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■* The Greorgia W*eehly Telegraph. THE TELEGRAPH MACON, FRIDAY, JUNE 25, I860. A Budget of Blunders. ' ’The Philadelphia Press let itself loose upon . jjfax Georgia Supreme Court decision last Fri In the course of a column the Press in fw-ma its readers that “it is a well recognized fw that Irwin’s Code has been abrogated by this new Constitution of Georgia,” and is elo- ijnwnt upon the atrocity of setting up an “ex- jrhaded Code, framed in the interests of slavery,” against the Constitution. If some kind friend «iEl whisper to Mr. Forney’s strikers that the dale has been remodelled since emancipation, /nrfi is specifically adopted by the Constitutional Convention, he may save them some trouble in iW' future. The Press also denounces Judge Bxrmer, the only original and steadfast TJnion mm and opponent of the war on the bench,as“an •dSITogy of the pro-rebel school.” "Won't some VSmily help the Press ? Magazines. •S?he Galaxy fob July has a continuation of Blende’s story, “Put Yourself in His Place. Our Impending Chinese Problem is another , article. John S. C. Abbott contributes No. 2 of • tfbflr Overthrow of Louis Phillippe. Our Great Earners—Three Chapters—A Woman’s Last • cm.—and some half dozen other articles. Sheldon & Co., 498 and 500 Broadway. Four dollars per annum. Pctkau.—The July number presents a great -ratiety; some twenty-five articles, including the rrsual editorial departments. 'Blackwood for June—Scott’s reprint—has Lute for the Train. Historical Sketches of the Eteign of George IL Part 2d of a Year and a prey. iPaxt Sd of Sir John Lawrence. Ameri- • -rm Bensons for Peace. Cornelius O’Dowd. The Little Corporal, a Chicago illustrated monthly for July came yesterday. Alfred Sewell i:Co. One dollar a year. The Hearth and Home for the current week uSBeceived. This paper is destined to achieve .«great popularity. It is conducted with much •A£hty and enterprise, and handsomely printed ml illustrate A The present humber has a fine 2Esstrated article upon Vassar College—the Peo- gSe!« College of New York—without distinction afmax. Pnrlsions on Time—A Sad Thought. Such says, the Washington Gazette, is the ■Jaexidiag of an advertisement that appears in a Georgia paper published in one of the produc tive sections of the State. It is a great induce ment, and no doubt there are many who will isriil themselves of the opportunity. .What a sad thought this is! Tho richest and -cnaSt productive country in the world absolutely Varying its meat and bread and looking to dis tant States to produce them! Every species of rgtsnn grows in the greatest abundance and with (tat little cultivation, and yet we continue to Import them from abroad, paying transporta- rtStssx, commissions, profits and original cost when ■£oey can be produced at homo quite as cheaply. Whatever the slate may say about planting cot- t ton to buy meat and bread, we never yet knew j, $ planting community in which those whofol- ■i lowed it prospered like those who adopted a . iifferant .plan. A great and productive State that does not feed itself is a great disgrace. Bainbridge Argus. 'We invite attention to the advertisement of fhai.axcellent paper—the Bainbridge Argus, a . leading organ of Southern Georgia in all that aelates to the material, intellectual and moral progress of that important section. The Bev. Willis M. Bussell, the editor and proprietor, is .veil and most favorably known to the people of tikis section, and, indeed, we are induced to be lieve that he is either an old resident or native of this county. The frequent extracts we have -occasion to make from the Argns, we have no doubt given our readers a highly favorable idea _ .of Hr. Bussell's abilities as an editor. Cuba. 'VPift Cuban Junta in the North are denounc ing the administration. They say the nen- •frsfKty orders have been issued in spite, because Ihe Cuban leaders refuse to consider the ques- •fion of prospective annexation to the United States, and wish to secure the independence of Cuba from all nations. Warm Weather. Yesterday was a very bright and warm day. A fine breeze relieved any sense of oppression from the heat, but the mercury in front of the Wr.Tnp > p*tt Bpilding indicated ninety-seven at dour o'clock, and ninety-five and a half at six. It was a fine day for the cotton crop. T’.ttoi Session of the Legislature.—A friend writing from Atlanta, expresses the opinion that if the Governor calls an extra session of the Legislature at all, it will not be before Novem ber, so ob to give Congress the light of their action upon the eligibility decision of the Sn- preme Court. 'Immigrants Comno South.—The agents of • the -different steam lines in New York, expect & about 0,000 emigrants this week. • The steamer « City of London brought 1,100 to-day. Agents . of-the Southern Emigration Companies have several hundred engaged to settle on lands in ■ the South. Ninety persons left last Saturday to - form a colony in Central Virginia, and about the same number for North Carolina. The Yellow Fever seems to be epidemic in -'Cuba. One vessel arrived at quarantine ground, New Yorkyfrom Havana yesterday, with twenty cases aboard and four deaths. And an other at Key West with captain and crew all down. We hope it will not cross the Gulf stream . .and rend our Atlantic coast. Effect of the Negro Eligibility De cision. The Telegraph seems to have lost sight of the fact that the right of the negroes elect to hold seats in the present Legislature is ret ad judicates. Whatever may be the effect of the decision of the Supreme Gonrt upon the right of negroes to hold seats in any future legisla ture, or of the right of any negro to occupy a seat in this, whose case has not been heretofore acted npon, there can be no question in the mind of any one at all familiar with the practi cal workings of our system of government, and tho legal effect of judicial decisions, that the judgment of the Supreme Court in the case just decided, does not reach or affect, in the slight est degree, the status of those negroes whose cases had been decided—erroneously though it may have been—against them previously to this decision of the court. Tho judgment of a Court is binding only upon the parties actually before it The principles involved in the judgment rendered are appli cable to, and will be enforced in all similar cases which may thereafter arise. Even the legislative power—the law-making branch of the Government—is expressly prohibited from making ex post facto, or retroactive laws. Upon what grant of power will it be claimed that a judgment of the Supreme Court upon a legal question can be enforced, so as to be retroact ive in its operation, to the extent of annulling and setting aside former judgments made in another or Inferior Court upon the same ques tion, but from which no appeal has been taken, and under which rights have been acquired and obligations enforced?