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GEORGIA JOURNAL & MESSENGER TUESDAY MORNING, SEPT, 7. THE NEWS. Caterpillars are said to Ih* eating up the crops in many places below Columbus. Dr. Ayer, of cherry pectoral notoriety, is in the tie'lll for the nomination for Con jjfivss in Uout well's district. -Col. Screven has been nominate 1 as tile Democratic camlulatc for Mayor of Savan nah. ' emend Robert Toombs passed throngli •Atlanta yesterday, on his way liometoWasli ington. li is understood the Fenian Congres considers it inexpedient to make another at ta -k oil Canada lor the present. Mr. .T. »S. Wilcox, of the firm of I>l air, Smith At Cos., of Augusta, died suddenly in New Haven, Connecticut, Monday last. —Tiic Muse >gee M whine 11 >pe C enuanys Murks at Columbus were burnt down on Fri- Loss #lO, :•< N ». Flu* New York Democratic State (' in vention is to be held at Syracuse on the 22d of September. the frigate Sabine mntinv and execu- tions story is officially denied bv tho Ameri can Legation in Paris. the Parisian Press say that Mr. Berlin game Ills received a dispatch from the Chinese Government “cordially recogni zing ” the treaties he has already eonebiilcd. —Jp-eph Barber, Marshal of Covin r ton. while engaged in the performance of official duty, was murdered hist Tuesday night by Jim Brown, a freedman. General Granville M. Dodge, General L »gan, William B. .Minn. John D. Baldwin a t John R. loung are each pressed for the M listry to China. Th • svstem of gelling reserved seats on t'l ear- was in operation, Thursday, on the E ii Railroad morning train from New York the West. -A census of thej city of Charleston lias just been taken. The total population of the city is 44,!*52. The total number of whites is 20,160. A dispatch from St. Louis states that the Indians are still troublesome in New AI vieo. Trains are attacked and maeli stock ran off. Nearly all tho New York City Demo cratic organizations have demanded Bel mont’s resignation from the Chairmanship of the National Committee. A corr -qiondent of the Natchez Courier urges the Democrats to nominate Judge W. L. Sharkey as their candidate lor Governor in opposition to Judge Dent. l.'he postal money ord -r system between tiic ( nited States and Switzerland goes into operation to-day. This is the first attempt to establish tho system with any- foreign gt iveriunent. The farmers in Kansas are boasting of their enormous potato crop the present year, and a local paper rejoices with them “be cause they are excellent food for hogs and cattle, and splendid for railroad laborers.” A great lire is raging in the Dismal Sw amp in Virginia. Many miles of fences and cord wood have been destroyed, and numi rons wild animals have been driven out into the open country. irges have be m filed a( tin it Mayor Bowen, of Washington, by a commissioner of that city, of entering, it is alleged, into a conspiracy with certain contractors to de fraud the city of SII,OOO. General Canby, commanding in Vir ginia, it is now stated, has written to Gen. Sh ■rman, asking authority to install Guv. Walker immediately, in order that certain important appointments may be made. The Americas Courier says : Since our last is .iii‘, witli its old cry of “hot and dry,” v have been visited with glorious rains. Notwithstanding the fact that it came too b. nrlit the crops materially, everybody was glad to see it. Tiic reports of the massacre of Christian mi V manes in the Province of Szehuen, Chi na, have been confirmed. Twenty are known to have been killed by jtlic populace. Tin* Pekin government lias instituted inquiries com').ruing tile outrages. fudge Bryan, of the United States Court, in Charleston, Smith Carolina, lisa >n id ■ a decision to the effect that when a member of co-partnership goes into bank ruptcy, his co-partners must go into bank rupt y also, although they may have com mit'.' 1 no act of bankruptcy. At the Cabinet meeting Thursday Sec retary Fish read a telegram received by him !'i .in Mr. Burlingame, denying the report that the Chinese Government, lias rejected the treaty with the Uiiit.eil [States. Mr. Ikii'lihgumc says that the Chinese Govern Mi ni did not expect to ratify or finally act upon any of the treaties negotiated by him un i his t >nfrrr<‘x until his return from his diplomatic tour. I'll ■ I > iltoit ((la.) Citizen says: “The mui ruin si ill prevails ia this vicinity, whi, li cows are dying almost daily. Wo made a run to King-gold a day or so ago, and wviv astonished, alarmed, at the appe ar ;tnee of every corn held along the entire i »ule. Three weeks ago every one ot those fields gave promise of an abundant yield, |p,it now they are almost burned up. and cannot p i.silily yield mure than live bushels to the aero. the 1 temoeratie local tickets through-put th t ite of California aria generally elected I v d**enled Demoeratie majorities. Tin next Legislature will render an emphatic \ i liet against the fifteenth amendment. San I'runcisco returns a full Democratic h gislntive delegation. l>, ii Butler and General Rawlins an quarrelling between themselves. A quarter master in Kiehmoud burned some buihlinp used as a hospital during the war. in which, it is stated, General Butler was interested. At this tin- General demanded that thetyiar t rmasier be instantly dismissed, and the Secretary refused. I’iie hog crop of lower East IVimessoc. t iis season, savs the Cleveland Banner, is greater than it" has been in any one year since the war. but owing to the tall oil in the corn crop there is but little doing in that line. We have heard of hogs being otic rod at .-) cents gross, but buyers do not app -ar to t, ke hold at these figures. The Dawson fi’orrell county) Journal ►avs: “ L'lie cotton crop will fall below tile c\p tat ions of all; it is impossible to get a I . viable report from the country in regard t- • tlie cotton crop. First it was drought, 1., cp.iidlv rust, and now the stalk is dc.i Land no prospects of a late crop. .Maryland newspapers are filled with e, >ni j >l.lints about tin.* drought and the blight ing i,f the corn, potato and tolnu eu crop: . and say that even trees appear to be dying. Frederick City is on half rations of water. Frost burg is similarly afflicted, and the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal is very Jow on h, 'in • p>f the levels. l’lie Si lma, Ala., Times says; “The new c, rtou crop comes into market rather slowly, though from what we can learn, in the e mrse of the next ten days we may look 1 ■ large increase, when the business will We heard of sales 3 day of about 40 bales at prices ranging from “ I to ffiC cents for middlings, and 28'.j to ‘2D, for low middlings.” V new railroad route, between New Fork an l 1> iston is now in process of construction ", road will run from New York, through l’atiium county, and connect- with the Bos t 111, Hartford and Erie lloail. The sir, y have been completed, the right of way has been s, cured, and twenty miles of tie- road will i»t* finished during tiie coming autumn. Tin- Home Courier state's that there is nil interesting meeting going on live miles from the city. From one who was present on We due clay evt nijig we are 4 advised tie-re xvare perhaps as many as fifty persons at the it.ii- lor prayer -several have beili hopefully op inverted. The prospect for an extensive revival is good. The meeting is under the direction of the K -v. .Mr. Lewis, who has <•!large of the Home Circuit. May the good work go on. A special dispatch to the Tribune, from Shreveport, Louisiana, says intelligence lias r> we lied here of a desperate tight between a s [U p,l of United States troops and a baud of out aws heiuled by one Jack Helm, near San Bat icio Texas. The soldiers endeavoredjto arrest tile desperadoes, who resisted; and a bloody encounter ensued, in which four of the outlaws and one soldier were killed, and several on both sides wounded. The Savannah Republican, of the ‘2d, h is the following : M e had a visit y, r r l.iv from an intelligent planter, from the neigh borhood of Lake City, who (jivea a doleful a-count of the cotton crop m Middle and Fast Florida. 111 Madison, Jefferson, Leon Hamilton, and other counties, the caterpil lar has appeared in immense number*. and were eating up the crop tothe extent ot iu.lv one-half. Only the full grown and hardy bolls could resist the destroyer. In Gadsd< n c, mntytlie prospect is better, the crop iheie bi-iiig'eompiu-ativelv fre!.' from the destroyer. If.