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THE NEWS.
Prinn Arthur of England is going West
a hunting excursion.
Sewn hundred and fifty hands are
' v irking on tlie Brunswick and Albany lioad.
])r. Stringfcllow, of Gainesville, Fla.,
j , i ut Aiken, S. C., on the 25th ult.
. (;. .vi rnor Clayton, of Arkansas, is acan
ihdatc for United States Senator.
Three Amethysts were found in Hall
county lately. _ -
The ri,- crop in Louisiana is ten times
tlii - vear what it was in 1860.
The cotton crop in Floyd and Polk
counties, Georgia, will not exeeed a half
crop- ,
Th bonded.debt of the city of Colum
i.ii, ..mounts to $3.14,500, the annual interest
thereon being 82-1,115.
The Tribune, of N. Y., contemplates the
, .mlitiou of the constitutional amendment
ta one of increased peril.
-Crawford county, Ga., has an average
viebl of corn; cotton, half a erop; fodder,
fine and plenty.
Tie blind king of Hanover has written
jiiiiuphlet to prove that the duty of France
is to crush Prussia.
An Englishman has invented a way of
Hiring hay and grain in twenty minutes, by
th.- use of artificial heat.
Ii i .ml that about the Ist of October,
S.utor Sprague will commence work on the
i .1 1 ;iiibin S. ('. ) Canal, and proceed to erect
a cotton factory.
The Tennessee Senatorial election, ac
cording to law, must take place on the
, ..ml Thursday after the organization of
tin,* Legislature.
(lay 11. Salisbury, one of the oldest
newspaper writers in tiie Stab- of New York,
: found drowned in Ifuiliilo creek on the
Lin instant.
i-A -Judge Osborne, of New York, was,
. i Saturday, held in 85,000 to keep the
)■ having challenged a lawyer to tight
a due'
the le v. Dr. Robert J. Boyd, minister
tin- Methodist Episcopal Church South,
...! at Marion Court-house, S. C.,on Friday,
•"•■l instant, and was buried on Sunday.
The < 'li irleston (S. C.) Chamber of Com
merce have passed a resolution offering a
'-ilver goblet to the State Agricultural So
re iv. to be given as a premium for the best
ten bales of upland cotton.
Among the noted receipts by express, at
Lan.-wille, September 4, were four imported
( i its wold sh.-ep, at a cost exceeding two
thousand dollars, for Mr. C. C. McFerran,
Ibr his farm in Jefferson county, Ga.
li Monroe and Pike counties the cotton
fields are us white as is usual iu November
Mel December. All the cotton raised in that
eta.ii will he ready for market by the mid
dle ..f' October. Pea crops are nearlya total
failure.
George Fisher for thirty five
1 years a re ulent of Augusta, Ga., and a Cap
tain in the Confederate army, died at the
l science of his cousin, Robert Younge,
1. <|.. (ir» ’isf ones, near Sheffield, England,
n tlic2otu of August, aged Ail years.
By the completion of the Western Pa
■tie Railroad, on Monday, ears now travel
iiitinuously from the harbors of New l'ork
or Boston to the harbor of San Francisco.
AiTivuievments have been made for carrying
tin through passengers and mails between
mmeiito and San Francisco, without
trail- hipmeut inside of four hours.
Oilieial information lias reached Wash
in- tKii that the President of Peru lues issued
aili-ne torn public exhibition at Lima, in
1 iml«-r. 1870, of agricultural and manu
■ i-n il products, including models and
lanerv, native and foreign. 8200,000 in
1 i ppropriated for premiums and ex-
l'lii'quiet and pleasant little town of
r. is looking up. Quite recently a
<>f persons have invested in real
mid settled there. The schools there
<|Ui i. ■ flourishing. Emory College
s. two weeks since, with about forty
'indents, and is doing quite as well as
ii\ time before the war.
i Albany \cirs says: “ Capt. Allen,
man i -es Jordan A Lockett’s Foul-town
it’"ii. put in a specialty of six acres.
!e lilv fertilized with the Dixon mix
pi. luted about the 4th of May.
tii t picking last week—yielded two
- ml pounds to the acre, and we learn
patch will probably yield two more
o! an equal amount—making 116,000
‘•iimLs to the six acres.”
bon. J. A. Koyee, of Cincinnati, liero
a prominent Iladieal, in a coinmuni
t*• the t'inciniiiti Kmjuirer, says: “I
s ' red myself from the Republican
■ ause it is an organized hypocrisy,
ilu dissimilation, a fraud, a delusion
sii.tie. a combination of grasping fa
iat toning on the vitals of the wealth*
1 i- and wealth-distributors of the
lt l lt is evident that Mr. lioyce,
ais connection with the Radical par
*'• kepi his eyes about him.”
Mu the 7th, Wells R. Whitmore, who is
■ ' uiie otliccr, with headquarters at Did
n't stod a man named Deadman, who
'iiuing an illicit distillery in the neigh
'd of Ringgold. Deadman resisted
't v ry strenuously, but finally sub-
Subsequeutly, however, he made
at to escape and was in the iu*t of
away, when Whitmore tired, with
attention, he says, of causing him to
Although Deadman wars about forty
"ay when the shot was fired, it took
m las body, and he fell.
c d\ of Judge Oleot-t of the Hust
''urt ' 1 Richmond, Va., under Gen.
found on the 20th lilt., near El
t lty. Man . ud, under circumstances
■ -pliat lus death was caused by ex
iial w. at of food. He was of North
!c. a b. ithcr-iu-law of the celebrated
t i.. site, and a son of a lawyer of emi
ud wealth. For twenty years lie was
: Louisiana, and for a short time
. ' of the Supreme Court of that
i i:.g from that position to go North
' utbreak of the war.
• he British Press oil Cotton.
an the N. Y. Herald, September 5.
British press continues to be very
- leised about the supply of eotton.
day or two there are leading articles
; ay amount of correspondence on the
I aid there is hardly any conceivable
\ ; - inereiusiug the production of the
| :i;d that is not discussed. The in
| ! -apply is termed a calamity, and is
j wing to au increase of the con
; ]■■ wer at a time when the raw ma
| i- decreasing. A writer in the London
| s a very sensible view of the mat
| lie .j-gues tlmt the true way to in
\ thi production of cotton is for the
1 '"er- and capitalists of England to
i -ate with the grower. That is, we
l t employ their capital in oonueo
-1 -1 ‘la* labor of the planters in order
■ . lulate a larger growth.
| ' writer remarks, too, that it would be
I tin American planters to grow five
| f hides at double the expense of
* f I-’ )'>r when the same pro fit can be
■ m half that amount. But where
I ‘■" -! ah manufacturers and capitalists
H i- ir money in co-operation with the
jg , India and other countries have
| ami a vast amount of capital has
1 “v in the experiment. There is,
* ’■■r, .ne place in the world where rais
{ ai is not an uncertain experiment,
1 1 planting never fails to be success
| -'utable. In our Southern States
j . ' ai'e.i of cotton lands yet uneul
■ .. ' 1 bmre were capital and labor
■ n lmlhons of bales or more could
■ I-'U-V V 1 lus ls the country, then, for the
■ ipl,. I , uveßt bi if they would get an
I ‘' t “''kraLl l S! ou tt “ J "
®eo||ia lowwal a«d Mtsmmn
Death of Senator Fessenden.
