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The Greoro-ia, AVeeklv Telesya'pli. THE TELEGRAPH. MACON, FRIDAY, MAY.21, 1869. Augueta and Hartwell Railroad. A Convention of corpora tors and subscribers to the Augusta and Hartwell Railroad Company was held in Augusta last Thursday, Hon. Eli Lockhart, of Lincoln, in the chair and James A. Gray, Secretary. The charter was read and ac cepted, and the corporators named therein were appointed a Provisional Hoard of Directors to whom were added Messrs. H. P. Russell, R. H. May, James T. Gardiner, and James A. Gray, of Augusta. R. L. Casey, was elected President of the Company, H. F. Russell, Vice President, and James A. Gray, Secretary and Treasurer. Books of subscription were ordered to be opened in the counties of Columbia, Lincoln, Elbert, and Hart, and in the city of Augusta, and each member of the Provisional Board was authorized to receive subscriptions. This road will be up wards of eighty miles long, and pursue a course nearly parallel with that of the Savannah River above Augusta. It will give the counties named an outlet to market, while at present they have no better than wagon road and navigation by flatboat down the river to Augusta. The Cange of the War. Once in a while the Northern Radicals let out by accident an honest admission in relation to the rebellion, so-called. Butler, the other day, was delivering his views upon the Alabama claims, and thus spake: May we not well say that she (Great Britain) had left us a legacy of slavery which being in terwoven in the industrial pursuits of almost one-half of ****£«*£& ft 1 iJtraul %er°emp5re it was only an incident of her colonial wealth. She then set us the exam ple of emancipation, as she conld easily do with out danger to her Government. She taught us that slavery was wrong and emancipation and freedom only right. After our Government had fully accepted these vieics to such an extent that a large portion of our people, becoming fearful for tchat they considered their constitutional rights, and tchat they held as their most valuable property vcould be destroyed under our Govern- ■ment, rebelled to sate it, and instituted war. At once, at the earliest possible moment, she led the way to sustain them in that rebellion, and aided to set up that slavery which she had de clared a national sin and taught us was so. Here, you observe, Butler distinctly admits all the South ever claimed in her own defence, io-wit: that the government had assumed a po sition fatally hostile to the constitutional and property rights of the Southern States, and the latter seceded strictly in self-defence; and yet no man was more furious over the Southern “ traitors and rebels ” than Butler, when upon his own premises they wore as justifiable as any man who draws pistol against highwayman. Forney says it is wonderful that the Southern people are so insensible to the guilt of the re bellion. Vie have only to say, the Northern States would have been in arms against the government had it proposed to do them the tenth of the mischief that the Northern States proposed to do the Sonth. All Pacific—Motley’s Instructions. The Washington correspondent of the Charles ton Courier writes on the Sth, that the charac teristic reticence of the President has been adopted in relation to Cabinet proceedings, and nothing is allowed to leak out; but it is certain that the course which Mr. Minister'Motley has been directed to take is such as to invoke no danger even of a piquant diplomatic correspon dence between him and Lord Clarendon. Mr. Motley will in his interviews talk of everything else than the Alabama claims and the Sumner logic, and the new diplomatic epoch which Mr. Sumner’s speech is believed to have opened. It is now certain, that in the opinion of the ad ministration, no_ trouble with England will grow out of Mr. Motley’s mission and instructions. It is well that it is so, for some judicious per sons, who know Mr. Motley very intimately, have expressed the opinion that he is not well suited by temper and tact for a critical and irri tating negotiation. The letter closes with the following paragraph: Commercial men have lately felt some anxiety in relation to the continuance of peace between us and foreign nations, and also of peace in Europe. They have, in reply to inquiries mode here, been advised from the highest sources of information, that there will be no trouble with England, and probably none with Spain, if the latter power shonld continue to treat our just representations in the same friendly and liberal manner as she has lately done. Deafli of Elder Cleaveland. We are pained to learn that our old friend, Elder Washington C. Cleaveland, died in Craw ford connty last Saturday. He was a man who will be much missed by his friends and his fel low citizens—a man of great physical and men tal energy—sound judgment—warm heart—lib eral hand—clear head—a friend to the afflicted and suffering—a pious, conscientious and ex cellent man every way, and a preacher of much consideration in his religious connection.— We grieve that we shall see him no more. Neobo is the Sunday-Schools.—It will be seen that the irresistible Sambo has broke ont badly in the Washington Sunday-schools, and spoilt the May day celebration by insisting on a mixture of colors. Sambo is on the high horse and Grant and Creswell behind him. The Presi dent is evidently going “to fight it out on this line,” but why he don’t entertain the African- ions sociably at the White House, and receive them at his levees, is a question. * What is Sauce fob the Goose Should be Sauce fob the Gander.—The Washington Ha- tConal Republican, says: “It is rumored that the President has determined upon the nomination of suitable colored men to responsible positions in New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Chicago, and other cities, in order to offset the appoint ment of negroes in the Sonth, prevent the ap pearance of harsh and individious treatment of Southern whites, and also, as a proper conces sion to and encouragement of intelligent North ern colored men.” Elections in Indiana.—The result of the city elections in this State, on Tuesday last, gives healthy evidence that a reaction is going on in the public mind. The Democrats carry La fayette, Terre Haute, Fort Wayne, Logansport, Michigan City, Madison, New Albany and Jeffer sonville. The result in Fafoyetto and Terre Haute is a great triumph, and the victory in each place is most decided. Wheat in Tennessee.—The Nashville Banner says the prospect is favorable in Tennessee, Ibis summer, for the most bountiful harvest of wheat ever known in this section. From one end of the State to the other our exchanges bring the most encouraging report. Hereabouts farmers are backward with other crops, owing to the unfavorable weather leaving the soil in almost unmanageable condition. The womea of Hartford propose a public meeting to consider the existing state of things in reward to housekeepers and servant girls. An article in the Courant signed “A lady,” says that we “have arrived at a crisis,” andthat“the exorbitant ways, the impertinent exactions, and the toplof deal manners of our servant girls de mand serious consideration. ’ ’ Eatk 330 Afpbentices.