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GEORGIA JOURNAL & MESSENGER rUESDAY MORNING, AUGUST '9l: Cuban A flairs. It would require a couple of the most astute Philadelphia lawyers to determine which of the belligerent parties in Cuba is <;i tting the letter of the other. Now De 1; „l; IS has entirely “subdued the rebellion,” and killed, wounded and taken prisoner, more men than are in the entire insurgent force; and now the distinguished leader of the pa triots, Thomas Jordan, has ambuscaded, slaughtered, maimed, captured, routed, driven into the mountains, more Spanish troops than Spain ever sent to the Island. “Cuban advices" and “Havana accounts” are ai diametrically opposed to each other as truth, honor, bravery and chivalry are op p .sod to the character of Thomas Jordan, the calumniator of the fallen chief of the Con federate States —a manacled prisoner. De lc-das gives his note after the manner of Mr. Seward, to “crush the rebellion in ninety cl iys,” andCespedes gives his obligation, pay able at some indefinite time, to establish the independence! of Cuba beyond a peradven ture, if the people will only do their duty. Not having a cent of interest in either note we do not care whether one or both are didionoml. Indeed, we are strongly of opinion that neither will be paid, that De- Kndas will continue to demolish Cespedes, and < Vspedes will continue to demolish De ltodas until the United States will “lift the paper” of both and appoint themselves re ceiver of the whole estate. The United States desire to possess Cuba. England does not care a cent, apparently, France Is pern etly agreeable! in*my event, and neither Spain nor Cuba can hold out whenever the United States is prepared “to trade.” The more Di-Roilas kills and defeats, and tie- more Jerilan routs and destroys, the m ire is accelerated the day when the United Slat* - will interfere in the name of linmani- D and with the concurrence of other nations, mid will say to the Cubans, “you are an nexed, and under the protection of our glo rious (k institution. Elect two Radical Sena tors mid as many Radical members of Cun on ,s as you are entitled to have, and help pay our national debt by being taxed to a point to which not even the most corrupt Cap tain (ieneral ever dreamed of taxing you.” Asa purchase it would be hard to appraise the value of the “Ever-Faitliful Isle” just at present. Neither party could make titles. IJotli might agree to join in the conveyance if the good and valuable consideration is equally divided, and then General Canby might be sent there to conclude the trade a id guard the property. .Might it not be well, after we close the bargain and get the deed, to apply the test oath to all who have taken part in the rebel lion, and thus narrow down the voting con stituency to the negroes and such manage* uTTIe whites as may be pointed out here after. It is the turn of the “Havana account” to extinguish Quosada now. Jordan’s disper sion of the Spanish forces will Vie due about Monday. Martini l.an and the Law of the Laud. Publicists have fitly defined martial law as the suspension of all law, and as only justi fiable in the extreme ease of flagrant war or insurrection when the civil majestrucy is powerless to discharge its duties. It is only a liort time since that a Governor General of Jamaica was arraigned in a British Court for a capital felony in having established mar tial law and ordered executions under it, when the state of insurrection did not just ify a suspension of the established law of the land. The correctness of this view is obvious. . "■,r ■" mi eh h, aoousii ifie i hurts, silence the magistrates, and suspend the operation of the law, free government would necessarily be at ;.n end, mid anarchy, riot and blood* ' he 1 would become the normal condition of society. Since the days of the Barons at Runny- Tuede, it lias been the effort of every free people to protect themselves against such ar bitrary operations of despots as “martiid law.” For this protection lawn have been f . -i and. courts established, the great writ of 7< ■ o-ji<provided, and trial by jury ; .arauteed. For this the inviolability of the citi en's person, papers and effects have been declared, and for this the Constitution has expressly declared that except in the case of invasion or of domestic insurrection, of such magnitude as to render the administra tion of justice by the civil authorities impossi ble, ( on ;ivss shall not have the power to sus pend the writ of habeas corpus. The Con stitution of the United States provides that i very man who is accused of a crime shall be brought before a legally constituted civil magistrate, be confronted with his accuser, have a speedy trial by a jury of bis peers, and iiis guilt or innocence determined. This <st : ‘ cr if the la/el, which cannot, be sus pended except in eases of open war where the civil law is forced to be silent. For upwards of four years —nearly five— profound peace has reigned throughout the lei i " th and breadth of the United States. N r only has there been no invasion or in surrection, but there bus been uothiug ap proaching even an armed riot. Peace has exist. (1 everywhere. Tlie- President has pro el'imed it, The judges have announced it. 1 civilized world knows it. The civil courts have been, opened, and have admiuis t< red the lav,, without obstruction or eom l'—iiit. I lie people have obeyed Rid laws, tyrannical rulers, and dishonest administra tive oiliee in. Titov have submitted to ont e. insult, cruelty, injustice, spoliation mi l slander, with a patient fortitude worthy <•1 all admiration, and they have done so tor the express pnrjiose of depriving their en. uiies if all pretext for denying the exist ence of perfect peace. Rat wli.it do wo soo iu Mississippi in the m 'iith of August, ISW* We are star tied by the promulgation of the following military ord. r. by whioh all courts. State and Fedo r;d. are virtually closed so far as the rights ut tin' citizens of Mississippi are concerned, ami martial law the caprice, passion, pre judice. sordid interest, or party advancement c>t an obscure army officer -are substituted t, r the law of the land. Here is the order, which has already appeared in our tele graphic column : Jackson, Miss., August 2d.— Gen. Ames has i- ict the following order toooimnanders of military p. sts in i landing 1 1 cuelal directs that von do not obey in future any writ of //,iUus corpus is sued by the l . S. District Court or Circuit Courts for the release of prisoners in your custody. Should such a writ or order be served'upon yon, report the fact by tele graph. Is Mississippi invaded? No. Is Missis sippi in a state of insurrection? No. The Courts are open, the law is administered. The people are quiet, law-abiding and pa tient. Why then does this Ames dare to usurp the power to seize and imprison our fellow-citizens in Mississippi, and deny them all right to appeal to the civil tribunals of the country for the protection which the law lias given them? The reason is obvious, but its contemplation is fearfid. The election is about to take place in Mississippi of officers of the State government, and of Senators and Representatives in Congress. The peo ple have manifested a fixed purpose to elect those who are opposed to the Radical party, and the present Administration at Washing ton have resolved to defeat that purpose as prejudicial to their party interests. Bout well has doubtless given Ames instructions as he hits given them to Canby in Virginia. Mississippi must lie saved to the Radicals i ‘■'at any cost." It cannot lx* saved by legal j means. Illegal, violent, corrupt and iniipii- | tous means must l>e employed, and lest the | people should dare to exjwj.se these illegal i operations, they are warned before hand that it they dare to do so they will be arrest ed, and that all hope of redress from the civil authorities shall be denied them. This is the only possible explanation of the order. There was no emergency to provoke it. There has l>een no recent collision between Ames and tlie Courts. It am be only, there fore, a precautionary step to facilitate the defeat of the popular will and the Badicali zation of the government of the State. But what will Chief Justice Chase say to this insolent defiance of his authority? There is not a little bandy-legged lieutenant in Mississippi who would care one straw for a writ from the Supreme Court of the United States, even though it might bear the sign manual of the