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.ml AATHROPY AND EXECUTIVE CI.EMr
PHih» K.MCT.
Mr. Wendell Phillips is an eminent phi
lantbropist, although he adopts strange
w# yg of showing his philanthropy. When
recommends theCamancbes to destroy
i ie Pacific Railroad, and scalp and tor
ture the white passengers by way of ad
.sliug their controversies with the United
States, his object is philanthropic, though
it does not api>ear so at first sight. His
Jrtire is peace, and the speediest settle
ment ot outstanding difficulties. And
*beu he advised the negroes at the Fouth
•,) employ murder, robbery and arson as
tbe most effectual agencies for the estab
isbment of satisfactory relations with
tbe whites, philanthropy of the most
;>ouine kiud prompted the advice, how
ever incapable many of us were of seeing
it In that light.
[f any one doubts this, Mr. Phillips’ re
cent letter to Mr. Bovee, of Wisconsin,
wbereiu he informs that fanatical advo-
Me of the abolition of all capital pun
i.luneut that he is opposed, not merely
to the gallows, but to the word “pun
ishment" in the “discussion of how to
treat crime,” will effectually remove tbe
doubt, and place Phillips on a footing
with our own Chief Magistrate and Com
mauder-iu-Chief of our Army and Navy,
who delights in rescuing murderers and
tiurglars from the cruel grasp of the offi
er» of justice and restoring them to so
ety, alter subjecting them for a season to
the “bent moral influences’’ in a prison-
There is is no possible crime which
Phillips would punish capitally. Indeed,
be would not punish criminals at all. At
the most he would subject them to “good
moral intluences,” and make the editorial
etaff of the Anti-Slavery (Standard, and the
members of the defunct Anti-Slavery So
lely take the places of the judges, juries,
sheriffs, jailers and executioners, whose
duty it now is, under the law, to use the
moral inlluence of the noose and the soli
tary cell to repress such eccentricities as
murder, burglary and arson.
It must be under tbe influence of Mr.
Phillips, and perhaps of Bovee, that Gov
ernor Bullock has apparently resolved
to banish the word punishment from "all
liHcussiou as to how to treat cri me.” It
must be that it is in the same spirit of
Ptiillippian philanthropy, which urges
lie red mail and tiie black mau to scalp,
lestroy and burn, that Governor Bullock
i»es bis high prerogative to issue the
eineucy proclamations which have n
ntly tilled his organs and startled the
, nod people of Georgia into the belief that
- lime is fast approaching when crim
ii«, convicted of the most heinous of
os against all law, humau and Divine,
dll become the special objects of Execu
te favor, and when he whose sworn
duty it is to execute the laws will use his
power to protect the criminals against the
punishment which the law awards to
iheir transgressions.
When the verdicts of impartial juries
and the judgment of competent judges
are arbitrarily set aside to let loose upon
society murderers of whose guilt no hon
est doubt is possible, and especially when it
is suspected that this arbitrary power is
exercised to promote the purposes of a po
litical party, the people who respectaud
obey the law as the only effectual protec
tion of social peace and security, may
well regard the future with apprehension,
in which the great principle of self-preser
vation may compel men to be a law unto
themselves, ami no longer invoke the aid
1 oouits ami magistrates for the puuisb
mem of criminals who, however mani
vstly guilty and justly condemned, are
sure of pardon, if only they happen to be
negro voters or partisans of the Exec
utive.
Phillips would incite the Indian and
egro to scalp and murder white men and
"omen, while he would abolish all pun
ishment of crime, and Bullock releases
ouvieted assassins and house-breakers to
utcher fresh victims and plunder fresh
lw ellings, that he may increase his popu
Hrity ami retain the votes of the class to
"bich these criminals belong.
How long, Catiline, will you continue
■°abuse our patience?”
rHB DEC ISION OE THE SUPREME COURT.
publish, in another colum i, a deci
!ion °l the Supreme Court which makes a
startling inroad on what have beeu hith
-rto regarded as the rights of creditors,
be judgment creditor, who was barred
> the stay laws enacted by the Legisla
te of Georgia duriug the four yeais of
war from levying on the land of his
debtor, now finds that his judgment is
-Ttnant and must be revived, and if dur
g the four years the laud to which the
-dgmeut attached was conveyed to an
ther party, the lien is gone altogether,
tad the creditor is left without any re
tress.
The effect of this decision is of far wider
'"ope than any of the relief measures
*hieh we have seen, and while we sup
<’'<?that all must bow to the judgment,
' e think that it is very hard, aud will
*ork cruel iujustice to a large number of
Ur citizens thus deprived of their prop
■”.v without any fault or neglect of theirs.
H will be seen that Judge Warner dis
j from the majority of the Court,
intimated pretty plainly that the
1 J rt had overlooked that important part
is duty which enjoins special vigilance
the protection of the rights of credi-
MANTFEST DESTINY.
dliatn H. Seward, before he set sail
Alaska, in a speech at Sacramento,
1 uttered the following new and re
'vd edition of his old doctrine of “mani
-8 destiny" and annexation of terri
tory ;
v ‘ you are for the country, and the
w ? le country, to its utmost borders, lam
1 u J t ou iu that. If you are for preserv
i at we Have, and adding to it what-
Jou P r °pcrly annexed, I am with
’ H there are any who are not
') lu K whatever God has designed to
parcel of tue republic, I am
Jl "iththem.
( - u i )a , tbe rest of tbe West Indies,
a j & * ic<> ’ aut i Central America are said by
of .? t 0 designed to be part and parcel
H fc 1 e publlc, those who are for aunex
oiese territories may take all possible
’ xtion from the assurance that the
’hit i' rßUry ‘ 8 “ with lhem ” As he will
Hi n Uartz ’ lbe Cubans, Baez of St. Do
t others, before he returns, he
iscover whether these interested
are with him
\ VPOLEON ACCEPTS THE SITUATION
The cable dispatches which we publish
this morning, aud those we published
yesterday, inform us that the French Em
peror has yielded to the parliamentary
opposition, and has consented to modify
his system of government in conformity
with the recent emphatic expression of
the popular will.
The late elections have borne this fruit.
Although they did not result in the return
to the Legislative Chamber of a sufficient
number of liberal members to interfere
materially with the success of the Minis
terial party or defeat the policy of tUe
Emperor, they were nevertheless strongly
significant of a wide-spread change in the
seutiments of the people aud of their de
termination to shake off the autocracy
which, iu semblance of a constitutional
government, made the entire nation bend
to the absolute will of the Emperor.
Napoleon, with the sagacity and fore
sight lor which he is distinguished, saw
that the system which vested all the gov
erning power in himself, which has lasted
siuce the coup d'etat , aud which made tbe
legislative bodies the mere registers of his
edict, was no longer tenable except by
force, and has to share the power
of in listing laws wit^therepresentatives
of the people, and to make his Ministers
responsible to the nation as they are in
England.
Hitherto, under the Constitution of
December, 1851, the executive power was
vested exclu-ively in the Emperor. He
appointed the ministers and removed
them without referring to the wishes of
the legislative bodies, aud lie also appoitil
ed and dismissed the members of the
Council of estate, whose function it was to
prepare the projects of laws under the di
rection of 'he ministers. The Senate, like
the ministers and Council of State, were
appointed by imperial decrees, and their
sauction was necessary to give validity to
any vote of the legislative corps.
