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The Greorgia Weekly Telegraph. the telegraph. MAOON, FRIDAY, JUNE 1J, I860. To tbe Virginia (Springs. Maj. W. J. Walker, General Agent of the At. lantic Coast Line of Railroads, called on ns yes- day. He is oat Sonth for the purpose of arranging through travel to the various springs in Western Virginia. Through tickets to these various points will be for sale at our depot be fore many days. The route is by way of Au gusta, Kingsville, Wilmington, Weldon and Richmond, and thence to Covington, on the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad—205 miles from Richmond. By the 1st of July the road will be in running order to White Sulphur Springs, in Greenbrier county, Va. There ar^io midnight changes or transfers on this route. A morning and evening train passes all points, and parties can lie over if they desire without a detention of more than twelve hours. Bollman & Co., contractors, will, before many weeks, finish a splendid iron bridge over the Cape Fear river, at Wilmington, which will do away with the old ferry boat at that point. The springs in West ern Virginia are within easy stages of the various depots on the Chesapeake and Ohio Rail road. The connections by this route are com plete and continuous. Ample deeping accom modations, unsurpassed eating houses and ample time given for meals. Persons traveling North- Negro (Social and Kellglons Equality. We have reprinted on our fourth page, a dis cussion at a meeting of Northern Baptists in Richmond, of negro equality in its religious as pects. We find the report in the Richmond Dispatch, and as the discussion is pretty full if not very clear and both sides are presented, it may amuse and interest the reader. One of the speakers calls this question a bomb shell, but we don't think it will hurt the public if it should blow up that concern. Periodicals. Deitz’s Experimental Farm Journal, Cham- bersburg, Pa. A pamphlet in royal octavo form of about forty pages. $1 50 per annum. Scott’s Monthly Magazine for June—The Mystery of Cedar Bay continued. The Pedlar Man at Torch HOL A panorama of celebrated women. Tea and its disciples. Laurel Grove Cemetery. A Familiar Talk with our Girls. Mrs. Hall’s Ghost Story, and numerous selected articles. §4,00 a year. The book may be had at Havens & Brown's. The Insult to the Dead.—It seems from the Herald’s account, which we copy elsewhere, that this work of insulting the dead Confeder ates at Arlington, was confined altogether to the U. S. troops, marines, on guard duty. But are we to understand from this account that these marines were stationed in the ceme tery, by the Grand Army of the Republic, to prevent the people from throwing flowers on the Confederate graves ? If so, it was inexpres sible mean! Sumter County.—A planter tells the Sumter Republican that the continuous dry weather is af fording an excellent opportunity for cleaning the grass out of cotton fields. Many plants up on gray soil died during the recent unfavorable weather, leaving an exceedingly poor stand; otherwise the cotton crop of Sumter is prosper ing well under the unclouded genial summer- sunshine of the these warm days. Vegetables are slightly scorched by the half-drought now prevailing. No shower for a week. Atlanta University.—The negroes in Atlan ta, laid on Monday the Corner Stone of the At lanta University. John M. Langstone, of Ohio, a negro of talents and education delivered a speech on the occasion. The Constitution says the grounds consist of about eighty acres, lying on Mitchell street near the suburbs and were given by a negro in Macon for the purpose of erecting a University. The Catholics are building a new church in At lanta. The London Quarterly Review, for April, Scott’s Reprint, came yesterday. Its articles are Rossam's Abysinia, Modem English Po ets, Geological Climates, and the Origin of the Species, Cost of Party Government, Dante Al- eghieri, Female Education, Lands in Greece, The Religious Wars in France, Arms of Modem Medicine, Irish Church Bill. New Georgia Wheat rs Ohio.—We see from the Toledo Blade of the 28th, that they had a sample of new wheat from Georgia there. The Blade says: Southern Wheat.—We have been handed a sample of new Southern wheat, which was brought from Forsyth, Monroe county, Georgia, by Mr. Aaron Roff. The wheat was cut on the 24th instant. It is of the Amber variety, the kernels large and plump. The sample was ex hibited on v Chango to-day. We learn that this sample was from the plan tation of Dr. J. S. Lawton, of Monroe county. It is a law of Connecticut, says the Savannah Republican, that a man who neglects or refuses to provide for his own children, can be forced to work under the compulsory rules of the alms house, and the fruits of big labor bo applied to wards their support. If a Southern State were to pass such a law with regard to negroes, we should doubtless hear a howl over the “restora tion of slavery." Those “Spots.”—Our friends of the Macon Telegraph are too sensitive by half. The sub stitution of Telegraph for telescope by tbe print er was evident, but then we thought they cer tainly had good temper enough so stand a little pleasantry over the mistake. Perhaps that “pied form" had something to do with it. We promise them, however, to bo more cautions with our liberties in future. We fear it is our Republican cotemporary who cannot stand a joke. We are indebted to Senator Sprague, of Rhode Island, for a full series of his speeches in the Senate, delivered in March and April last ’ A Fair Cotton Stalk.—Mr. Wrigley sends us from Mr. Knott’s place, near the city, a stalk of cotton two feet high. It is of the Peeler varie ty, and certainly well advanced for the season and this latitude. Subbing News Fsom Cuba.—The Dispatches from Havana continue to indicate great trouble and agitation there. The “loyal" are evidently frightened. Gen. Jordan has struck them heavi ly with his filibusters. Tax on Insurance Companies,—The Athens Watchman calls attention tothafact that the Tax Act of the last Legislature provides that all insurance companies, both foreign and domes tic, are required to pay one per cent on all premiums, and that domestic companies are subjected to an additional annual tax of one- half of one per cent, on their incomes! Babnesyuxe Postmaster.—The Gazette says John R. Shockley has been appointed Postmas ter of Bamesville, and not Alfred Snider, ne gro, as reported some days since. A Healthy Increase.—The Bamesville Ga zette says: Mr. Wade Holmes has shown us a bunch of wheat, from his farm, of 54 large heads, the product of one grain of wheat Is not thig hard to beat ? “Speed* Malise, Speed!”