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> The Greorgia "Weekly Telegraph. lat THE TELEGRAPH. MAOON, FRIDAY, JANUARY 15, 1869. What abont Fertilisers? 'YSte trade in Fertilizers is now setting in with rush, and for about two months or more, it will be a trade of mammoth proportions. Few plan- : tors in Middle Georgia will he willing this year to till light uplands without fertilizing. It is, ■frr truth, a dull and stupid business. There is file same degree of satisfaction in looking at and handling such a crop, as there is in looking at one of these little hide-bound yearling bulls, which runs riot on the dried broomsedge, withered leaves and black jack acorns, to be picked up on S country roadside in December. A striking harmony exists between one of these stinted crops and the tight-skinned young taurus afore said. They are the same in appearance and promise. They illustrate equal proficiency in farming and stock raising, and it is time both .were dismissed without a day. tNow, while every planter is thinking over the •matter of fertilizers, we believe it due them to republish the following results of experiments upon their comparative value by Dr. E. M. Pendleton, of Sparta, a gentleman who is well known by reputation all over the State, as a scientific and successful agriculturalist. We ■find it in the Southern Cultivator for Jannary, notice -with pleasure that our friends Gus- t£n & Ayres’ superphosphate takes a leading po sition. We write this with no idea of puffing that article, which is quite superfluous, as these gentlemen tell us they can hardly hope to sup ply a twentieth part of the demand for it this -EXTEKIHENTS WITH FET.TILIZERS—TABLE 1, soil, near Sparta, G JT. PendUton, M. D. Fertilizers used. Eureka Phosphate, Gustin’s Am. Phos., Peruvian Guano, Peruvian and Pacific, > each 50 per cent. / Pacific Guano, Peruvian, 25 per et.,> Pacific, 75 per cent.) Nitro Phosphate, Peruvian andRodunda, f 0 m S i 1 Ter con ment. £ O S3 1 s.f H | 1 » I 188 651 35 75 477 278 580 31 35 418 150 553 29 25 390 162 506 26 07 347 176 488 25 60 310 170 464 23 01 309 188 445 21 89 292 375 323 13 97 186 Note 1st The experiment was made in sin gle rows, 112 yards long, and corresponding rows of natural soil, planted, and carefully weighed and contrasted. The amount was then ..calculated pro rata for a whole acre. 2~ The cotton was picked dry pn sunny after noons, and 3J lbs. of seed counted as producing one of lint, and die whole rated at 22 cents net per lb., for which it was sold. 3. The valne of the seed was not estimated, lint allowed to be worth as much as the additional labor for picking, ginning, etc. Ten per cent, was nllowed for the money invested in guano, for the use for one year. TABLE IX. JSfcowing'the result of the first and second years rtn.'duction of certain fertilizers, against the ■r-Atrrtkl soil, counted in the percent, on the invcsfcastrxt.- 1867. percent Peruvian- ftrfdTPaciSc 432 •.Peruvian and Dried .Clay 429 ^Peruvian add Dis.. Bones 428 ■•Pacific Guano 402 Home Phosphate - 363 Peruvian Guano — 355 •Ketttewell’s A. A. — 289 Baltimore Phosphate 272 Dickson’s Preparation- 271 Poudretto •. —.104 lame, Bones,.ashes, etc — 81 Bone ta fen 07 Plaster ancTPotash, loss 14 1868. per cent. Homa'-Phosphate,....! 375 Dickson's Preparation 251 'Peruvian and Dis. Bones 241 IfTlaltimore Phosphate 226 Plaster and Potash 215 Btartzvian and Pacific 210 Pacific Guano 199 Peruvian and Dried Clay 179 Kettlewell's A. A 1J8 Peruvian Guano 120 lime, Bones, Ashes, etc 117 ‘Bone ta feu 87 0 Per cent on investment made in two years . after paying interest on money TTY>mn Phosphate 738 Anri Dir. Pones.. 669 iPfimTlflU pnr| Ppmfln ....... .... 642 ■Peruvian and Dried Clay 608 601 Preparation 522 498 POrTViPT] (rTltlTin. r ... . .... 475 Kcttlowpll's At Att. ............ 467 Plaster Anfl Pnf , nsh...f-r--T- 201 Lime, Bones, Ashes, etc 198 Bone ta fen 154 Wftshln^fon Correspondence of the Macon Telegraph. The Case of Judge Bustecd—The Freed men's Bureau—The Georgia Contested Election Case—Georgia Senators—A Personal Bill of Butler—Government Postal Telegraph—Geor gia Affairs. Washington, D. C., January 7, 1869. Editors Telegraph; The case of Judge Bus- teed, of Mobile, still hangs fire before the Sub- Judiciary Committee. It is stated that five important witnesses have been examined with out eliciting any evidence sustaining any one of the many allegations made by his accusers. The Committee will, undoubtedly, be compelled, in order to make a full examirihtion of ibis case, to visit Montgomery and Mobile end make an ex amination of the records, as well as hear wit- neeses. The friends of Judge Bnsteed seem to feel confident that the case will fall through. The House Committee appointed to look after the affairs of the Freedmen’s Bureau, it is un derstood, has instructed its chairman to report against all measures looking to the farther ex tension of the bureau in the Southern States. The members of the committee express them selves satisfied that the reconstruction-laws give the military commanders, in the departments of the South, ample power to extend the necessary aid and protection to the freedmen, and while they do not expect much aid from the present administration in carrying out the Radical pro gramme for the benefit of the negro, they claim to have received assurancesfrom General Grant, that as soon as he comes into the White House the freedmen shall have all necessary aid and comfort. The House Committee on Elections held a meeting to-day, at which was considered the contested case from the Sixth Congressional District of Georgia. The contestants are CoL Christy and Mr. Wimpey. The former holds his certificate of election from General Meade, and would undoubtedly be seated could he tako the test oath; the latter gentleman holds the certificate of Gov. Bullock. It has not as yet transpired what action the committee have taken in the matter, but it is presumed that their re port will be submitted to the House for its ac tion at as early a day as practicable. The Senate Judiciary Committee held a meet ing yesterday, at which the question of admit ting Messrs. Miller and Hill, Senators elect from your State, was discussed at great length. The committee are very much divided on tho subject, .Poudrette Remarks reserved for February number. E. M. F. .Sparta, December 5th, 1868. 