The telegraph announces the death, Sep
temlier 8, of William Pitt Fessenden, one
of the U. S. Senators from Maine.
Although Mr. Fessenden belonged to the
Republican party—indeed, was one of its
founders—and was identified with the aboli
tion movement that culminated in the lute
war, and in so much ruin and sorrow for the
South and her people, he was among the
best, least vindictive, most conservative, and
most honest of Iris party, and was known to
have opposed most of the extreme radical
measures in open violation of the Constitu
tion which Sumner, Butler, Stevens and
Boutwell, proposed from time to time for our
punishment and degradation. He was cer
tainly the ablest, most dignified, best in
formed, and houestest of his party iu the
Senate. Asa lawyer ho ranked with the
most eminent men in the profession. He
was a good speaker, seldom rising tv) the
height of eloquence, but always forcible,
nervous, and to the point. He was at times
irritable, petulant and snappish in debate, but
he never forgot the dignity of his position or
of the body in which he sat. He was said to
be incorruptible. Nobody has ever breathed
a word against his public or private charac
ter. He always denounced corruption and
official dishonesty wherever ho found them,
and no consideration could induce him to do
violence to his conscience and do what he
behoved was wrong, in order to secure the
ends of his party, or promote his own po
litical advancement.
He has done the South deep and irrepara
ble wrong. Ho has been for years one of the
fiercest anil most redoubtable of her foes;
but since her defeat he has not boon among
her persecutors.
Mr. Fessenden was born in Boscawen,
New Hampshire, on the 16th of October,
1806. He graduated at Bowdoin College,
was admitted to the bar in 1827 at Bridgton,
Maine, and entered the Legislature of Maine
in 1831, where he soon won distinction as a
debater. Iu 1840 he was elected to Congress
by the Whig party ami served but one term
in the House of Representatives. For sev
eral years he withdrew from public life and
devoted himself to the pructice of his pro
fession, and won considerable fame by an
argument before the Supreme Court of the
United States in which he was associated
with Daniel Webster. He was again elected
to Congress in 1850, hut was unseated
through an informality of the returns. He
was a member of the National Convention
which nominated General Harrison for the
Presidency, was a member of the Conven
tion which nominated General Taylor,
though he supported the claims of Air. Web
ster, and was also a member of the Whig
Convention which nominated General Scott.
In 1854 he was chosen Senator in Congress
by both branches of the Legislature of Maine,
though at that time the Democrats had a
majority in both houses, but a union of the
Whigs and Freesoil Democrats elected him.
At the dissolution of the old Whig party
Mr. Fessenden allied himself with the Re
publicans, and became one of the most fanat
ical and persistent of the Abolitionists. His
speeches on the Nebraska bill, on Kansas
affairs, and on the Lecompton Constitution,
were able, but ultra in their opposition to
the rights of the South. In 1859 ho was
unanimously re-elected to tlie Senate for six
years. After the resignation of Air. Chase
and his acceptance of the Chief Justice
ship of tlie Supreme Court, Mr. Fessen
den became Secretary of the Treasury in Air.
Lincoln’s Cabinet, but he only held the po
sition for a short time, and was again elected
to the Senate from Maine.
Since the close of the war lie has generally
favored a moderate policy towards the South,
or perhaps we should say, a less violent poli
cy than that which a majority of his party
supported. It is true that he voted for the
reconstruction acts, and most of the uncon
stitutional legislation for the Southern
States, yet it is somewhat due to him and
Senator Trumbull, of Illinois, that the legis
lation was not much more oppressive and
unconstitutional than it is. He became very
unpopular with bis party and with the peo
ple of Maine because be voted against the
conviction of Andrew Johnson, on the cele
brated Impeachment trial, and was even de
nounced as a traitor because he would not
forswear himself to gratify violent party
passion. He was for many years of bis Sen
atorial service a member of the Finance
Committee, and for the hist few years its
chairman.
Blessings iu Disguise.
Air. Secretary Boutwell is entitled to rank
among the most remarkable inventors of
the age. He redeems $37,000,000 of bonds
which are not payable until the year 1887, at
a cost of $45,000,000, and calls it ‘‘making
money by paying off the debt.” He cancels
by calling iu millions of greenbacks which
do not bear any interest, and issues bonds
instead, which bear a heavy interest, and be
calls this an “economical financial policy. ”
But the greatest of all bis inventions is, that
“there is now more money in the South
than in any other portion of the country —
North, East or West,” and he calls this
“official evidence of the rapid recuperation
of the Southern States.”
We would only remark as to this last
named invention that if there really exists
such a plethora of money at tho South as
Mr. Boutwell’s official figures represent, we
have not heard of it, nor have our friends
that tangible evidence which is preferable to
that of official figures. On the contrary we
have reason to believe that money has rarely
been so scarce or hard to get as it is at
present. We believe that it is worth from
lb, to 2 percent, per month, which is hardly
an evidence of that abundance of money
of which Air. Boutwell’s official figures prove
tho existence. Perhaps those who own all
this money have deposited it in that “hole
iu the sky” with which Mr. Boutwell is fa
miliar, which accounts for the fact that it is
not available for practical purposes.
Lord Palmerston's Diary.— We believe
it was Mr. Bouton who said of John Quincy
Adams, who regularly kept a diary, that “no
man is to be trusted, sir, who keeps a diary.
He must be a rascal, sir. ”
It lias been just discovered on an examina
tion of the late Lord Palmerston's papers,
that he too was guilty of this “rascally act.”
His diary is saidto be very full of sketches and
reminiscences of the prominent men and
women with whom he was associated during a
public life of considerably more than half a
century. The announcement of the discovery
will strike terror into many of the friends
and companions of the old statesman, and
they will be very anxious to persuade Earl
Stanhope, (better known as Lord Mahon,)
the literary executor of Lord Palmerston, to
inform ftiem as to what his lordship wrote
about them before the diary is given to the
printer. It contains, doubtless, many cu
rious revelations which would be eagerly
read by the gossip world, for “Old Pam’s”
lift; was as varied and as marked by strange
adventures as it was prominent and long.
Senator Morton and Thomas Car
lyle.
Sen;.' >r Morton, of Indiana, one of the
great guns of Radicalism, has taken the
stump ia Ohio and Pennsylvania, and on
several occasions recently, has told the peo
ple what a benevolent, economical, honest,
liberal and incorruptible {.arty is that to
which he belongs, and what a selfish, lavish,
dishonest, exclusive and corrupt party is
that of which Mr. Pendleton and Judge
Asa Packer, are the representatives.
