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The Greorgia, "Weekly Telegraph, —— _ 7 THE TELEGRAPH. MACON FRIDAY, JULY 2, 18C9. Death of IU«Uor P. €. Pendleton. A few days ago we mentioned that Major Stamp Coleman Pendleton, of the Valdosta (fjamiiea Co.,) Times,had been thrown from his \>*ggj by a frightened horse, and in falling, his head struck a stump on the roadside, inflicting ■Moae serious cerebral injury. We are pained •toEsam from the Times of the 23d, that Major Pendleton died last Saturday! having never re- dW—d consciousness. The Times pays an eloquent tribute to his •nuanory. He was bom in Putnam county, in 1SZ2, and soon after he arrived at majority, He was a member of Jotting!* on the Road. JONES, JASPER, WILKINSON, BALDWIN AND PUTNAM COUNTIES * Fine rains have, within a few days past, fallen in Jones, Jasper, Wilkinson, Baldwin, and Pat* nam counties. Crops of com present a fine ap pearance—stalks are large and strong, every thing about it looks dark and green. With few more seasonable rains the land in com will produce from two to three hundred per cent more than last year. The cotton plant looks very healthy—has grown much in the last three weeks—is well ad vanced for the season, though some consider it small. A great contest is now going on between the farm laborers and the grass, but we have confidence in the success of the laborers.— Fertilizers have made a difference of one hun dred per cent, in the growth. Crops of several 'practiced law in Macon. -Jhe Macon Volnnteers in tlic-irFlorida campaign carter General Scott, and on his return com-' tundredacres mPntnam^ we think, wifi average naosecod the publication in Macon of a weekly .jfyfi] 1 called the News Carrier, which subse- -qnoDtly changed its name to the Southern Post. Tfe paper was superseded in 1840, by the ■Southern Ladies, Book—a monthly magazine, -uioebMr. Pendleton established in connection Eev. Geo. F. (now Bishop) Pierce. The •gasQiem Ladies’ Book was afterwards removed Savannah, and appeared for a year as the Magnolia, and from thence was removed to Charleston, where the services of Wm. Gilmore ffwmn were secured as associate editor. In 1855, Major Pendleton purchased the Sandersville Central Georgian, and published it for four .years. Just before the war be removed to Sjoihcm Georgia, and during the war Major -Ssndleton served In the Virginia Campaigns as Major of the 50th Georgia Regiment, where he . distinguished himself as a faithful and valiant asEdier. He established the Times in 1867.— Vhxf. paper says: Aa regards Maj. Pendleton’s private charac- •icc, we can only refer those who knew him to every day walk. Those who have read his etper cannot help remembering the air of piety .^rwf patriotism that pervaded it. Modesty and charity were his leading traits, and governed life. In early life he was baptised into tho Christian church but afterward joined the Me thodist, of which he was a member when he died. A short time before the sad accident which took away his life, he expressed a desire to live wtffy long enough to correct the errors of his na- <Sore. His was the patriotism that looked to the best good of the people, conservative, moderate .sad forbearing. Need we enumerate the many hoBorable trusts reposed in him by his conntry- .wn? But here we stop, and leave the rest to memory of his friends and the hearts of those raho loved him. Brunswick Railroad. "Wia understand comparatively little of the grad- ling now remains to be done on this side of the •Obenulgce. All tho difficnltpart is accomplished, sad, contrary to the common impression, there is s good deal of heavy grading both above and >3*Iaw the river. Wo are told there are some tEuxbarikments and excavations which will re- □rind the observer of the State Boad. About -tbs hundred and ten miles of track are now laid and. seventy-five miles remain to be laid. It is eaxfldently stated by the best authority that the vtbfflolmo will bo open to Brunswick as soon as . Quslst o?"November next. (Tfoe great hindrance to progress is found in -’firof'ht.'t that whenever the hands are paid >. atT, , whibu by some contractors is once a month, ranAbyvathers twice, tho bands must al- . t*ys have, & holiday and go home. This cuts ■town the force at. work to a very small number aetiithe. frolic-is .over,.which generally occu- p£sK from three days to a week. But good pro- fpeesik-made notwithstanding, and the public anticipations in reference to the completion of ;fee work will be fulfilled. what is termed half leg high; or say, 10 to 12 inches. To use a vulgarism of the colored peo ple, it is now “performing” finely. A great many small rich plats of ground have cotton from knee to thigh high. White Labob.—We were told a few days ago that two sons, about grown, of F. H. Dawson, of Putnam county, in 1867, raised from their own labor sixteen bales of cotton. A young man in the same county, Mr. Calhoun Parham, last year raised from his own labor nine bales of cotton. Many white men are working farms now, formerly worked by large bodies of col ored people, and prospects are bright. An Ibish Potato Stoby.—A friend in Putnam county, (who at his request shall be nameless,) presented us with some splendid specimens of Irish potatoes. He informed us that he had been using from the bed for his family, com. posed of ten or more persons, from May 1st to June 15th, when he dug them and saved thirty bushels. The bed was about one-thirteenth of an acre. This shows a production at the rate of four hundred bushels of Irish potatoes to the Manufacture oe Draining Pipes.