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J. W. liUIiKE k CO. IP A W^i a JOURNAL & MESSENGER A. ( 0., Proprietors. {VI. BROWNE, Editor. i I ssniMl STREET. M.MXMJ. O.A. I \(t> UK MBiiI'KIPIIM. , , |in $lO uo ( " y \ ,|„ 500 2» I ’t (Mill 1 00 , |..r Annum 5 00 L, M .nil.' 2ai , r . ■ Month* 1 50 ~ - \it mu 000 3 __ I |.. i nie is in Venice. I Kill i' to reopen the I dietary Institute at t'linr- I i..;>••!• ackunwlclges tile re- I ... ,'|. lid iresll flowers, cut in ■ . 1 : 1 < Aod-'s pathetic ii|«- ;■ i. ... concluded not tu 1 ivlvunia before the election. * , 'in in the National Treasury is m-arlv one hundred and nine Carri’iicv six and uml a hull m*l -1 i ;is t; h'l izcoana und Formosa, ut Bordeaux for Next ..... damaged by the late tire at * ~| ( iiafee, Kaq., formally years a an reliant of Charleston, ilied at ..... in Aiken, on Sunday night, Man who ilevliued the Uadi i ,n lor Secretary of State, gets ~ ,ii'to it in Harper’s “Easy Peabody will spend the n tin south of France, at the \\. \V. Corcoran, who sails for I. Id h traveling in Scotland, ml the world, Prince Ar um the Prince of Wales is the complications between ,s , ■ anil Spain, the Prussian !.■ ham despatched vessels of war i .it -i.i 1 V •«•.< learns that the , . . in rally commenced cutting ami that the quantity is much ~:,.i y i iv led to anticipate from a by the protracted drouth. , -a i.i: Plumb writes from Ha- ■ I'itl)' cities aif contin luaiK to ujxl from tliis ■ . i iif anticipates a virtual in' mail facilities. ■ i.o iiii .j*\l:«s bringing flic n| lie new tea crop, ur ■ >ir ' e tiie run lroni Aujer, Bj . I '... < to!.I Exchange is still ■■ work of clearing the I .1 .. . i memorable Friday. - nave cleared ■ i ti'om Washington that fl pi Ia ith the condition i lie South ami “the temper and ■ .jib'," ami proposes pay - ■ . , ! eetioii a visit during ici;,t i. 111 of XeW York ■ .1.1.'. at which a resolu- B ~ it.i.g that the j.resent nmtaetures of tobuceo, fl 'ill- in;:ii cost lit leaf, labor anil H n:i,.-jii moraine, and should be ■". tea higher basis. I ia:.l that lion. A. t). I’. Xich fl ran iii e,'tween .Inlnison and Eth ■ o.iinimuecd by the latter gentle .' i.Us 1,0 be ta\se. Mi*. Nicholson fl -'.l at pres iu favor of Mr. John * n tic Senate. I'in mil i'l's ill bnssta is emigra- H III: kill. me.lll lmm.^niUO.. H to aid them. In discussing “the Jews in the progress of H it claims that their delving in ■ . largely I lie cause of the de . 'lie of Luther and I’en: Hy ■ I’eiiey. of the Sujnvme fl .. : I imp.shire. has recently de- H ■ any property is trans fl ..id line eomposeil of set - Ii .ids the original company I 1 it is liable for the loss or in- H u bethel' the damage ■ load or any other. fl :!■ trade of New Orleans has B' i exhibiting increased unimn fl of merchants from Texas H 'ltli increasing, and many of H u'.'d not only to pay up H but lo buy freely tor cash fl :u.ill mid freijiieii! )iur eluiM s i ■ umversal. I sbvill" it,enter of the sth says: fl • o to aum.miee the death ol fl n Tiia.'.v. On Sunday she expe ■ " "i apoplexy, ami died early fl ' mug. tc Hi nd Pillow was fl •: ■ cleprapiied for, and arrived fl lie miieral will take place fl '• ii■ Common Council last t mi ordinance granting the 1 t a.ati A Lexington and the a hviile hallway Companies "X' through the city, to eon. i’ s ;" ■ 'ti ■.e tracks, on condition Cincinnati A- Lexington age its present gauge of a lc. t eight and a half inches •la City to pay tiircc-lifths '. :rtl says that Hurry } ii t Kentucky Central ■ nth fallen heir to a for- ; lilnl . by tlie death of an nuele in *; i' a aiitive of Germany, and entry about six years. A ■ been appointed, who will ! ". Oermaiiy to look after the -. Harry shows an unusual * ase by sticking to his bus ■ -iig papers on the rmid. .Ni w York to ii Western i; I';. ■ dt the unlucky linns of >ia;:h. Gould, Martin A-Co.) , " hold a written order from officer of the Government to ' millions of trold; and that it' hdun '"ttleii the documents will l»e I -i is is au assertion no less hmliug. If false, “the highest on Government" should expose it “ ; ■ tlie proof should be fortli :.iti resting contribution to the * r ' 01 hie late financial flnrrv, nl:i lownsemi died in Boston • • a./, the ltd instant. He was seventy ’. and of course had never in - -a h.s medicines. at of the public debt for Oe ■ heavy return of the sum total 0.’.h0. 12'. I During the first sis j n sent administration, which • -d. the monthly decrease of the r:\ averaged that amount, at the l’aeifie It. K. Bonds?] r to arSohnn. Ala., has Ivon boast ‘ amis did at cotton flicking Itiuio. They began at sunrise, '••fffty minutes for dinner, • ' j> ! '. ut .' r ‘ Ils °t. Wright picked , ‘•; 1 • pounds. January 4111 i.o.i t;j pounds, Frances 3do v. and .Mary Jio pounds. sources of Virginia and North • ets the Norfolk Ecniing Herald, t , ;;•.• -Mless. 1 lie mountains are heals of silt lln ir valleys and river bot boundless fertility. Their . forest yield abundance of him -t. > sand naval stores. Their t- r :- harbors, souudsaudhays tilled ■' ' tl finny tribe and shell “ 1 ‘ !U1! »es of wealth and luxu •her little State, called , his and a httle more.] f N " lut er\Tew w ith the President T . iVV u 'hans in that Terri - 1 j s I,f the opinion that • \ ' *•"’ *lo with the In- They are disposed .*,?•' thinks soldiers r * ' President is in \ • r policy first, ti , ' ! -as aris, nat the Na 'ti . . ' nigton, D. C„ under in ■ ') “A a corporation ordi a, ..'tuietion in the attend ■ ■ >'• ’•»'••* on account of f,, : gvo men made their way in „■ foi' of the National Theatre, rci ' .ted by the proprietors to v, ' gallery set apart for them, re i I--so. and tinu. when offered their l ••■.'k. they refused to take that They L - ' ! with that the white people but they still refused, and HL : , ej, ted from the building. They ~',-', riuß suit, and if it is decided ML i r . v ' , eannot regulate its adrnis- bj tm owners, A. T. Stewart on Houtvvell. Iu another column will be found what Mr. A. T. Stewart, the great dry goods mer chant of New York, Mr. Grant's first choice as Secretary of the Treasury, said to a cor respondent of the New York World, about Mr. Bout well of the “'Hole iu the Skv," Mr. Grant’s second and present choice for the head of the financial department of the Gov ernment. Mr. Stewart is very rough on Boutwell, as much so as courtesy would permit, and though he does not say go directly, gives it very clearly to bo inferred that lie holds Boutwell accountable for the calamitous effects upon trade and commerce of the re cent gold panic in Wall street. If Mr. Boutwell’s financial plans have any merit it was that which was claimed for them by himself and his admirers, that they tended to such a reduction of the debt as would firing about a speedy resumption of specie payments, and consequently the ele vation of the currency to par with coin. If Mr. Stewart is right, that Boutwell’s scheme will indefinitely retard instead of hastening specie payments, it becomes not only silly but criminal. Mr. Stewart has managed his own finances with surprising ability. The affairs of his immense mercantile house, involving deal ings with the principal commercial countries of Europe, require a great amount of financial skill, and it is to be supposed that he knows whereof he speaks. At all events, it is likely that he knows more on the subject than the obscure Massachusetts politician, whose van ity and self-sufficiency make him believe that he is the Neckar of the age, and when they differ in opinion, the public will strong ly incline to believe that Mr. Stewart is right. It is certain that Mr. Boutwell’s inter ference in the gold market did great harm. Had he kept aloof, the bulls might have gored the bears, or the bear-s might have hugged the bulls rather roughly, but the commercial public would not have been necessarily affected, and the panic would have subsided immediately, or perhaps never have taken place. Mr. McCulloch was always denounced for his sales of Treasury gold by private con tract without notice. It was hinted that lie had an interest in the matter, and that ho and his pet brokers made millions by the transactions. AYe never believed these re ports, because we have always had confi dence in Mr. McCulloch's integrity, how ever much we may have doubted Ills wis dom. Mr. Boutwell inaugurated the public sales of gold, and ostentatiously announced that the sales should always lie public and to the highest bidder. Why then did lie de part from his own rule, when it was most important that lie should adhere to it? The whole transaction from beginning to end was discreditable, betrayed an ignorance of the duties of the office of Secretary of the Treasury, increased the demoralization, in stead of restoring confidence, among tlie people, and caused a needless sacrifice of the property of large numbers of merchants and iiimi of business. The best proof of the magnitude of the blunder and of Mr. Boutwell’s consciousness that it was a blunder, is to be found that the Administration and tlieir friends are now vociferously defending the Secretary’s poli cy. Where an administration is driven to take the defensive, it always amounts to a COllfes. ion of fnrtH. “The La ml of Ihe Free.” Whenever those of 11s who are musically and patriotically inclined sing the “Star Spangled Banner,” the part where we carol most enthusiastically is where we jiraise “the land of the free.” When any of us in dulge in the exciting pastime of delivering a Fourth of July oration, where the greatest ; “splurging” is done is when we inform the subjects of effete monarchies that here in free America “government derives its sole au thority from the consent of the governed;” in other words, that vve govern ourselves, and whenever vve talk of ourselves or our country, vve have been in the habit of call ing ourselves “ a free people,” sjijil of assert ing boldly that ours is a “free country.’