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rLlSBV & REID, Proprietors. ESTABLISHED 1826.} Telegraph Ballding, Macon. „ vT fs OF SUBSCRIPTION : T.Ltot.PH-foropo year.. S10 00 Dir-T} 11 :' :%ii-foraix months 5 00 £j,r periods One Dollar per month. r r wmkVt Tklkgbaph-oiio year.. 4 00 W" ! ' -ru'.\VEEKLY Telegraph—six m’tha 2 00 ?Sv, Kt T Telegraph—ope year 3 00 oh iib Xklegraph—six months 1 50 V^^Payalle always «'» advance.Su!. bo oK and J^> plating p wly executed at reasonable pnces. •tmccshy mail with Postmaster’s certificate at ' ■ [' i * ■jx. mmm. r wm The Family Journal.—News—Politics—Literature—Agriculture—Domestic Affairs. GEORGIA TELEGRAPH BUILDING MACON, FRIDAY, MAY 21. 1869. Y01. ILIII.-NO. 27 ^ i Only IX Tear! BT EnlE EOWDRE CASTLEN. . u , 1 & tinv tcWj itUstcns on the dark, fringed lashes. ..Le iov'a a costly mask to wear; ” •4 bought with pangs, oft with despair, Anl uirs lie hidden where it flashes. . TCS *tis bnt a glist’ning tear, 1 Dat t<Bs of hopeless love long nourished— M raveut waiting through the drear, rL], jjrs—of love that cast out fear, 1 juil in the light of hope once flourished. ndra tear, that tells of wars A ; ocm’iy's hnsy train is making; „j’ !0 cannot part—not worldly jars— Oar hearts will touch for mountain-bars! ’’ jj, en came—the sad awaking. 0# > tiny tear—n. moan Of soals once led out into beauty: Cdv a bosom swelling, lone, f^akai now—its world all gone; icd left—the clasping knife of duty. Ode , tear-tkat this dark night So arm can fold, in warm embraces, ;m j. of despair, fast budding white! r , 1( , bought with pride, to make the fight. Anil sent through tears to suffering faces. 0 :,!r a trembling tear! A sigh fue dread and heavy silence breaking. Are sighs and tears above yon sky ? jO,: if I only dared to die; yes—but, Ob, not God’s forsaking. Otic a tear—to show that still, ij jam’s sharp wedge, the heart is riven. 0r> a tear the sad eyes fill, h sweet obedience to His will. - Twill bo a’l love in heaven. Airy 6th. I860. rom Sumter, Dougherty, Lee, and Baker. Albany, Ga., May 18, 1869. 5® -, Ti'trniph: The crops in Sumter jaw on red lands look well—on gray sandy ®d cold and wet weather has caused cotton to ;e burnt places. About the same condition crops h Lee. Baker, and Dougherty. Labor s the above counties is about as could be ex acted nowadays. Work goes on properly.— ocoaphist in this respect among planters. iaaicwU steadily improving and is des- ssi to Income quite n city. Your agent in rriens is indefatigable and the various edi cts of th 1 * paper are popular and much read, tour list will show. IBudt was very nearly burnt up since the the bamt districts have been rebuilt a >11 branches of trade are flourishing and pHy increasing in importance. In this city ere are four or five churches, three or four od schools, one good college, numbers of pro mt] gentlemen of distinction as well as tchants and business men generally, an ex ist newspaper—Albany News, and two splen- •1 Hotels where the wants of the inner man owe proper attention. Dougherty county,, x what I have seen, will raise com enough year for its consumption. Sexton, always a nice, quiet country village, improving. W. W. Livingston and his ex- iut wife furnish good entertainment in this togs to their patrons. Your paper is very polar in Baker county. Quite a number of od schools and churches are in Newton and feral enterprising merchants. Quite a rail- d fever prevails—public attention especially *cted to the road from Camilla to intersect this point, the Bainbridge, Cnthbert and tumbus Road. Subscriptions are being taken : the citizens tor building a steamboat to run this point via the Flint River to Bain- (. A young lady has subscribed $1000 to stock. Her name will probably grace the * steamboat The citizens are sociable, and osit to this village is always agreeable. Tbavzlee. Hiring Labor. J*y»the Central Georgian, as parties are con-! yetting into trouble by hiring or decoy s' 1 * laborers employed by another, we pub- law on the subject that none may act It is strange, bnt true, that we as P^pli are so blinded often by self-interest entirely forget the interest of ourneigh- L was wise in our Legislature, therefore, -1 .-.v in „ur statute books, after the S' of the labor system. But for its enac- : ?•> sav, there would have been a «f affairs in many portions of the * r " !Q 142» of the Code of Georgia reads 5? Person, by himself or agent, shall be ,H*®ployingthe servant of another, dur- for which he, she, or they, maybe SHknowing that such servant was so em- .jJ’tad that his term of service was not ex- a any person or persons shall entice, ye <: t ? r dec °y. any servant to leave his em- ,je«Mr by offering higher wages, or in "gyvha tever, during the term of ser- sa ' d servant was so employed, ioaljL^ed guilty of a misdemeanor, and, tKj ® thereof, shall be fined any sum two hundred dollars, or be con- sej^ -wnunonjailof the county, in the aatju, c 1110 ourt, not to exceed three " !i » easily understood that comment ^„^® er sche Correspondenz,” a semi- paper published in Berlin, gives ^1 h elp knation res pecting the unex- 4v. ; , r S e number of emigrants who are J t£c ^ me rican shores this year. “We tkat journal, “that the unusually ]■<. k ; r " tlon i this year, from various parts JCrtaa ay to America, is the result—as j^Pnrrsd by inquiry—of the encourag- bj home by relatives who have al- Atlantic and who generally f i lettere ^th a remittance. The . e ' ’ Q *h® wisdom and moderation of ji Vea -'ovemment of the Unite] .States ( 8 great stimulus to emigration this ^*2 Sewabd’s Eldest Son, the Hon. . wardh as purchased Thurlow ; »ai it rC8t 1116 Commercial Advertiser, ^ol,,l r€poited ’ take 016 editorial chair d WeU established joumaL Macon and Augusta Railroad. MEETING OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF AUGUSTA. From the Chronicle and Sentinel of Friday, A called meeting of the City Council was held yesterday afternoon at 4 o’clock in the Council Chamber. It was understood that the object of the meeting was to hear a communication to be made to the City Council by Hon. John P. King, President of the Georgia Railroad and Banking Company, in relation to the completion of the Macon and Augusta Railroad. Present: Alderman Allen, Mayor pro tem; Aldermen Sibley, Meyer, Tutt, Speath, Gardi ner, Gargan, Goodrich and Jackson. Mayor S. H. Cramp, City Recorder, acted as Clerk of the Council in the absence of Mr. L. T. Blome. There seemed to be some mistake as to who had the meeting called, Mr. King" thinking that it was the City Council which had some proposition to moke, while Alderman Jackson said that it was by a request of Judge King coming tlironght Mr. Peters of Atlanta. Mr. Kingstatedthat the proposition wasmade to him by Messrs. Hull, Sherman <fc Co., of New York, for the completion of the Macon & Augus ta Railroad. The proposition is, in substance, as