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The Greorgia "Weekly Telegraph.
THE TELEGRAPH.
MACON, FRIDAY, MARCH 26, 1869.
Bwo You® Foo Bell, Brother.—The Macon
Telegraph of Friday, has a very pecnliar article
on the. rejection of the amendment by the Geor
gia Legislature. It is hard to tell whether it de
sires to make its readers satisfied or displeased
with the vote.—Savannah Republican.
The peculiarity in our article, was precisely
the same which will be seen in the article of to
day ; in a word, it exhibited what we show up
to-day, the machinations of the Georgia Radicals
to tie (heir re-reconstruction projects to the tail
of the fifteenth amendment, and to compel the
latter to drag the former through Congress.
As to the fifteenth amendment itself, we think
we have been sufficiently clear. Wo have shown
that it is sohostile to all sound constitutional prin
ciples that tee could not vote for it; nor, in our
judgment, could it be rightfully supported by
any intelligent advocate of Constitutional Gov
ernment
But as to the practical fact that Georgia is to
be dragooned into voting for that amendment,
wo have as little doubt If this Legislature will
not do it, Congress will make one which will do
it Consequently, in a practical point of view—
so far as the amendment and Georgia were con
cerned, the question whether the Legislature
adopted or refused to adopt it was what Benton
used to call a question of goat’s wool—that is to
say a question practically about nothing at all
—while afi to the people of Georgia it was pro
bably a question whether their Legislature should
bo offensively reconstructed at great expense to
themselves.
in practical view of the case, the Repub
lican, we think, will find all the fog dispersed
and the sky very clear. It led some of the Dem
ocrats to vote for it, and we think they erred;
because it is never safe to abandon principle.
Tt< the same view, the ultra-Radicals in the Leg
islature did all they could to defeat it, in order
to create a party necessity for State reorganiza
tion, which they could wield in their own inter-
csts.
In the conflict of sound views of government
with sound practical policy, under the circum
stances, many an honest man is sometimes puz
zled. Undoubtedly, every concession the South
has so far made, is at war with a sound general
policy; and yet has been made in respect to the
difficulties of the situation. The course of the
Telegbafh is governed by the best views we can
take of the immediate policy dictated by the
situation, and of acknowledged general princi
ples of sound government and sound policy;
and that is the precise situation every intelligent
man finds himself placed in, in these crooked
times. "Wo cannot concedq, principle, but we
have been compelled to sacrifice sound general
policy to the emergencies of the situation, for
some four or five years.
If wo regarded the defeat of the fifteenth amend
ment in Georgia as a final defeat in this State,
•we-should crow as loud as the Republican; but
since it means nothing more than another negro
Legislature and two hundred thousand dollars
mono expense, it is not worth crowing over.
Southern Activity.
Under this head the New York Commercial
Advertiser has the following editorial:
There is an unwonted activity at the South
this year. The election of Grant has settled
the situation for four years, and the people no
longer listen to political leaders who delude
them with such false lights as they held out a
year ago. "We have a thousand evidences in
in the papsrs, that the people are turning their
attention to agriculture, and that they are mak
ing preparations to raise a larger crop than for
many years past. Land, too, is finding a mar
ket, and hundreds of pieces of property are
changing hands. There is a change in tone,
also, and there are fewer outrages upon freedom
of speech. They begin to be tolerant of set
tlers and to speak complacently of those who
como among them. Violence and disorder have
had their reign and have done greater harm to
the South than to the North. All these things
augur a new era, which shall usher in a career
of prosperity and improvement. Let the South
ern people labor as industriously and vigorously
as they fought and they will indeed “create a
new nation,” which shall surpass the wildest
- dreams of Southern prophets.
'From Mr. John IV. Forney.
A friend hands us a private letter to himself,
from John W. Forney, dated at Washington,
12th instant, in which the writer says :
“My whole object is to see the South notonly
return to its past prosperity, but to see it em
barked upon a career of renown that will place
it in successful competition with the North; and
to this end I propose to devote all the energies
I possess.”
That certainly is fair and liberal talk.
The Hon. Wm. E. Dodge, of New York, ex-
Congressman, whose wealth is estimated at
$20,000,000, has been sojourning in our city for
several days, at Brown’s Hotel, en route to New
‘Orleans. He and his accomplished lady attend
ed Divine service on Sabbath morning in the
Presbyterian Church, and in the afternoon he
delivered an affectionate and touching address
to the Sabbath School children. Mr. D. is one
of the most liberal minded, and public spirited
men in the United States, and we leam is spend
ing his immense income in works of benevolence
and charity. He is eminently conservative in
his politics, and- yet no man in the nation exerts
a more potent influence on the present adminis
tration. He ■ spools in glowing terms of the
growing prosperity and general good order which
-everywhere reign in the South.
The cotton trade in England is very dull, and
the foreign papers report that very few of the
large manufacturers are running their mills six
days in the week. The majority of the estab
lishments have been opened only four and five
•days in the week, and now the time is generally
to be reduced to three days.
Thebe is an old English statute which prohi
bits people from getting married after a cer
tain hour in the day, because such a solemn ob
ligation ought to be entered into only when the
parties are duly sober. No doubt about that.
The Galaxy fob Apeil is. on hand, and may
be found, we presume, at Havens & Brown's.
Among the contents is a paper by E. Damon
• Smith, on the Great Danger of the Republic,
which he considers to be centralization and the
absorption of the States. His head is level
there,
’ Taken at Disadvantage.—The World says
that the legion of Postmasters in Washington,
electioneering to retain their positions, were sud-
• denly notified by the Postmaster General their
presence in Washington would be held as proof
that they were neglecting official duties at times;
■whereupon they, fled incontinently.
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“Turn np for Punishment!”
Brother Forney’s Press is hot upon the Rad
ical “recusants” in the Georgia Legislature
who did not come up to the support of the fif
teenth amendment, and calls npon Congress to
visit merited punishment npon all such recu
sants” What is to be done with them? Are
they to be hung, burnt or drowned ?
Now, the fifteenth amendment received its
death-blow, in the late Georgia Legislature,
from a single hand, and that the hand of Pres-
dent Conley, of the Senate—a Radical of the
straitestsect! It had passed the House in spite
of the most active opposition and dodging npon
the part of numerous Radical members, and it
reached the Senate to bo mortally stabbed npon
tie, by the casting vote of President Conley.