—The Atlanta Ns... Era says the Telegraph of Thursday got there Friday afternoon. That is reasonable speed for a slow place like Atlanta. Union and Disunion. There is to be no foreign war, and specula tions in relation to it and its consequences are idle. How much, or how little the Southern people, influenced by natural and jnst resent ments for the past, or by the smart of present wrongs and injuries might be indifferent, or lukewarm, or hostile, are practically idle ques tions, although we might be disposed to differ with correspondents on that subject The Southern people, we believe, are too wise to take counsel in these matters from mere re sentment They have never yet done so and they never wilL History is full of appalling po litical lessons upon the danger of taking counsel of our passions and our resentments upon such subjects. Let us look at one illustration: For six centuries the Scotch and the English preyed upon each other, before those intelli gent people could learn the simple lesson that there ought not to be two governments on that iciand For twenty generations their best and bravest sank to bloody graves in this cruel and unwarrantable strife. Their borders were scenes of continual strife and desolation. Their coun tries were swept every few years with fire and sword. The wail of the widow and orphan— the famished — the shouts of battle and the groans of the wounded uprose almost every year with the 6ongs of the spring birds. Their best energies — their richest treasures—their hardest labors were lost in this mutual strife, and there is no reason to believe that their hot permitted them to accept a wXunta j^union. 1 *'"™ Providence interposed in 1603 and gave them a common monarch in the person of James YT, but it was more than a hundred years after the two nations had enjoyed a common government, before the English succeeded in consummating a legal union by an act of parliament, in 1707— and no donbt, even then, a majority of the Scotch were opposed to it What every body else could see at a glance as an indispensable condition to the happiness of the people, they were seven hundred years in seeing, because they looked through their passions and resent ments. Now, the Sonth never doubted that one com mon government was far better for America than two or more, provided it were a reasonably just government Everybody can see that two gov ernments would be more expensive than one— would involve increased liability to strife and war—increased outlay and military service for mutual defence—increased difficulty in com munication—increased obstacles to trade—in creased fuss and trouble to every citizen. No body whose opinion is worth anything, ever de sired two governments instead of one, as an abstract proposition. The South sought a separate government merely as a choice of great evils. The old gov ernment had declared war on her social organi zation and was in the hands of men bent on its destruction. The question presented to think ing men was, whether they had better attempt sectional independence, or submit to the im mense property loss involved in a social revolu tion. They elected (as it turned out, unwisely,) to seek a sectional independence. With the failure to achieve (hat, they have irrecoverably lost the property they were at tempting to defend. The stakes of the contro versy are gone. The great original material reason for seeking a separate national establish ment is forever lost What now remains or ex ists to prompt or keep alive a desire 'or politi cal separation may be classed under the head of resentments and grievances. Of the former, it may truly be said separation would be merely adding fuel to the fire. If sepa ration were possible, these resentments would in all probability break out in new conflicts which would only increase and perpetuate them. Our vast border like that of the Scotch and Eng lish, would be the theatre of interminable con flict and blood. The two countries would waste their best energies and lives in the attempt to defend themselves against each other, and con stant mutual strife and injury would perpetuate an eternal hatred and repugnance. Of the grievances, we have space merely to remark that, in the nature of things, they will, in time, cease at least to be peculiar to the South, and will abate with the gradual molifica- tion of sectional animosity. We must leave them to the redress of time and reason. The remedy is slow but certain. Let these considerations console the people. Let them help to reconcile the minds of think ing men to their political disappointments and mortifications. We are unwise if we delude ourselvesjwith false hopes’of deliverance by for eign interference. The foreign enemy of the United States who would use us for temporary purposes, would abandon ns so soon as it be came his interest to do so. We should take nothing but unmingled disaster from foreign in terference. It would make onr soil the battle ground—it would divide onr people—it would make us again the prey of all the horrors, deso lation and cruelty of war. War, in our case, is a remedy for nothing. It is the devil’s work and will bring only corres ponding results. Peace, quiet, forbearance, in dustry—these are the paths to restoration and happiness. Changes are rapid in this generation. A few years will work wonders in the entire political and social condition. The vexations of to-day will hardly be remembered. The animosities of the war will disappear. New questions will agitate the people, and new party combinations control the Government. Let ns be patient. Georgia Editors on tbe Fence. We have been particularly requested to call the attention of the Georgia Press to the matter of some legal provision to dispense with farm fencing »nd to mV an expression of views upon the subject. Many highly intelligent farmers consider the proposition one of the most impor tant now before the people, and they believe the more it is thought upon and talked about, tbe greater will be the interest and unanimity of opinion upon the subject—so that probably the very next Legislature of Georgia may feel authorized to initiate the reform—at least in many of the counties of the State. Why, then, should we not reverse the existing policy, and fence in stock instead of fencing it out? Does the value of the wild grazing to the small amount of generally inferior stock in Mid dle Georgia, for illustration, justify the enor. mous ftuuTial outlay in keeping np the almost countless mile* of fencing which now inclose the cultivated fields of Middle Georgia? Will it not be far better for every planter to inclose pasture land for his little flocks or herds, instead of inclosing his large area of land in cultivation ? If land could be cultivated without fencing, how much better would be the system of rotation and resting! By dispensing with fences the farmer would be enabled to select his glebes from any part of the plantation at will, and pick out here and there the best spots for his cotton and grain. Now, his fencing often compels him to cultivate land which he would gladly suffer to rest, but he has no time to remove old fences or erect . .... , —. cost him more than his fertilizers and manures—more man Writers say that Georgia expends annually mil lions of dollars on fence inclosnres. Is it not better to provide by law that no stock shall be suffered to go at large ? Owen Thomas Will Case—Negroes Suing eor the Estate op Their Former Master.