Mr. Morton is fond of similes. They are his
favorite rhetorical figures. Sjieakiug of the
Democratic and Radical parties, he said :
“The Democratic and the Republican
platforms, taken together, resemble a double
mile-post—that part of the mile-post that
looks backward, tells you where you came
from, and how fur you have gone. That is
the Democratic party. The other side of
the mile-post is the Republican. That looks
forward, and tells you how far you have to
go.”
It will bo observed that the Senator forgot,
or intentionally omitted to mention whither
the Radical mile-stone leads. He is right
that the Democratic mile-stone tells us that
we came from tho Constitution of the United
States, Equality of the States, and the right
of the people to govern themselves subject
only to the Constitution, and that it tells us
also how far wo have wandered from the
road of republican liberty, and federal inde
pendence. But he should by all means have
explained the forward indications of Radical
ism. There is no one hotter qualified to do
so than he.
We remember to have road recently and
copied for tho benefit of our readers an ex
tract from some remarks of the venerable
Thomas Carlyle to a correspondent of a New
York paper who “interviewed” him. The
language of tho author of “Sartor Resartus”
is strong and unpleasant, hut we do not
know how better to define the tendency of
Radical progress than to quote his words.
We hope that Mr. Morton will use them in
his next speech. Carlyle says:
‘ ‘ As sure as the Lord reigns, you are rush
ing down to hell with desperate velocity.
The scum of the world has got posseasion of
your country, and nothing can save you
from the devil’s clutches. Not, perhaps,”
cried he, raising his voice to its shrillest
notes, “a hell burning with material fire
and brimstone, but the wide weltering fiery
chaos of corruption in high places, and the
misrule of the people. ”
The New .Minister to China.
It is rumored in Washington that the
President is about to appoint Mr. George
Wilkes, the racing, cock-fighting, prize ring
notability,as United States Minister to China,
in place of Mr. Ross Browne, removed, and
Mr. Howard who has declined the honor.
Mr. Wilkes has often displayed his diplo
matic talent as the bottle-holder at a prize
fight, the judge at a horse race, and the
stake-holder in a cock-pit, and his literary
ability has been confined exclusively to a
sporting paper published in New Y'ork, which
is the accredited organ of the “sporting fra
ternity.” His political education was per
fected, we believe, iu San Francisco, at the
time of the YYtrilannc r ' “““
has the further merit of having “bet high”
on the election of General Grant, to the ex
penses of which he is said to have subscribed
liberally.
He is not exactly tlie man who in old
times would have been selected to fill a first
class diplomatic mission, or indeed any mis
sion at all, except that of a referee at a horse
race; but times are changed. Have we not
Washbume at Paris, and Sickles at Madrid,
and why should we not have Wilkes at Pekin?
What will Logan say, however, at his being
set aside by the editor of the Spirit of the
Times? General John A. Logan, tlie grand
commander of the Grand Army of the Re
public, and Head Centre of all the Loyal
Leagues, the linpeacher of Andrew Johnson,
and Hater of tlie South —a renegade from
the Democratic party and now the most
radical of radicals—to be snubbed and liis
request refused for George Wilkes! It is
really too bail. It may be that the rumor is
not well fouuded and that Logan may be
spared the humiliation. So far as the
“ Flowery Kingdom ” is concerned, we do
not see much choice between the two. It is
six of Wilkes and half a dozen of Logan.
Attorney General Hoar’s Virginia opin
ion, which we now read as it was written and
divested of the emendations of telegraphic
operators, declares in short that the Legisla
ture of Virginia shall not be required to take
the test oath to ratify the Fifteenth Amend
ment, but that the Legislature is only pro
visional until Congress rc-admits Virginia
into the Union as a State, and that therefore
the General Assembly shall not be permitted
to do any business of any kind until Con
gross shall have granted her permission by
declaring that the work of reconstruction is
complete. In other words, Virginia is a
State of the Union while she votes to ratify
a Radical amendment to the Constitution,
an act which none but a State can legally
perform, and then after she has done this
she is not a State but only a provisional or
ganization subject to the will of Congress.
It is the most remarkable political legerde
main on record. The juggler who swallows
the sword and takes a small cork-screw out
of bis mouth as the result of tlio deglutition,
is a tyro compared to Hoar who swallows a
State, and produces a provisional territory.
Sweets to the Sweet.— lt is stated on the
authority of a despatch from Boston to tlie
New York papers that Benjamin F. Butler
has written au article upon the Stowe-Byron
controversy which will be published in a few
days. This is very appropriate. There could
be no fitter person to comment and dilate
upon the loathsome theme. It is not stated
what paper is to publish the article, but we
should suppose that the New York Police
Gazette will lie the favored medium.
A Pleasant Locality. —lt has been cal
culated that one-tenth of the people of the
Territory of Arizona are killed every year by
the Indians. It must be what the song calls
“a pleasant spot.” It would be a first rate
place for the Radicals to “settle up.” Such
immigration might lie hard upon the Ca
mauches, but then ‘ ‘the greatest good of the
greatest manlier” is what we desire.
Impertinence Rebuked.— Some Radical
worthies in Savannah had the insolence to
call on General Gilmer, acting President of
the Central Railroad, to get him to influence
the employes of the road to support the Rad
ical candidate for the Mayoralty. General
Gilmer received them with freezing polite
ness, and it is unnecessary to add, declined
the insolent request.
The Bainbridoe, Cutiibert .and Columbus
Railroad.— The Bainbridge Argus gives the
following information concerning this pro
posed road:
“A sufficiency of stock has been subscrilied
to the Bainbridge, Cutbbert and Columbus
Railroad, to complete the road-bed to Cuth
bert, as soon as the fine is run to Tallahassee,
40 miles towards Cuthbert and 20 miles to
wards Tallahassee, will bo contracted.”
"V ita sine Literis Mors est
MACON, GA., TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 14. 1569.
A Monument to Dollars.
The proposed monument to commemorate
the fame and great public services of Geokue
\\ ashingtox, of whom American citizens
sj>eak with pride as the Pater Paine, is un
finished, and all appeals for aid to complete’
it fall upon closed ears. No “immense
statues” or “colossal bas-reliefs” have
lieen erected any where in honor of any of
the great men who have illustrated the his
tory of the United States by their intellect,
devotion to the public interests, and great
virtues. They died, but beyond their good
deeds which live after them, there is nowhere
any sign of popular gratitude, reverence,
or respect.
To a citizen of New Y'ork who has risen by
a succession of fortunate circumstances
from the position of a ferry man to that of
a railroad monopolist and owner of
of dollars, whose name is not connected with"
any great or benevolent enterprise, who has
never distinguished himself by the display
of any ability, but the power to pile dollar
upon dollar, without education, without re
finement, without any of those qualities
which entitle men to historic fame—a mon
ument lias just been erected in liis life-time
in the city of New Y'ork, which is described
as “ unrivalled in any part of the world. It
is not to the man but to his millions this os
tentatious compliment is paid. It is tej
Mammon and not to Virtue.
