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The Greoro-ia, Weekly Telegraph.
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THE TELEGRAPH.
MACON, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 16,166S.
Southern Industry and Resources.
A Foil Account of the Present Material
Condition of that Section—Cotton Man*
ufactnree In Georgia—-Ylrglrila hand*—
The Prospect Directly Ahead, etc.
From the TTorW of the Sth.l
There are fortunes to be made in the
South. Despite unsettled labor, impaired
capital, and scant credit, industry flourishes,
even in the midst of political agitations,
! after a fashion which suggests great results
! ^hen these temporary disturbing causes are
i withdrawn. With almost, if not quite, all
i the natural advantages of the North in the
■way of mineral deposits, harbors, grain lands,
Eatonton, October 9th. 18G3.
Jfr. Editor ; Please publish the following
appointments. I will address the people of
the 4th Congressional District in the follow
ing order:
At Griffin, Thursday, October 15th.
At Barnesville, Friday, October 16th.
At Forsyth, Saturday, October 17th.
At Indian Spring, Monday, October 18th. ^
At Macon, Tuesday evening, October 20th. • an d water power/the South has a peculiarly
At Jeffersonville, Thursday, ^October 22d. j m jid climate and a monopoly of cotton land.
[ These possibilities of wealth have not
1 escaped the exceedingly acute notice of some
I of our- moneyed men, and in reading the
■ Southern papers one comes every now and
; then on some mention of an investment which
' seems to indicate a belief in Northern finan-
At Milledgeville, Saturday, October 24tb.
At Monticello, Tuesday, October 27tb.
At Covington, Thursday, October 29tb.
At Conyers. Friday, October 80tb.
Thos. G. Lawson.
The Cotton Chop op 1868, Eighteen I «al circles of a not very distant return to
a HE gotton ^rop ’ __ : peace. With a settlement of existing political
Hundred Thousand Bales The planter , difficulties, the value of Southern investment
Entitled to Thirty Cents.—We invite at- j W ould at once appreciate, and as this settle-
tention to the interesting andhigbly import- , meet, when it does come, will come at once,
ant communication of Mr. Toney, of Ala- i these investments that are from time to time
, __ it;, 1.„ i noticed, indicate that some of our long-
bama, upon these pom . e < headed financiers are speculating for a rise,
found on the first page of to-day s Tele- j that can now be bought in the South
graph. We believe Mr. Toney is right in ; for from $1 to $10 would, with a definite
his figures j pacification of the political situation, go up
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mate of falling off in this year a from last. proportionately in value. But to argue that
year’s production is one-third, and generally ; an acknowledged solution of the Southern
it is larger. Now deduct one-third from last problem would appreciate Southern properly,
would be to argue a fact that is already ad
mitted, and, without further on that point,
it may be of interest to give some general
account of those indications going to show
that Northern capital, though quietly and in
perhaps no very large measure, is now seek
ing investment South. This account will be
best given in a rapid survey of tbe industrial
condition of the two great States, Georgia
and Virginia, with a few statements as to
some of tbeir lesser sisters.
GEORGIA.
This State, as the reader may see, if he will
year’s product, and we have 1,020,596 bales,
which would allow a margin of one hundred
and eighty thousand bales for any excess of
yield over two-thirds of last year’s product.
Crop gathering is now so well advanced
that the deficit is not a matter of conjecture.
Picking, in fact, will soon be over. Most
planters expect to get through with it in Oc
tober, and, as the result of progress so far,
nearly every planter estimates the deficit
from one-third to one-half. There will be
little or no November picking, and that itself i follow this description on tbe map, is
.. . . I singularly gifted. Within its limits are sec-
teils tne taie. ... I tions fit for each of the great positions of la-
The aspect of the cotton market is just i ^or. Taking them in order, from North to
now interesting. We are in the opening of: South, there is first the mining region, then
a grand scramble for about three hundred ' the wheat country, then the cotton-belt, and
millions of dollars. Thirty cents for cotton ! st ° ck c ° un ‘j. es / f Begi ™ D ?
“ . , ; with tbe mineral region, it will be found that
is as cheap as anything going a great deal ^ north of a line starting about the North Caroli-
cheaper than twenty cents for bacon. Thirty J na boundary and running southwest very near-
cents for cotton will give $270,000,000 for i ly across the State, there are wonderful stores
1,800,000 hales. The American speculators i of co ^* iron ’ “ art>1 e, smte, building stone,
’ . . ... c i netroleuni and gold. With the realization
took the lion s share of this enormous sum ■ flowing the close of the war that planting
last year and they mean to do the same this I must cease to be tbe main business, and that
year. Liverpool is now buying on an antici- * mining would be profitable, something over
pated crop exceeding last year’s, and tbe one hundred companies sought and received
margin between Liverpool quotations and
Southern prices is a very broad one, although
our buyers know very well that the crop
must be short. This shows that our Ameri
can buyers are bent upon making a good
from the Georgia Legislatures of 1S65 and
1866 charters of incorporation to develop
these resources. Something over fifty mil
lions were to have been put in these associa
tions, but, on the overthrow of the State gov
ernment, and the disorder then ensuing,
.. , _ ... .. ... . . all but some four or five companies
thing out of this crop if possible. This is j became inoperative, though the fact that
all right; but producers should cherish the
same innocent and laudable purpose. There
is no reason why middlemen should take
half, or third, or fourth, or fifth of the crop.
Just now planters seems to be making a
stand, and we hope they will stand to it.
The Democratic Deuostration in New
some twenty times that number had sought
incorporation must speak very strongly for
the native wealth of this region. The "stone
quarries of North Georgia are very fine, and
as the most accessible specimen, the reader,
if ever traveling on the Georgia Railroad, is
advised to inspect the quality of the stone
turned out at Stone Mountain, a station just
below Atlanta, as one travels thither from
Augusta. The rough blocks are dressed in
York Last Week.—Citizens returning from j p i a f n View of the car windows, and the ap-
the North speak in enthusiastic terms of the j pearance presented by tbe material is
monster Democratic procession and meeting I that of a quite!* serviceable, easily worked,
which took place in New York last week.—
Imagination could scarcely conceive the gran
deur and magnificence of the spectacle. The
line of march filled the street from curb-stone
to curb-stone and consumed three hours in
passing any given point. Several full rigged
ships illuminated .from topmast to keel—
triumphial cars decorated in the most bril
liant manner—all kinds of trade emblems
adorned tbe procession, and as each man of the
countless thousands bore torch or lantern the
moving mass of light, filling the street as far
as the eye could see, the music of numerous
bands—and tbe shouts and huzzas from
myriads of marchers, altogether combined to
form such a scene as a man may witness but
once in a life-time. Tbe Herald (a Grant
paper) says of it:
Altogether, the procession and its adjuncts
—which the hundred thousand spectators
that patiently waited and watched, and com
mented on in words that were not unkindly
in their character—were supprisingly attract
ive. It is but once in a decade that such an
expression of public feeling, of opinion, can
be obtained even in this metropolis, which
all know is altogether Democratic. Of this
the procession and ratification meeting of
last night will assure the country that in
November tbe metropolis of the Western
world will cast an overwhelming vote for
Seymour, Blair, and Hoffman. The evidence
of this was seen in the demonstration, which
kept hundreds of thousands awake until a
late hour this morning.