follows: Hull, Sherman & Co. were to take possession of the entire assets of the road, amounting to about four hundred end twelve thousand dollars; they were to have three hun dred and seventy thousand dollars of the bonds of the road endorsed by the Georgia Railroad; and they were to have issued to them stock of the road amounting to five hundred thousand dollars, making a total of about one million two hundred and eighty-two thousand dollars. Mr. King stated that these were the best terms which had been offered and he thought it would be best to accept them, as upon the early comple tion of the road depended its safety. He review ed the history of the road for the past few years, its frequent straggles and failures, and ended by announcing that though himself and liis di rectors had been authorized by the Convention to endorse $370,000 of the bonds of the Macon road as desired, he would not take this step un less with the consent of tho City Council; for the city was the largest stockholder in the road and he felt that it had morally the right to con trol the management. Mr. Sibley asked how much it would take to build the road to Macon oh a cash basis. Mr. King thought that it would require six hun dred and fifty thousand dollars. M.. Sibley asked if it would not be better to raise this amount by the sale of the assets of the road and complete it for cash than to pay so ! large a price to Hull, Sherman & Co. j Mr. King thought not. The early completion j of the road was the object most to be desired, j and he thought this proposition the best under i the circumstances. Council, however, might do | as it thought best in the matter. He was deter- i mined not to accept the contemplated arrange ment unless with its consent. Mr. Gardiner thought that Council had better inquire whether the present Directors of the road representing the city were eligible to that situation. Mr. King thought this would do no good. These directors were powerless now. The af fairs of the road were in the hands of himself and Mr. Magrath and Mr. Hazlehurst. Mr. Gardiner said, with all duo deference to Jndge King, ho did not think this committee had done much. Judge King: “If we have done no good,, we at least have done no harm.” Mr. Gardinef: “Perhaps,' as you have been unable to do anything, we can now get a com mittee who will do some good. . I see by the pa per this morning that you charged the city yes terday with being responsible for the present condition of the road. I do not think it fair to saddle the present with the errors of a former CoutlciL I would like to know who is respon sible for the election of Bullock as President of the Road.” Judge King: “ I don’t recollect any such ex pression as that which you say appears in the papers; bnt I will state that I am responsible i for Bullock’s election, and that I have been de ceived in him. I knew ha was a Radical, bnt did not know that he was a politician. The af fairs of the road were in a desperate condition. Messrs. Hazlehurst and Heard had tried to ex tricate it, but had not succeeded. I thought that Bullock would help the company, and had him made President. I knew nothing of the condition of the Express Company, bnt simply chose Bnllock in order to benefit the road.” Mr. Gardner: “Who elected Conley Presi dent of this road?” Mr. King said that he alone, among the stockholders, opposed his election. He didn't know whether Conley was a Badical, a fire-eater, a secessionist, or the devil, for he cared nothing for politics in railroad matters: but he did not fliinl.- he was the man for the place, and he tried to effect his defeat The City Council elected Mr. Conley. Mr. Gardiner thought that Judge King had more to do with his election than any one else. Ho asked if Mr. Magrath, the President of the South Carolina Road, had not desired the posi- tion. Mr. King again declared that he had opposed the election of Air. Conley and only voted for him because he found it impossible to effect his defeat, and that State aid to the road was ex pected to bo gained through his (Conley’s) in fluence. Mr. Magrath had said nothing to him about running for the office, and if he had run he would have cheerfully supported him. Mr. Gardiner said he cared no more about Conly’s politics than he (Judge King) did; the interest of the road was what he looked after. When in Charleston not long since, he was in formed by Mr. Magrath that (Magrath) would have run for President of the Road against Con ley, as he had been solicited to do, if he had not been discouraged from taking this step by a re mark of Judge King’s. ■ Jndge King denied this and ended tho argu ment by declaring for a second time that tho Council might act as it pleased in the matter, bnt that he would not accept the proposition of Hull, Sherman & Co., unless the consent of the city was obtained. With this remark Mr. King left the Council Chamber. The Mayor stated that Mr. King wished an expression of opinion from the Council ou Ills proposition. Mr. Sibley stated that when this proposition had come up before the Railroad Committee, by the latter a proposition had been submitted to Judge King that the Macon and Augusta Road should issue bonds to the amount of $500,000, which should be endorsed by the cities of Au gusta, Macon, Milledgevillo and the Georgia and South Carolina railroads, bymeansof which bonds this road could be completed. No answer had yet been received to the proposition. Mr. Gardiner moved that the Chairman of the Railroad Committee be instructed to inform Judge King that the City Council refused to ac cede to his proposition. Carried. Mr. Tutt moved that Judge King be also in formed that the City Council will agree to the proposal made him some time since by the Rail road Committee, relative to the endorsement of $500,000 of the bonds of the Macon and Angus-. taRoad. Carried. Mr. Gardiner asked what steps had been taken toward calling a convention of the stockholders, in accordance with the resolution passed by Council at the last meeting of the Macon Road. Tho Mayor stated that he had addressed letters on the subject to the City Council of Macon and Milledgevillo and the South Carolina and Geor gia RaSroad Companies. Facts fob the Ladles.