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THE TELEGRAPH
MACON, FRIDAY OOTOBEK 9,. 1868.
FAIR IX THOMASVUiliE.
A grand Picnic and Fair is to be held in
Thomasville on the 15th instant At which
there will be a general exhibition of field,
garden and bonsehold products in that re
gion, as well as of all kinds of domestic ani
mals and trophies of mechanical skill and
ingenuity. An address will also be delivered
on the occasion, and the hospitality of that
beautiful and enterprising region will no
doubt be liberally extended to guests.
The Talbotton West Georgia Gazette.
This highly intelligent and sprightly paper
comes to us enlarged, and showing in every
way gratifying evidence of thrift and pros
perity. The Gazette, while displaying much
judgment and force in its editorials upon
general topics, is a diligent chronicler of
events in its own particular bailiwick. It is
a very useful paper, and well deserves any
measure of appreciation and encouragement
it may receive from the people. B. F. Cas-
tellaw, editor and proprietor—terms, three
dollars a year in advance.
Enter Cuba.—Forney is jubilant over the
Spanish revolution, and says it gives us Cuba.
A revolution in that island has been organiz
ing for many months.
But without speculating on Europe, this
convulsion has a lively interest for us. It
gives us Cuba. For many months a revolu
tion has been fnlly organized for that island
—campaigns planned, arms procured, money-
secured. The blow has been withheld only
from prudential motives, for the movement
was controlled by strong arms and clear
heads. No boyish enthusiasm or romantic
madness held the helm. Freedom is being
organized now.
This unlooked for development of the
flame of revolution on European soil, how
ever, has done the work. The army must be
withdrawn from Cuba to defend the Spanish
throne, and the 'Queen of the Antilles knocks
at the doors of the Union. If, under Demo
cratic leadership, Texas keeps recalcitrant
much longer, swarthy Senators from Cuba
will precede her representatives on the floor
of Congress.
Yes, swarthy African Senators from Cuba
—why not Coolies ?
The Corn Crop in Louisiana.—A sugar
planter of Louisiana informs the New Or
leans Picayune that on many plantations
there will be raised fifty bushels of corn to
the acre this year, besides the other crops.—
This is an unusually large yield, as hitherto
twenty-five to thirty bushels were about the
average. It has has only been a short time
since the Louisiana sugar and cotton plan
ters bought all their corn at the West. We
trust the practice will never be resumed.—
They will now have corn to sell.
Frem Atlanta* i.
Atlanta, Ga., October 2, 1668.
Messrs. Editors: *have been here for some
time, a visitor, and not an idle observer of
passing events, and especiallyhavel observed
the action of our legislators.
The Democracy have it all their own way
in the House, and can mount over the veto
of his putative excellency; but are not quite
powerful enough'in the Senate to doso. The
Radicals are humble enough, and cured very
much of the impudent assumption which
characterized them'at the opening of the ses
s:'od.
There aTe many young men of talent in the
House, amongst whom are Mr. Scott, Mr.
Shumate and others. These promise, in the
future, much for the State. They are open,
honest and independent. But the 'wheel-
horse of the House is your Mr. Sparks. The
reputation of Mr. Sparks for high business
qualities and a noble, generous nature was
well known throughouttheMiddleDhtricts of
Georgia, and on Tuesday last, when speaking
in his straight-forward and sensible manner
upon the lien law, he said he had, immedi
ately after the war, raised some half a million
of money to aid the planters of Middle
Georgia—that it had been distributed by
him amongst them—that he had neither
asked nor taken any lien, and that these men
came up to their obligations of honor like
men—like Georgians—there wasji thrill of
pride flashing from the faces of almost every
member of the House.
Gart Sparks has shown himself a3 apt at at
legislation as at everything he undertakes.
He is already so popular with Radicals and
Democrats that ail seem gratified and happy
to oblige him. His homely openness and
straight-forward course has inspired univer
sal confidence. God grant, you may be able
to continue him in the councils of the State,
not only for yours, but tho good of all the
States. Such men are too rare to spare one
of them in this, our emergency.
I am fearful, should the Legislature ad
journ, that an effort will be made by Bullock
to procure troops, under the plea of preserv
ing peace, to control the election. He inti
mated, only a few days since, that he had ar
ranged to pay them up to the 6th inst., but
insinuated he could not procure means to do
more. Mr. Sparks remarked that if the credit
of the State was given him,as it had been to the
Governor, he would guarantee all the money
necessary to prolong the session to any time
the members might deem expedient. This at
once put a quietus upon the financial fears ol
his Excellency. Let us labor and wait for
the best—always remembering the darkest
time of night is just before day.
An Old Citizen.
Affairs in Old Virginia.—Letters to the
Dispatch give unfavorable accounts of agri
cultural operations this year. A large por
tion of the tobacco crop will be lost from bad
tillage, and this mainly upon the larger plan
tations, where the proprietors have, according
to the O. 8., left the negroes to manage for
themselves. In Louisa county many of the
hands had withdrawn from farm labor to
gather sumac, which they were shipping in
large quantities, as much as 160,000 pounds
in one day. A hand could gather 200 pounds
a day, which, when dried, was worth one
dollar per hundred. The Dispatch says
Richmond is going ahead very rapidly, and
a very bright future is opening to that city.
. Earlt Winter.—The New Orleans Pica
yune says: “Our exchanges from the Red
River region chronicled over a week ago the
setting in of winter. Flocks of geese were'
passing over Jefferson on the 15th and 17th
of September, which is said to be the earliest
migration observed there. The change here
must be regarded, we suppose, a3 only a pass
ing cold snap.”
Never Jest with Firearms —A terrible
occurrence in Poukeepsie, the other day, is
another awful warning against the silly and
dangerous practice of “fooling” with firearms.
A young man pointing, as he believed, his
empty pistol at a pet cat in his sister’s arms,
shot her through the heart, and destroyed
his own happiness and that of his father and
mother for life. Neverpointfirearms (whether
loaded or empty) in the direction of any
person, unless you intend to kill him.
The Railroads.—The passage of the
j State Aid bill for the Macon and Augusta
Railroad, we are authorized to state, will as
sure the speedy completion of that road be
yond a doubt
The Brunswick Road is now ten miles out
of Brunswick, and “a going.” Iron for the
upper end will in a few days be landed at the
Hawkinsville terminus, and the work at the
upper end will be pushed forward with ra
pidity. The whole will be done in time for
the next crop.