—In the Superior Court of Muscogee, says the Sun, the whole of Tuesday was consumed by argument from counsel concerned in the celebrated “Owen Thomas Will Case. The facts are as follows : Mr. Owen Thomas, quite an old man, died last September. He was a bachelor. His es tate was valued at from §160,000 to §175,000. Only one will was found, and it was made in 1852. In it he desired that abont twenty-five of his negroes be carried by bis Executor, after his death, to Liberia, or some free State, as they might elect, and there set free—they and their posterity forever. He then desired the residne of his property, including some sixty other negroes, who also were his slaves, to be reduced to money. He required that his debts, which are small, his executors and the expenses of transportation of the negroes to be freed, be first paid, and then desired the remainder of the funds to be divided among the negroes thus set free—and divided in specified proportions, on their arrival at their new homes. There now remains nineteen negroes who claim the property of deceased under this will, which his relatives are endeavoring to break. Last November Mr. Jas. K. Redd, the only surviving executor of the will, presented it for probate. Ordinary Duer refused the probate on the ground that the act of 1859 renders null and void any instrument conferring freedom on slaves, and hence this will was void, and there was no republication; that it contained condi tions precedent, now impossible to be perform ed ; that the changed circumstances revoked the will, and there was nothing dono to suit the changed relations of the parties. On appeal, the case was taken before the Su perior Court, and yesterday the subject was nr- gued fully and ably by the following counsel, the propounders having the beginning and conclu sion: Williams & Thornton, Ramsey & Ramsey, and CoL Mark Blanford, represent the negroes; Ingram & Crawford, the executor; James W Russell, Mrs. Hargroves, the only surviving sis ter of Owen Thomas; and Gen. H. L. Benning, and Peabody & Brannon, the heirs of Mrs. M. W. Thweatt, deceased, another sister. The argument was not closed until abont dark. Judge Worrill stated he would give a written charge. A Lor of beautiful leaf tobacco sold in Lynch burg, Virginia, on Tuesday last, at §S01 per hun- - dred weight A Warning from the Tribune to South ern Radicals. The New York Tribune is getting tired of car- rying the millstone of Southern Radicalism, and in the subjoined extract from a recent article, specially directed to Texas, respectfully gives notice to the brethren of the Sonth that they must quit hanging on to the North, and begin to take care of themselves. Says the Tribune: “It is high time that the Southern Republi cans should desist from hanging around the neck of the North, and begin to take care of themselves. We shall aid them to ratify the fifteenth amendment, whereby full political rights are guaranteed to every native or natur alized citizen, regardless of race or color. We shall take care that this amendment be obeyed in spirit and letter. Then we shall say to our Southern brethren, “Root, hog, or die!” It will be far less difficult to carry Georgia, Louis iana, or Texas, against the sham Democracy, than New York, Pennsylvania or Indiana. We shall.all have to work; and it is better thus than that a part should rely on the rest to carry them. We shall get on better and faster if all keep their feet than if a part undertake to ride on the backs of the rest The style of exhortation b adapted to the subject and the hearers. To jiuild up Southern Radicalism, as it stands, the Radicals of the North have sacrificed everything. They have destroyed the Constitution—disordered the South —confused and crippled the business of the country—impaired its credit—wastedits revenue and ruined their own party reputationand pros pects. It is too late to cast off the nill-stone hanging around their necks. It will cany them to the bottom as sure as time rolls round. They may pass as many constitutional amendments as they please, but they will not be able t> re tain the support of a single Southern State, md the way they will be shucked out of power in the North hereafter will be extremely cat. tionary. Tennessee. Tennessee has “fallen into line,” and is keep ing step to the music of forty thousand Kilken-’ ny cats. Tennessee, in short, has followed suit with Georgia, and the Radicals therein are fly ing into each other’s faces like tiger cats. It is dreadful to read the war between Senter and Stokes. All the Fish markets in the world are nothing to it. It is frightful to see the Press and Herald charging the Knoxville Whig, and vice versa—now one and now the other by turns gasping and spluttering under a flood of filth, a3 each relieves his surcharged stomach and tells what he knows of the other. If almost every decent man in Tennessee had not been disfran chised some good might grow out of the quarrel, but it is probable the case is hopeless. TELEGBAPH. What has Started Cotton?—Cotton has gone up four-fifths of a cent a pound in a few days, but there is unfortunately very little left of the staple in the South. What is the cause of the rise, we cannot pretend to say, beyond the manifest scantiness of the last crop; but as we have heard that the mills were going to stop or run half time, the sudden jump is still a lit tle surprising. Hon. A. H. Stephens.—A gentleman in New York has received a letter from Alexander HJ Stephens in which he says : “I am now a little better—am able to set np—but cannot walk about yet. I can hobble about after a fashion with cratches in the house. It is fourteen weeks since I received the hurt, and I fear I shall never be r.ble to walk as of yore.” Mr. S. also writes that he has not resumed work on the second volume of his history. * Affairs in Floyd.—The Rome Commercial of the 2d, says that the past few days have been warm and pleasant, and the farmers have smil ing faces. A good shower would help the cotton and late com. The wheat is looking fine, and we predict a pretty good crop. The Mayor and Council of the City of Rome have subscribed for seven hundred and fifty shares §75,000 of Stock in the Memphis Branch Railroad. This subscription is made on the con dition that the Company will receive in payment the bonds of the city, payable and redeemable in ten years, with interest payable annually at seven per cent. Fire at Cochran.