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GEORGIA JOURNAL & MESSENGER TUESDAY - MOKNING AUGUST 10. KcprcM-iilnt ion in Congress. Mr. Bullock seems to lx; determined not to allow Georgia to be represented in the present Congress if lie cun avoid it. He in sists that he has a right to commission the members of the last Congress and that his sign manual is sutheient to entitle them to their seats, without any resort to the old fashioned process of a popular election. He pretends that he can apjxiint seven members of Congress with the same ease that he can appoint seven inspectors of guano and bone dust, and that he can dispense with the for mality prescribed by that antiquated instru ment, the Constitution, which says that “the House of Representatives shall be com posed of memlx'rs chosen every semiol yearly thi> j/enple of the several States." It is an incontrovertible fact that Messrs. Clift, Tift, Edwards, Gove, Prince and Young were elected to the 40th Congress and took their seats as members of that body. There has l>een no election in Geor gia lyr representatives in Congress since they are supposed to have been elected, and as the 40th Congress died on the 4th of last March, it follows that the representative ex istence of the above named gentlemen ex pired on the same day. It is an absurd assumption that members elected to one Congress can “hold over” until their successors are appointed, or that the Governor of a State, by refusing to order an election, can continue them in their seats without any reference to the popular will. No matter what may be the desire of the Atlanta Convention or the action or neglect of the Legislature, the Constitutional pro vision is clear and precise, and neither Gov ernor, Convention nor Legislature can alter or annul it. Georgia is without representation in the present Congress. Messrs. Clift and Prince have no more shadow of right to sit in the House of Representatives than they have to sit in the House of Commons, and Mr. Bul lock's commission is just as valid a creden tial to one body as to the other. It may suit the peculiar purposes of Mr. Bullock to have the State unrepresented al together or misrepresented by liis Radical co-laborers. He may be unwilling to risk a popular election because lie fears, nay, he must know, that the Radical ex-members can never be re-elected; but there are no reasons why the people should tamely sub mit to this audacious invasion of their rights --on the contrary they are the strongest reasons why they should adopt every legal and proper means to defeat the attempted wrong. Tt is the constitutional right of the voters of Georgia to elect their representatives this fall. Mr. Bullock has no more authority to deny or abridge it than he has to confiscate their pocket-books. It is therefore a very gi avc question whether it is not the duty of the peo ple of the State to hold elections on tin; day provided by law, and choose fit and proper representatives, without reference to Mr. Bullock, should he continue to refuse to pro vide for an election, under the ridiculous pre tense that he can commission the members of the 40th to sit in the 41st Congress. ft is of great importance that every district in the State should be represented. We have suffered sufficiently through want of repre- sentation and misrepresentation. Let us now elect men of our own choice. We should not tamely submit to lx; deprived of whatever advantages may accrue to us from having our members in the House of representatives, !'<''l*o Mr-. BuUpck.ftiiiy. .in Union, or failing to succeed in that design in thrusting an illegal delegation upon us who can have no claim to having been elected by the people, simply because a majority of them are of the same class us adventurous and unscrupulous politicians as Mr. Bullock himself. Mr. Bullock, we learn, makes some quibble about the. action of the Atlanta Con vention, or (and the Legislature of Georgia, on tin' subject of the election, in justification of his conduct. It is perfectly immaterial what either body has done or attempted to do ; because if either has tried to transfer the elective power from the people to Mr. Bullock, it has tried to nullify the Constitution and cannot suc ceed except by brute force. No power on earth ( xcept the will of their respective con stituents legally expressed can renew the representative character of the so-called members of the Fortieth Congress ; and we believe that even the Radical majority of the present Congress, prepared as they are to commit any lawless or criminal act to attain their purpose, would refuse to establish the precedent- that a Governor can substitute his decree for the will of the people—not that we believe the Radicals in Congress would hesitate to do. anything however criminal which could advance the interests of their party, because it was in itself unjust or viola tive of the Federal Constitution, but because it might at no distant day return the pois oned chalice to their own lips. The South and Ireland. There are people at the North who know what our condition is, and who have not been deceived by all the clamor of the last eight years. At the mass meeting in Tam many Hall, recently, Richard O'Gorman, Esq., said : “ What has Ireland been socking for all these long hundreds of years'? She asked that her local concerns should lx* governed by her own men upon Irish soil, and seeking only for the interests of the Irish nation.- | Great applause.] What does the Demo cratic party ;i»sk for Virginia, or Texas, or .Mississippi, or any of the Southern States, but that in their local concerns they should be governed by the men of Virginia, by the men of Texas, and bv the men of Mississippi, as we in New York have our local concerns governed by the citizens of the State of New York? Is not the principle in each State the same? The principle of the Democratic party is diversity in union. The principle of the Republican party is unity and empire at the last. [A voice; 'That is so.’| And we have listened to these taunts all those wretched v ears past, and we have Dome them all. We have borne more than that. We have seen civil law trampled under foot. We have seen the Constitution we respected violated. We have seen a Radical revolution inaugurated into a system. And yet through it all we never gave up our hope in the future, for we put our confidence—unshaken confidence —in the gixul sense of the American people, and we knew that that would triumph at Lust. [Cheers. ] And we hope in it still, and every day gives ns assurance that- our hopes shall not be unfulfilled.” Again: “I tlinik the tide is turning fast. I think the great sou is rising again. Virginia has done well: and if I read the signs of that election aright, it means that the days of the carpet-baggers are numbered and their occu pation gone.” [Applause.] And Hon. Loon Abbett said: “If you stand in Virginia, or Texas, or Mis sissippi, or any of the Southern States, you cannot have your rights; and there are thou sands and hundreds of thousands of miles of American soil where the rights of the cit izens are still subject to military law. And can vou for a moment believe that while this is so in your native land, that if you leave it and are* three thousand miles away from home, that your cry, your feeble voice, will be heard, when it cannot be heard on the other side of the Potomac? [Applause.] The rights of American citizens in foreign lands will never be recognized and respected until they are recognized and respected at home, and they will never be recognized and respc eted here until this present Admin istration is swept from flower. [Apjfiause. ] —Sehurz denounces Democracy and the Christian religion. The l.ate Isaac Toucey. The telegraph announced a few days ago that Ex-Govemor Toucey, of Connecticut, was dead. Few remembered when they read the announcement that one of the best, truest, most upright, and most gifted public men at the North was he whose death was recorded in one line. Mr. Toucey was a Deunx’rat of the school to which the late Thomas Seymour, of Con necticut, belonged, and to which Franklin Pierce and W. B. Read, of Pennsylvania belong. He had nothing in common with the new political lights whose principles are varied by the expediency of the hour, and whose constant effort it is, not to olx-y, but to evade, the