—Chronicle and Sentinel, 20th. Atlanta, June 18,18G9. Mr Editor: Do not let the idea get abroad among the people that the late decision of the Supreme Court will have an effect of restoring the negroe?, who were held to be ineligible by the Senate'and House of the General Assembly, to their seats. It can have no such effect. That question was settled by tho only court having jurisdiction over it—each House for itself. A decision by tho Senate conld have no effect upon the House, and rice versa; and so with the Supreme Court. Nor can the Houses ever re verse their decision in this case. It was a judi cial decision, and became final when made and finally rendered. The Senate and House can now no more take up this case and reverse their former decision than the Supreme Court itself could take up and reverse one of their own de cisions of the case, on any previous term. All they could do if their opinion of the law under went change would be to decide differently on the next similar case that might arise. The foregoing comprehend the exceptions taken in a long editorial by the Chronicle and Sentinel, and a letter from a distinguished source quoted by him, to theposition of the Telegraph and others, that the Legislature should respect the ruling of the Supreme Court in relation to the eligibility of negroes as members of that body. We are sorry to disagree with the Chron icle—sorry that there is occasion for difference upon such a point. It shocks our common sense that legislative duties should be imposed upon a people as unfit for them as children, and who are bound to damage themselves and everybody else by the attempt to discharge such duties. But this much of practical consolation exists for tho Chronicle, ourselves, the Legislature and everybody in Georgia npon this question—that whatever we think, or say or do, will not make a hair's difference npon the main question. It is a fact, as certain as the sun shines, that the negroes have got to go back—peaceably, if we will, or violently if we will not An intelligent friend who has just returned from Washington writes ns, that the question is simply whether the Legislature will reseat these negroes, or wheth er Congress shall reseat them with ihe applica tion of such tests to the remaining white members as will unseat almost everybody else. But we are used to high dealing from Con- i-b • Survey of the Bainbridge, Cdtheert and • Columbus Bailroad. — The Bainbridge Sun , says, the survey has commenced, the first stake vhae-beea stack. Captain Tomlin, one of the ■srxmen, was hitched in a “brier patch" when last heard from. Wheat in Wilkes County.—The Washington Gazette, of Friday, says the crop is turning out •well everywhere, and the market tends down ward. The Borne papers report sales at one dollar and thirty cents. The opening price hereabouts will probably be one dollar and sev- .enty-five cents for white. 'For the Brunswick Bailroad.—The Savan- • nah News, of Saturday, says the steamer Two Boys left that city on Friday with a cargo of • .bars of iron for the Macon and Brunswick Bail- ,sotd. ’Crops in South Georgia.—A letter from Bain, bridge, dated Saturday the 18tb, says: We are having fine seasons, fine crops and no caterpil lar in this section. Virginia.—The phrophets say that Virginia has been so badly gerrymandered that the Wells Badicals will probably cany the Legislature, but ithe whites expect to defeat the test oath and dis- :'fran0hisement clauses in the Constitution, and ito elect Walker. There is a man living in Northampton, Mass, within three miles ’of the railroad, thirty-eight years of age, who has been in but four different towns in bis life, has never been inside of t railroad car, and has never slept in any house! . except the one in which he was bom, has never been courting, and never kissed a girl. The largest hotel safe in the country is in the American House, Boston. The American is . la the centre of business, and supplied with ’•Ovary modem improvement. gress and should care no more for it than our contemporaries, conld we feel that the Legisla ture would be doetrinally right in disregarding the action of the Supreme Court. Upon this point tiro more we consider it, the more certain we feel that our contemporary,the Chronicle & Sentinel and those who agree with him, are in error. Let ns not suffer our preju dices or prepossessions to blindonr reason. Sup pose the negroes in Georgia had got possession of the Legislature by a majority and bad, by some violent interpretation of the reconstruc tion acts, ruled the whites out. Suppose, mean while, the Supreme Court of tho State had de cided their action illegal and unconstitutional and the white members elect entitled to seats—would any respectable paper or authority thonbe found in Georgia to set np this doctrine of Legislative courts and res adjudisata ? On the contrary, would not the eloquent pen of our contemporary be foremost in branding legislative contempt or disregard of such a de cision, as a high handed outrage upon the rights of the citizen, and that the Legislature ought to be purged of such contumelious and usurping members at all hazards and in a most summary manner? Who can donbt that there would be almost entire unanimity in Georgia on this point? And this brings us to consider briefly onr con temporary’s logic. It is all, like that of the Constitutionalist, based on the false assumption that the Legislature is a court of ultimate arbit rament npon any of the rights of the citizen un der the Constitution. It is no court at all. The Constitution restricts the judicial power to the courts, as strictly as it does the legislative pow er to the General Assembly. The ^General As sembly can no more make the Constitutional rights of the citizen res adjudicata, than the courts can enact a statute. The citizen holds his Constitutional rights by an authority para mount to that of the Legislature, and the Con stitution reposes the exposition and defence of these rights npon a distinct department of tho Government whose authority, within its sphere, is binding equally npon the Executive, the Leg islature and the citizen. Unless we grant a proposition so plain and self-evident as this, the defence of the citizen, and of the Executive and Legislative depart ments are incomplete—the system itself is without balance or harmony—the door is 16ft open for perpetual and irreconcilable conflicts —the grossest usurpations and injustice may be perpetuated, without remedy or redress, oxcept in the overthrow of the system itself. Consequently, when the Constitution empow ers each House to judge of the qualification of its members, this grant of power must be con strued in harmony with the principles and terms of the Constitution itself, and of a sound, well-balanced system of government It was intended to give the Legislature power to can vass returns, redress wrongs npon the ballot, etc., and to protect itself and the people against fraudulent representation; and it never could have been intended to give the Legislature the power of a Court of ultimate resort, under which, if it chose, that body could declare in eligible to membership the representatives of whole counties, districts or peoples, in defiance of the plain provisions of the Constitution, or a duly authorized and legal exposition of the same An assertion to the contrary must involve con tingencies of the most disorganizing and dan gerous character. Thefollowingpropositions, therefore, embody