The Savannah, Griffin and North Ala
bama Railroad.—The following are the offi
cers, recently elected, of this road, to which
the aid of the State—.$8000 per mile, upon
certain conditions—has been promised:
W. M. TVadley, President Road.
W. M. Chapman, Griffin.
C. C. Peeples, Griffin.
John I. Whitaker, Griffin.
Thos. A Grace, Newnan, Ga.
George E. Smith, Newnan, Ga.
George W. Camp, Carroll county,
South Georgia and Florida Railroad.
We call attention again to the notice of this
Road addressed to contractors and inviting
proposals for the clearing, grubbing, grad
ing, bridging and superstruction of the rail
road from Albany to Thomosville, via
Camilla.
The South American Earthquakes.—
The awful destruction of human life by the
recent earthquake in Ecuador exceeds any
thing ever yet recorded from such convul
sions. At Ibarra out of 16,000 inhabitants,
13,000 were destroyed. In Otovalo 7000 out
of 10,000 perished. In three cantons con
taining in 1867 65,564, and embracing the
two cities above mentioned, 43,000 people
were killed. In Peru the destruction of hu
man life was much less, but in both coun
tries property was all but annihilated. The
very face of nature was tom to pieces.
The Month’s Expenses.—According to
the telegram the Government expenses, for
the month of September, were ninety-eight
and a half millions!!! This is forty
millions more than Old Hickory used to ex
pend for a year—and some twenty more than
James Buchanan used to spend in a year.—
Polk carried on a war—supported the Gov
ernment and cashed all expenses on about
twenty millions less to the year. The Radi
cals swear they are going to pay the National
Debt by “fighting it out on this line,” but
we can’t understand how it is to be done.—
These ninety-eight millions did nof include a
single payment of principal or interest of the
public debt, and from tho present average
daily report of internal revenue, the receipts
from that source, in September, were hardly
fifteen millions. The increase of the National
debt is reported at four millions.
A Doubtful Speculation.—Grant and
Forney have on hand a scheme to revolution
ize, Africanize and annex Gnba. This will
abolish the duty on cigars and reduce, os
they fondly imagine, the personal expenses
of the President and Cabinet, should Grant
be elected, about one-balf. The consumption
of cigars in Cabinet sessions over the vexa
tions of reconstruction and the memorials of
the carpet-baggers, -mil be enormous, and it
is excusable to provide for the future. But
will the free negroes turn out good cigars ?
that’s the point for Grant and Forney to
consider.
. As it was in the Days of Noah.—It is
doubtful whether in the last twenty years
more rain fell in any twenty-fpur hours than
did those twenty-four hours following eight
o’clock Friday evening. A steady pour, with-1 sh ® burst out—“Bob, what are you lookingfor?’
* ° . J Mr 1 ,| omilnH on<l nnswnrn/^ •iVnnp’tnnnnK' arVrl T*r<*.
•out a moment’s cessation. : • -
Cotton up again in Liverpool; uplands
ten and three quarters with heavy sales. Liver
pool men evidently think they are not going
to get it any lower this year, and we trust
their judgment in the premises is correct.
Middlings twenty-seven in New York. That
is right
Rains in East Tennessee.—Verbal re
ports from East Tennessee say that immense
damageias been done by heavy and protract
ed rains there. Tbe overflow of the Holston
ha9 submerged crops and destroyed vast
quantities of com, while the wet weather bad
seriously damaged such n3 has not been over
flowed.
The New Steamboats.—The two new boats
which the Central Railroad has placed upon onr
river have been lor some time at Apalachicola.—
One was to have started ior this place ou yester
day. Gnr understanding is that one steamer is to
ply between Apalachicola and Bainbridge, carrying
the mail, and the other between the latter place
and Columbus. They are said to bave iron hulls,
and to be elegant boats.—ColtimVus Sun, 2d.
GENERAL, HINDMAN*
FURTHER PARTICULARS OF HIS ASSASSINA
TION.'
The Memphis Appeal of Tuesday gives
the following particulars of this terrible af
fair: f
From a private telegram to a relative of General
Hindman’s family, who is in this city, which we
are kindly permitted to use, we learn the follow
ing facts, which can be relied on as correct, in re
lation to the affair:
Shortly after tea, while the General was sitting
with the family in the supper room, a shot was
fired through the window from without, and he
fell riddled with slugs and halls, two of which-
passed through his breast. He was immediately
attended upon, but survived only eight hours af
ter receiving the wound, dying about four o’clock
yesterday morning. The shot and outcries of the
General’s family brought neighbors to the spot
immediately, but though every exertion was made,
up to the date of the dispatch (yesterday evening).
Hie murderer had not been caught. A half inch
rope and a short shriltwill certainly be his portion
if he is eaptnred within the next few days.
From information that we have received other
wise, there is not a shadow of doubt but that
the deed was the work of the hellish Loyal League.
Mr. L— affronted his wijjp, who, to punish him,
resolved to act dumb whenever he was present,
and so well did she maintain her resolution, that
nearly a week passed away, during which not a
word did she utter in his presence. 8he perform
ed her bonsehold duties as usual, but speak she
would not. He tried to coaxher onto! herwhim,
hut in vain. At last he tried the followiDgplan to
overcome her resolution, by working on her curi
osity—the most ungovernable of female propensi
ties. Returning one evening from his employment,
his lady sat there as usual, mute. He immedi
ately commenced a vigorous search througuout
the room. The closet was examined,the bedroom,
drawers, boxes, shelves; everything that could be
thought oi was overhauled His wife was struck
with astonishment at his unaccountable behavior,
and as he proceeded in his search, 6he became
nervously anxious to find out wbat he was looking
for. What could it be ? She looked in his face, to
glean, if possible, from his expression, the object
of bis search; but no go, he was sober as a judge.
He lifted the edge ol the carpet, looked under
the table-cover, and finally approached her chair-
looked under it, and even went so far »s to brush
her dress partially aside, as if what he sought
might be there. She could stand it no longer.—
She burst out—“Bob, what are you looking for?’
He smiled, and answered, “Your tongue, and I’ve
fomnd it.!’ .
A Missionary Scene in China, -
“ Carleton” writes as follows to the Boston
Journal from Canton, China:
“I preach every, dav to the Chinese,” said
Mr. Preston; “ would you like to see what
sort of a congregation I have!”
all means.”
We take our seats in sedans, and are car
ried through the streets, turning now to the
right, now to the left, so often that I give up
all attempts of keeping track of our wherea
bouts, and trust that we shall get back again
all safe. We come into one of the principal
streets at last and stop before a little store
kept by missionaries for the sale of books.