John Quincy Adams at Salisbury, N. C.
Salisbury, N. C., October 8.—John Quincy
Adams, of Massachusetts, addressed five thou
sand people here to-day. Among other
things, he said the disposition of the North
•was kindly towards the South, but they de
manded the concession on our part of all the
legitimate results of the war. He then asked
Colonel Cowan and Governor Yance, who
were on the stand, to state explicitly if their
people accepted in good faith: First,
the abolition of slavery forever; second
the overthrow of the doctrine of secession,
third; the settlement and kindly welcome of
Northern people here ; fourth, the guaran
teeing of all his just rights to the negro and
the cultivation of friendly relations with him
by tbe whites 5 The questions were answered
emphatically in the affirmative by those
gentlemen, and ratified by the entire audience,
to whom the vote was put on each question.
Great harmony and enthusiasm prevailed.
All the people expressed astonishment on
hearing from Mr. Adams the amount of
misunderstanding which exist in the North
ern mind in regard to the real purposes and
intentions of the Southern people.
The council of Norfolkhave declined using
gas for street lamps, and have substituted
kerosene oil. Cause, expense.
An enterprising Yankee, to profit by the
earthquake, is engaged in sending buildings
material to Peru and Eqnador.
Chief Justice Chase.—Our paper of the
10th had a telegram authoritatively an
nouncing the political position of Chief
Justice Chase. He would support Seymour.
The occasion of the telegram is seen in the
Northern Radical papers of the 8tb, in which
a systematic effort is made by the organs of
that party to affect the elections in Pennsyl
vania, Ohio and Indiana by misrepresenting
tbe attitude of the Chief Justice.
and handsome stone. The gold dejjosits
of Georgia are well known, and have
been so productive a3 to have caused the
location at Dablonega, in Lumpkin county,
of one of tbe few branch mints in the coun
try. In this immediate vicinity is the Ches-
tatee River, which was to have been flumed
by a company incorporated in 1866, and at
Tallulah Falls, some thirty miles to the north
west^ in Habarsham county, paying opera
tions are now carried on. Just outside of the
town limits of Dablonega itself, there is, also,
a quartz mill in operation, and the latest ac
counts represent a new vein which turns out
to be one of tbe largest and best paying in
the county, as having just been exposed in
its immediate vicinity. To work this a new
stamp mill has been "established by the pro
prietor, Col. R. H. Moore, and the rate is
from six to ten dollars per ton, though in one
place three pennyweights have been obtained
from a single pan. Within tbe last few years
the coal deposits of North Georgia have re
ceived attention, and every Pall the demand
increases. At Castle Rock there is a mining
property of 5000 acres leased by Gen. John
B. Gordon, of Atlanta, on which every
variety of semi-bituminous coal known in
Tennessee or Georgia is found. Tbe de
posits are represented as in the form of four
separate and distinct seams, varying some
what in their specific adaptation. The hard
coal is much used in Atlanta, and is found to
give entire satisfaction. The slate, oil and
iron deposits are not as well known a3 those
mentioned, the companies organized to work
them not having gone into operation from
the causes before stated, but, with the re
currence of order, the attention now tem
porarily diverted will be redirected, it is
thought, with satisfactory results.
The grain regions, lying just South of the
mining 1 districts, have made themselves a
name in New York markets in the Georgia
wheat which manages to lead the new crop
each year, and below the wheat lands comes
tbe “black belt,” as it is called, or cotton re
gion, reaching ont from about Lincoln coun
ty, just above Augusta,clear across the State to
the southwest. Here cotton is seen in its glory,
soil and climate so admirably fostering its
growth that its culture brings to mind the mot
of the fast young planter. “Cotton planting
is most as fascinaitng as faro.” And so in this
region, it is,with the exception that the fasci
nation ishonestandtheprofitsure. Onecrown-
ing advantage of this “black belt” is its prox
imity to first-class water-power. If tbe reader
will look, he will see Columbus on the west,
Macon in the centre, and Augusta on the
east of the State,all in this belt, all on water-
lines, and all backed by water-power. To
manufacture cotton grown at the mill door is
the future of these cities,and it is even now ad
ding to their wealth. In Columbus the mills
were burned at the close of the war, but have
since been rebuilt, and, as bearing on tbeir
condition, the following extract from the
Columbus Enquirer of the 19th ult., may be
ef interest: %
We have on several occasions heard ladies speak in
high terms of tbe beauty and excellence of the goods
of the Eagle and Phcenix Manufacturing Company of
this city. Yesterday we paid a visit to the mills,
and the first glance satisfied ns that the “ half had
not been told us” concerning the fineness and beauty
of these goods, as well as their variety. There are
ginghams as pretty in color and smooth in texture os
any mills in the country can turn out: [cassimeres of
unsurpassed smoothness and beauty: jeans that will
make a suit as neat os broadcloth, and white cotton
goods of unrivalled wearing finalities, compactness in
weaving and snowy whiteness. The colors of these
a f e °. f Brest variety and ibcauty. There is no
cneat about any of them. In compactness of woof and
completeness of finish, they are equalled by few, and
in the market. The Eagle and
Phisnix Company, as we have heretofore said, exam
ined aU the machmcrey adapted to their business. In
this country and Europe, and made choice of the best
without regard to cost. They have availed them
selves ofall the lmprovemenu in the manufacture of
cloth, with an eye to the making of goods equal to any
in the country. And they do make goods equal to any
that can be procured elsewere. No one who exam
ines their fabrics can have a doubt of this fact The
goods speak for themselves. We are pleased to learn
that merchants in all the surrounding country are
finding out their superiority and value, and the ad
vantage they will gain by ordering from the Eagle
and Phoenix descriptions of good that they havo here
tofore been getting from the North. They find here
far hotter goodsat lower prices. We heard lately ofa
merchant remarking that he paid at the North double
the price asked at these mills for yarns for knitting
purposes. And speaking of iyarns, nobody ever saw
whiter, finer or smoother yarns than they make here.
In Macon, the factory which has been on
Capt. Mills’ Report.—The Atlanta New
Era of Saturday contains the report of Capt.
Mills upon the Camilla affray. It contains no
new facts and we have already devoted much
space to both sides upon this deplorable af
fair. He estimates tbe casualties as fol- for ® ome months back, was put on
full time on the morning of the 14th ultimo,
lows: j and is now working three hundred and fifty
As far as it is possible to learn, tbe casual-1 hands, and consuming twelve thousand dol-
ties on that day were as follows: 9 killed, j lars worth of raw cotton per month. Between
(colored) from 25 to 30 wounded, (colored) . Macon and Augusta there are also cotton mills
several slightly; C citizens of Camilla (whites) at Milledgeville, the capital of the State, but
wounded;.none severely. • ^ • their existing condition is not known. Com
ing lastly to Augusta, it will be found thatthe
mills there are in an exceedingly flourishing
condition. The following’exhibit of tbe Au
gusta factory is from the last report:
The gross earnings fer the six months ending July
1,1863, were $139,632.30: the expenses and taxes ag
gregated $31,898.16—leaving as net profit, $107,631.14;
from which two dividends of five per cent, each,
amounting to $60,000, have been paid, enabling the
company to carry to the credit of profit and loss ac
count $47.534.14. making the amount now to the credit
of that acconnt $224, 798.22.
