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15V J. W. BURKE & CO. GEORGIA JOURNAL & MESSENGER .1. W. 11l RKE K CO, Proprietors. M. BIIOVVXE, Editor OFFICE NO. 00 SECOND STREET, MACON. GA. It \TES OK M/PSCHIPTIO.V T)inv wr Annum 110 00 1 ’ Six Months 500 “ Three Months 2 50 •• One Month - 1 00 Tbi -Weekly, ist Annum 5 00 “ six Months 2 50 n “ Three Months 1 50 Weekly, per Annum 3 00 gu Months 1 50 Vailed to the Counter. Wc publish iu another eolumn an article from the Macon Telegraph, of yesterday, which, though the editor does not .say so, wc know refers to us, and we shall so treat it. 11;.,! the Telegraph done nothing more than repudiate the inadvertent credit of the Shir, me I display that talent for elegant sarcasm and refined wit for which it is distinguished —had it confined itself to calling us “terlium quids,” and our article “a wonderful ululu,” an d even had it described more graphically the exjHctant strain of our “eye-halls”—we should probably have had the bad taste not to appreciate its effort sufficiently to notice it at all. But when the Telegraph has the impu dence to put on the airs of unassailable j>o jitical consistency, to assume the garb of simon-pure Democracy, to present itself as the steadfast champion of the Democratic party, and affects to treat with scorn and indignation any proposition of “voluntary j or permanent affiliation with the authors and supporters” of the “political crucifixion of tin- South” and when it does this in order to call in question our consistency, our fideli t\, to the principles of Democracy, our zeal in the Democratic cause, and our enmi tv to the policy of the Radical Con gress and to the “unconstitutional tyran ny” of which the South has been the victim, and read us a lecture on the duty of a Democrat, we feel bound to brand the clumsy counterfeit lest there might be one man ignorant enough of the record of the editor of the Telegraph and of our own, to accept it as good currency. We like plain speaking and plain dealing. Wc invariably mean what we say and say what we think. We think it host to speak out or to be silent, to avoid all dodges and awkwardly constructed paraphrases to servo as loopholes of escape from the conse quences of what we say, to he candid and above-board, and whether we praise or blame, to stick to the truth, avoiding alike the pal pable. misrepresentation and the still mean er “mendacity of hints.” If the Telegraph's article means anything, it is an attempt to magnify its own record as an exponent of sound Democratic principles, mid to belittle ours, and to make people be lieve that it is defending the standard of Democracy which we are preparing to de sert. Now had we spent the greater portion of our life denouncing and assailing the Demo cratic party and its principles, had all the editorial distinction we ever gained been (de rived from our bitter hostility to Democracy; had we, when the hour of trial and danger came made expediency the only rule of our action; had we in the continued worship of expediency, expressed a willingness to accept for ourselves and advised our read ers to accept, every “part and parcel of the political crucifixion of the Southern States and of civil freedom,” and had we still, for the sake of expediency, consented to "a political affiliation with its authors and supporters,” even to the extent of earning our living, in part., by taking it “out of the public crib” had we gone the length, in or der to win for ourselves the unenviable no t iriety of being the only reputable paper in Georgia, to call upon the Legislature to sur render their Constitutional privileges, re verse their action taken under the sanctity of their oaths, and stultify themselves by re seating’ the negroes and expelling the white members had we done all this with the consciousness of such a record, we never would have dared to question the consis tency of one who all his life long has stood ly and fought under the banner of Democ raev. who has never surrendered one inch of ground to expediency or advised any one else to ilo so where the surrender involved the sacrifice of principle, of honor or of self-vi ]'(‘et, and who has never advised any body to take passage in the “rotten scow” which plies bet ween honor on the one side, and “ulUliatiou w ith the authors of the political crucifixion of the Southern States” on the other. Our effort is to band together all the ele ments of opposition to Radicalism in order to annihilate it. "We desire to bury all old po litical animosities and divisions which grow out of issues long since dead, and whether w e called ourselves Whigs or Democrats ill the past, to call ourselves now the defenders of Constitutional liberty, enlist under the banner of “the Equality and Sovereignty of States,” and march forward shoulder to shoulder to the overthrow of the party to which belong "the authors and supporters of the pi litieal crucifixion of the Southern States. I’liis is what we want, and w< Mieve that it is a better and a lottier purpose than that by which the V- ■ jr.i/.1, confesses to have been actuated, in recommending tile recognition of the constantly growing and advancing demands upon us of the Radicals, and “the closing up at once with our tormentors at any pres ent cost, so as to attain some settled status mid a position affording some degree of self defence.” We believe that we can attain a position affording some degree of self defence by a cordial union of the opposition to Radicalism, and that to sink the name of Whig or Democrat, however much we may have prized it, is less of a sacrifice than to embark in the rotten scow of expediency, and try to get the better of the Radicals by cheating them. The Telegraph's article is studiously in volved, so as to suit any emergency which may arise. Its worship is about evenly di vided between Democracy and expediency. It is democratic where it pretends to be lieve that we are for expediency, and it is l'eadydo bo expedient if “no other help is available. ” We are not surprised that the Telegraph finds its place uncomfortable on board the “rotten scow.” It is no wonder that it dis trusts such a craft for “a long voyage.” But let it not attempt to make it appear that we have taken passage upon it. We have al ways loathed the scow and its despicable t rattle, and we have felt pity for those whose love of the “public crib, ’’cowardice,or want of steadfastness of principle, led them to trust themselves to its shiny, worm-eaten timbers. We do not expect to escape criticism and opposition. Our views may be erroneous and ill-judged. Our arguments may be bad ly chosen and defective. But we do expect a fair and candid statement of our opinions. We expect the same respectful considera- tion which we arc willing to extend to oth ers; and when anybody lias the hardihood to state or to hint that we are unfaithful to the principles of the Democratic party, we insist on the enforcement of the rule of equity, that our accuser shall come into court with clean hands. What Does it Mean 1 The Washington Republican, one of the two daily papers winch derive their information from that paragon of purity, truth, and be nevolence, John W. Forney, wants the pass age of asixteeuth amendment, disfranchising every one who cannot react and write the English language correctly. What does this mean? What’s broke? What have our dear colored fellow-citizens been doing to provoke Forney to hurl this thunderbolt at them, which will deprive ninety-nine hundredths of them of tin* inestimable privilege of the ballot?” The fact is that the negroes were citizens of African descent, equal to any white man, sujieriorto any Southern white man, entitled to the privileges of the ballot and every other privilege, entitled to social equality at the South, and the right to do many things which arc denied to white men, so long ns they voted the Radical ticket and “fixed things” to keep Forney and company in