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GEORGIA JOURNAL & MESSENGER
MORNING, AUGUST 3.
The Auti-ProtrcUon Movfmenl at
the .\orth.
It i.s a gratifying sign of the times that the
Northern people are becoming awake to the
oppression of the present protective tariff,
and that free trade leagues are l*eing formed
in several of the Northern States, even in
Massachusetts and Maine.
When Revenue Commissioner Wells, a
radical himself, announced the startling
truth that under the operation of the exist
ing tariff, “the rich are growing richer and
the poor are growing poorer, for while the
wages of the poorer classes are inadequate to
meet the present high prices, monopolists
are reaping from the bounty of Congress
enormous fortunes which they do not share
with their employes”—he was denounced as
a renegade and a corrupt apostate purchased
by British gold ; but the truth was mighty,
and it has prevailed, and now the masses who
constitute the “poor who are growing poorer,”
are becoming convinced, and are clamoring
w ith a voice w hich cannot be disregarded for
a more equal distribution of the load of tax
ation and for a reduction of the tariff to the
strictly revenue standard for which the dem
ocratic party always contended.
When we see democrats and republicans
uniting in passing resolutions in the very
hot-bed of protection, that it is “the right
of the citizen to dispose of the proceeds of
his labor where they will bring the highest
price, and to supply his wants wherever they
can be supplied most cheaply, there is
ground for hope that the industry of the
country will be emancipated from the thral
dom of the manufacturing monoplists of New
England and Pennsylvania, and that the
people will no longer be compelled to pay
three prices for the necessaries of life—for
the clothes they wear, for the salt they eat,
and for the iron which they use in the im
plements with which they till the ground.
The fallacy of the argument that a high
protective tariff' cherishes American indus
try and therefore benefits the entire people,
has been so often exposed as not to need fur
ther refutation. Os the thirty-five millions
who constitute the population of the United
States how many derive any benefit from
the protection of the cotton and woolen
fabrics of New England and the iron fur
naces of Pennsylvania ? Not one in fifty.
The one protected man grows rich and rev
els in luxury, while forty-nine unprotected
men are kept in poverty by oppressive taxes
to pay for the protected articles of which the
one rich man has the monopoly.
The money of the country commanded by
the bankers and brokers at the great North,
e n cities, withdrawn in a great measure
from the legitimate uses of trade and com
merce, is employed l*y speculators in gold
and fancy stocks at interest varying from
one to two hundred per cent, per annum.
Asa necessary consequence, trade is dull,
and the agricultural interests of the West
were never less prosperous.
Hut if all the millions which the protec
tive tariff wrings from the pockets of the
toiling masses went into the Treasury and
were applied to the extinction of the debt,
the people would not have so much cause to
complain ; but it is an undeniable fact that
over one hundred millions of the revenue
collected never reach the Treasury at all. A
mini exceeding the total expenditure of the
government, ineludieg the interest on the
public debt, prior to 18(51, is stolen and
squandered by the army of official plunder
t/- "Millivrjl tn collect the taxes. It has
been also officially *,jrrrr**t- n.— ——.
me use sums paid by the people for protec
tion, only a very small fraction goes to the
Treasurv to sustain the government. From
iron, the government, it is estimated, re
ceives 81)00,000, while the Pennsylvania iron
masters receive upwards of $13,000,000.
From lumber tin* lax yields the government
82,000,000, while the protected lumbermen
pocket $10,000,000 over and above the value
«>f their lumber. In the same way the pro
tective tariff on sslt yields but a very in
significant sum to the Treasury, while a few
salt makers in Western New York pile up
millions which the people have to pay for
this necessary of life ; and while the tisli
packers of New England are exempted alto
gether from the tax on salt, the pork packers
of the West are compelled to pay it to the
uttermost farthing.
No wonder therefore that the Reform
Leagues are gaining strength. No wonder
that the ruined shipbuilders of Maine should
cry out against the protection which has
closed their yards. No wonder that the ag
ricultural community everywhere should
refuse to bear a crushing taxation for the
benefit of New England. No wonder that
the working classes —“the poor who are
growing poorer "—should demand a more
equitable adjustment of the burden of taxa
tion. and that the rich bondholders should
bear their portion of it.
We rejoice at the movement. It has the
earnest sympathies of the entire South, and
we hope that it will progress until it com
pels the Radical Government to do justice to
the oppressed people.
The letter to Col. Higginson concerning
the arrest of Turner, the negro postmaster
of Macon, which we printed yesterday, re
ceived a prompt continuation in the verdict
of the Court. As is already known, the new
evidence of which it spoke, abundantly es
tablished Turner's innocence, and secured
his discharge. Georgia papers now bristle
with stories, as portentous as they are vague,
concerning alleged revelations of a private
character, which, though not sufficient to
secure Turner’s conviction in any court, will,
as they boast, be enough to force the Ad
ministration to dismiss him from office. We
beg to suggest that this is coming out at
even u smaller hole than that whereby they
entered. They began by charges of coun
terfeiting, which it is now proved that they
trumped up with the sole purpose of seek
ing to drive the man out of office. Fail
ing in their conspiracy, they resort to
charges of general depravity. We are
neither prepared to dispute nor to admit
them we only suggest that it has been a
fortunate thing for a great many previous
postmasters in Georgia that this tost of fit
ness was not in vogue in their day.
It is hardly necessary to state that the
nboveis from the New York Tribune. A
more malicious or willful perversion of the
truth never appeared, even in that paper.
The “Georgia papers” had nothing on
earth to do with the charges of counterfeit
ing. “trumped up. or otherwise, that were
preferred against Turner. The charges be
gan and ended with the United States offi
cials, and a few scurvy radicals of the Tri
bune’s party. Ail the Georgia papers did
was to see that Turner had a fair trial. If
there was auv conspiracy to drive Turner
from office, the Tribune knows that it was
concocted and carried out by Radicals, and
that neither the people or press of Georgia
had any concern in it.
Every decent man in Georgia white and
lohiok, Radical or Democrat, disapproved of
Turner’s appointment to the office of Post
master of Miicon, because he is intelleetual
lv, socially and morally unfit for the office.
The motive that prompted the appointment
the punishment of the people of Georgia—
was absolutely infamous, almost as much so
jts the effort bv the Tribune to east tike odium
of the crimes of its own partisans upon the
press and people of this State.
The Tribune cannot be in ignorance of the
'"“t that Turner was arrested on a United
warrant, by a United States Deputy
on the sworn information of a
prosecuted by aU. S. Dis
a'od before and dis
\o citi-
Tlie Spanish Troubles.
When Queen Isaliella was discharged, there
being no further occasion for her services,
ami everything connected with her disgrace
ful reign had been swept away, the world
wondered how so complete a revolution had
been so quietly effected. Not a drop of
blood was shed. There was hardly any re
sistance to the new authority. Disgusted by
long years of misrule any government was
hailed as an improvement, and the jieople I
would have approved whatever the constitu
ent Cortes (hd, provided it were done quickly
and the element of stability were infused into
the new order of things.
Instead of this, however, months were
spent in the discussion of the relative mer
its of the monareliial and the republican
forms of government. The. revolution was
made to prolong itself. The transition state
was continued, and the people became dis
satisfied that nothing was done, that they
had neither a monarchy nor a republic nor a
dictatorship, and they were humiliated by
the part they were made ro play in the face
of the world in the sportless melodrama of
“ Spain in search of a King.”
The Regency of Serrano is but another
name for the provisional government. Ser
rano only holds his place until a prince has
been found who will consent to be “the
elective King of Spain or of the Spaniards.”