Dozens of people are already there waiting
for the opening of the doors. It is one
o’elock, and the tide of life surging through
the streets is at its flood. A preacher would
have a slim audience in State street at
’Change hour, but the Chinese are an old
people, their empire is finished, their civil
ization complete, and time is a drug. They
have abundant leisure, while we foreign bar
barians are worrying and hurrying ourselves
to death.
The doors are opened aud we enter
chapel—a room with a large window at the
further end behind the desk, brick walls,
settees capable of seating two hundred or
more. In five minutes the room is full. Sit
ting by the desk, I have an opportunity to
study the audience. Ou the front seats are
some literary students—young men who are
studying for official employment, well dressed
in white, clean frocks and trowsers, their
pigtails neatly braided.. Here at mv right
hand, as I face the audience, is a Coolly with
three bandies done np in brown paper and
porter bottle in his arms. He ba9 stepped in
to rest himself a few minutes, to hear what
the “foreign devil” has to say. Behind him
is another Cooley, wearing bis broad-brimmed
hat. On the other end of the bench, at my
left hand, a man with a mustache—a sign
that he is a grandfather, for custom has
established it that none but grandfathers can
wear hair on their upper lip. Men of all
ages, all conditions, from the well-to-do
merchant down to the poor wretch who lives
on rice and snails, citizens and strangers from
up country, composed the audience.
These men are actuated by various motives
—love of novelty, curiosity to hear a foreigner
talk fluently in their language. They are
not accustomed to hear public speaking;
they have their story-tellers, bnt no gather
ings where arguments are put forth. Very
few of them are seekers after truth, and their
conceptions of the Christian religion are
exceedingly low, but yet every day they
flock to this chapel to hear thi3 American
preacher, a short, thick-set, good-natnred
man, who understands their language per
fectly, and who is well read in their literature.
His subject is tbe conflict between good
and evil—holiness and sin.
A young man with bright eyes—a student
—breaks in:
“If your doctrine is true, why don’t you
foreigners practice it; why do you bring
opium to China ?
A home question, practical, right to the
point. The audience are alert to hear what
Mr. Preston will say.
“There are wicked men all over the world,
and if foreigners bring opium to China, you
must have nothing to do with it.”
The laugh which goes up shows that the
audience appreciate the reply.
“Why did you make war upon China ?” an
other one asks, while the man with a mous
tache bnt this question: “Why do yon come
and take the Coolies and make slaves of
them?” Therepliesareevidentlysatisfactory,
for the audience maintains its good humor to
the end.
This brief sketch of the meeting is suffi
cient to show those who support missions
that one great difficulty in the way of mis
sionary effort in this empire is the attitude of
England on the opium question. The people
are ready to hear, but tbey suppose that the
missionaries are in the pay of foreign govern
ments, and that all their talking about a new
religion is a political game. The church
BKannffcctnre of Olixe Oil in Georgia.
The concluding article of an interesting
series upon this subject, from Mr, Couper, of
Glynn county, in the Brunswick Banner, is
as follows:
The manufacture of this oil is extremely
simple, and requires ho very complicated or
expensive machinery.' - The latter consists of
a mortar, a revolving stone, or some other
contrivance for separating the pulp from the
stones, and of rendering it a paste; a re
volving stone, like a bark or cider mill, for
crushing the stones; a lever or screw press
for the pressing of the oil from the pulp
and stones; bags of coarse cloth or hair to
contain the pulp; and wooden or earthen
ware vessels for receiving the oil from the
presses, and for separating it from the muci
lage. J
As soon as the olives are ripe, which is
indicated by their becoming of a dark color
and soft, they are gathered by hand, and
spread out over floors to the depth of a few
inches. In this situation they remain three
days, being turned daily, and tbe decayed
berries carefully picked out. They are then
placed in the mortar or under a stone, and
moderately tritui&ted, until tbe pulp is
.reduced to a paste, and is detached from the
stones. The stones having been reduced,
the pulp is then put into coarse and strong
bags, and placed under the press, which
should be worked very slowly at first. From
the press the oil mixed with mucilage runs
into wooden vessels, half filled with water.
SLfter standing from twelve to twenty-four
lours, to give time to the mucilage to sepa
rate from the oil, the latter is decanted into
other vessels, remains undisturbed for about
twenty days. It is then ready to be decanted
again, and finally put into barrels, in which
it is to remain. During this repose, nearly
jdl the mucilage will have been precipitated;
At the oil is still liable to be troubled until
it has been exposed to the cold.
The experiment made by my father—who,
though 88 years, no longer allow of his taking
an active part in field operations, is still
deeply interested in the subject—ha3 proved
so satisfactory, that it is my intention to
prosecute it on a large scale. We have suc
ceeded perfectly in pickling the olive, and in
making from it the finest oil I have ever
tasted. This season I expect to make several
hundred bottles of oil; aud if I am not dis
appointed by a hurricane, I hope this winter
to submita sample to your critical judgment.
Having now about 250 trees of various ages,
and intending to increase them, I hope in a
few years to be able to test conclusively the
question of the olive culture in Georgia.
The experiment will not be a costly one, u3
the ground occupied by olives is cultivated
at the same time in other crops.
Wondebtul Story (if True).—A won
derful story i3 in circulation in this town
this morning, about a man at Crisfield who
has been stricken down for blasphemy. The
story runs thos: The man (we can’t learn the
name) on Sunday last started off very early to
go fishing. His wife persuaded him not to
go, insisting he would be violating the laws
of God by so doing. The man remarked
that he could go and “catch a mess of fish
before Jesus Christ was awake,” and pro
ceeded to the Anamessix river. On arriving
at the shore he sank down in the sand up to
his neck, where he still remains, notwith
standing every effort to extricate him by dig
ging away the sand. This has been done,
and his boots cut to free his feet, but he still
remains there as inextricable as ever.
Mr. Wilson, our telegraph agent at Clay
ton, sent a telegram last night to learn the
facts in the case, and the operator at Cris
field replied that they were as stated above.
The greatest excitement is reported to prevail
there.
We give the item as furnished us by the
railroad employes here, without vouching
for it in any way. It beats the ghost story.
[Smyrna (Va.) Times.
Disgustingly Low.—The spirit of the il-
A Sponge, and Wbat tt Is.
“What is a sponge made off” said George, gasp
ing, snuffing, and winking under his Croton oath.
No one near could tell him.
Now listen, little Georgie, and I will tell yon
what a sponge is.
The very sponge which washes yojit face was
brought np from the bottom ot the ocean, and
was part of a living animal. For a long time
sponges were.supposed to be plants. Messrs.