- thinks that., notwithstanding the disas ter, Florida will make far more cotton than she produced last year—more is planted, and the boiling is unusually fine. Admiiiistrati\rj Honesty and Economy. Every few days there feppear in the Radi ; eel paper* an exultant report of the remark able economy and official purity of the pres ent administration of the Federal Govern m 'lit. Air. Boutwell’s reduction of the pnb li.' debt by giving tiie Inmd holders twenty or twenty-live per cent, more than the face of their bonds ealLs for, and then the law re quires to be paid to them, is landed as the j> ns wim ui liuaaciai wisdom and eeonomi- C.. 1 skill. His reduction in the clerical force ia the bureaus of the Treasury Department by tiie. dismissal of poor clerks who will not pi- Ige themselves to “go in” for B mtwell a- ia* “coming man, is chronicled in big v i K ■* m >st welcome, evidence of the S-c --re.ary - remarkable regard for the interests of the tax -paying commmiity. The first op < ' a*! >n / !■■ ■< the public debt by giving the bo.i l holih rs, it is calculated, §2,800,000 per mouth more tLu.ii the amount due to them, an 1 there are a number of dull and anap j>r'eiat;ve tax-payors who cannot therefore d.scov r wherein the economy exists. The s corn! op.-ration may evince some regard f >r the tax-payers to the extent of a f"W thousand dollars per annum, but it certainly displays a very exorbitant regard l , ■ Boutweil and Boutwell’s ambitious de i igus. Air. Creswell, too, is a very economical man, we are told. He has dismissed every clerk, a-eat, letter carrier and mail-wagon driver whom President Johnson appointed, nad filled their places with true-blue Radi cal ■of t .-at oath genuineness. The exact economy of this, arithmetically considered, may not be apparent, but in a political sense it may be called rigid. Hi; appointment of liis friend, Sena tor Pomeroy, of Minnesota, as special envoy to negotiate a postal treaty with the French Government, at a cost of ev ral thous md dollars, while the people Piv Mr. \\ a.-h■ i.irue 817,501) per annum for at ten ling to tiii:; sort of business, is consid ered somewhat as a deviation from his eco nomical rule of action. Because Air. Ram sey wished “to see the Tuileries and waddle through, the Louvre” without spending any portion of tho Ramsey income, it is not deemed exactly economical on the part of tiie U. S. Government, though decidedly so “U the part of Ramsey, to slake his thirst for European travel bv such copious drafts on tiie pockets of the people, particularly wlr iv they pay a distinguished gentleman from Galena, 111., so liberally to attend to their business “near the Emperor of the French.” It may be said that Air. Wasli burne, like so many other high officials of the U. S. ( ioverimieiit, is generally absent from liis post of duty, indulging in the lighter amusements of roulette at Baden and I Limburg, or wandering through the ro mantic. valleys of Switzerland, and that, therefore, Ramsey’s mission is entirely “eon- Mslent with the public safety;” but the double expense cannot truthfully be called economy. Air. Secretary Robeson’s patent “coinbi n.atii.ii of duty and enjoyment” on board the Tallapoosa, which costs the people seve ral thousand dollars per week, is not a good pecimcn oi economy; and when the various r. wing investigating committees of Congress, which have been spending the Summer t ravi - hug in steamboats and railroad ears from Vermont to Oregon and California, furnish their little bills, their economy will not bo tlieir mo t attractive feature. These committees, it is said “drink none but tlie oe.st. they are notoriously a thirsty company. 1 hey smoke the choicest cigars. I heir banquets are proverbially luxurious. Their little extras for “sundries” arc like a earru ge-m iker's bill, and though they enjoy themselves hugely, give us interesting ac count-' ot their interviews with Brigham Young, and whatever Italian chieftains n. stray Quaker agent may bring within their resell, and send graphic descrip tion of their buffalo limiting exploits, it docs a 'em to an unprejudiced observer , rather hard to make tin; poor tax-crushed p ‘oj lie pay for tlieir liquors, cigars, banquets and sundries; to give Mr. Itamscy and his family a free tour in Europe; to enable Mr. Ro’> s. ,n to have a yachting excursion gratis, Uhl to allow Mr. Wasliburne to stroll through tile ambling saloons of European watering places, and wand t among the glaciers of the Vie . at the public expense. At all events, it will not do to call all this economy, nnd boast of it as a merit. If we have to pay the bill, let us not be asked to say that we believe it is a money-making operation. Georgia's Representation in Con gress. The Atlanta f-mstitiifion recommends that ‘he Democratic Executive Committee should meet, for the purpose of considering the T 1 'lion of the representation of Georgia in C.m , ami seeing whether the elections for Congressmen may not he held this fall, lotwithstundiug Air. Bullock's desire to deprive tlie State of representation, bv pre u hug that the ‘members of the 40th have a a it to sit in the 41st Congress without an other election. i lie suggestion is a good one and we hope it wn! he speedily adopted. Nothing can be ... are clear than that the Suite is now unrep •eu •. 1. The members who sat ia the Congress which expired on the 4th of last March have no more legal right to sit in the •a cat Congress than they have to sit in the trench Chamber of Deputies. The Cimsti t U ion of the United States says that each State shall elect its representatives every two years. Neither the juggling of the pie-bald Ci ii ia utiou, the usurped power of Bullock, w th ■ rambling “opinion” of Attorney Gen eral Farrow, can change or sot aside this plain requirement of the supreme law. If •Mr. Bullock has the right to decree that ■b ' : I'rmee and Clift, of Skowhegnn. who v. re fraudulently elected representatives of Gi ■ :,i in the last Congress, shall continue t >ivp. -eii. G -.irg!:'. in the present Congress without even the form of an election by the P'np!', why should not Air. Bullock have • u i ;ual light to decree that those interest ing little New Englanders shall represent Georgia during the term of their natural lives or during the pleasure of Air. Bullock? iin met is Bullock knows that should an eiectum he held as the law requires, not one ot th • present Radical misrepresentatives of G ugia has a shadow of a chance of re e, a-tion, even I.y the negroes, and that the 1" - i! ' "'’'Sid certainly elect respectable wnii m ato r. present them: therefore, with a iveklc < disregard of law and popular rigid, he refuses to sanction an election, that 1 Voice. Clift A Cos. may pit SSOOO and p.cuings in their pockets in addition to what th y have already got, that he inav have serviceable and unscrupulous tools in a posi tion to aid him in his schemes, and that the ; ood people of Georgia may be deprived of the ivpr is ntatiou which they would -select. xii subject is one of great importance to .lii,' Suite. Her best interests demand that if any remedy is within our reach it be in stantly applied to prevent the contemplated injustice, and there is nobody which can examine the question better or act more in harmony y. hit the sentiments of the people of Georgia than the Democratic Executive Coiumittec. Ter. Sumter Republican of the 2d inst. authorized by Judge C'Jurk o to say the regular term of Lee Superior Court will be held at tlje usual time, and is not adjourned, its lms been rumored. GEORGIA JOURNAL AND MESSENGER The Byron Scandal. The unanimity with which the people of the L nited States have condemned Airs. Harriet Beecher Stowe for her wan dal oils slander upon Lord Byron and Airs. Leigli, displays a general sense of decency and of justice, which is the only subject of pleasure able contemplation in the otherwise disgust ing affair. Every respectable newspajierand periodical, even Tilton's Independent, repro bates the story and the story-teller, so that even as a financial speculation Airs. Stow ■ will find that sin- has failed in her object. Huil then* been even a shadow of founda tion for the filthy tale, ami had the doting old woman from whom Airs. Stowe professes to have heard it really told it to her, (which is now widely disbelieved) any woman of or dinary sensibility and refine ment would have blushed nt the foul confidence, attributed it to craziness, and if she could riot have forgot ten it, would at least have refused to offend tin' cars of others by its repetition, even in a whisper. It was absolutely ghoul-like to publish such a story after the lady whom it assails has been dead many years, without a breath of detraction having ever sullied her fame and virtue. And