Seeing that the leaders had succeeded so
badly in their efforts to catch a sovereign, it
is not unnatural that the people should seek
to try their hand. Os course there is no
unanimity among them. One faction pro
nounces for Don Carlos, another for the
Duke of Montpensier, another for a repub
lic, and another, and the smallest of all, for
Isabella or her sou, the Prince of the
Asturias. All have their supporters and de
signing leaders, and demagogues will not
fail to profit by the division. The latest de
monstration has been what is called a “Car
list movement.” We read of “a Carlist con
spiracy,” “Carlist gatherings,” and the ap
pearance of Don Carlos himself on the soil
of Spain.
It may he interesting to our readers to
know what is the meaning of this move
ment. Until the year 1833, the Salic Law,
excluding females from the succession to
the tin-one, prevailed in Spain. Ferdinand
VII, the last King of Spain, revoked this
law-, and bequeathed the crown to liis
daughter, Isabella, who at his death was
proclaimed Queen.
Don Carlos, the brother of Ferdinand,
denied the right of the latter to revoke the
Salic Law, and as the next male in succes
sion claimed t< > he the King of Spain, then
followed the civil war which Listed for seven
years, terminating in the defeat and banish
ment of Don Carlos and the confirmation by
the Cortes of Isabella’s right to the throne.
The present Don Carlos is the son and heir of
the Con Carlos of 1833.
The latest accounts from Spain are not
favorable to the Carlists, but from the fact
that the government has found it necessary
to proclaim martial law, it is to be inferred
that the Carlist movement is of larger and
more dangerous proportions than the dis
patches represent it to be. The additional
fact that Don Carlos has crossed the Spanish
frontier and has put himself at the head of
his followers, further suggests the belief that
his party is not without hope, because the
Bmu-bon princes are not distinguished for
that class of courage which leads forlorn
hopes.
It is not probable, however, that the par
tizans ol' Don Carlos will succeed. The odds
ugai ust them are too many and too strong.
Though divided and antagonistic as regards
earn Miner, iik mim in i~ f
government, those of the ex-Queen Isabella,
those of Montpensier, and the two wings of
the republicans, are all united against the
Carlists, and will render it next to impossi
ble for them to succeed, These troubles
and dissensions cannot fail to injure the
country and retard her prosperity, and the
admitted imbecility and unpopularity of the
Regency afford no reasonable hope that the
proper steps will be taken to quell the dis
turbances, reunite the discordant factions,
and establish n stable and judicious govern
ment suited to the genius and tastes of the
people.
It is not improbable that Napoleon will
some day stretch out his long arm over the
Peninsula, and in the ostensible interest of
the peace of France, dictate to Spain how
and by whom she shall be governed.
(.Top News.
From a gentleman living in this city, who
has just returned home via Lynchburg and
Knoxville, we learn the following concern
ing the crops in that section. In Virginia
the grain crop just harvested sliow-s an ex
traordinary yield—by far the Jaygest since
the war ; ami in several counties the yield of
wheat surpasses that of any year previous or
during the war. The tobacco seen along the
railroad from Alexandria to Bristol, Teun.,
looks finely and promises well. The corn in
this same section looks equally good, and
will produce undoubtedly a large crop.
From Bristol to Knoxville, a>jd along the
road to Cleveland and Dalton, owing to the
drought of the past month, the wheat just
thrashed out has not done so well, the berry
being very small, although the yield was
rather more than an average one. The
crop also, from Lick of rain, is hardly up to
mark, but a few good showers will doubtless
relieve many minds, as far as.a smalt yield is
concerned.
l-’rom Atlanta down on the Macon and
Western Railroad the cotton looks beauti
fully—small but healthy stand, well flow
ered out, and every evidence of a good
yield. The corn, although somewhat be
hind that in Tennessee in size, still is with
out the blistered and twisted appearance of
the latter, and, without doubt, will show a
splendid crop.
Anotlicr Important Decision.
Our Supreme Court on Tuesday, delivered
another of their rulings that have a special
importance for our people, in connection
with the times. Large amounts of money
are concerned, and the heaviest interests of
that large class of legal characters known as
fiduciary, as guardians, administrators, exec
utors, etc.
The case was Killcs Brown, against Wm.
Wright, from DeKalb.
. 1 l le Court decided that a prudent guard
ian. who before January, 1863, loaned monev
of his wards on negro security, is not liable,
because of negro emancipation, whereby the
money was lost. And that a guardian who
took Confederate money, in good faith for
debts due his wards, when prudent men
wi re generally taking such monev, Ls pro_-
teeted; and if he loaned the funds, so re
ceived before the Ist day of January, 1863.
on good security, and they were lost bv the
results of the war, he is not liable.
Hundreds of guardians, executors, trus
tees, etc., took Confcdcrats money, which
was lost, who have been sued or threatened
with suit, who w ill now be relieved.
—Atlanta Const it 3 Oth.
The Durability of Georgia Pine. —ln
taking up the wooden floor in the office of
the l ulaski House for the purpose of laving
down the beautiful Mosaic pavement which
has just l>een completed, the joists, which
are of Georgia pine, were found to be quite
as strong as they were when put in the build
ing, some thirty years ago. We are also in
formed that there are other buildings in the
city, w hich were erected some 50 or even 60
years ago. iu which the joists ami beams, of
Georgia pine, do not exhibit the slightest
symptoms of decay. —Savannah Rej>nbtica/i.
Crops in South Carolina. —The Charles
ton Courier says : “Accounts from different
sections of the State indicate that the much
needed rains with which we have l>eeii bless
ed during the past few days, have extended
from the mountains to the sea-board, anil
the crops have been much benefitted. ”
Trash bv Telegraph. —The New Orleans
Picayune is wroth over the recent court gos
sip about “ Egypt and Cincinnati ” trans
-1 by the wires, and asks : “Was it
mission of stuff like this that
vented 1
The Negro Militia in South Caro
lina.
The Northern gentleman named Scott who
occupies the place of Governor of South Car
olina seems ambitious to emulate the deeds
of Parson Brownlow of Tennessee, and
Clayton of Arkansas, and to torture to mad
ness the unfortunate white population of
South Carolina by letting loose upon them an
armed negro mob, whom he calk the militia
of the State. %
The latest Augusta papers inform us that
the negroes armed with L. S. rifles furnished
to them by Governor Scott, hold the town
of Edgefiefd ; tliat negroes from the adjoin
ing country are coming thither in large
numbers ; that the plantations and farms are
abandoned by the laborers, and that the
planters see n<filling but ruin liefore them if
the present condition of affairs last much
longer.
The committee of citizens who went to
Columbia to have an interview with Mr.
Scott to trv- to induce him to interfere and
protect the" peace of the district failed, it is
reported, to achieve anything besides hearing
fine words and assurances of distinguished
consideration.
A miserable white wretch named Eiehel
berger, who holds some little local office,
and who is said to be the instigator of the
disturbance and the organizer of the negro
militia, is said to have gone to Atlanta, to
induce General Terry to send a detachment
of U. 8. troops to Edgefield to co-operate
with the militia in*arresting the “bushwhack
ers and Ku-Kluxes,” in other words, in ar
resting and harrassing whatever white citi
zens of Edgefield District have become ob
noxious to Eichelberger and his associates.
In the meantime the whits- people of
Edgefield are perfectly quiet. Placed at the
mercy of a band of aimed negroes, acting
under the authority of the Executive of the
State, and backed by the commanding Gen
eral and the army, what can they do but
submit ?
The Negro Riot at Charleston.
(From the Charleston News.)
A disgrace has fallen upon Charleston
which her sous must remember, and some
day wipe out. A party of visitors from a
sister city, who had come to mingle in a
friendly contest with some of our own young
men, have been insulted and assailed, at the
scene of their well-won triumph, by an inso
lent and riotous negro mob. That the aid
of the United States soldier should have
been required to shield from violence at the
hands of an infuriated black rabble, the
strangers who, as our invited guests, were
entitled to the most courteous and at
tentive hospitalities of the whole communi
ty, is a burning reproach to the pusillanim
ous officials who now maintain the costly
sham of a city government. Hedged in by
Federal bayonets, our Savannah friends were
pursued by hundreds of blacks, howling and
pelting them with stones and brick-bats, from
the Citadel Green to the hotel, from the
hotel to the place of the farewell entertain
ment, and thence to the very wharf where
the visitors were to embark for their homes.