There is, therefore, no doubt about or divi
sion of responsibility for its death. The respon
sibility all lies with the Radical party in the
Legislature, and is concentrated in the person
of Mr. President Conley.
Nor is there the slightest doubt about the mo
tive of the act. It was done to irritate Congress
and to superinduce a party necessity for a re
construction of the Legislature, in order to force
fhia amendment through.
The Radical party, having become pledged to
that amendment as a leading party measure, and
Gen. Grant having personally committed him
self to it in his Inaugural speech, it was assumed
as a settled point that, if the amendment could
only be defeated in this Legislature, Congress
would never leave the matter to the doubtful
chance of its passage at a subsequent session of
the same body; but would certainly remodel
tho Legislature as the ultra Radical party of
Georgia insist shall he done.
It was, therefore, a purely selfish and reck
less device to put Congress in a corner and drive
that body to the odious alternative of manu
facturing a Georgia Legislature in order to get
the fifteenth amendment through, and of ini-
posing upon tho impoverished people of Geor
gia the expense of another session of the Legis
lature, at a time when we are already staggering
under the enormous burden of taxation.
Could a device be more faithless to-the in
terests of a party—more ruinous, selfish, atro
cious and unjustifiable in every shape ?
Georgia is certainly counted upon by Forney,
and the rest of them, as one of the twenty-eight
States, which are to force that amendment upon
tho people. It is known to he odious to the
great body of the American people; and will it
be any less so when the Radical majority of
Congress are reduced by its friends to the
piteable necessity of hocussing and reconstruct
ing the State Legislatures in order to get the
fifteenth amendment through ? No wonder
Forney is hot about it. Here is what he has to
say:
The Georgia Legislature is neither compli
mentary to itself nor its constituency. It is im
possible at this distance, and with tho meagre re
ports, to place a construction npon the conduct
of those from whom we might expect a hearty
support of the constitutional amendment. The
motives of the extreme opposition to it can be
readily fathomed. But the paradox of the two
extremes meeting on ground that never should
have become common, is inexplicable. If the
measure be defeated, Congress should be prompt
to visit merited punishment upon all recusants.
If it succeed, those who should have shared the
honors of active advocacy will suffer in the re
spect of the parties who looked to them for pro
tection. Out of the fires of discord, however,
we shall trust to see a flow of refined gold.
Now, as to what will be the actual practical
effect of all the political scheming upon Georgia,
time alone will develop. We notice a Washing
ton correspondent of the Augusta Press, writing
on the 19th, says:
Your people will be relieved from all suspense
as to the status of the State at an early day.
Congress will take action probably within a
week, and, as I have before stated, the demands
of the Republican leaders will be acquiesced in.
It seems as though everything that transpired in
your State tended to convince Congress of the
necessity of this course.
The double-dealing of tho legislative body es
pecially has a tendency to exasperate—if I may
so use the term—the law-making branch of the
Government. But, ignoring the right of colored
men to hold office, and the vote on tho constitu
tional amendment, have decided men who were
undecided before.
On the contrary, the telegraphic Washington
correspondence of the Louisville Courier-Jour
nal says on the 19th: *
It is believed the measure reported by Mr.
Trumbull, canceling whatever of recognition as
a State that has been extended to Georgia, will
scarcely receive the Executive sanction. The
President has repeatedly said, within the past
month, that Georgia wus a State in the Union,
and for Congress to d«ny her representation is
to go back on their pet reconstruction acts.
There are evidently breakers ahead, and it may
be pretty safely predicted it will be sought to
avoid them by hastening the adjournment of
Congress.
As a matter of fact, we are disposed, however,
to anticipate that tho failure of the fifteenth
amendment to go through the Georgia Legisla
ture, will bring upon ns another reconstruction
of our Legislature, reseating the negroes, and
involving he people in the mortification and ex
pense of another session of tho original piebald
concern and an additional expense to be estima
ted somewhere among the hundred thousands.
That is what was intended, and whatwe suppose
will be accomplished. Congress means Georgia
shall accept and ratify that fifteenth amend-
mend, no matter how it is done.
The Cotton Tax.
Tho Chronicle and Sentinel of Sunday asks
Do our planting friends know that the tax on
cotton has not been repealed? Are they making
their calculations on a basis which allows two
and a half cents per pound for tho Government?
The law levying the tax was not repealed—the
crop of 1868 was specially exempted from its
operation. If there bo no further legislation
on the question, the tax will be collected on the
present crop.
Would it not be well for our boards of trade
in the cotton States to make application to Con
gress for a repeal, or at least a further suspen
sion, of tbe law. Public meetings of the plant
ers might also be held, and memorials gotten up
for the same purpose.
We were also under the impression that the
cotton tax had only been susjiendcd—tm impres
sion arising probably from the multiform shape
of tho action of Congress in relation to tho tax
before the final conclusion was reached; but on
reference to the act finally passed, we find it
provided for unconditional repeal. The follow
ing is a copy of the act:
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of
Representative tho United States of America,
in Congress assembled, That all cotton grown
in the United States after the year 1867, shallbo
exempt from internal tax; and cotton imported
from foreign countries, on and after November
1, 1868, shall bo exempt from duty.
Approved February 3, 1868.
Wlio Killed tlie Fifteenth -Amend
ment.
“I, says Mr. President Conley.
I, and I only!
I, in the Senate.
Killed it in a minute.
With my one little vote
I gave it a death-stroke;
I killedthe fifteenth amendment”
Yew York Times on Georgia.
The New York Times of last Friday comments
on the Georgia status to the length of more
fhan a column. It thinks the fifteenth amend
ment has fared badly from the hands of friends
as well as foes, and will have stronger impres
sions on that subject whenit gets the particulars
which the telegrams failed to convey. The
Times blames Gov. Bullock for a blunder in
transmitting the amendment to the Legislature
with a special message complicating that amend
ment with the question of negro office-holding,
and thus embarrassing its success with a need
less controversy! The Times, evidently, is in
need of some information abont the views and
motives of the so-called administration party in
Atlanta. He discourses eloquently npon the im
prudence of the Georgia Democrats in strength
ening the influences which threaten the Sta^e by
rejecting the amendment He talks about the
Democrats having done what they could to quar
rel with Congress and display an “insolent spi
rit” and a “ foolish pride,” under pretence of
upholding the dignity of the State. The Times
needs information. He is not posted. But here
is how he concludes it, by recommending Con
gress not to suffer itself to be unjustly provoked
against Georgia on account of the fifteenth
amendment May his prayers be heard!-
Let us hope that Congress will not ho led by
momentary resentment to adopt retaliatory
measures.* The wrong-doing of the Legislature
in expelling colored members, tho obstinacy with
which it has refused to retrace an inexcusable
step, the maimer of its rejection of the pending
amendment, are, perhaps, circumstances not
readily tolerated. But they call for firm yet
prudent treatment—not for harsh reprisals, or a
policy of questionable constitutionality. The
case is not clear enough to warrant sweeping
measures. The difference of opinion in the
Judiciary Committee is proof that any attempt
to thrust back the State to the rudimentary
stage of reconstruction would be revolting to an
influential portion of the Republican party.
