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Tlie Greoreia "Weeklv Tele^ra/cm. THE TELEGRAPH. MACON, FRIDAY, MAY 28,. 1869. Buying Bonds. Secretary Boutwell, since about the lstinst., has been buying United States bonds with gold, at the rate of about a million dollars per week, and intends to pursue that policy bo long as the Treasury receipts enable him to do it. This plan of paying off the national debt is violently assailed by sonm of the New York financiers: but so would any other plan be attacked, for no movement in this matter is possible which will not tread on somebody’s toes. It certainly appears to be a common sense idea for the gov ernment to retire its interest’ bearing liabilities as fast as it and buy up its own paper .not due at the lowest market price. Most people in debt and desirous to pay up would adopt that identical policy. Let the government do its best in the latter particular, and it will still lose somewhere about fifty per cent, on the consideration for which the bonds were issued. The Southern Bacific Railroad. The Montgomery Mail says the Mobile and New Orleans railroad will undoubtedly become the inital section of the great Southern Pacific route and from thence Eastward, the line must strike across to the splendid harbor of Pensaco la, and thence across West Florida towards Fer- nandina and Brunswick. There is now a rail road from Fernandia and Jacksonville to Quincy, near tho Apalachicola. If West Florida should be ceded to Alabama, and State aid be granted that road under the provision of the treaty, it could be put through immediately to Pensacola and Mobile. The result of this would be of great value to the State of Alabama. Mobile would at once secure every cotton bale she has lost,and send it to Feroandina for transhipment. The Georgia Central Road to Savannah would be completely flanked, and Mobile would com mence a new career of improvement, thereby adding to the taxable property of the State. Willing to Submit to Proper Arbitra tion, but no Ilnmbng. The London Standard of the 18th, in an arti cle on the Alabama treaty, says that the awaiting further expressions from Parliament and Con gress commits the business to indefinite post ponement. England’s sentiments have been clearly pronounced. Sho is still prepared to submit to a proper tribunal the question of wrongs and damages; but any attempt to open tbo controversy on preposterous grounds, what ever the American sentiment may be, is absurd. From this position England can not recede. From South Western Georgia. Mr. Jones, of Wootens Station, reports to us that he has just seen the crops on the line of the South western Railroad from Dougherty county up. They are small and backward, but generally promising and in fine condition. On gray lands the cotton may have suffered a little from the cold weather, but no indication of in jury is visible on the red clay lands. The stands are generally very good and the soil in fine con dition. A ‘good com crop has been planted which is looking well. Negro Exodus from Virginia. Richmond, May 19.—Owing to the extensive • sales of land in small lota to white emigrants, negro laborers are going further South for em. ployment. Over 800 recently left. Hundreds are preparing to follow. A similar movement is reported from North Carolina; and so it may be that white labor competition in the Northern tier of the Southern States may moke negro labor abundant in the South and Southwest The Postmaster of Bacon. The appointment of the negro, Turner, to the Macon Postoffice is one of those acts of which denunciation is as superfluous as it will be unavailing. Every white man in Georgia will feel it to be an insult, and every sensible negro will turn up the whites of bis eyes over it Turner is a carpet-bag mulatto. He came out to Georgia soon after the war, according to common report, In the capacity of a Methodist missionary, 'hut his chief employment in this section has been that of a political drill master among the blacks, under the orders of the cen tral Radical organization in Washington. He is a copper colored mulatto—say almost one-half white, with considerable natural astuteness, some smattering of knowledge, and a large stock of assurance. He. has managed to make a figure in the scurvy politics of Georgia within a year or two past, but if he has any material interest in the State to the value of a dollar, we never heard of it It is to such hands that Gen. Grant (so tho dispatch particularly states) has consigned one of the most important,post offices in Geor gia. We shall not attempt to fathom tho views of public or party policy in which such appoint ments originate; but we shall be content to see them work out their legitimate consequences in Georgia. The administration may think they can build up a party in that way, or can put down “the distinctions on account of color,” by forcing the whites into contact with negro officials, and thus work out a grand social and political amalgam. It is a conception worthy of the Sumners and Creswells, but it is surpris ing that a man of the world like Grant should over fall into it. It is said, however, that the President does not mean to confine these experi ments exclusively to the South, but will insist upon negro incumbents in tho other sections. Well, the faster the administration falls the sooner it will reach bottom. Desperate Savages.—A little party of Indian prisoners at Fort Hayes, Kansas, turned upon their guards. The Chiefs were ordered to re move in care of a guard, from the corral to the guard room, when they gathered in their tents and began the death whoop, and taking out their knives, went; for the soldiers. Cardigan at tacked the sergeant of the guard and was knock ed senseless by a blow with the butt of a mus ket. Sallio, a ferocious squaw, wielding a knife tried to sheath it in the body of an officer, when one of the guard shot her dead. Big Head looked with scorn on the circle of bayonets surroundinghim, and stabbed Sergeant Hanson, dangerously wounding him in the back. A guard shot him dead. Dull Knife tried to stab every one near him, and he was pricked severely by bayonets. He and Cardigan were then disarmed and lodged in the gnard-house. Friend Telegraph : The community notice an infamous letter purporting to be published by that most infamous cut-throat, Turner, stating that Adkins, Ayer and Ashbnm came to their ignoble deaths, not on account of their infamy and violation of the black man’s “ bed,” but because of their politics. The said cut-throat said nothing abont the little girl who was killed by a negro, near Yineville, for two or three dol lars ; said nothing about the boy, poor George Wilson, murdered at Battery 15, Savannah, by a brutal negro, and said nothing about the bru tal murder of poor Sheffield, at the Vineville branch, by three villains, with hearts as black as bis own. Bat tho cut-throat will deny writing any such a letter, and will “ publicly ” wish the newspapers in hell. x Humiliation. Healthiest Cm South.