—At No. 1, Milledgeville and Gordon Railroad, more com monly known as Stevens’ Mills, we saw the other daypersonsengagedinthe manufacture from the clay of that section, inexhaustible quantities of which are to be found there, piping suited for drainage of buildings, sewerage and tinder drain age of lands. Mr. Henry Stevens, who is one of the most enterprising men we have, has com- mencedthis manufacture. It is ander the direc tion of a gentleman who came from New Jersey for the purpose. They are now preparing about 700 feet per day of eight or nine inch pipe. The furnace for burning it is nearly completed. When it is finished Mr. Stevens will estimate the cost and fix a price upon it. He is confident he will be able to sell it at a cheaper rate than it can be imported. We are glad to see this manufacture introduced in Georgia, and hope it will be encouraged by the people. 'Xrops in Crawford and Monroe. Col T. J. Simmons, who has been sojourning a while.in /die upper part of Crawford, and the adjoining-region of Monroe, gives a very flater- iag report of the crops. Corn is in as good a v aHoditioc, -and as promising as it could be; and, \. ■lOi'Kifl continuance of showery weather, will praoduce such a crop as has not been seen in that section for a long time. Cotton is equally ^promising, and, in its most advanced stages, Tkaeo-high, or a little upwards, giving every in- •£Jcation of abundant fruit. The Colonel speak aC one of his brother’s fields, planted with Dickson’s improved seed, and manured with Ayres & G us tin’s Super-phosphate, which ex ceeds in promise any thing ho ever saw. It is throwing out clusters of forms as low as within throe or four inches of the earth, and fifty or dBBore forms to the stalk are common. Tho dif- ■feoence between manured and unmanured crops sc tveiy great, and Colonel S. thinks it will ataarant to at least thirty days in the whole cropping season. Looking at the crop under those two conditions, in the same field, the eye detects at once where fertilizers were not em ployed. In one field, where only the poorer ^portions were manured, the fertilized cotton is ; twice as.large as the other. A Hellish Pot Uncovered.—The New Era - publishes a letter from Frank Joseph, a North- . . ten Methodist preacher, who, in his profession- _ travels in Georgia, found darkies who said ffwy were acting under instructions to procure .ffw negroes to kick up a row with the whites, i. -mH get the State out of the Union. They were *. to have acres and mules for doing it. Folsom ■ Gordon 'Hotel.—CoL J. M. Folsom still , presides over this establishment, where will be •. found an excellent supper awaiting passengers -on the evening down train on tho Central Rail road. The Colonel hopes to see, at the future pic-nics, on his pond, more of the Macon people 4h*n heretofore. He promises a pleasant time i to all who come. We will vouch for his com pliance. 'The National Intelligencer, for two genera tions a text book to a great many American poli- fieia&f/has suspended. We publish on our first tMgesqme interesting information in relation ito tho.paper. TEwnc Florida.—The Floridian of the 22d •Announces the death of the Hon. John B. Gal braith. A Tax Bill has been passed by the Legisla tors which imposes a total tax of seventy cents tm. the hundred dollars. - The Floridian’s account of the crops is nn- 'fayorable. The Griffin Stab heads one of his columns ■ of items “Paregoric.” That’s the sleepy column —-to be read after dinner—the remainder are .lively enough. The Confederate Dead at Sharpsbnrg' Macon, June 23, 1869. Editors Telegraph: Please give such notice of the accompanying pamphlet as you may think the importance of the snbject upon which it treats demands. Our Maryland friends, particularly those in the immediate vicinity of our dead, are anx ious to aid us in the erection of a cemetery,and wonder why we have so long neglected this pa triotic duty. You will notice, by reference to the Governor’s pamphlet, that a very liberal ap propriation was made by the State of Maryland towards having the Confederate dead interred in the grand National cemetery which has been erected at Sharpsbnrg; and after the money had been received and used with that understanding the Northern trustees refused admittance to the bodies of our dead. The speeches of Northern Radicals upon the occasion of the dedication of the cemetery, were amongst the vilest of their miserable at tempts to heap disgrace upon the Southern peo ple; andshould have long since aroused us to take some active measures for a separate enclosure for our noble dead. It should sadden the heart of every true Southron to think of the neglect ed, exposed and abused condition of the graves of the brave men who, “ always in the front,” fell among**, strangers. As I traversed the ground upon which they sleep, I fancied I could almost hear them say, “ Have you, whom I so oved, forgotten me t Our friends in and around Sharpsbnrg and Hagerstown think that §5000 would cover the expense of a cemetery and the removal of all the bodies except those in the cemetery at Fred erick, which are well preserved and conld be improved where they are. Shame upon the Southern people if a few thousand dollars can not be collected for an object so dear to our hearts. Let each individual who was a sufferer in the battles in Maryland, begin at once to col lect something for this noble work. Could our people look on the outside of the National Ceme tery, at the scattered remains of our loved ones, the flowers of another April would perfume the graves of our dead in Maryland! Copies of the “Descriptive List of the re mains of our dead in Maryland,” can be had free of charge on application to Thomas A Bonllt, Hagerstown, Maryland. Doubtless, Mr. B., who feels great interest in the matter, would re ceive subscriptions of money from our people. He could at least be consulted upon the subject. Hon. James H. Grove, of Hagerstown, or Jacob C. Grove, of Sharpsbnrg, would give any infor mation respecting the purchase of grounds, etc., the former having been the most active member of the last -Legislature, might be able to say whether the State of Maryland would make an other appropriation in behalf of the Confederate dead. Pardon me, Messrs. Editors, for this lengthy note. “ Out of the heart the mouth .speaketh.” Very respectfully, Mbs. C. Helen Plane. The pamphlet alluded to, besides setting forth the facts embodied in Mrs. Plane’s eloquent letter, gives a list of the Confederate deadbnried around Sharpsbnrg, with the condition of the gsaves which, wo regret to say, is in some cases so deplorable that portions of the remains are exposed. The pamphlet on the concluding page, summarizes the list as follows: Louisiana 69, Mississippi 61, Virginia 106, Georgia 210, North Carolina 119, South Carolina 71, Arkansas 10, Texas 9, Tennessee 6, Alabama 54, Florida 10, Maryland 2, Identified by name 23, by batteries 5, P. S. S. 3, unknown 2,481—total 3,239!