objections of the Constitution and of their oaths to support it. While he held the office of Secretary of the Navy in the Cabinet of Mr. Buchanan we had the honor to know him well, and had ample opportunity to judge of his character. He had marked talent, was thoroughly con scientious in the discharge of every duty, was a devoted supporter of the Union and the Constitution, but he believed that the former could not continue if the latter were destroyed. Isaac* Toucey was the noblest work of God—an honest man. He was not a genial companion. He was polite, but rarely affable. He was courteous, but always somewhat stiff and cold in his man ner, but those who knew him well and could study the motives which animated his con duct—both private and public—learned to a Imire and respect him. When the separation took place between the South and the North, Mr. Toucey agreed with Mr. Buchanan that the Constitution gave the general Government no power to coerce a State, and he was consequently op posed to the war. For this ho was reviled, abused and mistreated by the Radicals, and they even went the length of denouncing him as a traitor; but he continued tme to his principles, and secluded himself almost entirely at his home since the commence ment of the war, caring but little for what the Radicals might say or think about him, sustained by tlie mens conscia recti, which slander could not disturb. During his long life, (Mr. Toucey was in his 71st year at the time of his death,) he held successively all the highest offices in the gift of the people of his State, and was a mem ber of two Cabinets—Attorney General in that of President Polk, and Secretary of tlie Navy in that of President Buchanan. He was a lawyer of acknowleged eminence. He was a good citizen, a true friend and a pious Christian, and from liis entrance public life in 1820 to the day of his death he was a c'.insistent and earnest member of the Dem o -ratie States Rights Party, believing that a strict and literal construction of tlie Consti tution was the only way to preserve the Union as it was framed and designed by its f< mnders. K»M Thankfully Received.— President Grant and family, with a large party, visited Brieksburg, N. J., yesterday, and were enthusiastically received by thr; people of the place, and entertained by the President of the Brieksburg Land Improvement Com pany. During liis stay the President was presented with about fifty acres of ground. [JT. Y. Times. In addition to tlie above we lnive further information that the fifty acres were “thank fully accepted.” The man who presented them must be a “regular brick,” and in case Mr. Robeson or any of tlie other Secretaries should resign or die, Brick’s chances are of tin* best. In tlie meantime Brick may count on a foreign mission or an assossorsliip of Internal Revenue. In tlie old days the President of tlie United States did in »t receive gifts. Even fifty acres to forget the duties of their high office or tlie decencies of life. But they were old fogies and most of them Democrats. A 11 1 NT xo James Fisk, Ja.—ln Sweden tlie railway guards are made to follow a course of minor surgery and bandaging, iu order to lx* able to afford provisional assist ance in case of accidents. We found the above among our foreign news and copy it in the hope that it may meet the eye of tlie versatile Fisk, and strike him as a first rate idea. As “cases of acci dent” occur with startling frequency on the Erie Railroad, would it not be economical to hire as conductors none but qualified sur geons. The opportunities for constant and extensive practice would be such an induce ment to young medical men that they could be had for tlieir victuals and clothes. It would be comforting to the traveling public to know that in case of being “telescoped,” experienced men are always on hand to straighten things. Location tor the State Fair. Tlie Committee appointed by tlie City Executive Committee to submit, for the consideration of the citizens of Macon, tlie facts and reasons which have controlled their selection of the Laboratory grounds and buildings for holding the Annual Fair of the State Agricultural Society, report: Ist. That an expenditure of thirty thous and dollar’s would be scarcely sufficient to erect —on unimproved grounds—tin* im provements and conveniences necessary to accommodate tlie approaching industrial ex hibition which now promises to surpass any thiug ever witnessed in the South. 2d. The Government consents tliat we may remove any structures, buildings, fences, etc., that we may erect on the grounds, and we state on the authority of Mr. Maxwell, an architect jukl builder, that the structure s we .contemplate erecting, can be so framed with a view to removal if necessary, tin t it can be done at trilling cost and trilling dam age to the material of the structures. 3d. The li >ss of actual cash to the city by work on tlie Laboratory grounds and build ings, which cannot be taken away, will not exceed twelve or fifteen hundred dollars. The city had better sink three or five times that amount than have imperfect prepara tions, and thousands of our fellow-citizens dissatisfied with the city and the Agricultu ral Society. 4th. The Macon and Western Railroad will run special trains, leaving the depot every hour, if necessary, taking passengers for ten cents. When it is remembered that the large quantity of heavy machinery, steam engines, cane Ixulers, gins, threshing machines, make it extremely desirable to avoid wagoning such articles, it must be considered that the arrangement by which all heavy freight can lx; delivered from the ears right at the spot where wanted, makes the Laboratory more convenient for freights and passengers than any other point named. sth. The committee of eleven- —named tin* Executive Committee of the city—having carefully considered every point raise ! on this question of location, and having, to the best of their judgment and ability, sel ?ct; and tjic Laboratory grounds and buildings, they appeal to their fellow-citizens to cease now all controversy and division of sentiment and unite in mi effort to make the exliil fition alike a great benefit and a great lion jr to tlieir city. In our judgment, it will tal a* the union of all hearts and hands and prah **s to meet the requirements of an exhibition \ »hieh promises to lx* the most extensive ever held in the South. Stephen Collins, ) A. L. Maxwell, ■- Comn attee. Dav. W. Lewis, i llow touching is this tribute of H( m. T. 11. Benton to liis mother’s influence: * •My mother asked me never to use toba ;eo; I have never touched it from that time to the present day. She asked me not to gi* in hie, and I have never gambled. I came >t tell who is losing in games that are being play ed. Slie admonished me, fix), agains 1 hard drinking, and whatever capacity for i lidur ance I have at present, and whateve r use fulness I may have attained through life, I have attributed to having complied wi th her pious and correct wishes. When [ was seven years of age she asked me ; lot to drink, and then I made a resolution o f total abstinence; and that I have adherei 1 to it through all time, I owe to my mo the r. ” —Tobacco paid the United Styles T Veasu rv $150,000, WO last year, F Gen. Jordan, commander of the Cuban forces, was formerly prominently connected with tlie War Department. Subsequently he became the chief of staff of Beauregard’s rebel forces, but never entirely relinquished his affection for the old Hag. ‘ He is au effi cient officer of great executive and adminis trative power, upon whose acquisition tlie Cubans are to lx; congratulated.