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IP.nfi Tdegraph: Let me give you an ac- * of the best wheat crop I ever knew cut in •Trna. In 1857 ( 5t be a year or so ^eror later, bat abont that time,)Wm. D. JimUi 0 f this old county of Putnam, sowed ..jiilTfrnr acres of land in wheat on his planta- about eight miles from Eatonton, on the y ,i ^a road. I have freqt/ently heard wonder- . _i to me, rather incredible accounts of ,i ,* c.vp i w> B month or two ago I inquired of j;. Terrell himself, knowing, as all those well j.-ciictcd with him do, that he never over- iJzites a crop, though he sometimes falls be- ano - fet the actual turn out. E« replied in substance as follows : “Off (.'tie twenty-five acres I measured six hundred ui fifty bushels. John S. Reid got my crop c :t that year. It rained a good deal; the gnsber was in bad order, and I know I lost a t-.jred bushels.” A hundred added to six jf.y xottld moke seven hundred and fifty busli- ^s,or thirty bushels per acre on a field of trentr-fire acres! There may have been many ktt«r crops made in this State, but I never btvit. .As to the assertion abont losing a hundred bushels, if it came from an ordinary bib it would be worth very little, for almost (rayons contends that he loses a good deal in tirtihing: bnt coming from Wm. D. Terrell it a the literal truth. Even allowing that he lost lathing, be actually measured up twenty-six labels per acre on a field of twenty-five acres. I forgot, during my conversation with Mr. Tm. Terrell, to inquire of him whether he Btnurcd that wheat crop ? bnt seeing his broth er, Ur. E. Z. Terrell, fully as cool and reliable H the other, I asked him, and he says that ‘iboot half of the field had a dressing of barn- nrd manure, bnt the rest had no fertilizer at iH." Let ns have accounts of the crops that out beat this. H. From I.aurons County—Crops—Corn and Meat Question. Laurens Hill, June 24, I860. Eiiton Tdegraph : A trip, from Dyke’s Sta tion on the Macon and Brunswick road to the city of Micon, gave me an opportunity to look At the crope for forty miles, and I gave them as dose an elimination as railroad speed would admit of, and I must say that both the corn and cotton crops along the line of this road are very isekmnd and small for the middle of June. I nv no blooms on the cotton, bnt the plant looks healthy and vigorous, and I have no doubt bnt lilt it will grow off very rapidly under the genial influence of a summer sun. Whether it cm mike up for lost time, will depend entirely upon the fall. If frost keeps off until very late, t fall crop might be matured; on the other hand, if *e have an early killing frost, the late crop <f bolls will be lost. I was informed that fertilizers have been ex tensively used, and without any information I would have known it any way. It speaks for it- ''city set on a hill, Test or Fertilizers. Editors Tdegraph:—You have just had a ripple from “Deer Creek”—presume you will not object to a roar from another Creek! Well —“kt one come ic7io can / /” By way of prelude, however, let me say—we have devoured “book-farming” (theory part) in old Monroe. Experiment and research have been awakened by the exigencies of the times— the area of cultivation lessened—more thorough preparation and tillage—and the will “to do or die” may be witnessed on nearly every hand. Peering through this vista, may we not cherish hope of approaching twilight of Southern weal? Heaven grant it! But, to the point—result of different fertilizers up to date, One acre of gray land, thoroughly and deeply broken Jan. 18th. March 24th—ran off four and a half feet rows with a narrow twelve- inch-long shovel—followed in same by In hH—like a “city set on a hill,” it cannot be bid. Small as the cotton was where fertilisers were used it was still much smaller where they were not used. In some places the cotton was not chopped out yet, and the grass appears to be luxuriating finely, and enjoying the full benefit of the fertilizers. Sambo and Coffee stop too of ten to look at the cars. A few fields have very promising crops and the cotton is large enough, but they are exceptions. It is generally very small, indeed, for tho time of year and quality of tho land; the stand is very good; at least it has that appearance from the cars. Tho com looks healthy, except where it has stood too long without work. In such places it has rather a yellow appearance. But all of it has a small stalk and cannot make a very heavy crop according to ay judgment. There is less com pJanfedthan cotton, and tho best lands are planted in cotton. With this we close onr re port of the crops on the river. I see that yon and one of your correspondents have been figuring out the difference between raising meat or cotton to buy meat. Mncb as I *«h to see the South independent I cannot but tmnk there is more money in cotton for a regu lar crop than anything else that can be planted upon the land. It is a question of facts and fig- urrs—three acres of average land will produce . pounds of cotton, worth Si 25 at present pnoes; the same will prodnoe 12 bushels of com ^racre, or3C bushels, worth S40—difference •’ ’ *# favor of cotton. Perhaps you say the pesuon is not stated fairly. I grant it. Now us state tho question fairly: Can the same Efflount of bacon be produced with 36 bushels yeorn that can be bought with 500 pounds of <otton ? I take the negative, and maintain that •‘cinnot, and will try to demonstrate it by fig ure!. 1 notice that bacon and cotton are generally sime price; put both at 20c, or 10c, and of the five hundred pounds of cotton would wfire hundred pounds of bacon, and if thirty- fit bushels of com will raise five hundred Wads of bacon, it is an even race, and there ■■lo advantage either way, except in the luxury uussge balls, spare ribs, etc. But I contend 'birty-six bushels of com cannot raise five paired pounds of bacon. I never tried the ex- jp-aent, but think it would take at least fifty p-hels. It will take three hogs of our breed to seven hundred and fifty pounds of pork, pjch will befive hundred pounds when reduced P bacon. These three hogs will require twenty P'-aols of com each to raise and fatten them, bushels, and the breeding sows to be L-v" same land taken to moke this sixty paela of com. if planted in cotton would have Placed nearly two bales; we will say eight • (pared and fifty pounds of cotton. It would P tight hundred and fifty pounds of bacon, ;~'p> as we have shown by figures is three ired and fifty pounds of bacon more than l be raised with the corn made on the same twelve-ineh-long, square-pointed scooter. the bottom of this farrow—say six inches below the common surface of the earth—put, at the rates of 225 pounds per acre, Dickson’s Com pound, viz: 160 pounds Peruvian Guano, 240 pounds of Bone Dust, and ICO pounds Gypsum. In the first row I used