even had Aim. Stowe believed it, if compassion for the memory of one of her own sex bail not in duced silence, regard for tho feelings of the surviving relatives of Byron and liis family, would have insured the secrecy of anybody with one spark of humanity in his composi tion. If it be true as stated that the whole story is a fabrication got up to make a sensation that will sell, there are no words in any lan guage which can express the execration which every honest heart must feel at an act of such ineffable turpitude. It cannot be supposed that this latter hypothesis is the correct one. It is impossi ble to conceive that any human being, and Exist of all a woman, could be guilty of such fiendish cruelty. It is bail enough to believe that Airs. Stowe understood Lady Byron to tell her the story, and that she repeated what she thought she heard. Doubtless she lias long since regretted that she ever employed her pen to put it to paper, and that she slandered her countrymen and women by supposing for a moment that so hideous n disclosure woidtl create in them any feel ings but those of loathing and abhorrence towards the story, its authors and pub lishers. Works of Art. We recently spent an hour very agreeably inspecting the beautiful collection of Chromo litliographic pictures now on sale at the book-store of J. W. Burke & Cos. We ad mired, especially, four landscapes represent ing views on the Rhine—the Drachenfels, the Lorelei rocks, Rheinberg, and Marks hurg—copied from pictures by eminent Ger man artists. There are many other gems in the collec tion, copies of the great works of the old masters, which deserve to be ranked among “works of art.” This art of Chromo-lithography is a won derful invention. It lias brought within the reach of the million the great pictures which hitherto were only attainable by the few who could afford to pay thousands of dollars for them, and while they do not possess the in trinsic value or the artistic merit of the orig inals, they are very pleasing and well executed copies, and tlieir juice is such as to enable every man, however small his means, to en joy the delight of possessing a “tiling of beauty” which is “a joy forever.” ’I lse California Election. We congratulate our Democratic brethren in California on the brilliant victory they have achieved at tlieir recant election. In addition to electing the Democratic candi dates for municipal offices in the city of San Francisco, notwithstanding the Radical at iKviiY' tire Democratic strength by running an ind-pmnleut ticket, the Demo crats have, it is believed, secure 1 •* majority in the Legislature .uni have thus ensured the defeat of tli! 1 XA tli Atm uJment so far as California is concerned. The Radicals affect to believe that it was “not much of an election,” and that the vote was "light,” an 1 they say that the vic tory was Won by “the basest appeals to prejudice on behalf of caste.” We trust and hope that the people of other States will he influenced by similar appeals, and that this last created Radical monster may “die the death.” A Andrew Female College at C’atJi bert. Wo hope every one interested will give the advertisement of U v. Dr. A. L. Hamil ton, in our paper of to-dnv, an attentive perusal. We do not know Dr. Hamilton from reputation alone, we have known him long personally as a skilled theologian, an accomplished Mason, a devout, earnest, practical Christian, and a thoroughly educa ted gentleman, who, in our opinion, has no superior in his profession. Young ladies placed under his charge have always exhib ited marked and decided improvement. The terms of the College are exceedingly liberal, and the facilities for a thorough practical education abundant. By all means read the advertisement. ‘"•J am the Slate, '■ says Cunby. General Canby will not permit himself to be itutdoue by General Ames. If the latter hies achieved notoriety by his order forbid ding- obedience to the process of the courts Can by, euvionsj ,f the distinction won by the Mississippi eommauiler, awakes and finds himself famous by his ord-*r quashing the indictment- of a gland jury, cancelling the order of arrest, and discharging the bail of a Radical gentleman accused of wilful and cor rupt peiiury. The facts are that some time ago General Canity appointed a Mr. Gordon Sheriff of Powhatan county, Yu. Gordon swallowed the iron clad oatli without winking. It was w ell-known that lie had served in the Con federate army and he was therefore indicted for perjury. The grand jury form 1 a true bill, and Gordon was arreste 1 and held to bail to stand his trial. Hereupon General Canby, with his “long sword, saddle, bridle,” issued the following decree: “The presentment by the grand jury of the county of Pow hatan. Virginia, in the County Court of said county, in the case of the Com monwealth of Virginia vs. Henry Gordon, is hereby quashed, the i /pc/.s issued canceled, and tin- security taken for the appearance of the said G,>rdou discharged. Tile ease will be stricken from the docket of said court.” It must be admitted that this is fully up to the Ames model. When Louis the Four teenth sui 1. “I am the State,” even in his day, the expression, though practically true, .was regarded as unnecessarily arrogant and imperious. But when little Canby says, “I am the State of Virginia.” and little Amos says “I am the State of Mississippi,” am] they say so in the year of grace INO9, in a country and u:id -r a government whieh boast of their republican liberty, one comes to the conclusion that- there is a screw loose some where. that a smash cannot be far off, and that our republican form of government is not exactly as republican as it is said to be. W e know that if a man commits w ilful and corrupt perjury in order to get a place under the Kudu-iils. and when be gets it. does «1 the dirty w ork that is requip ed of him by his employers, and affects to enjoy the employ ment, fen a that moment lus perjury is ab solved. We have some striking evidencesof this sort of purgation. But the question is what does the law say? Where ihies little Canby derive his authority to pronounce the absolution? —The military authorities have t das <1 p -mission to owners of lots on Sullivan’s island, in Charleston Harbor, to level the dismantled fortifications. The Charleston Courier characterises this proceeding as high-handed, to use the mildest term, and say s that the Sjtate ceded to the United States authorities <cdy the land occupied liy Fort Moultrie and one hundred yards on each side. The matter will be tested in the United States Court, ! The Reported Settlement of the \ irgiuia Dillit ulty. i The telegrapluc dispatches annoume the satisfactory news that the Administration Ills direet.d that the newly elected State i Government «f Virginia shall l*e iiuugu- I raid immediately, and that the Legishlure 1 shall not be required to Like the test oath. It would seem that the question to : whether the reconstruction laws reqtired j that the mem)tors of the Legislature sljouhl subscribe tiie t.-st oath to enable then to Like their seats, as was insisted by Gtoeral Gan by, was referred to the Attorney General of the United States, and that he has de cided, as did President Grant in the c.ae of Louisiana and of Georgia, that the law- im posed uo such obligation. 1 hj Lbe regia tted that General Grant liad in J the firmness and decision to make this oialer at once, and that he allowed the disappointed Radicals in Virginia, and the bnter Radical partisans of liis immediate advisers, t > inflacn. e him to delay in doing "llathis own declared convictions, Iris ex press promises, and the plain dictates of jus tice and honesty required. After the jiro senptive cl.iusc.x of the Uuderwood-Huuni cutt constitution had been C >ngiy-,s to a distinct vote of the after the people by an immense majon -Mid rejected them, and after they Bail com plied with every requirement of Con gress and given proof positive of -their desire to accent reconstruction so far ai it was made obligatory upon them, to attempt to enforce this very proscrip tion, because the election had resulted jm favorably to the ultra Radicals, would have been an act of flagrant bad faith and tyranny such ;is uo government could sanction with out covering itself with disgrace, eVe#ifi the eyes of its own supporters. The respect able Radical papers denounced it in t Iks of unmeasured severity, seeing the ilamSfc that would certainly be done to their party at tiw coming elections, if General Canby were permitted to carry out his iniquitous determination. ' m s. \\ e trust that General Grant approved Canby’s