—I have a Wheeler & Wilson maobine, (No. 280), bought of Mr. Gardner In 1853, ho having used it a year. I have used it constantly, in shirt manufacturing as well as the family sewing sixteen years. My wife ran it four years and earned between $700 and $800 besides doing her household work. I have never expended fifty cents on it for re pairs. It is to-day in the best of order, stitch ing fine linen bosoms nicely. I started manu facturing shirts with this machine, and now have over one hundred of them in use. I have paid at least $3000, for the stitching done by old machine and it will do as much now as W. F. Tayloe. Jacob Thompson. Return of the Ex-Confederate Exile—Reception by Jiis old Neighbors and Friends—His Speech. From the Oxford (Hitt.) Falcon. May 3d.! On last Saturday it was definitely ascertained that our distinguished fellow citizen, Hon. Jacob Thompson would reach this place on the 7 o’clock p. si. train, and preparations were made to receive him in a way which would show the high respect and esteem which our entire people entertained for him. He had been long in exile because of his devotion to the best interests of Mississippi, and every one felt that a becoming and proper tribute of’ respect should be shown him. A large crowd of ladies and gentlemen : were at the depot to receive him, and when the train arrived and he descended from the cars, a tremendous otipnr xronk tip from tho assembled throng, and Professor Stuart’s band struck up one of their favorite airs. Col. L. Q. C. Lamar, in behalf of the people, then welcomed the dis- ; tinguished gentleman back to his home in a speech of great eloquence and feeling, which was enthusiastically applauded. Hon. Jacob Thompson, in response, spoke as feliows: I Col. Lamar, Gentlemen and Ladies: I thank you for this reception. I especially thank you, Air. Lamar, for the handsome and eloquent manner in which you have expressed the feel ings of those present, in which you have hailed my return among you and bid me welcome. I accept it in the spirit in which it was intended. It is personal and not political. Your kindness i to me and my wife have indneed you to come | out to meet ns, and bid us welcome back to our : old home. By this you show us we are not for gotten. We feel cheered by it and will continue i to thank you, and as long as my heart repeats | its pulsations, so long will this welcome be cher- i ished in our memory. After the many trials and disasters through which we have passed, 1 this meeting is truly refreshing, bnt it is sadden- ' ing, aLso. The picture has its dark shades—old ; familiar faces are not here, and they will appear no more in our midst. Since parted many of 1 our friends have been called to their final ac count, and you have been left to keep vigil over their last resting places. Looking into your ; healthful and cheerful countenances, on the one j hand, and calling to mind those true men who are gone on the other, my feelings overwhelm : me and my conflicting emotions can find no voice. Especially was I touched, CoL Lamar, by your • reference to the death of our mutual friend, Gen. Howell Cobb. He was truly a great, good ; and pure man. In all the relations of life, pri vate andpnblic, in the Legislative Assembly, in ; the Council of State and on the battle-field he j discharged his whole duty manfully and well. In making up the jewels’ of the country, his name will ever appear conspicuous. I felt hon- • ored in having such a friend, and in being deemed by him worthy of his confidence. May the earth rest lightly on his remains, and when life's struggle is over I hope we may join him in those realms where there is no more death. I have come back to see you and talk with you over the past, the present, and the pros pect of the future. In this interchange of ' views, of hopes and fears, I hoped and expected to derive pleasure. I assure you that, though in my absence I have wandered far, seen and read a great deal, I have never forgotten you, your delightful village—clothed all the time, however, in my imagination, in the weeds of mourning—and this charming climate. The g reenest spots in my past life are to be found ero; and wherever I have been, the desire with me has ever been the same, that when my last sun had set and life’s fitful fever was o’er, my body might here find a resting place. I went to see the greatest living nations of the earth, and the countries where the mightiest people of the past lie buried, and I found plea sure and instruction in taking a survey of the whole. Though many valuable lessons were learned, yet a deep melancholy followed me and weighed down my spirits. I could never forget that I was an American citizen, nor cease to repeat the line of the poet, somewhat para phrased, America, “with all thy faults, I love thee still!” At no one time was I tempted to change my nationality. I was bom on this soil, and this country is my birthright and my inheritance; and by no act or deed of mine did I wish to forfeit it. A man may have all that money can buy, and be surrounded by all the luxuries and all the refinements that taste or appetite can suggest, yet if he has no country, no place or government, he is poor indeed. Thus, in my wanderings, I was often tempted to appropriate to myself the words of Him, who was more than man, “The foxes have holes, the birds of the air have nests, but I have not where to lay my head. ” Though I have en deavored all my life to live with a conscience void of offence toward God or man, yet I have suffered persecutions, but I trust I have borne them with patience. I have been reviled, but . I have not reviled again, hoping all things, en during all things. But here you ask me, and very pertinently, why I have not returned among you earlier. This question, you at once perceive, leads me into the field of politics, into a review of the action of the government, and the conduct of its officials. There I am in the condition of an unfortunate Irishman who was a sailor on board of a ship at sea, and the Cap tain ordered him aloft to arrange some part of the rigging. After reaching a considerable height on me mainmast, his hold gave way, and down ho came on deck with a heavy crash. The Captain, frightened, ran to him, and in sympa thizing tones said, “Patrick, are you dead ?” “No.” said Pat, “I am not dead, but I am speechless!” In Pat’s condition I find myself at this time in regard to politics and the man agement of the government for the last four years—I am speechless. In the late struggle for self-government wo went to sea in a hastily constructed boat, which for four years gallantly bore the buffetings and beatings of the wind and waves, and finally went down amid the breakers, attracting the admira tion of the world. We, the passengers, were thrown out into the turbulent waters, and have been gradually picked up and hauled on board the ship Nationality, where wo are permitted to breathe and live, but not allowed any lot of em ployment in sailing the new ship on which we are’embarked. Few among us can hold office, a greater number cannot vote. Possibly this is for the best, and in the end it will prove a great blessing. You are relieved of all responsibility in helping to govern the country. Purer and better and wiser citizens, in their own estima tion, at least, will freely undertake to discharge nil the onerous duties of office, and relieve you from all its anxieties and perplexities. This state of things, I hope, will result greatly to the advantage of our community, increasing its wealth, happiness and security. While