— New York Sun. It is true that General Jordan was former ly connected with the War Department. He was a Quartermaster or Paymaster in the United States army stationed on the Pacific coast until just before tlie war, when he was ordered home to account for some specula tions which were said to be rather irregular, and which made it difficult for him to bal ance his books. Tlie war intervening he came South and became a memlxT of Gen eral Beauregard’s staff. His services in con nection with the War Department may have made him prominent, but it was the same sort of prominence which he subsequently attained by his attack on ex-President Davis in Harper’s Magazine, when Mr. Davis was iu Fortress Monroe, a manacled prisoner. Commencement at tlie University of Georgia. LETTER FROM THE EDITOR. Athens, Ga., Aug. 6, 18G9. The trains of Wednesday night, yesterday and this morning, have borne away most of the visitors who came here to attend Com mencement. Notwithstanding tlie liberality and excel lence of the arrangements made by Mr. Johnson, tlie obliging and able Superinten dent of the Georgia Railroad, the crowd was so great that the two trians per day were in capable of accommodating all tlie passen gers. The piles of baggage made tlie depot look like a freight depot in the busiest com mercial season, and the carriages, buggies, omnibuses, wagons, carts and drays laden with tlie hugest Saratoga trunks, bonnet boxes and valises, together with tlie hosts and their families come to speed the parting guests, gave the place the appearance of a fair which tlie quiet little Athens depot sel dom assumes. Most of those who went off yesterday morning looked very sleepy and iatigued. Having danced all night and until 4 o’clock in tlie morning at Mr. B. 11. Hill's ball, they had but little time to rest before the omnibus ciy of “all aboard” warned them that they must set out upon tlieir jour ney. Every one went away praising loudly the hospitalities of which he laid been the recipient, and declaring that lie had rarely passed a few days more agreeably than those lie had just spent in Athens. Tlie Board of Trustees before adjourning adopted tlie recommendation of the Faculty changing tlie old course of education in the University. The principal change consists iu only making it obligatory for the student to follow the regular curriculum during tlie two first years of his course, and leaving him at liberty after that time to elect such branch of study as lie may think best suited to liis future career in life, subject to such regula tions as the Faculty may adopt. It is also permitted to the student to study two modern languages instead of Latin and Greek, and members of the law school who are graduates of the University may attend the classes of modern languages and rhetoric free of charge. These, I believe, are the chief points in which tlie Trustees have altered the old sys tem, and it seems to bo tlie general opinion that tlie change will work for good. The Alumni Association at their regular meeting, on Tuesday morning, agreed in fu ture to dme together during commencement, and to endeavor severally to infuse* fresh life into the society, and procure the attendance of a large number of members. The follow ing are the minutes of their meeting : At the annual meeting of the Alumni So ciety of the University of Georgia, July fid, 1869, the following orators were elected for the next commencement, viz: Hon. John G. Shorter, Orator. Rev. J. L. M. Curry, First Alternate. John C. Rutherford, Second Alternate. Messrs. Mitchell, Jackson and Vason were appointed a committee to memorialize tlie Trustees for an appropriation to aid in fur nishing an Alumni dinner at the next meet committtce of armngefaeiitH rot* saVdinbmT. On motion of Colonel DAY. Lewis the fol lowing Alumni were appointed Delegates to the Georgia Teachers’ Convention to meet ill Atlanta on the 11th inst., viz: Col. D. NY. Lewis, Chairman. John C. Whitner, of Atlanta, Julies S. Brown, of Atlanta, Thus. R. Glenn, of Atlanta, N. J. Hammond, of Atlanta, W. R. Hammond, of Atlanta, A, 1). Candler, of Atlanta, W. J. Vason, of Atlanta, H. B. Van Epps, of Atlanta O. E. Mitchell, of Atlanta, W. S. Hemphill, of Atlanta. General Toombs left yesterday for liis home at Washington, Wilkes county, whence early next week he will set out for a trip to Lake Superior. He is much fatigued by liis recent professional labors, and needs rest and recre ation. Bishop Beckwith starts this week on a short visit, to tlie North, and several other members of tlie Board of Trustees and vis itors, contemplate trips to the Falls of Tal lulah and Toccoa, or a visit to tlie Indian Spring in Meriwether county. Col. Magill, the indefatigable and efficient agent of the Cotton States Life Insurance Company, was here during the week, and received, I am informed, several applications for policies in that excellent company. The high character of those who are connected with the institution, and the fact that it is a Southern company, commend it to tlie favor and support of Southern men. Too long have we been sending our money North to fill tlie coffers of Northern companies. Now we can get better terms in a Southern com pany of which we are fully informed, and if we insure our lives, as every prudent man should, we have the opportunity to do so in our own State and among our own people. The weather is unusually warm and sultry, with indications of more rain. The crops are looking much better. Cotton is growing rapidly. Bottom corn looks well, but upland corn is lost beyond all hope of recovery. Many are cutting it down for forage. Tlie .Beauties of Protective Tariffs. From the New York Evening Post. We need for expenditure about three hun dred millions of dollars. We agree to raise from customs 150 million dollars. To ob tain tliis sum, about 58 millions more than England raises from six articles, we tax more than 4,000 different articles of imports. But we actually get 75 millions of dollars revenue from the following six articles: Coffee, tea, sugar, wiue and spirits, tobacco and liquors. To obtain the other 65 millions only, there fore, we see fit to lay duties on nearly four thousand articles; and charges a duty as high as 150 per cent, on some goods; to get these $75,000,000, we tax no less than one thousand million dollars of consumable com modities annually, and thereby enhance tlieir price on the average 50 percent. We raised, for instance, a revenue of not quite £1,000,000 from 100,000 tons of imported pig iron. But we consumed 1,600,000 tons of home-made irou besides in 1868, on all of which the price w;ts raised to the amount of the duty on foreign irou. Thus the tariff compelled the people to pay the domestic pig irou makers it bonus of $14,500,000, gold, during that y«j?* V e did not raise one dollar of revenue from woolen blankets for the Lust three years, jus there is a heavy duty on this article; nevertheless, the duty compelled tlie people to pay the manufacturers forty cents in currency a pound, for what can be bought in England for twenty-four cents currency. The extraordinary number of articles of import taxed, compel us to keep a custom house staff' that outnumbers tlie armies with which we formerly fought and conquered the savage Indians. We put temptations in the way of these public servants which have bred corruption among them. We offer a premium for smuggling and fjiLse swejiriug; the New Orleans sugar scandal at this mo ment. and the New .York silk scandals of liust winter will testifv to this. We tax tlie poor man’s clotliing, glass, crockery, bedding, fuel and gas; we tax tlie woolen socks of the baby 100 pur cent., and the brass coffin nail 45 per cent. And all tlie misery, vice, corruption and fraud caused by these bad laws are perpetuated to raise seventy-fix e million dollars revenue from sev eral thousand articles, when the same sum could lx* got from only ten articles. But then the simpler system would not enrich five or six thousand monopolists, who, under tlie name of “protection to American industry,” impose these grievous wrongs on the people. —Rev. Dr. Spaulding, who is 76 years of age, is the oldest bring missionary of tlie American Board. He has been engaged in his holy work in Ceylon since 1819. GEORGIA JOURNAL AND MESSENGER. For the Journal and Messenger. County Agricultural Societies. Macon, Ga., August 7, 1869 Dear Sir: In reply to your inquiries of the 27th ultimo, I have to say —that in order to be known as auxiliary to the State Agri cultural Society, your County Society must organize with a written Constitution and send the names of your officers and members to this office. Your Society will then be en titled to send ten delegates to two annual conventions of the State Agricultural Society, for one fare on the railroads, and to a copy of the transactions of these conventions, ft is contemplated, and will doubtless be so de termined by the Executive, to liave annnallv two conventions of the Society—one in Feb ruary and the other at the* Annual Fair. These conventions will lx* composed of mem lx-rs