104 and it was postponed until the next meeting. Well informed persons who are anxious that Georgia should be represented in the Senate of the United States as speedily as possible, now seem to donbt the probability of the question being settled before some action is had, with re? gard to the reconstruction measures now pend ing before Congress. The enemies of your State are actively at work perfecting their plahk for reducing the State to the condition of a pre- visoinal government, with Colonel Bollock, as sisted by the military, acting as the interpreter of the,requirements of the Radical majority in Congress. Democrats and Conservative Repub lican Congressmen express the opinion that, should Congress fail to adopt such legislation as proposed by Governor Bollock and his friends, the Committee will report on the question of admitting Senators Miller and Hill at an early a day as possible. The House Reconstruction Committee also held a meeting yesterday, and resumed the in vestigation of the affairs of Georgia. Consid erable testimony was taken favoring the present State Government; other testimony was taken favorable to the measures now before Congress looking to the reconstruction: of the State. There is something strikingly personal in the bill introduced in the House yesterday, by Gen. Butler, to secure the right of transit and delay of forty-eight hours to every citizen through every State other than that whereof he is a citi zen, without being sued or arrested in the State, unless upon an affidavit that he is a fugitive from justice or from his creditors. The General doubtless remembered his detention in Balti more last summer, by the legal representatives of a certain W. W. Wooloy. Post Master General Randall is preparing* un der the inspiration of Prof. Hubbell of Connec ticut, a special report, to be submitted to Con- 'gfess at an early day, advocating the project of a Government Postal telegraph. It is very I doubtful whether such a measure could be put through Congress at the present session, the best men in Congress fearing to place at the disposal of any party such a fearful political power. I have just learned from authoratatial source, that the House Committee on Elections have de cided to reject the claims of both contestants from the sixth district of Georgia. Nothing of particular interest transpired in either house to-day. Restock. fourth of March next, and, as a consequence, it is doubtful whether the law passed at the be ginning of the session of the Fortieth Congress authorizing the assembling of Congress on the fourth of March, will be repealed. A report going the rounds of the press, to the effect that the House Committee on Foreign Af fairs had decided to report a joint resolution providing for a protectorate over the Islands of the Caribbean Sea, is rather premature. The Committee have not considered the subject at all, though it is well known that several mem bers of the Committee are strongly in favor of the project, and it is possible that such a resolu tion may be reported at an early day. Owing to the abuses of the franking privilege by members of Congress, efforts have been mak ing for a long time to have the evil remedied, and yesterday the House Committee on Postoffice Affaire agree to report a bill prohibiting the use of a f ac simile or stamp frank. The Rev. Paul Bagley, well known from his connection with measures looking to the relief of President Davis, while confined at Fortress Monroe, is just now using his persuasive elo quence in behalf of Dr. Mudd and tho other conspiracy prisoners now held in confinement at the Dry Tortugas. It is thought that the President will certainly release these prisoners before the fonrth of March. There is a melancholy tendency here to either concoct stories out of whole doth for sensation al artides, or to distort and misrepresent in the press nearly everything which occurs. No idea is too small to exdte the imagination of the numerous correspondents. For instance, the confirmation by the Senate of the nomination of Mr. Morgan as District Attorney for Louisi ana—a transaction of itself of little importance, has been worked up into quite a story of Attor ney General Evarts’ purpose to prosecute Gen eral James B. Steadman and other leading men, for large amounts of public money said to have been smuggled. There is tho authority of Mr. Evarts himself for saying the story is a pure fabrication, so far as he is concerned. Morgan was nominated more than a year ago, by Pres ident Johnson, and Mr. Evarts addressed Ms comfirmation solely in the public interest, and because Mr. Morgan is a good attorney. Kentuck. Letter From Atlanta. Members of the Legislature arriving—Incredible Stories—The State Road—Return of the Gov ernor—Frightened Radicals—Congress and the Legislature—The Capitol. From Texas. BOLIDAT8—WEDDINGS—FBXEDMEN’s BUBXAT?—DI VISION or TEXAS REVENUE THIEVES JOCKEY CLUB MEETING—BUSINESS, ETC. Richmond, Texas, December 31, 1868. The Christmas holidays were enlivened -here by numerous gay parties, and almost every nymph and swain of marriageable age have sac rificed, or been sacrificed, I can’t determine which is the correct rendering, on Hymen’s al tar. The bitter old satirist who said: ‘ ‘Marriage is like a rabble route; Those who i -The Tenwre-of-Oltlce Law Gone Up. The Tenure-of-office bill has been killed by a flash of lighting. It went up in the House yes terday by a vote of 116 to 47 almost before any body knew they meant to kill it. Gem Grant’s little finger pushed tho repealing bin through, and that finger just now has more than 140- fcorso power. There is a very obvious and strong moral in this sudden capital execution of law wMch we have no space to comment Washington Correspondence or the Macon Telegraph. Caucus of Republican Senators on the Finances —The Sovereign State of Georgia—Admis sion of her Senators—A Protectorate—The Franking Prieilege—Rev. Paul Bagley— Sensational Stories, etc. .upon. What Makes ns to Differ? The Columbus papers very frequently tell of .cotton thefts by acquisitive darkies, and with what timely adroitness they are surprised by the police, with the spoils in hand. Last Friday night, a sable tMef was stopped, with a bag of ■ cotton on his head, which weighed 125 pounds. •Our Macon colored population must be much more honest or adroit, or our police less sharp. 'There is a manifest difference somewhere. Resumption or Specie Payment.