Chief Justice himself. He is “directed ” by his master "not to obta/ it.” , Heretofore it was only in a state of war that the laws were silent. "Inter anna silent byes.” But, under the benign influences of Grant’s administration, the laws are silent in peace whenever and wherever they inter fere with the success of Boutwell and the Radical party. To this complexion have we come at last. This is our boasted American freedom. This is the “best government the world ever saw.” Tlie Pennsylvania Election. All the accounts wimm we receive from Pennsylvania are extremely encouraging and promise the election of Asa Packer, the Democratic candidate for the Governorship, by a handsome majority. The Radicals are almost prepared to aban don the contest. They are whistling fit fully to keeji up their courage, but they are evidently without hope. John Covode, who even among his asso ciates occupies an unenviable reputation, and who is called “Honest John” on the principle of Incus a non Incendo, is compelled to admit that unless the Administration gives prompt and efficient aid, defeat is cer tain, and Asa Packer, Democrat, will triumph over John W. Geary, a Radical renegade -from the Democratic party of the same stripe as John Cochrane and Daniel E. Sickle's. The aid which the administration is re quired to afford is doubtless Executive inter ference with the Federal office-holders, and the use of the public money us a corruption fund. It is reasonable to suppose that “hon est John’s” request will be promptly granted, and that the edict lias already gone forth, pronouncing the doom of every office-holder in Pennsylvania and in Washington who votes for Packer, or fails to give a goodly sum out of his salary to line honest John’s pockets, and buy votes for Geary, In Pennsylvania, where money is a very powerful agent in persuading popular major ities, especially in deciding the relative merits of candidates for the position of U. S. Senator, a good sized corruption fund would go a long way if faithfully distributed and judiciously used; but in the hands of Honest John it would not go so far. Besides Asa Packer is worth £20,000,000, and he has several rich friends. General Grant recently spent a day with Simon Cameron. He was probably consult ing about how to give “Administration aid;” but how does Forney relish the General’s confidential intimacy with his inveterate en emy, Cameron ? Itobcsou's Combination of Duty and Enjoyment. In the selection of Mr. Secretary Robeson. - y .-i a i nii*v ivmini, ixen. Grant is said to have had more regent to Air. Rolie [ sin’s social qualifies as “a jolly good fellow, which nobody can deny,” than to his ability or knowledge, however remote, of the busi ness of the Navy Department. Thus selected, it has been Air. Robeson’s study, since lie lias been taken from liis little office in Perth-Amboy or Camden, to act as a member of the Cabinet, to display on all occasions the qualifies to which he owes his extraordinary elevation. Beyond signin'* his name to a few papers, in'obedience to the instructions of his naval tutor, Admiral Porter, lie has been as festive, as sprightly, and as jovial as circumstances and opportu nity would allow . Carrying out this festive idea, he has for weeks employed a national vessel, at a cost to the people of several thousand dollars a day, as a pleasure yacht for himself and his “jolly companions every one,” but, in order to avoid the unfavorable comments which crabbed and morose char acters might make upon this festive expend iture of the people’s money, lie says that his cruise is “an inspection tour.” Robeson is a frank man. He does not deny that “the inspection tour” is a good deal of a frolic. He was recently invited to a “banquet by the Union League when lie cruis' il to Philadelphia, and his reply declin ing tlie invitation is a model of adininistra- j tive candor and New Jersey naivete. He says: “A\ e make no pretence of avoiding any enjoyment not inconsistent with duty; in deed, we are endeavoring to combine the two as far as properly may be.” Here we have it. The eruisa is half frolic, half inspection, or perhaps a little more j frolic than inspection. Robeson is endeav- ! oring “to combine” the two. He makes no j pretence—not he—of avoiding any enjoy ment. A\ liy should lie? Was not his well known love of fun the source of liis great ness? Rut, friend Robeson, do you ever think, "'hen you have combined enjoyment and in spection most happily, that the people who are toiling and sweating and fainting in their hourly ellorta to pay the money which the combination costs may not see the fun of the thing as clearly as you do, and that they may think your protracted frolic entirely in consistent with their enjoyment? While Mr. Delano is imposing taxes upon boys playing base ball and ten pins, and upon young Indies playing croquet, thus diminishing Aery sensibly the proportion of enjoyment in their combination of fun and duty, don’t you think it would be decent in you to make an other effort and endeavor to throw into the combination just a little more duty and subtract a little of the enjoyment? Or might you not propose that you and your companions should pay the expense of the funny part of the cruise and onlv leave tiro people to pay for the duty? Take care. Mr. Secretary, or the people may get angry, stop your fun, and say to you: “Oh ! Mr. Robeson-Cruise £> Wby did you for to do so ?” Requisites for Proper Education. , The National Convention of Teachers, at Iren ton. New Jersey, adopted the following comprehensive resolution: Resohed, that the American Normal As sociation indorses the following as true and important principles of education: First, a science taught as a whole, instead of limit mg to one fragmentary text book. Second, ad the intellectual faculties developed, nat urally systematically, and logii-ulv. Third no education in a science without under standing its principles and facts illustrated, i-ourth a knowledge and absolute mastery ot the fundamental branches of a practical English education before entering upon other studies. Fifth, full explanation and illustration of all branches by apparatus, ob ject blackboards, pictures—all approved modern methods. Sixth, instructions made entertaining, and the study and recitation rooms] attractive. Seventh, thorough, solid and practical instruction, liberal education, and equal advantages for women. Eighth, fortitude and firmness of character culti vated, and principles of industry, integrity, virtue and honor inculcated alike in both sexes. Ninth, co-education of the sexes,- un der the prayerful guidance, careful watchful ness. and firm discipline of instructors. Tenth, the study and practice of teaching, which is both a science and an art, enables the student to acquire and comprehend all knowledge and skill to him attainable, Eleventh, physical training by calisthenics. gymuasticity, military ‘ tactics, field games and sports, and the gyuasium —ony or The Press Excursion. FROM am OWN OOBKESPOXDENT. Ox Board the Steamer Etow ah; ) __ August 28, 1869. \ M e reached Rome yesterday morning about 1 h, o’clock, bat as vonr correspondent w-as comfortably provided for on hoard the elegant sleeping car, Alorpheus, he knew nothing about it until long after daylight. A short walk brought us to the Choice House, where an elegant and substantial breakfast had been prepared for the party After breakfast I took a look around tho city. I laid not seen it for alxmt fourteen years, and could scarcely realize the changes which have taken place 'in that time. From a snug town of 2.0(H) inhabitants it has grown into a flourishing citv of about 6,000 stirring, go-ahead people. 