* This may be true in some places; but no Virginian can sing (lie Mtar Spangled Ban ner without siugiug a falsehood. No sou of the Old Dominion can celebrate the Fourth <if July and say that lie governs himself; and no Virginian can allude to the peojila or State of Virginia and say that ho is a free man or his State a free country. Major General E. S. Canby, commanding the Military Department, njijioints the civil officers, from Governor down to the Mayor of a town. He summons the Legislature and graciously permits them to elect their clerks, but .orders that the clerks when elec ted must take tlie tlx,! path. He allows the Governor to be installed, but pi)Jy permits him to do wliat general orders prescribe. Canby is the autocrat of Virginia as com pletely ns Ab/.and T is Autocrat of Russia. He exercises the power of life and death, promulgates his decrees as the supreme law, imposes njid collects taxes, expends the pub lic money, directs fl)e Sfugistraey, binds and 1 looses at will, subject to no authority or con trol. Canby is the law, and when Canby sjieaks ‘‘let 110 dog bark.” But should a Virginian refuse to join the chorus the Star Spangled Banner and maintain licit hjs is not “the land of the free”—should he say tliaf. the government of Virginia is a brutal military despotism, and that Canby is a lawless usurper, iu one min ute after lie uttered the assertion Canby’s soldiers would arrest him, he would he in carcerated in a military jirison, lie would be beyond the resell of the writ of habeas cor pus. lie would be denied a speedy trial by a jury of his peers, his house would be search ed, his papers carried awav, a military com mission “bound to convict” might sentence him to death, and a firing party of a United States regiment might shoot him to death. All this Canby might do iu the front porch of Mount Vernon or Montieello, iu the year of grace, 1869. And yet we sing about the Star Spangled Banner, and "the Land of the Free.” Greeley was right. It is a “flaunting lie.” More Ocean Cables. Ocean telegraphs seem to he quite the rage at present. There is an engineer officer now in Canada, looking for a suitable land ing place for a cable between Europe and tin l New Dominion, which is to be laid im mediately. There are already in progress, the North German Cable, the Nova Scotia and the Ireland Cable, the West India Cable, besides the English and American and French Cables now in operation. The more the merrier and the better for the people who use the telegraph. If tlie shareholders in all these enterprises do not derive as large profits as those w ho own stock in the present submarine cables, the competition will com pel all to lower the rates and bring them within tlie reach of men with purses of ordi nary size. The laying of the French ocean telegraph liad this effect at once, after the effort to prevent its completion failed: and even these rates will lie much reduced w hen the competition is increased. —The Mormons have at length arrived at a settlement with the Union Pacific Railroad, and have taken a part of their pay in track iron and rolling stock for the Utah Central. . The iron has begun to arrive at Salt Lake City, the grading is half done, and is being ' pushed, the ties are being delivered and | laid, and before cold weather the stage route thence to Utah—the dustiest and roughest .in the world—will be among the things that ! were, V orney & Cos. “Kepi Awav.” Ihe notorious editor of the Washington ■ Chronicle John W. Forney-is verv much ’ UM?ensed “BM"* “the Macon and Sa'vannah JoumaLs” on account of what he terms their >rutal attack" upon Mr. Benjamin F. But ler, and threatens that their conduct will “undoubtedly keep away" from the State l air "most of the Republicans who have re ceived invitations" to attend. Ts the "brutal attack” will have the effect of keeping away most of the Republicans of the same stripe and grade of character as -lr. Butler and Mr. Forney, the honest, re spectable and self-respecting people of Geor gia and of other States, who will be present at the Fair, will have good reason to rejoice that the attack was made, because it will save the Georgians from a deep humiliation, and the other citizens from a contact which they j must consider degrading and repulsive. The only persons who will have any cause to regret that “most of the Republicans” have been kept away, will be those who! have advocated the acceptance of Mr. Bul locih’.n -iTUerai proposition, and advised the dispatch of Bullock and a train of cars to j Lynchburg, at the public expense, to bring here men like Butler and Forney, and, not-: withstanding tlieir avowed hostility to the whole South, to treat them as the honored and favored guests of our people. : i They may regret the loss of an opportuni-!. ty to curry favor with the authors of.all the injustice and wrong which we have suffered, and to exhibit the length and breadth, height and depth of the expediency which they' have set up in the place of manhood, i self-respect and honor, and before which they would prostrate themselves in groveling worship. They may regret being deprived of the chance to play the big men of the oc casion, and while they fawn and cringe at the feet of those who have kicked and re viled them and their fellow-citizens, assume an unenviable importance at the expense of the people whom they humiliate and offend. But nobody else will regret that Mr. Forney, Mr. Butler and their compeers have been “ kept away." If these men want to come, the trains run daily, they can buy their tickets and come here as freely as thousands of far better men will come. We do not desire to see them insulted or molest :ed iu any way. We only object to see them distinguished above al] others, and thanked for the honor they have done ns by conde scending to visit us. Between them and “ the men of the North” there is an immense distinction. We hope that thousands of Northern njen, without regard to party, will attend the Fair. We engage that they shall be treat ed with the utmost courtesy and kind ness, and tiiat from the hour they arrive until they leave to return to their homes, they' will be the recipients of that dig nified and unostentatious hospitality for which the South is distinguished. We be lieve that Bije of the chief advantages which our State apd suction will derive from the coming Fair, will bo the opportunity it will afford the people of the North to divest themselves of the prejudices which they have formed against us, and which it will give us to see that there are vast numbers of men at the North who, unlike Forney, But ler, Sumner, and the other Radical Con gressmen, are willing to forget our past differences and animosities, and unite with us in a cordial effoi ( to duvclon our resources and restore qqr prosperity. We are certain that the popular refusal to grant an ovation to our avqwed enemies— who are our enemies now, and who declare their purpose to continue to be our enemies, like Butler. Forney and Sumner —will not keeji away one man who has proposed to visit the Fair for an honest and worthy ob ject, On the contrary, had we been mean and base enough to accept the “ liberal proposi tion,” and consent to fling up our hats and 1 shout huzzas of welcome to Forney and| Butler and the rest of their piratical crew, there are thousands of honest men at the North who would be kept away from x'isiting a jieople whom they could pot respect, and who xvould have given such palpable proof (hat they did not respect themselves. Nay. further, wo are certain that, had we consent ed to tho proposed ant of degradation, 'Forney, Butler and their associates would 1 haye respected us less than they do now because iu their hearts ihuy must feel that our welcome of them would be a lie—an act !of abasement which had not even sincerity to redeem its shame. We would not willing ly go to meet Butler or Forney at