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Tlie G-eorgia "Weekly' Telegrapli. —inm in THE TELEGRAPH. MAOQN.FRIDAY, APRIL 0, 18b9. Riell Against Poor lands. Aa an abstract proposition there is no fight between rich lands and poor lands in the way of cropping. All other things being equal, we sup pose it would be better to crop on inexhaus table Mississippi bottoms at one thousand dollars an acre, then to cultivate poor pine uplands as a gift* But the -princple of compensation runs through nature and almost every department of life ; and, therefore, even in the halcyon days of cotton planting, the comparative results of operations on the Mississippi bottoms and good upland cotton planting did not exhibit the start ling contrast one would be naturally led to an ticipate. The Mississippi cotton planter lost his hands by disease and frequently his crops by overflow. Be could never have a home upon his planta tion, and the cost of providing for the health of his white family was a serious setback. Doubt less, in a series of years, he ontstripped his op- land competitor; but the sacrifice of personal comfort taken into account, it is questionable whether the upland planter had not the best of the bargain. The same considerations, since the downfall of slavery, are operating with greater force against the inexhaustible Mississippi alluviums. It is hard to get and retain a working force of freedmen there, and they cannot advantageously be managed, as of yore, by hired agents and overseers. Consequently, the proportion of these unctuous alluviums which were once culti vated but are now lying idle and unproductive, is far greater than the proportion of open uplands in the same condition. A friend tells us that not one uuijrut *bceo sutunn alluviums formerly cultivated is now under plough. How this vast mine of agricultural wealth is hereafter to be worked is a problem yet un solved. We have, as yet, no satisfactory illu mination upon the subject; but that ultimately it will again be brought under cultivation by some undiscovered agencies, wo have no great doubt It is demanded by the interests of civ ilization and commerce and the wants of the people. But, meanwhile, it is certain that these Nile regions of the cotton crop, so rich as not to re quire the annual application of fertilizers, aro lapsing into disuso far more rapidly than the poorer uplands which must be fertilized to com pensate the labor and expense of tilling. Wo are, in fact, disposed to think the light, comparatively poor and considerably worn cot ton lands of Central Georgia will, in the next ten years, develope the cotton culture more rap idly than perhaps any other section of the South; for the simple reason that they seem to conform more closely to the conditions of small farm and white labor culture. The lands are light, it is true, but they are easily improved, and tilled, the country is generally salubrious, and the climate agreeable. Nothing, in fact, exists in thi3 section to prevent an entirely suc cessful application of white labor to cotton growing, and we hope by and by to see Middle Georgia colonized by emigrant fanners, who will, as in the North and West, apply their own labor and that of their children to the produc tion of cotton, os well as of the numerous other crops to which the country is adapted. But there is a very small proportion of land in Middle or any other part of Georgia, which it will pay to cultivate without manure; and, in fact, it is hard to find land anywhere to which the judicious application of fertilizers will not prove a profitable investment. In English ag riculture, for illustration, although perhaps eve ry acre in cultivation would strike our planters as abundantly rich, yet the annual investment for commercial fertilizers in that small island, far exceeds the sum paid in the United States. Doubtless the present year in Georgia may develop some unprofitable results from the use of fertilizers. To some it will be a novel ex periment, unintelligentiy and carelessly prose cuted. Some will have made bad selections— the seasons, to some, may be unfavorable. Last 'year, we know that in Middle Georgia the drought was believed by many to have made the application of cotton seed to com a positive disadvantage; but, on the whole, wo do not share our correspondent’s fears of a general dis appointment, or any considerable abandonment of the use of fertilizers. We believe, on the contrary, that it will increase from year to year —and that, what he calls the “intensive system of farming " is the only one worth following. It must be studied—it must be pursued intelli gently and energetically; but it is nevertheless true that a heavy crop is the profitable crop. Farming which can live on light crops, will pros per on good ones, and grow rich on heavy crops. Sutler's Disability Bill Requires the applicant to file a petition to the TJ. S. Court with an affidavit that he believes the Confederate General and State Governments re bellious and treasonable, and truly repents of the acts done in maintenance thereof. The bill is intended, not to relieve, but, to perpetuate dis abilities, by imposing a false and humiliating test, which compels a man to forswear a mental conviction. Georgia and the Fdteenth Amendment.— The New York Times of Monday, after showing at length that the Fifteenth Amendment was defeated in Georgia by the votes of the adminis tration members of the Legislature, calls upon Congress to consider these facts and be in no haste to proceed to extreme measures of recon struction. Bond Tumbles from his Wires.—The Atlanta New Era, of yesterday, says that Bond, the fool hardy wire-walker, fell from his wire at Dalton, yesterday and broke his right leg, as well as seriously injuring himself internally. His inju ries are very serious, if not fataL Public Laws op the Last General Assembly. Mr. Z. D. Harrison has issued a pamphlet edi tion of the public acts, which is on sale at all the book stores at $1 00 per copy. It i3 a pamphlet of sixty-five pages, veiy neatly print ed by Mr. Toon, at the Franklin Printing House, Atlanta. The Wheat Crop.—The Rome Commercial of Sunday says that the wheat crop of that section is looking fine. No accident occurring between this and harvest, a full crop is expected. Up to the presnt timo the fruit crop has not been in jured. Farmers are planting com and with un usual c&re. Cotton planting has not commenced with ns. About the same area of land will bo planted this as last year. Episcopal Convention.—The annual conven tion of the Protestant Episcopal Church of the Diocese of Georgia will assemble at St. Paul’s Church, Augusta, Ga., on the 5th day of next May. It is expected several new churches will be admitted to union with the Diocese at that time. Gen. Grant Tiyr..—Gen. Grant was ill again last Monday. He is said to be much harrassed by the politicians and office-seekers; and another cause of chagrin is a quarrel between Gen. Sherman and Rawlings, Secretary of War. “ The Jeweled Daughter op the Pacific.”