This latter body was elected by uni
versal suffrage, but it had no power to
originate any law It had only the right
to debate ami interpose such measures as
the Emperor’s ministry thought proper to
introduce. It could not eveu elect its own
presiding officer, aud thus was practically
powerless to do more than talk about and
ratify whatever tbe Emperor might think
proper to propose.
Freedom of speech ami of the press ex
isted only iu name, and while the national
will was al ways ostentatiously paraded as
the foundation of the imperial throne and
tiie mainspring of imperial action, the
(State was as much under the Emperor as
it was uudet Louis XIV.
The election proved that the people
would no louger tamely submit to this
oue rnau’s rule. The choice by large con
stituencies of such extreme opponents of
the Emperor, as Rochefort, Jules Favre
and others, was, as it were, the handwrit
ing on the wall, which the Paris riots in
terpreted with sufficient clearness to make
one far less astute aud sagacious than
Louis Napoleon, understand its meaning
perfectly.
Accordingly, while yet master of the
situation in appearance, aud with all the
grace of voluntary concession, he has
agreed that the peoples’ representatives
shall have power to initiate legislation,
that the ministers shall represent the pop
ular will, and he responsible 'to the peo
ple. and that freedom of discussion iu
Parliament, at meetings, aud through the
press, shall be conceded.
It is certain that these concessions will
not go the length of taking the reins out
of the Emperor’s hands, aud that they
will besurrouuded witli restrictions which
will leave much to he still desired iu the
interest of freedom. But they are a
great step iu advance.
It remains to be seen from what
shade of so-called Liberals be will se
lect tbe successors of the Kouher
Ministry, aud when tbe tongue of
the opposition is once let loose, how
much further the Bochelorls aud Jules
Favres will require him to go, aud how
far the people will sustain their ultra
Representatives.
If the opposition allowed themselves to
be led by such men as Thiers, who want
to continue the Empire, but insist on con
stitutional mouarchy, Napoleon will make
a virtue of necessity and thus secure his
dynasty. But should the Extremists in
sist upon further concessions, we may
look for a repetition of the “days of De
cember,” when despotism triumphed by
force of grape and canister, but when an
archy might have been the temporary
victor.
LETTER FROM EIFAI LA.
Eufaula, Ala., July 13th, 1869.
Editor Journal and Messenger: luy ou r
paper of the 12cb there is copied au article
from the “Thomasville Enterprise,” in
relatiou'to the successful farming of Ar
thur P. Wright, Esq.; and the instance
given is a field of o.its of 100 acres, from
which he gathered twelve thousand
sheaves, averaging 31 lhs. per sheaf, and
making in all the sum of 42,000 lbs. Is the
geueral yield of oats so smalt in Thomas
county that the production of 420 lbs. per
acre is sufficient to iuduce its people to
parade it in the newspapers, and boast
of it as au extraordinary crop? 1,000 lbs
per acre would not be a very large yield*
inasmuch as many fields—and they large
ones —have yielded a much larger average
thau th amount last mentioned.
Put the most extraordinary part of the
statement remains to be noticed. If the
crop was small, occasioned by frost, poor
land, etc., the writer exhibits the most
wonderful facility iu the use of figures, by
which he makes 42,000 lbs. of oats, at
seventy-iivtkceufs per 100 lbs., bring the
enormous sum of $3,150 00! and triumphs
antly asks "who cau beat this?” This is,
indeed, a wouderful result, aud by what
process of arithmetical calculation the wri
ter arrived at it I cannot conceive. It is just
ten times the amouut! $315 00 is all that
1 cau make 42,000 lbs. of oats produce, at
seventy-five ceuts per 100 lbs., and this is
the correct sum. Now, Mr. Editor, do
these facts preseut anything on which to
base a statement that will authorize the
editor or the Enterprise to boast of the su
perior productions of Thomas Couuty ? I
think not. Three hundred aud fifteen
dollars, as the cash product of 100 acres of
land, strikes tuy mind as poor farming,
and when you deduct the $l5O expenses
from it, there remains but $165 profit from
100 acres of laud !
If this is a fair specimen of Thomas
Couuty farming, it will hardly be sufficient
to iuduce many persons to emigrate to that
part of the couutry, unless, iudeed, they
could multiply the price of their produce
with the same facility that the editor of
the Enterprise exhibits iu the case of this
field of oats!
Crops in this p»rt of the country are
generally good, though some sections are
suffering for the want of rain. Corn
promises a fair yield, and all the cotton
that has been stimulated by commercial
or other manures, is looking well, aud
promises a beautiful harvest for thehus
baudmau. It is too soon in the year,
however, to authorize any estimate of the
cotton cr q>, as it has to pass through the
trying ordeal of the mouths of August
aud September, before auythiug certain
cau be known with regard to it. It is
twelve days since any rain has falleu at
this plac.e, though light show’ers have
been passing around us for two days, aud
it is probable that the atmosphere will
soon yield us a due portion of the mois
ture which it holds iu suspension.
Wiping the “Journal and Messen
ger” establishment, and all that are con
nected with it, from “Pit to Dome,” the
most unbounded prosperity, I remain
yours, Subscriber.
Major Williamsou, in a report to the
Commissary of Beuar, iu India, solemnly
avers that it is the custom of the families
! in those parts, whenever a husband and
father has been eaten by a tiger (which is
rather the rule than the exception), to
change their family name. The object of
this is to prevent the tiger from extermi
nating the household, either through ap
petite, if the father agreed with him, or
through rage, if the father gave him the
dyspesia.
The following is a literal copy of a doc
ument forwarded to an unsuccessful can
didate at the late general electiou in Eng
land: "Mr. , Dr. to . To wearing
your colors one week, aud attending at the
pool at , aud voting for you, JEIO.
—Macmillan & Cos., the London pub
-1 lishers, are about to open a branch estab
• lishment in New York.
Vi ta sine I_. iteris Rl ors est
A PROMISED IMPERIAL BOON.
The Imperialist strongly advocates the
payment of the Confederate debt, on the
ground that “the temporary sacrifice”
would be “well remunerated by the trans
cendent glory of the honorable action.”
It says:
“We challenge any man to dispute tbe
correctness of this proposition. If we are
told that all the loans in question were
made contingent upon the duration of the
Confederate Government, aud that they
were fairly forfeited by its downfall, how
shall we consistently’ claim trie payment
of the bonds of the United Btates, issued
to raise money for tbe perpetuation of a
Republic which has already notoriously
ceased to exist?”
It would seem that the payment of tbe
Confederate debt is to be one of the con
sequences of the establishment of the Em
pire; and as we uow learn the startling
news that “the Republic has notoriously
ceased to exist,” we may be some day
agreeably surprised by receiving coin
stamped with the effigy of our first Impe
rator for our fifteen million loan, our cot
ton loan, our seven-thirties, and our treas
ury notes, of which we were only prom
ised payment “two years after the ratifi
cation of a treaty of peace between the
Confederate Bta'es aud the United States
of America.”
Much as we are attached to republican
institutions, and little as we believe in the
efiete monarchies, bloated aristocracies,
etc., etc,, if we are to have an Emperor
and must accept the situation, we shall be
much more inclined to consider him “a
wise aud good Priuce,” if he inaugurates
his reign, by lifting our Confederate notes
with coin of tbe realm.
