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VOL XLIII.-NO. 29 ^Tgia Telegraph Building, BATES OF SUBSCRIPTION1 Macon. ties belonging to Austrian officials, from the Imperial Treasury, the whole amounting to 20,- -r rone rear Sio uo °°°«000 florins, (about 12,000,000 United States P j:ir T«ur.H*rH-for *U months} 5 00 currency.) f * :l F«rI^I'.wkekly^TELECBAPif-oneyear..’ 4 00 Lacroma, the only wooded island of the Adri- 'r'/L^TiitlEORAPH^mrycar 1 !!!!™ 3 00 atic, the poetical retreat of the Emperor Mari- jjj juTH pkkly Telsgraph—six month* 1 50 milian, has now been sold, with all the form- 1 /^payable ahrav »"<* adcancc.~3S ture, boohs, etc., owned by the unfortunate 1 ,T ob Printing prince. The castle of Abbazia, which was built n °V ^ly ex” ried at reasonable prices. trith the ransom of Richard Cour de Lion, is to ttancesby mail with Postmaster’* certificate a become the home of bathers; the costly exot- — ics, with which the Arch-duke covered the ^ r ^iMrtPh Review or Euro- Island, changing it into an earthly paradise, are ffecKiy Affairs. pcan Aiiairs. to be sold, and a part of the forests to be cut enial month of Jon® has returned; the down and used in the lime kilns. J-jo-yhfis sought again her oldsummer-home, bussia. ' her morning hymns in praise of the Hardly anything worthy of record has trans- -; r \atnre has decked with green field pired in Russia. A rumor is afloat that the Em- ' * p eace and good will steal over the peror will pardon a number of Poles exiled in vTnn. and when the balmy breezes of Siberia, on. condition of their emigrating to the .i 0 f )Jan, and when M . . onr cheeks, when we feast our eyes United States of America. At a festival in St. coring i* 3 - .... ■ t»-.—, * • , .. r i-i r—n-, . afra ja lawn, we forget for the moment Petersburg, which tho Imperial family honored ® ^ r redictions of those prophetn, who, trith their visit, the fountains playing in the sa- ** m onths ago, confidently foretold the . loons were filled with Ean de Cologne. * outbreak of war, pronouncing a win- 1 Spain. campaign to be inevitable. The Spaniards are still going a begging for E ^ stonas of the equinox are past, and a king. Even a prince of the House of Eohen- rt jU enjoys profound peace. The hus- . zollem (Prussia,) was thought of for a moment t5IC ™ - • his team afield with a merry in Madrid. * not fearing that the hoof of the neighing Since the beginning of the new era in Spain, at*! will crush the golden blades: no dread of the New Testament and several protestant works an-yisEged war disturbs ttfe merchant in his have been widely distributed, especially in the ---suit of rightful gain, and the Angel of Death capital. A society has been formed in Berlin, d rap no harvest this year, hovering over Prussia, for erecting another protestant church jjHtlt battle-fields, reeking with gore. in Madrid. 1 y ‘ jji spite of all ominous forebodings the j tuekev. *0,3 is still in the scabbard, and long may it Austria has persuaded the Sublime Porte to remaia there 1 The people of Europe, with cede the Prince of Montenegro a considerable -sre nisaimity, desire the maintenance of peacs, tract of land in the Herzegowina. - - The Government has instituted a commission, Vice-admiral Hobart Pacha being President, for regulating the right of anchorage in the Bos- OBEAT WHTIW. ( porus. Jabko. Tie English press are still engaged in the !ors»d experience has taught them that it is the {,4 condition for the healthy progress of a strios. Session of the Alabama question. They are auiinious in repudiating any further conces- , sxos, declaring most emphatically that Eng- Froill Middle Florida* Monticello, Fla., May 31, 1809. Editors Telegraph: Crops appear to be not so ted has conceded everything compatible with good along the hne of Georgia and Honda as hr honor and dignity as a nation. aboT ® that P° mt * P lanters m Flonda lie Tim<“s considers Mr. Sumner’s policy have been alarmed at the appearance of the cat- » .teard to be seriously discussed. The erpillars on cotton; but there has been nothing iiine paper has another leader about the dis- *** hairy worm which infests the oak and fusions of the Assembly of Canada in reference ^erry. MusqmtoesI find very troublesome to the Alabama question and the proposition of here. Senator Chandler, from Michigan, to settle the The faet of 010 “S™ be,n & as U were > n P" iScnlties bv the cession of the Dominion of pennost in the pohtics of Flonda, causes more Canada to the United States. “The Represent- ln tbat dass ber ® m Ge ° r ^ a ’ “ nd tares of Canada,” says tho Times, “have the labor is not so good, though somewhat better Jeclared that she didnot wishto shrink back this year than heretofore. The bnest crops I have seen are between from her responsibility as a part of the British Empire. Mr. Motley may judge from this spon- uaeons step of the Dominion, which will be the opinion of England. If be comes among us nth a mission of reconciliation and peace, he «ill be received in the same spirit; should, hoteTer.his propositions prove only a repetition J Mr. Stunner's extravagancies he must count tpontheh peremptory rejection.” Disturbances resulting in bloodshed, which Bt ittrilmted to the Orangists, occurred in Ire- isi Also, Agrarian crimes are perpetrated •pin. FRANCE. The relations tietween France and Prussia are Kjsrently the most satisfactory. * The greatest J ears * interest is exhibited in the approaching elec- fas for the Corps LegislatifF. Ite Emperor, accompanied by the Empress, paid a visit to the city of Chartres to assist at Tbomasville and Monticello, Florida. •This is a nice farming country, general ap pearance of the land such as Schley and Marion "counties. The people of Florida seem very much depressed on the state or affairs about them. Monticello is a beautiful, substantially built place and very healthy, inhabitants pleasant and agreeable. It is about the size of East Macon. Live Oak, the junction of the railroad, is quite a lively place. Several nice villages along the line of railroad westward to Tallahassee. Lake City, has an energetic, enterprising pop ulation and promises to be quite a city in a few Traveler. Au Experimental Corn-field. Near Bvron, Houston County, Ga.,) May 29th, 18G9. > Editors Telegraph :—I have thought for some fa distribution of prizes at an exposition of time that I would send you a crop report, but Iveis. The