— There are sixty-six vessels nowen route to Great Britain from San Franeisoo, with cargoes aggre gating 1,700,000 sacks of wheat, besides eight vessels foe domestic Atlantic ports with 165,000 sacks of wheat, and ten vesselsTor Rio de Ja neiro with 61,000 barrels of flour. The Califor nia floor and wheat now afloat for Ciiina and countries aggregates 1,000,000 sacks of Tabled at $1,900,009. ittus Ui at AD, ) DENT, }- O, 1868.) The state Road Question Letter from Col. Hulbert. The Atlanta Intelligencer of Wednesday prints the annexed letter from Superintendent Hulbert to the Chairman of the Joint Commit tee to investigate the condition of tho State Road upon two propositions—the one to transfer the management of the State Road to the Leg islate, and the other to sell two-thirds of it: Western A Atlantic Railroad, Office Superintendent, Atlanta, Ga.. November 10, Hon. W. C. Smith, Chairman Joint Com.: Sib.—I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of the preamble and resolution adopted by your committee, relative to the removal of the management of the Western <fc Atlantic Railroad “beyond the reach of political influ ences and complications,” and, in response to the request therein contained, beg leave to sub mit the following reflections as pertinent to the question involved. The two most prominent plans that have been suggested and discussed are : 1. The appointment of commisssioners by tho Legislature, empowered to appoint all offi cers of the road. 2. The sale of two-thirds of the Rood, the Stato retaining one-third. The first proposition cannot fail to strike the mind as impractible and entirely wanting in the adaptation of means to ends, which is conceded by all as absolutely necessary in conducting all great works, both public and private, inasmuch as it proposes to take from one man (the high est officer known to our Constitution,) the au thority now vested in him and transfer it to the hands of three other persons, responsible only to the Legislature. It is a simple proposition to transfer the re sponsibility from one man to that of an indefi nite number. Wherever, in the management of great works of this kind, the experiment has been tried, it has afforded a striking exemplification of the folly of dividing authority and thereby shifting the responsibility to a number of irresponsible persons, who to say the least, are rarely if over jjoia to uii HccountaUTllty fur any mal-auministra- tion that may have occurred during their term of office. The present laws governing the road fix the responsibility of the management upon the Gov ernor and the Superintendent selected by him. The success of his administration as a whole de pends more upon tho successful administration of the roadthnn all other causes combined. Ho either stands or falls upon this question. The people of GeorgiaJiave long since learned to judge of the merits or demerits of an admin istration by this test. Tax-payers are keenly alive to their interests, and it cannot, for a moment, be supposed that they will consent to abandon a plan which has heretofore largely relieved them from taxation and adopt a doubtful one. The present plan fixes the responsibility upon the Governor, where it properly belongs. The appointment of three or more commis sioners by the legislature (a political body) sim ply shifts the responsibility from the shoulders of one man, in a position where every incentive to honorable action and success in his adminis tration imperatively demands of him a decided success, to that of the control of parties who are irresponsible to the people, and who, it is pre sumed, in the absence of that direct personal responsibility which is positively demanded in the successful administration of public affairs, would certainly be subjected to mnch greater political influences than in the other case, there by increasing, instead of diminishing the imag inary evils sought to be avoided. The present plan has been a success, has largely relieved tne tax-payers, and been the means of sustaining the credit of the State. This being the case, why abandon it and adopt one of doubtful expediency ? The second plan, that of selling two-thirds of the road and the State retaining one-third, has been tried in similar cases in other States, and the results have proven anything but satifactory. In this case the interest held by the State would be subjected to the dictation and absolute control of interested parties. So long as the State retains any interest in the road she should own it entire. Whenever a State becomes a partner with individuals she becomes a sufferer. This brings us to a direct consideration of the question, how to remove tho road from “politi cal influences and complications.” So long as j* '•miiins the Drnpprty ^fifaffl, in wholn w in part, it will necessarily be more or less sub- jected to political influences. A new administration, although of tho same political party as its immediate predecessor, would naturally desire to surround itself with a cabinet of its own selection. This is natural, and is a right that 13 freely conceded by all par ties. The Governor is responsible to the people for the proper management of the road. It is both just and proper that he should have the appointment of the Superintendent, and he in his turn tho appointment of all his subordi nate (cabinet) officers, bolding the bead of each department responsible for the proper manage ment of tho same. • This insures a proper administration in each department, and a direct accountability that can be obtained in no other way. These appointments assuming a political char acter would seem to be at first objectionable, but experience has not demonstrated that con clusion, but, on the contrary, quite the reverse. What great public work has been managed more satisfactorily to its stockholders (the tax payers) than tho Western & Atlantic Railroad ? Of all the roads in the State, what one can bo named that is in a better or more flourishing condition, or what one whose prospects for the future are more flattering? To sever the road completely and entirely from political influences will necessitate the sale of the State’s entire interest in it. Are you prepared to recommend this to tho people as the proper policy to be pursued, in face of the fact that the road has for a long term of years paid into the treasury annually (despite political influences) a sum amounting in the aggregated) hundreds of thousands, there by relieving the tax-payers to that extent? Ten years hence tho gross earnings of the road will in all probability exceed six millions per annum, and the net income be snfficient to defray the expenses of your government, or, if judiciously expended, sufficient to establish a system of free schools in which every child of the State might receive at least a fair English education. Is it prudent or wise to jeopardize the future interest of the poople by a policy of doubtful expediency? The present policy has been a successful one. Why endanger it ? I am, most respectfully, your obedient servant, E. Hulbert. Candor compels us to say that wo think Cob Hulbert is right upon both these propositions. Long and close observation has satisfied us that Legislative elections are the most corrupt pro cesses known to our political system—that Leg islative government is the worst possible gov ernment, and that Legislative administration is the most wasteful, injudicious, inefficient and vicious of all administrations. We think the partnership system also would rosult in a per petual swindle upon the State. Tho only open question is whether the Stato should not divest herself of such property altogether, and sell ont the road entirely. As a general proposition, we believe State Governments should confine themselves to the purposes for which they were created, and when they undertake to run rail roads or saw mills, or factories, or fisheries, they are not only ont of their proper sphere, but most commonly make a muss of tho busi ness in one shape or another. Upson, Pike an Monroe.