The period is past when scruples touching the
constitutionality of a course proposed subsided
before the stem law of necessity. Even to right
the wronged and to secure the ratification of the
fifteenth amendment, it is not desirable to sanc
tion the plan at present before the Senate, v
Under the new administration, time will ac
complish much. The Republicans of Georgia,
black and white, all have votes. The trouble
hitherto has been that, with Mr. Johnson leagued
with the Democracy, fraud and violence have
neutralized votes and placed the colored people
at the mercy of their enemies. President Grant
may be relied npon to secure for every man in
the State freedom of speech and the unchecked
exercise of the franchise; and with these ad
vantages all the legitimate objects of the Con
gressional policy may be attained.
The Cuban Insurrection.
MESSAGE FItOM GEN. CESFEDES ASKING EECOGNITION
BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES.
CoL Stockton, of Pennsylvania, recently ar
rived at St Mark’s, Pla., bearing the following
message from Gen. Cespedes, the Commander-
in-Chief of the insurrectionary forces in Cuba,
asking that the President of the United States
accord to his party beiligerent rights, and recog
nize the Independence of Cuba:
To his Excellency, the President of the United
States :
Sm—The people of Cuba, by their Grand Su
premo Civil Junta, and through their General-
in-Chief, Senor Cespedes, desire to submit to
your Excellency the following, among other rea
sons, why yonr Excellency, as President of the
United States, should accord to them belligerent
rights and a recognition of their independence.
Because from the hearts of nineteen-twen
tieths of the inhabitants of the Island of Cuba
go up with prayers for tho success of the armies
of the republic; and from the sole and only want
of arms and ammunition these patient people
are kept under the tyrannical yoke of Spam.
The unanimity of tho masses of the people for
the republic is ominous.
Because the republic have armies numbering
over 70,000 men actually in the field and doing
duty. These men are organised and governed
on the principles of civilized warfare. The
prisoners whom they take—and so far they have
taken three times as many as their enemies
have from them—are treated in every respect
as the prisoners of war are used and treated by
the most civilized nations of the earth. In the
hope of recognition by the United States, they
have never yet in a single instances retaliated
death for death, even in cases of the most pro
voking natures.
Because the Spanish authorities have almost
invariably brutally murdered the soldiers of the
armies of the republic who have surrendered to
them, and have recently issued an official order
requiring their military forces hereafter instant
ly to kill and murder every prisoner of the re
public who surrenders. This is done, the order
cheerfully tells us, “to save trouble and vexation
to the Spanish civil authorities.” This is an
outrage that the civilized nations of the earth
ought not to allow.
Because the United States is tbe nearest civil
ized nation to Cuba whose political institutions
strike a responsive chord in the hearts of all
Cubans. The commercial and financial interests
of the two peoples being largely identified and
reciprocal in their natures, Cuba earnestly ap
peals for the unquestionable right of recogni
tion.
Because the arms and the authority of the
Republic of Cuba now extend over two-thirds
of the entire geographical area of tho island,
embracing a very great majority of the popula
tion in every part of tho island.
Because she has a navy in course of construc
tion which will excel in point of numbers and
efficiency that heretofore maintained by the
Spanish authorities in these waters.
Because these facts plainly show to the world
that this is not a movement of a few discontents,
but the grand and sublime uprising of a people
thirsting for liberty, and determined -with this
last effort to 6ecnre to themselves and their pos
terity those unquestioned rights—liberty of
conscience and freedom of tho individual.
Finally, because she is following but in the
footsteps of Spain herself in endeavoring to
banish tyrannical rulers, and in their stead place
rulers of her own'choice. The people of Cuba,
having a tenfold more absolute and potent right
than Spain had, because Cuba’s rulers are sent
without her voice or consent by a foreign coun
try, accompanied by and with swarms of their
officials to fill the various offices created only for
their individual comfort, drawing their suste
nance and support from the hard earnings of
the natives of the soil.
Allow us to add, with the greatest diffidence
and sensitiveness, that tho difference between
the rebellion in tho United States and the pres
ent revolution in Cuba, is simply that in the
former a small minority rebeUed against laws
which they had a voice in making and the privi
lege of repealing, while in the case of Cuba we
are resisting a foreign power crushing us to the
earth, ns they have done for centuries, with no
appeal but that of arms open to us, and appoint
ing, without our knowledge, voice, advice or
consent, tyrannical citizens of their own country
to rule us and eat onr substance!
“Patria ylibertad!”
Approved by the Supreme Junta and ordered
promulgated by
Senob Genebal Cespedes,
Comd’r-in-Chief Republican Forces of Cuba.
Headquarters in the Field, March 1, 1869.
BY TELEGSAPH,
Prom Washington-
Washington, March 22.—T. B. Lawrence, former
husband of Sallie Ward, of Louisville, is dead.
Robertson, Chairman, is preparing an omnibus
disability bill, excluding all names likely to delay ac
tion.
The papers of Charles M. Wilder, colored, for
Postmaster at Colombia, South Carolina, is before
the President, and endorsed by Cresswell, and the
entire South Carolina, delegation. No nominations.
No news. Awaiting the result of tho tenure-of-offlee-
bilL
Washington, December 21.—A letter was read in
the Metropolitan Church, (Grant, Chase, and others
present,) asking sympathy and prayer for the Cu
ban patriots.
Congressional.
Washington, March 22.—House.—On the regular
call, the Election Committee reported nothing af
fecting the South.
The Reconstruction Committee’s Mississippi bil
is not printed and no action has been taken.
An immense number of bills were introduced un
der the regular call, among them one to divide Tex
as, organizing that part south and west of the Col
orado river nto a State, and continue the Provis
ional Government in Texas. It was referred to the
Reconstruction Committee.
One for incorporating the Southern Express Com
pany.