As the work is regarded as one of the
wonders of the day, and is said to possess
great merit in an artistic point of view, we
copy the following account of it from the
New Y'ork Tribune:
ERECTION OF A COLOSSAL BRONZE STATUE AND
ALLEGORICAL BAS-RELIEF IN HONOR OF
COMMODORE VANDERBILT.
For a month past about fifty men have
been engaged in erecting, on the top of the !
western wall of the Hudson River Railroad
depot, an immense work intended to honor
Commodore Vanderbilt. The design origi
nated with Captain Albert Degroot, who
caused drawings to be made, and laid them,
with an explanation of his plan, before a
committee of New York gentlemen. The
funds were quickly subscribed. A large
foundry was built to make the castings, and
George and Valentine Fisher employed to
superintend this part of the work." The
construction of the models was undertaken
by Ernest Plassman, who completed them at
his School of Art, in Sixth Avenue, in ten
months. In September last the casting of
the work was begun and successfully com
pleted by Fisher <fc Brother. A strong
scraffolding having been erected and care
fully enclosed, the various parte of the work
were securely boxed up, transported to the
depot, and hoisted to the roof, where they
were duly erected agaiust a massive brick
wall three feet thick, to which they were
firmly fastened with iron anchors, more than
2,000 in number, and weighing over four
tons. The strictest secrcsy was enjoined,
from the outset, upon all connected with the
work. It covers an area of 3,125 square feet,
measures 150 feet in a straight line, aud 31
feet in extreme height; weighs nearly 100,000
pounds, and cost over half a million dollars.
It consists of an immense bronze statue of
Commodore Vanderbilt plaecd in the centre
of a colossal bas-relief which is contrived to
illustrate the career and achievements of the
Commodore, to represent the great inven
tions of this century, and to portrav allegor- !
• n j g.'j* im oi tiu: xvcpLuuic. ' rue Rase I
hue, upon which the bas-n.n.f i... is j
a narrow tier of blue-stone. In the centre I
is a great carved block of granite, weighing
eleven tuns. On this rests a bronze pedes
tal five feet square, one and a half feet high,
and bearing the inscription “Erected 1868.”
On this pedestal, within a recess, stands the
statue. It is 12 feet high, nearly solid, aud
weighs four tuns. It represents the Commo
dore with head uncovered, and wearing a
heavy fur-trimmed overcoat, his left foot
slightly advanced, his right hand inserted
beneath his vest, and his left modestly ex
tended. The bas-relief is ten feet high
at tlie ends, and is surmounted by a
granite cornice, which slopes gradually up
ward for about one-third the length from
each extremity, turns suddenly up, runs
along horizontally, aud finally forms an arch
in the centre over the statue. The middle
portion of the cornice is decorated with or
namental work iu bronze. The bas-relief at
each end is terminated with massive scroll
work, representing leaves and plants. On
the right hand, beneath the statue aud the
scroll, is represented the Commodore’s ma
rine life, and on the left his railroad life. At
the right hand, in tbe foreground, appears,
in a reclining position, Neptune, with flow
ing beard, a wreath of leaves on his head,
his right hand grasping a rudder, a sea
monster rising from the water at his feet,
and a raccoon peering around the corner of
the rocks on which he rests. In the back
ground rise the Palisades of the Hudson; a
light-house is seen, and the boat Dred, in
which Mr. Vanderbilt in early days con
veyed passengers from New Y'ork to Staten
Island at twenty-five cents a head. Next
comes the steamer North Star, in which the
Commodore sailed around the world. Finally
is seen the huge steamer Vanderbilt. In
the middle of the foreground a dock appears,
on which are coils of rope, bananas and pine
apples, and a great watch-dog crouched on a
eotton bale, and, next to the statue, a cap
stan, anchor and chain. At the extreme left
Liberty sits erect. In the background rises
a woody slope, and in the front a fence and
two cows are seen. Back of these is an en
gine drawing six ears and entering a tunnel,
and in the rear is a villa on a hill-top. Iu
the middle of tlie foreground a switchman
is seen, flag in hand, and the locomotive C.
Vanderbilt appears, drawing a train of ears.
In tlie front of the locomotive are two har
vesters in the attitude of working. Next to
these several agricultural products are visible.
In the upper part of the bas-relief birds are
seen flying. Yesterday afternoon this work
was exhibited to a few members of the press.
It will be uncovered to the public on or
about the 28th iust.
Will oni Misfortunes Never Chase?
Air. Henry Wilson, of Natick, Senator from
Alassaehusetts, has written, it is said, a his
tory of tlie Rise and Fall of Slavery in three
volumes, the first of which will appear be
fore the meeting of Congress in December.
We have borne defeat, humiliation, loss of
property, tyranny, and injustice in countless
forms, with a patience and fortitude which
have elicited the involuntary admiration of
our enemies, and we thought that tlie cup of
our misery was full to overflowing. But
now comes Wilson with a book in three
volumes to slander, humiliate, and worry ns
in bad English. We would suggest that he
name the three volumes severally, Envy,
Hatred and Alaliee, and that the appendix
be headed .All Uncharitableness. We have
such confidence in Wilson's capacity, and
are so familiar with bis style and way of
thinking, that we do not hesitate to give
this flattering notice of his work in advance
of its publication. Pollard has written the
life of Jefferson Davis, why should not Wil
son write the history of slavery? They are
both equally familiar with their subject.
The Chops in Arkansas. — We see from
our exchanges that the cotton crop of Arkan
sas, it is estimated, will amount to 300,000
bales. W« hope that this is true, although this
account does not agree with private informa
tion we have received from Arkansas. The
corn crop is said to be the best and most
abundant ever made in the State.
Savannah Monthly Salh of Stocks. —
The Savannah Advertiser, of the Btli, re
ports Court House sales of Central Railroad
stock at SI 20 to 5120.50 per share, and of
Atlantic and Gulf Railroad stock at $35 per
share. City of Savannah bonds were sold
at 887.
Let Us Get the Highest Price for
Our Cotton Crop.
We publish in another column an excellent
article from the Augusta Chronicle and Senti
nel, advising our planters of the imprudence
of hurrying forward their cotton to market,
showing how such a course must necessarilv
cause a rapid fall in prices, will produce a
false impression as to the size of the crop
among European buyers, and will result in
large gains to the speculators and large
losses to the producers.
We cordially endorse the views of our Au
gusta contemporary. We trust our planting
friends will heed the advice so forcibly given
Ito them. If they are wise they will only
send to market and sell cotton enough to
uiy their indebtedness and hold the rest
' il the true state of things has been ascer
j in Europe and at the N. >rth. It is
; k it first duty of course to pay their debts,
i .* aud merchants who have made
advances cannot wait for their money.
They need it to carry on their business and
sustain their credit, and every man who has j
received such aid should discharge such j
debts promptly aud in full. Beyond tliis it !
is absolute folly to glut the market at this
time. The price must fall if they persist in
it. It has already fallen, and will fall still
lower. Speculators will buy, hold, and reap
immense profits without running any risk,
for everybody feels certain the market will
advance considerably beyond the present
prices when the fact is ascertained beyond a
doubt that tho cotton crop of 1869 is not
only not larger, but is smaller than that of
1868.
