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THE GEORGIA WEEKLY TELEGRAPH.
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fg* Tammany Hal],New York, is about to
be sold at auction, tlic Sachems wishing more
romy apartments and an up town location,
Depreciation of Property.—The Comp
trollef General of the State reports that the
property returned for taxation, advalorcm,
about one hundred and sixty millions of dol
lars less than that retained in 18C0, exclusive
of slaves.
The New French Minister.—The Atlan
tic cable was again nt fault in announcing
the Marquis de Montholon as the new Minis
ter of Foreign Affairs for France. M. do Mous-
ticn turns out to be the fortunate individual
a gentleman said to possess the highest order
of talents, and a thorough acquaintance with
Eastern affairs, which, just now, arc again
getting into a tangled condition.
A Disappointment.—By some means that
have baffled nil enquiry, probably theft, about
three hundred copies of yesterday’s paper,
after coming Irom the press, mysteriously
disappeared from the office. The core-
sequence was, we were compelled to disap
point nearly that number of our subscribers.
We regret it, but tlic failure cannot be helped.
We shall keep a sharp lookout for the future.
“Thf. Constitution as it isn’t.”—Jack
Hamilton, spouter-in-chief of the Torcli-and-
Turpentine horde, said, in one of the ha
rangues he hns made in the present roving pil
grimage, that, instead of the Union as it was
and the Constitution as it is, the Radicals
mean to have “the Union as it wasn’t and the
Constitution as it isn’t." That the Radicals
are engaged in a crusade against the Con
stitution is too evident, and we applaud the
frankness of this avowal.
IIenhy J. Raymond.—New'York, Sept. 20,
—The Times ef this morning editorially says,
if the World hns labored under the delusion
that Mr. Raymond was pledged by the action
of the Albany Convention in any case, we
congratulate it in having discovered its mis
take.
We agree'with the Times that the World
made a great and very foolish mistake in sup
posing that Mr. Raymond would consider
himself pledged by any of the obligations re-
cognised nmong statesmen or gentlemen.
Grkki.y after Bennett.—Greeley does
not give Bennett a very warm greeting as “a
man and a brother,” on his appearance as a
Radical. He says:
“There is reason to fear tl-.at the editor of
the Herald will presently announce his adhes
ion to the Republican party. ‘And at last
Satau came also.’ ”
Here is another solid shot from the same
“son of a gun:”
“Might and Main” are very powerful, but
Maine and money are still more so. For
proof, title New York Herald. l
Tiih Child’s Delight, for October, has
been laid on our desk by the editor. It evin
ces much care, and talent for catering for the
instruction and amusement of the children.
The interest of the publication is well kept
up from month to month, and tho editor
seems determined to make it worthy of a
place in every family. It is a cheap publica
tion—very cheap when taken by clubs—and
all who feel an interest Ik giving a proper
moral tone to the rising generation, should
make an effort to circulate ; .t in their neigh
borhoods. Wc are ghul that it has already
attained a popularity that plac es it on n solid
foundation.
THE TROSPECT AT THE NORTH.
We have no faith in important present re
sults from the recently formed conservative
organization in the Northern States. The
seed of future good may have been planted,
but it will take time for them to germinate,
spring up, and bear the desired fruit. The
public mind at the North is not yet in a
frame for decided and patriotic action upon
the great questions before it. There is not
that lively awakening to the dangers that
encompass the country, that abnegation of
self, that single-hea:.*ted devotion to the public
good, that are required to constitute a pure
and undefiled'party of the country. Passion,
prejudice, party, pelf, still rule the hour and
control most of the movements of society in
that section of the Union. There is a hatred
and jealousy of old political antagonists, and
longing after the “ flesh-pots of Egypt,”
that seriously retard, if they shall not wholly
defeat, the grand procession for the promised
land of peace, qniet, good government, and
brotherly love among the people. Time
alone can care these evils, and perhaps even
that may fail, and Heaven, in the demoral
ization of that people, deliver them over to
anarchy,, and the whole nation to ruin.
In proof that the perils that beset us arc
not fully appreciated, or that, realized, they
are madly disregarded by a people de
mented and resolved on destruction, wc have
only to look to events that have transpired
since the adjournment of the Philadelphia
Convention; arc! even that body, of which
so much that is good can be said, were guilty
of acts of prejudice and folly that were whol
ly inexcusable. In the present crisis our fate,
when theacause of liberty in the Western
World is suspended, as it were, by a hair, to
reject the aid of anybody who is willing to
save it, appears to us the very consummation
of madness and folly. It is no time for tri
fling or the indulgence of unholy passion,
and the open rejection of the counsel and aid
of the men who opposed the late war and
the usurpations of the government while it
lasted, was either a crime or an act of unmit
igated foolery. The country needs all the
help it can get in this war of extermination
new waged against it, and the idea of stop
ping to inquire into the political antecedents
annoying to the planter and to the merchant
That this remedy will be resorted to is very
probable, for it is quite within the power of
tlic Secretary of the Treasury to adopt it
If the cotton crop should amount to two
millions of bales, of four hundred and fifty
pounds each, the tax payable to the Govern
rnent will be twenty-seven millions of dollars.
the
of
Here’s Our Hand, Brother.—Mr. For
sytb, editor of the Mobile Advertiser, writing
to his paper from New York, says: “The
Herald says ir is a fixed fact that the North
will insist on the Congressional plan of re
construction over that of the President—
That means that wc of the South arc to sell
Leo and Johnston and our best and truest
citizens to disfranchisement, as the price of
tho recognition of our chums. We can nev
er bo so base as that. Mi/ hand thall wither
before catting any vote in that direction. If
the worst comes to the worst, we can at least
reject re-union at tlic cost of honor and de
cline to elect or send Southern Representa
tives to Congress. If the Radicals insist on
disunion, let them have it in this way.”
With all our heart, we say Amen !
ARTIFICIAL LIMBS FOR MAIMED SOLDIERS.
Tho parties interested are referred to the
order from the Governor, to be found in our
columns this morning. It is important that
there bo no delay among our maimed
soldiers in taking the preliminary steps for
securing this bounty of the State. That each
may know exactly what is required ot him
in order to avail himself of the privilege of
the Act of the Legislature, we copy the 2d
and 4th sections, as follows :
Sec. ,2. Be it further enacted. That when
ever any maimed, indigent soldier or officer,
who has become so maimed in tbe service of
the State, or in the service of the Confederate
States, while a member of any Georgia mili
tary organization, it shall lie lawful lor .such
soldier, or officer, to apply to the Ordinay of
the County where ho resides, for an order to
obtain sucli artificial limb, or part thereof, as
his maimed condition may render necessary;
which he shall be entitled to rcceivo on com
plying with the conditions of this act
Sec. 4. Be it further enacted, That cvoiy
such application dial! contain a personal de
scription of the applicant, designating his
age, color of his hair and eyes, liis height,
and auy other distinguishing mark calculated
to insure his Identity, also the company and
regiment to which he belonged, the place and
time of receiving his wound, and his present
business or employment; which statement
shall be swum to by the applicant, and the
facts verified by some citizen of tbe county
known to the ordinary; all of which shall lie
kept by the ordinary as an office paper, and
a copy ot the same transmitted to the Comp
troller General, accompanied with the certifi
cate of the ordinary, that he believes the state-*
incuts to be entitled to credit; which appli
cation and certificate shall be filed in the of
fice of tho Comptroller General.
The Act further provides that upon receipt
of the soldier’s application and Ordinary's
certificate, the Comptroller shall send to the
Ordinary an order upon the manufacturer at
Macon, which shall be transferred by the Or
dinary to the applicant, and upon pretenta-
tion of the same at the manufactory, the limb
shall be delivered, and the party must sign a
receipt for the same, stating that it suits his
condition and is satisfactory, which is neces
sary in order to enable the manufacturer to
draw liis pay from the Treasury.
Its Effect.—The Cincinnati Union says
The neglect of official respect to the Presi
dent by the Philadelphia officials is having
its natural effect. Among others Samuel R.
Blender, President or the Second Ward Re-
S ublicun Club of . i.iladeiphia, has resigned
is office ami joined a Johnson club, in dis
gust at the inti rnnci and ill temper ot his
late associates. This fa( t wc give on the au
thority of the Pittsburg Chronicle, a moder
ate radical sheet.
of those who ore about to throw themselves
into the breech, is the very climax of folly.
Nor docs the objection arise from any doubt
of tbe sincerity and good faith in tbe rejected.
The Republicans and War Democrats know
that they are os true to the Constitution as
themselves. The great trouble is, these “Cop
perheads,” as they are called by way of re
proach, are men of genius, ability and
power, and in case of a union, some of
them may get into offices that are cov
eted by others. Here is the true secret of
opposition, and the very existence
such a sentiment is proof conclusive that
tho people who harbor it are either ignorant
tlic dangers of tlie country, or indifferent
tbeir result. Look at the tracks in the
sand just made by that political serpent,
nenry J. Raymond, of New York. Can any
body tell whether the creature tbat made
them was travelling North, South, East or
cst ? The animal immortalized by Hudi-
bras is put to shame by the tergiversations
this political gambler of Gotham. To
such men liono r . truth, good faith, country,
are os nothing.
But this fool-liardy trifling with an imper
illed country is net confined to the party of
which the New York camelcon is a member.
The Democrats are nearly as deep in the mud
lie is in the'mire, for in maintaining tbeir
party organization, and running candidates
exclusively on that line in Maine, Pennsyl
vania, and some of tlie Western
States, they are guilty of bad faith
to the Convention, to the President,
to the South, and to the Union. Sadi con
duct insures the triumph of our enemies, and
from all such friendships the [South should
pray to be delivered. And with us must suf
fer the vital interests of nil, and the cause
of free government throughout the continent
Such is a faint sketch of the disreputable
and unpatriotic war among the opponents of
Radicalism—a war that is foolishly sacrificing
thefr own strength, and offering up the coun
try a victim to be ground to powder beneath
the liccl of a wicked and insensate faction.
The South can look for but little relief from
her present troubles so long as those who are
to fight her battles arc thus demoralized
and demented. Powerless hereclf, she must
summon Patience to her aid, and prepare to
struggle on with oppression and wrong, until
the fires of a purer patriotism shall be lighted
on the altars of the North.
Special Paris ami Continental Cor
rcspomlcncc.
Paris, Sept 7,1866.
To the Editor of the Macon Telegraph :
Sir:
THE POLITICAL SETTLEMENT
In Europe is d ragging on, but very slowly, so
that since I last wrote you events of little im
portancc have taken place. There have been
changes of ministry which have given us an
insight as to what is going on in the political
world.
THE TRANSMISSION OF VENETIA
Will soon take place, and tho Venetians will
soon be called upon to vote as to whether
they wish to be annexed to Italy or to form a
republic.
IIERR VON MENSDORFF
Will retain bis portfolio of Minister of For
eign Affaire, and Mona. Bencdetti, our Ambas
sador at Berlin, has been named Grand Cross
of the Legion of Honor,-and will be named
AMBASSADOR AT CONSTANTINOPLE,
In place of Monsieur do Moustier, at present
Representative of Franco at the Ottoman
port Monsieur Drouyn de L’huys, Minister
of Foreign Affairs, will retire, and be named
a member of the Privy Council.
MONSIEUR DE METTERNICH,
Whose departure from Paris has been so
often announced, is still in the French Capital
and represents the Emperor of Austria at tlic
Court of the Tuilerics.
There is no doubt but that the cession of
Venetia has been the means of a rapproche
ment between Paris' and Vienna, which the
arrogance and ambition,ot Prussia will draw
closer together every day. We hear that in
consequence of the good advice given to the
Emperor of Austria by tbe Cabinet of the
Tuilerics, the policy of tbat monarch to
wards Hungary is getting more and more lib
eral, and a Magyar ministry under the presi
dency of
COUNT BELCRIDI
will be formed, and tho Hungarian Diet will
meet at about the beginning df October. The
movement in England is being followed with
tbe utmost interest in France.
HARDSHIPS OF THE NEW METHOD OF
TAXING COTTON.
Serious practicable difficulties have arisen
in tlie collection of the tax on cotton. Wc
learn from the National Intelligencer that a
memorial address by tbe Southern planters
and Others to the Sccretaiy of the Treasury,
sets forth that, under the present law, plan
ters and cultivators cannot move a bale of
cotton until it posses the satraps of the Inter
nal Revenue Commissioner Department. They
cannot even send a wagon-load to market to
purchase provisions for plantation supplies
until they go, hat in band, and beg some as
sessor or tax collector to weigh their cotton
end grant a permit to .--end if to market.
These assessors or collectors cannot be
found in the planting districts. They arc in
the towns. They do not go to the cotton
plantation. The planter must send it to them
and, with much delay and expense, obtain
his certificate of the payment of tho tax, be
fore he can sell. Tbe producer lias generally
exhausted all his means, and has no money
to advance to the Government before liis crop
is marketed.
The memorialists say that the restrictions
at present imposed to moving the cotton, in
addition to the heavy tax assessed upon it,
will tend fcriously to discourage further pro
duction of that staple, and will thus act inju
riously upon the entire financial condition of
the country. If the planter cannot ship his
crop to market without being compelled to
sacrifice a large part of it to the rigors im
posed by onerous regulations, he will natural
ly turn his attention to a different system of
agriculture.
Tlie remedy proposed for the consideration
of the Treasury is to include in one collection
district all the cotton-growing regions, and
ailow the producer or factor to send his cot
ton to any shipping point in the district.—
The Government, by establishing suitable
regulations for receiving the cotton at tbe
points of delivery, for weighing it where ev
ery facility for that purpose exists, and for
bonding it until sold, or for receiving the tax
from the merchant or other holder, would se
cure a prompt payment of the tax, with less
liability to fraud, at a smaller cost to the
Government, and in a way less expensive and
THE MEETING IN BIRMINGHAM,
whicli was attended by thousands, and tbe
speeches made by Messrs. Bright and Beales
called forth loud acclamations from the bear
ers. It would appear as if the Derby Minis
try were not in a very healthy state. The
agitation in England is rather on the increase
than on the decrease. A
monster Meeting at Manchester
is announced to take place in the month ot Oc
tober.
PRUSSIA
is now setting everything in order. It is cal
culated that the war will have cost the coun
try one hundred million thalers. The con
tributions levied on those countries which
opposed Bismarck; amount to one hundred
and seventy millions, and will have to be
Iwrae by Austria, Bavaria, Wurtemberg and
Baden.
It lias not yet been settled what Saxony
and Hesse-Darmstndt will have to pay as a
war indemnity. The free city of Frankfort
has already paid seven millions of florins.
Bismarck seems to have made a pretty pen
ny by the war. The Cabinet of the Tuilerics
bas met with great disappointment, and tlic
French press is unanimous in calling out for
tlie Emperor to put a stop to tbe ambition of
Prussian Premier.
THE FRONTIERS OF THE RHINE,
and the departments which formerly belong
ed to France in 1813—it will perhaps not be
without interest to state what these provinces
were:
BELGIUM.
The two Nethes, capital, Antwerp; La
Dyle, capital Brussclls; La Lys, Bruges; The
Scheldt, Ghent; Femmapcs, Mons; L’Ourtlie,
Lcigc; Sambre and Meuse. Namur; Les
Forets, Luxembourg; The Meuse (inferior),
Maestericlit.tlic mouth of the Scheldt, Middlc-
bourg the mouth of the Rhine, capital, Bois-le
Due. 1
HOLLAND.
The mouth of the Meuse, capital, The
Hague; tho Zuydersce—Amsterdam; the
Ysscl, (upper), Amhcim; the mouth of the
Yssol—Leuwarden; Emscastem—Groningen,
means persons will be able to inform their
coachman at what part of tlie building they
wish to be taken up.
The’principal arteries of the exhibition arc
similar in breadth to theBoulevart of Sebas
topol.
The old system of tumstites is to be aban
doned, as it is calculated that thirty to forty
thousand persons will visit the exhibition
daily. It is feared that this system would be
the means of causing immense crowds of per
sons constantly choking up tlic door ways.
Tickets of admission will be obtainable at
all Tobacconists, and other shops where post
ago stamps are sold. It has ’ at last been
deceided that the entrance fee shall be one
france.
The committee bas not yet decided whetli
er it will give season tickets. Tbe relatively
high price at which it would be necessary to
sell the same ig at present a cause of licsita
tion.
Should the committee decide on emitting
season tickets, they must be strictly personal,
and it will be absolutely necessary, to prevent
fraud, to have tbe likeness of the holder pho
tographed on tbe card.
Wc hear that the show of diamonds and
other jewels will surpass anything ever ex
liibited as yet The wonders of French jew
elry will be there shown in a splendid assort
ment, fitted up in all the goigeous splendor
of Oriental style.
There was some intention of making a turn
ing floor in this apartment, by which means
the visitors would, bv a rotary movement,
have been brought successivejy before the dif
ferent jewel cases—thus saving him or her
much bodily fatigue; but the plan has been
abandoned on account of its costliness. Fly
ing bridges, leading from one part of the
building to the other, and forming short cuts,
will also very much reduce the quantity of
;ronnd to be gone over.
Ratification Meeting at Dalton Ga.
According to previous notice a large and
respectable portion of the citizens of North
Georgia, assembled at Dalton on Saturday
the 15th instant, for tbe purpose of taking
action upon tbe proceedings of the late Con
stitutional Union Convention, held in Phila
delphia on tbe 12th of August.
On motion ot Col. J. A. Glenn, Col. H. L.
Sims was chosen President of the day, and
Capt. Thomas Smith, Dr. B.B. Brown, Judge
J. H. King, Col. W. H. Tibbs, Judge F. B.
Morris and Capt. Thos. Crew, were chosen
VicePrisidents; and Col. Sara. H. Baker, F.
M. Longley and Hon. J, P. Freeman, were re
quested to act as Secretaries.
On motion of the Rev. J. M. Richardson, a
committee of five, consisting of the Rev. J. M.
Richardson, Col. C. E Broyles, Col. R. W.
Jones, Rev. H. C. Carta- and H. McHon, were
appointed to draft resolution^ expressive of
the sense of the meeting.
The committee retired and daring a por
tion of their absence the meeting was address
ed by Cols. J. A. Glen and C. E. Broyles, up-
Thc Awful Aecldent nt Niagara
Falls.