—Mr. Geo. Opdyke, ex-Mayor of New York, is engaged on the national finances. He asserts “that the United States have seven-tenths more currency '.per-capita than before the war, or than England ,or France now has; and that the proper ways ;to bring this currency to par with gold are to (Contract it at a rate not exceeding ten millions .of dollars a year, and to await the growth of the country in its resources and consequent need of esneney. These means, he believes, will bring fha country to specie payment in about seven years, and any earlier resumption, he argues, will be fraught with more injury than benefit to the general business of the country.” Washington, D. C., January 8, 1869. Editors Telegraph : The Republican Senators held a two hours’ canons yesterday morning, for the purpose of perfecting an understanding on the financial question and the time wMch should be consumed in the business order of the session. After considerable debate, the caucus adjourned without affecting any arrangement. Several Senators expressed the opinion that some financial legislation should be accomplish ed at the earliest possible moment, looking to the resumption of specie payments. It may be added here that many prominent Atlanta, Ga., January 10th, 1869. Deab Telegbaph:—The members of the Leg islature are coining in already. Quite a number are to be seen around tho various hotels, the National being their most general place of resort. Several are here who say they are not permitted, for fear of their lives, to return to their homes. Among them are the members from Lowndes, Jefferson and Colombia. They complain bit terly of the persecution and intolerance of the Democratic party, and consider some action by Congress for the protection of reconstractionists and Grant men, as necessary and just. [Stories wMch are incredible.—Eds. Telegbaph.] The Committee appointed at the last session of the Legislature to investigate the affairs of the State Road, is now in session, and from what can be learned on the street, it is under stood that their report will be very compliment ary to its present management. The Demo cratic press, and many of the merchants, speak now in Mgh terms of, CoL Hnrlbnrt os a man of rare business capacity, and especially as the State Roa^ Superintendent. Gov. Bullock returned this morning, and is looking better than many of our people would be glad to see. In fact, he is in-fine health and weighs about two hundred pounds. A great deal of interest is felt as to the result of his efforts to reconstruct tho State again. Many of the Radicals who say they are so terribly persecuted pretend to think if very vigorous and harsh measures are not adopted by Congress, that they will be driven out of the State—that Gov. Bul lock will be impeached, and the State given over to the role of the assassin or Kn-klnx. And thus they tremble and whine, whilst the great agricul tural, mineral, mechanical and commercial in terests of the State ore threatened with destruc tion or retarded in their development. Why can we not have peace, and our grand and glorious State move on in the career of pros perity which awaits the settlement of her pres ent difficulties? If we have not done what Con gress expected in the adoption of our State Con stitution and tho acceptance of the reconstruc tion acts, and we are to he again remanded to a state of anarchy, it is to be hoped that we will not be required to take part in the next re-or ganization, but that the Najional Legislature will take the entire matter in hand, fix it up to suit themselves and tell ns to go to work under it. This course will settle our affairs, at least, and stop the bickerings and bad blood, which is shown in too many of onr wisest andbest people. I learn that as to cine point Congress is almost unanimous, and that is, as to the reseating of the negroes. This I learn from a gentleman just from Washington, who traveled part of the way with the Governor. He says quite a num ber of the Democratic members favor it, whilst it is the unanimous sentiment of the Repub licans. As to the application of the “test-oath” to tho members of the Legislature, Congress is divided. Judge Trumbull opposes it, as do most of tho moderate Republicans, whilst more ex treme men will support it vehemently, urging that it is the only measure for protecting the loyal men and keeping the State in the control of those who do not hate the Government—that is, the rebels. If such a measure is adopted, what little talent there is in our Legislature will be expelled—and that will be among the least of its deplorable results. If a State orga nization such as Tennessee now groans under is are out would fain be in— Those who are in, be out” would be inclined to doubt the correctness of the last line, if he could witness the happy ha lations that have slipped their heads in the “silken noose” in Fort Bend county, within the last six weeks. There certainly can be but few more marriages here, until the next tier of lads and lasses grow to be a little older than they are, unless we have a lucky influx of immi gration. Bat if this latter should fail us, fit must be claimed that those already here, mostly na tive, and to the manor born, have exhibited a commendable determination to increase the population and swell the list and labors in ‘*the good old way," of the man who takes tho next census in this part of the Republic. It is the opinion of several of-the bureau agents, General Howard’s opinion to the contra ry notwithstanding, that the bureau is still a necessity, and that it will be continued. These patriotic Othellos dislike to be flanked out of their occupation. They had nice situations, and are determined to hold on to them with the te nacity of snapping turtles. In addition to their regular salaries, the fat pickings from the Loyal Leagnes, and the occasional largesses which in terested parties slipped slyly Into their palms, all tended to render their offices very desirable. There is a good deal of human nature even in immaculate Bureau Agents, and it is natural that they should deprecate the abolition of such nice, cosy sinecures as they have been enjoying for the last three or four years. Bat if the tax payers of the great North will see things in the same tight, they are much more credulous than they have been heretofore supposed to be. ( Great fears are entertained, in well-informed circles, that the Convention now in session will effect a division of the State nolens rolens. Nine-tenths of the old citizens are opposed to such division; but that fact will weigh nothing with men who are ambitions to fill offices, and in order to do so, must create them. The sole object of those who favor division, is to multi ply offices for seedy adventurers. It is too bad, if there was any way to avoid it If the mob who hung the express robbers not long ago, in Indiana, I