Emperor replied to the address of j have procrastinated until the present. I have 4* Maire by saying that he depended again this j a small patch of corn, six acres, that I have ime on the citizens of Chartres to support his • taken a great deal of pains with, in order to as- rovemment in the coming election, as they . certain what could be done on onr pine land by •it# a part of the eight million of Frenchmen, deep plowing and heavy mannreing. I will state iho had already three times given him their how I prepared the land and give you a state 1 meat of the system of cnltnre. __ ... , 1T Y' T ’ „ i I opened my furrows four feet apart, running The presents which the Pope xs said to have ; one ^ ^ bottorQ of ^ 0 ^ er . I the n tC f Ut . ^f 1 * 8 °f tbe vor ^ ° n * be oc " bedded with along turning shovel, donble plow- ason o e tie anniversary of his conse- . j D g t running one furrow in the other as .non as pnest, amount 910,000,000 scudis. : before stated, until I plowed the row out. This The Italian Government has come to an un- ! operation made very high beds. I then opened landing with Napoleon about the evacuation 1 h ? double plowing with a long shovel a very -ueu by September next, provided that \ ictor in the trench I deposited forty bushels of sound PICTURE-BOOK WITHOUT PICTURES, EY HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN. Translated from the German far the Macon Daily Telegraph. [continued.] Ninth evening. The sky was clear again; several nights were gone; the moon was in the first quarter. She gave me a new idea for a sketch; listen to what she told me. I followed the arctic fcird and the floating whale to Greenland’s eastern shore; barren ice- covered rocks and dark clouds shut in a valley there, where briers and bilberry bushes were in rich bloom. The fragrant lichen spread a sweet odor; my light was faint, my face pale as the water lily, which, tom from its stem, has floated for weeks on the water. The Northern Lights were burning; their halo was large, and the beams went upward from them like whirl ing pillars of fire, gleaming in green and red. Those living near had assembled for dancing and rejoicing, but being accustomed to this magnificent spectacle, they hardly deemed it worth a look. “Let now the souls of the dead play ball with the beads of the walrusses,” they thought, according to their faith, having only taste and eyes for song and dance. There stood in the midst of the circle, without any fnr, a Greenlander with his jewsharp; he be gan a song, celebrating the seal hunting, and the choir replied by “AiVt! Eta ! A ! ” while they skipped around in the circle in their white the wild horse of Arabia, when bristl ig its mane, it careers away, it was the same' grace- fullness and assurance : I must think of I ie ag onized mother beneath Golgotha's cross, t was the same deep-felt grief. And all arounc there resounded, as a thousand years ago, ap lause and cheers: “Happy woman, gifted by hei ren,” they exclaimed rejoicingly. Five minute later the stage was empty, the company had isap- peared, no tones resounded any more, all were gone; but the ruins stood there unchang I, as they will be standing still after centuries, rhen nobody will know anything of the applet e of the moment and of the fair singer, of her t nes, of her smiles: everything will be forgotter and past, even for me this hour will be a vanihed moment. Jaiuo. [to be continued. ] , wjn-5 sweep, or a narrow, or a cultivator, wmen Specimen of Black Oat*. cut so wide a furrow, that a plowman may pass Laurens Hill, Ga., 1 May 29,18G9. ** over ground very rapidly. furs; it"looked like a ball of ice-bears. The P<? a b°dv. eyes and the head made the most daring move ments. Now a tribunal was instituted. Those that had disagreed came forth; the plaintiff improvised the faults of his rival, pertly and mockingly, as the dance went on to the sound of the drum; the defendant answered just as slyly, while the assembly laughed and passed judgment. The rocks rang, the glaciers crashed, the large dropping masses were dashed to atoms during the fall; it was a Greenlandish, magni ficent summer night; a hundred paces distant, under the open tent of hides, there was lying a sick man; there was still life in his veins, but yet he must die; he was convinced of it him self, and so were all standing around; therefore his wife was sewing him already into a cover of hides, that afterwards she need not touch the dead. And she asked: “Dost thon wish to be buried on the rock in the hard snow? I will decorate tho place with thy kaiac and arrows; the Angekokk (spirit of good) shall dance over it Or dost thou prefer to be sunk into the sea ?” “Into the sea,” he whispered, nodding with a melancholy smile. “That is a pleasant summer tent,” said the wife; “there gambol thousands of sea dogs, there sleeps the walrus at thy feet, and the hunting is dangerless and delightful!” And the children tore, yelling, the skin from the window, that the dead might be borne to the sea, to the waving sea, that gave him nourishment in life, that will give him rest after his death. The floating icebergs, changing day and night, became his monument. The sea dog sleeps on the floating block of ice; the storm-bird flies over it. Me. T. J. Plant—Dear Sir: I send you a bunch of oats grown by me. They are the Black Spring Oat, from the eastern shore of Maryland, were sown on upland the 1st week in February. The spring hasbeen too dry for them and especially has the dry cold winds for the last month injured them. Yon will see that the blades upon the straw are fine from the drouth, and the head not so good as it should have been. I have a three acre lot of this kind—all not quite so good. You can show them to Mr. Clisbyof the Tele- geaph. I see he is blowing some oats for Mr. Yours truly, Quinn L. Haevaed P. S. The land is a com field and manured last year for Potatoes. We are indebted to Mr. Plant for forwarding the bunch of oats referred to. It is five feet six inches tall and the stalks as big as a white clay pipe stem. The heads are long and full, and the oats large and heavy. In short, it is altogether a remarkable specimen, and is worth “blowing,” if editorial mention, in this way, can be so termed. Our “blowing of some oats for Mr. Peabody” amounted simply to the republi cation of some remarks made by him before an Alabama agricultural association upon a new species of oats he had introducod, of which he proposed to raise one hundred bushels to the acre. We never saw Mr. Peabody and never had a line from him upon any subject.