the North or anywhere else, and certainly we cannot be : expeotod to spend our money and our time in traveling hundreds of miles to beg them to do us tlie honor of meeting us at our own homes. But it is because they are so odious to us, because they are our enemies, because they have declared their intention to pursue us with unrelentjug l’ute and malice —that we are told it would be expedient to accept the “liberal proposition.” Pretend to love them, tell them you are delighted to see them, give them the best that you have, wait upon them, provide for tlieir amusement, listen ap proviuglv to their assumption of superiority, and promise ]q obey their commands, and per haps when they go lfoffie, they will iu pity ro lax their persecution, and induce (heir friends to allow you to enjoy your rights and your property. This is the meaning of those who advise the people of Georgia to accept the “liberal proposition.” It can have no other meaning, for it would be monstrous to sup pose that any man who is identified with the South, could really feel a desire to welcome Butler and Forney, and to honor them be cause he likes and admires them. If by anything we and our able eotempo raries at Savannah, have said or written, we have “kept away” such Republicans as these, wc are indeed glad that we have contributed so much to the success of the Fair, and to the comfort and enjoyment of those who purpose to attend it, While those who would accept tlie “liberal proposition” are so blind a-s not to perceive the distinction lietween the Northern people . and these notorious Republicans, because they do not wish to see it, the Northern peo ple. themselves, will see it, and those of them who intend to come, will come in perfect confidence that they will be hospitably re ■ ceived and courteously treated during their stay among us. MT'f Death of Con. M. D. Jones. —We are pained to learn that Col. Malcolm D. Jones, one of the most prominent und enterprising citizens of Burke county, died at his resi dence near Bark Camp in that county, on Friday hist Col Jones was well and favorably known throughout this section of the State, and his many friends will mourn his untimely death. We learn that for some weeks he had been suffering from a partial stroke of paralysis, and that on Friday a sudden and unex pected change took’place in his case, when death ensued almost immediately. Col. Jones, though but a young man, was for many years a leading member of the Waynesboro Bar. and at the breaking out of the war raised a cavalry company, and served with distinction, until the surrender, in the celebrated cavalry corps of Hampton, having been promoted to a Majority, and finally to tlie Colonelcy of a regiment. Since the war he has been actively engaged in planting, and was one of the hugest plan ters in this section of the State. He was a public-spirited citizen, a good neighbor, a true friend, and a devoted husband and lather. Truly has a good man fallen. [Chronide and Sentinel, Oct. 7. One of the alcoves of the British Museum is fill ed with different editions of “UncleTom'sCabin.'' printed in nearly all the known language# of the world. This alcove ought te be known as the '•'Black Hole.” MACON. GA„ TUESDAY. OCTOBER 12, 1869. The United States Snubbed by China. In explanation of the non-ratification bv China of the treaty concluded by Mr. Man darin Burlingame between the “Flowery Kingdom ” and the United States, it was said that the Chinese Government had not hesitated to ratify the treaty for any objec tion to its terms or from any unfriendly feel ing to the l nited States, but because it was determined to ratify all Burlingame’s trea ties with ad the world and the rest of man kind in a bunch, so soon as the Mandarin had returned to Pekin and had fulfilled his roving mission. The Chinese authorities were said to be enchanted with the treaty, with the United States, and especially with Burlingame. The telegraph was kept busy for days telling what Prince Kung thought, what Ross Browne did, what Burlingame l said, and what the European Powers felt asj to the great Burlingame enterprise. But now comes the news, taken from the official journal of the Austrian Government that tHa 4-iuaoi** 1 -*-«ovnr; »uU tJUIHB \ • has been “duly signed at Tientsin,” thus >j proving that Prince Kung, Burlingame or ; Ross Browne is a humbug, that we have i been bamboozled, that Austria has got the ■ insidetrack, and that the United States I nay, the American eagle—has been slighted and placed in the back ground by an effete monarchy—by a double-headed, sceptre and ' crown-bearing eagle which has always been the symbol of tyranny and oppression, i We look to Charles Sumner to set tills matter right and get us satisfaction. If lie goes to work at once he enn prepare a speech (making several hundred pages of the Congressional Globe) which he can .deliver or have published when Congress meets, in which he can say tilings ; which will make Prince Rung shake in his tum-np-toed slippers, and show the \ four hundred million Chinese, from the J younger brother of the Sun and Moon down to Koopmanschap’s live articles of export, that signing the treaty with Austria before | signing the treaty wit‘l “the Luj.lof the Free,' is one of those moral oqU'ugss and! material damages for which an humble ad mission of wrong, and several millions in I silver coin alone can make atonement. It is painful to suppose that Priuce Kung! is a humbug. It is heartrending to contein plate the possibility that Burlingame, late of Massachusetts, now of Tientsin, would tell even a “white lie,"but tfje conclusion i s irresistable that a “story is out" somewhere, ! and now we want to know who told it. Why, we ask with emphatic earnestness, has \ Prince Rung not signed the treaty with the | United States, and why has Prince Kung ratified the treaty with Austria? Reconstruction is one of those mechani |cal conception. l - which seem mysteries to the ordinary mind. Air. Attorney General Hoar is one of the few 1 men who understands it thoroughly. He knows all its ins and outs, and lets on steam and shuts it off with a niiijbleijess ami ship tyhioh are really sur prising. The uipiptiated are wondering how Virginia can as a State amend the Con stitution of the United States, and yet cam not amend the law regulating the election ol a deputy constable of a village. Well, it is surprising to most people, but Mr. djoar ex i plains it, and shows that the Legislature cannot do anything but amend the Constitu - linn and eb.-tMenotr.se Tt„* Ur,c.- a knowing wink, you can only amend the Constitution to suit the Radicals, and you can only elect such Senators as the Radicals approve. Ho anything else and you are conquered rebels, bound to obey that great jurist, statesman and soldier, E. S. Cap by, Major General Commanding. . —»« ♦ »« Disgusting Apostacy. —Mr. Alcorn, of I Mississippi, who was on no a most rabid secessionist, and vowed uncompromising | : hostility to the Union, serving in the Con federate army in which a galiaut son of liis i fought aud died, is now the ultra Radical candidate for the office of Governor of his State. He goes the whole hog, prefers tlje! negro to a white man, and after the manner of another scalawag who made powder for the Confederate States and boasted that he 1 made very bad powder, Alcorn declares that the happiest moment of his life was that in which the Confederate flag was hauled down. This is the man whom tlie Administration supports against Air. Dent, who always was an Union man, but xyho will not admit that a negro is as good as a white man. The Scal awag may be called All-corn, but be must be a very contemptible nubbin. It would take a Leap of such to make a bushel, i “Loup Atnsije.”—We see elaborate ac \ counts in tbe papers of a remarkable ban quet given iu New York, by a “Lord Ains- I lie,” who is about to marry a Miss Martin. As there is no such person as “Lord Anis im,” at least, nobody entitled to call himself so. either tlje reporters have lijadea mistake or Lord Ainslie should be watched very closely, and dealers would be wise to adopt the C. O. D. system in filling Ins orders. Real live English lords do not use table ninths “of corded silk uiin.n >1 with lace,” or “goblets qf solid silver, lined w.th gold.” It may be that Mr. Ainslie is only oalled I Lord, by tlje Reporters, as, the French tavern keepers call Englishmen generally, milord. But if he calls himself “‘Lord Ainslie” he comes within the class who travel under false names. Brilliant Prospects.