The joint resolution granting the right of way to
the Memphis, El Paso and Pacific Railroad was
passed.
The resolution that contestants for seats, disqual
ified by disloyalty, shall receive no compensation,
passed—109 to 28.
A bill nullifying the action of disqualified persons
and declaring tho person receiving tho next highest
number of votes, elected, was introduced. Its con
sideration was postponed to Wednesday.
A bill abolishing the chief of staff to the General
of the army, passed.
A resolution to withdraw the concurrent resolution
from the Senate to adjourn on Friday, failed.
A motion to suspend the rules for the declaratory
resolution that the fifteenth amendment did not in
clude Chinese, failed by a vote of 42 to 106—a strict
party vote.
House adjourned.
Senate.—The Senatorial caucus this morning was
full, but stormy. On motion Grimes, Sprague, and
six others withdrew. Tho caucus meets again this
afternoon.
The suspension of the tenure-of-offico bill till next
session seems to be abandoned. The fight will be
over a suspension for five years or a repeal
A bill was passed requiring the proprietors of
bonded warehouses to pay store-keepers.
A bill authorizingNortkem and Southern railroads
to connect through Washington was passed.
Senate adjourned.
Tho Senate caucus this afternoon agreed to re
commit the tenure-of-ofiice bill to the Judiciary
Committee, with instructions to report certain modi
fications.
Fillibusters from Charleston Arrived in
Cuba-
Charleston: March 22—The Daily News will
publish to-morrow a letter announcing the arrival in
Cuba of an American expeditionary force in aid of
the revolution. The force is said to be composed
mainly of officers and men who served in the Fed-
deral and Confederate armies during the war, and
is commanded by Gen. Henningsen, of Nicaragua
fame.
From Cuba.
Havana, March 22.—Yesterday the politcal prison
ers embarked and sailed. The embarkation was or
derly. The wharves and house tops were packed.
A thief was badly beaten and taken to the volun
teer's barracks. A police commissioner a supposed
friend to tho thief was killed. A drum head court
martial has condemned the thief to death.
The Cubans cried “death to Spain!—viva cespi-
des.” Near the Governor's palace asontinel was
killed. Frequent cries of “viva cespides were heard
to-night. A riot is apprehended.
Sugar has slightly advanced, holders ask higher
prices.
Horse Racing at Mobile-
Mobile, March 22.—The Spring Meeting of tho
Magnolia Jockey Club commenced to-day. The at
tendance is fair and the weather delightful.
The first race was a sweepstakes for two-year-olds,
for five hundred dollars. Score: Cottrell 11; John
Kilgour 2 2. Time: 1:49%—1:48%:
Second race was a sweepstakes for tln-ec-year-
olds, for five hundred dollars. Score: Bayonet 11;
Puss Brodnax 2 4; Nellie McDonald 3 3; Locust
Pest42. Time: 1:51—1:49.
In the third race—match for five hundred dollars,
half mile dash—Cottrell’s Goat beat Moore’s brown
colt, by Lightning. Time: 0:54%—0:54%.
Mobile, March 24.—First race—mile and a quar
ter dash—Mobile Tribune purse of 8200. Score:
Stonewall Jackson 1; Billy Boy 2. Time 2.16%.
Second race—all ages—825 entrance, 8500 added
—mile heats, best 3 in 5. Score: Jennie C.2 S311
1 ; Transit 4112 2 2 ; Agnes Donovan 142 dis
tanced ; Maiy McDonald 3 2 4 distanced. Time, 1.-
53%—1.63%—1.48%—1.51—1.62%.
Mobile, March 23.—First race—purse 8250.
Score: Transit 11; Molly Ingersol 2 2; Mary Mc
Donald 4 3; Lewis E. Smith 3; Araion 1.52; 1.52
the second race for 8500.
Foreign News.
Madrid, March 22.—A hundred soldiers were
killed and wounded at Xere’s fight. Tho loss of citi
zens is heavy.
Herald on Georgia.
Tlie Herald of the 19th takes umbrage at Sen
ator Trumbull’s Judiciary bill for reconstruct
ing Georgia, under the fourteenth amendment,
and says, if that be done with Georgia, so it can
be done with New York or New Jersey:
For example, the Senate Judiciary Committee
report a bill declaring that under said amend
ment the expulsion of the negro members from
tho Georgia Legislature is null and void and
those expelled blacks must be restored to their
seats. Let this bill become a law for Georgia
and we shall have a rule established for New
York and all tho other States—the rule of equal
rights to hold office to citizens regardless of
color. This is the Georgia question now before
the Senate.
Howe’s Musical Monthly.—We have No.
of a quarto monthly, bearing this title. If co
tains twenty pieces of music arranged for tl
•piano, and its price is twenty-five cents. Pn
dished by Elias Howe, 103 Court street, Boston.
Etlhu are-often deaf and blind to the wants
Of the people. .They might have as many ears as
a corn-field and as many eyes as a field of pota
toes and bear and aee just aa little.
Oft bob Washington.—We learn that Govern
or JtaU&ck and hie staff left for Washington last
.J}
A Prophet op Wrath.—The Philadelphia
Press of the 18th warns us to look out for
squalls as follows: “Georgia has heard of the
fourteenth amendment to the Constitution of the
United States. Her knowledge of its existence
raised her almost to the rank of Republicanism.
She would have reached that standard had she
not forgotten that the amendment post
special vitality by reason of a little clause i Much
runs thus : ‘Congress shall have power to en
force this amendment by appropiiate legisla
tion.’ In a day or two that recalcitrant State
may have cause to regret her forgetfulness.”
.we have escaped bo far—may possibly yet
From Cabo.
The New York Herald of the 19th has special
Havana dispatches of the 17th, which state that
the Spanish column advancing on Mayari was
severely defeated by insurgents, with a loss of
300 killed. The Spanish troops under La Torre,
at Villa Clara, were also defeated. The insur
gents have driven off the parties repairing the
Villa Clara and Cienfueg03 Railroad, and it
estimated that it will require a force of 10,000
men to re-establish railroad communication be
tween the two cities. Many women and children
from Paerto Principe have gone to join their
relatives among the insurgents, and Gen. Lesca
has issued an order that they shall return or be
liable to the penalties of military law if captured.
It was rumored in Havana that Santiago had
been captured by an insurgent expedition in
concert -with the Peruvian iron-clads. The Cap
tain General has issued a decree reducing the
direct taxes on property, and the war tax fifty
per cent, and to compensate for the reduction
of revenue has increased the export duties.