—Moses Williams (col ored) was before Justice Olin yesterday morn ing, charged with enticing apprentices from the employ of Jas. T. Fleming. He was bound over m the sum of if200 for his appearance at the next term of the Superior Court.-Constioution- aUst. The Augusta Railway Meetings. Augusta has been crowded, during the early days of the current week, with the stockholders of her railways and their families, who, owing to the hospitality of the good people of that city, have been able to mix up business and pleasure—fetes and finances—in a very agree able way. Let us note a few facts developed by these reports and meetings which strike us as interesting. The first of these will refer to the Georgia Railroad. This road has the name of being a slow concern among the faster railway magnates of the day, and yet its exhibition is extremely satisfactory. We refer to a brief abstract from the President’s report, which will be found on the first page of this daily edition of the Tele- gbath. It will be seen that the gross receipts of the road are $100,797 38 in excess of those of 18C8, and the netineome, $83,542 60 greater. With these results the President compares the returns of connecting railroads which show for the same period a falling off in their gross re ceipts as follows: Georgia Central Railroad, $212,226 57; Southwestern Railroad, $86,408 91; Western & Atlantio Railroad, $329,584 11; Macon & Western Railroad, $83,972 86; Atlan ta & West Point Railroad, $40,405 73, and the South Carolina Railroad. $21,044 61. It will also be observed that, although the car riage of cotton on this road has sunk from 544,- 363 bales in 1860 down to 104,373 bales for the year ending April 1, 1869, the gross receipts from freights were $35,852 and the nett receipts $13,781 greater than in the year 1860. The dif ference seems to have been made np in great part by the enormous transportation of grain; for while this road- in ifinn. —vmiy oZ3,241 bushels of grain, in 1869 its grain freight run up to 1,407,326 bushels. This is a terrible exhibit for the country, and we suppose the contrast in the bacon freights would be quite as great if we knew them. To look at these items in the business of the Georgia Railroad alone, would justify the most gloomy conclusions about the condition and prospects of that portion of the State. The cot ton crop—the only great article of exportation —knocked down four-fifths, and the grain (prin cipally Western com) freights increased in about a similar ratio! We should say such a country was on the high road to ruin; and in truth, though other facts would very materially relieve the situation, yet it cannot be a good one. No agricultural country can prosper which imports its bread and meat. It is bound to be poor, and the same figures give a hint of the difference in the pecuniary situation in the country tributary to the Georgia Railroad. In 1869 the number of barrels of flour carried by the road was 12,530, while in 1860 it was 43,989. True, it may be that more wheat was raised or more manufac tured from imported grain, but the chances are that less flour was eaten. In respect to the Macon and Augusta Rail road, which is treated as a branch of the Geor gia Road, we are glad to see that President King says he is informed the Road will be vig orously prosecuted to Macon, and we hope, therefore, the report that he has sold out this enterprise has no foundation in fact. The showing it makes is not discouraging for a short work, in a condition which places its trade sub stantially at the mercy of a competitor. From MItclioIl Connty—Camilla, Al bany and Thomusville Rond. Camilla, Mitchell Co., Ga., May 12, 1869. Editors Telegraph : Wheat, rye and oats look finely in this connty. Com has been planted a second time and is from knee to waist high. Cotton has been worked first time, and some second time, and look3 well for this season. Labor, both white and black, is abundant. The best of feeling prevails between planters and la borers. Our fat, jolly friend, Joel F. Butler, has had with him eight or nine freedmen for two years, who came to him seventy-five miles, and they say they have never done so well as since they came to Mitchell connty, and were never so well treated before. Hogs and stock of all kinds are plentiful. The fact there is not a criminal in jail, and has not been for two years, speaks well for this people. Everybody here is busy; and a more polite, sociable and agreeable people never lived anywhere. He who conducts himself as a gen tleman is so treated. If he wishes a fight he can get it, as he can all over the world. Camilla is improving rapidly, and by Novem ber next the South Georgia and Florida Rail road, from Thomasville, will reach here.— Fifteen miles are graded and superstructure laid and waiting for iron. The bridge over the Ocklockonnee river is ready to be put np. In thirty days this fifteen miles will be in running order, and only seventeen miles remain to be built, and that is under contract. Everybody is moving to build this road, and our friend Butler is chief in the enterprise.— The distance from Camilla to Newton, Baker county, is twelve miles. Mitchell and Baker counties are subscribing money to build a road from here to Newton and Cuthbert, connecting the Cuthbert, Columbus and Bainbridge Rail road with the Sonth Georgia and -Florida Rail road. One hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars was subscribed in one day to this road. Camilla has ten stores, a school, two churches, and three or four business houses building. J. B. Butler entertains the public—to look at him, one knows he lives well, and likes the good things of this life. Mrs. Butler is one of the best of landladies, full of energy and desire to please and accommodate her guests. This good couple are bound to succeed. There is no reg ular hotel here; the citizens take care of all vis itors. Our friends, J. M. Burtz, Dr. Wade, C. Cox, and Mr. Byrd, all give evidence, in their personal appearance, that all who stop with them wjll be rested in the morning, and never hungry. Our friend, M. F. Brimberry, though small in size, is a “live man,” and when a man is to be fed or well slept, Brimberry is hard to beat. His large ideas, and whole-souled man ner makes every one feel happy and easy. It is a great pleasure to come here and mingle with these people. Superior Court is in session, Hon. J. M. Clark presiding, who is a good Judge and much liked by everybody. There is nothing of interest be fore this Court. A number of legal gentlemen are in attendance; among them, from your city, are S. D. Irvin, Esq., and Hon. R. F. Lyon; Messrs. Harvey, from Newton; Hammond and Parkhill, from Fort Valley; Major Ely, P. J. Strozier, Wright, Smith & Hobb, from Albany; CoL C. W. Styles, of the Albany News; from Thomasville, Maj. Hardaway, President of the Sonth Georgia and Florida Railroad Company, Spencer & Wright; from Bainbridge, Col. R. Sims, McGill, Gurley, Bower, Fleming, J. C. Rutherford and CoL R. H. Whiteley, Solicitor GeneraL Court will last but a few days. Tbaveleb. Grave Charges Against a Savannah Merchant. For the past two days, says the Savannah News of the 11th instant, there have been nu merous reports afloat in the city reflecting upon the character of Mr. Wm. F. Brantley, who, ever since his return here after the close of the war, has enjoyed the confidence