If, however, he finds this to be immedi
ately impracticable, he might, as Bill Arp
says, “tote the notes awhile,” which
would be some relief.
THE GOOD TIME COMING IN THE SOUTH.
The New York Commercial Advertiser
forcibly remarks:
The condition of the Southern States at
the present time is full of promise. They
seem to have fairly tided over their indus
trial and political troubles, and the future
is bright with tiie promise of a high, and,
we trust, enduring prosperity. Another
good cotton crop, of which the indications
appear to he tiie most favorable, will place
them in a position which even tbe North
ern States may envy. Tbe Southern peo
ple, fortunately for themselves, have had
no credit for several years past, aud have,
therefore, no debts at the preseut time.
They have been forced to live economi
cally and depend entirely upon their own
resources, while the Northerners, as a
rule, have been extravagant aud wasteful.
It is probable that in the event of the oc
currence of the financial panic, which
some people regard as imminent, the
Southern people would feel the shock
much less keenly, and recover from it
much more rapidly than some of the more
wealthy and apparently more prosperous
Northern States,
The condition ot the cotton market at
the preseut time indicates that no mate
rial reduction is likely to occur in the
present prices of the great staple. The
supply of cottou in both England and the
United States is scarcely adequate to the
requirements of consumersduring the in
terval that elapses before tiie new crop
begins to come forward. The cable quo
tations of 12)d. for middling uplauus at
Liverpool, is a fortune for the Southern
planter. That there will be no important
reduction from this price is apparent from
the evident inadequacy of all the cottou
fields in the world to supply the demand
for consumption. The supply is falling
off from India in spite of all the efforts of
England to stimulate production in that
region. The South, for a series of years to
come, will be the great source of cottou
supply for the world. King cotton is re
covering his lost throne, but he Will reign
henceforth as a constitutional monarch
over freemen, not as a despot over slaves.
Free labor will ultimately vindicate its
superiority even iu the cotton field.
Nothing, then, but the contingency of
unexpected aud ualOoked for disasters to
the new crop can prevent the South tak
ing anew start. At preseut the accouuts
of the cotton and corn crops are favorable,
and tbe yield of both these products will
be largely in excess of last year. With
the prospect of plenty of money, aud
with no debts on hand to absorb it, the
South at the close of another successful
harvest will possess the means aud capital
required to stimulate the great railroad
and other industrial enterprises that are
destined to impart to it anew impulse on
the road to prosperity.
A STRANGE disorder.
From the Chicago Tribune, July 8.
A strange case of threatened fatality,
arising from a most peculiar cause, has
just been developed iu this city. On the
27th of June last (St. John’s Day) Mr.
Alex. Bangley, a well-known grocer of
the North Division, joined an excursion
of the French Society of St. Jean de Bap
tiste, to Bourbonuaise Grove, near Kan
kakee. He wore, ou that occasion, a pair
of w hat are known as French socks, com
posed of fine thread material with bright
scarlet bottoms, which his wife had pur
chased at a leading dry goods store. At
the close of the pic-nic, aud on his return
to Chicago, Mr. Bangley complained of
severe pain iu his feet, aud on the follow
ing morning was unable to attend to his
business iu consequence of their painfully
swollen condition. From that time forth
the strange disorder increased rapidly, ex
tending, in white blisters over nearly the
entire body of the sufferer.
Drs. Henrotiu aud Fisher were sum
moned, aud were at first of the opinion
that the case was one of erysipelas, but
were soon compelled, by the symptoms,
to abandou this diagnosis. The physi
cians were completely at a loss to account
for the peculiar manifestations of the dis
ease, which unquestionably iudicated that
a deadly poison had been iufused into the
system through the medium of the blood.
After several consultations had been had,
the doctors incidentally learned of the
scarlet-footed Freuch socks worn by Mr.
Baugley on St. John’s Day. A minute
examination of the socks developed the
fact that iu the bright red coloring matter
was contained a principle of acute poison,
the absorption of which iuto the sensitive
sole of the foot bad been aided by abund
ant perspiration, until it had taken com
plete possession of the system. Subse
quent to arriving at the cause, every ef
fort was made to effect a remedy, but
without success. Mr. Bangley’s condi
tion has continued to grow worse, day by
day, until ou yesterday, he was advised to
make his will, as he had but a short time
to live. So stands this singular poisoning
case at Dresent. It is stated that other
cases of the kind have arisen from the
same cause, though not nearly so severe.
BAD FUR THE PATRIOTS,
We see it stated that Geueral Thomas
Jordan, of Charleston notoriety, has been
placed in command of the Cuban Patriot
forees. If this be so, it seriously decreases
reasonable hope of the success of the
movement.
During tire Confederate war, except to
get General Beauregard into scrapes by
his indiscreet communications, we do not
know of any service General Jordan ren
dered. During the latter years of the
struggle Jordan had no rank or command
iu the service. After Lee had surrendered
aud when President Davis was iu a dun
geou and in chains, Jordau published for
hire in Harper’s Magazine, a foul aDd
slanderous attack ou the fallen chief.
Jordau is not the stuff 1 of which success
ful insurgent leaders are made. Rodas has
no cause for apprehension; but when Ces
pedes has been defeated, and the rebellion
ended, he will very probably be denounced
and reviled in some Madrid paper, and
Thomas Jordan will be the author of the
article.
A young man named Joseph Warner,
living Charleston, West Virginia, died on
ou Thursday under curious circumstances.
He professed to have the power of charm
ing snakes. Last Thursday, having cap
tured a rattlesnake, he was giving some
friends an exhibition of this power. After
fonuuoo; ,|j e ena k e f or a time in his arms,
he threw it uu ~„h »nd switched
it until it writhed with rage. _
took the reptile up iu his arms again, ana
saying, ‘ Areyou mad? kiss me and make
up,” he put its head in his mouth. The
snake bit his tongue, and he died in about
an hour afterwards. In fifteen minutes
after being bitten his skin assumed the
spotted color of the snake.
MACON, GA.. TUESDAY, JULY 20, ISG9.
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.
—The Empress Eugenie will take a S3O,
000 silk tent with her, when she goes to
see the opening of the Suez canal.
—The excitement in England over the
probable conflict between the Lords and
Commons on the Irish Church bill is on
the increase.
—Sir Edward Landseer’s picture of tbe
“eagles attacking the swan’s nest,” has
beeu sold for the enormous sum of £7OOO.
It is said the artist refused an offer of
£4OOO from a nobleman, who sent him af
terwards a blank check which Landseer
filled up to the above amount.
Pope Pius IX, intends, it is announ
ced, to lay before the approaching Ecu
menical Council, at Rome, a proposal for
the general adoption of international
arbitration in lieu of war, and for tbe es
tablishment, by a high court of nations,
of a definite code of international law, iu
tead of the vague and unconnected max
ims, from Vattel and other private sources,
which at present constitute tbe only ap
proximation to tbe urgently needed in
fluence of a regulating system of rules and
precedents to be universally recognized
throughout Christendom.
—The London Spec ator, proposes to
have Archbishop Manning made a peer.