of the Society, who lxx'ome so by pay ing two dollars, and of delegates appointed as above. In the last convention there were ten del egates from each Society. To become indi vidual members you pay two dollars annually. This entitles you to a card, or certificate of. membership, which certificate entitles the holder to exhibit at the Annual Fair any number of articles and animals, without charge; to go into and out of the grounds and buildings at all times without hindrance or expense; to encamp on the grounds and to attend and participate in the meeting held during the Fair. The members of the Society first, and next tlie members of County Agricultural Socie ties, will lie entitled to the Public Di**u ments and other books and seeds now in this office for distribution. The immense gather ing of Grangers here at the Fair, from all sections of the Union, who must depend upon the hotels of the city and neighbor ing towns and cities for accommodation, make it incumbent upon Georgians, espe cially upon the farmers and planters, to come with tents and camp, equipage and supplies, and locate on the grounds, h’ltri will be supplied at cost. The this arrangement in giving the planters su perior facilities and opjxirtunities in inspect ing every department of tlie exhibition, and for social intercourse and interchange of views, with those of his own occupation, will fully compensate him for all inconve nience. I send you copies of Premium Lists and hope you will return to this office tlie name of your Society, with list of officers and members, and that they will appear on tlie ground in good time armed and equipped as the law directs. A premium of a ten dolbir cup will be awarded tlie clubwhich shall appear Jon tlie ground with the best tent aftd equipage and supplies produced jit home; this cup is to be awarded by the County Club to the most de serving exhibitor at the Annual County Fair. I suggest to planters to come prepared to purchase agricultural implements. The ex hibition in this department promises to be without parallel. Mr. Brinley, of tlie Kentucky Plow, lias given me notice that he will give a set of his plows as a premium to the exhibition of the best biig of cotton. If you have that bag down in Laurens, you had as well bring it along with you. Very respectfully, D. W. Lewis, Secretary. To Messrs. John M. Stubbs anil others of the Committee of Laurens County Agricultu ral Society. Papers of the State will please copy. Georgia Agricultural Society. Agricultural Office, | August 6th, 1869. \ The Exeuutive Committee met, Mr. Max well in the eliaii*. Present—Messrs. Obear, Greer. Anderson, Collins, Gustin, Maxwell, Winship. Absent Messrs. Whittle, Mcßumey, Plant, Nutting. Dr. Culvert and Mr. Crockett, were invited to take seats in the meeting. Minutes of the List meeting read and approved. Committee on Grounds, oil motion, was allowed further time. Committee on “Trotting Park,” on ab sence of chairman, by motion was granted further time. Committee on Signs reported that they had liuislied tlieir work. On motion tlie report was received and the Committee dis cluugeiL .. for the remainder of the evening. Mr. Obear moved that a Committee of three be appointed, consisting of Messrs. Maxwell, Lewis and Collins, to prepare a statement of facts, to be presented to the citizens of Ma con, in regard to the Laboratory grounds, tlie object being to set forth the reasons and facts which controlled the Committee in de termining to hold tlie Fail* at these grounds and buildings. Bills passed—C. Burke, 820. On motion, tlie Committee adjourned un til to-morrow morning at 11 o’clock, when they will meet again. Good for Old Upson. Barnes villi:, August 7, 1869. Mr. Fil'd yr: —l yesterday saw the first open boll of cotton, picked this season. It Mas gathered by Mr. Willis Morris, (son of our old and lamented friend, Conductor Jim Morris,) on liis place in Upson county, about eight miles from here, on tlie otli inst. Mr. Morris speaks of liis crop as most prom ising, and I would not be surprised if lie hail the “ lii*st bale ” of tlie new crop in mar ket from Middle Georgia. From every section of Pike, Upson and Monroe counties the accounts of crop pros pects are most cheering ; and should August prove propitious, the yield will be the best of any year since tlie war closed. Com is about made, and the crop, in tlie opinion of old farmers, will be tlie largest nuide in twenty years. Farmers wear smiling faces, and many of them speak of a bale of cotton to tlie acre ; while souk* low “ set their pegs” even higher, but these latter count on the extra yield from the Peeler, Dixon, and other choice seed planted. Some of these gentlemen, from all I can hear, have some brag fields, and if they do not take the prize at the forthcoming Fair, will push tlieir competitors closely. Absentee. > i ♦ > i The Fifteenth Amendment. From the Harrisburg Puliiot. The Radical j tapers publish strangely in correct lists of the States which have ratified or assumed to ratify tlie Fifteenth Amend ment. What object is to be gained by re peatedly asserting that Tennessee, Minneso ta, and other States which have taken no action, have fully accepted the amendment, passscs conjecture. Tlie action taken, thus far is as follows: Alabama, said to be ratified. Arkansas, ratified March 15. Connecticut, ratified May 13. Delaware, rejected. Florida, ratified in Juno. Georgia, rejected. Illinois, ratified March 5. Indiana, assumed to ratify May 14. No quorum present. Kansas, assumed to ratify May 27. The second section was imperfect. Louisiana, ratified March 1. Maine, ratified March 9. Massachusetts, ratified March 12. Michigan, ratified March 5. Missouri, assumed to ratify March 1. Did not act upon the second section. Nebraska, assumed to ratify. Certificate on file at the State Department is infoj tnal and insufficient. Nevada, ratified March L New Hampshire, ratified July 1. New York, ratified April 14. North Carolina, ratified March 5. # Pennsylvania, ratified March 26. Rhode Island, the Senate ratified May 27. Tlie amendment will probably be rejected, because the Rhode Island Radicals believe that under it they can no longer disfran chise tlieir Irish Catholic laborers. South Carolina, ratified March 10. West Virginia, ratified March 3. Wisconsin, ratified March 5. This makes only twenty-one States that can possibly be claimed for the amendment thus far; and of these, only seventeen liave legally ratified it. The assent of eleven more States will lie necessary to force negro suffrage upon an unwilling people. Bad Report from the Cotton. —Reports received from different sections of our coun try cause us to fear that it will be necessary to “change our time” iu regard to tlio pros pect. A relial tie gentleman, who has just re turned from Florida, informs us that there Ls no doubt of the presence of the genuine cot ton caterpillar in at least one planlatic n vis ited by him near Tallahassee. Col. Malone, of this city, informs us that he lias recurved a letter from his overseer in Baker oovmty, informing him that there is no doubt of the caterpillar lx*mg iu that section. Hinee the wet weather set in, we learn that the rust is making its appearance to a sc/mewhat alarm ing extent in some sections. [Anyericus Courier. Bullock, Blodgett and the Beat. HARD swearing. From the Augusta Constitutionalist, Aug. sth. Superior Court. —This court convened yesterday morning, pursuant to adjourdment o# Saturday, Judge Gibson presiding. The case iu equity of Bullock, Biixlgctt. Bryant, 15< files. Brayton, Conley, Prince and llice rs. E. H. Pnghe, as to the ownership of the material of the Daily Press office, was called. The comphiinants were represented by Judge J. S. Hook and Maj. J. P. Carr, and the respondent by Messrs Barnes A Cum ming. The respondent filed a plea looking to a determination of the issue at the present term of the court before a jury. After a full argument of this point by the counsel on each side, his Honor decided that the case was not triable at the present (tlie first) term and dismissed the jury empannclled. Proceedings were tneu had upon a motion to dissolve the injunction granted the com plainants by Judge Gibson, in May last, re straining the use of the material of the Daily- Press office. The bill tilt'd, by complainants and the answer thereto by the respondent were