered the bill aud moved to dissolve the injunction as to himself. Held : That it was error in the Court to hear the motion, until the other defend ant who was in fact the principal defend ant, had answered. Btrozer and Bmith, by R. Lyon, for plaintiff in error. Vason and Davis and J. J. Hall, forde- j fendant in error. O. P. Foster, administrator, plaintiff in error, vs. Henry K. Dame), defendant lu error. Motion to set as de Judgment from Sumter. Warner, J. When a trial was had in the County Court of Bum ter county, and a verdict rendered for the plaiDtiif' on the 20th day of July, 1868, and a judgment was entered thereon on the 22d July, 1868, and a mo tiou having been made in theCkmrt below to set aside said verdict and judgment, ou the ground, that on the days the verdict and judgmeut purports to have been ren dered ami entered, the County Court was abolished by the Constitution of 1868, which motion was allowed by the Court, setting aside both the verdict and judg ment. Held, that under the Reconstruc tion Acts of Congress, the Btate of Georgia bad fully complied with the termsjLereof; ratified the fourteenth amendment of the Constitution of the United Btates, and as sented to the fundamental condition im posed on her by the Act of Congress, passed on the 25th of June, 1868; and, therefore, the Constitution of the Btate of Georgia, as amended by Congress, took effect, and was practically in operation from the 21st day of July, 1868. Held, also, that all unfinished business iu the County Court, at the time of tiie abolish ment thereof by the Cousituliou, was transferred to the Buperior ( ourt by the 7th sectiou of the lltb article of the Btate Constitution, and that it was the duty of the Buperior Court to have ordered a judg ment to have been entered ou the verdict rendered iu the County Court, on the 20th July, uuless some good and sufficient cause wasdjoffu, olLnkc iL«si. -w at.,..,-tf the County Court ou the 21st day of July 1868. Judgment reversed. C. T. Goode by S. H. Hawkins, for plain tiffin error. W. A. Hawkins, N. A. Bmith, for de fendant in error. Benj. Green and Phillip West, plaintiffs in error, vs. Benj. F. Cock and John Thompson, administrators. Motion for new trial from Lee. Warner, J. This Court will not control the discretion of the Court below in refusing to grant a new trial in a case where no rule of law has been violated, and where it appears from tiie evidence in the record, that sub stantial justice has been done between the parties. Judgment affirmed. McCay, J., did not preside in this case. Fred. H. West, by the Reporter, for plaintiff in error. W. A. Hawkins, R. Lyon, for defendant in error. S. H. Mitchell vs. Moses Spear, treasurer. Mandamus, from Sumter. McCay, J. 1. Sections 548 and 550 of the Revised Code contemplate that, in assessing the county taxes, there shall be a specific as sessment for each of the objects mentioned, and that the fund for each shall be kept separate by the treasurer. 2. The Act of the 7th of October, 1868, directing orders to be paid by the County Treasurer, according to their date, is im perative. but that Act does not require that au order shall be paid out of a fund not set apart for the payment of debts of that kind. 3 Where there is no direction in a coun ty order, as to the fund out of which it shall be paid, and the Treasurer answers that there are older orders on his book, of the same kind, more than suffices to exhaust the money iu hand, not spe cifically assessed for special purposes, such mandamus will not be made abso lute. Judgment affirmed. Hawkins & Burke, for plaintiff iu er ror. 8. H. Hawkius, for defendant in error. Romulus Wardlaw vs. Elizabeth Ward law. Alimony, from Sumter. McCay, J. 1. Where there was a motion for alimo ny pending a bill for divorce, and the defendant in the motion moved to con tinue, showing that a material witness was absent, without his consent, who lived in the county, aud had been subpoenaed,etc., it was error in the Court to refuse the motion, on the ground that the grant ing of alimony was wholly in the dis cretion of the Court, and there was no necessity for the presence of all the wit nesses. 