'Elegant blocks of brick buildings have risen where small wooden tenements were seen a few years ago, and tasty residences now crown the hills that, when I knew Rome, was covered with the forest growth. The Selma, Rome and Dalton Railroad running, as it does, through a section of country which is not surpassed in natural resources by any other section of the Union, has greatly increased the l trade of It une, while the Coosa River, a line navigable stream, brings to this place tlie trade of a remarkably fertile and flour ishing country. At 3 o’clock, Friday afternoon, the party went on board tlie steamer Etowah, one of a line of boats running on the Coosa river, of which Colonel Wade S. Cothran is Presi dent, and Captain J. Al. Elliott Superinten dent, and proceeded down the river. I have never seen a finer country than that through which this river runs. I saw lands which will produce the present season 60 bushels r f corn to the acre, and was told that the yield would have been greater if the season had lieeu favorable. At an early hour this morning, we reached a point in Cherokee county, Alabama, near the Round Mountain iron works, and about simiise it jnuxnxu wr cuv x-—*•,, i-v» them. After a walk of nearly a mile we came to what was, before the war, one of tlie most flourishing establishments in this country, but, thanks to our patriotic friends in blue, they are now a mass of ruins. In tlie hands of capitalists, these works can he made among the most profitable in the South. The Round Alonutains, at whose base they were constructed, contains an in exhaustible supply of iron ore of exceeding richness, while there is an abundance of coal within eight miles of the works. The prop erty belongs to Captain Elliott, of Rome, who will rebuild and put the works in order as soon as lie can command the necessary capital. Four miles further down the river, we came to Cedar Bluff, also in Cherokee county, near which are situated the Corn wall Iron Works, to visit which was the main object of our trip down the Coosa. They are two and three quarter miles from the landing, and as the sun was hot, and the party large, it became a question with some of us how to get there. A walk of a quarter of a mile brought ns to Cedar Bluff, which now has somewhat the appearance of a deserted village. It was at one time quite a flourish ing place, with its newspaper and its Court house. But the Court-house was removed to Centre, seven miles off, and the newspa per and the trade seem to have followed it. The Yankees burned up and tore down nine buildings, and the few left are rather “scat tering.” I saw a dry goods store, and learned that there was also a “grocery,” where some of our party found two kinds of whisky— “rectified anil onrec tilled.” About eleven o’clock, six or seven wagons came in from tin* works loaded with pig iron, and it was understood that our party were to furnish the return loads. This was good news to your correspondent, for besides be ing a jioor walkist, as before remarked, the day was warm, and the miles in this country are full measure. AVe have had all sorts of riding since we came on this excursion, but this ride to the Cornwall Alines was the ride of the trijj. Tlie wagons were void of springs and the road was rough. Part of it, was a nbi-road, but unfortunately the rails were laid across the road. Besides, the driver rode one of his mules, and I think had no idea how rough the road was—at all events, it seemed so, for he took us at break-neck speed over the very worst places. But tlie roughest as well as the longest road must have an end, and we eventually reached our destination, but the party, like Liukum Longcole, in the “Charcoal Sketches,” was “bumped s >vi re.” The Cornwall Iron Works are in Cherokee -o .j Xfj iau\i Hum'Aiumv aim i i>v water. it is owned by a stock company, of which Col. Wade S. Cotlirau, of Rome, is President. Air. L. L. Thomason is tlie Superintendent of the works, and he seems to be an intelli gent gentleman, and just the man for the place. Prom Air. Thomason we gathered the following facts : That the ore is fossihferous and yields from 60 to 66 per cent, of iron; that it is found in inexhaustible quantities at a distance of 1* 4 to 2 1 ._> miles from the works, and that it makes a tougher and stronger iron than is found anywhere else in tlie United States. This iron is particularly valuable for car wheels, and commands a higher price by £3 a ton than any other iron used. There are two furnaces at these works, but at present they are working only one, mak ing from 8 to 11 tons of pig iron a day, or from 6o to to tons per week. The company are now making arrangements to run both furnaces, when they will be enabled to turn out double the present quantity. To give some idea of the value of these works, and the immense profits they pay, I was informed the. in the month of June last, (the first month’s business since they were rebuilt, the Yankees having destroyed them during the war,) they yielded a clear profit of £37oo—and that* they will proba ly pay the stockholders in twelve months, from £50,000 to £60,000, on a capital of only £6O.(MX). That seems to be a money mak ing busines . After partaking of a first rate barbecue, the party left once more for the boat, and re-embarked for the homeward trip. We expect to reach Rome curly to-morrow morn ing, and to spend Sunday there. The trip thus far has been a most delightful one, and promises to be of great benefit. To-night we expect a speech from Col. Halbert, de veloping liis railroad policy, of which I will tell you in my next. u. Judge Dent’s Canvass in Missis sippi. rrom the apparently reckless manner in which Judge Dent has burned his ships be hind him by writing his scathing letter to ►Secretary Rout well, it would seem that he does not ;.t tell much value to the influence of his brother-in-law in Mississippi, but thinks ho can “go it alone” and win. It he believed that the support of the ad ministration was important to his success, he certainly made an impolitic move in writing as he did to Bontwell, for there is nothing a weak man will not forgive sooner than be ing charged with being led and managed by a subordinate. If, on the other hand, he feels that the Conservatism of Mississippi is so strong as to defy Executive interference, military opjiosition, adverse registration, carpet-bag rascality and negro stupidity, and that lie can win on his merits and the i inherent strength of his cause, he did right I to throw down the gauntlet of defiance, and to give Rout well the “cruel and unusual punishment” which his letter inflicts. No one can doubt the justice and force of every line of his letter. No one has one par ticle of symyathv with the writhing of the baf fled impeaoher of “hole in the sky” celebri ty; but wlieu we remember the power which a military government possesses, how the registration can be ••fixed.” the registration lists doctored, the ballot-boxes “arranged,” and then the ballots counted—how the polling places can be distributed to favor a negro majority, and how a desired result may be declared regardless of registration lists, bal lots, counts and majorities, as we know to our sorrow in Georgia, we fear that Judge Dent has been too sanguine, and that it would have been wiser not to have split so completely from the brother-in-law associa tion. General Grant could have forgiven the al lusion to lus Radicalism and the severe com mentaries upon his polities; lmt he will never forgive the man who has accused him of l>eiug the subservient tool of George B. R> >ut well. —Rev. Father McMahon, by the advice of eminent counsel in the United States, will at an early day proceed to Washington and represent his wrongs to the Cabinet, de manding damages for false imprisonment, <fce., from the Canadian government. He is now suffering from partial paralysis, lung disease, and other afflictions, caused by his prison life. —The works of the lute Thomas Hood, containing all the author's quaint illustra tions and many others, by Leech, Cniik sliank and Harvey, are to be re-issued in London in eight quarterly volumes at ss, or thirty-six monthly parts at Is. GEORGIA JOURNAL AND MESSENGER. Tlie End of a Twenty Years Fraud. Correspondence of the Journal of Commerce. Washington August 19. Before many of ns were lioru. a Spaniard , by the name of Don Pedro Armeudariz. lived in the vicinity of the River Bravo. ! New Mexico. He owned a little patch of ground upon whi-h lie made a bring by fat tening live "slock. His eyes rested covetous ly upon a tract of several leagues on Ra west bank of the Bravo, or Grande del I Norte, the present site of Fori Craig. Be lieving that he-eould do well with it, 1h- ap plied by petition to Fat-undo Melgares, then Spanish. Colonial Governor of that region, for a grant of several square leagues. It was ordered by his serene highness, Melgares, under the royal seal, to be placed in liis, Don Pedro s, possession. This was early in the year 1820. The Don U .light more cattle aud drove them over to the Bravo, where they might feast luxuriously upon the ample domain of tall clover and timothy. Till 1X25, this pasture fattened liis oxen, but the cattle thieves became so numerous that they ruined his business, and he w.is forced by this circumstance to abandon his possessions. In