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The Greorgia, 'Weekly Telegraph.
THE TELEGRAPH.
MACON, FRIDAY, JUNE 11, 1869.
Charles Dickens, it is said, is going to be
elevated to the Peerage.
Chinese Laborers.—The New York Mail re
ports that a Chicago honse has sent an agent for
00,000 Chinese laborers, to be let oat on the
Southern plantations.
The MilledgeviUe papers announce the death
of Mrs. It. L. Hunter, the oldest daughter of
Hon. Iverson L. Harris.
No More of That, TTat-—The MilledgeviUe
Recorder draws a subject for an editorial from
an impromptu cock-fight, in which one of the
combatants was laid out and the other had not
strength left to crow. Quit that, Mr. Recorder.
From Floyd County.—The Rome Commer
cial of the 9th, says crops are in good condition
—growing finely, and wheat has improved fifty
perfcenb in the past twelve days. Grain crops
are the best had for several years. Farmers
are now harvesting. Wheat is quoted §1.50
weak. Mrs. Wade S. Cothran died Saturday,
enuch lamented.
Heavy Cotton Saxe in Columbus.—The Sun
says, that on Monday over six hundred bales of
cotton were sold at prices, which, supposing
each bale weighed 500 pounds, brought about
$85,000. Prices are three to four cents higher
•for lower grades than they were a week ago.
Andy Johnson is stumping in Tennessee and
raising a whirlwind of enthusiasm. If his
hearers could vote, they would play hob with
radicalism in that unfortunate State; but as mat
ters stand, Andy might as weU be addressing the
sewing circles. If ho wants to do good, let him
fill his saddlebaggs with tobacco and go into
the corn and cotton fields, and chaw with the
niggers over Stokes.
From Washington Comity
We learn from the Central Georgian of Wed
nesday, that they have had fine showers in
Washington, and crops are thriving. Two stalks
of well fruited cotton two feet high, had been
laid on the editor’s table. This was said to be a
fair sample of the sender’s crop. The people
were thrashing out wheat and the yield was bet
ter than it had been for some years. The dwell
ing house of Dr. Jared I. Irwin, situated be
tween Sandersville and Station 13, Central
Railroad, was destroyed by fire on Wednesday
night last
Honor to the Heroes of Mercer.
'The members of the Ciceronian and Phi
Delta Societies of Mercer University have or
ganized a “Memorial Association,” with a view
to erect a suitable monument in honor of the
Alumni who fell in battle, or died in the Con
federate service during the war. The two so
cieties are represented by the following Com
mittee :
Ciceboniaxs.—J. L. Hillyer, R. Ligon Mc
Whorter, W. Y. Alexander, W. A. Bnchanuon.
Phi Deltas.—A. J. Beck, W. W. Landrum,
P. C. Hudson, J. K. Dykes.
Mr. Seward ou the Barbarism ol
Slavery.
It will be seen from Mr. Seward's reminis
cences of old Putnam and Greene counties,
.-that he was not much behind Sumner in his no-
• lions about the barbarizing influence of slavery.
It is queer that he should see them in the most
;. polite and intelligent counties in Georgia—
among a people it would he hard to excel in
any rural district on this continent upon the
whole range of mental,' moral, and physical
qualities.
The tendencies of slavery were to reverse the
ordinary developments of social culture. Under
at, in the South, our best society was to be found
in and affected rural life. Agriculture was rep
resented by an educated and refined population,
familiar with the highest accomplishments of
the time—men and women of reading, thought
and travel, and who, either at home or abroad,
over occupied a prominent position in the best
society.
This fact is too notorious to be successfully
' denied; and when Mr. Seward illustrates the
■ barbarizing tendencies of slavery by the case of
■ a single Northern immigrant who had suffered
ihimself to run to seed in a country village, we
'have only to say he might as well illustrate the
barbarizing tendencies of freedom by the cose
of one among the thousands of young men who
goto New York and lose themselves morally
and intellectually among the slums and stews of
that great city.
All this is nonsense. It is at war with history
and fact, and it is also at war with the common
notions of the Northern people themselves, who
assailed slavery as an aristocratic institution,
and the slaveholders as a haughty, ambitious
and pretentious race of men.
This much is due os a tribute to truth. Slave
ry is gone, and with it will disappear, in time
and gradually, much that was attractive in the
social and rural life of the South. The farming
population of the North and West, with all its
schools and means of improvement, is more or
less boorish, rough and uncultivated. This, our
agricultural population will bo in danger of be
coming if they do not make great efforts to pre
vent it. Let it seek to retain, from generation
to generation, the politeness, intelligence and
refinement of the days of slavery.
From Brunswick.
"The Appeal of the 5th says, they have good
mews about the Albany and Brunswick Railroad,
*-CoL C. H. Schlatter had received a letter from
Mr. H. S. Wells, the leading spirit in the Bruns
wick-and Albany Railroad, authorizing him to
receive bids for the construction of said road to
the point of crossing on the Atlantic and Gnlf
i Railroad.
A cargo of ice had arrived and was duly stored.
’ The Brunswickers had been on a gander frolic
^to Fernandina, looking at Nater through "a
champagne bottle. They observed a good deal
and looked several ways. Another party with
the ladies and children had been having a grand
pio-nic up the Macon and Brunswick Railroad,
among the umbrageous live-oaks. The Appeal
says the ladies were charming and their lips
luscious as cherries. How did he know ? An
other party had been on a trip to St. Mary’s—
had seen all the wonders of the Little and Great
Cumberland, Jekyl and the smaller isles—had
strolled on the snow white sands by the light of
the moon—had a perfect surfeit of wit, pun
•and repartee—had feasts of reason,' (turtle
.soup), and flows of soul, which is another name
•for Heidsick and Green Seal. They had their
’fiddles along and many a serious dance, and as
. clergymen .were of the party, they had preach-
iing on Sunday. On the whole, Brunswick seems
ito be enjoying itself.
Augusta Water Power.—Col. Rains, in a iW
cent report to the City Council, proposes to
enlarge the canal, by which a mass of water of
more than 4,000 cubio feet in volume per second
could be rendered available in the city, having
an effective fall of twenty-six feet. Thns the
large amount of more than 11,000 horse-power
of motive power oould be ntilized within the
limits of Augusta at a medium stage of the
river.
“Quake no Good.”—The Herald says that
Grant’s Quaker Indian agents are not doing
very well with the Indian tribes, because they
bring rain with them wherever they go. “Urn!”
cried Hole-in-the-Bottle, a big Indian chief of
the Arapahoe*, “Quake no good. Bring water.