I was in Paris, an intelligent French man undertook to prove to me that under the French Empire the people were the freest, hap piest and most prosperous people in the world, secure in all personal rights, in the rights of property, person and reputation, each man al lowed to pursue happiness in his own way, and certain of reaping the fruits of his industry. He was debarred from one right only, and that was for his good and welfare. He had no voice in the conduct of pnblic affairs. He could hold no public meetings, or criticise the acts of the Em peror or his officials. Hence he was exempt from all care and anxiety on this head, and con sequently the Frenchman was a happy man. Why cannot we in the conquered South, reason and feel in the same way? Under such circtun- Btances my opinion is that we ought to imitate, as practicable, the example of the great King David. When his child was sick nigh unto death, he mourned, fasted, prostrated himself upon the ground and put on sackcloth, but when tho child died, he arose, washedhimself, put on gay clothing, and appeared to his attendants with a cheerful countenance. So, while our con test lasted, we suffered, fasted, prayed, shed our blood and spent our treasure freely. Now that it is over let ns meet the actualities of life with a brave, cheerful and manly heart, submitting to the inevitable, and exerting ourselves with energy to take care of ourselvea and families. Owing to the institution of slavery which once obtained among us, our people have been mis understood ana greatly traduced abroad. Let us, by industry, skill and economy, reap all the our prolific soil and genial climate. Let us, by the practice of virtue and sobriety, and all the charities of life, disarm all criticism. Let ns maintain a high standard of education and mor ality for our youth that they may ‘ be fitted for all the duties and responsibilities which may by possibility devolve upon them. Above all, let ns straggle with a hearty good will to build up the waste places and secure prosperity and plen ty to our people. In all ages the God of battle has made some curious and inexplicable de cisions. But it is not for us to find out the reasons which controlled Him. It is ours only to obey the decision, because from it there is no appeal. In the late war the power of arms de cided that we should remain one people, now and forever. The God of battles decided the case in favor of Union. Now the true Christian MMiat justify the ■waya at Gnd to man, »nd there fore he must say it was wisest and best that the case should be so decided. From this position a duty is devolved upon every man. Each in dividual is bound to contribute his mite to make this people a great people, strong, happy, pros perous and glorious. I think we may all hold the firmest assurance possible in our own mind that the public conscience in the govern ing section of the United States will some day be awakened; that prejudice and uncharitable- ness and ill will, in the end, will give way to kindliness and brotherly love; that the heel of the oppressor will be raised; that our State Gov ernment will be placed under the influence of the virtue, tho intelligence, religion and wealth of the country, and we shall be placed on an equality with all the other citizens of tho United States. A great destiny awaits tho people of America; we ought and we must contribute our part in working it out. We are not called on to sacrifice our independence of character, our honor or our self respect, bnt simply to follow the plain dictates of duty, and wait, and I feel as certain as the night succeeds the day, so cer tain will the Government still need you. Only be true and faithful to yourselves and to your whole country, and be prepared to act well your part when that day arrives. Again, we thank you. Justice to tbeSoutb. LESS CBIME IN THE SOUTH THAN IN THE NOBTH. We call the attention of our readers to the following candid, liberal and just article from the New York Times of the 14th instant: Law and Order in the South.—A strenuous effort was made in the Anti-Slavery Convention, on Wednesday, to revive expiring prejudices concerning the condition of society in the South, with especial reference to the rights and inter ests of colored citizens and Northern “loyal ists.” One of the expelled Georgia legislators _ was asked whether he considered his life safe in that State, and he responded that no man’s life, who stands on the loyal side, is safe in Georgia outside of the large cities. The ques tion was pressed in other forms, and always with a somewhat similar result; the evident aim being to produce an impression that Ku- klux and rebels still dominate in the South, and that the staunch Republican, white or black, is all the time in jeopardy. Air. Wendell Phil lips likened the white Southerner to “ the bull dog that, having been taught for twenty years to spring at every passer-by, could not change his nature in a day.” The ladies were equally ferocious; a colored Mrs. Harper declaring that “there is no civilized country in the world where there has been so much murdering as has been going on recently at the South.” For the object of these representations we have not far to seek. A case against Georgia and the unre constructed States is desired as an excuse for harsh action, and the story of murder for polit ical causes is the best that can be concocted for the purpose. We are more than skeptical on this subject We do not believe these tales of wholesale mur der and oppression, nor do we give credence to the allegation that “loyalists” are systematical ly persecuted and hunted down. There was a time, undoubtedly, when in some localities a hostile spirit ran high, and when the assertion of Republican opinion involved more or less peril; but trustworthy evidence seems to show that this state of things no longer exists. So far as we can judge, life and property are quite as secure at the Sonth as at the North. Taking population into account, we are convinced that the percentage of crime is no greater anywhere in the Sonth, and certainly not in Georgia, than in the North or West. For every murder com mitted there we will undertake to find a murder here. For every outrage that admits of verifi cation in Georgia,we will trace aparallel outrage in Indiana or New York. Nay,we are persuaded that, all things considered, there is less crime in Virginia,in South Carolina, in Alabama, and even in Georgia, than in this State or in other parts of the North. This city can easily supply a chapter of horrors, of recent date, whioh, by a parity of reasoning, Southern observers might cite as proofs of savagery and demoralization. Such an application of facts would bo unwar ranted, but it would be not less legitimate than the endeavor of the Anti-Slavery Society fana tics to arraign the whole South for the acts of its criminal class. It is absurd