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MACON, FRIDAY, MAY 28, 1869.
YOL. XUU.---JJ0. 28
Ce .-iia Telegraph Building, Macon.
RATES or SCESCRIPTIOS :
..rTtUCEArH—for one rear ..
. pit—for fix months
...810 00
soil and cannot bear many stalks, and by making
the rows wide the sun reaches both'sides of
every plant Mr. Dickson makes his rows for
>a*’5 TiTs'oK' rS—for six montha.^....._.......„.r"5 65 com seven feet apar^ with hills three feet
Sorter periods One Dollar per month. a P art 111 4110 rows aad 4h ea only one or two
sgjj.WEEKLV Telegraph—°no year.. 4 CO stalks to a hill. Bnt all this space is not wasted,
S-'lir !:a SrMi-WEKKE-j m’tUa 2 00 as a row of peas is planted between every two
j;.^2^jjstvTsLEoLpH^Um^t&'"';: 150 rowsof corn, and these produce from five to fif
ty Fay (life alwayt in advance.~TZZ
teen bushels per acre, and are equal to the aver-
age production of com on unmanured land.
Mr. Dickson's experience is of course valu
able chiefly to the southern planter. A general
Boole tin< 1 Jo’> Printing
Neatly executed at reasonable prices. _ „ _ , _ D
i oitunce* by mail with Postmaster’s certificate a adoption of his methods would be more than
donble the products of the country and the
'Jl. ---— . profits of the farmer.
Front Texas. , Mr. Dickson says that he can pay bis laborers
, nu , chit OMur* and Kith what Result— otto hundred and fifty dollars per year and make
fi!d Weather—BiUV Times with the Stock- a small profit by raising cotton at ten cents a
pound, if the laborers are as orderly and efficient
Richmond, May 17, 1869. as they were before the war. Bnt he sees no
tvmms Telegraph : We are now in the fourth indication that they will become so. With law
fcnons hlawmt „ . and order and a strict enforcement of contracts
t*«r of p^ flce » 7 et ^ us coun *y (Fort Bend) has k e feels that he can make money by raising cot-
tera mow half than a month without a single civil ton. Not otherwise.—Cor. Cincinnati Com-
0 pi ciT Your readers can easily imagine the mercial.
earful® that this anomalous condition pro- Pig _ Tall Pad «|y,Han S and Cnffee.
jaanold settled commmnty. No thief or ^ ^ WQrkmen of the North are Siting
jsderer can be legally arrested, or if arrested, into an unpleasant and probably losing conflict
f-aSned There is scarcely an hour in the day with Cnffee on the question of his employment
• irtich there is not a demand in an old com- 4n the Government printing office at Washing*
La. for an officer to perform some one of f° n ; But it woifld be more pmdent for them to
1 . . 1 . _ r _, - husband their strength for a more formidable
tie anltifanous duties reqmred of these funo- : competitor in the shape of Johnny Chinaman,
cesariw- • who has just laid the last tracks of the Pacific
“ y„ 6n the older was published so unceremo- Railroad that is to bring his countrymen here
..(j-sIt vacating offices, it was hoped and reas- / the thousand and million. In ten years’
"° • 1.. , m ,, . . time it is probable that the Chinese will be as
easily supposed that officers capable of taking • nnmerous on the Eastern slope of the Rocky
ta» required oath had been selected, and only Mountains as the German and Irish are at
r ted the mere form of qualifying to enter on present
duties. But this was a serious error, as I "“tt 0 wh , ite workmen of the North do
. a . . „ : about it, will soon be an important question for
£* sequel is showing. Do let us have peace, them. "Will they oppose a futile resistance to
jlr. Grant, and those civil officers that all expe- ' the influx of cheap labor, or will they unite with
Tree has proven to be so indispensably neces- it, and raise it to their own level ? The Chinese
nr? to the maintenance of good order, and the o™* 0 * one-third of the entire human race.
,... . , ’ _ They are thirteen times more numerous than
pe serration of life, liberty and property. True population of the United States, and swarm
tire is not much of the two last left, but we in a country no larger than ours. They printed
ksII like to hold life, the first mentioned, by
i tale better tenure than the mere forbear-
ok of desperadoes. It is needless to expati-
ct farther on our situation. There is no con-
the fact that it is ugly and uninviting,
tie have had more cold nights and mornings
ttii I ever experienced before in the month of
books and set off fire-crackers a thousand years
before onr language was founded. They are so
j numerous that they are compelled to kill their
new-born children, because their country is not
able to sustain an increase of population. Their
country now almost touches ours, and they are
ready and anxious to step over by millions to
possess the land.
Who can stop them ? California tried to do so
Jliy. and, for a wonder in this section, thus far j and failed. It was useless to hoot them in the
vifcont rain, though a good shower would be streets, kill them in tho mines, and persecute
K :e acceptable to planters, especially those , them everywhere. White worfanen refused to
• , A . f.. , .. . ; associate with them, and drove them ont of the
»i: were late in getting their seed cotton in j workshops and mines. But they now make all
tie ground. 1 the cigars-on the Pacific coast, mend watches,
Crops look real well, and are in a remarkably ' make shoes, and delve in mines. They even
he condition. Cotton squares or forms have i 804 4 n> e “ » language, they cannot underetand.
? . .. , They are the most docile, imitative, industrious,
uncommon on some plantations for several j and withal, toe most degradedrace in toe world—
cjy-, though I have yet heard of no blooms. < in a moral and social sense.