The following details of the sad acci
dent which occurred at Niagara Falls on
Wednesday last, brief allusion to which was
made a few days since, are received by mail: I
It seems that on the afternoon of Wednes-
day last Mr. Cooper, the postmaster at Chip
pewa, on the Canada side, tw9 miles above
the Falls, started with Frank Lcutze, a ferry
man, to cross the river in a small boat. Usu
ally the course is to pull about two miles up
tlic river before attempting to cross, but on
thi3 occasion the unfortULate men seem to
have imagined that the heavy wind blowin,
up the stream would counteract the force ot
the current, and consequently attempted to
cross in a direct line. When near the centre
of the stream, the folly of the hazardous feat
became apparent to the occupants ot tlic
boat, who, despite the efforts of tbe oarsmen
to stem the swift current, soon found them
selves gliding swiftly to the thundering cata
ract below. Still the terror-stricken boat
man plied bis oare with lrantic energy, while
his companion, rushing from side to side of
the boat and wildly gesticulating, piteously
appealed for assistance from shore to shore,
but which, of course, the horror-stricken ob
servers were unable to render. As the boat
drew nearer and nearer tlie mighty cataract
the velocity with which it was hurried on
became accelerated, until striking the rapids
near Goat Island, the little craft was for a
moment caught in the eddying, circling cur
rent, out of which, however, it soon shot, and
in an instant afterward rea’clied the verge of
the precipice, over which it plunged with its
human freight into the foaming abyss below.
Hundred of persons lined the shores, and
gathered upon Goat Island, mute witnesses
of the terrible ride of death. It is consider
ed very singular that Leutze, tbe boatman,
who had crossed and re-crossed a hundred
times in all kinds of weather, should so sad
ly have misjudged the force of the current,
and over-estimated, to such a degree, the
strength of the wind. Although diligent
search had been made for the bodies of the
unfortunate men, up to the latest accounts no
trace of either had been discovered.
We have often thought it singular that so
shrewd a people as tlie Yankees and English
have never resorted to tbe simple device of
stretching a strong iron rail across tbe stream
above the falls, which would effectually pre
vent such accidents.—Eds. Tel.
Overwhelming Floods at the Wcst-
Indiaimpolis under Water.
Terrific Loss of Life—Destruction of Crop.-,
Bridges. Railroads, and Houses—Hundreds of
Miles of Inhabited C-untrv Converted into
Lakes—Twenty Million Bushels Corn Destroyed
on Miami.
Cincinnati, September 20. : j n i yi 1S65 $21,093,470 73
The rain storm continues, and, with tlie 1 Ju, . v - I'-OG-• • — 27,07‘.i|ki:; 33
Internal Revenue Receipts.—Th-re
ceipts of Internal Revenue, from July 1 to
date, ns compared with the - une perbd last
year, afford an interesting study. The fi».
urea for each month in eacli year are as fol
lows :
Another Little Child Whipped to
Death for Refusing to Say her Pray
ers.—Another case of fatal child-flogging, if
possible more revolting in shocking details
than the recent Lindsley child-murder in Me
dina, New York, occurred at Sarnia, Canada,
on Wednesday last, the victim, in this in
stance, being a little girl five years of age,
named Kate Sibley, the illegitimate daugh
ter of Schuyler Sibley and a Miss Kate Davis,
and the alleged provocation leading to the
on the political issues of the day, strongly I cruel act being the refusal of the child to say
denouncing all hostility to tbe President as
dangerous to our Republican institutions, sec
tional in their character, and in the end cal
culated to widen, instead of healing, the
wounds of the Union.
At the conclusion of their addresses, Col. I.
W. Avery addressed the assembly in an ap
propriate manner upon the importance to the
jeople of North Georgia subscribing to have
ocatcd the Orphan Home of Georgia in Dal
ton.
The following are the resolutions passed
by the meeting:
1st, Resolved, That the resolutions of the
Philadelphia Convention, held on the 12th
August last, of a national character and af
fecting the Constitutional rights of the South,
together with the accompanying address to
the people of the United States, meet our ap
proval and merit our earnest support.
2d. Resolved, Tint we endorse and will
sustain President Johnson in his reconstruc
tion policy and efforts to restore the South to
her Constitutional relations iu the Union.
8d. Resolved, That the proceedings of this
Convention be sent to the editor of the Chero
kee Geoigiau, with a request that he publish
them.
There being no farther business licforc the
meeting, on motion it adjourned.
H. L. Snts, President,
S. H. Baker, F. M. Longley, J. P. Freeman,
Secretaries.
RHENISH PRUSSIA.
La Sarre—Trivcs; Le Mont Tonncrrc—
Mayence; Rhine and Moselle—Coblenz; the
Rocr—Aix La Chapellc.
SWITZERLAND.
The Leman—Genoe; tbe Simplon—Sien.
Tlic Imperialist papers are now beginning
to attack the policy of Bismarck, and arc be
ginning to tlunk it is high time to think of
French unity, as dreamt of by Charlemagne
and nenry IV., Richelieu and Louis XIV.
They find that wc have as much right over
these twenty-three departments as Bismarck
has over Hanover and Frankfort on the
Maine.
THE nEALTH OF Tn3 EMPEROR
has much improved of late; lie on yesterday
joined the hunt in the forest of St. Germain.
It is not supposed that he will goto Biarritz,
as urgent business retains him in Paris.
THE EMPRESS AND *THE PRINCE IMPERIAL
are at present sojourning in that pleasant
watering place, accompanied by her suite.—
Tho French court journal tells us that her
Majesty, though far away from her capital,
still continues to remember those who have
shown her attention and affection, as she has
foit seat two very tl-.guni'j .iru-ght brace
lets, contained iu a magnificent casket, to the
two young ladies who offered a banquet on
her arrival.
A bon mot of Mon?. Drouyn de L’nuvs: tho
ex-minister of Foreign Affairs, being asked
for the definition of tlie word favant—a sa
vant, answered be is, one vflio knows wliat is
unknown to the million, and is unacquainted
with what is known by the generality.
PARIS OUT SHOOTING.
There has been a great deal of popping of
guns in the neighborhood of Paris, since the
beginning of the 1st of September.
THE BREECH-LOADING NEEDLE-GUN QUESTION.