this compound; in the second row, tho same quantity of Patapsco Gu ano. Upon these two rows were thrown beds. In the case of the third and fourth rows, the furrows were run off and doubled, as in the two first, and bedded upon, withont any guano. April 15th, opened No. 3, and put in the same quantity of Patapsco Guano as in No. 2, along with my cotton seed. -Planted No. 4 in the same manner, without any manure. Nos. 1 and 2 were planted at the same time. In this manner I planted the whole acre, with the “Moina” va riety of cotton. No. 3 came up in about twelve days—the other three or four days later—the time of coming up of Nos. 1, 2 and 4 of no perceptible difference. No. 3 grew off in ad vance of the others until abont May 15th. At this time, you could not discern any difference in the size of the stalks. Each of these rows embrace “good, bad and indifferent, soils.” Where the soil is good—say, producing 1200 pounds of cotton per acre without manure—the difference in the growth of the weed, between guanoed and unmanured rows is very slight. But there is thirty per cent, gain of fruit on the the former over the latter. On poor and indif ferent soils, the guanoed rows have, I should think, 20 per cent, advantage in growth and 50 per cent, in fruit, as proven by numberless countings and measurements. No. 3 has 15 per cent of fruit more than No. 2. I can detect no difference between Nos. 3 and 1. Now for the cost of each: Dickson’s com pound, as in No. 1—the ingredients of which were bought directly of Merxyman &. Co., of Baltimore—cost in round numbers, laid down at Crawford station per ton sixty dollars. The Pa tapsco cost $72. At the same cost the Patapsco is preferable, as it can be used in the drill with the seed, and the plant derive all the snpport which may ac crue from it. Whereas, if guanoes are bedded upon in our broken hill country, it is a mooted point whether or not the plant feeds upon more than a tithe. It is but fair to state, in this connection that the ingredients of the above compound were bong-it at special wholesale rates, but includes one ijem of charges, which may be set down to the s'^’ore of fraud. The Patapsco Guano— bought of that reliable house, Lawton & Law- ton, l;as been analyzed by that honest and pro ficient chemist, Prof. Wiilet, of Mercer Univer sity, nnd comes up to advertised standard. If Lawton & Lawton will fetter the hands of “Mid dle” manipulators—they may expect heavy soles of this gnano another season. Fine rains and beautiful crops in this section. Tho writer has 37 acres of Moina—will average twenty inches high. Several acres are one-half of a-’man's thigh high, with from thirty-five to fifty Well defined forms and blooms per stalk. The pickson's select cotton, on soil equally pro ductive, and with equal guano, knee high, and from twenty-five to tlnrty-five well defined formji and blossoms. Pajrdon prolixity. I wanted to tell all the facts-in tbe above experiment, so that fanners might deduce their own conclusions, and if the then;iometer of feeling of yourselves or read ers Ljive run up to fighting point, by reason of this fengthy article, come up, and we’ll cool yon off iii * Bern Cheek. Cfiaparchee, Qa., June 28, 1S69. From Calhoun and Terrell. Crops in Calhoun—Masonic CAebration in Mor gan— Young Ladies of Calhoun—Crops in Terrell—Effect of Fertilizers—The Freedmen. Dawson, Ga., June 28, 1869. Editors Telegraph : Thursday last I took trip into Calhonn county, paid particular atten tion to the crops along the route, and am pleas ed to report them in as good condition and look ing as well generally as I ever saw them at this time of the year. I attended the Masonic celebration at Morgan, which was a complete success. About five hun dred persons were present, the order being well represented. Marched in procession from the Court-house to the Methodist church,where Dr. H. delivered a long and eloquent address; after which all returned to the Court-house, in front of which a long table had been erected, whioh a wa3 literally covered with the best the country affords. The citizens took a livedy interest and saw that all guests and visitors shared in the good things of the occasion. As for myself, must admit that immediately after dinner I was “ too full for utterance.” _ Had the pleasure of meeting some of the pret tiest and most agreeable young ladies in Cal honn or any other county. Abont 2 o’clock p. M. we adjourned to Jndge C.’s and danced till 5, when all went home well pleased with the pleasures-of the day. T ; The crops in Terrell, like those of Calhoun, are in fine condition, and the prospects very good for an abundance of cotton, com, peas, po tatoes, sugar cane, rice, etc. Oats hare turned out better than was at first expected. Ripe water melons are coming in daily. There will not be as many peaches and apples this year as last, but they will be much larger. Gardens are looking welL All fertilizers U3ed are doing well, and all who have used them are well pleased with the re sults and think of using them much more exten sively next year. The free*dmen are working well and are becoming more steady and regular in their habits. Rain comes wherever and when ever needed. No one has cause to complain of too little or too much. Planters seem to have nothing to complain of except the high prices of provisions, and they justly censure them selves for that, and think, and hope it will not be so many years longer. They seem delormined to raise their own provisions and be indepen dent to all the world. Dawson is still improving and business is very good for this time of tho year. Prof. J. F. Nelson’s Examination and Ex hibition camo off Thursday and Friday last.— The young ladies read their compositions Thurs day night. They were original; written on ap propriate subjects—well written and well read. The exhibition on Friday night was almost equal to any Northern theatre, and was attend ed by a large and appreciative audience. The health of the place was never better than at present. Yours truly, Hans. wuai. percent, this is. I leave that ^-■*Jation for clerks, but here is the bacon. Of this rule will not apply in time oi war, q” Grant says “let us hive peace,” and if k- 1 * prayer is answered, I think my calcula- j'-on win hold good for a long time. At least as VM the Western lands surpass onr lands in ^--wring grain crops as far as they do at tho £r«nt tune. Give ns as good land for grain as dive us as good land for grain ‘ r 8 > and we can have as many big fat bogs M Bin* nw v.(aaa uaio no iiwuj uig ioi uvgo ■ , Ule y have; bnt with such decided advantages L~ and climate they will continue to bring ^ neir meat, and we will continue to buy it SsV °«. r coW ?n money, and have plenty left to ; ■ '« them rich. This results from the nature of things, and nothing but a com- tuge in soil and climate can alter these „ "Cotton is King,” and sways the * P ra over Western meat. You are at liberty remit*. 4n y errors you discover. My object is is it g®t the better of the argument. (I j.T u . 8 el xuo oerter oi tne ar * to arrive at oorrect conclusions. Farmer. 8 ‘ w ho was the leader of Hampton's scoots in the late re- , ‘ytoCabJ ed at ^ 48811 u 1481 Monday, on his Tbe Corn and Cotton Question. Editors Tdegraph : Some days ago I noticed an article from “Grafton” taxing Mr. Clisby with. incessantly urging planters to raise their ownicom. Grafton thinks it won’t pay where an ajare will bring only fifteen bushels of corn against two hundred pounds of cotton. Now, I am a small farmer, and at the beginning of the year. I held the same prevalent idea; but I gave tbe f-ntire subject attentive consideration, and arrived at, I think, a mature conclusion. I ^aid to myself, if I do not raise my own corn I will have to buy both com and hay. I will have this com and hay to haul a distance of ten miles—perhaps at times when the absence of my tearfis from my farm will be of incalculable in jure- to me. I have got to borrow the money to purchase the com, and pay interest at the rate of 2£ per month and discount added. Perhaps cotton may be down and I will be short. If I raise my own com, I shall have no haul- in*; from the* depot I shall have plenty of fodder and shucks to feed on. I can raise and harvest my acres of com and fodder for one- third less labor and cost than I can tbe same number of acres of cotton. I will have no in terest to pay for the use of the money. My com will be better com, and by being fed on the ear, will go much further, because my mules will eat part of the cob. Now, while it is true that an acre of cotton will bring fifty dollars, and one of com only sev enteen dollars and fifty cents, I have got to con sider whether that is the relative value to me. I find it is not; and Grafton will find when he goes to farming, after he has paid for hisforeign com and hay, and the interest on the money, and lost the use of his hands and mules in the crop, when he could not afford to do it, and ex pended one-third more labor on tbe same aver age of cotton, together with the expense of pre paring and getting it to market, especially, if cotton is a “leetle” low, that he had better “raise com enougli to do him.” Farmer. The Chinese In Calllornln. Governor Haight and the agricultural socie ties of California will shortly display a superb national ensign at the Capital, in Washington, composed exclusively of the California silk, as a striking and undeniable evidence that the new staple is vigorously advancing. To aid it the experience of Chinese cultivators is flowing to California in the very nick of time. Within 14 days, no less than 12,000 immigrants from the “Flowery Land,” have arrivedat San Francisco, 1,200 on one steamer and the rest in sailing ves sels. We are gled to observe, too, that they have been received cordially by the authorities and people of California, who have only keen disgusted by the persecutions inflicted upon these self-denying, hard-working and inoffen sive Orientals by the bigoted jealously of turbu lent classes among the lower population. Apro pos to this remark, immigration from Europe is pouring in upon us, as it never did before.— Official records show that during the month of May, 58 steamships and 22 sailing vessels brought 52,934 passengers from Europe to the port of New York, and of these the overwhelm ing majority were foreigners, “ The State Road, the Superintendent and the Finance Committee. Atlanta, June 28th, 1869. Editors Tdegraph : In view of the importance of the State Road as a source of revenue, if well managed, and otherwise as a burden supported for the benefit of politicians, the concern of the public and especially the taxpayers, is legiti mately directed to that management; and the complaints and enquiries made about it demand the attention of the Superintendent. It is said that the Road now, with double the business it had during previous administrations, yields CO per cent, less income. This immense difference presents a just canse for complaints and reasons for enquiries, devolving on the Su perintendent tho necessity to satisfy them. The Finance Committee ot the House of Rep resentatives shonld have had this subject before them, and the fact is, that a special committee was appointed for this very work; but it seems they have said nothing about it. One of the Finance Committee, in a letter published, says that in a private way he has ap plied to the Superintendent for all the informa tion on the subject, seemingly with the view of considering tho advantage of putting the road under tho control of a Board of Directors, elect ed by the Legislature, or to lease it out to re sponsible parties—for a term of years—disposed to pay $40,000 a month, whichis sixty per cent, over the present income. In response to those data before the Superintendent, we have his very business-like letter, stating that, as re- quired by law, he will make his report “upon the management of this great interest,” and he expects to show to the satisfaction of all that it has been so managed as to promote the interests of the people, and especially the development of the State resourcesand, as regards the leas ing of the road, if that can be done for $40,000, as stated, he recommends the proposition, and the speedy closing of the contraot, with certain provisions. . . Every business man will recognize in the Su perintendent’s letter the stamp of a business mind. To expect him to proceed at any mo ment to make a report of works of such magni tude as the Western and Atlantic Railway’s is to suppose the business of keeping accounts is a mere bagatelle. Any one experienced in com mercial affairs can appreciate tho importance of yearly making a balance-sheet from which is drawn deductions of the condition of an estab lishment, and how reliable is any guess-work of that kind made between the periods when it is usual to make that infallible statement As regards .putting tbe road under a board of directors, and expect to get “three good, jndi- cioE« business men elected by the legislators,” instead of three influential politicians, it is os probable to shoot three robins in January ; or to expect to run the road in such a manner as “to promote the interest of the whole commu nity,” and not that of the party which may be in power, is as possible as to catch dolphins in the Chattahoochee. Under the present circumstances it would be a political blessing to the State of Georgia to lease out the State Road for ten years; aye, for twenty, to responsible men who will pay thirty or forty thousand dollars per month,'guarantee ing, beyond all peradventure to the State, a faithful compliance of the contract and no back ing ont; then the conditions