It thinks that there i9 this in favor of its
recommendation, that he has no children,
and there is need of an authorized expo
nentof Catholic feeling and opinion in the
higher branch of the Legislature. Seven
teen years ago Cardinal Wiseman was
hardly safe in the streets of London ; to
day it is earnestly proposed by a grave
journal to raise his successor to a grade of
the highest honor within the gift of the
crown.
—The question of tuunelling the chan
nel between Fiance aud Englaud, which
has been so long regarded as visionary
and impracticable, is now pronouuced,
upon competent authority, to be capable
of an easy solution. A special commis
sion, appointed by the Emperor Napo
leon to examine into the matter, report
that they consider the plan of the English
engineers feasible. The only difference
between tbe R reuch commission aud the
English Board of Trade is whether the
amouut of traffic would remunerate the
stockholders ; but if the pecuniary success
of the great public works were always
narrowly considered by the original
builders, there would be very few lines of
internal improvement. Mr. John Bright
is the friend of the undertaking in the
British Parliament, aud thus gives assur
ance that at least an attempt will be made
to begin the work.
Wilhelm’s Haven, the new North
German military and naval harbor on the
Baltic, recently formally opened by King
William of Prussia, is described as au im
mense work. There have been built five
separate harbors, with canals, sluices to
regulate the tide, aud dry docks for wood
en and iron-cased vessels. The approach
by sea is through an artificial basin, flank
ed by two granite moles, respectively 4900
and 9600 feet long. The entrance basin,
700 feet long and 350 feet wide, leads to the
first sluice, 132 feet long and 66 feet wide.
The next basin or outer harbor is 600 feet
loug by 400 feet wide, and leads to the
second sluice of the same size as the first.
A canal then follows 3600 feet loug, and
varyiug iu width from 108 to 260 feet. At
about the middle point is a harbor for
dredging vessels and small crafts. At the
end of the canal the grand harbor is built.
This consists of a basin 1200 feet long and
750 leet wide, with several smaller basins.
—Paris, it is said, is to he made a sea
port, in pursuance of au intention long
cherished by the French Emperor. The
plan, as we see it stated, is to construct a
saltwater canal from Dieppe of sufficient
capacity for the largest vessels—the water
to be contributed by the sea, aud kept at
proper levels by locks and floodgates. A
large basin will constitute the entrance to
the caual, which will be about one hun
dred aud sixteen miles iu length. The
natural facilities of the route which lias
beeu selected will allow ships of the
largest class to go safely under all but two
bridges, by merely striking their top-gal
lant masts. '1 De plans for this great work
are said to be iu coarse of preparation in
tbe imperial palace, under the Emperor’s
immed'atesupervisiou. Immense results
are anticipated from the bringing of Paris
into direct communication with the sea.
THE PARDON OF MILLER AND SCREVEN.
From the Savannah News.
Iu our issue of yesterday we published
a letter of pardon granted by tiie Governor
to these two negroes, who had been sen
tenced to imprisonment in the Peniten
tiary for burglary, including au affidavit
of Allen Williams, the witness upou
whose evidence the accused were convict
ed, stating that he had been forced to tes
tify as he did by threats of imprisonment
aud starvation on the part of Detective
Wray, and that the evidence then given
was false.
Yesterday afternoon Mr. Wray procured
the arrest of Williams upou a charge of
false swearing. He was taken before Jus
tice Marsh, aud there made the following
affidavit:
State of Georgia, Chatham County—Be
fore me, Isaac M. Marsh, a Notary Public
and ex-officio Justice of tbe Peace for the
said State aud county, personally came and
appeared Allen Williams, a person of
color, of said county, who. being duly
sworn, deposes and says: “ Whereas, an
affidavit has appeared in public print as a
part of au official document from His
Excellency, Ru us B. Bullock, Governor
of the Stale of Georgia, to the principal
keeper of the Peuiteutiary, which affida
vit purports to be the voluntary affidavit
of myself, made without advisement
or communication with any other
person ; I do declare said affidavit
false in many particulars, to-wit:
I was asked by Mr. Richard Wayue
Russell, on several occasions, to come
to his office, as he wanted to see me,
but I did not go. On theday tbe affidavit
was made I was sitting in Justice Jones’
office. Mr. Richard Wayue Russell came
to the steps of the office aud asked me to
come to his office that day at four o’clock.
I went to the office before (our o’clock
with Mr. Russell. When in the office Mr.
Russell asked me to tell him the truth
about whether Mr. Wray threatened to
starve me or threateued to seud me to the
penitentiary. I told him I would. He
asked me if Mr. Wray did not tell me
what to swear to in court. I told him no
He asked me again, aud I told him no. I
told him no. He then asked me if Mr.
Wray did not starve me. I told him no.
I told him I had only missed one meal.
Mr. Russell then spoke to a gentleman (I
believe Mr. Robert J. Wade), and told
him to write down as he would tell him.
Everything that was written down Mr.
Russell dictated. After the paper was
written, the gentleman read it to me and
asked me if that was right. I told him it
was not right about Mr, Wray’s starviug
me, but said I did starve once, meaning I
bad missed one meal. He then said it
was all right, aud told me to touch the
pen. I then touched the pen. I then
left the office. I did not know what the
paper was I signed, nor did I know for
what purpose it was to be used. The evi
deuce I gave iu the Superior Court room
was true.
bis
Allen Willims.
• mark.
Sworn to and subscribed before me this,
July 12th, 1869. Isaac M. Marsh.
N. P. and ex officio J. P., C. C., Ga.
The Late Judge Fletcher, of Boston,
leaves, in addition to the hundred thou
sand dollars to Dartmouth College, $5,000
to the Baptist Publication Society of Phil
adelphia, to be safely and permanently
invested, and the income to be used iu
employing colporteurs ; SSOO each to the
Baptist Missionary Union; Home for
Aged and Indigent Women, in Boston ;
Home for Aged and Indigent Men, iu
Boston ; Massachusetts Bible Society and
Home for Little Wanderers; and also
SI,OOO each to the Boston Children’s
Futend Society, and the New Englaud
Home for Women and Children.
Resignation of the French Minis
try.—On the 9th of July the Ministers
placed their portfolios in the hands of tb.-
Emperor. His Majesty on receiving them
Eentlem3i^ ere are 80tue of the deputies,
herd, but a’re you stfKPUshing yon very
you ? I am leady to saerfflitry 13 with
legislative power; but there is a qu@£U? al
of dignity which will not yield to any
pressure.”
THE RESULTS OF SPECULATION.
From the New York Journal of Commerce.
Tbe great lesson taught by the several
bank defalcations brought to light during
the year is missed altogether by most of
those who feel called upon to comment
upon the sad occurrences. Especially are 1
we pained with the tone of criticism upou
the recent case in the Central Bank. One
of our contemporaries seems to gloat over
the fact that the defaulters are no longer
fast young men, arrayed iu purple and j
tine-iinen, driving blooded horses aud
carousing with wantons; but quiet citizens
who care more for Sabbath-schools thau
for expensive attire, who eat a cold dinner
to allow their servants to rest on the Lord’s
day, who drink cold water instead of gin
aud champagne, and attend prayer meet
ings instead of dance-houses. But is this
the moral ? Is it true that godliness fits a
man to be a swindler ? Is a friend of Sun
day-schools, a promoter of temperance,
aud a frequenter of prayer meetings in
especial danger of becoming a hank rob
ber? The writer might have spared his
sneer. He knows better than he writes.