read. The bill was fortified (if they may be classed jus fortifications) by the sep arate affidavits of the complainants, affirm ing the justice of their claim, and the utter dishonesty and fraud practiced upon them in their corporate capacity as “The Georgia Printing Company,” by their co-partner and business manager. In proof that absurd ities often creep into tlie most carefully pre pared documents, tlie affidavit of Poster Blodgett, in meeting the declaration of the answer of the respondent, that tlie National Republican was originated for politicid pur poses, this affiant actually spurned the im putation, so far as he was concerned, except iu the dissemination of political truth. This portion of the affidavit provoked very aud ible smiles from tlie listeners, who evidently sympathized with the ridiculous position in which its declaration sought to place truth. The answer of the respondent was backed by his own affidavit supported by those of Thos. P. Beard and Win Hale, two colored stockholders in the Loyal Georgian, who have suffered somewhat iu pocket from their faith in Bryant and Prince, who managed the pecuniary matters of that concern, and who transferred its materials as a part and parcel of tlie stock in trade of the “ Georgia Printing Company.” Taking in view the allegations of tlie parties to this issue, we are of opinion that the whole matter was conceived in iniquity and bom of fraud. They undertook, by swapping knives with each other, to keep up a respectable appear ance, until they could get some of their number into a position to gather their re ward from the public crib. When the har vest ripened fully, the laborers fell out con cerning tlieir respective shares, and hence the present issue. Capt. Barnes opened the argument on tlie motion for a dissolution of the injunction, and was followed by* Maj. J. P. Carr, these arguments consuming the entire afternoon session of the court in their delivery. The case will be resumed this morning, when Maj. J. B. C umming aud Judge Hook will deliver their arguments. From the Constitutionalist, 6th. The Georgia Printing Company Case. Tlie arguments of Judge Hook and Maj. Cumming, before Judge Gibson, yesterday*, in this cjuse, occupied the attention of tlie Court until 4 o’clock, p. m. The opposing counsel dived into tlie depths of tlie case with great earnestness, and each labored with the skill and ingenuity for which they are distinguished. The effort of Maj. Cum ming was of about four hours’ duration, and exhibited tlie most faithful study of the case, and elicited particular expression of compli ment from those who heard him. At tlie conclusion of the argument of this gentle man, the Judge called for tlie voluminous documentary exhibits in the case, upon which, we opine, he will be obliged to ex pend considerable thought before lie e;in arrive at an equitable solution of the offen sive mixture. We publish in full, this morning, the doc uments upon which the ease came up. The reader will readily discover that it is a case of pot calling kettle black, with equal chances of smutting on either side. It would appear that Pnghe put in the greater quantity of available stock, for which lie was generously awarded a comparatively infinitesimal share of stock. But lie was allowed to manage matters and recover somewhat of the ciinit-h Bullock, Bowles A Cos. Such strong swear ing pro and can lias seldom been produced in a Georgia court, and will afford a subject of careful study* for our next grand jury. The Bcllock-Pughe Embroglio. — The revelations in tlie matter of tlie Georgia Publishing Company, so-called, sire calcula ted to make the men who made Bullock Governor blush through their foreheads of brass and their hides of triple rhinoceros skin. Anil this is what tlie Yankees call “a truly Republican form of government.” [Constitutionalist. Fourteen Years Asleep. DEATH OF THE REMARKABLE SLEEPING WOMAN IN KENTUCKY. Miss Susan Caroline Godsey, tlie sleeping wonder, died at lier mother’s home, some eight miles .from Hickman, Kentucky, on Wednesday, the 14tli instant. Tlie history of Miss Godsey is well known to tlie public, a statement of her wonderful condition having been published extensively by tlie press of tlie United States. At the time of her death, Miss Godsey was about twenty-six year’s of age, and liad been asleep, as described, about fourteen years. The ex istence of this wonderful case of coma, or preternatural disposition to sleep, has been doubted by many, but the hurt is indisputa ble. Indeed, some twelve months ago, Miss Godsey was taken to Nashville and other places for exhibition, but we understand many even of the physicians of Nashville looked upon the case with suspicion. The history of the case is briefly: When about twelve years of jxge she was taken with a se vere chill, and treated accordingly by lier physician. As the fever which followed lier chill subsided, slie fell in it deep sleep, in which condition slie has remained ever since, except at intervals. It was her custom at first to awake regu larly twice in every twenty-four hours, and singularly, within a few minutes of the sjime hours each day; but of later years she awoke oftener, so much so that many con sidered it an indication of her final recovery. She would remain awake five, ten, or per laips fifteen minutes, :md gradually drop off to sleep agttin. When asleep it was utterly impossible to arouse lier. She never com plained of any bodily pain, though when asleep she was very nervous at times, and appeared to suffer considerably by the vio lent twitching and .jerking of her muscles and limbs, and her hands clenched tightly as if enduring severe pain, but when awake slie did not appear to suffer except from drowsy, gaping inclination, and persistent effort to cleanse lier throat of phlegm. She gener ally passed into sleep through violent par oxysm, which would last perhaps five minutes, and slie would then sleep awhile as calmly and quietly as an infant. Miss God sey was of medium size, and lier limbs and muscles were well-proportioned and devel oped, and grew considerably after her afflic tion. Miss Godsey, on the day she died, in dulged in a little prophesying which we give as related for wliat it is worth. She said “the suu would be a total eclipse on the 7tli of August,” (this is remarkable, because parties assert that she could have had no knowledge that this was according to calcu lation,) “and that the sun would never shine as bright after that day. That this would indicate the end of the world, which was speedily approaching.” A M.vn Buried Alive —No Attempt to Rescue Him.— From C. J. Hanks, Route Mail Agent on the Kansas Pacific Railroad, we learn that tbe well being sunk :it Monu ment Station by the Company, caved in on Saturday last w hile two men were working in it, burying one, while the other escaped by seizing a rope, and was drawn up. It seems that the workmen had sunk the well 160 feet, and were going through a stratum of sand ; owing to the scarcity of timber the curbing Lad been neglected for thirty feet above, and being thus insecure, without a moment’s warning the well caved in, bury ing one man under several feet of earth aiid sand. The workmen above could distinctly hear his cries for help, and distinguished the words: “Don’t leave me.” Yet, in credible as it may seem, his companions made no attempt to release him, alleging as an ex cuse thut they were afraid of further caving in of tlie welL More horrible still, after liis cries had ceased, anil it was evident that life had fled, these inhuman monsters filled up the Well, forever entombing a human being whom they might have rescued, or have at least obeyed the common dictates of hu manity and have attempted to save. [Leavenworth, (Kansas) Times, July 29. Ctesarisin in the United States. From the Journal of Commerce. Among the most odious of the many bur dens under which the Liberals of Franee, with a fortitude and patriotic arder which, in spite of some extravagances, justly com mand the cordial applause of more fortunate nations, have been struggling on towards free government, is one in whose pains Americans oug lit i Krculiarly to sympathize; for in its most odious form we bear it ourselves. In the reeeut elections for the Corps Legislatif. as in those which preceded them, the impe rial government,except in a few