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"iloimial ami |Hrssfnger WM. M. BROWNE, Editor. TUESDAY MORNING, SEPT. 11. THE M'.VVS. —Cotton closed in New York yesterdav at 33V —Gold dosed in New York yesterday at 35^4. —An imperfect copy of a rare edition of Sliikspeare recently brought $1696 in gold in London. The Troy Timet is one of the papers that will not print the names of prize fighters. During August, 150,319 pounds of dried fruit were skipped from Statesville, N. C., by the Western North Carolina Railroad. Tin* London Spectator sums up Louis Napoleon’s clemency by saying that he has pardoned everybody who has done nothing. Dr. P. Fahruev, near Hagerstown, Md., lias a Chester white pig, of 14 mouths, weighing 700 pounds. The medical faculty of Paris liave re cently conferred the degree of doctor of medicine upon three ladies—a French wo man, a Russian and an American. The scardtyof currency greatly restrict operations in The cotton markets of Augusta, Columbus and Macon. The Koine City Council liave subscribed $2,000 to aid in the survey of the Memphis Branch Railroad. New and extensive coal mines have l»een discovered about fifteen miles from Helena, Montana. There are at the present time in London and its suburbs about ninety Roman Catk «»lie churches and chapels. At the beginning of tiiis century there were only thirteen. Miss Anna E. Dickinson indignantly denies that she declared she wouldn’t marry .1 Chinese. Let this denial be circulated to repel Coolie emigration. Raleigh, N. C., will be supplied with water from Beaver Dam, which is three miles west of the city, and several feet higher than the highest point. v raiser of poultry in Louisiana has dug a well at the entrance of his hen-house, and placed a tilting cover on it. His catch averages one negro a night. The Houston Texas Times says Hamil ton will get three-fourths of the votes, and thinks a Democrat could be elected if nomi nated. John 11. Reese has l>een appointed sub- Deputy Collector of Internal Revenue for this county, by W. B. Whitmore, Deputy Collector of Dalton, Ga. In reply to a paper which culled General Sherman “the coining man,” a Georgia journal says it “ hopes he is not coming that way again.” The City Councilof Griffin held a called meeting on Thursday last, and formally sub scribed the 025,000 stock to the new railroad which was recently voted by the citizens. California understands the tliree-fourths rule. Being asked to ratify the proposed negro-equality amendment, she returns three-fourths of her new Legislature against it The farmers of Simpson county, Ken tucky, think there will not be over half a m>p of tobacco, owing to the drought in many places. The corn will be quite short, from the same cause. Efibrts are being made in Berlin to or ganize a line of steamers to trade between Stettin and New York. The present pro posal is to start with two vessels and a sub scribed capital of 750,000 thalers. Mrs. ( .ithurine Washington,who claimed to be a relation of President Washington, died at, her residence in Delhi township, < iliio, on Saturday, aged eighty years. She uzn born and married on the Washington estate, in Culpepper county, Ya. At the Sub-Treasury in New York, a subscription of $50,000, for the benefit of Mm. John A. Rawlins, was proposed, and $15,000 was subscribed 011 the spot, inclu- ding SIOOO subscribed by President Grant by telegraph. The Coliseum must lie taken down by the last of October. Boston proposes to get rid of the elephant by giving three gift con certs, with tickets at a dollar, the building to be the highest prize. The lnmlwv is val ued at $15,000. John iva—forty-three years' service as purser in the United States Navy, resigned, at the beginning of the war, to enter the Confederate navy, died in Nor folk on Thursday bust, aged 73 years. He was a native of New Jersey. At the meeting of the New York Board of Aldermen recently, a series of resolutions complimenting Mr. James G. Bennett, Jr., for crossing the Atlantic in the Henrietta, and winning the ocean yacht race, and for crossing again iu the Dauntless, were adopted. The presiding Judge of Coweta Court has decided that though pleas may have been tiled under the law existing prior to the adoption of the present Constitution and rule., of Court, they must be supplanted by in w pleadings under existing laws and rules or the case proceed e,r parte. The Star, Enterprise, Miss., says: “The citizens adjacent to Natchez have resorted to man traps and bull dogs to protect their orchards and gardens.” A number of the best educated and most promising young men of Lewiston, Maine, are learning all the details of the manufacturing business by personal labor in the various departments of the mills in that city. The Covington Enterprise reports the dc tli, at Valdosta, on the7th, of Capt. Win. 11 Lewis, of Newton county. Capt. Lewis was only about thirty years of ago, univer sally respected, and beloved by his comrades in arms in the late war. Forty-one thousand dollars lias been subscribed and a fine estate purchased iu Springfield street, Boston, for a home for aged men. Additional subscriptions to the amount of twelve thousand dollars are being made to furnish it. The story about six or seven men being I '-t. a few days since, in New York bay, by the upsetting of a yacht on which they were, is materially amended by a subsequent- ac eomit, which says they were all taken off the bust, to which they held fast until relief came. The Charleston Xnrs of the 10th, says: Tlii lice crop is being rapidly harvested and generally promises well. Planters over much of this State oxjiect to plant freely of small grain in order to lessen the injury arising fir m the partial failure of the corn crop. The Chattanooga Enterprise reports that tlie saw mills of North Georgia, that is, tiirw rim liv water, are all stoppl'd OH ac count of tin* low stage of the streams, and at a lime, too, when lumber is in great de mand in that section. The Odd Fellows of Little Ilock, Ark., have organized a building association, with a capital stock of $50,000, with shares of The association lavs purchased a lot titty foot front by one hundred and forty deep, on the conn r of Markham and Scott stn i ts, for SIO,OOO, upon which they are pre paring to build the finest building iu the iStflte. rhe Wilmington Journal reports tliat tin lit. Rev. Bishop Gilliams has been suc cossful in securing the permanent founda ti* -li of Sisters of Mercy for the city of Wil mington N. C. They are expected to arrive fr< in Chariest on atiout the 20tli of this mouth. They will bo the first colony of Sisters ever pi rnioneiitly established in North Carolina. 1 \ie'J ear tiler's (iuide, Richmond, says of tin* crops in Virginia, that the Spring promise of a beautiful corn and tobacco liar vi st may disappihit farmers and growers; but the enormous yield of wheat has, in a manner, compensated for the apprehended loss of the com crop, and will enable agri culturists to square accounts without loss, and possibly with gain. Mrs. Ottemloffor is the solo proprietor of the largest German daily newspaper in the city of New York. Many years ago her husband died, leaving her a large family of children and a snndl paper. She went eur nestJv to work at once, attending herself to all the details of the office, aud she now con trols a very rich and powerful journal Tin* Supreme Court of Indiana on Tues dav. Sept., 7, reversed the celebrated Pep per ease, in w hich it was decided that where a part v signed an official bond with the uu dei standing that another party was to sign it also, but did not do so. the bond was void as to the partv who had signed. Hereafter all who sign bonds must do so with a proper understanding of tlie responsibility they m- cur. —The New York Times , of the Btl }-* a - vs ; “The Trustees of the College of the City of New York resumed the discussion of the ■proposal to abolish the classics m that insti tution, yesterday afternoon. Speeches were delivered bv Messrs. Larremore, han.ls. Wood and others; after which a vote was taken, which resulted in favor of maintain ing the classical branches in the