good fat Omcas. Tliuj wt*re blut K Ux«siUJL l»4*yu” 4«> be caressed and fondled and tickled while they burned their fingers polling the chest nuts out of the fire for Forney’s dessert, but when they dare to think that they had bet ter stand by the white people who feed and clothe and employ them, that they should trust their old masters rather than Forney, and that to vote tiie anti-Radical ticket is the part of wisdom, they straightway become ignorant, slothful, vicious, good-for-nothing niggers, who cannot be safely intrusted with political privileges, and Forney cries through his two papers, disfranchise them by a six teenth amendment. The man who was hoisted by his own petard, and Actaeon, who was devoured by liis own dogs, could not avert their destiny by a constitutional amendment. We rather think that Forney and his fellow-Radicals will find themselves similarly helpless. The Conservatives in Mississippi. The leading Conservatives of Mississippi, following the example of the Conservatives of Virginia and Tennessee, have issued an address to the people of their State, advising them as to the best course to pursue at the election which will take place in November, and on the result of which the w eal or woe of Mississippi depends. They recommend that there shall he no “straight out Democratic ticket, but that the battle shall be fought between the Con servatives of all parties on the one side, and the Radicals on the other. They believe that if the fight is made iu this way —if all who are opposed to Radicalism will unite and coalesce for the common defence—vic tory can certainly be won, and that if a third party runs a candidate, they may be equally confident of defeat. Notwithstanding Gen. Grant’s recent ut terances to Mr. Tarbell, and Boutwell’s man ifestoes, and Creswofl’s telegrams, the Con servatives seem to Ik> “bold and resolute,” and “laugh to scorn the power” of the Rad icals. At least we judge so from the follow ing extract from their address : We take it for granted that no true Mis sissippiaiv worthy of that honored name, can think for a moment of adhering to the RadjpoA Republican party as it exists in the State of Mississippi. From them we have re ceived, nothing but cruel tyranny, unjust persecution, and a degree of oppression and humiliation unequaled, as we conceive, in the sad history of conquered nations. Their odious principles, as ignobly illustrated by their past, party history, and not successfully disguised, even in their cunningly devised and insincere platform of July last, are con demned by all intelligent and just men, North and South. The conservative senti ments expressed in their late platform can not l>e confided in, having been forced from rhem as a last desperate effort to seize the State Government, with its offices and emol uments, after the party had been relinked at the ballot-box by the people of the State, of both races. >!♦>)— ; All 11 istoiical Document. With no particular desire to “point a moral or adorn a tide,” or even to produce a sensation, but merely to present the cur rent, history of our day, we copy the sub joined mandate from the President of the United State’s while eu route from a clam bake at Long Branch, to a horse race at Saratoga, to the U. S. Marshal for the city of New York, in which the latter is com manded to “use all means” to resist the law ful process of a lawful tribunal of the sov ereign State of New York, in a case pending before it, which order would have certainly led to a collision between the federal and New York State troops, had not the Attor- ney General, seeing the lawless arrogance of his chief, obviated the eonfiiet by removing the “bone of contention.” When it is remembered that there was really no charge against Major Piatt, but one arising from a stupid blunder; that lie being within the jurisdiction of New York’s sovereignty invoked her protection against false arrest under a writ of habeas corpus issued by one of her judges, that he has been since discharged by liis captors, on the ground that there was no ground for his ar rest, that New York is a loyal State whose right to govern herself Ims not yet been ques tioned, and that there is no state of war or insurrection existing to justify the suspen sion. even by Congress, of the constitution al writ of habeas corpus , the ease becomes to some extent pbjiutut, if not exciting, and the President’s missive to his Marshal acquires additional interest. Here is the document as published by the N. \. World, and said to be in General Grant’s own hand-writing: “General Harlow, United St<ites Marshal Southern District of New York: I hereby direct you to maintain the laws of the United States, and to resist all efforts to take the prisoner .T. 11. Pratt, from your custody, whether by order of Judge MeCuun or any other officer in any of the State Courts. I also authorize and request you to use all means to resist the attempt to ef fect your arrest, and stop the execution of the laws of the United States. U. S. Grant, President. Appeal ia Behalf of a Vagrant’* Home. In all the Southern States where negro v_i— x- - L i i • i • -*— that the supply of laborers is wholly inade quate to meet the demand. To our own knowledge, in Georgia, many planters this vear were obliged to curtail their planting operations from tin ir inability to obtain the working force which they needed to culti vate as much land as they desired. The same is true of all the otner States, from Maryland to Texas. Is" it not somewhat remarkable that with this general demand for field laborers, the Natiou.d Freedman s Belief Association of Washington, IV C., should be obliged to make an impassioned appeal to tie charity of the country foifhelp to support the indi gent negroes in and about the Cental 1 To the unsophisticated outsides it would seem to be a wiser and easier point to make the black jumpers go to work tlku to at tempt to supjiort them in a state if profli gate vagrancy —to make them go wjere they will help to raise more cotton and Corn, in crease the national wealth, and support themselves —rather than eueouragethem to continue a disgusting incubus upoisociety. To put a lioe in their bands miglitleerease the Radical vote, and might dojSve the National Freedmen’s Relief Assotition of the means of gulling and swindling s credu lous public, but then, consulting tlj great est good of the greatest number, wAre de cidedly of opinion that to make they starv ing thousands of Freedmen raise ibacco in Maryland or Virginia, or cotton, cfci and rice, further South is the best polietto be pursued. We would not give the National freed men’s Relief Association the smallel frac tion of fractional currency for the Ambi tion and endowment of their A laaut's Home. We would counsel the will and black vagrants of the concern to earilieir living by honest labor, and teach theft hat their swindling operations are “playedut.” Tbe Poor, Persecuted Texas Freied lueu. The New York Tribune whoso philan thropy is proverbial, with tears iu its i yes and any number of big capitals, tells us jtiiat in Texas “many of the freedmeu have beeu compelled to resort to robbery and ii dis criminate plunder to sustain life, and that the result is an increase of bitterness of the feelings of the white population towards them. ’’ Can anything be more heartrending? If this is not a ease for tears and big capitals, what is? The poor innocent, virtuous, self-dcii% ing freedmeu of Texas, so famed for their honesty and respect for the rights of prop erty, have been actually compelled to resort to indiscriminate plunder or jx-iish by the way-side from hunger. They might have avoided this terrible alternative by going to work, but who that has a single spark of philanthropy in his composition could ex pect the freedman to work for white folks, even to escape a resort to indiscriminate plunder to sustain life? It is clearly the Isjunden duty of the whites to anticipate the freedman s wants and sustain him by giving up their property. If they were loyal and thoroughly reconstructed they would do so freely. They have evidently no right to expect the freedman to work to sustain life, and therefore it is undoubtedly the fault of the whites that he is driven to mJi.n.nioui«S, ..... 