-No vWaky.”
The Cuba Rebellion Gonellp.
The concurrent dispatches from New York and
Havana convey a decided impression that the
rebellion is over in Cuba, just as the filibusters
from the United States were getting ready to
tnVo a hand in tho game. Somebody has soH
the cause out; but who has done it, the dispatch
does not say. At all events the transaction has
been so decisive in its consequences, that the
acting Captain General of Cuba has telegraphed
home countermanding his previous requisitions
for reinforcements.
Let ns console ourselves amid the tears of the
patriotic women of Cuba, exiled in New York,
that it is doubtless a not unfortunate result for
the South. The acquisition of Cuba would have
diverted Northern investment, capital and im
migration from this quarter. It might have led
to a foreign war; it was bound at least to involve
the Government in a sea of troubles. This fail
ure will postpone, for a time, an inevitable re
sult
True, it remands the Cubans back under a
domination they hate, but as Spain can profit
ably hold the island only by conciliating the
people, it is to be hoped that the new Spanish
government, whatever it may be, will have the
good sense to abstain from a policy which will
harrass tho trade, property, and landed inter
est of the island.
At any rate, we can’t help the matter, and
shall reserve our tears for the benefit of the
victims of Southern reconstruction. Mean
while, what is to become of General Jordan
and his filibusters? Had they not better be
looking out for a through ticket home by the
first steamer? The railways all lead to the
garrote.
Treasurer Angler and Gov. Bnllock.
The New Era of yesterday contains a letter
from Treasurer Angier, called out by a procla
mation of the Governor, dated the 3d instant,
restraining the Fourth National Bank of New
York from holding any official intercourse with
Angier or recognizing any order issued by Mm!
This being served npon Angier, the latter sets
forth at length, as aforetime, that the funds in
said bank are properly in tho custody of the
Treasurer, and cannot be paid out except upon
his requisition, in pursuance of law; that the
drafts made by the Governor are in defiance of
law and in direct violation of the known will of
the Legislature; that since the Legislative cen
sure of the drafts for §55,000, the Governor
has drawn §20,000 more, and now seeks by a
sort of extra-judicial injunction upon the bank,
to get at the remainder, to be expended in de
fiance of law and to the public detriment This
is the substance of the letter. We cannot find
room for the whole document. It is an extraor
dinary piece of business.
Reconstrncxing in Atlanta.
We copy tho following paragraph from the
Federal Union of Tuesday, and are afraid the
editors of that paper did not cry while writing
it They are what is called swift witnesses,
npon any point relating to the downfall of the
Atlanta Capital, and the wonder is they neglect
ed to point out and enforce the horrid omen !—
a crumbling capitol—the foundations giving
way—the plastering falling with dismal thumps
—the whole structure every now and then res
onant with those ghostly, cracking, shuddering,
rumbling sounds which frightened poor old
Affery, in Little Dorrit, out of her wits, and at
last found their consummation in the terrible
crash which wound up the mortal accounts of
Clenman & Co.
It is frightful to tMnk of the situation there
—with every surrounding a perpetual menace,
and the poor little stone masons trying to insert
a foundation under tho thing when there is
nono there. The physical situation illustrating
tho political—no foundation on the solid rock of
Constitutional Republicanism—no foundation
in the consent of the governed—in the pub
lic intelligence and virtue—in the solid suf
frages of the people. All giving way—all crack
ing—all tumbling. Why did the Federal Union
omit these considerations ?
Stand from Under—Kimball’s Opera House
Falling Down.—We received a letter last night
in which it is stated, “yesterday morning the
plastering began falling all round and it was
BY TELEGRAPH.
dangerous to stay in it. Near the Governor’s
office the foundation of the second 6tory gave
way. Workmen are now trying to repair it, but
the great defect is in the foundation and it can
not be repaired so as to make it safe.”
EfFccl.s of Fertilizers.
Near Colaparchee, June 8, 1869.
Messrs Editors : In your Sunday’s issue you
enquire after the guanoed cotton. I am not
what a “professional” would call a “crack”
farmer, but having tried guano to some extent,
and fairly, as I think, allow me to state my ex
perience. At this stage of the game you are well
aware that all is guess work. I tried three dif
ferent fertilizers: Patapsco, bought of Lawton
& Lawton, of your city; Soluble pacific, bought
of Wrigley & Knott—and Dixon’s Compound,
bought of Merryman & Co., Baltimore, and
manipulated with my own hands.
The Patapsco was applied in drill with the
cotton, on both poor and rich land, and from
the second day after the cotton came up to the
present time, any man, with one good eye,
could tell the difference on a bright moonlight
night From the very beginning the gnanoed
cotton has been healtMer, and did not suffer
from the cold, whereas my other cotton died
out considerably. Of course, there being a
more healthy and larger stalk, there are more
forms. You may write down twenty-five per
cent, as the difference. My other guanoes were
applied under the bed, and the cotton is just
beginning to show the effect.
Crops through this section are looking rea
sonably well, especially where guano has been
judiciously applied.
Yours, respectfully, Deer Creek.
From Gordon County.
Gordon Co., June 8, 1869.
Editors Telegraph: I see almost daily reports
of the growing crops in your paper from every
section but ours. Perhaps you think the Chat
tahoochee the Northern bonndary of the State ;
if yon do let me remind you that our mountains
are still in Georgia and that Tatum still lives.
Our corn and cotton is small but well worked,
clean and healthy. The area in com is nearly
as large as it was last year, while that in cotton
has been increased. The favorite plan now seems
to be to let the West, by her Green, Atlantic and
other fast freight lines, supply the cotton belt
with com, we raising a plenty for homo con
sumption and depending on our wheat and cot
ton crops for money. We will be forced to
adopt this policy, as we cannot produce provi
sions as cheap as the West and freights have
become almost nominal.
The old adage that wheat never looks well but
once is being fully verified. The prospect has
been poor until recently, when it began to im
prove, and no w the cropisthoughttobe as good as
it was last year. Harvesting has begun, and I am
glad to see that the reapers are being extensive
ly used. The excelsior is the favorite here. Mr.
W. Stewart, of this county, has patented an im
provement to the common reaper by wMch the
reaping knife can be raised instantly and with
ease, from the ground three feebMgh or any in
termediate distance, or either end of the knife
raised while the other continues to cut This
invention will remove an objection long nrged
against the reaper in the South, on account of
stumps, rocks, hillsides and rough and nneven
surfaces of our lands. The wheat market will
open at about $1 40 per busheL R.
Thebe is a man in Chicago who vowed he
would not shave until Douglas was elected
President His beard is eight feet long.