believe, should tom their attention to hanging the multifarious rob bers of the revenue, they might be doing good service; but oh! what a stupendously heavy job they would have on hand, and how mnch they would increase the labors of the under takers, if they gave their subjects sepulture! I have heard much laughing over the Cole- Hiscock verdict, rendered at Albany, not long since. Not bat that acqnital was right enough. Tho manner of acquital is what is funny. It is hardly probable that any one ever felt as cool while polling trigger on a man, as if he were shooting a squirrel or sipping see cream of a warm day, or drinking hot whisky punch of a cold one. The murdered man no doubt deserved death. TVhy didn’t the jury acquit his slayer in the usual way, Eke men who appreciated the sancti ty of married relations, and were determined to defend them, on the broad, catholic principle that it is right and just to do so, without whip ping the devil, in a zigzag run, round the stump ? The regular meeting of the Jockey Club took place at Houston, this week. There were seve ral stables from abroad. Mobile and New Or leans were both represented. There was a vast concourse of people present. The running was good, and sporting gentlemen had a quadruple F. time of it—fine, fast, fat and flush. There is not generally much business done dur ing the Christinas holidays, but Houstonhas been an exception, this, year, and her hotels and 1 bars have had a rich shower of golden drops deposi ted in their fiscal bureaux.' The sales of her merchants have been enhanced, and her busi ness men generally have, no donbt, realized sat isfactory profits. The incoming year, which makes its advent on Friday, will, I trust, prove an exception to tho old proverb- connected with that day, and result in being an auspicious one to Texas, (for she needs it) to your readers and the entire Union, for I trust all will deserve a propitious Par Fois. agreed to stop with me here, and explore the country. Need I say I was more than happy to meet my old friend, Mr. CharleB Hutchinson, of Tallahassee, who welcomed us to bis little home, but a few paces off. It was his landing we made, the first clearing on the west side of the lake. I found Mr. H. delightfully situated—the banks being eight or ten feet high, with a rich alluvial hammock, underlaid by a substratum of shelL Like many others, he fled from the wreck of fortunes, and dismembered govern ment, to find rest on these lovely shores. The settlements are all new along this lake, com posed of fifty families or more, comprising in telligence, morality and education. More anon, Occasional. Senators and Representatives, express the opin- Q ion that nothing will bo done with the financial■ not then inaugurated, we shall be under greater question at the present session, owing to thej obligations to Almighty God for His mercies varying conflict of views and the evident want than we have ever yet been. Should these of harmony existing between the champions of j things occur, I envy the prond consciousness of that great subject. The whole question will the present management of the Macon Tele- probably go over to the forty-first Congress. J graph when they reflect that they have done The fact of the matter is the Republican party less to bring about these calamities to our peo- are just now greatly exercised over the condi tion of the finances and reconstruction, the lat ter subject especially looms up before them tike Tick’s Flobal Guide.—"We are indebted to .James Vick, of Rochester, New York, for a copy .at his Floral Guide and Seed Catalogue for I860. It r is the handsomest production of this kind we .ever saw making a pamphlet of one hundred pages, profusely illustrated with fine engravings .of flowers and vegetables, and with asplendidty . engraved and colored bouquet of’flowers, for a •.frontispiece. This Guide will be sent to all ap- -plieants by ™««1, who inclose ten cents, and Mr. Vick proposes to pay freight on all orders for j elect, weeds upon receipt of price at Rochester. pie than any other paper in the State. The Kimball, Pullam & Co. Capitol is ad- ■ vancing rapidly to completion. The work pro- Banquo’s ghost, before the false hearted King grosses night and day, Sundays not excepted, of Denmark. j Already the halls for the two branches of the Members of the Judiciary Committee have. Legislature are finished, whilst those for the been heard to remark that, no matter which way: Executive, the Supreme Court, and other pub- they turn, they encounter the sovereign State of tic officers, are nearly so. When finished, it is Georgia. They all agree in condemning the ter* rible condition of affairs in that State; but stand confessed incompetent to suggest any measures of relief. {Senator Hendricks, (the only Dem ocratic member of the Committee,) is the only advocate of the proposition for the immediate admission of the Senators elect from Georgia, and the consequent defeat of such measures as are now pending before Congress, looking to a second reconstruction. The leaders of the Radical party in Congress seem to be paralyzed with fear of the President Various newspaper lettere, purporting to give General Grant’s views of all the promi nent men and measures now before the country, Fibe in Augusta. Thursday night a fire orig- ; seem to have had the effect of .dogging all im- Inated in a mniineTy establishment adjoining the j portent Congressional legislation, and for fear Planters’ resulting in consider- j of committing greater blunders than have here- jo,*. The damage to the hotel building j tofore characterized their legislation, they seem •wm Several stocks of goods were destroy- j determined to wait and see what the new Presi- «d, uncovered by insurance, to the amount of j dent will do after the fonrth of March. This $20,000. The fire was very stubborn. Three ; determination (if a fact) involves the necessity Axeman was suffocated and one injured. ; of convening the Forty-first Congress on the said it will be the finest building in the Southern States, with the exception, perhaps, of the Cap itol at Nashville. Already it presents a very im posing appearance. H. < Aotaibs in Putnam.—A friend writing from Eatonton, on the 8th, to the Telegbaph, says: The people of this grand old place are still kind and sociable. Trade is dulL Few farmers in town, all at work preparing for a new crop. Some improvements going on; a store erected on the Court House square in 1817 is being re paired and made new. Put on the Discipline, Bbotheb Cubby.