the common sense of the matter as we under stand it: First, as to the fact—tho refusal by the Legis lature to re-seat the negroes will only result in their being re-seated by Congress, with addi- , tional pains and penalties to the whites. It will then be charged by the Badicals—“You invoked the judgment of the Supreme Court upon negro eligibility, and you repudiate that judgment so soon as given against yon. Yon will not abide the decision of your own constitutional expon ent of the law. You did not mean to do justice in any event,'and we will therefore compel you to.do it with cost You say negroes shall not hold office—we will show yon they shall hold it more abundant 1 # /' Second, as to the law. It is not in the legal power of the Legislature to adjudge finally the rights of any citizen or class of citizens under the Constitution. Both hold their political rights by the same warrant and both are equally subordinate to the Constitution. The Supreme Court is the Constitutional interpreter of law and its decisions are just as binding npon the Legislature as npon the people. The Legisla ture is no Court, for any purpose whatever; but the Constitution has reposed judicial inter pretation solely in the judiciary department of the government. Therefore to set np that a Legislative infraction of the constitutional rights of a citizen, is res adjudicata and incapable of redress by the Legislature is mere staff. The Great Labor of the Administra tion.. The Press dispatches have been much occu pied, of late, with the squabbles of the Printer's Union, (National, in Albany, and local in the District of Columbia,) over the attempt of the government to force an application of its meas ures with negro compositors. The public will feel little interest in the controversy except a part and parcel of what seems to be the great la bor of the administration—a war against “all distinction on account of color, so far as negroes are concerned.” The "Washington correspondent of the Baltimore Gazette says: The muddle among the printers here in re spect to the negro Douglass, which was thought by some to have been settled at Albany, has but served to expose the mode of operation com- templated by the administration npon a large scale. Yesterday evening a man refusing to sub scribe to the doctrine of companionship and perfect social equality between the races was, I learn, summarily dismissed from the public printing office, and the remaining workmen of the cadaverous “conquered race” forced to leave their work, and endorse, in office hours, at a public meeting, the monstrous requirements of the superintendent! This is a public “procla mation,” excluding from work in this institution (which employs probably more than a thousand men) all printers whose self-respect revolts at out-and-out equality with the negro race. The same means will be nsed in all the workshops of every description under control of the govern ment throughout the country. The policy is in fall force at the Navy Yard here, and in all other works under governmental control. I am told that the government, seeing the general supineness of the people, “calcu late” upon success as necessarily following the means it intends to use in seducing this portion of our citizens. It will pay them high prices, and require less hours of labor than in private offices! Such tactics might probably succeed better with any other class of people than onr mechanics. They undoubtedly regard yith as strict punctilio the honor of their families as any other—certainly with more consideration than a majority of the high officials appointed by this administration! “Lumpkin Masonic Female College.” Editors Telegraph : This College is now in a flourishing condition under the management of President D. S. T. Douglass. The commencement exercises came off this week and were nnsually interesting. On Sunday, the 13th, the commencement ser mon was preached by one of Macon's able divines, Bev. David Wills, D. D. The M. E. Church was filled to overflowing by an attentive and appreciative audience, who listened with almost breathless silence to a most excellent literary treat as well as a deep and practical sermon. Dr. Wills also preached in the Presbyterian Church on Sunday night, sustaining his well de served reputation. Just before his departure on Monday he re ceived a card of thanks, and a present in money from the citizens. Monday and Tuesday were devoted to the ex amination of the classes. The young ladies acquitted themselves very handsomely, showing to the andience that they had not been wasting their time in idleness. Tuesday night passed very pleasantly off, with music and the reading of compositions by the classes. The graduating exercises on Wednesday were truly interesting. The beautiful and elegant composition of Miss Harris, on the “Sunny South,” and the scientific and beautiful one of Miss Warren, on “Mystery,” were able pro ductions, which were read with great fluency by the fair writers. CoL Fielder, of Cuthbert, addressed the au dience in an able and eloquent address. He was followed by CoL Chas. Goode, of Ameri cas, in a spirited and interesting speech that highly pleased the andience, and deeply inter ested the young ladies of the school. The ex ercises were concluded on Wednesday night by the presentation of the “Gipsey Opera,” to the beauty and elite of Lumpkin, in the well-filled College Chapel. Everything passed off very pleasantly, and the exercises of the school were closed, to be resumed on the First Monday in September. “Eusnc.” Jordnn in Cuba. from the Augusta Chronicle end Sentinel.] We have at last beard something definite of the movements of General Jordan in Cuba. The day after his landing on the southern shore of the Bay of Nipe, a considerable body of Spaniards, reinforced subsequently by a body of men from the garrison of Mayari, moved upon his defences. He made believe that he had abandoned the position, and awaited the attack as in a citadel, secreted in an inner work, raking that which he had left as a bait for the Dons. The Spaniards, having felt their way with caution, concluded the place was undefend ed, and rushed upon it gallantly, at the point of the bayonet. They occupied it in a victory without blood. Some pieces of dismounted ar tillery were there, and a small quantity of ma terial and small arms—all left as a decoy. Elated with their success, they thronged into the place, and thrown together thus in a disor dered mass, were opened on by two guns pre viously masked, and by one of those deadly fu- silades, 6o close as to have cut down trees at Spotsylvania! They were literally slaughtered. The remnant flew in terror, until reinforced by a detachment from the garrison at Mayari. Jordan had brought with him, besides six field pieces, with their carriages, two heavy guns for permanent defences. He had expected to have been joined by a part of the command of Que- sada; but having arrived somewhat earlier than the time agreed on for the junction, he conclud ed it unsafe to await in the first position until the Spaniards conld have made the concentra tion that would certainly be ordered for his destruction. He is said to have abandoned, therefore, his two siege guns—which he never should have encumbered himself with, and per haps for want of transportation (which is very scarce in the region that has been so long the seat of the depredations of both sides) was obliged to leave behind him one or two of his field pieces. His movement from the scene of his first victory was decided on promptly, an4 was executed with rapidity. Tho Spaniards ap pear to have mistaken this fact for a disastrous retreat, and pressed upon him from a distance; but after the lesson on the shore of Nipe did not come to close quarters. Whether the abandon ment of his one or two pieces may have been deliberated before leaving his works, or may have followed as a subsequent necessity of rapid movement, does not appear positively, but in neither case can it be set down as a ground of Spanish gratolation. Quesada was to have covored the landing of Jordan. He moved for that purpose with the elite of the Cuban forces from the line of the railway between Nuovitas and Puerto Principe. He had with him about twenty thousand men. Whether in the bad faith of jealously or in a misunderstanding n.s to the time, he was three days behind. Jordan appears, however, to have moved to a junction with him at some point southwest of his first field, with the view, ap parently, of keeping Mayari cut off, and, after its capture, of a combined movement for clean ing out all the Spaniards from the eastern end of the Island, including Valmaseda at Bayamo. The junction of Jordan and Quesada is reported, but does not come in very positive manner.— One thing, however, is certain. Jordan has passed into the interior with but trifling losses in men or material, and is now ont of immedi ate danger of attack and in perfect communica tion with a force of patriots—Quesada’s im mediate command among them—sufficient to overwhelm all the Spaniards in that part of the Island. B-S" TELEGRAPH From Washington. Washington, June 21.—After June 30th, Secre tary Boutwell will purchase one million of bonds and sell one million gold on alternate weeks, until further notice. Judge Fisher has ordered the Marshal of the Crim inal court to summon negroes to fill vacancies in the grand and petit juries. Nine negroes were placed on the lists. Three government compositors have resigned in consequence of the presence of Douglas. Revenue today over $1,000,000. The Bast eed Impeachment Committee have ad journed to December. Bone has returned. Boutwell comes Wednesday. Grant has returned. The New York Herald has a column editorial captioned “The Opportunity and Failure of the Government,” denunciatory of the administration on the Cuban policy. The Bevenue officers seized one hundred and fifty thousand cigars, and ten thousand dollars worth of machinery at New Haven, belonging to the National Cigar and Tobacco Manufacturing Association. Washington, June 20.—At a meeting of tho Print ers’ Union a majority committee reported in favor of tho admission of ten. including the negro Dong- lass. A minority reported in favor of admitting all except Douglass. Tho report of the minority was tabled, and tho Union proceeded with the voting on tho applications, but before reaching Douglass a mo tion to adjourn was made, but ruled out of order. On appeal the ruling was sustained but the motion to adjourn was renewed and the session dissolved in confusion. The Japanese Government have paid in full for tho Stonewall From Mississippi. Jackson, Juno 21.—In the case of Yerger before a military commission, the defence commenced the examination of the witnesses to-day. It is shown that the piano seized was not the property of Yerger. Crane knew the fact hut ordered tho officer to seize it notwithstanding. It is further shown, by corres pondence, that Verger had offered to settle the claim of the city if the city would settle the claim he held against the city for damages to property caused by the negligence of tho city government. The order of the restitution which had been issued by Judge Peyton of the high court, and served on Crane previous to the difficulty, bad not been obeyed. The Conservative Republican Convention meets in this city on Wednesday, 23d of June. The Rad ical Republican Convention meets Thursday, 1st of July. ^ From Cuba. Havana, June 21.—General Espiner reviewed the volunteers on Saturday. The schooner Lahava has been taken to Kings ton, where her officers are to be tried before an English Court. The Milan tumult assemblies have been dispersed by tbe militaiy without resistance. The Prefect of Police threatens severe measures if the tumults are renewed. New York, June 21.—The school ship Saratoga from Havana, is quarantined below with twenty cases of yellow fever aboard, and four deaths. The Sweedenborgian Conference elected Stendy Burke, of New Orleans, a member of the Executive Committee, vice Hershel V. Johnson, of Georgia, to whom objection was made on account of his partici pation in tho rebellion. San Francisco, Juno 21.—The steamship, Great Republic, baa arrived bringing twelve hundred Chi nese. The ram, Stonewall, drove off two, and destroyed one rebel vessel in the Japanese waters. Key West, June 21.—The bark, Lucy A. Nichols, from Havana, for New York, has arrived here. Cap tain Saxe and his crew are down with yellow fever. St. Louis, June 21.—Fifty prominent business firms of this city have guaranteed tho Grain Asso ciation against loss in bringing an ocean steamer from New York, and loading her with grain at this port. The Indians attacked a Surveying party near Sheridan, Kansas. The Surveyors killed four and wounded several, when the Indians fled. Monroe, La,, June 2i.—Several buildings were consumed by fire last night. Loss $50,000. Charleston, June 20.—The first execution in South Carolina, under the Re constructed State Gov ernment, took place on Friday afternoon, at Dar lington Court House, where a negro named Cyrus Coachman, was hung for the murder of Robert P. Suggs, (white,) in January last. The hanging passed off quietly, the Sheriff and ministers who officiated, as well as most of the spectators and guard, being all negroes. Coachman confessed his guilt. Raleigh, June 20.—Chief Justice Chase will leave Raleigh to-morrow morning for Richmond. Virginia, where he will spend a few days. Foreign News. Madrid, June 21.—The President of the Cadiz Republican Club has been arrested for speaking against Serrano, the regent,andcausing excitement. Prim said to the Cortez that the Government must be inflexible and even cruel in repressing disorder. Paris, June 21 Tho city is tranquil. The Legislatiff has organized—President Schnei der; Vice Presidents, Lereux, Demral, and Davids. Marine News. Savannah, June SO.