—The Bamesville Gazette says wheat and oats are looking very finely in these counties, and notwithstanding tho unusual number of rainy days a fair propotion of the com crop is planted. Mack, a corres pondent of the Express pronounces a field of eighty acres of wheat belonging to Blasingame brothers, the finest in the State, and not to be surpassed in Tennessee, Virginia or Kentucky. Gen. R. D. Capers.—We are indebted to the Ladies Memorial Association of Putnam county for a pamphlet copy of an address delivered be fore that association by Gen. Capers, on the 18th of April last. Universitv of Virginia.—A-catalogue of this institution just received shows that it has 452 students. . The late steamboat conflagration at St. Louis involved losses to the aggregate amonnt of $210,000. TEXAS CORRESPONDENCE. Stole Election — The Convention — Stupendous Bribery and Corruption—Carrying Arms— Value of Texas Lands—Post Offices—Banks —Elistments in the Federal Army—Casual ties, etc—Candidates—Historic Hen. Correspondence of the Macon Telegraph- ] Richmond, March 26, 1SC9. The election for State and county officers and for the ratification of the so-called Constitution comes off in July. It is to be hoped that the belligerent course of the members of the Con vention, during the last few days of the session, will not be imitated by the electors when voting for the ratification or rejection of the organic act. The last days of the Convention were most disgraceful Bribery was not oven attempted to bo concealed. Money was as openly paid for votes as the same commodity was ever paid for a horse in open market. One member had $60,000 entrusted to him to carry through some measure having reference to immigration, (foreign, I suppose.) He carried ms measure and had $15,000left for his own use. The price of the votes he bought ranged from $10,000 down to a circus ticket and a drink of fnsil oiL If public men will be cor rupt, they should be less open in their villainies. If they will not get off the side-walk to practice them, they should be kicked off. These men have not disgraced the State. They were not her representatives. One member of the Convention, a man and brother, in other words a big, black buck negro, named Bryant, representative from Harris, was expelled for the inconsiderable misdemeanor(?) of violating the person of a piece of ebony, thirteen or fourteen years old. You see when the members got their pockets stuffed with bribes, they soon began to put on “airs,” and become a little particular about whom they asso ciated with. But instead of turning the negro over to the civil authorities to be dealt with, and sent to the penitentiary at Huntsville, in due time, they turned him loose, leaving him to patch tiie matter up as best he can with his colored constituents and friends. Can any one pretend that the county of Harris, and city of Houston, was represented in the person of this brute? A man was killed in town one day last week, another victim to the folly of men’s going con stantly armed. As the case will be judicially investigated, aitc neither of the parties being known to your read ers, I need not particularize, and merely mei- tion it for want of something better. The average value of lands in the State fcr which taxes were paid in 1867 was $1 63J »er acre. "When men pay taxes for property it is rarely valued at its actual worth. There are 492 postoffices in the State. Tlese, divided among 160 counties, give only an aver age of three for each county. This figure is evidently too low. I hope Grant’s factotum in such matters will improve our mail facilities. There is abundance of mar gin for improvement. There are four National Banks in the State. Two of these are at Galveston, one is at Hous ton, and another at San Antonio. Of private bankers and exchange brokers there are twen ty-four. Galveston again comes in for the lion’s share, having five of this number. Statistics are dry at best, but as I feel pretty certain that a good many of your readers took an interest in the sectional coldness that culmi nated a few yeare ago in a little scrimmage in which several of them took a part, it is not un likely that that they would like to take a glance at the numbers opposed to them. I quote from Richardson’s Almanac: “From official accounts we find the total number of enlistments in the Federal army to have been 2,829,980.—Total commutation $26,- 366,616—bounty $284,805,400, with $300,228,- 500 paid by the United States, making total bounty money $588,028,900. When tho war closed, there were in the field on the 30th of April, 1865, 1,000,516 men, ac tually in service and an enrollment of 2,245,063 men subject to draft. This would make the to tal fighting force of the free States, between the ages of 18 and 45, in good physical health, and not including foreigners not naturalized, to be 3,245,579 men. The casualties are: Deaths from wounds 96,089 Deaths from disease 184,331 Desertions 199,045 Ilonoral.ly Hiscbarged 17A,oic Discharged for disability *....224,406 Dishonorably discharged 5,390 Resignations 22,281 Missing 7,002 Total 914,081 The above statistics, I suppose, were obtained from the war office, and may be relied on as ap proximating something near the truth. They show the fearful magnitude of tho numbers backed by unlimited resources, that were op posed to us. These two never fail to tell in war. It was not sacrilege in Napoleon when ho said tho Supreme Power always favored the side with the greatest numbers and the heaviest artillery. The wonder is, not that tho South had ulti mately to succumb to numbers and resources, but that she resisted so long the pressure of the mighty array and crushing force brought to bear against her. It is perfectly overwhelming to contemplate. The names of several of the wealthiest men in the State, are mentioned as - suitable ones from which to elect a candidate for Governor; one reason urged for this, is that being already rich they would be less subject to bribery. The argument is more specious than solid. Poverty and honesty are not incompatible. Texas has plenty of poor men that aro both honest and competent for Governor. Still, other things being equal, I