— The powerful sermon from Brother Clisby, of the Telegraph, on the “Amenities of the Press’' made several hopeful converts. The first and most hardened sinner of the lot has backslid al ready.—Columbus Sun. * Ah, yes. A few, perhaps, may have to be killed as soon as converted, to make quite sure of glory. But who is the backslider ? Make out year charge and specifications, Brother Sun. Letter from Florida—No. 5. Leaving Palatka—Handsome Orange Grove— Raiclstoum, Settledin 1703—The Course of the River—Lake George—Dunn's Creek—Dunn's Lake, Etc. Letter BTo. 6. Mr. Hutchinson's place—Vegetables growing— Flowers blooming—W. R. Weston, his pros pects—Explorations— Large Cypress tree— Stock interest—Game—Conclusions, etc. Not within my memory, have I seen a more lovely spot than Mr. Hutchinson’s. High and level, fronting on one of the most attractive lakes in the world, which affords abundant fish ing, and a back country of undulating pine lands, for cultivation, grazing of stock, and other pur poses, surely man must be happy where there is so much to bless him. Potato plants had recently been set in Ins garden, and the vegetables I saw growing give evidence of luxuriance and vigor. A stock of Sea Island cotton, in the midst of the garden, had grown to a great height, bearing a good crop of bolls. This plant, however, from’ every part of Florida, I could hear had been successively attacked each year, by the caterpillar, thereby cutting off the crop very short. Though, not withstanding the ravages of this terrible enemy of cotton, the staple pays a remunerative price for cultivation, the best grades of Sea Island having brought, the past year, as high as one dollar per pound. Sngar-cane pays at least three hundred dollars per acre, and tobacco will pro- INIREDIBLE DISCOVERY. A Subterranean Passage- Way and Cavern un der Rock Island— Wonderful Relies of Ab original Antiquity—Statues in Copper—An Obelisk of Solid Brass — Numberless Other Discoveries—“ All Hope Abandon, Ye Who Enter in." A Significant Doenmcat! ~ that WAS NOT at all 4 DK*** . [From the Savannah Monrinv Knot. Prom the Bock Bland Arts*., Jan. 6.J to the following cuusetensae emanate* T"’ 1 the great Wahoo, toe fflaatrious dark wing of the Radical party 0 f r??®,« the 1 it will be found in toe fact that tierent nonTTr^t We have the pleasure this evening of laying ridiculous bombast and incoherent non«A& our readers toe result of one of the most “ contains allusions and hints which, taJte^ and profoundly interesting subterrwie- afford a key to the causes of the law?' ous exploring expeditions ever attempted on this pTbances in our vicinity, and an unmiZv.u contment. It is nothing less than an under- legation of the parties who instigated ter 1 * ground passage-way under Rock Iriand the 8”??® riotous insubordination to the WW prewait site of the United States arsenal and objects which they had in viwT’ ** arsenal, theidiscovery of antiquarian relies of the rarest . ,. . And most interesting chancier irom tne original copy in on*, possession iZi 8 * ' ' ’*• ' timetliteratm, iUhos, capitals, and ah*!??' inti Kaam 1’. Ut With this explanation we print the doenjn rom the original codv in on\ rvuuaomV... _ The, entrance to a large cave—as our home ,, ... ,. . „ readers are doubtless aware—is plainly visible the manuscript, which bears unquestionabi* from the ferry landing, as well as other portions ldenc ® of authenticity. It was evident]* T of our city bordering on the river bank, and, al- 31 6 ned for publication, and was mailed in though some tenfeetin diameteratthe entrance ton on ttie 21st °* December, to the gentlenT it gradually diminishes in size until some twenty! of cit y» from whom we received it: ^ five feet are reached, when it is with difficulty OI f 'wauhoo's dream. that a person can effect an entrance by crawling * “ m y Wigom, on the night of the 4th through the aperture, but, when once fairly of Nov 1868, incirculed by white, red and blJv through, there is no difficulty in standing erect. Spirit® from heven and hell they d&imMT Until the recent interesting discoveries were C0lne: There was no moon, but each had tv* made by the enterprising explorers, representing balls of living fire, lit up by out rage and ciJi ah eastern scientific society, and who are now ^? on 8- . . y sojourning in our city, this cave never been U° • bo ! within two blocks Seven hundred ar known to be over 120 feet in depth, and has pos- Saints are coming the name of Bradk sessed nothing more than ordinary interest, eX- bits the air:—quick a mong them did I J cept as having been thought by the stern bid 8 done and single, I heard the plots andplS! Sac warrior, Black Hawk, to have been the cho- wh ich high heaven had Sent them and th«, sen abode of the great spirit that presided over departed. their destinies. Bnt upon close examination at The night was clear, and the Boat was frail, tv the terminus of one of the darkest and most in- bounded 24 hours ou the Atlantic Ocian Lif tricate recesses, a narrow cavity was discovered reaching the everglades of South Carolina tfc. ih toe rock, and by the aid of a torch forced in- * an d of my nativity; into the arms of a thoc. to it, an interior apartment was found, upon An- euud friends I rushed with Zeal, and they taring which the party were enabled to explore reedy to take the field: bnt Gen Grant is tj. the subterraneous passage for a distance of near- P e f ce and so am I, and not a man of you n^ 1^1000 feet. The main passage is some six feet ‘be- in width and about nine in height, and is evi- * dreamed, I said, to the pirite in my speech -, dently a natural cavern, though in several places *b® square, I intreated the people not to go there are evidences of its having been widened, a Revolution with the Georgia Legislature as chisel marks can be distinctly discovered on were governed more by pashions than brairj the walls—besides numerous small regular in- ®ud not to have any treble at the Poles, because tervals of fifty feet which bear traces of having tbe whole Vote of tlm State was not worth th» been hewn out of the massive.solid rock. * bfe of the meanest dimocrat, or republican i> The second corridor, leading from the main couldjiot, nor would notti one,, is very extensive—containing six ponder ous pillars enwreathed with gorgeous decora tions. Beyond this is a shorter chamber in ( which is tho entrance to the sanctum sanctorum, j and which contains one of the grandest collec- duce even better results. I saw most beautiful flowers growing in thejtions of antiquarian enriosties ever discovered countedbecause the - Legislature had kick: out the bottom of their own tub : can ithi’, asses yet see the face: Congress will make thee feel it within a Moon. The State and the cit- under Martial law: black police will beuW igent hand of his accomplished daughter, who: whiclt erecteda magnificent shrine which, < f OTe ? 