—The Hawkinsvillo Dis patch of Wednesday, learns that the grist mills of B. B. Dykes, Esq., at Cochran, on the Macon and Brunswick Railroad, was totally consumed by fire on Thursday last Loss three thousand. Hie fire is said to have been caused by the carelessness of a negro fireman, who went to sleep, and the fire, dropping from the furnace, caught the firewood. Alabama Immigration Convention.—An im migration Convention of the State of Alabama, largely attended, commenced its session last Tuesday, Alabama is more faithless than Geor gia abont the labor future of the colored popu lation, and is displaying much anxiety for a sub stitute. Across the Continent. Dan CasteHo’s circus and menagerie is about these times moving across the Continent on the Pacific Railway to exhibit in California. This is the Pioneer circus on that route. Blackwood for May.—Leonard Scott Com pany’s reprint was received yesterday. Peterson’s Ladies National Magazine for Jnly is here a good deal ahead of the music. It may be fonnd at Havens and Brown’s. Georgia.—The dispatches to the Louisville Courier-Jonmal say that the administration has decided as to what it will do with the alleged disturbed condition of things in Georgia. The commanding officer of the department in which that State is situated is to be instructed to do all in his power to aid in the punishing of crime. More Sweating of Witnesses. Jefferson, Texas, June 2.—In a military trial to-day, Richard Figures, who had turned States-evi- dence, and was the prosecution’s strongest witness, was placed on the stand. Ee at first stated that he did not wish to give evident, as Gen. Buel expected more of L?m than he could, tell, and had this morn ing threatened him with prosecution and punish ment for perjury if he did not tell all ho had stated privately. Also, that hosvofid be tried for toe crimes with the balance. He oay recognized a few of the prisoners. Figures shedtears. The scene created much feeling. His tesfmony was not concluded. One or two more freednen have been examined, and swore every way. ’ The trial will last three months. I Genenl News. Cincinnati, June 3.-The City Council Commit tees on the Southern I^ilroad met last night in se cret session. The halot showed a tie between Knoxville and Chattanoga for the Southern termi nus. Afterwards iwrfavoring Knoxville changed to Chattanooga. Ancher ballot was not taken— The question will be fccided this afternoon. Concord, June S.-Govemor Steams’ inaugural recommends tbe tpeoy ratification of tho fifteenth amendment. i Rochester, Jqne 3—Two brothers were drowned to-day. I New York, Jibe 3—The District Attorney con sents to take boids hr Quaker City at her appraised value. ! New York, dine 3.—Among fourteen hundred steerage passages landed yesterday from the Steamer Hanhaltar were S00 English and Welsh. They were all slilla workmen of different trades. [r he influx of Ntwegians continues enormous. It is stated that at bast 200,000 will arrive within the next 18 month!. Their destination is invariably Northwest. From Waihington. Washington, June 3.—Tb* President has appoint ed S. E. Deibrreet, Coliector of Customs at Feman- dina, Florita. ' WAsmNCjroN, June 3.—The! Indian Bureau has received ni notification of repfrted Indian outrages in Kansas/ The folbwing is from a reliable source: An ex pedition lift the Southern coaBt on the 29th ult., numberir:475 men. These mcn were a part of Gen. Jor an’s command—all of them ex-Federal and Confjderate soldiers. Horn reliable informa tion receded by interested parties here, the men and mirations of war have safely landed, and have joined fee Cuban forces. The expedition was in charge of Col. TeRussy, of the Confederate army, from Jbuisiana. t Rev/nue to-day 81,750,000. 21. j. Brittain, a Minister of the Methodist Epis- copaipnurch, (Baltimore Conference,) has been ap pointed Chaplain of the Navy. So/citor Smith, of the Internal Revenue, has re- Id from a consultation with New York capital- istsregarding the taxation of bankers and brokers. The Presidential party left for the Annapolis ball to-day at 5 f. m., on the Tallapoosa. The President saw no visitors to-day, being en gaged with Boutwell and Delano regarding revenue appointments. Boutwell received a San Francisco letter dated May 28th, from tho Assistant Treasurer, reporting 86,000,000 in coin subject to order. Time, six days. From Virginia. Richmond, June 3 The Committee appointed by the colored State Convention, waited on General Canby to-day, with a petition that he should issue an order giving colored people equal rights in cars and steamboats. Canby declined to interfere in the matter, and referred them to the courts as the proper place for the redress of any greivances that may exist. Rust has appeared in wheat in this vicinity, and the crop about here will be shortened one-half. General Lee has expressed himself in favor of the adoption of the expurgated Constitution, and the election of Walker, the candidate of the Conser vative Republicans for Governor. Highly Interesting from Cuba. Washington, June 3 Letters from Cnba.received here this morning, state that tho force under Gen. Jordan had succeeded in joining the Cuban forces after several fights, in all of which tho Spaniards were repulseiwith serious loss. Gen. Jordan’s loss was slight, no over forty-five in killed and wound ed. He savedhis artillery, arms, and ammunition. He had with bin seventeen hundred rifles, new, and of the most approved pattern. Havana, Jum 2.—'The agitation in the city Las partially abated Dulce resigned this morning, and Don Espinasi is acting Captain General until the ar rival of DeRodi The city is t-anqnil, but disorder threatens to break ont any miment, as tho volunteers are great ly incensed against Gen. Pelenz, who has disappear ed. His whereabouts is unknown. Great anxiety prevails. The Yascongade volunteers arrived in port to-day. Fsreign News. Madrid, Jfene (.—The Cortes has adopted the Constitution. Topite informed the Cortes that six hundred Ca ban prisoners sent to Fernando Po, would soon bo transferred to the Canaries. * A motion to reduce the standing army to 26,000 was lost. Gen. O’Donnell, while speaking against the motion, wa3 seized with apoplexy and died •in tho chamber, j Figures annmneed, amid much enthusiasm, that though oppose! to monarchy the Republicans would support and follow the Constitution. London, Jum 3.—The Alabama diplomatic cor respondence his been published; commenting on which the Timm say: “When wo compare the ex acting and critical spirit ol’America with tho conced ing temper of England and consider that all that was yielded was insufficient to prevent the rejection of the treaty, we despair of the success of any ne gotiation in which England maintains due regard for her own rights and honor* London, June 3.