—Eds, Farm Work for June. Crops of all kinds are growing rapidly now, and the surface of the ground should be stirred as often as possible, to make the growth con tinuous and uniform. No weed or spear of grass should be allowed a foothold in the field, where it may contend successfully with the com, cot ton, etc., for the nutritious elements of the soil. The crab grass that comes up in May being the most troublesome, especialcare should be taken to get rid of any which may have escaped np to this time. The constant pulverizing of the sur face, acts very much like mulching, preventing the evaporation of moisture, and keeping the sun’s heat from penetrating to the roots of the plants. Where anything like a full crop is planted, frequent stirring of the surface can only be accomplished by' using plows like Diek- son ! s sweep, or a harrow, or a cultivator, which Where a mixed crop of cotton and small grain is cultivated, (which is the prevailing custom at thkSouth,) very nice judgement and manage ment are required to keep the hoed crops from snffeiing, from the interruption of regular work attendant upon the harvest The use of the reaping machines will lessen much the difficulty alluded to; and Ve trust the time is not far dis tant when these time and labor-saving imple ments will be universally used at the South. Field peas should be planted now, as soon as practicable. If thisis delayed till next month, they may not ripen wdl before frost. Where the object is to make hay, or to enrich the land by turning the vines under, peas may be sown as late as the middle of next month, but as dry weather may interfere with their coming np, or with their growth, it is not advisable to defer planting too late.—Southern Cultivator. Storm In Decatur Couilly. A terrible whirlwind, accompanied by rain and hail, passed over portions of this county on last Saturday afternoon. We were at the resi dence of Mr. Josiah G. Jones, on the Chatta hoochee river, at the time of the storm, and witnessed some of its devastations. Mr. Jones’ gin-house was blown down, one man and mule being under it, but were protected by the cog wheel, which was of sufficient strength to pre vent a portion of the building from falling to the ground. Another man was pulled from under the house by his mule, which becoming frightened at the cracking noise of the falling building, rushed out, the man holding the bridle to prevent his getting loose from him, and was tbns saved from instant death, as that portion of the building which was over him fell to the ground. Quite a number of other hands were tunning to get under the gin-house when it fell. TENTH EVENING. Carmel continues to show his good will toward fa Pope. The conspiracy at Milan, instigated iiaizini, was without consequence. At the | ; qnisition of the Italian Government, the Fed- wl Council of Switzerland has banished Maz- ci now living as a refugee in that Republic, - a all the cantons bordering on Italy. Gene- r -Henabrea has introduced a law in the Senate » view of stopping the shameful export of ••i^nhoys as organ-grinders or strolling mnsi- The Court of Appeals has, after having ' r --oi the penal code, decided in favor of abol- •^Sthe penalty of death. ft' Korth German Parliament decreed the ■'Duhtnent of a supreme court of appeal for suits at Leipsie. The law on tele- J* vtimps passed the third reading, after a it claw, substituting for the various taxes ^ >of « c hang8 imposed by the separate one uniform impost of £ per mille ■ - Ies P e etive amounts was then laid before • Among the petitions presented, may ^ttioned that of Mr. Dnnkin, a shipbuilder who submitted to the Reichstag cotton seed per acre and covered them with a turning shovel, putting in the seed in time to rot before planting my com. On the 17th of February I planted the com. I opened the ridge with a loEg shovel and covered with a fork plow. I succeeded in getting a good stand. The first time I plowed it I barred it off with a turning plow deep and let the furrows remain open to give the sun a chance to warm the roots and make the plant healthy. I let the furrows re main open for a week and then plowed the mid dles out with a scooter plow os deep as I could. Three weeks after I opened a hole between the liill3 of com with a hoe, and put in a handful of cotton seed and covered them with a sweep shovel, giving the com the second plowing and each«talk of com a handful of seed, amounting to thirty bushels of seed per acre, making in all seventy bushels per acre. The com stands 4 by 2; the rows 4 feet wide; 2 feet in the drill. I am now laying it by with a 26 inch Dixon sweep. The com in the ■ greater part of the patch is as high as the mules and looks remark ably strong and healthy. Some of the best stalks are G feet high. A gentleman formerly re siding in Tennessee, looked at it some time since and thought that it would probably make 75 bushels per acre if the seasons were favora ble. I never saw any swamp com that beat it. If wo should have a long dronth it will fail of course, but if I get rain a plenty it will make a fine pile of com; can’t say how much. If it should do well I will report the resnlt to the committee at the fair in November next. As I have said enough abont my little patch, I will take np up the remainder of this sheet in giving you a statement of my cotton crop. T * new man-of-war, invented by ' t °gether with an explanation of its con- “■ 3a. in order that it might be examined, ^Proved, adopted in the North German ^Government has concluded a com- | gay^GS acres in cotton and have a fine stand. ■ 'yity with Japnn, now under the con- Taking the cold nights into consideration I think it looks very well, and is as clean as hoes and plows can make it. I hear much complaint in other sections about the cotton dying, and I have given yon a report of my own crop. I do not know anything abont other crops in the neighborhood as my business keeps me at home all the time. The freedmeu on my form are working well, in fact, doing all they can. They are entitled to a great deal of credit for their industry and orderly conduct. Very respectfully, B. M. Bateman. “ ! the Zollbundesrath, which contains provisions. The King of Prussia ■‘ >o send diplomatic agents to Japan, »,l7***®* 0 have the right of travelling the country. The seaport towns Hi°g°, Hanagawa, Nagasaki, Nie- Istr > Minato and Osaka, as well as the are opened to Germans. The Ja- •^oriiies re to render every assistance to German vessels in distress, : we to be allowed to take in f *1 and deposit stores without paying New York Dry Goods Market.