Agassiz and Gould, in 1848, called them so; bnt
later observations have decided them to be ani
mals, and they are placed in tbe class Protozoa,
the class most resembling plants.
When first found in the water their appearance
is very different from this which yon now see.—
This is the skeleton only, the part corresponding
to our hones. When this was & complete living
thing, deep down under the ocean, it was covered
all over the outside, and filled in every one of
these little holes with a soft substance, something
like the white oi an egg, and this wbb like onr
flesh. It waa fastened tightly to a rock, and Us
color was a doll, bluish black on the upper side,
and a ditty white below. It was formerly sup
posed to be a plant, because It was always fast in
one place, hut ior other reasons it is decidedly an
animal. All through the mass is a regular circu
lation, like our blood and food. It has been seen
to absorb nutritions matter—that is, to eat, or
rather to drink. Tou see all over its surface ori
fices or holes; these communicate with each oth
er throughout. Into the largest of these, called
pores, the sea-water is constantly entering, and
ont oi the smaller ones, called vents, it is regular
ly sponted, and it doubtless finds in the sea-water
minute animals, which serve It for food, and in
crease its bulk.
And this strange animal produces others like it
self. I will tell you how.
From the soft part a little globule is seen to float
off, and after moving abont awhile very briskly
here and there, as if looking for a place, it fastens
itself to some rock. Next, gradually begins to be
seen the more solid skeleton (what we have here,)
the soit part increases, and so it grows, not very
slowly, either, lor tbe divers findlt at the end ot
three years large enough to bring away.
To get these sponges from ihe bottom of the
ocean furnishes occupation for a great number of
people. One thousand men are busy in the Grecian
Archipelago alone, and thousands besides, with
many hundred boats, are engaged in the Gulf of
Macnri, on the Barbary coast, and elsewhere; so
that in many villages there—from May to Sep
tember—the best diving time—only old men,
women and children can be found.
The finest kind is brought from the JEgean sea.
At daylight there, in the summer time, when
the weather is pleasant—for it requires smooth
water—the boats, each with six or eight men and
one pair of cars, will leave the shore, and proceed
to where the water is eight or ten, or thirty fath
oms deep, for those found in shallow water are
very inferior.
Here they stop, and the divers prepare to de
scend. Each one puts a hoop around his neck,
and to this fastens a bag, in which the sponges
are put as they are gathered. In very deep water
the diver uses a rope with a heavy stone to it. He
sinks the stone to the spot he intends to reach,
and this holds the rope steady, which he uses to
assist himself in coming up again to the surface.
After being busy thus till noon they return to
some oi those pleasant little nooks which abonnd
on tbe shores of the archipelago, to prepare what
they have gathered fit for sale.
The first thing is to press out the soft part of
the animal, and then to bleach the remainder in
the suu; so they beat them, and stamp on them
and trample them till there is no more life left.
The skeleton part is then washed and spread in
the snn until it is quite clean, and grows to be
this dnll, yellowish color; then it is packed in
hags, and sent to market for sale; sent to all parts
oi Asia, Europe, and America, and used mostly
lor washing purposes.
PRESS DISPATCHES.
London,
been taken looking ta.thafct^
ciation, of a plan for the
b *!ul b !, WeenGen «»t»Peri.to/?* 0 l l
with bat few louet. teira,^' *
Paris, October L-Rio
tbe President of the Argen“eIU tt.
regulations for the
guay. 0 or oruil |
Hamburg, October l.—n, e . .
North Pole expedition, is at B ri *.' &er Oa»a I
Alexandria, Egypt, OctoberTV 0 ^ I
made to-day to assassinate th a
a steel ball, armed with eh&rn l
Tha Vieeroy waa uninjured. XK* Wb? ' “a ka]
known. in * Ptrpet,.
Madrid, October 2.—Yest*^ ,
the Provisional Goveramen*Wt° 1U '= ■
Isabella and proclaiming the ii
pie, and denouncing the BouriLV*^^
merchants and bankers have cfW, H
vmonal Government one hand!™ 10 Wo
reals. urM
Marquis Novalachez has died g. ,
Gen Caleong ha« been capttcd ^
Madrid ie perfectly qniet. '
Don Sebastian advised the Q„., n
civil war, hut the Basque provinl'” W
money for that purpose. The ti(d 3
joined the revolution. Isabel!.’, - ,0e * ,w b(
French Imperial Family, at hi. U1 . terri «* i
minutes. Marfori accomp»ni e!t i i Z| k'-ei
BravexhadabriefintereiewwUi'^G
London, October 2.-At the me
Rhiwabon. Wales, eleven werek£?I
Madrid . October 3,-Sermo w#^/*
because the national guard, which t
Florsnce, October 3,-SUnor «*_
Italian minister to Mexico by Victim ^
The speeches were all earnest and loyal. Gov. permission Scovasso will also act fo r
Watt’, apostrophe to the National flag, was more Mexican Capitol. " or fl «;e
loudly cheered than any other remark,. The torch
light procession to-night, is a magnificent affair.
Miles of street are filled with peopje and every house
is illuminated. There are several colored club, in
the procession.
Montgomery, October 3.—On Friday the House
turned out a Democrat and admitted a Republican
to his seat. TbeRepublican was a candidate in Jones
From Louisiana.
New Orleans, October L—The new Board of Po-
lioe Commissioners, under the Metropolitan Police
bill, is composed of two negroes, and three whites.
They have commenced their duties. One Lieutenant
of the uumber and the oldest member, of the foree
have resigned.
In the House yesterday, two more whites from the
Parish of Baton Rouge were unseated and replaced
by two negroes. The majority report of the Election
Committee in this case states that the white men
whose seats were contested, were elected by 758 ma
jority, and the charges upon which their seats were
contested are disapproved, and recommended that
the whites b.e. confirmed.. The minority report, signed
by two negroes, unseating the whites and seating the
blacks, was adopted—S7 to 17.
The State Democratic Convention convened yester
day, and organized with a fail attendance to-day. A
resolution was adopted declaring that while they pro
test against all test oaths and disqualifications except
for crimes, whereof the party shall be duly convicted,
they recognize the necessity of conforming to exist
ing Taws; and this Convention will entertain the name
of no person as a candidate for elector, who cannot
qualify under these laws. They recommend the Con
gressional Convention to adopt the same rule. Five
members on the elect aval ticket, who are ineligible
have resigned. A portion of the vacances have been
filled with eligible men.
From Alabama.