of the Superinten dent should be a sine qua non ; for otherwise, who could conjecture what the impositions of such a monopoly might result in on the people by the raising of the tariff of freights on the necessaries of life, and on the materials used in rgriculture, mining and the arts. Gray Jacket. A Leaf from EUstoi y. . irons to be placed on me, when General Dodd, the statement of edman SPA! GLEB. chief officer in charge, more humanely counter- . . .. D , . [nx. ananded his order and had the irons again re- 1 he Assassination Ptoc ^pang clares his moved from my arms. I was placed for Becnri- Innoeence-His Arrest and Tn\l-Confine. ty in the lower hold of the ves^Candcompelled mentat the Capitol Prison-UjA at the Dry & descend to it ^ roundswero Tortugas-Outrages on Pnsonerketc. far apartj andj J the irons on my feet were Edman Spangler, who was tri^l and sen-: chained but a few inches apart, my legs were tenced by a military commission in May, 1865, braised and laoerated fearfully. The hole where on a charge of being engaged in the plot to as- j I was confined was close and dirty, bnt after two sassinate President Lincoln, and w|o was par- ; or three days I was allowed on deck in the day- ' IBM* was closely guarded. ■ I was allowed no one of the crew. We arrived at doned by President Johnson at thefclose of his j time, but w administration, has prepared a statement, as- to speak to . ... serting his innocence of all knowledge of the ; Fort Jefferson, on the Dry Tortugas, and were crime, and detailing the cruelties jracticed on ' handed over to Colonel Hamilton, commanding, the prisoners before and after! conviction. | who placed me until the next day in a casemate. Spangler, it will be recollected, as a aceno i The next day I was brought before Colonel EL, shifter at Ford’s Theatre, and was n the stage | who informed me that he had no more stringent in that capacity when J. Wilkes Be dh shot Mr. ! orders concerning me than other prisoners con- Lincoln, and jumped from the box He also at j fined there times cared for Booth’s horse. Tie evidence against him was of the flimsiejt character. Nearly everybody believed him iinocent, and the military commission only sentenced him to six years at the Dry Tortugas, wide the others were sent for life. The coimuniio*;, was or-; MORE BASBARITIXS. I managed to get along oomfortably for time, though to some of the prisoners the offi cers were very cruel. One man by the name of Dunn, while helping in unloading a government transport, got hold of some liquor and imbibed ! too freely, fo, whioh he *.4. to ito ant testimony is now at hard to show the vast amount ofperjury of that trial—perjury exact ed by fear and dictated by malice. Spangler’s allusion to tho witness Weirinnan being in tbe abduction- plot is important. Weickman’s tes timony, it will be remembered, hung Mrs. Sur ratt. The folio wing is the statement sworn and and subscribed to: A Singular History of a Watcli. We were yesterday told tho following, which we briefly repeat: “Three years ago, Col. R. L. Mott had a gold watch and chain taken from his residence. A short time after, the time piece was fonnd among some other property that had been captured from a negro. The chain was Btill missing. Not many weeks elapsed before the watch was stolen again. For over two years no trace of itconld be discovered, and all hopes of its recovery were abandoned. Sheriff Ivey has in a quiet way, in which he bus no superior, been looking for some jail birds that escaped from their cages sometime ago. Among them was a negro, Andrew Jonrdan, a notorious thief, who appropriated jewelry and bacon so extensively daring the nights of last summer. We believe, at the time he escaped, he was under sentence of several years’ confinement in the penitentiary. Anyhow, it was found that house down town Sunday statement of edman SPANOLEE. I have deemed it due to truth to prepare for publication the following statement—at a time when I hope the temper of tfy people will give me a patient hearing—of my arrest, trial and imprisonment, for alleged complicity in the plot to assassinate the late President Lincoln. I have suffered much, but I solemnly assert now, as I alwas have since I was arraigned for trial at the Washington Arsenal, that I am entirely innocent of any fore or after knowledge of the crime which John WilkesBooth committed—save what I knew in common with everybody after it took place. I farther solemnly assert that John Wilkes Booth, or any other person never men tioned to me any plot, or intimation of a plot, for the abduction or assassination of Pres ident Lincoln; that I did not know when Booth leaped from the box to the stage of the theatre, that he had shot Mr. Lincoln; and that I did not, in any way, so help me God, as sist in his escape'; and farther declare that I am entirely innocent of any and all charges made against me in that connection. I never knew either Surratt, Payne, Atzerodt, Arnold or Har old, or any of the so-called conspirators, nor did I ever see any of them until they appeared in custody. While imprisoned with Atzerodt, Payne and Harold, and after their trial was over I was allowed a few minutes' exercise in the prison yard. I heard the three nnite in assert ing Mrs. Surratt's entire innocence, and ac knowledge their own guilt, confining the crime, as they did, entirely to themselves, but implica ting the witness, Weichman, in knowledge of the original plot to abduct; and with furnish ing information from the Commissary of Pris oners’ Department where Weichman was a clerk. HIS ARREST AND BARBAROUS TREATMENT. The statement then details the particulars of his arrest, which occurred on the 15th of April, 1865. He continues: I was allowed on the fourth day of my im prisonment to walk the prison yard, but from that evening I was closely confined and guarded until the next Saturday at midnight, when I was again taken to the office to see a detective, who said: “Come, Spangler, I’ve some jewelry for you.” He handcuffed me with my hands be hind my back, and guarding me to a hack, I was placed in it and driven to the Navy Yard, where my legs were manacled and a pair of Lillie handcuffs placed on my wrists. I wns put in a boat and rowed to a monitor, where I was taken on board and thrown in a small, dirty room, between two water-closets and on to a bed of filthy life-preservers and blankets, with two soldiers guarding the door. I was kept there for three days. I had beea thus confined three days on the vessel, when Captain Munroo came to me and said: “Spanghrl’ve something that must be told, bnt you ruvst not be frightened. We have orders from theSecretary of War, who must be obeyed, to put a bag on your head.”