— Surely the South will not permit this army of her dead and heroic sons to lie scattered around in fence corners and fields, in every condition of neglect and exposure to desecration, and the perishable marks of identity which are attached to the graves fast disappearing with the lapse of time. Let ns no longer suffer ourselves to be taunted by our enemies with so criminal a neglect “Preserving.”—Now, and for a few subse quent weeks, come the busy times with good housewives in preserving. With the modern TIktoktant Discovery—that of the late rebo j improvements of self-sealing jars, this is a general, General Breckinridge, inaa excursion matter of great economy. The old-fashioned •to W a? tnn niVta* uinnaoAla A a tTia " m _ _ sweet meats, preserved in their own weight of 'the other day out in Minnesota. As the flag of the Union was unfurled, he exclaimed, "That is the old flag, after all—thank God for it! Pity he didn’t make this discovery abont fta year 1861. It would have saved him a world of trouble; but “better late than never.” And while the lamp holds out to hum The vilest sinner may return. sugar, are to a great extent superseded, and all manner of froits for pies, tarts, and of vege tables and sauces for winter use upon the table, are put up with little expense and no work, by ! observing directions, which will be supplied by That story is told by the New York Herald cf : seller of the jars. These jars can be had at •tm.* Wednesday. j many of the stores in Macon, as well as the ' I other cities of our bailiwick. _ . . B. A. Wise sup- Desthucttve TTatl Storm near Albany.—On .. . . ... , , , „ Tuesday afternoon a terrible hail storm passed ! P Ues 016 besfc P atterns to ^ers, as well as round east of Albany, damaging crops seriously, householders, with all the needful information in some places destroying them. Mrs. Ran how to use them. ' Towns had about 125 acres of cotton destroyed. Mr. .Walker suffered to the same extent in cot- 1 From Dal toil, ton and a like number of acres of com. The The Citizen of yesterday has the following: Willinghams, Mrs. Baker and many others were [ Railroad Bridge. The “ The Status of the Expelled Negro Members of the Legislature.” We note in the Chronicle and Sentinel, of Thursday, a long and able article under this head reviewing, the Telegraph upon the ques tion and restating its own position as follows: _ Several months since the Chronicle and Sen tinel urged that a case should be made and taken tothe Supreme Court in order to teat this right claimed by the Scalawags for the negroes to hold office under our laws. We then said, and we now repeat it, “that it would become the duty of all good citizens to yield cheerful obedience to such decision when made, and we doubt not that all portions of our people will accept such a decision as the law of the land.” We have seen no reason why we should now change that opinion. We still thinkj in future —or, more properly speaking—in all cases which have not been already authoritatively de cided the painciples involved in the late decis ion should be enforced. We go farther and say that we believe that it would be the duty of tho present Legislature to carry out those principles in all cases which may hereafter come before it What we meanis this: If the vacancy created in the Senate by the death of Adkins should be filled by the return of a ne gro and if a negro should also be returned to the House in the place of -4yer, that snch negroes shonld be admitted to their seats. These cases have not been decided. But if Alex. Stone, ne gro member from Jefferson county, shonld pre sent himself and demand the seat from which he had been ejected, that such demand would be untenable—his case has been decided. The Su preme Court has no power to oveirule a decis ion made by the Legislature upon the qualifica tion of its individual members. The Legisla ture has no right to decide that negroes are in eligible to office. Each department is supreme t^d independent in its own proper sphere of the interference of tho other. The Supreme Court decides principles, the Legislature decides the special qualifications of its own members. _ If a negro shonld hereafter be elected a Jus tice of the Peace or Ordinary, or to any other civil office in the State and ms commission be withheld or the Courts refuse to recognize his right to the office, he has his remedy before the Supreme Court, and its decision must be obeyed. But if a negro shonld be elected to the Legislature there is no power in the Supreme Court which can compel them to admit the ne gro to his seat. The Legislature is a co-ordi nate branch of the Government and within its own sphere entirely independent of the judicia ry. As we have already said we believe such a refusal would be wrong, but we do not admit that that body can be compelled by the judicial branch of the Government to do right. We would copy the entire article of the Chron icle and Sentinel, but space is scarce, and really it seems to us we have presented every phase of the question. We suggest