Selma, October 1.—The Democratic State mass
meeting to-day was more numerously attended than
any other meeting ever held in the State. The at
tendance is estimated at twenty thousand, of whom
three thousand were negroes. All the counties in
Middle Alabama were represented, the most of them
by clubs. The procession was too miles long. Speeches
were made by Gen. Clanton, Governor Watts, J. W.
Taylor, H. A. Herbert, Governor Winston and C. W.
Lee.
connected with the Presbyterian mission lustrated press of the present day, as a gener-
numbers between thirty and forty members.
The Church of England, tbe London Mission
ary Society, and the English Wesleyans have
missionaries at Canton.
A Ship Canal Trough the Isthmus of
Darien.
President Johnson in his interview th
Gen. Acosta, the newly accredited Jlialster
from the United States of Colombia, took oc
cosion to advert to the importance of a nip
canal through the Isthmus of Darien. He
very properly directed the attention of the
South American Plenipotentiary to the fact
that while the Republic of Colombia had
granted certain privileges to citizens of the
United States of America on the Isthmus of
Panama in perfecting the Panama Railroad,
it would be greatly advantageous to her in
terests and her glory to give encouragement
to our people in the construction of a broader
inter-oceanic communication through the
Isthmus of Darien. He reminded him that
this neck of land is only thirty-four miles
wide between the Gulf of Darien and the
Pacific, and that the highest elevation was
only forty-feet.
If sufficient protection and encouragement
is afforded to our citizens, said Mr. Johnson
in substance, they will bave that long desired
ship canal open for navigation in two years,
and thus supply the inadequate transit now
afforded to the nations of the West and East
by tbe Panama Railroad. The President
further remarked that American enterprize
was already supplementing the connection
between the Atlantic and Pacific through the
Union Pacific Railroad from New York to
San Francisco. “ Please say thi9 for me,” said
Mr. Johnson, “to the President, Congress,
statesmen and people of Colombia, and all
of them, that Japan, China, India and the
whole East are needing that communication
not less than the Western nations are ear
nestly desirmg its achievement.”
Just so. While the Union Pacific Rail
road is bound to prove of incalculable value
to the country and highly advantageous to
the government, which, notwithstanding
the apparently large subsidy paid for its con
struction, it is estimated will turn out to be
a very moderate expenditure compared with
the saving in transportation of military sup
plies and troops bjr the old wagon routes, yet
a water communication between the two
oceans through the Isthmus of Darien is a
want which the commerce of tbe West and
the East has been waiting to §ee supplied for
many years. The geographical location of
this Isthmus is admirably suited for a ship
canal.
It is one-third less—measuring the land
route—than the Isthmus of Panama, because
tbe fine navigable bay indenting the Pacific
side meets tbe terminus of the proposed canal
nearly one-third inland, thus leaving the
length required to be engineered only thirty-
four miles. If the Colombian Government
adopts President Johnson’s suggestions this
ronte will supercede the Panama line, the
proposed route of M. Lessup, and all the
other modes of communication between the
Carribean Sea and the Pacific.—New Tori:
Herald. • ■
Truthful and Timely Addresses.—We
direct attention particularly to the Report
adopted by the Georgia House of Represen
tatives on Saturday, and to the Address of
the Democratic Central Committee. These
papers make a correct representation of the
conduct, feelings and purposes of the white
men of Georgia, and vindicate our people
from UDjust aspersions and suspicions. They
also contain counsel of the highest wisdom
in this juncture of our political affairs. The
people of Georgia will not forget the motto
of their noble old State—“Wisdom, Justice,
Moderation”—a combination of qualities
never more essential to our safety and tran
quility than in the present crisis. We hail
these emphatic protests against violence and
lawlessness as declaration made at the right
time and in the right spirit.
Both the Report and the Address may be
found on our first page.—Columbus Enquirer.
The educational charges at Oxford Univer
sity, England, have been recently reduced.
A student now only pays an entrance fee of
$25, and a yearly fee of $17 50.
al thing, is not only far below tbe standard
of appreciation, but exceedingly disgusting.
Especially does this remark bave reference to
that most intensely disgusting of all illustra
ted sheets. Harper’s Weekly, a so-called
Journal of Civilization. It is unworthy of
the patronage of our Southern people, and
its caricatuies are such as must be revolting
to them. In a recent issue an illustration
represented General Wade Hampton, of South
Carolina; lie who is beyond the reproach of
all but suck debased beings as conduct such
a sheet—at a negro ball, acting in the capaci
ty of a bojt-black to a big, greasy African.
Tbe cut also represents impudent looking
negroes promenading the room with ladies
upon their arms. Only a little below the
Raleigh Standard can such a sheet be, and in
order to exclude it from our midst our people
should discontinue to purchase a single num
ber. Newsdealers are not to blame for in
troducing it, for they must supply the de
mand. If Southern gentlemen can patronize
such a paper after this, then wonders have
ceased.— Wilmington Journal.
Wbat is Croquet!
Croqnet mainly consists in striking: balls
through hoops. There is hardly a lawn in Europe
fit for the purpose, without a set of little arches,
which look like human springs and toe traps tor
the unwary. The game is new; and it is a pleas-
line and knickerbockers, can all play it an once.
It is easy to learn, and yet admits many degrees
oi skill, it gives fresh air, and does not make yon
hot. It is cleaB. Unlike archery, it can be played
on a small place. It is not dangerous—no one has
ever been mortally wounded at croquet. It is
cheap. If not independent of the weather, it is
not affected by the wind or sun—no one need com-
S lain of tbe glare of light in takiDg aim, or of the
istnrbing breeze which tnrns aside the arrow. It
can be played by ladies aud gentlemen on equal
terms, aud with the same tackle.
And it is the very chief provocation of small talk
and garden gossip. Upon my word, 1 have no
idea, of the number of recommendations which it
possesses.
I had dipped my pen rather with the intention
of blackening croquet than otherwise; and now its
dissection has converted me. I do not wonder at
the polite rural world playing croqnet. It con
ceals the age of the old, and displays the grace of
the young. Grandpapa, in whose hand a bow
would look absurd, whoBe lumboag would inter
fere with the exercise of quoits andbowl, ean, and
does oiten, play a game ot croquet. He need not
bend his back; thus it is a good pastime for those
getting rather stilfish. And for those full of ease
and grace, what better? A girl with neat ankles
will play at croquet all day long—it is made ior
pretty feet and well shaped boots. And yet, with
all these social and coquettish recommendations,
it is a game within the pale of the most strick and
straighteneded society. A Quaker might play at
croquet with drab balls.