— The N. Y. Express congratulates the South on the present signs of restored prosperity, and on the brilliant prospect of future power, in the following article: “ When the South has completed all its needed railroads to the seaports, and has developed even a moiety of its mineral wealth, it will prove altogeth er the wealthiest part of the agricultural Union In cotton lands it is without a rival in the world, and ; in sugar and rice, in the production of cuttle and com it should occupv the foremost place on the continent We repeat, then, that for the South there are good tiii|es ahead, and we are glad to ace so many timely steps taken tq exhibit her wealth and encourage’its increase. W hat has been done js in despite of Federal interference, political and miiitarv, and, without that interference, her wealth would be \ astlv greater and her prosperity every way improved.' Degree Conferred. —Tbe Trustees of Oglethorpe University, at their meeting in tins city Wednesday last, conferred the de gree of D. D. upon Rev. James E. Evans, of Columbus, Georgia. Judge O. A. Loghkass is off again for Washington City. It was only the other dav he returned crying “'zah for Grant.” How much did he subscribe ? What places are vacant ? What sort of pay does he ex pect ? Mobile a Girard R.uboad.—We learn from the officers that the travel over this road has been doubled since they commenc ed running the one fare schedule, and that the receipts of the road have been fully equal to preceding months. We are glad to learn that the Company has sustained no loss by this display of liberality, and feel sure that our people fully approbate it. It will be remembered that the one fare arrangement continues some three weeks longer, and we trust our merchants will avail tnemselves of tin l opportunity granted to extend their business in the rich section of country through which the mad traverses. [Columbus Enquirer. Rohe Market. —The Rome Courier of the 7th inst. gives the following: Corn, retailing from store, SI 25 per bushel. Meal, SI 35 per bushel. Flour, 50 per hundred. Bacon, 24 cents per pound. Butter, 50 cents. Eggs, 25 cent* per doz. Green : Apples, S2 50 per dozen. Sweet and Irish Potatoes, SI 75(<j.42 00 per bushel, i Bullock and the Pardon ng Power. The power to grant reprieve and pardons for offences against the laws ha? been vested, ’ b . v the Constitution, in the Executive of the State, since the organization »f its govern ment. It is a wise and necessary provision, and when rightfully exercised, within the limitations prescribed by the Constitution. ' innocence will always be protected, and the majesty and dignity of the law maintained. But how perverted and abused is the power thus consigned to the Executjvo! Convic tions, after a fair and impartial trial before judges of his own appointment,.,iiave lieen set aside, and criminals, whom the laws of God and man alike declare shall suffer death, have been let loose upon society to murder innocence and outrage mankind. From a fellow-feeling or a culpably mistaken elein eney for a certain class of criminals, the creature, whom unopposed bayonets eleva j ted to the Chair of State, has exercised this power not only unwisely and igqobly. but in and which he hie sworn to support and de fend. It matters not how aggravated may be the offence—how destitute it may be of ‘ any circumstance of excuse or justification, ■ or fiow overwhelmingly conclusive may be the evidences of guilt, an appeal ii made to . the bounteous sympathies of the Executive ■ towards evil-doers, and he immediately easts about to bunt up some pretext, however frivolous and contempible, to free the felon from the legal consequences of Ms aet. This mawkish sensibility for the criminal is strikingly illustrated in his interposition ■ in behalf of the murderers of Broadbecker in Savannah. It is without precedent or parallel. These demons were represented . by counsel whose zeal and vigilance in their cause was applauded. A fair and impartial trial was awarded them, and after conviction a motion for anew trial was submitted and argued, and the Judge, whom Bullock ap pointed over that people, was constrained to pKonounce the judgment righteous ami just. An appeal was made to Bullock, uu 1 that | community was startled and public justice was outraged by the announcement tliat the merited penalty of death had been commuted jto imprisonment in the Penitentiary for • one yen*. A like and equally xyillul and knowing abuse of the power to cornrnute a penalty, characterized his conduct in the 1 ease from Worth county. To commute a penalty means to substitute iu its stead the other penalty which the law in such cases, proscribes. For iurtnnco: murder is punished by our Code in two ways ' only; the one by death, and the other by ii mprisonment in the Penitentiary for life. The power to commute in that case, confers u pon the Executive only the right to de prive tlje hangman of his victim andto send t he convict to the State prison for life. This is f the plain and obvious meaning of the Con stitution when it confers the right to com mute a sentence, If Bullock did pot, have sufficient inffaltigeiioe to comprehend its meaning, he could have found an interpre i tation by the Legislature in the 4220th Sec tion of our Code. It provides “that the , punishment of murder may be confinement in the Penitentiary for life , in the following' eases: Ist. By sentence of the presiding. Jqdge, f the uouviutfou is founded solely in circumstantial evidence, or if the Jury "try ing the traverse shall so recommend. “In the former case (that is, when the con viction is founded op circuhjstarttjal evi dence,) it is discretionary tyith the judge; in the latter it is not. ’ 2. By commutation of the Governor. li. By act of the General Assembly." It will, therefore, be peceivetl that Bullock, in commuting a death penally to imprisonment iu the Penitentiary for one year, not only violated the plain meaning of the Constitution, but set at naught tho ex press letter of tho Statute law, and impious ly arrogated to himself the right to pre scribe a new punishment for the cjir. eof piite tlie ovAragtvw/*sgnoraiicey evrSJ *° lim it can only be ascribed to “policy w hich sits above conscjepoa." Ay hen our engagements will permit, the ; commutation of the sentence of Henrietta Greer, convicted at the last M IIV term of. Bibb Superior Court, fur the murder of a while girl, w ill be discussed and Hie com munication of “Ribb” in defence of Bullock will be reviewed. Macon. ! Moral Leprosy at Washington. The Washington correspondent of tho Baltimore Gazette says: Every day develops new evidence of the : moral leprosy which prevades nearly every department of the Government in this city, Federal and Municipal; and tho more you learn the more you wonder at the apathy and disinterestedness manifested by the peo ple in permitting such men to retain office | as now r form a majority in the Legislative | and Executive Departments of the Govern ment. The dispensation of the patronage, 1 of every description, appointments to office, j giving out of contracts, all arc made sources of income. The head of one of the most important Bureaus has his son with him; who holds no position, and yet is as regular m his attendance a( the office as any of the employes. All applicants for office in this Department find it necessary to secure the: influence of this young mafi to ensure suc cess, It is remarkable, too, that none are successful who neglect to see him, pending their application. I give this case as an il lustration of a practice that prevails in every Department and every Bureau, except the War and Navy; in all their are just such “middlemen.” These men receive the fees, and, of course, divide. Thus we find men in office, with a salary of three thousand dollars a year, and who were poor whop they entered upon Its duties, living at the rate of six and eight thousand, and at the end of three or four years erecting a magnificent dwelling at a cost of eighteen or twenty thousand dollars, for which they pay cash. These facts are notorious; they are not “hidden under a bushel,” but brazonly con front you at every turn. The same system prevails at the “other end of the Capitol, ” Senators and Repre sentatives have tlieir agents, and when an American citizen comes here on “business befog- Congress, ” or with a recommenda tion for official position, as soon as his bus iness is known (and there are always parties at tlje hotels on the look out), he is advised to see M>‘. Ho-aud so, who lias unlimited in fluence with the Senator or Representative whose services it is important to secure, The party is seen, an arrangment is made, an interview is secured, and if the job “pays well,” the citiaen accomplishes his purjio.se. But if not, after much delay, and the using up of all liiu available oU'.h, ha loaves Wash ington, cursing the town, the people, and particularly the “Philistines” into whose hands he fell. These Radical Senators and Representa tives believe the “whole concern'' belongs to them, at least for the present, and they are making hay “while the sun shinua,” An other use to which they put “Uncle Sain” Is to make him take care of their poor rela tions. One Senator and ex-Cabinet Minis ter (who, by the way, in the last ten years, from