a few years Don Pedro died. In Febru ary, 1848, a treaty was negotiated at Guada loupe Hidalgo, between the United States and Mexico, ceding certain portions of the Alexican Republic, among which was New Mexico, to the United States. By this treaty, title to a grant under Spanish or Mexican authority was to la* recognized bv the United States, subject to the same con ditions and laws as under Spanish and Mex ican laws in force at the date of the treaty. In July, 1848, the army officers in New Mexico were ordered to select a site for a fort. They at once took the west bank of the Bravo. They had not been there long before parties came forward representing that they were the heirs of Don Pedro, and .that the site was their property. A bargain was struck; whereby the lands were leased to the government for five years at the nomifc I.UII irut UI une UUlliU j/V-i. uhimm. ***~ J* in the year 1849. In 1854 the lease was <4 newed for ten years at the same rent, and the obliging United States officers agreed to the insertion of a stipulation that all im provements made by the government should inure to the owners at the expiration of the lease. The lease was rejected by* Quarter master-General Jessup at the time of its re ception, but no attention was paid to that. Meantime the government had expended £50,000, gold, in improvements when tin lease expired in 1864. A renewal was asked and granted, and now began the villainy in earnest. A clause was inserted in the new lease providing that £2,000 per annum, in gold, should lit* allowed the lessors for the occupancy of their buildings and lands. This was not discovered here till 1865, when a year’s rent was claimed. The aston ished Quartermaster General referred the matter to the accounting officers of the Treasury Department, who in turn referred it to the Commissioner of the General Land Office. But Don Pedro’s heirs had learned a thing or two in all this time. Judge John S. Watts, delegate in the Thirty-seventh Con gress from New Alexico, was at an early date retained as their counsel. Before he went to Congress he helped to secure the passage by that body of an act, approved June 21,1860, confirming certain land grants in New Mexico and elsewhere. Among them it was claimed was this, though it was not men tioned in the act. The land office commissioner searched for original title to tlie lands. Melgares had neglected to give one; so really Don Pedro had not even possessory right to them while his cattle were grazing there. Besides, the plain est and first principles of Spanish aud Alexi o m law, from the time of Charles 1., King of Spain, required in donating the public domain: Ist. Actual settlement. 2d. Improvement of the grant. 3d. Remaining in possession. 4th. That selections by the Government of sites for military purposes were at all times to be made without reference to royal grants. Aud how stood this ease? Besides having no title Armeudariz had never resided upon the laud. He had never expended one penny in money or labor in improvements. The tract had been abandoned over forty years. The Government had erected a fort and its accompanying buildings upon the site, and had made it a depot of supplies, a very im portant military post. Any one of the facts vested the title by express terms of the treaty of Guadaloupe Hidalgo, in the United States. But the shrewd judge pointed to liis law swereil. In the determination of suits insti tuted by the terms of that law, the courts are obliged to be governed by the treaty of Guadaloupe Hidalgo, the law of nations, the laws, usages and customs of the government from which the claim is derived, the princi ples of equity, and the decisions of the Su preme Court of the United States, so far as they are applicable. The case was subjected to each of these tests, and did not stand a shadow of a chance. Here we have the last paragraph of the land office decision, which was ably worked up by the present commissioner, chief clerk at the time. It reads: “The absolute right of the United States to Fort Craig Reservation then, rests upon a principle too well estab lished to ile disturbed, and as a consequence, no claims thereto, either in law or equity, is acknowledged by this office as existing thereto in the Armendariz claimants.” Since 1865, when this decision was given, the case has been pending in tlie Treasury Depart ment. Tt has undergone a thorough exam ination during the last three months, con suming one person’s whole time, and is summed up now in a voluminous decision, which will be forwarded to Judge Watts next week. The substance of the seventy pages may be stated in two words—Claim rejected. Correspondence Journal and Messenger. Letter from olerivv etlier. Superior Court—Array of Legal Talent—Judge Bigby—Crops—Labor—Hot Weatlu r. Mr. Editor: The Superior Court of Meri wether convened at Greenville on Monday last. Judge Rigby presiding. On account of the unsettled condition of our country we have had no session of the Superior Court during the past eighteen (IS) months. The removal of Judge Collier by him of Opera Hi >nso notoriety last year prevented the hold ing of the August term for that year. A change of circuits by the Legislature caused us to miss our February term, and hence our present term found a teaming docket and overflowing jail. Such ail array of legal talent lias, perhaps, never been seen at our Court lief ore. From Talbot ton we had Judge Worrell, Willis, and Bulloch ; from Lagrange, Judge Bigham, Mabry, and Strickland ; from At lanta, Dougherty and Mynatt; from Newnan. Buchanan and Smith. ' Your city was rep resented by Col. Barnard Hill. Judge Bigby presided with dignity and gave universal satisfaction. We found him the Christian gentleman, as well as the learned and upright jurist. The only won der is that Bulloch should have made such an appointment. As this was our first Court during the past year and a half, we had an unusually large turnout of our citizens, yet we saw not a single drunken man, nor heard even an oath. What higher proof could be desired of the excellent character of our citizens ? So far as Meriwether is concerned we need no Reconstruction from a corrupt and drunk en Congress. The “man and brother” was largely represented inside the Bar and in the lobby. No convictions were bail for capital offences. Crops wore represented as sorry. The present protracted spell of dry weather is very damaging to both corn and cotton; the rust is spreading rapidly in the cotton fields. Our people invested largely in commercial fertilizers, and at one time the farming pros pects were unusually promising. Not more than a half erop will be made. Although the rust is making greater headway in fields where guanos have been applied* still the farmers are pleased with their experiments and design repeating them upon a more ex tended scale next year. The freedmen have worked well this year. It requires some j skill to manage them aright, but where prop er care has been taken they have shown them- ! selves the laborers best fitted to till onr Southern Lands. Though onr supply is limi ted, I bear no desire expressed to fill their places with any class of foreign emigrants. ! The hot weather has l>eon a theme of eon- ! stunt discussion the past week. That ven erable old gent yclept,the “oldest inhabitant" I unhesitatingly affirms that such intensely scorcliing weather has never l>een known ! before. Nothing save an Etliiop or a Sala mander can labor long now and not grow faint. August 23 d. ISfifi. Rrd Bose. — —The Imperialist, Grant’s own organ, is j after the newspaper reporters who correctly register Grant's stupid savings and doings, and says: “It is time these sneaking pests \ were muzzled.” THE NEWS. i —Eighty Chines.