Prussian papers inform us that Monsieur
Drcyse, the inventor of the celebrated needle-
gun, has just been raised to the nobility by
Uie King of Prussia. Monsieur Cbassepot,
wboBe improvement on tbe needle-gun has
been adopted at the Camp of Chalons, is at
present at Paris, and was yesterday received
by tlie Emperor, to whom he showed several
models of cannons of his invention.
The quantity of panes of glass necessary to
glaze the walls of the exhibition building,
would cover eight acres of ground.
Onr theatres will soon give us their winter
novelties. The grand Opera is still playing
Don Juan by Mozart, to overwhelming houses;
nor does it seem likely that this masterpiece
will bo withdrawn for some time to come.—
TJic Italian Opera, with the Dim Pi/tti, will
open its doors to the public on the 2d of
October.
SOMETIIINO ABOUT TnE EXHIBITION OF 1807.
Invalids, and persons unable to undergo
great fatigue, will be able to visit the groom
ed floor ot the exhibition in carriages drawn
either by band or by horses.
There will be a large coach-house for the
reception of carriages, with which a tele
graphic wire will communicate, by which
Italy and the Pope.
The date at which the Emperor of the
French was to complete the withdrawal of
his troops from Rome has passed over, and
from the fact that at our last advices prepar
ations were making to that end, it is to be
presumed tbat the evacuation of the city bas
been actually effected. Henceforth the Pope
will bo a spiritual rather than a temporal
sovereign, and the protectorate of Rome will
pass into the bands of Victor Emmanuel. At
first sight these circumstances appear to in
volve a great change in the international
status of His Holiness. But we judge the
change to be more apparent than real. The
temporal power of the Papacy has never con
stituted its strength, nor hns it in nny way
advanced the interests of the Roman Catho
lic Church. On the contrary, the long line of
those who have occupied tlic Papal chair
shows many examples in which the acci
dents of war and tue ambition of warriors
and statesmen have tended rather to dis
parage than to exalt its dignity. The
feeling of many Roman Catholics upon
this subject is different from ours. They
consider that an independent territory,
however small, is a certain sort of guarantee
of the temporal independence of the Papacy,
and that a Protectorate may tend to the ex
crcisc of undue influence upon tho discipline
though not of course upon the doctrines of
the Church. It must he remembered, how
ever, that the physical inability of the Papal
States to maintain their independence, except
by means of the good-will of the European
Catholic Powers, is notorious. The Pope’s
troops have been unable even to repress that
brigandage which is the curse of those States.
A protectorate, distasteful though it may
be, is.a necessary measure of safety therefor.
Besides, the Pope’s temporal authority has
been upheld by French bayonets for many
years, and the simple transfer of tbe protect
ing power from France to Victor Emmanuel
is perhaps likely to be more useful and effec
tive, and it is moreover Italian protection.—
i- \<r p- n i, n of the Pope, if he accepts
it, is one rattier of increased dignity. He
may, if he chooses, henceforth be untrammel-
ed by matters which are foreign to tlie spirit
of his office.—N. Y. Time*.
The Trial of Mr. Davis—Underwood
and Chandler—United States District
Courts.—A special from Washington to the
Philadelphia Ledger, of Thursday, says:
United States District Attorney Chandler,
ot Norfolk, bad a lengthy consultation to-day;
with the Attorney General in regnrd to the
trial of Jeff. Davis. Nothing definite was
agreed upon,-and Mr. Chundler is preparing
a letter to Mr. Stanbery, urging the impor
tance of bringing Davis to an early trial, and
asking the co-operation of tho Government
to secure that end. Mr. Chandler and Judge
Underwood also had an interview witli Judge
Chase to-day on the same subject Nothing
can lie definitely stated except that the trial
of Mr. Davis will come off, unless he shall be
discharged or paroled by tlie Executive. It
may come on at the next regular term. This
will not be in October, to which time thg case
was adjourned, the district judge and attor
ney finding that tho passage ot the act of
Congress reorganizing the judical districts,
subsequent to that adjournment, fixes the le
gal term in November, and that the holding
of a court in October would therefore be ille
gal. There is no doubt that the position of
the Chief Justice with regard to the trial is
unchanged. It may not be generally known
tlint able lawyers, in view of tbe fact that tlic
new law neither assigns the judges to the dif
ferent districts nor gives them power to as
sign themselves, have serious doubts whether
any district courts can legnlly be held until
Congress takes further action on the subject.
its prayers. From tbe evidence elicited at
the inquest on the body of the child, it ap
pears that on the night in question the moth
er had beaten the child with a raw-hide for
nearly an hour, and when rendered insensible
by pain and loss of blood, thrust it into a
cliair and went to bed. For a time tbe child
was heard to moan as if in intense agony, but
soon became quiet, and nothing more was
heard until near morning, when a servant en
tering the room found the child dead and im
mediately gave tho alarm. Upon lifting the
child from the floor, where it had fallen, a
most revolting sight was presented. The
head, face and shoulders were scarred and
discolored from the terrible blows of the raw-
hide, while the body, from bead to foot, pre
sented a shocking appearance. Old scars,
scarcely healed, were also visible upon the
body, testifying to former cruel floggings.—
The medical evidence showed that the inju
ries of the flogging were alone sufficient to
produce death, but that serious internal in
juries, the lesult of kicks and blows, had pre
viously been received; and the entire absence
of food for many hours had also something
to do with the result. The murderess, in be
ing examined, confessed that a few days pre
vious to the futal act, the father of the child
had administered to it a most unmerciful
beating for not saying its prayers, and order
ed her to do the same whenever it refused.—
The jury returned a verdict criminating both
parents, whereupon they were both commit
ted to prison to await trial for murder.
Canada Correspondent N. Y. Sun.
Trouble in Missouri.
St. Louis, Sept. 17th.—The Democrat’s
Leavenworth special Says that after the ad
journment of the Platte County Radical Con
vention, at Platte City, Mo., on Saturday, a
drunken Union soldier, named Donnegan,
made some noise on the street and flourished
a pistol about. Sheriff Ogden took his pis
tol away and told him to keep quiet, which
he did.
A short time afterward a returned rebel,
named Callahan, with a posse of ten men, de
manded the surrender of Donnegan. A scuf
fle ensued, and pistols were freely used, result
ing in the death of three or four, and the
wonnding of eight or ten more.