—The Columbus Sun says those who have investigated the subject tell ns that a comparison for ten yers shows that, according to the ratio of population, the Lilia of mortality in Columbus are less than any city in the United States, except Utica, New York. This shows what a heathftil place we have to live in. . - - Orn Maryland exchanges continue to speak hopefully of the growing crops in that State.— The strawberries on tho Eastern shore, it is stated, indicate a large yield. Wheat is looking welL The prospect for peaches is also good, if the frost does not kill them. This is a very critical period for peaches. Wheat is Minnesota.—Dates to the 18th from St Paul state that reports from all parts of Min nesota say that the. wheat crop never looked more promising. A much greater breadth has been sown than ever before. It is stated that in the course of one fomight recently, farm stock to the value of S30,000, consisting of cattle, sheep and horses, has been purchased in the neighborhood of London, on Mormon aocount, for exportation to Utah. THEFnExcn Election.—A Paris dispatch of the 18th says that the election in the vicinity of that city, is likely to result favorably to the op position party, but the general result throughout the country, leaves little hope for that party. One of our friends, who is a little profane, hen he heard of: Turner’s appointment, began curse, but suddenly cheked himself, saying ho would not be able to do justice to the sub- Utah Central Kailboad.—Brigham Young broke ground on the Utah Railroad last Tuesday and expected to complete it by October. The demand for passages to America, is so great at Cork that in some of the shipping of fices the books are closed against new applicants until next month. Mr. J. A Whutle, of Boston, has the largest establishment, and is one of the most successful photographers in tho United States.—Spring- fldd Republican. The Cold Weather and Crops. Tho coolness of the Spring is the subject of universal remarks. It is so extraordinary that everybody is looking for the worst accounts from tho growing crops. Everybody says that wheat and oats cannot possibly be healthy in such weather. It must be that they will take rust and mildew. Com, sir, can’t possibly grow with such nights as we are having. Cotton is bound to be lousy, sore-shinned and rusty. It will not and cannot stand such' weather. This is the talk, and yet the reports from the plantations do not generally bear it out. Com and small grains are in pretty fair condition. Cotton is yet promising—it is not growing fast, but generally speaking the stand fair and the fields are in good order. The fact is, a great deal better farming than usual has so far been done this spring. The farms are in far better order than common. The soil has been much more carefully prepared for cropping. We are pleased to add to this report the universal testimony that the hands on the plantations are doing better than last year, and that really we do not bear the first complaint of them or from them. The relations of labor and capital—employer and employed—seem to be in a very satisfactory condition, and we rejoice to be able to make this statement. But to return to tho weather—it is indeed ex traordinary for this season. Tho average tem perature of our nights cannot be much above fifty, and the atmosphere in the shade is chilly thronghout the day. Crop Xews. Banes Countt.—A friend says, the Athens Watchman, writes U3 that the farmers in Banks are doing finely so far as grain crops are con cerned, bntthat cotton will be almost an entire failure—the late’ cold weather having killed it out to less than half a stand. We regret to hear this. They are not without remedy, how ever. It is not too late to plant com where the stand of cotton is insufficient. A gentleman who traveled across the country from Banks county to Atlanta via Gainesville -and Lawrenceville, last week,, vyritps to the Athens Watchman of the 19 th, that along the the road the wheat prospect is excellent In some neighborhoods in this county, wo re gret to learn, wheat has suffered some injury from that old-time pest, “the fly.” A writer from Dalton to the Constitution says the wheat crop in that section is looking fine, and farmers expect a much larger yield than they have had since the war. It seems to be tbe opinion of a majority of farmers says tbe Rome Courier that therO will not be more than half a crop of wheat made.— The heads are unusually short. In aome localities fruit is all killed, while in other sections of the county there will bo a full crop. Tho Columbus Enquirer S3ys: Planters re* port dead and rusty cotton. Com is said to be doing well, and wheat and oats also. International Congress of Societies For Aiding the Sick and Wounded. Editors Telegraph :—On the 27th of April tho last sitting of the International CongTess of so cieties for aiding the sick and wounded in war took placo in Berlin. As soon a3 the members were assembled, a telegram was addressed to Miss Nightingale, who had, by sickness, been prevented from beingpresent. The subjects pro posed for consideration were of only subordinate interest, snch as the position of the societies with regard to the order of St. John, the neu trality of the various mineral baths in Europe, the founding of an International Journal, &c. After a proposal had been brought forward and adopted, that tho Conference should be held alternately every two years in one of tho countries in which central committies are exist ing, Vienna was chosen for the meeting-place of tho noxt Congress. . An announcement was then made that the Prussian Central Commit tee had offered a prize of a hundred Friedrichs d’or, (abont $550,) for tho best treatise on the most effectual means of affording voluntary as sistance in sea-battles, to be based on the latest experience in naval warfare. Competitors will have to send in their essays, which may bo written in German, French or English, before tho first of May, 18C9. The Congress was then dissolved. The Queen and Crown-Princess of Prussia were present at nearly every sitting. It was a cause of universal regret that the United States of America was not represented in the Congress. A resolution was, however, adopted that a report of the proceedings of the Assembly should be forwarded to tbe American Government. Jarno. From Quitman County. Georgetown, Ga., May 19th, 1869. Editors Telegraph: Coin, wheat and oat crops look well here. Cotton affected as else where by the cold weather. Labor plentiful and the planters say they have no trouble with tbe laborers since thathumbngand curse, tho Freed man’s Bureau was abolished. The Superior Court is in session, Hon. D. B. Harrell is very well liked and keeps tho best of order, in the court room. Dull court,' farm ers busy at home. Lawyers abundant for all business. Georgetown is a nice village two! miles from Eufatda and reputed very healthy. ] ___ Tbaveeee. Northern capitalists are great people in the ■ South now. A company of these folks are about 1 "to erect an immense hotel at one of the Lake Shore watering places on the line of the New ? Orleans, Mobilo and Chattanooga Railroad, which is to cost $500,000. It is to rival any ho tel in this city, and is to be opened in lime for the first train of the Chattanooga Railroad.