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The Greorg-ia Weekly Telegraph.
THE TELEGRAPH.
MACON, FRIDAY, JUNE 11, 1869.
The Struggle In Cuba.
Hits news from Cuba to-day is a little too
hnga. Defeats in which only three of the van
quished escape, Although not beyond the bounds
of possibility, are still so straining to faith that
we need a good deal of moral support. A few
affidavits from eye-witnesses would not be amiss.
The tide has evidently turned in the affairs of
the Cuban rebels. They have received strong
reinforcements from sympathising American
filibusters, and, what is probably more impor
tant, they have received a considerable supply
of serviceable arms. As the sickly season is at
band, and the operations of the government
troops will be necessarily crippled by the heat
and malaria, it is not improbable that the Cu
bans will overrun the most of the island and
coop the Spaniards up in a few of the larger
towns.
Bat Spain evinces an inexorable determina
tion to maintain her hold of Cuba. She has sent
outDe Roda to supersede Dulce as Captain-
General. Do Roda is said to be another Alva in
disposition—sanguinary in the extreme ; and he
goes out, as is said, nnder instructions to spare
neither fire nor sword. The Northern papers
say that the cruelty of Dulce cannot be exceeded,
hat De Roda is going to try the Stanton plan on
tho Cuba rebels. He goes to destroy the food,
clothing and shelter of non-combattants and to
call in the aid of universal starvation. The “loy
al” can come into the Spanish garrisons and get
what food may be doled out to them; but the
rebels must perish out in time, if the govern
ment can keep up a vigorous blockade,and pros
ecute the work of destroying houses, food and
crops. If tho Spanish government can find
money to carry on the war long enough, they
can probably subdue the rebellion in this way.
New Census Statistics.
The Washington dispatches say a delegation
of the “National Temperance League” was
before the Census Committee on the 1st instant,
to ask for the organization of a “Temperance
Bureau" and the collection of statistics upon
temperance by the next census takers. The
committee, it is said, received tho proposition
with favor, but they are puzzled how to prepare
a schedule.
We beg leave to suggest that a precedent can
bo found in file annals of Massachusetts legisla
tion, and that portof them devoted to the records
and proceedings of the “Smelling Committee.
Each census taker should be also a Smelling
Committee, and should be authorized to test the
fact of the use of wine or ardent spirits, where
parties refuse to answer, just as the blind man
knew the negro—“by the smell.” In this way
wa can get at the number of “ citizens of the
United States" who drink ardent spirits, and to
make the facts complete, there should be sepa
rate columns for the consumers of the different
kinds of liqnid poison, as well as the number
of drinks.
This Bureau of Temperance will be as splen
did a concern as the Bureau of Abandoned
Lands and Refugees. Of course, they will bo
required by law to keep large supplies of wine
and spirits, in order to show the frightful stuff
which is ruining the nation ; and where any
donbts exist in tho minds of candid inquirers,
it will be the duty of the Bureau to illustrate
the fact by actual experiment.
For this purpose, the Internal Revenue De
partment should be required to turn over all
liquors seized for non-payment of tax, and the
Custom-house to turn over all wines and bran
dies forfeited by reason of non-payment of
duties; and thus the Temperance Bureau
could soon be placed on a magnificent foot
ing, so as to develop© in Washington, among
members of Congress and heads of departments,
•and their friends, male and female, a new and
•uAaor&i'jiy interest in the temperance cause, un.
der the auspices of the administration.
Col. Lester’s Address. Equality Pomp;
Wo print upon the other side of this edition j me social fusion of backs religiously con-
an address from Col. George N. Lester to the ,/
Crops in Talbot.—From what we can learn,
the wheat crop of this county, says the West
Georgia Gazette, will be unprecedentedly large.
Some farmers have already commenced har
vesting. Com, of which a large quantity has
been planted, is doing well; and cotton, not
withstanding the cold spring, is making good
.headway under a warm sun.
An Immigration Project in Augusta.—A gen
tleman of Augusta writes to Col. Weil. Commis
sioner of Immigration for Georgia, that he has
formed a company with a capital of thirty
thousand dollars, to purchase lands of the best
quality, and will give each immigrant twenty-five
acres, and assist and famish them means to
make the first crop. That proposition ought to
bring them.
A Lorrr Tumble and Patient Self-Extrica
tion.—Tho Constitution says that Mr. Elisha
Buice, of that city, while going home across lots
Tuesday night, fell into a well forty feet deep
After recovering sensibility, Mr. Bnice with
the assistance ofhispocket knife, worked his way
np, after two hours' labor.
Failure of the Macon Delegation.—The-
Herald, of Tuesday, inits Washington dispatches
•of the 31st, says:
“Congressman Gove, of Georgia, and a dele
gation of Republicans from that State, waited
upon the President again to-day, to urge the
removal of Turner as Postmaster of Macon.—
'Their appeal was quite as fruitless as that of
the delegation which tried the same thing last
week.”
An Immense Diamond Found in Africa.—
The Capo Town Argus announces the discovery
in that vicinity of a diamond weighing eighty-
three and a half carats, and valued at twenty-
five thousand pounds sterling. The Kohinoor
•diamond weighs 110 carats.
Harvesting of Wheat.—The crop in this sec
tion, says the Columbus Sun, is ripening rapid- remam
ly. Some is being harvested. The yield, des
pite of some rust, etc., is an average one. Con
siderable areas have been planted. Planters
are reaping with their own hands, there being
but few machines in the country. Some farm
era, we learn will have wheat to sell.
Central Railroad.—This corporation has
declared a dividend of five per cent, on its opera
tions for the last six months, which will be
agreeable news to shareholders.
Toe Emperor Alexander, of Russia, it is re
ported is seriously indisposed, bis illness having
originated in a shock arising from an accident
while he was driving in an open carriage over
the Bridge across the Neva. His medical at
tendants are very uneasy at tho symptoms fear-
an internal injury.
Three ladies of Rochester, New York, have
undertaken to reform the social evil by placing
detectives to watch the houses of ill-fame and
report the names of the men patrons. Tbev
have been so far successful as to spoil the busi
ness of the immoral establishments.
people of Georgia, inviting them to hold publig
meetings, especially in counties where violences
have occurred, to disclaim all sympathy with
disorder and crime. This suggestion may be
a useful one, and it will be particularly useful,
if it shall stir up the people and authorities in
all suchcountiesto take thestrongest measures to
bring to condign punishment every man who
guilty of any disturbance of the public peace
and tranquility.