and esteem of all who have had dealings 'with bim. Many of the reports we know to be without foundation, but enough is known, however, to say that ho left the city suddenly, owing many persons va rious sums of money and not letting anyone know of his departure nor his intentions. His alleged defalcations amount to about $10,000, BRUNSWICK. The Brunswick Appeal of the 8th instant con tains part of an address to the Memphis Com mercial Convention to be held on the 18th inst., from Hon. James Houston, Mayor of the city, in which he sets forth the advantages of that port as the Atlantic terminus of the Southern Pacific Railroad. Mr. Houston proposes to use the contemplated Brunswick and Albany road, and to run from Albany to Eufaula, and thence to Montgomery, where the road will connect with the entire railway system of the South and West, Of Brunswick he says: The first great natural advantage is the depth of water on the Bar and the Harbor of Bruns wick. The Bar affords from seventeen to eigh teen feet at ordinary low water, and from twen ty-three to twenty-four feet at ordinary high water. I speak of the average rise and fall of the tides. The extreme rise on spring tides gives from twenty-four to twenty-seven feet—a sufficient depth to admit the largest vessels that are afloat. The channel over the Bar is wide, straight and plainly marked, and the entrance easy and perfectly safe during the severest gales. This depth of water is, indeed, a great and decided advantage, and will certainly have its legitimate effect in determining the location of the Atlantio terminus of the Pacific road. To see and fully appreciate the force of this advantage, we have only to compare the depth of water with that found at other points. It is far superior to that of New Orleans, Mobile, Sa vannah, Charleston, or any other prominent point on the Gulf or Atlantic coast South of Nor folk, and about equal to that of New York. An important consideration, in connection with this advantage, is the fact that every vessel that ctn cross the bar, can sail immediately np to and dis charge the entire cargo on the wharves that will line the harbor. No vessel will ever be forced to submit to the heaw unnatural expense -<• l.-gLiterago and tonnage, to which all vessels of heavy draft are subject at Savannah, andsome other points. Neither will the passengers, even those on the largest ocean steamers, to say noth ing of those on the small ones running to New York, ever be subjected to the delay, imjntience and vexation, resulting from being forced to wait for the tide for several hours, withii sight of the city, as some of you have, no doubt, ex perienced in the river at Savannah. i The second great advantage is the harbor, which is, indeed, one of the best on th< globe. It is in the form of a crescent, completely land locked, perfectly secure during the mosl violent gales, and sufficiently capacious to affoid anch orage to the combined fleets of the world. It is no little narrow contracted stream or basin; but a broad and beautiful expanse of water, as salt and as pure as the briny ocean itself. The third great advantage is, the beauty and healthfulness of the location. There is not a more beautiful, or a more healthy location for a large city to be found in this, or any other country. The city is situated on a high and dry point of land, covered by a beautiful and magnificent growth of Live Oak and other tim ber, and is surrounded on all sides by extensive bodies of salt water and salt marsh, and the air is, consequently, most pure and bracing. The city lies within full view, and is perfectly open to the broad and majestic Atlantic, whose surf, during the still hours of the night lulls ex hausted nature to a calm and peaceful repose. The sea breeze, which is regularly and con stantly wafted in, so tempers the heat during the summer months that it is delightfully and surpassingly cool and pleasant There is no fresh water in the vicinity of Brunswick, and comparatively none within several miles, andnot a sufficient quantity, with in twelve or fifteen miles, to produce the least miasma; and she must, therefore, remain for all time to come, as she has hitherto been, re markably healthy. Disease can never generate in air so pure as that found at Brunswick. Yel low fever, that great scourge and terror of the South, can never exist at Brunswick. During _ the awful visitations of the years 1854 and 1855, ’ not a single case occurred at Brunswick, although constant communication was kept up with Savannah, Darien and St. Marys, at all of which the yellow fever raged with fearful and unparalleled violence. In truth, many persons flocked to Brunswick during those years os to a place of refuge ; and like the Israelites of old, they were safe from all harm. Those who have seen and felt the withering and blasting effects of yellow and other malig nant fevers upon the commercial interests of Southern cities can readily discover and appre ciate the importance of a healthy location in es tablishing the terminus 6f the Atlantic and Pa cific Road. If it be established at a point sub ject to yellow and other malignant fevers, ves sels will not visit it only at exorbitant rates of freight; and if the trade be brought to the point it cannot be taken care of for men will not en danger their lives in looking after it. Bruns wick is peculiarly blessed in this particular— vessels can visit the port with impunity at all seasons of the year, and they eagerly seek for freight to and from her port, when they reject those offered by Savannah and other points.— This will be a matter of vast importance in bringing emigrants to the States of the South and West, for they can safely land on the wharves at Brunswick throughout every month of the year, which cannot be done at any other point on the whole Southern sea board. The climate of Brunswick is unequalled by that of any other point in our'whole country— it is not too cold in winter or too warm in sum mer. We have many points that are used as summer resorts and many as winter resorts, but Brunswick is the only point, perhaps, that can bo used as both. Brunswick is neither burnt up in summer or frozen np in winter; and business can, therefore, be successfully done throughout the entire year, and this fact must and will pow erfully tell in her future history. The fourth great advantage is, the position of Brunswick with regard to the timber producing section of the South. She is situated in the very heart of the country that produces the best ship building timber on the globe, and as a point for that business far surpasses any other in the country, North or South. Owing to the climate and healthy location, ships can be built at much less cost than at any other point. It has been established by actual experience that a man can do more labor during the year in a ship yard at Brunswick than he can do in one in any of the Northern States; and this is in accordance with reason and the nature of things—at the North little or no work can be done for several months on account of the severity of the cold, while at Brunswick a man can work comfortably during the entire year. The contiguity of the timber, and the climate and healthy location, will give Brunswick a very decided advantage in ship building, and the people of the West