From Washington.
Washington, June 9.—Dwight O. Marsh,has been
appointed Collector of Customs at Passo del Norte,
Texas.
Several important clerks in the Secretary of the
treasury’s office bavo been removed.
The Cubans in New York received distressing
news Sunday night There was much weeping
among the women. It is whispered that Cespedes
was sold out Another rumor is that the volun
teers and patriots have fraternized.
Revenue today $500,000.
Boutwell reaped $2,778,000.
Mr. Peabody baa arrived.
Grant has departed for West Point Boutwell de
parts in the morning. Wm. A. Richardson acts dur
ing Boutwell’s absence.
The Commissioner of Internal Revenue has de
cided that persons engaged in the business of pre
paring pork and lard for sale, who slaughter hogs,
cut up and pack pork, and render lard, packing the
Bamo in barrels, kegs and otherwhe. are dearly em
braced within the definition of a manufacturer, and
are required to pay a tax on their sale*, annually, in
excess of five thousand dollars.
Hoar decides, that no cable can be landed, con
necting the United States with a foreign country,
without the special consent of Congress.
The house of the conservative negro whom the
police rescued from tho mob, was gutted and tho
furniture smashed, to-day. Tho family was absent.
Several small outrages and robberies have oc
curred.
The President received the Peruvian Minister to
day. There was nothing significant in the speeches.
The Herald says: ‘The Attorney General is said
to have hesitated a long time before bo furnished
his recent opinion, sustaininga Texas Court-Martial,
in the trial of a citizen for the murder of a freed-
man, and that his actual view of tho law, at first,
suggested entirely the opposite decision, but that
Gen. Rutler said he would offer a resolution on the
subject, in the next session, if he, Hoar, did not
make an example of some of these fellows; and
under this pressure the recent opinion was made.
[If this be true, what is Hoar’s opinion worth ?—
Eds. Telegraph.]
Information from a reliable source in Havana
has been received here, assorting that the Cubans
are engaged in an active, offensive movement, and
were never in better spirits, or more sanguine of
success.
Telegrams from Havana deny tho report that any
number of Cubans, or any officer of Cuban forces,
surrendered to Valmesada.
The excitement In Cuban circles in New York on
Sunday night originated from the report telegraphed
by the Spaniards that Cespedes had surrendered.
Subsequent dispatches from Cuban sources prove
the report entirely unfounded.
General News.
San Francisco, Jnne 9.—The Japanese colony
which recently arrived here have purchased land in
Colorado county. They are pleased with the loca
tion for the purpose of the contemplated culture of
silk and tea.
Gen. Halleck and staff leave by the overland route
for Louisville, to-morrow.
Chicago, June 9.—In the case of Amanda Craig
vs Sprague, for breach of promise, the verdict was
one hundred thousand for complainant.
Lodi, N. J., June 9.—Five employes in the paint
shops who habitually drank vitrol and alcohol, mis'
took arsenic for vitrol. in compounding their bever
age. Four are dead and the fifth is dying.
New Orleans, June 8.—The cargo of the Italian
bark Luine, consisting of oranges and lemons—ar
rived here, to-day, in a decayed condition. Tho en
tire cargo, excepting a few lemons, was thrown
overboard by order of the Board of Health.
New York, Juno 9.—Judge Blatchford has order
ed the release of tho Quaker City on bond.
The hotel waiters’ strike has ended. The propri
etors are victorious.
St. Louis, June 9.—The final deposit for the Mc-
Cool and Allen fight, which occurs on the 15th, was
made to-day.
Albany, N. Y., June 9 The Typographical Con
vention has passed aresolution admittingproxies as
an act of courtesy and not as a right.
C. Halloran, a proxy of the Montgomery, Ala
bama, Union, protested. The proxy of Bowlington,
Iowa, Union also protested and withdrew the peti
tion for a Woman’s Union, Referred to a Com
mittee.
Murder of Col. Flournoy.
Augusta, June 9.—A letter from Saundersville,
Washington county, to the Chronicle, Btates that
Col. R W. Flournoy, Democratic Representative in
the last Legislature, was murdered in his own field,
on yesterday, by a negro man in his employ, who
has been committed to jail.
From Virginia.
Richmond, June 9.—General Canby has appointed
Judge Advocate H. B. Burnham to be Judge of the
■Virginia Court of Appeals.
Memoiial day was observed in Petersburg, to
day. Business, generally, was suspended, and
many buildings draped in mourning.
From Alabama.
Montgomery. June 9.—Tho Democratic Conven
tion at Troy, on yesterday, nominated A. N. Worthy,
of Pike, for Congress, in this, the Second District.
His disabilities have been removed by act of Con
gress.
Tho Republicans met in this city yesterday, and
nominated C. W. Buckley as their candidate.
Tho Republican Convention to nominate for the
Third District met at Opelika yesterday. There is
a wide split between the native and the carpet-bag
elements. The scenes of the Nashville Convention
are being repeated, and both sides are indulging in
bitter reproaches.
A special to tho Advertiser says that up,to four
o’clock this afternoon no organization had been
effected, and that a break-up was imminent. The
fight is against Norris, tho late incumbent.
Foreign News.
Madrid, June 9.—The acting Captain General of
Cuba telegraphs countermanding his request for
reinforcements.
London, Juno 9.—Earl-Harrowby gave notice in
the House of Lords that he would move for the
postponement of the disestablishment bill for six
months.
Isaac Campbell, merchant, has suspended.
Paris, June 9.—The official returns to this De
partment show thirty official and twenty-eght op
position, and one unknown member. General re
sult : Two hundred and thirteen official; forty-two
independent, thirty-five radical.
There were quite serious riots at Nantes and
Bordeaux, yesterday.
Madrid, Jnne 9.—Tlio Cortes debated the regency
bill at great length. It was finally referred to a
Committee. Olazaga said the present election of a
King would be impossible.
Liverpool, Jnne 9.—Eight thousand emigrants for
America loft here last week.
Miscegenation in Morgan County.
Oa yesterday evening we received tho partic
ulars of a miscegenation affair in Morgan coun
ty and a shooting scrape which resulted from it.
In Rutledge, a small village in Morgan county,
situated on the GeorgiaRaflroad, about Madison,
there has lived for many years a man by the
name of William Lawson and his family. Mrs.
Lawson has for a long timo been in charge of
an eating house at Rutledge, at which passen
gers on the Georgia Railroad stop for meals.