to our friend of the Chronicle, who is one of the most distinguished lawyers of Georgia, that his position may possi bly illustrate the difference between law and equity. I From Talbot County. The West Georgia Gazette says that wheat has been offered for sale in the Pleasant Hill District at § 1.50 per bushel. That paper says The wheat crop throughout the country is larger than ever before made. In All the wheat growing States the people have been favored with an abundant yield. From all points in Georgia comes the most cheering accounts of a heavy crop, and we may expect a speedy decline in the price of flour. In respect to the growing crops, the Gazette remarks: A heavy and general rain fell in this county on Tuesday evening. Cotton and com have jrown very rapidly during the last two weeks, ant now we hear some of our farmers complain ing of too much rain. The crops are good, but in some localities the grass is making rapid headway. The Gazette has a long communication from Georgia upon the policy of fencing in stock.— “Georgia,” is opposed to it as legislation in fa vor of the rich to the injury of the poor. Noticing our remark about its failure to give the price of wheat, the Gazette adds: However, as we can’t tell the Telegraph the price of wheat in this section, we will tell our readers that the Macon Telegraph, Daily and Weekly, is one of the best papers in the thirty- seven States and score or so of territories. The weekly is unrivaled in the quantity and quality of itR matter—being a large quarto sheet of fif ty-six columns, filled with news, miscellany, market reports, and able and judicious editorials upon the prominent events of the day. The Telegraph has probably a larger circulation, and exercises more influence upon public senti ment than any other paper in Georgia. The mammoth Weekly is furnished at §3 per annum; Daily §10. , We are much obliged to our friend of the Ga zette and will take the liberty of adding that our Semi-Weekly edition at §4.00 a yen is. in our individual opinion the best of the triad of Tele graph editions. From Greene County. The Greensboro’ Herald of Thursday, saysr We have received, at this office, specimens of fine cotton from J. B. Hart and George C. Da vis. Mr. Davis sends us a bloom which was taken from a stalk on the 19tb. This is early for this section. Mr. Hart presents us with a stalk which measures twenty-nine inches above the roots and states that he has sixty acres of the kind. This, we feel no hesitancy in saying, is the best in the county. We do not pretend to say that this is a fair specimen of the crop of this county, for as a general thing it has been represented to us as being poor. From the Fork.—We were pleased yester day to receive a call from our friend and coun tryman, W. S. Bishop, from the Fork, who re presents the crops between tho rivers as being good, both com and cotton; the wheat crop is also good, better than for the past ten years.— Mr. Bishop speaks very encouragingly of the negroes in his section; says that they are at tending to their business and working well; this we are glad to learn, for of the many large farms in the Fork, they are almost entirely cul tivated by negro labor. This is an evidence sufficient to show that they are peaceably dis posed, and attentive to their business when let alone. Mr. Bishop has spent nearly seventy years of his life in Greene county, and says to day hewonld not exchange it for any country nnder the sun, andsays that energy and industry is all that is necessary for our people to grow rich. We are glad to know that he, as well as many of our farmers, are making preparations to grow clover and the different grasses, for it can but prove a success. Our exchanges from all parts of the State give glowing accounts of the success of those who have tried it. We have seen Kentucky and Tennessee hay de livered at this depot for consumption in this county; instead of this, our planters should ship from this to other markets. Mr. Bishop in forms ns that he intends planting largely of it this fall. The Dawson Journal's Platform. This paper lays down the following admirable platform upon the Supreme Court decision: It is a hard task to undertake to account for the acts anddoings of such men as Joe Brown and Kent McCay ; it is, we think, enough for us to know the decision is made and then go to work to remedy the evil done. The good book says, “a tree is known by its fruit," and it is sometimes the case that one may know the fruit by lookiug at the tree. So in this decision. We expected no better fruit from those political trees, therefore, was not surprised. Believing there is no remedy at the law, we concluded the best plan to treat the matter is to give it the go-by, for the present, and when a negro offers for an office in fu ture. just beat him out, and save the honorable gentlemen the trouble of again riving their rea sons for saying a negro is eligible to office. A little judicious management on the part of employers and press, and tho work is done. No use to be alarmed, or have any fears for South west Georgia. We are not ashamed to teU the black man how to vote for his own interest, and we do it, and heretofore have had good success. We think the wind will be taken out of the sails of these law-givers, and before a twelve months roll around, Joseph will be for eating bis words a pain From' Texas. . Too much Rain—Crips Looking Well—Corn made—Cotton promising—Blooms as early as as 21st May—Sugaf Crop Small but Promis ing—Plantations in Pine Condition—Freed- men doing well—Potties dead—Loyal Leagues doicn on the Con'titution—An Omnipotent Negro—Half a MU ion gone—Health of the State. BUT TELEGRAPH. Correspondence of the ifacon Dai]]/ Telegraph.] Bchmond, June 21, 1869. In consequence (J indisposition, I am again compelled to throw,myself on your indulgence; but you and your