Chang and Eng are married to two sisters,
the daughters of an American clergyman. Each
brother has nine children. The family of Eng
consists of six sons and three daughters; the
family of Chang consists of three sons and six
daughters. Their first children were bom with
in three or four .days of each other; the others
The Tribune and Georgia.—The following is
all the New York Tribune has to say abont the
failure of the fifteenthamendmentinthe Georgia
Senate:
Tho poor Georgians have taken another turn
at tho constitutional amendment concerning suf
frage. This time the Senate tried to ratify it,
but failed by the casting vote of the presiding
officer. Meantime, the legislators who ran away
from the House to delay its action are involved
in a sore strait. Gov. Bullock orders that the
Treasurer pay no money on their warrants for
salaries until thoy come back and attend to their
business. "What a pity that bright idea had not
struck them out in Indiaua, a few weeks ago!
Between their hatred of niggers and their need
of money, the Democrats would have had a hard
time, but we know which influence would have
carried the day.
Burning of a Splennid Steamboat.—A New
Orleans dispatch of the 15th, says:
Dispatches from Vicksburg, to-day, report
that the steamer Ruth, from St. Louis to New
Orleans, was discovered to be on fire this even
ing, between 4 and 5 o’clock, while opposite
Duckport and in the short space of half an hour
she was entirely consumed with a large and
valuable cargo. The passengers and crew with
their baggage were saved, also, the books, pa
pers and money.
The boat belonged to the Atlantic and Mis
sissippi Steamship Company, and was regarded
as one of the best boats afloat. The steamer
Calumet has gone up after her passengers and
crew. . .'
In the South Carolina House of Representa
tives, on Wednesday, Webb introduced a joint
resolution to suspend the writ of habeas corpus
in the counties of Laurerfi, Newberry, Ijdgde-
field, and Abbeville, which was referred to the
Judiciary Committee.
The New York Day Book mentions the re
ceipt in that city of a letter from General Rich
ardson, Commissioner of the Board of Immigra
tion, giving the Information that through the
exertion of Mr. John Everrett, of London, a
Serves ’Em Right,
THE ERA OF BAD FEELING AMONG RADICAL POLI
TICIANS.
“Mack’s” last letter to the Cincinnati Enquirer
contains the following:
1 believe it was the first administration of
James Monroe which ushered in what was known
as “the era of good feeling” in politics. The
first weeks of Grant’s administration seems to
have begun what may be called the era of bad
feeling in the Radical party. The reader in
Ohio and Indiana can hardly appreciate or un
derstand the amount of bile and bad blood in
the loyal body politio. But just come to Wash
ington and enter into a quiet talk with one of the
Congressional leaders, and from the fullness of
his heart his mouth will speak the deepest
kind of damnation on Grant and things generally.
Last spring, just before the Chicago Con
vention, I had a long talk with a Radical Sena
tor, in the course of which I gave very freely my
opinion of Gen. Grant, the same that I have
recently expressed in these letters. I predicted
that the Republican party in its admiration of
Grant would share the unhappy fate of the frogs
in the fable, who implored Jupiter to send them
a king. Jupiter complied by delegating a stork
to rule over them. The result was that there
were no frogs left a week after the new king
hud ascended the throne. “Oh,” said my Rad
ical friend, “you are mistaken in your estimate
of Grant. He is a thorough Republican.”—
“Very well,” said I, “please remember that
fable, and if the Republican party is not heart
ily sick of Grant before the close of the first
year of his administration, I’ll agree to vote for
the next Republican candidate for the Presi
dency.”
I met this gentleman a few days ago. He
was returning from the White House, where he
had just been snubbed in the disarrangement of
a “slate.” The first words he said to me, ut
tered in a tone between sneering and smiling,
were, “We’ve got a stork this time, as sure as
fate.”
So it goes. Grant is hurting the Republican
party by his egotism and arrogance much more
than Johnson could hurt it by an honest differ
ence of opinion or policy. Johnson quarreled
with it on principle. Grant accedes to the prin
ciples and quarrels as to the men. Hence the
fight is over the offices, and in consequence of
the smashing of slates, and he knows very little
of politics who does not know that such a fight
is much more bitter than any resulting from a
difference of principle. It is bitter because it
cannot be conducted openly before the people,
but must be confined to private cursing. They
dare not to go to the country with a denuncia
tion of Grant, because they cannot charge him
with a betrayal of the party. He can point to
his inaugural and tell them he is as good a Rad
ical as any of them. To complain would be to
acknowledge that the Radical leaders are a set
of political harlots, who care for nothing but the
spoils of office.
It serves them right. The worship of should
er straps is about the shabbiest kind of idolatry
I know of. When a political party ignores all
the men who are conspicuous in the civil history
of the country, and rushes with open arms to
embrace a West Point ignoramus, it deserves no
pity for whatever ill-luck may befall it. You
have uo more right to expect political wisdom
as the result of a West Point training than you
have to look for a successful navigator in the
graduate of a dancing school. It only needs a
little more of that truculet button-worship which
led to the election of Grant to change our re
publican form of government into what history
unites in condemning as to the worst kind oi a
despotism—a military “democracry.” I am in
clined to think that the universal disgust which
pervades the Republican breast just now will
have a good effect in checking this abominable
and dangerous spirit. It will teach men that
they can not gather figs from thorns, nor states
manship from drill sergeants.
Letter from Mr. Dickson.
BEST MANNER OF KEEPING AND IMPROVING COTTON
Sparta, February 10, 1869.
Editors Southern Cultivator: I went into the
business of selling cotton seed unwillingly-^-but
it has paid use very well, and will pay purchas
ers better, if they 'will manage them properly.
I trill give my views as to the best manner of
keeping them pure and improving them. There
is a belt of land running through Georgia and
other cotton States, that I consider the home of
the cotton plant—possibly the bottoms in the
West-may be better adapted to it. The Southern
line commences in Georgia above Augusta, and
ends just about Columbus, embracing the South
ern granitic region—mulatto, pine, aud oak aud
hickory lands, and extending about one degree
North. I prefer the Southern part of this belt.
The North end of my farm is included in this
part. I have sold no seed on the Southern part
of my farm—it being too sandy to keep the
seed up to the desired standard.