During this period the following statistics:
Cotton consumed, lbs. 1,362,571
Average cost of cotton — 19-93 100
Average yards per loom, per day 4!
Average number of looms running 1
Average nnmber of bands employed 507
Aggregate wages paid _«S7,546.93
Aggregate sales. 519,955.01
Twenty per cent, is the annual dividend of
this factory, and the property is worth the
par value ($600,000) in gold. The immense
water-power backing up this city of Augusta,
aud the rich cotton basin—many of the
heaviest counties in Georgia, and the richest
districts in South Carolina—in the centre of
which it is situated, gives it many advant
ages which mark it out as the seat in a few
years of a very heavy mill interest. Con
nected with this general subject of cotton
manufactures in the South, mention may be
made of a very profitable adjunct, in the
nature of cotton seed oil and oilcake manu
facturing. By a Liverpool circular of the
2d ult., it appears that cotton seed oil was
“in immense favor” at £40 per ton, having
climbed up to that figure from £30 on its
first importation, while rape seed oil, then
£45 per ton, has gone down to £34. Cotton
seed cake was also quoted as in much de
mand at £9 to £9 5s. per ton, being used
for cattle feed. A company which would
grow its own cotton on its own plantation or
plantions, work it up in its own mill or mills,
and crush out the oil from its own
cotton seed, tbe residuum being “cake,”
would, it is evident, be doing a “big
thing,” and, ere long, big as that thing
is, it will be done. In” the Georgia cotton
region the latest accounts are that the mule
trade, an unfailing index of the extent
of the next year’s planting, is very
heavy, several carloads of the long-eared gen
try having already passed through Macon,
and dealers are looking for large sales during
the balance of the year. As of importance,
it must be mentioned before passing from
this cursory view of tbe industrial condition
of Georgia, that a very important link in the
Southern railway system is quite near com
pletion—the Columbia, S. C., and Augusta
Railroad. Still another important road, that
from Albany to Thomasville, where it strikes
the Atlantic and Gulf road, in Southwestern
Georgia, is in process of completion and will
be of immense service in opening np one of
the richest portions of the State. Altogether,
the industrial prospect in Georgia is not un-
cheenng, and appears to sustain the state
ment of a late traveler throughout the South,
that “Northern capital seems to have poured
freely into Georgia alone amoDg her sisters,
and it is an oasis of returning prosperity, be
tween Alabama on tbe one hand and the
desert of South Carolina on the other.”
VIRGINIA.
One great step to industrial development
in the Old Dominion has been taken by the
initiation of a plan to procure a physical
survey of the State under the auspices of the
Virginia Military Institute. For the purpose
of collecting information to aid in the
preparation of this survey, the State has been
divided into four industrial districts: The
first lying along the sea and bay shores; here
the industries are directed chiefly to the
water and to “trucking.” The second divis
ion includes the rest of the tide-water coun
try. The third, the strip of country between
tbe tide-water and tbe Blue Ridge. Tbe
fourth, the country west of the Blue Ridge.
To each of these districts a set of questions
are adopted and correspondence in response
thereto is invited. Some of these questions
may serve to give an idea of the varied natu
ral wealth of Virginia, as thus:
First Division—What are the fish, including under
this head crabs, oysters and tarraidns, that inost
abound in your waters? Tho fowl? The capital re
quired in the various kinds of fishery ? The value of
the year’s catch ? The greatest known yield from the
smallest capital 7 Ditto “trucking?” What are the
principal fruits and vegetables? How leng is navi
gation closed in Winter?
Second Division—From the Seaboard to the head of
Tide-water.—Whatore the staple productions? What
is the yield of each kind to the acre ? What of wood
chopping and lumbering ? Ditto stock-raising and
wool-growing? How long is navigation closed by
ice?
Third Division—Between Tide-water and Blue
Ridge.—What are the minerals and the mines? The
fruits and the vegetables? What the timber, the
range for cattle, tbe water-power? How long, dur
ing tho Winter, must the cattle bchonsed? What are
the greatest profits known from sheep and cattle rais
ing? What are the chief agricultural staples?
Fourth Division—'West of the Blue Ridge.—What
mines and minerals are in your neighborhood? The
chief industries? Tbe value of land improved and
unimproved ? Describe the timber, range and water
power? What drugs, dye stufis, and ornamental
woods have you?
The chief activity now evident in Virginia,
is in the sale of land, such as is susceptible oi
market gardening seeming to have the pref
erence. In Amelia county Gen. Imboden has
sold 20,193 acres at $113,980, to a colony of
thrifty Hollanders, who are said to be well
pleased with their new homes, and to have
written in such terms to their friends and
relatives as have put many of them, both in
Holland and in the northwestern States, in
the mind to join them. Near Norfolk, it is
stated in the Richmond Dispatch, that Mr.
Lord, a nephew of Samuel Lord, of Lortl &
Taylor, in this city, has purchased 1000 acres
at $32 per acre, and has already refused an
offer of $50 per acre. The chief use of this
tract is market gardening,and some idea of the
profits may be derived from the statement
that $400 worth of peas, and $1000 worth of
tomatoes have been sold this season, and that
in one steamer to New York, 100 barrels of
sweet potatoes were sent from the farm.—
The soil has also been fonnd to be admirably
adapted to bops. A tract of 5000 acres at
West Point has also been lately purchased
by a Northern company as a “truck-farm,”
and the Alexandria Journal is perhaps not
far from the mark, in saying that there are
hardly any of these last Virginia lands that
by proper cultivation cannot be made to pay
from 15 to 40 per cent, on the investment.—
Tbeir proximity to tbe great cities opens an
abundant market for vegetables and fruit.—
Some weeks since a party of some twenty
gentlemen from Maryland and Pennsylvania
“prospected” extensively through Virginia,
as also the Carolnas, and on their return em
bodied their views in a card which says:
We arc of tho unanimous opinion that tho country
which we passed and visited offers superior induce
ments to active, industrious emigration, for the fol-
owing reasons: First, its mild andsalnbriousclimate,
with its gentle summers and short winters. Second,
healtfulness and good society. Third, cheapness of
land, and excellent market facilities. We are also of
the unanimous opinion that much of the land we ex
amined is equally as fertile as the land of our own
State, and, if cultivated and improved by our system
of farming, would yield a richer reward.
Beside this “trucking” interest, there seems
an activity in mining indnstry in Virginia,
and we read of a citizen of Alexandria who
is now running an asbestos mine on the line
of the Danville Railroad, and a marble quaf-
ry in the lower valley of Virginia, with good
success, and is now preparing to open and
develop a large deposit of plumbago. In
Smyth county, it is stated by the Lynchburg
Virginian that an extremely rich plaster bed
has been discovered. It says:
The main bed is situated in what is called tho
Cove” (on Cove Creek, a branch* of the north fork
of Holston River), about twenty-five miles north of
Wytheville and fourteen miles east of Saltville, the
present terminus of the branch of the Virginia and
Tennessee Railroad. The route from thence to tho
Cove jj up the valley of the Holston, a most favor
able line for a railroad—the grades would be about
fifteen feet to the mile—descending with the export
tonnage. The quality of this plaster is superior to
any now known on this continent. Such as nave had
a fair opportunity of testing it with tho Nova Scotia,
fix their relative value at fifty to one hundred per
cent, in favor of the Virginia—that is to say, one ton
of the Virginia is equal to oneandahadf to two of the
Nova Scotia. In quantity it is enormous—it under
lies hundreds of acres in a compact body. A well, or
shaft, ten feet in diameter has been sunk at one point.