waders have not lost anything by my protracted (ilenee, for it has been an un usually dull time, is devoid of interesting items as Shakespeare pronounced a duck’s nest to be of eggs in March. We have had nore rain during this summer than was needfulor beneficial. Still, crops are looking well, and a good corn crop is an assured fact, for it is nor beyond the reach of contin gencies. Cotton iromises well too. Almost every plantation had penty of blooms the first of this month, and aoni few had blooms ten days be fore the end of he last. Sugar cane looks well, and holds ont ndications that those who “take sugar in them” will not be driven to the neces sity of taking it straight or “ ’alf and ’alf. But the breadtj of land devoted to sugar in this country is rathir insignificant when its adapta bility to cane ii considered. The great fear of the planter fron this out is, that the excessive rains will prodtpe the caterpillar. Plantations are in better repair and present a better appearance of thrift, than they have at the same period any time since emancipation. Freedmen hav« worked better this year, and their general conduct has been better than at any time since the close of the war. These hopeful features are entirely owing to the ab sence of the villainous Bureau and its pestif erous agents. Politics are as dead as a pickled herring. If a man were to introduce political matters as a subject of conversation in a mixed or promis- cnons assembly, he would be regarded as an antiquated fossil of a by-gone era. No steps have yet been token for theregistrationof voters on the ratification or rejection of the Consti tution, which induces the belief that the elec tion will not come off at an early day. When the election comes off, it is not improbable that the Constitution will be rejected, as Ruby, f. m. c., President of the Loyal Leagues, is op posed to its ratification. Ruby is a bright mulato, and is said to be possessed of consider able shrewdness and unbounded ambition. His influence with the Leagues is well nigh omnipo tent. A large number of influential Conserva tives will, also, throw the weight of their in fluence against its ratification. Thus a work, that has cost Texas over a half million of dol lars, will probably never benefit the State the worth of the parchment on which it was written. It is certainly strange that extremes in politics should meet so soon after a terrible war. My own opinion is that the Constitution, with all its serious objections, is the best that the peo ple will have offered to them in the next quarter of a century. The general health of the country was never better at the same season of the year. Par Fois. New York Times on the Georgia Deci sion. The New York Times of the 21st instant, com menting upon the views of tho Constitutionalist and others in favor of disregarding the Supreme Court decision of tho Georgia Supreme Court, in the case of the ejected negro Legislators, say: We trust that these foolish suggestions will be disregarded by these to whom they are addressed. They are pregnant with mis chief to the State, because* incompatible with tnat pacific settlement of outstanding causes of controversy in the accomplishment of which all classes are deeply interested. The only pretext for the exclusion of negroes from the Legislature and from local office has been an alleged difference of interpretation of the State Constitution and Code. The reasona bleness of an interpretation which saw barriers to office-holding, while admitting that none ex isted to the exercise of the suffrege, was never apparent. But at least it was presented with a profession of good faith. The Supreme Court was the proper tribunal for disposing of the question; and by its dictum all men not intent upon fomenting discord will abide. The Legis lature may indeed fall back upon its exclusive authority over the qualifications of its members, and may pass a law making color a ground of in eligibility to office. These steps are of course possible. But their injustice and inexpediency are so apparent that only demagogues will venture to recommend them. For instead of allowing the judgment of the Court to heal irritating sores and re-establish harmony be tween the action of the State and the purposes of the National Government, they will, by the proposed procedure, multiply the causes of con tention and strengthen the hands of those who urge a renewal of Congressional interference. It was bad enough that 'members were expelled under a pretended regard for law. To persist in the wrong after it has been judicially shown that the law warrants- no such interpretation, and, still more, to enact a law in order that a proscription now lacking in the statute book maybe supplied, would be something worse than an error of policy. It would be an act of defiance which would go far toward justifying fresh exercise of Federal authority. The opportunity for closing an ugly contro versy is one which Georgia should not lose. It may now honorably recede from a position which the apologists of harsh measures have used to some effect, and avert further difficulty without trouble or delay. We hope that moderate and just counsels wiH. prevail in a matter fraught with consequences so seriously affecting the fu ture of the State. more or less injured.—News, 25th. railroad, on Cnyler street, is being built rap- •idly. - Crops.—The wheat is being harvested, and is very good. It is worth about $1 50. Com is looking fine, but somewhat in the grass. The The Crops in the West.