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The Greorgia "Weekly Telegraph.. THE TELEGRAPH. MACON, FRIDAY, APRIL 2, 18G9. Save Your Ammunition—Yo Congres sional Election. Wo notice the press continues to be exercised about candidates for Congress and an election next May—but wherefore? Out bono? The bill bringing on the election in May doubtless slumbers in the pocket of the Governor—and he is in Washington. There is no probability that it will be approved, and where, then, the use of talking about an election? We under stand that the nominee from this district, CoL Lawson, considers that his nomination expired fairly by limitation some time ago. Let ns at tend to the crops and give elections the go-by till we are called to make them. Railway Politicians. The New York Times of the 23d is out in a heavy indictment against the Erie railroad as a political power, and charges that a combination of the Central, Harlem, Hudson River and Erie elected the Democratic ticket in New York last fall, and can do just what they will if left to car ry ont their schemes. The Times does not denounce the Pennsylvania Central for doing the same thing in behalf of the Radicals in the KeyBtone State, nor the grand combination of bondholders for electing Gen. Grant Money will shape politics for a good long time till something happens to stir np and combine the great unwashed, and then capital becomes the prey instead of the master. How long before the big bine bottles of capital will find them selves in the spiders web ? Magazines. The Eclectic for April was received yester day. It is embellished with a beautiful steel portrait of Rosa Bonheur, and filled with choice cullings from the latest foreign reviews. Pel- Ion, 103 Fulton street, New York. The Riverside Magazine for Young People is much the best of its kind in America—Hurd & Houghton, New York, and to be had of Havens & Brown, Macon and Eufaula. An Interregnum in Virginia. The wheels of government in the Old Domin ion are clogged by suddenly turning out all civil officers who cannot take the iron-clad. By a military order they all became functus officio on the 22d. On the 23d Gen. Stoneman issued another order making some four or five hun dred appointments, but some time must elapse before the lists can be filled up. Order in Cuba. There is n terrible fuss in Cuba, but if they will send over three or four of the old Confed erate Georgia regiments, with Gen. Gordon at their head, they will cleanse things out and re store qui»t in a month. The Eight Horn Law. — The squabbles among the Northern workmen abont the eight hour law were redieulous enough, but have been check-mated by the grocers, who insist that six pints of molasses shall go to the gallon at full price. The eight hour chaps who demand full price for short measure of labor are dumb founded at the impudence of the grocers in running on their schedule; but they are stumped on the argument The eight hour law seems to have been suggested by the Georgia Legislature to prevent a rise in the price of salt It has for its basis the very practical idea that values can bo established and regulated by legislation. Commlssioner op Foreign Immigration.—Mr. John B. Jeup, hitherto leading editor of the Volksfreund, the German Democratic paper of Cincinnati, has sold out his interest in that es tablishment to the partners, and it is said that be will remove to Atlanta, to act as the Com missioner of Foreign Immigration for this State. Mr. Victor Shilly will be the future manager of the Volksfreund. A Mammoth Ox.—The Marietta Journal says on Tuesday last there was on exhibition in that city the largest ox, said to be, in America. He measnred eleven feet round the body, thirteen feet long, and his height eighteen hands, weighs 4,545 pounds, and only six years of age. This monster-animal is of the Durham breed and was raised in Kentucky. Gold in Tennessee.—Gold has recently been discovered in Hawkins county, Tenn., about eleven miles east of Rogersville, on the south side of the Holston river. The specimens ex hibited are said to he of the richest quality, surpassing the celebrated mines of California. A company of energetic gentlemen, possessed of sufficient capital, have the matter in charge, and will fully develop the capacity of the mines. Where the Specie Goes.—It seems that John Chinaman is getting all ^nr gold and silver. Every steamer leaving Snn Francisco takes ont hundreds of thousands. The last one carried $823,000. This has been going on for many years. Specie goes to China from all parts of the world, hut nover returns. It was so with silver before the finding of gold in California, and now gold goes the same course. There is a row among the Washington Radi cals over the money realized by the inaugura tion ball—some $20,000. The committee origi nally agreed to di-ride the profits with Gray, the caterer for the occasion, but the amount is so large they refuse a division, and a law suit is probable. . ’■ ' Gen. Grant’s administration is making a deep dent in the party. Tho Springfield Republican says: “It would be useless to deny that the Presidential appointments are made and can vassed at Washington in a manner that does not strengthen tho new administration in tho hearts of the people.” Southern Chair Factories.—The Nashville papers note at length the opening, or rather chris tening of a Chair Factory there the other day. It proposes to employ five hundred hands. This reminds ns that there is an excellent Factory of this kind at Decatnr, Georgia, the work of which is in every dwelling in the State. Mayor or Columbus.-—Col. A. R. Lamar, of the Son, was nominated for Mayor of Colum bus, at a Democratic Convention on Wednes day night—-receiving 11C out of 221 votes the minority being scattered among six other can didates. __ New York Dry Goods Market.—Tho follow ing was the Btate of the drygoods market in New York on the 24th inst.: Dry goods—all classes of goods are selling at low and unprofit able rates. Adriandoc prints are down to 8]c. Brown cottons—Massachusetts B124. No other Fine Times fob Kid Slippers.—A dispatch from St. Johns, in New Brans wick, on Tuesday, says that snow was six feet deep on a level, and the people were all quitting the low lands in ap prehension of a destructive flood. Arrival of Immigrants.