Georgia, although more quiet than any other
State of the Union,must be absolutely free from
violence, because every case is multiplied
hundred fold by tho partizans who make their
bread and meat by public libel. Nay, more;
a condition of absolute freedom from crime of
every description will not help the matter
much, so long os these creatures can nse
breath and printer s ink so efficaciously; for
where crime does not exist, they can manufac
ture it For example, take the following from
the Radical press in Macon yesterday, where it
was printed in sensation style :
Judge Parrott Assassinated—Another Re
publican Sacrifice.—AS we go to press (Thurs
day noon) we have information from Carters-
ville that Hon. J. R. Parrott, who will be re
membered as the President of the Constitution
al Convention, and since appointed Judge of
the Cherokee circuit by Governor Bullock, was
shot from his horse and killed yesterday, while
on his way from Kinley’s to Cartersvilie. Thus
perishes another of those monsters by the way-
side. This report needs confirmation,
“This report needs confirmation!” indeed.
But tho object of setting it afloat will be sub
served whether it is confirmed or not. A lie is
just as good as a murder for their purposes,
because the Northern radical press will never
correct it. Not a single one of the legion of
falsehoods set on foot to defame Georgia has
ever yet been corrected by these papers; and it
is doubtful whether your public meetings and
protests would not absolutely be taken and held
by the North os open confession of these
wretched libels. You would need to have yonr
public meetings in perpetual session. You would
require a current of protests and declarations as
steady and endless as the stream of the
Ocmulgee.
No! no! The great source of the misunder
standing and prejudice, of which CoL Lester
complains, is to be traced to the systematic ope
rations of political adventurers, without charac
ter.or scruple, who rely for their gains solely
upon fomenting discord and strife—who have
no better claim to the countenance and support
of the Federal Government than they can cre
ate by representing the people as turbulent,
lawless and insubordinate. These men have the
ears of the North and of the Northern newspa
pers of largest circulation; and so long as the
two choose to operate in harmony to libel the
South, exculpatory public meetings in this sec
tion will prove a slow remedy.
An Ontragc at the Decoration Cere*
monies in Arlington.
Washington, May 30.—The action of a lieu
tenant and small guard of marines at Arlington
yesterday, in preventing people from throwing
flowers over the graves of the Confederate dead,
is the subject of much talk here to-day, and the
general sentiment is condemnatory. It turns
out that the officers of the Grand Army of the
Republic were not altogether responsible for
what occurred. They merely arranged to have
the marines there so as to prevent people from
making mistakes, but mistakes were made on
the wrong side. The marines misunderstood
what they were placed there for, and thought it
was part of their duty to insult people who hap
pened to throw flowers on the graves of the Con
federate dead. The lieutenant in command,
whose name is given as Shirley, but of which I
am not certain, was particularly offensive in his
manner.
Seeing a lady throw a small bouquet on one
of these graves, this lieutenant rushed to the
spot, picked up the flowers and, throwing them
on the ground at his feet, commenced stamping
on them in such a manner as to attract about
him a crowd of wondering spectators in a very
few minutes. Some of the lookers-on, learning
the cause of the lieutenant’s rage, commenced
to murmur disapprobation, when the lieutenant
shouted out, “D—n you get away from here,
every one of you, or I’ll make you. Guards,
come up here and disperse this crowd.” The
lieutenant accompanied these words with angry
gestures, and swinging his arms about as if he
: ntended to pitch generally into the crowd. His
guards answered his call, but the crowd dis
persed without waiting to be bayonetted. An
ex-Union volunteer writing to the Washington
Herald gives the following account of what he
—w:
While marching with the throng along the cen
tral walk of the cemetery, accompanied by sev
eral children whom I had supplied with flowers,
I noticed a crowd and a squad of several marines
gathered about a small plat in the grounds, to
the right of the walk, just to the north of the
little foot bridge. We walked on across the
bridge, and having given our tribute to the dead
we returned. The crowd was still at the little
fiat. Four marines and a sergeant, assisted at
ntervals by two officers, were pacing up and
down, not on the walks or between the graves,
but literally across the graves of some thirty
soldiers. Upon examination, I found that they
were Confederate dead. Several ladies, evi
dently not knowing that they were Confederates,
and with no intention of exhibiting any special
feeling, quietly placed their offerings upon the
graves. They were at once accosted by the
who compelled them to take them up.
everal gentlemen were treated in a like man
ner. I saw one Union soldier who was forced
to take back the offering be had made to peace
and forgiveness. An ex-Union officer, well
known to me, was ordered to receive back a few
roses that he had, without knowledge of the
forbidden ground, strewn upon the grave of one
of these soldiers. Astonished, mystified and
disgusted, I asked one of the guards the source
of the orders. He told me that they came from
the superintendent of the cemetery, whose name
~ do not know.
The people demand to know from whence
these orders came, that the responsibility may
be placed where it should rest. They demand to
know whether a subordinate can shape thus the
policy of a government, or whether the head of
government and the army has sanctioned this
act, and thus explains and interprets his oracu
lar “Let us have peace.” They demand to
know for what purpose were these dead Confed
erates buried there and how long they were to
Was it that they should be thus in
sulted, and are they to remain there as long as
our nation lives, to be on every anniversary liter
ally trodden under foot by the uniformed'repre-
sentatives of the government, pointed out as an
example that we will wreak vengeance ever up
on the bodies of dead enemies ? The course
pursued at Arlington is in strong contrast with
that which prevailed in Alexandria yesterday.
There all the graves were honored alike, flowers
having been strewn gpon Confederate and
Union dead without distraction.
Dana’s Sun gives Bennett, Jr., this terrific
notice “Attention! Does the young proprie
tor of the Evening Telegram want a personal
controversy with ns ? If not, let him call off his
oog to-dny. It he does render one necessary,
it will comprise incidents of interest in both
hemispheres.
On the day of his jubilee the Pope received a
telegram from the frozen regions of Lapland,
theWer of which had to traverse six htSdred
K Two wealthy ^brothers living in Hudson conn
'll'; i hare been sentenced to two years in
S State prison for “kleptomania. ” ■-*-
Affairs lit Dougherty.
The Albany News of the 4 th says: Providence
is smiling upon this portion of the vineyard.
With the exception of the cold weather in
May, our agricultural interests have been par
ticularly favored, and we doubt not even that
was a blessing. It, at least, caused {he planter
to be more careful in managing the tender plant,
and the result is our fields are as clean as a gar
den, and perfect stands have been secured,
We have had two weeks of first-class cotton
weather—dry and hot, and just at the propi
tious moment the rains come to gladden every
thing and everybody.
Monday evening there were slight showers
Thursday night a glorious rain visited fliVa lol
cality, and again Wednesday night a heavy cloud
circled south and east of us, and we learn
poured out a good season npon the gray lands.