-- were robbed of their racucs by hair thieves, on the day of their arrival in San Francisco, —There were ten fatal cases of siui-stroke u St. Louis Monday. The mercury stood at 102 in tlie shade. * -—Philadelphia recently burned up 30,000 barrels of whisky. Since then she has not 1 5* 1 a drop of rain. I —The peach stones east aside by the armies 1 it Petersburg have shot up into a grove of I tecs forty-five miles long, which is now I Kided with fruit —A new cattie disease has appeared at .Shrews'Miry, AIo. The bronchial tubes of 1 'laughtered animals are filled with thread -1 ike moths. j —The Mobile Register says : The London _ 1 Times convulsively rejects Airs. Stowe’s By -1 ; on emetic. So will the world, all except the icticidal New Englandresses. . —The reporters of the New York papers fare already at Halifax, waiting the arrival of Prince Arthur, when they propose to "inter* 1 new ” him. —Air. James AI. Duryen. of Charleston, S. (.. was instantly killed. Thursday morning, joy the discharge of a pistol, which he was I examining, preparatory to cleaning. Johnny Pendegrast, the minstrel, chose his coffin in jest from a warehouse in Pitts burg the other day, and in twenty-four hours he occupied it. Emigration on a large scale is being organ ized from. England to Brazil, aud vessels will cam' emigrants lroui the ports of Liverpool, Loudon and Newcastle free of charge. —A San Francisco letter, dated August -4. says : "All that we want in California is money and muscle—of talent we have had a surplus. Os amusements, we have had a «irfpit ” —We understand, says the Amerieus Re publican, that the Southwestern Railroad Company, contemplate building a large early and iv" t! “‘ J e l i’ l this place, at an —A. T. Stewart says his business neiu was better than this year, and that he lias never advertised so much before. He gives liis advertisements credit for keeping his trade lively in dull times. —A candidate in the interests of the work ing-men, for the Majority, is to be brought out in Nashville. Tins will make eight aspi rants for that office. The race promises to be an exciting one. —The Dawson Journal says that six plat form cars, for construction purposes, were shipped on tlie 23d, from the Dawson Manu facturing Company’s Works, for tho Bruns wick k Albany Railroad. Other shipments of similar cal's are to follow in a few days. —The United States Government has en tered suit on tobacco transportation bonds against forty-two persons residing in and in the neighborhood of the town of Danville, Ya., it being alleged that they have vio lated the conditions stipulated in said bonds. —Mr. Tennyson and his party were inex pressibly annoyed, while in Switzerland, by the hero worshippers, who stole every piece of property that they imagined might have belonged to the poet, for relies. Even the most worthless articles were appropriated by the treasure-seeking thieves. * —The Associate Editor of the Amerieus Courier, after an absence of two weeks has returned. He reports many revivals of re ligion in Southwestern Georgia. Respecting the cotton crop he says : Cotton is rusting. A close inspection, and a practical knowledge of the plant, convinces him that the staple will be doubly short. —The New York Sun gives some interest ing facts about the famous Forrest divorce suit. Tt seems that Airs. Forrest lias re ceived but £IOOO out of the £60,000 alimony paid by Air. Forrest. Tlie rest has been ab sorbed in costs and counsel fees, Air. O’Con nor, of course, taking the lion’s share. An other illustration of the unprofitableness of litigation. —Si vend of the Indian Peace Commis sioners had a council on Saturday, August 21, at Camp Supply, Indian Territory, with the Cheyennes and Arapalioes. A large number of Chiefs were present, and two thousand men, women and children. A dis patch from Commissioner Dodge represents that excellent peace speeches were made by tin- Indians, and that the results of the council were nmt favorable. —lu characterizing posthumous fame, re marks the Boston Traveler, Byron very aptly said it was: “to have, when the original is ilust, X'<foF’’HVu. n . wre,tel.e,t wet tire Mff’iepS than a half century after liis death, his mem ory would become a target for tlie vilest, most mendacious and glnml-like attack that ever stained the annals of printing. —The manner in which the laws of the State are overridden in "Virginia at the dic tum of the one-man power is illustrated in the following sentence; “At Pittsylvania County Court last Monday, Win. Lesliy, who was removed from tlie office of sheriff a month ago because In* could not give tlie usual bond, appeared and took tho office again by order of General Canby, without giving any security. —A correspondent informs the Huntsville Democrat that a negro man was shot and killed by certain Radicals in Marshall county, Ala., on the 23d August. Tlie murdered ne gro voted the Democratic ticket at the last election. Hence he was deemed no longer worthy to live. Many outrages have recent ly been committed in that section by Radi cals—all of which have been laid on tlie Ku- Klux. j —A London correspondent of the Boston ! Traveller, to illusti ate the universal fondness i for rowing ■which prevails in England, says: “ I saw a four-oared boat on the river, a few days ago, manned as follows: Bald-headed old gentlemen pulling stroke, two daughters amidships, small boy bow, and a very small boy coxswain. They were pulling well—a good stroke —clean through the water, and in a narrow boat, too; I think it was a shell.” —ln Louisiana the crop prospects are re ported to be good. Bust and the premature opening of the bolls of cotton on account of the drought, are reported in some sections, but on the whole the cotton crop reports are favorable. In those sections where drought is injuring cotton, it is generally stated that if rain falls soon much of the anticipated damage may yet be avoided. —Dr. Mooers, a much respected and be nevolent physician of Plattsburg, N. Y., died some weeks since. While his funeral was being attended at the Presbyterian Church, of which he was a member, mass was being recited in both the Catholic i Churches for the repose of his soul. The Irish and the French residents, whose poor he ha l attended without charge, desired this done. —Roseoranz is about to organize a com pany to build a railroad from the city of Mexico to Acapulco on the Pacific coast. - —The invitations to the first wedding in Atlantic City, Wyoming Territory, were sent oil playing cards, the only article of that kind the country afforded. —Blacque Bey, the Turkish Minister, gave a dinner party at White Sulphur Springs, Va., on Thursday week, at w hich Generals Lei>, Beauregard, and others were present —The Mount Vernon Banner (Indiana) says : “Wheat continues to come in rapidly. About 50)000 bushels have been purchased so far. Prices range from SI to SI 30.” —While the white citizens of White Plains are engaged in a religions revival, the color ed brethren, says the Greensboro Herald, are amusing themselves by firing volleys from their revolvers into white men’s dwell ings. —Fifty-five Swiss families who recently located in Grundy county, Tennessee, are having the titles to their lands disputed, and much uneasiness is felt in that section lest they be swindled out of their homes. —Some old French pear trees in Detroit, Michigan, full of fruit this year, wore raised in the nurseries of France, brought to Detroit, and planted nearly a century and three-quarters ago. —Queen Victoria has set the style in favor of riding habits as short as the ordinary walking-dress, but gored on the inner side exactly to fit the conformation of the saddle, and so heavily shotted as not to rise. —Major Willis H. Clailxmie, only son of CoL J. F. H. Clailx>me, died on the 13th inst., near Natchez, aged Mi years, and in conformity w ith his last request, was buried in his Confederate uniform. The A theme um says of the recently dis covered diary of Lord Palmerston: “All his great contemporaries figure in it, and they are said to be drawn by a lx>ld and masterly Land. ” —The Montreal papers give bad accounts of the crops throughout Canada. A few weeks ago the crops promised universally to l>e the finest which had bceu gathered for many years back; but the recent rains have lieen very destructive, —The great yield of w heat and the finan cial necessities of the farmers is causing a wonderful movement of grain into Toledo and other centres, the warehouses of the city named having for a few days past received about 100,000 bushels daily, —A man named Dyre, at Decatur, Miolii- I pan. gave liis. child half a glass of alcohol while himself intoxicated, recently, which I killed it. —A man by the name of Jenkins risked j his life, last week, by crossing the Niagara | river, below the Falls, on a velocipede. A large crowd was in attendance. —The American Association for the Ad vancement of Science has declared for a uni form coinage, to be secured by altering the present value of our gold dollar. —The Sheriff of Fayette county, Tenn., has the citizens of Macon under arms day and night, in anticipation of a negro riot. Forty of the Litter are already put in jail at Summerville. —At the stock sale in Versailles, Ivy., last week, about fifty head iff young cattle sold at prices ranging from of" 6 cents. A few mules sold at fair prices; yearlings at BSob* 100; two-year-olds from S140(" 1(50 per head. —A negro revival is progressing in Buck ingham couuty, Na., and has been under wav for several weeks past. The excitement amongst the colored population is said to am Mint to a state of frenzy. —Tl>« Nash vile Fanner reports that V. Britt. 