to look for a greater average of virtue, or greater immunity from crime, there than wo are contented with here. What Georgia and its neighbors may fairly plead is, that, in respect of offences against person and property, they have nothing to fear from comparison with Alassachusetts or Michigan. And this is all we are entitled to expect. But we are told the South does not welcome loud-tongued loyalists as cordially as they think they should be’welcomed. Mr. Fomev, who has been spying out the nakedness of the land in company with a party like unto himself, pub licly complains that they went about without be ing worshipped. He does not allege that they were insulted. He does not pretend that they had any apprehension as to their personal safety. He does not deny that homes await all who seek them with a decent respect for the feelings and opinions of the present population. But he ob jects that the entire South did not take him and his friends at their own valuation, and that it receives coldly those who go there as professional politicians, or who insist, when settling, that they shall be esteemed as the only loyal, the only righteous members of the community. _ These objections and complaints are very foolish. In tho first place, Southern citizens have as good a right as Northern citizens to choose their com pany and friends, and may as properly discrim inate in their welcome to new-comers. In the next place, the men who go Sonth expecting to make a business of politics, and who denounce every one who refuses to vote their ticket, are a nuisance in any locality, and are not entitled anywhere to courtesy or consideration. The Sonth should be judged, not by its feel ing toward demagogues and adventurers, but by its treatment of strangers of any nationality who go there in good faith, prepared to settle down and become useful citizens. In regard to this class, we see no reason to doubt that they are gladly received, or that they share the pro tection of good laws, administered impartially and effeettively. There maybe exceptional lo calities, bnt so there are in the West. Indeed, the conditions of welcome in Virginia or Geor gia do not essentially differ from those which obtain in Kansas or Alinnesota. And the su premacy of law and order is, as a rale, as well assured in the one case os in the other. Prospects of Cotton. The price and prospects of this great staple, says the Boston Journal, are of interest to every merchant and manufacturer. The Northern States of this Union consume yearly a million of bales, worth, at present rates, one hundred and twenty-five million dollars. The price of cotton affects the value of dry goods and the cost of other manufactures. The value of cot ton determines the ability of the South to pay for our productions, and it contributes more than a third of our exports and of our means of paying for foreign goods. Its purchase calls innuaky for our greenbacks. Its shipment theapens exchange. Under every aspect it in- ierests (he mercantile community. Two years since, England undertook to break prices, and the planter and the spinner acquiesced, for the purpose of removing the cotton tax. The price fall, to fourteen cents a any machine I have. Berlin, New York. Bad Accounts feoji the Wheat in Floyd.— The Rome Courier of Thursday says: We exceedingly reget to learn that the rains, some two weeks since, materially injured both the wheat and cotton crops throughout this country. . ‘ The wheat has not spread as it ,would have done under favorable circumstances, and it is now “spindling up” with short heads, and th© indications are that even if it esoapes rust, there will not be over a half a crop. The cotton to a large extent is utterly ruined, and many are plowing it up and planting com instead. Connecticut has ratified the fifteenth amend ment. The House reached a vote Thursday, and passed the amendment by 126 Republicans —less than the cost of production after pay ment of the tax. Some profits were made by the factory but cotton went abroad through the cotton season at the low average of twenty cents a pound, aa low as fifteen in the early part of the season, as high as twenty-seven after the planters had sold their crops. The price was too low to:continue, for most of the negro women had left the field, and at the lowest point we venture! to predict a rise to twenty-four cents a pouad. Lost year, again, the season was favorable. Cotton came in early on the Alississippi and its tributaries, and the price went back to twenty- one cents. .Again we ventured to predict a rise to twenty-eight cents, and this has been the rul ing price a’ the season, and stocks which form erly rose to a million of bales in Liverpool have fallen to at out three hundred and sixty thou sand. The reasons aro now obvious; the great decline in the fall of 1867 checked production both in America and Asia. In 1867, the planter raised little corn, and the price for his cotton did not suffice to pay for the food and tools he required, and last year he devoted thirty per cent, of his land to breadstuffs, and some to peas or sweet potatoes, and bnt six and a half million acres to cotton, while the culture of rice and su gar was also increased. The rivers of the Southwest were high during the fall, and under improved prices cotton came into New Orleans much earlier than the year be fore, and stocks accumulated, but at other ports there soon appeared a deficit. The breadth of land given to cotton was found to be ten per cent, less than it was in 1867. The receipts gradually declined, and now it appears that the amount received to date is less than it was to this date last year. Meanwhile the English have held back, and the stock in European mills has declined and the export has been less in quanti ty than it was to this period last year, while stocks show a moderate excess. The price has now risen to twenty-eight cents, equivalent to twenty-one cents in gold, which checks production of cloth, and the manufacture abroad is checked by the consequent loss of profits. While cotton has risen, wool has fallen in value in Europe. We have cut off the wool of Australia and La Plata, and thrown it upon England and Belgium until the fine Alestiza wool has gone down to sixteen cents, and comes more or less in competition with cotton. Wool en goods are sold cheap, and tho sale of cotton fabrics is affected. The rise of cotton, too, has given a new stimulus to cotton planting, both at the South and India, and a new railroad, the San Panto, has been carried into the elevated districts of Brazil, more favorable to cotton than coffee, which is now less thfcn cotton per pound in value. Last year the rise of prices in the spring and summer gave a start to cotton which had been depressed so much by the fall, that the income of the railways in India was affected, but now, under the impulse given by the rise, a large crop has