2. The Judge of the Superior Court should use great caution in granting ali mony, so as not to encourage applications for divorce on light grounds. Judgment reversed. Hawkins & Burke, 8. H. Hawkius, for plaintiff' in error. J. A. Ansley, C. T. Goode, by N. A. Smith for defendant iu error. Roe, casual ejector, and B. D. Parker, plain till in error, vs. Doe, ex dem , Jack Brown, et cil, defendants in error. Eject ment from Sumter. Warner, J. Where the lessors of the plaintiff in an action of ejectment instituted a suit for the recovery of a lot of land number 127, in the 27th district of Sumter county, and upon the trial thereof* the jury found a verdict for the defendant; aud the Court, upon motion, granted anew trial, which is assigned as error. Held, that inasmuch as the evidence in the record introduced by the plaintiff in the Court beiow, in support of his title to the lot of land sued for, (to-wit,)the copy grant from the State being for a different lot, (to-wit,) 107, aud there being no evidence of title shown in the lessors of the plaintiff which would entitle them to a verdict for the premises sued for, (to-wit,) lot number 127, the ver dict was right under the evidence offered by the plaintiff, and the Court below erred in granting anew trial. Judgment reversed. McCay, J., did not preside in this cause. Hawkins & Burke for plaintiff in error. N. A. Smith, B. Hill, for defendant in in error. Lucinda Taylor, plaintiff in error, vs. Mayor and Council of Americus, defend ant in error. Certiorari from Sumter. W arner, J. Where a defendant has been sentenced j by the Mayor and Council of the city of 1 Americus to pay a fine of twenty dollars anil cost;,, and in default thereof, to be con fined in the guard-house of said city for tweuty duys, tor disorderly conduct, and a petition for certiorari was presented to tbe Judge of the Buperior Court, alleging error in the proceedings of said Mayor and City Council ou the trial of said defendant, (to wit,) that there was no evidence that the alleged disorderly couduet was committed within the corporate limits of said city, so as to give to tiie said Mayor and City Coun cil jurisdiction to try and punish the de fendant thereof, the Judge refused the application for certiorari upon tiie state ment of facts contained in tbe petition. Held, that the petition for certiorari made a prima facie case, which entitled her to have tiie alleged error reviewed and cor rected, and that it was error iu refusing tbe certiorari prayed for. Judgment reversed. N. A. Bmith for plaintiff in error. Jack Brown by B. H. Hawkins for de fendant in error. Roe, ciisuai ejector, and James Thomas, tenant, plaintiffs in error, vs. Doe, ex. dem., John Malcom, ei. at., defendants in error. Motion for new trial, from Buinter. Waknkr, J. Where, upon the trial of an action of ejectment for the recovery of a lot of land, and the mesne profits thereof, the teuant offered to prove the increased value of the lot of laud, in consequence of tiie improve ments made thereon by the tenant, as a set-off to the mesne profits claimed by the plaintiff; but tbe Court refused to allow tbe tenant to prove the increased value of the premises, resulting from the improve ments made thereon by tbe tenant, and restricted him to the actual value of tbe improvements put ou the land by him. Held, that a fair construction of sections 2455 and 3416 of the Code, allows the ten ant to prove the increased value of the premises resulting from the improvements made thereon by teuant, and to set-ofl'tbe value thereof iu an action for mesne prof its within tbe limitation imposed by sec tion 3416. The Justice’s Court £i. fa. had au entry ou it. “To any lawlul officer to execute aud return,” signed by a Justice of the Peace, but the couuty of which he was Justice does not appear, but the entry was made ou the 28tb of October, 1831, and tne levy on the land was made 29th October, 1831, by a constable of Lee coun ty. Tbe Fgal presumption was, that the li. fa. had been backed by a Justice of tbe Peace of Lee county, where the levy was made. Judgment reversed. Brown, C. J.