—A correspon- j dent of the Charleston Courier, writing from „, Kaiser in Berlin, an eminent Ger- 1 “J 8: ‘ ,Th8 ** g oods “a*® 1 con * ... ‘‘Dior, has received an order by the At- 1‘cues depressed. The distributive demand and r;."’"" the execution of a colossal bust > the general complaint is that the mills are either iofv Cr Von Mnmboldt for the Central I working without profit or at a positive loss.— f York, to be finished and sentoff in ! Stocks meanwhile are accumulating, and the I talk is that there will soon be a material curtail ment of production. Many staple goods are ^ha 1 ** 11 Reichsta e is busily engaged in ! selling below cost. Leading prints remain at fils. Pavements. IwaIva to twelve and a half cents. ” . . ****! aSti 0 *" opposed to an Austro. twelve to twelve and a half cents.’ s ® mi -°® clal j° nr - and In number, had a rehearsal in Boston on ft **Udbvtb - . *?■ A great sensation Wednesday evening, which was pronounced a j e musing of marriage seenri- grand success.. ' J The Peace Jubilee Chorus, over three thous- “I knew an old spinster,” continued the Moon; * ‘ she wore every winter a dressing-gown of yellow satin—it was her unvarying fashion. Every summer she wore one and the same straw hat, and I think, one and the same blue-gray dress. She went only to an old friend across the street. During the last years she did not even do that, for the friend was dead. In her solitude my old spinster was always busy at tho window, before which there were standing pret ty flowers during the whole summer, and mag nificent cress in winter, sown on a piece of felt Last month I did not see her any more at the window, but she was still living; that I knew, for I had not seen her yet set out for the great journey, about which she spoke so often to her friend. ‘Yes,’she used then to say, ‘if I shall die I shall have to make a longer journey than during my whole life. Six miles from here there is our family burial-place; there I shall be borne—there I shall sleep with the rest of my kin.’ Last night there was a carriage waiting before the house. They brought a coffin out. Now I know that she had died. They put straw around the coffin and drove away. There slept the quiet old spinster that during the last year had not left the house. The carriage rolled out of the gate of the city quick, as if it had been on a pleasure drive. On the high road they went stiH faster. The coachman looked some times stealthily back—I think he feared to see her sit ting in her gown of yellow satin on the coffin. Therefore he whipped the horses unreasonably, holding the reins so tightly that the horses were foaming. They were young and full of mettle. A bare bounded across the road—they ran away. The old, quiet spinster, that all the year round had only moved in a slow circle at home, drove now that she was dead over hedge and ditch along the open highway. The coffin, wrapped up in straw covers, flew down and remained ly ing in the road, while the horses, coachman and carriage sped on in a wild career. The lark arose singing from the field, warbled her morn ing song above the coffin, and sitting downnpon it, pecked the straw cover with its bill, as if to tear it The lark arose singing again, and I withdrew behind the red morning clouds.” From Putnam County. Near Thickest, Putnam co., May 29, 1869. Messrs. Editors : Thinking perhaps you would j A number of trees were prostrated, doing con- like to hear from the crops in this portion of the j aderable damage to the crops and fences. . x .. ... The hail was not observable at Mr. Jones’, t y, write y * s: _ ! bat a few miles distant we were informed that Crops, as a general thing, look pretty well j jj r _ Simpson Lewis sustained serious injury, considering the late spring we have had. I do ( both from wind and hail. His com was beaten not think I ever saw com look healthier in my j to shreds by the hail-stones, trees were blown life, though rather small for the time of vear. ! *>wn and portions of his fence taken np and , lamci ouiuii mi me ii earned a considerable distance by the careering Negroes are working better than usual, and j whirl-wind.— Bainbridgc Argus. seem determined to let polities alone. "Wheat | , - is ruined with rast; mine has it on the blade and j The Athens Prize Wheat Fields, stalk, I do not think I can make more than half | The Athens Southern Banner of Friday says: a crop. _Now and then you can find a crop that j Ceres in all her domain ha3 nothing more at- iofnzl vrnfTv mef GnonnTnnl'ne u iranee ! ELEVENTH EVENING. “There was a wedding celebrated,” narrated the Moon. “Songs were sung, healths were drank, everything was rich and magnificent; the guests departed—itwas already past midnight— the mothers kissed bride and bridegroom. I saw them alone, bnt the enrtains were almost entirely drawn together; a lamp lighted np the cosy apartment “Thank God that they are gone!” said he, kissing her hands and lips; she smiled and wept, reposing on his breast, trembling as the lotus-flower on the streaming water. And they spoke sweet, soul-breathing words. “Rest softly,” so spoke he, while she drew back the curtains. ‘How magnificently tho Moon shines!” said she; how softly, how brightly!” and she ex tinguished the "lamp; it grew dark in the cosy room; and yet my light beamed, as his eyes beamed. Womanhood, kiss the poet’s harp, if he praises, in song, the mysteries of life. TWELFTH EVENING. “I will give thee a picture of Pompeii,” said the Moon. “I was in the superb, in the street of the graves, as they call it, where the fine monuments are, where once the rejoicing youth, roses around their brows, danced with the fair sisters of Lais. Now dead silence was reigning here; German hirelings in Neapolitan services kept guard. In my full light they wished to see the city arisen from the grave; and I showed them the tracks of carriage wheels in the streets paved with large slabs of lava, showed them the names on the doors and the still suspended sign-boards; they saw in the little courts the basins of