1 “ e “ t ° f ri»eU. S ; and order will be «. has lately returned from school. On Staten | with its unique inscription, denotes the antiaui- s , tored b y shot and sbeU if nessary. I heard u Ok Staten with itsuni^e toscripfen, denotesthe antiqui! stored by shot and sheU if nessary. I heard u Island I find the ladies do all the offlees rt. Ih. Snrjonndtogthe cote. M&fita fljtjlu! seqnently all accept the situation with com- Symmetrical though diminutive figure of an Li- »nd some.of the jury. They swore to impost plaisance. Everybody appeared happy and con- dian maiden, with a countenance of surpassing Tboy get tour orders from a Ms tented, eapeetit^ one da* to reata .11 their M'r=a|T«nl4and‘il|*aS Orange-growing isthe .poeialt, ““ °*2t where in East Florida. I observed the finest by fa that th J end of their destin y and ra ° e ^ at a ! 4 Oe ock PM; and swd Negroes were nude banana I had seen, in Mr. H. s orchard. It wa3 hand. Above them all, on itsprojecting and bi® c<mtrole, because all voted for Grants* six feet high, being planted last spring. At a crescent-shaped roof, are arranged in system- certain season of the year tto plant diesdown; SpSwlT^So^tS Sav^Lh l^e^itemeXnatoe SSfSI sasssaasg^ ssrisgSagL- The next place I examined was situated a mile unfit to sustain animal life, being damp, heavy, fy r T.tiir rri D and . tOt from tho laho, high, on , pin. lev.l, rdth nndnl.tingl.nd.on olth.ratdo, bolonging “ -tRRESTEJJ, and Mod to coort »a| to Mr. W. B. Weston, formerly of Dawson, Ga. escaped suffocation. 8 • foi:—coiispiracy, riot Rebellion, and JfCll Mr. W. is an excellent young man who removed j Immediately adjoining the room containing Savannah^wili 'shake. & 0<m ° | here from Indian River last spring, and has cer- these wonders is an obelisk of solid brass—some That man who will sware I had anything to i I tainly a fine prospect for a fortune. Hehasfive seven feet in height, beautifully sculptured on with the death of S L , be he iW o;| acres of orange stumps, all budding out. He £ our are \“i oU ’ t^nty-one ®a a11 white rich or poor, I call him a knave, a perl - -av t,. v bas-reliefs, and above, below, and between them jured knave, a pander, a coward, and the son of I has a young man with him and a wlored boy s carvedi an inscription seventy-six lines in J a mongrel b-h. Bnt the witnesses inL—“1 his former servant, who went with him through length. The whole is m the best state of pre- case, did not, as they could not say that fiaflnl the war. Henfy certainly appreciates his former serration scarcely a character of the inscrip- was the man. and no man can, untel he become^ S young master to have left Georgia forthis quiet a °“ j? Y an ! in &* I1 d the figures are as sharp and damned deviL * as. well defined as if executed only a few days ago. Oh! good women—11 and retired spot. j One of the scenes represented is a circle of the pr av over the Sins of . pray you, now to begin fcl a , wiih »1 ms ici<i«cmcu u II ureiB ui mo prav over me Sms of your misguided SoesmiJ Mr. Weston joined our party, and on.the mom- ancient aborigines sitting, m council—with the husbands—one Moon and the day of Judgment i ready for this event I toe General Aj-j sembly are to be restored and all w/iiYemenvhol , - r , . , . „ „ are disfranchised under 14 Art and can not iak 3 grounds, growing to perfection. The trees were resented is a royal chieftain followed by his at- the test oath 24 in all are to be removed at 6* I loaded with bitter-sweets. We measured a cy- tendants a prisoner is at his feet, while point of the United States bayonets as they ss;[ Dress tree near this ground, thirty feetincir- me - n 010 being introduced leading various they will notgo without physical superior pove-1 press iroe, *» f animals and carrying ponderous cross-bow3, jav- GeneralMead, the alfa and omega of ajoirl cumference and ten: feet in diameter. elins, and other weapons. The animals repre- trebles in Georgia, will be called to give bi j There can be no doubt but this conntryis fine- ■ sentqd are the elephant, polar bear, lion, stag, count for his multiplied Sins and comme j Iy adapted to stock raising. Mr Braddock, j an d various kinds of monkeys. The ornaments and if they will give ns a chance, we will mile I owns over three thousand head of cattle on ! ^cately graven on the robes of the party, the his Gaystesbourgh Hooker’s fame, blacker tlm “ , ° ; tassels and fringes, the bracelets and armlets, HelL t Dunn s Lake. Stock cattle are worth about ^ elaborate curia of the hair and beard are all j am sorry, that the Spirits have made me dm& I per head. - ; entire. One of the chiefs stands very erect and —because they show me things to come, nil Game is abundant in Bast Florida—the - finest. carries in his aims an animal resembling a cha- that alwais disturbs the peace of those vk il shooting and hunting grounds in America. For | “ ois ?P? n “S 11 * a ™> and “ bis left hand a deeds are evil Keep not far from me Oh gtei I b j v lib .w ■ branch, bearing line flowers. Around his tem- Spirit until we has reached the promised land, f this purpose, and health, many people of the • ples 53 a ^et adorned in front with a posette. 1 A Alpeoka Bbadim. Northern States visit Florida in the winter. | One of toe other characters, in a tragical atti- We have all along maintained that the 0p*| tude, holds a square vessel, resembling a basket, — - - 1 Occasional. square vessel, resembling a basket, chee disturbances were instigated by the carp? I in his left hand, and a drawn dagger in the right, bag leaders of the radical party, for pawl Wliat Machinery can Do—Invention I while on his head is worn a rounded cap, at the purposes, and that the insurrecti’o: and it» Progress. u M * From the Chicago Time*! On the morning of toe 18th December, 1868, Capt Blanchard and I chartered a little steamer for Dunn’s Lake. We wished to hurry on; benco could not wait for Wednesday's boat, whioh rnns regularly on that lino. In leaving Palatka, wo pess, on the opposite shore, a very handsome grove of of six hundred bearing orange trees in a high stele of cultiva tion, the crop of oranges, alone, in 1866 having brought $4000. The land lyingadjacent, for a mile, is cut up into small lots and held at $30 to $50 per