The income of the Prince of Wales, which
amounts to $500,000 per annum, is too small
for his expenses, and he proposes to ask for
an increase from Parliament. The people of
England, however, both Liberal and Con
servative, seem to think that the public
treasury is sufficiently burdened already. The
Queen receives $1,925,000 a year, the Prince
ot Wales $500,000, the Duke of Edinburgh
$75,000, the Crown Princess of Prutsia $40,-
000, Princess Louis of Hesse $30,000, Prin
cess Christian $30,000, the Duchess of Cam
bridge $30,000, the Duke of Cambridge $00,
000 (beside $17,800 as commander-in-chief).
Besides all these, the Duchess ot Mecklen-
burglj Strelitz (Duchess of Cambridge’s eldest
daughter) receives $15,000 a year, the Prin
cess of Teck $25,000. Tlren there are the
younger children of the Queen still to he pro
vided for, and the Prince of Wales’ children.
Taking this amount of near three millions of
dollars in gold, the English people, with
their heavy debt and heavy taxation, do not
look with favor on any additional burden.
A Streak of Luck—$300,000 Found in
a Thunk.—We have heard tell of streaks
of luck, but verily, the most pre-eminently
fortunate one that ever reached our knowl
edge struck our friend and respected towns
man, Miles K. Bell, Esq., yesterday. He was
rumaging over some old iamily relics in the
;arret of his residence on Main street, when
ie found, upon opening an old-fashioned
hair trunk, the handsome and princely sum
of $300,000. Words are inadequate to ex
press the great delight of the finder on find-
ng himself so suddenly and almost incredu
lously transferred from comparative poverty
to the possession of wealth, and the many
blessings attendant thereon.—Norfolk (Va.)
Bay Book, September 8th.
The Norfolk Journal gives a statement sim
ilar to the above, except it put9 the amount
of money found at $350,000.
A Bot’s Composition on Corns.—Corns are of
two kinds, vegetable and animal. Vegetable corn
grows in rows, and animal corns grows on toes.
There arc several kinds of com: there is unicorn,
capricorn, corn dodgers, field com, and toe com,
which is the com that yon feel most. It is said, I
believe, that gophers like com, bnt a person hav
ing corns does not like to “go far,” if he can help
it. Corns have kernels, and many colonels have
corns. Vegetable corn grows on the ear, but ani
mal com grows on the feet, at the other end of tbe
body. Another kind of com is acorn; these grow
on oaks, but there is no hoax about tbe corn. The
acom is corn with an indefinite article, bnt the toe
com is a very definite article indeed. Try it and
see. Many a man when he has a com, he wishes
it was an acom. Folks that have corns sometimes
send for a doctor, and if the doctor himself is
corned, he wont do as well as if he isn't. Doctors
say that corns are produced by tight boots or
shoes, which is probably the reason why, when a
man is tight, they say he is corned. If a farmer
manages well, he can get a good deal of corn on
an acre, bnt I know a farmer that has one com
that makes the biggest acher on his farm. The
bigger the crop of vegetable com a man raises the
better he likes it, but the bigger the crop ot ani
mal com he raises the better he don’t like it.
The New England Cotton Lords Coming
Down With the Dust.—We learn reliably that
Alexander McClnre, of Pennsylvania, is in the re
ceipt from New England ol 115,000to capture Penn
sylvania at the October election. Another install
ment is promised. The figures look small for the
purchase of so great a commonwealth; about
$500,000 was expended at home in Maine. Be
sides a heavy sum must be kept in band for New
Hampshire, where the fraudulent Jacobin majori
ty was but between one or two thousand last
spring. The leading Radical tricksters give up
Connecticut, as we understand. Of course there
is continued Radical clamor from Western States
upon New England. Having voted untold gold
to the manufactories of the East, to the very crush
ing out of its own purely agricultural population,
they cry out, under presnre from the Democratic
hosts, “Help, or we sink.”
From '
county, aud claimed a seat from that county. The
Democrat was from Fayette county. The Legislature
abolished Jones county and then the Republican
claimed his seat from Fayette eounty. The majority
of the committee reported that the Democrat was
elected by over seven hundred majority, and that his
contestant was not a candidate against him at all.
The Election bill is still under discussion.
Gov. Smith is expected to-night.
The Registry bill, it is thought, will receive his sig
nature; but it is hardly probable that there will be
an election for Presidential electors, a3 there is not
now time to complete a registration.
It has been raining hard since yesterday after
noon. The creeks are reported very high.
The cotton receipts thus far, this season, are about
9000 bales. Stock on hand, to-night, 3410. A lot of
cotton wa3 soli) to-day at twenty-six cents.
From Washington.
Washington, October 1.—All the cavalry recruits
at Carlisle Barracks are ordered to report to Gen.
Sherman to fight the Indians.
Col. D. S. Goodloeis appointed Revenue Supervisor
for Kentucky. No appointment is made for New
York.
Gen. Custar is ordered to his regiment,' which is to
act immediately against the Indians.
The treasure in the Treasury vaults amounts to
about eighty millions. Thirty millions will be required
on tbe first proximo, for interest on the five-twenties.
Revenue to-day, $457,000.
Washington, October 2.—Evarts remains in New
York until next week.
Benj. Reddick, alias Charles Snovel, i3 held in Bal
timore, in default of five thousand dollars bail, for
pension frauds.
Government clerks work from 9 a. m. to 5 p. M.
Revenue to-day $759.000..
Gen. Gordon Granger departed to-day to tempora
rily relieve Gen. Thomas, commanding the Depart
ment of the Cumberland, who comes to participate in
the inquiry of ordnance frauds.
It is stated that tho monthly debt statement will
show $4,000,000 increase.
The official vote of Maine is still withheld.
The Government expenses for September, exclusive
of interest on the publio debt, are S9S.50O.OOO.
Diplomatic circles wait for Cuban news anxiously.
The State Department has the following:
“ A Provisional Government has been organized by
the insurgent chiefs. Tbe Queen left the Spanish ter
ritory yesterday.
[Signed] John P. Hale, Minister, etc.”
A letter from Arkansas, to an ex-Senator from that
State, says: The registration is general throughout
the State. Thousands of colored people will vote the
Democratic ticket. The writer,in whom the ex-Senator
has confidence, gives assurance of a full Democratic
Congressional delegation from Arkansas, and twenty
thousand majority for Seymour and Blair.
Washington. October 3.—Gen. • Sibley’s report of
tbe Camilla affair is withheld from the reporters. It
is stated that the first report telegraphed from Bain,
bridge is in many rospccts supported. The report
reached the headquarters of the Freedman’s Bureau
to-day.