This sets the planters ahead, and they smile
again. They have done their whole duty, and
the Supreme Dispenser of all good seems to re
spond to every prayer for assistance.
Mr. Jnnins Brutus Booth has purchased for
his mother a beautiful summer residence in
Manchester.
The Eastern collection of the Catholic Church
es of New York City, for the orphan asylums of
that church, amounted to $22,137.49.
President Grant has been sent a cask of Cali-
- ; - — — They stole , fomia wine, but he can’t drink it, because they
-SM^iy all the turkeys is the neighborhood- I are all “temperance” now in Washington.
The “AmericanBaptist Free Mission Society,
if anybody knows what that may be, has been
in session for some days. It seems to compre
hend a heavy negro admixture, and by special
invitation Rev. Dr. Burrows and some other
Richmond clergyman took seats. Among the
“closing scenes” was a discussion npon a social
and religions fusion of colors, from which we
quote the following:
Rev. R. Cheeney called np the resolution in
regard to caste offered by him on yesterday. He
said the term “caste" is borrowed from a Portu
guese word which signified lineage or race, and
is used to distinguish race, lineage, condition.
God Almighty forbids any such thing as caste
in his Holy Word. He is no respecter of per
sons, but in every nation he that feareth God
and worketh righteousness is accepted of Him.
And to have “respect of persons” means caste,
Is it true that caste exists to-day in our Ameri
can churches ? Dr. Borrows on yesterday pro
claimed that it existed not only in the South,
but also in the North. The question is not a
sectional one; but are there such distinctions
existing in the church of God? The fact is ap
parent to all that there are. The men who pro
claim their belief in the doctrine don’t worship
the God that he does. We as a society have
been fighting against this principle for more than
a quarter of a century, and to be false now
•would be to be false to the Christ who redeemed
ns. He had never met an agent of the Home
Mission Society who did not declare to him that
he was an anti-slavery man. Yon send out a
man to preach the Gospel to dying men, and he
is told, ns we were told yesterday, that the time
has not come for him to preach to white men.
Can this be so ? Has not the time come? Are
yon thus to be debarred from fulfilling the de
mands of God ? He would rather tear down
every gplpit in the land than to give utterance
to such a sentiment. The Baptist Church is
tho only evangelical organization in the world.
He recognized no Pedo-Baptist organization as
evangelical.
The old law demanded tithes, bnt the new law
demands all that you have got, for you have
been bought with a price, and you are not yonr
own.
He was not much accustomed to mingling
with colored people, and here his intercourse
with them might -not be as free as they could
desire, but he had no feeling of caste in him.
Its recognition is a sin before God and the world.
The Home Mission Society would not come up
to this for fear they would be called “Abolition
ists.” We are told that we are just disturbing
the workings of the Church. The recognition
of this principle is given by God, and he dared
not eschew it.
We are opposed to this infernal spirit of caste
wherever it is found. We claim that yon col
ored brethren have all the rights that we have,
and shame on ns that it has not sooner been re
cognized and accorded to yon. The fact that
some of the northern churches do not admit
colored ministers proves nothing. That is just
what we have been working against for twenty,
five years.
To colored men he would say, “Lore yonr
enemies. Carry with yon the spirit of Christ.
Treated as yon have been, I don’t know how I
should have done. So far as you can, forget
what has been done. Above all things, don’t
compromise yonr manhood. We must every
where war against this spirit of caste as a sin.
Did Christ, or Peter, or Paul, recognize it?
Rev. J. B. Sewell wished to say that so far as
the people of westemNewYork were concerned
this spirit was not in them. No difference had
ever been made there in the case of colored
persons.
Rev. G. D. Dixon had been laboring as a mis
sionary in Virginia, and he wanted to see noth
ing taught except what is sanctioned by the
Bible. It pained him to see clashings and bick
erings among God’s people. If a preacher fails
to preach the whole truth he is an unfaithful
steward. God forbid that we should quote the
North as a specimen of treatment. There are
copperheads there, as there aro vipers at the
South. He had too much self-respect to go in
to a gentleman’s parlor to be insulted. In the
city of Brooklyn he had sat and eaten and slept
with his white brethren. At the South he did
not wish to force himself where he was not
wanted. This spirit of oldfogyism, for it was
nothing else, must bo got rid of. It is with the
colored people as well as with the white.
Rev. R. L. Perry moved a suspension of busi
ness to allow him to offer a resolution, which he
wished to do before some of the members left,
as he saw them leaving the house. He then
offered a resolution of thanks to the citizens of
Richmond for the kind reception and treatment
they had received, and especially to the pastor
and members of the church in which their meet
ings had been held. A resolution was also
adopted thanking the reporter of the Dispatch
for the “ full and impartial reports” of their
proceedings.
Dr. Burrows rose and said he hoped that the
brother who had just spoken(Rev. Mr. Cheeney,)
and who was gathering his hat and satchel for
departure, would not leave, as he (Dr. Burrows)
wished to show that the speech just delivered
was mischievous, dangerous, and unchristian,
and he wanted to say this before his face and
not in his absence.
Mr. Cheeney said he was compelled to leave
to reach the cars, bnt that his brethren would
see that he had justice.
Dr. Burrows proceeded: No one doubts the
truth of the preamble that we are nil one in
Christ Jesus; but it is charged in the resolution
that the American churches are all (except those
connected with this Free Mission Society) sin
ners against God, and are exhorted to repentance
because of what is here called their upholding
of “caste.” The Churches represented in the
American Baptist Missionary Union, and in the
American Baptist Home Mission Society, as well
ns tho churches of the Sonth—that is the great
body of the churches of the country—are in
volved in this sweeping condemnation.
As he had been invited to express his own
views freely in this body ho would take the lib
erty to do so with the utmost frankness. He
claimed to have as sincere and conscientious a
d for truth nnd for gospel principles and
gness to make sacrifices for them ns those
who made such high and exclusive claims.
Mr. Cheeney, in closing his speech, exhorted
you, colored brethren, to “love yonr enemies,"
acknowledging that it would be very hard indeed
for him to love such men if he had suffered so
much at their bauds as these people had. The
spirit of his whole speech was this: “O, my
colored brothers, you must love your enemies!
could hardly do it if I were in your place; but
it is your duty to love them and pray for them.”
Now, if this means anything it means this—
these white people are your enemies, they have
done you great wrong, but you must try to love
them notwithstanding.
Now, here for myself, and for my white
brethren in the South, I deny and repel this
charge. We are not and never have been the
enemies of the black race, and we do not wish
to be loved as enemies. We aro their friends.