—Concurred as follows : 1 agree with the Judge delivering the opinion, in the judgment of reversal for the reason given by him. I am also of opinion that the Judge of the Superior Court should have ruled out the Ju-tice’s Court fi. fa. on the trial, on the ground that it issued from a Justice’s Court of Morgan county, and was levied upon land in Lee county, when it had not been backed by a Justice of the Peace of said county, so as to authorize a constable of that county to make the levy. While 1 would make every reasonable presumption in favor of a sale under an old Justice’s Court fi. fa., Ido not think we are justified in presuming that a Jus tice of tiie Peace, who backed the fi. fa. without specifying for what county he acted, belonged to, or was a Justice for any particular county. McCay, J., did not preside in this case. “BREACH OF PROMISE.” What t harie« I hiuk<* About It. Corueliua O'Dowd, iu May Blackwood. Now I am fully persuaded that the horse-whip and the hair-trigger were far moreetfectualiu suppressing theseoffences than trial at bar. The redress which can only be approached by a humiliation and a terror is no redress at all; and if we sounded the depth of public feeling, we should find there is a more contemptuous sentimeal Cor her who hu th* namagetr; tbatl fsr him who has paid them. As I have said before, the real hero is the defendant; he has had his “lark,” and he has paid for it. Two thousand or three, perhaps, seem a good deal to give for a flirtation and a confidential corres pondence, but he has shown the public what a dangerous dog he is, what a terror he might be in a neighborhood—not to say that he has cast a shadow over a whole life, and left an undyiDg memory of treachery where he had promised fidelity anil loyalty. Why will not public opinion, so unfor giving to the duelist, extend some of its severity to the cases that dueling knew bow to deal with ? or, if it will not permit the pistol, why not measure out to the betrayer some of that indignation it now bestows on him who fights? Declare these men infamous. It is no case for a money reparation. We have in part dis carded that base amende in some other cases; let us have done with it here. De grade the man who breaks his pledge when solemnly given to make a girl his wife, from whatever station of honor or profit he possesses, and pronounce him disqualified to serve the browj, If women depend on menafor their protec tion, here is the case of all others that calls for their protection. To accept these men in society, to receive them in our clubs, to make them associates and com panions, is a shame and a disgrace on us. To shun the sharper and the blackleg, and to know oue of these, is an outrage on sense as well as on decency. In the laxity with which we treat his guilt we contribute to its frequency. Make breach of promise of marriage as disgrace ful as cheating at play, and you will sup press it mote effectually than if you quad rupled the damages; or, if you will not do this—if you will maintain the pleasant theory that courtship is a game where the players stand on equal terms, and that it is a national gain to us if the ladies of our families learn to temper the flow of their affection with some knowledge of the law of contracts—that girls are better, and better fitted to become wives and matrons from having their minds plentifully armed with distrust, aud prepared to regard every man as a possible blackguard—if, 1 say, you desire to maintain all this, the result will be a very acute class of young ladies, which will lead to fewer cases of breach of promise, but in return give you a large crop of suits for divorce aud separation. It is not merely because I am an Irishman that I like a little Lynch law, but I really believe “lynching” enlists a larger share of public sympathy in its exercise than all other forms of justice ; and it has two other merits, it is both speedy and inex pensive. A friend of mine, for whose opinion and judgment I have great deference, tells me that in my zeal to punish these traitors of false faith, 1 am likely to put down that pleasant pastime called flirtation. But 1 demur to this dictum ; I am sure I never heard it alleged that the ** Universal Peace Association ” decried fireworks and ac tually abjured rockets. As for flirtation, I maintain it to be not only antiunocent but an improving pas time. Just as certain games with wooden segments of countries instill notions of geography, flirtation is “ reading made easy,” or love-making; and as there are vast numbers of people who require that all this instruction should be given iu some easy and agreeable mode, this prac tice is by no means to be condemned. If it were not that I intend to preach on this text some day at more length, I would go more freely into the matter now, and say what esteem and value I feel for flirtation. I cannot imagine, beside that I have, in what I have said here, discour aged the practice any more than any man who denounces cheating at cards should be supposed to be averse to whist-playing. What L uphold is, that the game should be played loyally. There is a great deal of sparring with the gloves on, and very pretty sparring too ; but it is well to re member that when people mean to be in earnest they show it openly and palpably. Now in “flirtation proper” the gloves are always on, aud even if some smart taps are delivered, they seldom leave a mark. And all I have said here is directed to those who, after throwing the gloves aside, inflict heavy wounds, but are always ready to say, “I’m sure 1 never meant it; I fan cied it was only play. As for my part, I never intended to be serious.” Missing Steamer.