About three weeks ago Lawson, who is said to be
an idle, drunken fellow, had a quarrel with his
wife and separated from her. After leaving
the house, 'which was the property of his wife,
Lawson went to live with a negro woman and
her daughter, whose house was within but a
short distance of his former residence and co
habited with the latter. This disgusting mis
cegenation was carried on in the most open and
unblushing manner, almost tinder tho eyes of
Mrs. Lawson, and excited great indignation
among the people of the village. On two of
these occasions, as if in way of bravado, he
paraded the streets with his negro mistress on
his arm, and carried her with him to a church.
Naturally incensed at this conduct, and desir
ous of ridding the community of so demoral
izing a spectacle, a party of men went to the
house of these women on last Monday night,
for the purpose, it is supposed, of warning
the parties against a continuance of their
present manner of living. Arriving there,
the men found no one in tho honse ex
cept the women, Lawson having gone into the
village. The women became alarmed when
they saw their visitors and commenced scream
ing at the top of their voices. The noise was
heard by Lawson, who was drinking in a bar
room at the time, and he rushed to the place to
rescue his mistress. Lawson making an attack
on the party as he reached the house, a general
melee ensued, during whichLawson was wound
ed by a pistol shot through the body, the old
negress also wounded, and her daughter badly
beaten. After this had been done the parties
left the premises and no farther violence was of
fered. The people of Rutledge evidently do
not believe in miscegenation.
ifl [Augusta Chronicle.
The Crops in South Georgia.
Oats, in some fields, are being cut, and in all
are rapidly maturing. Thoy are not tall, but
very sound and good. Some smut, however,
among them.
Com is several weeks later than usual, in
some localities, but is growing rapidly. We
have seen a few tassels and silks, and hope to
see roasting ears plentiful in our market short
ly, from the fields of our farmers.
Cotton is recovering from the effects of the
cold spring, and, with a continuance of the
present warm weather, will soon be in a flour
ishing condition. Some of this plant, in this
county, is two feet high, and full of forms.
All the rotton-cane, we have seen, was des
troyed by the freezes in April, but that from the
stalk looks well. The crops generally, with but
few exceptions, are perfectly clear of gross and
weeds, and are well plowed.
We are having occasional showers of rain.
We have heard nothing more from the cater
pillar, and are disposed to believe tho reports
concerning it greatly exaggerated, especially in
regard to the plantation of Col. Williams, near
Tallahassee. Tho last Floridan is silent on the
subject.—Bainbridge Argus, June 5th.
Crops.—The cotton crop of this section has
ceased to die out, and is now growing finely,
though many profess to have poor stands.
The com is quite small for this season of the
year, but looks healthy, and with fair seasons
we may anticipate a harvest sufficient for onr
demands.—Chattahoochee Mirror.
Dat’s Wot I 'Spect.—In the olden time,when
the planters were less thoughtful for the spirit
ual than for the corporeal health of the slaves,
Colonel Ramsey saw his boy Dan (aged forty)
going one morning, Bible in hand, to church.
Knowing that Dan was not a person with strong
literary proclivities, the Colonel said:
“ What are you doing with that Bible, Dan—
you can’t read it?”
“ No, massa, can’t ’zactly read ’em, but I can
spell ’em out a little.”
“What’s the use of spelling it out? You
can’t understand it any way. The Bible, for
instance, says that * tho very hairs on our head
are numbered.’ Now you haven’t any hair on
your head—-nothing but wooL What do you
say to that ?”
“Yes, massa, I ’spect dat’s so; but I spell out
one littlciVerse, which saydaton de last day de
sheep dey will go on one side and de goats on
todder. Now de sheep has de wool, but de goats
dey got har, jast like white folks; and I ‘spect
dey ain’t gwine to be saved—dat’s so I ’spect.”
The Washington Star says that the new issue
of paper money, of all denominations, will be
ready for distribution to the public on the 1st of
July.
The Paris Gaulois says that the Prince of
Wales, before leaving Paris, invited the Prinoe
Imperial to visit England, and that the Emperor
Napoleon accepted the invitation.
A Newbubg servant girl routed a burglar last
week with a pail of boiling water.
The manufacture of shoes has been carried on
at Lynn for two hundred years.
Gulf Hlackcrel. Etc.
Some of our merchants have this season, says
the Columbus Sun, been dealing in a new varie
ty of salt fish called Spanish Mackerel, put up
on the Gulf coast in Florida; also in Pompano
put up like Mackerel. We have tried these fish,
and find them to be fully as good as the North
ern Mackerel; indeed the “Spanish” seems to
be a more delicate fish than the Northern Mack
erel, is less gross, and has a cleaner appearance.
The Pompano are also as fine as any Northern
salt fish. There is no necessity for going beyond
our Southern waters for fish as fine as tho sea
can furnish, and wo are glad to learn that the
trade in these Southern fish is already large and
increasing. They are well appreciated by all
who give them a trial, and we believe that they
are cheaper than the Northern fish.
An Immense Tombstone ! — Our Yankee
friends in their enthusiastic moments, some
times commit most ridiculous blunders, and the
most ridiculons of all are those that are connect
ed with serious subjects. For instance, the
monument recently inaugurated to tho unknown
Federal dead at Arlington contains the follow
ing inscription:
“Beneath this stone repose the bodies of five
thousand one hundred and eleven unknown sol
diers, gathered after the war from the fields of
Bull Run and on the route to the Rappahan
nock.”
Symptoms of Old Maidishness.—Some symp
toms of old maidishness are thus described by a
Scotch paper:
When a woman begins to drink her tea with
out sugar—that’s a symptom. When a woman
begins to read love stories a-bed—that’s a symp
tom. When a woman begins to say that she’s
refused many an offer—that’s a symptom. When
a woman begins to say what a dreadful set of
creatures men are, and that she wouldn’t be
bothered with one for all the world—that’s a
symptom. When a woman begins to have a lit
tle dog trotting after her—that’s a symptom.
When a woman begins to have a cat at her el
bows at meal times, and gives it sweetened milk
—that’s a symptom. When a woman begins to
rub her finger over the chairs and tables to see
if they are dusty—that’s a symptom. When a
woman begins to go bed with her stockings and
flannel night-cap on—that’s a symptom.
Women Suffrage.—Yesterday, in the John
Street Methodist Church, tho women voted for
officers. The polls were open in the afternoon
and evening, and the rain kept the ladies back.
About six o’clock, however, they came in an
avalanche—a hundred together. One woman,
who saw her husband about to vote, pounced
upon Mm, took the ticket out of Ms hand, and,
having inspected it, said, “You may vote that,
dear; it is all right.” Whereupon one of the
elders groaned inwardly, and said, “That’s what
we’re coming to.”