Let our planters derive all the profits of
their crops; and if they are wise, and patient,
they will secure them, and be glad that they
have been advised to abandon the very im
politic course they are now pursuing.
A Good Idea.
From the Savannah Republican.
We perceive that Mr. H. 8. Haines, Gen
eral Superintendent of the Atlantic and Gulf
Railroad, has addressed a scries of questions
to the various agents along the line regard
ing the crops that will elicit much valuable
and reliable information. They will be found
below; and we would suggest to Mr. Haiues
that after liis facte shall have been collected
the public would be edified by having them
laid before it in a condensed form. If all
the railroad and steamboat lines of the coun
try would adopt a similar plan, it would save
both themselves and the public from work
ing in the dark:
I. What is tho condition of the cotton
crop? 2. What will be the yield as com
pared with the crop of 1867? 3. Has the
crop been damaged by caterpillar, uml to
what extent? 4. Has it been damaged by
the rust, and to what extent? 5. Has the
use of fertilizers been satisfactory, and with
what result? 6. Wliut kind of fertilizer has
been most generally used? 7. Will there be
any difficulty in obtaining sufficient Labor to
pick cotton? 8. What is the condition of
tlie corn crop? 9. What is the condition of
the rice crop? 10. What is the condition of
the cane crop?
If the investigation is carefully and con
scientiously pursued there is uo doubt that
it would do a vast deal of good. Tlie ques
ni \r- tr. i— „„„ • - V vraiAicai
and embrace every point in relation to tlie
crops on which information is desired. We
hope that others similarly situated will in
stitute similar inquiries, and give the public
tlie result iu a short, intelligible form.
Just Perhaps, but Y'ery Severe. —The
Louisville Courier contains the following an
ecdote, with comments, in relation to tho
past life of the Loyal League Head Centre,
John A. Logan, who is not going to China.
It may be just, we rather think it is, but it is
a hard hit for the commander of the Grand
Army of the Republic:
“John A. Logan recently made a speech
at Carbondale, Illinois, in which he said the
election of Lincoln “caused tho Democracy
to reel and stagger.” Logan opposed the
election of Lincoln bitterly. Tho Quincy
Herald, in this connection, says:
“Tlie only Democrat that we saw that
“reeled and staggered,” was John A. Logan,
who was beastly drunk around the streets of
Springfield, threatening to shoot Stephen A.
Douglas because he had taken ground in
support of the war.
“John A. Logan is just as much a genuine
patriot as the paste-breastpin that the rascal
ly fellow passed off on poor Mrs. Lincoln
was a genuine diamond. ”
Another Change in the Postage Stamps.
-—lt is stated tbat the Third Assistant Post
master General intends to make another
change in the designs of the postage stamps,
and that the new stamps are to have the
heads of Washington, Jackson, Jefl'srson,
Franklin and Lincoln in profile on a red
ground. Anything must bo an improvement
on tho present hideous things.
A letter from Morristown, Tennessee,
dated September 3, says: “Our crop pros
pects are better than was thought they could
be ten days ago, and we shall Lave corn to
spare, and an abundance of wheat and oats
to ship.”
Fearful Loss of Life in a Coal
Mine.
From the Nashville Banner.
Plymouth, Pa., September 6.—A fire
broke out this morning in the flue and bot
tom shaft owned by the Delaware Lackawan
na and Western Company, in this place, and
in a short time the whole breaker and out
buildings were in flames, and the hoisting
apparatus, the only avenue for escape for
the miners, destroyed. All efforts to stay
tile flames were unavailable, and the whole
structure fell, filling up the shaft. Over
two hundred men are in the shaft and have
no communication out, with no eliance for
air, as the only way for getting air into the
shaft was through the main opening, and
that was filled with burning timbers and the
debris of flames. It is feared tlie whole
number have l»een suffocated by the smoke
qr perished for the want of air. The fire de
partments of Scranton, Wilkesbarro and
Kingston are playing streams down tlie shaft,
for the purpose of quenching the fire, so
that the rubbish can he cleared out and tlie
condition of tlie men ascertained.
It will probably take till to-morrow morn
ing before tidings can be received from
them. The scene is heart-rending. Fami
lies are congregated in great numbers.
Aliners from all parts of the country are
there at work, and merchants, and in fact the
whole population of the town, have turned
out to assist. The loss by the fire will
amount to about 8100,000, partly covered by
insurance.
All the pbysieians of the vicinity had been
summoned to attend, when the condition of
the men has been ascertained. The allair
has cast a gloom upon the whole communi
ty. anil business is almost entirely suspend
ed. The miners only resumed w ork to-day,
after a suspension of three months. Among
the men in the mines is Air. Hughes, tbs
Superintendent.
10 a. m. —After the rubbish from the bot
tom of the shaft was cleared away, two men
descended in a bucket and sent word up to
send down a pick and shovel to clear the
doors with. The bucket was brought up
anil two men started down with the tools.
As they started, the men at the bottom re
quested them to hurry, and on reaching the
bottom both w ere found dead. No hopes
are entertained for the men in the shaft.
All are supposed to have perished. The
black damp is very bad here.
—Ovide Gregory, member of the Alabama
Legislature from Mobile county, died in Alo
bile on the Ist instant. The Montgomery
Mail says Ovide was one of the most re
sp-etable members of the House, though he
Was a negro.
Corrw;>ouileii«: of the Journal and Messenger.
Letter from Nashville.
the odd fellows' RE-UNION.
Sr. Cloud Hotel. Nashville, )
Septemlier 5, 1869. )
Mr. Editor: We left Macon on Friday
morning, Septeml>or 3d. for Atlanta, found
Bro. C. O. Millar at depot, and arrived at
Atlanta at 2p. m. Several of tlie brethren of
Atlanta met us at the depot. After dinner,
Brothers S. W. Grubb, Matt Buioe and W.
P. McDaniel, took Bro. Millar and myself
to ride and show ns the Gate City and the
different sights around the city. J must say
I had no idea tliat Atlanta was half the size
it is. The corporate limits arc a perfect cir
cle, and three miles in diameter. At seven
o’clock, p. m. we took the cars for Chatta
nooga. where we arrived at 4 o’clock, a. m.,
Saturday morning, September 4. At sa. m.
we took the train for Nashville, 50 miles
from Chattanooga, and found freight train
off the track, in a narrow cut, which de
tained us two hours, consequently we dnl
not arrive at Nashville until sp. m. At 7
o'clock we were waited upon by a committee
of Brother Odd Fellows, who escorted us to
one of the Lodge Rooms of tho city, when
we found the room well filled with Live
Odd Fellows.
Enclosed I send slip from one of the pa
pers, from which you can learn a part of
what was doue. Suffice it to say we had a
good time.
Sunday morning, September 5, wo went
to Church. Brother Glenn arrived here this
morning. We all leave here on Monday
morning for Louisville. B.