The position the colored Baptist churches won
here they owe not to the teaching and inflnence
of Northern white men, bnt solicitous instruc
tion and training of Southern white men. And
this word “caste”.—what does it mean? It is
very easy to use a big word, and then to asso
ciate with its use all manner of evils. There
is a deal of cant in such phrases. The word
originated in describing classes in India who
held themselves religiously separated from one
another—Brama gave origin to the “castes,”
evolving the priests from his mouth, the soldiers
from his arms, the agriculturists from his loins,
and the laborers or Soudras from his feet.
There is no likeness or analogy between these
castes and the position of the black people of
this country. They have not been held aloof
and all intercourse with them refused, as is the
ca»e between higher and lower castes in India.
On the contrary, white Christians in this South
ern country have always labored, and not with
out great success, for the spiritual welfare of
‘ io blacks. If you mean by. nsing this word
caste ” that we exclude the colored people
from our religious sympathies and labors, that
we dislike them, and are opposed to their well
being, and aro unwilling to labor for their
;ood, I simply meet it with an emphatic denial,
t is not, it never has been true. If the word
does not mean this, then what does it mean ?
Dr. Burrows said that it seemed to him that
the whole scope of the resolution and of the
speeches indicated a desire for the abrogation
of all social distinctions—a revival of the doc
trines of the French revolutionists that sent
every man to the guillotine under the name of
aristocrat who happened to possess superior
wealth, culture or birth.
These doctrines are diametrically opposed to
the teachings of the GospeL The Gospel teaches
that distinctions among men do prevail, and are
to be regarded by the disciples of Jesus. Dr.
Borrows then read from the New Testament
several passages—viz., Luke xvii, 7, 9 ; and es
pecially! Timothy, vi., 1, 5. He said this lat
ter passage seemed to describe and condemn
the whole report and the address made bv Mr..
Cheeney—viz, “If any man teach otherwise he
is proud, knowing nothing, bnt doting about
questions and strifes of words, whereof cometh
envy, strife, railings, evil surmisings, perverse
dispntings of men of corrupt minds and desti
tute of the truth.”
Now, if these people are nbt slaves, as they
■were when this passage was written, there still
remain the same relations between masters and
servants. You cannot abolish “the word of
Gpd, whichliveth and abideth forever.”
He begged to enter his earnest protest against
all these leveling, agrarian doctrines, the whole
JBY TELEQRAPH.
from Washington.
Washington, June 4.—The ordinance for the in
discriminate admission to places of amusement has
passed both houses of the City Council.
The bricklayers at the Navy Yard have resolved
to strike unless two colored men recently appointed
are withdrawn.
The recent Indian outrages are receiving the
tendency of which is to break up the relations i eameat consideration in official circles. Western
of man to man, as recognized and regulated in. i “S® immediate action for the protection of tho
the Holy Scriptures. There will be men of “low i frontier.
estate, fr whom we are to condescend”—of r Senator Ross had an interview with the President
“low degrees,” whom we are to seek to benefit to-day, recommending the increasing of garrisons
while the world shall stand.
The white and colored races are to dwell to
gether in the southern land, and he is no friend
to either, and least of all to the blacks, who
would sow dissensions between them, and en-
conrage the blacks in assumptions and claims
that in their very nature were impossible to be
maintained.
We are desirous of studying the things that
make for peace, and things whereby we may
edify one another. But if, yielding to evil
counsellors or to assuming pretentions, the
colored people shall be brought into an attitude
of permanent antagonism to the whites, both
races may suffer—but the white race will not
suffer most.
Rev. R. R. Perry admired the earnestness
and sincerity of Dr. Burrows as much as he did
the truth of Dr. Cheeney. If the latter -was
mistaken in the resolution which he had offered,
the arguments of the former were also wrong.
For himself, he did not want this social equali
ty. He had had servants, both white and black.
They came as servants, and went away as such.
But when he met a preacher on terms of equal
ity, he wanted to be met in the same spirit.
He approved of the resolution, and did not be
lieve in different races of men. Christ died for
all men—not for one particular race. All we,
as colored people, claim is a fair chance—not
that yon should lord it over us. If Christ
taught slavery, I wouldn’t believe him.
would sooner serve the devil.
Dr. Barrows here interrupted tho speaker
with the remark that this was the ground work
of infidelity, the higher-law doctrine of those
who denied the authenticity of the Bible; for if
yon reject one part of it, you must throw it
all away. Perry resuming, said that he believed
in the sentiments of the founders of the Repub
lic, “that all men are created free and equal,”
etc., etc., and that he should not be governed
without his consent. The mover of the resolu
tions has servants, and he treats them as sneh.
He did not believe in entire social equality.
Our duty is to feed the hungry, clothe the
naked and educate the ignorant. That man who
does not rise after this, let him take a menial’s
position to which he has assigned himself, and
then we go to christianize him. Socially, there
can be no equality. Christianity imposes the
duty of elevating, not degrading men. He
would say if yon are servants, be faithful as
such. God has no more ordained that Mr. Bur
rows should have servants than that he should
he a servant. "We know what is best for ns as
well as Dr. B. does. Don’t war on him or any
one else for social equality, but say to all, “nev
er will I consent to the charge of being ordained
for a menial.” I demand the right to enter free
schools and have a place in the Government,
and if you die saying it, then die. Sneh are my
inalienable “rights, and such I will have.” He
invited whom he pleased to his house. He
knew many colored men whom he would not in
vite there. His brothers Duer, Brown, and
Chamberlin, had often interchanged social visits
with him, and he did not demand to go into
their parlors, bnt it was a pleasure to them all
to spend an evening together.
Rev. W. H. Williams was glad to hear, as he
heard from Dr. Barrows this morning, from a
white man that negroes had any inflnence at all.
He had never done anything to array the races
against each other. It is very strange that this
Society cannot recommend a scriptural truth
without being considered as sowers of discord.
The resolution only requires ns to do our scrip
tural duty. James said: “If ye have respect
of person ye cannot sin.” The resolution is not
local, bnt it applies all over the world. It is no
more intended for Richmond than anywhere
else. He quoted the passage “Masters give
unto yonr servants what is their just due.”
If we are all one in Christ, then all social dis
tinctions are cut down. The gospel does abro
gate this doctrine. “Condescend to men of low
degree” means take them up nnd put them on
an equality with yon. As the representative of
seventy-five pulpits, we are not here contending
to go into any one else’s, bnt what we want is
to live together as brethren. The strife, if there
is any, originates on the other side of the house.