acre, unimproved. The next point of interest is Rawlstown, set tled by Lord Rawles, of England, in 1703, for the purpose of establishing an Infirmary. As a benefactor, few men exceeded in philanthropy this generous nobleman. Here on the-banks of this beautiful river, as many as three hundred women, at one time sought refuge from toe af flictions of the world. Rawlstown has long since gone to decay, and scarcely a trace of the vil lage is left, once the pride of Lord Rawls. The direction of the river now changesfrom due south to southeast, and is much narrower until you reach Lake George, a magnificent sheet of water, from five to nine miles in width and eigh teen miles long. But as we are bound for Dunn’s Lake, east of Lake George, we will defer a description of this charming lake for a future sketch, and proceed up Dunn’s Creek, a few miles above Rawlstown and only eight miles above Palatka. This creek connects Dunn’s Lake with toe St. John’s river, and is only eight miles long. Probably the finest fishing in toe world is on this creek. Though narrow, the depth of tins stream will admit oil the river boats. It was in view of this com munication with Dunn’s Lake, the cheapness and good quality of toe lands on toe west side, the beautiful sites for building and excellent society, that attracted me thither. The first glimpse we catch of the lake excites toe most pleasurable emotions within us. Your eye wanders around toe vast horizon, resting npon the dense forest that fringes its beautiful banks. This lake is twelve miles long, varying from two to three miles in width, being fed by two large streams known as Haw Creeks. Nature has contributed so much to our hap piness, said I, as I longed to catch toe first view of toe spot I expected to make my home. Ah! how every impulse rose, as the waves came dashing up, rolling along toe sides of our little vesseL I thought of my first trip on toe Atlan tic ; thought toe sight was so beautiful I could not grow sick. A dead cahn soon suoceeded the turbulence of the waves, and on this beautiful, quiet lake, our boat then glided into shore. Several gentlemen from Corning, New York, whom I had the pleasure of joining at Palatka, wime ou xu» ueau is worn a rounaea cap, at tne purposes, and that the msurrectionary dei&x I base of which is a horn. The garments of both stration was only a part of a concerted plan;:! consist of a robe falling from, the shoulder to the purpose of political capital in C»[ the ankle, and a short tunic underneath, de- gress, and for aiding the revolutionary desol " scalawags to reitl :e State remanded: I lis fact is clearly:I ^ -Xrite,” on the night Despite the enormous &nd numberless im- , marked. November, ■when, like *‘Satin in council,” k I provements of the pa3t forty years, we believe I After proceeding farther, the party reached a me t with his fellow conspirators to meditate # that we stand now no-more than upon the bor- l laTge room with a, high arched roof, in which their overthrow and to plan schemes offs®! ders of the domain of invention. What has j were the entrances to many other chambers, devilment, but with prophetic spirit which <x*£| been done in forty years is bnt the prelude to'the j This contained the crowning gem of thewon- only have been inspired from headquarter* ders—nothing less than a huge sarcophagus of Washington, proceeds to foretell the events M copper—nine feet long and three feet in widtn, were to come npon us' before another no®| minutely sculptured, within and without, with Nothing short of Radical inspiration could!®’ great opus of the nexbhaif-century. The best method oC judging what will be ac complished is by examining what is needed. We believe human capability to be practically limitless; but it accomplishes, not in propor tion to its ability, bnt with reference to the de mands of the age. Upon looking backward over the history of invention, we shall find that there has always been an even rate of progress be tween invention and the necessities of the hu man family. The locomotive and the electric telegraph, for instance, came when they were wanted. Had either made its appearance a een- tury before it did, it would not have been util ized. So of all great discoveries. Theyyhave come when needed ; and judging the future by tho past, there is every reason to believe-that the role which has heretofore been effective will henceforth prevail. To know what will be, it is only necessary to know what are our imperative necessities. One of these necessities is that of greater speed in locomotion. We shall have it. Just so surely as the generation have progressed from the six miles per hour of toe stage coach to the sixty miles per hour of the locomotive, so surely will we go on from sixty miles per hour until we get to look upon that rate of speed as we now look upon that of the old stage conch.— To accomplish this result, there will be either a new motor discovered, or else wo shall navigate the air. We must have type-settingby machinery; and this “must” is the strongest possible guarantee that the machine will soon respond to our de mand. There must be vast improvement in printing-presses, until 100,000 sheets an hour shall have become the ordinary accomplishment of a single press. We must, and soon shall, have traction machines to take tho place of horses in the drayage and passenger transporta tion of the people of our great cities. Tele graphy must be simplified and cheapened, until it substantially takes toe place of the mail car. Onr prairies must be plowed by steam; and travel on water and railway be rendered core as rest upon one’s couch. The abominations of gas, kerosene, tallow and whale oil must give way to something which will turn night into day, and render cities independ ent of monopolies and toe crude productions now used to produce artificial light There must be improvements inbuildng, in medicine, in print ing, and, in fine, in every department whiennow involves the necessity of human effort In troth, inventions as astonishing as some we have men tioned are being developed every day. We scarcely notice them because of their frequency; and it is only when one looks back over the re sults of a year, that he appreciates the number and value of improvements. We have passed beyond being surprised at anything, and hence the otherwise astounding and continuous results of invention exeite no remark. several hundred figures representingan immense funeral procession and ceremonies relating to the deceased chieftain, with emblems and other devices. The lidi was partially