He would much sooner leave his money
with the devout, temperate man thau with
the debauchee. But there is a lesson to be
learned, aud this would seem to be too
plain to be missed. No surroundings can
save who deliberately places him- 1
self in the way of temptation. Speculation
—the desire to obtain money not fairly
earned—is the crying evil in the laud, aud
every man who engages in it exposes him
self to sin aud shame.
A Christian character is a strong bul
wark, but it is easily sapped and under
mined tbe moment its possessor admits
this greed of unlawful gain. Thousands
of speculators have come to grief this year
who have not made free with trust funds,
and whose friends little know at what ter
rible expense they haveaequired their bit
ter experience. Every such dowfall of a
solid reputation as lias furnished the text
for this article brings to tiie editors of this
paper the most touchiug acbuowledg- j
ments from those who have tampered |
with this temptation and have been saved :
through the instrumentality of our ap- j
peals and warnings against this monster
vice. We have memorials from all class- j
es of people, merchants, clerks, doctors, j
lawyers, clergymen and laborers, who at
various times were seized with the gener- 1
al thirst, aud were rushing madly after 1
the fortuneoflered to the successful specu- ;
lator, and who yet paused aud renounced !
the struggle as we set before them its guilt
and perils.
We sound the note of warning again.
The mightiest become weak and irresolute
when once the victims of this raging de
sire. They seek an end that blinds them
to the guilt aud folly of the readiest j
means, and thus one after another they |
fall aud are ruined. No station is exempt; |
no principles can resist when the path is j
fairly entered. It is like the letting out |
of wUer; it creates the tide which pre
vents the return to safety. Work is hon
orable, aud poverty is no disgrace; but
speculation, sooner or later, is grief, shame
and ruin.
A SHAMELESS OKFF.It TO URIBE.
The following interesting and extraor
dinary advertisement appeared iu the New
York Tribune of Monday :
WESTPOINT. —Any person controlling a nomi
nation to a CADETSHIP at West Point, lacking a
nominee, may iiear of a young man who is willing
to compete for the position, aud whose friends are
willing to pay for the privilege. Address Box —,
Boston Postoffiee.
Gulya few days ago Mr. Charlier, the
principal of a large private school for boys
iu this city, publicly stated that he had
beeu oflered large sums of money to pro
cure cadetships for his pupils at West
Point and Annapolis. The publication of
this advertisement confirms his statement
that such attempts at bribery are becom
ing very common.
This is not the first time that such ad
vertisements have appeared in the news
papers; aud tbe fact would seem to indi
cate that hitherto they have proved advan
tageous means for procuring tbe appoint
ments desired. If it were otherwise, why
should another appear?
There is little useiu haviug laws against
bribery upon our statute book, if such
open attempts to infringe them are to be
permitted through the medium of the
public press. Advertisements of this
character are in the highest degree perni
cious ; for if every one of our national
legislators be iu fact as incorruptible as
Mr. Greeley himself, the coutrary impres
sion is still produced. Suspicion cannot
be fixed upon any onS iu particular, so
that he may be punished ; but the whole
body of the national legislature is lowered
iu the public esteem. This is a most se
riou i evil.
We trust that the saints of the Boston
daily press will call the attention of their
readers to the fact that this advertisement
emanates from that city.— New York Sun.
THE SUPPLY OF COTTON.
We have seen copied by several Georgia
newspapers what purports to be the pro
ceedings of the “National Association of
Cottou Manufacturers and Planters,”
dated from Summer street, Boston.
Some of the tabular statements of the
supply and manufacture of cotton are in
teresting, and may be true, but we are in
clined to look ou the whole report with
suspicion, from the fact that it emanates
from a number of Northern cottou spiu
uers, while it pretends to be the report of
planters.
The transparent object of the report is
to reduce the present price of cotton, and
for this purpose the figures are made to
suit. This is evidently done in the inter
est of Lowell and New England manu
facturers in general, and without any
more regard to the interest of planters
than for truth in the statement that the
“manufacturing world has a visible and
existing supply of cotton larger thau last
year.” The report is a Yankee dodge to
put money in manufacturers’ pocket-, and
the attempt to attribute it to planters is au
unworthy trick.
For these reasons we have not pub
lished it.
The Sickles Business —The World
defends its receut expose of the character
of Mr. Minister Sickles from the charge
of “ malignity,” and it shows, also, that
some of the better class of Republican
journals—tbe Nation, for iustauce—is en
dorsing all it said. Says the editor :
There is a malignity, and there is an
indignation. It was the latter that we felt
and expressed. Private citizen Sickles is
a disgrace to himself. Major-General
Sickles is a disgrace to the United States
Army. But Minister Sickles is a disgrace
to ail the people of the country which
sends him, and an insult to all the people
of the country to which he is sent. In
this capacity, aii citizens of his country
are involved in his infamy, and we meant
to give notice, and we mean to give no
tice, that there are some citizens who do
not intend tamely to partake that infamy.
We mean to prevent the elevation of other
Sickleses to any post where they in any
way officially represent the hundreds of
thousands of readers whose sentiments, in
this matter, we know we speak. And we
hereby give uotice that we shall serve ev
ery such scoundrel as we have Sickles,
with a view to the suppression of Sickleses
and the purging of politics.
Disgraceful!—The Louisville Courie
r makes a statement as quoted be
low which will cause a feeling of indigna
tion to be mingled with the painful emo
tions excited by the circumstance of the
case:
Two daughters of Chief Justice Taney,
both of them aged and destitute, were
employed in copying in the Patent and
Pension Offices. They depended upon
their places for their support. Alarmed
at tbe number ot removals that. were
taking place around them, they requested
the Hon. Caleb. Cushiug, ex-Attomey
General, to speak to General Grant in
their behalf. He did so, and assured them
that he had Grant’s pronrse that they
should not be disturbed. Their minds
were at ease. They did not dream that
Graut would break his promise to ladies,
probably not knowing that he had done
this repeatedly. But neither their condi
tion, nor the memory of their illustrious
father, nor Grant’s word, nor all com
bined, could save them. They have been
dismissed, and the copying that they did
is done by a couple of brawliug politi
cians. Grant is good for nothing, but he
is as good as his word.
history of hlU 1 ? is reported to be writing a
fCorrespondence Journaljand Messenger.
CROPS IN WALKER COUNTY.
The early planting of corn is pretty safe,
aud tbe prospects of a good yield is very
fair. In some sections rain is much need
ed. Cottou is looking healthy and grow
ing rapidly, and will attaiu sufficient size
to make a good crop if no disaster hap
pens to it. No sign of tbe worm i9 visible
yet. Peas, potatoes aud caue are as good
as usual. The crops generally are well
cultivated.
IMPORTANT DECISION OF THE SUPREME
COURT.
Nathan Chapman, plaintiff in error, v».
Warren Akin, defendant iu error.
Claim from Bartow.
Brown, C. J.
1. A fi. fa. levied upon real estate In
1859, unexplained, is not such presump
tive evideuce of payment, as to prevent a
levy on other property, in 18*17, when the
fi. fa. is not dormant.