— The steamship “United Kingdom,” running between Glasgow and New Yors, left the former port seventy-one days ago, and baß not been heard from since. Fears are enter tained for her safety. VOL. LXL, NO 16. UNDER WATER. Narrow Escape of Two DBm. These are two things which I do not care ever to do—dive down into the sea in a diving-bell, and dive up into the air in a balloon. It may be necessary for somebody to do these dangerous things, though about that, in most cases, I have my doubts, and I can conceive of some possible situations where I might be laughed at as a coward, for refusing to make such a venture. But I candidly confess that, with my present scruples, neither wounded pride nor he roic ambition would be strong enough to cause me to venture from terra firrna very far, either in an upward or downward di rection. That splendid break-neck plaything of science, the balloon, cannot, however, quite rival in fearlessness the mysterious instrument called the diving bell During the attempt made some years ago, to raise the vessels sunk in the Cri mean war, off Sebastopol, two divers were making a descent in a large diving bell. By some strange accident the heavy vehi cle became detached from the chain tack ling that held it. and sank, with fearful rapidity, toward the bottom. For a moment the terrified inmate., looked at each other without sj»eak ing a word. Both realized, at the same instant, the appalling nature of their dis aster. Even by the dim light that pene trated through the deep water and glim mered through the lenses of their subma rine prison, the fear and consternation pictured on their features showed plain enough never to be forgotten. The jerk of the separation from the lowering chain had broken their breath ing pipe. In a minute the poor divers felt their few feet of air growing thick and poisonous. “We are lost!” one of them gasped. “ I know it,” returned the other, in a tone of surly despair. Vainly their hammers rung upon the sides of the bell the signal of distress. Vainly they looked out if perchance the cable was yet in sight. Then with blood shot eyes and dizzy brain they clung to each otker, expecting soon to expire. Creatures of the sea flounced and wal lowed around them as they sank down, or slid and wriggled close beside their ill-fated ark, as if iusultiDg their misery. The bell was sinking iu a deeper place than any that had been previously tried ; for, as the exploring company had but just changed their point of operations, this was the first descent. Any possible hope, therefore, that might have sustained the unfortunate divers, of assistance reachiug them from the surface before it was too late, was cut off by the consideration of the unfamiliar soundings and the unknown nature of the bottom below. The edge of the huge diving-bell might catch a projecting rock, or some part of the rigging of a sunken vessel, and be overset, in which case, of course, the water rushing in would drown them in an instant. Besides, the terrible sense of suffocation rapid y put it out of their power to do anything to help themselves, even had their desperate condition preserved the chance to them. The last that either could remember, as bis senses drifted slowly into the fatal asphyxia which precedes death by poison ed breathing, was the husky voice of his companion in his ear, panting out, “Dy ing, dying—good-bye.” All was consternation in the ship, aud air boat, as soon as the parting of the cable and life-tube was observed. Was there any hope, even the least , of rescu ing the hapless divers so suddenly and dis tressingly cut off from the cheerful upper world. The repeated signals of the poor fellows were heard coming up distinctly, with the peculiar sound made always by an under water blow. |||JU ■■■■ m ijuui mibwiT out by