The only pretext, we believe, for this shame
ful disturbance was that the Savannah party
was accompanied by a band composed, it is
understood, of colored men, who have re
fused to affiliate with the Radical party.
Our Radical Mayor doubtless thought he
had fully discharged his official obligations
when he blandly assured the two Clubs that
he was “powerless” to quell the riot. We
wonder if it occurred to him that the rioters
were the very men who made him what he
is. Was lie not aware that if our large and
expensive police force w’as indeed “power
less” to disperse a negro mob, that he and
his party are alone responsible for such in
efficiency ?
But, whatever Mayor Pillsbury may say or
do, our people are resolved that such an out
rage as that of last night must never again
be allowed to occur. Nay, we venture to say
that had the disturbance been generally
known throughout the city, it would have
had a very different termination. Charles
ton has sunk low-enough in many respects,
but lier sons are not yet ready to be hec
tored and bullied by negroes. Already our
young men are canvassing the readiest
means of redress for the mortification they
feel so keenly. It is not improbable that
the Savannah boys may be pressed to repeat
their visit at the expense of their Charleston
hosts. Whatever is done, let the black ruf
fians who composed the mob last evening
iVforgj^ JlU * wiU
From Courier.
The Late Base Ball M atch. — About an
hour after leaving Charleston on the Niek
King, with the Savannah Base Ball Club, on
Monday evening, a meeting of the Club was
held, General 11. H. Anderson in the Chair,
and Mr. G. C. Kimball acting as Secretary.
The following resolutions were unani
mously adopted.
Resolved, That Ave tender the members of
the Carolina ('lull and our Charleston friends,
who so nobly stood by us in the trying and
unexpected scenes through which we have
just passed, our most heartfelt thanks, and
that we convey to them a sense of our ap
preciation of their many courtesies extended
us during our visit, and the bounteous hos
pitality of which we have just partaken.
Resolved, That while we feel w ith them a
just indignation at the indignities offered us
and our band, we cannot in the slightest de
gree attribute it to any want of attention or
efforts at protection on the part of our hosts,
with whom we deeply sympathize, placed as
they seejped to lie at the mercy of an igno
rant. brutal lutib, through the culpable and
notorious inefficiency of their civil govern
ment.
Resolved, That we tender our thanks to
the commandant of the military and his gen
tlemanly officers for their prompt and ef
lieent u,ensures to quell the riot, and for their
protection to us visitors, which the city
authorities were either unwilling or unable
to render.
Resolved, That a copy of these resolutions
be furnished the daily papers of Savannah.
In publishing the resolutions and accounts
of the match and the riot, the Republican
ssys :
In conclusion, we desire as an act of sim
ple justice to 11)0 respectable white citizens
of Charleston, to remark that their general
bearing during all the unfortunate disturb
ances was to protect their visiting friends,
and their general sentiment was one of con
demnation of the inflicted outrages.
A Political Puzzle.
The Northern Radicals continue to be
sorely perplexed over Virginia election.
They are at a loss to know- what to make of
it, or wliat it really means. Such a mixture
was never seen before. View the creature
on one side, it is Republican, but a Demo
cratic hoof sticks out. On the other it is
Democratic, but, lo and behold ! the head is
Republican. What can the political nonde
script be '! is asked oil all sides, anil most of
the sages have delivered their opinions, all
qualified with an “if,” and consequently not
satisfactory, even to themselves. There is
no doubt of this hud, viz : That Republi
can principles triumphed, hut then the
trouble is. the Democrats did dm voting!
Universal Radicalism cries out, who w ill lead
us iuto the light of tiie great mystery ?
In this dilemma of our Republican friends
we may not be able to come successfully to
the rescue, but w e may at least shed a small
ray of light on the question, w hich may
eventually magnify into a general illumina
tion. And, in vouchsafing this service, we
shall follow the example of Mr. Lincoln,
and tell a “little story,” of which the situa
tion happens to remind us :
A distinguished Georgia i>olitician, still
living, in tlie good old days of Wliiggery
and Democracy, was famous for the liaril
blows that he dealt the Democrats gs a pub
lic speaker in every recurring campaign,
No man approached him on the stump, and
his reputation for swaying the multitude
while he was speaking was unrivaled. All
his eloquence, though, was lost at the polls.
Election after election was carried by the
Democrats until the case looked hopeless
and nil efforts vain. Standing at a street
corner, one day directly after one of these
disastrous contests, am} discussing the re
sult, over which he was very sore, with a
party of neighbors, he gravefy wound jjp as
follows : “Well, boys, it’s no use to fight
the infernal crew any longer, for no iniquity
we may prove upon them seems to do them
any harm. But there is one way in which
we can l>oat cm—let us jiue 'tan.”
It is hardly necessary to allude to the
sequel. Our orator did join the Democrats,
and the result is history.— Svvaaiuih Re
publican.
Kingston, Ga,— One of the editors of th«
Bainbridge Sun writes from Kingston, July
19: The wheat buyers and sellers have come
to a dead lock. The farmers stublx >rnly de
mand $1.50 per bushel and the latter as
stubbornly refused to concede to the terms.
Good dour can be lanight here at $4 per
hundred.
Dalton Market.— The North Georgia
Citizen quotes corn at 95 cents ; wheat 811.0
to $1.25,
GEORGIA JOURNAL AND MESSENGER
Correspondence of the Journal and Messenger.
From Indian Spring.
J ELY 28. 1839.
Elitor Journal and Messenger: Feeling
used up and much the worse 1 for wear'ftiuu a
five weeks’ spell of sickness, I turned my
back ujion Macon, on the 17th inst., bound
for this place, to try healing waters
thereof. The trip to Forsyth by M. &W.
R. R., was a pleasant one indeed, but the
shaking up we got in a sixteen mile ride in a
stage, over mails in comparison with which
the “Devil’s Half Acre ’ is a turnpike, dis
pelled all pleasant memories. Shade of
Daniel Lambert, think of occupying the same
seat with two ladies, one of them rising 200
pounds, .-aid the thermometer high up in the
nineties ! Though not nui through a cotton
press previous to entering that vehicle, yet
we felt considerably “hoop-bound” lie fore
leaving it. Though rather verdant, yet we
are not “sardine” enough to like being
packed with “ten" inside in a July day, in a
country stage. We could not but indulge
in the wish that “Mr. Indian” had found his
spring somewhere on the line of the railroad,
and trust that some of our public-spirited
and enterprising legislators will introduce a
bill at the next session of the Legislature to
have it “pulled up” and moved to Forsyth.
Had we come here for pleasure, we shoidd
have found ourself stiglitlv mistaken at the
outset, for we found but few persons at the
Hotek on our arrival, and most of those, like
ourself, in quest of health. This state of
affairs, though, we are happy to say, is not
the case just now, as with the advent of
“Miller’s string band,” from Macon, those
on pleasure intent commenced pouring in,
and now the Hotek—Collier’s and Elder’s —
are pretty well filled with delegates from all
our principal cities, while at the former the
inspiriting strains of music, at night, tell
that the lovers of Terpsichorean amusement
are having a jolly good time, tripping it to a
late hour. Varner’s too—once the principal
Hotel at this point—lias a goodly share of
invalids, who prefer the quiet of private
boarding to the noise and necessary confu
sion incidental to the hosteleries where pleas
ure-hunters most do congregate.
Your city is well represented just now in
the persons of Messrs. C. A. Nutting, Thos.
Hardeman, L. N. Whittle, J. B. Ross, Wm.
B. Johnston, Col. T. J. Simmons, not to
mention a pretty fair sprinkling of lesser
lights—and to say nothing of some of her
fairest and prettiest dames and demoiselles,
who, of course, add to the attractions of the
hour. Augusta has reason to be proud of her
delegation.
What, with tri-daily trips to the spring,
the velocipede rink, flying horses, bathing,
target practice, with pistol and rifle—-in
which even ladies indulge—ten-pins, bil
liards, hops and serenades, topped off with
glorious and refreshing sleep, (frequently un
der cover, so cool are some of the nights)
one gets through the 21 hours very easily,
without finding time hang heavily upon
one’s hands.
Col. Lamar’s electric baths have proved
highly beneficial in several cases of paraly
sis and rheumatism, and will no doubt at
tract many sufferers, as their merits become
known.
Talking of electricity, it is said that a no
ted wag of this county wrote Bullock a letter
recently, asking him to send a detachment
of military to inquire into the facts of the
killing of three masculine darkies in his
neighborhood. The joke will he appreciated
when it is known that these pets of the At
lanta Governor were struck by lightning !
A week ago, the crops in Butts and ad
joining counties were suffering for want of
rain. Since then, we have had showers eve
ry day or two, and I hear no further com
plaints. All look forward to a “bully” yield.
Invalid.
Correspondence Journal and Messenger.
Letter from Coweta County.
Climate—Cotton Supply before the War and Since
—Beautiful Scenery—Mineral Springs—Society—
Schools—Churches Newspapers Chalybeate
Springs.
Newnan, July 28, 1869.
Mr. Editor : Twelve days ago, I left Ma
con, and came to this pieasant up-country
city. The change, with respect to climate,
was a most delightful one.
Newnan has a population of three or four
thousand persons. Before the war upwards
of twenty thousand bales of cotton were
shipped from this place in a year; since the
’ "V* not anite half ivui.li ‘
Newnan is situated nine miles East of tin*
Chattahoochee River, on the dividing ridge
between the waters of that river and those of
the Flint. It is “a city set oil a hill.” Its
streets, however, are smooth and nearly
level. As one walks these streets, his eyes
will almost involuntarily turn towards the
blue hills of Carroll, rising range behind
range, far beyond the Chattahoochee. Many
springs, some of pure water, others impreg
nated with various minerals, burst out from
the sides of the hill on which this town is
built. Those on the Western side, flow' off
by the shortest route to the Chattahoochee;
those on the Eastern side wander away to
wards the Flint, and ultimately reach the
( hattahooeliee by that route, after a journey
of more than two hundred miles.
The air here is as pure and salubrious as
you could desire. During the war this town
was ope great hospital; and it was remarked
by the surgeons that soldiers recovered more
rapidly here than at any other point in the
field of operations, both from wounds and
other forms of disease.
The society of this place is good. New
nan has long been noted for its good schools.
“College Temple,” a Female College, under
the care of President Kellogg, has been in
operation here for many years. The Buch
anan Institute is open to pupils of both
sexes. These, together with Walker’s Male
High School, afford ample educational facil
ities to the community. There are three
churches here—Baptist, Methodist and Pres
byterian. The Episcopalians have no church
of their own here, and of course no regular
service. On last Sabbath two Episcopal
clergymen, sojourning here, favored the
members of that church with an afternoon
service in the Presbyterian Church.
Two weekly newspapers are published here
—the Newnan Herald and the People’s De
fender.
< But the great attraction here now is the
Chalybeate Spring, as it is called. I have not
before me the analysis of its waters, and I
can only say that it contains iron, magnesia,
sulphur and nitre, and that these elements
are combined in the happiest proportions.
It is situated within the corporate limits of
the city, and the jieople here ignorantly
walked over this hidden treasure for many
years. Its medicinal properties were discov
ered since the war by Mr. Taylor, the cour
teous apd gentlemanly editor of the “Peo
ple’s Defender, ” Jt is certainly a spring of
extraordinary medicinal virtue. Its merits
were soon put to the practical test, and its
fame soon went abroad; and for two summers
previous to this visitors liaye thronged here
in great numbers, The visitors generally
take board in private families, and thus they
are scattered over the town, so that it is not
perfectly easy to ascertain the number in at
tendance. Someone who took the pains to
form the estimate about a week ago, set the
number down at two hundred. There lias
been no census taken since that time. At
all hours of the day people may be seen
going to and from the spring, with cups,
goblets, mugs, bottles, jugs, pitchers, jars of
every variety, prepared to drink themselves,
and to cany back the health-giving water to
those too feeble to leave their rooms. The
leading question amongst the visitors here
when they meet is, “how much have you
gained?” The question refers to increase of
bodily weight. 8.
An Lush Republican.—We have, from
time to time, observed allusion made by the
Radical papers to a number of citizens of
Irish birth who are forsaking the Democratic
and joining the Republican party. We did
not recognize the names of anv* of the al
leged converts to the Radical faith, and
could hardly imagine how a genuine Lish
man could, under any circumstances, be
come a Radical. .An Irish Radical would l>e
quite as remarkable a Imns natnvat as an hon
est Radical, a patriotic Radical, or a Radical
friend of the South, and if ever found ought i
to be handed over at once to Barnum for'ex
hibition beside the woolly horse, the mer
maid, and the great grandmother of George
Washington’s nurse.
In answer to a correspondent, inquiring
as to the existence of Irish Republicans
John Mitchel (the best authority) curtly but
positively replies: “There are no Irish Re
publicans. ”
—Dr. Peters, of the Litchfield Observa
tory, has started from Utica for Dcs Moines
lowa, with the new German spectroscope
and other instruments for observin ' the
solar eclipse of Aug. 8. His assistants are
Professors Rogers, of New Haven, and
Frederick Hubbard and Isaac H. H;Jh of
New l’ork. The expense of this expedition,
as has already been stated, is provided for
by the liberality of Edwin C. Litchfield, of
Brooklyn.
For the Journal and Messenger.
Letter from Marshalli ille.
DISTRICT MEETING —CROP PROSPECTS BRUNS
WICK AND ALBANY RAILROAD.
Makshallvllle, Ga., Jidy 30, 1869.
Mr Editor: I arrived here yesterday, and
foimd quite a large crowd in attendance upon
the District Meeting of the Methodist
Church, South. This is a meeting of the
preachers and lay delegates of the Macon
District, and is presided over by Rev. Chas.
R. Jewett. Presiding Elder. Quite a num
ber of ministers are here already—among
them the venerable Dr. Lovick Pierce. The
meeting will List till Monday. The people of
this enterprising and beautiful village are
entertaining the delegates with great hospi
tality.
The recent rains came in time to save
the crops to a large extent in this neigh
borhood. Os course some of the early
corn is cut off’ —but there will lie plenty
made. The cotton crop looks very fine, and
there iS, as yet, no sign of caterpillar. 1 find
some planters indulging sad fears of the
coming caterpillar—but we hojx* these fears
may not lie realized True, the catterpillar
may come, but we hope not.
1 met on the train coming down to this
pi lint R. B. Hall, Esq., Representative from
Glynn county. He is just on his way to
Brunswick from New York. He informs me
that there is now no doubt of the early com
pletion of the Albany and Brunswick Rail
road. Some New York capitalists have taken
the case in hand—have subscribed and paid
in fmr millions <f d'Alars, and have organ
ized for a vigorous pushing of the work. By
the terms of the charter, they are required
to build fifty miles per annum. Mr. Hall
thiflks'the wholy road will be completed by
October year. If Mr. H.*s hopes are real
ized. Mr. Wadlev and the Central may look
out for strong competition for the business
of S. YV. Georgia as well as Alabama, for
this road will eventually be built to Eufaula.
Ala. But I must close. Visitor.
Correspondence Journal and Messenger.
From Miirshallville.
Mr. Editor : In my last letter I mentioned
the District meeting in progress here. It
has continued with great interest, and will
not close until to-morrow. The business
lias been conducted with great unanimity,
and I doubt not its influence will be felt by
the Church in every part of the District.
The preaching during the week has been
very interesting. Sermons have been de
livered by l)r. Pierce, Dr. Myers, Dr. Key,
Rev. J. B. McGehee, Rev. W. 0. Bass, and
last, a sermon this forenoon, by Rev. L.
Bellinger, of South Carolina. His sermon
was quaint, but fervent, and will do good.
A farmer near this village informs me that
the rust lias made its appearance in his cot
ton. He is discouraged, but we hope the
rust will not prove very destructive. The
general news from the crops is good, and
very promising.
This village is by far the most prosperous
one on the Southwestern Railroad. It has
the best society I know of, and presents
many advantages to persons looking for a
healthy location and good neighbors—Mar
shallville is the place. Several very neat
and costly mansions have gone up and are
being built by the substantial men of this
section.
The Convention adjourned at 5 % o’clock
p. m. The next Convention will be held at
Perry, Ga. The following gentlemen were
elected delegates to the Annual Conference :
Dr. H. S. Wimberly, of Twiggs; Jas. Jack
son, of Bibb; Dr. W. T. Green, of Hous
ton; Rev. S. H. J. Sistrnnk, of Macon. Al
ternates ; Dr. P. Timberlake, Dr. W- H.
HoUinshead, H. L. Jewett, and H. R. Fel
der.
Resolutions of thanks were passed to the
citizens of Marsliallville, to the railroads for
tlieir kindness, and to the Baptist Church
for the use of their house of worship.
August 1, 1869. Visitor.
H
Correspondence Journal and Messenger.
From Lee County.
Staekville, Ga., July 30.
Mr. Editor: You can say to any of your
friends, who have manifested uneasiness
about the report of fine crops, etc., that this
county is not in the count.
Those**! us that used any of the fertilizers
have good cotton weed -but until Sunday
last, we had been dry for eighteen or twenty
days, when we had a good rain. Up to that
, ii L> ss °i bolls and forms, etc,. yx
celled anytuuij, x „ .messed. That I
attributed to the use of the fertilizer. Our
umnanured cotton (if it should not take the
rust, of which I see good indications,) will
do nearly as well as that on which so much
commercial manure lias been used. We then
pass the cotton crop down as nothing, by
any means, to boast of. The corn crop is
only a tolerable average.
I am abundantly satisfied that there are
not five farms in tins county on which the
negroes have worked as they should, and not
one that comes up to former days. We need
Defter laborers and more of them.
South Georgia.
A Brave Deed.
An interesting little ceremony took place
yesterday forenoon on board the United
States sloop-of-war (rnerriere, the Hag-ship of
Admiral Davis, lying off the Navy Yard. It
consisted of the presentation to Midshipman
1. Daily Myers Mason of a gold medal by
the Life Saving Benevolent Association of
New York, as a reward for his brave and
manly conduct in saving the lives of two
seamen in the waters of Bio de Janeiro on
the Btli of February last. There were pres
ent, tween decks, on the occasion, Admirals
Stringham and Davis, Captains Strong,
Parker and Ramsey, Paymaster Cunning
ham and the officers generally of the Guer
riei'e. As soon as the midshipmen were
drawn up in line, Rev. Henry Ward Beecher,
who was accompanied by Mr. Moore, of the
Life Saving Society, stepped forward, and
addressing Midshipman Mason, said that it
gave him great pleasure to lie the instru
ment of the Life Saving Society in mani
festing their appreciation of manly qualities
so ennobling to human nature as had been
exhibited by the young midshipman.
It was a great thing to save a human life,
and a much greater thing to save two. Such
a transaction not only served to elevate the
tone of every shipmate on that noble ves
sel—every 7 officer and sailor in the navy ; it
exerted an influence on men everywhere,
and developed in the hearts of the people
generally admiration and love for any man
who could forget self and remember duty.
He was sure that not only Midshipman Ma
son, lmt all his associates and superior offi
cers as well, felt proud of the distinction
thus awarded —as much so as if the act thus
acknowledged had been their own. Mr.
Beecher then presented the gold medal to
Mr. Mason, who responded as follows :
Gentlemen In doing what I did, I
merely carried out a lesson imbued in me by
my superior officer- —itliat an officer should
logk out for the safety of his men. Any of
ficer, under like circumstances, would have
done the same thing ; but as my conduct
lias merited your approbation, I accept your
testimonial with pleasure and thanks,
Midshipman Mason’s superior officer then
shook hands with him, and formally compli
mented him, and the party dispersed. Mr.
Mason is a modest, plain, substantial young
man, without sentimentality, as his short re
ply to ill 7 . Beecher’s long address will indi
cate.
ihe medal hears the following inscription:
“Presented to Midshipman T. Bailey My
ers Mason, of the United States Navy, who,
with generous heroism, twice in succession
hazarding his own life, rescued from drown
ing two of his shipmates, enlisted men of
the Guerriere, in the lurbor of Rio de Ja
neiro, Feb. 8, 1869.
The Guerriere will go out of commission
on Friday.— X. Y. Times.
Dr. Lipscomb. President of the University
of Georgia, will perhaps take charge of a
female academy in Columbus next October.
We found the above in the Louisville
Courier-Journal of a few (Lays ago. It is •
mistake. Tin 7 learned Chancellor h:is no
idea whatever of leaving the University over
which he presides with so much advantage
to the State and credit to himself. We had
the pleasure of meeting Dr. Lipscomb quite
recently and we know whereof we write.
The erroneous report probably arose from
the fact that the Chancellor's soil, Mr. Frank
Lipscomb, comtempktes leaving Athens
shortly, and opening a male school in Mont
gomery, Alabama
The Pall-Mall Gazette indignantly in
quires: “Is there any society in the world
except in the English House of Peers in
which a man judiciously proved to be a
thief and a forger could take his seat un
questioned ? Why, bless its innocence,
yes ! It has only to look at Spain to find
Dan Sickles occupying the diplomatic gallery
at the Cortes, with the British and other re
spectable Ambassadors. As the school boy
said at examination, “Don’t ask such foolish
questions,”— Xexc Orleans Times,
THE NEWS.
Excessive drought prevails in many we
tionsof Virginia, and serious fears are enter
taint'd that the corn crop will fall very short.
A. H. Lee. “the man who drew the
Crosby Opem House," died suddenly last
w«‘k white pleasuring in Cincinnati.
—The unusually hot weather in California
during the present season lias seriously in
jured tin* grai>e crop in many places.
There is a fault in the Atlantic cable so
1866, believed to be about a hundred and
thirty miles from Valencia.
—The Milwaukie (Wis.) News says from
15*X) to 2tH>o harvest hands ean tlnd em
ployment in that State at from 82.50 to 86
per day.
—A new building for the library of Con
gress is contemplated. The present quar
ters in the Capitol building, although re
cently enlarged, are reported inadequate.
—A Scranton (Pa.) firm advertises that
“their parlor furniture is elegant, their bed
rooni furniture is rich, their mattresses
downy, and their coffins comfortable. ”
—Berlin savaus, who have examined the
so-called posthumous papers of Alexander
von Humboldt, pronounce them worthless,
and unfit for publication.
—The crops in Wisconsin and lowa, al
though about two weeks later than usual,
promise well, with the exception of coin,
which is more backward than the rest.
—The railways of France, which run at
low rates, under restricted tariffs, have for
the last six years averaged dividends of
eleven per cent.
—Sixty-one thousand five hundred and
thirty-two dollars were expended for the
support of the colored schools in Washington
City during the year ending June 30, 1869.
—Mr. Willi emus Boggart died in New
Orleans, 27tli July, at the advanced age of
seventy-eight. He was long identified with
New Orleans, and few men were more re
spected than he.
—The French ocean telegraph cable is
3,407 miles long—from Blest to St. Pierre,
2,325 miles, thence to Duxbury 722, and the
shore sections 300—being 1,200 miles longer
than the English cable.
—Be careful where you put your matches.
Mr. Norwood of Marietta found that a couple
of lioxes of matches falling off a shelf where
he had placed them, ignited and burned en
tirely to coal—very nearly occasioning “an
other fire.”
—The Rev. Mr. Kallock, of Kansas, (who
was once such an ornament to Boston,) is a
Republican candidate fov U. ft. Senator,
with a fail' jirqspeet qf success. He is one
of the chaps who ‘ ‘ march squarely up to the
line of the nineteenth century,” and would
grace the court of Brigham Young.
—Charleston is threatened with another
evil. The Mayor and Chief of Police are
urged—the pressure very strong—to dis
charge the conservative white men in the
police force. Should that be done, the force
would be, says the News, a dangerous foe to
the peace and good order of the city.
—The Treasury Department, it is stated,
will soon issue new United States notes of
the denomination us one dollar, iho plates
for which arc now being engraved. Upon
the new’ notes the bust of Washington will
be substituted for the vignette of Chief Jus
tice Chase. This is in accordance with an
act of Congress, which prohibits tin* likeness
of any person now living from being on the
face of the 1 national currency.
—ln speaking of the selection of Lord
Howden as English Minister to Madrid, the
Pall Mall Gazette says he is a “clever and
experienced diplomatist,” and ‘‘there is
probably no other living Englishman so con
versant with the language, literature, insti
tutions and public men of Spain.” Inthis
country those would be considered curious
reasons to urge in favor of any diplomatic
appointment.
—Mr. Edward Atkinson, of Boston, has
prepared a paper, in which he estimates our
suplus revenue for the financial year just
closed at $50,(XX),000, and for the financial
year ending June 30, 1870, at 8100,000,(MX)
or more. As most of the surplus must be
devoted to buying up our bonds, lie antici
pates that these will soon advance to par in
gold in the European market, and that it w ill
be easy to change our five-twenty six per
cent, bonds into a long loan at 4U percent.,
exempt from taxation. Sanguine and ver
dant Atkinson!
—A Cairo (Illinois) dispatch says : “ A
light shock of an earthquake was felt here
at 2 o’clock this morning. The shock was
y t;iJ btJYt'iC «tb ISviluunh, liutolo
and large dwellings to be emptied in a few
seconds. The earthquake was accompanied
by a dull, roaring noise, like wind in a for
est. Heavy rain aipl thunder commenced
soon afterward, continuing until morning,
A meteor of unusual brilliancy, apparently
ten inches in diameter, passed from south
east to northwest at ten o’clock last night,
exploding with a noise like a cannon fired
tw’o miles distant. Many persons thought
the boilers of the steamer Armada had ex
ploded, that steamer having left port short
ly before. Although no damage is reported
yet, the meteor, earthquake and storm suc
ceeding each other in such rapid succession,
caused a sensation that was quite exciting.
The meteor was seen in various directions
sixty miles from Cairo, but the noise us the
explosion was heard only thirty miles.”
—The Louisville (Kentucky) Free Masons
are to build a hospital.
—The latest question among the M. D.’s
is “What killed Ada V”
—Several guilty New’ York brokers are to
lx l sentenced on the loth of this month.
The tea-making colony of Japanese, in
El Dora lo county, California, is getting
along finely.
—A State convention of all tin; temperance
bodies in Connecticut is to la; held in New
Haven on the 14th of August.
—The Baltic Fire Insurance Company, of
New r York, has failed. It was organized in
1864, but has never paid a dividend.
—The Postmaster General has opened
fourteen new money order postoffices in
Wisconsin.
—Secretary Robeson unofficially announ
ces that he won’t annul the anomalous naval
nomenclature of Mr. Boric.
—John Dolfuss, manufacturer, of Mul
house, France, has funded 8600,000 for the
sick and aged of his operatives.
—Professor La Mogntain recommends
ballooning as a cure for dyspepsia and liver
complaints.
—A Boston paper says that Mr. Gilmore
will be the recipient of over 84(1,000 from
the Peace Jubilee Association.
—Hr. John Early, of Virginia, one of the
bishops of the M. E. Church, South, is dan
gerously ill at his home in Lynchburg.
—A l>ed of green mottled granite, the first
ever found in this country, has been discov
ered ou the line of the Adirondack Railroad,
in New York.
—Officers of both armies which fought at
Gettysburg will assemble on the battle-field
on August 4 to designate the position of the
two annies qn that occasion.
—More than a dozen Philadelphia clergy
men haye united in the determination to
attend no more Sunday funerals unless the
necessity is certified to by a physician.
—Grant's Ada, says the Baltimore Gazette,
was the subject of a juts! mortem examination
by Surgeon-General Barnes, “by order of
the President of the United States,”
—An exchange denounces Harlan, v,ho lias
been made president of the lowa University,
at Mount Pleasant, because In* pronounces
douceur ; dowteher, and corridors, cor-ri
dors.
ing Company, of Buffalo, the contract for
supplying its patent lock for distill. Ties.
The lock has a register in addition to the
seal.
—The London Court Journal very gravely
states that George Francis Train “has offered
to take a contract to sack London in sixty
days with Fenian soldiers and sailors, free of
all cost blit that of traus]>ortation.”
—The story is circulated (starting at Chi
cago) that Commodore Vanderbilt, seventy -
five years of age, and lmt a few months a
widower, proposes to unite in marriage w ith
a miss seventeen years of age.
—The doctors propose to charge the Louis
ville and Nashville Railroad the moderate fee
of $0,500, for attendance upon Judge Black,
who had his arm crashed on that road some
time since.
• —Many influential Congregationalists find
the IndejK-ndent too independent, and pro
pose to start an organ that will suit them
better. Stock to the amount of 8250,000 is
already subscribed.
—Advices from Japan report the finances
of the country in a very disorganized con
dition. Paper money was forced upon the
people on pain of death, and trade was partly
susjK-nded.
—An attempt to obtain 822,000 by a
forgery of two certificates of railroad stock
was frustrated in New York recently. The
presenter of the forged certificates was com
mitted for trial.
—There is apparently another Fenian
“alarm” in the Queen’s “Dominion.” Otta
way sent a lightning message to Toronto,
ordering the gunboats on the lakes to be
ready for service.
—A newspaper paragraph says: “Ex-
Secretary Stanton is now* dying alone
anil utterly neglected.” The ’ l»av Book
says : If conscience neglects him. he must
be a scared scoundrel, indeed.
- Avoid the word “billion.” By British
notation it is a million multiplied by a mil
lion ; by French notation it is a million
multiplied by a thousand. Yet the word is
used sometimes in one sense and sometimes
in the other. It is better to avoid it.
-—Griffin, the engineer, whose criminal
carelessness caused the recent railroad colli
sion at Mast Hope, lias been admitted to bail
in the sum of 86,000 by Judge Sharswood,
of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.
—A man committed suicide in England
recently by throwing himself under a rail
road train. On his person was found a num
ber of the securities robbed from the New
York Ocean Bank, some time ago.
—Rev. Alex. King, of London, formerly
of Dublin, is coming to the States to lec
ture ; and Mr. Henry Vincent, who is also
coming again, prepares the way of his King,
by the puff preliminary w hich declares
“at home iu the groat questions of religious
liberty, and if any one can foresee the future
he can. ”
_ —The editor of the Prairie Herald, pub
lished near the Kin ky Mountains, says he
can look out from his office and see ante
lopes, wolves, and foxes di'-’porting them
selves. Two bears were among his recent
visitors, but in consequence of the noise of
the cars he is no longer troubled with buf
faloes.
—Massachusetts is in the agony of the ex
ecution of the new prohibitory iaw, and its
inhabitants invent many ingenious devices
to get possession of the ardent. Thus, a
Taunton man the other day procured a pre
scription from a doctor and then added to it
the words, “one lx>ttle of porter.” The
pharmaceutist noticed a difference in the
eliirography, and ignored the “porter."
Foreign Items.
