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GEORGIA JOURNAL & MESSENGER TUESDAY AUGUST^T"" Thanks to our Friends. W e would offer our sincere thanks to our friends for the many favors and proofs of their interest and approval which we are re ceiving from uU quarters in the shape of new subscriptions to the Journal and Mess un der. , i This proves to us not only tliat our friends are active and jealous in their efforts to sus tain our paper, but that the pul. lie approve and commend the course of the Journal and Messenger under its present editorial management. We can only assure those who give us these flattering evidences of their regard, that we will neither spare money nor labor to make the Journal and Mrhhenukk in every way worthy of their support and pat ronage, by making it a first-class newspaper in all its departments, and thus return them the best recompense which it is in our pow er to bestow, for their welcome patronage and acceptable approval. J. I\. Burke A Cos., Publishers. *• V Few Words in Conclusion.” Our neighbor of the TtAegraph says, and courtesy compels us to behove him, that lie v is “in truth” ignorant of the paternity of t he article on which he commented on Thurs <Li.v, and which tin; Griflin Star had er roneously attributed to him. The article in question was published by u ' several days ago, and was widely copied t Uroughout the country. Our able and cour teous cotenq>orary, the Augusta ConstUution niade it the subject of lengthy editorial criticism, and in conformitv a practice ot respectable journalists, copied •he article on which ho commented. We replied to the comments of our Augusta friend, and the Griffin Star copied ap provingly a portion of our reply, crediting the article to the Telegraph. We drew the attention of the Star to the mistake, and then immediately appeared the Telegraph's article, “.Sick Parties,” which we noticed in onr i ß sue of Friday morning. ! 1 at an editor of the experience and cn- I Minty which the editor of the Tele/p-imh claims for himself, should “in truth ” be ig norant of the paternity of an article which attracted so much attention and caused so much comment, argues a carelessness and in attention which it requires the positive con fession of the editor of the Tdegraph to make any one believe; and we fear that there arc very many of those who know him best who will hesitate to credit the confession, and say t > him in the words of the satirical poet: “Lest some suspect your tale untrue Keep Probability in view.” « W. would further say to our neighbor of the Tdrtp-aph that we deny unqualifiedly that we were either “abusive," “ill-temper ed” or “ill-mannered,” or that our reply to his article was “unprovoked.” Seeing that i lie editor of the Telegraph had entirely for gotten “the candor and courtesy” which ought to “distinguish his demeanor to co temporaries,” we jogged his memory, and insisted that while ho might be selfishly mindful of what is duo to his “own age, ex perience ami position," wo should not per mit him to ignore what is due to ours. \\ ith regard to the threat with which he doses his remarks of Saturday morning, we would only observe that, whenever his “leisure, inclination, or taste” jiemiit him to “undertake personalities," we do not in tend to oiler any obstacle to his enterprise, nor will he find us ever disposed to dispute "'ith him the palm of proficiency in “throw ing dirt.” An 11 istoriral Fill urc. Ml countries claiming to be civilized have their historical pictures, commemorative of great men and groat events, after the style of “Napoleon crossing the Alps,” and “Washington crossing the Delaware.” There is on exhibition now in New York a picture of this sort which is historical and characteristic. It is “Grant and Bonner tak inga ride behind Dexter” and is culled “Tak ing the lieins,” because Grant is represented as driving. The work is said to be one of high art. Grant’s portrait is life like, and his countenance, expresses “supreme enjoy ment'' as Dexter flies down the Blooming dale road. It may be said that there is more dignity in the idea of Napoleon crossing the Alps in mid-winter to conquer Italy, and iu that of Washington crossing the Delaware to win the independence of his country, than there is in that of a President of the United States tearing along a thoroughfare crowded with b’hoys and butcher boys, in a trotting sulky. We can hardly imagine Mr. Buchanan, Mr. Pierce, or Mr. Fillmore, making such an ex hibition and furnishing such a subject for an historical picture. But we live now in an age of progress and civilization. Horse racing, dunning, junketing, and accepting presents for favors to come, are the favorite pastime, of our great men ! Humored Inijteueliuieiit of (iov. Mullock. We loam from persons who profess to know whereof they speak, that a determined purpose is expressed by a large number of members of the House of Representatives of our Legislature to prefer artieles of im peachment against Governor Bulloek im mediately alter the General Assembly meets, and that the movement ia daily gaining strength among the m,eml>evs. There are said to b • many alleged grounds of impeach ment. the principle of which are the spend ing large sums of the public money by the Governor without authority of law. the eon version of the State’s funds to his own pri vate use, and the abuse of tlie pardoning power. It is confidently asserted that State Treas urer .Vugier is prepared to furnish abundant and conclusive proof of the two first charges, and as to the third, abuse of the pardoning power, almost every county in the State can prove where legally convicted criminals i>f the deepest dye, many of whom have confessed their guilt, have been let loose up on society by the so-called clemency of the Executive, until tho people have almost abandoned oontidence iu the protection which the law affords against evil-doers. A C ontrast. Forney draws the following contrast be tween Washington and Grant, of course making Grant vastly the superior of “the Virginia Slaveocruct : .-■['he President most ostentatiously ad dicted to displaying himself on public tours, w ith a pomp and hauteur that at the present day would be oppressive and offensive, was ‘Washington himself. He esteemed it part of his official duty to make formal imi>eriul prcM/ressrs around the country, and part of the official duty of everybody who came in his wav to receive him with punctilious defer ence and parade. President Gnrnts mili tary achievements throw those ofthe last President far into the background. His cm! career has been marked by less pretension but not less ability, judgment or prudence than that of Washington. Forney omits to mention, however, one very remarkable point of contrast between the two men. Beyond his bare expenses, Washington refused to receive one dime of compensation for his services in winning the independence of liis country. Grant, on the other hand, received a great number of •limes, houses, lots, horses, carriages, cigars, boots etc., etc. When it is related how he surpasses Washington in republican sim plieitv and military skill, it ought not to be omitted how he beats him out of sight as the recipient of valuable giftn, and at putting money in his purse. The Living Principles of the Con (stitution. We arc truly glad to sec that after all there is no substantial difference of opinion be tween our valued cotemporary, the Constitu tumalist, of Augusta, and ourselves, and that we are both anxious “with all our heart to bury the dead issues of the past and take care of the living principles of the Constitu tion.” Those are the principles of which we are anxious to take care. They are the principles which the great Democratic party maintained in the good old days when the right of the general government “to coerce a State was not a conceded doctrine in politics, when arbitrary arrests, seizures, of papers, searches of houses, confiscation of property, suspension of the writ of habeas corpus, and denial of the right of trial by jury, were not sanctioned as acts of military necessity. And to the party which professes these principles now, desiring to “rescue, maintain and perpetuate’ them, we pledger onr hearty, earnest and undivided support, whatever may be its name. lire departure from these great principles, whether in the direct approval of their vio lation by the Radicals and their allies, or in the acquiescence in their violation on ac count of “military