— A'. F. Express. .. Memphis Convention. Memphis, May 18:—The weather to-day-was cool and pleasant, and everything conspired to make the opening day of the Commercial Con vention anspidou*. After assembling at head quarters on Adams Street, a procession of dele gates was formed, who marched, preceded by a band, to the opera house, which was handsome ly deoorated and festooned with evergreens and flags. On an arch over the stage was inscribed, “Memphis welcomes her guests.” On the right and left of the stage were a miniature locomo tive and steamboat. Underneath the latter was suspended a section of the Atlantic cable. Irfwig before twelve o'clock, the tqipointed hour, the house was crowded with delegates and visitors, who were , regaled with national airs. Promptly at that honr the convention was called to order by W. H. Cherry, Chairman of the Memphis Chamber of Commerce, after which an appropriate prayer was offered by Bishop Pearce, of Georgia, which was followed by an official welcome by Mayor Lef twitch, at the con- < elusion of which Governor R. M. Patton, of Al- I abama. was nominated by acclamation as tem porary Chairman, and W. R. Moore, of Mem' phis, as temporary Secretary. On motion of Hon. Erastn3 Wells, of Mis souri, a committee on permanent organization was appointed by a call of States, the chairman of each delegation announcing the name as the State was called. On a call of States, the fol lowing responded; North Carolina. Missouri, Iowa, Alabama, Qhio, Virginia, Indiana, Mis sissippi, Georgia, Arkansas, West Virginia, Louisiana, South Carolina, Tennessee, Califor nia, New York and Kentucky. After the committee had retired, Hon. J. W. Clapp, of Memphis, delivered the welcome ad dress, which was heartily applauded. The Con vention then adjourned until 4 p.m. On reassembling in the afternoon, after some discussion, the Committee on Credentials was discharged, and on motion all who had received invitations from the Memphis Chamber of Com merce were declared eligible to seats on the floor. Mr. Trezevant, of Memphis, asked leave to read a letter from from General Lee, which was granted amidst tumultuous applause. He re gretted his inability to present at the meeting for the building up of the shattered fortunes of the country, and expressed the greatest sympa thy and interest in the movement. The reading of tho letter was received with renewed applanse. It was ordered to be spread on tho minutes. A committee of one from each State was then appointed on permanent organization. It was then moved that Senators Sprague and Fowler, Gen. Halstead and Gen. Kirby Smith be invited to seats on the floor. Carried. Loud calls were made for Sprague, but it was ascertained that he was not in the room, and, in response to a call, Senator Fowler addressed the Convention at some length, urging the import ance of harmony and -fraternal feeling in the work of tho Convention, and also the paramount importance of the subjects to bo considered— particularly, leveeing the Mississippi, reforming the labor system of the South, and building a railroad to tbe Pacific which could be used at all seasons of tho year. He then gave way to the Committee on Per manent Organization, who announced the fol lowing as permanent officers : General Charles D. Anderson, of Kentucky, formerly Lieutenant Governor of Ohio, Chairman; Erastus Wells, of Missouri, General A. R. Lawton, of Ga., George H. Walters, S. C., W. EL Cherry, Tenn., Frank C. Morohead, N. Y., Gov. R. M. Patton, Ala., Col. W. H. Gatewood, California. J. B. Haldeman, West Va., George W. Sappingfon, Arkansas, Dr. Taaf, Iowa, J. M. Reakirt, Ohio, Hamilton Smith, Indiana. Warren Mitchell, Kentucky, W. B. Isaacs, Virginia, Dr. J. A. Noyes, Louisiana, A. M. Clayton, Mississippi, Vice-Presidents; W. H. Fitch, of Memphis, Secretary, and members of the press as assist ants. Governor Foote and Judge Williams, of New York, were appointed a committee to conduct General Anderson to the chair, who, after being introduced by Governor Patton, returned thanks for the honor, and touched upon the duties of the Convention and the work before it, which brought rounds of applanse. After adopting a rule to meet hereafter at 9 a. m. and 3 p. m., tho Convention adjourned. The city is full of strangers, and every train arriving is crowded. Everything indicates a harmonious Convention, as, notwithstanding many antagonistic interests are to be subserved, the best feeling prevails. Annexation ot Wes* Florida to Ala bama- Tho Montgomery Mail of Wednesday states tho conditions thus: The items agreed upon are iu substance as follows:. - i •-•, lit 1st. Conveys to tbe State of Alabama all tho country in tho State of Florida lying we3t of the Apalachicola River. 2d. Conveys to the State of Alabama all tbe public lands in West Florida, which consist of what is known as the Seminary lands, tho 10th section lands, and swamp and overflowed lands, amounting in round numbers to nbout 1,500,000 acres. These lands the State of Alabama takes subject to the trusts now imposed upon them, which trusts are for the benefit of West Florida exclusively, for purposes of schools and internal improvements. The State of Florida has author ity to appropriate these lands for tho purposes of the trust until the annexation is complete, and guarantees the title to the State of Alabama perfectly free and unembarrassed. 3d. The State of Alabama, upon the consum mation of annexation, executes its bonds to the State of Florida for one million of dollars, pay able (within thirty years, at eight per cent, in terest. 4th. Tho officers of West Florida retain their offices until the expiration of their terms. 5th. The Governors of the two States shall, within sixty days after the assent of Congress is given to this transfer, issue their proclamations declaring that jurisdiction over the ceded terri tory has been transferred to the State of Ala bama. Cth. Relates to tbe jurisdiction of the courts of West Florida, as it may be affected by the laws of Alabama. 7th. A railroad from tho Apalachicola Riyer to Pensacola, or to some point on the Mont gomery and Mobile Railroad, shall be entitled to the benefit of the endorsement law of the State of Alabama, ($10,000 per mile.) Stk. The Savannah and Gulf Railroad shall not receive permission from the State of Ala bama, within three years, to pass across the ceded territory. 