curriculum. Mr. Santis was the only member who voted fox the measure. ” The Fifteenth Amendment. It is liy no means so certain as some sup l>oso that the so-called Fifteenth Amend ment to the Constitution, by which Congress is to acquire the right to determine who shall and who shall not vote in the several States of the Union, will be ratified by the requisite number of States. On the contra ry, according to present appearances, the projiosed amendment will lie rejected. To be ratified as the Constitution requires by the Legislatures of three-fourths of all the States, it must receive the votes of twenty eight States, and it has np to this time onlv received the legal ratification of twelve States, namely: of Arkansas, Connecticut, I lorida, Louisiana, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, W est \ irginia and W iscon sin. Os these it is obvious that but for uni versal negro suffrage illegally forced upon the people, Arkansas, Florida, Louisiana, North Carolina and South Carolina woidd certainly have voted to reject it, and were the people of those States permitted to ex ercise their constitutional rights there cun be no doubt that they would almost unani -1 mouslv refuse to ratify so monstrous an in vasion of their privileges. Three States have absolutely refused to ratify the amendment, namely, Kentucky, Delaware, and, we are proud to add, Georgia, A few members of the Indiana Legislature, much less than a quorum of either House, ratified it, and the Radicals with character istic recklessness and disregard of law, pre tend that such a ratification Is valid. Kan sas, and, we believe, Missouri, ratified a copy of the amendment transmitted by telegraph, and of course their action must count for nothing. In Ohio and Rhode Island no perfect action has been taken, and the chances are strongly in favor of its final rejection. In thirteen States—namely, Ala bama, California, Maryland, lowa, New Jer sey, Minnesota, Nebraska, Oregon, Tennes see, Vermont, Virginia, Mississippi and Texas, no action has yet been taken. It is certain that of these, California, Maryland and New Jersey will reject it. It is nearly certain that Oregon will do likewise, and there is reason to hope that lowa and Min nesota will also reject it. Vermont will of course ratify it. In Tennessee the result is doubtful, and poor Virginia, Mississippi and Texas will be compelled, in order to loosen the highwayman’s grasp upon their throat, to sap that they consent that Congress shall regulate the qualifications of their elections. The Legislature of New York adopted a resolution ratifying the amendment, but it was never sent to the Governor for transmis sion to the State Department, and, there fore, New York cannot lie counted among the ratifying Ssates. An almost similar state of things exists, we believe, as to the votes of the Legislatures of Nevada, New Hampshire and Illinois. Thus it will be seen that twelve States have apparently ratified the amendment ac cording to legal forms. Three States have directly rejected it. 111 four States the vote has been rather informal, or the result has riot, been made known in the way proscribed by law. In two States complete action has not been had; and in thirteen States the question has not lieen considered. The question involved in this proposed amendment is much more serious to the South than is generally supposed. It is true that we have had negro suffrage forced upon us, and we are compelled by usurped power to submit to it. But wo know and feel tlmt the laws which establish it are unconstitu tional, and tnat tne day may come sooner or later when we shall enjoy our own again and we shall be free to regulate the suffrage for ourselves. It is highly important, therefore, that there be no clause in the Constitution which gives Congress the power to regulate the suffrage for us. This is the force, this is the intent and meaning of the XVth Amend ment. We may say that it only establishes in the Northern States what already exists in the South, ane that therefore we have not much interest in the matter. This is a great mistake. We have a deep interest iu it. So long as the Supreme Law does not give a sanction to the interference of Congress, so long is there a hope that it may yet bo au thoritatively acceded, that the powers uot specially delegated to the Federal Govern ment are reserved to the States and the peo ple thereof, and cannot be legally exercised by any other authority. Cholera in Fowls has prevailed to an alarming extent this summer in portions of Georgia. W« know of instances where friends of ours have lost hundreds of chick ens, turkeys and ducks by this disease, in tin' space of three or four days. They had all our sympathy, because the feathered in habitants of our farm yard iu Clarke county met a similar fate. Several remedies were tried but proved of uo avail in a single in stance. We found the subjoined in an exchange and copy it in the liojie that the prescription it contains may be found valuable by those whose chickens may be attacked by cholera: A correspondent, writing to the lowa Depart ment of Agriculture, says: “My chickens have been dying of cholera for the l ist two years—even turkeys’huve died of the same disease. When the hens begin to droop and look sleepy, give them three or four tablespoonsful of strong alum water, and repeat the next day. Also mix their feed (say Indian meal) with strong alum water, feeding tw ice a day for two or three days— afterward once a week ’’ Another gentleman, writing to the same depart ment, says : “Take two eggs, one tablespoonful of finely pulverized alum, and a sufficient quauity of flour to make a thin paste, and force the chicken or tur key to sw allow a portion of the mixture, and there are two chances to one that it will recover. I have also used alum once a day iu their food as a pre ventive when this disease is prevalent. Fowls should never have access toswill tubs or any other kind of sour food.” The Nigger Question. — After the negroes were all set free, and allowed to vote, and appointed to office, and invited to dine with Sumner, it was hoped that the “nigger ques tion" was finally settled, so far as polities were concerned, ami that it would no longer enter as an issue into party contests. But the hope has been disappointed. The nig ger question is apparently unsettleable. It will not “stay” settled. As the federal troops list'd to say when they whipped our soldiers, (and they always said they whipped them) “the rebels won’t stay whipped.” So it is with the nigger question. It is about to be the leading issue in all the coming fall elec tions when'the Fifteenth Amendment comes U P for decision; anil it really seems, that do what wo will, say w hat we will, at every turn, we are to meet the negro in some shape or other, until, like the Mohicans, they disap }x ar, and even then we may expect to have “the lust of the uiggers” to torment us. Names of the Big Trees of California.