necessity” was the “cause of all our woe,” and in the end, we really can see no very material difference in degree of guilt hetween the authors of the crimes wc have enumerated and those who, having the power to prevent them, failed to do so, on the ground that “military necessity” re quired that eleven States should be coerced with subjugation. Between the avowed Re publican Abolitionist and the acquiescing “War Democrat,’ we can see no material ditlerence, so far as the principles of the party arc concerned. But wc agree cordially w ith our cotemporary tliat the principles still live, and must ever live, iK'cause they are the truth, and that it is only by the triumph of those principles—by a return to the law of the Constitution as the supreme law that liberty and the right of self-government can ever lie re-estab lished on this continent. Tt is to those who maintain these principles alone that we of the South can look for succor, and what ever they may have called themselves in the past —whether Whig, Democrat, or States’ Rights man, if they hold this faith now, and will prove it by their works, they are the party to which we will belong and with which we will act, not caring one straw about old traditions or past differences, but looking only to the “rescue, maintenance ami perpetuation of the “living principles of the Constitution.” The great object is to organize an opposition to the Radicals which must win. That is what we and our esteemed and courteous friend in Augusta desire to achieve; and though we may differ in minor details—though lie may be ready to pardon the sin of the war Democrats and receive them into fellowship more readily than we would —substantially we arc agreed, and we hope tliat shoulder to shoulder we may light the great political contest which is opening before us. Mrs. Stowe’s Byron Scandal. A more indecent, revolting, or unfominine production than Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe’s article in the Atlantic Monthly on Lord Byron, it has never been our ill for tune to read. \\ itli the ostensible purpose of vindicating the character of Lady Byron against the charge of harshness and vindic tiveness towards her husband, Mrs. Stowe publishes a foul charge against the estimable sister of the poet, for which she lavs no authority, even by her own account, than the statement of Lady Byron, made at a time when extreme old age and failure of reason made any statement of hers on any subject utterly valueless, much more a com munication of the nature of that made to Mrs. Stowe, which no uorson in lii« tumsw could have made to a comparative stranger as Mrs. Stowe was to Lady Byron, and which, when made, no one who was not possessed by an indecent love of publicity or thirst for malevolent gossip would have published. Iu the first place Lord Byron’s sister was a lady remarkable for her piety, gentleness of character, and virtue. She was devotedly attached to her brothe,r and when he was assailed on all hands and held up to public execration as a monster of vice, did not join the assailants, but stood by her brother. She refused also to approve the conduct of Lady Byron by taking sides with her against her brother. But it is well known that no one felt more deeply or sorrowfully than she did Byron’s many outrages against the laws of society and religion, and nobody strove harder to redeem him and make him return to the right way. But in addition to the atrocious violence to the truth of history which is committed by accusing this gentle lady, a quarter of a century or more after her death, of an infamous crime. Mrs. Stowe’s article contains a number of other historical blunders, and a confusion of dates and names, which prove the incredibility of the whole tale. We do not seek to defend Lord Byron or to ooudenni liis wife. She was deeply w ronged ami cruelly treated. But she does not increase the amount of popular sympa thy which was her due by such disclosures as those which she is said to have made to Mrs. Stowe, nor does Mrs. Stowe improve her reputation even as a sensational romam ist by publishing such a slander on her own sex, and thus defiling the long closed grave of an innocent and amiable lady. Tljp w hole thing, whether it be the repeti tion of a crazy dotard’s ravings, or whether it be an invention made public when no living witness can be produced to refute it, is disgus ting to any decent reader, and far worse than discreditable to its authors and publishers. We rajoiee to see the whole press condemn the article in unmeasured language. Georgia Masonic Mutual llife In surance Company. The present number in Class A. is 4,240. We have reason to believe that in a few weeks, or months at most, this number will be increased to ,>,(H)O. Me receive assurances from our agents that the great scarcity of money prevents an increase now, but as soon as money comes in new members w ill soon be found to fill up the list. Many that have proven defaulters say they will apply for re instatement as soon as they get in funds. With our present number, however 4,240 —the insurance is lower than in any Insu rance Company we know of, especially to men above 35 years of age. M e caution our friends to beware of anv l.ife Insurance Agent who cries out against the Georgia Masonic Company. Be sure of one thing—he is doing so because he has an to grind He may have his specious arguments, and make out he is a great friend to Masonry, but mark him, lie iso pi!,! agent to break down your company, if he can. Break the force of his arguments as well as you can by presenting facts as to what this Company has done, and use your influence among, your friends, who are not Masons to insure iu a company whose agents do not abuse your company. Try this plan aw hile and you will learn Life Insurance Agents to respect your Company. The Savannah and Charleston ulkoad. —We are informed that eight hundred men are now at work upon this important railroad, that the Savannah River bridge is already building, and that ere long the hands will be working simultaneously on both ends of the road. The track has already lieen laid, we believe, to a point some miles beyond Gra hamville, and there is good reason for think ing that the road will be open throughout before the New Year comes in.— Char. Neics. —Parties in Buffalo are charged with the perpetration of a stupendous patent rights swindle, by which farmers along the line of the frontier and in the interior have lost I over #250,000. Notices of New Books. We find upon our table for notice, thefol lowing new publications recently issued from the prolific press of Harper & Brothers, New York: «, “Rhetoric, a Text Book,” by the Itev. E C. Ha vea. “The Wedding Day in all Ages,” by Edward J. Wood. “Sights and Sensations in France; Germany and Switzerland,” by Edward Gould Bulium. “Famous Loudon Merchants,” by H. R. Fox Bourne “Five Acres Enough,” by R. B. Roosevelt. “The Malay Archipelago,” by Alfred Russell Wal lace. “He Knew He was Right,” by Anthony Trollope. “Old I'estauient History“New Testament His tory,” by William Smith, D. D. “For Her Sake,” by F. IV. Robinson. “l'lie Dodge Club;" “Cord and Creese,” by James De Mille. “Tne Sacristan's Household,” by the author of Mabel’s “Pi ogress;” “Hetty,” bv Henry Kings ley. “My Daughter Eliinor;” “Hard Cash;” “Love me Little, Love ine Long;” “Griffith Gaunt;” “It is Never Too Late to Mend,” by Charles Kcadc. “Adventures of Philip;”. “The Newcomes;” “Vanity Fair;” “The Virginians;” by Tliacke rav. Dr. Haven’s Rhetoric is a valuable addition to the text books now iu use in our schools and colleges. He treats the subject clearly and concisely, assists the student by plain suggestions tersely expressed, gives none but practical rules, uses as few words as possible to convey his thoughts, and while he goes over all the ground which properly belongs to Rhetoric, avoids the mistake which nearly all the accepted authorities on Rhetoric have committed, except Archbishop Whately, that of being too diffuse, and encumbering their book with a superabundance of definitions, illustrations and examples. Dr. Haven ilivids his book into two parts. The first discusses “Words and the Material f Expression’’—the primary elements of composition; the second “Figures of Speech and Thought,” explaining a more complex class of the elements of expression; the third illustrate* tbe ..a.. ,fC Ilit-Ae elements in what is called Style, and in oral and written compositions; the fourth