the fountains decora ted with conch-shells, but no stream of water arose, no songs resounded from the richly painted rooms, where the brazen dog watches the threshold. It was the city of tho dead ; only Vesuvius thundered his eternal hymn, every verso of which is called anew eruption by man. We went to the temple of Venus, erected out of snow-white marble, with its high altar before the wide stair case, and its willow tree that had started up between the columns; the sky was transparent and blue, tho background was formed by black Vesuvius, from which the fire arose like the stem of the pine tree. Above there was hovering the cloud of smoke in the stillness of night, as the head of the pine tree, but in blood red illumination. Among the company there was a lady singer, areal and great singer; I have been a witness of the homages the greatest cities in Europe of fered to her. Approaching the tragic theatre, they all took their seats on the stone steps of the amphitheatre ; a small part of it was filled again as thousands of years ago. The stage was still unchanged with the side scenes of brick work and the two arches in the back-ground through which you may behold the same deco rations as of yore, nature herself, the moun tains between Sorrento and Amalfi. The singer ascended playfully the stage of antiquity and sang. The place inspired her ; I must think of is not afflicted with rust. Guanomak.es the grass j tractive than the wheat fields around Athens, grow very rapidly, and keeps the farmers quite j Some of them are now almost ready for the busy in keeping it under. | sickle, (which is the old style of saying one of What think yon of a reunion of the Fourth | Wood’s Reapers.) Some of the contestants for Georgia Regiment at an early day. Please ad- ■ the wheat premium, have amused themselves . .. . during the last few days, making a mathemati- vocate it m your paper and oblige 0. R. E. es % m£L te of the esart yield of an acre. They Think, for reasons assigned by a correspon- j ha\e counted the stalks in a given area, in va dent, some days ago, it had better be postponed. : rious portions of the field; and, having obtain. Editors 1 e( t the number of stalks to the acre, have connt- ‘ ‘ ed the kernels in various heads, by which they ,, . „ . , _ ^ . . have figured out the number of kernels to the Crops In Baber, llilclicll and Decatur acre. There is nothing in the way of a com- The editor of the Bainbridge Arg us, of the i pie to demonstration of the yield, but the size of 29th, says : j the kernels. But taking the average figures, We have passed over a large portion of this . “laid down in the books,” they cypher out the immediate section within the past ten days, and \ most gratifying results. The figures totally re- have seen much to encourage us in regard to , fuse to show anything less than about 50 bush- agricultural prospects. In Baker and Mitchell ‘ els to the acre, while if the grains should prove counties, as well as in the portions of Decatur ; “as large as they ought to be,” the yield will we have visited, the com is growing^ finely, is I run considerably higher! Altogether, the rival- perfectly clean, and much of it is waist-high.— I ry, among the different contestants is interest- The cotton is small, for the season, and in some ! ing. Dr. Hamilton, Mr. Bancroft, and Mr. instances, the stand is bad, yet we have seen no I Bloomfield, are, we believe, the leading com- cause to apprehend disaster to this important j petitors for the premium. Several others are crop. Indeed, we are disposed to regard the | right after them. cotton-plant as doing well. Some of these fields AVe learn that Dr. Hamilton, and perhaps look very beautiful, the plant averaging from ] others, intend to commence cutting wheat next four to six inches in height, and squares are ! Monday. daily multiplying, and hardly a sprig of grass to i ’ —- - — be seen anywhere. The negroes in Baker and j The Bainbridge, Cnthbert Chlnni* Mitchell are active, reliable and obedient. We j bus Railroad, heard of no complaint, but of much commenda-I ,, „ ^ .. „ tion of their conduct In this county they are ! Horn all the information we Cak gather,_ the Cuba. That Postmaster, Further Particulars of the Landing of FiU-! Some of “the people of Macon” object to the busters—The engagement at the Bag of Nipe! color of the postmaster famished them by Grant —Brilliant Victory for the Filibusters—.4 i Certainly the reasons given for the appointment Battle near Puerto Padre—The Insurgents j of a negro to that place are very baa ones. It Victorious—General Good Newt for the Pa-. is said to have been done to pnnish the people, triots. Havana, May 27, via Key West, May 29, ’69. A Herald special from Nenvitas reports that the steamer San Salvador successfully landed her men and munitions at the port of Nnevas Grandes, on the north coast, not far from Nne- vitas. A British war steamar and two Spanish cruisers failed to catch the Salvador, which de parted immediately after her men and cargo had been disembarked. A Spanish force land ed soon after. !»•*•««> mitrastere were already on their march to the interior, and only the evi dence ot there having been there was found. The expedition which landed in the Bay of Nipe comprised a large steamer, (name not giv en), and the steamsMp Perit, from New York. The steamer transferred her cargo to the Pent, which made several trips to the shore, landing men, arms, artillery, amunition, provisions and clothing for the insurgents. Immediately upon landing, the filibusters threw up intrenchments, and mounted eight guns sweeping the Bay. On the 16th instant the Spanish war steamer Marsella entered the Bay of Nipe and was re ceived with a sharp fire from the artilery. Two shots took effect in her hull compeling her to withdraw. She then went to the port of Man- ati, and obtained a force of soldiers, and in company with the Spanish gunboat Africa, re turned to the Bay of Nipe. After several shots had been exchanged between the steamers and the shore batteries several hundreds of Span iards were landed, and, making a detour to the rear, took possesion of the guns which the fili busters had been compelled to abandon. The insurgents, meantime, had only retired for the purpose of reforming. That done they returned in force, made a brilliant charge with the bayo net, retook all the guns and compelled the Spaniards to retreat