It is sad to know that this prejudice exists every
where, nnd “we pray you, in God’s stead, be ye
reconciled to God.” The Baptist Association of
this State admits only white male members. Wo
say that clause is wrong. We are striking at
caste in colored churches as well as white ones
—in the palace of Cxsar as well as the hut of
Lazarus. We are men, brethren in Christ, and
wo only ask yon to recognize ns as sneh j we
want nothing bnt reciprocation.
Dr. Burrows can’t tell ns this morning that
there is any caste in his church.
Rev. Mr. Laws said that no one should go
into his pulpit until they acknowledge their
wrong.
Rev. J. B. Stowell regretted that Mr. Chee
ney .was not here to defend hiti resolution. It
was misunderstood by Dr. B. The bombshell
was not gotten np in the North, bnt the South.
.tlore Laborers Wanted.
The Charleston Courier publishes the follow
ing as an extract from a letter to a gentleman
in that city, from a friend in Georgia:
I am engaged,” it says, “ in building a por
tion of the Macon and Brunswick Railroad,
about sixty miles below Macon, Georgia. If I
could increase my force to the desired number,
the performance of the work would be profita
ble to all parties, the laborers as well as the
contractor. But few laborers are to be had in
Georgia. Nearly all that I have obtained at
present are from about Branchville, in yonr
State. Can you put me in the way of getting
any number of recruits ? We will assure them
of being returned to their homes should they
desire it, and will p3y them, on the 10th day of
every month, at the rate of one dollar per diem,
with rations in abundance. We pay promptly
on this road, the company having ample pecu
niary resources. You can answer for my char
acter and reliability.”
Tricks of Opium Eaters.—A few days ago
says the Savannah Republican a female of lady
like appearance visited the drug store on the
comer of Bryan and West Broad streets, and
called for fifty cents worth of laudanum. The
druggist measured out the requisite quantity
and ponred it into a bottle, which she had
brought with her. She then requested him to
pour out of the bottle a certain quantity into a
graduated glass, which he did. She drank it off
and remarked that it was the most delicious
draught she had taken for some time. She then
politely requested him to put tho bottle aside
until she returned from down town, when she
would call for it. She is still down town.
Wheat Straw.—The straw from the wheat
crop is very generally wasted here, being kept
in the field to rot in bulk. Rail pens with
thatched roofs will save it, and it is valuable as
feed, and as stable litter and mulching. Wher
ever a press is available itidiould be baled for
convenience in handling and afterward housed.
We see it quoted at 012 to $14 per ton usually
in the Western markets, and no doubt there
would be found sale for it at equivalent prices
in our own cities. Bnt if properly used it is
most as valuable as manure, and can be so used
at home always. We have nothing to waste
now, and every item should be turned to account
and profit if possible.— Washington Gazette.
Loss in Cradling Wheat.—We venture the
opinion, says the Washington Gazette, that few
persons know the quantity of wheat wasted and
lost in the fields every year, by reaping with the
ordinary grain cradles. Experiments made last
year by Samuel Barnett, Esq., indicated an
average loss of five to eight bushels per acre,
even on the best handled crops.
The matter may be tested accurately by any
one who will spend an hour in doing it. Twenty
one feet each way is the one hundredth part of
an acre, foil measure, and as nearly' exact as
necessary. A spot may be selected of average
ground in the field after the wheat is shocked
up, and twenty-one feet each way marked off
carefully. Then in a few minutes every head
wasted or left on the spot may be picked up
and rubbed out. Weigh the grain accurately
and multiply the result by one hundred, and you
have the waste per acre. Divide the pounds by
sixty and you have the number of bushels. We
should be glad to publish some tests of this sort
along the frontier, and has been assured that sneh
measures would bo taken to prevent future depre
dations,
Commissioner Porter has been instructed, by the
Superintendent of Indian Affairs in Kansas, to re
port to the Indian Office a true state of affairs in
that locality.
In addition to the reduction of the public debt,
as shown from the first, there was paid during May,
interest amounting to over two millions, which was
due and payable before the first of March and
which had never been reported as part of the debt.
The old fractional currency and government note
plates were melted at the navy yard to-day, in
presence of a committee appointed to superintend
their destruction. These plates had printed over
eight billion dollars.
The announcement of the appointment of J.
Bussell Jones Minister to Belgium, vice Sanford,
causes much comment. The friends of the latter
say the President promised that no change would
bo made until after the meeting of Congress.
Tho currency balance in tho Treasury, to-day, is
over twenty-two millions. Revenue receipts over
one million.
A large number of prominent officials are at An
napolis.
Washington, June 5.—Gen. Grant has appointed
Charles R. Mobley, Attorney of the Southern Dis
trict of Florida. John Lynch, Surveyor General of
the District of Louisiana.
Admiral Hoff reports from Matanzas of the 27th
that a feeling of animosity between the volunteers
and the Cuban element is much less than he had
been led to believe when at Havana on the 20th. A
stranger would not suspect - a revolution to be in
progress,
Lieut. Commander, Eastman, reported that the
Railway to Puerto Principe has been repaired and a
locommotive and freight cars came down to Newvi-
sas at a slow rate, taking three days to make forty-
eight miles. They were guarded by two thousand
men.
On the 8th or 10th of May bands of Insurgents
attacked the convoy of atratn and defeated them—
destroying the bridges built by the Spaniards, and
captured forty-three officers and men including a
Colonel. This is the only decided success the Bevo-
lvtionists have lately had.
The removal of Gen. Lisca by the Government,
and tho appointment of Gen. Letina to succeed bifn
gives great dissatisfaction. In consequence of the
successful landing of expeditions in the district of
Guantaniria, and tho defeat of the Spaniards in a
recent engagement, and then tho insurrection had
been greatly strengthened and new life infused into
it, when to all appearances it was dying out two
weeks previously.
Revenue to-day $820,000.
Charles Langson, colored, has been appointed to
the mission to Liberia.
In the case of James Weaver, a citizen of Texas
tried for murder, convicted, and sentenced to be
hung, by a military commission—the Attorney Gen
eral has given an opinion, in which he reviews the
reconstruction laws and the duties of a command
ing officer, and says: “As the State of Texas had
not in September of 1868, and has not since, adopt
ed a constitution in conformity with the provision
of tho act of Congress, and has not become entitled
to representation in Congress, the act was operative
in Texas at the time tho militaiy commission was
organized for the trial of Weaver, and the com
manding General exercized the discretion entrusted
to him by the third section by deciding that it was
necessary a military commission should be organiz-
for tho trial. If, therefore, the statute of March
2d, 1867, i3 a constitutional and valid statute, it
then appears that the jurisdiction of the said mili
tary commission was complete, and that there is no
legal obstacle to tho execution of tho sentence.”