9th. This agreement has no force until it shall have been ratified by competent authority of the States of Alabama and Florida, and by Congress. Something over 1,200,000 acres of tho public lands mentioned in the second item, are swamp and overflowed lands and internal improvement lands, which were carefully selected, and are said to be very valuable. The State of Florida receives five per cent, of the proceeds of the sale of all Government lands within its borders. This per cent, upon the Government lands in West Florida is trans ferred to Alabama. Under an imperfect revenue law, the rev enues realized last year from the teritory pro posed to be ceded, nmounted to $31,000. A more perfect law would have brought, perhaps, $50,000. But as it was the rate of taxation of Alabama being higher than that of Florida, tho sum realized under our laws would have been abont $30,750. The area of the counties of West Florida is 10,000 square miles, with a shore lino on the Golf of Mexico of about 180 miles. Their pro ductions are cotton, corn, rice, tobacco, sugar, molasses and lumber. Besides Apalachicola Bay, which is very much like Mobile Bay, there are three others harbors of note in West Flori da, viz.: Pensacola, the most commodious on tho Gulf, and easy of approach and entrance by vessels drawing 24 feet water; St. Joseph, and St. Andrews, both excellent harbors, and acces sible by vessels drawing 16 feet. Information Desired from Southern Pojio- logists.—The Fruit Committee of the American Pomological Society, at its recent session in New York city, adopted tho following, resolu tion:^ Resolved, That the Secretary (F. R. Elliott, Cleveland, Ohio,) be requested to solicit from Southern Fomologists snch information as will enable.tho Society to prepare the Southern sec tion or division of the Society’s. Catalogue, and that such information be transmitted to him before the next meeting at Philadelpliin. To Cube Bund-staggers.—The foil owing cure for the “ blind-staggers” is said, by Gen- Biamp- ton, to be infallible : “Measure a stick from the nostril to the inner comer of the eye so as not to have it too long; sharpen well and run it up the nostril, twisting it around once or twice, so as to moke the nose Lleed freely, and it will give instant relief. This remedy is so simple—the material being always in hand—that we consider it invaluable to farm ers and horsemen.” f, • / < \ Gen. firont as President. FroaI (lie Nrw York IVorW.l Since twelve o’clock on March 4 th, 1869, Mr. Grant has, in characteristics, been wholly another sort of man than he was in any of his previous relations. In classification he should, I think, be called the Leaning President, for he has in every act reposed on some one- for assistance, direction, and support. He leaned upon Senator Morton when he wanted the tenure-of-office law re pealed. He then leaned on Mr. Conkling when he accepted the modification of the law. He leaned on Mr. Washbume in the original draft of his Cabinet. He leaned on the Foreign Re lations Committee of the Senate when they.told him to nominate Mr. Motley to England. He leaned on John A Griswold and Jackson S. Shultz when ho nominated Mr. Jay to Vienna. He leaned on Mayor Bowen in making tho Washington appointments. He leaned on the politicians when he selected Mr. BoutweD. He leaned on Senator Fenton in nominating Gen erals Merritt and Cornel, and on the Union League in nominating Mr. Grinnell, and on Horace Greeley in commissioning Postmaster Patrick Jones. He leans on General Banks in reference to Cuba, and for some time has been leaning on Mr. Sumner in reference to our Eng lish affaire. Indeed, in every act which has been done by the President he has_ leaned upon somebody, and, unfortunately, like most men who do not move, but who are moved, be has been cursed by bad helpers. In this city, where the admin istration is enacting, the personal aspects with which every incident, every determination and every appointment is invested become real and graphic to the eye. What at distance seems an executive act is here known to be a Banks act, a Fenton act, a Sumner act, according as tbo case may be. This suppression of the individu- ality of Jha President is attributed here to three things ftbrutter civil inexperience of the Chief Magistrate, his sensitive and exaggerated idea of tho intricacy and delicacy of Ins duties, and his unconditional surrender to the furious onset of the politicians, which they made upon him after his merely verbal assumption of independ ence in his inaugural. Consequently, at this period the President receives really more sym pathy than criticism, now that his self helpless ness is so well understood, and the remorseless servitude iu which he is held appreciated. It almost passes realization to seo the contrast be tween the energetic, self-contained General and the badgered, headless, exhausted, confined President. The pitiable plight of General Grant is a complete argument supplied to all novices against allowing greatness to be thrust upon then. To become the comedy which he is, even to tie heartless humor of the party he plays for, tho tragedy of his past has been made by com parison truly awful and heart-rending. LOOKING AHEAD. Seeing what a drifting, purposeless adminis tration it is, tho more sagacious men of the par ty aie intent on trying to make capital for it ul timately, (in time for 1872,) by sinking the re collections and the scandals of the detailed acts beneath the eclat which is to be caught in one or tvo general successes for which they are la boring. Tacitly, to Mr. Fessenden, Mr. Bout- well, Mr. Morton, Mr. Trumbull, and Mr. Fish, have been committed tho mines which are to be sprang during the last years of the administra tion. Mr. Fessenden is Chairman of the Sen ate Committee on Appropriations. Ho is to work to cut down the estimates of the appro priation bills, so as to run the government as cheaply as possible. He is to play the econ omy card- The Secretary of tho Treasury, by hook or crook, is so to fix matters as really or ostensibly to provide for a resumption of specie payments, and a reduction of the taxes wi.hin his term. He is to play the debt- decreasing, corruption-smashing, hard-money canh To Mr. Morton is assigned the odor ous task of taking the negro out of pol ities. His now condition of reconstruction, thit the excluded States shall ratify(?) the fif teenth amendment is to be played by him os the equal rights card. Mr. Trumbull, Chairman of th* Judiciary Committee, is to have the Consti tutions of the reorganizing States to pass upon prior to their admission. These the kindness of his own nature and the policy of tho party are considerably to eliminate of their proscriptive cast and bias. His is to bo the amnesty-card. Ml Fish is to settle, if possible, onr Alabama claims, and to watch the shade of Manifest Des tiny and Monroe Doctrine, so that at tho ripo moment Canada and Cuba can be annexed by the general or procured wishes of their people. Besides, by having robust integrity and conceded sense, as well as culture and gifts, ho is to be retained as the solitary oasis in tho most Desert Cabinet ever convened in this capital. These gentlemen will labor assiduously and intelli gently to be up in their parts. If they succeed the whole fa to be called “ general results of the administration,” and