Within four feet from the surface plaster was reached.
reaching the bottom of the vein or deposit, so con
tinuous was tho plaster—no water came in—the
piaster continuing of a uniform superior quality
throughout.
FLORIDA.
Next to the great States of Georgia and
Virginia, little Florida seems to exhibit the
greatest industrial activity, her adaptation to
the production of early vegetables and trop
ical fruits attracting much attention. East
Florida is ahead in point of attraction from
its greater diversity pf resources and closer
proximity, by rail and steamer, to the great'
markets, though the Southern and Western
portions of the State are, ns will be shown,
not so very far behind. In the neighborhood
of the St. John’s River, on the banks whereof
it may be mentioned that Mrs. Harriet Beech
er btowe lives in peace and comfort, the
orange culture is attracting much attention,
and tound to be tbe source of considerable
profit. A species of curculio is, at a certain
stage of growth, apt to be damaging, but is
not more frequent in its appearance than the
cotton worm. Passing this stage, the orange
groves bear so luxuriantly, that at a fraction
of a cent apiece for tbe finest oranges tbe crop
is found to pay. All fbe choicer vegetables
can be raised in tbe open air weeks before
they are forthcoming in more Northern lati
tudes. and in supplying the great markets
with them is a sure field of profit. Already
there is considerable doing in this direction
and profitable room for more. At Jackson
ville it is stated by the Boston Journal that a
first-class hotel is now in progress. It is to
be built by Northern capitalists, and a num
ber of Boston mechanics have recently gone
there to superintend and lead in the work,
Passing to South Florida the following ac
count is furnished by the Tampa Peninsular,
of the 12th tit.:
The tide of inmigration is setting into South Flor
ida. Since the war the population of Hernando,
Hillsborough tad Polk counties has largely in
creased, and tie population of Manatee has, no
doubt, trebled luring tbe same time: and stilt they
come. The greiter number of these emigrants are
from the Soutbtrn States, but there are many from
the North and West. There is quite a colony of hard
working "down Easters” settling at Sarasota, in
Manatee, andthey will soon make the rich keys in
that vicinity become the most desirable land in the
State. There are thousands of acres of fine land,
adapted to tht raising of tropical fruits and garden
ing, all along lie Gulf coast, and will donbtless, in a
few years, becime densely populated. The land is
good, and tho <ays, inlets, creeks, and branches are
full of tho finetfisb. oysters and clams, and the cli
mate is delightful. Come along, emigrants, there iB
still room for thousand) more.
In West Florida special* mention must be
made of Gadsden county as a section of the
State has alwajsbeen a region of small farms.
Under the sensible direction of the lawful,
but now ousted, Chief Justice, Hon. Charles
H. Du Pont, a readent of the county, a full
exhibit has been nade of its advantages.—
The soil is a stroDg red clay, and in it marl
deposits of great extent have just been dis
covered. Vegetable) grown in this county
have been delivered in New York on the
fourth day after being started. Besides
vegetables, cotton, oringes, corn, and grapes
are largely grown, tut the chief advantage
of the county is in wbat is known there as
“the poor man’s crop,” Cuba tobacco. The
account given of this is so interesting that
we subjoin:
The most distinguishing trait in the agriculture of
Gadsen county, prior to the war. was the great atten
tion which was given to the cultivation of tbe Cuba
tobacco. This culture was icaugurarted by a worthy
gentleman, by the name of John Smith, who emi
grated from Virginia and stttled in the vicinity of
Quincy, about tho year 1829. His extraordinary suc
cess soon induced others to g* into the culture, and in
tho courso of a few yeara the * Cuba tobacco” became
a staple product of the county, second, only if at all,
to cotton. For a number of years immediately pre
ceding the war, the production of this staple within
the limits of the county avdagej from 3000 to 40C0
boxes, of four hundred pounds each, annually and
readily commanded on the tlantations, in cash, from
25 to 50 cents per pound, tin average annual in
come to the county of $3)0,000.] The purchases
were generally made by scents of German houses,
sent out from New York nndBremcn. The rrcat ad
vantage attending this new enterprise w . the
principal labor required to save and. house tae crop
came on between the laying Sy of the cotton crop and
tho picking season of the iame, and the handling
and boxing preparatory tq sending to market
could be dono only in damp and rainy weather, when
the laborers could not be emiloyed in out-door work.
It thus came to be esteemed br the cotton planters as
an extra crop, the avails of which as a general thing,
more than paid the entire expmses of the plantation,
without, in the slightest degree, operating to curtail
the staple crops of cotton and provisions. This cul
ture was almost entirely confimd to Gadsden county,
whoso soil and climate seemed peculiarly adopted to
tho production of the article, and to its introduction
as a new staple was she maitly indebted for her
rapid increase in material wealth prior and up to the
close of the late war: and if her citizens were in a
condition to incur the expense, they would doubtless
be ready to erect a monument tc the memmory of her
worthy citizen, John Smith, now deceased, more
deserving of the homage and apjrobation of posterity
than are those which have been designed to perpetu
ate the deeds of military chieftahs. With the change
in the system of agricultural laaor. induced by the
results of the late war, the culture of the “Cuba to
bacco” has been almost entirelyabandoned, but this
abandonment will be of only teuporary duration, for
it is emphatically the “poor man’s crop,” as every
member of the family, from six years of age and up
ward, can be profitably employed in either the culti
vation or preparation of the article for market.
Beside market-gardening, there ie n’ao ex
cellent scope in Florida for enterprise in
the Cuba cattle trade. In Southern Georgia
and middle and South Florida, there are
fine cattle ranges, where, at a very trifling
cost, beeves can be raised for the Havana
market. Something is already doing in this
way but there is room for more. In Georgia,
in especial, there is abundant nutriment all
the year round in tbe shape of what is called
“wire-grass,” a hardy species of herbage,
taking its name from its wire-like look, but
very sweet and mneb liked by cattle.
A GENERAL VIEW.
With this particular account of affairs in
three States, chosen specially since cotton
manufactures, as in Georgia, and early veg
etable farms, as in Virginia and Florida, will
probably receive the first attention of those
desiring to either move to or invest in the
South, it is interesting to notice the tendency
toward what may be termed tbe ante-cotton
crops. Thus in Louisiana and South Carolina,
as also to some extent in Georgia, the culture
of indigo was a speciality prior to the inven
tion of the cotton-gin. Only the other day
there was an article ia the Columbia (S. C.)