treats of Invention as an art, showing how material may be acquired and employed; and the fifth lays down the general principles of Elocu tion. He does not embarrass his book by the treatises on Taste and on Logic, which so often encumber similar works, but con fines himself exclusively to the domain of Rhetoric proper. We should have liked the book better had his definitions been more forcible find had he not selected liis examples and illustrations from the speeches anil writings of New Eng gland celebrities; but on the whole the book is a good one, and is one which our young men need very much. The Wedding Day in all ages and coun tries is rather an anecilotical chronicle of the modes in which marriages have been made from the time of the primitive Jews to the present day, than a history of marriages or an essay upon the religious, social and do mestic character of the married state. The author fulfils the promise given in the title. He describes marriages in all ages and coun tries, —how Cecrops introduced marriage among the Athenians; how in Boeotia the uxletree of the bride’s carriage was burned on arrival at the bridegroom’s house as a symbol that the bride was not to return, (a custom which we are glad has become obso lete and could only have been invented by some Boeotian chariot maker); how the an cient Sythians would not marry a girl unless the gentle creature had previously killed an enemy; how among the Medes “reciprocal polygamy was in use,” so that a man was not perfectly married, or as Brigham Young has it “pretty much married,” until he liail seven wives, nor a woman unless she had five hus bands; how the Persian used to hire persons to marry their deceased relations, which was economical, if not otherwise satisfactory; how in China the Old Man of the Moon si supposed to perform the marriage ceremony exclusively; how in the Eastern Archipelago there resides a tribe of people called “head hunters,” who cannot marry until they have cut off the heads of several of their friends and neighbors, by way of making room for their probable offspring, a custom which must detract from the festivity of the occa sion; and* how among the Maroons of Ja maica when a girl became marriageable her parents killed a hog and gave a dinner, which was a practical though unpoetical way of announcing an interesting fact. The book is very entertaining and displays an amount of research very much, in onr opinion, out of proportion to the subject or the result obtained. ttnrr fwytXflTirrfrs irt rvurt'T, i-ttrrrmtnt / and Switzerland, is an amusin'; little book, evidently written hastily and somewhat care lessly, giving glimpses at the champagne country of France, and at the manufacture of champagne wine; at the gambling estab lishments and their votaries of Germany; at the grand scenery of the Bernese Ooeriand; at the peculiarities r of Life in Paris; at the Catacombs, and at French peasant life. Mr. Buffum was a journalist of some fame, at tached to the New York and San Francisco Press, and died in Paris a few months ago. The book contains nothing new, but the re hash of what is old is very palatable. Famous London Merchants, is a little vol volume, designed exclusively for young peo ple, giving an account of the growth and power of commerce* and of the exploits and character of those commercial men of Lon don who have made their names immortal. It contains biographical sketches of Sir Richard Whittington, better known as Dick Whittington, exploding the familiar tradi tion about his cat; of Sir Thomas Gresham, the founder of British trade with the Nether lands, and of the Royal Exchange of London; of Sir Edward Osborne; of Sir William Her rick, the favorite of James I; of Sir Thomas Sinytlie, the founder of the East India Com pany, and its first Governor; of Sir Henry Garwav; of Sir Dudley North, Thomas Guy, William Beckford—the great West Indies planter—Henry Thornton, Nathan Meyer Rothschild, Samuel Gurney, and last, though not least, of George Peabody. Mr. Bourne’s book, which is written with manifest care and historical accuracy, is well calculated to instruct the young readers for whom it is de signed. Fire Acres Enough, is a burlesque upon the lxiok called Ten Acres Enough, de tailing with all the extravagance and exag geration of a farce always broad and some times coarse, the disappointments, troubles, losses and perplexities of the unsophisticated fit who seeks happiness and comfort in rural life with which he is utterly mine piainted. The Mi/at/ Arc&gelago, is a very valuable, well written and interesting work, giving a graphical and ethnological description of the Malay Islands, together with profusely illustrated sketches of the botany, natural history, manufactures, character and cus toms of this region and its inhabitants. Mr. Wallace is evidently an enthusiastic natural ist, having collected, during his Eastern travels, 125,000 specimens of natural history. The adventures and dangers which he met with during his visits to these islands, and which he describes with becoming simplicity, art' very exciting. The lxiok •will amply re pay perusal. The Ohl Testament History and the New Testament History are designed by their learned author to supply a good class-book for Sunday schools—a manual of biblical his tory which may take its place by the side of the histories of Greece and Rome in our schools,and compare with them in complete ness of information, accuracy of detail and “scholar-like” treatment of the subject The e excellent volumes deserve a place in every school. Besides giving the liistorv recorded in the Old Testament and the New, they contain much of other matter relating to the geography of the Holy Land, the an tiquities of the Jews, and the principal tacts contained iu the history of the East during what is known as the Hellenistic age. They are reprints from the London edition of Dr. Smith’s works, and are designed to complete his series of histories for “ students,” He Knew He 11 7b Right is already fa miliar to the readers of Harper’s Weekly in which it appeared during the past year and a part of this. It is one of Mr. Trollope’s best novels, if it is not the !>est of all bis works of fiction. Os the novels, which are new, id l of which are very readable, Hetty, by Kings ley ; For Her Sake, by F. W. Robin son, My Daughter EUinnr, and the Sa cristan's Household, are the liest. King ley s novels, of which Sfrelton is perhaps the ablest, while it displays most glaringly the author’s defects both of style and plot, are always worth reading. They may In* said to be a series of masterly outline sketches, none of which are finished. Corel and Creese, by the author of the Hodge Family in Italy— which, by the way, is a ludicrous account of the adventures of a vulgar and illiterate ]tarty of Yankee tourists in Italy—is fuller of unnatural and imjxxssihle incidents than any other book we h ivj ever r\i 1. The a i tlior seems to have taxed his imagination to its utmost capacity to throw into his pages the greatest jumble of sensations, in which his readers cannot find one atom of proba bility, but must close the book in a sort of GEORGIA JOURNAL AND MESSENGER. waking nightmare, struggling to escape from the creese of the Malay pirates, the horrors of a desert island, murders, drowning, skele ton, and all sorts of terrors. Mr. DcMille’s humor iu the Dodge Family was barely pass abk>. Ills tragedy in Cord and Greete is less of a success. -Vy Daughter Khutor, is a story of Ameri can life by au American pen, by no means sensational, on the contrary, rather tame, but the characters are well drawn and natu ral, made to dress and talk very much like other people, and uie not as is em often the case in novels of native production, mere caricatures of the sensations of some for eign writer, like Bml reieMilfk “adaptations from the French.” My Daughter Edinor is far above the average of modem novels. 7he Sacrist*in s liousehoiti, is a storv of German life, told by an Englishwoman who is supposed to be the wife of Adolphus Trol lope. .She has written several novels which are readable, ami this is of the same order. The other works on our list for notice to day, are cheap illustrated editions of some of the best works of those master of fic tion, \\ illiam Makepeace Thackeray, and Usuries lieade. They are beautifully print ed and on good paper. Their illustrations are executed with spirit, and the price brings them within the reach of almost every household. New Reviews and Magazines.