'Filin iii OS I'll *U FOK that two and two make four. But tics is not all. The unreconstructed and disloyal whites are not only not recon ciled to this indiscriminate plunder, but there is an increase in the bitterness of their feel ings toward the freedman on account of it. This is horribly unnatural. To (hive the poor creatures to robliery as a livelihood by refusing to support them in idleness and then to have “hard feelings” towards the robbers, argues a condition of unrepentant rebellion which calls for prompt punishment. It almost surpasses belief. We are told that elsewhere besides Texas, there are other inoffensive, gentle freedmeu, who resort to robbery and indiscriminate plunder to sustain life, and prefer it to work ing for hire; and ire are further informed that the white population who are robbed and plundered do not enjoy it as they ought. Is it possible, we ask, at this stage of tin 1 age of progress and civilization? “Can such things be and overcome us like a summer cloud, without our special wonder?” Is re construction a failure? Is Gen. Reynolds derelict iu his duty? Is universal suffrage a humbug? “All the Cabinet Absent. ” The telegraphic dispatches of yesterday from Washington announced that “all the Cabinet are absent. ” We know, too, that the President is in Pennsylvania about to “try fishing,” and that the General of the armies is away on a cruise. Now these gentlemen of leisure receive annually from the .people about $120,000, (besides perquisites, presents and pickings,) in compensation for services which they arc supposed to render; and it lias been frequently urged that those services are of such an arduous nature that the sala ries of the officers should be largely in creased. It is evident, however, either that it is a mistake that these distinguished officials are so overpowered by their work, or that they criminally neglect it. Mr. Grant dancing at Long Branch, horse racing at Saratoga or fishing in Pennsylvania; Mr. Fish rusticating in the New York High lands; Mr. Boutwell in the bosom of his family at Groton, Mass.; Mr. Cox stump speaking in Ohio; Mr. Robeson cruising; Mr. Creswell nursing his elbow at Elkton, Md.; Mr. Rawlins searching for health and rural felicity through the Northwest, and Mr. Hoar reclining under the umbrageous elms of Worcester, Mass., while the foreign affairs, finance, military, naval, internal, postal and legal business of the Government is left to a set of irresponsible clerks, present a spectacle never seen before iu the history ,<>f the Government of the United states. XL may Du Lli.it tiiu iii.nts do better til ui their masters; but let not the people be told that §120,000 per annum are not adequate pay for the angling, dancing President, and the rural, cruising, health-seeking Secretaries and commanding General. A Nclv Way of Conciliation. The opinion is advanced that if the agent# <u>f reconstruction in the unreconstructed filates fail to secure the love and affections of the people whom they are appointed to cherish, it is not the fault of the agents. They have such winning ways. They are so tenderly considerate of the feelings of the people.* They so scrupulously avoid every thing which can tend to wound or annoy the popular heart. Their words and deeds are so studiously designed to promote friendly relations and to banish every vestige of an tagonism! The Legislature of Mississippi appropri ated a small sum of money to provide the indigent maimed soldiers belonging to the .Stale with artificial limbs. General Ames, whose winsome and engaging manners are so wall known, lias peremptorily forbade the payment of the money thus appropriated, thinking, doubtless, that the legless or arm less soldier and his friends and kindred will lswe him and the authority which he repre sents all the more by a brutal prohibition v>f the compassionate aid which the State bestowed on her crippled soldiers. Such acts are irresistibly promotive of peace and good-will. However multitudinous Ames' sins may be, his charity, asillustrated by this one deed, is amply sufficient to cover them ail Decisions of tlie Supreme Court. DELIVERED AT ATLANTA, TUESDAY, AUG. 17. Pram the Atlanta Constitution. John E. Jones a. al., plaintiff in error, vs. The Macon and Brunswick Railroad Com pany, defendant* in error. Injunction, from Bibb. Brown, C. J. , 1. An injunction, which is a harsh remedy, should uofflie granted uuiii a clear prima facie case is made by the bilL The allegations must be direct and positive. A charge that they are true, “on information received from •others,” is insufficient. 2. It is not necessary to the abjudication ■of t\iis case, for this Court to decide whether the fifth section of the acts granting th< : aid of the State to the Air-Line Railroad Com pany, when applied to any other company, is constitutional or not. 3. Said section, if constitutional, does Aiot confer unoii any citizen <> v t iv nt mis state any rfgm to institute any suit or to tile any bill in any Court of this State, to inquire into the conduct of the Legislature in the passage of any act or resolution on the subject of State aid, or into the conduct of the Executive in issuing the bonds of the State, as both are responsible to the people alone, and not to the Courts; or to inquire w hether the eouipany has complied with tin terms of the act granting State aid, or whether the necessary subscriptions have been made, or to intermeddle in any way in the affairs of the company, further than is necessary to the investigation of the single question, whether the company has sold the bonds indorsed by the State for Jess than ninety-cents in the dollar; and in ease of a bill filed by a citizen or tax-payer, the Court should confine the investigation to that issue alone. 4. It was the duty of the Chancellor, under the resolution passed by the Legislature on the 28th of January, 1869, to dissolve t ie in junction in this case. Judgment affirmed. William Dougherty, Lyon, DeGraflenreid and Irvin, for plaintiff in error. Whittle & Gustiu and W. Hope Hull for defendant in error. Secretary Boutwell.— We have seen a private letter to a gentleman in this city, from Hon. Geo. S. Boutwell, Secretary of the Treasury, in wliieh he promises to be here at the Fair in November next. A Radical organ, speaking of the pros pect of Ben. Butler’s election to the United States Senate, says, with pious resignation, “No one knows what afflictions Congress has in store for the nation. ” —Rolles C. lank & Cos., of Philadelphia, have subscribed 87,000,000 for the Norfolk and Bristol Railroad. Vita sine Literis Mors est Correspondence of the Journal and Messenger. Letter from Coweta County. News an, August 14, 1809. Mr. Editor: In my last letter, I gave you some facts l tearing upon the merits of New nau as a place of summer resort. I now propose to give you a few more, which may be classed as advantages or disadvantages, according to the tastes, objects and circum stances of the visitors. The Chalybeate Upriugs, which is the great attraction here, is near the center of the city, and at an easy distance from the Railroad Depot. Hence, there is no stage traveling to be endured, and no carriage hire to be paid by the visitor. Newnan is forty miles distant from Atlanta, on the Atlanta and West Point Railroad, which passes almost centrally through this city. There are two passenger trains each way daily. Os course, then, persons sojourning here have city priv ileges in full daily mails, an Express office. Telegraph office, Soda Fountains and other luxuries dependent upon lee. Livery Stables, eh-. Hence, not only is Newna-., with