—Cleared brig Lena Thuriow, Buenos Ayres. Arrived schooner Anna and Su san, Boston. Ship Vestalerden. from Matmoras, for Falmouth, England, arrived off Tybee yesterday in distress. • The Captain and one seaman died on Sat- 1 several of the cr urday, and i 5 crew are sick. Death of Henry J. Raymond. The New York Evening Post gives tho follow ing particulars of the death of the editor and proprietor of the New York Daily Times : Mr. Raymond, accompanied by his daughter, went to Greenwood Cemetery yesterday after- for the purpose of selecting a family lot. He intended to have the body of one of his children, who died a few weeks ago, removed from the vault and reinterred. He returned to the Times office about five o'clock, and remarked to the associate editors that he never felt better in his life, except a sad feeling of fatigue, consequent upon his long walk through the cemetery. He left the office abont six o’clock and proceeded to his residence in West Ninth street, where he remained about until nine to recover from the fatigue of the walk of the evening. Mr. Raymond left his house about nine, re marking to the members of bis family that he had an appointment to attend a political meet ing. He was seen shortly after walking up Broadway, and one or two friends who stood in Wallack’s Theatre, noticed his elastic step and general appearance of robust health. After at tending the meeting he returned to his residence abont 11 o’clock, and as soon ns he had closed the door after him, he fell heavily npon the floor. None of the inmates of the house heard the fall, however, having retired for the night. Abont three o'clock this morning one of his children became restless, and, on becoming fully amused, remarked that she heard some person breathing heavily. The persons in the house were awakened, and, on descending to the hall-way, Mr. Raymond was found extended on the floor, entirely unconscious, breathing heavily, and apparently with great difficulty. Ho was carried to bis room, and placed on abed. The physicians sent for arrived soon after. all medical aid. They also declared the case to be appoplexy. Mr. Raymond lingered in an unconscious state till five o’clock this morning, when he died, surrounded by his family. He passed away apparently with but little pain. A Southern gentleman of much experience, who is now in mis city, thinks that tho liberation of Cuba would be the making of Louisiana and some of the other Southern States. Liberation from Spanish rule would be followed by emanci pation of the blacks. Well, the climate of onr Southern States is not exactly tropical Niggers cannot live there by lying on the ground and gorging themselves on the succulent fruits that crop out of it close to their lazy mouths.— And yet onr niggers, now that they have been enfranchised, can hardly be got to work. In tropical, indolent Cnba, as sure as the negroes are set free, not a stroke of work will they ever do again. They will lie on the ground and let the yams grow in their mouths. Then Cuban cotton and sugar will go to the “bow wows; and so the plantations of Louisiana and down South generally will flourish exceedingly. If the nig gers won’t work, other laborers can be fonnd who will, and all will be lovely and serene.— This is the argument of onr Southern, friend, and it looks as if it would hold water.—iVfiJ York Werld. ’ ' ' •sSi PICTURE-BOOK WITHOUT PICTURES, BY HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN. Translated from the German for the Telegraph. (concluded. ) THIRTIETH EVENING. “Close on the high-way,” said the Moon, “there is an inn opposite a large coach-house, the thatched roof of which was juBt being re paired." I looked through the spars and the open roof, loft into the desolate room below. The turkey slept on the beam, the saddle was put to rest in the empty crib. In the middle of the bam stood a traveling coach; the gentle folks inside slept quite soundly, while the horses were being watered. The coachman stretched himself, though, as I know best, he had slept excellent ly half the way. The door leading into the servants' room was open, the bed looked as if it were tamed upside down, the light standing on the floor was burn ing low in the candlestick. The wind blew cold through the bam; it was nearer day-break than midnight. In the stand upon the ground slept a strolling family of musicians; the mother and the father were certainly dreaming of the burn ing liquid still left in the bottle; the little pale girl was dreaming of the burning liquid of her eyes; the harp was lying at their heads, the dog at their feet THIRTY-FIRST EVENING. “It happenedin a little provincial town,” said the Moon; it is true, it happened last year, but that is all the same, I saw it very distinctly; to night I have read about it in the newspapers, but there they have not represented it so dis tinctly. In the parlor of a public house sat the master of a bear eating lus supper; the bear stood outside, fastened behind a woodpile; poor Bruin, who harmed nobody, though he looked grimly enough. Above in the garret there were three little children playing in my beams, the oldest might bo six years old, the* youngest no more than two. “Clap! Clap!” ascended some thing np the stair-ease; who could it be ? The door was bust open,—it was Bruin, the huge, shaggy bear! “Having wanted a pastime below in the yard, he had found his way to the stair-case ; I saw all," said the Moon. “Tho children .were much frightened at the huge, shaggy animal; each crept in its comer, but he discovered them all three, and snuffed at them—without, however, doing them any injury. “ ‘To be sure that is a large dog,’ they thought, stroking him. He laid down upon the floor; the smallest boy climbed npon him, and played hide and seek with his little head of golden curls in the thick, black fur. Now the oldest boy took his drum, and made a tremen dous noise; the bear lifted himself on his hind legs, and began to dance; it was very charming to behold. Each boy took now his gun; the bear was obliged to have one too, and he grasped it right firmly; It was a magnificent comrade they had found; and then they marched: one, two, one, two. There moved somebody toward the door; it opened; it was the mother of the children. Thou shoulds't have seen her ; her dumb terror; her face as white as chalk; her half-opened month; her staring eyes. But the youngest boy nodded de lightedly, exclaiming quite loud, in his lan guage: ‘We are only playing soldiers!’ And then came the master of the bear! THIRTY-SECOND EVENING. The wind blew cold and fiercely, the clouds careered onward; only at intervals the Moon was occasionally visible. “From tho still atmos phere, I looked down upon the flying clouds,” said she; “ I saw the strong shadows career over tho earth. I looked upon a prison. A closed carriage was waiting before the door; a prisoner was to be called for. My beams pene trated through the grated window toward the wall; the prisoner scratched, as a parting, some a lines it, out it was no words he wrote—it was a melody, the effusion of his heart. The door was opened, ho was led |forth, fixing his eyes upon my round disk; clouds moved between us, as it was not allowed that he should see my face, or I his. He stepped into the carriage, the door was closed, the whip cracked, the horses hasten ed away into the dense forest, where my beams were unable to follow him; but I looked through the grated window—my beams glided over the melody scratched into the wall, his last farewell Where tho words are wanting, there the tones will speak. Only a few notes conld my beams illuminate; the greatest part will forever re main in darkness to