do not object to a man’s being rich. In the days of her better histoiy, or in the better days of her history, the sons whom she delighted to honor were poor, and continued so through life. Without being an approver of all his political vagaries, I believe that a more hon est man than Sam Houston never lived. He was never rich; he never tried to be. M. B. Lamar, another of her great men, whose career reflects honor on the State of his birth, and conferred such great blessings on the State of his adoption, was comparatively poor, yet he was as just as Aristides. David G. Burnet, her first President, is another of her public men, who, although not in destitute circumstances, is poor. Hundreds of others might be named. Par Fois. Who is Cespedes? A-Cuban correspondent of tho New York World gives the annexed account of Cespedes, the civil and military leader of the Cuban revo lutionists : Carlos Manuel Cespedes was bom about forty- five years ago, in the town of Bayamo, Cuba. The first twelve years of his life were spent with his parents, who resided on a plantation in the vicinity. With them he only learned the first rodiments of reading, writing, and arith metic, while at the same time ho indulged in those hardy employments and health-giving games which are consequent to a life in a coun try naturally mountainous and full of forests. His family having moved when he was twelve years of age to the ■ town of Bayamo, Carlos Manuel was sent there to school for the first time. A few days after the commencement of his studies there, he gave proofs of an extraordinary mental activity and intellectual talents, leaving behind him the most advanced of tho scholars in the school, and being recognized by them as tho head of the institution. When eighteen years of age, he went to Havana, with the object of prosecuting his studies there for the law profes sion. His great intellectuality was further de veloped there, at tho same time that numerous personal affairs gave him an opportunity to show his active, courageous, and tenacious dis position, giving an indication then that he would be as “great in war as in peace.” Graduating as attorney-at-law in Europe, where he went af terwards, and receiving the greatest university honors, he returned to Cuba and fixed his res idence at Manzanillo. His powers of eloquence, energy, and his knowledge soon made him the most popular man in the vicinity, and entitled him to rank as the first lawyer in that part of the country. But of all traits in his character, gen erosity marks an important one, and will give a lustre to all his future actions. The fortune which he inherited from his father, the wealth which he amassed by his industrious exertions, and his future prospects of increasing it, would have secured him a life full of comfort and ease; but his patriotic heart could not support longer the sight of his country in nbnino ana the viotim to the outrages of the tyranic&l Spanish govern ment. Inspired by a heroic resolution, he gives freedom to Ml hiB slaves, abandons his sugar States to the merciless fury of his Spanish foes, who burn them all in revenge, and, sacrificing all on the altar of liberty and independence, with the noblest motives ho inaugurates the revolu tion in Caba at the head of one hundred patriots —a movement which now counts in its ranks the whole native population of the island. Productive Laud vs. Guano. Editors Macon Daily Telegraph : By sheer dint of advertising, fertilizer dealers have created a demand for their city-made ma nures, and fortunes for themselves, with “unex ampled rapidity.” Next fall let them .stand from under, and gentlemen of the Bar hold up their hats and cards: “ Special attention given to resisting the collection of guano debts, on the ground that the fertilizer was not as represent ed.” ; “**• So much money has been drawn from the State during the past fall and winter by these enterprising advertisers, perhaps some estima- Tiie Franklin County (Pa.) Outrage. The following particulars of the recent horri ble outrage in Franklin county, Pennsylvania, are taken from the Valley Spirit: Our town has been in the most intense excite ment ever since last Thursday. The cause of the excitement is as follows: On Thursday, about noon, a negro went to the house of Mr. Wm. M. Oliver, in Gnilford town ship, about two and a half miles from Chambers- burg. Mr. Oliver and his wife, were both away from horns. A step-daughter of Mr. Oliver, named Ida Reinhardt, who is abont thirteen years of age, had also been at a neighboring honae, but at noon went home to feed the pigs. She was in tho house getting the necessary feed profits of three different forms, may not be de void of interest. And, in tho premises, it may be taken as a safe rnlo that land almost destitute of lime will not yield 200 pounds of lint cotton until at least $20 worth of the average quality of commercial manures is applied per aero, and cannot be kept at that production with a less annnal expendi ture than $16. "Wo will first take a poor piney-woods place, and attempt to run it. with free labor, under the old sla^e system. For expenditures and the crop, wj will have: Say S00hcres....$1500 5 mules ind food. 1300 6 hands! and ra tions * 1300 ■Wagons,plows... 200 33 bales cotton..$3300 800 bushels com. 800 $41Q0 $4300 . We estimate the fodder, peas, potatoes, etc., will abont “keep things even,” and allow tho farmer who has few artificial wants, a scanty living, until his land is completely exhausted, and yet we have allowed a bale to six acres, and hava no calculation for loss and damage to stock, etc We will not take the same farm and run it according to the schedule laid down by Mr. Guano. “Plow deep, manure heavily, and cul- tvate like a garden.” Above, we calculated 60 teres to tho mule and 33j to the hand, but un der the new system we must have, say: 300 acres of laud $1500 10 mules and feed 2600 to admit him. He pretended to be hungry and demanded bread, threatening to bum down the house if she would not let him in. Terrified at these threats she opened the door, when the black scoundrel seized her, threw her upon the floor and outraged her person. The little girl is pretty badly injured. Tho negro then took with him from the house a razor belonging to Mr. Oliver and a small sum of money, which was lying on a mantel Mr. Oliver’s house is in a southeasterly direction from the town. The negro then left, and crossing roads and fields, got around to the road leading from the borough in a northeasterly direction from town. About a mile from here a gentleman resides, by the name of John Landin. The negro accosted a little boy whom he saw there, and asked him if there was any man about. The boy said no. Just then a young lady named Lydia Detwiler was seen passing through a field some distance off, and the negro went over towards her, and caught up to her about two hundred yards from her father’s house, which is in Green town ship. He attacked her at once, and accom plished his purpose, the young lady resisting him to the best of herabihty. From here he went in the direction of Mr, Jacob Fry’s house, and when within a couple of hundred yards of it he met a young lady named Miss Leliman. He attacked her also, and a most terrible straggle took place. He struck her on the back of her head with a dub, on the face so that it is covered with black marks, and choked her so as to leave black and blue marks upon her nook. In the straggle he took a razor from his pocket and drew it close to her throat, threaten ing to kill her. She grasped the razor and broke the handle off, which she still has in her posses- Notwithstanding this heroic resistance, 18 hands andfeed 2700 Improved plows, eto 400 j ®? on :, , .. ,. Manure ... 