Bit the staple is subject to so many disasters | With onr new steam lines to China, and onr
btr. and of late years thev have revisited us / cifio Bailroad, it is easy to see.that these bar-
' , • .. ...... barians will soon be upon us. They will come
such unwelcome persistency,that the farm- I to ^ bnt ^ n0VCr assimilate with us.—
etUTtetconsiders himself safe until his ‘‘game j Unlike the other races on our shores, they will
is Lagged." > hoard all they can of their scanty wages, and
This is the liusv season with stockmen, mark- I r0t4re a4 ^f 4 40 4 ^ 0 i r ovm country with fortunes
mg and branding calves. It will soon be the ; n0 £ even ] ea vo their bones with us when they
owning of their flush time, too; for beave3 are (Jie f jjQt reserve them for burial on Celestial
Ireadyfat, and their owners will soon have soil.
im on the road to market in droves of thou- !, ^at. ™ r0 P® at ’ ^ do 4b jf
, ; homble people ? Shall we give them the ballot
~T' . . | and let them vote with the negroes? Perhaps
There is nonews of the sensational or homble. I t jj 0 on j y possible fbing is to do nothing, or turn
To ihose fond of that species of literature, the ! the matter over to Charles Sumner and the New
Dav's Doings,” and police reports of northern ! England factory owners. Here are brawn and
-"rials are recommended. Pah Fois. la 1 £
• that gladly take any kind of wages, and never
i bother about “strikes.” The probable effects
11 isit to Mr. Dickson s Plantation, j yjj s population upon our white workmen—
There is in Georgia, probably there is in : whether the latter will fall to the lower level or
h-erica, no more successful planter than Mr. j rise to a higher plane—really constitute a most
i-fid Dickson, whoso plantation of 15,000 acres perplexing theme for our philanthropists and
s -itnated on the Little Ogechee river, about; legislators.
miles east of Sparta, in Hancock county. ; This coming Chinese immigration threatens
To reach his country I traveled over a hilly j the most serious strain to our Christian civiliza-
c;Entry of mixed lands on which oaks, hickory ; tion that it has ever yet experienced. If we do
ltd other deciduous trees were common, but' not rise superior and conquer it by the sheer
the prevailing growth was yellow pine. ! might of moral and religious truth, it will swamp
B-.i jnst before reaching his plantation the hills ' and sink ns in a darker, fouler destiny than ever
sni, there are extesive plains, red clay is sel- j overwhelmed any of the lost nations of the
fcm seen, and tixe long leaf pine prevail. The | world.—iV. Y. Com. Adcr.
jlantationisa pine barren; not so barren as much | [t|
«f the pine land near the sea, but not nearly so
fertile as the oak and hickory lands further north,
rtho productive red-clay plains of Southwestern
Fences.
The best and cheapest kind of fencing is the
Georgia. Casting your eye over the fields, great desideratum of which the farmer is in
you note particularly that their surfaces are ; quest from time immemorial. Beyond a doubt,
quite smooth. You distinguish the rows of com ' wherever a permanent line of division or enelo-
and cotton by the stalks only, and not by the : sure can be drawn, a live hedge of hawthorn,
high ridge made by plows and hoes, such as you j buckthorn or osage or osage orange is superior
see in almost every Southern field They are i to any other, whenit has been fairly established,
perfectly clean, too, no fringe of crab grass, or ! Nothing can exceed the beauty of the English
ether weeds, covering the ground The com i hawthorn in spring and autumn. In the months
rtalks are large, and the cotton stalks very bushy of May and J une, the hedges are covered with
C<1 thickly covered with dead pods or bolls, the white blossoms which load the air with per-
\ear are some farm out-buildings and a cluster fume, and in Antumn they are red with the ripe
•• Tei 7 nea4 and comfortable negro quarters berries which afford abundant food to the little
best I have seen in Georgia. Still, there is birds, and are, in fact, eaten by children, though
-'.ue to excite remark in the appearance of they are rather mealy and insipid. In our
pngs. There are good fences and gates, and conntry, where fields are often divided, and tim-
l :. w evidently a tidy farm, but we have seen ber has heretofore been abundant, less atten-
* ; . v farms elsewhere in Georgia. tion has been paid to the mode of enclosing
The aim of this planter has been to increase grounds than in tho older countries of Europe,
fe: productive capacity of the land, first, and but we shall have to come to it before long.
Wond to increase the productive capacity of ■ The forests are disappearing, sadly to the dis-
* laborer. The accomplishment of the first credit of our forecast, for we are already suffer-
^ been effected by means of fertilizers, which ing in some of the old settlements, even in this
toe land richer, and improved tillage, country, for the want of wood, not so much as
Jich makes the natural and acquired fertility fuel, for coal will supply a more economical heat,
* tie soil more available. The second has but suffering, on account of the change in the
^ effected by new inodes of planting and climate, snperinduced by ^tho destruction of tlie
implements. Ordinarily, in t.bla country, forests. Way the mountains should be denuded
'••-Ui acres of cotton and corn are cultivated for the sake of the arable land which their sides
'• -wh hand. Before the war Mr. Dickson cul- afford, we cannot understand, in view of the ln-
thirty-three acres to the hand, and the jurious effects upon the health of the surround-
^ hid no drivers. In this part of Georgia, ing country. The deprivation of the immerse
crop of cotton is about one bale on amount of carbonic acid which is supplied by
;3 «rts. To be sure he expends large sums the forest trees, finds a poor compeimtion in
^ jew for manures, but these repay him the additional surface of land oflered totfie
cent, on their cost, and the plow* .
■ “ The old fashioned worm fences are a most
reared per cent, on their cost, ana the
/Jtfthe labor required to produce a bale of — Vk — »--- - , . ...
is comparatively very small by his sys- wasteful contrivance, not only on account of the
culture. vast amount of material which they require, but
Jr Pound is planted in cotton but onco in also because they take up ground which ought to
Slum. It is succeeded by com, and the be under cultivation. The good old days when
?“• Ntt by grain. The fourth year the land the urchin who proposed to fill his pockets with
The manures used for cotton are apples from his favontetree, was obliged first
? «adred pounds each of Peruvian guano, to climb over a worm fence, six or seven feet
bones, salt and plaster—the whole high, have gone from these ends of the earth.
»tpresent prices about eleven dollars. No doubtin the back woods, such stockades
: 1.A v *» a. j ofill l-io fnnnrf. Thr*. nnsfc find rail fence IS
Somnambulism Extraordinary!
A REMINISCENCE OF THE LATE SOL SMITH.
BY COLLEY CIBBEE.