1. Britt and \Y. Andrews were killed, aud T. L. Taylor, Bug Steward, Bell An drews and James Henry badly wounded, a - Wilderville, West Tennessee, a few days ago, during a drunken quarrel. —The Omaha Herald, of recent date, says a considerable number of Chinese laborers are on their way to that city to go to work on a bridge across the Missouri river. The San Francisco Dispatch says: \\ e shall next hear of them in Missouri, aud then all over the country. —Bolineaux, a French gambler, has writ ten to the President requesting license to open a gambling saloon in New York on the Baden Baden plan, paying a portion of the profits in the Treasury, and being under tlic surveillance of the police. —The Home Courier received a mammoth melon, weighing 55 pounds, from Mr. Wm. McGhee, of Cherokee couuty, Ala., who presented to the press excursion party one - l ii^ l )kcn,"i:»i ~ niall - s litv was saved by a piece ot w halebone m n, . corset. A man stubbed her, but the piece of whalebone bent the blade of the weapon nearly double. The would-be murderer was arrested. $£ —Tiie Americus Republican is informed that the negroes on ('apt. John A. Cobb’s plantation, caught an opossum a few nights since whose net w eight was 42 pounds. Mr. John Morgan weighing it. This is hard to believe, yet it comes from a truthful source. —The Ute and Apache Indians at Cimar ron (New Mexico) Agency are opposed to going upon the reservation set apart for their use, and most of them have left the agency. It is feared that they are endeavoring to arouse other tribes to join them in a consoli dated resistance to the Government. —The New York Express says the burglar who escaped from the Tombs, through a six-iuoli aperture, would make a good South ern eayx't-baggcr. The carpet-baggers, when caught in a tight place, (which is often) can manage to squeeze out almost through a pin hole. —The hog crop of lower East Tennessee is greater than it lias been in any one year since the war, but, owing to the fall off in the corn crop, there is but little doing in that line. Hogs are being offered at five cents gross, but buyers do not appear to take hold at these figures. —The Agricultural Department’s report for August states that the probabilities are that the corn cop will fall considerably be low that of last year, and that the cotton crop will be as large, if not larger, than that of 1868. —The fly pest is a sad infliction in some parts of Missouri. The Gentry county News of Lust week, says: “A horse belonging to Mr. A. J. Bulla was so badly bitten by flies last week that it died, and we hear that in many pLices farmers have to do their work at night on account of this plague. —A Texas correspondent of the Mobile Register says thousands of dollars are sent North to purchase agricultural machinery, much of which is worthless, expressly gotten up for a Southern market and unsaleable at home, upon which as high as 150 per cent, profit is realized. —A man named Shy was found dead, with a bullet-hole through his head, in Sumner couuty, Tennessee, a few days since. This is the same man that was tried for killing negroes some time since, and was not con victed. A coroner’s inquest was held, but who Tlid’'fiie’feilling."*'*'' 1 The Richmond Enquirer says: The drought continues in Virginia, aud the corn crop is, we presume, already destroyed. The tobacco crop, we fear, will be reduced one-half. The reports of the corn crop in North Carolina and Maryland are equally unfavorable. lt seems, says the N. Y. World, the Chinese government has rejected the treaty made by Minister Burlingame with Seward aud confirmed by our Senate. This puts their American representative in an awkward position, and undoes all he has done both in Europe and this country. —-At Nashville, a few days ago, a little boy six years old, named Ryan, was drawing a child's wagon back and forth in the yard, and, stepping backward fell into a kettle of boiling water that was on a fire built in the yard. He was terribly scalded before his mother, who was in the house, reached him and took him out. —Mr. Banting brings the history of his experience down to the May of this year. During five years he has never varied in weight more than a few pounds, and he has even ventured to experiment with the for bidden elements of diet, in order to discover which was the most productive of fat. Sugar takes the lead. The Locks In the Treasury Depart ment.! A STARTLING FACT DEVELOPED—ALU OF THEM PICKED. Washington, August 22, 1869. An experiment made yesterday, by con sent of Treasury officials, developed the startling fact that there is not a lock in the Treasury Department which may not be picked with comparative ease. Sometime ago Mi - . A. B. Mullet, the supervising archi tect, was informed by Mr. James Sargent, of Rochester, New York, that the combina tion locks adopted by the Government and in general use, not only in the vaults at the Treasury building, but in those of the pub lic buildings and banks throughout the country, could be opened with ease, without injuring tlie locks or attracting attention, and that he was ready at any time to prove this assertion. On Saturday Mr. Sargent arrived here and called upon Mr. Mullet to give him an illustration, not so much of his skill as a lockpickcr as of the ease with which the “unpickable locks” iu the Treasury could be opened. He commenced operations on the safe used by Mr. Mullet, and in one hour and seven minutes, ami without any noise, had the same access to the interior of the safe that Mr. Mullet, had with his knowledge of the combination to which his lock was set. General Spinner, the custo dian of the funds, was notified of what hail been done, and hastened to the room of Mr. Mullet, where Mr. Sargent again gave him proof of the insecurity of the locks. It is G moral Spinner’s custom to try every door of the vaults and safes of his office after office hours, and on Saturday, after Mr. Sar gent’s experme-nt, lie spent a little extra time in examining the exterior mechanism of the different parts of the safe as he passed from room to room. He will now have every lock thoroughly examined, and efforts will at once be made to secure some sort of a lock that will be burglar proof. —Corn s ponde/ioe Baltimore Sun, A Ni:w Financial Scheme. —The New Fork Heralds Washington dispatch says: ihe movement, alluded to some time ago, favoring the modification of laws affecting incomes has assumed a more general charac ter. The plan proposed is to increase the tax on whisky to one dollar per gallon, which, it is claimed, will realize 8,000,000, if the means now within reach of the Revenue Bu reau for the prevention of fraud shall be adopted. From tobacco at least 8300,000 can be realized. From stamps, with a modifica tion of the present law? say, 310,000,000; from fermented liquors, $10,000,000; from license, $10,000,000, and there from the mod ified income tax, but 15,000,000 would be re quired to make a total of $155,000,000, an amount equal to Secretary Bout well’s esti mate for the present fiscal year. The plan is to confine the income tax to the tax on the interest paid on the national debt, the 5 per cent, to lx: deducted when the interest is paid: This will realize $02,555,000, with out a dollar of expense incurred in the col lection. The balance it is proposed to raise by taxing incomes derived from surplus property embraced in the stock of banks, railroads and other coporations, and from interest paid oij the bonds of such corpora tions, C ircumstance* Attending the Cap ture of President Davis. I.ETTF.U FKOM HON. J. H. REAGAN. Palestine. (Texas.) August 10, 1860. To th? fi dresitm J!faws: I find the following passages in what pur ports to be a speech delivered in the Con vention of Texas on the 6tli of January. lNO'.t, by Judge L. D. Evans, under the heading,in large letters, “THEY WANT AN EMPIRE.” “ On the fall of Richmond, Jefferson Davis started tlie Confederate treasury Westward, . deluding himself with the dream of a trans- Mississippi empire. “ I asked his Postmaster-General, Mr. Reagan, how it was that the President- of