Tho Attorney General maintains that tho right of
war did not necessarily terminate with tho cessation
of active, actual hostilities, and not nntil the work
of restoring the relations of peace shall have been
accomplished, can it be bo considered. It is for
Congress to determine when the war has so far end
ed that the work can bo safely and successfully
completed. The Attorney General sees no reason
in law for withholding the President’s approval of
the findings.
During the argument, the Attorney General says:
It is obvious that Congress, under the Constitu
tion, has no right, in time of peace, to subject any
citizen of a State to trial and punishment by mili
tary power.”
Foreign News.
London, June 5.—The temperate speech of Lord
Clarendon in the House of Lords last evening, on
the subject of the Alabama treaty, elicited the fol
lowing comments from the London journals this
morning:
The Times says: “For our own part, considering
the demands of America and tho leady concessions
of England, we wonder tho latter got off so well.
Tho rejection of the treaty was more a lucky
chance than the result of the firmness of anybody
engaged in behalf of Great Britain.”
The Standard says : “The negotiations for the
Alabama treaty failed because America never in
tended them to succeed. If England now admits
that it is her duty to renew her efforts for a peace
ful settlement, it is without hope. Our honest de
sire for each a settlement will not be appreciated
bnt by a small portion of the American people.
Meantime, nntil the details of Mr. Motley’s mission
aro known, wo should fold our hands and limit our
compliments to him as a groat historian.”
The Star says: “Tho Americans can no longer
donbt our readiness to do them justice, or our de
termination to preset ve our national character and
credit."
Madrid, June 5.—Admiral Topcte read Dulce’a
telegram, announcing his resignation as Captain-
General of Cuba, before the Cortes, last evening.
Great excitement prevailed. Marshal Serrano asked
for a suspension of judgment until the arrival of
Dulce, and until the particulars in the matter are
known. It is rumored that General Dnlce was re
called on account of his lenity to the Cuban insu r
gents.
Paris, June 6.—M. Lavelctte officially declarse
that tho warlike rumors, published in the news
papers recently, are without any foundation.
Brussels, June 5.—The upper chamber baa con
firmed the bill recently passed by the lower house
to abolish imprisonment for debt.
London, June 5.—Lord Broughton, formerly ec-
retary of War, is dead. He was eighty-three rears
old.
Dublin, June 5.—Four thousand Irish have signed
a protest against the disestablishment of the church.
Paris, June 5.—Ernest Bardet succeeds Favre to
watch French interests in Mexico, bnt will hold no
communication with the French Government.
np. A man named W. E. Buck descended 25 feet
into the water without an armor and recovered the
body.
San Francisco, Gen. Thomas has as Burned com
mand, vice Halleck. Gen. Halleck has beta trans
ferred to the Department of the South, y
Tho China for Hong Kong took one million dol
lars. '/ ‘ '.
Augusta, June 5 The Elberfon Gazette states
in its last issue that an insurrectionary plot has
been disclosed by a negro, having for its object the
homing of the town of Lexington, the county seat
of Oglethorpe county, and the massacre of its in
habitants. The »heriff and posse, in arresting the
negroes implicated, were resisted by one, whom they
shot and kiked.
St. Lons, June 5.—CoL Weirr has returned to
Fort Hayes from pursuing the Indians, 1 !who com
mitted the outrages at Forest Creek. He did not
overtake them. Another scouting party wrs sent
out by Gen. Costar yesterday morning. About one
hundred Indians were Been laat evening, within a
mile of Sheridan, with a red flag hoisted.
From Cuba..
Havana, June 4.—The landing of the filibusters
causes a depression of business.
Tho steamer Montezuma met the schooner which
had jost landed the munitions in the neighborhood
of the bay of Nipo.
A fight took place near Villa Clara between 1200
Insurgents and the Spanish troops. A passenger
reports that only three Spaniards escaped.
Nelson sails for Vera Cruz on the sixth. The
filibusters who recently landed at the hay of Nipo
proceeded to tho interior, abandoning four guns
from want of transportation.
Havana, June 5.—Captain General Dulce sailed to
day in a Federal Frigate. The Sabine has arrived.
Steamboat Sunk.
Mobile, June 4.—The steamer Maiy Swan, bound
up the Alabama river, sunk yesterday seventy miles
above Mobile with nine hundred barrels of freight
The boat is a total loss.
Roksbo wants the Mexican Congress to issue
eighteen millions of paper money.
A negro man named Davis is applying for a ’ face glass to his armor broke and ho became fouled
position on the police force of New York city. among timbers, and it was impossible to haul fa m
General News.
Baltimore, June 4.—Reverdy Johnson has ar
rived.
New York, June 4 The Moro Castle, just ar
rived from Havana, reports that on her outward
trip, when off Cordinas a Spanish war steamer fired
two blank shots. The Moro Castle being over
due at Havana proceeded, when the bpaniards fired
a shot which fell astern. The chase lasted an hour.
Annapolis, June 4.—The President and family,
accompanied by Creswell, Cox, Hoar, and other dis
tinguished gentlemen, and a number of ladies, ar
rived this morning, in the Tallapoosa, from Wash
ington. Salutes were fired on their arrival from the
Government vessels here. The President is the
guest of Admiral Porter; The town is crowded with
visitors attending, the exercises at the Naval Acade
my. Judge Humphreys, of Alabama, addressed the
graduating class, and afterwards General Grant de
livered the diplomas. There are seventy-eight
graduates. Five thousand invitations have been
issued for the ball to-night.
New Okleans, June 4.—A sub-marine diver named
Robt. Spencer, was drowned at South-west Pass to
day, while wrecking the steamship Pantheon. The
The Great Memphis, Macon and Sea
board Railway.
The following communication originally pub
lished in the Newnan Herald, outlines a splen
did Railway scheme, the accomplishment of
which, as we are informed, is now a matter re
duced nearly to a certainty.
To the President and Directors of the Savannah,
Griffin and North Alabama Railroad.
Gentlemen—-I beg leave to present certain
considerations which should influence the loca
tion of the S., G. & N. A. R. R. westward from
Newnan.
Place a rule on the map from Newnan to
Memphis, observe the line which it indicates,
and then compare it to the more northern route
to Jacksonville and thence to Decatur.
1. The southern route, as indicated by the
ruler, is the direct and therefore the shortest
line to Memphis, the distributing center of the
heavy trade of the Northwest with the States of
Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Florida and
Sonth Carolina.
2. It is the most important link in the shortest
route from the Mississippi to the Atlantic Sea
board.