resolution to impose the t' 'St oatii upon the members of the Virginia Legislator -, and thus virtually defeat the will us the people. He liad taken the oppo site ground so recently and decidedly, and had manifested his opinions so clearly when he asked Congress to allow the people of Virginia to vote upon the proscriptive meas ures of the Constitution as a separate Mont distinct question, it is hardly jiossible to sup pose that he could have changed liis mind completely in so short a time, or that he woaid allow the interests of a political fac tion to induce him to quibble and predi cate in a matter of sueli#ital moment. The best citizens of the old Dominion, tired of military rule, exhausted by war, and anxious to restore the blessings of self-gov ernment to their State, believed the sin cerity of General Grant’s assurances, and of liis piupose, accepted the situation in good faith, odious and oppressive though it was, and determined to carry out the policy of the President as the best way to effect the pacification of Virginia, and the restoration of the prosperity of the whole country. They acted consistently and faithfully. They j>er formed their j>art to the letter. They relied on General Grant to perforin his part, and when they found that there was a chance that their reward would be refused them, because a clique of oAscure and character less radical adventnreWhad been defeated in their ambitious and mercenary schemes, not only were they shocked and disappointed, but the honest men of the whole Union were shocked and disappointed. It is well that this great outrage lets not been allowed to be perpetrated. It would have been fortunate had it been promptly disavowed; but it is better late than never, and therefore we can rejoice that at lengtlr - justice has been done, and that the noble old State will soon In* relieved from the suf fering which she has so long endured. Ex-l’iesidi nt Dav is’Tour in Scot land. The London Standard, of the loth of Au gust, chronicles the movements of Jefferson Davis thus: “Aft-. Jefferson Davis is the lion of Glas gow and its vicinity just noiv, Imnseif aiirtA party having established themselves in that city, and made several excursions in the neighborhood. On Wednesday, en route to Glasgow, they passed through Dunfermline, and visited the Abbey church and ruins,.*’ Air. Davis then paid a visit to Stirling, and. left for Callander in the evening. The news soon spread that the ex-Prosidont was in the town, and as he left per train in the evening i throe Hearty dicers were given bv large i concourse of people oil ,t\w ! platform. Air. Davis afterwards visited Dol lar. At Glasgow lie visited the Exchange, where, in expectation of a visit, there was a crowded attendance. The assemblage opened a passage in the centre of the hall, up to which Air. Davis walked, and at the end of j the room entered liis name in the visitors’ | book. On leaving the building Air. Davis I was loudly cheeked. The ship-building yard-, of the Alessrs. Napier & Govan was also visited; after which the party returned to the r sidenei' of Mr. Smith, Benvue, Dowanhill. On Thursday, Air. Davis, with Dr. Charles Mackay, left Glasgow for Oban. Air. Smith and a number of friends accompanied him some distance down the Clyde*. On leaving' tho Broomielaw quay, where there was a large concourse of persons, Air. Davis was followed by loud cheers, which he acknow- ledged by raising his liat and bowing repeat edly. A similar demonstration was accorded him at Greenock, Dunoon, Innelian, Rothe say, and Tiglmabruaieh, the crowds who were assembled at the different piers exhib iting an eager desire to have a sight of the famous ex-President of the Southern States.” Correspondence of Hie Jonriml and Messenger. Letter from Decatur County. Blowing Cave, Decatur Cos., Ga., ) August 31, 1,36!). \ D ‘iir General: From Florida I hoar that the worms are about to sweep everything— shortening tlio crop one-third. This is from reliable parties, and they say it is universal. The corn is generally good. The crops that I have seen in Thomas seem to be injured fully one-third to this time, and the worm will close out all unma tured fruit. Corn crops are, as a general rule, good. Throughout the counties of Baker, Miller. Mitchel and Decatur, the corn crops are good as well as good fodder; but the cotton cro]) is not over two-tliirds, at the outside. When you hear of a man from this section congratulating himself upon his good crop, be patieiit and forbearing with him, for lie made only one bale to six or s-- von acres of land last year, and is beside himself with joy at the thought of making a bale to four acres this year. The caterpillar li is been delayed sum--time by the sun killing the young worms during the unprecedented hut weather of the last two weeks. It dried them up. One has only to lo >k at the crop reports in your, paper to see that they are poor at every place in th 3 South. 1 cannot close this letter without saving a word or two about a nine acre lot of Simpson cott 'ii, belonging to Col. Troup Whitehead, of Baker. He put over sixty loads of manure to the acre, and the cotton is miraculous. I don’t know, nor can I estimate it, but am pre pared to believe whatever maybe said about it. It is variously estimated from twenty to thirty bales. It cannot possibly fall short of 1 H)0 pounds lint per acre. I saw Bancroft's cotton last year and it lays his cotton in a very cool shade. I suppose he will be heard from at the Fair in November next. Tam O’Shanteb. Death of Gex. Rawlins.—We learn by telegraph that General John A. Rawlins, United States Secretary of War, died yes terday afternoon at Washington City. (fen. llawlins was comparatively an unknown man in public life when he was appointed to the high position as Lo el of the War Depart ment, but it is generally believed that since his app: pintment he lavs always used his power and influence to counteract and defeat the I schemes of the extreme Radicals, and that on ! all questions relating to the government i of the Southern States, lie has been on the side of conservatism and justice, and lias I been opposed to the violent and tyrannical i projects of his oolle igues and tin- Radical 1 parly. G ner,d Rawlins, as chief of staff to I General Grant, won some reputation as a | soldier, and Is said to have possessed the i confidence and regard of his chief. In pri vate life he is represented as having 1 ecu a good mab and Woltllyciti7.cn. His health has been wry feeble for a long time. Hem orrhage of the lungs xvas the immediate cause of his death. Commissions for the S ale of Cotton. The Augusta commission merchants have j rus -it ili* ir irate- of commission for selling cotton, from one and a quarter per cent, (the rate adopted last year; to two and a quarter per cent., which they previously changed. High rents, and increased cost of living ale j the alleged causes of the rise. Corrcspondettceof tiie Journal uni Messenger. The Press Excursion. 11 . S. & I>. IJ. R. — Cave Soring— Ptqtona—Oreford Iron Works Slielny sn>inji> -selina- —SUciliy Irou Works —AUaiiu—Grand Finale, etc. Atlanta. Ga.. Sojffcinber 1. ISdfl. Your correspondent, with the Press and invited guests, hade farewell to the "eitv of more than seven hills” at S O'clock a. m.. bn AI unlay last, under the guidance of Captain B miey, the genial and hospitable Superin tendent of tin* Rome, Selma and Dalton Railroad, llkl miles of this road have been completed, and the ruin lining forty miles to Daiton will be in ojieration b\ tin* return of spring. We jiassod very rapidly over the well laid T iron of this road, and were soon at “Cave Spring” in Floyd county. Leaving the dusty train, we found a bath in the stream gushing from the lull-side near by both necessary and refreshing. We as cended the hill, and finding a flight of stairs leading into the dark iav> below us, vour correspondent, with a few friends, ei sere 1 without a light or a guide. Deseendin r on • pair of steps we were cut off from day 1 gilt. Dark and clammy were the rock walls sur rounding us; the only sounds which gi ete l our ears were the murmuring of the si earn below its, and the voices of our comp- ion* far above us. We lighted matches, lm. their dim light only made us more keenly sen.