2. Atkin held a judgment, dated in
1559, agaiust Stone. Bronson, in Decem
ber, 1862, purchased the tract of land in
dispute from Stoue, bona fide , and went
into possession, aud afterwards sold to
Chapman, who succeeded him iu the pos
session, which has beeu continuous from
1862 to the present time. In 1867, Atkiu
had his fi fa. levied ou tbe laud, and
Chapman interposed his claim, held-.
that Chapman, a bona fide purchaser for
a valuable consideration, with continuous
aud uninterrupted possession for more
than four years, acquired title to the land,
discharged from the lieu of Atkin’s judg
ment.
3. The Supreme Court of this State hav
ing ruled that the slay law was unconsti
tutional and void, under that ruling, the
plaintiff in a ti. fa. was never uuder any
legal disability to enforce the collection of
the money, due on his ti. fa.; and as the
law, as ruled by this court, did not restrain
a levy, the proscription did uot cease to
run in favor of the bona fide purchaser, in
possession; and as the plaintiff was uuder
no other legal disability, to proceed with
the ti. fa., the lieu of the judgment upon
the land ceased to exist at the end of the
four years’ possession.
4. Section 352.5 of the Code is not classed
with, and does not fall uuder the classifi
cation of a statute of limitations, audits
running in favor of a bona fide purchaser,
was uot suspended by the acts suspending
the ruuuiug of the statute of limitations.
The right, whatever it may be, of the
plaintiff in fi. fa. to enforce his lieu ou the
lands sold by the defendant, and held in
possession by a bona fide purchaser, exist
ed with the condition annexed, that the
levy be made within four years after the
commencement of the possession ; aud as
the plaiutitf made uo such levy, he lost his
lien by failure to enforce it, in accordance
with the condition to which it was sub
ject, aud with which lie never complied.
Judgment reversed.
McCay, Judge, concurring.
Sec. 3525 of the Code, aud the statutes
existing prior to the Code, providing that
a bona fide purchaser, for a valuable con
sideration, of real property, who has been
in possession four years, shall hold it, dis
charged from the lieu of a judgment
against the person from whom lie pur
chased it, are strictly, neither statutes of
limitation, nor statutes, providing for the
attainment of a prescriptive right, but
conditions, imposed by law, on the lien,
given to the judgment aud the plaintiff
cannot excuse himself for failing to levy
within the four years, by setting up a dis
ability, ou his part, to proceed.
Warner, J.. dissenting.
Whether the possession of a bona fide
purchaserof land for four years, uuder the
3525 section of the Code, be a presumpt
ive right, so as not to be within the provi
sions of the statute of limitations ; the lieu
of judgment creditor is clearly within the
provisions of the statute of limitations,
and has been repeatedly so recognized by
this Court, and the question is, whether
time should run iu favor of the purchaser
of the laud, subject to the plaintiffs fi fa.,
as against such plaintiff, during the time
the statute of limitations was suspended
by tiie public laws of the State, or during
the time such plaiutifr in fi. fa was pro
hibited by law from buying the same.
Held: that the purchaser of the land
could not by a fair construction of this
question of the Code ami the respective
statutes of this State for including the or
dinance of 1865 compute the time as run
ning in his favor, as against the plaintiff
in fi. fa., during the time of the suspen
sion of the statute of limitations, or dur
ing the time I lie plaintiff in fi. fa. was
prohibited by law from levying his fi. fa.
to enforce his judgment lien ; or when,
during the war, the territory where the
laud was situate was iu possession of the
military authorities, so that no civil pro
cess could be executed, and the more es
pecially, as the 1935th section of the Code
declares “ the rights of creditors shall be
favored by the Courts, and every remedy
and facility afforded them to detect, de
feat and auuul any effort to defraud thme
of their just rights.”
W. T. Wofford, W. H. Pritchett for
plaintiff in error.
W. Akin, L. E. Bleckley for defendant
j in error.
HOW HOITHERA FARMERS ARB SW I.MILKII
IY AEVV YORK.
Our farmers are interested to know how
they are sometimes dealt with by North
ern correspondents, and why it is the
vegetable trdde has proved so near a fail
ure this season. This they will learn by
reading the following article copied from
the New York Sun of the slh inst:
A case of swindling, which is of common
and almost universal occurrence, has just
been brought to light in an affidavit made
by Mr. liobert C. Lowry, of Florida, be
! fore Marshal Tooker, which deserves the
fullest exposure and condemnation of the
press and public. Mr. Lowry is an extern
i sive agriculturist, and for some lime past
has been selling the produce of his farm
in this market through the agency of a
1 friend named Thompson,
sion house of ,of standi" —, Bulk
head South of Barclay street, and No.
West street, near Vesey street.
Mr. Lowry was a regular reader of the
! country editions of the Sun, wherein lie
saw the quoted New York prices for such
goods as he had to sell. He was thereby
enableihto calculate almost to a cent what
amount of money should be returned to
j him, less the usual commission, ten per
cent.; but he did not anticipate such large
reductions from these sums as lie was
obliged to bear when his checks were for
warded. His suspicious were aroused,
and be determined to ferret the matter
I out if possible. Having iu early life had
some experience in detective business, he
| ‘‘put up” a job for & Cos., which
would work like a charm. He came to
New York, called upon his frieud Thomp
j son, aud stated to him his suspicions. Mr.
; Thompson felt a sort of moral obligati in
; to assist in the matter, and he readily
went to the commission house and pur
chased five crates of beans with Mr. Low
i ry’s card still on, for which lie paid two
dollars and fifty cents each, aud took a
receipt therefor. Mr. Lowry shortly after
appeared on the scene, aud requested a
settlement, which was made out in due
form, but the five crates of beans were
credited as having beeu sold for one dollar
and fifty cents each, from which the com
mission was afterward deducted.
Home fifty or sixty dollars worth of farm
produce was treated similarly in this sin
gle transaction. As soon as Mr. Lowry
received his agent’s statement be produced
the bill of Mr. Thompson, and asked for
an explanation. There was then a terri
ble flutter all around, and offers to “settle
| the matter” and not expose the swindle
were numerous and pressing. But the
victim would not listen to compromise.
He took his receipt and statement,
together with the cards from the crates as
collateral evidence, aud embodied the in
formation above given in the form of an
affidavit, and asked for the issuance of a
warrant. That instrument was granted,
and the accused parties appeared before
the Marshal and again offered to compro
mise ; but Mr. Lowry, by diligent inquiry,
had become satisfied in the meautime that
this species of swindling is extensively
carried on by commission merchants here,
and that scores of his (Southern neighbors
have been served like himself, and he
again refused to compromise. He in
tends to prosecute this firm to tbe fullest
extent of the law, and break up the con
temptible practice, if possible. It is be
lieved that other Southern victims will
take the same course, and thus put an end
to a Bystem which is alike injurious to the
CODBumerand the producer, but which fills
the pockets of soulless middlemen.
FROM THE REPORT FOR MW AND JINK OF
HIK DEPARTMENT OF AGKICI LTUHK.
CONDITION OF THE CROPS.