—A riot occurred at Mold, a small town in Wales, where tho people attempted to res cue some prisoners from the Sheriff. The military fired on the people, killing four and wounding many. Provincialisms.—Many years ugo the celebra ted Andrew Broaddus, of Caroline, was at the Merry Oaks, a noted tavern in Hanover county. Mr. Lipscomb, tbe host, brought out some cider, then a favorite beverage in Virginia, for Mr. Broaddus to try. After drinking it he remarked: “ It tastes beautiful, as the Yankee said at my house a short time since.” Looking aronnd, he saw a stranger in the room, of rather quizzical appearance, with a broad smile on his face. Mr. Broaddus, who was the pink of politeness, said instantly, “ I mean no reproach; we have onr Yirginianisms as the Yankees have their Yan- keeisms.” The stranger, encouraged by there- mark, said, “ I was, not long ago, in the city of Charleston, S. C., and a negro was riding along the street on a small, lean, raw-boned, long haired mule. Another negro coming up to him, remarked, “ Lor, your jack ace looks mighty sorry; he ’pears like he kin scarce budge to toto yon.” Broaddus enjoyed the retort, and confessed that he was beaten. “Shoddy” Vulgarity.—The New York Ex press says that the royal family of Saxony have become so disgusted with the excesses of many American women residing in Dresden, they have been obliged to exclude all our countrywomen from court in order to avoid invidious distinc tions. A Maine contemporary says the prospect for a good hay crop this season is first rate. The grass is starting up nicely. There is no com plaint of winter MUing. In Illinois recently, a farmer set fire to tho grass on his prairie* land, and burnt up bis two children, who were out at play. Attorney-General Hoar has published an opinion adverse to merging national banks into State banking associations under the laws of New York, For the first time in the history of France, a sailing vessel—a little fore-and-aft schooner—is moored in the Seine, by the Tufileries. The names of twenty-five thousand pickpock ets and petty thieves are constantly .on the books of the Paris police. Chicken cholera is very prevalent in Anne Arundel county, McL, and some farmers have lost nearly their entire stock of fowls. The grasshoppers are devastating Platt Coun ty, Mo., and the farmers pray for somebody to invent a grasshopper trap. ' \ The Herald on the Macon Fostofflee, 'Ete. At the request of Dr. Strohecker, we repub lish the annexed article, with a note appended by him: Dr. Strohecker tells ns the pretended revela tions of the Herald Washington correspondent of tho 29 th are all stuff and nonsense. He was in Washington upon a strictly business errand, having no politics in it, about March last, and called on P. M. General Creswell, who is not a relation, but an old acquaintance and slightly connected by marriage. Mr. Creswell was glad to see him and, in course of conversation, asked the Doctor, how he would like to resume his old position of Postmaster at Macon ? To which the Doctor replied that he was a democrat and besides that, he conld not take the test oath. Some weeks ago Dr. Strohecker wa3 induced to go to Washington in the interest of Mr. Washington the present Postmaster. He had an interview with the Postmaster General_ on the subject, and learned that much opposition was made to the reappointment of Mr. Washington, on the ground that he was or had been a demo crat. This point the Doctor cleared up as best he could; but subsequently meeting very un expectedly with Mr. Whitehead, he asked the latter to go with him to see Mr. Creswell and state the facts as he knew them. Mr. White- head did so, and Mr. Creswell appeared satis fied and promised that Mr. Washington should not be removed; but, as the event showed, was overruled in the matter. Subsequently Mr. Whitehead told the Doctor his errand in Washington—that he was an ap plicant for the appointment of Collector of In ternal Revenue for the Macon 'District, and asked the Doctor if he could do so, to 'secure for him the support of Mr. Creswell. As_ White- head had cheerfully assisted in supporting Mr. Washington, Dr. S. thought it no more than fair to return the favor, (as between those who were applicants) and he accordingly interceded for the support of Mr. Creswell to M. White- head’s appointment. This is the whole story, and all that the correspondent says about bar gains for other appointments or sub-appoint ments under Mr. Whitehead, or an attempt or desire on the part of Dr. Strohecker, to control the patronage of the Assessor’s office, is pure in vention. The above article is true, so far as it goes. I would further add that Mr. Madison Jones, on the eve of my departure for Washington, asked me' to secure a position for him if I could. Dr. Whitehead did promise to appoint as sub-assessors at this point whoever I sug gested. The attempt to control his appoint ments, alleged in the New York Herald, goes no further than the above. It is proper to say that the understandings between Dr. W. and myself were strictly private, and, for reasons patent to all, were designedly kept from the knowledge of Mr. Creswell. E. L. Strohecker. Cliief Justice Cbase on Pence. Judge Chase, in response to an invitation to be present at the decoration of the graves of the Federal soldiers in Charleston, on Saturday last, said: The nation cannot too tenderly cherish the memory of her dead heroes, or too watchfully guard the well-being of those who survive. And may we not indulge the hope-,that ere long we who adhered to the national cause will be prompt also to join in commemorating the he roism of our countrymen who fell on the other side, and that those who now specially mourn their loss, consenting to the arbitrament of arms, and resuming all their old love for their country and our country, one and indivisible, will join with us in like commemoration of the fallen braves of the army of the Union? The dead are not dead. They have only gone before, and now see eye to eye. Why may not we all borrow from their sacred graves oblivion of past differences, and henceforth unite in no ble and generous endeavor to assure the honor and welfare of our whole country, of all her States, and of all her citizens ? Weather and Crops.—Since Monday last, the weather has been summer-like indeed, de cidedly the wannest of the season, and very dry. No rain for more than two weeks. Gar dens are looking as if they had seen an August sun. Farmers complain heavily for want of rain, and bad stands of cotton. Crops in good condition.—Dawson Journal. To Lawyers and Parties in Law.—The At lanta Constitution has made arrangements with Col. N. J. Hammond, Supreme Court Reporter, to furnish that paper exclusively with the deci sions of the Court, and the progress of business each day, for the benefit of its readers. The advantage is manifest of subscribing to this Journal, to get this important legal intelli gence fresh, and in advance of all other papers. Killed by a Train of Cars.