* * * It was in a small town in the State
of Georgia, where Sol was well known; he hav
ing on several occasions given concerts there,
that he found himself minus money and audi
ence. Everything was dull, and money was
scarce. Sol boarded in a second class hotel, and
what between anxiety of mind and bad living, he
became restless and worried. In this town, as
in all others throughout the length and breadth
of the country, there were gambling houses.—
Sol was not a regular visitor to them, but, like
many other men, he occasionally “took a chance
on the red.” He had been unlucky in one or
more throws, and on this particular night went
to bed moaning over losses which he well knew
could never be replaced by either singing or
gambling—at least, in that place. He had re
tired to bed early, shortly after tea, and to his
great relief he soon fell into a deep sleep, undis
turbed until the day-light beamed cheerily into
his room. "While dressing, his attention was
called to one of the pockets of his pantaloons.—
It was far more bulky than was its wont. There
was something in it besides his almost empty
pocket-book. He took out his book, when, to
his astonishment, he found it full of banknotes.
Startled, scarcely knowing wbat to do, he thrust
it back into his pocket. The money was not
his. Whose was it ? "Where did it come from ?
Ah! a dark suspicion flashed across his mind.
Some one in the house had committed a robbe
ry and wanted to fix the deed on him. This
theory Sol firmly adhered to. So he started out
to walk and meditate on the subject, and con
sult a friend how to act. Walking up the street,
the first person he encountered accosted him
with.
“Ah, Sol, out so early—you were in luck last
night.”
“Luck! what do you mean ?”
“Pooh! man, you cannot deny it. I was
there and lost.”
“Lost what?”
“Now, Sol, none of your nonsense. You must
have won over three hundred dollars. You had
the devil’s luck.”
“Ah ! so you were there ?”
“Certainly, old boy. How much did you
win?
Could it be possible, Smith thought, that he
had wandered from the house while asleep, en
tered a gambling bouse and won this money ?—
Such must have been the fact.
“How much do you say, eh?’’
“Yes, what’s the sum ? ’
“Why, realy, I have not counted it yet.”
“Now, Sol, tuis won't do. Once you get a
decided passion for gambling, you are lost.
Give it up, old boy, as I shall; it is a losing
game. So good morning”—and away he went.
Now, Sol was not a gambler, by any means.
If he played at all when wide awake, it was
among friends, and for small sums—“more.”
as he said, “for amusement than profit.” His
winnings that night were over three hundred
dollars! He was now flush, and as he had the
offer of the Mobile Theatre (indeed, the arrange
ments were all made.) he felt quite happy, and
determined to leave immediately. His sleep
that night was of the just man made happy.
But how?
One morning, a few days after the scene de
scribed, he arose early and took his usual walk
before breakfast.
“Good morning, Sol! how are you?”
This came from a merchant of the place ; not
the one who greeted him in somewhat similiar
terms on a former occasion.
“Tolerably well, thank you.”
“You look serious, Sol. 5 ’
Sol always had a serious look, even when a
joke was uprising to his lips.
“I am not serious.”
“Well, I am glad to hear it. both on your ac
count and mine. I can wait. ”
“Wait! wait! what for?”
“For my money.”
“Your money ?”
‘ ‘Yes; let me see,” taking out a memorandum
book. “Six hundred and thirty dollars."’
“Six hundred thunders.”
“No, dollars.”
“What in the devil’s name are you at ?”
“Simply this: If a man will gamble and go it
as strong as you did last night, he must expect
one of two things.”
“And what are they?”
“Win or lose—you lost—that's alL’’
“Lost! when, where?”
“Now, Sol, I know you don't mind the money,
but cease to make a joke of it. I am sorry for
your loss ; I risked my money and won. You
risked yours and more and lost.”
“True, a man must expect to lose as well as
win.”
“Yes,” and if you are short, as I know you
are, give me your note at three or four months."'
“Short, heavens, let me see.” So opening
his pocket-book, he found it empty.
“All gone, all gone.”
“Don’t worry yourself, Sol; all right”
“Well, this is most unfortunate; I was very
foolish, certainly.”
There was no backing out, for what he did
while asleep he had to stand up to when wide
awake—and awake he was to the fact of having
lost two hundred dollars cash, and six hundred
and thirty to his friend, the merchant. The
note was given at four months, made payable at
Mobile. Before it came due Sol had it renewed,
made payable at New Orleans. Again it was in
part renewed, nor was it until twelve months
had elapsed that it was finally settled. As Sol
Smith was never known to ntter a falsehood or
set down aught in malice, the statement made
to the writer must be taken as a veritable fact,
and will add one more strange account to the
many wonderful freaks of somnambulists.
°* Ine dirt is turned up to tno deptn wear our, turn oveijr . 1 ,
i eight or nine inches, and the whole farmer finds that the market price of the ma-
toSh broken up, the dead furrows being terial has risen enormously. The qmckset
J*ndges. Elsewhere the space between hedge is getting better all the time, and the on-
fea^ ,or ms a “land.” The farrows for cot- ly trouble about it is, that it is too good, there
opened about eight inches deep is hardly such a thing as eradicating it Picket
. f *et apart. The manure is deposited fences are expensive and are becoming dearer
"is 1 * then^°opened^bove"it, and gardens'and drove-yards, bnt they can be
■- . ..... m rr fhom AMinSt
The manure is deposited fences are expensive _
and covered with the plow. ' The every year. They are indispensible about
«***» seed strewn thickly in it, a great made durable by protecting them against
cotton plants being started than the weather. We havo tned the iron fenc ,
to remain. After they are made of string wire. They will keep out some
spaces are cut in the row with a cattle, but there are others that ya^ ng t
hoe, leaving from one to three through them as a native Yankee walks through
iuJkahill. The ploinng is done with what arowof South American bamboo huts, when he
erea “sweep,” a plough cutting twen- is in a hurry. Besides, boys creep through
C inches wide, forined the two narrow mold them into your com field, or melon patch, or sit
iC*- T «fy like onr olow oLnreo Thi» {not on the topmost strand and make swings of your
jund the cotton 'vmn me wuu;o ™—
, 0 pea the light” soil ~ It is hoed and the more durable kinds of iron fences made c
“/kn enough to keep the ground per- of bars, we are sfaUconfounded with the diffi-
,T“®* The more rapid the growth of the cnlty of expense. The live hedge is the cheap-
cultivation is required, for when the est. It requires a few years to P/otectit,but
ttWfc and bushy, they so shade once established, and you have a fence that no
i that wwtb and grass can hardly live wind can blow down and no thief break torough.