on these “ general results” will the .administration go before the country with a'grett blare for re-election, in 1872. ... McK. What Coolie Labor Can Do. At last the people of this country are com mencing tp awake to the imminence of the im pending labor revolution, consequent upon tho completion of tho Pacifio Railway. The ap pearance of the Mongolian petticoat on tho streets of the Eastern cities has provoked an examination, and an excitement akin to alarm is l'tpidly spreading in regard to impend ing invasion. All agree that Coolie labor is tho cheapest in the world, and wherever it goes must rise in the ascendant. It also has been discovered that its intelligence has hitherto been greatly underrated. Among other accomplish ments, it has built ^he Pacifio Railway, tunneled the Sierra Nevada, graded and paved the streets of the California cities, usurped all employment belonging to women, such as chambermaids, dressmakers and washwomen, set types for the newspapers, driven out the French cooks, su perseded white labor in shoemaking, tailoring carpentering, ship building, running steam en gines, cigar making and butchering. In short, every trade and mechanical profession has been rendered unprofitable to white labor wherever the Coolie has appeared, as he always does in droves. Low as we have been led to regard tho wages in England and France, they aro princely in comparison with what tho Coolie will work for. "What the white and black races throw away he will grow rich upon. This accounts for the rapid progress of manufactures and agriculture in California, as well aB for the suffering grow ing out of the bitter feelings entertained toward the Chinese. "We axe now called upon to under- jo the same experience, but need not fear it, or where the cities will suffer to somo extent the country will open like a blooming rose and march with giant strides toward that prosperity which is now only the dream of the more hope ful. Of one thing we may be assured in ad vance of this Asiatic invasion, that the old American boast that our operatives wero the best feed, best clothed and best paid in thb world, will soon be a reminiscence of tho post. [Weio Orleans Times. The Methodist Churches, North null South—Their Reunion. St. Louis, May 17. — The communications which were exchanged between the Collego of Bishops of the Methodist Church, which met in thiB city some days since, and Bishops Janes and Simpson, a deputation representing the Board of Bishops of tho Methodist Church late ly in session at Meadville, Penn, aro published. The communications relate to a general and full reunion of tho churches separated by tbe formal not of both in 1844. Ttys reply of the Southern Bishops does not entertain the question of the reunion of the two bodies under one jurisdiction as previous to the separation in 1844. It asserts that fraternal relations must first be restored before, if at all, such a proposition can be en- tained. These fraternal relations cannot bo re stored except on an overture by the Northern General Conference, upon the basis of the plan of separation of 1844, implying nn abandon ment by the General Conference North of the whole ground assumed in the General Confer ence in 1848, at Pittsburg, which assumed that the separation was a schism and secession upon the part of the Southern Church, and implying also that the aggressions, as charged by the Southern Churches should cease. The South ern Bishops also deny the statementthat slavery was the cause, and assert that it was only tho occasion of the separation in 1841; that it sim ply was the subject which occasioned the asser tion by the Northern members of the General Conference of 1844 of authority to legislate up on secular questions and concerning the civil in stitutions of the country. Negroes Going Westward. -On Monday last about forty negroes, consisting of families and persons, who were bom free, passed through this city, on the M. <fc C. Railroad, bound for Arkansas. They were from Burke county, North Carolina. We conversed with one of them, an old man, who seemed to be the patriarch of the company. He told us that they could get plenty of work in North Carolina, but it was not sufficiently remunerative, and they were seeking a country where they coiild get better pay for their labor.—Huntsville Dem ocrat. " '.rAfRR JBY TELEGRAPH. From Washington. Washington, May 90.—The President baa ap pointed J. E. Bryant Postmaster of Augusta,'Ga., vice Blodgett suspended, and Rev. H. M. Turner, colored, Postmaster of Macon, Ga., vice Washington suspended. Brevet Brigadier General W. Krazisowiski has been appointed supervisor of internal revenue for Georgia, Alabama and Florida. The general impression is that Motley’s instruc tions aro very pacific, but non-committal. Bingham will accompany the Sub-Judiciary Com mittee to Mobile to take evidence in BuBteed’a case. Boutwell directs the Assistant Treasurer at New York to sell two, instead of one million in gold, weekly, until further orders. La Rientree, for some time acting Consul at Ha vana, has arrived. He represents tho prospects of tho Cubans as very far from unpromising. La Rientree had an interview with the President to-day. Revenue, to-day, $856,000. The President had a long interview with Boutwell, at the Treasury Department, to-day. Col. Dewitt Clinton leaves for Atlanta, as Judge Advocate for the Department of the South. Boutwell directs Collectors of Customs to discon tinue the collection of discriminative tonnage duties on Spanish vessels from Cuba and Porto Rico. Customs from the 10th to tbe 15th instant, 63,- 500,000. Minor K. Kellogg, the American painter, will de liver the opening address of the Corcoran Art Build ing. The Cuban correspondence by tbe steamer Colum bia. dated Neuvetas, 11th, contains the announce ment that a republican government has been fully organized by the insurgents in Cuba. Cespedes was elected President, AquillaVico Pres ident, and Quesada Commander-in-Chief of all tho forces. President Cespedes’ inaugural address is publish ed ; also, his farewell address in resigning his pro visional authority. Commercial Convention. Memphis, May 20.—Delegates to the Commercial Convention hero continue to arrive. They now number nearly eleven hundred. The follow ing resolutions were read and referred: The Standing Committees to hold over until the next session, the respective chairmen having power to call them together at any timo; asking each State to hold a convention and appoint ten dele gates to a general convention; instructing the com mittee to ascertain the expediency of forming a peimancnt convention, to meet from time to time; requesting Southern railroads to hold a convention for establishing emigration; co-operation and taking means to systematize labor; asking aid for the Au gusta and Brunswick Railroad, and Selma and Mem phis Road; organizing a committee of five to dem oralize Congress on all subjects endorsed by the Convention. Gov. Patton offered a resolution which passed, under suspension of tho rules, to memorialize Con gress for a repeal of the direct land tax of 1862. The Committee on the Southern Pacific Railroad reported that in their opinion this Convention in terests the whole country; especially these Southern States could be served by the main trunk railroad lino from San Diego. California, through Pinchbar river, Colorado and Gile rivers, and along the valley of the Gile south to El Psbo, to the Rio Grande, and thence to a convenient central point near tho 32d parallel east of the Brazos river, from which point tho main trunk feeders should lead from St. Louis, Memphis, New Orleans, and other points. Adopted unanimously. From South. Carolina. Charleston, May 20.