nothing, has accumulated over a mil lion of dollars,) has three near relatives, a father, son and daughter, in the employ of the Government —two in the Interior De partment, and one in the Treasury. The husband of the daughter is also a Govern ment clerk, and the husband of another ilaughter holds a like position. Here we have five members of one family supported by the Government. This is only one of many instances where almost whole families are provided tor, at the request of Senators or Representatives; and while these have been kept iu, hundreds of deserving men have been dismissed, and their families re duced to suffering, merely liecause they were obnoxious to these very Senators and Representatives, who desired their places for their own purposes. This is but one view of Radical corruption. We may look “behind the scenes” again, and tell what we see. Good Logic. —Having been put the lead ing question, whether the election of United States Senators by the provisional Legisla ture of Virginia was not a condition prece dent to the admission of the State into the Union, Mr. Attorney-General Hoar makes reply that he is “now of opinion” that such •s the case. Os course, he says he has arri ved at this view “ upon a carefii considers tion;” but upon the same kind of considera tion he would, no doubt, lie “now of the opinion.” did the interest* of Radicalism require it, that every white man in Virginia should marry a wench. One fact smashes Mr. Hoar's opinion. If the election of Sen ators be to admit a State, why is Georgia now half in and half out She elected Sen ators, but, as it happens, they are of Con servative tendencies, they are refused admis sion. Mr. Hoar’s opinion means—elect Ra dical Senators who will keep Virginia down, and we will admit them. — xV. I', World, STATE NEWS Atlanta. The Intelligencer contains the following items: The Masonic Hall property, on Marietta street, was sold yesterday for $21,000. The number of contributing members of the order of Odd Fellows in Georgia is 1500. The old Whitehall House property brought $2,700 on yesterday. By the gold panic in New York our citizens lost some $30,000 in gold. On Sunday afternoon, Mrs. Barton met with quite a serious accident. A servant accidentally upset a large and heavy safe, which fell upon Mrs. 8., indicting severe: injuries. Tlie New Era says it was rumored on the streets Tuesday that Col. Hidbert would soon retire from the Superintendeuey of the State Read, to acc-ejit a position on another road. The Constitution learns that the hands along the line of the Georgia Railroad are might fail across the track and endanger tho l: .< r gers. The New Era is informed that Joseph E. Brow,n ex-Governor, etc., while con structing a dam, or a fish trap, on his farm in Gordon county, a few days since, discovered that the whole bluff along the bank of the Coosawattee river, near the trap, is a mass of the finest quality of roofing slate. The quarry is six to seven hundred yards wide, and from a half to three quarters of a mile long, nearly in the center of his tract of laud, and probably extends down ward indefi nitely. It contains millions of tons of slate. The solid bluff of slate on the east bank of the river is in some places twenty-five feet high above the water. The location is a most fortunate one, as it is only seven miles down the river from the quarry to Resaea, on the \\. &A. Railroad, and the river is navigable for small boats, which obviates all difficulty about transportation. The Constitution nominates General George T. Anderson—old Tiger, as he was known iu the army—for Mayor of that city. The peo ple of Atlanta could not fiud a more worthy or competent man for the position. The uaiqe paper reports that there is a large quantity of lumber being brought into the city, by rail and wagon, at present, and sold readily on the spot. The amount of building now going on requires a large sup ply of lumber. Also that uu Monday even ing Treasurer Augier refused to pay an Ex ecutive warrant drawn iu favor of Gen. L. J. Gartrell for $250, for services rendered in the quo warranto case of Butt \a. Spencer. Also, that Northern capitalists propose to invest $100,600 in a cotton factory there, provided another SIOO,OOO cun be raised iu the city. Tlie Era learns from an intelligent physi cian that there are some cases of small pox in the city. While there is no need of alarm on tiie part of anybody, still it is ad visable that tin l people be on their guard and not run unnecessarily into danger. Augusta. The Chronicle and Sentinel is 1 JciiSed to state that the Savannah river is now in boat ing order, the recent rains having caused a rise of three or four feet of water iu the last two days. At five o’clock Monday afternoon the river marked six feet at the bridge, and was still oil the riso, The same paper states that tho people of Elbert seem determined to secure railroad communication with Augusta and the sea board. We learn from the Gazette that over one hundred thousand dollars have been subscribed in that county aloue to the Au gusta and Hartwell Road, and that, if ne cessary, that amount will be doubled in a short time. In case the latter road shall fail of con struction, then Elbert countv will undertake to construct a line „f»m.*AVtolujiirtouto; Savannah. The total number in attendance or who have reported for the next term at the 1 schools in Savannah is 2,285. Notwithstand jing the large number now in attendance upon the jiublic schools there are one huu : tired and twenty applications lor admittance \ to the primary and intermediate departments ! which must be refused for want of acoommo i dations. The News notices extensive wharf improve ments which are being carried on extensive ly, for the more perfect availability of the, | dock accommodations to the commercial in terests of the city, and says: With but a; short gap extending from Exchange Dock to : the same wharf, there will be a continuous line of sheds from the Augusta Steamers’ wharf, next to the Lower Rice Mill, to the Market Dock, affording ample jirotoction to freights during the wet season. The Republican has heard a good story of five young gentlemen, each one of whom i lives upon a salary, who determined to try tlieir luck at playing tlje game called Keno. | Each one put in the sum of twenty dollars, the proceeds of the venture to be equally I divided between them. They thought that 1 while one or more of the party might be 1 unlucky, someone or more of them might have good luck, so each was to play appa rently ou his own liook, but the money was to be supplied from the common fund." The result was, that after playing several hours they found their entire capital safely deposited in the “Keno Bank.” The Collector of Customs for the port of Savannah, has been authorized by the Sec retary of the Treasury to accept from, im porters who have to pay duties, at his office, a certificate qf deposit, issued by the United States Assistant Treasurer at New YorkCitv, certifying that lie lias deposited to the cred it of the Treasurer of the United States a given amount in gold coin on account of duties on imports. This arrangement is made to enable merchants to avoid the risk, expense and delay in transporting coin, and will prove an economical as well as conven ient system for such persons as choose to avail themselves of the privilege offered. \\ ork lias been commenced on the bridge intended to span the Savannah river for tlie track of the Savannah and Charleston rail road. It is thought that six weeks will be re quired to complete the work. The work of laying the rails from the three mile post on the Central Railroad to the bridge will be commenced on Tuesday, the iron for tiiat purpose having already arrived from New York. It will therefore be seen that the work is being rapidly jnished forward at both ends of the fine, and there is now every rea son to believe that the assurances given in tlie summer, mat me load would be iu run ning order by the first of December wifi be realized. An interesting meeting of the colored Conservative citizens of Savannah was held ; on Monday afternoon. The reports of the Mayor shows the total amount of the funded debt of the city to be $2,051,880 00. The mortuary report shows a decrease in the number of deatns for the year from those of 1868 to be 208, the greatest number of deaths having occurred in October and the smallest in February. The total number oi deaths in the city from October Ist, 1808. to September 30, 1569, was 016, jirobably about one in 50 of the inhabitants, which is far less than the usual average of cities, and shows it to be remarkably Uealthy. The income from all sources for the year ending October I, iB6O, was $749,794 99, and tue total of disbursements $745,084 50, leaving a balance in the City Treasury Oc tober 1, 1369, of 84,710 40. The entire cost of keeping up our effective police force was $101,138 