Qt T^e plowings Sdtwo hoeing suf- journal of the Farm.
remarkable field of cotton
/r by Mr. Dickson, which avenged
>/*v . to tbfi ROTP TTonolltv ♦Vaa Iiaa avi>1
. “«ies * A * v * s— Ir the advice of Professor Agassiz be good
acre * Usually the hoe and authority, there is no other diet so beneficial to
in rL./ cotton Packing com- gentlemen of editorial and literary pursuits as
- A P , tember - fish That many of them have made this dis-
;*> wonld 8mil0 a4 Mr* Dick- 0 " themselves is a fact which the public
oovery for themselves _
are always willing believe, «id may
for the impunity with which they designate
n»einhered that this is • very light portion Q { 0 hr tribe as “scaly fellows.
Row Amoug Chicago Grain Scalpers.
In the absence of anything better to do, the
grain men of the city are going again into the
“scalping business',” by selling grain'on the
option of the seller to deliver it any time during
the month. One of the most prominent of this
class of operators, who is known as being en
gaged in five-sixths of the quarrels which inevi
tably ensue from differences of opinion on the
subject of payment, got into trouble yesterday.
He bad sold to a brother operator some ten or
fifteen thousand bushels of wheat on “seller the
month,” and called for his margin, that is, a de
posit of ten cents per bushel on the part of the
buyer, to insure the payment when the grain
should be delivered.
The buyer claimed that it was a purely ficti
tious one, as grain was rising in value in the
market instead of falling. The seller, however,
insisted, and the buyer then employed another
broker to sell back to No. 1 ten thousand bush
els of wheat, on the same option, and called upon
him for his margin, which he, in like manner,
expressed his determination not to pay, and the
buyer then showed his hand, explaining that he
had only aimed to get straight with the other one.
Uphn this No. 1 struck the other a blow upon
the ear, as a result of which a warrant was taken
Tlie Coolie Trade.
From the San Franciteo Bulletin.]
In times gone by, a great deal was said and
done to put down'the vile slave trade that so
long disgraced the civilized nations of the old
and new worlds. In still later times, tho coolie
trade attracted no little attention, and i^has
been alternately decried and then again justified.
But, however honorable may be the intentions
of a few who profess to import these foreign la
borers in order to better their condition, the
mass of evidence shows that, with but few ex
ceptions, such professions amount to little more
than the pretenses of benevolence by which the
slave trade was formerly justified for the same
reasons.
A letter from Lima, in Pern, of the 12th of
last, forming part of a private correspondence,
is published in the Courier JJrancisco of
April SO, from which we traame certain details
of facts, showing the character of the treatment
received by the poor coolies. The horrors nar
rated forcibly remind one of the infamous “mid
dle passage” so notorious in the history of the
slave trade. The writer's language is as follows:
I know no sadder spectacle than that offered
by the hold of a ship loaded with Chinese Cool
ies. The poor immigrants are heaped upon one
another in such a way that they cannot lie down
to sleep, but remain seated, leaning back upon
each other in the dark, stinking hold, and die in
great Bombers from fever and scurvy, covered
with ulcers and vermin. The healthiest among
them are so eager to get the place of the sick
that the poor sufferers are seized hold of before
the breath is out of their bodies in order to be
thrown into the sea, while the survivors appear
full of joy at gaining a little more room to stretch
their swollen limbs.
The food given the Coolies is well adapted to
produce fevers of the most fatal type. Twice
a day they receive a pint of rice, so'mouldy and
full of worms that one would scarcely dare give
it to a herd of hogs. These ration* are quite
insufficient, so that the wretched Coolies are
seen licking the bottom, sides, aid even the
outside and handles of the tin cups in which
the rice is distributed to them. Ttey look like
hungry dogs gnawing fleshless boies. It is a
burning shame for the civilized countries which
authorize such atrocities.
I have witnessed the transfers of these coolies
from one ship to another. I have seen the un-
happy creatures laboring under fevers or scurvy
taken on board and dragged by the ears or by
the feet, and thrown down the bottom of the
hold just as the bodies of animals are thrown
into a wagon to be hauled to the slaughterhouse.
When I asked what was done with the coolies
who were too weak or too ill to be removed, the
answer was that they were thrown overboard
as soon as they were dead. But I issure you
that I have seen them cast into the sea while
their Ups were stiU moving.
One remarkable fact is, that the physicians of
Lima and Callao are of the opinion tlat the yel
low fever, which has been decimating these
cities for some months past, hasbeenintroduced
by the cooUe ships. They protest igainst the
admission of these vessels, to tho groat alarm of
the sugar, rice and coffee planters. 1
In view of such horrible facts as those stated
above, and which seem inseparable from the
system of transportation of cooUes, it is a mat
ter of rejoicing that one civilized government
has had the courage to take decided steps to put
an end to this infernal trafic. Portugal has
prohibited the exportation of coolies from Ma
cao and Timor to Peru. This prohibition has
been caused by the atrocities committed on the
cooUe ships, and the cruelties practiced on the
coohes after their landing in Peru.
The Governor of Macao end Timor, who has
begun the good work of prohibition, refers to
the fact made known to kin by the Portugese
Consul at Callao that the Chinese emigrants-
were branded with a red het iron, just like Af
rican slaves formerly, and that many of them
were mutilated, and then abandoned by their
masters aS unfit for labbr, aid ‘left to beg their
bread in the streets of that city. He then pub-
Ushes the ordinance whereby the Ucenses for ex
portation are suppressed, aad the proper offi
cers are char ged to cease esunining and regis
tering contracts for such exportation of Chinese
emigrants to Callao and Lima. This ordinance
is issued subject to the approval of the King of
Portugal, but it goes into effect at once, and
will not fail to be ratified ly that sovereign.