A number who had started home, hearing
firing, returned to town, and were fired on by
Callahan’s party, and bad several of tlieir.
horses killed under them. Callahan fired
twice at one delegate, who was lying under
liis wounded horse, and was fired at in return
and killed.
The latest accounts say that several hun
dred armed rebels hold Platte City, and have
driven all the Union men out of town, and
swear they shall not return. Great excite
ment exists.
Gov. Fletcher has been appealed to for
force to put down tbe mob.
All tlie accounts agree that Donnegan was
unarmed when Callahan’s party attacked him.
More 01 the Radical Gat; in the West.
The Radical organs publish with evident
gusto the following statement about Senator
Doolittle’s reception by the people of Racine,
where he lives:
“He was greeted with hisses and groans,
* * * * * and declared his determina
tion to speak in spite of them. A demonstra
tion of addled eggs had, however, a quieting
effect, and he was compelled at length to de
sist.”
What a commentary on republican institu
tions, and what a demonstration of the virtue
and intelligence of the Radical party!
A United States Senator is not even allow
ed to speak on political subjects to liis neigh
bors. And the party that applies this gag
law is the party that has always been prating
of free speech. Surely our people, under the
promptings of Radical philosophy, are get
ting down so low that the name of American
will excite disgust instead of admiration.
Whoever agrees with the Itadicals, pays
his vows to the black idol of tlieir worship,
and tenches hatred, is welcomed ns a saint of
the first water. But woe to those who do not
worship at tlieir altar; they at once become
monsters of iniquity.
Charming and tolerant set of pcrple are
exception of the Little Miami n nd Marietta
and Cincinnati, every railroad leading out of
the city has been damaged to such an extent
as to interrupt the running of the trains.—
The Indianapolis and Cincinnati road have
lost three bridges, but the most important
one (over the Great Miami) has so far escap
ed. The Hamilton and Dayton and Atlantic
and Great Western roadsnre interrupted at
Elk creek.
The Dayton and Michigan road has lost
three bridges; tlie Indiana Central has lost
three between Cambridge city and Indianapo
lis. The Chicago and Great Eastern road is
damaged between Richmond nnd Chicago,
but to what extent is not known. The trains
were withdrawn on both ends of this road
yesterday. The Columbia, Piqua and India
napolis road lost its great bridge at Piqua,
and a portion of tbe Ohio and Mississippi
railroad bridge over the Great Miami is down.
If the storm subsides, it is thought most of
the roads will be in operation again by to
morrow. Unprecedented freshets are reported
on all side?.
The White river was two feet higher yes
terday at Indianapolis than in 1847. The
White Water river is reported 7 1-2 feet high
er than in 1847. The great corn-fields along
the bottoms of the Big Miami liave suffered
considerably, the water being over the tops
of the highest corn stalks. Scores of miles of
fences liave been carried off. The Scioto, at
Columbus, overflowed its banks, inundating
the whole valley west of the river and north
of the national road. Many families have
been driven from their homes or compelled
to seek shelter in the proper part ot their
dwellings. A dispatch from Dayton says
the Miami and its tributaries are several feet
higher than in 1847. The lowest part of Day-
ton is submerged. The village of McPlicr-
sonville, across the river is ten feet under wa
ter. Three men were drowned at Piqua, and
one was killed by the falling timbers of tlie
bridge. The Ohio has risen three feet in the
last twenty-four hours.
Cincinnatti, Sept. 20.—With the excep
tion of slight showers this afternoon the rain
has ceased. There are indications, however,
of more rain. It is estimated that twenty
millions bushels of corn have been destroyed
by the freshet in the Miami bottoms.
The reports from the Northwest represent
the flood as general, with immense destruc
tion of property.
It will require four or fire weeks to repair
the Ohio and Mississippi bridge across the
Big Miami. In the meantime, connection is
made with Lawrenccburg by boats.
A despatch from Indianapolis says:
The Bellefontainc and Peru and Peru and
Indianapolis are the only roads that have
been running trains regularly from tbat city.
Tbe Jeffersonville railroad bridge, four miles
south of Indianapolis, is washed away, ancl it
is reported that the track at Edenburg and
Columbus, Ind., is submerged.
Tlie Columbus and Indianapolis road is
badly damaged. Four bridges are washed
away between Indianapolis and Richmond
The Terre Haute and Indiauapolis railroad is
not so badly damaged. The regular St. Louis
train Went out on this road to-day. The La
fayette road lost one bridge, but the trains go
through by transferring passengers. There
have been no trains on the Cincinnati road
since Tuesday.
Heavy rains fell last night and this morn
ing. The prospects are more favorable now,
with indications of a clearing up.
St. Louis, Sept. 19.—It has rained here al
most incessantly since Monday evening, and
the storm is not over yet. A very large
amount of water has fallen.
The storm has extended over a largo por
tion of the West and Northwest, and all the
rivers have risen considerably.
The Hannibal, St. Joseph and other rail
roads have been considerably damaged by tbe
storm.
August, IS-5 34,087,689Oa
August, lSGii 38,043,340 81
September, 1S65 37,039,415 82
September. 1SGG, (21 days).. 20,954,382 G4
Aggregate for three ninths in 1805, §93 .
720,425 00. Aggrego* for two months and
21 days, in IStiG. $92,076,826 83. The re
ceipts for the presort quarter will undoubted
ly reach one hummed millions, or about sev-
en millions in excess of the same period last
year, though /or the present month of Sep.
tember, they are likely to be about four mib
lions less than for tlie same month in I860.—
The increase in the receipts of revenue over
last year is explained by the fact that the an
nual income tax lias been collected earlier
this year than last, and also by tho fact that
on cot
ton and a few other articles is likely to make
up the decrease in part, but under any cir
cumstances, the revenue aspects for the pres
ent fiscal year indicate fully as favorable re
sults as were achieved in 1865.—Washington
Corres.
A negro lias formally petitioned the
Probate Court of Talladega county, Ala., to
be allowed to sell himself into slavery. lj e
says he fs twenty-one years old ,a good field
hand, and he believes, worth a thousand dol
lars. The Probate Court having no jurisdic
tion in tlie premises, bas forwarded his peti
tion to Thad. Stevens.
J5P“Thc Houston Telegraph, of the 5th
gives a circumstantial account of an attempt
ed abduction from her mother of a negro girl,
by Col. Mason, and a Captain Porter, of the
U. S. Freedmen’s Bureau.
FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL.