me. Was it the death hymn which he wrote? Was it joy’s tunes of exultation? Did he drive towards’death or to the embrace of his beloved ? The beams of the Moon do not read everything the mortals write. THIBTY-THIRD EVENING. “I love children,” said the Moon, “particu larly the quite little ones are so droll. Some times I look between the curtain and the board of the window sill into the room when they do not think of me. It affords me pleasure to look at them, if they are obliged to undress themselves alone. At first the little, naked round shoulder creeps forth from under the dress, then the arm, or I see how the stocking is pulled off and a neat, white and hard little leg makes its appearance and a little foot worth kissing, and I kiss it! But what I was going to narrate: To-night I looked through a window, before which no curtain was drawn, for nobody lives opposite. I saw a whole troop of little ones—all brothers and sisters—among them was a very little sister; she is only four years old, but she can pray the Lord’s Prayer as well as anybody. Tho mother will sit every evening at her bed hearing her pray: then she gets a kiss and the mother remains sitting nntil the little one falls asleep, and this happens as quickly as the little eyes can close.” To-night, the two eldest children were some what naughty: the one hopped on one leg in its long, white, little night-shirt; the other stood npon a chair, surrounded by the dresses of all the other children, saying it was tableaux vivants. The third and the fourth put the washing very carefully into the little box, for that must be done too; but the mother sat at the bed of the youngest and bado them all to keep silent, as the youngest sister was going to pray the Lord's Prayer. I looked over the lamp, away into the bed of tho little one, where she lay on tho fine white cover, her little hands folded and her little face quite serious and devoted; she prayed aloud the Lord’s Prayer. “ But what is that,” the mother interrupted her in the midst of the prayer, “ when thou hast prayed : * Give ns our daily bread,’ thou addest still something I cannot understand; thou must tell me what it is ?’’ The little one kept silent, looking embarrassed at the mother. • What dost thou say besides ‘ Give us our daily bread?’ ” “ Pray be not angry, dear mother! I prayed, and a great deal of butter upou it!’’ Jabno. Tho Canvass in Virginia. Tbe Richmond Enquirer gives an animated account of the canvass in that State. It says: We feel that there is life in the old land yet, when we witness the progress of this magnifi cent canvass. As if touched by some enchant er's wand, the white people of this State have sprung to their feet Banner after banner waves from every hill-top, and far and near the wind of the bugle betokens the stir that pre cedes the battle. In every county the apathy seems to have been dispelled; at every pre cinct, or many of them, a recruiting office is opened. All the talent of both the old parties— and there was many a heavy battle-axe in each —seems to be on the stump, Whig and Demo crat vieing with each other in rallying the peo ple to resist and beat back the black billows that threaten to poor in npon us. It is a brave spectacle to witness the unterrified oldchieftain, Governor Smith, entering into the canvass with the same fire and spirit with which he drew his sword in his old age. The venerable Conrad also sounds a blast from the Lower Valley. Flournoy, like a true knight, as he is, in the saddle in the South. Beverly Douglas and Marye have been scouring the whole field, and uttering words of encouragment. W. W. Walker has entered the lists like the Un known Knight at Ashby-do-la-Zoucke, and chal lenges the admiration and the sympathy of the spectators; and Aylett, and Oold, and Daniel, and Johnson, and Guy, and Shookelford, and Humes,and Campbell, and Herndon, and Goode, and Blow, and Kelley, and Cameron, and Wal ton, and Kindred, and Staples, and Whitehead, and Stringfellow, and Winston, and a hundred others have already reached the front; while Johnson, Barbour, Baldwin, Stuart, Leake, Ed munds, Bocock, Garland, Echols, Tredway, Gil mer, Wingfield, and. many more have their foot in the stirrup. . Supreme Court. Saturday, Jane 19, 18C9. The Court heard argument in the case of Tug gle and wife Mary, it. ol., vs. McMath and Teal, ten-anti. Ejectment from Sumter. Judge Richard Clarke and S. H. Hawkins for plaintiff in error, and W. A. Hawkins, for de fendant in error. Repairing Sidewalks.—We are glad to see one or two piles of hard burnt bricks being deposited in front of the stores on Cheny street immediately be low this office, with a view to repairing the side walks in front of them, if not to relay entire new pavements. This is a matter that should have been attended to long since; but we are assured by Hertz, the clothier, and Freeman, the family gro cer, that they have been selling goods at such a small advance on original cost that they have been a whole year in laying by enough clear profits to re lay their sidewalks; and if such is the case, they are excusable. But what can we say of those other “fellers” about town, who have been realizing large profits behind sidewalks that are so rough potato ■patches would be smooth as ice in comparison with them? We hope every business man in town who •lays a smooth, nice pavement in front of his store, will have such a rush of customers as will induce all to follow suit or fail. A man in business in a large, flourishing city like Macon, has no right to expect that people will “stump” all their toe-nails off in trying to get to his store, to trade with him. NotatalL If you would have an active, well-paying business, keep the ac cess to your places of business smooth, clean and unobstructed, and our word for it, you will make a fortune before you know it. United.—Justice J. G. G. Burnett united, at his of fice on Cotton Avenue yesterday, in the holy estate of matrimony, Mr. Thos. Jones, a one-legged Con federate soldier, and Miss Elizabeth Smith, all of Macon. For three or four months Mr. J. has been an inmate of the City Hospital, and at the time of his marriage was almost helpless. He was a brave and good soldier, we are informed, and though bad ly mutilated by the mishaps of war, it left him enough body to hold a soul full of the “tender emo tion.” Quite a crowd gathered around to witness the ceremony, and we are informed that the happy couple seemed not to care a bit about the novelty of their position or the curiosity and interest of the bystanders. At the conclusion of the ceremony, and as they passed out of the grocery store in winch they were married, each “took sugar in them” by helping themselves to a lump from a bavrel of sweetnin’ sitting by the counter, and went their way rejoicing. Mty happiness attend them, and any number of little Jones’s, one day, hang like labels about their happy pappy’s neck. Burnett Last Night—We have rarely attended a more pleasing, humorous, and enjoyable enter tainment than that given last night at Ralston’s Hall, by Mr. Alf. Burnett, Miss Helen Nash, and the great concertiniat, Mr. J. W. Sharplev. Of Burnett, as a mimic and face-maker, we have only to