all its comforts and luxuries, easy of access, bik as a matter of course, strangers here can en joy constant and rapid communication with their homes. There is not much appearance of gayety here. Tills is largely owing to the fact that the visitors are so widely scattered. There is no large, overshadowing, all-absorbing lintel here where the, yisitiira .ajcall crowd ed together. Tile two hotels which ruPPT rn‘ wants of the city during the other seasons of the year, are not nearly sufficient for the summer crowd. A large number of private family residences become boarding houses jrro tem., so that there is no jam at any point. The great majority of those here are either invalids who came to regain health, or persons living iu sickly localities, who come for a healthy place of abode during the sickly season. There are but few trans ient, visitors. Nearly all engage board by the month, anil are content to spend their time quietly. Late in the afternoon of each day, those who arc well enough resort to the spring, where there is a large resting house. After an hour spent here socially, they re turn to their several homes. I will remark here that I have not heard of the first in valid who lias tried this Spring without ben efit. The “Savannah, Griffin and North Ala bama Railroad” intersects the Atlanta and West Point Railroad at this place. This road is to extend from Griffin, Ga., to Decatur, Ala., and perhaps to some point beyond the latter place. The grading was about finished from Griffin to this place—forty miles, and the work was progressing finely, when the Great Rebellion suddenly put an end to operations. The scheme has recently been revived; the work has been recom menced. (Japt. A. J. White, the efficient and gentlemanly President of the Macon and Western Railroad, lias been made the President of this new road; and liis name is sufficient guarantee of the success of this great enterprise. The importance of this road to Savannah and Macon, as well as to the country through which it is to pass, can hardly he over-estimated. It will change the seaport of Southern Tennessee, Northern Alabama and Western Georgia from Charles ton to Savannah or Brunswick, and it will open to your city anew and cheaper pro vision line than any now in use. You might infer from the foregoing part of thi3 letter that this is a monotonous place for strangers. We have some variety, how ever. One night since I have been here, the jail was burned down. It was an old building, and the loss to the county was very slight. On two different nights, exnihitions of operattas and tableaux were given at College Temple, for which an admission fee was charged. There is also a brass band in the city, which helps to en liven the evenings. The drought lias been very severe in a portion of this county, and the crops are greatly curtailed. The agent of the Southern Express Com pany at this place, suddenly and strangely ilisinn*4iiir»al n. n**.*t- nun llu to this time nothing definite is known amoo# the people generally, as to his whereabouts, or as to the cause of his leaving. He hits left a dis tressed wife and several children. S. [We are always glad to hear from our es teemed correspondent “S,” but the printers would relish liis “copy” much more if he would, in future, follow the rule in writing for the press, and write only on one side of the sheet of paper.] ♦ H For the Journal aud Messenger. Are Old Claims Out of Date 1 Mr. Editor: It is the impression in many parts of the State that the recent decision of the Supreme Court in the cast' of Battle vs. Shivers, virtually annulled all the Acts of the Legislature suspending the Statute of Limi tations, thereby barring right of action on contracts made and liabilities accruing prior to the war. As I have seen nothing on this subject from older and wiser heads, I hope you will pavdon me a comparative tyro in the law, for trespassing on your valuable space. The decision of the Court in the case men tioned was, that the 2863 section of Irwin’s Code, declaring all judgments to become dormant in seven years after its rendition, where no execution lias been issued, or if issued within seven years from the date of the last entry, is not a Statute of Limitation. Whether that decision was correct or not 1 will not now discuss. I think the sound and conclusive reasoning in Judge Warner’s dis senting opinion settles that question. But to tlie subject: The Act of November 30, 1860, suspended the running of the Statute until the Ist, of December, 1861. This Act has been recognized as legal and valid by the present Supreme Court, Brown C. J., ex pressly concurring in the decision. Brian vs. Banks. 38 Ga., p. 3(H). The Act of De cember 14, 1861, suspended the Statute during the war; and the Ordinance of the Con vention of 1865, recognizes and makes valid all Acts passed by the Legislature during the war, not unconstitutional, with certain ex ceptions which do not apply to this ques tion. Now these Acts of 1860 and 1861 have never been declared unconstitutional, and I believe have never been attacked, although the slay-laws have. Any man of common sense can see the difference between a stay law and an Act suspending the Statute of Limitations. As an example, suppose a note was due the first of January, I#oo. The Statute runs until the 30th of November, 1860. It is then suspended until the end of the war. Six years being the limitation, it will be seen that, giriug effect to the opinion of Chief Justice Brown as to the 3rd section of the Act of December, 1866, the right of action wouiu not do barred till the summer of 1870 but for tlie Act of 1869, which bars them the Ist of January, 1870. It would be well for the people generally, aud the debtors especially, to consider this matter carefully and compromise all old re liabilities, whereby they might save them selves mneh expense on account of litigation. Respecrtully, Sergeant Buzeuz. Perry, August 14. 1869. How the Debt is Being Reduced. —The Repuldican party has been in power not only during the war, but for the four years which have elapsed since. For the conduct of the Government they have been for eight years entirely responsible. The following table shows haw they have reduced the public debt. The "war substantially closed, says Secretary McCulloch, on the Ist of April. 1860. It is at that period we commence our table. We give the figures in round num bers: April, 1865 $2,300,000,000 September, 1805 2.75T.U00 ,000 November, IS6S 2,52”.000.000 Julv, ISG9 2,045,000,000 How long will it be, reader, before we pay tlie debt, under this showing, with Republi can rule? It is proper to say that the figures above given are from the official reports of the Secretaries of the Treasury, Messrs. McCulloch and Boutwell. — Cut. Etupuirer. Ratio Promotion. — Hon. Judah I\ Ben jamin. late of the Confederate Cabinet, but now of England, has. after two years prac tice at the bar, been made Queen’s Counsel, an honor almost without precedent in the promptitude of its bestowal. Aside from making him senior counsel in whatever eases he may be employed, the promotion will considerably add to his emoluments. Being on the Liverpool and Manchester circuit, he will be retained in commercial litigations of importance. MACON. GA.. TUESDAY. AUGUST 24, 1869- Correspondence Journal and Messenger. (setter from Sumter County. Friendship. Ga. , August 17, 1869. Mr. Elitor —This little village Is situated in Sumter County, near the corners of four ! counties, to-wit : Sumter, Marion, Webster and Schley. We all feel better this morn ing than we did yesterday moaning. Yi*s terdav afternoon we had a shower of ruin that wet the dry ground. To day, instead of wilted cotton, peas and potato leaves, every leaf seems to l>e vieing with its neighbor to aee which can make the greatest expansion. Until the last few days, we have Ikvii favor ed with occasional showers, which other por tions of the, surrounding country