Phcenix referring to this crop, and advising
some steps looking to its revival. In De Bow’s
Review for September is also an interesting
sketch of the old indigo works near New
Orleans. In Oglethorpe’s time silk was raised
in Georgia, and shortly prior to the war some
effort was made to turn attention in South
Carolina to the olive, the pine lands of that
State being represented as admirably adapted
to its production. iYine-making" is also
a destined business of the South. In Mon
roe County, Georgia; is a vineyard of five
acres, producing yearly 1,600 gallons of
wine, and yielding a profit of something
like $1,000 per acre. In Roanoke county,
Virginia, is also a fine vineyard of sixteen
acres, which has been ten years in cultiva
tion, and will send this season into market
from 60,000 to 80,000 pounds of grapes, the
estimated profit being $12,000. In tbe vicin
ity of Aiken, S. C., are also well-established
vineyards. It may, and doubtless will, be
years before tbe culture of any of tbose pro
ducts rises into a national importance, but as
even cotton lay dormant till the cotton gin
gave it value, it may not impossibly be that
the terrible blow dealt cotton by the war may
in turn inure to the fostering of wine-making,
the culture of silk, indigo, and tbe olive.—
The immense oak forests of the South also
present a fine opening for investment in the
preparation of bark for tanning purposes.—
Sawmills can be made very lucrative; rail
roads, languishing for lack of capital, are to
be had cheap, ancl above all tbe great interest
of cotton manufactures presents a margin
of profit that may be estimatecl by a study of
the figures already furnished in reference to
the mills now operative. For the most part
application of capital in any of these direc
tions may be made profitable at once, but
even where not, it is thonght that, though
necessarily an incomplete manner from the
magnitude of this subject, enough has been
said to show the advantages now presented
in the South for waiting investments.
PRESS DISPATCHES.
Gen. Slocum.—The Radical prints have
been busy representing Gen. Slocum as sup
porting Grant. This is how he does it:
New York, October 8.—An immense Dem
ocratic Boys in Blue meeting was held in
Brooklyn to night. Twenty thousand soldiers
were in line, and forty thousand people were
in attendance. Five mass meetings, from as
many stands, blazed at once. The city was
illuminated and shone as a beacon.
Gen. Slocum presided. He made the first
speech he has delivered this campaign. It
was a powerful, aggressive, simple appeal to
soldiers as soldiers, treating entirely of the
reconstruction measures and of negro su
premacy. Many others spoke, and not till
midnight did the affair conclude.
The Late Gen. Cobb.—New York dis
patches say the inquest on the body of Gen.
Cobb returned a verdict of death from apo-
plexy. ' J
From Washington.
TYishisgtox, October 11.—New whisky regulations
have been issued. The following are the' provisions
for commencing operations:
No distiller’s bond should be approved, until his
distillery warehouse has been provided and estab
lished, under the act of July 20th, 1868; and no distil-
lerytshould be permitted to start until a store-keeper
has been assigned to such warehouse by the Commis
sioner of Internal Revenue.
■Washisgtox, October 12.—Gen. Reynolds’ prohibi
tion of the election in Texas, i3 disapproved.
The President is about issuing an order, in which
the Constitution and the laws are cited, in condemna
tion of such interferrence by the military officers un
der penalty of fine and imprisonment.
Washirgiox, October 12.—In a telegram of tho 4th
inst., Mr. Hale applied for instructions, in view of the
political situation at Madrid. Instructions were
given through the same medium on the 5th inst. Mr.
Hale now telegraphs that, in compliance with the in
structions, he has recognized the new Government at,
Madrid. This proceeding has been confirmed.
Gen. Thomas is here. He called on the President
and Shcofield. It is understood thatthe Dyers inves
tigation having been postponed,Thomas returns to bis
court at once.
Gov. Boreman, of West Virginia, is here. He wants
troops for the election. He thinks the moral effect
of a few companies will answer his purpose.
In noticing tho President’s order of to-day the Star
says: "In Republican quarters it seems to be appre
hended that in those unrepresented States the Con*
servatives will now make arrangements to choose
Presidential electors, and that President Johnson
will demand that their votes be counted.”
Washington, October 13.—Brigham Young is one
of the bidders to carry tbe mails between the eastern
and Western terminus of the Pacific Railroad.
Senor J. M. Vele presented his credentials to-day as
Charge de Affairs from Guatamala and San Salvador.
Tho Commissioner of Pensions estimates the require
ments of his Bureau.next year at $2*.500.000. On June
30th there were over 1C9 names on the pension rolls.
The President proclaims the 26th of November as a
day for praise, thanksgivingand prayer, The procla
mation says: “We aregpermitted to hope that the
long protracted political and sectioual dissensions are,
at no distant day, to give place to returning harmony
and fraternal affection throughout tho Republic.”
The Evening Express gives vague particulars of a
plot to murder Mr. Johnson. It promises explicit de
tails to-morrow.
Washington. October 14, noon.—The following
summary of news is gleaned from several sources:
Ohio—Strader, Democrat, is elected from the 1st
District by 200 majority.
Indiana—The State ticket is close, bnt Baker’s elec
tion is conceded. The 3d Congressional Dstrict is
doubtful. Kerr and Niblack are elected- Tbe rest of
the deiSration is Radical.
Pennsylvania—The press estimates tho Republican
majority at IS,000. Moffatt, Democrat, carries the
3d District by 190 majority. Covode, [in the 21st Dis
trict, is probably defeated.
Reading—The Democrats carry the 5th District.—
The Democrats will carry the city by a majority rang
ing from 191 to 3348. The city Council is largely Re
publican.
Nebraska—Returns indicate 2000 Republican major
ity. with Legislature strongly Republican.
The following estimates are made up from the latest
figures:
Congressmen, (Pennsylvania) 1st District, Randall,
Democrat, majority 6151; 2d District, O’Neil, Repub*
lican, majority 3'4;*: 3.1 District. Moffatt, Democrat,
.% <-t--:.a district. Kelly, Republican, majority
—A: atli District. Reading, Democrat, majority 400;
District, Stiles, Dem; 7th Dist.,Townsend, Repub
lican; 8th District, Gotze, Democrat; 9th District,
Dickey, Republican; 10th District, Coke, Republican;
11th District, Van Aucken, Democrat; 12th District,
'V oodward, Democrat; 13th District, Mercer, Repub
lican; 14th District, Packer, Republican; 15th District,
Holdeman, Democrat; 16th District, Cessna, Republi
can; 17th, District, Merrill Republican; 18th District,
Armstrong; 19th District, Schofield, Republican: 20th
District, Gilfillando; 21st District, doubtful; 22d Dis
trict, Rigley; Republican: 23dDi$trict,Phelps. Repub
lican; 24th District, Denly, Republican.
Total, Republicans, 15; Democrats, 8, Democratic
gain, 2; with one District doubtful.
Ohio, (Congressmen,) 1st District, Strader,Democrat;
2-1 District, Stevenson; Republican; 3d District,
Schenck, Republican; 4th District, Lawrence, Repub
lican; 5th District, Mungcn, Democrat; Cth District,-
Smith, Republican; 7th District, Thomas, Democrat;
8th District, Beatly, Republican; 9th District, Gibson,
Republican; 10th District, Hoag, Democrat; 11th Dis
trict, Wilson, Republican: 12th Dictrict, Vantruncs).
Democrat; 13th District, Morgan, Democrat; 14th Dis
trict, Welker, Republican; 15th District, Moore, Re
publican: 16th District, Bingham, Republican; 17th
District, Amble, Republican: 18th District, Upson,
Republican; 19th District, Garfield, Republican.
Total, Republicans, 13; Democrats, 6. Democrat
gain, of 3 Congressmen,
Indiana—First District,iNiblack, Democrat: 2d Di 3 "
trict, Kerr, Democrat: 3d District, Lamb; Republican:
4:h District, Julian, Republican; 5th District, Coburn,
Republican; 6th District, Carlee, Republican; 7th Dis
trict, Orth Republican; Sth District, Pratt, Republi
can; 9th District Shanks, Republican. 10th District,
Williams, Republican; 11th District, Packard, Repub
lican.