—We learn, by private letter, that M. C. Weston, son of J. L. Weston, Esq., of this place, was killed on the 17th of May last. We know nothing of the par ticulars, only that a train of cars, on the South ern Railroad, in Jlississippi, passed over him, killing him instantly. “In the midst of life we are in death.”—Dawson Journal. It has been told us by a gentleman of our city, that he has received unmistakable informa tion that an unknown crab-apple named Boswell will be our Postmaster. We are astonished at this appointment of the administration, if it be an appointment; because there once lived a man named Boswell who was the friend of a cotemporaneous individual known as Johnson. Americus Republican. English Operatives Coming to America.— The London correspondent of the Financial Chronicle, writing under date of the 15th nit, says: It is stated that nearly one hundred spinners and wrinders, with their wives and families have left Preston for the United States since the strike commenced, and that eight more families will leave next week. In Blackburn similar measures are being taken with the same object Subscriptions are being largely collected among tho power loom weavers, and preparations are now making to send off as many of them as possible, upwards of one thousand having al ready expressed their desire to leave tins coun try. About twenty of these operatives will leave Blackburn during the present month. The spinners in that town have voted £500 from the funds of their Union, and tho ordinary weekly levy per member has been doubled, for the sole purpose of augmenting the emigration fund. The levy will take place immediately af ter the Whitsuntide holidays. Arrangements have been made for sending upwards of sixty members of the society, and more will be dis patched as the funds come in. Some families left for the United States a short time ago, and on Tuesday last another batch took their de parture. In Darwen there are 13,C55 looms, and it has been agreed to raise an emigration fund by a levy of Id. per loom per week, to re alize £56 8s. 9d., which would be sufficient to send five persons off per week, “giving them ten pounds each to start them across the Atlantic.” At the delegate meeting of weavers held in Pres ton, on Sunday, several representatives of dis tricts in East Lancashire gave it as their opin ion, and the general opinion of their constitu ents, that the only solution of tho present diffi culties in the cotton trade was emigration, as tending to diminish the present Ripply of labor. The Crop Prospect.—Dr. Andrews returned home yesterday, from an extensive tour through Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana—reports the crop prospect as generally very gloomy and discouraging. The com is small, and the cot ton very unpromising. The April rains pre vented planters from getting their crops season ably in the ground, and the cold winds which prevailed early in May stinted the growth of both plants. The warm weather of the last week will improve matters materially, provided genial showers occur, to soften the hard ground and permit of active culture. The wheat crop in Tallapoosa county, Ala., and other sections, is very promising, and the farmers will commence harvesting next week. The Doctor says that some of the wheat fields remind him of Eastern Pennsylvania, in the golden aspect and heavy fraitage presented to the eye of the observing traveler.—Sumter Republican. - : • In Italy, ont 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 benefits in New York, last week netted him §6,000. He is one of the most popular and accomplished American ao- tajB. ■ Failure to pay a hotel bill is decided to be a penitentiary offence in New York. The Pope received §4,000,000 worth of pres ents on his anniversary. Lamartine’s tomb .is decorated daily with numerous elegant bouquets sent from all parts of France. , , , ' • [For the Telegraph. “All is not Gold that Glitters.” A city gent’s first introduction to the skunk is thus related by himself: * “On a beautiful morning, not long since, being ont on a visit in the country, I was walk ing through the woods, already blooming in beauty, as spring had considerably advanoed, ruminating upon the changes which the face.of nature undergoes, as the seasons come and de part, and on the beanty of the scene stretched ont before me. The swelling buds had pushed off the dry, dead leaves from the branches, and had developed themselves into something simi lar to the otheTS in shape, but far more brilliant in color and delightful in scent. I had been walking thns, lazily pondering, perhaps half an hour, when my attention was suddenly attracted to a little animal that stole cautiously across the path a fow paces in front of me, and silent ly entered a hole in the ground, which he, no donbt, had prepared expressly for his reception. As I had never before seen anything like it, I was filled with curiosity to inspect and desire to possess the little animal which appeared so shy and pretty—consequently I sharpened a stick and set in heartily, in earnest, to obtain the coveted prize. . I dug away, and at length, by dint of diligent ly pushing and prizing with my stick, and re moving the dirt with my hands, in abont an hour, I was rewarded by a close view of the lit tle fellow. Previous to entirely unearthing him, I hesitated a moment, carried away with admiration at the sight. There were streaks of brown coursing their way over a surface of soft yellow fur—so soft seemingly, that the beaver’s coat were harsh-in comparison; delicate little ears that looked as if they might have been made especially to play with—and I thought thus to myself: ‘T will catch this little creature and carry him home for a pet—for, no doubt, he will be easily tamed, as he is apparently en tirely harmless.” Having indulged this pleas ing reverie, I proceeded to further reveal his delicate proportions to my enraptured gaze, caught hold of his tail, timidly, I confess, pre pared at the least demonstration on his part of a propensity to defend himself, to drop him immediately, “if not sooner.” But he was too quick for me, for he gave himself a sudden twist, when—perfumers avaunt! hide your dis honored heads! What a scent! Not quite so delightful to the olfactory nerves as your preparations ’tis true, but ever so much more lasting. ■- Overcome so completely by the effect the scent produced upon me, I immediately dropped the offensive little rascal, not even thinking of being revenged upon him for the ugly triefc he had played so successively upon me, he having well sprinkled my wardrobe with the mask, in destructible. As soon