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% clIS BY & REID, Proprietors. The Family Journal. News—Politics—Liter ature—Agricultube—-Domestic Affairs. GEORGIA TELEGRAPH BU ESTABLISHED 1826.} 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. jm ' . L. A.: