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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'-.