— Then two men came and tied up my head so se curely that I conld not see daylight. I had plenty of food, bnt coult not eat with my face so muffled up. True, Here was a small hole in the bag near my month, bnt I could not reach that, as my bands were wedged down by the iron. At last, two kinl-hearted soldiers took compassion on me, nnd while one watched the other fed me. On Satuiday night a man came to me, and after drawing the bag so tight as to nearly suffocate me, said to the guard, “Don’t let him go to sleep, as we will carry him out to hang him directly. ” I heard them go np on the deck, when there was a great rattling of chains and other noises; and while I was trying to im agine what was going on, and what they intend ed to do, I was dragged out by two men, who both pulled me at times in opposite directions. We however, reached a boat, in which I was placed, and were rowed a short distance. I conld not say then where we stojped, for my face was htsaftraq4Aied np to the window frame by bis thumbs for two hours. General Hill then or dered him to be taken down, and be made to carry a thirty-two pound ball, but as the hang- still covered. After leaving the boat, I was forced to walk some distance, with the heavy irons still on my legs. I was then suddenly stopped,and made to ascend three or four flights of stair; and as I stood at the top waiting, some one struck me a severe bbw on tho top of the head which stunned and half threw me over, when I was pushed into a small room, where I remained in an unconscious condition for sev eral hours. The next morning some one came with bread and coffee. Andrew was in a’ ... night, and Sheriff Ivey, aided, perhaps, by a po- lioeman, made a dash for him. Notwithstand- ^ The increasing I ing quiet, Andrew heard his pursuers, and dart- number of English and Scandinavians (Danes, i ed from his bed undressed, snatched ' his pants, Swedes. Norwegian*, and Finns) continues to be (jumped from a window, missed several balls, remarked, and for the summer, a vast augmen- j and escaped. In his hurry, however, he tation of the German total is announce. . j dropped his pants. In one comer ot them, nicely wadded in cotton, was the watch of CoL \Tt»h Julia Tylzb, daughter of the ex-Presi- Mott. So, after a long absence, the watch and dent was married on the 25th, at the Chnrdw chain and owner see each other. Abont five of Ascension, to W. H. Spencer, of Genessee, hundred dollars’ worth of other stolen property New York. was recovered by the raid.—Columbus Sun. TRIAL AND CONVICTION. I remained here several days, suffering tor ture from tho bag or padded hood over my face. It was on Sunday when it was removed and I was shaven. It was then replaced. Some hours after General Hartrauft came and read to me several charges, that I was engaged in a plot to assassinate the President, and the day following I was carried to amilitary court and still hooded before all of its members. I remained bnt a short time, when I was returned to my cell for another day and night, and then again presented in this court. Mr. Bidgham Assistant Judge Advocate, read the charges against me, and asked if I had any objection to the court and I replied “No,”andmade my plea of “Notguilty.” They then wished to know if I desired counsel, and when I answered affirmatively General Hun ter, the President of the Court, insisted that I shonld not be allowed counsel. He was, how ever. overruled, but it was several days before I was permitted legal aid, the court, in the mean time taking evidence with closed doors. On every adjournment of the court, if only for an hour I was returned to my cell and the closely fitting hood placed over my head. This con- tinned till Jane 10,18C5, when I was relieved from the torture of the bag, bnt my hands and limbs remained heavily manacled. WHAT HE KNOWS OF MBS. SURRATT. The first time I ever saw Mra. Surratt was in the Carroll prison yard, on Capitol HilL I did not see her again until we were taken into court the first day at the arsenal. My cell was on the same corridor with hers, and I had to pass it every time I wa3 taken into court I frequently looked into her cell, a small room about four feet wide by seven feet long. The only things in her cell were an old mat trass laid on the bricks and an army blanket., I could see tbe irons on her feet, as she was generally lying on the maUrass, and was the last one brought into court. She occupied a seat in court near the prison door. The seat was twelve inches high, and the chains between. the irons on her feet were so short that she always had to be assisted to her seat She was so rick at one time that the court was compelled to adjourn. BOUND FOB THE TOETUOAS. On the 17th of July, about midnight, I was conveyed to a steamboat, and arrived the next day at Fortress Monroe, and was thenoe taken to the gunboat Florida. The irons on my arms were temporarily removed, but Captain Dntton, in charge of the guard, ordered heavy Lillie ing had deprived him of the use of thumbs, he was unable to obey. The officers, however, put two twenty-fonr pound balls in a knapsack, and compelled him to cany them until the sack gave way from the weight of the iron. He was then tied np by the wrists, and gagged in the month by the bayonet from 8 p. u. tUl the next morning. He was then taken down and thrown into the guard-house, but was so exhausted that he had to be removed to the hospital. It was decided to amputate three of his fingers, but this was reconsidered. He lost, however, the use of liis thumb and two fingers. This punish ment was inflicted by Major McConnell, officer of the day, and was carried out by Sergeant Edward Donnelly. Another poor prisoner, named Brown, was once excused by the doctor from work, on the plea of illness, bat the Provost Marshal insisted, and finding him too ill and lacking strength, made him carry a thirty-two ponnd balk He staggered under the weight and was compelled, from weakness, to put it down. He was then taken to the wharf.and with his legs tied togeth er and his hands tied behind him, a rope was placed around him and he was thrown into the water and then dragged ont. This was done three or four times, he begging for mercy most piteously. He was finally jerked ont of the wa ter and then ordered to return to his ordinary work. The poor wretch crept off apparently thankful for any escape from such torment. Captain Joseph Rittenhouse was officer of the day,and his orders were carried out by Corporal Spear. Daring the latter part of last October I was placed in irons and compelled to work, with an armed sentinel over me. I did not know the reason for this, I was unconscious of having given offence and had conformed to every reg ulation. I was then closely confined and al lowed to communicate with no one . for four months. The pretence for this, I afterwards learned, sprang from an attempt of Dr. Mudd to escape. FATE OF COLONEL GRENFEL. Colonel St. George Leger Grenfel, aged 65 years, was taken