failed to get. Our crops have l»eou looking well and doing well until about a week ago. I think we have average crops of corn in this vicini ty. I hear of localities where only half crops are made. I hardly know what to any of cotton. The dry weather lias injured it very much. The rust has spread over some entire fields. There is not a field that I know of that has entirely escaped it. Upon the whole, the crop will not exceed a half crop, unless there is more made iu future than I expect.. The rusty cotton cannot make any more. The guanoed cotton can not make much more. We are disappointed in our fertilized cotton. We thought a month ago it would make twice as much as that without fertilizers; but we cannot tell very ,well about it now. I’ w 1.111 TVII l.l mliUall Mr I);ivid Dixon’s immigration letter to the Cultivator. There is more practical, good sense in it, than everything else I have seen upon that subject. The masses have only seen one side of this thing. The greatest difficulty we have is that there is too much lalior here now, unless it Ik* more profitably directed. Let us use what we have to more profit before we get more. Half the labor we now have, properly direc ted, will make more clear dollars than we now make. Half the acres of land in Geor gia that are planted do not yield one clear dollar. I say, let us learn to use to good profit what labor we have before we crowd the country with other labor. Respectfully, W. R. Correspondence of the Journal and Messenger. Letter from Bartow County. CartebsvilxiE, Ga., August 17, 1869. Yesterday afternoon, we liad a refreshing rain, which was much needed. No rain had fallen here for some time, and the growing crops were in a suffering condition. The corn crop iu this section will be greatly de ficient. Wheat is plentiful, the yield being a good average. This article is held at $1.15. On account of this low rate, planters are holding back, and it may be well, on account of the deficiency of corn. In some localities cotton bids fair to do well. Much of it is in a very sorry condition at present. I. C. M. » i ♦> < SICK PARTIES. From the Macon Telegraph of the 19th. The Griffin Star does us the unmerited honor iu copying and complimenting, as from the Macon Telegraph, a disquisition up on the state of political parties and the poli cy to be pursued in reference to them, which reflects the policy of the “terlium quids" —the “great medicine men” of the time, who are keeping up in the press a wonderful ululu over the death beds of existing political par ties and watching with strained eye-balls to see some new growth spring up like a fungus from the festering debri of dead organiza tions. We have no such impatience, and if par ties were all dead and buried, unless the Telegraph could find a successor which should rear aloft the old banner of the equality and sovereignty of the States and the supremacy of the Constitution, we don’t think we slioud care a button for the developments. No party organization, not based upon and pledged to the triumph of these funda mental principles, is worth a thought by any American freeman, who proposes to earn liis own living, and not to take it out of the puljllc Cli \j. It 1-T txiAV., ouvll *» »A*L**-A now and then affiliate with some other party, upon emergency, and, for a temporary pur pose, when no other help was available anil something must be done to save himself; just as we understand the Democrats of Vir ginia and Tennessee have done, and those of Texas and Mississippi propose to do. They will cross the stream in a rotton scow, since needs must, but they would not prefer such a craft for a long voyage. In the political disorganizations, disasters and distresses of the present, God only knows what a man may he brought to. Wc have been running necessarily on expedients for four years and could not help ourselves. It was that or worse; and we have blundered in not recognizing the constantly growing anil advancing demands upon us while things were unsettled, and closing up at once with our tormentors, at almost any present cost, so as to attain some settled status and a i>ositiou affording some degree of self-defence. But during all this time, no Democrat who has endured negro suffrage imposed by Con gress —military rule—the suspension of habeas corpus or any other part or parcel of this political crucifixion of the Southern States and of civil freedom, could ever pro pose voluntary or permanent political affiili ation with its authors and supporters. The whole system of measures and principles (so called) are as abhorrent to his ideas of Republican liberty as the Government of the Grand Turk. The antagonism between them and American civil liberty is perfect. Oil and water will as readily intermix as these two policies and their hearty and conscien tious adherents. Now, it is boasted in the South and in the North that the opponents of this whole sys tem of unconstitutional tyranny are forever politically dead. But that has been often said of them. The Democratic party has been dead several times in the last seventy years; but it lias stood over the graves of many opposition organizations, and our pres ent impression is that it will live to bury Rad icalism and probably a score of succeeding parties. Based doctrinally upon the true system of American Republicanism and civil liberty, as established by the framers of our government, it will live just so long as that system lives in the hearts of any consider able portion of the American people; and will die only as fast as the love of liberty dies. When it is finally dead American liberty will be finally dead, with no chance for res surreetiou, liecause every postulate of the Democratic creed enunciates a fundamental principle of American liberty. If that catastrophe has, in fact, come, the case of the people is beyond the skill of the medicine men, and it matters no great deal what party we join. We prefer to leave the solution of this momentous inquiry to time, and the course of events. We must live— even if the people have become finally in different to the old traditions and principles and practices of the government. But we will not accept the fact on insufficient war ranty. We shall watch for the last for signs of life; and although it is impossible to say what expedients we may be driven to by the stress of the situation, we shall be in princi ple none the less a Democrat. The Prospect in Pennsylvania. The Radicals seem to be very apprehensive that the coming election in the Key Stone State will residt in the success of the Democ racy. They are out of heart, apparently ap athetic, and if they whistle now and then it is so evidently to keep up their courage that the music is painfully lugubrious. Mr. Asa Packer, with his §20,000,000 —the influence which twenty millions give—his high character for honesty and integrity of life, his administrative ability and unsullied Democratic record, is a hard man to beat with such timber as Geary. Besides, the Repub licans of Pennsylvania are not as united and harmonious as they used to be. There are large numliers of Republicans in Pennsylva nia, as there are in nearly every other North ern State, who are sorely disappointed with Grant, his administration and Radical nde, and are determined to cut I oie from the dc - structives and ally themselves with whatever party can best oppose Radicalism. The Democrats tire earnest, hopeful and fully armed for the fight, Their candidate is a'“self-made man,” who began life as a carpenter and by hoaest industry and clear intelligence has raised himself to his present position. THE NEWS. —The whooping cough is said to lie very prevalent in Atlanta at present —The cholera has made its appearance at Somerville, a suburb of Boston. —The Colorado election for Territorial Delegate to Congress takes place SepteuilßT 14. —lt is rejMirted that CoL R. J. Moses, of Columbus, lias received a small importation of Chinamen—the simon pure Coolie. —The fee of Caleb Cushing, as counsel for Mexico before the Mexican Claims Com mission. is $30,000 in gold. —Snow fell near Montreal on the sixth of August—jß’rkaps one of the many atmos pheric modifications due to the eclipse. —The Virginia papers say that not half a tobacco crop will lie mado in that State this year. The schedule on the Western and At lantic Riilroud lias lieen changed so that the night passenger trains leave at 7:25, p. m. —Dr. W. A. Carswell is said to have found iron ore, eight miles from Rome, in Vann’s Valley, with 65 per cent, of pure iron. —Hon. Benj. H. Hill has, for several days, been lying quite ill at the United States Ho tel iu Atlanta. He is better at present. —Black tongue is killiug cattle in the Cliulio District, Floyd county. Four dead deer were found killed by it. —Ex-Senator Henderson designs to run for Governor of Missouri on the Walker «aatar-Dcnt-Hamilton platform. —The California general eimrtrm *.. county officers and members of the Legisla ture comes off September 1; that for Judges of the Supreme Court October 20. —Mr. Christian Arunt, an old and respect ed citizen of Orangeburg district, S. C., was thrown from his buggy last week, and so se riously hurt that lie died from the injuries. —The Walhalla Courier, of the 13th Inst., says: “We have been informed that heavy frosts have fallen during the last few nights iu what is known as Horse Cove, N. C. —A letter from Weldon, N. C., dated Au gust 12, says there has been no rain in that vicinity since the 12th of June, and that the crops are suffering badly. —A corps of engineers has been selected to locate the railroad from Cheraw, S. C., to Wadesboro, N. C., and the Directors are de termined to go to work at once. —Late advices from South America re port seven shocks of earthquakes, showers of ashes, and other alarming phenomena at at various points in Peru and Ecuador. —The Russian Railroad Gazette says that Russia has already paid upward of two hun dred million roubles to American railroad contractors. —Ex-Senator Jesse D. Bright was re-elect ed to the Kentucky House of Representa tives from the counties of Carroll and Trimble. —A nephew of Patrick Henry was arrested by the United States Marshal in Lee county, lowa, the other day, for dealing in cattle and hogs without a license. —St. Josephs, Missouri, elected Samuel Ellsworth, Democrat, Probate Judge, on the 3d inst. —Prince Arthur, of England, the third soil and seventh child of Queen Victoria, sailed from Liverpool recently for Halifax, N. S. —Mr. Peabody’s health is improving at White Sulphur Springs, Va., but he is still feeble. He will probably return to Massa chusetts in about two or three weeks. —Dr. A. W. Kelley, a gentleman of North ern birth, but for seventeen years a resident of the South, has been appointed Mayor of Jackson, Mississippi, in place of Col. Crane, who was killed by Yerger. —His Holiness the Pope is exerting him self in the matter of a Congress all Na tions for the purpose of revising what are now supposed to be the international laws of the world. —A postal convention lias been arranged with Switzerland by which money can be transmitted between the United States and that country by means of the postal money system now in use here. Tli«. o •• • iiouneeil, will soon be commenced by a French company, to whom a charter has been granted by the respective Presidents of Nicaragua and Costa Rica. —The Paris (Teuu.) Intelligencer takes very decided ground against ex-President Johnson and in favor of Air. Etheridge tor United States Senator to succeed Air. Fow ler. —Albert Crofoot, Esq., a member of the Detroit bar, and belonging to a respectable family in Michigan, has been convicted with furnishing a piisoncr with false keys, by means of which the latter broke . out of jai l . —lt is stated that the Secretary of the Treasury has directed that ex-Collector Mackey, of Charleston, be prosecuted ac cording to law, on a clyirge of having ob structed United States officers in the dis charge of their duty. —The Tuskegee, Ala., News states that it is rumored that some of the negro Radical leaders about that place have been advising their followers to mob the colored men who voted till! Democratic ticket in the late elec tion. . —The last gift received at the White House was a Im>x of one thousand fine cigars i from a San Francisco firm, packed in glass boxes of one hundred, with the monogram of the President on each, and the small cud of each cigar tipped w ith gold leaf. —Mr. James C. Dobbin, a particularly promising young lawyer of North Carolina, and a son of the Secretary of the Navy un der Pierce’s administration, was killed on Friday last by falling from a window in the third story of his residence in Fayetteville. —The crop of Malaga raisins List year was the greatest ever realized, amounting in the aggragate to §1,950,000 boxes. The yield the present season did not promise so well at last accounts, and it was thought that it would lie one-third less than of 1888. —The Commissioner of Internal Revenue will, in a few| days, issue a circular to the as sessors throughout the country, instructing them that all vessels, steamboats and barges engaged in the carrying trade, whether on the sea or rivers, are liable to tax as express carriers. —The Loud Mine in White county was sold in 1833, for §3,500 dollars, to Mr. Blake. Mr. Loud bought it soon after for §IO,OOO, giving §II,OOO more. Up to 1845, it yielded over one ton of gold, or $400,000. Green Russell, discoverer of the Colorado Mines, has charge of it now. —The Democratic papers of Ohio receive every hour the most encouraging assurances of Democratic success at the coming election. From all parts of the State the nomination of Pendleton inspires the greatest enthu siasm, and his election is regarded as a sure thing. —The heirs of William Ennis, a one armed soldier, who settled in Wapach, Sus sex county, N. J., liave lately received the intelligence that a legacy amounting to several millions of dollars has recently been left them in Scotland. They propose to send one of their number to take the neces sary steps for securing the money. —The numlier of frightful accidents aris ing from the explosion of kerosene lamps, averaging from four to five each week, is at tracting general attention. The B*xird ol Health of New' York are taking steps to prosecute rigorously every violation of the ordinance forbidding the sale of dangerous illuminating fluids. —The Covington Examiner says the eligi ble location, on Yellow River, at the Georgia Railroad bridge, three miles from Covington, known as the Torrence Mill Shoals, has lieen purchased by Messrs. Scaffer, Walker, Ham mond & Shields, with a view of erecting first class merchant mills and cotton factory. —A Nashville dispatch says: Colonel Van Dyne, on the part of the United States Government, is in tliat city to sue tire Nash ville and Chattanooga Railroad for sixteen hundred thousand dollars tor rolling stock sold by the government to the roadL The road offsets the claim by a bill of over 83,- 000,000 for the use of the road during the war. This will serve as a test case for a number of other Souther n roads. The New York Herald says: The re cent political course of the President ap pears to have had a most disastrous effect in Virginia. Lawlessness is on the increase, andseveral conflicts have taken place be tween the whites and blacks. It is expected that Gereral Canby will reqni.e the iron clad oath to be taken by members of the legislature, ® A Scatliins Review of the Present Administration. grant's pigmy cabinet the sphinx policy don't fill the bill—the I’Rial dent’s pettiness—the dents forever. Waehiugton Correspondence of flic Cincinnati Commercial (Radical.) A morning gust sweeps down upon us daily from Long Branch. It is disgust. Forney continues to edit Grant’s cigar stumps and the hours of Mrs. Grant's baths. These things are ambrosial to sycophants; they are nauseous to sound stomachs. 