-,me of the gloom around. Fearing to proceed, we waited the approach of a lamp just com ing from the entrance, and soon were joined by many of the more prudent members of our party. Two more descents were made, and we wandered through a room festooned with dripping stjagtites, where oft in days now gone merry feet kept time to cheerful music. Now, the projecting rocks, the rugged ground, and tUe decayed floor tell of hours of merriment and time’s decay. We were glad to leave the cavern and its slimy appurtenances, and to emerge once more from subterranean darkness. Once out <>l that awful hole, my inquisitiveness gained for your columns these facts: That the vil lage has about three hundred inhabitants; that Cave .Spring still claims a situation in tiic literary world for its Baptist and Meth odist institutes, and its Deaf and Dumb Asylum. Two hundred and fifty students were in these respective schools during last, term, but they now are away, enjoying their holi day season. We were loath to leave this ro mantic place, and those of its ‘'sweet daught ers” whom we met, but the engine called from its steam throat, “all aboard,” and hur ried us to the iron beds in Polk county, owned by Air. A. G. Wliiff*, and teeming with fruitful ore of the brptca hemilile order. All along the roadside we saw evidences of Dune X',/art’s intentions to make Alabama a strong, iron people. Once or twice we stopped to examine ores, which would aver age til) per cent, of pure iron. But the end was not yet; a few hundred yards from the road, on the right hand side, stood the relics of the Oreford Iron Works, a monument of the destructive march of Wilson, through Calhoun county, Ala., in 18(io. Four furnaces, each producing five tons j>er day, were once kej>t burning here, but the blackish-looking hemitite with its aver age of Go per cent, of pure iron lies scattered in profusion over the mountain side, doing no good to the country. Oh, ye capitalists, who have $25,000 to invest, here is a fortune! Railroad facilities close by; out houses and brick works scarcely damaged; ore inexhaust ible; bring here your capital and invest for your own financial interest, and for the good of the South. Having satisfied the eye with such sights, our good Captain Barney had prepared an ample least at Peytona, 50 miles from Rome, to gratify another important organ of man kind. Here we stopped and ate, and laughed, and drank cool Adam’s ale, by quaffing which we were in such good humor that we almost ceased to quiz and tease our brother who had lost his checks. Tenijius fmlfeted, the half hour passed, and we were again winking and blinking at the cinders which the engine playfully threw buck at us as it pulled us on towards the Shelby Springs. When there your writer didn't look (?i at the “fair ones” on the hotel .badribnyr but hastening to the spring, smelt its sweet waters, and return'd to liis cigar and writing stand. Wesmelt like sulphur for ten miles afterwards, to drive aaaiv all thoughts and odors of which your ‘scribbler held his iio.se at intervals and dozed the remainder of th« time. ‘i He waked uji at Talladega, however, shook J 1 L with several married editors who de ' W.'d tljUt the “gnis -it looked.' q;jv.eeter girls ever them )><*-*' ,r ; r< A and strolled towards the first car, * where he took a “lemonade” with Mosely' and liis jolly Alabama confreres, because they lived in tho same town with these little be ings of human loveliness and prettiness. By the breaking of a sjiring on the engine, our progress towards Selma was delayed, but we reached that beautiful, shady city about 12 o’clock at night, Repairing to the Troup House, we found that Oapt. Barney had been thoughtful of us even in the “still, small hours, ” and an abundance was sjiread upon the supportable to satisfy every craving void. Early on Tuesday morning we were riding around this level eitv and viewing, with ad miration, tiie regal edifices, the wide streets, and the energy and industry manifested in the uprising structures. At ten o’clock we were puffing towards the Shelby Iron Works. Stopping a few minutes at Colum bia, we were shifted to the track leading to the works. Five miles travel brought us to tho finest works we have j-et seen. The hand of tho destroying demon, Wilson, had been laid here, too, but Northern capital, brought to Shelby county through the in fluence of Captain Barney, had rebuilt of brick an excellent grist mill and machine shop, and iron furnaces, at an expense of 8225,000 for building. Improvements are seen on all sides. Five brick kilns for burn ing coal are smoking a few hundred yards from the three-story brick building in which the furnace is placed. A railroad sixteen miles long leads from the ridge in which the fibrous bromi hemitite ore—o,B per cent, pure iron—reposes, uj> to the third story of this structure, where the mouth of the furnace is situated, and mules drag the carts of ore even* few minutes to the large room on this floor, where the ore is deposited convenient to the men who charge the furnaces. These charges are made from forty to eighty times per day. Each one consists of : 625 pounds ore, 3 j bushels limestone, 22 bushels char coal, live or six j>iec(*s fire brands. The “tappings” are made four times a day, and the aggregate amount of iron turned out each day is fifteen tons. The iron is sold at Columbiana at s4l per ton. In Northern markets it brings from SSB to SGiI per ton. The President of the company is J. \\ . Lapsloy, of Shelby eoun *tv Ala. The Superintendent is A. G. West. The company owns about 800 acres of land. Two hundred hands, forty mules and twenty oxen are engaged in these works. The ex penses for carrying on the iron works and shops of this company are §850.00 per diem, while its gross receipts per day are $040.00. The rolling mills, which were of the most excellent order, have not been rebuilt, but they w ill be ere long. We saw one “tapping” while at these works; and then, turning from the scene, we sought the cars, and turned our faces homeward. Had I time I could tell your readers of the immense coal fields which lie along the rail road. They are fifty miles north of Selma, and are one thousand square miles in area. The road first strikes the coal region at Ash ley Station, from which point there is a road leading to the coal mines now in operation. Farther up the road are two more stations— at Coal Roads, fifty-four miles from Selma; and Lime Kiln, sixty-four miles from that city. These are the only points at which the coal is at present dug, but arrangements are being made to work many more mines. The capital employed at this time in this work amounts to about §150.000. Arriving at Pleytona at 10 p. m. . we enjoyed a bountifully prepared supper. Two o’clock a. m.. Wednesday morning, we were, in Rome again, so fatigued that we slept on till (Lay light, and then we went to that choice hotel, and breakfasted to heart’s con tent. M e started down the State Road on the regular schedule time. With many regrets we left the thriving city of Rome, but the fiat had gone forth, tiiat Rome should be to us no more, for the present, and we were hurled onward to the Gate City. Arriving here at two and a half o’clock, we dined sumptuously at the National Hotel; after dinner, and while in the banquet hall, the Convention passed resolutions returning thanks to all corporations and individuals who had shown attention to its members in their endeavors to develope Georgia’s min eral wealth, and after filling and drinking bumpers to all our good fellows, it adjourned until November, to meet in Macon. And now farewell to the genial sons of the fourth estate, farewell to the good old time we’ve had, farewell to our great Rail road King, I and to all who love the State. Stanley. The Late I*ress (Excursion. From the Chronicle it Seutiiu-L, September 4. Many comments have been made ujh.hi tin 1 recent Press Excursion by those presses who hml no representation on that trip. So far s we have seen the (A)lumlms Sun ami the Savannah Morning News have indulged in the severest strictures upon the excursion itself and those meiulters of the press who aeoom pal lied it. Some of these strictures are eminently just aud some are unfair and illiberal, at least as applied t<> a portiou of the press who accepted Hulbert’a invitation. Having Ixvn a silent but attentive ob server of the various incidents of the trip, and being familiar with most of the develop ments which the occasion brought to the surface, we propose to give, as briefly and succinctly as possible, a fair and candid ex position of the whole affair as it was pre sented to our minds. In the latter part of July last we received, by mail, a printed circular [Mr. Hulbert’s printed invitation]. To tins we returned no reply, but being in Atlanta on the 24th ult., in attendance upon the Georgia Press Convention, then assembled there, inquiry was made of us whether we would join the Press Excursion. To