Planters living South of this line, would do
well to obtain seed from this region once in three
or four years. If that trade suould spring up,
seed could be delivered sacked, to the nearest
depot, at 50 to 60 cents per bushel. South of
this belt, tho cotton plant is inclined to produce
too much weed and too little fruit. In it, with
proper preparation, rotation, manure and rest,
you can make the cotton plant just what you
please, as gentlemen from all parts of Georgia
can testify, who have seen my crop—making
two bales per acre on cotton from 26 to 28 inches
high.
To improve the cotton plant, yon should
select seed every year, immediately after the
first picking, up to the middle of October, se
lecting (in the case of Dickson seed) from stalks
that send out one or more suckers near the
ground, sometimes called arms. These arms
need not be looked for on poor land. Second
ly, from those that send out limbs thick with
three to six bolls, from a half inch to one and a
half inches apart on the limbs. If yon do not
keep your laud well charged with humus, the
cotton limbs will bo too short—manure well,
plow deep, cultivate with the sweep very shal
low—serapo with the hoe instead of digging or
chopping—if you cut the cotton roots, you -will
make stalks instead of bolls. On all farms,
there are some acres that produce cotton better
than others. Seed for planting, should always
be selected from these spots.
I will here answer some of the thousand ques
tions asked me by its many hundreds of persons
—receiving from one to two hundred letters per
week, I cannot answer any of them. If they
would only take the Southern Cultivator, they
would be in possession of all the answers they
wish. Messrs. Editors, if you would use the
same amount of energy in extending the circu
lation of your paper as you do in getting it up.
you might get fromfifty to one hnndredthousand
subscribers. The present is a most favorable
time to do so. Go to work in that direction.
Many planters have visited me the last year,
and they were astonished that my cotton plant
ed the 10th of May, was more forward than
theirs planted the 10th of April. I often told
them, in a joking way, they were root-entters.
They often confessed they put the turning plow
to the cotton the first plowing, then the shovel
plow the balance of tbe season, getting no bolls
until the cotton is laid by.
To those who wish to know my distance in
plantin’g, etc., let me say, I do not approve of
hill planting. I would not have a row nearer
than 4 feet. Use a No. 2. Scovel hoe—leave
2 to 3. stalks in every hill—distance between
hills the width of the hoe. There are many
reasons for this; the best one is, it makes it
more forward. To those who wish to know my
opinion abont the various manures, I refer them
to what I have often said in tho Southern Cul
tivator. I will merely mention that I consider
ammonia the 1st—soluble bone the 2d best—
salt and plaster a good preventative of rust in
cotton, beside possessingother good properties.
Those who wish to hear from me must take
the Southern Cultivator. The pen cannot come
to time with type and the steam press. I must
be allowed to work the way I can do the plan
ter the most good (if any.) I cannot do it with
the pen alone. I must have the aid of type and
steam. Very truly yours,
David Dickson.
Cotton Planting in Egypt* > Northern Visitors to the South.
The cotton seed is first steeped in water for During the last winter there has been a greater
twenty-four hours, to induce it to germinate number of visitors to the South from the Northern
more rapidly, then three or four seeds are placed ; and Eastern States, »■«", we believe, has evei
in holes from three to four inches in depth, at j come here in any preceding season. South Caro-
from three to four feet apart This is done at lina, Georeia and Florida have been th« t.
A Distinguished Radical Pronounces the
Government a Failure.—If I should say to any
body, that it is my deliberate judgment thatthis
Government has failed in the object that it was
intended by its projectors to seoure, I suppose
I should be scouted at. But sir, when I com
pare the situation of this country to-day with
the situation of that country from whence we
sprung, I find that not only in capital, but in
general intelligence, in education, in liberty
among the people, they far exceed the privileges
and the power of the people of this country.
They are increasing in a ratio which is most as
tounding, in education and in all the refinements
of life, as the statistics show. And where are
we ? All we have to help ourselves in the world
is our cotton, which we are about to lose, and
our tobacco, which we shall loose.—Senator
Sprague.
“Lite in the Old Land Yet.”—A lady resid
ing in Cambell county, visited Atlanta one day
tbe present week, and pnreheaed. at
the end’of March or beginning of April, after
preparation of the soil by ploughing and break
ing np the clods. This land has been previous
ly flooded in December, when the water is left
npon it for abont two weeks, then drained off
should it not all have been absorbed. No ma
nure or other fertilizers is used. In most in
stances, the Fellahs cultivate, at the same time,
vegetables in the spaces between the cotton
plants. The weeds are carefully removed at the
period of the inundation. The top of the plant
is pruned with a knife, to hasten the formation
of the bolls and economize the vigor of the
growth. This is done the first year. It begins
to flower early in July, and continues flowering
until December; sometimes, in exceptionally
good seasons, even until February.
The crop is chiefly gathered in from the be
ginning of September to the middle of October.
The latest estimates of the product of the plant
(in 18G6) give from ono and a quarter to two
pounds of uncleaned cotton to each stalk. From
two to three hundred pounds per acre would be
a fair average yield, though double that quanti
ty has been obtained, exceptionably, and even
more. The plant can produce three successive
years, but in such case the weeds must be extir
pated the second year with a hoe. The first
year it is done by hand. The cotton is rarely
injured by insects, which prove so great a plague
to our Southern planter. Whether this be owing
to some peculiarity of the soil, or to the system
of irrigation, is a point as yet undecided, but
certainly worthy of examination. Possibly the
absence of composts may account for it.
Tbe cotton-plants are cut the first year with a
kind of pruning-knife, and the branches remov
ed are used for fuel. This operation gives more
strength to the plant, which otherwise would
wither up and perish under tho effect of the
winter’s cold—sensibly felt in the delta in the
months of December and January, owihg to its
proximity to the sea. The second year the Fel
lahs only work the ground, when weeding, and
the plants, which had before acquired a growth
of four or five feet in height during the first
year, grow very little afterward.
As before stated, the Fellah is the only agri
cultural laborer, and his actual condition, though
nominally a free man, is no better than that of
the Russian serf, and scarcely so good as that
of the Southern slave in former years. He is,
to all intents and purposes, both serf and slave;
for he is only nominally permitted to hold land,
and is not usually allowed to change his place
of residence, or choose the labor which is en
forced by the superior officials of his village or
neighborhood.
His wages, too, (when he gets them) are barely
sufficient to sustain life and procure the black
bread, dates and vegetables on which he lives.
He eats animal food bnt once a year, during the
grand feast of Bairam, when it is a religious
duty, and when sheep, are given by the rich for
that purpose. His clothing, and that of his
women, consists of a coarse blue cotton shirt, to
which the women add a veil and a few brass or
naments around the neck, in the ears and nose.