The season has beeu somewhat peculiar;
the mean temperature has beeu com(>ara
tivelv lo«, deluging rains frequent, hail
storms iu unusual frequency and severity;
frosts have beeu more destructive in the
South thau iu the North, the cold and
backward spring delaying bud develop
ment aud fioweriug inthe higher latitudes,
aud assuring a more abundant supply of
fruits in the Northern half of the country,
with au uuusual deficiency iu the South
ern.
A result of these meterologieal condi
tions is almost everywhere seeu iu the
replanting of corn, cotton, aud other
spring planted crops, to a very remark
able extent, causing hindrance aud ob
struction iu the work of theseasou, which
was already delayed by the austerity aud
unseasouableuess of the weather. The
difficulties are great, hut, in view of the
perseverance aud activity of ourhusbaud
men, and the general dissemination of
improved agricultural implements, not
insurmountable. The spirit with which
the repair of the damages has been enter
ed upon has beeu indomitable, and the re
sult of such efforts marvelous. Disasters
which might naturally prove dispiriting,
have only stimulated uctivity. While
these facts tend to disoouiagemeut, every
day’s advance iu the season diminishes
the cause of despoudency, aud obliterates
the marks of the season's untoward ness.
A general increase haviug been essayed
in acreage under cultivation, a good har
vest will depend alone upon untiring ef
forts of labor aud propitious seasons in
the future.
Wheat —The season has beeu generally
well suited to the growth of small grains,
throughout a wider geographical range
than usual, and in more of the circum
stances favoring successful production.
Hevere summer neats, in tins climate, are
apt to follow abruptly upou cool spring
weather, and develop rust, or eufeeble the
plant at the critical period of its existence,
when its highest vigor is necessary to the
production of a plump aud perfect grain.
This spring, a cooler temiierature iu May
and June lias favored health and growth
of wheat iu latitudes south of 40’, and
rust lias been less prevalent than usual,
and the promise greater of a satisfactory
yield.
Tbe returns show a high average condi
tion of wheat, and indicate a good pros
l»ect of an abundant crop, if no casualties
occur before or after harvest. 11 should he
observed, however, that the size and suc
culence of the stalk favors “lodging” or
‘‘laying,” which is reported as already
somewhat serious in parts of the Bouth
and West.
Early in the season complaints were
general of uuthriftiness auii backward
ness, which in some cases were not reme
died altogether by allei-growth, hut iu
most localities the plant became stout and
healthy, though generally ialer in head
ing than usual. Very little winter-killing
has been reported, the snow covering the
ground with greater uniformity and more
permanence thau usual. In Teuuessee
the prospect is particularly good ; in Cali
fornia better than la9t year if possible; in
the great wheat-growing (States of the
West the growth lias been vigorous iu
most places, quite too luxuriant iu fact,
and to some extent damaged iu conse
quence.
Rust is reported in a few counties iu
North Carolina aud oilier southern (States,
aud in Kentucky, Missouri, and toasligbt
extent in Illinois aud the Ohio valley.
In Alexander county, Illinois, complaint
is made that the lower portion of the head
is not filled, the imperfection being at
tributable to wet and chilly weather. In
a considerable portion of Indiana damage
lias lieeu sustained by floods upon level
and low lauds. Grasshoppers have beei:
destructive iu Utah, and to some extent
iu other regious west of the Mississippi.
Accumulating evideuce might be pre
sented of the utility and economy of drill
ing and thorough cultivation, as also of
the profit of lertiliziug, particularly in
badly managed, neglected, and worn-out
lands. The proof is all upon oue side, ad
mitting neither doubt nor discussion.
Efforts lias been made to obtain reliable
information concerning the acreuge. The
resultshows a gratifying increase, amount
ing to about six per ceut., or more than
the average in population. The Depart
ment estimate of acreage in wheat iu 1868
exceeded 18,000,000 of acres ; the returns
of correspondents indicate an aggregate
increase of more than 1,000,000 acres in
California, lowa, Minneso a, and else
where. Full relurus from the Pacific
have not been received, hut the following
estimates of increase are warranted by a
carelul analysis of returns:
Acres.
lowa 224 000
Minnesota 145,000
Ohio 140000
Indiana 130,000
Tennessee 130,000
Missouri 96,000
A considerable ircrease has also been
made in Penney l ... , . .
Virginia, M' .vania, Virginia, West
No iuer*'- lCU ig an , and other Btates.
'I M AGN/.'L can be shown either in New
' l rk Illinois, or Wisconsin, among the
. lor ’ States A decrease is apparent in
&Sk Loutaiaoa. an,l TANARUS««»; I»
liiirw.iu uom-fty RTenuctiou of the spring
wheat acreage.
Other orni-no —ltyo, barley, and Other
grains, are generally in fine condition.
The largest increase is in barley, aud in
the Biates west of tiie Mississippi, particu
liriy iu California, while a slight enlarge
ment of area is reported in tiie Ohio valley,
in New York, and elsewhere. Oats in the
Ohio valley have scarcely been sown to
the tfsual extent, hut a greater area has
been put in elsewhere in tbe West, as iu
Michigan, Wisconsin, lowa, Missouri, and
Kansas. Tbe crop is not quite in average
condition in some parts of New Englaud,
and in parts of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois,
and Minnesota, while in the more south
ern (States the low temperature of the
spring months lias effected a decided im
provement in a crop that generally suffers
in those latitudes by sudden and extreme
elevation of temperature at the season of
heading.
Corn. —Planting lias been everywhere
retarded, eithet by excessive rain or cold,
and partial replanting lias been an inevi
table necessity, at some points to the ex
tent of one fourth tiie area, in some cases
one-third or one-half, and iu Wood coun
ty, Ohio, two-thirds of the acreage. At
the date of reports planting was in pro
gress, in many cas.-s not half fiuished,
and nowhere completed north of the Ohio
river. Latest returns represent the crop
as backward; in some instances feeble,
but generally green arid vigorous, with a
promise, a favorable seasou intervening,
of a fair yield. The extent of area planted
has been limited by the supply of labor
and the necessity for replauting; a state
ment giving approximate estimates of it
will be issued in July.
Cotton. —Tiie high prices of 1868 have
stimulated the business of cotton-grow
ing; new operators have flocked into it,
old plantations have enlarged their boun
daries, and the indications are unless
Providence interferes to prevent the injury
which will result from a large crop at the
present time, that prices will decline;
when an increase of 25 per cent, iu bales
will yield no increase in dollars, and the
profits of the culture, as of yore, will be
absorbed in the purchase of corn and ba
cou which should be grown ami cured at
home. Complaints or late planting, bad
stands, cold and unfavorable "weather, are
more or less general throughout the cot
ton States; yet it will prove a very bail
year for the plant if the product of last
year shall not be attained. It is not too
late, with good weather and exemption
from iusects, to obtain a yield of 3,000.000
of bales, which is quite as much as the
markets of Europe and America require
at present, in addition to the growths of
other cotton fields; a larger yield would
be sure to reduce materially the price ob
tained. The actual increase in acreage
plantedwill be calculated for tbe July re
port.
Fro rv_ w p cates, from North
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that insects are apix-aring to some extent
Hee “Notes on the Growing Crops” for
more particular accounts of cotton plant
ing.