Indianapolis, Sept. 18—Indianapolis is
flooded. Pogue’s run has been raised by the
heavy rains, and now all the streets in the
south part of the town are covered with
water. The Union depot is overflowed, and
the south wall of its new addition has been
carried away. One hundred thousand dol
lars damage has already been done, and if the
flood continues the lo«s will be immense.—
As yet no lives have been lost Many families
have had to leave their houses ancl seek re
fuge elsewhere.
Later.—Two men have been drowned—
one a young man named Carlis3, who works
at the gas factory; the other unknown.
Indianapolis, Sept. 20th.—The corn crop
in the low lands along the rivers and streams
in this section is greatly damaged by the
flood.
The trains on all the railroads centering
here will run their trains regularly to-morrow
except the Indiana Central and Louisville
roads. Both the latter have suffered severe
ly, and several clays must elapse before com
munication will be duly re-established.
Tbe weather is now clearing up.
„ Louisville, Sept. 20th.—Another heavy
rain fell last night, and there was a shower
to-day. The weather is growing cold this
evening. The river is rising rapidly. The
barometer indicates 29 cleg. 50 min., and is
rising. The railroad communication has
been temporarily suspended by the flood.
Buffalo, Sept. 20.—It is raining heavily
again here to-day. We have only had two
pleasant days this month. No damage of any
consequence is reported.
SECOND DESPATCH.
Meadville, Pa., Sept. 20.—The damages
by the heavy rains in Ohio to the Atlantic
ancl Great Western railway have been repair
ed, and trains are running as usual to-day.
Mncon Cotton Market
OFFICE DAILY TELEGRAPH,)
Maoox, Sept. 24,1886. /
COTTON—The demand atill continues good, though
with but little arriving or offering. We still quote—
Low Middling, 2Sc; Middling, 29c—purchasers paving
the tax.
Macox, Sept. 25,
COTTON—With a brisk demand, and but little offer-
ing, there was a slight advance in price. We now quote
Low Middlings at 29 cents; Middlings, 30 cents. There
is but little yet arriving.
( Baltimore Market.
Baltixom, Sept 19.
Prices given below refer to wholesale operations on-
ly, unless otherwise expressed:
COFFEE—Very little doing. We notice a sale of loo
bags at 19c, gold.
COTTON is steady at 33c for middling Upland.
FLOUR—There was rather more inquiry to-day,with *
sales of 100 bHs choice Howard Street, Winter wheat,
at $13 00; 100 bbls Western mixed nt $12 25 ; 200 bb s
Northwestern Extra at $1125; SCO bbls City Mills do,
on private terms. Good Snpers are scarce and wanted.
The market is generally steady, at tho following quo
tations:
Howard St. Super and Cut Extra $10 25@$10 58
Howard St. SI ipping Extra 12 CO® 12 58
Howard St. Hi«h Grades 12 500 13 00
Howard St. Family 13 50@ 14 00
Ohio Super and Cnt Extra 9 75@ 10 25
Ohio Shipping Extra 60 CO® 00 Ou
Ohio Retailing 12 00® 12 50
Ohio Family ... 13 25® 14 00
Northwestern Super 9 25® 10 00
Northwestern Extra 11 25® 12 00
City Mills Super 10 00® 10 25
City Mills Standard Brands Extra 11 75® 12 25
City Mills Shipping Brands Extra 13 SC® 14 00
Baltimore, Welch’s and Greenfield Family 15 50® 00 60
Baltimore High Grades, Extra 14 75® 00 08
Rye Flour, new 6 00® 6 25
Corn Meal, City Mills and Brandywine... 4 50@4 62)4
GRAIN—Receipts of Wheat were light to-day, only
. . . *• . - Jin,-'
J3T* The Philadelphia burglars have con
structed and patented a lever warranted to
open any safe in three hours.
these Radicals, and zealously devoted to lib
erty of speech—for themselves!—Nat. Intel.
Georgia CRirn.Es.—Wc are reliably in
formed tbat Dr. D. Bly has been awarded the
contract to furnish artificial limbs to the “in
digent” soldiers of the State of Georgia.—
While it would have afforded us much pleas-
ure to have announced thut our talented
townsman, Dr. Byrd, had been the successful
applicant, we congratulate our wounded
friends upon the fact that a contract has been
consummated for the excellent limbs ot Dr.
Bly. Mr. John Parry, the gentlemany super
intendent of Dr. Blv’s manufactory in this
this city, leaves to-day for New York, in or
der to complete some business arrangements.
On his return the chief oilicc and manufacto
ry for this State will be removed to Macon,
for the convenience of our disabled heroes.—
We regret this removal from our city, for ev
ery manufacturing interest, however limited,
should be kept among us if possible. Mr.
Parry bas, by his uniform attention to busi
ness, nnd liis courteous deportment with, nnd
evident desire to benefit his customers, made
unto himself numerous friends in our midst.
—Aug. Chron,
Northern Prosperity.
Hon. John Forsyth, writing from New
York to his paper, the Mobile Register, says
of a portion of southern Pennsylvania over
which he has recently traveled:
“ The wealth of this country cannot be
justly measured by its population. The im
provements in machinery, especially as ap
plied to agriculture, almost dispense with
liutnnn hands nnd the sweat of the brow.—
They plough, sow and reap, with machines,
and man’s only occupation is to superintend
them. Hence, you ride over a countrv dot
ted with farms, in a high state of culture and
groaning under crops, and are surprised at
the lack of laborers, nnd wonder who does
all this work! Capital and science have sup
plied the places of our large gangs of negroes,
and the work goes on as if by magic. Thus
Pennsylvania with her 3 millions ofpopula-
tion, enjoys productions equal to the labor of
Jsix millions. The same processes would
make the South a garden of fruitfulness, the
abode ot a great population, and the scat of
poiccr. Let us take lessons from our neigh
bors, and find compensation for the sudden
destruction of our vast labor system. We
have all that Pennsylvania has, in coal, iron
and water power, without her h&ish winter
climate' We have products impossible to
her soil. The war lias he.vn a pathway for
Southern energies in a new direction. Let us
follow it, encourage men of labor and skill
to fettle among us, capital to export our
latent resources, and train and elevate
the negro to be able to do his part of the
grand work of closing the gap in material
civilization, which our hardy Northern neigh
bors have for so long kept wide open between
us. By this path, too, men of the South, we
arc to recover the political power to make
our rights respected and sure. Strength is
needtu! to this end, in a wrong-minded world.