1 bum my cigar stumps no shorter than Grant’s. Your wife keeps herself as dean with ablutions as the Mistress President. Why so much fan faronade? If details must Ik* told, the news comes of the latter lady that she is hanging to Grant's arm at Long Branch with every step he takes, like a broken sprig of dog woixl. How else would she Ik* known as the lady of the President? Certainly. The President, what of him? Grant, turning his administration inti) holiday, sends for his stud. The velvet sands of Long Branch have not felt their magnetic, sinking tread. Grant without a horse, loses his electricity. The horses without Grant, lose their airing. The block favorites must be sent to him, per haps, as Dana accuses the Tallapoosa, at the government expense. We will wait a little. But, giving the lu st guess from this standpoint, the President has failed us. He is a disappointment. He has not done one luminous act since coming into power on tnc irn or ad.tjiat the people have risen up and applauded him for. lie is opaque to-day, as in the interregnum forming his cabinet, and the thing clearest in this capacity is that the light is not in him, no more than in the tumble-down cabinet affair. The people have pinned faith to liis mystoriousness long enough, and it is all that they have yet, or, perhaps, w ill have in the end, to assure them of the future. There is a kind of pretentious inconse quence about the administration that is ridiculous, a running to and fro of blue breeched, shoulder-strap lackeys, a buzz of bass drums in the background as if there were being spread the net of some compli cate, far-sighted, tremendous policy, a shim mer and show of ponderousness that exists only in the expectations of the people, The doubt once iu a while grows thick, whetkur Grant is not more at home in a gig lieliiud a Havana than in the White House, fronting the people. Looking him steadily in the face, it occurs to you that the Republican party, powerful as it was, might have taken from its box the first intelligent liaeknnm on the street, and done as well. Grant’s face has no clearness or illumination in it, more than had his mili tary policy for breaking down the rebellion. The Atlantic Alonthly lately contained an article upon his “intelluectual character.” It is in doubt whether it exists. Not a man. woman, or half-grown child iu the country but has constantly put the riddle these two years : “How is it that Grant, with this face like a stogy hoot, is a great man?” The real query is as to the fact. The whole mat ter will probably turn out simply enough, that, like other men, he is what he appears to be. The Brutuses who seem fools and turn up wise men are few*. Grant swung to the head of military affairs when the mo mentum of the nation was ready to break down treason. He swung to the front of civil affairs when the party that gave su premacy to ideas hail become a nation itself, and he as a bubble borne on its surface. In either ease, the people hare been of real im portance, and the man of ficticious impor tance. We wanted a hero and President, and pronounced the word—Grant. grant’s pigmy cabinet. Grant came, believing in himself, and im posed upon us. His oracular silence at the , beginning made us expect a cabinet of giants. When the roll of these awaited Colossusses was finally called in the Senate, the half of them was too feeble to answer to their names. Then some of them came and drifted away again. The cabinet went to pieces, and formed again like, a decimated buttailiou. , i lie ministers liang to il uuneaunj .suit, aim “Who are to be Grant’s Secretaries?” is an open question yet, just us if you asked what grains of floating sand would go into petrifac tion. You have heard how Robeson was appoint ed Rorie’s successor—a jolly fellow, intro duced diplomatically to Grant, in a good mood, on shipboard, and deftly carving liis way into the cabinet with his knife as lie dined at the same table. The people needed introduction, too, to the new man. Rut that was a little matter. The monkey racers sometimes select their leader, by the length of their tails. Louis XVIJJ, made Monsieur d’Avaray a Duke for helping him into his carriage. OBA XT’s “I,OVE OK yUIKT AND RETIREMENT.” Then Grant imposed on us with other pre tensions. He lias published to an extrava gant eccentricity his love of quiet and re tirement. No public man of his station, since the beginning of the government, lias so constantly thrown himself in the way of the people. A triuinplutl procession through the country every six months since the war has been the least of jt. As President, lie is pushing his social prerogatives to the fullest bent. Fourteen weeks have passed since the adjournment of Congress. Grant has passed half of them here, the rest in social unbend ing elsewhere. They say he take# gyyjy to the dance at Long Branch, sliding through the figures more glibly than at Annapolis and West Point. This is very well; but the country in asking of him and his cabinet a few serious questions that it would be well to have answered from Washington, recep tion hulls at the seashore notwithstanding. What about Cuba, South America, Virginia, the South, the Alabama mutters, and jHiliti cal assassinations? ’RHE SPHINX POLICE DON T FILL THE HILL. It je credible that the cabinet anil the head of the nation, properly digesting these tilings, would not find much time to Is* ab sent from .the capital. Anyhow, the nation is anxious to see looming above the rosy horizon of the bulls, excursions, ban quets, receptions, and seaside frivolities, the executive head of a poworfu? republican ad ministration. We hardly cox4*vld with this sphinx-like policy, it may lie Delphic, as Shellaharger said, hut is kips than rmmbli can. The President would do well Cv ac- cept humility from the cabinet and consult the people henceforth. A member ; of the Grant family is reported to have re- I marked, just after the nomination : “It was the general’s desire not to lie made President by a party, but !>y the people.” Perhaps here is a little light. Perhaps Grant believes that the “era of good feeling” may return again under his administration; that he is a Colossus, under whose legs all people can walk. So far the PETTINESSES OF HIS ALVIN HTBATCON have Ueeu tne most objectjonaoic, and now, playing President, he reminds you of a boy who wished to lie a king, “ so Jliat he might ride on the gat* 1 post all day, ” If he will stop buying bagatelles in New York, and pa rading liis presidency along the porches of the Stetson, and keep to executive business here, he will look more like a successor of Washington—his ambition, we are told. Cubans Investing in Georgia.—We learned yesterday that a couple of Cuban gentlemen liad purchased a plantation of 800 acres from Mr. Charles H. Denham, of Columbia county, at a cost of SIO,OOO. This tract of land is situated about seventeen miles flora Augusta, and is said to comprise some of the most fertile Lind to be found in Columbia. These purchasers certainly be tray no symptoms of a fear of Ku Klux vi olence, when they leave their own fertile but war-convulsed island, and make scch heavy investments in a section of the Empire State which has been held up as a bugbear by the sensation-venders of the Radical school. We opine that old Columbia will cheerfully welcome to her borders all settlers of this character, and that among no people w'ill more cordiality lx; experienced than j from the good people of Columbia comity. [ Count Hut ionnliM, VMh. A Friendly Hint. —Oar respected cotem porary, the Griffin Star, does us the honor to compliment a recent article of ours, but credits it to the Telegraph. When our friend favors what we write with his commendation, do not let him, we pray, make any mistake BB to.the author. VOL. LXL, NO. 23 Literary, Art anil Scientific News* —Hepworth Dixon is announced to lec ture in England, on * ‘The Groat Prairies and the Ihs’ky Mountains.” M. Lmis Salvador Cherebini, Inspector of Fine Arts, and son of the eminent com poser, is dead, lie was t*S years old. —lt was rumored in Florence that an In ternational Exhibition would Ik' held at. ! .1- rin, in 1H72, to commemorate tin' comple tion of the Mont CVnis tunnel —The death is announced at Mi an of Professor Amcrico Rarbieri. author ot too Ditumario Etu'icU>i**Uca </<■//<i Vwi i, and of a S. im; i ytuir-i tU'.’f Arintim i <!