- -We are in receipt of the July number of the Edinburgh, 11 est Munster and North British Reviews, from the Leonard Scott Publishing Cos., New York. We have also received the Septem ber number of the Galaxy, from Sheluon k Cos., The Old Guard, for August, from \an Evrie, Horton & Cos, New York, and Scott's Monthly, from Phillips & Crew, At lanta. The Edinburgh contains a second masterly critique upon Lecky’s “History of European morals”—one of the most remarkable literary productions of the age; a valuable paper on “Shakspearian Glossaries,” iu which partic ular reference is mode ra ti>« i— r t or oiiakspeare by the late Rev. Alex. Dice; a sprightly notice of “Foster’s Life of Walter Savage Landor,” in which a number of anecdotes is given, showing the almost ferocious eccentricity of the gifted but re pulsive author of the “Imaginary Conversa tions;” and a charitable review of Robert Browning’s extraordinary poem, “The Ring and the Book,” besides other articles. The best paper in the Westminster is that on the relations of “Labour and Capital.” The rest of the table of contents may be valuable and we doubt not is instructive, but it is too heavy for the heated term. The contents of the present number of the North British are the most readable and most interesting of all three Reviews. They are: Dr. Hanna’s Life of Christ ; Henry Crabb; Robinson’s Diary; A Review of Lecky’s History of European Morals; Geological Time; Danish Literature; Memoir qf Sir William Hamilton; The Early History of Man; Walter Savage Landor, and The Irish Clmrcli Measure. The Galaxy continues Charles Reade’s “Put Yourself in his Place,” and Mrs. Ed wards’ “Susan Fielding,” and contains a number of other mediocre papers of average interest, of which Grant Whites’ “The Un sociableness of Society,” anil Justin Mc- Carthy’s “The Irish Church Dethroned” are the least mediocre and most above the aver age in interest. The Old Guard has a full and varied as sortment of entertaining matter, original and selected, and commends itself to Southern support by its unflinching defence of the South and of her rights. Scott's Monthly contains a reproduction of one of Dr. Lipscomb’s admirable letters from the Old World to the Senior Class of the University of Georgia, besides a great variety of other matter of less interest, in t’.ie shape of tales, poems, “prose idyls,” Ac., most of which may well serve to pass a leis ure hour agreeably. For the Journ and and Messenger. Tl»e Mineral Spring of New nan. Mr. Editor: Allow us to invite the atten tion of your readers, especially those seek ing a pleasant, healthy retreat, those hot, sweltering days, to the delight ful town —nay, we may as well give it its rightful name, “City of Newnan,” for can it not boast of its “Board of Council,” numerous stores, churches, private residences, excellent col lege, and schools? The “regular mail train” leaves Atlanta at 8 o’clock in the morning, and an “accommo dation” in the evening, for this point, ear'll day. The Mineral Spring, being a late dis covery, was unknown to us until our atten- W-liiritru Y»!tn attracted til It. l>v n notion In tin* papers. Desirous of testing its virtues, we took passage on the accommodation train. We reached the city about six, when we were received and escorted to our boarding place by no less a personage than the Mayor—a man every way worthy of his high post of honor. W r e found our hostess a fine looking, agreeable lady, with a houseful of as agreea ble inmates as has ever been onr good for tune to see collected under one roof. The “spring” is situated at the base of a high bluff, on the front of which has been erected a large comfortable shed, for the con venience of visitors. Each evening pretty and gaily attired ladies, escorted by atten tive be mx, may be seen either wending their way to the spring, or already there, imbibing copious draughts of the “health-restoring” water. The water is highly impregnated wth the different “salts of iron,” which properties are readily recognized, (strongest in cloudy weather and early morn.) They are thought to possess others, which never having been strictly analyzed, are not as yet determined. Numbers of wonderful cures are said to have been perfected, and many who came helpless invalids, were fully re stored. This we have from reliable authori ty. On the other hand, there are those in whom, from their difference of constitutions, uo such happy results are produced. There fore, it lays no claim to be a “cure-all.” W’e would then advise all to prove its virtues by giving it a fair trial. There arc said to be at present nearly two hundred “visitors.” The two hotels not be ing large enough to accommodate so many, they are scattered over various parts of the city, in private families, who have very con siderately made arrangements for their stay. The citizens of Newnan we found to lie intelligent and social, and exceedingly agreeable to strangers. It is really a pretty place, and much larger than one would sup pose at first sight. We were prevented from seeing as much of it as we would have liked, so cannot do its attractions justice. We no ticed it was capable of improvement, though from some cause there appears to be lurt little going on. We take it to be a very moral place, too, for its size; as to onr knowledge there is but one licensed bar room. A novelty, in the way of a “pie-nic by moonlight,” is advertised to come off on the 28th inst. We regret that circumstances will prevent us from enjoying the treat, but advise all who can to avail themselves of the opportunity, and promise them they will not regret their visit. Yours, etc., S. E. E. Corre»i»oiiilence of the Journal aiul Messenger. Letter from Greene County. Woodvjlle, Greene Cos.. Ga., ) August 20th, 1809. j Mr. Kdiior: The prospect for anything like a full crop of cotton in this bailiwick is growing “small by degrees and beautifully less.” Your correspondent is no prophet, nor the son of one, but lie ventures to assert what any one can see, that the crop here will fall oil’ from one-third to one-half what it reasonably promised ten days ago. The mischief lias been done within a week and is irremediable under any ordinary circum stances. Everything on the cotton stalk ex cept leaves and grown IxjlLs is dead, and they appear to be drying up. Squares iu clusters are hanging on the prolific cotton, dry and yellow. Many planters in this, and in Oglethorpe, the adjoining county, express the opinion that their crops are cut oil’ ontv half. The fact is, that the plants will make just what grown 1 Kills they now- have, except in the case of very young cotton, and that, you know, depends upon the Full. Various speculations are indulged iu by people as to the cause of this sudden and mysterious blight. Some say it is the extreme cold followed by extreme heat without rain, and one disgusted individual declared to your correspondent that it was “that infernal eclipse. ” Let it be what it may, one thing is cer tain, the effect is most disastrous, and the end is not yet reached. The premature opening of the bolls, the stoppage of growth, and the injury to the staple, are some of the consiqnences yet to come. It is possible that a succession of light showers might arrest this blight on the late cotton, but as far as the forward crop is con cerned “there is not rain enough in the sweet heavens” to save it. Truly yours, F. Swain. —Miss Yiuuie Ream has arrived at Rome, with her cast of the late Mr. Lincoln, which is to l>e done into marble under her super vision. Correspondence Journal and Messenger. Letter from Dougherty County. chop pkospects—health —eatlkoyd injunc tion —POLITICS, Ere. Albany, Ga.. August IS, ISC>O. From all 1 can learn, the crops throughout this section arc very promising for an abund ant yield. Corn is now rolling at 81. JO per linshel. I heard an intelligent farmer say, yesterday, that within ten days it would fail to old cents per bushel. Many complaints arc made of the ravages of the caterpillar, the de struction from rust and other diseases, but I notice that every farmer I meet boasts of the excellence of his crop and the promise of an abundant yield. Cotton is beginning to open rapidly, anil next week our planters will begin the work of harvesting iu earnest; you may therefore take it for granted that “a crop has been made. ” HEALTH. Our good natured Sexton complains of famine, caused by a terrible dearth iu his line of business. Our