Total, Republicans 8; Democrats, 2.
The Republicans elect the entire State ticket in
Ohio, Indiana, Nebraska and Pennsylvania.
Washington, October 14.—The Provisional Govern
ment of Spain yesterday, by telegraph, recognized
Goni as the Spanish Minister at Washington, to tho
extent of directing him to communicate to this Gov
ernment their gratitude for their prompt recognition.
Seward addressed Minisier Hale a telegram to be
read, reciprocating, in tho President’s name, the salu
tations of the Provisional Government, communicated
by tho Spanish Minister here, and to tender the best
wishes of tho United States for the peace, prosperity
and happiness of Spain under the present govern-
ernment.
Rosecranz is here waiting for final instructions.
It is raining steadily.
Northern dispatches slow.
Revenue to-day $155,000.
Republican estimates are 03 follows: Pennsylvania
18.900; Ohio 22.CCO; Indiana 2,500; Nebraska2.000.
United States, or who shall, in like manner, com
pel, or attempt to compel, any officer of an election
in any such State, to receive a vote' from a
person, not legally qualified to vote, or who'
shall impose, or attempt to impose, any rules
or regulations for conducting election, differ
ent from those proscribed by law, or interfere
in any manner with any officer of said election, in
discharge of his duties, shall, for any such offence, be
liable to indictment for misdemeanor in any court of
the United States having jurisdiction to hear, try and
determine cates of misdemeanor, and on conviction,
thereof, shall pay a fine of not exceeding $5000 and
suffer imprisonment, in a Penitentiary, not exceeding
five years, at the discretion «f the court trying the
same; and any person convicted, as aforesaid, shall,
moreover, be disqualified from holding any office of
honor, profit or trust under the Government of the
United States.”
Approved February .25th, 1835. By command of
Gbn. Grant. E. D. Townsend, A. A. G.
General News.
Mobil*, October 13.—Schooner Alliance, of the
Florida Mail Line, from Key West to New Orleans,
went ashore, in a northeast jrale, at the entrance of
St. Andrews Bay, on the 8th inst., and is lying two
feet in water. The passengers, officers and crew are
safe. Tbecargo saved byasehoener was in a damaged
condition. The purser and passengers arrived at
Pensacola last night; they leave for New Orleans
to-day.
New 1 obk, October 12.—The Henry Channcey has
arrived. The Constitutional Assembly has assumed
the sovereignty of Panama until the Constitution is
formed, and delegated eexentive power to acting
President Serrano, and reorganized the provisional
Government:
Indanapolis, October 12.—The procession of the
White Boys in Blue was fired into from a dark alley
last night. The gun was loaded with small shot Five
or six were severely, though not dangerously
wounded.
New Yoke, October 11.—The funeral of Brevet-
Brigadier General Gates this afternoon was largely stir
tended. The Governor’s Island garrison acted as
escort.
New York, October 14.—The coast Steamers have
arrived late as due.
Augusta, October 14.—J. G. Bryant publishes a
card denying that he used inflammatory language be
fore the negro convention at Macon.
Norfolk, Va., October 14.—The Commercial Con
vention organized by the election of Hon. G. W. Boll
ing as President. A number of Vice Presidents, Sec
retaries and Committees were appointed. Twenty-
five hundred delegates are present. Much interest is
felt.
Ohio Elections.
Washington. October;i3.—Ohio returns meagre,
but show Republican gains all round. Estimated
Republican majority in State 25,000.
Cleveland, O., October 14.—Democratic Congress
men are elected from the 1st, 5th, 9tb. 10th, 12th, 13th
Districts. The Republicans get the balance.
Dayton, Ohio, October 14.—Sihenck beats Vallam
digharn 500.
%
Military Election Order from Gen. Grant,
Headquarters of the Army, )
Adjutant General's Office, >-
Washington, October 10.1S6S. J
General Orders, No. 82.]
Tbe following provisions from the Constitution and
laws of the United States, in relation to the election
of a President and-Vice President of the United
States, together with an act of Congress prohibiting
all persons engaged in the military and naval service
from interfering in any general or special election in
any State, are published for the information and gov
ernment of all concerned:
The following are the authorities quoted: Article
2, section 1, of tho Constitution; article 12 of amend
ments to the Constitution; act of Congress relative
to the election of President and Vice-President, ap
proved March 1,1792; an act to establish a uniform
time for the election of Presidential electors, approved
January 28, 1845; an act compensating persons ap
pointed as electors, approved February 11,1S25. The
order concludes:
“An act to prevent officers of the army, navy, and
other persons employed in the military and naval
service of the United States, from interfering in
elections in said States:
" Bo it enacted, That it shall not be lawful for any
military or naval officer of the United States, or other
persons engaged in the civil, military or naval service
of tho United States, to order, bring, keep, or have
under his authority or control, any troops or armed
men at a place where any general br special election
is held in any State of the United States, unless it
shall be necessary to repel armed enemies of the Uni
ted States, or to keep peace at the polls; and that it
shall not he lawful for any officer of the army or navy
of the United States to prescribe or fix, or attempt to
prescribe or fix, by proclamation, order, or otherwise,
qualifications of voter, in aDy of the States of tho
United States, or in any manner to interfere with the
freedom of any election in any State, or with the exer
cise of free right of suffrage in any of the United States
Any officer of the army or navy of the United States*
or any person engaged in tho civil, military or naval
service of the United States, who violates this provi
sion, shall, for every such offence, be liable to indict
ment for misdemeanor in any cobrt of the United
States having jurisdiction to hear, try and deter
mine cases of misdemeanor, and, on conviction,
shall pay a fifie not exceeding five thousand dol
lars, and he made to suffer imprisonment in the
penitentiary not less than three months, nor*
more thap five years, at the discretion of the Court
trying tho same, and any person convicted as afore
said, shall, moreover, be disqualified from holding
any office of honor, profit or trust under the Govern
ment of the United States, provided that nothing
herein contained shall be so construed as to prevent
any officers, soldiers, sailors or marines from exer
cising the right to suffrage in any election district to
which he may belong, if otherwise qualified, accord
ing to the laws of the State in which he shall offer to
vote.
'Sec. 2. And be it farther enacted, That any officer
or person, in the military or naval service, of the
United States, who shall order op advise, or who shall
directly or indirectly, by force, threat, menace, in
timidation or otherwise, prevent, or attempt to pre
vent, any qualified voter' of any State of the United
States, from freely exercising the right of suffrage! at
From Alabama.
Montooxeby, October 12.—c
proclamation for an el«tCT Q
dent on the 3d of November Th! 6Ut * f °r
issued in accordance with the
the Legislature. Under that law lair Passed;
other election in this State before Nov!LM s
that time members of Congress, Go Ter ^1.5
eer*. legislators, etc., are to be elected ^’ Stat «c«
cumbents to hold over until that time *** Prete »!'
Registration commenced this mornin. •
The negroes largely outnumber the whit a ^
Montgomery, October 13.—Th» v M '
mittee of the Democrat party 0 r . cca J.‘ T e Cc-
withdrawn the present electoral tick** 7*“* In
ted one composed of men who can t»v
StaUsoath At least one hslf7t£V lc
in the Federal army during the *,* ere
settled in thd State since its close/ ‘ Kho 2?