—The Marietta Jour-' uni of Friday says on last Sabbath, twenty or twenty-five immigrants, men, women and chil dren, arri ved in Marietta, from Missouri. They wQl locate in Milton county. H. M. Burner’s card to the colored people is published sjfkin that they may all have an op portunity to see it. Let them heed. Tax ice in tho Missouri River is moving and the prospects of an 'early opening of navigation is very ,good. Butler on Georgia. Butler took up the t case of Georgia in the House last Monday, and delivered himself in form and maimer following, to-wit: “Butler urged that there were three States in an unreconstructed condition, where a man’s life is not safe—where a clergyman is shot down as he performs the marriage sacrament, and where men are taken ont of jail and hanged and shot. We are paid by the year, and shoald not go home'now and leave the country in that condi tion. “Butler agreed in the matter of Georgia. Congress had made haste slowly, hut this was a question of life and death to the Republicans— the Union men of the South. Who would not say an adjournment of Congress now would be a desertion of them, a turning of them over to their enemies ? Besides, if Congress adjourn now, the Senate would remain in session as last Spring, and the effect was, no sooner had the House its back turned than Alaska was thrust on the country. He thought, therefore, under the circumstances, it was the duty of the House to remain in session.” Georgia, after all, is probably in a quieter condition than almost any Stato of tho Union, and nearly all tho disturbances which occur are directly traceable to a violation of the plain and natural conditions of good order, in the sup posed interests of Radicals and Radicalism. Thus, in one of the cases cited by Butler to give point to the allegations against Georgia, a prominent Radical politician, from a place of concealment, shoots out the brains of a village editor while walking the streets in tho broad light of day, in retaliation for a personal arti cle ; and the people, in a phrenzy of excite ment, take the assassin out and shoot him. It is a pity that tho law was not allowed to take its course in this case: but who can say that tho demands of natural justice have been outraged in this transaction? And in the other case— shooting down a clergyman while performing tho marriage ceremony—the crime had no bet ter'foundation than the mistake of a newspaper. The shooting, as- all know, was merely acci dental But as to other crimes that Butler does not cite—tho robberies, rapes and murders by blacks upon whites and persons of their own color which now make np almost the'snm total of vio lation of the peace in Georgia, they are due to the bad teachings and pernicious legislation of the Radicals and of Congress, and are the re sults, direct and indirect, of the efforts to radi calize the State, by turning society topsy turvy and putting ignorance and vice to the woifb of governing and controlling the popular intelli gence and virtue. Patriotic and intelligent law-givers respect, as far as they can, even the popular prejudices; and when they see it to be duty and policy to combat these, they accept the plain and inevita ble deduction—that they are placed at the man ifest disadvantage of the application of force to supply what shall be lacking in the voluntary co-operation of the people. But, in the case of Georgia and the South, the Radicals run not only counter to all which they may be excused for holding to be mere prejudice, but they also run counter to what they must know to be com mon sense and sound policy. It is impossible for any man in his senses to believe that the Congressional legislation for the South has its main foundation in a desire to establish good government in this section, or to subserve the substantial interests of the people. On the con trary, every man knows that these ends are to be sacrificed, more or less, to the overruling pur pose to Radicalize the South and compel it to bring grist to the so-called Republican mill. Consequently, when Butler and others of his sort, talk about more legislation of the same sort in order to restore order in Georgia, they are not half as honest as old Sangrado was when he cried out for more bleeding and more warm water to save his sinking patients. He had his theory and honestly believed it. He was con vinced that all diseases would yield Ip phleboto my and warm water, and if a little of that would not do, a great deal would. But we have too much respect for the intellectual capacity of But ler and his Radical colleagues in Congress to sup pose they seriously believe any good governmen tal object is to be secured in the South by ne gro office-holding and negro legislation. That is not what they want it for, and they have too much common sense to suppose such an end can be accomplished by such instrumentalities. In deed, Butler himself, who is not generally very cantions about accuracy, does not put the case in that-light He wants more of this kind of legislation for the personally security of “ the Republicans.” Bnt this is scarcely more sensi ble, because nobody’s security is advanced by increasing the public animosity against him and the number of his enemies. The telegrams of yesterday gave us a new Georgia bill and most probably it will become law. It will give us the benefit of another ses sion of the Legislature—the original semi-ethe- opian affair, at a cost perhaps of a few hundred thousand more; and it will probably enlighten the Savannah Republican on a point which it seems unable to comprehend—that is, how the fifteenth amendment may bo passed in Georgia. Unsuccessful .Attempts to Elect a Sheriff in Wilkinson.—'iffie Atlanta Constitution says; In November last an election for Sheriff was or dered in Wilkinson county. The Democratic candidate was elected by a small majority. The Radical Ordinary of that county decided the election null and void on account of some al leged informality, and ordered another election in December. The same result attended the second race. A third election was ordered in January, and the Democratic candidate elected by over two hundred majority. The returns were sent to Gov. Bullock, who wrote to the successful candidate, requiring him to answer several interrogatories in regard to loyalty, etc. They were answered satisfactorily, proving by the reconstruction acts and acts supplemental thereto, that he was qualified, but still no com mission has made its appearance. A Set of Sleepy Africans.—A curious dis ease prevails on the west coast of Africa, espe cially on the Gaboon, which consists in an ir- resistable inclination to sleep. No pain seems to be experienced, but the patient stumbles readily; his step is tottering; sense of feeling seems to be wanting, and objects used as a sup port are grasped very unsteadily. The con sciousness does not seem to be diminished, and the breathing and digestion are normal. When the patient is awaked, he returns again into a deep sleep in a very short time. Tho disease does not yield to any remedies, and generally ends in death. Its precise character has not yet been ascertained with certainty. - The Fate of Paraguay.—The Brazilians are establishing a Provisional Government at Acuncion, but are really preparing to take possession of the whole country. They have not yet captured Lopez, and it is hoped that he will come back upon the interlopers and drive them out.of the country. He is said to-have an army of five thousand men in the mountains, and may at any time make a decent upon tho invaders of the soil of the heroic little Re public. ■ Lai!,.'j -.tb ' LX - I Neutrality Gone to *the Dogs.—Numerous armed expeditions from the United States have landed in Cuba. This is done for the purpose of displaying the consoientious respect of the Government for our neutrality obligations, and of strengthening the moral force of Gen. Grant’s demands on the British for damages accruing from the violations of neutrality, which resulted in the Alabama depredations. Get out Your Thin Coats.