city and section are re markably healthy. Twenty years ago, when our farms were ln ing cleared and freshly cultivated, the country was comparatively inundated with sickness, but now a change for the better prevails. We occasionally have a few mild cases of bilious fever. Typhoid is unknown. The prevailing epi demic is chill and fever. This you will have in the mountains. It visits* all sec tions, and respects all alike. One thing, however, is noticeable, all our diseases are of much milder form, and yield more readily to treatment than iu the up-country. I can not account for this, unless it is that the nearer you approach the Gulf in a pine region, the milder becomes the form of dis ease. We have been taught to regard Florida as a grave-yard. Yet the United States census shows-that, according to population, there is less mortality in Florida than any in the. ITutm VV** are wit.K « dry, pine atmosphere. If health cannot lie found in siu*h a climate, where will you go to find it? 1 have noticed the thermometer for the past ten years, and strange as it may ap pear, it does not range as high in Albany as it does iu Augusta, Ga., or Nashville, Tenn. This I know and speak without the fear of contradiction. KAIL BO AD INJUNCTION. I noticed in your issue a few days since, that a bill of injunction had been filed against the Brunswick and Albany Road, alleging that it interfered with the rights of certain other corporations. I think tires hoe pinches the Central and Southwestern roads more than any other. The truth is, Savannah and the Central road seriously feel the effects of the rival of Brunswick and of the Bruns wick and Albany road. This road is a part °f the Southern Pacific, and is the nearest route from ocean to ocean, and will be the line over which most of the freight and travel must necessarily pass. Hence, Sa vannah may well view, with an eve of jeal ousy the expansive and accessible harbor of Brunswick. \\ e are not surprised at the in junction; the only impediment is, it did not go far enough! The parties filing the bill should have included with them the North ern Pacific road, so as to have enjoined the whole of the Southern Pacific road from Brunswick, Georgia, to San Diego, Califor nia. I here would have been as much rea son and common sense in one as in the other. The people complain that they have borne the intolerable burthens of the Central road 1< mg enough. They arc now taking a remedy in their own hands, and they will regard with profound contempt, any action that will serve to check tin* onward progress or prosperity, or development of the Southern or Southwestern sections of the State. This road will be built in spite of all ef forts to check it, and its enemies may as well realize it as one of the fixed facts of "the day. YVe now have to travel a day and a night, a distance of three hundred miles to reach the coast. When this route is com pleted we will be able to make the trip in six hours. I apprehend this injunction will do Savannah no good. It is already creating a damaging prejudice against her. I heard yesterday one of our largest and most influ ential planters say, “that before he would ship his cotton by the Central road to Sa vannah, he would ship it by river via Appa lachicola to New York. This I may say is the growing sentiment. Would it* not be well for the Central Road to file an injunction against 1- lint River? The Central proposes to run a road from Tennille to Atlanta di rect. Don’t you know they intend to do no such thing? Their only object in this “raw head anil bloody bones” story is to get con trol <.r me iiiwnii and Western itoan. iuacon and Brunswick had better let them run their direct route, rather than control the Macon and Western Road. At the last session of the Legislature, Sa vannah met Brunswick iu open and honor able combat, face to face. The conflict for a while was terrible, and the result was felt with doubt and apprehension; steel bent against steel, while the leaders of the con tending forces marshaled their hosts in re newal of the contest. The heart of “oppres sion” throbbed with anxiety for the result, while “despotism” gloomily looked on with rage and terror, and felt that a blow had been struck which suddenly loosened the foundation of liis throne. The battle for the oppressed is won, and the leaders shout the cry of victory, while the artillery, with peal after peal, re-echos the cry—Savannah “falls back,” and is now skirmishing her hosts, while Brunswick is making a flank movement which will capture her citadel, her fortress, and all her dogs of war. Then—“ Lay ou Macduff, and damned be he who first cries hold, enough.” POLITICS. The negroes have called a District Con vention, to meet in this city on Saturday next, to nominate a candidate for the Senate, made vacant by the resignation of the recent incumbent, who was elected by the negroes, Radicals, scalawags, carpet-baggers, non residents, non-voters, and the mischief knows who all. lam not advised yet who will be the nominee; a large number are aspirants for the office of Senator—l said “office,” but I believe it is not an office. The new Constitution, made by the negroes and scal awags, says that “Tlii* officers of the Senate shall be a President and Secretary.” In a military view, the others are privates. Should a Sambo be elected to the position of Sena tor, could he take his seat ? I think not. The Legislature has declared negroes ineli gible to seats in the Legislature. They will hardly recover their decision. The Supreme Court has decided negroes eli gible to office, but this is not an office under the Constitution, which they themselves made. Then, if it is not an office, they can not lie admitted under the decision of the Legislature, which is the only power that can decide the question. This convention would do well to take the advice of a sensible negro who remarked, “that they had better let polities alone and attend to "their home affairs, for if all the negroes in the country were crammed and jammed together in one, he would not have sense enough to attend to legislative matters.” A. J. M. Putnam fount v Fair. Board of Directors Putnam County ) Fair Company, [- Eatonton, Ga,, August 18, 18f>9. ) To the Editor of the Journal and Messenger. Dear Sir : Encouraged by the success of our industrial exhibition last year, and stimu lated to further exertions by the manifest benefit which this first Fair in Georgia, “since the war,” has conferred in giving a new impetus to the important departments of Agriculture and the Mechanic Aits, we have perfected an organization to be char tered, with the view to holding these Fairs annually at Eatonton. The exhibition for this year will commence on the 2d of No vember, under more favorable auspices than last year. Our premium list embraces all departments of industrial and domestic life. PemiAiient buildings are now iu process of construction, which, when completed, will give every facility desired for the exhibition of agricultural products, machinery, and farm implements of all kinds, domestic manufactures and artistic productions. We would respectfully request tiiat you call at tention to the time and place of holding this Fair. The Premium List will soon be pub lished, in advance of which we w ould assure the public that rewards of v;due will be con ferred in all the departments of industrial life. It is not our design to interfere with the “State Fair,” bat to aid this creation of our more modest enterprise in every way possible. Hence we have fixed the time for holding our Fair, so that exhibitors and visitors may go directly from ours to Macon. Very truly and respectfully yours, Henry D- Capers, Secretary. HCottun Tax.