Thus the honor of this initiatory measure be
longs to Portugal. Its justness and necessity
are so imperative that other nations must fol
low the example, and extend the remedy just as
far as the nature and extent of the evil shall be
found to reqnire.
The Alabama Question.
THE PRESIDENT'S OPINIONS ON THE FOREIGN POLICY
OF THE SENATE.
From the Evening Poet ] "*
Washington, May 18.—In regard to the Ala
bama claims question, and the so-called instruc
tions given to Mr. Motley, it has been ascer
tained from very trustworthy sources that there
is no desire on the part of the President to re
open negotiations with England. In his judg
ment the question ought to be set at rest as
speedily as possible. But he maintains that it
is for the British Government’ to say whether
they desire it to remain in its present shape.
In framing the instructions given to Mr. Mot
ley, the President insisted that this policy
should predominate, and be closely adhered to;
but Secretary Fish thought otherwise, and it
was not until the President evinced his deter
mination to carry out Lis own ideas of what
should be our foreign policy, that the Secretary
yielded.
Tho President has also spoken his mind pretty
freely about the manner in which foreign af
fairs are considered by the Senate, and in a way
not at all complimentary to that body. Leading
politicians, who have either recently been or
are now here, likewise express their opinions
quite openly, and say that considerable dissatis
faction exists among the thinking men of the
country, and that a movement will be made,
during the next session of Congress, to so
amend the constitution as to restrict their extra
ordinary powers in ratifying treaties.
They say that at present nobody contests
their constitutional right to consider and ratify
treaties, but, nevertheless, it is perfectly appa
rent that the Senate is drifting without anycon-
sistent political principles, and that their course
is very often prompted by mere caprice. If it
was necessary, they say, to ratify the Alaska
purchase that this Government might maintain
its honor with Russia on account of the action
of the Executive, then why not ratify tho Sand
wich Islands ^Treaty and the Danish Treaty,
which were not even considered indue time.
It is well known here that the English Legation,
up to the day of the Alabama treaty, had posi
tive assurances that it would be postponed until
December. With these facts before them, itjis
claimed that the rejection of the treaty was the
effect of temporary excitement, and not the ex
hibition of cool, dispassionate statesmanship.
These matters have already been discussed
out for the arrest of the assailant. The last that • among the members of General Grant’s Cabinet,
is known of the case is that the constable was j and are beginning to attract attention among
pushing through the crowd of grain dealers, in- • other public men here,
wh^wo 1 §a h pomt P out 1 * Maine Giants.—A Turner correspondent of
all looked upon it as a good ,‘
to assist him, until he gave up
gust and left—Chicago Tribune, 19/A
{three hundred pounds. His name was John
A t.»mr and Valuable Cargo of Cotton and ! Keene. He was buried beside the remains of
Timber for Livebpooi Messrs. Austin & Ellis his father, whose name was John and who died
yesterday cleared the ship Levant (Br.), 1,436 at the same age (eight yyeara^and he also leaves
tons, Captain Joseph Browne, for the above port, a son John, who is mx feet six inches m height
with 2,522 bales of upland cotton, weighing 1*- The boards of which his coffin Tins made were
1“>4 445 pounds, valued at 3303,112 02, 76 bags • sawed by himself from the same log which fum-
of sea fafcnai weighing23,280 pounds, valued at! ished the boards for his father s coffin twenty-
315,500 00. This is one of the finest cargoes of seven years ago. There are few logs of sum-
its fetoii that has left this port this season, and
is a compliment to the energy of the agents.
[Savannah Republican.
cient size to famish whole boards for such a
coffin.
The Morgan Raid in Indiana.—The Repub-
Colfax foe Peace.—The Vice President oMican Legislators of Indiana has passed a bill
the United States has been heard from. While appropnating 34!,3o9,91S to pay the daims of
Grant is said to want war, Colfax wants peace.; sufferers by Morgan s raid in that State, to be
In a speech at Chicago, lart week, he said: “I | paidlnferce annual iw^^tae-tiurd eaeh
know toat the military thirst for war is rife, and; year. Acooiding to the Cleveland Herald, the
that there is an expression of a growing feeling Republican Legidatore off ^diaira^ eighty
in our republio winch seems to cry out for war; 1 times more corrupt than the • Ohio Legislature,
but, if I stand alone, I stand here to resist it to • The wheat crop in Iowa is very large and
the extent of my feeble influence.” promises welL
Germany and the Ecumenical Connell
Editors Telegraph : The approaching Gen
eral Council in Rome is beginning to excite the
attention of the press and of public men in Ger
many, for it is beyond doubt that the important
questions of the infallibility of the Pope, the
extent of his temporal authority and the princi
ples proclaimed by him j|a the Syllabus, will be
made the subjects of its deliberations.
The North of Germany mostly belongs to the
Protestant faith; the South is strongly attached
to the Roman Catholic Church. ■ Among the
Southern States Bavaria, numbering five mil
lions of souls, is the most important, Austria be
ing excluded by toe treaty of Prague.
■The President of the Bavarian Ministry has
seized an opportunity during the debate on the
School Question, of declaring that toe Catholic
King of Bavaria will not enter the lists as toe
champion of toe Church against the State. He
opposed the resolutions of the committee, that
had gone beyond the intentions of tho bill and
the existing relations of the Church to the
State, in order to surrender to the former the
preponderating, or rather the exclusive influence
in the national school.
Here, said the Minister, “two opposite cur
rents meet, for, if the Church claims an un
limited influence on the education of the people,
the State, on toe other hand, cannot consent to
renounce its natural right to direct and control
this education. Could wo regard Church and
State from amerelyideal point of view,we should
think it beneficial to the State to concede the
Church the greatest possible influence in the
matter of popular instruction. But we mast
look at things as they are, and place ourselves
on the firm ground of the Constitution, which
is supreme for us in the government of the
country. The Constitution is the faithful ex
pression of the idea of the modem State, as it
has been engendered in the political life of toe
nation, and to it the Bavarian people will cling..