Louisiana Legislature
New Orleans, October 13.-The Hon’ „
on the Investigation of the Conduct of
Hon reported yesterday. A number S
officeshave been closed by order of the
the State Board, inconsequence of judi*u!?‘*
conflicting with the instructions issued
Committee feensure the State Boerd fW .
in the matter, stating that the Boards his •**«
issue such roles and instructions to Locd p° *>»*•
must be guided by the judicial decision, an ^ :b «
by orders from the Courts. The Commi-tl
opinion that a majority of the Board eT^tie
Chairman Baker and one member h?«f
their powers, and recommend the repeal J
tions of the retfstration laws, and a recall
standing the obstacles, the registration is
Bureau Changes.
Washington, October 13.-Major John p ,
of the 44th Infantry, relieves G en . Siblcr
Capt. Geo. W. Gile. Lieut. CoL of the ^ r?^
relieves Col. Sprague in Florida. Gen to?*
His successor
relieved in North Carolina. nT. ^ R> ' a
named.
Foreign News.
Pennsylvania Election.
Philadelphia, Octouer 13, noon.—Considerable
fighting in the suburbs in thel6th Ward. Two men fa
tally shot by the deputy Sheriff.
In the 20th Ward heavy fighting reported between
the police and tne Sheriff.
When the polls were opened at 7 o’clock a long
line of voters were present at each voting place.
There aro strong indications of a heavy vote.
Both parties claim the State, with chances favoring
the Democrats.
Philadelphia, October 13, p. j:.—The Democrats
claim tho city by 6CC9. The Republicans by two
thousand. Several fights are progressing.
Philadelphia, October 13.—Chester county, Penn.
Westchester borough, gives six hundred and eight
Republican majority: Republican gain 85. In eleven
districts of Chester county the Republican majority
is 797 ; Republican gain 102.
Philadelphia, October 13.—In the Eleventh Ward
theDcmocraticmajorityis9C6; gain 124. Fifth Ward,
Democratic majority 1CS6; gain 66. St. Clair, a bor
ough of Schuylkill county, Penn., gives a Republican
majority of 235; Republican gain 167. Columbia bor
ough, Republican majority 111: Republican gain 53.
Lancaster City, Democratic majority 174; Republican
gain 159. Four districts of Delaware county show a
Repnblican gain of US. Titusville, Crawford county.
Republican majority 93; Republican gain 17. Allen
town, Lehigh county, 8 wards, Repnblican majority
175; Repnblican gain 67.
Pmi.AnEi.rHlA, OCtotier 10.- Twelfth 'Ward—Dem
ocratic majority 280; Republican gain 177. Seven
teenth Ward—Democratic majority 1193; Democratic
gain 56. Shrewsbury Township, York county—Dem
ocratic majority 212: Democratic gain 45. Alleghaney
county, as far as heard from—Republican majority
7500; Republican gain 1100. Hecter Township, Car
bon county—Democratic majority 62: Democratic
gain 14. Manchehunk borough—Republican majority
129; Republican gain 9.
Philadelphia, October 13.—Berks county, Rockland
—Democratic majority of2C8; Democratic gain24. Mai
den Crook—Democratic majority 156; Democratic
gain 21. Reading, 6th Ward—Republican majority 2;
Democratic gain 19. Sth Ward—Democratic majority
65; Democratic gain 20. 1st Ward—Republican ma
jority 105; Republican gainl5. 5th Ward—Democratic
gain 59. Spring Township—Democratic gain 23. Pine
Grove—Democratic majority 92.
Philadelphia, October 13.—Centre county, 9 di»
tricts show aDemocratic majority of331; Repnblican
gain 352. York borough, Democratic majority 300:
Republican gain 5S. Carbon county,Democratic ma
jority of 540; Democratio gain 100. Northampton
county, Easton and 11 districts show Democratic ma
jority of 3038; Democratic gain 134. Berks county, 7
districts show a Democratic majority of 6300; Demo
cratic gain 522. In Philadelphia the Democrats elect
Mayor and District Attorney by 1000 majority, kill
ing Oneill and Myers, and re-elected Taylor. Proba
bly the State will give tbe Republicans a majority of
10,000. Chester county, Repnblican majority 2100;
Republican gain 200. Fulton ccnnty, Democratio
majority of 250; Democratic gain 40.
Fayette co., Connellsville Township—Democratio
majority 5; Republican gain 20. Philadelphia, ISth
Ward shows up a republican gain of1600. In Luzerne
county, twelve districts give a Republican gain of 30.
Alleghany county, forty-nine Districts show a Repub
lican gain of2000. Williamsportborongh—Republican
majority 2S0; Repnblican gain 310. Lancaster county,
twenty-four districts show a Republican gain of 540.
Reading City gives a small Democratic majority,
Berks county—Democratic majority about 6000; Dem
ocratic gain 200. Sunbury—Republican majority 2S7
Repnblican gain 232. Franklin county, ten districts
give aRepublican gain of 165. Northumberland—Re
publican maiority 27; Republican gains 53. Philadel
phia, 4th Ward—Democratio majority 1729; Demo
cratic gain 92. Tenth Ward—Republican majority
1008; Republican gain 8. Sixteenth Ward—Demo-
oeratic majority 294; Democratic gain 61.
Private dispatches state Cincinnati gives 4590 Re
publican majority; a gain of300. Indicate Ohio Re
publican by at least 20,000, Indiana reported 7000
Republican majority.
John Quincy Adams in Columbia,
Charleston, October 13.—John Quincy Adams, last
night, addressed an immense meeting of the South
Carolina Democray in Columbia. His speech was
long and elaborate, breathing tho same moderate and
concilatory spirit as his recent letter. In referring
to the pending political struggle he said;
Your relations to the political parties at the North
have a very important bearing upon your fate, at all
events, just now, and demand careful meditation.—
Most of you, doubtless, regard tho success of tho
Democratic party as essential to your escape .from K appreciate the perpl«f$
your present situation; hut it is my duty to remind h f watchfulness.^
you hat men in your position have no right to be thewB> * ub j ectedina situation so trying? J**
bigoted partisans. You must, of course, feel a deep «... .. mj,*™,,™!?
interest in the success of those who espouse your
cause, and you may properly exert all legitimate in
fluence to promote their success; bat you ought not to
shut the door to aid from any source.'
I have already deprecated unreasonable and nndis-
tinguishlng hostility to the Repnblican party. I
would now warn you agaimt an absolute and exclu
sive devotion to any party. If the Democracy sue- t ra \^' of cbarlct'er 'and performed those ae**;
ceed in electing their candidate, you will be suhjectei and wonder,
to temptations as trying as the demand upon your suf
ferance may prove in case Gen. Grant is chosen. Has
ty, ill-considerered, passionate or violent action in
the event of a Democratio success, would be almost
sure, in the end, to turn to your discomfiture and
vender your last estate worse than the first; and yet, it
will require a good deal of self command to control
the reaction from its depression,
But the country, in that event, will be so severely
divided and so greatly excited that a smaU thing
may indaee a terrible catastrophe. On the other hand
At case of Gen. Grant’s election, you will be called on
to exercise, a while longer, your patience and for
bearance. I am sure it will be rewarded in the end.