Shortly the question of lay representation is
to come up in the Methodist Church, and on
this subject the sisters are to have a vote. They
will carry the change that has so long been
sought.
In the Woman’s Convention yesterday, in
Boston, Mrs. Livermore said that “the tempe
rance cause and women’s suffrage now go hand
in hand, and when women get the ballot—as
they surely will—thoy will make a clean sweep
of all liquor-dealers. It was false to say women
would make dissolute the politics of the land.
She defied the Evil One Mmself to make it worso
than it now is. Instead of polluting it she will
purify it
Perhaps the good elder was right, and we are
coining to a state of things when women, hav
ing the ballot, will declare war npon whisky
sours and King Alcohol. Then, too, they will
teach their husbands how to vote, and exercise
that gentle censorsMp which was so effectual
yesterday among tho Methodists.—JYew York
Commercial.
There is a man near Kansas city, Mo., named
Jacob Fernance, who is over one hnndred and
eighteen years old. He stillshows considerable
activity, and cultivates a little garden, in which
he takes great delight. His eyesight is better
than it was years ago; his voice is not strong,
yet he converses freely, and apparently without
labor.
Indiana presents for the “ championsMp "
an old gentleman of 97, who, not content with
reading withont spectacles, has jnst ploughed
up three acres and planted it in com.
At the Tenahely (Ireland) petty sessions, the
other day, a little girl was prosecuted for taking
up, when passing through a bog, two wild duck
eggs. The bench imposed a fine with costs, or
imprisonment, on this little child of a poor
laborer.
Dexter has been beaten by a velocipede in
Jersey City. A mile was made in two minntes.
■Who will give thirty thousand dollars for that
velocipede?
The grand encampment of Odd fellows, of
Pennsylvania, at its recent session, votes down
a proposition to strike the word “wMte" from
the constitution and by-laws of the order. It
seems that the infernal nigger frenzy has even
penetrated into the councuchambers of this an
cient order—we are happy to say only to be
kicked out
The Pope received $4,000,000 worth of pres
ents on his anniversary.
Prince Augustus, of Portugal, is the last ru
mored nominee for the Spanish throne.
Tubneb Again.—We see by the National Anti-'
Slavery Standard, as quoted by the Atlanta In
telligencer, that Tomer has been addressing a
business meeting of that conoem:
Among others, the following interrogatory
was propounded to him by the President of the
Society:
“Should you feel your life to bo safe, if you
were in your own house ?”
The reader is asked to note Turner’s reply:
“There has been,” he said, “so much said
about remarks that I have made, that I fear to
answer the queston. But I will tell you this,
that no Republicafi is safe in Georgia outside of
Atlanta and some other cities.”
Brunswick.
This ancient town is jast now attracting con
siderable attention, and, in all probability, will
grow into - an important commercial city. A
correspondent of the Savannah Advertiser, who
is somewhat inclined to ridicule Brunswick, and
its prospects, in the latter part of his communi
cation, (which we omit,) writes as follows:
_ Savannah, May 17,18G9.
Editor's of the Advertiser: I have recently
been to Brunswick, and I am sorry I went.
Ever since that I have been thinking of the fu
ture of the future of Savannah and the future
of Brunswick, and I repeat I am sorry I went.
It is useless for us to attempt to disguise the
fact that Brunswick is looming into importance,
and with an iron hand is about to grasp our com
mercial life and squeeze our business throat
until we are black in the face. To quote the
words of Patrick Henry, “It is folly to lie su
pinely upon our backs and hug the dolusive
phantom of hope,” until the Brunswickians
have bound us hand and foot.—Americus Cou
rier. _
Wheat Crop in Spalding.
Tho Griffin Star of Tuesday says:
The farmers are busily engaged in harvesting
the wheat crop, and they all agree that it is al
most as good as could be. It is a God-send, as
com is very scarce, and “bought com don’t
fatten stock.” We expect to see “cake doings”
plentiful in a short wMle, for wMch most people
have a fondness, “one of whom we are wMch."
News from the Monroe Advertiser.
Wo regret to chronicle the death of Mr. Pe
ter Randal, wMch occurred here yesterday
morning, after an illness of about ten days.
Mr. Randall was Nearly, or quite, eighty years
of age.
We also regret to announce the death of Mr.
Aquila Cheney, one of the oldest citizens of
this county, which occurred on the 1st instant.
He was eighty-four years old, and has been a
resident of Monroe for fifty years.
Tho .colored citizens are reported as giving
way to their natural laziness under the influence
of the warm genial rays of the sun. One of
these worthies was proseented some time ago
for violation of contract, and, on being arrest
ed by the Marshal, gave Ms reason for wishing
to loaf, “Mos’ all de black folks quitten der
work," said he ; “sun’s too hot.”
The local of the Telegraph boasted a day or
two ago or having had a bait of green com. Wo
advise that youth to pay a visit to tMs region.
We have had green corn here for more than a
month and a half. In fact there isn’t any other
kind growing in Forsyth.
The Commencement exercises of Monroe Fe
male College will be inaugurated on the 7th of
July, and promises to be an interesting occasion.
We have not yet learned who are to deliver the
sermon and annualliterary address,but of course
none other than gentlemen of ackowledged abil
ity will be selected.
Personal.—Hon. B. H. Bill, lady and son,
were among the arrivals at Indian Spring last
week.
During the week ending June fifth, Butts
county was MgMy favored with copious show,
ers, wMch gladdened the heart of everybody.
The prospects for com and cotton were never
better. Wheat harvesting has commenced, the
crop of which will be more than an average
one, with a larger area sown than nsual.
Harvesting of wheat has commenced in this
county. It is thought that the yield will not be
as large was anticipated. We tMnk, however,
that more than an average crop will be made.
We had the pleasure of meeting in our sanc
tum yesterday, Hon. Warren Aikin, of Carters-
ville, who was in town oa business connected
with Ms profession. He is in fine health.
Griffin and North Alabama Railroad.—The
Star, of Tuesday, says:
We are glad to state that Captain Max Corput,
a distinguished civil engineer, well known in
Georgia, assisted by his brother and a compe
tent corp3 of assistants, are now making the
final survey from tMs place to Newnan, prepar
atory to laying the track. A large amount of
ties are now being laid down here, and the iron
will be along in a few days. A perfect little
army of track-layers will be at work before the
fourth of July, so we are reliably informed.
General Review of Foreign Affairs.
PREPARED FOB THE WEEKLY TELEGRAPH.
Great Britain.—The Alabama question still
forms the all-absorbing topic of discussion in
the public, and the leading articles of the news
papers.