this we gave our assent and received du ring the session of the Press Convention a a ticket or puss. On the morning of the 25th we took our seat in the ears provided for the occasion, and, found some thirty or forty of the repre sentatives of the Press also on board the train. We noticed a few scalawag m umbers of the Legislature and two Democratic mem b. rs, with some dozen other persons total strangers to us at the time, but who we after ward ascertained to be leading members of the Radical party and most of them [State officials. Just after crossing the Chattahoochee riv er, someone passed through the car iu which we were seated, and invited all present to jiass to the rear ear to observe some improve ments which were being made on the road. Reiug engaged at the time, we did not go back, but soon after were informed that on reaching the rear car they found the crea ture Bullock, to whom the members of the Press were severally presented as they made their ajijiearanee. This was the first intima tion that we had that Bullock was to boos the party. We saw nothing of Bullock ourselves until the train reached Cartersville, where he and the Editor of the Macon Telegraph made short responses to Maj. Cooper’s reception speech. We did not hear these speeches, but learned that they were of the mutual admiration or der, and that at their close personal courte sies were exchanged over a bottle of wine. Upon arriving at Chattanooga we learned that arrangements had been made to exhibit the Bullock again, but from some hitch on the part of the Chattanooga authorities, no personal presentation was made. After sup j>er w r e were called ujjou by some of our Chattanooga friends to respond to the ad dress of welcome then about to be made bv the Mayor of that city to the Press Associa tion, and we declined the honor because w*e knew that arrangements were on foot to dis jilav Bullock again. The Chattanooga recep tion, however, passed off without the morti fication of a Bullock presentation. We neither saw nor heard any more of Bullock until our arrival at Rome on Friday morning. Here arrangements were made by the city authorities to furnish the Press with a drive over the city, and the Mayor designated a particular carriage in which Bullock, two others and ourself were to be seated. We declined the offer distinctly on flu 1 ground that we would not in any way, permit ourself, to be associated with such a person as Bullock. Upon assembling for dinner in the dining room of the Choice House, and after gentle men had commenced to discuss their food, Mayor Hargrove arose and made a short speech, in which lie was highly and pointed ly eulogistic of “our Governor,” and wound iij) by a sentiment complimentary to him. This called the Beast to his feet, who, in a few disjointed sentences, whined his thanks, and then in the most patronizing manner possible, called upon Col. Clisbv, as the President of the State Associated Press, to respond for that body. Os course we knew that, after the adjourn ment of the Convention in Atlanta, to meet on the lGtli of November at Macon, Colonel Clisbv had no more right to speak for, or, in any manner commit, the Press than any other individual member of the Association. Indeed we knew that tin* organization of that Association is so far only temporary. Vet. being called out as In- was, as the Presi dent, of the Press Association, whatever he •might say would be regarded, to some ex tent, as the' sentiments of the members of the Press then present. Much to our mortification and regret, the speech of Col. Clisbv even excelled the Mayor in fulsome compliments to Bullock and his administration. Among other things he said lie “believed that all that Gov. Bullock had done as Governor, and his main aims were to aid the people of the State, and foster and develop their material interests.” These, we believe, were bis exact words, and we were inexpressibly shocked at their utter ance. It is, perhaps, due to Colonel G'lisby to say that we have been informed by a gen tleman of the Press, who soon after spoke to him on the subject, that the Colonel de clared that, as he was unaccustomed to public speaking, lie did not know what lie was saying. This Rome demonstration satisfied us that we could no longer, even by our presence, give countenance to such proceedings, and we candidly informed Colonel Halbert that, owing to the political turn which had been given to the affair, we should be compelled to retire from the party. He expressed deep regret at what had been said and done, and declared that it was without his consent or approval, and hoped we would continue with the party. Col. Cothran and Capt. Elliott, owners of the steamboat line plying on the Coosa, ex tended to us, in common with the other gen tlemen of tin 1 press, an invitation to take a trip down the river and examine the deposits of iron and coal along its course. This we accepted. ()u returning to Rome on Sunday morning, we were invited by Capt. Barney, Superin tendent of the Selma, Rome & Dalton Road, to take an excursion down his road with the view of examining the various deposits of coal and iron found along the line of his road in this State and in Alabama. This polite invitation we all accepted, and neither saw or heard anything on the trip which the most sensitive Democrat could take exception to until we reached Pevtona, on the line of tlie road, on our return to Rome. Here, on Tuesday night, a dinner had been prepared by Capt. Barney for us, and here we had again a surfeit of very poor speeches, verv poorly delivered. Here we had, however, one manly, straightforward talk from Major Burns, from Rome. Here, too, we learned that a Democratic editor read—we are glad we did not hear it—a toast to “Bullock, our model Governor.” After this there was no more display of the Bullock until we reached Atlanta, on \\ ednesday at noon. Here, at a dinner given to the “Press,” Bullock presided, and a long string of complimentary resolutions were read and earned with but one dissenting vote. These resolutions we have not yet seen in print-—we heard them read imper fectly, and may have been mistaken in their import. The second resolution, however, was complimentary of Bullock, and we moved to strike it and all that followed, out of the report. To this motion we failed to secure a second, and a vote could not be had upon it. We have given a fair bnt not as full a re port of the political and social aspect of the excursion as our space will permit. That we were deceived in the character of the com pany to be on the excursion we admit. That we have been deceived in the character and firmness (if many of our Democratic orm freres of tie- Press we also most sorrowfully admit. That the presence of Bullock on such an occasion was an insult to every gen tleman present will not be denied. That the presence of nearly or quite a score of scala wag members ami State officials was illtimed and improper will l>e conceded by all who know the ostensible object of the trip. We are glad to be able to add, in conclu sion. that a few members of the Press pre served their consistency and their self-re spect by refusing any association or inter course with Bullock whatever. While, we are pained to sav, a large number seemed to vie with each otter in lackeying td and fawn ing upon the individual who, through fraud and perjury, disgraces the Gubernatorial Chair of the State. This much we have felt constrained to say in explanation of our own presence in such a strange company. Wo have stored away ill our mind many pleasing incidents of the trip, and have collected much useful infor mation in regard to our iron and coal depos its; all of which shall present to our read el's, from time to time, as our space mav allow. - —Longfellow, the poet, and family, ar rived at New iork, on (September su. Press Excursion. HIS EXCELLENCY OOVERNOK HILLOCK. A few weeks since, Colonel E. llulhert, alias “Sharp and Quick," forwarded circu lars to the members of the press throughout the State, inviting them to make au exclu sion trip to the Northern part of the State, visiting the different iron works, coal mines and lime kilns in that region, so that Wing posted, they could make known to the world the boundless resources of the Empire State of the South. The bait was tempting—a free ride and a free frolic to the poor, overworked, badly jianl editors of Georgia was a treat not to be refused, as it might never again be of fered. Os course, Colonel Hulbert was soon assured that the members of the Georgia press would Ik* on hand at the time ap pointed. First one editor, and