in disorder with a loss of forty-five killed and one hundred wounded. Shots from the Spanish steamer having set fire to a building filled with war materials, the filibusters did not pursue the routed enemy, they having to remain and extinguish the flames and save the arms, which they succeeded in do ing. because of the murder of Union men, eto. We do not see that the punishment is proper or likely to be effective, nor does it seem just - that the appointing power should be made use of in that way at alL When a postmaster is appoint ed with a view to “punish” a district is it meant that the punishment shall be a complete faitire to detiver their letters to the people ? If so, tLereaay real objection to this postmaster from the real people of Macon ? On the contrary, is* not Macon proper well satisfied with him, and does not all the protestation come from the rad ical carpet-baggers who went South, becoming radicals and carpet-baggers simply to get all the offices and have been disappointed in many ? The Herald of the 30th commits the foregoing: “Macon proper” will cheerfully consent to the transfer of Tumsr to the New York Postoffioe r if “New York proper” likes that kind. A flairs in Putnam County; We clip the following from the Eaton ton Pre3B* & Messenger of the 1st inst. Laeoe Stale of Cotton.—Mr. C. R. Ezell laid! on our desk, last Saturday, a stalk of cotton* measuring full fourteen indies in height. It is of the Hunt’s prolific variety, and was taken from a field on which the Eureka guano had been used, and is bnt a fair sample of the whole, which looks remarkably well for the season.— This isthe largest stalk we have seen, anddoobt whether it can be beat by any in tins section. not doing so well. Radicalism in nowise suits I P ros pert s of an early beginning o? the work on their present status—it is, in fact, destruetiveto : ^® above 5 am ® d r S ad arevet J Ottering. Maj. both black and white. But the negro is improv ing here, and in a large majority of instances is doing much better than be did last year. What is most gratifying, the planters have notneglect- Williams, the Chief Engineer, was in our city on Tuesday last, for the purpose of perfecting the necessary arrangements, &c. We do not know the exact amount subscribed, ed to plant ampta* corn crops. They havebeen butMeam that it will reach 8400,000 or more.- misrepresented in this respect. We publish the following exhibit, as repre senting the proportion of each species of pro duce planted by our farmers ; and we presume these reports, scattered here and there over three counties, will correctly represent the planting interest in this section, as a whole: J. Baggs plants 1400 acres in cotton; 1150; in corn; 100 in oats, besides patches. D. J. Owens plants 150 acres in cotton ; 225 in com; 30 in oats, besides patches. W. W. Dews plants 100 acres in cotton ; 100 in com ; 100 in oats ; 5 in cane ; 10 in ground peas. He raises his own horses and stock of every kind. L. A. M. Col lins plants 185 acres in cotton; 1*5 in com ; 80 oats, besides patches; H. H. Hall plants 40 acres in com ; 30 in cotton ; 10 in oats. G. P. Winchester plants 125 acres in com; 125 in cotton; 40 m oats. S. P. Davis plants 288 acres in com; 30G in cotton : 40 in oats, besides patches. J. C. L. plants 480 acres in cotton; 320 in com, besides patches, D. K. Butler plants 150 acres in cotton ; 50 in com ; 100 in oats; 10 in ground peas ; 5 in rice. The caterpillar, it is supposed, has appeared in some places, but it has done no damage as yet, it is to be hoped that its early appearance is a favorable indication. Newton, Ga. _ We attended the Spring Session of the Supe rior Court at this village last week. Quite a number of lawyers were in attendance, bnt the business was in most cases of but little general interest. The Conrt adjourned on Thursday. The citizens of Baker are anxious to have a railroad connection with Savannah via Camilla and Thomasville, and we are informed, have sub scribed $25,000 towards it. For $75,000 the S. G. & F. R. R. Co., have agreed to build a branch ,of their road to Newton, andlocato the depot on the west side of Flint river. Newton, probably, does the largest business for a village of its size in the State, and repre sents a large extent of the best cotton lands in Georgia. One of its merchants, who began bu siness there in 1848 without a dollar, and who never attended school a day in his life, succeed ed in amassing a large fortune there previous to the war, and since the war has paid endorsed papers to the amount of forty thousand dollars. He plants this year about 2,700 acres of land, embracing five or six valuable plantations, all his own, we believe. Newton will be a place of considerable impor tance some day. It now has a good hotel, kept by Mr. W. W. Livingston, whose liberality to the press-gang is unequalled in this section of the State. We bespeak for Mr. Livingston the patronage he so richly merits from an apprecia tive public. A Sunday-school celebration was had here on Friday, which created considerable interest.— [Bainbridge Argus. Of this amount the corporation of Bainbridge has subscribed $S5,000. How much has been raised by private subscription we are not at presentpreparedtosay, but think from $35,000 to $40,000. We learn that it is the intention of the ener- getio President of this Company to have the Engineer Corps in Cnthbert on the 21st prox. Should he be able to do so, it will bespeak an amount of energy almost unparalleled in the history of railroads in the South. There is no definite line determined on as yet, but we presume the route the least expensive will be selected. A meeting of the Board of Directors will be held in Cnthbert at an early day.—Bainbridge Sun, 27th. Neoeo Killed.—A negro man named Alfred Pickett, was shot and killed by a white man named John Morandt at the bridge, near this city, on Saturday. It seems that Morand was riding in a wagon with other parties, when Pickett asked permission to put a two gallon jug in it— himself being in a rickety old buggy, heavily loaded—which permission was granted by the driver, and the jug placed upon the wagon. Mo rand obj ected to the jug being hauled, and threw it out upon the ground, breaking it. The ne gro told him he must pay him ter the syrup, whereupon Morand said he would pay him by shooting him, and drew his pistoL The negro started with a bucket to water the horses, and finding that Morand was following him turned to face him, when he (Morand) fired, the ball passing through the negroe’s heart, and killing him in a short time. After firing Morand fied, and. up to this time has not been captured.