Odd Fellows’ Reunion. —A number of
Representatives to the Grand Lodge of the
United States I. O. O. F. from Southern
jurisdictions arrived in this city yesterday,
and the day before, and an enthusiastic
meeting of the Order was held last night to
bid them welcome to tho city. Those who
were present from Southern States were:
Geo. W. Race, of L.a, a Past Grand Sire.
C. C. Millar, of Georgia.
Geo. R. Barker of Georgia.
L. K. Barber, Mississippi.
Albert Colien, Arkansas.
Henry E. Perkins, Texas.
R. R. Mayes, Mississippi.
D. N. Barrows, Mississippi.
In addition to the above named gentle
men from other States, Henry Brown, of
Jackson, W. S. Munday and Prof. Todd,
Gallatiu, and W. H. McConnell of Giles
county, in this State, were present.
In behalf of the Order here the distin
guished visitors were welcomed to the city
by T. T. Smiley, aud iu response, speeches
were made by those mentioned, together
with members of the order here.
After a very pleasant reunion and music
by the Odd Fellows’ band, the distinguished
guests were escorted to tho Merchants’ Ex
change by a committee, where an elegant
supper had been prepared. Feasting being
over, H. C. Hensley proposed a toast, in
which he punned extensively on the names
of all present His sentiments had a happy
effect and for upwards of an hour and a half
sparkling wit and sentiment flowed freely.
The occasion was one of real joy, and will
long be remeinlx'red by those who mingled
around tlie festive board.
The representatives leave to-morrow morn
ing for the off Pacific coast. In addition to
the Grand Sire, E. D. Farnsworth, and the
representatives from this and other States,
our townsman, Robert Thompson, is booked
for the trip. They meet the Northern rep
resentatives at Omaha, and all proceed to
Sail Francisco on one train.
*«r the South.
From the New York Tribune.
The egg-nogg ana roast turkey of Christ
inas festivity will this year represent a wide
spread and genuine congratulation over well
based prosperity in the South. When the
present crop is moved, and the planter re
ceives a balance sheet from his merchant, he
may feel himself a rich man. His crop has
rarely sold higher, and the early part of the
season was so favorable that he has less grain
to buy, less pork and cloth and leather, than
ever before. He may need more nudes;
many will indulge in a handsome pair of
carriage horses; but after all reasonable out
lays there will be a great deal of surplus
money in the South. Will not our brethren
of the Cotton Belt listen to us while we urge
them to invest that surplus not in gay
horses or anew saddle, not in silver-mount
ed revolvers, Axminster carpets, or brocade
silks, but in spindles ?
A fresh and brilliant career of greatness is
open to the South, if she can but see her
true and lasting interest. To buy land and
laborers has been her traditional policy, her
hereditary passion. Laborers she cannot
now purchase; of land she has too much for
the wisest tillage. Her territory is so pierced
with navigable streams that the call for more
railroads is not imperative. The most saga
cious of her public men are duly alive to the
importance of establishing manufactures,
but all are not informed as to what maufac
tures are just now the best for the South.
This wo propose to consider. No part of
the earth’s surface can compete with our
Cotton Belt in the ease aud certainty with
which cottons of long, fine, even staple can
be raised. This grand advantage springs
from our peculiar climate, and this Ls deter
mined by geographical facts.
Other regions, as India, Egypt, Brazil,
and the African coast, can supply to the
clamorous looms of Lancashire sufficient
cotton for lower grades of cloth, and for the
coarser yarns used in filling. But for the
long, fine threads required in the mush us,
lawns, fine prints, aud highest grades of
Hhirtings and sheetings, American thread
cannot be replaced. Cotton thread, fine,
strong and even, is the precise article which
England most needs from us, and she must
continue to require it as long as she has that
immense surplus population beseeching work
that they may live, requiring additional
looms to keep them from the poor loaf and
thin soup of pauperism. These cotton
yarns can be spun at tlie South at less cost,
with less waste, by as cheap labor, fed by as
cheap food, as in any part of the world.
There are immense pine forests to supply
fuel, the weather is so mild that spinning
houses would consume hut a trifle for heat,
and spinning cun be done by that large class
of half hands, tlie crippled, the old and
voung, those feeble in l>ody aud abased in
spirit, with whom the South abounds. For
manufacturers of the highest class, arts
which require vigilence and skill, a trained
eye and a nice touch at every stage of an
operation, the South does not now furnish
a full supply of the grade of labor required.
But to tend the cylinders, cards, jack frames,
and ring traveler frames, by which cotton
lint is converted inte cotton yams, numlx-r
--ing from 20 to 40, does not require a better
operative than the plantations and the pine
woods of the Cotton Belt can turn out in
abundance.
A spinning-house, fully equipped with
every wheel and spindle required for con
verting annually a thousand bales into yam,
with comfortable cabins for spinners, can be
put up for $50,000. The net profits of such
a mill may be about $20,000 a year. Think
of the immense increase of wealth and power
to a community to be gained by supplying
such an empire as the British with an article
of prime necessity and pocketing twenty
dollars a bale gain over and above the profit
of growing the cotton! The South thinks
she needs more agricultural laborers, more
Africans or Asiatics. That is her error. She
needs more of the descendants of Japheth,
not Normans with hereditary pride of blood
and of acres, but the patient, skillful, indus
trious artisan, the artificer in brass and cop
per, the man who think in iron. Upon this
class depends the world, wide vigor and grasp
of the British Umpire—this class it was that
gave the North her victory. The South does
not lack tire foresight and the thrift to see
that her future power and an unchallenged
equality in national uffairs depend not on a
plow-beam but on a cog-wheel.
Sat.k'of an Historical Farm.— An auc
tioneer in Baltimore, on the 18th ult., sold a
farm containing between four and live hun
; dred acres, known as the “Temple Farm,”
near Yorktown, Va., said to be one of the
best cultivated farms in that secthm of the
1 State, with fair improvements, and an nbun
-1 dance of fruit, inarl, fish, game, oysters, etc.
It was knocked down to Miss Clara Hewson
for $8,005. This is the farm upon which
Lord Oomwallis surrendered his forces and
signed the articles of capitulation, and is,
therefore, an historical spot.
The Irish Disestablished Church.
rrarrlar from the archbishops.
Tho Archbishops of Armagh and Dublin
have issued the following joint address to
the clergy and laitv in reference to the Pro
vincial Synods which they had summoned to
meet at Armagh and Dublin. It was briefly
referred to in our dispatches of the 20tli inst.:
“To the Clergy and Laity of the Church
of Ireland, grace and peace I**’ multiplied
through Jesus Christ our Lord. We have
this day issued our writs summoning the
provincial synods of our respective privinees
to meet in Armagh and Dublin. The pur
pose for which wo have called them together
is to consult anil treat on the representation
of the clergy in that general synod of
Bishops, clergy and laity, the expediency of
assembling which has lieon recently di'clarvd
by an unanimous resolution of the Irish pre
lates. In considering a subject of such mo
mentous importance as a future policy for
the Church of Ireland, we felt strongly that
we had not to originate a constitution for a
new communion, but to repair a sudden
breach in one of the most ancient Churches
in Christendom.