and South largely engage in it. Affairs in the Old Capital. A Milledgeville correspondent of the Federal Union says: I look around often and ask myself the ques tions, What have we lost? and where are the visible signs of decay which promised to follow the removoal of the Capital from our midst ? There are no vacant store rooms on any of our business streets, and every private residence in side of the corporate limits is occupied. Our merchants are doing a safe and profitable busi ness—better, by far, than they aid in days of yore when we were wont to have the assembled wisdom of Georgia biennially in our midst. The pinder trade and the lightwood splinter line of jacks and jennies has suffered severely, and our agreeable and popular friends (Bob and Sam) McComb, have less company at their com modious hotel than in ante bellum days, but aside from these exceptional cases, I cannot see any diminution of the prosperity and liveliness of the place. We have not given up the Capital yet; and while there is a shot in the locker, we intend to fire it at the authors of that monstrous fraud imposed on the people, and particularly our own, by Bnllock and Ids carpet-bag regency. We are stripping for the fight, and I assure you when the next election for members of the Legislature takes place in Georgia, we will havo given the foeman some idea of the energy and determination which an outraged people can display in a just cause. Northern Ceop Prospects.—The New York Tribune of a late date, in relation to the grow ing crops, says that “there was never before so large an area of our country in wheat at this season as now, and that sowed last fall is look ing remarkably welL Unless some disastrous blight shall yet be experienced, we shall harvest more wheat in 1SC9 than in any former year.— And on all this Atlantic slope a very large breadth has already been sown to spring grain, while much land is now in course of preparation for Indian com. Our orchards are just bursting into bloom, and the promise of fruit, especially peaches, is remarkably good. Our meadows and pastures are beginning to feel the need of a long, warm, gentle rain. The last two or three weeks have been very favorable to spring work, but grass does not start as it should for want of a soaking rain. Clouds gather to little purpose and disappear: and a few more hot, bright days will shorten our hay crop disastrously. We want rain,” The Sonth Carolina Negroes. The Charleston papers concur in saying, that the nnmber of negroes in Sonth Carolina is much less than the number reported in 1860. They say that, during the last four years, that is, since the negroes became free, the mortality among them has been vastly greater than it was when they lived in slavery. And the causes of this increasing mortality in that State are set down as identical with the causes that have pro duced similar results in the rest of the Southern States. The negroes, it is stated, are utterly careless in their habits, taking no pains what ever to protect themselves and their families from disease, and the filth and squallor that generate it Thev will not work, unless their necessities force tkem to do so, and they never see or feel any such necessities whilst the alter native of stealing is within their reach. They have no idea of the provident use of money, so that when they get it, either by labor or by theft, or through charity, they buy with it neither wholesome food, nor clothes to keep themselves and their families comfortable. Of course they are continually getting sick, but, in cases of sickness, they have no resort for relief. They have no owners to look to their welfare, they have no money to pay a physician, and, whatever the disease may be, whether one that kills in an hour or one-that kills in a week or month, they have only to let it take its course, and are so far gone in paganism as not to be able to offer prayer to heaven. Even in Charleston, where they are least exposed, and where, by some means or other, they can generally man age to obtain medical treatment, there are more than twice as many deaths of negroes as of white persons, although the negro population is less than the white; and in the country districts, as reason would infer and as facts attest, the pro portionate mortality of the negroes is twice as gieatas in Charleston and the rest of the cities. But it is not mortality alone which has re- ‘(InCGd to or » olovTv»i**S ovf/m* tko mirnhpr *»f no groes available for work in the cotton fields.— The negro women, who once were good field hands, and who endured work as well as the men, have got above the business. They think, and the men think, that women should remain at their homes and not work out of doors for a living, and this would be all well enough if the men could support them, but the men scarcely support themselves, and, in many if not in most cases, do not even attempt it. And, to aggra vate the wretched condition of both the blacks and the whites, the officers and emissaries of the Federal Government step in with their accursed politics. They are responsible for much of the evil that exists. The Charleston News says that the negroes, after many trials and hardships, were becoming pretty well convinced, that, with out work, they could not live and eat and sleep, and were, consequently, ready to work tolerably well and were doing so, but that, for some time past, they have been filled with the hope, that, if they do what they can in the Radical cause, some office, big or little, an office sufficient to support them in their laziness, will fall to their lot, and that, at the worst, they can join the State militia and shoot Democrats. No reason ings, no facts, no experiences can drive these wild ideas out of their heads.—Courier-Journal. Death or Joseph Atkins. On yesterday morning it was rumored on the streets that Joseph Atkins, a notorious scalawag and Senator in the Georgia Legislature from the Warren District, had been killed on the previous day in Columbia county. By the mail of yes terday evening letters were received in this city from that county giving the particulars of the tragedy. It seems that some time since, when the Legislature was in session, Atkins wrote a very insulting letter to a respectable lady living in Dearing, Columbia county. On Monday morning Atkins, accompanied by his wife, got off 'the cars and remained a short while in Dearing. When about to get in a buggy to leave the vil lage, A. was approached by a man with but one leg, an only brother of the young lady whom A. had insulted, who said to Atkins: “I am in possession of that letter, and demand satisfac tion for it.” At this remark A. put his hand be hind him to draw a pistol, and Adams, being unarmed, attempted to borrow a weapon, but unsuccessfully. It seems that here Mrs. Atkins interfered and persuaded her husband to leave the place on foot with her, the bnggy being left in charge of a negro boy. After proceeding a mile from town, Mrs. A. returned, and, entering the vehicle, was driven off by the negro to over take her husband. Some time after this had happened, Mr. Adams and two other gentlemen, leaving Dearing for their homes in the country, overtook and pass-ed the Atkins party two miles and a half from the village. Atkins and the negro were walking together in advance, the latter with a cocked revolver in his hand, while the buggy was driven behind by the female. This was the last seen of the Sena tor until after the tragedy. Some time after passing Sturgis’ Mill two gun shots were heard, and the alarm being given, parties repaired to the spot, and found that Atkins had been shot and mortally wounded. The wounds were made by a shot gun, and the wounded man stated that he was shot from the cover of a tree by one of the Adams. In falling, his pistol was discharged, and the ball lodged in a fence bordering the road. In contradiction to this, both his wife and the negro state that they were unable to see who fired the shot. A search at the place from whence the shot was fired disclosed the footsteps of but one man, and he a negro probably, as the tracks were those made by a No. 10 negro brogan.