— Some of the high trees of California have received such names as Washington, Graut, Sherman, Sher idan, Daniel Webster, Henry Clay, McPherson, Andrew Johnson. Florence Nightingale, William t'ulhn Bryant. William 11. Seward, Broderick, Henry Ward Beecher, Abraham Lincoln, Elihu Burritt, (ieueral Wadsworth, Longfellow, Starr King, Richard Cobden, John Bright, Daniel O’Connell, Edward Everett, Lafayette, James King of William, Sir John Franklin, Dr. Kane, Humboldt, General Sutter, General Scott, Andrew Jackson, and Old Dowd. Two American and three English botanists are similarly honored. The “big trees” may be able to stand some of these names. They are too high up to be affected by what little folks call them, but if they could express their feel ings they would certainly be above being called Beecher, Sheridan, Broderick, Burritt and Old Dowd. Why should we liave a far less amount of currency now to do the business of the coun try than was required aud used when the South was not a party to the Union? T*»e Health of the Emperor Napo leon. It is plain, even from the guarded and un reliable bulletins which are published daily concerning the health of the French Empe ror, that he is dangerously ill, anil that the utmost anxiety is felt in France anil through out Europe lest by his death the political structure which he lias built and upheld may fall to pieces, and the peace of the con tinent may lie disturbed. The panic in the European money markets, the hasty aband onment by the Empress of her projected tour to Constantinople, and the efforts of the Emperor himself to make it appear that he is only slightly indisposed, prove that there is good ground for the alarm. Napoleon is considerably upwards of sixty years of age, and the life he has led has not oeen one to promote longevity. For years he has suffered from a painful and dangerous disease of the spine which the skill of the ablest French physicians has failed to cure, and as the weight of years and in firmities press upon him his ailment becomes more aggravated and more alarming. The present condition of France, the re cent disturbances in Paris, and in some of the provinces, the liberal concessions which the Emperor was obliged to make to restore apparent tranquillity,the radical position re cently assumed by Prince Napoleon in the French Senate, and the refusal of that Ixidy by a vote of 113 to 9, to sanction any further liberal reforms, give rise to the general ap prehension that Imperialism hangs by the frail thread of the life of the old man who is its founder, and that were that thread to break, the whole structure would topple over like a house of oaTils. Heretofore, the Imperial Government in France has been the will of one man. The Ministry were servants bound to obey or ders, jmd the representatives of the people were clerks obliged to register and applaud the edicts of the Emperor. This has been modified aud liberalized to some extent, as we have already shown and explained in former issues of this paper. Napoleon is too shrewd to risk his throne and all hopes of re establishing his dynasty by an obstinate op position t< > the popular demands. He knows, too, that, even were 110 to succeed in main taining himself by force, it would be vain to expect that his sou would bo permitted to succeed him, and that the only chance of reconciling the French people to “tire suc cession,” consists iu changing the character of the government, in making it less per sonal and more constitutional, and in con senting to substitute the will of the people as expressed through their representatives as the real ruling power, for the autocracy which he established and has hitherto main tained with such marvellous skill and sa gacity. If Providence permits him to live for a few years longer, and he consents to widen the foundations of the government so as to make it constitutional in fact as well as in name, his cherished dream of founding a dynasty may lie realized, and the Prince Imperial may be permitted to wear the Imperial man tle. But to do this he must sanction radical changes in his government, and go very far beyond the point of liberality which he has yet reached. It is not unnatural that the health of the Emperor should be tlio subject of worst anxiety iu Europe at present; but this very anxiety proves the fatal errors of the system under which the death of any one man can create such a panic over an en tire Continent. Tlie Fall Elecm>...- Thr full drrtioitu Lavn IU-111 1 til'll Olxl. Till 1 campaign has been opened. The first con test took place outlie Ist inst., in Califor nia, and lm resulted in a Democratic triumph. Although General Graut carried the State last November, and the force of official patronage was employed to maintain the Radical ascendancy, tins Democrats have elected their candidates every where, have secured a Dcinocr die majority iu the Legis lature, and have killed the Fifteenth Amend ment. In Vermont the election for State officers took place on the 7tli. The result lias been a Radical success, as a matter of course, there was hardly any opposition. One of the innumerable AVasliburues, a race as ir repressible as mosquitoes, has carried the State without any difficulty. No one expect ed anything else. The election takes place in the “ Dirigo ” State (Maine) on the 13tli. The Radicals here also are almost certain of success. Chamberlain will doubtless be re-elected. But his opponent, General Franklin Smith, is a strong man, anil he has no little popu larity. If the Democrats can reduce the Radical majority below the figures of 1865, it is as much as we have any reason to ex pect; and there is some probability that this can be done, since tlic Radicals are somewhat divided among themselves on local issues. The Legislature which is now to be chosen will have to elect a successor to the late Mr. Fessenden iu the United States Senate. There is uo possible chance of their electing a Democrat. Iu October the battle wall be more serious and important. Then the elections in tlie great States of Pennsylvania and Ohio, and the minor States of lowa and Colorado, will come off, and there are good grounds to hope that in the two first named States Packer and Pendleton, the Democratic standard bearers, will be declared the victors. Iu November, New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Illi nois, Mississippi and Texas will express their will. Iu New York aud New Jersey the Democrats are more than sanguine of suc cess—they are almost confident of it; and in Mississippi and Texas the Radicals will as certainly be defeated as that the sun will rise on the day of election. The survey of the whole field is by no means discouraging. The Democrats are active, zealous aud iu high spirits; and manv, who have lava led away by the specious promises of Radicalism, have seen their er ror, have repented, and have returned to the only true and safe political fold. The Radicals are discouraged. There are already manifest signs of dissension aud strife among themselves. The super-loyalists like Butler, Boutwell, and ox-Secessionist Creswell are full of wrath and fury against those who disapprove of the projvosition to declare Stokes Governor of Tennessee, and Wells Governor of Virginia, notwithstand the immense jxipular majorities against them. Some have seen the hand-writing on the wall, aud are trying to escape the rage of the people, and others, dissatisfied at the smallness of their opportunity, as compared with their desire, to plunder the public money, are irreconcilably incensed against those whose opportunities are greater. We hope and believe that “there’s a good time coming—wait a little longer. ” Caldwell’s Practical Arithmetic.— lßG9. Pp. 185, 16mo. This is a concise method of calculation, showing rather how than why. We like it because it does nut treat tlie science of num bers as if it were platinum, the most ductile of known tliiugs. Northern authors con sider arithmetic as without either bottom or shore, and so teach it only through a series, running from No. Ito No. 5. This book is a timely rescue. The above highly appreciative notice of a book recently published by J. W. Burke & Cos., is taken from the New Orleans Christian Advocate. The book will be found, on exami nation, to measure quite up to the standard here set. GEORGIA JOURNAL AND MESSENGER. Tlie Burlingame Treaty and Mr. Russ Browne. A great deal has been written within the last few days about the treaty liotweon the United States and China which was nego tiated by Mandarin Burlingame on the part of the Flowery Kingdom, and by Mr. Reward on the part of the United Stab-s. We have heard that the treaty was rejected by the Regent of the Chinese Empire be cause Mr. Minister Ross Browne intrigued to defeat it. Then we heard tliat the treaty was not rejected at all, because the Chinese Stab* Department intends to consider the whole batch of the Burlingame treaties with all the nations of the earth in one lump. Then Ross Browne telegraphs that he never intrigued to defeat the treaty, aud imme diately after this we are told the gratifying news that the Chinese authorities are quite in raptures at Mandarin Burlingame’s diplo matic exploits in America and Europe. It may be true that the result of the roving mission of Burlingame and his