—Summer heat yesterday afternoon. Mercury at 75. From Putnam County. Upon a recent visit to Putnam we found the Superior Court in session, his Honor, Judge P. B. Robinson, presiding, and Fleming Jordan, Solicitor, in attendance. These officers, as far as we had an opportunity of observing, dis charge their trusts energetically and satisfacto rily to the public. The Judge’s great idea is to clear the dockets of old rubbish in the way of cases of long standing, and then, if the present good state of affairs continues, there will be but little hereafter arising to tako np their time. Good feeling prevails among the people of the county, and they are the same hospitable, kind citizens they have always been. But little crime is committed. The relations between whites and blacks are good. The whites are all deeply in terested in their agricultural operations and are experimenting largely in fertilizers, and the blacks are laboring welL Com crops are plant ed and tho farms are better prepared for the cotton crop than they have been for years. The season for such work has been favorable. The community, in general, aro in a better condition than they have been since the war. A spirit of improvement prevails; houses are being repaired and repainted, (by the way, good faithful mechanics can find work there.) Among other improvements in the village of Eatonton, we observed that Caph C. S. Credille had re paired an old store-house of many years stand ing, and now has a nice place of business. The merchants of the village do not complain, and we hope are doing well. The cash system of the present makes business much better than formerly in its results. From all indications there will be as many competitors for ^premiums at the Agricultural Fair next fall, from Putnam as from any county in tho State. We wish them all success. With a few more years of material prosperity the good old county will be a garden spot in onr State. We cannot close without thanking our friends not so much for the large amount of money they contribute to the support of an independent press, like ours, devoted to Georgia and Geor gia interests, as for their unqualified endorse ment of the paper and their praises of the same. Edmund Sparkler was wont to say on all occa sions of Fanny Dorrit, “She had no bigod non sense about her.” This seems to be the idea of the good people of Putnam as to the Telegraph. One friend, all of whose neighbors were already subscribers to tho Weekly, said he was tired of reading other persons’ papers, and felt it was his duty to subscribe himself. This should be a lesson to those who at many points hugely enjoy reading our paper, and thereby, as sub scribers complain to us, read their paper until there is not much left of it when it reaches them. Now, gentlemen, quit this sort of busi ness ; pay for one yourself—wo will guarantee you the worth of your money. Postmasters, remember a newspaper is pri vate property. You should not loan it to any and every body. If any one wantsto read it let them subscribe through you, and it will be all right. From China* The following came to hand yesterday: Shanghia, China, January 12, 18(50. Editors Macon Telegraph—Dear Sms: En closed I forward you a number of cocoons,which I judge, from your description, to be sim ilar to those submitted to you recently by Mr. F. S. Johnson, of Jones county, Ga. They are very common in this part of China, and there is scarcely a tree of any discription at Shanghai that is not to a great extent covered by them. You will notice that the cocoon is open at either end, and not as those you men tioned, perforated at the time the worm makes its escape. The worm is chiefly found on rose bushes, but in the latter part of the summer, when it begins to spin, travels into every accessible place, hence yon will see among these specimens one pludked from an arbor vitas enclosed in the leaves of the willow. They even clamber upon houses, and it is not till late in the fall that they ultimately fix themselves. They are often (I might say always) gathered by the Chinese and sold to tho keepers of avia ries. If Southern ingenuity should discover any means of rendering the silk of the cocoon use ful I have no doubt but that China can readily furnish you with any quanty of the raw mate rial. Bfelieving the enclosed to bo the same os those you spoke of I shall not attempt to give' you further particulars, but leave you to satisfy yourselves by investigation, etc. Yours truly, Young J. Allen, Sessionary from Georgia. P. S. The cocoons are enclosed in some Chi nese newspapers forwarded herewith, of which I am editor. By the way, how would you like to exchange ? The Chinese are greatly opposed to telegraphs but I suppose their FungShui would hardly object to the Macon Telegraph. Wo will exchange with pleasure. The papers and cocoons are not yet received. We shall look for them with some anxiety.—Eds. No Place Like Home.—The Columbus Sun is told, directly after the war, a IaTge family, liv ing near Macon, with some eight thousand dol lars in specie, went to British Honduras, expect ing to realize a large fortune. A pretty long residence in the desired haven of rest, nearly starved them and exhausted their means. They could muster sufficient funds to return to Georgia, which they have done, and are content to remain in the State the remainder of their lives. The cause which has brought Mrs. Stowe's Florida plantation into tho market is said to bo the insecure tenure by which that lady holds it. It was confiscated during tho war, bought for a song, and now the heirs of the original owners aro demanding their property in the conrts. 2 s The Negro Applicant for the Position of Minister to Haytl—Great efforts aro being made to secure the appointment of Ebenezer D. Bassett (colored), principal of a school in Phila delphia, as Minister to Hayti. He is endorsed by the national committee of colored men, Frecl Douglas, Downing, Langston, and others, white and black. .. ... t • V * , Macon and Western Railroad.—Tho Atlanta Constitution says Captain William A. Fuller, for fifteen years a conductor on the Western and Atlantic Railroad, and who justly acquired the title of “model conductor,” we are pleased to learn,- is tho General Passenger Agent of the Macon and Western Railroad. An “ Outrage" in Atlanta. — The New Era says : On Tuesday a woman came to the office of Dr. E. S. Ray and asked him to go ont and see her sister who had been shot. He got into his bug gy and took Dr. Westmoreland with him, and proceeded to where the mother of the girl, Mrs. Williams, lived, near the cemetery. They found the little girl had been shot, the ball entering ■under the right shoulder blade and passing up, lodging in the shoulder, nenr tho base of the neck, from whence it was cut ont. The girl was about twelve years old. She said she, with her little- brother, was in & neighboring wood gath- eriDg sticks, when a negro man came up and or dered them off the j premises. The girl‘refused to go and went on gathering sticks, when the villain drew a pistol and shot her as'above stated. ‘ After shooting the child, the’ rascal made his escape, and h’as.not since been heard from. It was one of the most wanton pieces of barbarism that ever came to our notice. •- ' A Woman murdered by a Sfegro. Troy, N. Y., March 23.