3. It will, when completed, be the great feed
and supply line, not only to the railroads of Mid
dle and Southern Georgia, bnt also to the rail
road system of Eastern Mississippi, and that of
Middle and Southern Alabama. Freight loaded
in Memphis can be delivered without break of
bulk in Macon, Savannah, Brunswick or Albany.
4. It will shorten the distance from the Missis
sippi valley to the Atlantic seaboard that the cot
ton, sngar and other valuable products of that rich
valley now seeking an eastern marketby the tedi
ous and dangerous water route around the Florida
Keys, will prefer the shorter, safer and more ex
peditious communication with the East opened
y thil line.
5. The considerations thus far presented, have
relation (1st) to the directness and shortness of
the line, and, therefore, to its cheapness, not
only of first construction, but of annual repairs
and of working the road; and (2d) to the through
freight. Three hundredthousand bales,through
freight, is, perhaps, a moderate estimate of the
cotton from Louisiana, Arkansas, Mississippi
and Tennessee, that will seek a market over the
road ;and the imagination almost staggers under
the weight of the calculation of the many thou-
sands of tons of bacon, com, flour, live stock,
etc., that in a ceaseless stream, will flow over it.
6. But another very important consideration
is the freight to be famished by the, country
through trhieh the road passes. Commencing
at Newnan,then let us trace the proposed route:
Crossingthe Chattahoochee atornear the “Mc
Intosh Reserve,” it will then traverse to the
Chocaloo Valley in Alabama, a distance of about
seventy miles, of the finest bodies of pino tim
ber to be found in the South; it will next pass
through the great coal, lime and iron region of
Alabama, tapping in its course some of the
richest valleys in North Alabama, and thence
through the productive regions of North Missis
sippi.
Could a railroad desire a better route for local
freight?
7. Nothing has been said thus far of passen
gers ; bnt all lines of throngh freight are also
lines of through travel; moreover, the country
through which the indicated line passes, is
pretty thickly settled, and will become densely
populated in a few years. The business of the
road, therefore, in the carriage of passengers
and freight, will annually increase with great
rapidity.
8. Now compare the Newnan-Memphis line
and theNewnan-Jacksonville Decatur line.
(a.) The N. M. is a first-class through line;
N.-J.-D. is a second or third-rate connection
line.
(6.) The first, a great feed and supply line
connecting a principal center with the broad
area over which its garnered stores are to be
broadcasted; the second, a dependent begging
line, that most draw its principal nourishment
from the more important routes, with which it
humbly sues an alliance.
(c.) The N. M. line passes through an exten
sive region possessed of almost inexhaustible
stores of lumber, coal, lime and iron, and one
rich, too—in nearly its whole length—in agri
cultural productions: the N-J-D. line, from N.
to J., on the northern route, passes through a
region almost entirely devoid of everything at
tractive of railroad enterprise; from J. to D.
the country is more productive and attractive,
but the line is comparatively short, and it will
have active competition.
(d.) The first will be without a rival, for the
Memphis and Charleston Railroad, via Chatta
nooga and Atlanta, will be too circuitous a route
to compete with it for the carriage of freight to
be distributed in Middle and Southern Georgia,
and the road from Vicksburg will hardly inter
fere with its mission of feeding the railroad sys
tem of Eastern Mississippi, and of Alabama;
the second will be entirely dependent npon its
connections at Decatnr. Engineer.
Note.—The route here characterized as the
“northern route ” from Newnan to Jackson
ville, is that of Foot’s survey.
Jacksonville is on or very near the direct line
from Newnan to Memphis. F.
Punch has a cartoon by Tenniel, represent
ing the conventional Yankee, presenting a large
pie,, partly covered with a cloth, marked,
“Claim, £800,000,000,” to the United States
representative at St. James ; John Boll’s broad
back seen in the distance. Says* Jonathan (as
interpreted by Mr. Stunner,) “Well, Reverdy,
Gness this lot *11 about da for yonr friend John
Bull thar.” To which Mr. Reverdy Johnson
replies—“Ha! I’ve dined with him a good deal
lately, and he won’t eat that, I promise yon.”
; / *»««»
Near Quitman, : Georgia, a negro was re
cently shot by an assassin. The whole country
shonid rise and lynch him on the spot, when
arrested. Sneh acts, which all good men de
nounce, are used at the North with fearful
effect against ns. Even the slightest modicum
of truth, serves as the prolifio text for volumes
of detraction and abuse.—Cuthbert Appeal.
An Iowa man telegraphed thus to an Illinois
sheriff: “Arrest C. P. W., eloping with my
wife. Owes me $100. If he pays, let him go. ’
A student at Cornell included in the cash ac
count which he sent to his father the item :
“Charity $60.” The father remarked in his
reply! “I fear that charity covers a multitude
of sins.”
New York thieves are getting bold. ’Tuesday,
they made a successful raid on the police head
quarters there, and stole a lot of postage stamps
and stationery.
"The first prize at the Versailles" races of the
Paris Vepocipede Club was won by an Ameri
can.
Associations are forming in North Germany
to enable the families of me poorly paid teach
ers to emigrate to this country.
Levebbxeb, the aatromomer, has a daughter
whose voice is said to be far superior to Patti's.
The Revolution in Cuba — The Sn.
Repnblie and its Constitution.
It is Divided into Four States—The Legislature
of One Douse Only—President Elected by
the Legislature—Religious and Civil Liberty
Guaranteed—All Citizens over Twenty t
Vote.
From a dispatch sent by General Cespedes
President of the Republic of Cuba, to Mr. Mol
rales Lemus, Minister of that Repnblie to this
country, dated in Goaimaro on the 15th ulti
extract the following: ’ e
The representatives, fourteen in number, from
the insurrectionary districts, chosen by uniier
sal suffrage, met in Constituent Assembly in
Gu&imaro on the 10th nit.
On the opening of the session, Messrs. Agra-
monte and Zambrana presented a project of j
provisional constitution, based upon the consti.
tution of this country, to be effective during
the war. Its articles were discussed one by
one, and approved with a few unimportant
modifications.
General Cespedes promises to send on a conv
of this fundamental law of the republic. "
It recognizes the equal rights of all men, irre.
speetive of race or color, and establishes com.
plete independence of the three great powers of
tho nation. Tho legislative power is declared
to reside in a House of Representatives, elected
by all citizens over twenty years of age. u e
conststution farther divides the island into fou-
States, each of which shall be equally repre
sented in the House of Representatives. Thes°
four States are called the Eastern, Camaguey
the Cinoo Villas (five towns), and the Western
The exeentive power shall be vested in a
President, who shall be responsible to the Cham,
her Representatives, and it shall be the duty of
this latter to elect both the President and the
General-in-Chief of the army. The President
shall name four Secretaries of State to assist
him in his duties, whose nominations shall be
approved by the House.