their Confederacy should be caught with his baggage wagons in the awkward plight of be ing under his wife’s cloak. He informed me that Davis had left his trains and struck for the seaboard, when after a day’s ride.hearing that the Confederate forces had disbanded, and would probably endanger tin* safety of liis family, he returned. “ I suspect that Davis feared more for the safety of his Confederate treasury, which he hoped to get safely into Texas., where, had Magruder been able t« > keep his army together, a nucleus for the material of war would Lave enabled him to continue the struggle.” The speech containing these passages was extensively circulated through Texas last spring, and was sent to myself and others here. I then intended to call attention to the errors in the above paragraphs, but in the hurry of business, neglected to do so. A new batch of these speeches is now being cir culated through the State, and L am favored with a second crop. On the first paragraph of the above, 1 have only to sav that on the fall of Richmond President Davis did not start “ deluding him self with the dream of a Trans-Mississippi empire.” He left Richmond with the hope of uniting the armies of Generals Lee and Johnston, and with the further hope, after this should be done,of meeting and defeating the armies of Generals Sherman and Grant before they could form a junction; or, if this could not be done, of occupying the first fa—-* defensive fine which might bo chosen after the junction or u..» forces of Generals Lee and Johnston. Desperate as me for tunes of war then were for the Confederacy, he had not abandoned the hope of carrying on the struggle East of the Mississippi. On the second paragraph I have to say that Mr. Davis and his Cabinet and staff offi cers left their baggage wagon and all their personal baggage, exeept such as each took for himself in his saddle-bags, at Abbeville, South Carolina. The train w hiehcarried such supplies os were taken from that to Washing ton, Georgia, and what funds still remained in the Confederate treasury, were under the escort of the few remaining cavalry troops. And this train went no further than the latter place. Some days after leaving Washing* >n, Mr. Davis was captured in the Southern part of that State. While at Danville, Virginia, he learned of the surrender of General Lee, and shortly after he left Charlotte, North Carolina, he learned of the surrender of General Johnston. So it is seen he was .not “caught with his baggage wagons;” that he had long before known of the surrender of the armies, in that part of the Confederacy; that he had no train to return to; and that he did not then, for the first time, learn of the disbanding of the Confederate forces as the inducement to liis return to his trains. I have not seen Judge Evans since No vember, 1865, and do not remember <>r be lieve that he ever asked me the question he puts in this paragraph. And I am sure 1 could not have made him tlie answer he puts in my mouth, for it would have been untrue in fact. Mr. Davis’family left Richmond in March, perhaps in the early part of that month. Richmond was evacuated on the 2d of April. He did not see liis family alter they left Richmond, until a little before d.iyligli <>n flu? 7th of May, when he, happening to hear of them, and that they were in serious dan ger, accompanied by a few faithful friends, had gone to their relief. He aud those friends traveled w ith liis family that day, and camped with them that night, The next morning they separated, but, from inaeuratc informa tion as to roads, were again bv acrid *nt thrown together in the evening, and camped together that night, traveled together the next day, and were captured at daylight the next morning, the 10th of May. As lie had not previously seen his family after they left Richmond, there was no returning to them. v,ii mt; mnu pai.-tgrapn 1 Have to say that Judge Evans’ suspicious that Mr. J )avis ft >ared more for the safety of his Confederate treas ury than for his family, is mere mental spec ulation, without the support of facts. The Confederate treasure at Washington,Georgia, consisted, as was supposed, of some eighty five thousand dollars in gold, some thirty or thirty-five thousand dollars in silver coin, about the same amount in silver bullion, and between six and seven hundred thousand dollars in Confederate Treasury notes. The silver coin was paid to the troops who were there, so much to each man and officer, with out reference to rank, its it wiis too bulky and inconvenient, under the circumstances which surrounded us,to lie safely transported to our depositories at Bermuda, Nassau or Liverpool. For the same reason, the silver bullion was turned over to a Major Moses of the commissary department, and was left at Washington in an ordinary warehouse. The gold was placed in the hands of two officers of the Confederate navy, then there, with in structions to convey it, as soon as this could safely he done, to one of the depositories above named. prison I saw state ments in the New York papers that amounts of gold and silver bullion corresponding with the above hail been captured by the Federal forces. Before leaving Washington 1 di rected the Acting Treasurer to burn tlie Con federate Treasury notes above named, in the presence of the Secretary of War, General Breekenridge and myself. Mr. Davis was captured nearly a week af ter this, in Southern Georgia, and, therefore, Judge Evans’ suspicions that he cared more for this treasure than for his family are as baseless in truth as they are unmanly and ungenerous in inference. These passages in that speech seem to have been an awkward attempt in this modified form to revive the exploded story of Mr. Davis being captured iu female attire, with bags of gold upon him. invented and us<-d at first to excite against him feelings of ridicule and contempt, and now, after the lapse of nearly four years, revived in Texas, and pressed into service for the purpose of arous ing unjust suspicious against former Confed erates, and to be used as a means of showing to tin' people of Texas that they ought t<» divide the present State into several in order to guard against the designs attributed by •lodge Evans to Mr. Davis and others, at the time of the fall of Richmond, of a desire to establish a Trans-Mississippi empire. If tin facts presented by Judge Evans for this pur pose are ludicrous, what must be thought of his logic, aud of his respect for the intelli gence of the body he was addressing, and of the people to whom this speech is sent? In this connection I think it right for un to make a statement in justice to Mr. Davis, which has not heretofore been made public, as far as 1 know, and a part of which is only known to him and myself : In coining through South Carolina, he and myself riding ahead of our company, passed a cabin on the roadside, w ln-n he asked a wo man who was standing iu the door for a drink of water. On handing it to him she said “are yon President Davis?” On his reply ing in the affirmative, she said to him. mint ing to a little hoy barely large enough to walk a little, “that is vour namesake, we call him Jeff. Davis.” He took from his pocket a gold coin, apparently the size of a three dollar piece or sovereign, and handing it to her told her to give it to the little boy —saying to me as he rode off that that was his last piece of coin, which lie had kept as a sort of keepsake on account of its being a coin sel dom seen in this country. Subsequently, when in company with sev eral memlx-rs of his Cabinet, the subject of their finances was mentioned, and their pov erty was made, among themselves, the sub ject of passing amusement, Mr. Davis took out his pocket-book and counted, I think, about two hundred and seventy dollars in Confederate Treasury notes, then almost en tirely worthless, and said, laughingly, that was his fortune in money. He then added, that it was a source of gratification rather than of regret that himself and nearly all the members of Ids Cabinet had sacrificed their private fortunes in the struggle for the liber ty of the people. I will also add, that when it wits determined, after the surrender of Gen. Johnston, to transfer the field of military op erations to the West of the Mississippi, one of his Cabinet told Mr. Davis that he had mon ey enough to take them both across that river. These facts are given to show the injustice which has been done to one whose hopes and thoughts and energies were all wholly devo ted te the cause, then so dear to us, in which he was engaged; and who, amidst his all-en grossing public duites and responsibilities, took no thought of his private fortune or of his personal safety. ~ lam persuaded that the wise aud g.,, j honorable, even among those who til - U! ' him wrong in his support of the i*ai|* 1 Southern independence, and imjieril,.,! lives in opposing him on the hattle-fi accord to him sincerity of convict) the righteousness of the cause in w ,V.h i* ’ was engaged, integrity of purpose. :Il j. ( lIM qualities of head and heart wiii,-|, him to Ik? the lender of a heroic p , great struggle. 