—We would caution parties having paid the cotton tax to the U. S. Agent parting with claims to its control, without a valuable consideration. We are informed that there arc parties in some of the Southern cites buying up these claims at almost nothing. THE NEWS. —The editor of tlu* Dawson Journal Ims had a sack of meal made from new corn. —A tract of land in Marion county recent ly sold for fifteen dollars in gold per acre. —The Arch Street Methodist Church, of Philadelphia, is building a wliith marble Church, at an expense of 8200,000. —The miners' strike is now spreading throughout the entire coal regions of Penn sylvania. —Ex-President Pierce, who is still at live Beach, N. H., is said to be in excellent health. —Mrs. Gifford, living in the part of Mari on county, lowa, died from the effects of fright at the eclipse. Charles White, the lion tamer, traveling with Thayer’s menagerie, was eaten by the lions, in a small town in Michigan. —The Memphis Sun insists that Andrew Johnson is the strongest man in West Ten nessee for United States Senator. —General 11. E. Lee, George Peabodv and W. W. Corcoran, Esqs., were photo graphed in a group the other day at the Wwb- Sulphur Springs, Ya. —The Superintendent of the Stab' Hoad lia-s made another monthly payment into the Treasury, of 825,000, from the earnings of the road. —The trial of Rostock for killing Malonev. in Atlanta, some wo weeks sinee, has been concluded, and Bostock discharged on the payment of costs. —Pile Massachusetts State Temperance Convention nnff in Boston, on the 17th, and adopted au address and resolutions firmly upholding the present prohibitory law. —They have organized “a Swiss Guard” in San Francisco, and the usual ceremony of presenting banners, with accustomed speech making, has ju and taken place. —A conspiracy among disaffected former employes to burn all the bridges on the Central Pacific Railroad east of the Sierra ATiUintikinu <^oom-ai■ A, M vU measures have been taken to prevent it. —The Charleston papers state that the traveling agents of two Northern liouor houses were arrested in that city last week, on the charge of selling good* without first paving for a license. —The Knoxville Whig thinks that Scn ter’s majority of sixty-rive thousand will de ter the administration or Congress from tak ing any action in regard to the late election in this State. —An official proclamation has been made of the Convention between the United States and France, securing in tlieir re spective territories a guarantee of property in trade marks, to take effect in October anil continue in force for ten years. —Professor Cox, State Geologist of In diana, lias made a coal survey of the State. He finds six hundred square miles of block coal in beds of varying thickness; an im mense quantity of bituminous coal; and salt water springs of great strength and value. —A few days ago Mr. Thomas G. Simms, late Postmaster of Atlanta, was arrested In- United States Deputy Marshal Chamberlain, on the charge of embezzling money order funds during the latter part of his adminis tration. The investigation commenced on Friday before Commissioner W. B. Smith. —The Covington Enterprise says : Crops have suffered in Newton county severely within the past two mouths for want of rain". Except in a few favored localities of small extent, corn is hopelessly cut off, in many cases so entirely as to yield less than tin amount planted. Cotton"is not so thorough ly destroyed as corn, but scarcely half a crop can be realized in the county. —The Greensboro Herald, of Thursday, says: “During the past week, we have met many of our most extensive planters from different sections of the country, all concur in the belief that the cotton crop will fall considerably short of their expectations two weeks sinee. Some are complaining of rust, others of the boll-worm. At present the in dications are, that the county will not average more than half a crop at best. The corn crop is by no means to be considered good.” —The Americas Courier says of the crops in Marion and Webster counties : “Cotton generally is not making. Very few blooms could be seen even in large * fields. The ground is also well sprinkled with forms which have fallen off Very little fruit on the cotton of many fields, and where the rust has taken good hold, the cotton has ceased to bear. 1 lit- crop is necessarily largely cut off! Not more than two-tliirds of a crop on an average can be made. This is our conclusion from observations in Sum bjL- C'-awford, Webster, Marion ana Lee. ilie corn crop, on an average, is only medium. On some farms the corn is excellent, on others it is poor. The sec tion of country over which we have passed will not make more com than will be needed to support the plantations. The surplus one farmer lias will he needed to supply anotli er’s deficiency.” —Natchez is to have a cotton seed oil manufactory and another bank. —The taxable property of Boston has in creased since last year, $55,937,000. —Thirteen buildings were destroyed by fire at New Brighton, recently, involving a loss of 8100,000. .—The Governor GeneiSd of Canada has met with a reception at Prince Edward Island. —The expenditures of the New Dominion for July exceed the Revenue receipts bv 8260,861. —Last Friday the Iron Mountain Railroad was finished to Belmont, 195 miles from St. Louis. This comes below the ice blockade. —Dr. S. P. Breckinridge (cousin to the General) is the selected English orator for the Humboldt centennary at Louisville. —Marshal MacMahon will probably suc ceed Marshal Niel, deceased, as French Min ister of War. —lt is estimated that there are eleven hundred murderers at Large in Tennessee. Rents in consequence are lower. —The Rev. Paul Bagiev’s petition for the release of the American Fenians has been sent to the Queen. —lt has lieen thought advisable in Aus tria, owing to the present aspect of affairs, not to reduce the army. —The N. Y. World says that more than two-thirds of the members of Assembly at Albany last winter had the reputation of selling their votes to the highest bidder. —The French citizens of San Francisco celebrated the 15th as the centennial anni versary of the birth of Napoleon Bonaparte, in a becoming manner. - ('•'ii- Polignac is quietly pursuing his sci entific investigations in Paris, cherishing the kindest feelings towards Ids Confederate companions in arms and the peojde of the South. —E. O. Haile, extensively known as a hu morous contributor to the press under the name of “A. Head,” died at Austin, Texas, ou the 15th inst. —Gen. Forrest lias commenced tearing up the railroad track leading from Uniontown to Newbem, with a view of using the mate rial in the construction of the Selma and Memphis Railroad. —The Levant Herald reports that two Armenian prelates who had been detained uiree years m .vnystui,. i,...... j,< ... „ , t through the intercession of the British gov ernment. —The Hon. J. S. Black, fully recovered from his recent severe railway accident, is at Washington, arguing a heavy Texas railway case before Judge Swayne, of the Supreme Court. —The Tallapoosa, witli General Sheiman, Vice-Admiral Porter and Secretary Robeson, arrived at the Brooklyn Navy Yard on the lfitli. The party was received with the usual honors. —Richmond, Indiana, has just passed an ordinance commanding that “in case of the death of any policeman he shall immediately deliver his emblems and other insignia of office to the Mayor. ” —A train on the Sonthside Railroad was thrown off the track 12 miles from Peters burg, recently, instantly killing R, G. Hob son, the conductor, and Rev. Wm. Myers, a colored preacher. —The steamer Havana was burned to the water’s edge at Parlor Grove, twelve miles below Cincinnati, on the 16th, just after she had landed a pic-nie party. The loss is esti mated at .$12,000. Fortunately no one was injured. —Coroner Flynn held an inquest in the case of William J. Nagle, the Fenian. The evi dence taken by the Coroner showed that the deceased was evidently insane when he com mitted the rash act, and a verdict to that effect was rendered. —The Washington Insurance Company on Broad way and Muidenlane was robbed on Friday or Saturday of $128,000 in bonds, stocks and money. All but SIO,OOO of the property was returned yesterday, as it was of no use to the thieves. —Col. McChesney, now in Bt. Joseph, claims to have succeeded in extracting oxy gen from water, making then-from a non explosive fluid which produces a light clearer aud more brilliant than the best of gas, at one-tifth its cost and one-tliird the cost of coal oil. Nine ltensous lor .Making Fools of Ourselves. From the N. Y. World. Mr. Greeley's tenth paper on Political Economy de.sc.mtod on the disadvantages of distant and enlargisl markets for agricultu ral products. It was to have been expected, therefori—such is the way facts lie in liis mind—t hat his eleventh paper would descant on the advantages of distant and enlarged markets for manufacturing products. The poor farmer is always left by the protection ist as the poor Indian is left in the proposed turkey trade. The manufacturer always gets the tnrkev side of the bargain. Nobody on earth with anything to sell could be persuaded of his disadvantage in having au