—A Chicago paper „ publishes crop dispatches from twenty-four bridge across the points in Illinois, eleven in Iowa and five in The Cholera anti Yellow Fever lit Cuba. The Cuban patriots, we are told, have been doubly blessed this summer. They prayed for the appearance of yellow fever to thin the Span ish ranks, and have not only received that, but the cholera in addition. A correspondent of the New York Times says : “The cholera has bro ken out with incredible force among the troops at Nuevitas and other points on the coast, and is already marching with fearful strides toward the interior. The Havana journals keep this fact secret. At a meeting of the Board of Health yesterday (June 13th) it was resolved to allow the steamers Trionfo and Pejaro to land their passengers and freight, without subjecting them to quarantine or even to fumigation; but it was resolved to fumigate all vessels arriving after date. .; ■ , To give you an idea of the strength of the cholera, I merely cite two instances: .Seven Cabans captured a Spanish lieutenant and three men, who had gone on a hunting expedition near Nnevitas, and were leading them toward an insurgent encampment. They rested during the night near Altmisal. In the morning only one Spanish soraier was alive, the other three having died during the night: The second case Is that of the family of a Spanish officer in Neuvitas; his wife, two children and servant, died within three hours. The Cubans were not wrong when they relied on the yellow fever to thin the ranks of the Spaniards,but they did not calculate that cholera would also moke its ap pearance. The Spaniards lose fearfully, but it is equally certain that the mortality among the Cubans is very great, although it is impossible to obtain reliable figures.” From Clay County. The Fort Gaines Mirror says, during the past •wiifik the weather has been warm and dry. "We , that, during the middle of the day, gar- seasons are very fine, dm vegetables wilt under the parching rays of , Whitfield CouHrr.-Treasnrer Buchanan in- " * ,, . forms ns that the financial matters of the coun- ijfef win A jjoou shower now, would be quite ty are in a flourishing condition. ' Plenty of I money, tod no paupeia to taka core of. A Suspicious Political Element.—A Wash ington dispatch tells us: ‘‘The subject of Chinese immigration to the Facifio slope will be brought before Congress at its next session. Several prominent representatives are now on a visit to California for the express purpose of studying the whole question,and another gentlemanleaves here in a few days for San Francisco with simi lar intentions. It is apprehended that the num ber of Chinese who will arrive here within .ten years will be estimated by millions; and the Wisconsin. They report the prospect for wheat theory of some newspapers and politicians, that fins, and some places will double the last year’s they come merely for the purpose of working, crop. Com is generally backward, owing to the cold and wet. Some com is being replanted, and the crop will not be as large as usual. Oats and barley look well Potatoes are promising, except a few places where bugs have appeared. The wheat harvest has commenced. In South without any. intention or desire to participate in our politics, is regarded by many as an assump tion not altogether warranted’by fact, history or experience.” ($2 From Washington. Washington, June 25.—Gould, has been commis sioned Revenue Collector for the First Georgia Dia- trict. The Cubans have late favorable advices. The Cu ban forces have been successful in two recent con flicts,and are comparatively healthy and confident of success, and their organization is improving. The cholera, yellow fever,and dysentery among the Span ish troops are decimating and demoralizing them. Borie has resigned, Geo. H. Robeson, of New Jer sey, succeeds him. The National Intelligencer has suspended, only temporarily though it is hoped. There was a full Cabinet to-day, including Robe son, Secretary of War. Revenue to-day $800,000. Admiral Hoff has been instructed to resist seiz ures of American vessels not actually engaged in landing troops or munitions on the Cuban coast. General Howard has appointed Rev. James Lynch Superintendent of Education for Mississippi Delano decides that lotteiy proprietors, managers and agents must pay five per cent, on gross receipts, whether tickets, certificates or polities, or any de vice representing lotteiy tickets without deduction for prizes, commissions or other expenses. TURNER DEPARTS FOR MACON. Turner, negro postmaster at Macon, Ga., depart ed yesterday with lii3 commission. Lernus, the Cuban representative, had an inter view with Grant and the Secretary of War to-night. Washington, June 26.—Revenue to-day $767,000. Supervisor Noah, of Tennessee, was allowed to resign. His successor is unknown. The change is attributed to the influence of the Stokes parly. The President has appointed Wm. M. Wood Chief of the Nayy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery. Creswell was present at the interview between Grant and Lemus. The interview was unofficial It is stated on tolerable authority that Grant never asked Hoar’s opinion regarding the political status of Georgia. Hoar has certainly taken no steps to wards the preparing of such au opinion. From Virginia. Richmond, June 25.—The Commencement Exer cises of the Washington College, in Lexington, commenced on Thursday. Rev. B. A. Holland, of Baltimore, addressed the literary societies, and General Lee distributed the medals and diplomas. Mr. C. W. McCormick, of Chicago, a member of the Board of Trustees, who was unavoidably absent, sent a check for five thousand dollars, as a substi tute for his personal presence. Many distinguished persons from other States were present at the Al umni dinner. At night speeches were made by Com modore Maury, General Smith, and others. The college prize oration was delivered by McGar- reU, of Texas; the law class oration by John T. Pendleton, of Kentucky: the Cincinnatus oration by J. P. Strader, of West Virginia. The registration just closed has greatly increased the white majority in the State. The Conservatives claim that their vote has been increased twenty thousand. Richmond, June 26.