—The Radical City Council, recently installed by a decision of the courts, is now holding nightly sessions, the proceedings of which are of tho most violent and disgraceful character. TLe majority of thebodyare seeking, by ordinances, to strip Pillsbury—the new Radical Mayor—of his powers and the right to appoint, in order that they may exercise unchecked control of the city offices. The meeting last night closed in arow, in the course of which tho Aldermen cursed each other soundly and indulged in bloody personal threats. The dis order is confined to the whites, the negro Aider- men behaving with comparative decorum. There is to be another meeting to-night. General News. St. Louis, May 20.—Tho delegations from the Merchants’ Exchango and Board of Trade to the Now Orleans Commercial Convention, leaves to morrow. Cincinnati. May 20.—D. N. Stanton, of Boston, President of tho Wills Valley Railroad from Chatta nooga to Meridian, Mississippi, is here to-day, with an important proposition to Southern Railroads. Memphis, May 20.—Yesterday. Senator Spraguo addressed the Convention, opposing free trade and denunciatoiy of centralization of capital as at New York. Committees will report to-morrow. A letter from General Lee was received with im mense applause—renewed again and again, Boston, May 20. — Wileon addressed the eight hour league to-day, and held that the intention of Congres was, that workmen should have full pay for eight hours’ work. He favored the co-opera tive association. Tire Boston Peace Festival. When we all first heard of Mr. Gilmore s peace festival, we all laughed. His cannon, his bells, his chorus of twenty thousand, his mam moth orchestra, all seemed incredible; his sixty anvils seemed incredulous. Some shook then heads, and said he was crazy; some winked knowingly, and suggested a colossal swindle; some got angry about the matter and swore; but the general publio laughed. Now, however, the gnu which spread from Maine to the Mississippi is gradually fading away from the publio countenance; this know ing wink has died out, and is replaced by large, round eyes of wonder. The heads have stop ped their significant nods, and the entire thirty- seven States are looking anxiously towards “little Boston” to catch the echo from the stu- peuduous musical event she is about to inaugur ate. The fact is, that the jubilee is going to be a good thing. The immense building that is to hold the audience of fifty thousand, is rapidly going up; the vocal societies throughout the length and breadth of New England are hard at work at the grand choruses, drilling in squads of twenties, battallions of hundreds, and regi ments of thousands; the whole community has suddenly become vocal, and the mightiest cho rus that ever was gathered together is soon to be heard among us. How will they sing ? Can there possibly be any unity or precision of time in such an immense mass ? Will tho effect be soul-inspiring, or simply ear-splitting? Will there be any music about it, or wilt it be merely a great bewildering chaos of sound ? These are the questions that are now asked, and which cannot be answered till the 15th day of June. We have our donbts about the can non, our serious misgivings about the bells, and are nearly hopeless on the anvil question. But there is a might and majesty about the human voice when heard in great choral masses more deeply moving than any other sound, more majestic than Niagara, more terrible than the roar of avalanches, more awe-inspiring than Motley. Editors Teiegrpph: The ebpeeponaea, leading German pSper in London draws th ^ lowing sketch of Mr. Motley, the ^ minister at the Court of 81 James. Motley, says the correspondent, is , deliberate as Adams, nor does he en friendly feeling* toward England as 2^ Johnson. Having the honor of knowing J believe that his noble and fiery nature i,~' adapted to bring the Alabama different ,1 speedy solution, or to leave them ent-y f statu quo. He would never consent to exert his d. efforts only "with a view to delay ne» while they should appear to progress He was very much pleased with ; he sojourned as ’a guest in this < was shortly before he went as Vienna, at the time when the first of his “ History of the Netherlands” lished, before the outbreak of the great i can civil war. Motley and his amial! e * were hospitably received in the most i cles in London; the first statesmen and " letters, the oldest aristocratic families c his friendship; he was, during then-hole! mer, the “lion of the season”—and t’-;" . became the handsome, stately man, ^ But, when I saw him afterwards apt';.*} enna, he was very much embittered land, especially against the English j sympathizing with the Confederate StjJ- sidered the downfall of the great Repnix * inevitable event to occnr, and preached" doubtful neutrality or an open recognition^ South. So enraged wa3 Motley , even the thunders of heaven. The effect is one against England that no English news*, impossible to be described, but all those who l . f . _„ 0 „ f . . : , ew> PV have once beard great choral forces of to pass the threshold of the hotel sands bear witness to its mighty influence. At [American Embassy in Vienna. He rather what numerical point this effect reaches its for the American papers, or satisfied maximum has never been satisfactorily decided. The Boston festival will help to solve this ques tion. The Prospero who, by the simple magio of his . own energy, has conjured up this musical hur ricane that is sweeping over New England is Mr. Gilmore. He has borne bravely all the op position that his scheme met with, and by un ceasing labor surmounted every difficulty. If he succeeds, as we heartily hope that he may, he will have made for himself an honorable and historic name in the musical records of his coun try.—New York Sun. Remarkable Prophecy. From the New York Jftyr—i.J Some six years before the Federal Constitu tion was adopted, a remarkable prophecy was uttered under the following related circum stances : “In 1780, Henry Laurens, former President of the Continental Congress, was sent as Minis ter to Holland. On his way he was captured and imprisoned in the Tower of London for fonrteen months. When Lord Shelburne became Pre mier, Laurens was brought up on habeas corpus and released. After his release, be dined with Lord Shelburne, when tbe conversation turned on the separation of the two countries. Lord Shelburne remarked: * I am sorry for your peo ple. ’ * Why so ?’ asked Laurens. * They will lose the writ of habeas corpus,’ was the reply. ‘ Lose the writ of habeas corpus ?’ said Laurens in astonishment. * Yes,’ said Lord Shelburne; ‘we purchased it with centuries of wrangling, many years of fighting, and had it confirmed by tious Eeaso _ TJntil the uresent . at-least fifty acts of ParUament. All this taught ‘ vealher has been positively wiffirv,, fhn Tiarmn i ro vo ma • onrI if ia cn irmro in art mrn - . . * N with the scanty telegrams of the Vienna« He did not wish to know anything ; opinions of the English press; nay, not e discussions of the English Parliament*; lead, “for,” said he, “ they could not aj- any way, the fate of the Union, and he*/ fectly assured as to the issue of the \rai.~ But he was pleased with the language I German press, that always defended tfa, of the Union, and he preserved hfa coc J of mind to continue the “History of the yi lands,” while the civil war of his county full blaze. He stayed since, on his voyage froall to New York, a short time iu EsgV;l whether his wrath against Albion has • or whether it is still living in his soul, I e ble to decide. Items from the Cuthbert .4pp Discouraging Crop Prospects.—On a complaints come pouring in of bad Sc cotton, and the continued dying cf i weed. The grey and sandy lands especially trl fered, and many farmers are replasif where seed is scarce supplying the brei com or peas. The plant looks feeble and diseased, c continue to perish for several weeks tc| We have never seen thus far a more: the nation its value; and it is so ingrained into their creed as the very foundation of liberty that no man or party will ever dare to trample on it. Your people will pick it up and attempt to use it; but, having cost them nothing, they will not know how to appreciate it At tho first great frosts have been experienced time and* Gentle showers and warm nights i dispensable to future success. The; for an average yield is far from flatter":! ,, . .. - , Avother Settler.—A gentleman f: internal feud you have, tho majority will tram- j Jersey, purchased last week the Wilsa pie upon it, and tho people will permit it to be situated on tho line of the South-westeu done, and so will go your liberty. ” This is the conclusion arrived at by the dis tinguished writer quoted yesterday in the Ex press, and a prediction often stated in our col umns during the past seven years. When a peo ple, without even & protest, seo whole States dis franchised in time of peace, the ballot taken ; that the best class of Northern nien-il. from hundreds of thousands of intelligent white j involved by political affiliations-are to men and given to hundreds of thousands of ne-1 not to pay Forney’s land office comrissicl groes, when suffrage and majorities are wrested i to be frightened by credulous Greeleyi by military force and Radical usurpation from _Chronicle «£ Sentinel whole States—as in West Virginia, North Caro- Road for $6,000, not having the feat W. Forney before hiB eyes, nor the Ku£j of Horace Greely’s Tribune in his eaa needless to say that this bold advenfo.-e ding to Forney and Greeley, is quietlyjd with his family in his new home. Tie i Foreign News. Dublin, May 20.—An ugly riot has occurred in Tralee. Tbe police interfered, when both parties attacked tho police, who fired on the people. Many were hurt. Three policemen wounded—one fatally. Madrid, May 20.—Dispatches announce two thou sand adherents to Queen Isabella, atFerssiguan, in France, nearly ready to cross the frontier. The Government is taking measures to prevent invasion, if possible. From tbe Atlanta Outrage Factory. ANOTHER-MEMBER OF THE GEORGIA LEGISLATURE ASSASSINATED—MURDER OF MR. ADKINS' COACH DRIVES. By telegraph to the Tritune.] Atlanta, May 16.—Reliable information re ceived hero announces the murder, some weeks ago, in Jefferson county, of the Hon. Alexander Stone, ono of the expelled members of the Georgia Legislature for the same county which Dr. Ayer represented. Last week the colored man who drove the carriage of the Hon. Joseph Adkins when that gentleman was nssassinated, having received intimations that his life was in danger, fled from Warren county, but when near Thomp son’s Station was met and murdered by a band of Ku-Klux. The “Hon. Alexander Stone,” in this case, is one of the members of tho Georgia Legislature disqualified on account of color. If he is “murdered” the information has not reached us. We believe the dispatch is a pure fabrica tion. The Crevasses. New Orleans dates of the 18th state that a break had just occurred in tbe grand levee in the Parish of Fointo Conpie, half a mile above the repairs jnst completed, at great expense, of tbe crevasse which has flooded so large a portion of West Louisiana the last two years.. The pres ent break does not threaten to do so much dam age as the previous one, the levee being some distance from the river’s edge, and the water at the break being only six feet deep, though 150 yards wide ; but from tbe high stage of the wa ter, it will be difficult, if not impossible, to dose it for some time to come. The work on ViUiere crevasse, in St. Bernard Parish, has been aban doned as hopeless. The break is now several hundred feet wide and of great depth, the water sweeping uninterruptedly back to the lakes. The Macon correspondent of tho Baltimore Sun thinks Macon is a lovely place. (Truth.) Hear him: Tho city of Macon is one of the handsomest in the South. Its streets are as wide as Broad way in Baltimore, its houses generally surround ed by gardens, except on several business blocks, its soil sandy, its sidewalks shaded with trees, and its entire aspect exceedingly pleasant to a stranger who has come from the narrow, brick-lined thoroughfares of Baltimore. The people are courteous and intelligent, and its op portunities for enterprise good. -w Bismarck lately said in reply to some English critics on his polioy, “If I were an Abyssinian or a Hindoo, or even an American, I might perhaps care what England thinks. But being a European, I do not care." lina, South Carolina, Alabama, Arkansas and Florida—and, as from 1864 to 1868, when there is a quiet acquiescence in tbe mode and result of such transactions, tho prophecy made io Laurens, eighty-eight years since, has simply- become history. The United States Constitu tion, in its guarantees of personal liberty, was founded upon the Magna Charta of onr British ancestors, and wo have seen it trampled under foot more times than the years which have pass ed since 1730. It is both our fault and onr mis fortune that this has been done—that a frag mentary Congress has mastered the Federal Ex ecutive, upset the Federal Judiciary, and often imprisoned without- trial, tried without jury, condemned without a hearing, and heard with out reason or justice. When Rome fell it was because it disregarded the rights of Roman cit