—Chronicle and Sentinel. A Wild Theory of Insanity. In Putnam’s Magazine is an interesting arti cle by George M. Beard, M. D., on the subject, “Whoare the insane?” in which he contends that “ungovernable attacks of passion, violent temper, and unnatural cruelty are the results of insanity far more frequently than will probably be admitted by those who have not given this subject close and special attention. Their dis ease has its exacerbations, its paroxysms of at tack, and during the intervals their bearing may be entirely courteous and their whole disposi tion sweet and tender.” He adds: Howard, the philanthropist, who crossed seas and mountains to relieve the distressed, was a brute and tyrant in his own family. Dr. Win- Blow says or him: “His cruel treatment caused the death of his wife. He was in the habit for many years of doing penance before her picture. He had an only son whom for the slightest of fence he punished with terrible severity, making him stand for hours in a grotto in the garden. The son became a lunatic as the result of his brutal treatment. I am strongly inclined to the opinion that even the extraordinary benevolence of Howard was one of the symptoms of the dis- easd in his brain; for insanity may have good as well as evil manifestations, and such excep tionable self-sacrifice as his—so blind, so per sistent, so life-enduring—is just as liable to proceed from a morbid state as the directly op posite qualities of ungovernable rage, intense hate or cruelty. There is a point beyond which notonly forbearance, butalso the manifestations of benevolence, charity, self-sacrifice, devotion, spirituality—of all the higher and nobler quali ties of humanity—may cease to be virtues. “Very much of the cruelty that we meet with in everyday life is the work of the partially in sane. I know some really good men who some times under peculiar circumstances, act more like lunatics than reasonable beings. I knew a farmer, a conscientious and worthy man, who was at times attacked with paroxysms of rage so violent and irresistible that he would beat his oxen unmercifully, and without provocation.— An acquaintance of mine told me that his fath er, who was one of the kindest of men in his family, very often whipped his children almost to death, and that, too, despite the tearful ap peals of his wife, to whom ho was most devoted ly attached. The Radical Circus Committees. Traveling committees of Congress are one of the means now used by the Radicals to draw modey from the public treasury. During the last sessions several of these extracting institu tions were put in motion, and their chairmen havo drawn on the Sergeant-atArms, through whom and the Clerk of the House warrants havo been sent to the Treasury Department. The total amount for the contingent fund was $35,- 000. Seven of these committees havo drawn $2S,000 of this amount already, leaving only $7000 to pay the expenses of the House. Mr. Schenck draws $10,000 for the Ways and Means Committee. Gen. 'Garfield has had a warrant issued for $3000 for the Census Committee. Mr. Lynch, of Maine, draws $2000, the expenses of his sub-committee in their inquiry os to the de crease of American shipping; Gen. Paine and Co., $5000 to go to New Orleans; Gen. Banks, $3000 to defray the expenses of two or three members of the Foreign Affairs Committee to Cuba or Paraguay, and Mr. Bingham, $3000 for himself and associates on their tour to Mont gomery, Alabama, to investigate the truth or falsity of the charge against Judge Busteed! In this manner the whole contingent fund will be expended. And what useful results will flow from the inquiries instituted? None; where matters can be forced into a political channel such a bend will be given to the stream. When this cannot be aocomplfsped the Radicals will pocket the money and end the examination. JBY TEIjEGEAPH. From Washington. Washington, May 13.—The *n«nal procession of the Sunday-schools, a regular event for fifteen years, has been broken up by the determined participation of the negro schools. Each school will have an ex tensive May festival J The President has appointed Judge Edmunds, of Michigan, formerly Postmaster of the Senate,' Post master in the Washington city office. Banks is reported as indignant at the delay in the Cuban recognition. The President has appointed Addison Low, In spector of Steamboats in the second district; Samu el Houston, ditto, in the sixth district, and William H. Rainey, Collector of Customs at Brunswick, Ga.; and Wolf Adams, Surveyor of Customs at Nash ville. Attorney-General Hoar decides that the brevet ranks conferred since March 1st, 1869, are null, ex cept for gallantry before the Indians. Spinner directs the Assistant Treasurers to reis sue, instead of cancelling, fractional currency fall ing into their hands. Customs from the 1st to the Sth, inclusive, are $3,950,000. Mr. L. Q. Washington, of Virginia, called at the Ex ecutive Mansion this morning, by appointment, to lay before the President the views of the committee appointed by the late Conservative Convention of that State, in reference to the approaching election, Mr. Washington having been delegated by the com mittee to act for them. Judge Lorenzo Sherwood, President of the Cheap Railway League, is dead. The Internal Revenue Department , decides, em phatically, that Eales of tobacco stamps to or from any oiner person than a collector is a violation of the law. .-.I The details of the interview between Grant and Washington, of Virginia, are withheld. Another delegation of citizens, from Richmond, are expected to-night. The following Light-house Stations are to he dis continued after the 80th of Juno: Brant Point, beacon light, two hundred and eighty feet front; Brant Point Light-house, Nantuckett harbor, MasB.; Old Point Comfort, beacon light, on. south-west point; Old Point Comfort, Va.; Bay Point Light, Port Royal entrance, South Carolina; the bay at east end of the bay in the city of Savannah, Ga. The light vessels now stationed at Fishing Rip, in the mainship channel of Port Royal entrance, South Carolina, will, on the 15th of May, be withdrawn from that station, and he immediately transferred toTybee Island Knoll, Savannah river; and will, on the evening of the 1st June, and thenceforth until further orders, exhibit a light at an elevation of thirty feet above sea level, visible in dear weather ten nautical miles. Several negroes representing an organization known as the National Colored Convention, visited Grant to-day and presented an address urging the appointment of negroes North aB the best means of reconciling the Southern people to negro officers in the South. The President said he would consider their suggestion. From Louisiana. New Oiileans, May 13.