4 650 tk® black scoundrel succeeded in accomplishing ’ I his purpose with this lady also. We understand BY TELEGRi-FH. q* 0 t a ] ] ^50 i that she is still confined to her bed from the in- We will admit for argument the crop will bo doubled: 66 bales of cotton $6,600 1600 bushels of com 1600 juries received. Mr. Oliver has since seen the handle and blade of the razor used in the last struggle, and iden tifies it as his own. On Friday morning Sheriff Fletcher arrested a colored man named Cambridge Adams, often called Norris, who corresponded with the des cription furnished him of the villain, and lodged him in jail. The prisoner, on being questioned Total $8,200 Hero is a deficit of $3050, besides damage to stock etc., to be covered by fodder (same as be fore) peas, potatoes, etc. Gnided by careful- enquiry, we estimate that the mostdesired kinds ; t°ld a straightforward story, and there was some of commercial fertilizers cost, at present rates, i doubt as to Ins guilt, but furthor investigation $15 50 per acre “in the ground.” (showed he had been lying. During Friday We now take a farm of the same number of ; tiiere was great excitement, and even expres- acres on Spring creek, in Early .county, where “°?“ 111 f a 7 or 1 l™* hlaw : °* oar bes *: the land vrall produce a bag of cotton to two! citizens fe!t that an example should be made of acres, without manure, with forty acres of com 1 this devil that would forever serve as a warning. and cotton to the mule, for twenty years to come. True, such land is held at high figures, generally, but wo have seen it advertized in the Telegraph at $5—though we do not believe any quantity ever will be on maiket at those figures —therefore, we will now value the 300 acres land $3,000 8 mules and feed 2,000 12 hands and feed 1,800 Never before in the history of Franklin county had such a series of horrible crimes been committed by one man. There was an intense feeling of sympathy for the sufferers from tho brntal pas sions of this inhuman wretch. Tha sheriff, feeling alarmed for the safety of tho prisoner, called on Captain G. W. Skinner, commander of tho Housum Zouaves, for assist ance in case of trouble. About 8 p. m. the fire $7,100 The crop same as above, leaving a balance in favor of the farm, besides the fodder, peas, po tatoes, eto. For the purposes of comparing the relative profits, etc., of the three places, the cost of the land should be omitted, else, kept at about the same price, as after it is paid for once, we should count only the interest on the difference of the investments, which will give the Spring creek place abont $1,000 advantage over the manured farm, in addition to the above estimates. In twenty years the first farm will have been abandoned and grown up in scrubby oaks and pines; the second, will have expended (i. e. suffered a drain of) $93,000 for manure alone; the third, will have produced $132,000 worth of cotton, and be in as good condition for another crop as farm number two is to-day. There is a difference in favor of’Spring Creek, of an annnal expenditure of Feed of two mules, $120; interest, at 10 per cent, on cost of same $40 $ ICO 00 Hire and feed of six hands 900 00 Cost of manure 4,650 00 Cost of running improved plows 75 00 $5,685 00 From which deduct $105 for interest on dif ference in price of land, and we have $5,CS0 in favor of the Creek. To follow the estimates a little further and wo reach this fact as the result of a twenty years race, between good land and poor land manured. Tho one will have expended per year Interest on land at 7 per cent $ 210 00 For losses of stock, plows, eto 350 00 Hire and feed of hands.... 1,800 00—$2,360 00 In twenty years $47,200, and have sold $132,- 000 worth of cotton. The other will have ex pended per year, For interest on land $ 105 00 Losses of stock, plows, etc 280 00 Hire and feed of hands.... 2,700 00 Manure 4,650 00—$7,735 00 In twenty years $154,700, and have sold $132,000 worth of cotton. We do not pretend to say the intensive system of farming is not remunerative under certain circumstances. In thickly-settled countries, or near large cities where land is held at fabulous prices, it may be, and often is, followed with great profit, and where wonderful energy, pro found sagacity, extensive learning and an abun dant capital is happily united in one man, who, by accident, becomes a farmer on poor land, bis success, when compared with the extensive sys tem on a similar character of soil, is truly as tonishing. But this, we do say, unless these in cidents are combined, disaster is certain; and we do contend that, considering our surround ings in this sparsely settled State and the little scientific knowledge enjoyed by the vast major ity of our planters, and the fact that there is an abundant supply of very productive land, wait ing a market at a price per acre less than the cost of manuring with even the cheapest com mercial fertilizer, it is madness for one seeking a fortune as a farmer, to purchase poor land with the expectation of making it and his fami ly rich by manuring. M. Sleepy Hollow, March 1869. The Mode of Fighting in Cuba.—An eye witness of the Cuban revolution, who has lately arrived in New York, says that tho war is car ried on more as a guerrilla war than by regular operations. Whenever a force of Spanish troops appears anywhere, the Cabans scattter from its front, and seek, by ambuscading be hind trees and in the thick woods, to annoy the troops and diminish their numbers. The great object among the insurgents in these en counters is to get hold of the musket and knap sack of every one they can wound or kill. In this they will run extraordinary risks, threo or four running out from the bush at every Span iard who fail3. The Spanish troops generally behave well in these ambuscade encounters, and whenover forced to halt or form during their march, they roundly abase their unseen foes, styling them cowards, and calling upon them to come ont of their hiding places and show themselves. The feeling among the Spaniards is very bit ter indeed. They formed almost entirely the trading population of the country, and every cross-road and country-village was occupied with their shops. These ore now abandoned wherever the insurgents have appeared and their owners have withdrawn to points held by tho troops. Thus the country is bare of goods. At first a lenient policy towards the prisoners prevailed, but the Spanish volunteers have now become so violent that they shoot nearly all they capture, calling them leaders. No regular civil government exists in the districts held by the insurgents, and no formal attempt has yet been made to organize one. Novel Effect of Reoofstbuction.