The feverish excitement produced by Sum
ner's speech has somewhat subsided, giving
way to cooler reflections. Mr. Motley, the new
American Ambassador to England, landed on
the 30th of May in Liverpool, and was wel
comed by the Mayor and the American Consul.
In Ms reply to an address from the Chamber of
Commerce, on the following day, he stated that
it was the wish of President Grant and the
American people to cultivate sincere and friend
ly feelings towards Great Britain.
The Irish Church bill was finally adopted in
the House of Commons by 361 to 247 votes. It
has since passed the first reading in the
House of Lords. The second reading is fixed
on the 14th inst. The velocipede has found a
champion in the Lower House. Mr. TheopM-
lus Hambro, member for Weymouth, asked the
Postmaster General, amidst great merriment,
“whether the letter-carriers in Wales had al
ready adopted the velocipedes for discharging
their official duties,” adding that “it would be
advisable to turn these horses which ate neither
hay nor oats, to more general use in the Postal
Department.” The Postmaster General, Mar
quis of Hartington, affirmed that, os a trial, the
letter-carriers in the country had been allowed
to use the new veMcle, but the Government had
not recognized the art of riding tho velocipede
as an indispensable accomplishment for being
admitted to tho civil service; the use of the
two-wheeled carriage was to be left to every
body’s discretion.
Tho velocipede mania has already spread to
the Scottish HigMands. The English mis
sionaries may triumph over the conversion
of the Queen of Madagascar, who was,
with several of her State officials, baptised
in one of the churches of the London Missiona
ry Society. The memory of the great Irishman,
Daniel O’Connell, the Liberator, as Ms grateful
countrymen are wont to call him, was celebra
ted by a second burial. His remains were,with
great pomp, removed from Dublin to the church
yard in Glaslevin, where a monument has been
erected to Ms memory; the Lord-Chancellor
of Ireland, the Cardinal Archbishop and a great
number of Mgh officials marched at the head
of the funeral procession, numbering near 7,000
people.
France.—The elections secure the Govern
ment a large majority in the Corps Legislatif.
The police suppressed several tumultuous scenes
which occurred during the elections, with brutal
violence. The “ Garde de Paris a cheval”
charged the processions, that, beating the po
lice officers and'breaking the lanterns, marched
to the martial tones of tho Marseillaise, through
the streets of Paris. Many persons were
wounded.
Earnest Renan is about to publish another
work, “Life of the Apostle Paul," as a sequel
to his “Life of Jesus, ” and “Life of the
Apostles.”
‘ Italy.—The new Ministry, Menabrea, is de
vising means for reductions in the public ex
penditure.’ Ludwig Kossuth, once Dictator of
Hungary, makes a livelihood in Turin, by copy
ing. The four hundredth anniversary of Mac-
cMavelli’s birth-day, was honored in Florence,
on the 3d of May. At the tomb of the poet in
the church of Santa Croce, the former Munster,
Pernzzi, made a speech celebrating the great
period in the history of Italy, that saw Dante,
MaccMavelli and Michael Angelo rise in close
succession.
A commemorative tablet of marble was fixed
on the little house of the illustrious dead, bear
ing the following incription: “To Mncchiavelli,
the bold and enlightened precursor of the unity
of the fatherland, the creator of the national
defense, wMch replaced the armies of foreign
hirelings, independent and united Italy dedi
cates tMs memory, on the 3d of May, 1869, the
four hundredth anniversary of his birth.
Russia.—The Emperor is seriouslyindisposed.
He is said to have received an internal injury
by .an accident wMoh he met with while driving.
in Ms carriage. The Russian Admiral, Prince '
Alexander MenscMkow, died, in St. Petersburg
on the flint of May.' Sent as an ambassador to
Constantinople in 1853, he precipitated the war
of the Crimea by his utter contempt for every
thing Turkish, presenting Mmself before the
Imperial Divan dressed in his overcoat and Mgh
Russian leather boots. After the outbreak of
the war he destroyed the Ottoman fleet at Si
nope. A fearful famine is raging in several
parts of Lithuania; even grass is cooked and
consumed. Negotiations are shortly to be opened
between the Cabinet of St. Petersburg and
Rome, with a view of coming to an understand
ing about the position of the Catholic Church in
Russia.
Spain.—The Cortes have passed the para
graphs 32 and 33 of the new Constitution, vest
ing the sovereignty in the people, from whom
all power is to emanate, and accepting the mon
archical form of government.
The draught respecting civil marriages, which
the Minister of Justice is about to introduce in
to the Cortes, will be modeled after the code
Napoleon, making only civil marriage compul
sory.
Numerous invitations for a loan of 35,000,000
francs in favor of the Pretender, “Carlos VI,
of Spain,” are circulating in Madrid. Though
the price of issue is very low, only 30 per cent.,
yet even those 30 francs may be considered as
80 per cent, too Mgh.
The Cortes will, in a few days, discuss a mo
tion of Senor Chao, to erect on the spot where
tho holy inquisition celebrated its horrible auto-
de-fes a magnificent monument as a memorial
of the establishment of religious liberty and
for perpetuating the horror of religious intol
erance.
Six hnndred volunteers left Cadiz for Cuba.
Caballero De Roda, the new Governor-General
for Havana, in place of General Dulce, who was
considered too lenient towards the Cubans, will
sail on the 15th of June. He is represented as
another Alva, ready to resort to fire and sword
for bringing the Island to subjection. The
Spanish government is determined on retaining
its hold on the colony, to vindicate the honor of
Castile, though they are well aware that the an
nexation to the United States of America will
be only a question of time. General Prim is
said to have declared “ that be would rather
send the last troops from Spain, placing himself
at their head,than leave Cuba to the insurgents.”
There are still 1200 monks and 17,000 nuns
living in Spain.
Austria.—The Hungarians, distrustful of the
equivocal policy of CountBeust, are claiming a
share in the control of foreign affairs from which
they are now entirely excluded.
The Kingdom of Hungary forms one com
pact nation of fifteen million souls, while the
remaining twenty million subjects of the Em
peror of Austria belong to half a dozen different
nationalities. An examination of the navy has
proved it to be in a very defective state, show
ing a remarkable reduction of its strength since
1806.
Collections are being made in national Po
lish circles for bringing the remains of the
Polish poet. Adam Mickilwicz from France to
Austria with a view of depositing them in the
Cathedral of Cracow.