Other Crops —Sorghum will be culti
vated more extensively than for many
years, for syrup mainly, but in some
places with the intention of attempting
sugar making. Hops are generally look
ing well In Richland. Crawford, Co
lumbia aud Waushara counties, Wiscon
sin, yards have heed plowed up, as well as
in Montcalm, Livingston and Calhoun,
iu Michigan, and in Minnesota and else
where; yet the prospect is gisul for an
ample supply of the market. Particulars
concerning a variety of other crops may
be found iu the tallies of comparative
acreage aud condition, and iu extracts
from reports.
fYuits. —The yield of small fruits is un
usually abundant, with a fine promise for
those coming iu later iu the season.
Peaches will be aluuidatit in New Jersey
and Delaware. There will he a fair crop
iu the West, and a short supply only iu
some localities in the Southern Slates,
wtiere untimely frosts prevailed.
THE NEWS.
—The President has by proclamation
ordered t lie election in Texas to beheld
on ttie 30th of November.
Mr. Moses K. McWhorter died at his
residence in Athens on Sunday n ;iit,
after an illness of several days.
—The survey of the extension of the
Georgia Railroad from Athens t«> (' t ~
Kahuu couuty, was commenced on ,'ue
12th inst.
—Tiie Southwestern Railroad Company
have commenced the construction ol the
new passeuger and freight depot at Amer
icas, Sumter county.
—Commissioner "i)eland has just derided
“that a written extension of the payment
of a mortgage requires ihe same stamp as
tiie original document.”
—Tiie St. Louis artesian well, which
has been in processor boring for ten years
past, will soon have readied a depth of.
four thousand feet.
—Stokes is growing bolder as lie pro
gresses into West Tennessee. Yesterday
he said he was “willing to enfranchise
every rebel, if lie will come up and ask
for it.” m
—Mr. John Samuel Peake, one of tiie
oldest adopted citizens of South Carolina,
died at his residence in Summerville, on
Mouday last, iu the eighty-third year of
his age.
—Radical rule in North Carolina has
increased the State debt 29,000,(too of dol
lars, and t he new issue of bond-, providing
for this obligation are selling in the mar
ket for less than fifty cents oil the dollar.
—The New Y'ork papers say there are
probably not fewer than one hundred
colored men now in Rome preparing for
the Roman Catholic priesthood. I'ho nia
jority of them w ill become teachers of the
Freed men of the South.
—Governor Reed, of Florida, has just
issued his proclamation ordering an elec
tion on the 2d day of November, to take
the sense of the people of West Florida on
the questiou of annexing that portion of
tiie State to Alabama.
—The Pensacola Commercial says : We
learn from a source entirely reliable that
tbe negroes and mulattoes residing iu the
upper part of tins county have organized
into military companies, and are drilling
in the night time with muskets, sabres
aud military music.
LITERARY A.MI till Mills
Harriet Martineau’s “ Biographical
Sketches,” have reached their third thou
sand iu the American edition.
—Thomas Hughes, the author of Torn
Brown at Oxford, is writing a history of
Alfred the Great.
—J. G. Eccarious, a German journey
man tailor, has published an aide criti
cism on tiie theories of John Stuart Mill.
—Constant Mayer is at work upon an
ideal head which he proposes to name the
“May Queen.”
—John Stuart Mills' last book, treating
of “ i'he Subjection of Women,” has just
been reprinted by tbe Appletons.
—A fourth edition, with many supple
mentary remarks, will be published
shortly, of “Banting's Letter on Corpu
lence.”
Fields, Osgood Cos. have just i-sued
"Henry Esmond,” and “Lovel, the Wid
ower,” in the household edition of Thack
eray’s works.
—A new poem by Tennyson ami anew
novel by Dickens, are the most important
books expected by tiie reading world at
the moment.
—A subscription lias been started in
Boston to secure a colossal bust of Henry
W. Longfellow, by Mi-s Edmonia Lewi.-,
in Rome, for Harvard I 'diversity.
—D. G. Francis has just leceived from
Florence a marble bust, life size, of ,0 ’
Rev. Dr. Bellows, made by iiirai - * * ‘ ll
Pow
ers.
—The eleventh *• ‘ '
Mr. Froude’s. o twelfth volumes ol
pletir. inev k. “History of England ” coni-
I r ‘<«fg the work, are announced for
'speedy publication in London.
—Dr. William Smith, the well known
dictionary maker, is now at work on ‘A
Dictionary ol Christian Antiquities,’
from tiie days of the Apostles to the days
of Constantine.
—The death is announced at Potsdam of
Madame Bastatelii Tan»““ t ‘> “* ‘
one huiiiiieo year-. She made her a>' it
in tiie reign of Frederick (tie Great, and
was tiie singing mistress of tiie beautiful
Queen Louisa, of Prussia, who died in
1810.
A Suggestion a rout Catkkpillake*
— Tbe discovery of one lull grown cater
pillar by one of our most vigilant planters
lias beeu brought to our attention, ami m
such a way that we are disposed to give
the information full credit. I'be worm
was fully identified as u>< gontiiue cotton
caterpillar, and was nearly ready to go
into its web. We make tills announce
ment, uot for the purpose of affecting the
cotton market, or producing a panic
among planters, hut to pui planters ou
their guard, and to suggest what seems to
us of great importance, that the planters
all over the country cause a strict search
of their cotton to he made, with tiie view
of destroying every worm or chrysalis
which may he found. One worm or chrys
alis killed now will cut olf tliou- iml- of
caterpillars in August ami September.
For every ten destroyed now, probably
live bales cottou will be saved to the plan
ter when he comes to gather his crop irj
the fall. The enormous Increase of the
cottou worm iu passing through only
three “crops,” while it is a most unwel
come fact, is nevertheless the key to the
planter’s indemnity against its ravages.
(July destroy the pioneers, or the first
“crop,” aud there is an end to all appre
hensions of danger. Search the y >ung
cottou, weeds ami hushes thoroughly for
worms and chrysalis now, on every plan
tatiou, and the result will he a failure In
the caterpillar crop as certain as fate. •
[Ouachita Telfgraph, June 23.
The Sea Island Cotton Crop.—An
experienced planter ou Ed is to Island,
South Carolina, writes a letter to the
Charleston News, iu which he says that
there is marked improvement in the la
boring population of the Sea Islands.
Since the temoval of the Freedman’s Bu
reau the freed man fiuds he has to rely
upon his own exert ons for a support, and
he works more cheerfully, more content
edly and altogether more efficient. 1
system of labor is by' contract—f”' two
days’ work out of every week for land, in
place of wages and rations. ~ ,n) “ f r
three days for land and rations in |< ‘
wages, and some tor wages for t(, e W,, " H
time, at tbe rate of a hundred dollars j»er
year, and rations equal to fifty do ars
more. The latter contract is in every le
aped the best both for empl , ’>' er ei , ll '
ploye; hut the freed men muc ‘ l ,r ’ ■' 1
first, as it gives them more 11 lll “
own disposal, hut a>u . cb ..!£ fllie / r „ w
their pockets in the end. *
ing weather, with j n ha „ Ca u- and he
aud he » v y. d .^ 9 “ t from the effects
crops of cotto au( j ia pushing them
of the cold sp fltate of lYuitiu/ness
rapidly forwa m 9 are t() Mfea feV ery
whereover the fields, and the crops are in
,n ; n ”l abou tt he appearance of the dread*'-
-already in I’ l ***
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