enlarged market, yet that is what Mr. Greeley endeavors to stuff American farmers with. It must be admitted, how ever, that liis protection doctrines embod ied in our present tariff have administered au equal dose to our manufacturers and ruined exports by making our competition with foreign manufacturers in foreign mar kets for the most port hopelessly ruqx'ssilile. Mr. Greeley gives a batch of nine reasons “why manufacturers need protection, which, in this hot weather, will prove refreshing to the most wearied reader whose wits have not deliquesced: “Now. I novel-made any iron, nor had any other than a public, general interest in mak ing any, while I have bought and used many thousands of dollars worth, in the shape of power-presses, engines, boilers, building plates, &c. It is my interest, you say, to have cheap iron. Certainly; but I buy iron, not (ultimately and really) with money, but with the product of my labor —that is, with newspapers; and 1 can better afford to pay 87(1 per ton for iron made by men wlio can and do buy American newspapers than take it for 850 of those who rarely see and never buy one of my products. The money price of the American iron may be higher, but its real cost to me is less than that of the Brit ilun. And «-**“'• ia tl»«t »'l' th. iv.lt body of American farmers and other pro ducers of exchangeable wealth.” p The price of the farmer’s product is regu lated by the prices in London and l’aris. H - call get for corn, butter, cheese and pork as much in those cities (and even a little more, if he chooses to wait for the n turns and exchange gold into greenbacks.) as he obtains for the same products cither in New York or Philadelphia. Take a 4(H) lb. bale of cotton, worth here, at 27 cents paper, 8108. The Liverpool price is Id 1 „ jh-iu-c, which, allowing 20 per cent, for all charges, would net 884 gold per bale, or 8113 curren cy, at 35. Thus, the cotton planter gets 85 a" bale less in New York than if he took his risk in the market and in gold premiums. It is the same with cheese, pork and grain. So Mr. Greeley’s ease is not “that of the great body of American farmers,” whose products are ruled in their prices by the ca ble quotations. Far different is Mr. Greeley's case as a manufacturer of Tribunes. Me hope the iron-smelters understand liis beautiful argu ment in their behalf, as they may easily do by turning it upside down and end for end. Let them all combine and each agree to pro duce annually at least ten tons of pig-iron, using its fuel Tribune issues (with H. G.’s essays in, of course,) at four cents a copy. The “mowy price'' of Tribune fuel “may lie higher,” but its “real cos!" to the smelters, whose monopoly it so persistently upholds, would undoubtedly bo “less” than even Nova Scotia coal. The pig-iron thus produced could ho turned into power-presses, and used to print more Tribunes on, with more H. G. essays in them, for the benefit of monopo lists and for the oppression of the people, and these Tribunes could be burned again for the production of still cheaper and more ethereal pig, which, if it could squeal, would say : “We are not the product of dull and earthy matter only; we have been fused by the product of a great mind,and are a fitting monument to the economical genius whose fire inspired us.” Mr. Greeley’s reason number one, which we have wasted too much time upon, may be summed up as follows: A few hundred American manufacturers read and buy Tri bunes, which the foreign manufacturers do not; hence, several millions of American people must pay 60 per cent, more for iron than it is worth. When foreign manufac turers learn to read his paper, we may hope to have a lower tariff Mr. Greeley’s reason number two, “why manufacturers need protection,” is this: England and France are disgustingly rich, and keep so by a sort of manufacturing peerage which lias run in their families for a cheap money with which we cannot campete; therefore, thirty-eight millions of people must pay over to a few hundreds of their number lUO per cent, more than need be on everything they wear or use. But wait “for a century or more,” and we will beat them all hollow, except in iron-making, “which we can never make for so few dol lars as it may be produced for somewhere else. ” Reason number three: Foreigners have the advantage over us of an abundance of skilled artisans; but let not thirty-eight millions of people take that advantage by buying their better wares cheaper; rather let them wait till the United States are as densely popu lated as Western Europe, or shrink to the size of its territory, then they shall have plenty of cheap woollen blankets, padlocks, and wood-scrcws. Reason number four: Perfidious Albion, not satisfied with her enormous wealth, has actually made railway and canal communica tions all over her island, and brings her ores cheaply to the coal bed; and, since the whole length of this English Liliput is but four hundred and odd miles, she can do it very cheaply; but our distances are continental and enormous. Wait until we can “shorten and cheapen these routes;” “give us time;” and then you shall have cheap iron, instead of paying, as now, twenty-three millions a year to one set of men, and twenty millions a year to another set of men to make coal and iron dear. Reason number five: France and England have tht l impertinence to possess l>etter taste in styles and fashions of textile fabrics than American manufacturers; therefore, pay the latter for tlieir bad taste. And ou this point Mr. Greeley offers no hope of amelioration to the thirty-eight millions whom he would see dressed no better than himself. Reason number six: Our people will pre fer foreign fabrics when they arc the best to be had; they arc not patriotic enough to in sist upon homespun. Wait until American human nature changes, and it Ls willing to spend more toil than need be to satisfy any want, then we may import anything we please. Reason number seven: One American mer chant was incapable of seeing tin l merit of Dr. Crosby’s fish-hooks, and had not sense > nougli to recognize as his own the fish-hooks he had just sold him; therefore, thirty-eight millions of people ought to pay twice as much for their fianncLs as they are worth. Reason number eight: Our own dear man ufacturers do not all know their own inter est; instead of jobbing their goods by the 100 pieces, they should liave peddled tlieir are short of clothes, and some of whom are in rugs, and then advertise, like the Waltham Watch Company, in my newspaper— Two dollars a year lor the weekly Tribune, Olt, let my people go; —until which no free trade is possible. Reason number nine, and, thank good ness, the last. Americans are very fond of guzzling stul called French cliampagne, but which turns out to be a pure American ben zine. This is downright fraud, and “fear fully demoralizing. ” Wait until we catch all the roguu alive and put them in jail, meanwhile ‘protecting” ourselves against pure and cleup liquor from abroad, and then we may luct- cheap drink, clothing, iron and frcc-tr.ale. “Secure our own markets to our owu fabricate” by a tariff which puts their goods up t> swindling prices at home and incapacities them for exporting to or com peting in ny other markets of the world:— this, Mr. Irecley tells us, is “beneficent to our county aud all her people, aud con ducive to lie steady progress and diffusion of industiul art throughout the world.” And this » his political economy! - Large Wheat Crop. (JorrtT-pldence of tbe Journal and Messenger. Mr. TJtor : I see iu your paper of July 27, a bo* made on the wheat crop of Jajncs 1). WootU, Pleasant Hill, Talbot couutv. W e sav f J udge W oodall what Henry ( lay said of lmself the Lust time he ran for the Prcsidejy: "Beat again.” James Bowden, of Redlme District, Merriweatlier county, runninihree plows on his farm, raised and thresh*| out nine hundred and thirty-six bushel Juf wheat, making an average of about l| j bushels per acre. “Come, Judge WoodaJ you mast try Redbone again next year. J'U are quite a clever fellow, but you cannotluite shine iu the wheat line this year.” * ours, to,, Run Bone. Avgi 16, 1869, Literary, Scientific and Art News. —The New York Fall Trade sale of liook.s stationery and stereotype plates will take place early in September. Volumes XI and XII, of Mr. Fronde’s “England” are now in press. Tliev com prise the events beginning with the fall of Moisey, and ending with the death of Queen Elizabeth. 