Washington, Octobers.—Gen. Howard reports all
the expenditures of the Freedmen’s Bureau, to An
gust 1,1S5S, at seven million nino hundred and thir
ty-five thousand dollars.
The opening of Gen. Hancock’s wound will delay
the Ordinance Fraud Court, and leaving Gen. Thomas
on duty as commander of the Department ofTem
nessee.
Gen. Grant’s return is deferred to the last of Octo
ber. Secretary Browning has returned.
The contract for printing postage stamps for four
years was awarded to the National Bank Note Com'
pany, Newark.
Gov. Parsons, of Alabama, visited the President
to-day.
London, Octobor 3.—It jj announced a . L
Powers of Europe will allow thrir
tions with Spain to remain in
Disraeli has issued an address toJdL .
Alluding to the disestablishing Tt2!
he gays it meant the severing ofcM^
that it also involved the stirring I
eor and bitterness in Ireland ; that it wi 1
Property and make confiscation
worse than all. give England toPop^ V
ally to the rule of a foreign power 1 *
- H is reported that a commercial treaty
ified between Holland and Prance. Delr^ l
pected to join in the treaty. 1 *
At Barcelona the people sacked the tn>W
publicly burned the Qneen’s portrsit (W
endeavored to quiet the mob and was ttti
escaped under cover of night. , :
Basjols is appointed to the command sftJ
vinces of Catalonia by the Provisional j untiu I
Georgia legislature.
Atlanta, October l.-The House hill to t-J
free persons of color from being eleco l- 0 -.4
lost. “1
The bill to compel common camemop:ovij { I
accommodations, etc., was lost.
An act to prescribe an oath to he adminis
voters, for electors for President and Viet 1.,
of the United States, and for Governor of tifijl
and other officers, was passed. |
Mr. Bryant, Republican, is charged with 1.1
office under the United States, and is
qualified to hold a seat in the House. A rt:;l
was passed appointing a special committteofil
investigate his case. r
Atlanta, October 2.—The House passed th; J
make uniform all tickets used at election^ v
prevent frauds. Both Houses have passed bi|
inz about $3.0150,000 aid to railroads in thitiu
DeGraffenried, the present Secretaire.’Su
been nominated for Congress in the FoatthDbs)
Georgia by the Republicans.
From Virginia.
Richmond, October 2.—John Perkin- ibid
Ben Jefferson, (negro,) to have been hr:; u-|
Portsmouth, for an outrage on a lady, ire:
until the Pth inst., by the Governor, whs was)
graphed last night that they could trove t
nocence.
Gen. Stonemanbas issued orders for snicvtJ
tion of the accident on the Central Baikal
some of the 29th Infantry were killed acl m
Democratic
m the National Intelligencer, 26 ult.
There is a blithesome maiden that lives next
door to me; her eyes are black as midnight, and
handsome as can be. Her cheeks are fall of dim
ples, and read as any rose; and then this love of
mine, too, has got a Roman nose! I asked her ii
she’d have me (that was the other night), and this
was her reply, friend: “Why, Jimmy, you are
•tight’ 1” Says I, “I know I have, love, aboard a
little wine, but that is not the question—will you,
or not, be mine ?” And then she put her face,
friends, as {near mine as she could, and with the
sweetest smile, friends, said simply that she would
—escort me to the door, if I was ready to depart
And thus it was the girl next door declined my
hand and heart. - "
General Hews.
' Washington, October 1.—Several New York papers
denounce the Assistant Treasurer for secret sales of
gold.
Corondelet, Mo., October 1.—General Hancock’
wound received at Gettysburg has re-opened and wil
detain him here a month.
New York, October 1.—The bonded warehouse,
known as the Empire store, was burned to-day. Does
half a million.
Cincinnati, October 1.—Jacob Flinn, long Judge of
the Criminal Court, is dead. Theodore Jones, artist,
is also dead.
Chicago, October 1.—Robbins, President of the
Board of Trade, has failed—liabilities $100,000.
Philadelphia, October 3.—Col. J. W. Forney, pre
sided at the Convention of Boys in Blue. From twelve
to fifteen thousand persons were in procession, which
included local clubs.
New Orleans, October S.—Storms has prevented
ont-door trade to-day. The storm, wind and rain
commenced on Thursday night, and have raged, ever
since, with but short intervals. It shows no sign3 of
cessation. A continuous east wind has backed the
water of Lake Ponchartrain through the canals and
Horrible Indian ATR0Cinz>.-‘'.Vesr |
ver,” says the Frontier Index, •• possibly t
eight or thirty miles away, waslocikdi-ai
tlement of white citizens, with tkdrfiaifo
lew days ago all the men but three or tar I
out hunting. Shortly after their levritg ■
a band of fiends, numbering one hondRliill
descended upon this peacaole abode. TheJ
were killed and scalped; thedzelUcjsviiel
ed, with contents. These scenes se are si
tomed to hear of every day, bnt tbit vtodf
lows seems incredible: seventeen zoiil
girls were taken out, and every one mider
the blood thirsty, hellish hoands-not e:|
twice, but six, eight, twelve, andr - J
ty times. Not satisfied with this, they zvre J
ly dismembered, hacked to pieces, sone of 1
even having the bowels torn ont andfan?B|
faces. Everyone still living was compe.’ 1
buts and slashes of the knife, and blows
face to stand and witness the tortures ottel
tims. One poor woman was found swer
three arrows stuck into her person. ■» T
long enough to relate the horrible tali
“General Sherman attempted to ns«e a
at Denver, and was hooted dowD. Hevroui.1
been mobbed for saying that 'the Indnns wi
quiet; there is no more danger, but ilie
thorities protected him. As jt was, be wai
and burnt in effigy by the excited,
pie. To prove that Sherman’s words be:-|
own belie I, he took along three eonapanieeffij
airy to protect him when he went up toe oj
Three davs subsequent to this incident lo
the “horrible atrocities mentioned above-l
yet when asked day before , j
the track with Frank Blair, ‘why he nta j
speeches,’ he replied, laughingly, tw.
preached war and depredations, lt I w £ I K T
the Eastern immigration; the people r-:-
not come West to locate.’"
Capitalists are Awake a .