12 —which includes keeping of seven horses, blankets, revolvers and equip ments purchased, gu-s and repairs ut the Bar racks; for city lamps and gas, $19,648 23; for Fire Department, $10,374 <H; for inter est on the city debt, $154,182 58; for Public Schools. $10,000; Savannah river improve ments, $20,258 21. Tliennmberof interments during the week ending October 4th. were only eighteen, be ing eight less than during the corresponding week of 1868. I lie News reports the arrival of the schoon er Cur.dine Hall from Richmond, Virginia, with a cargo of railroad material, destined for the Macon and Brunswick, the South Georgia and I’iori<la and Southwestern rail road companies. The material, which con sists of railroad chairs and spikes, is from the Tredegar Iron Works oi Richmond, Vir ginia. The hotel waiters of Savannah have been running a foot race. Entries were made by the three principal hotels—the Pulaski House being tlie winner. (The hotel waiters in Macon are too busy to run foot races.] Colombas. The Enquirer says the report of the city sexton shows a fearful mortality among colored children for the last quarter. While the city has enjoyed in a remarkable degree the blessings of health and exemption from disease, there have been 50 interments of colored children during the past three months—a number nearly equalling all other classes of the community combined. With this ratio of mortality among the little ones, it will not take the race long to become extinct. It shows a degree of carelessness and neglect among the colored race truly appalling. Such a thing before freedom would never have been heard of. Potatoes are plentiful iu the Columbns market, and the Enquirer judges by tlieir size that the crop was not so seriously injur ed by the drouth as was feared. Tlie price keeps up, however, remarkably well, as holders persistently demand $1.60 per bushel. Tlie Sun inquires: Where can you find a city of at least 14,000 inhabitants, where, during the three generally considered hot test mouths of the year, burials of whites have been only 22 and blacks 53, and over half of them children? In Columbus six first-class * v ■“*« seoond-elass retail liquor licenses have lieen Granted by tlie City Council. Barnes* il It*. Tlie Gazette is pleased to learn that plan ters are resolved on holding their cotton. Very few bales have lieen received during the past week, as a number of fanners sold only a few to meet their immediate necessi ties, and that 1 icing done, they intend hold ing for higher prices. Last Saturday a negro, in the employ of Mr. Crawley, arrested upon the charge of stealing cotton from his employer, was con victed and fined twenty dollars. On Mon day evening lie was sent to town with a bale of cotton on an ox cart. His employer; shortly ufter started in his liuggv to disjiose of the cotton on its arrival, lmt neither, negro, cart nor cotton lias lieen heard from since, BrilQMWick. The oditorof the Seaport Appeal, complains of the scarcity of sweet potatoes, and the high price of firewood. On Monday night, tlie 27th nit-., as Mr. G. C. Falun was returning home from liis store, between 9 and 10 o’clock, ho was brutally assailed by three negro ruffians and robbed. Mr. F. having lost a leg in the late war, and going on crutches, was able to make but lit tle resistance. The ruffians have not been discovered. A Ibany. j Colonel C. W, Styles, Secretary of tlie Dougherty Farmers’ Club, gives notice that the Club will attend tlie State Fair, and will damp on the Grounds. Members of the Club will organize messes, and each mess will manage its own domestic ufihirs, and pro vide its own “ways and means.” ror* yin. The Advertiser says the receipts of cotton in that market have fallen off considerably. Farmers seem to be holding off for higher figures—-a policy which is sure to benefit them in a pecuniary way. We advise them to hold it as long us prices arc below 30c. There have been received at Forsyth, sinoe , the I3th of August, 912 hales. A correspondent of the Advertiser writing from Russellville, Monroe county, says: In i this vicinity, by the 20th of October, the ; crop, with the exception of here and there a remnant, will lie housed; aud we mav sum up about as follows: half a crop of cotton and three fourths of a crop of corn; field peas, potatoes and late garden vegetables almost an entire failure; turnips now being sown for the second, and in some cases, the third time, Eatonton. The Press and Messenger hears from till sides of persons coming to the Fair, to he held in Eatontou on the 2d of November. The occasion promises to be one of unusual interest, aud will be the means of bringing together a large number of the citizens ol . . ..Tlie Becreiajf^jmopiys.tlA l : quiry is being made daily by persons wishing ; to exhibit articles. Many want to go to I Eaton ton first, and if they stand the test of fair criticism, will then place their articles j |on exhibition at Macon. Several distin | guishod gentlemen from abroad are expected to lie present, and the Directors of the State Fair, with their worthy Secretary, are to be: prominent among them. This is just as it should be, and theeditor trusts that citizens! will make the amplest provision in advance l for tlieir entertainmeut during their stay in Eatontou. tiainmiilff. The Air Line. Eagle says: Our town is looking up, and will soon begin to change! her old weather-beaten and war-worn gar ments and don the more agreeable and ele gant drapery of progress. Property is weekly changing hands, and men of enterprise and capital are arranging to live and do business 1 here. The mountain towns and the low country are giving up their best citizens to us, and as soon as the road is completed we will take position among the foremost. The same paper reports a light frost. The editor of the Eagle urges farmers to turn under their grass and weeds before frost, and save from two to fifteen wagon loads of manure per acre, which will double their crop. “If you will subsoil your ground only a foot deeper than it is turned , vour wheat anil oats u-ill not freeze nut. in the North and West since they have adopted the rotation of crops and subsoiling, no such thing as freezing out is known, for the water , will sink deep into the earth if broken, and it matters not how much rain falls through the fall and winter, the roots of the grain will be above the saturated earth, and will not freeze out. Try it at once and save the! manure that nature gives you, and which costs you nothing; also save your wheat and oats.” Ssndrwllle. The Georgian says the kitchen and ser vants’ room of Captain John G. Collins was destroyed by fire on Tuesday night of Inst week. On Wednesday evening last, at the in stance of the town authorities, the citizens of Sandersville held a meeting at the Court House, to devise uvaus fur the better pro tection of the town against incendiaries. After some discussion, resolutions wore pass ed authorizing the assessment of an ad rnlo rum tax upon improved property and mer chandise sufficient to defray the expense of a night police, aud also instructing the Council to purchase a hook, ladders, buck ets, etc., to be used in case of fire. Four negroes confined ill jail at Sandcrs vill, overpowered the Jailor on Thursday last aud escaped. Two of them were re captured in a short time, and the others are still at large. The (/r.orgirm in informed tlmt tbirinft the month of September, ajxty-one infra hors were added to the t-hristian (Camj*beUHe) j church in Worthington county. Bahlonega. The Signal reports that the frosts in its region, last week, were severe enough to kill tender vegetation. A then*. The Tl ahdnnan says the railroad meeting, : : (improperly called a convention j held in this place Saturday last, was not what we wished! to see. There was but one county outside! of Clarke represented—we mean Jackson. Our Augusta friends sent a highly respecta ble delegation, and the Georgia Railroad was represented by its able President and a number of directors. The same paper is pleased to learn that George W. Williams, of Charleston, has pur chased one mile square of territory in Na eooehce, and ls preparing to build a summer residence on it, and introduce grapes and fruits, grasses, flocks and herds and general improvement in up-country farming. Greensboro. The Augusta papers report that the Pres byterian Church, at Greensboro, had been destroyed by tire. Moderation. A correspondent of the Savannah Republican pays his respects to that class of our journalists who are constant ly crying “ moderation” in the following just and expressive language : You sometimes hear a little pig of a news paper squeal out “moderation, conservatism;” you may put down as morally certain that the pig is dying to get his nose in the pap trap—and he generally succeeds. —During the recent gold panic, a frugal office clerk iu a New York bank drew all his savings, amounting