He lives in a mud hut, without chimney, in
which huddle together the whole family, and
sometimes the animals also. They are very proli
fic, and the little ones thrive in that genial climate
and grow up into strong, sinewy, wiry men and
capable of sustaining great and continued labor.
Ho is utterly and wonderfully ignorant, which is
not surprising, since we find even his superiors,
the proprietors, not knowing how to read or
write. The Fellah knows nothing but the rou
tine of his daily labor, but is naturally amiable,
lively and fond of fun. The women labor as
hard as the men, and bear traces of it in their
appearance after eariy puberty, which, in that
climate and country, dates from nine years of
age. They are graceful and pretty in early
youth, with perfect figures, hands and feet, but
harden into hags very soon, and grow prema
turely aged and wrinkled. The men, too, age
very soon, and die early, and any epidemic de
stroys great numbers.
The Fellah is neither a white nor a black man,
but of a dark copper color, darker than an In
dian. His features are regular, his head well
balanced, though small, and he lias none of the
negro characteristics in face, mind or person.
The black slaves in Egypt, Nubians and Abys-
sinians, are never employed in agriculture.
They are Used as household or domestic ser
vants exclusively; but even the poor Fellah
looks down upon these sleek, well-dressed ser
vants as an inferior race, for he too has his own
pride of Arab blood. The Fellahs are fanatical
ly religions, and during the month of Romagan
(the Arab Lent) will fast from sunrise to sunset
for thirty days, without even wetting their lip3
with water *or even smoking their cherished
pipe (a greater privation stilL)
The Shipment of Early Vegetables to
Sew York.
Last October a Convention was held at Stone
Mountain to take -steps towards inaugurating a
system of shipping fruits and vegetables to New
York, similar to the famous “Green Line.” A
committee was nppinted to confer with the rail
roads and steamers in relation to the subject.
That committee urged the adoption of the fol
lowing plan:
First. Cars adapted to tho transportation of
fruits and vegetables, thoroughly ventilated, yet
free from undue exposure.
Second, Stated days assigned at each station
for the reception of this class of freight.
Third, Cars, when loaded, to be sealed up
and attached to the first passenger train bound
Northward.
Fourth, Oars to be transferred at Augusta,
without detention, to the South Carolina Rail
road, and there attached to the first passenger
train going to Charleston.
Fifth, A liberal rate of freight to the shipper.
The far-seeing Assistant Superintendent of
the Georgia Railroad replied at once giving as
surance of his hearty concurrence in the plan.
The South Carolina Railroad, it is believed^ will
do likewise. . The steamers plying between
Charleston and New York, of which Messrs.
James Adger & Co., are Agents, we see by a let
ter to the Angusta Chronicle and Sentinel from
J. C. Derby, Esq., of New York, are preparing
“ Rutter's 'Patent Transportation Box,” for the
forwarding of early fruits and vegetables to New
York. IVe are pleaeed to see that they are tak
ing such prompt action looking to the fostering
of this trade.
Another important item connected with this
movement, is the fact that the committee made
such ample arrangements that detention of pro
duce at Charleston will be impossible, should
the trains arrive on schedule time and the
steamers leave at the time appointed. They suc
ceeded, too, in reducing the commission for
selling these products in New York, one half.
What are our friends along the lines of the two
roads doing ? Clubs should be formed, packing
depots established, and measures looking to
wards a concentration of effort adopted. If a
club is formed in every town along the line of
the Georgia Road and its branches, it will de-
velope, to a large extent, the resources, not only
of that road, but, of the whole country. It will
be a power in the land, for it will bring money
into it, and money is power. Will the press lend
its aid to so important an enterprise ?—Atlanta
Constitution.
The Radical Schism in Virginia.
The Virginia seceders from the late Radical
Convention in that State have nominated a tick
et and put forth the following platform:
“Peace and good will among men,
“The prosperity and happiness of all the
people.
“Unity of purpose and combination of
strength to build up onr State and develope her
inexhaustible resources.
“Consolidation and concentration.
“The removal of political disabilities.
“The striking from the Constitution the test-
oath and the county organization.
“The unity of the States and the glory of the
Union.
“The equality of all men before the law, and
the equal protection of all of whatever color or
previous condition in life.
“True allegiance and loyalty to the Govern
ment.
lina, Georgia and Florida have been the most fa
vored in this respect. Attracted by the mild di-
mate, which presents so striking a contrast to the
snow and ice of their own homes, invalids and
others have come among us in such crowds, that
they now complain, through the Northern press,
that they cannot find sufficient accommodations.
The New York Times, in an artide on this sub
ject, says:'
“We have discouraging accounts, from pri
vate sources, from those who propose going
South for a middle climate during the raw and
inclement season of onr Spring. There seems
to be no room there, as every place is already
full! Passengers from Savannah, by boat to
Florida, very frequently return in the same
boat because they can find no accommodations
whatever. Invalids from the North already oc
cupy every available house in all the available
towns of that vicinity, as of nearly every other
of the Southern States. Even in Savannah,
whore the hotel accommodations are better than
in most Southern cities, and where the climate
i3 not especially inviting, guests are constantly
turned away for lack of room. Our Northern
people must buy Southern places for their win
ter residence; and fortunately the chances to do
so on favorable terms are very abundant. That
thousands of our citizens will avail themselves
of them we have no doubt."
This is a very unfortunate state of affairs, if
the “accounts” be correct, and one which
should be remedied as speedily as is possible.
It is to the interest of the Northern people to
come here, where they derive so much benefit
from the change, and it is certainly to our own
interest that they shall not ho turned away from
a want of suitable accommodations. The ad
vice of the Times to this class to purchase
places in the South for winter residences is very
judicious and should be followed. Land is re
markably cheap in this section of country, and
parties wishing to purchase can do so on the
most reasonable terms.—Chronicle and Sentinel
Cotton.
We condense the following statement from
the New York Financial and Commercial Chron
icle of last Saturday:
Spinners are doing but little, and their stocks
are nearly at a minimum point. There have been
received*at the ports since 1st of September
1,689,379 bales, of which exporters have taken
915,336, spinners 450,191, and the stocks have
increased 343,852 bales. Deficit in receipts as
compared with last-year, 75,025 bales. Deficit
in shipments to Liverpool, now 234,825 bales.