—A woman named Mabb was murdered at Fishhouse Village, Sar atoga county, yesterday morning, by a mulatto with whom she had-formerly lived as a para mour. The mulatto entered her house and asked her if she was married to Mabb, and upon receiving an affirmative answer, fired five shots at her, three of which entered her head and one her neck. The murderer immediately' gave himself np, and is now in Ballston jail. Letter from Texas. A Backward Spring—The Question of Labor- White Men to the Rescue—Humbug Editorials on the Question—Too many Cooks for the Amount of Provisions—No Taste for Law in Texas— Terri?s Rangers — Newspapers in Texas—The New Constitution will be Rat ified. Correspondence of the Macon Daily Telegraph.] j :. Richmond, Texas, March 17,1869. This is one of the most backward Springs ever known in Texas. Here is past the middle of March, and not one man in ten is through planting; and when com ought to be worked over the first time, it is only beginning to show its head in a few fortunate localities., Land was too wet for the plow in winter, and the spring, thus far, has been entirely too cold for the favorable germination of the seeds put in the ground. Add to this the fact that it is the fewest number of planters that have a sufficient number of laborers, and you have a pretty fair picture of the situation here. Men have in a measure abandoned the folly of deploring in dolorous strains the great lack of labor. The little imported labor that has been tried and tested in this country, has proved a signal failure, and, in numorous instances, very expensive. The truth is, men engaged in agri cultural pursuits will have to redneo Ben Frank lin’s couplet to practice: “ He that by the plow would thrive. Himself must either hold or drivo.” We are beginning to practice this virtue here; for whether urged by necessity, or adopted from choice, labor is honorable, ennobling. Numbers of men with us, who knew next to nothing of manual labor from personal exper ience, are throwing off their coats and taking hold in good earnest. Such a course is bound to win success—to conquer it. Compared to the forced march, the cheerless supper and the cold bivouac which most men in the South un derwent not many years ago, the severest drudgery of the plantation is child’s play; more holiday sport enlivened by the approving smiles of those we love. Besides, farm labor, as the old toper said of cold water when reduced to the necessity of tasting it for the first time, “is not such demnition had stuff after all.” For years past editors, agricultural societies and even grave legislators have been racking their brains trying to devise ways and means to obtain cheap labor. In other words men are doing their utmost to get others to work, think ing by this cute “coup d’ ctat,” to flank it them selves. It is fashionable in certain circles, within the past ten years, for men to expatiate on the beauties of the English Government, and the captivating advantages of cheap labor. It must be confessed, however, that most of those who indulge in these innocent and comforting rhap sodies are young men whose reading (among those who read at all) is confined to books-with yaller kivers.” If cheap labor is the grand embodiment of “patriotic desire," then the country in the neighborhood of Liverpool, Man chester and Leeds ought to be regarded as,tho Paradise of the world. But is this the case ? A glance at English statistics proves the reverse. In the localities mentioned, there are many lordly mansions, but they are units compared with the hundreds of wretched hovels where want, and woe, and despair, revel in demoniac ee. To those innocents who are ever prating about cheap labor, and its attendant beauties, the fa ble of the boys and frogs is anxiously recom mended, and if they find any difficulty in mak ing the application, let them call in the aid of some friendly school-boy. An enthusiastic editor in this State says: what Texas needs and must have, is good, cheap and reliable labor." Well, when he finds these three qualities combined, I think it pretty certain that we shall all hear of it. Whew! That will be the millennium—when it comes! Think of it. “Good, cheap, reliable!” But may heaven hide the picture from my eyes when labor shall go begging for employ ment, and honest toil is placed at the mercy of the ghoul capital! We have a country combin ing more advantages than any other in the world. Let us employ ourselves in the development of these, and in good time, when we show the world what we are, and what our country is capable of, the better class of immigrants will flock to our shores, and we shall be saved the doubtful expe diency of skimming Europe for its frothy, filthy scum, or raking it for the debris of its pauper population, who are uuablo to make a living on its overstocked, impoverished acres. Our District Court is in session, and will easi ly dispose of the dockets in tho two weeks as signed. The most of the cases are old ones that have for several sessions been “ lagging super- flous on the docket.” Few new caseshavo been returned. Texans are not a litigious people. Law is a luxury for which they seem to have little taste; still the practitioners are numerous, not a few of whom would justly rank as able lawers at any bar. • Seeing a complimentary notice of “Terry’s Texas Rangers,” taken from the Louisville Cou rier-Journal, going the rounds of tho press, re minds mo that some of the companies of which the regiment was composed, were from this county. I can well believe everything that is said of their gallantry. I have never seen one of them that did not bear on his person honorable marks of service. Col. Gustave Cook, a son of Judge Nat.' Cook, of Alabama, who was in command of tho regi ment at the close of the war, and for a long time before its close, is a citizen of our town, and is literally seamed with honorable scars re ceived in the fierce contests through which he led his impetuous columns. The Colonel is a young lawyer of much promise, and if the past had not already immortalized him, his friends, who aro legion, would entertain no misgivings bnt that the future would. The young Colonel wears his undoubted honors with a modesty as becoming as his claims to chivalrous bearing are undisputed. You might be in his company six months without learning from him that he ever “set a squadron in the field,” or even knew the smell of “vilainous saltpetre.” . We are abont to have a new paper at this place, to be added to the seventy-three already published in the State, issued under the impos ing title of “The South-West. From the character and ability of its sponsors, there is every reason to believe it will vindicate its claims to the high-sounding title inscribed on its mast head. Politics engross bnt a small share of public attention. Few only of the people have seen the Constitution framed by the Convention late ly in session at Austin, and fewer still will be allowed to vote for its ratification or rejection, as only those who registered under the recon struction acts will be allowed & voice in themat- ter. The most of these are unlettered negroes. But I suppose it will he ratified. Perhaps, un der the circumstances, it is as well that it should be, trusting to be able in the future to amend its objectionable features, unless its active accoucli- enrs have made it liko tho laws of the Medes and Persians, unalterable. Par Fois. Indiana.