Germany.—A motion for reforming the con
stitution ol tho Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg
passed the Reichstag despite Bismarck’s earnest
endeavors to defeat it. A number of bills were
read for the third time. Among these were the
postal treaty with the Papal States, the bill re
stricting tho use of franks, the new electoral
law (after an amendment proposed by the oppo
sition to grant the suffrage to soldiers and sail
ors of the navy had been negatived by 114 to
75 votes), the bill respecting the attachment of
wages for debt (with the modifications made at
the second reading), and the proposal for estab
lishing a commercial court in Leipsie. A new
bill was introduced by the Chancellor of the
Confederation, imposing a tax on brokers’ mem
oranda, on the sale, purchase, exchange or de
livery of bills, shares, etc., etc. Foreign bonds
circulating witMn the limits of the Confedera
tion will have to bear a tax of one thaler (about
one dollar United States currency) per thousand
thalers, once paid, till the' first of July, 1869,
but after that date from one to two per cent.
The London Times, in a financial article, says
that the cMef transactions in American bonds
at Frankfort-on-the-Main were made in those of
the emission of 1862. Other bonds were hardly
dealt in. The Protestant Congress in Worms,
on the 31st of May, was visited by 24,000 peo
ple, among whom were representatives of all
the German States. The Congress unanimously
adopted a resolution, rejecting the invitation of
the Pope to return to the bosom of the Roman
Church and condemning the encyclical letter
and the Syllabus. The idea of forming a Ger
man United Church was suggested. The last
descendant of Tilly, the famous general who
commanded the Imperial forces against the
Swedish King, Gustavus Adolphus, in the thirty-
years’ war, died at the advanced age of eighty-
five years. He was chamberlain of the King
of Holland.
Turkey.—For the second time since tMs Eu
ropean tour, has the Sultan delivered a speech
in person like other European monarchs in the
Imperial Council of the State.
It was hitherto the custom, that the Padisha
revealed the treasures of Ms wisdom to his
Grand Vizier who would communicate the in
tention of Ms master to the Imperial Ministers.
Turkey is progressing on the part of reforms.
Egypt.—The Viceroy of Egypt dissolved Ms
“Parliament” on the 23d of April. A great ma
ny new taxes were decreed, on milk, eggs, veg-
tables, etc.; even the clay cakes, which' the
poor Fellahs use for firing purposes, were taxed;
the twelfth cake belongs to the Viceroy; and
when there was notMng left for taxation, the
honest Sheiks were allowed to go home.
The Viceroy has started for Venice, on a long
tour in Europe, from which he will not return
until September. Jabno.
Tho Newspaper Crop Reports-Specu
lation on Future Prices-Crops In
Laurens.
Laurens Hill, June 2, 1869.
Editors Telegraph: I dont think “censor”
ought to come down so hard on the “newspaper
men” when they publish reports of crops on
both sides, good and bad; we like to hear from
the crops, and it affords us a pleasure to read
such communications, wMch are generally short
and have at least that merit if no other.
I am inclined to the opinion that these little
free and easy communications at this early stage
of the crop can have but little inflnence on the
price of our great staple. I think the cotton
planters and the cotton buyers are too shrewd
to be misled by vague speculations about the
crops of cotton, before tbe principal cotton
making months come in, wMch are June, July
and August, in our latitude; nnd if they de
pended on tMs source for information, what
use can they make of it, when we see conflicting
reports about tbe crops ?
One reports, “ the stands of cotton in Talbot
are excellent, and were never better;” another
reports, “ they will not be able to get half a
stand of cotton on their gray lands in Talbot,"
another, reports “ that in the vicinity of Co
lumbus one gentleman has stopped working his
cotton, waiting to see if it will all die.” (With
out knowing any thing more of the case, I vent
ure to give it as my opinion that he had better
kept on working it—which might have prevent,
ed it from dying.) Travelers in different coun
ties make different observations and reports
about the crops, so put it altogether and we con
clude that the crops look better in some locali
ties than others, and I expect in about the same
proportion that wa see better fanners in some
ocalities than others; which I tbinlr is about
the truth; but as to these reports affording any
reliable data for making a calculation upon the
aggregate number of bales the crop will produce,
I have not a -particle of such faith, [as well
count chickens before they hatch,] and I have
as little faith that the present prices will con
tinue, unless our currency becomes vastly de
preciated.
Go back a little. In 1847 the crop of that-
year amounted to less than two millions bales
(1,700,000.) I have this fact impressed npon
my memory by its being the first crop I made
in Georgia, and, also, by a bet between two gen
tlemen on the crop of that year. The man who
bet on two millions lost the bet. I do not now
recollect the price of cotton at that time, prob
ably it reached 15 cents. After 1847, about two
and a half to three millions of bales was an
average crop for a series of years, prices,
meantime, ranging from five to ten cents. We
now make two and a half millions, and if we
keep on at this rate for a few years, other things
being equal, may we not reasonably expect to
get the same prices for the same crops. I judge
tiie future by the past, and this does appear to
me to be a reasonable conclusion.
I would not like to see a decline in prices for
I have a little on hand now, bat I know that my
opinions cannot affect the market either way,
and I speak what I tMnk.
Crops in Laurens are looking tolerably well;
hands working well; as yet no complaints of
bad stands, caterpillar or lice that we hear of.
May has been an exceedingly dry and windy
month. We have just had a refreshing shower
wMch came in a good time, and, in fact, every
indication as far as I can see is favorable at this
time for a full crop. Laubens.
MANAGEMENT OFTHE STATE Raj
Letter From Hon. Wm. II. H*u . .
ter From Colonel Halbe r) ~ j
Gbio^ivxi.LE, Ga., June 2 lR^f,
Editors '■'■Telegraph The accompli I
letter from the Superintendent of th e ngV*l
Road,” you will please publish. It is <j e • j
also thafthose papers that have publish^
letters of the Treasurer and myself should ■ >
it publicity.