constituency s where it would fare better by not having them, has, to the scandal of all who respect the popular light of suffrage, put forward and urged its official candidates; and the French Liberal journals have published for the merited scorn of nu n who have convic tions and const i nees of tin ir owr, and who desire to see a like manhood in their fellows, the confidentialcireulai s in w hieli the Minister of the Interior instructed every prefect and each of every prefect’s subordinates to be a hearty admirer and zealous supporter of the chosen of the Emperor. Who among us is such a stranger to our political contests as not to see that this has been often paralleled among us? Our Federal administration has also its official candidates, whom its hosts of subordinates, from the supervisor to the spy, from the collector of the port to the watch man at his custom house, are commanded to push officiously upon the choice, or against the choice, of the electors. But the parallelism is not quite perfect. Napoleon's official candidates- were for seats in the Legislature of his own realm, a leg islature without whose co-operation and con fidence he could not carry on his govern ment; the official candidates of the Federal administration are for places in a political organism of whose co-operation and control the Federal government is independent, and with whose constitutional workings it has no more excuse for meddling than Napoleon would have for dictating the votes of the House of Commons. The French official candidates were set up to oppose a by no means insignificant faction who woidd snatch from the Emperor the authority which the solemn act of the French people lias irrevo cably conferred upon him; the interference of the Federal administration is that of men upon whom the nation has conferred a tem porary power for a term during which no one dreams of taking it away, and who are mis using that power to obtain an influence in counsels they have no right to share. And, worst of all, while the French liberals have borne the insulting oppression because there was no alternative but sanguinary and prob ably vain revolt, the American people submit voluntarily to the despotism that thus impu dently wears the transparent disguise of free suffrage, though all their laws condemn the usurpation and their power is ample to give it, without violence or risk, a signal over throw. We have said that this system of Federal interference in State elections is the contri vance by which moil who lawfully hold a temporary but undisputed authority, aim to snatch, in defiance of public condemnation, another instalment of power —the machina tion of those who have been made trustees of a vast national fund for the national lame nt; *aml who administer it for the controll ing end of keeping the administration in their own hands. But this, which, if proved to the satisfaction of a Court of equity, would work the prompt removal of the trustee of a thousand-dollar bequest—is not the worst of the malversation. This machinery of Federal patronage is moved by those who hold high Federal office at the bidding of an oligarchy numbering, perhaps, not more than a dozen or so, of which they may be members, or only hired servants who often take tlieir pay in the irredeemable paper of vain hope. These oligarchs—not one of whom could with all his adroitness obtain at the hands of the people tlie high office whose powers, without leave of the people he and his con federates wield—constitute, if we look rather at the powers than the names or shows of things, the essence of the party. They are the men who direct the irresistible currents of popular sentiment to turn their own mill wheels. They have indeed tlic-ir hosts of retainers, some secured by the petty rewards of place and perquisite, others urged on by the frothy intoxication of a delusive banner cry ; but it is the masters themselves who dictate in all important points the lists of -Ai ■> ■ i . 1.. it , winch are so bold in their avowals on topics where all are agreed, so dark and ambiguous wherever there is a conflict of sentiments or interests among those whose support the contrivers would attract. And thus it gen erally happens that the honest elector who has spent his time, his labor and his anxious cure to insure some great triumph of princi ple, finds in the end that he has only de throned one clique ol' secret despots to estab lish another. It was ardently hoped, and confidently ex pected by many, that General Grant, having been prudently accepted, rather than origin ally chosen, by the Republican oligarchy, and having, it might be thought, a soldier’s love of glory and a soldier’s straightforward idea of duty, would have the sagacity and firmness to consult duty, honor and personal interest together by directing tin* machinery of government with the single aim of mak ing it accomplish its legitimate work. In several important points, however, he has allowed himself to be badly advised and h;us administered his trust not for the country, nor yet for himself, but for the oligarchy. The worst of preceding administrations could hardly have contrived a more corrupt abuse of its power than that plan of interference in the approaching State election of Tennes see, on the heralding of which we comment ed not long ago, and the final adoption of which by the President in full council was more lately announced in our Washington correspondence. The chief magistrate, sum moning to his side his monitor of constitu tional right and duty, the respective heads of the army and navy, the manager of the Treasury, the warden of the broad national domain, the authoritative spokesman of the republic, the assembled representatives of the whole executive power of the nation—it is now declared, lias solemnly enlisted the Uni ted States under the banner of Stokes. Henceforth the Federal officers are in Tennessee, not for the prompt doing of the people’s errands, nor for the firm and impar tial collection of the revenue, but to pro mote ’ the cause of Stokes, or rather of the oligarchy who are Stokes’ masters. It may lie that among the intelligent electors of Tennessee there are many who are prepared to acquiesce in this impudent and fraudulent assault upon the liberties of their State. It may be that factious hate has risen to such a frenzy there that men are glad to be ridden by any one who will ride them over their enemies. Tennessee is a Southern State, and in the Southern States of lute years the law of Federal dictation has come to be a second constitution. We have just seen the victorious party in another Southern State addressing their thanksgiving for the tri umph to the divinity at Washington, and can almost hear them say with Virgil’s shep herd— “O Melibree, dens liaoc nobis otia fecit— Nain milii semper crit dens.” But it is not in Southern States alone that these usurpations are practiced. Like en croachments are ready for every State whose electors choose to tolerate them. Step by step—and the steps arc long and rapid—adul terations of the Constitution, the bold grasp ing of Congress at unlawful power, and the fraudulent abuse of executive trusts, are con verting—and unless resistance is prompt and general, will soon have converted—this nicely balanced system of States into a consolidated mass, which nothing short of miracle can prevent from flying into chaotic fragments. “Henceforth,” said Mr. Morton, in his speech at Gettysburg (and nothing less than capitals were adequate to express the great ness of his faith), “disunion is impossible. ” Never was there, a greater mistake. Destroy those guaranties of ,State autonomy without which the Union could never have been formed, a needlessly apprehensive jealousy for which Ims all but torn that Union asun der—and in the war of discordant sectional interests and pretensions, the iutenqx>runee of the majority, the rage of the scorned mi nority, disunion will become inevitable. Weather, Crops and Health. —Ruin, rain; every day we have rain, and on Mon day had what is called here, a ‘Tight-wood knot floater." The planters are coming in daily, and not one can give a favorable re port as to their prospect for a good cotton crop. Wet weather is damaging, but not to compare to the damage that is and has been done by the rust. On some plantations, we hear that the cotton stalk is now