“I am well aware that the term “modem State”
will horrify certain circles, but I know no better
appellation for a State which forms the ground
work and the protection of our entire culture as
well as of our political life, and which, instead
of endangering the Christian faith, does it a
service. The difficulty of obtaining a harmoni
ous co-operation between Church and State lies,
I believe, in the fact that declarations havelate-
ly been made which reveal the aversion of the
ruling Church party to the State.”
The Minister quoted here the encyclical letter
of Gregory XVI, Mirari vos, which treated the
establishment by law of freedom of conscience
as an “erroneous and absurd opinion,” and an
“illusion;” also, the encyclical letter of the
present Pope, of the Sth December, 1S64, which
includes freedom of worship among the damna
ble heresies, and unequivocally denies that the
Pope can ever be reconciled with progress, lib
eralism, and modem civilization.
The Minister did not wish to comment on
these manipulations, as it was merely his inten
tion to show that a contradiction between such
sentiments and the modem State, as incorpo
rated in the existing constitution of Bavaria,
actually existed. 'r
“In the presence of thi^ incompatibility be
tween Church'and State, the ideal of a : harmo
nious action between them,” continued the
Minister, “is inadmissible. In such circum
stances the government could do nothing more
than propose a modus vivendi, a compromise.
This proposal has, indeed, the disadvantages
of every middle course; but the above men
tioned declaration left an understanding based
on political principles out of the question. The
best thing, then, would ba to accept the bill
purely and simply as proposed by the govern
ment. Men will always require a helping and
reconciling Church; whether or not they have
need of a dispntative and damning one is a
question which theologians must decide.”
It is remarkable that the minister of a Catholic
conntry believes himself obliged to defend the
Constitution against principles expressed with
ever-increasing aggressiveness in the Roman
Catholic Church.
Serious and earnest conflicts may be anticipa
ted in all Catholic countries between Church and
State, and the work of legislation will meet with
serious obstacles. Still there can be no doubt
as to the ultimate triumph of the State.
The Augsburg Zeitung contains, in reference
to this condition of affairs, the following appa
rently semi-official communication.
It is the duty of the Government during the
projected Ecumenical Council to do their best
to prevent the struggle of the hierarchy against
too modem state,, which was clearly declared in
the Encyclical letter and the Syllabus, and is
now about to receive something of the sacred
sanction of a dogma, from assuming a form that
might endanger the peaceful modus vivendi be
tween Church and State, rendering the farther
existence of the latter impossible. We have re
ceived hints from whioh we conclude, that at
present negotiations are pending between vari
ous Governments, as to the common steps to
be taken in order to protect the interests threat
ened by toe CounciL We are glad to be able to
make this communication, and trust that the
Governments will show the greatest decision and
determination, thus offering a paroli to the ex
cessive demands of the CounciL Jabho.
ing. I do not think we employ more than forty
to fifty per cent, of Ahe labor formerly worked
in this county. Most of those who remain have
returned to the old plantations, and"with some
indulgence, do exceedingly welL Many of toe
“little negroes” are getting over their school
mania, and have gone to-work in the field.
Occasional.
The “Outrage” on Spillman.
The Chronicle and Sentinel, of Friday, gives
the subjoined account of the “outrage” upon
Spillman, a Northern Methodist preaoher, who
is represented to have been run out of Burke
county in peril'of life from the Kuklux. It ap
pears to have been a bit of boyish sport, but in’
the case qf Georgia it is like the sport of stone-’
ing the frogs—it may be sport to the boys—but
it is death to the State. It is strange—strange—
strange that all this fuss and scandal should be
inflicted on Georgia by the old counties of the
black belt, which should set us an example of
long suffering, patience and submission to au
thority. Can’t they stop this trouble ?
Recently, in furtherance of the views and
wishes of those who sent him here, he (Spill
man) advertised a meeting to be held in Waynes
boro, Burke county, on the 10th inst. The time
fixed rolled round, and there was congregated
in the village a crowd of ignorant and credu
lous blacks, estimated at fully two thousand
souls. To this large crowd he spoke fuRy, free-
From Talbot County.
Beautiful Weather—Cotton, Corn and Wheat
—General Condition of Planters, Labor, etc.
Talbotton, May 20, 1869.
Messrs. Editors:—At last the weather has
broken from a cold dismal rain to a bright,
beautiful sky. Though the young plant has died
considerably on gray lands, we do not despair.
Cotton is a more vigorous plant than most of us
suppose. It loves the sun, yet can endure cold;
will grow sick and almost die, but then recover
under the warm, invigorating influence of the
sun. Gray lands, absorbing moisture easily,
prove almost fatal to cotton dining a spell of
rain at this season of the year. I have observed
it often in the same condition and feel confident
a few days of hot sun will dispel, to a great ex
tent, the gloom that hang3 over the country.
Though it has grown but little, cotton is doing
finely on our red lands in Talbot. The fact that
we have had the best stands this year, will go
far to remedy a bad result. The Guanoed cot
ton is very grassy.
Our prospect for com is most encouraging.
Many fields will average nearly knee high, with
good stands, and present a vigorous, healthy
condition. Wheat is excellent.
It is gratifying to state, that few of our plant
ers, as yet, have bought on credit. A result we
naturally expected discloses the fact that labor
is growing scarcer and higher every year. Tal
bot county, once, was one of the most populous
and wealthy counties in toe State. We have our
lands yet, but the negroes are rapidly diminish-
ly, badly, meanly and seditiously, and as long
as he pleased without the slightest molestation
or interruption. After finishing his unchristian
and insurrectionary harangue, he retired quiet
ly to the hotel, and took a seat upon the porch,
where also were sitting three young gentlemen
of the village quietly discussing the merits of
a pack of fox hounds owned by one of the
party, without noticing the Rev. incendiary, and
being wholly ignorant of his pretensions or
his person. One of these remarked that his
hounds were very superior; that they were ex
cellent to chase foxes, wildcats, rabbits, and all
quadruped? known in the conntry, and jocu
larly added that he had never tried them on
Radicals, but thought they would even run
them. This greatly alarmed the heroic Pre
siding Elder, who jumped to the conclusion at
once that he was to be run by track dogs.