A special law shall be enactedifor the creatioa
of the judicial power, which shall at all times be
perfectly independent of the other two branches
of the government.
Some slight discussion, it appears, arose on
the selection of a national flag. The one that
Cespedes raised atYarawas not identical with
the one used on previous occasions by Lopez
Aguero and others, which last one (the same as
displayed in this city) was finally agreed upon.
Theflagsusedat Yaraand Bayamowere how.
ever, ordered to be preserved in the House of
Representatives and considered property of the
new Republic.
On the following day, the 11th, represents-
tives held their first session, and elected the
Presidents and Clerks of the House. When or
ganized, they unanimously and by acclamation,
elected General Cespedes as President of the
Republic, and General Quesada as Commander-
in- Chief of the forces. The Secretaries of the
various departments were chosen and entered
npon their offices on the following day.
General Cespedes, in hisdispatch, adds: “The
Republic of Cuba has thus been constituted on
principles purely democratic. The right of pe
tition, freedom of worship, liberty of speech
and liberty of the press are declared inalienable
rights of every citizen.”—N. Y. Sun.
THE LANDING OF THE AMERICAN EXPEDITION THAT
CRIPPLED A SPANISH MAN-OF-WAR—THE EXPEDI
TIONARY CORPS UNDER AN OLD UNITED STATES
ARMY CAPTAIN.
Special Correspondence of the If. T. Sunday ifetes.]
Heights of the Bay of Ntpe,)
Cuba, May 12th. )
The expedition of which you have been for
many weeks past a confidant, was brought to a
successful consummation on yesterday. We
arrived here after having sefely evaded Spanish
cruisers, and made good our landing by mid
night of yesterday. As you were aware, the
General’s studies of the charts and topographi
cal maps of this port having been earned out
in New York, nnder consultation with eminent
engineers, our commander was prepared, on a
very brief reconnoissance, to select a position
of defence withont delay. To cover risks of
movement on the part of the enemy, he threw
np some excellent works, and, with the expe
rience of onr veterans of the army of the Po
tomac in the use of the spade, we were very
soon enabled to store onr material behind de
fences which our small force of men, “tried in
fire,” can make good against ten times their
number.
The force which we had intended to bring
with us you are aware of. Without stating the
number, which you already know, I may add
that it is, in fact, but abont two-thirds of that,
seeing that at the eleventh hour the courage of
some of the men enlisted leaked out, like that
of Bob Acres, “at their fingers’ ends.” The
force actually landed is, however, formidable in
its compactness, experience, and dare-devil
bravery—Americans, Germans, Irishmen, Eng
lishmen, some of whom have undergone “the
baptism of blood ” from Chattanooga to Atlan
ta ; others who have breasted the tempest of
battle from the Wilderness to the Five Forks!
General Thomas Jordan is, as yon have been
aware for many months, onr commander. He
is a native of Luray, in the valley of Virginia,
and was a captain in the old army of the United
States. Ho was, during the war of sections,
chief of staff to General Beauregard. His en
gagement with the Jnnta of New York makes
him second in command to the former General-
in-Chief of the revolution, Cespedes. Before
his arrival, however—deferred, as you are aware,
by the miscarriage of Ms former expedition at
Ragged Island—a change had taken place in the
State of affiairs here, and Cespedes having
been made President, his second "in command
is in fact the present General-in-CMef, Qnesada.
A virtual, though it may be assumed an unin
tentional, and perhaps unavoidable, breach of
faith with General Jordan has, therefore, fol
lowed ; and having been bronght to that officer s
knowledge cn onr landing, does not appear, as
might have been expected, to meet the hearty
acquiescence of a man trained, as he has been,
in the jealous punctilio of W'est Point.
General Jordan is not likely to consent to
play CMef of Staff to Qnesada. The matter
will, I hope, be compromised by his assignment
to the War Department as its military assistant,
organizer and adviser. He* appears to think, I
suspect, that his duties will not be those of the
fipld; though Ms men, not being very well
adapted for civil service, will object to be led to
battle under any Caban. Herein we fear some
little difficulty at the start, bnt committed as we
are to the straggle, that difficulty will very soon
vanish when the enemy comes witMn reach of
our rifles. We have sent out part of our force
to collect transportation.
They came, unexpectedly to both, upon a
small body of Spanish troops placed as a guard
on a neighboring property, but very soon per
suaded the Dons to part company with them at
an unceremonious speed. Teams are being
bronght in for the removal of our material to
the" headquarters of Cespedes. Our communi
cations with Mm have been opened, and ahead?
have we received visits from some ragged and
hungry looking patriots, who are said in our
camp to hold the rank of Generals. I have no
more to add than to tell you, in conclusion, ■*
all so fa! has prospered; • that we are in i ne
health and spirits, and for the time safe from
garroting, behind some pretty works mounted
landward and seaward, with six very neat look
ing field pieces.
Additional accounts of: Friday’s storm at
Wheeling, West Virginia, and its vicinity, show
that the damage was greater than at first sup
posed. A number of vineyards were rained, the
wheat and com were cut off to the' ground, sod
sheep and lambs were killed in the fields. A
number of persons were also injured by the
hailstones, some of them seriously. The town
of West Liberty, near Wheeling, is reported o
rains. Some of the hailstones weighed throe*
quarters of a pound.
A severe rain storm visited Washington ou
Saturday night and lasted through a portion °j
Sunday morning. Several houses were unroofed
and one or two were blown down. No per®®
is known to have been killed, but three severely
injured.
Mr. James Parker, of Springfield, Mass., 8a ‘
jerintendent of the New York and Boston sleep-
: hg car line, has been presented with a hoise
and wagon valued at $1,300, on the occasion oi
Ms resigning from the position of conductor,
wMoh he has filled for thirty years.
An old man of sixty, who recently poisoned
himself in New Haven, left a note requesting
Ms minister to preach in his funeral sermon tn
same discourse that had been delivered over nw
wife.
In the near neighborhood of Goldaborogh,
C., there are onehundred acres of land devotee
to the cultivation of strawberries.
Silver coin is sneh a drug in San Francisco
that leading merchants have signed an ape®*
ment not to receive it at par in sum above ? IU -
A clergyman of Pittsfield, Massachusetts, b®*
ing away from home, telegraphed hi* sermon w
Ms flock.
A Yankee doctor has discovered a new toWO’
it is extracted from sausages, and called w
phate of oanlne.”
A box turtle was caught at Oyster Bay,
Island, a few day* since, which bears the in* 1 *
12th mo, 5th, 1768 and 1789.