The State, which represented and acted
for the laity, having withdrawn from all con
nection with the Church, it becomes a mat-
ter of necessity to devise means to reintro
duce the lay element in . a manner which
should be in consonance with the principles
and rules which had heretofore prevailed in
her ecclesiastical constitution. Precedents
of an ancient date might have justified the
Archbishops in summoning, of their own
authority, provincial synods of the Bishops,
clergy and laity of the Cliureli, to meet and
consult On pressing affairs. We could not,
however, exercise this power without decid
ing questions concerning the representation
of the clergy and laity which we have thought
it better to leave to them to determine re
spectively for themselves. Wo felt that the
clergy would naturally and reasonably desire
to consider on their own behalf the changes
which would be necessary to adapt their rep
resentation to the present circumstances of
the Church; and that it would also be more
satisfactory to the laity if the preparation of
a scheme of lay representation wero com
mitted to themselves. We had, then, in re
spect of the clergy, to fall back upon the an
cient ecclesiastical synods of the two pro
vinces which, though they have been long in
abeyance, were yet in existence, and capable
at any moment of being called into active
operation by proper authority.
In the province of Dublin, the synod has
been actually summoned pro forma every
third year, for nearly a century and a half.
In recurring to the ancient provincial sy
nods, as a, means of bringing before tlie con
sideration of the clergy the question of their
future representation, we were met, at the
outset, by a formidable difficulty in the
constitution of the synods themselves. In
lapse of time great changes had taken place
in the church. Bishoprics had been united;
chapters had decayed and been left without
either duties or property, while the number
of clergy had increased more than three-fold.
It was, therefore, clear that the proportion
of parochial clergy who were summoned 150
years ago would be by no means an adequate
representation at the present day. Such an
obsolete arrangement would Ist satisfactory
neither to the clergy nor to the laity of the
church. It will therefore be, in our judg
ment, the immediate duty of the synods,
which must be summoned on the ancient
model, to consider and carry out such changes
as will give to the parochial clergy the posi
tion which they may justly claim m the rep
resentative body. It may by some be con
mMl jlai r f,S l oi''ii , t ; l;ui(t'li.i oiV' , si>tr' pur post•
of reforming their representation in the pro
vincial synods. But when we call to mind
how highly honorable and important a task
it is to adapt the ancient synod of the church
to the requirements of its present condition,
and, by removing obsolete arrangements, to
give it a constitution which shall obtain the
Confidence and co-operation of the whole
church, the objection will, we trust, disap
pear.
Public opinion, the united wishes of clergy
and laity, and the interests of the Church,
so clearly deflue what is required, that we
doubt not it will be fully accomplished,
whatever sacrifices may be required on tin
part of the present members of the synod.
This being done, aud the numbers which are
to constitute the representation of the
clergy being definitely settled, these; ecclesi
astical synods will be dissolved lor the pur
pose of reassembling in that now shape
which they will have given themselves, and
in union with such a number of lay repre
sentatives as Would properly complete the
constitution of the proposed General Synod.
We now address on reives especially to the
laity of the Church of Belaud, with the ex
pression of our earnest hope that they will
prepare such a representation of tln-mselvcs
against the time of this reassembling as
may, when united with tins clerical represen
tation, complete that laxly, which the neces
sities of the Church so urgently demand.
We are quite aware of the many difficulties
and embarrassments which must beset our
lay brethren in the undertaking of such a
work—above all, iu the making a begin
ning. And if we have been slow to proffer
any suggestions as to the way in which
tlie laity should arrange the scheme of their
representation, this lias arisen altogether
from an apprehension lest we should
appear to limit that freedom of action on
their part which we sincerely desire to see
them exercise; and we are anxious to express
in our own name, in the name of the whole
episcopal body, and as we are confident in
the name of the entire clergy, our readiness
to co-operate in this work, by counsel, or by
any other means in our power. If it should
lx; thought expedient to make use of tin;
parochial system and diocesan conferences,
as on a late occasion, we oiler ourselves, and
we are sure that we may also offer the ready
help of all our clergy, for the carrying out
of tlie wishes of our lay brethren. Earnestly
praying that in a task si* novel, so perplex
ing, so arduous, of such immense significance
for the whole future of our Church, as that
which is before us, we may each and all be
guided by that Holy Spirit of truth, unity
and concord, who alone can give us a happy
issue from the difficuUixaand dangers w hich
are around about us on every side, we re
main your faithful servants in Christ,
M. G. Armagh,
Aug. 18, 18(19. 11. C. Durum.
The Last Hours of Gen. Kawlins.
At 7 o’clock this morning, Secretary Raw
lins was in a tolerable comfortable condition.
He spoke to Gen. John L. Smith and Com
missioner Parker with his customary earnest
ness on various subjects, and inquired
whether they thought he would recover his
health, or again rise from his l>ed. To this
question Gen. Smith said he feared not, and
asked whether he had any wish to express
with regard to the distribution of his remains
in case he should die. He replied lie would
leave that with his friends, but he did not
desire to have an ostentatious or expensive
funeral.
During the afternoon, Secretaries Cox and
Robeson came into the chamber, when they
read to him the following telegram :
“Concord, Mass., Sept. G.—ls Gen. Raw
lins is living, convey to him the assurance of
my respect and affection, and of the sorrow
with which I learn the condition of a friend
so highly valued, a man so upright, able and
faithful. God bless and ke. p him.
E. K. Hoak.”
Secretary Rawlins said with deep emo
tion: “I am very grateful to the Attorney
General for his love, and I wish you to say
so to him.”
At about 3 o’clock Ilr. Peterson was left
in charge, Dr. Bliss and Surgeon General
Barnes having been obliged by other duties
to leave for a short time. Dr. Peterson, a
few minutes after 4 o’clock, observed a mark
ed change in the condition of the patient,
w hose pulse liatl become very irregular, and
he remarked to General Giles A. Smith that
he was sinking very fast and had but a few
moments to live, and requested him to send
for Surgeon General Barnes.
About this time then was read to him a
telegram from Lieut. Gen. Sheridan, ad
dressed to Gen. Sherman, dated Chicago,
September fi, as follows: “Will you please
give my love to Gen. Rawlins. All the offi
cers here send their love to him.” With
scarcely breath to speak he said: “General
Sheridan is very kind. I appreciate and am
very gTateful for his kindness. If the love of
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my friends could do it 1 would soon be a
| healthy man. ”
About five minutes jvast 4'cloek he asked
j someone to raise him. Dr. Bliss, who had
returned, adjusted the pillows under his l*aok,
while Dr. IV torso n held him up. His eyes
I once became fixed; and, without a struggle,
he died at twelve minutes past 4 o’clock.