izens, and the autonomy of Roman States. A Juvenile Romauce. From the Springfield tlepublicaa.] Two children who worked in one of the Chi copee factories, Eli Goodro, fifteen years old, and Louisa Stebbins, fonrteen, fell downright into love so deep that they determined, with an utter contempt of consequences, to go and get married, as grown folks do. Chicop.ee and clerks and clergy very sternly and sensibly refused to grant marriage certificate or ceremony, where upon the decided youth came to this city and obtained both. The Palmer Journal says the civil sanction was obtained from the City Clerk, and the religious from the Rev. Dr. Ide. At all events, they were successful in their visit, and started for Thomkike, there to spend the honey moon until Louisa’s parents should forgive them. They got as far as Palmer on Wednes day evening, and spent tho night in the depot— certainly a very elegant bridal chamber. But on Thursday morning the parental Stebbinses bore down upon them ere the Thorndike craft hove in sight, and captured outward bound ad venturers. They wanted to separate the bold babies, but though Lousia, disheartened by tho meagre outset of the voyage, was willing to baud off, Eli remarked defiantly that they had been and gone and done it, and what did they mean to do abont it ? Impressed by his view of the case, and by the advice of a Palmer justice to make the best of it, tho parents relented, and conveyed the precious pair home, triumphantly happy. But we shouldn’t like to have the re sponsibility of sanctioning the absurd transac tion. Northern Immigrants.—The Athens Watch man of tho 19th says: By a letter received from him by a citizen of our town, we learn that Mr. Mills, the gentleman from New Hampshire who purchased lands in this county some time ago, will return with his family about the first of June. We are pleased to leam-that he is delighted with the South, and we have little donbt that the favorable account of our country and people which he carried back to his Northern home will indace many others to “cast their lot among us.” Let them come, as many as will, of the right kind, and they will find afeeap lands and comfortable homes among us. Fire in Washington, Wilkes Countx.—There was a destructive fire here on last Sunday morn ing, between one and two o’clock—the burning of a very important steam mill, and also the machine and workshops attached, the property of Messrs. W. F. Keongh & Co., which is a heavy loss to the town. Mr. John Keough, who was sleeping in the building at the time, barely escaped the flames, somo of the clothing which he had on having caught fire. Everything was destroyed. The loss is estimated at about $5000 or $6000. There was no insurance. It is not fully known yet whether it was the work of an incendiary or not, but it Is strongly believed to have been.—Cor. Constitutionalist. The French Emperor.—On Tuesday the Em peror completed his Gist year. I saw him on Saturday last as he rode down the lines of the troops which were being reviewed in the Court of the Tnileries, and never observed him look better. He was fresh, had none of that care worn expression which, six months ago, gava rise to so anxious surmises; he rode his charger with ease, and seemed in the best of spirits and full of energy. 11 a len de Fean de la fontaine de Joucence. He feels certain of the elections; he has rallied publio opinion to him by the ex cesses of some of those Jacobin reunions, and his letter recommending that the vieux debris of the army of the First Empire be pensioned— some 20,000 soldiers—so as to give each brave not less than two hundred and fifty francs * year, has added to his popularity. ' The Brunswick End of the Macon and| wick Railroad.—A correspondent of i dosta Times, writing from the jnnctioj five hundred hands are at work on the Bn end of the Macon and Brunswick EaibtJ that it will be completedto the Gulf lbs: J middle of June. The same writer t’Jr whole line will be completed in Nowrtl-j Another Murder and Robberr-IIt.! Hardeman, a highly respectable citizen f thorpe county, while on his way to Daj last week, was shot and his throat est a is supposed, produced instant death, formant states that he had $1,500 xithb it is supposed was murdered for Msii clue as yet to the perpetrators of thisa Athens Watchman 19fA the 1 Sandwich Islands. Honolulu advices report that favor of annexation to the United idly extending through the islands, the past have stood by the King ail now openly announce themselves aso annexation. It would not be at all were the Sandwich Islands, which, Ij pletion of the Pacifio Railroad, are tw comparatively near communication ' York, to be knocking at the door o.' for admission within a short time, t population of tho islands continuesM decrease before the inroads of disease. 1 ics and criminality. In 1832 the rise tion of the group was 130,313, <d**“ were foreigners. Since that tto.", population has diminished over cent., while the foreigners have ms" one hundred and fourteen percent- eial Advertiser. The McMillan Velocipede.--^; I lian our "Watchmaker and Jeweler. an improvement of velocipedes ^ has received a patent, and it fa work a revolution in these machine* The superiority of these over fa chines, is, that they can be proj*-^ feet or hands and can be made or over a rough road. They are^r for one, two or three persons, fa u , propel it at the same time. Onk^r feet only are use, but going are brought into requisition. L- ; ^ with either three of four wheels. j left for New York on Sunday rig 251 ”! est of his invention. . ^ \ We will say something more ol j in the future.—Greenville AiF'"*" Clover in Atlanta.—Th* We walked out yesterday tosce^j ver, owned by George Johnson. # ralspring. We wore astonish*!-, rally poor hill growing such j 153 -n To-day, the poor worn hills *■ many of them, have volunteer .. upon them, and yet at every deF/ ■ Northern clover and hay earned all over the State. A peculiar advantages, stretching .. tiful carpet through every van*-. ■ tersected with mountains, vain®- . with a soil that can produce too, with the richest minerals, * the elements of wealth. ® her mineral wealth with her pN“ ^ and her water power, only ne«i» - „ by us, her strength developed, fa 1 ” beautified, to make her idbk 0 power certain. ^ The Snn reports Miss at Brooklyn at the woman s mC r, Ji “ I reject the browsers with cen Men cut a sufficiently ridieulo themselves. The trouble is, ^ their own costume, and are env i jewelry, frills, and dresses. •. sooth trowsers ?’ Shake not t j o meat at me. No, so long s®. l silks, satins, and Bhawls, vte * ,. absurd bifurcated uriwhisp®^ your swallow tail coats, stovepP^ wear your hair so short, some look precisely like monkeys, ^ that one of your number na* showing that animal to be “VbLjs This speech was greeted wita and applanse. The Italian papere, sfter selves some time with the ..f*i Victor Emmanuel and his sons, ed to the scandalous goesip ame Rattazzi’s name, p tinned that the lady is fa* stances.