sick and went to the doctor to get excused from work. The doctor declinedto excuse him. He then applied to the provost marshal, who said he could not excuse him if the doctor couldn’t. Grenfel then tried to work and failed. They then took him to the guard-house, tied him up for half a day, and then took him to the wharf, tied his hands behind him, tied his legs together, and pnt a rope around his waist. There were three officers, heavily armed, who drove spectators from the wharf; I could see and hear from my window. The Colonel asked them if they were going to throw him into the water, and they answered “Yes.” He then jumped in, and because he could not sink, they drew him out and tied about forty pounds of iron to his legs, and threw him into the water again, and then compelled him to go to work. The officers who had him in hand were Lieuten ant Robinson, Lieutenant Pike and Captain George VV. Crab, assisted by Sergeant Michael Gleason, and Assistant Military Storekeepei G. T. Jackson, who tied the iron on his legs. Cap tain Samuel Peebles tied np Grenfel for saying that “he was capable of doing anything.” Col. Grenfel was forced to scrub and do other menial work, when he proved he was so ill as to have refused to eat his rations for a week. All of the officers hated Grenfel, on account of a letter which appeared in a New York paper, which they said Grenfel wrote, abont tying up the prisoner Dunn—which letter was truthful, as others and myself were witnesses to the details it related. One very stormy night, Grenfel, with four others escaped in a small boat, and was evidently drowned near the fort His escape was discovered but the storm was so severe that it was deemed too dangerous to pur sue them, although a steamer was at the wharf. Grenfel frequently declared his intention of running any risk to escape, rather than, to use his own words, “to be tortured to death at the fort.” These are only two or three instances of the many acts of cruelty practiced at the fort. During my imprisonment at Fort Jefferson,! worked very hard at carpentering and wood or namental work, making a great many fancy boxes, etc., out of the peculiar wood found on the adjacent islands; the greater portion of this work was made for officers. By my industry in that direction, I won some favor in their eyes. I was released in March of the present year by Executive clemency. [Signed.] Edman Spangles. Political Changes Suggested. Editors Telegraph: The signs of the times indicate that the intelligent citizens of this Re- publio incline to the conclusion that this Gov ernment of ours, though admirable in theory, works badly; that the machine, beautiful to look at, is rapidly wearing out, and will shortly go to pieces with a crash. Some improvements may be suggested in har mony with the requirements of railroads, tele graphs and Armstrong guns, and it will be inter esting to hear their merits discussed. Some of them are as follows : The University of Georgia. From the Cutkbert Apinat.] From the venerable Chancellor of this noble institution, ot which every Georgian should feel justly proud, we .learn many interesting par ticulars relating to the University. Within the past twelve months, three times as many stu dents have been matriculated as ever joined the College in the same length of time. Three hundred and fifty young gentlemen representing the best families at the South, are now in actual attendance, and the number is constantly in creasing. In the matter of State pride and patronage, our university is far in advance of any other at the South. As a proof of this, in the Universi ty of Virginia and General Lee's college com bined, but seventy per cent, of the students are from the Old Dominion ; while in the Georgia University 92 per cent, of the young men are gathered from the hills and valleys of onr glori ous commonwealth. This is a most gratifying exhibit, in view of the attempt of a Federal satrap to crash this ancient seat of learning, and the vandal outrages whioh left chapel, halls and college buildings dismantled and sadly defaced. The Faculty embraces nineteen learned and distinguished professors, who are themselves la borious students, and keep-fully abreast of all' the modem improvements in the arts and sci- Much of the instruction is imparted -through lectures, which cover the fields of jurispru dence,- agriculture, the natural sciences, polity cal economy, etc. These are deeply interest ing, and df great practical utility Three libraries, viz: the University, (lately enriched by the addition of the Gilmer collec tion,) the Phikappa, and the Demosthenian, embracing a multitude of rare standard works, afford every facility for information to the in quiring student The whole number of volumes amounts to about twenty-five thousand dollars. The new library building is commodious and well arranged. Elegant private residences have been erected for the professors,and the grounds of the camp us are beautifully kept The apparatus selected in Europe is varied, and complete in all the departments of science. The lecture rooms of the professors of the natural sciences are elegantly finished and fres coed, the walls containing paintings of many sub jects which are objects of inquiry and illustra tion. Bat the most remarkable feature of the Uni versity, is its admirable system of discipline and government. The old method of espionage and punishments in vogue twenty-five years ago, when we belonged to the college, together with the pamphlet of rules and regulations, as rigid as in the walls of a penitentiary, have all been abolished and done away with. In those days the hated tntor resided in each college, and at all hours of the day and night in vaded the privacy of the young men. If absent, a mark and report was the result, and a refusal to admit an officer was followed by the breaking down of the door. Hence these officials literally ran the guantlet in making their nightly rounds, and were sub jected to every indignity that the mad-cap youths could devise. Now, a gentle lady resides in each vast college building, and her silent influence and feminine tact are sufficient to keep in perfect order the hundreds of young men who occupy the dormi tories. These fair janitors nurse the students when sick, and watch over their personal com fort like their absent mothers. They are venerated and respected and any breach of etiquette or propriety would meet with a prompt rebuke from the students themselves. In short,'the young men are regarded and treat ed as gentlemen, and true to their Southern ori gin and instincts conduct themselves as such. The chapel exercises once noisy and disorder ly, are now conducted with solemnity, and in perfect silence. Each. Sabbath witnesses the entire body of students, a congregation them selves, assembled in their spacious chapel, where divine services are held by their venera ted President. The Sabbath school, bible class and weekly prayer meeting, are all regularly maintained also, and the college is a miniature State, inde pendent in itself, and enjoying all the privil eges, immunities and blessings incident to a well regulated community. Let us hope that this time honored seat of learning, the almamater of hundreds of Geor gia’s most distinguished sons, will continue its onward march, until it becomes a beacon light of science to the entire world. 