Supine.—Mr. Lord, a nephew of Samuell^
founder of the millionaire firm ot Lord x J
dry-goods men of New York, has 1Ut . «
thousand acres of land near Norfoft. ^
two dollars an acre.. He has been * 1 ) ^ J
for the land. bn. M- £
it, and says he will hold on ti! one bnnare
Jars is offered, and then, perhaps* - 1
Bl He had'on board the Albenudc m^^j
one hundred barrels of sweet V 01 *;';
sold this season ol peas $400, of toa*o» UJ
and has a large breadth ot yeannt3Com-=-
which are [very promising. Ho brail
soon as he can procure the sets a • |
hops, and irom bis experience in „ J
crop, he regards it as the safest‘ lt 1
ble crop he can grow, as long j»
cents a pound, and upwards.—
Sagacity of x Horse.—An old
Ahat has been running at will throng ; . jr J
^nd commons, lost one of his shoes '* ,:J
with the intelligence of a bnmsn, ww^ t |
horse walked up to tlm cl
hi had been shod for the last twent y ^7
the best of his ability asked J
him, by raising his foot and 3
The smith, bring busy, dro\ e bi ^
times during yesterday, and
„ ng s
angry bull rushed down upon him, and, with his
horns tossed him over a fence. The Irishman re
covering from his fall, upon looking up saw the
bull pawing and tearing np the ground, (as is the
custom oi the animal when irritated,) whereupon
Fat, smiling at him, said:
“If it was not for yonr bowing and scraping and
and yonr humble apologies, yon brute, iaix I
should think yon haa thrown me over this fence
on purpose.”
Court Scene in New Orleans.—The New Or
leans Picayune is responsible for the following:
The Judge of one of onr municipal courts sat
gloomy and grand on his bench of ermine. The
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f »■
A Young Lady’s Soliloquy.—Useless,
aimlessly drifting through life, what was I
bom for ? For somebody’s wife, my mother
says. Well, that being true, Somebody keeps
himself entirely from view; and if naught
bnt marriage will settle my fate, I believe I
shell die in an unsettled state. For, though
I am not ugly—pray what woman is ?—you
might easily find a more beautiful phiz; and
then, as for temper and manners, ’tis plain he
who seeks for perfection will seek here in vain.
Nay, in spite of these drawbacks, my
heart Is perverse, and I should not feel
grateful “for better or worse,” to take the
first booby that graciously came and offered
me those treasures, his home and his name.
I think then my chances are small; but why
should I think of such chances at all? My
brothers are, all of them, younger than I, yet
they thrive in the world, and why not let me
try? I know that in business I am not an
adept, because from such business most
strictly I’m kept. Bnt—this ia the question
that troubles my mind—•Why am I not trained
up to work of some kind ? Uselessly, aim
lessly, drifting through life, why should I
wait to be somebody’s wife.
Vv- .v-t >• vo v‘V i'
nate bnt perceived it, he would have been more
careful In his questions:
“How many times are yon coming np here ?”
“What yerhonor?”
“How many times are yon coming before me ?—
This is the third time the present week 1”
“Oh no, yer honor!”
“DIdt’n I see yon here yesterday?”
“Why, no yer honor, it was last night yeraeed
me, in the concert saloon. It was a hit of drink
we had together, and yer honor did talk beautiful
ly, wid yer canning ways, and saucyjokee. - Aye
yer horor’s the man for the gals. The devil ad
mire ye, but yees are smart.”
“Stop your tongue—yon- can go J”
“Thank ye, yer honor 1”
The prisoner went outr-the judge blushed, and
theapdlence roared. .-v <iv - .
swamps, until tho whole rear of the city is ianun- 'luornin^on'gohig'to tfcetWff
dated. There is an unbroken sheet of water from [£ e 0l( j horse at the door; again heiirOT^
bnt the horse came back, and enKriog J
walked np to the anvil, and there - jjl
fool, thus attracting the particular
smith, who examined the loot.• ie < tJ
off to the “qniek,” ktadly K Bti
Oiu nurse shoe, and fitting it to{Jj jJ
ou; when the gratefnl animal,
way of thanks, trotted off contente . |
{Ohio) Courier.
The Press and * rade ' rse0
Tbe Louisville Journal in the
article addressed to the Board of 13 j
remarks: 0 „ra°4
Now we do not mean to put up a ‘ jj J
to level complaints at basinet^ , i Ta -:j£j
cannot see for themselves the direa tr0 poM
a great, prosperous, well « ond “ a 1 ^ ca :t c«'|
press in their midst, going bro bn.4
South and West and proclaiminS t
nothing that we can say will ftff^ t l , r fail
We will simply remark that pe |
flourishing press, there will be ic « nd thc pSI
business community; and wher>.«ri ^
city is weak, the business of that If
is an undevlatlng^rnteril 0T ^ ere C annu!^J
branch
tnere is not a ai™.,u » uv ‘
terprise in other branches of bnsin«
. - "" inunu Bl v.l
it isstr^
bust,“independent, able toheen^,”“{J&s it I
the commerce which flow* and * gives
the quickening billows of th " w rrr*l‘-
means of being enterprising,
it and make a city where a village " «
A European letter says that °ver*
estimated at a mile in dlimeter, t) £l
saw, making a load noise andehiWt r
The (Mae separated into emM 1 ,
portalike artillery end muricefrY-• d mssy
fragments have been picked up, »
Claiborne street, to the lake. Water is pouring over
the banks of tho canals and it is still raining. The
Ponchartrain Railroad and several street railroad
lines are obliged to stop running, the tracks being
overflowed. The rains have been heavy and general
throughout the State the past week.
LATER.
Tho wind is very high this evening and increasing.
Three steamers between here and Galveston are over
due. Several Now York steamers are due. There
are serious apprehensions for their safety. The tele
graph operator at Fort Pike is supposed to be
drowned. The water in the rear of the city is still
rising. The people are deserting their houses in that
part of the city, coming toward the river,
Ed. Ware, general ticket agent of the New Orleans,
Jackson and Great Western Railroad, attempted to
commit suicide this morning, by shooting himself
seriously in the head.
A man named McGowan, committed suicide in a
cemetery yesterday.
The Democratic State Convention adjourned last
evening, having filled the electoral ticket with
eligible men,and nominating Congressional candidate
for four districts. No nomination yet for the Fourth*
District.
New Yore, October 3.-«From ten to twelve thou
sand people gathered to welcome Gen. McClellan last
night. Hb appearance caused great oheering. He
confined himself to thanking them for their welcome.
The meeting of the Irishmen in the Fifth District,
nominated, George Francb Train, in opposition to
Morrisey. (HP!
Augusta. October 3.—Heavy rains for twenty-four
hours.
Savannah, Ootober 3.—Weather warm,.with heavy
rains for the last 24,hours—heavy winds.
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_« New York Bank Statement
New York, Ootober 3;—Decrease in loans $1,719,000;
specie $846,000: deposits $7,149,000; legal tenders $3,-
347,000. Increase $304,000.
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