1 ' 1: 1 1 know the time has not yet fully <» (m , . explanations like this to be reccivisl | out offence to the prejudices of m , \ ' people, who have only viewed Mr. j ( ?' Lite years as a public enemy. Hat j . now, since that, cause lias been fert r iloned, the generous aud just will see tl . but performed a duty to one who, whi’ in a distant land, is yet very dear t. Y to millions of others in-the United si Very respectfully, John H. R KAi , u The Ohio Elect ion. ' — The campaign in Ohio lias op,| U ,i picionsly. The enemies ~f j;,, i u . . , I active, energetic and intelligent, an,) t I w'.io profess to l>e well informed oxpiv. feet confidence in the election of ( , Pendleton a.s Governor. He is und. ni a strong man. Resides a vast local p..,! ity he has a wide national repat.,t states man and patriot, and liis views -, the great financial questions of the d-Y highly popular throughout the W.- States, among many Republicans lIS v Democrats. The tariff, the finances and the tv are the principal issues of the camp : Ex-Senator George Pugh is stump on the Democratic side. u\d J,,;’. Sherman on the Radical side. Tli-v] j stated their eases, have joined issues have put themselves upon the country. It may bo too much to expect tin: (] Radicals will be defeated in Ohio and p, svlvaniii as they have been in Teuuess, Virginia, but we confess that we arcstm* encouraged to hope that such will | H , • case, and that the beginning of the end Radicalism is at hand. Negro Kow at \\ liite Plains. (; a From the Greensboro Herald, 'Jit!,. Oil Saturday night, the lttli inst.,a m _ Ulan, who was living on the plantation Mr. James Marelmuui, on or near tin* do ing line of Hancock and Greene eoimtio was murdered by a party of unknown t. sons in disguise. It seems that the u, .[ in the neighborhood became greatly > \, and supposing Mr. Marehman to i imp. cabal in the murder, a body of thirty tie ~r forty organized themselves into a r, gn!.,- armed company, on the night of ti v inst., and repaired to Mr. March man’s In . They surrounded tin* house and, with li ; : oaths and vows of vengeance, eomnu iici-*!. indiscriminate fire on the premises, inwi -, Mr. Maivhman was severely w ounded. At* keeping up the tire for fifteen or tw.:. minutes, on the assurance of Mrs. March*;, that they had killed her husband, tins ;.- the premises uttering the most bitter curs, against the whites. So far we can 1* . the negroes mailt* no effort at eoneealiu* Mr. Marehman made liis escape, in du and soon procured assistance. The n authorities acted promptly, and fifteen the party have been arrested and mtii. in the jail at Sparta. They have mailt* a confession, and given the names of all: parties implicated. Floyil Moore, tin* 1* a of the gang is yet at large. Murder in Babtow County. The li* Commercial, of Friday morning, says t “on Monday evening last, a young ladvU the name of Conly was murdered three u. from Adairsvjlle, Bartow county. SlnTuu for some time been living with Mr. ,l.n Yel ah'*. ‘•it seems, as was her usual custom, hail gone to turn the cows out of the pad. • for the purpose of milking them w lim was seized, it supposed bv a negro, a taken some three hundred yards from • field, up ft dark hollow, and brutally m ilered by blows on her head. It is tin*ug • one blow was struck with tin* breech *f. , gun, which knocked her down, and t ! scoundrel maslieil her head with a n*. i. weighing some thirty pounds. “Upon her failing to return f<> the : * search was instituted by Mr. Venable liis neighbors, which lasted all night, but without success. Tuesday morning sin* w.i fonul by two young men, as liefon* -tub “A negro by the name <>f -hick (lialiaiiil uroa jirr.mleil, mill every disclosure, w* f:i goes to prove his guilt. He has been c. mitted to jail.” The Koine Commercial, of Sunday the following : We received a letter from Adairsvilk, ] day, stating that on Wednesday night, .1 Giahnm, who murdered Miss Emma Coi. was taken from the guard and shot. Our people should not take the Lv. tin ir own hands, as long as it can l>< - cuted by the civil authorities. This -. aggravated ease, and the negro a very L one, and if any body of men were ju ■: bit- in mobbing a criminal, these men • tainly were. The Gueenvii.ee and Commria Kaiej. i Me are glad to learn—as we have dun- frst the best authority—that the suit in .... brought against the Greenville and 1 • ' bi t Railroad Company bv certain lioM>- the first mortgage bonds of the (”< >mp a for the purjtose of obtaining the force!' - of the mortgage upon the road, lias at been settled upon such a basis as to gb" ' infliction to all the parties concern! 1. an order Igis been jqadc by the Court u session in Columbia (on motion of the plaining creditors) dismissing tin- hill, h now announced that there are no judgm ent against this Company which have 1- obtained through the Courts of law. The information contained in tic paragraph may be relied upon ,ts |»'rf* v correct. —A ugusta Crhtntide <nui Srntnr Foreign, POST CARDS IN AUSTRIA. Anew arrangement lias just Ik-cii a-h-i ’- J in the Austrian postal service, <-sj»s-i::lh: business men. “Post cards,” as tic, called, have just been issued, which c.a Bent to any part of the Austrian mouur ;• for the exceedingly low price of t»u A triaii kreutzers (equal to one cent I post cards are alxuit twice the sized : nary visiting cards, are made of stiff PF folded in the middle,and oue of the outer si j is prepared for the address. '1 in- in-- ! the card is devoted to the reception < letter, and also contains on the top pro' directions for use. The cards may n lie sealed nor placed in envelops,! -t, doubled up, addressed, and then 1 ■ li ”' into the receiving lioxe.s. Os course will not lw used for private coimnnuut* such as require secrecy, but are ven adapted for business purposes, tic mission of orders, notice of tlic ship]ling of goods, and stu-h like. F ’ eminent retains the privilege of des 1 V ■ all such of these cards as may costal" - ter of an insulting or indecent cm The advantages of these postcard-tin a . mereial country can hardly l>e < - : - Their adoption in America, wc thinn be hailed with joy by business - would he simply the extension of t .- ! leges enjoyed by newspapers to m t respondonee. Might not the Unit*-) postal authorities just think over tin lent Austrian arrangement a little/ mchlfeld’s great memory. Muhlfeld, the liberal Austrian r-pr- tive, who died last year, had a mo-’ 1 1 able memory. A writer in Nem h" -■ relates that when lie read a finanew n! he would deliver the greate-t e . • figures, without the slightest Wi; . memory, having no notes, ls-cause hr ness of sight, nearly approaching rendered it impossible for him to re • " . , printed or written matter. He ‘f. .f. known to read three pages of pnut- ' tioal matter on the register of La< '• ertyand its revenues, entirely from lU _‘ and without an error. As adv.* -‘ l ’|; ; would sometimes have a d< >zon cases' and at the same time would p* ! duties as a member of the various 1 ' , tees aud commissions in Farliamen • “ with the most ljeterogenious and ' . projects for laws, etc. He had. «• a . whole current Austrian code of ,l , ,jt'. memory, aud the required paiagiai t> : its iiundM-r and exact words, command. His power of men*" I .' greater with his increasing weakness^ In his fiftieth year, when ‘ st-llor, lie would make notes of be ings; but when lie became \ j r ,l th’ trusted to his memory alone. He 11 ‘ t j lt ,ngh case read to him weeks before, ft “ a ’ he was engaged with a thousand ot ** j,, before the day of trial came on, j. n . ,.#■ stood up he was perfectly readv. 1 . everything by heart. Not the aufG riation iu the* testimony of a ’ -liim even at a week’s interval, could cm lie had not to refir for what Kl lr tu ,.ru | - :r . v he had it on his tongue’s end. t ’ .losje* u * is held iu great esteem by 11 Austrians.