— Americus Courier. The Mayor of Americus offers one hundred dollars reward for the arrest of Morand. The Spaniards saw ten cannon unmounted in addition to the eight pieces already in position. Foreigners led tho attack and composed a large part of the insurgent force. The Span iards captured a Prussian and instantly shot him. On the lCth instant a severe engagement took place four miles from Puerto Padre. The in surgents attacked a force of 1,000 Spaniards conveying provisions to Tunas. The battle took place along the margin of the river and lasted for several hours, and every attempt of the Spaniards to cross was repulsed with severe loss. They were shot down in the river, ac tually dyeing the water with their blood. Final ly tfie Spaniards were driven back with great loss and compelled to abandon the design of provisioning Tunas. They acknowledge a loss of thirty-four killed and one hundred wounded, but the insurgents claim that their loss was much heavier. . Seventy-eight of the wounded had arrived at Nuevitas. A Spanish soldier informed^ your correspondent that of one hundred men in his company only seven escaped unharmed. The Spaniards retreated to Puerto Pardre, where they were awaiting reinforcements at last accounts. One thousand men under General Ferrer had arrivedfrom Puerto Principe at Nue vitas, and were about to march to reinforce Puerto Padre. Ferrer will command all the Spanish troops there. A coasting schooner had arrived at Nuevitas with the Spaniards wounded in a skirmish near the same place on the 20th instant, between a band of insurgents and a Spanish foraging party, in which the latter were driven back. Puerto Padre is a small seaport town on the North Coast of Cuba, in the Eastern Depart ment, between Hibara and Malaqueta Bay.— The locality is reported to be swarming with insurgents. The Cubans aro jubilant over these successive victories, which have evidently been gained by the patriots, as all the information given above has been obtained from Spanish sources. Napoleon Arango, the insurgent chief, has been restored to his command. The Cubans have resolved “upon active oper ations, and in the future intend keeping the Spaniards on the seaboard, eat off from com munication with the interior towns, whioh are all suffering severely from want of provisions. The railroad between Puerto Principe and Nuevitas was to be soon destroyed again. Never were the Cubans more sanguine Of achieving their independence than at the pres ent day. Reliable information from revolutionary sources reports that Count Valmaseda’s forces have been driven out of Bayamo by the insur gents under General Harm oil and that Valmase- ca himself has been captured. Two hundred Spanish troops have died of the cholera. The soldiers are reported shoeless and dis contented. Business in New York.—Pink, the New York correspondent of the Charleston Courier, says: Everywhere complaints are heard abont the dullness of trade, and the want of energy all around. Merchants cannot dispose of their immense stocks to advantage, and small traders are loaded down by heavy expenses. Where last year hardly a store was to be had along. Broadway, or along the populous and thriving Sixth and Eighth Avenues, there now are to be • found numerous retailers who would be glad to* transfer their leases to other hands. Shall the Confederate Dead be Honored 7 The Washington correspondent of- the Boston Advertiser writes as follows to that journal: There is quite a difference of opinion in the Grand Army of the Republic in this section re garding the decoration of the graves of tho Con federate dead. Post No. 1 of this city resolves unanimously that “while we hold no malice against the dead who fell in attempting to haul down our flag and thereby endangering the na tion, we will not divide ourhonors by decorating Confederate graves, and thereby taint the char acter of those who sacrificed their lives that their country might live.” Post No. 19 in Pennsyl vania issues a circular saying that it has decided “not to pass by the graves of Confederates sleeping in our lines, but to divide each, year between blue and grey the first floral offsprings, of a common country. We have no powerloap- foes. Post No. 19 thinks of the Southern dggC only as brave men.” y The Harvard University crew, which is to row the English College crews in English waters next summer, will sail thither on July 10th, bn the fast steamer City of Paris, of the Inman line, and so. will have five weeks’ acclimatiza tion and rowing before the race. Nearly four thousand persons are said to have starved to death in London last year. Tornado at Northeastern Georgia.—Quite a destructive tornado occurred in the North eastern part of Franklin county, on the evening of the 13th inst. Several residences were blown down, and in one instance the foundation Bflh were lifted from their places, while the furni ture in the house was carried away and princi pally destroyed. The out buildings of several farms were razed to the. ground, as well asa con siderable amount of fencing. One farm, owned by a Mr. Thomas, was left without a eingio panel of fence standing. Such a destruction of timber, as was occasioned by the storm Where it principally raged, has been witnessed by but few of onr oldest citizens. The fruit trees, the lofty pine and the giant oak of the forest, all alike yielded at the touch of this mighty storm, as it raged in its fury. The tornado seems to have begun its work of destruction near.tne' Red Hollow Road, a few miles from the res idence of Col. Knox, and extended in a North east direction, until it reached the Tugalo Riv er, about half a mile above Stribbling's Ferry, beyond which point we have heard nothing of its effects.—Banner. 26 142 2,330 223 326 42 2,737 252,55 18,486 12,227 221.340 23 111 1.800 121 290 37 1,590 168,932 10,891 8,737 184,397 Strength of the Presbyterians. The following figures which we clip from the Press of the 29th ult, will be interesting The last year’s statistical reports give the fol lowing summaries of the Old and the New School Presbyterians: Synods Presbyteries....: Ministers.... Licentiates Candidates Ministers died Churches Communicants Added on examination.... Added on certificate Number in Sundav-scbool. Funds— . Total contributions .