In the annual Liverpool circulars the supply
is estimated as follows: America 1,350,000;
India 1,600,000; Brazil 809,000; Egypt, etc.,
270,000; West Indies 120,000 bales. Since that
time tiie accounts of the crops have been very
disappointing and the estimates of the probable
supply have been considerably reduced. We
estimate now that the above figures will be re
duced about 800,000 bales. This will necessi
tate a reduction in the consumption to about
40,000 bales weekly. We hear that the consump
tion is now down to 4G,000 bales, and the small
er production of goods is having some effect
on the prices in Manchester. When the con
sumption has been curtailed further, as it must
be to keep the stock from running very low,
every pound of yam and yard of goods pro
duced can easily he sold at remunerative rates.
The Sales foe Future Delivery—For March,
300 bales at 28jo; 200 at 2SAc; 200 at 28c; 50 at
27jfC. For March and April, 206 bales at 28jc:
200 at 28^; 200 at 28c; 500 at 274c. For May,
100 hales at 23jc. All of the above were low
middlings. Yesterday SOO bales low middlings
were sold: 100 for March at. 274c; 400 for
April at 27§c; 300 for May at 27f c.
statistical position— 1869 1868.
Stock in Liverpool 332.000 311,410
Afloat from India 146,000 136,000
Afloat from America....; 163,000 216,000
Stock in London g3.810 76,970
Afloat for London. 80,000 22,060
Stock in Havre 59,578 41,600
Afloat for Havre 19,3S0 45,917
Stock in U. S. ports 387.446 320,518
Stock in interior towns 82,026 68,503
Manure fob Potatoes An exchange says
the following receipt for potatoes is worth the
price of any paper for one year to any farmer
that is short of manure. It is as good as the
best superphosphate of lime and it will not cost
so much. It has been tried two years, and is
good on dry land. Take one cask of lime and
slack it with water, and then stir in one bushel
of fine salt, and then mix in loam on ashes
enough so that it will not become mortar; it will
make about five barrels. Put half a pint in a
bill at planting. All manurel containing potash
are particularly suitable for the potato. Ashes
contain more than any other fertilizer, and should
be freely used and carefully saved.
Talbot Superior Corner.—The Superior Court
of Talbot ooonty metis the Court House In Tab
betted last Monday,.and after a Season of
Total 1,315,240 1.269.87S
Excess in visible supply 45,262
Stock of cotton held by Manchester spinners
at tho mills now 20,000 bales, same time 1868.
182,000 bales. Middling, Orleans, now 12fd,
then 10jd.
Statistics oi' Inebriety.
Dr. McKinley, of St. Lonis, says the Medical
Reporter of that city, has compiled, after a very
careful research, some very interesting and
startling statistics of inebriation lathe United
States. By him the following statements are
made:
Taking the population of this country at 40,-
000,000; of 300 men, 122 never drink spirits at
all; 100 drink moderately, but not to intoxica
tion ; 50 are ephemeral drinkers; 25 drink
periodically, called “spreeing;” and 3 are ha
bitual inebriates. To every 178 wbo drink, 3
are confirmed inebriates; 25 are periodical
drinkers; 50 are ephemeral drinkers. One con
firmed inebriate to every 594 of men. Of 700
women, 600 never taste alcoholics of any kind;
30 taste wine occasionally; 17 taste ardent
spirits; 36 drink ale or beer constantly; 14
drink ardent spirits periodically, and 3 are ha
bitual inebriates.
Predominance in confirmed inebriates of the
sexes: 3 men in every 178; 3 women in every
100; 1 confirmed inebriate to every 33^- of
women. Fewer wowen drink than men; but a
a larger proportion of them become habitual
drinkers. Debauch drinkers rarely become
habitual inebriates, as the violence of their
drinking is too great, and leads to disgusting sa
tiety, and hence to intervals of sobriety.
COUNTES3 Kif.LMAXSEOOE AND NAPOLEON THE
Great.—The beautiful but heartless Countess
Kielmansegge, who, in 1312, was the mistress of
Napoleon the First, and who died some time
since at an advaveed age, has left a manuscript
volume of reminiscences, in which she acknowl
edges that the famous Ernst Graf, who com
mitted suicide three years ago, at Dresden, oa
account of his extreme poverty, was the son
whom she bore to the great Emperor in 1813.
She excuses her refusal to acknowledge Graf as
her son on the pretext that she made a vow in
1815 never to admit that she had a liason with
Napoleon I. Ernst Graf bore the most striking
resemblance to his illustrious father. In 1853,
he went to Paris and tried to attract the atten
tion of Lonis Napoleon,-but was unable to obtain
anything at his hands. At Mannheim, however,
he had an interview with the old Grand Duchess
Stophani, nee M’lle de Beauhamais, who was
believed to have had a liason with Napoleon in
1811, and she made him a liberal present, fils
application to the French Embassador at Dres
den, though supported by very strong circum
stantial evidence that he was the natural son of
Napoleon I, remained nnsnccessfnl.
General Longstreet.—A number of the Rad
ical Senators, led by Brownlow, are very bitter
in denouncing tho nomination, and although
enough votes may be secured to confirm him,
there are some doubts expressed of it to-day.
General Longstreet is a cousin of Mrs. Grant,
and on the day that Iris name was sent to tho
Senate, two other near connections of the Presi
dent were also sent in for lucrative offices. The
statement given out in certain circles that Gene
ral Longstreet will decline the appoitment ten
dered him by the President has no foundation
in fact—Washington Letter Baltimore Sun.
Gen. Grant and Georgia.—The Washington
specials of the Louisville Courier-Journal of the
17th say:
The President stands firm in the position he
took a month ago on the Georgia question- R®
repeated his words yesterday in conversation
with a friend that he did not see how Congress
could exclude the Georgia Representatives with
out going back on the reconstruction laws.
We do not look for any issue between the ad
ministration and Congress growing out of the
reconstruction of Georgia.
Tim Price of Sugar.—The speculators a f eW
weeks ago seized upon the pretext of the war
in Cuba, and put np the price of sugar. R nt
we see it is reaoting. The New York Time*
j.vofined sugars have been reduced fully
cents per pound from the highest figures made
during the recent speculative rise. Beat crushed
and granulated sugar (Stuart’s) is now
at 18 oenis cash, per pound, in lot* of twemj
packages and upwards. Groom* “about town,
will please make a note of this and give th
Yanksb CawMwmws » fc
1867 the Parisian <*•«•»
Society.