The letter contains two ideas, and t» n « L
which I desire briefly to notice, lgt tb •
the proper time, and in the usual and t Z‘ : l
manner, his report of the management r I
road will be made, and that it will be 8 »t', I
tory to all competent and unbiased ind *
that is to say, at the next meeting of thg j
islature, seven months hence, we shall be J
satisfied that this vastly valuable premert^
been well and judiciously managed. ■yyi ! .*
remembered that the net earnings of the '
with more business than it ever had befm- ^
§15,000 a month less than formerly, it at ‘
be questioned whether tiiis promise’ to h?Til
filled at so remote a period will be ent;.ii **
isfactory to.the people. I maybe an f
der; I may have violated good brerfi*,
the official rules of etiquette, often n 01
less as they are disgusting, in seekinf^,
formation on a subject of interest to - M
citizen of Georgia. Certain it is, wereffu
Superintendent of property that cost the «L,i
§7,000,000, and the net income of that nS?
were $15,000 a month less than formetl/*‘i; 11
foundation of all the complaint—and I f
called upon in a respectful manner bvA
of the State, Mgh or low, official or nookS
•specially by one who had voted and tZj J
Ms influence in the House of RepresentstO
against taking the management of the same ^
of my hands—to explain the reason of the fc
crepancy, I could not reconcile it either to
convictions of duty to mj-self or to thepe c -' i
to promise to make a satisfactory explanatf'l
seven months hence ; but I would do it at otrl
or frankly acknowledge my inability to doit
2nd. As to tbe second idea, it amounts tL i
tically to nothing. He might recommend?
doomsday the acceptance of the proposition
Gen. Austell, on certain conditions, and in d
absence of a Legislative enactment to that?
feet, the proposition could not be acceded
General Austell’s proposition is now import?
in one light only, and that is, in his j tube;-1
he can make the Road pay better, and thejii
meat of such a rnah has great weight with ir,/
I make no charge of malversation against a
one I know of here. I know of none. I so:"
only an explanation upon a matter of great,
general importance, thinking it would be c
with pleasure. Please publish this. I mil
you no more trouble. Respectully,
W. H. F. Hah
Western and Atlantic Raheoil,)
Superintendent’s Office.
Atlanta, Ga., May 2Sth, IS©.)
Hon. W. H. F. Hall, Greenville, Ga.
Bear Sir: Your favor of the 5thinst i
received daring my necessary and uneipectec.
prolonged absence from the city on buanesj
great importance to the Western and At'uJ
railway, and, through this work, to the peal
of Georgia. But for this your cominunici ‘
would have received earlier attention.
At the proper time, and in the usual andp:
er manner, I shall report, as required If j
upon the management of this great inters
when I expect to be able to show to the satisi
tion of all unprejudiced competent judget, cl
it has been so managed as to promote He bT
ests of the people, and, especially, the deihi)
inent of the State’s resources.
In regard to the remark of Gen. A Am
repeated by Hon. Mr. Angier in Ms iettstj
you, I beg leave to say:
If Gen. Austell, orany other gentleman i
equally responsible co-contractors, will tab 5
State, (W. & A.) railway, as it is, for ten ja
and wifi give ample and satisfactory sec:
that it will be returned at the expiration of d
time in the same condition, and with an efi]
ly good working outfit as when received ;nl
will bind themselves to pay into the Treason ^
the State, during the ten years, forty thous’a
[40,000) dollars per month; and, also, to ktt
the tariff of freights where it now is, to tiattl
people may have a guaranteed am ranee Ml
the cost of the necessaries of lifeskt not tie cl
creased to the consumer by increased <mf J
transportation over this line ; and, also, to Ml
tinue the present reduced rate on lime for aej
cultural purposes, (that agricultural prodii
may be increased,) as well ns on coal and ml
that their development on the line of them|
maybe encouraged and stimulated—1 willn
ommend the acceptance of the proposition, t
the speedy closing of the contract.
Yours, Very Respectfully.
E. Hulbebt, Sapt J
Mr. Hall requests us to reprint his coir
pondence with Mr. State Treasurer Angier,
such is the pressure upon our columns at t
time, that we are forced to decline. That t
respondence, however, was published so shorl
time ago that it must be fresh in the meuwnl
our readers. Editors Telegbape|
The South and Cotton.
The New York World considers the speectj
the Memphis Convention by General AH
(Senator elect from Mississippi, and. is:
judgment of the World, “the acknowIe2|l
leader of the Republican party in the So;®!
States,”) the most startling speech delivery
this country since the close of the war. Itr
duced, says the World, an * immense sens:
in the Convention. The speaker showed a
the Southern cotton interest, which, beforeaj
war, used to bring in §250,000,000 goM
been demolished by the results of the
ion; that since the outset of the «:.]
collossal conspiracy, initiated by British «?
talists and manufacturers, and joined in ly 3
governments and capitalists of other wW
has been at work for the establishment of w*
culture abroad and the breaking down c: •>
American cotton monopoly; that this coasw
cy has so far succeeded that, even in ISAM*
ty-nine sources, exclusive of the United «**
contributed, for instance, to tbe supply of 5]
ton at Manchester; that Australia, Jamaica-
French West Indies, Greece. Turkey.
Portugal, Morocco, Egypt, Italy, Austria By
Malta, Japan, China and Venezuela, weret^J
the producers; that the average fibre of t&f
cotton in fourteen instances, was eqaa'
average purposes of manufacturing, '■■ft
American fibre; and that in several,
most of the countries named, cotton
cultivated and exported to England at
rates than American planters can afford. u
Alcorn thus illustrates how the war and tMP
icy of repression pursued by Congress!'- 1 ,.
the South, has paralyzed an industry ■
nished over three-fourths of the eI P or \ j Ji
oountry. He proposes, as a remedy,
declares to be a national duty, the const™*’
of levees along the Mississippi. P* ' ,
at present available for cotton, yield
to 500 pounds per acre. The rich bottom
would yield from 1500 to 2000 pounds p*t ^
This enormous yield, in his opinion, * oBla
ble American planters to underbid on**
the markets of the world.
Balance of Trad*.—The New York ^
had an article npon this topic, which P* ^
a very unfavorable—not to say alanw»f
of the business relations of our country
other nations. We make an extract: (
The figures of the foreign commerce *
port for the week are startling enough to^
en even the most dull as to the criticm^
tion of those merchants who are pttor-
their affairs on gold at 130 to 135.
rations of merchandise this week are
double the amount of last years, being ® J
moua sum of $7,074,090 in gold agwn» ^ J
371 last year. The dry goods import 8 J
creasing about 50 per oent. and the gen® J
ckandise about 140 per cent. The P 1011 J
ports for the week are less than th 09 *
years, being 3,871,828 in currency, cq I
about $2,700,000 in gold, showing
$,300,000 in our imports beyond eipo^ A
week. The comparisons for the last
are most unpromising. They show asw*JjJ
crease, equal to over 20 percent, in t“®
of produoe, and an increase of over 33
in the importations. The climax of * ^
imports and decrease in exports must w
ed some time or other. When that tun ^ J
the explosion in credit will bring ruin o
panded firms. •
A Rebel Again.—The Ram Atlanta, <
..ear Savannah by the Federate, during .
has been fitted up and sold, (soittesatt^
U. S. Government to the Mexicans,
go to sea on a trial trip and MTerr8 ^. rtJ p
king her voyage to Cuba under the J**”®*^.
and when she arrives there, will once |
rebel oolore.