—Gov. Baker, of Indiana, issues his proclamation convening the General Assembly in special session, and summoning the members thereof to meet in their respective , halls -.of leg islation at 2 o’clock p: m. of Tuesday, the 8th day of April. _ The daily evening train out of Washington is now generally known as the “swearing train,” from the number of homeward-bound -office seekers who, not being friends of the Grant family, and having neglected to contribute to the gift enterprise, endeavor to relieve their dis- in&nent and the tedium of the forlorn jour- “.profuse interchanges of profanity. “Plant Cotton.” Under this head Forney's Philadephia Press of the 23d inst. takes issue with tho common ad- vioe to the South to “plant oom,” and insists we should go in for ootton and leave the west to do the corn-growing. He says: And now let us see what, under such circum stances, should be the policy of the South. Ev erywhere people are found who advocate the planting of much com, to the exclusion of cot ton and other staples. This advocacy was prop er during the war, for the Southern army had to be supplied with food. It was fitting also dur ing the first year or two after the war, for an impoverished people needed food before money. But last year the question of food was no longer prominent. It conld be safely trusted to the instincts of the people. The ability existed to provide, and the desire also. Money was wanted to secure additional comforts. It was had, not by growing' corn, but by planting cotton; or, in other words, by reassenting to the old compact of division of labor. If it be said that the South can grow rich by agriculture alone, we say she can grow richer by growing cotton as a rule and making agriculture the exception. Last year the cotton crop netted the South 8200,000,000. Could she, with the appliances then in hand, have cleared the same on any or all of tho cereals ? No one will answer affirma tively. Can she, with all her facilities of soil and climate, ever make agriculture really profitable, in view of the immense start the "West has, and tiie competition she will ever offer? "We think not. Well, then, have wo not arrived at a rea son why the South should make haste to reor ganize the trinity of labor in the United States ? At least, let her cotton districts grow cotton, her sugar districts sugar, and her tobacco districts tobacco. She will thus avoid all competition.— She will get triple as much wealth in much less time. She will increase her self-importance and the importance of the whole country; for are not the manufacturers of all Europe at this mo ment looking anxiously for her decision of the question? As our national prosperity before tiie war was incalculably enhanced by a harmo nious working of all the sections, and as each section in turn became skillful and necessary to the other, so it will be again, if proper atten tion be paid to the simple rules found under the head of Division of Labor. Now we ought to he much obliged to the Press for its interest in the matter; but, nevertheless, if there is one fact settled by experience beyond dispute, it is that cotton planting on imported com and meat is hound to end in ruin. Wo have seen it thoroughly and extensively tried, and never knew it to escape bankruptcy for any length of time. We are forced to buy meat, but we can producs our own com, and the com supplies of Georgia are alone worth the whole cotton product of the State. We require forty- five millions of bushels of com, which, at one dollar (less -than the market price), is worth more than the cotton we produce. Presentation. [PUBLISHED by request.] From the Atlanta Intelligencer, of the 19th.) At a meeting on yesterday of the Clerical Corps of the House of Representatives, Mr. Theo. N. Winn, in behalf of that body, present ed CoL Mark A. Hardin, their chief clerk, with a beautiful gold watch and chain. The watch was handsomely engraved, and was indeed a perfect gem. Mr. Winn said: Col. Hardin—The pleasing, agreeable and graceful task has been assigned me of present ing to you in behalf of my brother clerks and co-workers, as an earnest token of our regard, a tribute of friendship, and a merited testimonial to your worth and character, this time-piece which I now hold in my hand. In craving its acceptance, we beg that its appreciation may arise not so much from the intrinsic value of the gift, as from the feelings which have prompted, urged and incited its conception. The kind manner, the polite address and the gentlemanly and courteous demeanor that you have ever ex hibited, will not soon be forgotten; memory with her potent wand, will often recall the scenes through which wo have passed, and engraved upon her tablets in character’s indellible will ev er be the fond recollections and pleasing remin iscences, now alas! soon to be numbered in the eternal past, but like the sea-tossed mariner whose mind ever revorts to those lovely and beautiful shores, of some Emerald Isle by which he has glided, or like the weary, worn and dusty traveler, who never ceases to remember the frisking rivulets, shady bowers and fertile vales of some beautiful oasis, left behind, thus will we in the Great Sahara of life, revert, with fond remembrance and pleasing recollection to the legislative session of 1869. Upon tho brightness of the hour, there rests but one shadow; the regret that as the exponent of our department of this legislative body, of my inability adequately to convey, or appropriately to express to you tiie warm feelings of friend ship, which individually and collectively, we bear you, and as a slight expression of which, wo now tender you this gift. Accept it, then, and with it onr united wishes for your happiness and prosperity. Value it as the offering of es teem and regard. Cherish it as the presentation of souls, knit by tiie golden links of true and lasting friendship. As your eye rests upon its dial, may you ever remember the swiftness of time and nearness to eternity; and may indeed your thoughts be directed to that land where “Friendship never dies, and love becomes immor tal;” when with you “life’s golden bowl be broken, the pitcher broken at the fountain and the wheel at the cistern,” may it descend as an heirloom in your family; and oh, e'en now looking with mortal ken, through the dim vista of futurity, methinks I see some noble boy bearing his fath er’s name, pointing with joyous pride to this legacy bequeathed by his loved sire, and ever regarded, honored and esteemed as an evidence of tho high respect and esteem shown that pa rent while moving upon the sphere of action.