—The steamship Mexico, which lia8 been lying at the wharf for several weeks, took fire at two o'clock this morning, and burned till sho sunk at 6 a. m. No cargo or any combustible is known to have been on board. The fire was un doubtedly the work of an incendiary. The fire in spector reportB the vessel as recently sold. It is rumored to Cubans. There is no assurance that the crevasse reported a few days ago at Villere plantation, below the city, has been abandoned as hopeless. The repairs by the negro soldiers and plantation hands have been washed away as fast as constructed. The opening is about eighty feet wide and eight feet deep. At last accounts it was increasing. Another crevasse oc curred only a half-mile below the city limits last evening, but a company of negro soldiers, promptly sent from the barracks, dosed the gap, and strength ened the levee. The water is about two inches be low high water mark, bnt ia driven by a high north west wind sometimes above the marks. The wharves at the head of Poydras and Lafayette streets are submerged, and considerable alarm is felt. A strict watch is kept over the levees on dty front streets. Tbo steamers Virginia'and Louisiana report a se rious crevasse as having occurred on Sunday last west of Baton Rouge parish, nearly opposite Port Hudson. The Baton Rouge Advocate of Monday says this crevasse was caused by a sudden fell of two incbeB in the river at that point; and, also, that all attempts to dose it will be ineffectual, ow ing to the sandy soil artd the extent of the break, which was then sixty yards wide. From Cuba. Havana. May 13.—Accounts from Spanish sources represent that after the fight at Altagrada, General Lesca reached Puerto Principe with his convoy, the insurgents being unable to detain bim, and that the Cabans lost one thousand in killed and wounded. Tbo Diario says two thousand; but the Voz de Cuba doubts the correctness of the Diario’s infor mation. Letona. who made the official report of the affair at Altagrada, gives few details. He says since the fight the rebels cannot get together two thousand men. The taxes for the coming year are to be reduced fifty per cent. •The Gaceta publishes accounts of further confis cations. From Alabama. Montgomery, May 13.—The morning papers con tain a call signed by maany of the most prominent business men and planters of this dty and county, for a Convention on the first day of June, to organ ize an Immigration Company. Col. Lee Crandall, of New Orleans, has been canvassing the State in favor of the plan, and it is meeting with great suc cess. Railroads and hotels have agreed to take half fare from all attending the Convention. General News. Louisville, May 13.—Gen. Thomas has deedined to accept a magnificent silver Bervice, expressing hiB determination never to receive donations under any circumstances. Pihadelphia, May 13.—It is stated that the New Orleans, Havana, and Philadelphia steamer, Jacinto, is in trouble—Buspected of smuggling. Philadelphia, May 13.—At 2 o’dock to-day the wires hence to Pittsburg, worked without batteries. The electrical disturbances interrupted the wires in other directions. Harrisburg, Pa., May 13 The Court of Com mon Pleas has dedded the question involving the liability of taxation of railroad bonds held bydti- zens in other States. Judge Fearson decided that if the property is protected by Pennsylvania it conld be made to pay its share of taxation. Providence, R. L, May 13—Geo. L. Clark, anti- Spragno Republican, has been elected Mayor by 1418 majority over all other candidates. Foreign News. London, May 13.—The United States Minister, Hon. Roverdy Johnson, takes leave of the Queen to-day. Mr. Moraw acta as Charge d’Affairs till Mr. Motley’s arrival. Great agitation exists in Paris in consequence of the elections, and four public meetings in different parts of the city havo been dispersed by the police. Madrid, May 13.—The British Minister; Crocap- ton, asks to he recaUod. ’ A constitutional amendment declaring all power eminating from the nation and all persons entrusted with power must be elected by, and held responsi- sible to the people, has been introduced. Prim approves a regency under Serano. ' ' Dispatches from Lisbon report a serious distur bance at the Capitol. Aplot against the Govern ment is on foot. Lisbon, May 13—Paraguayan advices report the Allies moving against Lopez, who is strongly posted with nine thousand men and forty guns. London, May 13.—The London Times of to-day has an editorial on the rejected Alabama treaty, wherein it is asserted that the government of Great Britain, in submitting to an arbitration on the ques tion at all, conceded everything that was originally demanded or expected by the American people, and everything that it was possible to concede. Marine News. Savannah, May IS.—Cleared, the steamships Gen. Barnes, New York; America, Baltimore; brig Wood land, Montevideo. From Augusta. Augusta, May 13.—Great interest is manifest ed in the Southern Convention which meets in Memphis on the 18th. Delegates are going from the Carolines, Georgia and Alabama. The shooting of Adkins is greatly deplored by many leading papers and citizens, as it is feared that it will be handled as a pretext to deal harshly with Georgia. No more developments as to the cause of the shooting. • From Virginia Richmond, May 13—In the U. 8. Circuit Court to-day, in the proceedings against .the U. .8.. .Mar shal of this district in 1861, for funds turned over to the (Confederate Government, the defendants plead the U. S. Statute of Limitations, and the plea was admitted by Chief-Justice Chase, presiding, the United States being non-suited. This is an impor tant decision, the plea put forward being the same that will be put in by all postmasters in the South ern States who, at tbo breaking out of the war, made the same disposition of funds.. Spanish Advices that the Cuba Rebell ion is Suppressed. On the 11th instant the Spanish Minister, at Washington, received a sub-marine cable dis patch from General Dolce announcing the final suppression of the rebellion in Cuba. It is as serted by Dulce. that only one thousand two hundred insurgents are under arms in detached bodies, without leaders or conceit of action.