attendant mandarins will he “the dawn of anew era” for China that, when he returns to Pekin with his carpet-bag choke full of treaties, the Regent will make haste to sign them, that thenceforth China will become one of the most liberal, progressive and social nations on earth, aud that our distinguished ex fellow-citizen who has so nobly won his buk| tons will obtain a lucrative contract for life elliug the China wall anil converting material into factories after the those of Lowell and Natick. But we confess that wo are uot so sanguine, and that we fear that even the wonderful genius of Bur lingame is uot sufficient to break down so suddenly a system of exclusivism and hatred of foreigners which has been the founda tion of government iu China for centuries, aud that at heart the Chinese authorities would be more inclined to favor a policy of reaction rather than one of progress. The revolution is too sudden. Burlingame’s representations of Prince Ivurg’s liberalism are too rosy to be believed without hesita tion; and when Mr. Ross Browne expresses his apprehensions that the Chinese authori ties are humbugging the “outside barba rians,” we must say that wo are not willing to attribute altogether Browne’s judgment to jealousy of tlie Massachusetts mandarin, but rather to the intelligent observation of one who has the capacity and has had the opportunity to form a well founded opinion of the disposition and habits of the Pekiu government. The Chinese have within the last twenty years made many concessions to the civiliza tion of tlie nineteenth century, every one of which lias been wrung from them by force. They have frequently attempted to evade their obligations and return to their tra ditionary policy of exclusion, and have only yielded when a British or French tieet has demanded the maintenance of their prom ises. They make promises with surprising facility, but they have always regarded them as pie-crusts, made to be broken, and if at any time since the representatives of foreign powers have been permitted to reside at Pekin, the protecting naval squadrons had been withdrawn, there is good reason to be liove that they would have manifested their love of progress and their respect for mod ern civilization by treating tlie distinguished diplomatists as they did the correspondent of the London Times, Mr. Ross Browne’s testimony as to the Chinese is quite as good and as worthy of credit as that of Mr. Burlingame. It is better, because it is disinterested. He lias oot pocketed a dollar of tlie money of the Pekin Treasury, -mu,., iuh, rt celestial dignitary. He docs not wear a single purely ornamental button, or any orthers than those which American gentle men ordinarily wear upon their clothes. He believes that the liberal promises which Burlingame is authorized to make are illuso ry, and that it is unwise to rely on them as honestly made. Burlingame asserts the contrary, and as the whole history of the past sustains Browne’s opinion, we do not see why such an outcry should have been made against him because he has said what he believes. Time, the intercourse produced by com merce, the fear that bad faith will be prompt ly punished, anil the presence of “ gun-lioat diplomacy ” to aid that of envoys extraordi nary, will sooner or later break down the old Chinese system and bring about the “new era,” but it is stupid to believe that Bur lingame's treaties, whether ratified by retail or by wholesale, will produce so complete a revolution as that of which Burlingame’s sanguine admirers would desire to persuade us. Mr. Browne’s letters may not have been exactly diplomatic, but they express his honest convictions. Up to this time the “ gnu-boat diplomacy ” has alone succeeded. By all means let us try the Burlingame trea ties, but let us not abandon the gun-boats until the mandarin’s “liberal declarations ’’ have been more accurately tested. Correspondence Journal and Messenger. Letter front Americus. Americus, Ga., ) September 11, 1869. j Mr. Editor : Oil yesterday I had just fin ished the perusal of a long article iu your paper in relation to that execrable scamp, J. B. Donaldson, when Mrs. Susannah Gas kins, (a widow with three children,) came into my office to ask for charity. She stated that a man by the name of J. B. Donaldson came to her house iu tills place some time ago, and after staying with her for some time, persuaded her to sell out everything and move to Atlanta, as she would doubtless get better and more employment there than in Americus. Mrs. G. sold her plunder and placed the proceeds in the hands of D. for safe keeping until their arrival iu Atlanta. A few moments after getting the money, Donaldson left, and Mrs. G. has uot seen him since. After boaring her story I re.a and the article in question to her, when Mrs. G immediately and excitingly exclaimed, “He is the very scripture-quoting sccuudrel who fooled me ! Oh, that 1 had him here now, I would tear his liver out!” Donaldson seems to have quite a penchant for taking in poor widows, and if you think this note will afford those others whom he has fooled auv consolation, yon can publish it. Respectfully, Jack Brown. Banks and Banking. —We publish in an other column a very good article from the New Orleans Commercial Bulletin, which is applicable to most of the commercial cities of the South as well as to New Orleans, and which the gentlemen who control our bank ing institutious would do well to study. We print it in no unfriendly spirit to wards the bauks or their managers. Tlie present tightness of money, and dullness in the cotton market in consequence of the absence of money to move it, are facts, the existence of which cannot lie denied; aud we think that if the views of the writer of the article to which we refer were adopted, to some extent at least, our merchants aud cotton buyers would not be embarrassed and cramped as they are. M ♦ M —— The Capacity of the Negro fob Self- Government. The New York World of the 7tli, has the following iu proof of negro capacity for self-government: By Saturday’s dispatches, Havtian ex change is 950 for 1; by Monday's dispatches, 1,000 for 1. So much for liegro capacity for self-government. These Culls have been seventy-odd years at the experiment, and the eud of it is that a Havtian dollar is worth just exactly one Federal mitt. The New York Herald says that “the Rad icals are going to hell. ” Perhaps Satan will lock the gate to keep them out. Letter from the Mountains. FROM OTR OWN COI'.UUSItHEDENT. Wauialla, S. €., Sept. 1, 1860. Mr. Eilitor: “Remote, unfriended, soli tary, slow,” says Goldsmith, aud so says your correspondent in this quaint Dutch town, which is so near and yet so far from Macon —u«ar iu point of actual distance, far iu its inaccessibility. Walhalla. as yon know, is at the foot of the Blue Ridge, anil is the present terminus of the railroad of that name. It was founded, lam informed, by Mr. Wagener, of Charleston.and was set tled almost exclusively by Dutch, who gave it tlie name it- liears, which, they say, moans Paradise. The country is just now suffering from severe and protracted drought, so I cannot say that its name is appropriate. In trav eling from Athens, Ga., to this point via Anderson, 1 have seen the poorest crops, I presume, that are now growing in the world. It is not possible for corn and cotton to look worse, and to present a more hopeless and disheartening prospect than in the country between Athens and here, especially in Hart county. There they told me in Hartwell that no rain had fallen sufficient to run in the street in ten weeks and a half. Most of the corn has tasseled out three* or four feet high without any appearance of an ear. I have seen plenty of stalks tasseliug not more than six inches from the ground, and have noticed the same thing on the moun tain above this place. Less rain has fallen, I am told, in the mountains this summer than any since 1845. [What the people live on is a mystery—you i travel for miles, inquiring at each house for jeorn or oats for vour horse, and offering any ‘"price, always receiving the same reply, “We anything for our own stock but