■ ' S —The agents of the Rritish Government have Ik'cu making efforts to otitain the re lease of quite a numlier of Englishmen, who are held prisoners in Parguay by Lois-. - “The literature and Literary nn*n of Great Britain,” the well known book ot the late Ahruhaiu Mills, has been republished, in two Invoming volumes, by the Harjn'rs. —l)r. Richard I'ongreve, of London, m translating Auguste Couipte’s ••Positive Po litique," It is the only important work of that philosopher untranslated iuto the En glish tongue —The Commissioners of the Lmdon World’s Fair, of 1851, has issue. 1 a prospec tus for au international exhibition of lino arts, industrial arts and scientific inventions in the year IS7I. —Mr. Simmons, of Florence, Italy, has altout finislied in clay bis statue of K >ger Williams, for Rhode Island. A Colass.il tmst of (teiiiiral Grant, model from life, by this artist, will soon Ic.tvt „„ u i^tho White House. —A curious series of papers by the Rev Arthur Mureell, a divine very popular in Manchester and the northern counties, is announced to apjx'ar in Cassell's Magazine, under the title of “Shady Pastorals,' bene the exjK'rionee of the writer, of evenings sjw'iit among thieves and house-breakers. —The tomb of Antonio Stradivari him l>een found in the course of pulling down the church of San Domenico, at Cremona. The remains of the famous violin player will Ihi removed to the public cemetery, where a monument to his memory will Ihi erected. —President IfeCosh, of Princeton Col logo, said at the meeting of the Philological Association, that he was “prepared, from a pretty extensive acquaintance with the uni versities of Great Britain, and with sm*,' of those on the Continent, to say that the aver age attainments of college graduates here oiul there are about equal.” —Santarelii has lately completed the de signs for the monumental doors of the Church of Santa Croce, at Florence, which, for more than live centuries, have beep wanting. The great valves are divided into a dozen large pannels, iu each of which u subject taken from Scripture history is in troduced. —M. deLessips, the engineer of the Sin-/. Canal, has a still grander enterprise in view, now that his first draws near its accompli -h merit. He has found that the great desert of Sahara lies below the level of the Red Sea, and that a canal of seventy-live miles would let in water sufficient to cover the now and waste. It is believed by some geologists that the desert was once covered by water. Should M. deLesseps’ great project Ih> car ried into effect, intercourse with the iuterug of Africa would be far easier than it is now —A. M. Giliiert has just published in Lon don a curious book about the country of Titian, and has revived an interesting and more than half-forgotten association of the artist’s famous “ Magdalen, {tainted tor Philip 11. A neighbor’s daughter was acting as a model, and the painter kept her so long a time in a constrained position that at last she burst into tears. Unluckily the incident was so appropriate to the subject that, far from shortening, it only proliingeil the sitting, while the ruthless old paintey, going himself without his dinner, transferred it to his canvas.” —An English patent lias been grnnhsl for a method of testing iron rails for railroads by subjecting them to the pressure of a rull l“K UIUO.-I, 1./ • » —l.. they are liable iu actual use. A circular track of about fifty or one hundred feet di ameter is made up of the rails to lie tested, which are bent, after rolling, to the required curve. In the centre of this circle is placed a vertical spindle, moved by steam or ual-T power, from which pass a number of arms reselling over the track, over which they carry an annular framework, in which a num ber of heavy rollers are placed. Tln-sc roll ers, which weigh over 10,000 pounds each, are moved around the track with a velocity equal to that of a railroad train, which is kept up for a suitable length of time. The test ean lie modified in various ways, oas to impart to rails all the trials to which they would lie subjected in a railroad, as a sliding and thumping, instead of an evenly rolling one, etc. The numl*er of rollers is to he so Tart Letter from Judge Dent tot lie President. The following is an extract from a letter written to-day by Judge Dent, of Mi i in reply to one received by President Grant the early part of the present month. I’r* si dent Grant, ill the letter referred to, gave his reasons for casting the weight of his in fluence in favor of the Radical party in Mis sissippi, and it is to that part that Judge De.nt replies thus: Is it reasonable to suppose that a people having the free choice of their repr< senta tives would elect for their rulers a elass of politicians whose aggiessiv and hostile con duct IBiluato has rendered them jxculi.irly obnoxious W,d disagreeable? This i - the charge made the jieople of Missi ippi against the Radicals, ojr “bitter-enders, as they arc called. This charge is not mad* because they fought against tin- South and secession, for many of that class fought on th<* side of tb‘* South. It is not made because they are of Norll era birth and education, for many ne nos Northern birth and education and <>f the Northern army are with us in antagonism to this obnoxious party. It is not liecause they are Republicans, for their antagonist were among the first in the South to organize on the Republican platform, and to advocate tho civil and political equality of all men; were sent as delegates to Chicago, and for their consistency and constancy were rewarded by you with offices of trust and honor. But this change is made, as I liave said before, because tin* proscriptive antecedents and ag fwessive pollin' of these politicians toward the peqnle of Mississippi have made them the objects of peculiar abhorrence. That policy consists not only in the con tinual advocacy of proscription, but in preaching to the freedmen, Uj a time of pro found peace, such revolutionary iioct.-T—» aa excite and direct against the white tneu qi the South and their families a mo t danger ous animosity, such animosity, indeed, as, with a continuation of the same fuel, would inevitably lead to a black man’s party and n war of races. Neither are such doctrines preached w ith an honest desire to ameliorate the condition of the freedmen or promote the ends of peace or strengthen the Repiibli can party in the Bouth, but solely to alien ate from the planter the time-lioi'ore. , '’ l ' fidenee and affection of this »•*•. in ! that the new political element urn • t ‘‘ lianner of republicanism rnig-A •*- *.** controlled and subordinated *•> " purposes of power and aggram iz« m . Ami to this class of men. wlmni y*. u f'.ih,, in tMr attempt to (ora y. Mississippi the odious . . 1 , , at the boWliox. you now P*e tli* 1 md of friendship andsuppirt, an ■) invit-t --that other class, who. mee ting tion of the R*paWK**» » * J / • came in mass m A”; ‘ £x,s to they wdl come m it , stand upon it- I Lewis I>i.vr. principles- _ Western Railroad, desires usit* i » »t fiwiiip members <>i in*. sion tlirougb 1 jjjey have R . urn ;i W°bv r G.L Hurlbert. that free tickets wiJ Y 1 ' • them over the M M • 8.. R • - - 2d returning, but that it willbe ne*- ;;7 for them t*. make application for t either personally or by letter, so as J* guard ' t fraud or imposition. Tickets cl lorsed bv the President will alone be BC« cepted as‘valid by the conductors.