$4,339,595 $3,091,8S5 Congregational. 2,919,970 2,441,085 Foreign Missions 285,303 108,196 Home Missions 113,109 132,843 Leaving these two main wings of the Church, there are other Presbyterian bodies of very re spectable numbers: The Southern Presbyterian Assembly comprises 10 synods, 4S presbyteries, 7S5 ministers, 51 licentiates, 92 candidates, 1,298 churches, and. J6,949 communicants. The United Presbyterian Church has 7 synods, 50 presbyteries, and about 700 ministers and 05,- G12 communicants. The Cumberland Presby terian Church has 54 synods, 99 presbyteries, 1,500 ministers, and 130,000 communicants.— The Reformed Presbyterian Synod has 77 min isters and 8,487 communicants. The Associate Synod has 12 ministers, and 1,091 communi cants. Besides these there are other small Presbyterian bodies. Indian depredations are growing frequent in Arizona. A murder and a mail robbery have recently been perpetrated by them. The rice crop of Louisana for the current year will be twice as large, it is said, as that of J80S. .. . . Circumstances Alter Casks.—This is a dog^ ma by which a veiy large portion of the world regulate their conduct, and we do not recollect to have ever seen it more happily illustrated than in an anecdote that is told of a leading French j ournal in the days of Napoleon. It con tains an admirable portrait of a certain people who are- ever ready to say evil of those who are powerless or at a distance, but find in them mar velous proper persons when brought face to face. The story runs as follows : "When Napoleon L escaped from Elba, the Paris Moniteur thus chronicled his progress: “The anthropophagist” has escaped—the “Cor- sicanogre” has landed—the “tiger” is ooming— the “monster” has slept at. Grenoble—the “ty rant” has arrived at Lyons—the “usurper” has been seen in the environs of Paris—“Bonaparte” advances toward, but will never enter the capi tal—“Napoleon” will be under our ramparts to- rnnwoiu TvlriTinWXF* 1 Vsoo n nni Georgia.—The dispatches to the JJjpisyille Courier-Journal say that the admixsafaation has decided as to what it will do w-iiilithe t alleged' disturbed condition of things SeiGeorgia. The commanding officer of the department in which that State is situated is-tobe instructed to do all; in his power to aid io-tlie punishing of crime'.. Washington, May 16.—From a private let ter, dated a* above, we take the following ex tract : The recommendation of a Democrat is now, , it seems, worse than useless, especially in the postal department. The President is, I fear, under the control of the worst of his party. It is stated that every farm of 160 acres in Eastern Kansas is underlaid with 1,600,000 tons of coal, or nine times more fuel than if the Bur- face were covered with heavy timber. Isabella is anxfons to compromise with are still afsea off the md friends Qi DemOQTacy have not yet despaired of their visionary republic. A. T. Stewart, of New York, paid tax last year upon an income of three million nineteen thou sand two hundred and eighteen dollars (3.019.- 218.) • Brigham YoptG has just reached three score and ten by taking his seventieth wife. A wooden legged velocipedist is in Iowa sen sation. Rev. J. L. Johnson, of "Virginia, is preparing a book in which will be given the biographies of those students of the University of Virginia who fell in the late war. The Episcopal Convention of Pennsylvania, just held, adopted resolutions against ritualistic innovations. The Pacific Railroad income from through trafic, it is estimated, will amount to $60,000,- 000 annually. A calculation made by a postoffice mathema tician gives the number of letters that passed: through the mails last year at about five hun dred millions. Women in Russia owning property have the right to vote by proxy. "Women in the countiy owning husbands enjoy the same right. A society has been organized in New York: for the protection of poor strangera in the city.. It has a large membership and plenty of tends.. In Massachusetts, a man was found to-be a common drunkard, and was given the choice of." leaving town or going to jail; he ohoae to- raveL An English gentleman has bought between 3,000 and 4,000 acres of land in Nelson County, Virginia, on which he intends to settle 800 Eng lish families. Maine has a family in which the fsth'er is °* T - feet four inches high, the son is six feet four, and the grandson six feet six. Bridesmaids’ dresses are now made of tulle or- tarleten, trimmed with satin ribbon, and made- with short trains. Groomsmen-at weddings are- going out of fashion. Laeoe numbers of immigrants,-, particularly- Swiss, are pouring into Grundy county, Tenses-- see. The Swiss are erecting many romantic cot tages in the vicinity of the colony lands. The manager of a menagerie is Belgium re cently took the place of hie “lion tamer*” who* was sick. He got along veiy well until the lions became hungry, when they ate hint Six attempts have been made within a year to assasinate Victor EmanneL It is reported that Mr. Sanford, the American Minister to Belgium, has sent in his resigna tion. morrow—“‘the Emperor” has arrived at Fon- tainbleau—and lastly, hie “Imperial Majesty” entered the Tuileries on the 21et of March, ‘“in the midst of hia faithful subjects.’! The Pope received $4,000,000 worth of pres ents on his anniversary. Prince Augustus, of Portugal, is*the last ru mored nominee for the Spanish throne. Forty-nine Baptist Churches have been or ganized in England the past year, making an ag gregate of 2,447. Of the scandal that may be caused bya “false report” this is an instance, related in a French paper. A wag, passing through a dark tunnel, amused himself by imprinting a kiss, a resound, ing, sonorous kiss, on the back of his own hand! General sensation, and angry, inquisitive glances all round, when the oar reached the light. In Italy, out of a population of 24,000,000, 18,000,0000 were so totally uneducated -as to be unable to read or write. John Brougham’s two benefit* fe New York.- last week netted him $6,000; He is one of the most popular and accomplished American ao- tors. Failure to pay a hotel bill ie decided to be a- ; penitentiary offence & New York-"’ \ j ■ . ' . . l--”< •: • - <> .‘A, m v». - *-> -* ■ . . . — „ ft*:-. •, ■ ... .