In States, as well as among men, the weak are
the prej - to the strong. To work, then, for
this precious boon of a proud and free peo
ple. God speed it, and save my high-hearted
country from the wrongs and degradation
which manv violent men ere burning to in
flict upon them*
650 bushels white and 3500bushels red; Included in the
sales were 1100 bushels fair to good white at $2t>0®2 8S,
n<> prime or choice offered; 1400 bushels prime red at
$2 So, 900 do. at $2 80, and 400 bush fair at $2 65.
Cora was in very united supply, only 2200 bush white
and 1000 bush yellow. The market was quiet, with sales
of 2000 bush yellow reported sold at 84 cents. Western
was dull.
Oats—5000 bush received, with sales of 1200 bush at
44c, and 650 do. at 46047c.
Rye—110 bushels were offered nnd sold at 90 cents
ft bushel.
MOLASSES—No sales reported.
PROVISIONS—The demand for Bacon for local and
Southern wants continues very active, and stock in
dealers’ hands much reduced, causing more firmness.
We report sales of 75 :o 100 hhds in lots, embracing
Shoulders at Vltjc, Sides at 2O024Vfc, and Clear Bibbed
do., at 20Xc.
Mess Pork in small lots steady at $34 75 ft bbl.
Noth tig doing In Bulk Meats.
Lard is quiet as last quoted, vis: lor jobbing lots at
20c for City, and 21c for Western in bbls and tierces:
Baltimore refined 23>fc 5 ff>.
SUGAR—We report the sale of 438t bags Pernambu
co, O’- private terms for refiningnothing reported in
grades; market steady.
SEEDS—Clover is inquired far, offerings still small.
We report sales to-day of ISO bush common at $7 25, and
a small parcel of new crop Maryland, first received,
quality superior, at $8.
Timotiiy is firmer, good is hsld at $4, with buyers at
$3 75 for large lots. We quote jobbing lots at $4@4 25,
latter lor choice.
Flix continues heavy. We quote $3 45@$3 50 ?
bushel.
SALT—With a steady (air demand prices are firm at
$2 1002 20 for Liverpool Ground Alum, and $31003 25
¥ sack for fine, for lots from dealers. Turk's Island is
quiet but nominally nuchanged in price.
WHISllY—We quote Western in bond at $2 40. and
obbing lots $2 4002 42. A sale of 100 bbls free at $2 39
9 gallon.
Memphis Cotton Market.
Mzmpris, Sept. 21.
COTTON—Owing to yesterday’s favorable advices
from Liverpool (he cotton market was very firm at onr
quotations. In consequence ef the exceeding incle-
clemency of the weather tut few sales were made, clo
sing the day commercially quiet.
Ordinary 25 @26
Good Ordinary ...28 ®23
Lon Middling 29 @33
Middling 32 @33
Strict Middling 83 @34
Good Middling — ®—
Louisville Market.
' LotusviiLt, Sept. 22.
TOBACCO—Sales of 101 hhds: Cut Leaf, 35; Choice
Leaf, 62; Common light Lugs, $3 40.
FLOUR—Superfine, $8 75; Extra Family, ll 75.
WHEAT—Red, $275 per bushel.
CORN—Mixed, in bulk, 70c
OATS—15 cents per bushel. '
MES3 PORK—$32 25 per liarrel.
BACON—Shoulders, 17; Clear Sides, 21c.
BAGGING—Choice Kentucky, 35c.
ROPE—Machine, 19c.
LARD—In tierces. 19)4 cents.
WHISKY—Raw, $2 32/
Cincinnati Market.
CixcixxAn, September 22.
FLOUR—Superfine, $9@$9 60; Extra, $11 70@12 75;
Fancy, $K@$14.
WHEAT firm, an l prices higher; Prime Red, $2 70;
No. L $2 80.
OATS—15@60c per bushel.
RYE—75 cents to $1.
BARLEY—$110 per bushel.
OORN—73®75c in ears per bushel.
WHISKYnrmer and higher: 32 in bond, and $232
dutv paid.
PROVISIONS—Here Pork. 325.35 cents; Bulk Meats,
1431 for Shoulders, nnd 16A4018V for Sides.
BACON—l6Ji©l%@203* cents.
LARD—1S0— cents.
BUTTER dull, at 2602S cents.
CHEESE—10)*.@17 cent*.
FLAX SEED—In demand nt$3.
LINSEED OIL—$1 SO.
EGGS—19@20 cents per dozen.
•OLD—142)40143.
St. Louis .Market.
St. Lons, September 22.
FLOUR—Superfine, $709; Single X, $9 3901050;
Double X, $11013 25.
\V HEAT—Spring, $215: prime fall, $2 6002 52; choice,
$2 5502 CO.
BAi ON easier; Clear Side, 20@2(% Shoulders. 17c. .
CORN—67070 cts lor mixed and yellow; 71@—c for*
white.
OATS—42@45 cents.
PROVISIONS dull.
WHISKY—$2 SO® 2 SI.
Colani bus Market.
Cotuitrcs, Sept 23.
COTTON—The market has been dull throughout the
week:
Middling : 26027
Good Middling*.
Ordinary 22@23
The receipts were 151 bales, all by wagons, and
ments by \ uscogee R. B. S3, 67 of'which were sent off*
In addition to the shipments from warehouses, 11 bale*
passed directly through the city.
WEEKLY STATEMENT.
Stock September 1,
Receive cf past week
151
Receiv' d previously....
223
374
3,235
Shipped past week
S3
104
247
_ 2£SS
Charleston Market.
CflARLKSTdX, Sept.
COTTON.—Tho transactions in Cotton yesterdey
amounted to about 50 bale?, holders being, generally
more wiliing seflfBrs, but prices were without charge,
sny—
Middling 53(3 —
Strict Middling —
Good Middling —
Ordinary ——
RICE—About 46 tierces of the new oror>. j-av 40 0.
who’e Rice and 6 of midd ing and
of the new crop, .‘■av-*
ngand small-being the pro
of the newness of the grain,
and good.
but tlie color was uniform