I do not believe that Gen. Grant is yonr enemy. I
feel sure that he means kindly towards you and will
do jnstice, and show mercy in his course to you. ♦
A large mass of Republicans will help yon, if you
will do your best to help yourselves. A great majori
ty ofall the North only awsdt to be sure it is safe, to
take yon cordially by the hand onee more. Bide
then, your time. In either event possess your souls
with patience. Call to your aid that grandest ofall
human qualities—self-control, and all will be well.
Mr. Adams’ address was well received. Speeches
were afterwards delivered by Hampton'and .others,
with Heaven’s
any general 6rfepeeial election, in any Siat*, of the' The meeting waath^ largest ever.held in this State. forever.,
• “ .• ■ • •.**. ’ ; ' . • . ." • • - V. V
Madrid, October 12.-AU the provinces w ,
mally recognized theZProvisional Junta.
London, October 12.-Telegratcs from Flo re „ w
nounce thatthe King of Italy has formally ZlV
the Republic of Mexico. ’-‘"'I
Havanna,.October 13.—Lursundih S8 isuedsnv
lamation ecjoiniag tranquility.
.^Hich gold mines have been discovered in
Madrid, October 13,-The Junta offered a
ten millions of reals, which was taken in=UntIy
Cuba!' DUlC6 hM bee “ appointed General cf
Great interest is manifested in Cuba rezm'v.
a representation in the new Government 1 S.
abolition of slavery. "
The action of the constituents cf Cortez on tie*-
subjects, is waited with great anxiety.
The Ministers promise Cuba eqniU\ben\ti
Spain.
Paris, October 13.-Gen. Prim published a l«;er
urging the formation of a kingdom jn Spain, 4^
diately. It is said Prim, himself aspires to be
King.
Madrid, October 13.—The Junta is sure of t-*
adhesion of the Captain General of Cuba. Dirpateiu
sent him by steamer, which left Cadiz on tho seccni,
it is believed, will remove all doubts as to his coe ; |
Havana, October 13.—Late Mexican advices ay
that Col. Padilla, Santa Anna’s agent, was captcrei
with papers showing that he intended to incite art:-
olntion.
Havana, October 13.—Lenrsundihas not declaredly |
the Provisional Government, but will maintain tl*
laws and order. He says he is a loyal Spaniard, iti
only retains and governs the island a3 a portion of tbs
Spanish Dominion, irrespective of the pirties coven- j
ing in the Northern country. The island is perfectly
tranquil.
Madrid, .October 14.—The Junta has seized|
Jesuits’ property in Spain, and abolished the order.
Indiana Election.
Indianapolis, October 14.—Thirty-seven courta
show a Democratic gain of nearly 7000. Forty-cne |
counties unheard from. The Democrat; dim tie
State by 1590; Republicans by 2400. Third DistriS
still donbtful.
Honors to the Remains of GeilEoirtU
Cobb.
Savannah, October 14-—The steamer San Sikik:
arrived this morning, with the remains of Gen.H-:w-
ell Cobb. They were met by the Mayor and Alder
men, members of the Bar and citizens, and escorted
to the Central Railroad depot, where a spend Buz
carried the remains to Athens, Ga. Flag; are £jk*
at half mast.
Augusta, October 14.—The remains of Gen. Cot)
arrived here this evening, escorted by commute-
from Savannah and Macon.
OBITUAKY.
Death is the king Of terrors! These are »ordri;
mighty, the deep, the solemn import of which ve sel
dom or never realize until a victim from oar hezt-
hold is claimed. It is, in very truth, a terrible te
for the young—full of hope, full of health, folk: |
vigor—to pass suddenly from life’s busy scene. M
yet more terrible for the dissolute, the proud, rt-
bellious violator of Divine law, checked in his ret*-
less career, to be hnried from time into etemitj:
go with sin-stained soul into the presence of a:
offended avenger.
Bnt when one who has lived his appointed time-
has lived usefully; has performed every datytow
and man; has performed it well, passes from tw
theatre of life to his recompense, a blissful imK^-
tadity, though the external evidences of death-t-t
shrinking features, the deep-drawn sigh, the £ ^ ort *‘:'
ing breath, the last gasp—may wring our soul; v
anguish, yet death wears not that forbidding sq—
we otherwise assign it. . _
Thus it was with the subject whose demise ^
chronicle, Mrs. NANCY FAULK, relict of *
Faulk, which occurred at the residence of net to. -
Twiggs county, September 21st ult., in the siitr® 1 '
year of her age. ... i
She has passed away—how gently, 2
As she lived, so she died—meekly, a Chrutm 3 ;
purefor earth, she was ripe for theP lT ® :
Heaven, she has gone to her reward, n® , v>
spent not in the bustling throng of the P”**
gay, but amid the duties of home andtb e do® ’
circle-in that sphere in which she deligbwdtomov”
and in which she moved so well. inthno»"*"“
to shine, tho glitter and tinsel of fchKm
caught her admiration; but, with earnestoe;' -
meet the requirements aud duties of her station
family, she mildly, but firmly and resolutely*®' 1
accomplished them all. jj,
In every relation of life she was the samecii®* -•
possessed being. If she was apparently tim'd* 1
appearance only, and it was the result either 0
prudence or great sympaty and deep anxiety
welfare of others. _v,j
She was by nature reserved, and most haprr *
most retired. That she was gifted with ,»j
judgment and tact, is proved by the tsettniuj
widow with a large family, her own a;
children, she managed to raise them suceej* ^ I
manhood and womanhood, and to gain ana p
to her death tho affections of them all. ’
It seemed peculiarly her fortune to be cri*c
raise children, of whom Ehe was the pr' nclp _..
in the rearing of no less than six families-
the long nights of anxious, watchfulness, ^
ehe was subjected in a situation sotry'"®- ^ a ’ erI .
ever saw her impatient or ill-humored- " - iS -*
knew her to resort to sterner restraint bt *
Hernature. so kind, revolted not at cruelty o®-* ,
at harshness even. Who will say that she
nobler in her self-sacrificing care, in her mec‘*
tian-like endurance of the toil and anxieties*
dull, wearing routine of motherly duties for s ^.
years devolved upon her, than if she
that cause mankind to stare aud wonder,-
mark an era in the world’s history ? . ^.5,
To her sex, how perfect is herexample 1 3 .j 0 5
how diligent, how exact and prompt in the
of every domestic arrangement l Yet with j a
or confusion. In sickness, how uncomp ?* trfl stis
every trial her reiianeewas in Heaven, . at j-a-
God. Her piety was not noisy or spasmoo'e. ,
bitual, unobtrusive, sincere. Devotion w>
not a disagreeable task, but a pleasant ’ i03 53
was not her homo; she was building a
the skies, and to that mansion she has * 0P? ‘ -,1^
While she was herself preparing her own p
parel, with the same foresight and nicety O' ^
her every act. what glorious visions eM „ e
have had. what foretaste of that ® app ^g not o=-
cannot tell; but this we know, death
looked for or unwelcome. ’’Be ye aleo ** 0 ’^.
hadobeyed. During forty years she had been
her of the Methodist Church. ^ i3t i
With, unfaltering confidence she
valley; she crossed the cold river, but n Ema3 .
Troops of white-robed angels escorted her t ,,
uel’s gates-her home, her ^ ^ besu»’
Friends, weep not 1
angelio host she is naPP*
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