then another, began to see virtues in Colonel Hulbert which they never before discovered. The well circulated rumor that Colonel H. had become disgusted at Blodget’a appointment to office, aud had remonstrated with the Governor against Colonel Clayton’s removal, was another feat hr in the cap of Colonel Sharp and Quick. W’e wen* sold completely, and we acknowledge the corn; we made uo apologies for the past, it is true, but we had them all jirepared to be made public on our return from the excursion trip to North Georgia. The memorable 21th of August at last ar rived; Col. Hulbert’s invited guests were ou hand, ready to embark at the sound of the whistle; the magnificent engine, the “ Gen. Grant,” drawing a train of splendid ears fitted up for the occasion, with everything calculated to render au editor comfortable, steamed up to the passenger depot; the cry of “ All aboard !” was soon heard, and quick ly followed by the sound of the whistle, which announced the fact that the trij> had commenced. Every out* was pleased; every body happy. Soon after passing Marietta, we arrived at Cartersville, where we were welcomed in a very handsome speech by Col. Mark A. Coojter. We, of course, cx- peeted Col. Hulbert or Chairman Clisbv to respond, but maid bile tfictu Governor Bul lock appeared; acted as the cock of the iralk. How is this? asked a brother victim, stand ing at our side. What right has Bullock to respond on this occasion ? How came he here, anyhow ? asked another. Someone whispered, “ Lot us have jjeaeo.” Leaving Cartersville wo were soon at Chat tanooga. Here his Excellency koj>t iu the back ground, giving the first dose time to ojierate. Next we arrived at Rome, where we were welcomed in a becoming manner by Mayor Hargroves, when lo! and behold!! Bullock again takes the lead as the head man at the banjo. Here the cat was unhagge Iby his Excellency, when he said, “I and Col. Hulbert invited the members of tin- Press,” etc. We looked around to try to catch the eye of some friend, but found them all simi- larly engaged. Just then a voice, appa rently in the air, whispered softly the word, sold. Governor Bullock, at the close of his remarks, introduced Col. Clisby, Chairman of the Press Association. We listened at tentively, for we were anxious to hear what Col. Clisby would say. We soon fouud that he had discovered that the public were mis taken about the Governor's course, and that Bullock was really a great man. Good Heavens! how sick we felt from drinking limestone water, or some other cause. When Colonel Clisby had closed his sjieech, we hastily devoured some of the wholesome dinner that was in waiting for us, jirepared for the Press by the noble Romans, and made our way out of the dining-room. Just about that time we got tin* news that we were wanted at home, and we bid the excur sionists adieu.— Orf-ns/toro Herahl. 1 < ♦ i < Crops in l*Tori*l;i. Ellisville, East IT.a. , Sejit. 2, 1809. •Editor Savannah Republican— Dkau Slu: Simply to redeem a promise made, not that it will be news, but in confirmation of that already received, do I write to tell of the great destruction of the late promising cot ton crojj of this country (I know of none who have escaped) by the caterpillar. The work is well done. The fields look as if tiro had swept over them, and a sieklv stench fills the atmosphere of the whole land adjacent to their operations. At this time they are borini/ out grown bolls aud barking the stalks. If this continues a half crop is somewhat vis ionary. God help this stricken land. Yours truly, J. M. C. Preliminary Examination of Louia I.llit-nilinl, churned with lilt* .Murder of \aron K**iup, rulurrd. i FIFTH IIAT’S PROCEEDINGS. The Court convened at 10 o’clock, the prisoner being brought up by Sheriff Martin, to hear the opinion of the judges in this, his preliminary ex amination. All the Judges were present but Judge Wyelie. 11 is Honor, Judge George M. Logan, ou behalf of Urn Court, then rendered the following opinion : Georgia—Jtibb County : State vs. | To the Sheriff or Jailor of raid Louis Lilienthal. f county. Upon hearing the evidence in the esse of the “State vs. Louis Lilienthal,” for the crime of mur der, it is ordered that the said Louis Lilienthal he hound in a bond, with good and ample security, in the sum of six thousand dollars, and pay all costs in said case in this Court, for his ajipearance Ht the Supt rior Court, to hold in and for said county on the third Monday in November next, to answer to the crime of “Manslaughter.” Iu default thereof, the Jailor will receive and commit to the common jail of said county the body of Louis Lilienth.il, and him safely keep until thence delivered by due course of law. Given under our h and. uud seals, this third day of September, 1809. George M. Logan, Notary Public and Kx Officio J. P. [L. 8) •1. G. C. Buhnbtt, J. P. [i,. s.] J. K. Harman, I. P. fi.. B .j J. W. SCHOFIEM), .1. p r [,. B.] A. H. WrcuE, J. P. [r„ s.] Col, John It. Weems, on behalf of his client, offered as u bondsman Mr. Niissbaum, of the home of Nussb luin Dannenberg, his client’s employer, but Mr. Bacon objected on the part of the State, on the ground that one bondsman was not regarded us sufficient. Col. Weems then wrote out a recog nizance, which he read to the Court, suggesting that his client and Mr. Xussbauui would execute their share of tlie bond in open Court, and that they would afterwards wait on Judge Logan at ids office, where the bond might be finally completed in his office. Again Mr. Bacon objected, upon the ground that Aaron Kemp was nowhere “nominated in the bond ’ as the party killed; when Col. Weem* grace fully conceded the point, and suggested that the gentleman had better write out the l*ond to suit himself—introducing any and all law i>oiiits he thought advisable. At this stage of the proceedings, we left the Court—leaving scarce a dozen parties, who rank'-d as white folks, to see ttie end of these minute legal differences of opinion. Return or the Cuban Army. About six o’clock last evening we met the first detachment of Cuban Patriots that our eyes ever rested upon. They consisted of something like fourteen patriots, ranging from fourteen to twenty years of age, who had been captured at Eufaula, Ala., by Horn .J. C. Millcdge, L. 8. District Attor ney, Major Watson and U. S. Deputy Marshal Cox. Ihe party left on Saturday morning for the “Queen of the Antilles,” and were found camped out at Franklin, Ala., where they surrendered without firing a gun. The whole party are now carefully imprisoned in the rooms over Hon. W. C. Morrill’s office, and will be examined by that officer at 10 o’clock to-day. Among them is one of the fair sex, dressed in men’s clothes, who was as en thusiastic as her companions. The whole party will be dealt with to-day in approved form. Through the courtesy of Hon. J. C. Millcdge we were favored with un interview with the lady recruit, wiio stated to us that her age i- twenty four years. Her liusbind was killed at the Kittle of Gettysburg, when she was left u widow- with a little child, now seven years of age, She fell iit love with a young man, who met her at her re.-j --dence in Atlanta, and she agreed logo with hint on the Cuban expedition, with the intention of leav ing the crowd in Florida where her relatives re side. At the time Gen. Costa was boating up for recruits in this city, sfie occupied rooms at Brown's Hotel, where she had her hair cut and assumed the habiliments of the opposite sex. As soon as her sex was discovered Col. Milledgc gave orders to have her placed in a room by herself where she now remains under guard. The whole affair will be in vestigated this morning. 1 lie ('utian Rendezvous, The Cuban recruiting iffice in the cite of Macon, w.