as I turned him loose he waddled away, occasionally casting back on either side, as I thought, a mischievous glance, to observe the effect his “coup de main” had produced upon me, and to see if I would have the audacity to pursue him further; but on that score he need have had no anxiety, as I had had enough to do with what I had, until within the last few months, thought a perfectly nice and harmless little creatrue, but in which I now recognized from accounts I had heard concern ing his wonderful perfuming capacity, an animal that is generally known in the country by the name of the “Pole-cat” From Crawford County. Crawford County, June 1st, 1869. Editors Telegraph: Although I have noticed, quite recently, in the Telegraph, several repre sentations of the state of affairs in this county, I will, notwithstanding, venture a few remarks in reference to the crop prospects, labor, etc. For several days past we have been having the nicest weather almost imaginable on crops, being warm, night and day, without cool morn ings, and, as a consequence, both com and cot ton are looking up—especially the latter, which has had it all to do, in the way of growing, during the last week, as it grew scarcely any before. During the time the cool weather con tinued, so much of the cotton died ont, that, generally, the farmers have poor stands. Those of them that bought the “Dickson’sImproved” seed, and in order to have them plant as much land as possible, rolled them and dropped them in hills, (thinly, no donbt,)—are not very likely, I fear, to get their money back, as not many have near half a stand. Some of that class of farmers, denominated grumblers,” are complaining now of a want of rain, yet they are forced to acknowledge the fact that their com and cotton have grown more the last week than during any two weeks previ ous to this time. And then, besides, it is such nice weather for killing grass, (where the ground is not too hard,) and as we have plenty of it here, though the freedmen work well to keep it in subjection, I think a week or two of dry weather, so far from being an injury, (except to oats and garden products,) would be an ac tual advantage. Besides, we want jnst that much more fair weather in order to save onr wheat well. The traveling thrashers will com mence their circuits this week; so we.can soon tell with certainty the value of the wheat crop— whether or not it is a good one. I have no agitating “dots” to communicate. Tue negroes having quit that way they had of killing each other, have settled into the more profitable pursuit of chopping cotton, which farmers, generally, are not quite through with yet. Rustic. The Grass Crop and the Cotton Crop.—The Athens Banner says: A gentleman of this place mentioned to ns an instructive fact a few days ago. Last summer ho spent a few days on a farm in a Northern State in the midst of the haying season. He saw hay hauled to tho bam which had grown on land sown in 1 SCO, and had been cut by a mow ing machine, scattered by another machine, and gathered up with a horse-rake—the only human labor employed upon it being the loading of the wagons with pitch-forks. It yielded two tons to the acre and was selling at the meadow at §20 per ton, or §40 per acre. 'While our cot ton here, jvMch requires looking after from the 1st of January to the 31st of December, yields, on an average, a bale to three acres—at 25 cents per pound, the three acres would bring §100 or §33.33$per acre! “lord” Chandler. HIS ARMS, LIVERY, AND ESCUTCHEON. Senator Chandler left here with his family and servants, on Saturday night, for New York, where he will remain a few days preparatory to sailing to Europe. His wife and daughter each take with them a colored female servant, and he takes two black male servants. These ser vants are to be fitted ont, while in New York, with a very showy livery. The coats of the men servants are to be a lavender color, with white buttons, upon which is the Michigan coat of arms, except that the stags support the letter O, which is of red enamel with gold edge. The female servants wear large belt bnckles bearing the same design as that upon the bnttons. The hats of the men are black, with a wide purple band and a large silver cockade, in the center of which is one of the bnttons aforesaid. The dogs in the Cleveland, Ohio, pound were recently kept without food so long that the larger ones devoured the smaller. The bill providing for the annexation of Dor chester to Boston, has passed the Massachusetts Legislature. The Arizona cotton factory established in Claiborne Parish, La., since the war, is now paying a net profit of 24 per. cent per annum A landlord in Utica is trying to eject a dis agreeable tenant by bringing numerous organ- grinders to play about his door. The manufacture of shoes has been carried on at Lynn for two hundred years. The Advance in Cotton should have been stated at four-fifths of a cent, instead of four to five|cents. It is to-day fully a cent. [For the Macon Dailg Telegraph The Second GermanPolkr Expedite The reorganization of the body politic is - 0 ing the latent energies of the German nation? seek fame on a field it has never yet explored” Though the establishment of nearly f ot , princely courts, perpetuating the dismenfl* ment of the empire has prevented the nati from exercising a decisive influence on the a° 6 tinies of the Old World, it haa had a benefit! effect on the cultivation ef arts and science The genius of the peoples was bound and ‘ ^ tered, impeded in a thousand ways; and bein' unable to shine in parliamentary debate o-* carry the German tricolor across the seastofc° eign lands, it devoted all its energies to the suit of knowledge. German enthusiasm son? vent in music and art ; poetry flourished- Si though many of the princelings deserve to bf held up to eternal execration, the nation ever gratefully remember Prince Carl August/! Weimar, who gave Schiller and Goethe a* .5 lum. The war of 1866 has broken the spell- w* Germans, castiig longing eyes towards di’sta? climes, are preparing to compete with the & faring nations in the marts of the world. i? the Chancellor of the Confederation, appredT. ing the importance of the movement, gives every countenance, by developing the cai-l power and concluding commercial treaties »'•’ distant foreign nations. !ti The second German polar expedition vn leave Bremen on the 7th of June, to penetr-1“ sailing along the eastern coast of GreenC-’ into the Arctic central regions. The expehth? commanded by Captain Karl Koldeweyfcons? of two steamers, “Germania” and “Hansa ■ 143 tons each, of which the first was eipr t J built for the Arctic seas. They will take provisions for two years, as they will not rets? until the summer of 1871. As for the pectus wants of a ship destined for the Arctic regie? the experiences of other nations were adooM These prove that small ships, especially tip, that do not draw above ten feet of water sjj the best, as, steaming northward, thev haw very often to keep along the coast. A zoology and geologist will accompany the expedition * The enterprise, the costs of which are dt frayed by voluntary contributions of the natio-" was initiated by Dr. A. Petermann, in Gotha the most eminent German geographer now fir ing. A storm of applause arose, when he de- dared in the session of the committee on the 11th of May, in Bremen, “that now the Gar. mans ought to exhibit also something of the pluck and tbe enterprising spirit of th- : - Anglo-Saxon and Trans-Atlantio brethren.” May a lucky star guide the vessels safe’.; again to the shores of the Fatherland! 