—A Wash ington correspondent of the Philadelphia Press says: As an instance of the beneficial inflnenoe of the Congressional reconstruction policy in the South, it may be mentioned that the Pensacola and Georgia Railroad of the State of Florida, has recently been sold for more than a hundred thousand dollars above its bonded indebtedness, thus bringing the old bonds, most of which are Waoons etc . ..... ’goo! bell was sounded, and men at once made up 5 ’ their minds that an attack would be made on the jail The fire companies turned out, bat tho crowd rushed to King street, toward the prison. They were addressed by Sheriff Fletch er, Hon. K. W. Rowe, T. C. Kennedy, Esq., Lyman C. Clarke, Esq., John R. Orr, Esq., Capt. G. W. Skinner, and others, who plead with them not to injure the prisoner, but to let the law take its course. Tho Housum Zouaves were called out, and the true soldiers shouldered their muskets, marched to the jail, and tho crowd dis persed. The jail was guarded during tho night, and has been since. On Sunday last tbe child first attacked was taken to the jail, and among other prisoners pointed out Adams as tho one who had viola ted her person. There is not the least doubt tho prisoner is the guilty criminal, and. We hope the remainder of his natural life may be spent within the boundaries of the penitentiary. The prisoner is as black as the ace of spades, about five feet four inches high, of rather a stout build, and possesses a most wicked coun tenance. He is a son of “Titus Adams,” and has been “down the road” at least once. Tho threo victims of this fiend aro under the care of skillful physicians, and aro in a fair way of recovery from the injuries inflicted on the’ir persons. ■ Troubles with the Chinese in Califor nia. The San Francisco Herald gives a gloomy picture of Chinese morals in that city, which hardly rise above the level of negro barbarity in the Eastern States. It says: There is a growing feeling of indignation in this community at the utter disregard not only of decency, but of all our laws, recently exhibited by the Chinese. It is horrible to retie ct that pol iticians are pursuing a course that renders it even possible for these creatures to obtain a share in our government—perhaps a controlling interest in our elections. For a long time past they have exhibited a peaceful, almost a submissive spirit, rarely committing any graver offense than pilfering exposed trifles; but suddenly they have changed their conduct, and for months past the courts have been burdened with in vestigation of their crimes—investigations that come to naught, for these people have no regard for the sanctity of an oath, and perjure therf selves by wholesale. They have introduced into our Christian city all the barborous practices of their native land—they do not hesitate to hatch conspiracies, abduct and assassinate, and what is worse, they employ an organized band of braves to slay their enemies or rivals, and gauge the reward according to the punishment that may be inflicted upon them. A Chinaman can be paid to assassinate, with the death penalty staring him in the face, and can coolly stipulate for the price of his neck, to be paid to his rela tives in case he is hung. Although a cowardly race, when pitted man against man in moral tight, yet do they display the most extraordinary stolidity and indifference when execution is about to be done upon them. In their own country a line of fifty criminals, condemned to be decapitated, will sink upon their knees without coercion, bend their heads forward so as to expose their necks, and stoical ly await the stroke of the executioner's sword. They hear the dull, heavy thud at one end of the line and see the ghastly head roll upon the pave ment without a shudder. Sometimes the execu tioner stops midway in the line to resharpen his sword—thoy listen without a tremor, and, as he approaches them closely and their turn comes next, they adjust their necks more conveniently for the stroke. There is nothing about this of the spirit that sometimes actuates a Caucasian criminal to “die game”—it is simply brutish stolidity. Creatures like these once roused to the commission of crime, are evidently dangerous in a communi ty, for the death that threatens them from the law has no terrors to restrain them. It is said they have carried their barbarous practices to snch an extent in this city as to offer large re wards for the heads of their enemies. "What can be done with snch a people ? They are soulless, conscienceless, devilish. Their vile passions, long kept in restraint from submis sion to tne moral influence of the white man, are now breaking forth in barbaric fury—they openly, defy our laws, and, with brazen inso lence, insult our civilization. Let ns exhaust all the resconroes of the law to restrain them, and if they fail, let ns advise them to re tom home. ***** . An Exoubsion Cab.—The hotel car that is de signed to accompany the first through train from San Francisco to the East has been completed at the Central Pacific shops. It is thus described by a California exchange : It is divided into a large number of compart ments—one lined with zinc, for meat, several for groceries, vegetables, etc.; one with a wire door for live fowls, large tanks for fresh water, all arranged as neatly and compactly as can well be imagined. At one end of tbe car there are several berths for the accommodation of the train hands. The car is strongly built, and, having both rubber and steel springs, is proba bly one of the easiest riding in the State. Experienced miners are prospecting for gold in the valley of the Rio Grande. Already some Buccess has attended their examinations, and it is believed by many that Texas will yet be found to be a great gold field. From Washington WAsmnGTOx, April 1.