say he is indescribable. He must be seen to be appreciated. The Almighty, for some wise pur pose, made Burnett a funny man. If to laugh is to grow fat, then we defy any man to attend one of Burnett’s entertainments and not pick np a pound or two in flesh; for he is the most laughter pro voking man in the world. Miss Nash is a young lady of highly cultivated in tellect. of most pleasing and agreeable manners, and her recitations are of a most interesting and attractive character. She forms what we might term a beautiful and graceful link in the evening’s entertainment, between Burnett’s drollery and fun and Sharpley’a matchless performances on the con certina, which are most exquisitely sweet. To night is Burnett’s last entertainment, and we are sure the Hall will be filled. What Can beDoaeia Georgia. A VISIT TO DR. JANES’ FARM. The Greensboro, (Ga.,) Herald, of the 17,1, says: Last week we visited the farm of our enf* pnsing friend, Dr. Thomas P. Janes, lies on Fishing Creek, some seven or ei^ miles north of Greensboro, to see, for ours?w what can be done by trying, on our old lands hi Middle Georgia. We had previouslyheiM much said of Dr. Janes’ success in trrowi^lU different kinds of grass, and expeJtedto 8 ^ something more than, is usual in cur coWT but was totally unprepared to see red herds grass, blue grass and timothy, grown such perfection in Greene county, is notfc t BUTDBSsed bv the best, fame u. irt. .. be Mayor’s Court.—Seven cases were docketed in this court yesterday morning and tho attendance, as is usually the case on Monday, was rather large. The first case called was against Eliza Roberts and Reuben King, poor colored creatures, badly af flicted with a radical disease, known among the aris tocracy of that party as kleptomacy, but to honest people generally, as roguery. His Honor prescribed ten day’s board at the city hotel for Eliza and charged Reuben $10 for tho prescription, or for stealing with the privilege of construing it either wayao he paid it. A little fight cost Dennis somebody $5 or ten days on the streets. Two cases of drunkenness were then called. Tho one was fined $5 and the other dismissed on the condition that guardhouse fees would be paid. Amos Bone and Jno. Cook, colored, were up on a charge of stealing, but it could not be clearly proved upon them and they were discharged, and hero the docket closed and the court made a break fora bucket of ice-water. Peaches and Watermelons.—For several days past we have noticed ripe peaches in market, and they sell very high. We noticed also that they are being boxed for shipment North. A fine lot came up from Marshallville on Saturday last marked for New York. They retail from baskets at 50 cents per dozen. Watermelons have been in market for a week cr two. but not nntil yesterday were they to be found in tho grocery stores. We noticed a fine lot at Free man’s. They sell at from fifty cents up two dollars apiece. Dr. Porter.—We forgot to mention in our last that this eminent and most skillful physician had returned to Macon for a short season, and had taken rooms at Byington’s Hotel. He will remain in the city until July l’2th next, and during his stay will treat all kinds of diseases in his peculiar man ner, and which has been attended with such won derful success throughout the country. Wo urge the afflicted and suffering among the people of this community to give Dr. Porter a trial during liis present visit, as it may be a long while—perhaps never—before he will again visit us. Don’t detay longer, hut come up and be bealed. We learn that the burnt district between E. J. Johnston’s jewelry store and Wood's furniture store, on Mulberry street, is to be built up in a short while. We are not informed as to who will do the building, bnt are assured that the work will be com menced at no distant day. Cotton CoiiiREssER.—Where are all those gen tlemen who were talking so much last Fall about erecting a cotton compresaer in Macon ? There is one at the cotton warehouse of Jonathan Collins & Son for sale cheap, and in good order. Bibb Suferiob Court.—The case of Miles Sweeny vs. John and Mary Malloy, for debt, occupied the time of this Court yesterday. The case was one of considerable importance, in which a large number of counsel were engaged on both sides. The snit was for $5,700; but after hearing the evidence ou both sides a verdict was agreed on for $500—$250 against each defendant. Bacon & Simmons and La nier & Anderson for plaintiffs: Whittle & Guatin, Washington Poe, Jno. B. Weems and J. U. Shorter, Esqs., for defendants. H. N. Erxs.—There are but few of the good things in this life, at this, or any other season of the year, that cannot be had by calling on H. N Ells, Mulberry street, opposite the Lanier House. He enumerates a few articles in an advertisement, in this paper, hut it would take more spate than we cau spare any one man to mention a fourth of the things to be found at Ells’. If you want anything in hiB line call on him. If, as he says, “you want a good race, call on Jones county boys." There are some people in this world who are aware of that. Just Received.—Messrs. Havens & Brown have just received at their News Depot, 46 Second street, the following late periodicals: Harper’s Weekly, Leslie’s Zeitung._ New York Mercury, Scottish American, Imperialist, Leslie’s Boys' and Girls’ Weekly, 4th July Pictorial, London Illustrated News, Sporting Times and Day’s Doings. MAGAZINES. Every Saturday, Catholic World, Leslie’s, Godey’s. Peterson’s, Eclectic. Galaxy, Demorest’s, Atlantic, Onward. Lippincott’s, People’s. Sunday Magazine, Art Journal. Riverside Magazine, La Beau Monde, Our Young Folks, Chimney Comer, Ladies' Friend, Putnam’s Magazine, World of Fashion, Phrenologi cal. Yesterday was one of ’em—in or out of the sun; and but for tbe lively breeze which partially cooled tho burning heat, we verily believe things would have been melted down into a conglomerated mass of matter, like that which rolls away from the vol cano’s crater, when things are not going right in tho “bowels of the yearth." The English papers are making fun of “Bull Bun” Bussell’s letters, descriptive of the Prince of Wales’ tour in Egypt. In one of tnem he says: “As there were no other asses to be found, the Duke of Sutherland, Colonel Trues- dale, Colonel Marshall and myself, were obliged to trudge on foot.’’ A firm of English coach-makers advertise that Pending argument of Gen. G. J. Wright in ! it has imported wheels from America, and is the next ease, the Court adjourned till 10 A. 11. now prepared to build light carriages on onr of Tuesday next.