1 Jaexo. European Labor for the South. I From the Cuthbert Appeal. The experience of the past three years, de. monstrates the futility of any attempt to snpp^ ment or supersede negro labor, by importation from the peasantry of the old countries. .Reared in enlightened communities andtx insensible to ambition, they no sooner reach the eldorado of their hopes, the shores of Ameria, than new and enlarged ideas obtrude themselws No longer confined to the narrow limits of i> Irish potato patch, or chilled by the dmq moors of Scotland, or forced, as in Holland, t« contend with the sea for the diminutive spot cl solid earth they once inhabited, the broad acres and unbroken forests of the new world presen the strongest attractions. At the dose of the first year of then serrice, they are not slow to perceive, that even with the paltry savings of that brief period, with the p» neer’s axe they may enter the wilderness, aid carve ont a home and glorious independent for themselves. The Southern planter afters! his pains and outlay therefore, to secure foreip white labor, finds himself defeated at the ver threshhold of his enterprise, and continued ex periment in the same field will but repeat fe experience of the past. He simply becomes a successful immigrac agent, and the advantage to be reaped is remoti and merely incidental. But our ruined fences, and the rapid increase of brambles and broom sedge iu the fields ok smiling with plenty, admonish ns that somethin must be done to restore onr waste places. "Will the present African labor suffice ? ¥( answer no. Even now every year witnesses i material subtraction from tbe supply which c&s be made available. Infanticide, whisky and disease, sky their thousands; toe jails and penitentiaries of tbe country contain not a few; the field is becom ing more and more distasteful to female labor ers *hur railroads absorb hosts of the very pick of the plantation force; the love of novelty and sight-seeing induce crowds to throng and hang about every town and village, where many even perish from want; the ambition to set up for themselves rapidly transforms into tenants o: freeholders toe most prosperous of the black operatives—all these causes when combmed- are swiftly and surely exhausting toe supply of African labor. How then can the South continue to prodiH toe great staples, and exist as an agricnltunl people ? The only solution to this problem, is to h found in the importation of indentured Asiatics. Those people who subsist almost wholly upc! vegetables are docile and tractable, and far a- perior to toe negro in skill and intelligence. They can be contracted for at very low rate for a term of years, and coming from the ja> I gles of toe East are already acclimated. In Lo' I isiana toe experiment has already been mad! I with complete success. True, these heathens I still retain toe manners, customs, and traditions I of their fathers, but this was equally the caal with too African, who, even after an intervals I near two centuries, is but half civilized, aril rapidly relapsing into his pristine state of »l perstiuon and barbarism. . j Bat toe descendant of Shem as before state! I is vastly superior .in all respects to the children I of Ham, and it will he hard indeed if a natice I of Protestant Christiana cannot overthrow UI Budhism, and errors of a scattered few wh I as decreed of old, are “hewers of wood, ®| drawers of water for Japhet. ” Some even propose to induce negroes agj® I not bought with- money, or captured with w 5 1 and spear, but as emigrants and citizens of tf I “Great Republic.” .1 Of the propriety of this project we are c* I prepared at present to express an opinion. | It will be difficult, however, tor spirits, white, black and grey, “to stultify I own pet theory of freedom to such an extent 1 1 to exclude from their midst toe untutored I or Foulah, who seeks the benefit and proie®® I of toe “best government the world ever sa^ | But we have said enough for the present, w on this question, soon to bo one of absorbing- terest to toe South. "Whether from Europe, Asia, or Africs, a supply of labor must be introduced for I pi cal region, and the subject will ere l 01 ?.. | same a practical significance, which cannot* | be avoided nor ignored. An Immense Tombstone ! — Our I friends in their enthusiastic moments, son*-1 times commit most ridiculous blunders, and I most ridiculous of all are those that are conn ', ed with serious subjects. .For instance, monument recently inaugurated to the | Federal - dead at Arlington contains the ft ing inscription: ... “Beneath this stone repose toe bodies o I thousand one hundred and eleven unknown^ i diers, gathered after the war from the ne'® ‘ I Bull Run and on the route to the Eapp 4 ®*' | nock.” GulfMackcrel. Etc. Some of our merchants have this season, • I the Columbus Sun, been dealing in a uew T ZI ty of salt fish called Spanish Mackerel, p 53 * I on the Gulf coast in Florida; also in I put up like Mackerel. We have tried these . and find them to be fully as good a8 the * L era Mackerel; indeed toe “Spanish" s ee !f. a. | be a more delicate fish than toe Northern I erel, is less gross, and has a cleaner I The Pompano are also as fine as any Aon* ,1 salt fish. There is no necessity for going M. ^ I our Southern waters for fish as fine as tw ^ I can furnish, and we are glad to learn tw j I trade in these Southern fish is already IMS” g I increasing. They are well appreciated v) , I who give them a trial, and we believe that ■ | are cheaper than the Northern fish. The word “rink” is a Russian word, I “a body of ice.” Hence toe taxm “skafinS.^I is proper; and for the same reason “velooj^ I rink’’ is improper. So says a Kansas co I porary, and we suppose it is right. In Jasper county, Iowa, toe grasahopp** 4 so thick that there is not standing room - of them. . t-j. On an opening night at ah opera housei m^ f vada an enthusiastic admirer of an actress an eighty dollar silver brick at her. ^ , Wheat harvestiiighM -commencediu , counties in Texas. The crop ia fine, y“* very slight touch of rust- - n- III—nan MB