—Joseph Kelly, who was shot on Thursday evening at the Registration Office, by the Police Captain, Callahan, died this morning. His death creates much feeling in the city, ho hav ing been held by three policemen, while Callahan, who had a personal fend with him, shot him. Kel ly was Vice President of the Seymour and Blair Club during the campaign. Callahan was an ex- Confederate officer, who had charge of a Confed erate prison during the war, and has since joined the Republican party. Callahan was bailed, bntwas to-day rearrested. Edward Fontaine, proprietor of the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad, died to-day, aged sixty-nine years. General Canby orders that Callahan, who killed Kelly, be tried by a military commission. John Chinaman Asserting his Eights. San Francisco, June 26.—Senators Wade and Conkling, with the Committee of Ways and Means of the House, met a number of leading business men and representatives of six Chinese companies. These Chinese representatives made a speech, ex pressing the hope tliatthegovemment would double the subsidy to the China line of steamships, enabling it to run semi-monthly, and suggested Congress ional assurance of a just protection to the Chinese capitalists who invest their money here; and com plained of the mischieviousness of tho California laws preventing Chinese testimony in the courts, and specially taxing Chinese immigrants and miners. From Cuba. Havana, June 26.—Marines are now guarding the forts Miro and Cabaniss. The volunteers are disa vowing any intention to resist, de Rodas having re tired. Eight hundred Spaniards were defeated and lost their convoy near Los Tunes. The Spaniards- at Cineo Villas and Los Tcnos are calling for rein forcements. Gen. Puello says five thousand arat required in the Cineo Villas district. .The Haytians. Havana^ June 26.—Heavy fighting is again re ported at Aux Cayes. Solnave is defeated with heavy loss. It is reported Superon has landed at Puerto Plata, San Domingo, and demands its sur render. The port of Maracaibo, in Venezuela, is closed. Foreign News. Paris, June 25.—Fremont has arrived. Madrid, Jane 25.—The Cortes rejected tie bill taxing rents fifteen per cent. Brest, June 25.—Tho Great Eastern is three hun dred and seventy-seven miles out. Tho- signals continue perfect. San Francisco, June 25.—The volcano of Cloima, Mexico, erupted on tho 12th. The whole crown of tho mountain fell in. This is the first eruption since 1800. La Grange Reporter on tbe Decision. The La Grange Reporter takes this view of the Supreme Court decision, and it cannot be successfully assailed: As the interpreter of the Constitution, as well as the laws, the Supreme Court, having decided negroes eligible to hold office, also decided that the action of the Legislature in expelling them therefrom violated the Constitution, and thus deprived them of rights which belonged to them under the Constitution as interpreted by the Court. Hence, if the negroes were illegally de prived of this right by expulsion, then the de cision simply reinstates them in the possession of those rights. Again, the two branches of the Legislature are clothed with the power to pass upon the eligi bility of members to seats in each, and if the Constitution makes them eligible, it is simply the duty of the Legislature to see that its mem bers are eligible in the purview of the Consti tution, and not by any law they may prescribe. It is the duty of each branch to see to it that its Tbe Jlu With Fifteen Wives. Brigham Young on the Polygamy Question—He says he has a Dozen or Fifteen Women, 'Per haps a Few More”—He Civeth the Bachelors a Little Advice. At a meeting held recently in the Tabernacle in Salt Lake City, Brigham Young delivered himself to the following effect: I have thought a gttet many times I would like to ask the sisters a question upon another subject entirely—that subject they are always thinking about—namely, plurality of wives. I have thought a thousand times I would ask the female portion of our community whether, if it were left to their opinion, they would retain the practice of thisprindple in our midst, or whether they would have it obliterated. I want to tell them a little about it—namely, it is a principle that always has existed and that always will LOOK AT NEW YORE. An argument used by men and women against plurality of wives is, that there are about as many men as there are women. Suppose that to be so. Acknowledge that proposition to be true, and say that there are no more women than men, and that every man should have a wife. What of it ? Men will not be righteous, and women are left to desolation and destruc tion. Read the statistics of such matters in our Eastern cities. In New York, for instance, from eleven to fourteen thousand young wo men, from sixteen to twenty-one years of age, perish annually in the gutters, on the side walks, on door-steps, or in the hovels around. This is no worse than it is in other places where prostitution prevails. Many would like to prostitute the women of Utah, but I pray they may never be able to do it. So far as the mere number of wives is concerned, I do not care whether I have one, a dozen, or forty. HE THINKS HE HAS A DOZEN OR FIFTEEN WIVES. A great many ask me how many wives I have but to tell the honest trnth I never thought enough about it to stop and think. But I will get up the facts of the case and tell everybody so that they may stop asking me these questions. I suppose that I have a dozen or fifteen that I am taking care of; perhaps a few more—I do not know, and I care nothing about it I try to do good, and try to save the people, and I say do not let a lady come to destruction. It is griev ous to me to think that, right in this city, there should be any necessity for ladies to marry wicked men, which they would not do if