— Take it, and may indeed tho brightness of the hour be but typical of your after life—bright, joyous and happy; and “As sweeps the barque before the breeze, And waters coldly do30 around, Until its pathway to tho seas Its track nowhere is found, i Thus passing down oblivion’s tide, The beauteous visions of the mind, i * Swift as that ocean’s pageant glide. ' - And leave no trace behind: 1 Bnt that pure gift may yet impart | ' Tho feelings thus we've told: The silent feelings of the heart, : ‘ .7 E’en when these hearts are cold; This lone memorial then may bloom. Perchanco to holy friendship dear’ Liko flowers, that linger o’er tne tomb Bedewed by Beauty's tear. We ask not for the laureled wreath, Around our humble brow to twine: Enough for us to leave our names Inscribed on friendship's hallowed shrine : . To think that thero these lines will lie. And in the distant coming year, Memory, perchanco may breatbo a passing sigh For those who traced thorn there.” To which Col. Hardin replied as follows: Gentlemen of the Clerical Corps : With the liveliest sensibility I accept this beautiful watch. No language that I can command would ade quately express the grateful emotions that fill my heart. Words, even when employed by a master, can but poorly portray feelings, and I must content myself by assuring you that this evidence of your respect and regard has touched ' the tenderest chords of my breast. In the elo quent language of your Chairman, this watch shall be an heir loom in my family, which those that bear my name will cherish as a sacred de posit when the turf is green upon my grave. The friendship of good and true men like your selves is a possession infinitely more precious than the richest jewel that ever sparkled in monarch’s diadem. May the attachments formed between us here be as a cable, which distance or absence may lengthen, hut never break. in taking an affectionate leave of you, it gives me pleasure to bear testimony to your efficiency and fidelity, and I aui sure that I utter noiil wish for the future of our beloved State when I express the hope that she may always have such servants as you, each and alL have proved your selves to be. Gentlemen, invoking Heaven’s choicest blessings upon you, I bid you a respect ful and affectionate farewell. Gov. Bullock in Washington.—In the Wash ington dispatches of the 23d, to the Louisville Courier-Journal, we find the following: Governor Bullock, of Georgia, is here work ing actively, with the intense Radical faction to tear up the present government in that State, and have (Congress remand .it to a territorial condition. Of course Bullock is to be the head with unlimited power of appointment and re moval. Another point he is striving for is to be empowered to declare martial law over any portion of the State, so as to run the State ma chine after the Brownlow style. The Georgia , bill is set for Thursday. It is certain that that portion of the old bill declaring the acta of the late Georgia Legislature inoperative, null void will be embraced in the new one to be sub mitted by the Reconstruction Committee. A Frame Building Twenty-two Miles in Length. From the San Francisco Alta-Cal\fomia.] "Persons who pass hastily over the Union Pa cific Railroad hardly give a thought to the im mense amount of work which has been perform ed by the company. From the Sacramento to the present terminus of the road, at Elko, the trains are onoe more running regularly. The immense amount of money and labor expended in cutting through mountains, opening tunnels, grading the road and laying the track can with difficulty be realized by those not familiar with the business. Not the least of the problems- to be solved was that of protecting the track from tiie heavy falls of snow which were to be antici pated during the winter months. To obviate this difficulty as far as possible, the company determined to erect a series of sheds, or rather one building, which should protect the road over the snow line. Accordingly they have erected a building which is doubtless the largest in the world. It is twenty-two miles in length, sixteen feet in width and sixteen feet in height, not in cluding the pitch of the roof. It is put up in the most substantial maimer, all the timbers used being of the best quality to be obtained. The sides are inclosed, and were it not for the fact that daylight penetrates through the inter stices between the boards, the whole affair would be very like a huge tunnel. The build ing is braced together in a most peculiar man ner, and is, in addition, firmly bolted to the rooks; wherever the road nears the face of a cliff. Where snow slides are to be feared an extension of the roof has been carried to the cliffs, so that falling masses shall pass over the building and lodge on the other side. In many places where side tracks are located, the building is wider than the figures given above. More than 40,000,000 feet of Jumber have been used in its construc tion. It covers an area of more than 1,800,000 square feet, or nearly 44 acreas. One of the best proofs of the stability of the structure is in the fact that with the exception of a few miles which had not been really com pleted, it thoroughly answered the purpose for which it was designed during the recent severe storm in which it was subjected to the most se vere tests. • , Express Bobber. On the 28th of February, a robbery was com mitted, and a money package containing several hundred dollars, was taken from the Express Office at Cairo, No. 20 Atlantic and Gulf Rail road, in Thomas county, and suspicion fell upon a young man calling himself E. B. Franklin, who had been spending several months at that place, and who concluded to leave for the up country immediately after the robbery. The agent at Cairo, upon this information, obtained a warrant and searched Franklin as he was about to leave on the cars and found money, but could not identify it, and Franklin was permit ted to leave. The facts and suspicions, howev er, were telegraphed to the Superintendent of the Express at Augusta. The officer soon accumulated sufficient evi dence to satisfy him that a man then at Athens, Ga., calling himself E. Franklin McManaman, alias E. B. FranMin, was the real robber of the Cairo Express. Accordingly, the Superintend ent caused him to bo arrested, which was effect ed after much difficulty, by the military, Mc Manaman alias Franklin, having defied the Sheriff at Athens and treated his authority with contempt. He was brought to Thomasville a few days ago and lodged in jail until Friday last when he was brought before Judge Alexander for commitment. The testimony revealed many circumstances of boldness and daring on the part of the ac cused, and a good look at him will satisfy most men that this is not his first crime, and that he is capable of executing much more difficult jobs. When he was searched at Cairo, under suspi cion, he claimed to be the ward of Col. McIntyre, of Thomasville, who he reproached with over caution or penuriousness, and said Col. Mc Intyre, his guardian, would not send him bnt a small amount of money at a time. It appeared, however, at the trial on Friday, that Col. Mc Intyre did not recognize the relationship claimed by Mr. FranMin, but was traversing the evidence with great force and severity against him. He was committed, and remanded to prison to await his trial at the June term of Thomas Superior Court.