pas turage.” In Audersou some people were offering to buy corn, to be delivered after Christmas, for two dollars a bushel. It is now worth nearly that. On the west bank of the Savannah river, aj: Brown’s Ferry, lives our old friend, James Stowers, famous as one of those imprisoned by the United States Government at the Dry Tortugas, for supposed complicity in the murder of three United States soldiers, at •the Ferry' in 1805. He seemed better off’ for Ayoviaions than most of his neighbors, Kid supplied me abundantly. He was ro- Teaseil from the Tortugas at the same time with Dr. Mudil and many others. His ac count of his eoufinemeut, anil particularly his reminiscences of Mudd anil Arnold, were very interesting. He spoke with gratitude of the kindness displayed by the people of Athens iu telegraphing to President John son to stop his execution, and mentioned your name, Mr. Editor, as one who hail been of great service in saving his life by those means. He stoops greatly, and his lungs are injured from long confinement of his wrists iu iron fetters. But the most serious trouble these people of Carolina suffer from is not a failure of crops. Their worst difficulty is their State Government. They are com pletely under the control and iu the power of the negroes. The State stands four hundred thousand blacks against three hundred thousand whites. In their Legislature sit upwards of sixty perfectly black uegroes, and iu the lower and middle counties they fill every office with one of themselves, or a white man who is worse. In the upper counties, where the whites largely outnumber them, they still find means to exercise authority, by sending election committees, composed partly of negroes, with power to send for persons and papers. One of these commit tees was sitting iu the town of Anderson the day I arrived, investigating election frauds •In a Congressional election many months after the election, anil that, too, iu a district where their man was elected aud lias his seat iu Congress. Tlxo committee receive each three dollars per day anil mileage. They have increased the taxes to au extent that to Georgia ears sound incredible. A gentleman in Anderson informed me that his taxes since tlie war anil prior to tlie in auguration of tin* Scott government amount ed to about thirty-five dollars per annum; now it is one hundred aud twenty-five dol lars. In some quarters the negroes do not hesitate to say that they intend to abolish the poll tax, and make tlie property pay the expenses of the government. They certain ly have tlie numerical strength to abolish the -white race if a l-fv"**** - *'-• «unr.fm,.n emiKi iii, it. orrcL ia an outline of the con dition of things here, anil there is no hope of relief uutil the expiration of nearly two years, when the next general State election is held. It is doubtful whether they will be able to do anything even then. It is a cure for Georgians, sick of Radical office-holders, to come here. If you know any who think the lot of the white man in Georgia is a hard one, you have only to send them to this State. Depend upon it, they will return home wiser but not sadder men. F. Swain. —— ► < -» n Correspondence Journal and Messenger. Down South, September 9, 1868. Mr. Editor: Your correspondent being a retired newspaper man, you will indulge him in a little suppressed praise concerning the pa per over which it is an honor to preside. The Journal and Messenger is an old acquaint ance, and as such has gradually grown to be a very dear friend. It is natural to be proud of its handsome appearance, and to rejoice iu its unmistakable evidences of prosperity. Unlike the now old men who made its ac quaintance in their youth, it renews its youth iu mind, matter and form; while they, alas! can find no elixir wherewith to rejuvinate either. The looks and success of its news papers, are the two conclusive proofs of the progress of a city iu all the essentials of ma terial, mental and leesthetic enjoyment and prosperity; and hence I know, at this great distance, that Macon is on the high road of successful development. While we, of your sister State, rejoice in your well directed and lately successful ef forts to put the carpet-baggers aud scalawags under, we are still sighing for the same healthful political reaction. No doubt it will come. Any party persisting in proscription and persecution commits a political feio de.se. Wonderful is the hopefulness of the mar ket reporters respecting the cotton crop. The September annual report gives credence to the great destruction of this staple throughout Georgia, but has reason to hope that Florida lias been exempted from the visitation of crop disasters. The hope is “but the baseless fabric of a vision.” Though neither a prophet, nor the son of a prophet, 1 predicted that thu cotton crops, the pro duct of free-uegro labor in the South, would diminish every year, from the year of eman cipation, forever. Labor, which cannot be obtained when you want it, aud directed and worked as you want it, with vigor, indus try and continuitv, is not worth much to any country. By tlic adaptation of fertilizers, and the muscle of small farmers and their white help, the production of cotton may be brought up to 3,000,000 bales in years of propitious seasons. But this result will hap pen, not because free negroes will increase and work better, but because small white farmers will multiply greatly. To lie a prae tieid farmer will come to In' regarded a nota ble occupation, but, to be liotli a practical and scientific farmer, will come to be sought after as the noblest calling. We ought to import laboring population into the Southern States, but it should be so homogeneous that our dominant popula tion will act on it as a rapid solvent. European immigrants are from our own blood —their people are our people, and heir God our God. One fatal experiment in “doing something” for the heathen, by taking them into our households and treat ing them as a part of them, ought to suffice us. The Chinese mania has its root in self ishness, and selfishness only. Let this sin Ih* so far eiudied, at least, as to prohibit the importation of those “outside barbarians,” except to supply deficiencies of laborers on great public works. Political wisdom would say, better learn your daughters to keep house and cook, and your sons to curry a horse and plow, than to stuff your kitchens, houses, stables and farms with either Afri cans or Asiatics. Political wisdom would say, for the greatest good to the greatest number, better cut up your thousand-acre plantations into farms, and invite your German, French, English, Irish, Scotch, YV elsh, Spanish, Portugese, Italian, Swiss, Sandwich, Norwegian, Polish and Russian brothers and sisters to come and occupy, and by their skill and industry, combined with yours, bring our beloved South out of the wilderness. But selfishness says none of this—alas! for short-sighted humanity. But enough. Zing. There was a dance at tlie late reunion at Gettysburg. They should have had the ne gro minstrels there. The performer with the “bones” would have found a plenty of instru ments at hand. Correspondence of the Journal and Messenger. Letter from Countj. Clinton, Ga., Sept. 7 186:1.. Mr. Eilitor: I never see any news from Clinton in the Jocßsal a\l> Messenger— the “Old Reliable." This may he because there is nothing in Clinton worth writing about, or it may he l>ecause the people in Clinton won’t write. The latter reason shall he valid no longer. Here goes for some dot tings from “our special correspondent in Clinton.” The metropolis of Joues County, the cen tre towards which gravitate the rustic villa ges, Blountsvillo, Grahall, Fortville. etc,, is not a very Lirge place, comparatively shak ing. It does not contain, I suppose, one fourth the inhabitants that New York has, ami is not near its large its Atlanta. It is connected with Macon, and thereby with the rest of the world, by two roads; and it is au old proverb about here, that, no matter which road you travel, you'll wish you had taken the other. The distance to Macon is twelve miles in a direct line; but if all the