— The news was submitted to the State Depart ment, bnt did not receive much credit in Wash ington, and is supposed to be promulgated to discourage American sympathy with Cuba and deter filibustering schemes. The Cubans in Washington affirm the ability of their country men to hold out against tiie Spaniards for some time. They claim that the armed bodies alleged to be wandering around constitute the nucleus of forces to the number of eight or ten thou sand men, working on farm and plantations, that can be concentrated at any time to strike a decisive blow. __ Crops in Alabama. A private letter of the 10th from Coosa county says a large area of land in Alabama has been devoted to cotton—entirely too large a portion, and the result must be a deficiency in breadstuff's the coming year. Owing to very heavy and fre quent rains up to eight days since, some are yet planting cotton. Much complaint as to the dying out since up. The hilly lands are more injured than ever before. The crops are also very grassy. On the whole, notwithstanding the in crease of land planted, the prospect of a heavy crop is not flattering. Of course, there would be an increase over last year if the worm fails to appear; bnt a heavy crop upon the land planted is not to be expected. We are blessed with fair health yet; and are thankfuL Horrid Harder. Capt. E. H. Fletcher, one of our best citizens, was waylaid six miles from this place, on the Cuthbert Road, and murdered, on Tuesday, the 11th inst. It seems that the weapon used was a shot gun, loaded with large shot, eight of which entered his neck, killing him instantly. One white man and some negroes were bnt a few paces in the rear of Captain Fletcher, in a wagon, heard the gun fire, saw the Captain fall from his horse, and one of the negroes saw the man who fired the gun running off in the bush es. The day before this occurrence, Capt. Fletcher had a difficulty with a man named John Lee, late of West Florida, “almost a stranger in this county,” which he regarded as but a slight af fair, until informed by a friend that this man “The Radical Party the meat Corrnnt that ever Cawed Ikt TLiUJtl.” The above caption is frolfc aft Article of the New York Herald, from wMdh we copy the fol. lowing condeoted paragraph : “The fact has become patent, (hat the Rapah. lican party ia the most corrupt that aver eSrsed our land. Dozing the war it* fenders fell nDon the national treasury and the public credit Hke so many ravenous wolves. T^teir jobs and job. beries in the way of army contracts, in the sale of rotten old hulks for transports, in the build, ingof new war vessels that proved shells or abortions, and in everything connected -with supplies, including provisions, clothing, forace hospital stores, and so on to the end of the catalogue, for the nseof the army and navy were enough to appall any other than the Amen can people. These depraved and hungry lead ers, with appetites for the spoils of office still lingering in their insatiable maws, have now fas. tened upon the Senate of the United States, and. with an avariciousness that spams all comprol mise, reason and control, demand that no ap pointment shall be made without their having a finger in the selection. In the homely of a Western Senator, they are persistently “dingdonging” every member of that body; an / it is mortifying to acknowledge, “they have m that body friends and confreres as corrupt themselves, who are ready and are employed to do their bidding in making Indian treaties &!. lowing enormous grants of land for private p^r! poses, and engaging in other scandalous practil ces, besides encouraging fraudulent aepom*" merits to office.” The Cotton Caterpillar in Florida. Additional to the dispatch in relation to the alleged appearance of the Cotton Caterpillar ia • East Florida, the Charleston Courier of the Uth publishes the following letter: Ocala, Fla., May 4, ipc9. Messrs. Geo. H. Ingraham. & Son, Chadeston: Gentlemen :—We telegraphed you this mom. ingthatwe had just seen some'genuine, fin caterpillars, and to hold onr cotton. The worms we saw were from the field of Sir. A. C****, ten miles West of this place. Mr. Q is an old planter and a reliable man, and" he states that these were the genuine caterpillar which has been playing havoc with ns for the past few years. He says that they have already begun their work on the young cotton, and he can distinguish the stalks which have them at some distance. We are also in receipt of a note from one Mr. S. 'A**** (who is to-day at his plantation, J stating that the caterpillar have made their appearance on his place. Wo hear of others where they are just appearing. These are no bogus worms but the genuine cotton worm, according to the opinion of our oldest planters. Now their ap. pearance this early is unprecedented. We thought them very early when they appeared in the latter part of June of last year, and see what they did for us. Should the* worm become general, we cannot reckon upon the consequen ces. Instead of making half a crop, we wil make none at all. We write this thinking yon should know the facts, and yon may rely upon what we say, for we have seen it with our on eyes. ., - a Business and Expenses of tiie Georgia Railroad. From a tabular statement of the GeorgiaRail- road showing the business and expenses fromiti opening to April 1st, 1869, we gather the follow ing facts: Receipts—passengers, 1869, $321,789, which, as compared with those of 1SG8, shows a gain of $33,424; bnt as compared with those of 1861, a loss of $22,071, and of 1S60 $90,518; shov ing a marked recovery of its ante-bellum pros perity. - The receipts from freights, etc., to April 1st, 3869, were $782,732, which, as compared with 1868, shows a gain of $67,374; as compared with 1861, a gain of $182,732; as compared with 1860, a gain of $35,852. The expenses for 1869, were $575,458, which Lee had borrowed a gun, and that perhaps it , as compared with 186S, is an increase of $63,- ■.. — T.2 — ... A —— — J —v A A — L.' jv c\ a _ a *»V i a r\ i * V e was his intention to attack Mm. Capt. F. re marked that he did not think there was much danger, passed on to the place where he was finishing a bridge across the Nochaway creek, and, with his hands, was returning home in the evening, when the foul deed was penetrated. This man Lee went home, told a young man he had employed that he had revenge—he had shot the fellow, but did not know whether or not he had killed him—that he heard him fall from his horse, and that he mu6t leave the county, and wanted to borrow all the money he had. He left on foot, in the night, about fif teen minutes before a posse of men arrived at bis house for the purpose of arresting him. He was closely pursued and arrested in Randolph county, and brought to this place. On being arrested, the party arresting him remarked “that he had killed a very fine citi zen. ” His reply was, “ Yes, and I would do it again under the same circumstances.” It is proper to add that politics had nothing to do with this unfortunate affair.—Date son Jour. A Hundred Bushels Oats to the Acre. We copy the following from the Columbus Enquirer :* Mr C. A. Peabody has left in our office a'clus ter of whnt he calls “another of Ms humbugs.” It is a specimen of a new description of oats, the seed of wMch he procured from Vermont, and wMch is said to have been introduced into this country from Sweden—one grain having been found in a package of peas procured by the Agricultural Bureau. There are in tins cluster fourteen or fifteen stalks, about five feet in height, and of stems enormously large, and all from a single grain! The heads have not yet made their appearance, the stalk being in the stage called “the boot.” It is therefore rea sonable to suppose that the stalks have as yet attained not much exceeding half their height! The color is remarkably good, and the growth evidently vigorous. Mr. Peabody has a field of ten acres sown broadcast, besides some patches in the drill and hills. He used 200 lbs. of Paci fic Guano to the acre, and sowed about the 20th February. He counts on a yield of one hun dred bushels of seed oats per acre, if no disaster overtakes the crop 1 It it said that these oats have produced even much more per acre at the North. The blades are from half an inch to a full inch in breadth, and over a foot in length. The variety is certainly a wonderful one, and promises to be very valuable. Macon and Augusta Railroad, In the annual report of the Georgia Railroad we find the following statement of the Macon and Augusta Railroad, now being operated by the Georgia Railroad, with which it connects at Warrenton: EARNINGS. From freight $29,302 02 From passengers 15,82150 $45,123 52 EXPENSES. Ordinary $39,S63 85 News depots. 