been raised, which comes to mar ket from February to July, and will reach Europe between Juno and November. The shipments from India since February are fif teen per cent, above those of 1868. This year we may expect increased crops of cotton, rice and sugar, and less corn, at the South. We may reasonably anticipate a diver sion of at least a million of acres from com to cotton, and an increased use of guano and other fertilizers. With a good season we may expect a crop of three million bales of cotton, in place of three million six hundred thousand bales, the average before the war. We might have more, were it not for the fact that the negro women have in great part abandoned the plough, and a strong force is devoted to rice and cane. With a favorable season we may hope not only for three million bales of cotton, but also for eighty thousand tierces of rice and more than two hun dred thousand hogsheads of sugar. How will it be with prices ? Last year, al though the crops were less than before the war, the aggregate sums realized from rice, cotton and sugar at the South, after conversion into gold, exceeded the returns of I860, during the palmy days of slavery. This year, what may we expect with increased production? There may be some decline in rice, as the crop may exceed our local wants, and is now too high for export, but in sugar, of which we consume thir teen hundred million pounds, our crop will,not supply a fifth of our consumption, and the revolt in Cnba must sustain Drioes. How will it be with cotton ? The stocks must be light, nearly exhausted by July, and this must, for the present, tend to sustain prices, bnt by the autumn may we not well anticipate an ac cession of three hundred thousand bales from the increased growth in India and Brazil, and at least half a million bales from our Southern States? In the face of light stocks and a grow ing consumption in this country and on the Con tinent of Europe, an accession of eight hundred thousand bales might not seriously depress prices, but there is a new- element to be taken into account, the promised completion of thd Su ez Canal in October. This will reduce the pas sage to France, Spain and England, by propel lers, through the canal, in place of ships by the Cape, at least four months. May we not reasonably expect the cotton of Bombay to take this route, and will not the effect be to ac celerate the delivery of India cotton to the man ufacturer, at least four months, and will not this be equivalent to adding for the first year one-third to the deliveries from India, say six hundred thousand bales ? An accession of four teen hundred thousand bales must, of course, depress prices. If our anticipations are real ized, we shall begin to feel the effect of the in* crease by November, and may well expect to see cotton decline below twenty-two cents by the close of the year, and take at least a twelve- month to recover. \Ye do not look for the prices of 1S60—they cannot well be anticipated; bnt the coining win ter will subject cotton to a new ordeaL An Enteepbisixo JKetobteb.—The New York Sun tells this story: Some years ago “the New York newspapers had correspondents with the Prince of Wales's party at a great ball in Montreal, and the Her ald man, having determined to out-general his contemporaries, engaged the wires early in the evening; bnt to hold them, he must keep the telegraphers busy. So he put the Book of Gene sis on the operator’s desk, and bade him tele graph until further orders. The correspondent went to the great ball, made his report and re turned to the telegraph office at about 1 a. m., when, sliding his report in over the Bible he in structed the operator to “keep right on.” His brethren of the press waited and swore, and cursed and waited until 2J o’clock, when—the Herald correspondent’s dispatch having been completed, and it being then too late for the Tribune, Times, and Sun correspondents—the Herald man naively said, ‘Gentlemen, the tele graph is yours.’” The Condition of the Sonth. General Tochman, of North Carolina, a na tive of Poland, but long a resident of the Sonth, delivered an interesting address before the New York Fruit-Growers’ Club on Thursday after noon, 6th instant. He said that the exports of the Sonth are larger than those of the North, East and West combined; this was so before the war, and is so now. The war has impover ished the people, but has not changed the cli mate nor destroyed the fertility of the soil. He would read from the report for 1867 of the Sta tistical Bureau at Washington, that the popula tion of the Southern States for that year was 9,668,709, while their exports were $328,406, 757. The.population of all'the other States in pmmd, and the planter realixe™ ^ rive^ A New York letter-says all business is drag ging, and those who worried through the winter, relying upon-the “good timM coming in the spring,” nave not realized their anticipations, and it will be a straggle for many a well-to-do tradesman to keep even until the good time promised in the fall. The Federal Union suggests the erection of a monument at Milledgevifie, to the memory of the lamented Gen. George Doles. , -pOASJSi hence, while the Southern States had but twenty-eignr—pc. *i lo population, they furnished sixty-nine per cent, of the total value of exports, or $34 and 32 cents per head; while the pro rata share in the other States is bnt $25 and 75 cents. This is not ac cidental or an isolated instance. The same dif ference has been maintained since the begin ning of the Government. Before the war, in 18C0, according to the United States census taken in that year, the population of the South ern States was 10,259,007; of all the other States, 21,185,963. The average amount of com raised per head in the Sonth was 53 2-100 bushels; in the Northern and Western States only 1!) bushels. After the war, in the year 18GG, the popula tion of the South had decreased to 9,560,709; and yet, while yet, while one half of their new ly-made “fellow-citizens of African descent” re fused to .work, expecting each the gift of land and mules from the Federal Government, the average yield of com for each inhabitant, white and black, of the Sonth, was thirty-three one- half bushels. The population of the Northern States in the same year was twenty-four bushels. These figures are based upon the census of I860 and upon tho reports of the Statistical Bureau at Washington. This can bo attributed to other cause than the geniality of climate and greater productiveness of the soiL Some may consider this view wrong, and reply that the larger sur plus in the Sonth results from the fact that the consumption is less, and that tho farmers of other States consume more of their products. This is true, but it only proves what he would demonstrate. The Northern farmer consumes only during the one hundred days of winter, and produces nothing, while during’ the same time even tho Southern fanner produces more than he consumes. And this is one of the additional reasons why labor is better remunerated in the Sonth. ’ :. . Tlie Xetv Ontcry Against the South. From the Few York Times, of the loth,] The Washington Chronicle, and other of the more ultra of the Radical Press, are trying to find excuses for Executive and Congressional interference in the affairs of the Southern States. The Tribune insists that “the situation in Georgia is grays enough to warrant prompt investigation;” and its co-laborer at Washing ton will have it that there is still “no more im portant question than that of the future condi tion of the late rebellious Stales.” What these journals desire the Government to do, they do not clearly explain. The Tribune wants “in vestigation,” but into what, concerning what, under what authority, or with what object, it does not specifically telL So, again, the Chron icle demands that “the ascendency of the loyal people” shall be preserved, and the machina tions of “a reactionary party” frustrated, bnt the means to be employed, or the authority under which the Executive should interfere, it fails to indicate. The object of the Tribune in directing the volume of Radical wrath to Georgia may be conjectured. It is on the lookout for causes of quarrel with that State, with tho view of reopen ing the status of its reconstruction when Con gress reassembles. The steady progress of the State toward regular, and prosperous industry is not denied. The efforts it is making to attract foreign population and the cordial reception given to all who go there in an honestsearch for homes are facts not to be gainsaid. Bnt the Bullock party want a monopoly of all the offices and of the Legislature iu the bargain, and they know that their only chance lies in a forcible upsetting of the present order of things and their installation by Federal order and under Federal manipulation. They caused the fifteenth amendment to be rejected in order that North ern indignation might be excited against tho State. And, having failed to win the sympathy of Congress, they are concocting bugaboo stories of outrage and persecution and danger to “loy al” interests, in defiance alike of fact and pro bability. The Tribune seems to be enlisted in their service, Tho Washington oracle takes a wider aim. It objects, not to Georgia particularly, but to the whole South; and it urges a policy which would end in ripening reconstruction—undoing what 'has been done and multiplying obstacles to tho completion of what remains unfinished. It as sumes that the authority which forced through reconstruction in the first instance is at liberty to do as it pleases with the entire Sonth. To prevent “reaction” and to secure “loyal as* cendancy,” the Government may—according to the Chronicle—throw the South back into an archy and enact whatever fresh conditions it deems necessary for the furtherance of a “loyal policy.” The proposition is too monstrous’to be entitled to serious discussion. Its promulga tion, however, is worthy of mention, as an illus tration of the madness of partisanship, and a key to the invention of Southern outrages. There are Southern newspapers which suggest that much of this new born ferocity is traceable to a bear-game* in real estate speculation, with which a recent traveling party is said to be identified; bnt before accepting this construct tion of the new outburst of violence, we await further evidence. How “Dixie” Became the “Marseil laise” of the Sonth Daring the War. In the first place, the; song and chorus of “Dixie” was composed and arranged by Dan. Emmet, a member of a traveling minstrel party, who, while at Mobile, in the winter of 1857-8, heard some negro labores singing on the levee while loading a steamboat with cotton. The thought struck Dan. that, with a little change of measure, it could be made a good song and “walk around,” which generally winds up a ne gro minstrel concert. Dan. arranged it and produced it. It became a success, and was sung and played all over the country by all the bands. In the Spring of 1861, Airs. John Wood came to New Orleans to play an engagement at the Varieties Theatre. During the time she ap peared in Brougham’s burlesque of ‘‘Pocahon tas.” At the first rehearsal of the piece every thing went w6ll till near the dose of the second act. Tom McDonough, (now agent for the Leffingwells,) the prompter, got up a Zouave march and drill by twenty-two ladies, led by Susan Denin. Everything ran smooth, bnt the music for the march could not be fixed upon. Carlo Patti was leader of the orchestra, and he tried several marches, but none suited McDon ough : one was too slow, another was too tame, and another not enough of spirit. At length Patti struck up the negro air of ‘(Dixie.” “That will do, Patti—the very thing,” said Tom, and “Dixie” was played and the inarch gone through with, And the chorus by all the characters. At night it received a double encore, and “Poca hontas” had a “run,” and from that time the streets and parlors rang with “Dixie.” The war broke out that spring, and the military bands took it up, and “Dixie” became to the South what the Marsellaise hymn was to the French. And that is how it became the popular song of the South.—Memphis Post. The Cotton Trade. The position of the cotton and cotton goods trade (says the New York Shipping and Com mercial List of the 15th instant) nas undergone no essential change for- the better, on either side of the Atlantio, during the last month.— There has bean a slight shading in prioes of the raw staple, but the decline has not kept pace with the fall in goods, and hence there is con tinued complaint from manufacturers of a lack of profits, and a general feeling of uneasiness. Stocks of cotton are everywhere below last year, while the supplies of goods are larger, though the production. of- the latter in England has lately been curtailed to the extent of twenty per cent. The production of goods, on this side of the Atlantic, has not thus far been lessened to any appreciable extent, thongh it is evident that, unless the present depression and apathy in the market shall give place to a better tone, an abridgement of the honrs of labor will be forced mipn the mill owners, as it been on the other iriantip In rtifa way. accumulated stocks reayBe wi*m , proper marginbetween the cost of theraw staple and the value of_ the manufactures restored. The state of trade’in this country, bad as it is, is not so disheartening, apparently, as it is in England. Wo have had no such accounts of re duced wages of operatives, improvident strikes, and general paralysis, from our own manufac turing districts, as we have received from Eng land during the last two or three months, ac companied by heavy failures. The falling off of 40,S07,000 pounds of yam, and 61,416.000 yards of goods exported from England during