—The removal of disabilities is more muddled than ever. Unless Butler’s bill is passed there will probably be no action this session. The Senate bill requiring applicants for relief of disabilities to petition and swear to reasons for ap plications was passed. A bill reviving the grant of lands to the Selma, Gadsden and Alabama Road, and confirming the grant to the Selma, Rome and Dalton Road, was passed. Sumner introduced a joint resolution postponing the election in Texas. In Executive session there was a long discussion over Longstreet’s nomination. John Allison was confirmed as Register of the Treasury. Gen. Stonemanis relieved of the command of ■Virginia and Is ordered to the Pacific. The Texas and Georgia delegations visited the President to-day. Reporters were excluded. The members of the Georgia delegation (Radical) say the President in responding to tho Georgia Attorney General, Farrow, said ho thought Congress would take some action regarding Georgia before adjourn ment; that he himself favored restoring the ne groes to their seats. It is stated that the Mexican mission will be ten dered to Gen. Sickles. It is thought that Grant will veto the Tenuro-of- Office hill, as not exact in its language. It is reported that Gen. R. S. Granger has been assigned to the temporary command of Virginia. The House Committee on Foreign Affairs have unanimously agreed to report tho following: That the people of the United States hereby declare their sympathy with the people of Cuba in their patriotic efforts to secure independence, and establish a re publican form of government guaranteeing the per sonal liberty and equal political rights of all people: and that Congress will give its constitutional sup port to the President of the United States whenever he may deem it expedient to recognize the inde pendence and sovereignty of Euch republican gov ernment. The President has nominated Post Masters J. O. Hawley, Warrenton, Va.; Josiah Daloach, Mem' phis, Term.; Henry Ransom, Marshall, Texas. Boutwell has ordered tho dismissal of the special IVeasuiy agents. The debt statement enters fully into the dotail of various items included in the Government in debtedness. The decrease in the debt is nearly two millions six hundred thousand dollars (coin.) Balance, $104,000,000—$215,000,000 being repre sented by certificates of currency—balance $7,000,- 000. This statement embraces only the receipts received up to 12 o’clock, h., 1st inst-. It would bo reduced some four millions additional, had it been withheld until the Gth or 7th, as heretofore. The Treasury disbursements duringMarch amount to twenty millions and a half. Congressional. Washington, April 1.—House.—The House is en gaged on Mississippi. The Reconstruction Committee talked abont But ler’s bill. The Democrats think it imposes humilia ting conditions. The Committee heard the Texans. The Election Committee considered the Northern contests. The Ways and Means Committee was directed to reviso tho tariff laws and the laws in relation to cus tom-houses and bonded warehouses, and to sit da ring recess at such times and places they deem best and take testimony. The bill in relation to the transportation of mails over tho railroads was adopted. The consideration of tho Mississippi bill was re sumed. There was a long and acrimonious debate*. Mr. Marshall said the Democrats did not oppose the bill from any love of military governments, but preferred even that to handing over tho unfortunate people to the tender mercies of a set of robbers, who represented no people, but merely sought to prey upon the people of Mississippi. Messrs. Davies, Farnsworth and Schenck, who spoke in opposition to the hill, are reproached as becoming conservative. Finally tho bill was post poned to December next by a vote of 103 to 62. House adjourned. Senate.—After the business reported at noon, the Indian Appropriation hill was resumed and discussed to adjournment, without action. From Louisiana* New Orleans, April 1. — Tho Governor and Auditor difficulty has resulted in a conflict of authority between tho Fifth and Seventh Dis trict Courts, which are courts of concurrent juris diction. Warmoth’s appointee was enjoined by tho 7th District Court, and Auditor Wickliffe by the oth District Court. Wickliffe was yesterday sentenced to imprisonment forty-eight hours, for contempt, by the 5th District Court, and subsequently released on habeas corpus by tho 7th District Court. The whole affair has got into an inextricable mud dle. The Governor and Auditor bitterly denounco each other as thieves and rascals. $20,OQj 15,000 From Cuba. Havana, April 1.—Two volunteers were convicted on Sunday and sentenced to exile and imprison' ment. New York, April 1.—Tho Herald's special from Key West asserts positively that the Peruvian moni tors are in interest with the Caban revolutionists. The volunteers at Caibarian seized Raphael Fale- so, and Francisco Jewcnez, as they landed from tho steamer John F. Davis, and shot themT The cap tain and crew were imprisoned. Two steamers and two schooners have landed men and arms at Cape Mary, also the steamer Cricket and two schooners landed expeditions on the Northwestern shore. Foreign News. ' Madrid. April 1.—The Cortes voted a new loan. Conscription hostilities continue, and a new outbreak is apprehended. New York, Ajiril 1—The Alaska brings $350,000 in coin. The Minister of Foreign Relations of Colombia is reported being against Cushing’s treaty for the Isthmus Ship Canal. The yellow fever is spreading south on the coast of Peru, and appeared on the United States steamer Tuscarora- Paymaster Cashing is dead. _ _ Thb Princess of Wales has been married but owned by Northern men, up to par, while the ! six years, yet she is said to appear at least road has snfficient funds on hand to pay the ac- twenty years older than at the wedding. Her cumulated interest since the issue of the bonds, husband leads her & sorry life. The Book Which Made Johnson a Great Man. A correspondent of the Cincinnati Commer cial had an interview with Andrew Johnson at his home in Greenville, Term. We quote: I mentioned his own case as an illostration of the American system which afforded a chance to all, and told him I had been around to see the tailor shop, where he had first got a start in the world. “Yes,” ho said laughingly, “the old shop is there yet, but a great many things connected with it are lost. My old, original sign, together with one or two benches or tables, I had in the cellar, but when the Southern troops made a hospital at my house they destroyed them. . I also had a pair of the best shears for the pur pose of my trade I ever saw. Thoy were large, and so arranged that a man could use them half a day at a time without tiring his hand like other shears. I was very careful of them, but they went the way of my other things. The rebel troops used my house as a hospital, and convey ed off or destroyed everything movable. I regret the loss of my books. They were not valuable, in one sense of the word, but dollars and cents cannot replace them. There was one in particular that I believe formed a turning point in my life; that is, it caused my thoughts to take a channel which they might not and probably would not have otherwise taken. This book was a volume of extracts from the speeches of Pitt, Fox, Bnrke and other English orators. When I was learn ing my trade at Raleigh, North Carolina, a gen tleman used, to come into the shop and read aloud, and seeing that we tailors enjoyed it so mnch, he used frequently to oome, and finally f ive me the book, which was the first property ever owned. How many times I have read the book I am unable to say, but I am satisfied it caused my life to take a different turn from what it otherwise would. I also had a grammar, arithmetic and geography, of which I became the possessor sometime afterward, and which I f rized very highly. Of all my books that I left, have never heard of but one. The ■soldiers made away with them all. A few yean ago, while I was in Washington, a gentleman in Vir ginia came across one of my old books, and knew it by my name being on the fly-leaf. He sent it to me, but requested that I let him keep it, which I did.” ■ The Conrt'llcase at City Hall Tirf,., Being ever ready with “a reason for the f a j t i that is in them,” tako pleasure in spreading fore the people the data on which they base their judgment that the location of tho Court. House at the City Hall will save forty or fift thousand dollars, or even more, to the count * Thus i ’’ The County Treasury has in hand— Cash from sale of old Court- House lot Cash from taxes this year. County 20 year bonds, deemed necessary to complete Court- House on Mulberry street, by old Commissioners. Adopted by last Legislature In all.; '. Deduct amount for building Jail Leaving cost of Coart-House ou Mulberry street PER CONTRA. The necessary work on City Hall—adding another story, new front and stair towers...