7,418 62 $47,282 47 By reference to the Superintendent’s report, Col. Cole, (the only one we have read), it will he seen that he looks for increased receipts upon completion, and intimates the extension, rather completion, of the road from MUledge- villo to Macon will largely increase its income. [ Chronicle and Sentinel. Another Negro Murder.—A gentleman who passed up the Gulf road on Monday informs us that a negro, whose name he did not learn, shot and killed another negro at No. 6 on Sunday night. On Monday morning our friend found an excited crowd of negroes at the station, a portion of whom, accompanied by the sheriff of Wayne county, took the cars for No. 7, where he found the murderer, a large, desperate look ing negro, and proceeded to arrest him. The negro, who was armed with an army revolver, at first offered resistance, but on being notified by Ms pursuers that they were resolved to take him dead, or alive, surrendered, and was taken charge of by tho negroes, who threatened to lynch him, but finally promised the sheriff to deliver him to the civil authorities at Thomas ville. Our friend oonld learn very little of the particulars of the murder, which was repre sented to be a savage and cold-blooded aft'air. [jSarannaA Hews. Have we Mormons living among us ? is that latest sensation. Since the announcement that there are one hundred and fifty men in New York, having from nine to twelve wives each, every one seems to have been on the qui vice, and the fact comes to light that there is a good ly number of Mormons in our own city. One individual residing on Fourteenth street is pointed out as the possessor of four wives, and the most satisfactory part of the matter to the man, perhaps, is that they all have situations in Government offices. It is estimated by those who pretend to know, that we have more than a dozen Mormon families in our midst, and that they are increasing in number rapidly in large cities.— Washington Cor. Augusta Press. ?■ 624; as compared with 1861, is a decrease of $128,293; as compared with 18C0, a decrease of 55,686. The nnmber of bales of cotton transported in 1869 was 104,373; in 1868,-112,707; in 1861, 155,709; in 1860, 544,363. The number of bushels of grain carried in 1869, was 1,407,326; in 1868, 665,GG2; 1861, I 209,497; in I860, 353,241. The number of barrels of flour transported in 186S, was 12,530: in 1860, 353,24L The number of barrels of flour transported in 1869, was 12,530; in 1808, 14,059; in 1861, 9,967; in 1860, 43,989.—Augusta Chronicle i& Sentinel, May 12. In reference to the subjoined, we are com pelled to say that instances of lost inclosnres have lately occurred in connection with the bus iness of the Telegraph office. We know noth ing more about the matter than this: Americus, May 12, 1869. Editors Telegraph : 1 wish space for a line or two to call attention to the fact that there is a thief at large between this point and Atlanta, and he is iu the postal service of the Govern ment ; and as he operates between this and Co lumbus, as well as Atlanta, it is natural to sop- pose that he is on the Southwestern Railroad Indeed, it is almost narrowed down to a certain ty that the defect is between this and Fort Val ley, as letters going toward Columbus are robbed, as well as those going to Atlanta and Eufaula. Hence there is work for a postoffiw detective on this road, because the evil has be come annoying. Mr. Woodward and the De partment at Washington have both been written to, but without effect. It is impossible almost to send a letter with even ten cents in it, vi’h out its being stolen. Please call attention » this outrage, and use the influence of your c» trams to stop it. The Last op the Napoleonic Bkidi&-1 French paper says that the widow of Philips Jacques Wilhelm, late of the eighty-eighth rest- ment of the line and shoemaker, has just at Strasbourg, at the ripe old age of eighty-fa?-1 When Napoleon I married the Archduchess ifr I ria Louisa, he issued a decree, in his ovtoek- I itaiy and absolute fasMon, that 6000 solh« 3 J who had earned half-pay should be marriec s> I girls in their respective communes, and he nr« the dowry of the young ladies at 1200 francs a I Paris, and 600 francs elsewhere. At Strasboc?-1 ten of these marriages took place; all the a? j thorities of the town were present, the ne*| married couples were invited to the theatre,^ I gloves, bonquets and carriages were furnish-1 by the municipality. In the evening there ** I a banquet, at which the Emperor and his V I Austrian wife were toasted. Of the ten p® I married on April 23, 1810, widow lVilhelm the last survivor, Napoleon had a ronai^ taste for marriages, and at one time he ceived the idea of taking every heiress country for his most distinguished which would have been an economical«. “ | recompensing gallantry. Queen Emma at Home.—A the San Francisco Bulletin writes from lulu concerning Queen Emma, whose vis* the United States will be remembered: “I saw and recognized the once beautify 15 still fine looking Queen of KamehamehsJU- saw ber first at ner summer residence in huu Valley. She reclined upon mats and pillow the Oriental style. A broad verandah m 4 [ most refresMng shade, and as she offered * dish of edible bark (a little like slippery -*£ i but very tender,) or some fruits, hor grew : dignity were singularly pleasing. She some pastoral goddess, born to rule her spet with love and gentleness, andindeedshe is- Her only coronet was of wild flowers, whicn . very generally worn here by both seie f’ JJ j| most becomingly so. Chains of flowers ^ I berries hnng about her neck also, giving, 0 ®'^. | agreeable odor. There was no formalin^, served, even by her workmen, whotm she ^ I overseeing in person. Her gardener her call, and, sitting on the steps of th 0 T * . | dah, laughed and argued with her as free possible ; yet no one could feel inclined toP' j sumo upon such modest dignity.” The Sale of the Wilmington and j tee Railroad.—The sale of the Y7ihningw a ■ Manchester Railroad is to take place oo 23d of June next. The stock in this rose been for some time past selling for five n on the dollar. This road is now under le*® j, the bondholders for ninety-nine years- ., understood that the sale is merely to new organization, and to perfect titles, bondholders'now own a large majority * j, stock. The cMef owners of the bonus, said, are Messrs. Garrett, J. Edgar Hiakley, and others, who now control tw> ^ mingtoQ and Weldon, and connecting h®**; Baltimore and Philadelphia. The and PhiladelpMa. will come into full poesessioi to make the road first data in every Ms I We look for its extension to Augusta » ns I tout day.—Chronicle anp SeniineL ■toil nr A