the pitying crew, bbt to no pur pose. The signals continued, though fainter. Soon they ceased. Were the men dead. Providentially, a diver in sub-marine armor, was above water at the moment, in one of the nearest ships of the squad ron, and just ready to go down again. He was hailed, and a few strong strokes of skillful oars brought him to the spot with such dispatch, that the signals hail hardly ceased from below, before he step ped into the air boat where the lost ma riners’ broken life-tube lay. Attaching additional weights to his leet, the diver immediately dropped himself over the side, and with a hook attached to a cable in his hand, shot to the bottom like a deep-sea plummet. He fastened the hook, and gave the signal, when, as rapidly as muscle and windlass and good will could do it, the bell and its human occupants were heaved to the surface, and hauled aboard. At first it was thought that the two divers were dead, but the air and the at tentions of the capable surgeon soon awoke in them the little remnant of life that re mained, and they breathed again. It was some time before they were suf ficiently conscious to realize their escape from death; but after that, their recovery was rapid, and in a day or two, though still feeling weak from the terrible pressure their systems had suffered, they were walking about deck with thankful hearts. They however, were never able to go down in a diving-bell again—nor did they ever wish to. The Dotlou Crop from 1850 to 1860. A friend hands ns an article clipped from the Charleston News of a date in October 1866, not recollected, which presents some facts not without interest at any time, but which may be unusually interesting at present. We quote as follows from it: CROP OP COTTON. 1860— 5,387,052 bales of 400 pounds, or 2,154,- 820,800 pounds. 1850—2,445,793 bales. 1860. 1850. Mississippi 1,202,506 484,292 Alabama 989,955 564,429 Louisiana 777,738 178,737 Georgia 701,840 499,091 Texas 431,463 58,072 Arkansas 367,393 65,344 South Carolina 853,413 :4J0,‘.»J1 Tennessee 296,464 194,533 North Carolina 445,514 40,545 Florida * 65,153 45,131 Missouri 41,188 Virginia 12,727 3,947 Illinois 1,482 Utah 136 Kansas 61 New Mexico 19 5,387,052 2,445,793 Bales of 400 pounds. The annexed statement is of high value in indi cating the influence of an early or late season on the amount of the crop. It is copied from a New York cotton circular: The following table shows the dates of bloom and frost, the length of season between bloom aud frost, and the crop for each year from 1837 to iB6O. The average length of seasons was 4 months aud 21 days, and it will be seen that the amount of the crop was greatly dependent on the length of the season, the only exception being in 1855, when, although the season was 11 days longer than the average, the crop was reduced by heavy storms in September: j j T~ Amount Year. Bloom. Prod.. length of Season. Crop. 1837.. June 4 Oct. 14 4 months 10 days 1,419,000 1838.. May 7 Oct. 27 5 months 20 day 5,1,817,000 1839.. June 14 Oct. 7 3 months 23 days 1,365,000 1840.. May 24 Nov. 7 5 months 13 days 2,179,000 1841.. June 6 Oct. 17 4 months 11 days 1,620,000 1842.. June 10 ; Oet. 15 4 mouths 5 days 1,6-3,000 1843.. May 17jNov. 1 5 months 14 days 2,379,000 1844.. Jane 12 Oct. 15 4 mouths S days 2,029,000 1845.. May 3llOct. 30 5 months 2,394,000 1846.. May 30 Nov. 3 5 months 3 days 2,100,000 1847.. Juue 10 Nov. 1 4 months 21 dayß 1,778.000 1848.. May 29 Nov. 27 5 months 28 days 2.347,000 1849. .IJune 1 Nov. 20 5 mouths 19 days 2,728,000 1850.. June 15 Nov. 3 5 months 18 days 2,0y6,000 1851.. June 27 Oct. 26 4 months 2,355,000 1852.. 15,Dec. 10-5 mouths 25 days 3,015,000 1853. .|june 24 Dec. 5 ( 5 months 11 days 3,262,001' 1854. J June 6 Oct. 26 8 months 20 day-2.930,000 1855.. June 11 Nov. 13] 5 months 2 days 2,847,000 1856.. June 14 Oct. 25 4 mouth- 11 days 3,527,000 1857. . June 19 Oct. 113 months 12 days 2,939,000 1858.. 23 Nov. 20|4 mouths 27 days 3,113,000 1859 June 2 Nov. 8 5 months 6 days 3,851,000 1860.. 20,0 ct. 30|5 months 4 days 4,675,000 Look Out.—Bpurious SSO and SIOO bills on the First National Bauk of New Jer sey, are in circulation in Augusta. They were stoieu from the Treasury at Wash ington without the signatures of the President and Cashier, though impres sions from the genuine plates. The num bers of the notes stolen range as follows: Upper numbers from 19,609 to 19,688; lower numbers from 671 to 750.