—Intelligencer. ; . . . models. aoubted by some of our farmers in mSs? 1 Georgia, who have not developed the worth of their lands; nevertheless it is tme Onr first visit was to a field of Bed Clover fi acres in extent, abont half of which has cut. The • average height of that standine*!, from four feet to four feet five inohea Tv field has been under cultivation for the lTi thirty years or more, and the crop which planted without manure of any kind, has riM ed an average of two and a half tons to the' W" Mr. Ben j E. Spencer, who was raised on a fat in Connecticut, on visiting this clover field ^ the other grass fields of Dr. Janes’ farm, that they are not to be surpassed by the W grass crops that grow in the Northern State, We next visited a field of twelve or fifteen of the same crop on which the Doctor kri turned his stock every night during the seasor thereby saving two-thirds feed of com and M der. We visited other fields of Timothy Herf, grass and Blue grass, and found all growins t« as great perfection as can be found in anvT- of the North or West. 7 m The Bev. Dr. Tucker, President of Mercer University, at Penfield, as well as Professors Sanford and Woodfin, who also visited this fa agreed with ns in opinion. We had not the E leasure of meeting with these gentlemen, bat ave seen letters written by them, in which thev speak-of Dr. Janes’ succes*s in growing clover and grass. Professor Woodfin, if we mistake not, is a Northern man; Dr. Tucker has trap eled over both sections of the country, North and South, and is a man whose good judgment can be relied on, and whose integrity isindis. pntable. We next visited Ms wheat of which he has planted largely, and like all the wheat in this country, we found it good. The Doctor has provided himself with a reaper of the most ac. proved patent, and is well fixed for saving his wheat, oats, etc. His com and cotton bothlooi well, and, though backward, are yet much im proved by the recent warm weather. Many persons will no doubt be surprised to hear that these crops have been produced cc old land, without one pound of guano or fertih- zers of any kind. Other parties have used fer. tilizers freely, while Dr. James wished first to test the capacity of hi3 land without them, an: then compare Ms crops with those of Ms neigh, bors. He says in order to develop onr lands and to realize their real worth,our fannera must change their system of culture, plant a Bmallet area of land and cultivate it more thoroughly. With the present system of labor, he says the Southern planters will be compelled to abandon their mode of culture, and adopt that of the Northern States—enriching with clover and deep plowing. He showed us the receipts of ids overseers for successive yearn before the war. and his average cotton crop to the hand wee from eight to ten bales, and since the war not more than half as much, this is an evidence of the imperfection of onr present system of labor. The Doctor owns, we think, near five thousand acres of land lying on both sides of Fishing Creek, for a distance of five miles. His resi dence, wMch is beautifully situated on the AYest side of the Creek, is within three miles of Mer cer University, and abont four miles to the nearest point on the Railroad. . Abont one third of this land is heavily wooded with oak, poplsr and hickory, wMch itself might be a source cf immense wealth. So crazy were our people in ante bellum days about cotton, that a man via would have proposed to them to grow clover and other grasses as a profitable business inthli part of Georgia, would nave been denounced a a fit subject for the Lunatic Asylum. The truth is now just beginning to appear, that aside from cotton, the counties in Middle Georgia only need their producing capacity to be properly tested, to show their superiority over the lands of the West, or those further South. With such a soil, a pare and salubrious atmosphere, pure, cold freestone water, cheap lands in connection with our facilities for trans- portation to market, onr State must soon be come densely populated with emigrants from abroad. • " * Br Supreme Court of Georgia —June Term, 1869. Friday, June IS. 1609. The following cases from the Southwestern Circuit, were tins day argued: Charlotte Scott vs! the The State—Adultery and farnication from Dougherty—General Hen ry Morgan for plaintiff in error, and B. H. Whiteley, Solicitor General Southwestern Cir cuit, for the defendant in error. Can negroes and wMtes intermarry? is the question involved in tMs case. No. 11. Smith vs. Lawton—Garnishment froo Dougherty—Colonel P. J. Strozier and Judge D. | A. Yason for plaintiff in error; General G. f- Wright and B, K. Hines, Esq., for plaintiff in error, i No.‘12. Collier vs. the State—Assault wii attempt to murder from Dougherty— Genersi Henry Morgan for plaintiff in error, and R E Whiteley, Esq., for defendant in error. No. 13. Tiller vs. Spradley, Agent for Jords —Complaint from Lee—Col C. B. Wootten, tj Col W. A. Hawkins and Judge D. A. Vase: for plaintiff in error, and George Kimbroog: Esq., by Gen. G. J. Wright, for defendant c error. Pending argument in No. 14. the Court so journed till 10 a. m., to day.—Intelligencer. The Slaeon Postmaster. We get notMng more about onr colored Po* master. Among the Washington specials in to Louisville Courier-Journal of Saturday is to following: Turner, the colored postmaster at Macon, or- whom the wMteRepublicans of Georgia are ingsucha fuss,has not enteredonhisdunes-ss-- has been unable to file Ms bonds. He _ded4K» that he will not have any white men on h* 5 and has failed to secure black men worth s»- J cient property to be Ms bondsmen. Th® people of Macon hope to secure tho fin“ cation of Torner s appointment when the rt?-' | dent returns. OBITUARY. . | Died in Twiggs county, Ga., on the 25th W March. 1SG9, Dr. R. A. Nash. Ho was born Leh-' ary 3,1801, being sixty-eight years, one won:-1- twenty-two days of age. He commenced tbep^ tice of physic in 1826, and continued the until 1854. Daring that period of tiffiSi 10 _ I perhaps, ever did more charitable p**" ^ I he; living the greater portion of the time to 4 I tion of country where there were a greatI people, he was ever ready to relieve their * - 1 and soothe their sorrows. , .j 1 He was married to Miss Mary Hart in I they lived peaceably and happily together nna- | death. - Dr. Nash joined the Baptist Church in « ^ I lived an upright, orderly life, ever using ha ^ r ence to advance Christ’B Kingdom upon the e*-^ 1 He was quiet aud unassuming in his manse^ ^ I disposition kind and amiable. Amid all °* I dieting misfortunes and disappointments ®r^j life, he bore up with Christian fortitude. I muring, but having the full assurance that ■ I would work together for good to those vh° I God. For twelve or eighteen months he ^ I death, he was severely hurt by a fall, being I infirm, which forced him to remain at bom® all tho time, comparatively shut out from the ^ yet his time was spent in reading the ® making preparation for the hour of death. felt was rapidly approaching. The writer him during his last sickness, and hesrd that he desired to depart and be at rest, had lived to be old and helpless; his child 1 * 11 all grown and able to take care of themse tea the war had stripped him of almost ever? consequently, he felt that this world bad no for him; that, if R was the will of God to u he was ready and willing to go. He left tionatewife; a large number of children: number of grand-children, and a large no» friends, to mourn his loss. By his death, the country has lost a ?<*** his family an affectionate husband and f*t““^| community a good neighbor; the Church » zealous member. “Mark the perfect man, and behold tw ^ forth* end of that man sa peace.” Christian Index please copy. if* I ■ - V- — ^'ir