hills were rolled out level, the length of the route would pass the comprehension of man. The hills must be huge. The route of the Macon and Augusta Railroad was first sur veyed through this place, but it was moved about live miles below here on account of a hill almost in sight of town, which the Chief Engineer said lie couldn’t pass! If all the hills in the liockv Mountains were like that hill, the Pacific Railroad never would have been built. Despite that hill, the wind blows this way occasionally, and thus we get an odor of the outside world. Recently we have caught a sniff of the Beecher-Stowe putrefaction, and ugh! it smells bad. Some of the press won der how a woman of Mrs. Stowe’s intellect could have given enough credence to the scandal to publish it; but we of the South who remember the total absence of truth in the work that mafic her famous, are not as tonished that she should publish anything to gain notoriety. Perhaps, too, she has the same complaint with which her illustrious brother is affected, the love of money. I have l>eeu seeing visions of late. Mo tliought I saw our State of Georgia likened unto a man, of which the Press was the head. I looked again, and saw the nose standing out prominently towards Atlanta. Then there came an illustrious individual, once known by the initials “S. k Q.,” whose name is now lost. He rubbed the nose gently, inserted underneath it the end of a curious glass vessel, whereon was the mysterious la bel “Piper Heidsick,” and the (State of Georgia was pulled around by the nose! But, ah! that nose was not entirely covered by liis hands, large as they were. It reddened, sniffled, and sneezed; and now we who know how our present Governor was elected, and by whom the ballot box was manipulated, would like to hear a regular snort. And right here let me propose a health to Gen. Wright of the Chronicle ifc Sentinel. Yours visionary, P. D. G. Tl»e Law of Hanks. WHAT IS TIMELY NOTICE OF THE WORTHLESSNESS OF A CHECK. The Boston Advertiser, in its roi>ort of the proceedings of the Massachusetts Supreme Court for August 28, gives the following case: Merchants’ National Bank vs. National Eagle Bank. —This was an action of contract in which the Merchants’ Bank sought to re cover the value of a check drawn on their bank by a person named Williams, payable to the order of Hubbard Brothers. It was de posited by Hubbard Brothers in the Eagle Bank, and that bank received the amount of the check out of the funds of the Merchants’ Bank in their settlement with the clearing house. The check was deposited at tire Eagle Bank on the 15th of June, 18(!7, but was not and could not bo sent to the clearing house until the 18th, the 16th being Sun day, and the bank not doing business on the 17th. On the 18th the Eagle Bank sent this check to the clearing house in their bundle against the Merchants’ Bank, and were allowed the amount in their settlement with the clearing house. Four checks drawn by Williams, including the cheek in this suit, were found at the Merchants’ Bank not to be dlKl fib it >j< ».•* la'V. lwifovn Qpj f\ oVluclt they were delivered by the paying teller to a messenger with directions to return them to the banks depositing them at the chairing house as not good and collect the amounts. The messenger being delayed did not reach the Eagle Bank with the cheek until after one o’clock. The teller at that bank declined to pay it on the ground that it was not re turned until after one o’clock, as required by the clearing house rules. At the trial in the court below, the evi dence for the plaintiffs having been put in, the counsel for the defendants asked the Court (Ames, C. J.) to rule that the plain tiff's had not made out their ease, but the Court refused so to rule, but ruled that if the check was delivered to the messenger before 1 o’clock, with time sufficient in the absence of accident or mistake to reach the deposit ing bank, it would be a compliance with the vote of the clearing house. But, irrespec tive of this, the Court ruled that it could lie a defence only to the extent of the injury occasioned by the delay. The defendants thereupon declined to offer evidence, but consented to a verdict for the plaintiff's, objection being taken to the rulings of the Court. The case was reported to the Supreme Court, and that Court has now given judgment on the verdict for the plaintiffs. Germany. TIIE CATHOLIC HIERARCHICAL CONVENTION. It is •well known on the Continent, find also in England, tluit the Hierarchical Con vention of the Catholic bishops of Germany, in Fulda, Bavaria, is likely to have a very important and decided influence on the re lation which the German Catholic Church generally will hold towards the Ecumenical Council in Koine. A large number of the religious faculty of Germany, headed by Professor Dollinger, of Munich, the author of the series of articles recently published in the AUyemeine Zeitung, of Augsburg, entitled “The Council at the Civilta,” are openly in favor of the assump tion by the German episcopacy of a liberal, independent stand before the Council on all such temporal political points as may come up before the assembled prelates. Al though the I’ulda Convention is held with closed doors and its proceedings kept secret, enough is already known to make it certain that the bishops take a stand against the jMisition of the great body of the German clergy, and advocate the necessity of an entire submission to the decisions of the Council in all things, holding such a course to lie absolutely necessary' for and in separa ble from the maintenauee of the Catholic belief in the doctrine/>f the infallibility of the Holy Father, thel’upe, when presiding in a General Council of the Church. Among the prelates present in the Conven tion were the Right Reverend Cristophe Flo rentius, Bishop of Fulda; the Most Reverend Doctor Paulus Melchers, Archbishop of Cologne; the Right Reverend Doctor Hein rich Forster, Prince Bishop of Breslau; the Right Reverend Baran von Ketteler, Bishop of Mayence; with the Bishops of Pander horn, Freres, Ernland, Helldesheim, Osna bruck, Augsburg, Eichstadt, Wurtzburg and Kotteuburg; the A icur General of Freiburg; the A icar Apostolic of Dresden, with several other Church dignitaries of equal note. It is also understood that it was resolved in the Convention that the bishops should in future use their authority to enforce a strict ecclesiastical discipline and obedience throughout the members of the German priesthood. The Austrian archbishops and bishops kept aloof from the Fulda Convention. They will hold a separate conference in Salzburg. Moiie Fractional Currency.—Superin tendent McCartee, of the Printing Bureau of the Treasury Department, has ordered the several engraving companies interested in furnishing fractional currency to the Government to increase their present sup ply, so that iu the future, if his orders are obeyed, he will receive nearly $300,000 j>er month. He has olficial information from the West to the effect that the merchants and other commercial men of that section are now compelled, owing to the scarcity of currency, to take any tiling offered to them which represents fractional values of green backs, and consequently are forced to re ceive and pass counterfeit stamps. One gen tle man, writing to him privately, says: “AA'e are compelled to take what we can get, or go without the necessary change for our small sales, and consequently we artt daiiv guilty of receiving and passing counterfeit money. Iu fact we never look at bills less than one dollar in denomination.” [ Washington Express, Our Hanks and Their Hus in ess. From the New Orleans Commercial Bulletin. When s<x*rcty confers ujwm a corporation exclusive power to conduct any particular 1 nisi ness, it is with the distinct understand ing that so far as it may not lie incompatible with the direct interests of the corjx»ration, it shall be so managed as to give the most general accommodation possible to sill the 1 members of that society which confers the ' privilege. Thus, a strivt railroad, ineorpo- I rated by the representatives of all the peo ple, must accommodate