—Thomasville Enterjtrisc. London. The metropolis of London is composed of nu merous detached and different parts like a dis secting map. Two cities, four counties, several boroughs, and over thirty parishes, townships, and villages are comprised within its bounda ries. There is not one of these places to which you can take a stranger and say, “This is Lon don.” The metropolis is a country in itself, and there is just as much difference between the various parts of it, their architecture, in habitants, government and customs, as there is between Liverpool, Manchester, Canterbury and Brighton. Many Americans suppose that the streets of London are dull and gloomy. Set down one of these Americans in Belgra via, and, after a glance at the tall, splendid Mansard roofed houses, wide streets and fre quent squares, he would declare: “This is not London; it is Paris.” Transport him to St. John’s Wood, and show him circuitous miles of beautiful villas, all embowered in trees and flowers, and he would exclaim: “ This is not London; it is some lovely country town, like an English New Haven.” Dive with him into the fangled lanes, courts and alleys of the City, and he will observe: “This is not London; it is the old quarter of Vienna.” Ride with him through Tybnrhia, and, mistaking the stucco for brown stone, he will remark: “Ah! New York above Madison Square.” Only when you bring him to a narrow, long street, edged with low houses of dark brick, and ending with a curtain of fog, will tho London of his imagination be reached at last.—English Photographs by an American. Sagacity of a Bog. A few days ago at Lone Rook, Richland coun ty, Wis., one of James & Co.’s teams ran away, and was caught and prevented from much mis chief by one of their large wagon dogs. Mr. Tuttle, the driver, had just been hitching tho team to the wagon, and was about to hitch the last tug, when one horse kicked him, and both started to run; one wheel of the wagon passed over Mr. Tattle’s body, but did no permanent injury; the team, in their runaway, at once turned a comer and pointed toward home. The faithful dog, comprehending the situation, after looking first to the then helpless driver, bound ed after the team, and after throe or four efforts succeeded in drawing them into a fence about a mile from Lane Rock. Here he was found by those who had started in pursuit, hanging to the bit of the off horse, seemingly quite well pleased with his performance, and fully as determined to continue on duty till properly relieved. He had caught the lines two or three times, and the near horse by the hit once or twice, but said horse was a wicked fellow, and used his feet on him too savagely. A Negro Claims Eight Hundred Acres in San Francisco.—A negro man, aged about eighty years, recently arrived in San Francisco from New York, visiting the former city for the purpose of reclaiming and taMng possession of some eight hundred acres thereof, which he claims to own. He says that he lived where San Francisco now stands, some thirty-five years ago, at which time he received a grant from the Mexican Government for eight hun dred aores of the peninsula, but the sandy and- barren character of the soil was such that he did not value it very highly. After several years’ residence he went into southern Mexico, and thence to the Atlantio States, where he joined Fremont’s exploring expedition and re turned to California. After the cession of this State to onr Government he claims to have lo cated a land warrant on the present site of. San Francisco. It is understood that he is well pleased with the improvements that have keen put upon his land during his absence, and that he is disposed to be liberal with his tenants. A swarm of real estate “sharps" are on his. train, disposed to cultivate him. If this sable shadow is as dark as represented, it will considerably cloud San Francisco real estate. —Stockton ( Cal.) Independent, 10th. France Refuses to Recognize the Govern ment of Mississippi. — Our Townsman, H. Spangler, says the Jackson (Miss,) Clarion, hav ing in France a patrimony which he wished to realize, made to Rev. Paul Huber a power of at torney to receive the fund in France. It was duly authenticated and the certificate under the great seal of Mississippi was signed, “Adalbert Ames, Brv’t Major General Umted.Statea Army, Provisional Governor of Mississippi.” The dooument was presented by Father Huber to the Frenoh Consul at New Orleans. After hav ing partly written his consular certificate, he observed the above signature to the Governor’s certificate. The oonsequenoe of this refusal by the officials of European Governments to re cognize our military Governor is that it is im possible to authenticate such documents ate to be used there. The defect cannot be '.Nus- died, and Father Huber's visit and the object it are defeated. Extraordinary Sight at CWro-Th Pilgrimage te Mecca. * [Cairo (Egypt) Correspondence of the London Time, The Prince of Wales, it may be remember^ was in Egypt and went up the Nile in ISC’ k the Princess of Wales has never seen the' p * before. Great must have been the transit* from Trieste to Alexandria; but what wa»°? compared with the scene which Her Royal Hi if ness witnessed to-day. Of the thousands ofF' ropeans who visit Cairo there are few who the fortime to behold the spectacle which m* be described in many books to me unknown! F which can never be adequately described m«. nt book at alL The sight is called “the denari of the pilgrims for Mecca.” This is a misnorW It is in reality a procession of sheiks and hnl men and the sacred Mahmel and Kisweh. ’ corted by irregular cavalry and guns, whU leaves the city to go out to the real pilgrims camped on the plain of Akbar, outside CairT The Mahmel is a canopy of gold and vel»i which was used to cover the saddle of the v. v- of the Caliph on her journey to Mecca. 