removed, and re vealed a quantity of bones and javelins. In one of the secluded corners of this apart ment, and a few feet below the level of the enabled the dusky dreamer of Sing Sing to Uj tell so exactly the programme that had been® j augnrated, and for the fulfilment of which f lock, Blodget, Bryant, Clift, Ackenatl Turner, Sims and others of their recogMfJ leaders, black and white have labored *1 ‘ ~ ■' M evel of the persistently, if not successfully. BnlM floor, is the arched entrance to an unexplored has not yet succeeded at Washington—the Si* chamber—approached by a narrow passage-way a n d c jty of Savannah, have not yet been pk* down through a hideous stone stairway. The under martial law—black policemen have not party, after repeated eflorts to effect an en- been placed over the city and the present® trance, were obliged to abandon it. In plainly- C ers removed—order has not yet been ‘ ‘rest®: 11 defined Indian characters, it bears the significant -with shot and shell”—the citizens named h” inscription, “AD. 1 hope abandon, ye who enter not yet been arrested and tried by court-eat!* in, an admonition which, while it tended only for conspiracy, riot and murder. The inoc'^ to excite and increase the curiosity of the ex- passed Mtod “the dry bones of Savannah" pjorers, was wisely heeded. not been shaken. Bnt who can say what ifc J^The knowledge of this ancient and interesting not have happened, had the Ogeechee ins*** race does not seem, by any means, to have been Uon ripened into the fearful conflict wbii' 6 confined to statuary and sculpture. Their weap- instigators designed it should be—had the sets ons, and the jewel ornaments with which their hundred saints, who cheered the Wahoo (un persons wereadomed, though principally of cop- night after the election, not dwindled downfc“ y i per, are, in some instances, finished with gold insignificant little band of “fifty negroes, and silver, and carved in the most exquisite man- three guns and one bayonet on a stick,’ ner conceivable, indicating mechanical genius ported by Col. Williams, and scientific attainments of the highest order. That the Wahoo dreamed with his eyes 4* 1 The luxury and refinement of an enlightened and was well posted as to the designs i k civilization are clearly delineated in these mys- partv, there can be no doubt; but the pod# terious images and devices, rather than the truly— wretchedness, ignorance and superstitions of a “The best laid plans semi-barbarous race, as eminent authors of the Of mice and men present age have surmised onr country, previous Gang aft agleo.” ^ to its discovery by Colnmbus, to have been in- So» to apply Alfeobia’s apt figure of speMfc habited by. bottom of the Bullock-Blodgett consp®- At present the strictest vigilance is observed dropped out in the failure of the foeechw at toe cave—no persons being allowed to enter surrection. The moon has passed, fu®? it ’without permission from one or more of the prophecy of the groat Wahoo is nnfulfilie (1 '^‘ explorers, who are alL at present, the favored day of judgment is not here. guests of the Rodman house. As toe present danger is over, we trusty A Heavy Land Purchase in Southwestern the ruthless ravages of time, brought to light these monuments of ancient grandeur aad mag nificence; and our gratitude at being furnished for publication the details of researches so thrilling and astounding in their character, is Cold Weather —Great Destruction Fruit Trees, Fish, etc* From the Tampa Peninmlar, 2d.] • rChtthe 25th nit. the thermometer was only equalled by the absorbing interest winch as low as twenty-two degrees above ze ™ we feel confident onr readers will experience in SZiSZJZSL bi their perasaL Daring the interval of proceeding further with their investigations, we understand it to be the intention of the party having toe relics in their possession to ship the movable portion of them at once to New York, if permission from the war department, for their removal can be obtained. Georgia.—The Albany News says: Messrs. R. R. Graves & Co., of New York, came down after the dose of toe war and bought two of the finest plantations In Dougherty county—toe Hickory Level and Baity places. They paid, we believe, $150,000 for the two places, which contain 8,500 acres. Failing to make the cotton planting business pay, they sold, a few days ago, to Hon. B. H. Hill one half interest in the entire estate —including seventy-five mules, 10,000 bushels of com, fodder, cotton seed, plows, harness, wagons, gins, etc., for 40,000. Mr. Hill to have the control and management of toe esteblish- rienced in *bia part of toe State otunty* oldest inhabitants, and the damage done is ^ great 11 was only within the last tenyears ® the people of - Florida began to realize the portenoe of going largely into the raisi 0 ? tropical fruits; and it was only within the two or three years the labor bestowed in fruits began to reward them; but the cola and swept over the country with the power I mighty tornado, destroying in a few b onrs T "1 which man has toiled years to build °P;. J few hours Florida has been damaged ninko®1 dollars. The orange, lemon, lime, citron, dock, guava, mango, pineapple, sugar app»1 fact all the tropical fruits, have been ku*®! Floyd Superior Court Met on Monday the 11th inst. Present, his Honor Judge John 8. Bigbee, C. D. Forsyth, solicitor,- jurors and attorneys. Owing to an apprehension that ^ibe juries might not be considered legal, the Court ad- seriously damaged. Even toe fully matured { ouroed to toe fourth Monday in March next, ripened fruit which remained upon the* to further business was transacted except the wm all frozen and destroyed, and toe trees granting of a few orders. It is hoped that the like they have been scorched as by a gres* Legislature, which assembles on toe 13th, will The potato crop is badly damaged, and the P pass an enabling act, or a general law for am- beets, cabbage and even turnips are killed, panneling juries according to law.—Rome Cost- But the cold did not cease its ravage* 1 rier. they land, but descended into the water* ~*** the great deep-and caused to be spewed Sxoxzng by ladies in Boston is on the in- from mighty jaw fish and sharks wm®* crease. An extensive cigar dealer in that city thrown helpless upon toon to rot. Too™ says he sells an average of three hundred per of dead mullet, jack fish, spade fish snu day for ladies’ use, and thinks a thousand pat oover the entire pert of the State, day, at least, are puffed by the fair oom. Who can caloutete toe damage done? ***** 111! lifiiiir