all the people equal ly. The application of this principle to banking houses is subject to the same con ditions. it is very true that there are in the South few or no State banks which issue tlieii* own notes. They may be, therefore, raider no obligation to make return for the exclusive privilege of furnishing circulation to the several communities which legalized them, but they are still banks of discount and should therefore distribute their accom modations as equally and as generally as possible. Now the city of New Orleans, like other cities, is sustained by all the industrial en terprises which are established within its limits. There are factors, merchants, me chanics, hotel keepers, and there are those who conduct the shipping business and the transfer of commodities by drays and wag ons. Then there are those who buy and sell provisions, lish and fruit, and in various other modes contribute to the comfort and economy of our citizens. It is the duty of our moneyed institutions to aid by discounts, as far as consistent with safety and interest, each and all of these industrial enterprises. We do not say that an equal discount should be extended to each, but that a discount aud accommodation proportionate to the interest invested in each should be recognized ami awarded. We fear that our moneyed insti tutions are rather inclined to deal in ex change payable abroad than in notes dis counted and payable at their counters. This brokerage is very tempting, and the time sometimes extended until it materially interferes with domestic accommodations. It may l>e the case that a bill payable in New York may find sale with a bank, when do mestic paper made over the same names would be placed on file. There is no city in the world iu which the customers of a bank need more snp]>ort during a part of the year than New Orleans. Many merchants and mechanics who do a thriving business in the fall and winter, do not pay rent by summer sales. In some cases to withhold aid from these dealers may be to throw them into the hands of street- brokers, and so lay the foun dation of bankruptcy. All these minor in dustries should be nursed by the banking in terests. Even if they do not lock up so much money 1 in exchange, the banking ac counts and deposits of these small dealers may be worth more in a series of years than the margin of exchange realized by their bankers, and this especially if a few losses on protested bills bo deducted from the account. The prosperity of a city depends greatly on its small dealers, and all wise banking houses will see to and protect them. There are some of our banking houses who do not object to keep small accounts, and who rejoice rather in the number of their customers than in the excessive amount of their discounts. Such institutions will, we think, in the end have chosen a safe and profitable line of business, and will at the same time do a great deal to build up the city, and also to increase the business of their own customers. Now that the planters have not to purchase labor, and when a few good crops shall have made them more independ ent of advances, we may hope that our banks will classify their customers and assign to each something like a proportion of their discounts. They should do this even if they should buy a little less exchange. They should, moreover, help these interests to tide over the dull time of the summer, and give them a fair send-off when the crops and customers come in. With some such adjust ment of relative accommodation, the limited capital which the war has left us may be made to go a great way farther, and certainly give more general satisfaction. Death of Hon. John Hell. Front the Nashville Banner, 11th —[Abridged. J The Hon. John Bell died at two o’clock yesterday morning, at Cumberland Iron Works, after a long illness. The preutes statesman Tennessee has ever given to the “•'““Lv L.u> I from among hk.* His health had been declining rapidly ever since the elosq of the M ar, and friends and rela tives were not altogether unprepared for the sad announcement which reached tlm city yesterday noon. John Bell was born near this city, in the neighborhood of Mill Creek, on the 18th of February, 17'.)7, and would have been seven ty-three years of age if he had lived to his next birth day. He Mas the son of a farmer in moderate circumstances, who was, how ever, able to give him a good education at Cumberland College, -subsequently the Uni versity of Nashville. Choosing the law as his profession, he was admitted to the bar in 1816, settled at Franklin, Williamson county, and was elected to the State Senate in 1.317, when only twenty years old. In 1826 he became a candidate for Congress against Felix Grundy, and after a most ani mated and excited canvass of twelve months, Mr. Bell was elected in 1827 by one thous and majority. By successive elections, he continued a member of the House of Repre sentatives for fourteen years. He was elect ed to the Speakership of tin? House of Rep resentatives in 1834. In June of that year Mr. Stevenson resigned the chair npon being nominated Minister to Great Britain, and Mr. Bell Mas elected to succeed him, in opposition to James K. Polk, who was tin candidate of the Administration aud the Democratic party. In 1841, Mr. Bell accepted the War De partment in Harrison’s Cabinet. With the rest of the Cabinet, Mr. Webster excepted, lie resigned office on the separation of President Tyler from tin- Whig party, in the autumn of that year. Mr. Bell remained in voluntary retirement until called by the people of his country in 1847 to represent them -u the State S- uate, in which year, on tlie . eurence of a vacancy, he Mas elected to the United States Senate, to which he was re-elected in 1853, to serve till March -4, 1859. On the 10th of May, 1860, Mr. Bell re reived the nomination of the National Union party at Baltimore, for President of the United States, in the momentous can vass immediately preceding the late war, which resulted in the election of Abraham Lincoln. No public man in all the border States exerted himself more than Air. Bell to avert the disaster of civil war between the sections, which so soon succeeded the election of Air. Lincoln. When the war excitement in Tennessee was at its highest, together with other in fluential citizens of the State, he signed an address to the people of Tennessee to unite in a conference with her sister States yet in the Union to devise plans for the preserva tion of the peace of the land. He had la bored faithfully and devotedly to avert the necessity for separation, and in person, earn nestlv besought Air. Lincoln not to misun derstand the vote of Tennessee, in the elec tion of the Union ticket of the Dth of Feb ruary, 18(11, and he left Washington in the confident belief that a pacific policy would lie pursued by the Administration. This ex pectation was not realized. Other and less prudent counsels prevailed, and the whole country pv;ts soon involved in war. Air. Bell remained in Nashville until the war broke out and left the city upon the fall of Fort Donnelson. He remained a short time at Alurfreesboro, and from thence went to Alabama. The summer of 1862 was spent at Blonntsville and Blount Springs in that State. From this point Air. Bell accompa nied his family to Black Creek Falls, near the Georgia State line. He remained with his friends near Flat Shoals in Georgia until after Sherman’s movement through that State, wlien he came to Aladisou, Georgia, and there remained until peace was declared, when he returned to Nashville. He remained in this city some months, much enfeebled by disease, and went to the Cuudierland Iron Works, at which place he breathed his last, surrounded by family and friends, with whose grief is mingled that of his country men, who had so loved and trusted and hon ored him throughout his illustrious and use ful public life. Columbus Cotton Market.