With great trepidation he entered the hotel,
and seeking the landlord, communicated to him
his fear, and begged to be furnished a place of
secretion-wheie he might remain until the arrival
of the train from Augusta. Not being able to
calm Ms fears, the landlord took him to a distant
room in the upper story of the building, where
toe excited “man of God” simply locked himself
up to await farther developments.
This soon became known in the village and
was the cause of much merriment among the
villagers. A few half-grown boys seized the oc
casion to have a little fun and, during the after
noon having colluded with a negro servant of
the hotel, sent frequent messages to the fright
ened Minister asking him to “come down 5 ’—
“could he run fast”—“did he ever see the Ku
klux,” &o. These messagescompletely unstrung
the strong nerves of the bold and defiant mission
ary, so that after repeated salutations from Mm
to that effect he was about dark taken out of
back windows and over the top of a shed-room
to a ladder previously provided, when he was
“let down” from his dangerous prison and se
creted in a temple of cloacena located in the rear
of the Hotel garden, where he safely remained
until train time (2 o’clock at night), when he
was safely and without let, Mndrance, or molest
ation taken to the station and placed on the
train. And tMs ended the great “Ku-klnx out
rage on a Minister of the Gospel.”
Third Day of tile Commercial Con
vention.
Memphis, May 20.—Delegates continue to ar
rive. .The number now is near eleven hundred.
The Railroad War in Augusta—Nego
tiations lor Peace.
For several months past the readers of the
Chronicle and Sentinel have been kept fully
posted in the great conflict wMch has been
waging between those two rival corporations,
the Columbia and Augusta and the South Caro
lina Railroad Companies. We predicted that as
soon as the Augusta City Council passed an or
dinance allowing the first-named company to
build a bridge across the river and enter the
city, the war, which for some time past has been
terminated in South Carolina, would break out
afresh in Georgia, and that the decisive battle
would be fought upon the banks of the Savan
nah. Nor, as subsequent events have fully de
monstrated, were we mistaken in that prediction.
The ordinance wa3 passed a few weeks since
by Council, and but a few days elapsed after its
passage ere an application was mado in toe
Urnted States Court at Savannah, by the South
Carolina Railroad, for an injunction to be issued
restraining the city of Augusta from allowing
the Columbia & Augusta Road to cross the river.
This case come up before Judge Erksine, in the
United States Court last week, and, in order to
give the plaintiff time to produce evidence that
the Columbia & Augusta Road was a corpora
tion under the laws of Georgia, the case was
continued until the next term of the Court to
be held in Atlanta. '
The next manoeuvre was made by the city of
Augusta, wMch, on last Saturday, applied to
Judge Gibson, of the Richmond Superior Court,
for an injunction to be issued, restraining the
South Carolina Railroad from using a through
depot in the city or running their cars through
the streets, on the ground that the Company
had violated the contract made with the city in
1852. TMs case, we believe,'will be beard next
week. The last move seems to have had some
effect upon the South Carolina Road, and it now-
manifests a desire to cease hostilities. On yes
terday, we learn from toe best authority, Mr. W.
J. Magrath, the President of the Company,
made the following proposition to the City Coun
cil:
That Ms company would drop all the suits
wMch it has brought against the Columbia and
Augusta Road; would cease opposing its en
trance into Augusta and allow the road when it
reached Hamburg to connect with the Carolina
Road, and use the bridge and tracks of the lat
ter on wMch to enter toe city, until the other
company could build their own bridge across
toe Savannah, on toe condition that the Colum
bia Road pays one hundred thousand dollars for
the privilege—payment to be made in the bonds
of the last named road, wMch will be taken at
par. CoL William Johnston, President of the
Columbia Road, was telegraphed yesterday of
this proposition, but we were unable to learn
what was Ms reply. It is impossible, as yet, to
determine whether toe proposal will be ac
cepted or rejected.—Chronicle and Sentinel.
Amusing Incident.—An amusing incident oc
curred at a flourishing drug store in toe city, a
few days ago, wMch is too good to be lost. A
foriy-cent revenue stamp having been placed on
a keg of spirits, the gum brush was passed over
it, as usual, to make it adhere - more closely—
Just at tMs momenta worthy old gentleman
came in and sat down upon the keg, remaining
there a few minutes in conversation. After he
had left, toe stamp was discovered to be missing
and one of the proprietors started in pursuit, as
a forty cent stamp was worth a short walk. His
surmise was right, and it was toe old gentleman
and not toe spirits who was stamped. “War
ranted ninety per cent, proof.” He freely gave
it up, however, as he had no use for it, and toe
stamp was put upon the keg to stay.
Savannah Advertiser.
The Chillieothe (OMo) Register says: Last
Monday two young married oouple rode up to
Lewis saddlery store and purchased a saddle
apiece, each bride and groom paying for their
own saddle. After toe sale was made, Mr. L.
learned in conversation that the ladies were sis
ters and twins and the grooms brothers and
twins, toe marraige, therefore, being that of
twin sisters to twin brothers.
Hon. J. R. Doolittle, late United States Sen
ator from Wisconsin, and Hon. Jesse O. Nor
ton, late United States District Attorney, have
formed a law partnership in Chicago.
The first through passenger train over the
Pacifio Railroad arrived at Omaha on Saturday,
with about 500 passengers.
and Cincinnati. The convention opened in reg
ular form. After toe completion of a commit
tee of one from each State to sqlecttbe time and
place, for the next meeting of toe convention,
■Judge Williams, of Kentucky, offered it resolu
tion. appointing a committee of five, to memori
alize Congress for aid in the remaining obstruct
ions in the Tennessee River and the canal
around the shoals. Referred. A communication
was reoeived-frbm the Memphis and Charleston
Railroad, extending the time for return of dele
gates to the first of June. Under the call of the
States, toe following resolutions were read and
referred together with many not read : That
standing committees hold over until next session,
toe^ohairman of wMch shall have power to cal)
them together at any time, and requesting rail
roads to furnish transportation; asking each
State to hold conventions and appoint delegates
to a general commercial convention; for a com
mittee to ascertain toe expediency of .forming
a permanent convention to meet from time to
time: requesting Southern railroads to hold a
convention for the purpose of establishing immi
gration corporations, and taking means to sys
tematize labor. This was ably supported by
Judge Cole, of Georgia,, and passed under a sus
pension of toe rules; asking aid for the Augusta
and Brunswick railroad; for Government aid to
toe Selma and Memphis railroad; for a commit-.
tee of five to memorialize Congress on all sub
jects indorsed by toe convention, and that Gov
ernor Patton, of Alabama, be chairman.