dead. Cot ton is all speculation, as much so to the grower as to the man who buys it. A few weeks back, the prospect of our section was good for a cotton crop, now many say that it is not so good as at tins time last year. Health of the county still good. —D ia-son Journal. —Cotton has begun to open in Jefferson county, Miss, the news. —The tax on tobacco has killed ten out of j the fourteen manufactories in Danville, Ya. j - Four children were killed by falling | bricks, at the Philadelphia fire. —The Lebanon Chronicle asserts that silver ore lias been found in Laclede county. Mo. -—William B. Astor is going to complete the Washington National Monument, which is a very clever way of building his own. —The crops in Northern Texas are better this season than they have been known for twenty years. —There is an over-shot water wheel in Troy sixty feet in diameter. It is saul to I** the largest in the world. Henrietta Nichols, the oldest colored woman in Maryland, died hist week, aged 110 years. —Geometry, in the Chinese language, is the science of “The so much,” or, in other words, “What it is.” —A St. Louis lady sues a dentist for §SOOO for putting in her false teeth im properly. —A Chinese giant, eight and oik -half feet high, arrived in New York a few days since. He is projierly named Chang-lli. —Any one who hunts with a gun or dog in North Carolina on Sunday is liable to a fine of fifty dollars. It will be found, sa*s the N. Y. Express, that more than 90 per cent, of our criminals confess that the source of their crimes was too much intoxication. —The Ottawa Statesman knows of a woman who set ninety thousand ems of min ion, distributed her own type, and corrected her own proof, inside of six days. —The Council summoned to meet at Home in December will, it appears, take into con sideration, among other things, church music. —The Texas papers generally unite in the statement that no damage of any conse quence to the cotton crop has been done by the worms, the rains, or the recent flood. —M. Yieuxtemps, the well-known violinist, has recently become the owner of one of the famous Guaraerius violins in the Plowden collection, having purchased it for the sum of £Bl5. —Recently a lady at Marbledale, Conn., on going to make up the Inal where her little girl slept the night before, found a black snake, about three feet long, coiled up in the 1 khl. —There is a speck of war looming up be tween Turkey and Egypt. The Sublime Porte has recounted its grievances in a letter to the Egyptian Viceroy, concluding with an ultimatum. —Thomas E. Montgomery, the Baltimore druggist who compounded the medicine which caused the death of a child in that city on Saturday week, has been held to bail in §I,OOO for the action of the Grand Jury. —Postmaster General Creswell's forthcom ing report will not show much reduction of the deficit of the previous year as yet; but his estimates indicate that he proposes to make the department almost self-sustaining. —Prince Mettemicli is accredited with the invention of a definition which is just now going the round of the Continental papers. He defines a velocipedestrian to lie a fool u[k>ii rollers. —Crop reports from Western New York are favorable. It is expected that the wheat yield will be a third larger than usual, and should the weather hold fair long enough an enormous hay crop is expected. —The latest undergraduate joke at Yale College was the transfer, by midnight, of a florist's sign—“New Haven Nursery”—to a conspicuous position on a flourishing young ladies’ seminary. —An exhibition in Hamilton, Ontario, came to a sudden close the other day. A fifteen foot snake got out of its cage. He happened to be lively. He imparted the faculty to all who were in the vicinity. —A large Newfoundland dog was attacked and so stung by l>ees, in Richland county. ()hio, recently, that he died the next day. He was tied at the time, and the family to which lie belonged was away from home. —The first bale of new cotton was received at New Orleans from Texas, on the 3d in stant. This is seven days earlier than last season, when the first bale was received at New Orleans from Texas on the 10th of Au gust. —The Kiowa, Comanche and Arapahoe Indians in the Southwest are behaving in quite an orderly manner under the new Special Commission sojourning with them. —A fatal disease has been prevailing for some time among the horses in the neigh borhood of McMinnville, Tenn. It apj**urs in the form of “scours,” and no veterinary skill has been able to stay its progress, or ave the life of the animal attacked. —The Columbus Sun reports that an old colored man, familiarly known in Girard and Columbus as “Uncle Nelson,” died in Girard on Thursday night. He was highly respect ed for his piety and integrity, by l>oth white and black. -—The fat men’s clam-bake is to take place at Gregory’s Point, Norwalk, Conn., on the 20th of August. Every man weighing 200 pounds and over is entitled to la* present from any part of the world. The tuts will meet at South Norwalk, at 10 o’clock, a. m., on that day. - —Wine in tlie wine-growing regions of California is cheaper than milk. In Ana heim and Los Angelos common wine is but thirty cents a gallon; milk costs fifty. In Toulumme county a large skilled wine raiser offers four thousand five hundred gallons of excellent wine at twenty-five cents per gallon. In the same regions milk is forty cents. -—A new issue of all denomination of greenbacks, from one to the one thousand dollar note, is to be made in consequence of the spurious issue of the ten dollar green back, or legal tender nob's. The plates for these notes are now being engraved at tin* Bureau of Engraving and Printing. The designs are entirely new, —Louisa Dowdal, a girl thirteen years old, residing at Norwich Town, Connecticut, dis covered, as she was getting out of her bed the other morning, a spotted adder—one of the most poisonous of the snake creation on the floor of the room. With great cool ness and courage, she hurried down stairs for an ax, and came back and killed the snake before it hail time to strike at her. —The Lexington Gazette of August 4tli says: “General Breckinridge informs us that he has determined to settle again per manently in Lexington and resume the prac tice of law, This will be gratifying news to the hosts of personal friends of General Breckinridge in this section, where he was known and admired and loved long before he had acquired a national reputation. We are glad to learn that he has already received retainers in several important suits.” —A full-blooded Indian, armed with a tomahawk, and who had taken enough “fire water” to awakep his savage propensities without stupefying him, arrested in St. Louis on Monday while rushing about wildly brandishing the favorite weapon of Ida race and endeavoring to tomahawk persons near him. —An effort is being made in Canada to unite all the Jriah Catholic societies of the Provinces into mo* grajjil Irish Catholic St. Patrick’s Society, for the pnrjx,se of promo tinggood-willamonglrishmen. The principal efforts of the society would be directed toward the relieving of Irish immigrants, and repre senting, when necessary, the Irish interests in the Dominion. —The Germans continue their enforce ment of the Sunqay law ir] Pittsburg. They have held a meeting to select men to look out for the different street railroads, and one of the speakers said : “The sole purpose the society wishes to reach is the extremest observance of the Sabbath, so that all classes of citizens would l>e equally compelled to bear its advantages and disadvantages.” The courts arc already full of eases grooving out of violations of the law. —“Old granny Silfuse,” a white Laly re siding in Brock’s Gap, Rockingham county, Virginia, now in her ninety-fourth year, is one of the most active and industrious women in the county, She yet does the work of an ordinary yonug woman , indeed, does more, for she lias been willing, old as she is, in eases of necessity, to go into the harvest field and assist in securing the crops. She can spin, knit, sew and do all the ordi nary' work of one of the industrious women of the olden time, who thought jt no dis credit to earn her bread by the sweat of her brow, as the Bible has it. —Almost every railroad accident arising fiOfg collision causes great loss of life by “telescoping,” that