the first quarter of the current year, compared with the same period in 1868, will go far to explain the present distress among the Lanca shire spinners. From the present outlook, it does not seem likely that present prices of either cotton or goods will undergo any marked change, until such time as a better idea can be formed with regard to the probable supplies of the raw staple for the next year, when the market will probably be subjected to a new ordeaL As it is necessary in England to ran the mills fall time in order to realize a profit, the losses to the manufacturers, in consequence of the short time movement, which has been forced upon them by deficient supplies of cotton, must be estimated by scores of millions of dollars; while to the operatives the losses and privations are even more serious. This state of affairs, naturally, has tho effect to renew the exertions of the Manchester Cotton Supply Association to stimulate increased supplies in the new sources, and this they are doing by the extension of railways in India, and the employment of in creased capital there and in every other country where the staple can be raised. From the views and efforts of the English cap italists to obtain supplies from other sources be- • sides .the United States, onr countrymen will un derstand the necessity of lending every exertion to secure at least a share of the profitable trade in which they formerly enjoyed a monopoly. It is for our planters and capitalists to consider how this great end may be best affected. It is , evident that labor must be more thoroughly or ganized iu the South, and that the essentials of perfect order must bo secured in order to at tract capital to that section. Every considers- . tion of sound policy and statesmanship demands that no effort should be spared to recover our . prestige in the cotton trade. A Sitka correspondent thus describes Alas- seenery; “Take one big mountain, covered with trees from the base nearly to the summit, with an undergrowth of brash, briars and moss, almost impassable; multiply the one by ten thousand, and yon have Alaska. There is a ter rible sameness. One singular feature of this mass of forest is the absence of birds. I have seen but one robin in Sitka.” Rohe Postofitce.'—The Rome Courier says, we are in possession of the following facts in regard to the Rome Postoffice: The Rev. J. H. Caldwell made application to have his brother, Rev. A. W. Caldwell, ap pointed Postmaster at this place. The Presi dent put his name in nomination. As soon as Air. A. W. Caldwell heard'of it he wrote his brother that he could not, and would not, take the oath, unless his disabilities were removed. His brother then withdrew his name, and put the Rev. "Wesley Prettyman's name in nomina tion, who was appointed Postmaster; but Pret- tyman preferring tho Marietta office, asked to be appointed to that office, which was granted, P. AL Sheibly then applied and received ihe ap pointment at this place, and we presume will take charge of the office on his return from Washington. ■ 1 . • Jno. M. Carroll has been appointed Postmas ter at Cave Spring, vice Simeon Hammell, re moved. ■ ..•> A Foreigneb’s Account of an Election is South Carolina.—The Washington correspon dent of the Baltimore Gazette, writing to that journal under date of the 14 instant, savs : I met to-day, at Willard's two Nova Scotians, who have been spending the Winter at Aiken, South Carolina, which is becoming quite a re sort for persons afflicted with pulmonary dis eases. They came North via Richmond, and re port the crop generally along the route as in a flourishing condition. They were full of sym pathy for the Southern people, whose unhappy ' condition strikes them the more forcibly from, the freedom they enjoy at home under the Brit ish flag. They spoke of an election they wit nessed, where day after day the Conservatives had a majority, and the polls were kept .open for three days, until negroes could be’ brought from the country around for a distance of twen ty miles to obtain a Radical majority. What is the use of suffrage to the Southern people, they asked, if elections are to be conducted in this, way ? _ ; From Putnam Comity. We clip the following items from the Eaton- ton Press and Messenger of the 18th instant: The Crops.—The crops generally in this sec tion are looking well, though, on account of the. cool weather, are not growing so rapidly as is dasnecl, or as fast as they would have grown had. the weather continued warmer. The indications are now good for favorable growing weather, which we are satisfied will please our farming friends through the country, , Rain.—On Wednesday night last we had a very heavy rain, whioh came in good time foe . our’farmers. Since then the weather has been quite cool, _ making it •< necessary, for those who had laid aside their winter suits to don them again. .. , r . Rust on Wheat.—We have been informed by friends from the country, that the rast has made its appearance on some of the wheat in this county, but whether to an extent likely to dam age the crop, we could not learn. Would it not be well for those who have wheat with rust to try what virtue there is in salt ? It is said that salt water applied to wheat badly mated, will effect a cure. Let some of our friends try it and report, for the benefit of others.. Grass.—The guano, it has been said, is push ing the grass ahead very rapidly this season, and we fear some of our planting friends, who have put in large crops, will find it harder to keep np than they had anticipated; but now is the time to kill it, and we hope they will all succeed is keeping it under. rr Gold in Northeastern Georgia. The Air Line Eagle of the 14th, says: While at Cleveland last week, we had the pleasure of meeting Captain Samuel N. Boa- worth, of the Nacoochee mines, and were shown by him another nngget of gold washed out of one of his mines a few days previous, weighing 137J dwts. It was oblong and cone-shaped,.and one of the handsomest slugs of the precious metal we ever beheld. A few days before we saw the Captain, four of his hands washed out, in one day, over 400 dwts. The Captain is us ing Hydraulic Pipes for washing, and is now en gaged in investigating the extent of the rich de posits with a view to opening the veins; but as long ag these deposits continue to yield as they have dime since he has had charge of them, no better mines could be desired. A large proportion of the gold obtained from these mines is coarse, ranging from 5 to 40 dwts., and not unfrequently pieces are found weighing from 200 to 300 dwts. Captain Bos worth, the Superintendent, is not only a gentleman of culture, but a practical mi ner of experience and rare judgment j and his selection is not only fortunate for the company he represents, but also for our own section in directing attention to its rich tad undeveloped mineral resources. Mis anil