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dfeatgsa Unttctral <1 w<( B y j. \V r . BURKE k CO. GEORGIA JOURNAL & MESSENGER j yp. BURSE & CO., Proprietors. m. BIOVSI, Editor. )tf ICE No. DO SECOND (STREET, MACON. OA. HATES OK SUBSCRIPTION. n ~y per Annum $lO 00 ‘ 'six Month* 5 00 „ Three Month* 250 .. One Month 1 0o , u'rKKLY, per Annnm 600 T* l " .• Mix Month* 2 50 >• Three Month* 1 50 ■i .rdT per Annum 3 00 • ' - x Month* 1 50 .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 VOL. LXI., NO 18 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 *** a t-t w-ii * . x ~posed from