to some HtjiUt. riel specu lated in the street. Fortune smiles! on him. and by Friday morning he had made $15,000 profit." His employers, surprised at his luck, advised him to invest that amount with them, and they would “make a hundred thou sand for him.” He very naively replied : i “Charley has made fifteen cool; Charlev will stop 1” Charley that night was worth fifteen thousand dollars—Charley’* employers not fiftoea cents, Macon and Augusta Railroad Company. The StockhokL x of the Macon and Augusta Railroad Company assembled at the City Hall, Augusta, Monday October 5, pur suant to the charter and by-laws. From the report of proceedings in tho Chronicle it Sentinel, we make the following extracts : Engineer’s I)ep’t, October 4, 1869. To the President and Directors of the Macon , and Augusta Railroad Company : Gentlemen —The free discussion of the reports made at the late called Convention in May last, is so fresh ii- the memory of Stockholders as to make it unnecessary to dwell at length upon matters connected with my department. The contract recommended by that Con vention was perfected soon after adjourn ment with Messrs. George G. Hull .V Cos., and the work has lieen entered upon with vigor and dispatch. One Thousand Hands an 1 now engaged on the grading, masonry, bridging and timber 'eH.'ufgu' Vu VVue *1 liohsiViul'tohs of Iron Hails were ordensl immediately, and is now »n its way from Europe, and may lie expect ed to reach the port of Charleston at an early day. So soon as this cargo arrives the track-laving will at once be commenced at Milledgevifie, and pushed upon the eight miles of graded road-bed south of that Jioint. Active measures are being taken to com plete the (lemulgee River bridge at Macon at the earliest day, with the purpose of start ing track laying 'at that end of the' line. I nder the arrangements made, it uppeors reasonable to supjaise the contracts for com pletion will lie fulfilled in advance of the time stipulated. The character of the work is generally heavy, the country being rugged and broken, involving deep cuts and high embankments. The amount which has been expended on the grading since the commencement of the contract is some $75,000. It is gratifying to report the condition of the running portion of the road between Warrenton and Mifiedgeville to be excellent. Heavy repairs have been made during the summer on trestleworks, new timbers having been substituted for all showing the least decay. The Oconee bridge has been covered, tinned and painted. Altogether, the load may lie considered in first-rate condition. The statement of the earnings as present ed by the Georgia Railroad, now operating tlie finished portion, from April Ist, 1868. for twelve months show— Reoi'lpts for gross earnings of 245. 12;: ,v> The expenses for the same time were' Ordinary »39,8tw 85 Extraordinary (new debts) 7,41s e.j Total expense #47 ays Excess of ull expenses over earnings 1 » $2,158 95 ; But this statement does notiuc'udotlie in terest on the company's Ist mortnges Ia mils amounting to S2S,(NKI per annum or seven per , I eent. on tlie loan of $400,000, nor officers' sal jaries, nor contingencies. It will, therefore, be ; seen that there has been a deficit of $3,000 per ( month or $36,000 per annum incurred by the year's operations. It was this showing that | made it apparent that something should lie done, uud that quickly, to save the road from ruin, and the stockholders from tlie loss of i every dollar of their investment. The ex tension of the line to Macon was the sole alternative, and this fortunately has lieen se cured by the contract with Messrs. George G. Hull A Cos. I feel tho utmost confidence that, upon completion of the road to its destination, we shall not only lie able to meet the inter est oil the funded debt of the company, but also pay a small dividend to stockholders. With the natural increase of business and a | return of prosperity to tho tine farming I country traversed liy the road, we may rest assured that dividends will constantly in crease with tli. ogress of the coming time. . -.Altiiitjjmu m Augusta amt• as tfig slunt wo shall derive by the transit of passengers and through mail anil express business, L be lieve that the legitimate business between the two cities of Augusta and Macon, and the local traffic on our line will enable us to meet expenses and the interest on tiie liond ed debt of tlm company. Respectfully submitted. Geo. H. Hxzlehtkst, Chief Engineer. ' Condensed Statement of the Condition of the Micon and Augusta Railroad Ooto/ser 4, ! 1869. ASSBTS. Construction of Uoml $1,479 003 H al Estate 16,528 90 iJaldwin County Bonds 21,000 00 I’rofit and Loss 90,771 95 Interest oil Hand, 14,315 00 Interest 5,355 3S Incidental Expenses and Haleries 2,155 49 Due from other Corporation* and agent* 15,007 Taxes 30 iK) Bills Receivable 390 SM Cash 4,110 55 Total $1,054,070 57 LIABILITIES. Capita) Stock paid in $1,078,878 61 Bonds of tlie Company, Ist mortgage. 400 000 00 Bill* Payable ll.irß 87 Due to other Corporations and agents 4,:;74 07 Forfeited Stock 5,010 Oil U. 8. Tax on Coupons 5 22 I. on Iron Kails seized bv the (C. 8.) 154,733 99 Total $1,664,070 55 , Tho following gentlemen were electe Directors of tlie Company to serve forth ensuing year : If. E. Russell, AY E. .Tael, son, John I*. King, H. Moore, \V. J. McGrath, ii. J. Lane, B. it. deGraffen reid, Geo. S. Olieur, G. H. Hazlehurst, W. 11. Ross, J. T. Gardiner, S. I>. Heard. At a subsequent meeting of the Board of Directors, Geo. H. Hs/.lehurst, Esq., of Mnooii, was elected President. A. T. Stewart on tlie 1.01. l Panic. WHAT HE S.xrD TO THE REPORTER OF THE NEW YORK WORLD. “I have lieen instructed to ask your ojiin ion on the present important crisis in finan cial circles. The public wish to know what effect you think the recent operations in Wall street will have ou the commercial interests of the country. “I cannot regard them as otherwise than ilixat trous to our commercial ln'ereets. In the lint place, they interfere with and confuse our values !by rendering uncertain the price of gold. Hut to thin there is added another reason, hi tlie demoral izing effect which it must produce. “What, in your opinion, has been the effect of the policy by which during the iastaix months, hut especially during the recent crisis, the sale of | bonds to purchase gold has been dictated y” “t disapprove of tin policy of sailing gold and purchasing bonds With the proceeds, believing as I do that it will nsx'-r lead us, ns ,t u pron.i.o inaant to lead us. to specie payment. Such a policy would not lead ua to such a result in ten years—no, nor in a hundred. '1 he purchase of bonds with gold gives tbs -jM-culntors means to carry ori their ope rations. This policy i» uuuuc.stionab.y of |TMt benefit to those who have uo means of their own While solvent rnrn will entirely oppose tins policy, it will he approval by those who are shaky.” These are Mr. .Stewart’s own words. Taken | down from him and written out in his presence, they were read to Lira, rewritten out and revised, and in a phrase or two toned down. Substantially as well as literally they an- his words. The positive tone in which Mr. Stewart expressed his opinion and on which his mind seemed entirely made up admitted of no dispute and no question The Cotton Sli-ply. —The Detroit Free Press says : To those who think that Egypt or India can raise cotton as cheaply as the Southern Stutes, we need only produce the following extract from a n]>eoeh delivered by Mr. Bramiey Moore, Chairman of the Liverpool Docks and Harlior Board, who made a vi it U> Egypt to examine the Suez Canal. Mr. Moore said : “In my journey from Alexandria, I was offered at Zagazig the chance of purchasing for 41700 one of the cotton pressing mill established there by English enterprise du ring the American war. the machinery and ’ mills of which had cost the sum of £13,000. AYheu cotton was fifty cents a pound in . Liverpool, it would pay to put up such ex pensive machinery iu Egypt; hilt w hen it fell to its present price, it w ■ s evident from ; the above statement of Mr. Bramiey M« n • tiiat all such machinery was worth!'---, be cause it was impossible to rai» cotton in ' Egvpt to compete with that raised in tin United States. In fact, the Lnited State can undersell any part of tlia world in rais- mg cotton. _ *, , Foboot Heh Name. —A colored individual of our acquaintance- came to us iu great per l plexity the other day to ask if we could re i member her title, ft seems Mrs. Dinah was expecting a letter, but could not enauire for it at the Postoffice, liecause she had forgot ten her own name. At last accounts she ra still nncertain whether she was Mrs ;Bmith or Mrs. Walton, and was making anxious enquires among her former employ ' am.— Wathmyton ((in. I (raieOt, VOL. LXI. NO. 28 i Man in Genesis anil iu Geology, The Biblical Account if Man's Creation, Tested by Scientific Theories of his Origin and An tiquity.