1. Let suffrage be restricted to those whose taxable property exceeds $3000. 2. Let the State Senate have one member for each judicial circuit, and the House a delegate for every 10,000 male inhabitants over the age of twenty-one years. 3. Let Superior Court Judges be elected by the attorneys of five years’ standing, of their respective circuits. 4. Let the Circuit Judges elect the Supreme Court. 5. Let the JudgeB of the Supreme Courts of the various States select the Supreme Court of the United States. 6. When the States are thus reorganized and party lines broken and party ties sundered, let there be a new constitution so moulded on the model of the old, that it will meet the necessi ties of this century. Let the sphere of the Gen eral Government be clearly defined, and each changes made as will prevent power from being centralized. - • Early. A Mb. Packard, of Fall River, seven years ago bought a ranche of two hundred acres in Santa Barbara, California, at a dollar per acre. He now has 50,000 vines, producing 20,000 gal lons of wine; is engaged in silk culture, last year producing 200,000 ooooons; and is also cul tivating the olive. Jean Maria Farina, the “genuine” cologne manufacturer, is dead, leaving seventeen other, but fraudulent, Jean Marina Farinas in Cologne to survive him. . Laura Farina, worth $2,000,- 000, marriageable, and but 21, succeeds him in the cologne business. The total receipts of the Boston Jubilee were nearly $1,000,000. The New York Dry Goods Market From the Independent, June, 24.] The spring season is nearly over, and tbe re vival that every one has been anticipatingin the dry goods market has not been developed. It will hardly come now and the excitement that was expected will have to be left over until fall. Until then nothing better than a dull and steady market can be reasonably looked for. Prices have a decidedly drooping tendency, bnt there is no panic, nor any cause for one. The market generally, for both cottons and woolens is vexy sluggish. A very few transactions in brown sheetings and shirtings of an amount worth noting have taken place from first hands. Though some of the jobbers have reduced the prices of leading makes of sheetings about half a cent a yard, the market remains substantially as last week. In bleached shirtings and sheetings there is very little movement, and prices are withont quota ble change. Printing cloths in the gray are in active, but the stock In first hands is small, and prices show no signs of giving away. Prints are in moderate demand, and the new styles sell readily at full prices; but the old patterns are heavy and difficult of sale, except at a considera ble concession of prices. Ginghams of the best makes are in fair demand, and sell readily at the top of the market. Printed lawn and percales of good styles meet with ready sale, as it is now the height of the season for thin goods. But the old styles and inferior grades are very slow of sale, even at re duced prices. Rolled jaconets and cambrics are in small demand, but prices remain withont es sential change. Silesias are improving, Bales are more lively, and the demand from the clothiers is much better than it has been.— Muslin de Lains are not in much demand at this season of the year; but a few of the better qualities, medium colors, find ready purchasers. The rest of the market for domestic cottons is without any special change. Prices do not vary essentially from last week’s quotations. Woolens of all kinds are exceptionally doll, even for the season. Cassimeres and satinets are without any marked change. There is very little doing, and sales are confined mostly to the finer grades of cassimeres, adapted to the sea son, and suited to the city trade. The transactions in foreign dry goods are now confined almost wholly to seasonable fab rics, adapted to the city retail trade; and for goods of this description, particularly the richer kinds of dress goods and the high-priced silks, the demand is good, and prices most be satis factory to the importers, who have not much cause for satisfaction in the sale of goods of a cheaper character. Tbe New York Times. There i3 quite a sharp contest going on for Mr. Raymond’s successor in theNew York Times. The principal stockholders in the concern are George Jones, the publisher and business man of the concern, who owns thirty shares; Mr. Raymond’s estate, thirty-four shares; Jas. B. Taylor, fourteen shares; E. B. Morgan, of Cay uga , ten shares; A. B. Stoat, ten shares and two other shares owned by other parties, making in all one hundred shares. The shares are valued at ten thousand dollars, making the concern worth abont one million dollars. The different interests are divided as to who will be Mr. Ray mond’s successor. One interest favors Geo. William Curtiss, another interest would like to see Mr. Godkin, of the Nation, and another in terest is pressing Mr. District Attorney Tracy, of Brooklyn. How the matter will end it is im possible to say. The Times is a prosperous newspaper, and is paying large dividends. The late Derby race in England duke an earl and a lord. ‘broke” a Oar State UnlTeretty—ITeeial AcUea oltheTmtees, From a circular received from Professor Wad dell, Corresponding Secretary of the Faculty ot the University of Georgia, at Athen% we team that the Trustees of the University have au thorized the faculty to admit, without payment of tuition fees, meritorious young men of lim ited means. They propose to increase the number of beneficiaries to fifty Tfcese am now, as such, in attendance at the Uaivenaity, under appointment of the Faculty, .twenty-seven stu dents. There appointments are intended to be limited to the residents of the State, who are not themselves, and whose parents are not, in a situation to incur the expense of their educa tion at the University, without aid: Students thus appointed stand, in all respects except expense, as others, enjoying equal priv ileges and subjected to the same laws. As a re muneration to the State, they will be expected to engage in teaching in a public or a private school in Georgia, for a term of years equal to the time they may have enjoyed the advantages of instruction at the University. Tbe temx of the appointment expires at the dose of the Collegiate year with those who fail to exhibit due diligence, but those /ho give evidenoe of capacityand industry will be permitted to-re main untnilM; ■; ".tli U- The applicant for an appointment should for ward testimonials of good moral character, and of capacity to profit by the instructions of the University; statinghis age (whioh must be at least sixteen) and residence, with a full report of the subjects which have been studied by him. It must also be shown that neither he nor Iris parents are able, withont aid, to incur the ex pense of his education. Next session there will.be forty vacancies, which the Faculty will fill,, by appointment on the Cth of August. Only one will be appoint- from a county There are ho vacancies in the following counties: Bibb, Clarke, Cobb, Ful ton, Jefferson, Monroe, Sabun, Richmond, Union. Applications should be addressed to the Cor responding Secretary, and forwarded prior to August 6th. Young men who design to enter the ministry, of any denomination whatsoever, are admitted to the University withont the payment of tuition fees, upon presenting proper letters from the authorities of the church to- which they are at tached ; provided they are in need of this aid to complete their edneation. ; / * ( r»*’ • .•> -A. , . ,-i The Cotton Sltnation. The New York Mercantile Journal of the 24th, has the following: v> The market at the close of our previous re port presented the anomalous position of very large sales, amounting on Tuesday and Wednes day to nearly 12,000 bales, at advancing prices, with scarcely any response from Liverpool to this higher range of values. For the moment, the foreign advices have but little inflence on quotations here, and the market continue in the hands of speculators. There are, however, in dication of a slight reaction in consequence, perhaps, of the desire of weak holders to realize, on account of the tightness of the money mar ket. The reports from the South indicate that the supplies of the better grades are now almost ex hausted, and the receipts will in future be very small until the beginning of the cotton year.— The deficit thus for this season as compared with, the last, amounts to 73,000 bales. The exports are small and are mamly composed of lower, unsuited to this market. For future delivery the transactions are grow] ing in importance, and there is a disposition tb buy low middling at 25 cents for November de livery. This is probably based on the presump tive demand for our mills, and the ability the planters now possess of holding their cotton for better rates. The accounts of the growing crop are favor able bnt in Southern centres the Northern esti mates are deemed to be exagerated. It is claimed that even under the best auspioes, the result will not be one-fifth in excess of that of the cur rent year, and some doubt even whether 2,500, 000 can be brought to market, with the present labor at the planters’ command. ■ i. 1 (.* •: y * Terrible Fight witb an Infuriate*! Horse. From the Eaton Rapid• {Mich.) Journal.) Mr. George Hamlin, of this place, had a very narrow escape from death on Sunday morning last. It seems that the large black stallion owned by Hamlin and Wellman, had become unruly on Saturday afternoon,but, after a conflict with him, Mr. Hamlin had considered him subdued. On Sunday morning, however, while he was being fed and taken care of, he watched an opportunity and rushed at Mr. Hamlin, catching him by the head with his mouth, and inflicting a severe bite, tearing the scalp loose from the sknll, and rup turing the temporal artery which runs over the head. This so stunned Mr. Hamlin that he had begun to fall, when the horse wonld no doubt have pawed him to death; but at this critical moment, when the horse was furious with rage, the hoBtler ran into the stall and struck the beast a heavy blow between the eyes with a hammer, not, however, before he had again bitten Mr. Hamlin several times on the arm and shoulder. The blow given the horse, partially stunned him, and enabled Mr. Hamlin to get out of his reach. Mr. Wellman, hearing of the affair, undertook to punish the horse, when the animal made for him, and seized him by the waistband of his jants, reared up with him, not letting go hia . lold until attacked by men with clubs, and then completely tearing the pants off .from Mr. Well man. Again in the afternoon of Sunday last, he got loose and out into the barnyard, when it became necessary to actually choke him down by the means of a slip-noose, before he would permit any one to get within reach of him. Dar ing the choking process, his frenzy was fearful to witness, as he struggled to get hold of those nearest him. No trouble has ever been had with him before that we know of, except in the case of the breaking of Mr. Montgomery’s leg, this being the same horse. Business of the Attnutie Cable. The striking exhibit of the business on the Atlantic Cable will attraot attention, specially in consequenoe of the revelations it makes con cerning the infinite advantage to business of jndioions cheapness, that seems at first to ig nore the question of profits. When the cable was opened, £20 were charged for each message of ten words, and under- that tariff an average daily business of £503 was transacted. After three months’ trial the rates were reduced pre cisely one-half. The cable was still able to do all the business that offered, and at the reduced price the daily receipts rose to £577. After a years’ trial another reduction of almost one- half the original amount was make, and a mes sage of ten words was transmitted for £5 5s.— With charges thus only one-fonrth of what they were at the ontset the daily receipts still rose, now averaging £635. On the first of September last the charges were reduced to £3 7s. Gd.; abont one-aixth of the original tariff, and under *bi« rate the reoeipts rose to an average of £150 more than at the price charged when the cable began operations. Ten days ago the company made one more reduction. For what, at the ontset, they charged £20, they now cliaige £2. At one-tenth ihe original rates the figures fully warrant the prediction that their receipts and profits will rise at least ten per cent above the average of any previous year or month. A Southern paper is opposed to tbe education of women as surgeons. It says that, suppose one were put under the influence of chloroform by such a doctor, “what is to prevent the woman from kissing you ?” A youth at Port Clinton, Ohio, lately sustained _ terrible loss in the following document, duly signed by one of the belles of the village. The finder wants to know if the thing is negotiable: “Poe* Ciantos, May 30. ‘Due , or bearer, one hnndmd sad nineteen kisses, payable on demand. E— Patti tells Miss j has atti tells IDss Mhreerre, a Vienna girl who been singing in Paris, that she is destined to be tbe Queen of Italian open utiii^ ■•■ni l ■■n-jy-k