; There were present Secretaries Cox and
j Hoheeon, Postmaster General Creswell. (ten
Giles A. Smith, Gen. J. A Smith. Commis
sioner Parker. Jas. liawlins, brother of de
ceased, Gen. O. (). Howard. Mr. Chadwick,
Surgeon General Barns, l>r. Bliss, Dr. Peter
son and tlie servants in attendance during
the day. w
The late Secretary often expressed a desire
j to s»h> President Grant, asking when he
would come, but was fearful he would not
| live long enough to do so. Yesterday even
ing while Messrs. Uolx-son and Cox, and
Postmaster General Creswell were sitting at
his side, the first named remarked: “Gen.
liawlins I am very sorry to see you so sick.”
To which tlie General repin'd: “Mr. Secre
tary, so far as 1 am personally concerned, as
a member of tin' Cabinet, I have met with it
for the last time. You will never see mo
there again.” The company were deeply af
fected, but made no reply.
Soon after the death of Secretary Rawlins,
his body was embalmed and dressed in the
uniform of a Major General. Col. Dayton,
chief of General Sherman’s stall - , and Capt.
Johnson, of the medical department, to
night sit up with the corpse.
President Grant, accompanied by Private
Secretary Porter, arrived at Washington by
a special train from Baltimore at 5:12, and
was met at the station by General Sherman.
He at once preceded to tin* residence of
General Giles A. Smith, where he learned
that Secretary Rawlins had been dead an
hour. The President was much affected
while gazing upon the lifeless form of his
triend, and expressed deep regret that, ow
ing to the non-delivery of telegrams at
Saratoga, he was prevented from sooner
starting for Washington.
President Grant, on returning to the Ex
ecutive Mansion, transmitted the following
dispatch:
"Mrs. M‘iry E Kmrlins, Ihtxbury, Conn. :
“Your beloved husband expired at 12
minutes past 4 o’clock this afternoon, to be
mourned by a family of friends who loved
him for his personal worth and services to
his country, and a nation who acknowledge
their debt of gratitude to him. On consul
tation with friends it is determined that he
shall be buried in the Congressional Bury
ing Ground as the most appropriate burying
place, unless you have other suggestions to
make. The time of the funeral is not ar
ranged, but probably will take place on
Thursday next. “U. S. Grant.”
Col. Douglass, Assistant Private Secretary
to tlie President, has been telegraphed to re
turn from Virginia, and is expected to-mor
row.
An informal Cabinet meeting wins held to
night at the Executive Mansion, there being
present Secretaries Cox and Rooeson, and
Postmaster General Creswell, with the Pres
ident, and for a short time General Sherman
and other army officers. The object of the
meeting was to mature arrangements for the
funeral of tlie lab* Secretary of War. It has
lieon decided the funeral shall take place on
Thursday morning at ten o'clock. The re
mains are to he escorted to Congressional
Cemetery, which has been deemed an appro
priate' place for the burial.
The arrangements are, however, subject to
any modification tin* widow of the late Sec
retary may suggest, or perhaps such action
as may he taken by his own State, Illinois,
‘ 7, /*"*’ '■" ‘■'K a forwarded to Gov
( riior 1 aimer by General J. E Smith
\\ AHHINOTON, fv-j.i.. ... k . ~
lins died at 4:12 this i>. m. Has Illinois any
wish to express with regard to the disposition
of his remains V”
To-morrow morning, the military will lake
charge of the body, when it will lx* removed
to the War Department to lie in state, a cat
afalque being in course of erection for that
purpose, It will be guarded by a detach
ment of cavalry and artillery. The funeral
4‘.seort is to be made under command of Col.
Bury, U. S. army. To-morrow tlie public
departments will be closed in accordance
with an order issued by the Department of
State.
Cotton.
From the Chronicle & Sentinel, Septembers.
We have taken occasion, several times re
cently, to urge upon cotton planters the im
policy of rushing the present crop to mar
ket. Here at the South where we are all
well acquainted with the true condition of
the incoming crop, the increase of receipts
during the month of September—the effect
of the long continued drought and the uni
versal prevalence of rust. Planters and
Southern cotton dealers understand that
rust and drought forces the premature open
ing of the bolls and that full September re
ceipts when these influences have been felt
would not necessarily indicate a large crop.
At the Nortli and in the European mar
kets these things are not so well understood,
receipts in the first weeks of the season
indicate to them a full, if not a large crop.
They pay very little attention to the reports
which go out from the South of short crops,
if along with these reports they find a large
increase in the receipts in the different
markets. No sort of reasoning and no
amount of argument can convince limn that
the crop is likely to be short when they seo
the receipts daily augmenting and increas
ing.
In order that the true condition of the
present crop might he fairly impressed upon
Northern and European buyers we have
urged our planting friends not to send their
crops forward as fast as the cotton opened,
hut to devote the whole of their attention
and labor to saving it in good order. Wo
knew if the cotton came forward very freely
this mouth that an attempt would be made
—and we feared successfully made—to de
press prices under the specious plea of a full
crop. We knew that Southern speculators
would aid in getting tins te< ling abroad m
order that they might buy at low prices, and
then when the real extent of the crop was
realized, sell at a great advance. By this
means the planters would )>e cheated out of
several millions of dollars, all of which would
go into buyers’ pockets as profits.
Yet, strange to say, the cotton planters are
to-day, throughout the entire South, playing
into the hands of the speculators bv rushing
their crops to market. To prove this we find
that from the Ist to the sth of September,
inclusive, in 18G8, the receipts of cotton at
all the ports were 999 hales. For the same
period this year the receipts were 1,489 bales
or an increase of fifty per cent, over the last
year’s receipts.
From these data it wall l>e argued that the
present crop is larger by fifty per cent, than
that of 18G8, when in fact it will not, in any
possible event, reach last year’s figures.
If planters, then, sell their crops for
twenty-five cents, or even below that price,
they will have nobody to blame for it but
themselves. If they growl and complain
that prices go up to thirty-five or forty
cents after they have sold, they will have
the consolation of knowing that by their
own folly they have secured fortunes for
the speculators to their own immediate in
jury.
Again we invite our planting friends U>
take a sensible, business-like view of the
situation —weigh well the facts we nave
stated, and then act as their best judgments
dictate.
Amazing.— The people of the N -'i l - f 'I ,r
ciallv those of the maritime . * •
1 • , / over tlie
gone into a spasm of moron*
q , . . i.i,, i*oat on the
defeat of a little cock)' sn<
, r , . , . , »i,(>v do not experience
Thames. And vet tn<y <* f,
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any have been
that their g f m the ocean by England,
gradually < and mllk
i France am defeat of the Harvard
i T 7 iT butßadicalism has made the old
flag a"secon 1 rat .affair on every sea. -Aug**-
la Constitution alist. * ,
rn VkxT Astronomical Phenomenon
will be the transit of the planet Venus over
the sun's disc, which will take place on the
81W December, 1H74. Great interest is
f. If in this event by the scientific world, as it
is ernected that the observations which w ill
b„ then made will enable astronomers to as
certain with more accuracy the precise ins
tance between the earth and the sun.