—The King of Holland has conferred the
order of the Oaken Crown upon Mr. Erlan
ger, the banker and son-in-law* of Hou. John
Slidel, of La.
—Steel rails are being laid from Paris to
Marseilles, and the quantity required is 187,-
(XXJ tons.
—During his recent visit to Paris the
Vicery of Egypt ordered 50,(XX) Remington
rifles.
Pleasure train* are already being organ
ized in Paris, for the purpose of visiting
Egypt and In'ing present at the opening of
the Suez Canal.
—Marshal Serrano has refused the civil
list, to which his new appointment entitles
him, and only w ill draw his pay as Marshal.
—The cabmen of Madrid have struck
against some new regulations to which they
have been subjected.
—The number of Poles exiled and im
prisoned for participating in the hast relwl
lion, amounts to 140,(XX), most of whom are
sent to Siberia
—Recently twenty-eight young Chinese
have arrived at Toulon front Cochin China
for the purpose of studying theology in the
citv of Marseilles.
—The English Government is understood
to be inclined to make a highly* favorable
response to the memorial of the Scotch
members for a Secretary for Scotland.
—The Court Journal of London mentions
that the Emperor Napoleon has resolved to
confer upon M. Ferdinand do Lesseps the
title of Duke of Suez.
—The international convention between
Russia, Austria and Roumania, respecting
the navigation us the river Prutli, has re
cently been ratified and will soon be pub
lished.
—lilt' Minister of War of Russia has ap
plied for an extraordinary credit of 30.700
roubles, for the purpose of carrying out to
pographical surveys in Turkistan.
—According to the report of the British
Consul at Bahia, the following were' the av
erage prices of slaves in the Brazils during
the year 1868: Africans, males, $800; fe
males, $550. Creoles, males, 8650; those
having profession or trade, $1,080; females
8802.
—The Opinion Nationale, of Paris, men
tions that M. de Rochefort w ill retire to Ge
neva, on account of a powerful neighbor
having hinted to the Belgian Cabinet that
his presence at Brussels was contrary to a
favorable settlement of the Fruuco-Belgian
question.
•—A he Empress of the French will bo ac
companied to Egypt by a complete staff of
".nWu am) artist*, cluu*j>nd tu nqiroducc la
the pen and the pencil the princijml episodes
of the excursion. At the bead of the
draughtsmen figures Gustav® Dore, and of
the chroniclers, Thoopliile Gautier.
l’hi* Opinion Nationnle of Paris publish
es that France employes 502,812 public func
tionaries, whose united salaries amount to
868,263,555. The Emperor and the imperi
al family enjoy an income of 85,300,000.
The Senate costs $1,020,000, the Ministers
take about $200,000, the prefects fully SBOO,-
(XX), the generals and officers of the staff
some $1,600,000, etc.
The Minister of Public Works at Florence,
Italy, has addressed a cireulyu - tq all the
Italian steam navigation companies, urging
them to p,repave some of their boats for a
voyage tq Egypt on the occasion of the
opening of the Suez Canal, He also de
sires that arrangements shall be made to
board and lodge the passengers during tin
stay of the vessels at Port Said,
The emigration from Liverpool during the
last six mouths was as follows: 66 ships, with
28,681 passengers (under the act,) of whom
8,706 were English, 907 Scotch, 5,302 Irish,
and 8,716 foreigners. Os the ships, 27 went
to the United Stab-, with 18,319 passengers,
of whom 6,532 were English, 899 Scotch,
5,195 Irish, and 5,702 foreigners. Shy mail
ings to Canada were 9 tffiipa, w ith 5,312 pas
y-ilgers, of 2,183 were English, 8
Scotch, 107 Irish, and 3,014 foreigners. The
total number of passengers that sailed from
the Mersey during the last six months was
5*9,2(H).
—The Prob-stants of Bohemia, Moravia
afid Hjlesja intended to celebrate the five
hundredth anniversary of the birth of Huss
on the 6th of July at Czaslan, when anew
Reformed church was to be opened in that
own.
—The colleges through France are to be
provided with Chassepot rifles, so that the
students may become accustomed to the
handling of arms, and relieved at a later pe
riod from the preliminary exercises of the
National Guard Mobile.
—lt is calculated that the quantity of beer
annually produced in Europe exceeds
1,300,(AX),000 gallons. Bavaria produces
most, in proportion to her jxqmlation, and
Russia least.
—The great needle manufactory- of Curl
Schleicher in Schontlial, near Duren, on the
Rhine, exported in the year 18*18 no less
than 340,(X XtJXX) of sewing needles, which
were disposed of in various jiarts of Europe,
in N°rth and South America, and in Africa
The splendid southern portal of Col
ogne Cathedral is now completed. It is or
namented with 107 statues, thirty-eight of
which are life-size, and eight reliefs repre
senting the passion of our Saviour, These
have all been composed and executed by
Professor Mohr.
—Berlin letter's state that the project of
holding a universal exhibition in that city is
at present under the consideration of the
government, and likely to tie adopted.
—Letters from Vienna state that the four
principal financial institutions of that capital
have united to bike part in the construction
of the Ottoman railways, for the execution
<>f which a capital of 80,000,<XXJf. is required.
Those companies are : The Austrian Credit
Mobiler, the Austro-English Bank of
A ienna, the Bankverein and the Austro-
Hungarian Bank. Around them will be
grouped the chief credit houses of Austria
and other countries, so that the capital may
la* already looked upon as subscribed. The
Austrian market is ready to provide two
thirds of it.
—A prospectus lias been issued in London
of the Great Northern Telegraph Company,
to be constituted under Danish law, with
limited liability, for the purpose of amalga
mating into one system and working under
a single management the five cable lines
wliieh arc to give communication between
the United Kingdom and Russia, Denmark,
Sweden, and Norway, as well as between
these countries themselves, and of which
three are already working. The capital is
to lx- £4*Xt,o*»o, in sliares of £lO, but onlv
£100,0<X» is to lie subscribed in London, the
w hole of the remainder having been already
taken, chiefly at Copenhagen.
. —Prussia has sent a message to the Coun
cil of the Zollverein, asking for their con
currence to enable the King to ojh-ii nego
tiations with Mexico for a treaty of com
merce and navigation with that republic, on
the basis of a treaty of July 10, 1855, between
Prussia and Mexico, and the one subse
quently negotiated and concluded, but never
ratified, between Mexico and the Hanseatic
Cities. According to communications re
ceived from Mr. Consul-general von Schlozer
there is even- reason to believe that the Mex
ican Government would be perfectly willing
to enter into negotiations on the subject. °
Ex-Postmaster Fowler.
If pcrchanc, ra i{ l '4mffilu’ rK^M,, r f *
attend a public lianquct, and i„ the Ti’’
revelry* attending the concluding hoS
the feast, see the “ltoih! <r . urs
flowing like water, it you ku.ew X*
you would naturally ask "Wh o «. * olk
is next to be ruined ], y { \ H . U iun ß man
Mr l»uie V.