is by the passenger cars sliding into each other like she sections of a spy-glass. This is caused by the slightly dif ferent levels on which the platforms run, so that when the rapid motion of the train is checked the l»ottom_franie-work of one ear is foreud over tlie frame-work of the next, and goes crashing through the body of the coach. The platforms being an extension of the bot tom frame-work of the cars, it is asserted, ate too rigid, and, when collisions occur, offer too great resistance, so that the weakest jior tion, where the passengers are seated, is ob liged to give way. It is, therefore ed that if the platforms were to v’*, t, to lie less firmly united to the they would yield to the force of the „ W " rk and the liody of the car would be i, r . ' ° “A m>m “ Danville, Ya., fio who never rode m a car, is called *• vative old human miracle.” * °a«er. —lt is reported that some of th,. t shoe “ Imsses” arc considering a pr , ' '• v, n to run their factories by Chinese lalxir ''' 3 —The laboring men ‘of Nevada are , , nt a formal pronnnciamr nto against tin- • 0 Chinamtn. The linpcrirdist acknowledges < Grunt to have l>een a regular 7u, n ' that journal from its inception. l! ' r —There are eighteen negro, s e l« t l the Virginia Legislature —four in t ! '. s ami fourteen in the House. —San Francisco lias anew V) , n , n „ journalism—an illustrated daily . „' n the Illustrated Sun Francis, ~ ; ““l —ln 1860 th« re were bat 402 railroad in the United States I; g ' that there are at least 4.000 mil, al ''* —The Massachusetts Democratic“s, , Convention will lie he 111 ill Worcester ‘24th instant. —Some of the Vermont potato have harvested one crop of tlo | \ o ' ' this year and have n second r, : „| v j", \ - Miss Brad, lon. the sensation . whose mind became seriously art,,- ' ” months ago. has partially recovered" ! “ —The y, lit v. fe\ , , worse tlinn that of New Orion-- ~ ' taken the Chiiu sc type. —ln twenty-five yew the Jesuit Society has nion th“ In 1844 there were 4.188 mcmK ,v , , ‘V 1 register for 1869 slums thirv arc - s , The week o f prayer, appointed 1 v tl Bishops to l>eobserved throughout the M • odist Episcopal Church South, wi11,,, ,' next Friday. August 18th. —A numlter of Jew ish Rahhisin f; and Austria have resolved to prepare ' cyclopaedia of the Tab tate the study of that work. —A new bug. about the size of a sn-,11, and of the color of silver, has made its peanuice in the wheat fields of the w, .in, part of low a, and is doing consider;,!,], age. —All is not gold that glitters -in.VntiMrv orany other business. A man di.-d days ago ni Person county, North Cm from having his teeth plugged with onous foil or compound. —The New J, rusah m M that the Hon. John Bigelow, tin , i tor of the Times, is a sincere and . New Churchman otherwise. Sw-<d, gian. —Mr. Philip Woodson, died at Hunt.-vill. Ala, August 4th. of paralysis. 11, v 79th year. He founded tin I! • oerat in 1823. A native of Virginia. hew a democrat of the States Rights 5e11,,,,! —Piuich has its little joke that the ,ah],, plunged into the ocean from the Lh, : Franco. It has now connected itself with tie heart of America, which may well thrill wit satisfaction. —The North German ( that in the University of Berlin, at the pi,', cut moment, “ there an* no less than -iitv American students, mosth soi tors from the Southern States of the 1 in.-i A certain locomotivi - ' i Central Railroad has a bloody record. ]• has killed three or four men duriim tie j : year, and killed another man and two l r.,. and maimed a boy Wedni*s(hiy. —A colored boy in Maury countv. T ucsscc, killed u rattle-snake last we, k wi. had forty-five rattles. For wis-ks j>r, it is said, he terrified the whole country v. his noise at liiglft. —“Liabilities heavy and assets nothing This is thusturtliiig intelligence w hich i., t - the i>eople interested in the exploded IV Fire and Marine Insurance Conipaio T much care cannot be exercised in select- Insurance Companies to do busiu, with. —Letters from England go to show tie • tin* man killed on the railroad tln-i- .an i • is supposed to have had something t - with the Oi-ean Rank robbery in New V city, had no connection whatever with ti a flair. —On the complaint hook of the Si. I city engineer is tin* following cpi t curiosity; “ Herr Ins/lector Sir: l- r . ‘ cili ]>a«i 1 dose in di*r Seitvolk | sidewall, der Franklin Ebenue Streets vor mein I! ant I vaut him fix quick, at vonst; ais me \IH Hi illit tI <' I l\ HMD i now [ gjts dockterbill zu hay,” —The prospect for abundant crops th 5 out Texas were never more flattering. * 1 will J><- light in stime few sections, hut cot; is doing well everywhere. If there are in worms, tlie yield will be very large. In th, district north and west of Jefferson, fr which it derives its immense trade, the i-r- -]-- are fijn-j- than they have been for years. —The Montgomery papers make meat of flu! heaviest contract ever entered iut< the South. Tin*parties engaged are all 8 em men. The contract is made t.v M. Wallace, for cars for the South and .V Road with Raoul, Sons A Wadi,V works, at Independence, Louisiana. '1 stock consists of 200 box cars; I'K* flat <• 10 first class and 10 second class pa- en gjii's; 10 mail and baggage cars , 10 crank !}0 pnh* eur». These cars will cost ~i §300,000. I'nris Fashion^. From Le Foflet. We are fast approaching that ■ the year when preparations are in. leaving town ; and the most useful in' tiou we can give our readers, on th< of dress, will be some hints as to un likely to be fashionable for traveling side toilette. Traveling dress is n mill;, n of some material which will stum, change of weather, and not easily nan such as foulard, or a mixture of u silk, or alpaca—and the colors should rather a neutral tint. Nothing is prettier t a gray, or a gray sjieckled, or buff, 'll generally made with a found skirt witj. flounces, and a fitting casaque, I n tunic ajth a sash, making a poult 1» i An immense number of white do being prepared for the watering \ - wlijte oyer blue, umi/.c, ccrisc, m- • They arc open up the side, so a.i t colored petticoat, and trimmed 11 the opening, as well as at tlie beta i skirt, with narrow fiounci edged v;t enciennes or guipure. The skirts of t. are made long, the body is ojieu, an ■ in front under a bow of ribbon t color as the under-skirt. A small nmntalet, trimmed to match, just le 1 ■ waist by the sash, complete- this pc lette, It appears that white will be -it was last summer white -■ • with satin stripe* ; sultane, plain" l pique ; muslin, spotted or plain. , r although flounces are very muck IU “ ' there are some dresses exti 'in. ; ! simple, trimmed m< rely with satin ribbon placed on fla‘, t!r ' the <*i*irt being edged with a fring pique may l»e trimmed ait h i- 1: braid, embroidery, or insert; over a colored ribbon ; spotted in _ have merely a trimming of th*‘ ,: - hemmed. Guipure, narrow tulle, lepejennps life sujtable ti'iiamm-' npisliiM tqpl preaudits. , Costumes, tlie under-shirt < cln eked material, ui " very V upjier skirt of the same colors, i of spots ; or, perhaps, one strip l > other spotted. Some ladii ~pe l'- tames of two contrasting colors very pejdpni that >i combin. duces to el< pant a toilet! entirely of one shi-'i* • sometimes marie to serve t\o> p- ; i the following manner : A cost of a short skirt, more or less tnr - with a jntninr or tamnryo, and u < *'- To cop vert this into a long do -•>• made of tin- same material, h. . * match; this is hastened on at bv . der tlie jxuiier, leaving the to r • . just as it was. If wished to «* '. y , ing dress, a low Ualy can I; ““ v - bodies are very fashionable, tumes apd tlie long drew* » Sashes have by h<> mcai ' “ v though their make alters t 1 and" time to time. It would b 1U1 1’” : scribe the immense variety ot ~t • they are marie. Some are en. the ends with flowers; others there are the oßoi.i;ui f : ‘ . sashes, tied at the side, wlu< p- ‘ , ... lie favorites at the seaside tin-' . ’ as the black ribbons worke.i 1 .. bouquets. Very prettv little made to match these sashes. y ;i v omit to mention that-yelvet aia ■ trimmings principally iu vogiu •" eut time. - it j Si^ ll Rust in Cones. —Rev. . 1 ' of Marshallville, was in our eflir e . r and reports that all tie cotton ~..; is more or less affected by " 'j. one the crop will I>e cut off at and i>erhapa oue-half in sonw •