1 —A correspondent of the London Sjss-ta tor, describing the gn at bronze foundry of Munich, pronounces Crawford’s “Beetho ven,” now in the Boston Music Hall, “the grandest statue of Germany’s greatest man.” —Mr. Park Godwin, of the N. Y. Evening Post, has jnst returned from Paris, where ho has been engaged for over a year in prepar ing material for the remainder of bus History of France. —The New York Express says: There is authority for stating that at a meeting of prominent New Yorkers at Saratoga, recent ly, Wm. B. Astor expressed his intention to complete the Washington National Monu ment at liis own expense. —An author's protective association has been formed in the city of New York, ami incorporated by the Legislature, with Hor ace Greeley for Honorary Counsellor, and Mary Kyle Dallas for Secretary-Treasurer for the printing and publishing of books] pamphlets and periodicals. —Before leaving Washington Secretary Robeson addressed a letter to Rev. Admiral H. Dtvis, recently in command of the South Atlantic squadron, directing him to proceed to the Isthmus of Panama, and make a survey thereof from Aspinwall to Panama, preparatory to perfecting plans for a ship canal across the isthmus. —M. Bordior, a French historian, having undertaken to prove that such a person as William Tell actually existed, has been ef fectually demolished by M. Rilliet, the learned author of “Origines do la Confedcr tion Suisse, who shows beyond a periulven turo that the mythical hero of Switzerland is nothing but a myth. —The Piritto ncwsptqicr says that the works for cutting through Mount Uenis are advancing so rapidly, as is shown by the monthly account of the progress accomplish ed, that the tunnel will Ik- completed in 1870, and may be opened for traffic at the beginning of 1871, when the retaining walls shall have b«*en terminated. —We learn that Mr. .lames Jackson Janes the well-known cl itic and collector of the “Junes Gallery of Old Masters," now owned by tlie Yale School of Fine Arts has com pleted a work which has long been needed on the art galleries of Europe. He had in" tended publishing it first in Europe, where he had been for some years, but Ims simv changed his mind, and it will lie issued from the Riverside Press in September next. —When Mrs. Stowe was in England she made the acquaintance of Lady Byron, who g ive her a full and circumstantial account of her wedded life and her separation from Lord Byron. The Countess Guiccioli gives her version of the all.dr in Recollections of Lord Byron. Now that the mistress has spoken the wife should lie heard, and in the Septem ber number of the Atlantic Monthly, Mrs. Stowe will tell the True Story of Lad v My ron’s Life. The University of Edinburg lms autho rized the establishment of separate classes for female medical students, an arrangement not found necessary either in France or America, but agreeable to British habits. This concession is due mainly to the energy and perseverance of Miss S. Jex-Bkike, who refused to la* driven out of Great Britain to pursue her studies, and after suffering de feat upon defeat, at last persuaded the Sen ate of the University to open its lecture room to womens. —An interesting assembly has just taken place at Vienna. The Association for tlm Improvement of the position of women re cently opened a class of telegraphy, and nineteen of the pupils were to undergo an examination. The director of u telegraphic company was present, and after the young women had given proof of their theoretical and practical knowledge of the working of the apparatus, the mode of keeping accounts, etc., he rose and announced that all the can didates might at once enter his service. —The spectroscope has taught us that the sun’s atmosphere is totally unlike ours, con turning bodies in the state of vapor, which on our earth are solid. Among tin' most prominent of these constituents are sodium vapor and iron vujmr. It is obvious from this that the temperature of the sun must he very high, and tlie old theory of Hersehel, which has iiiitortuuatcly been repeated over and over again in our astronomical school- Ixx.kn, <lll.l in to the cll'cct that the Still Is a dark, cold body, surrounded by a luminous phosphorescent atmosphere, is exploded. We now know that the sun is a hot, incand escent, molten mass, its temperature being so high that we can with difficulty form u conception of it. —The Faculty of the new University of California, so far as selected, consists of John LeConte, M, D., Acting President and Professor of Physics and Industrial Me chanics; Robert A. Fisher, A. M„ Professor of Chemistry, Mining and Metallurgy; Jo seph LeConte, M. D., Professor of Geology, Natural History, and Botany; Martin iv’l h*gg, A. M., Professor of Ancient laniguagi s; Paul Roda, Professor of Modern Languages; Ezra S. Carr, M. 14., Professor of Agricul ture, Agricultural Chemistry, and Horticul ture; William Swinton, A. M., Professor of English Language and Literature, includ ing Rhetoric and Logic. The Tamil of Sidney Johnston. “Town Talk,’ of the New Orleans Times, gives us the following ; the epitaph is indeed really beautiful and appropriate: A lady correspondent, in a recent stroll through the St. Louis cemetery in this city, visited the grave of General Alliert Sidney Johnston, uml found a written epitaph pasted upon a rough Ward attached to the tomb. In her note to T- TANARUS., our fair cor respondent says she was affected to tears upon reading it, and took the trouble to copy it, verbatim. She begs us to find out tin* author, and she should be gratified in that desire, if it were possible for T. T. to do so. Here is the beautiful epitaph: IN MKMOKIAM. Behiml tli e stone is laid For a season, AI.BEItT Sidney Johnston, A General in the auny of the Confederate tela! m, V\ ho tell at Miiiloh, Tennessee, Ou the sixth day of April, A. D. eighteen bundled and sixiy two; A man tried in many high offices And critical enterprises, And found faithful in all. His life was one long sacrifice of interest to con science ; And even that life, on a woful Sabbath, Did he yield u holocaust at his country’s need. Not wholly Uudirstood was he whilehc lived ; But, iu his death, his greatne s stands confessed In a people's tears. Resolute, moderate, ciear of envy, jet not wanting In that liner ambition which makes men great and pure. In his honor impregnable ; In his simpicity suhluue. No country e’er had a truer.son—no cause anobler champion; No people u nobler defender —no principle a purer victim Than the dead soldier Who sleeps here! _ " rT,c Cause fill which he pClishl'd is lost — I he people for whom he fought are crushed— ... . hopes in which he trusted are shattered— Ihe flag he loved guides no more the charging . lines; But his fame, consigned to the keeping of that time which, Happily, is not so much the tomb of Virtue as its shrine,| fSliall in the years to come, fire modest worth to noble ends. In honor, now, our great captain rests : A bereaved people mourn him. llirce commonwealths proudly claim him; And history shall cherish him Among those choicer spiiits, who, holding their conscience unmixed with hlauie. Have been, in all conjunctures, true to themselves, their country and tlieir God. Chief Justice Chase Favoiiino a New - Pahtv.— lt is said that just after the result of the A irginia election became known Chief Justice Chase wrote a confidential letter to a prominent politician in Tennessee, an old friend of his, wherein he expressed much gratification at the defeat of the bitter-enders in \ irginia, and rejoiced over the success of the conservatives. The Chief Justice ex pressed the hope that results similar to that in T irginia would be produced iu Tennessee. Mississippi and Texas, and strongly hinted that in his opinion the Republican party had served its day, and the time was at hand when anew conservative party should In* formed which would embrace the moderate men of all existing parties. This letter was kept very quiet for some time, but after tlm Tennessee election the geptleman to whom it was addressed seemed to consider the seal of secrecy removed and showed it around quite freely. He refused, however, to give i to the press.— Herald. ■ A man named John, a former employe of the Erie Railroad, has made a confession in which he declares himself the author of the terrible disaster at Carr’s Rock, in Af rih 1868, whereby twenty or thirty persons lost their lives. He says he displaced a rail thereby causing the accident.