-are very happy to learn, ranks among the things that were. Geu. lb lleCoste and stuff have left for Savannah, and unless we are misinformed are guests at the Screven Hou-e. We sincerely hope they may remain there and keep away from the eitv of Macon from henceforth and forever. Affectionate parents have been scared within an inch of their fives, young boys liave forgotten the fifth com mandment of the decalogue, those rascally viola tors of the neutrality laws have made thousands of promises they never once intended to keep, our city police have been put on extra duty, L'. S. Gov ernment officials have lieen sent here, there and every where, and what is of far greater importance than all, the “local” has been nearly teased out of liis seven senses (including smoking and chewing) bv the thousand undone applications made to him for “information,’' though lie cured a brass button about Cuba or anything relating to it, more par ticularly anything relative to Uie late stampede. Borne people havegiven us particular tits for even breathing the name of Culm, others have quar reled with us for not giving a biographical sketch of every Maconite who was w illing to shed the (aid drop of bis blood in tile cause of Cuba and the Cubans. What our sufferings have been fur the past few days we do not care to suv; we can, how ever, assure our readers that from all we could learn we certainly do not envy any one who pos stvses any interest in Cuban affairs whatever. It is at best but a nine days’ wonder, from which the whole VOmu .onn rem.v— •'■'***. Crops iu L/oiviule* and R,. ri | _ Valdosta. August *> rjliUir Savannah see the request made in tlu* pm,. l"j u ' ' planters to give information relativ . ’ prospects of the growing crop. /" ’ considerable knowledge of the f u ,Vi; - forest in the counties of Lowinl, 1 rien, I have therefore thought it 1 east in my modicum. I aiu happy to say that so f ;ir ;w s<»nal observations extend, crops ir " ' •’ “Uy good; that is, com, cotton , f (though the crujus of tin* latter ari small.) Seasons have been pr.m vear, and the peoplehavo r, .1,.... 1 ~ , ’ Ihe darkies in my immediate n , . have worked well* and I hojio uil'j', rewarded, though I hear some cop' some localities. Though w. si ~ some little patience, and wait on b • years and see if they will not ji, ,j . interest to la* more energetic. ' ‘' : Our people have used guanos in , r sively this season than usual, ami V that it jxtVß, anil more particularlyo' used Wilcox A Gibbs’ niaimml V : ~ have been considerably damage*! !■-, ■ but uo caterpillar irf this section . any damage, and I am of the ' early frost will do us but vervlitti 1 as most of our cotton will be' f u j; v ' before the usual time for frost ' “ ' I noticed in your issue of the 'q s t o the White Suljihur Springs, in \ eclipse caused such a fall in temp -~i frost was visible. The same o.i .i, the same etTt*ot, and the oclijise that ' in the Radieal Legislature of th. s Georgia, 18th March, lSii‘l, h Us b cause of Frost having been seen m wiek several times this summer, lint * ■ blighting effects should not prove' i< r to the tender jilants of tin* Stan [ y . several of the railroads have pi Injunction, whieli has been granted by,l iS -hlev. Half Ijowxdes, H VI , r j{ Kl .j.j [ M AS()M( . Masonic Insiiraure Suggestion, Mr. Editor: As the Convention of p members of the Georgia Masonic i\r Life Insurance Comjiauy is uj>j»i-,nu luti low me to make a few suggestions tin the Masonic columns of the Jotnv.u e. Mkssknoeu, for the consideration t) f q Board of Directors and the members t Comjiauy. One of the princijml difficulties tlmt, ! struct the way of our success is, the want confidence iu the jK*rraanency of th« « nti r jirise, and the fear of a total loss of th. sessments paid, especially if lt m.-ml. r should become unable to meet them. 1 other words, we need, like the stock i i.n,, nies, arrangements for non-forfeiting pohe - soustoseeurototho.se members who i become unable to pay their assessments ii amount they may have paid, at their tic; up to the time they become unable tn m e them. Can this bo done? I think it i and if so, this will add great stability to ti, institution, and go far to insure eonliilei Now to the subject, how this is to In- ,1, Let there be a By-Law adopted, that vlnn , member shall have jiaiil assessments to ti.. amount of SIOO, S2OO, SOOO, or miv "m amount, and becomes unable to meet theta further, he, giving the Board of Dip, : , such undoubted evidence ms shall clearly , : isfy their minds of his inability to pay, : Board shall tlu n have the jiower to pay | u „ assessments out of the funds proviilej f,, r this jmrjxise, for any number of veins tim may see proper, or for life, aud Ins deal ii the whole amount thus jiaid, with int> i,-t, shall Im* deducted from the amount dm lieirs ms if he had paid all assessments Im . self, and the amount alone which lie mn have paid shall be turned over to his In . Thus you have a non forfeiting j»<di,v. h, this arrangement when u Mason hivoun- ■ member of tin* Couijiany lie is sure,-at In,-:, of tin* amount he jiuysin assessments, I he ut any time become unable to meet thu.,, aud thus security is given to nil sue// against total loss. If such should at mu time In come able to assume the payments of a < meats, they should he allow ltmle ,o. L, this arrangement there will be an indim meat for memluers to pay to their bitten . ,4 capacity, for the more they ]>ay the u, they provide for their heirs. The most of tlu* forfeitures aiul w ithdi.io aLs are from this source. No man thirty t;. years of age would ever quit this comp.: v if he desired to insure his life, to join ~ other, if lie could he assured of its j »<-nna ncin y, and that he would not lose tin a meats he pays so long as lie is able to u : them. But now the question comes up li the funds to be jirovided to meet tin meats of those disabled membi is? 1 are two ways in which this may h i First, give the Board of Director* jimu r: levy a tux annually ujxm the inenihi r fifty cents or one dollar, until they shall ji vide a sufficient revenue lor till- jnn; No one would refuse to jiay such a t.i cimlly when he might lxcome a hi tnT of the fund. Besides, this would I iM sonic.charity characteristic of the 1 >i• due from the more able to the less all, 1: would lie the stronger giving aid t" 1 weaker, and what masonic heart would refuse such a charity? But, si*eonilly, another way to j»ri<ve :■ fund (and this is the more jiractienl ]•-, If the number of members in tin < ..n,; be 4,200, let the assessments 1m . $4,100 and the assessments of tin- «im • dred l»e ujipropriated for that jmrj (1 you have SIOO to meet the asst -sun lit* "1 I disabled members—sujijiosing but one and if five die you have SSOO, anil When class A reaches to 5000 meml* • one or two hundred more, for th* •nun■(' jHise. Here you will have a revenue sufli* in a short time to meet all eonti; ; - and every member will feel that a soile’’- guarantee is afforded for a certain an. even were many to withdraw wlm are ahi m<*et the mortuary fees. If at unv til • fund should not be needi-il for tlii~ j-urj, let it la: added to the invested fund 'Uitn shall lie sufficient to si-oure a j » ni. ■ amount lxyond all conlingenei' Mr. Eilitor, some revision of tin-1 ■’ - like unto this is needed, to give‘'"id ’ and assurance, and until somi-tliiug "f t:..- sort is done there will be j»< rj** ti.nl !"V ures anil withdrawals. But, on tl, hand, if the by-laws are si> form- , ” guarantees against total loss, at those who may become unable to p- v I sujijMise they will lie but few. jiauv will soon Im* one of tin iu"-t I" 1 the land. I have thought a good and i subject, and conversed with many • of tlve Comjiauy, and they agree v . that something of this sort is need- • can be effected. I therefore sulg.J [• views through this medium, ’■ Board of Directors, or some "i- < may mature something by the in the Convention that may aceoinjai’* l object. And we hojK* that agents ;” will bring this subject to tin: noti the members in theft- jurisdiction. ’ may obtain their views on tin / . time of the Convention, in view «•- • something that may inereas<- eon” 1 disarm the agents of stock cotnpmm make it tlu ir business to di-'• Contjauiy on the ground of its wan ranee. Autjnst 27th. 1869. The Trestle- Board. Onr ancient brethren, bv tliei. - _ attachment for the institution oi • . have given it a permanency th;:t human institution ever has, claim. It possesses at this 0 0 ‘ which excites the wonder <»t 1 world; for those who have h- -u ' . with the fraternity are well is no part of the habitable ”■ Masons cannot lx- found to j’ n ;' broad principles and extend tie benefits appertaining to those t " ‘ ~ I right they may belong, and Liu- . yet have never seen the hg.fi • , ; find it almost impossible to absolute strength of the institbi e j age and clime and under even ki of government. , th: ' It is an old adage, and a tne’ , the sun never sets upon the j ll ' r ‘_. Masonry, and how it is that the the Israelite, the f Moslem, and the ’ one and all can greet each other ay 1 i. irrespective of their separate religie- .... their nationalities or their . . , all of which may lie as different a> j v <! asunder, can hardly uiulers < , • profane, who have never been ~.t i : : enter the interior of the Tempi*'- ;i v , rv may meet each other, coining or more different places each *'■ a i„ ll gu a t'' i minble to sjieak a single word of 'hI’NT A j; 0