—The receipts were quite large by wagons, and heavier than any day of the season by railroads, lor want of currency, and competition, 28 cents was the ruling price of middlings, and some was even sold at 28 cents. This anom alous market will be removed by Monday, on which day large amounts of currency arc expected and there will be competition. Many bales were sold on the faith of p*y mout next week. All Southern markka are similarly affected. —Columbus Sun, 12th. Why should we first take up, as Boutwell does, the debt bearing no interest, like the greenbacks, leaving unredeemed the bonds which bear a heavy interest? jlCii RICI I /I’l |{ A , Application of Manures in ii->. and Broadcast. From tlie Rural Southerner It is supposed by a majority of f ar , that by depositing manures broadcast • lost* a great deal of their strength. thev consider manure as direct food• and that such should W placed wifi!,'! .’ % reach of the same. If so, it would 1, . j” to spend immense sums of money • uures containing ammonia, or price ‘ cial manures only by the quantity ~f . they contain, while abundance of ■ < is presented to the soil and plants ), v • , .' mosphero: consequently no artificial*-.,' tion of such would Ik* necessary. It, , is the mystery: Ammonia, as mvII ; salts in manures, has a strong tend, V dissolve substances in the soil, digestible for the plants. Am .. ,;j enough vegetable food for plants to century to come, had it be n diss, . ! thus see that the principle on whiei, w, work, is to dissolve the soil; audit doing this, wish to obtain the gn t ,.„. . we must, like dissolving anythin ~g, . ' gle the dissolving power a.-,'much u> ~ V with the body we wish to dissolve Now we ean distribute our manures v ;.i out fear of loss. Examine, f, )r uist , . corn-field, where manures laid been j broadcast, and after having ,l . form, then dig up the ground careful], roots are least expected, and see jj - ! - , cubic inch of the soil can be found an numerous small roots. If corn or cotton be plant* and where manure has been applied in liilb plants will throw forth roots ven rupidh < the distance tho manure was applied while abundantly supplied, make growth, providing a frame fora heavy erni When this store of food is , - plant ceases growing, and as no furtl, Mi . l*ly is left, will make but little or no er. all. 1 1 The soil has a peculiar property of r, ing all vegetable so ..1, and of v.: call deprive her but the plant. But , j u . property only consists with the soil ;<. a r ,! tain point of saturation. Has the soil ■sinned this point, all vegatable food ran, ly be earned off, either by heavy ruins or In a high degree of heat—as vapor. If we posit manure in hills, the surroundim - will soon lu*oome saturated, and the Baku, of the manure left to the action of ruin m. i heat, while M’hen broadcast, it dissolves tie soil, unites with it a composition which in tii ing but the plant can carry off. Ha rl<*y. We have thought for some time that w - would inquire of our readers why it was that this splendid crop has been so generally overlooked l>y s,ur farmers. We have other idea but that neglect <4 this valiiM blc grain lnus arisen more from oversight and failure to investigate, than tr, , lu p,( We do not now recollect ever to have kn. , au individual, who, after giving bar In ;1 j trial, relinquished its cultivation appointment iu tho results. First, let look at the profit. An acre properly pre pared for this crop, will realize almost cer tainly fifty bushels of chain grain. This ha been worth tin- past, season, we believe, free two dollars and a half to three dollars bushel. This beats cotton. The Bariev coming off very early in May, is just iu tin; for either a sweet potato or late Irish jNitat or corn crop. From either of these, a - large yield from the same land may b exjiected. We have never known any stub ble to send off these crops like barley stui bio. Then this crop yields a valuable siiav for any purpose that straw can be applied t and the cash fur the grain comes in to ant pate the returns from lute summer and wu ter crops, a convenience of great moment t small farmers. Besides this, barley suv.n it should be by the 15th of the pr -i-nt month, furnishes lor the cow or the hog a most excellent winter pasture; and In tin time green food is most needed, vmir Inal. > patch has a growth of eight or ten in and Mould do liest by grazing in mod-1 u. We have on a trial test, in friendly riv;n • with a neighltor, made winter lmtt- r mi /» and green barley that our friends neisted was colored artificially. As green food for hogs, Barley is truly an admirably resource, as we Ix-lieve it is tin- only grain known to• agriculture which will not sometimes sen stock. Wo are aware that it requires i niggardly preparation, both in tilth and in.. nure, to get. an acre of land ready to prink; a creditable crop of barley; but one mi. acre is a gain of an acre of the Best, low l -i, soil to the man that secures it a low l:n acre with nearly all the benefits and few the drawbacks to the bottom land. Tb we repeut, for quick profit—a large -loir crop—for good M'inter pasture for p nent improvement to the soil ami In . remunerating price, commend us to tin- b Icy crop. The land should Be well and il ly broken, heavily manured and seed .; the rati* of 8 pecks to the acre -cei l never less than six pecks. We hop - t article will reach our subscribers in tii that some of them will make a ventun our recommendation, and be prop;! 1 next season to give tlie country tin l« of their experience. White Wa.di for iliii ie and Shed-. The Scientific' American says, “t ib a-■ water-tight Barrel or other siiitaßl <m i put into it half bushel of lino . Si d.' i’ jMjnring water over it, ladling hot, un i sufficient quantity to cover if five it' deep,and stir it Briskly till thoroughly When thi! lime has Been slaked, di in water, and add two pound-, of snlpb t zinc, and one of common salt. Tic ■ cause the wash to harden, and pr< v b •' cracking, which gives an unseemly fi'j since to the work. If deiirahle a b cream color may lie eommnnioatid to tl above wash, by adding three pound of low ochre, or si good pearl or lead obr the addition of lamp or ivory Black • fawn color add four pounds of umber i ish of American—the latter is the cli'-ap one pound of Indistn red, and om U ' un common lampblack. When applied ’ ■outside of out houses and tofenee . il dered more durable By adding -woct u or some mucilage from flax- ' ••'!; a l,l pint to the gallon will suffice.’ The following lias been highly c"W!! for an incombustible and dura! 1 • \> ; roofs and outside walls of building- " ‘ a sufficient quantity of good stuiie line slake it carefully in a close l>ox, or i bed, to prevent the esoajxi of sb ■' > ter slaking, pass it through a every six quarts of this lime, add on- : of rock or Turk’s Island salt, and "t of M'ater. The mixture should !»■ I" skimmed clean. To every five e this, ailil by slom - degrees, thro a pound of jxvtash, and four-quart sand. Coloring matter may he aid and. *. ply it with a common paint Bni-b Green Manuring* Plowing under green crops ; *r has been found very protita- ■ ■ jioor in organic matter. The pm* - its fertilizing action may be tlm- > The green plants decay and evoive acid, which is absorbed by water, solution of carbonic acid disolve j tortious of mineral matter, which ■■ lubtofat water alone, and thus in mineral matter capable of assn:. ..*• plants. When deep-rooted phin-- * - ver, are used, considerable prop"- plant food are brought np from and thus add to the richness of th soil. Many plants have Ite. n as. . ent countries for this pur]x>se. am"- -. . may be named sparry, white m e nijis, white lupine, and raj**, m the well known use of clover, rj ' wheat Cure for Polson Oak. —A eon* * of the S. F. Alla gives this as a t Poison Oak: “Simplv bathe the ]iar.> p hot-water, as hot can lie home, m *! the temjieratnre till it can no ’ without burning. Press as< 8 - r the parts, so as to absorb t >• avoid rubbing; then apply a r 1 , T solution of strong navy, or plap ■ • bacco on the poisoned places, a * ~ The solution is best when tin- • p V:. I have tried this and have »* ‘ 1 ■ very nearly so, iu two day* * 1 the most. —lowa lias recently taken returns from all but five ‘o t j population of 1,011,95-- ~wn cm' two years 20,000 dwelling* have W* ia the State.