'Tv Kisweth is the covering which is put oto.ii temple at Mecca. Several days ago the pilgrims set out f rom Cairo and encamped on the Abbasaya. , rites and ceremonies they may have since W, performing inside and ont, I know not; but night all sight-seers were warned that the cu !! ous ceremonial which has just been terminate,' was to come off soon after nine o’clock, u that hour the Viceroy's carriages were in ing at tho Prince’s palhce, and a guard of he” , with a trumpet band was drawn up in the 0 spape between tho building and the street ~ There were very few people attracted l>v tT show of horses and guards, but the crowds which gathered in the narrow streets through which the procession was to pass gave some evident of the enormous population of this swannim, city. " ’ The Prince and Princess and their suite at tended by the carriages which the Duke of Sutherland and his party owe to the conrtesv 0 ! the Viceroy, set out about 10 o’clock to see' tb the beginning of the pilgrimage, and drove: the open space beneath the Grand Mosque, ft. mousas the scene of the demolition of the MairX lakes by Mahemet Ali. They were preceded a few horsemen and by the running footmen who are the heralds of every carriage in Cab —by night the pillars of fire*, for they bear a!o't on high poles a sort of beacon fiercely blazing as they run and lighting up all the streets, aui by day they bound with feet that never tire be. fore the horses, crying out incessantly in Arab iac, “mind your toes!” or “look out, there!' and the like, thus freely translated—clad in white fluttering garments, with Bishop-lifc. sleeves, loose short trousers, coming a little wav below the knee, but glorious in gold-embroii ered vests and sashes. To a man of cruel or | arbitrary disposition the office must be enviable’ for it gives, apparently, a right to the bearer tc smite whatever and whenever he pleases. Tk number of unoffending men and camels aui asses punished every day for doing nothing a; all but being alive in Cairo, by these official, must amount to many hundreds, and they ai bear it with equal mind and body. Perhaps i: would be more correct to say that the torch or beacon hearers are only put on at night, aid that they are not quite tne same as the runnis- footman, who is on day and night, and who I shouts and runs on in darkness and in ligl- with the same power of voice and muscle. The route from the Prince’s palace to the open space through the citadel lies through a part of the town, which is, perhaps, the uma striking and interesting of afi Cairo. Familiar as the city is to all European travelers, there is abont its streets an ingredient of what may be understood, though not defined, by the word I “Orientalism,” which can never weary, which I is ever suggesting new ideas, or reviving old ones, or exciting curiosity. How much the Arabian Nights Entertainment have had to do with this interest cannot be readily deter-1 mined. A good deal, too, no doubt, is due to I the belief which underlies the spectator's no-1 tions, unconsciously, as it were, that he is look I ing at people whe are now in thought and dres; I and habits very much what they were mam I centuries ago, and who, all alive as they are. [ yet are as dead as if they were mummified, fo: j all the purposes of this progressive, practical. I prosaical half-century. The streets wind in an-; oat at discretion, through a mass of houses f mosques, shops, baths, bazars, very muck a. | mites march through a cheese. The word “street” gives no conception of tie tortuous narrowlane which scarcely ever yields a view of 100 yards in front or behind yon. and which at times seems to end abruptly by the cor dial greeting of two houses at opposite sides, and by their resolute blockade of the infinitesi mally small entrance, but at either Bide there is j quite enough to detain the stranger for a plea- | sant ten minutes—for every ten paces if he likes—to loiter and be jostled by asses and I shoved aside by the crowd, or scared by grow ing, fierce trotted camels. There are the baza: i shops with their varied stores and still more va ried and curious customers, and there are the incorrigible, persecuting donkey hoys, who wH never desist from importunate, stick-disregard ing solicitation, till the pedestrian mount. I Champagne Charley, Lord John Russell, Pale-1 erston, or some other famous quadruped with I long ears and indomitable backbone. Over the I shops rise the latticed window frontage of the I houses, sometimes projecting the stories froa I tha drawing-room floor upward on frail beam; I beyond the lower story, sometimes coyly n-1 tiring, seldom guilty of realHaussmann perpen- F dicular. ! While all below is life and noise and activity. | from the first floor upward thero is silence, anil scarce a trace of the indoor-abiding world is tc-l be seen. Now and then.a child maybe sae ml the lattice, or a draped face gleams out oi a pai I of inquiring eyes on the world below; bnt I mostly there is a blank in the Turkish—that k j the Egpytian quarter. To-day all this «■ I changed, and all womanMnd was enjoying is I rare holiday, and enjoying it more, perbp;-1 too, than its sisterhood in England would if c I were all going off to the poll, headed by Mi* I Becker and Mr. Mill, record its vote for sc® I political-Apollo Belvodere. The women dI Cairo now sat chattering with their children - [ every safe recess in the streets. They p-fi I out of tho latticed windows through the sluice-1 like open traps, and through the open eagerness j crowded the flat roofs,' swarmed one of tie I mosque-tops, and clustered in the doorffiy-1 clad in sweeping robes which in their cornbia-1 tion form such tempting yet distracting fiabjtf? I for the artist who loves to paint masses of» I ored drapery. If eyes can ba an index to® character of*the rest of the face, many of ® ladies must have been very beautiful; but rnffl ! too, showed the ravages of opthalmia, which® artifice of blackened eyebrows only made nx I evident. * ' . Tho men and boys lined the streets and &- their bazar shops—the men of the different I tions and faiths which have their represent I tives here—Arabs, Jews, Copts, Syrians. Eg?? I tians, Turks. Franks, Nubians, Albanians, AjH tolians, Greeks, Persians, Circassians. I rians,” and dwellers in partib'is I dressed each after his kind, and on all the sc® I ing kaleidoscopic multitude, over which the DJI dust rose from the tread of many feet, I came down here and there, throughout ® I chinks in the latticed screen which covers in a I streets, rays of sunshine which produced thro VI the hazy medium the most. striMng and chU® I ing effe'ets of light and shade. Through if -1 scene imagine the camels plodding along ^ _ I ponderous loads of green vetches, asses u 1 'yj I under mounds of vegetables and tares f° r -f,I der, or laden with important portions of a so I family, horses and ponies and their riders, I and dromedaries with. their turbaned or v«» I burdens, and then see an advance guard ot I tive outriders, followed by a host of run^ I footmen in front of an open carriage withp(f“£ I ing horses, driven by an unmistakable I coachman, capitally turned out with coc "5 ^ I hi8 hat and tops complete, pressing througu I throng with a great accompaniment of str . J |fl cries—and yon may fancy the expression ot I lighted surprise and curiosity which I fair and gentle face dear to so many milh 0 '' I people in islands far away from this- I “Anarchy is Beconsiructlon — Co nft | sion is Loyalty.” From the Richmond Enquirer, March $>.) Yesterday, by order of Congress, ti" 3 8®' ,1 ment of Virginia went to pieces. We a* I officers of any sort, save here and there I wag or a carpet-bagger. The military con I der of District No. J , says he cannot an ^ offices, and consequently the derks’ office’- , I sheriffs’ offioes, and all'other oflloes are Nobody can get out a tioinse to carry on I nobody can lodge a complaint before, ®. kjjot I trate; no deed can go to repord;nouW ^1 can be procured from the eourts ; our *”^1 cannot many. Anariihy te'reoonstraenw' j j confusion is loyalty. What hare the | Virginia done to be left withoatany ] They are not allowed to y*8 e __if, fairs in. any mrnner, and that! finds time (