Postmaster of New York -i •• v '' nis
os inability to refund the U to
Government moneys defalcate 1 / S, ’ lf '”
Post office, wax compelled to throw
lucrative position and fly from ,Y. .’ 1
Since then little or nothing has !,, -! i"
alxmthun. His many frimuls wi „Y‘
to learn of Ins whereabouts, and that o
genius of the man. suite of tI.YYi ■ t! "
his misfortune, shines out is "H ,,w
in Mexico tvs it did"n NW? o ;r SI,Ia,UiIS,V
THE EDEN or MKXICO
The Districto ,1c Tepico is the n
Mexico. It is Isumdcd on the west hv R tl' r
Pacific Ocean, and is semiuh if 1 llk
State of Jalisco, which claims lt ),!
plntheatre of rough mountains the l
It contains fifteen thousand S \u ,re .
the most fertile land on the face of the' Y' f
Every flower, fruit, vegetable, shrul. T,i
and tree of every known zone can K .‘Y ’
there. No frost ever \isits this r, .r !(r| " .
fertilizer is required for the seif p L '
posits of minerals are inexhaustible Y''
!pi‘‘ « lv «, eopia r. iron and ~'.,1 t j, '
1 lie nio Lerina spreads out into tli i
of a navigable river, as it winds it', V'Y'!'
the ocean. This bcautitul territorv >, ,
by Manuel Lo/a-la. It is hem that >,
Fowler has made his home. lr
MU, roWl.Kn's I'lK.sr VUU s IN- MEX ,
Leaving New York, theex-postl iV 1, , ,
fils footsteps in the direction oft»„
Mexico He hud not Uvn there lo.»» l„ i Y
Midi's. Barron. Fork's .v Cos.. *,l,citY,l h,,
to go to Tepico, io take charge of their
ton manufactory there. Mr. Fowleracei Y
At that time it was extremely ,l a ,,
any foreigner to venture out‘among tli-'Y
tianan tribes of the interior of M,\j,. , ,
is a journey* of fifteen hundml mile-Y.v,
the city of Mexico to Tepico, and <\,
league of the distant* was infested b\ Y
derous brigands, and other outlaw ' v
Fowler, attended l,y an escort hr*,, ‘,7
to cope with the brigand bands, by wh ■ j
was likely to be attacked, made the YiY,
in twenty days, aud arrived in the <-it\ Y'
Tepico in September, lN«b). He has rYd, t
tlier,' ever since. The cotton mama «ton
lie found m a very* jioor condition, but a- : |
the water necessary to run the mill we Y
possible, his first measures were to improve
the power and the place. New mmhiu, rv
was ordered from New York, and niaduni- s
were imported with it. The manufactory
buildings, and till the out-buildings weivcii
larged and improved. An elegant ’ mansion
was constructed for Mr. Fowler’s in n .
gruunds w ere tastefully laid out, ornamented
with trees, plants, and flowers. The m/.n,
instead of harltoriug jealousy at led , ,Y
prise, industry, and taste, on the ( -onii \
made him their exemplar.
a visit fi:om the rspiAx KINO.
Iwo years after Mr, Fowler's arrival in
Tepico, tin- Indian monarch Loziala. who
had heard of ,he inno\ at ions and improv,
inents springing up in the Valiev of Tcpi.v
dcccudcd from his mountain h< line to gr.itif v
his curiosity. He was delighted, fi, |,,g
opinion there was no oilier man in the world
like Mr. Fowler, He prolonged his \isit,
and cun versed w ith our former postman, i
about American maunei-s, customs. 1., , v
manufaciorii's, etc. The American citizen
and jiolitician did not fail to impress on tlm
Indian mind our superior strength and civ
ilization. In a short time Mr. Fowler laid
no stauncher friend than Lozadu, and that
potentiate has remained his friend ei.r
since.
Although Tepico is within the bound, o
of tla' republic of Mexico, vet it has n,'-.
knowledge,l no other authority than that of
Lozailn for the last liiteen years, u true
that several attempts ht've been made to til
th lorn* hiir, but all have been uusucei s ut.
He lias already repulsed five large uini<
sent against him. His mode of op ration
has 1 wen to permit his enemies to pais mid
wav through a series of narrow barrancas,
and then .surround them in the defiles, let
his Ravages loose upon them, and instinct
them to spare no one. Nature’s barriers an
his strongest bulwarks, separating him. his
territory, and people, from the payment of
all lent and taxes to the republic of Mexico.
Ho levies u<» taxes upon his people. Tin it
E punished with death, and there are conse
quently few thieves.
THE KX-msTMASTKIi’s IWntTENCK IN TU’IO
... ' ('e e]i;mges whieli have berm wrought in
J tjneo tlirough the civilized and humane
liiiliu'uce ol Air. Fowler are wonderful to
contemplate ; and more h< has secured tin
regards and respect of Loza,la and his pou
erfiil people for the United Suites and it-,
citizens. He encourages Loza,la to resist
the encroachments of the General Govern
ment. iu another year Isaac \. Fowler will
say goo,l-bye to his' Topic friends, to Lo/.a
aa, aqd all of the*fame,l and once infamous
district, and return to New York city.
M ♦ M
Navai, Dlscu'lilne with a Vicnoean, r
Turner, who was recently released from ar
vest at the Portsmouth Navy Yard, say , 1»
ing suspected of theft at sea, he was lriin’p up
by the wrists to make him eonfess. 1 n on], i
to be in‘leased from his sufferings lie fal,el\
aeeused a white sailor named Patrick O’|{i i, u
of being Ids accomplice. O’Brien, who bad
always borne a good character, prote ted bi
innocence, but was lmng nj»b\ Ids wri-Ni r
three full days and nights, until the iron, ,
into the bones of his wrists and Li.s arc
were paralyzed.— Y. U. Sun.
TENNESSEE PoKCKEAIN. ,\ correspondent
informs ns that a stratum of genuine jh.iv
lain clay has been discovered in M< Minn
county, 15 miles southwest of Athens. H
says it was “struck at the depth of abmt 2'.
feet below the surface, with a depth of 40 or 5*
feet, clear from all sand or rock or other ini
purities solid and compact, the npp. .p.
tiun white, the lower 10 or 15 fe.-t hi
variegated, with yellow and red.” It i
within five miles of the Tennessee river and
sev( li Hides of the East Tennessee and < • • ■
gia Railroad.— Union and American.
The Stock Market. The fluctuations in
some of the leading stocks which form tie
stajilc of commodities dealt in by tin b ill
street fraternity have been unusually violent
of late, remarkably so for the siunni r ■
when there used to lie a general usp i . n
of active operations. A rise or fall of l. u
per cent., si day is nothing umuiuil ie »
days. One successful sjieculator, who
supjxised to haye gathered his sagacity »i k
on the flour of Congress, is said to La'-*'
■ made half a million on Central within tl.
past month.— X. Y. Herald.
Greelkt considers the adoption «/' de
fifteenth Amendment secure, and t! ■ >
thinks it not worth while to make <’ 1
cation by the excluded States a eoii'lite
their admission. What effrontery i- tb
acknowledge that States have len .1 1
representation in Congress, not for ■ i-> '
alty, but simply to force their con nt t 1
i partisan measure. Greeley is lsild toav“
j what every one knew. —Boston Pod.
j Great Grandfather Grant A
from the Quaker-Indian Superint- ’■
Samuel M. Janney, states that tie In
call the agent father, the Supennte- '- 1
grandfather, and the President of the I'm : 1
States great-grandfather. Who <h> tin •
“Old Dad,” “ Old Pop,” “Old Granny,
so on V Perhaps, however, they
entire Cabin*-t. — Humid.
Fillmore and Weed. —It is i. " ’
there was a charming reconciliation 1* t ■
cx-President Fillmore and ThurDw
Saratoga the other day. An old p !
Albany lobby feud, no doubt, setti' 1 *
precisely what we cannot tell, and it :
consequence, as nobody cares. "L -
have peace.”
—Duke Louis, of Bavaria, who w..-
graced at court for marrying tin aetr--- -•
Mendel, has been restored to favor v.’>
the intervention of the Empress of A
- wife is said to be the most ,
woman in Germany, and has always ■
an unsullied reputation.
—For not paying bills, for which ■
“word of honor” was pledged, five h’- 11 ' 1
officers were dishonorably dismissed 1
the Austrian service last year.
—Pekin, China, advices state tli.u. 1 .
great north and south gates of the ;
city, near which is situated the imp r:J 1 '
•lence are undergoing extensive repan-•
The Queerest Case Yet.— That of
who wishes to resign a position in the j
tom House upon conscientious l" ■
scruples.
Drought. —The Rome Courier. - ,!I ', ' j
says: During the past week we hau
two or three very slight showers, but llo
like a good season in nearly four week'-.