Governor Patton offered a resolution, wMch
was passed under a suspension of the roles, to
memorialize Congress for toe repeal of the di- -
rect land tax of 1862.
At the expiration of the morning hour, the
report of toe Committee on the Southern Pacific
Railroad was made. The following is the report,
wMch was unanimously adopted, amidst great
applause: •
Mr. President, and Gentlemen of the Conven
tion :
Your committee to whom referred- the mat-.
ters relating to the Pacific Railroad, respectfully
report toe following Tesolutions. for your con
sideration:
Resolved, That in the opinion of this con
vention toe interests of toe whole country, es-.
pecially those of toe Southern States, could be
served by a main trunk railroad line from San
Diego, California, through to Junction River,
Colorado, and Gila, and along toe Valley of
Gila, north of that river, to El Paso; on toe Rio
Grande, and thence to a convenient-central
point near thirty-two degrees parallel latitude
east of Brazos River in toe State of Texas,
from wMch toe main trunk feeder roads should
lead from St. Louis, Cairo,’Memphis, Vicks
burg, New Orleans, and other points, all of
wMch feeder roads having equal rights of con
nection with said main trunk, while similar
feeder roads from San Franoisco, and other
points on the Pacifio coast should- have similar
equal rights of connection.
Resolved, That the President of the Conven
tion be requested to forward a copy of this res
olution to toe President of the United States,
Vice President, Speaker of the House of Repre-.
sentatives, and request them to present the same
to the respective Houses of Congress.
The committee, wMch is-composed of- repre
sentatives from seventeen States, including
three members of Congress, give toe following,
reasons for the report:
First It is toe shortest line connecting the
Gulf of Mexico and toe Valley of the Mississip
pi with toe coast of- toe Pacifio Ocean.
Second. It is toe line wMch should be en
couraged by subscription, and. that said line
should be patronized by the planters and mer
chants of the South, and approving the scheme
inaugurated bfetWeen Norfolk and Liverpool or
ganized at toe Norfolk Convention.
Third. It passes through less inhospitable and
barren country, and over more fertile and hos
pitable lands than any other unoccupied route
proposed.
Fourth. The line is touched by. water trans
portation at three points, affording toe greatest
facilities for construction, and consequently
hastening and cheapening such construction.
Fifth. TMs line will open to the world great
mineral resources, Arizona, Sonora, aad render
more valuable the great stock-raising districts
of Texas, New Mexico and Northern Mexioo,
and will thus enjoy unrivalled traffic.
Sixth. It will inevitably attract numerous
feeders from the neighboring Republio of Mex
ico, and thus not only stimulate enterprise
there, but secure to our sMppingports a greater
portion of bullion wMch now seeks Europe by
hazardous conductors and smuggling vessels.
Seventh. It will open a new cotton-growing
area in Texas, New Mexico and Arizona, in
lands that were useless for lack of facilities for
transportation. •
Eighth. It is well known that some roads
wMch would be among toe feeder roads referred
to in toe resolutions, have not only ’ been pro
jected but are already in active course of con
struction without waiting for Government sub
sidy or encouragement.
Ninth. Last, though not least, toe construction
of thisroute, more than all else besides, encour
age and build up what we feel to be. the great
necessity of toe hour immigration and direct
trade with Europe. Respectfully submitted.
[Signed] Logan H. Roofs,
Chairman.
S. B. Beaumont, Secretary.
Dr. Lindsay, of Alabama, presented a minor
ity report, setting forth toe claims of Charles
ton, New Orleans, Savannah, and Mobile, which
elicited a long debate, participated in by him
self, Colonel Lamb, of Virginia, General Lawton
and Judge Cole, of Georgia, Massey, of Vir
ginia, John Everett, of England, - and others,
until half-past six o’clock, when the convention
adjourned.
Politics in Tennessee.
The following dispatch from Nashville to toe
Louisville Courier- Journal explains the situa
tion in Tennessee:
Nashville, May 22.—Senter and Stokes have
both accepted the nomination of the Radical
Convention wMch never organized. As matters
now stand Stokes has the support of the ma
jority of the negroes, while Senter’s friends
Jiave for their leaders toe young, vigorous, go-
ahead men of toe Republican party in toe
State. The Knoxville Whig and Memphis
Post, in toe eastern and western divisions of the
State, advocate Sector's election, while the
Press and Times of this city is toe Stokes or
gan.
It may be sow stated that Senter’s election
is a foregone conclusion, as Ms present occu
pation of the gubernatorial chair makes
master of the situation. If he should fail to get
a majority of the votes oast, he has absolute
power to throw out the vote of any and every
county in toe State. It was in this way that
Brownl ow always managed to elect Congressmen
and other officials after his own heart.
Tfae Magnificent South.
It is stated that after last year s crop, with
expenses paid, the South retained two hundred
millions in gold. Furthermore, it is announced
that six hundred thousand doltara’ worth of
manufacturing stock has been subscribed for s
cotton mill at Columbus, Gs„ and seventy-one
others are in process of erection at Savannah
and other points in the State for the manufac
ture of cotton and woolen goods.- One factory
at Augusta has a capital of six hundred thou
sand dollars, and last year turned out nearly
six and a half million yards of doth. The Ari
zona cotton factory, established in Claiborne
parish, La., ainee the war, is now paying a het
profit of twenty-four per oent, per annum New
Orleans is aoon to have a cotton mill with ten
thousand spindles; With these auspicious signs
of prosperity before us, are we not warranted
in proclaiming the South as magnificent? Bat
she has scarcely reached the threshold of her
future wealth and grandeur, if her sous stop
bothering themselves about politics and put
their shoulders to the wheel of toe car of roe-
tuns,«iY«w York Herald.
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