$15,000 Add amount for building Jail. 20,000- Saved directly to the county... - scoivv But that is not all: Using the money already in hand, we have no use for the $50,000 in bonds, and thereby save interest for 20 years, which is 70 ^ Added to the above, makes $100w Which is the ultimate saving to the country fected by the selection of that point, as opp^i to the location to which the Mulberry «tng ticket are understood to be pledged. Bat the Woodruff plan, costing $35,000, mif- bo adopted, in which event $20,000 of bonds would be used.... §20,000 Interest for twenty years Total Which, deducted from the $100,000 abou leaves still $52,000, as tho ultimate saving k the, .county and the pockets of tho people. This, it will be seen, is much more th; enough to drain the swamp below the ckt which, according to accurate survey, will a quire about $30,000, but, as this sum is not than saved by a judicious selection of a Cob* house site, that work will not cost the tax pn. era a cent. Hence, all the spouting of ourci ored opponents, under whatever prompting against drainage and taxation, is entirely thror. away. This, it mnst be said, presents a mt of the case different to what may have b«: supposed correct. It is none the leas tr.; however, and a serious responsibility rests rj the voters on Saturday. That the’y may pe; der well the situation, and act on their h- judgment, is all that is desired of them by M. S. Thomson, Virgil Powers, E. Crockett, Geo. H. Hazlehnrst. A. B. Ross, Jacob Russel, P. W. Doyle, J. C. McBnmer, T. C. Nisbet. E. Isaacs. Health and Economy Again. Editors Telegraph.—The reading public vi.- doubtless amused at the appearance of two r tides in this morning’s issne of the Telegrap rasping Quidam, whose name appears mi an artide in the papers of yesterday. “Young Enterprise” insinuates that Quidc is the organ of the Mulberry street ticket, attacks that ticket through him. Quidam bd leave to state that he is identified in no whatever with the Mulberry street ticket, lives in the country, and is simply “a looker- in Venice.” ‘Young Enterprise” boasts “ground will be broken long before the tumn winds of 1869 have breathed upon t while, on another page a regular nominee tins burlesque ticket on health and eco! tells the public “we can afford to let the sirazj question remain in abeyance. ’ ’ Quidam pi by Young Enterprise withont further conum as the people know what Young Enteraii means on “All Fools’ Day.” As to the other article, the gentleman into the fight with an unknown enemy with the gallantry of r. volunteer, and whila we mire his pluck, we regret that his judgment i| so extremely poor, or that he is so badly bli: ed by resentment. He tells the people that “ the contempist improvement of the City Hall, at the Messrs. Woodruff’s plan was drawn, was $7 400 in round numbers, and adroitly concede? fact that this plan was rejected by a com: from the grand jury and the city, as it tc notbe sufficient to accommodate the and the plan of Mr. Wilson adopted, as * cheapest and bestand Mr. Wilson’s app mate estimate of cost was $70,000, not inch the cost of the removal of the market-honse. Quidam has not seen Messrs. Mi plan, and reluctantly accepts the version gh But he has seen Messrs. Woodruff’s plan of: jail, and the cost of that is $55,000; and’J payers can easily approximate the relative > of a jail and the enlargement of the City 0 The gentleman tells us that “the CityHaij located where it may be seen from eveiy-’ leading into the city,” and there it will res in “statu quo.” The gentleman wants splendid tower” on the City Hall, and wants to know, if it is so conspicuous as t seen from all parts of the city, then wbj" secondBdbeB The gentleman urges as an argumentinf*' of the City Hall that, “ten thousand peopled hear our public orators.” Quidam has b jection to such assemblages at the CityHC his idea of a Court-house is, it is a place justice should be administered calmly, and firmly,and wants no demagogical bant? or political gerrymandering there. The gentleman denounces the site on M- ry street as unhealthy, and emphatically dee that any board of health would “denote^ site in unmeasured terms.” No local “ can be shown, for sickness, unless g» think that the pure cold water to be through the building to remove all garb»? breed sickness. If so, will the gentlen^j pose an antidote ? What does he healing efficacy of & little Bwamp nn>d?_ gentleman asks, “ how mnch land comes * shape of a donation?” Quidam gives fad* r he can substantiate: 1st. The lot on tie & of Mulberry and Second streets, knows * Grantland Lot, with a front of about b;* and 3 inches on Mulberry street, and 60 Second. 2d. The lot adjoining on SecosO» known as tho L C- Plant Lot, with « about 30 feet on Seoond street, and depth with the first. 3d. Fourteen feet front, and same above of the Weed lot adjoining Plant s,t^ 104 feet and three inches on Mulberry •- and the same on Second street. v For the information of the pnhlio would state that the old building com-' have an agreement sealed and deliver* 1 - ; gating to sell to Bibb county any nwr« it may need from the vacant land adjoin nominal price. n . This “health and economy ticket,’ ® the gentleman is a member, comes on the swamp question, and tells A 13 J. “we can afford to bear the swamp 0 nes " abeyance.” Gentlemen, you have shown your c at last. You had better leave = question in abeyance, for it is nuadjll start, and the less it is stirred the the reputation of some gentlemen. Macon, April 1, 1869. A Card. Messrs. Editors: In the contest nowS'j for the location of the Court-house, have been extensively used, and an iPr has been made that we have recently plans, and are publicly advocating » cality. j. This is not true. The plans referred 10 J communications which have appeared J pared more than two years ago, tions from the Joint Committee of th* ’ QCS»> it car County, for remodeling the presen We have prepared no other plan, vooating no particular plan, or specie We are committed to no party. We txei in the matter, and by virtue of oar must remain m, . j We are making the study and chiteotnre a speciality, and axe preP* 1 *; , der our professional service^ in b*h^ and all who may faror wrwUh th®*^ *\WoowrciT