—Bo Joseph P Thompson, L). D., TT- D- Aew I ork: 11 cus, 389 Broadway. 1870. From the Irish Citizen. It seems that tho old controversy supposed .to exist between the Bible and human sci ence is not over yet. There are still, appa rently. men with minds so constituted as to imagine that Moses designed to give in the book of Genesis a complete system ol geol ogy; and that the time ol each eosmieal change, development or transition, was by Moses accurately calculated upon tlie chron ology of Dr. Ussher, Archbishop of Armagh. The present little work is u well meaning at tempt, if not to reconcile tlie Bibhcals and the Scientists, ut least to conclude a truco between them; for some tills author assures us) do hold "that uo fact declared by science can lie accepted as true, if it conflicts with '* 4,1 -UO-tr” -ii, tixer under stand the Bilile;andou the other hand, it aji pears that in the minds of other learned per sons “the Bible is constantly on trial, in riv sjiecf of its trutli and divine authority; and thut in any casoof upparent conflict, the facts of science must take precedence of thedeelar utions of tlie Bible.” Thus, as the author in timates, tlie cry ol' infidelity is raised against men of science; and by these men of science the Bible is set aside us a book of crude and 1 antiquated traditions. M e lnid really thought thut this imaginary antagonism was at an end—ended by tlie I very sinqilo supposition tiiat Moses, iu liu ('osmogony, when lie said "day” did not , mean twenty-four hours of sixty minutes. In fact, he must have meant u JH l'iod. say'of ; ten thousand years, or centuries: leaving luujile margin even for tlie flint arrowheads of the “drift,” those wonderful relies, which Lyell says, require a good many thousand years of past time, more than the six thous and of the Archbishop of Armagh, to account * or -. Nothing said in Genesis debars 11s from taking as many thousands of centuries us wo want; and Moses knew nothing of tlie Arch bishop. There is time enough behind us; and one need not grudge it. As to the tnno that is before us, indeed, we must look sharp a little closer; but this is not tiie jireseut. question. “Philosophers” of tlie lluxiev and Herbert Sjieneer school (who run poor Darwin ad absuri/um) always ask for time, ion are forever hampering us, they sav, witli your Bilile chronology; only' give us h/iii -and we will evolve you a w hole world, with vegetable and animal life and human intelligence, conscience and aspiration, ail out of one little solitary sac; one little origi nal cell, nr one Lit of a trilling protoplasm, which lias in it all these mighty potentialities only needing evolution. Thus", they imagine, that they get rid of the necessity of a divilio Creator. Well, we give them time, say a t housand millions of centuries; and they next ask - now allow us our one little sac; ii niero trifle—pure matter of form. No. Not a sue, not. a cell, not the smallest shred of protoplasm. lou must find that for yourselves. And a .rale sac it must be; holding in its yet une ven ed germs all the generations of the for ests and the flowers; aU the genera and species of beasts of the field and birds of the an, cow's, toads and canary-birds; the ich neumon, not to speak ol all the vviggletails. It must also contain within it (this sue of heaven) the whole course of human history, and tho people of every land, with all their passions, tears, prayers. Ah! ro: we will give you all the time you ask—it costs us no lung; hut to allow you such a sac of sacs would cost us our senses. It i-. Mr. Herbert Spencer who has most earnestly pleaded for tins method of getting *'' * of a “personal God.” He admits, in deed, and even requires, a Force to make his sac and to work his sac ; out it must be a blind ami senseless force, seeing nothing, designing nothing, knowing nothing—no more than tho forco of running water. Any thing for Soenccr, exemit » God : m IV .ug -M.et thoughts ol Mi eers heart I Perhaps if there be no such Being it is tho better lor Mr. Silencer. No wonder this sort of philosopher disdains Moses ; for Moses speaks of a God who said Let there be light!” But, after all, tho I wildest rage of tlie Spencers, Darwins and Huxleys is aroused by tiiat other act o*' Genesis—“ Let us make Man iu our image !" Their theory requires that Man should have been developed from a baboon, a baboon from a ring-tailed monkey, a ring-tailed monkey from a weasel, a weasel from a par tridge, a partridge from a mackerel, a mack erel 1 10 m u lizard, 11 lizard from a tadpole ; so at last rising up to tlie pangenetie sac. I hese speculations, however, are not science ; they are its opposite. l l the well meaning Dr. Thompson intends to include tlie Huxleys amt Spenc<Ts iu his charitable effort for mutual forbearance; if lie speaks in tlieir interest when lie begs of theologians not to raise the uncharitable cry of “infidelity,” he will not lie thanked; they do not wish to lie charged with anything else than infidelity, and at this charge tlicv Imw to tiie compliment, owning the soft impeach ment. In fact, it is doubtful if any good can come ol these kind mediations between file Bible on tiie one hand, and its avowed contemners on the other. This anxious Dr. Thompson has a respect for revealed religion and a respect for scientific fact; hopes tim idly that two such admirable parties should become friends, and even suggests a theory which, “though ojieii to serious objections, serves to show one possible way 111 which the Bible and science may yet be harmon ized upon the question of the antiquity of man and the uuity of the race,” p. JO7. It is sad to see the worthy man so troubled about tins matter. There is no antagonism whatsoever between the Bible on the one hand, and any or all “factsof science” on the other. But we sujijiose Spencer’s Biology has nothing to do with the facts of science. Tin- English Cotton Difficulty. 1 he British press continues to be much ex ercised about the cotton supply and the com parative decline of its cotton manufactures. Ihe war in this country played havoc with the manufacturers and cotton interests of England, and for some time the press at tributed all the evil suffered to the supply lining cut oft. To remedy this cotton culti vation was stimulated at great cost in India, Egypt and elsewhere. Still a sufficient remedy was not found. Now the British lm gin to discover that there are other causes tor the decline of their manufactures. One journal says: “ft is useless to cry for more and cheaper cotton, the evil arising only from the loss of the monojioly.” In other words, the manufacturers of America, I ranee and other countries are competitors w ith those of England, both for the raw ma terial to work up, and for the trade in nianu lactured artichwa . .* t ami net i Lira ” it is ad mitted ny this British organ, 'diminish our share of the manufacture.” After all, then, England is opening her eyes to the fact that the monopoly of cotton manufactures is passing from her, and that there are other causes at work besides the ■short supply of the raw material for her la mentations. It will not be long before this country will become a formidable rival of England in m.ino.octsnug. We have th cotum on tue Aj«it, and in tie .South where it is grown—yes, Oy the side of the planta t c.ieap lootl tor the work people, a genial climate, and over advantages which cannot is- found elsewhere. Cotton manufacturing h been tried “ ■’ ” hm with more ialioi there it can b i v-lopod to an almost unlimited extent, ihis country has been tin- I/est customer lor English cot ton manufacturers ; but the time is coming when we shall not only **; independent of England but shall lie a great rival in foreign market as well Ihe best advice we can give the British is to transfer their capital to the Lnited fjtates and to s.-nd all their sur plus population with it, for there is room enough tor lioth tlieir enterprise and people, anil this is destined to lie the greatest man ufactuimg as well an agricultural country in tiie world.—A'. Y. Herald. AVhat is a Luxury?—lt may interest farmers, says the Reform League, to know that, ii| on “all the halter, trace and plow chains u.vd by them they have been taxed 67 )>er cent. They are great luxuries. ■■ Planters ought to know what extravagant people they are; ail the varnish gums used ox them are taxed HO per cent. “ But silvered plate glass, in common nwi for minors, and as we ail know, used by every laborer for the mirror over his mantel, when not above 24 by 30 inches, is taxed only 33 per cent. “Plow chains and varnish you are not permitted, but you may have cheap plato glass.” Josh Brunos says: “I don’tbeleaf in laul luck being sot for a man like a trap, lrat I have known lots of folks who, if the.e was any first-rate bad luck lying around loose, would b# sure tew git one foot into it *ny» how.”