the “ Mormon” elders would do their duty. It looks as though our young men are indolent and sloth ful and do not understand the principles of life. As an excuse, however, they will say, “My dear friend and Brother Brigham, I cannot get mar ried ; why, if I get a wife she wants a carriage to ride in, a hired girl to wait npon her, and a piano in the parlor to thump upon when Bhe pleases, and I cannot sustain it.” I amsorry to say there is too much truth in this. Now, you young women, tell the young men you will work and help them to live; tell them so that they may marry you. SOMETHING WRONG SOMEWHERE. There are a great many single men in our midst who ought to have wives, and a great many young women who ought to have hus bands. There is a radical wrong somewhere. Young, man go and get you a partner; get you a little house, then plant out your shade trees and fruit trees. Land is plenty here, you can get it “without money and without price.” You have the privilege now, if you are a citizen of the United States, of taking up one hundred and sixty acres, and it will only cost you ten or fifteen dollars. Can yon not get a home? Yes, you can, right here in the midst of the saints. Then go and do it, and do not neglect the first commandment given to Adam and Eve—to re plenish, subdue and beautify the earth. WHAT SHALL BE DONE? Now, sisters, what shall we do ? Shall we take more wives than one, or shall we cot ? If we donot it will not help the case with those who do not take any; they will not get any because we have only one, and we should see hundreds and thousands of our females with no home, nobody to protect them, nobody that they can call husband and they would wander off. Shall we do this or not ? If the men will be righteous, all will be right A CHALLENGE TO THE YANKEES. They have said a great deal in Washington with, regard to our having more wives than one. I have said in publio, and have written, that if they will cease their wickedness,and each one get a wife, and be true to her, and strictly vir tuous, and then will cause the nation to take the same course, we will submit to their wishes, and; will have but one wife. Here is a bargain —if you will have no more than one woman, we will not. But the thing is here—they want wo men, but no wives. We take many women, but we niake wives and mothers of them, and they are not cast off, and their children have the privilege of bearing the names of their fathera, ; hstead of being cast off. I say God will damn the man and the nation that wull act so; God will damn the nation in which women, with no arm to shield and protect them, are seduced, and left to mourn over their lost, fallen and degraded condition. God bless you. Amen. Tlfee Census Ceaunlttse. Special Telegraph to the Prett.I Washington, June 21, isgg It Is evident from the tone of the press gang- ally, as well as from private conversation that the public does not fully appreciate th* taco* tacee of the labor of the Census Committee' which has just adjourned. To fully appreeiafa! it, it should be remembered that the census i» taken primarily for the purpose of establishing a basis of representation in Congress, and wm? ondarily, for the collection of interesting tics regarding the progress and resources of th. country. The Committee has concluded, tjDon careful examination of the provisions of the four teenth amendment to the Constitution, that k will be necessary to take an accurate enumers. tion of all male citizens of the United States 21 years of age, who are denied by their resrw’ tive States the right to vote. * wc ' They think this necessary to obtain a consti tutional basis for the apportionment of Re Dr .’ sentatives. The committee are of the opinion that the effect of this will be in those States where, from any cause, the right of male citizen, to vote is in any way abridged, whether thevh* white or blaok, except by disqualification on aT count of participation in the rebellion, to redace he number of Congressmen. Pennsylvania W York, Massachusetts, Kentucky, Maryland,\n,i other States will be compelled to make the fr&n chise universal and place all voters on an impaniJ platform; or suffer a material reduction efttw strength of each State in its Congressional delZ gatiou. . Thursday, June 24, ig$ The Court/ heard argument to-day in the fo» lowing cases: No. 19, Southwestern Circuit, Huff vs. Wricb motion to set aside a judgment from Sumter-1 S. H. Hawkins. Esq., for plaintiff in error arid Messrs. S. O. Elam and W. A. Hawkins, for de fendant in error. No. 20, Southwestern Circuity Thomas, ten- ant, vs. Malcolm & Hanks, motion for new trial' from Sumter—McCay, J., not presiding; R. H. Lyon, for plaintiff in error, and V. Hawkins, Esq., for defendant in error. No. 21, Southwestern Circuit, Baldwin vs. Me- Crea, motion for a new trial, from Snmter -1 Held by the Court that tbe questions involved in this case had already been adjudicated br this Court—Intettige>\fer. From Calhonn and Terrell, The Dawson Journal of Thursday says: We have just such weather as the’fanners need, and the crops are growing lnxnriantlv. The com is generally “laid by,” and the whole force is battling for “King Cotton,” with good prospects for success. We hear very favorable reports from Calhoun county, as ta crops and health. A friend who has seen a good portion of the county, reports the crop of com laid by in first rate order, .and the cotton crop in healthy condition and clear of grass. We learn that quite a wind, accompanied with rain, passed over the central portion of the coun ty on last Tuesday. No damage heard of, ex cept the falling of timber., Confession of the JInrderer oi Sir. Ad kins D. Lewis. A friend at Waynesboro sent us by yesterday’s mail the confession of Ben. Godby, the negro charged with the murder of Mr. Adkins D. Lew is, near that place. The preliminary examina tion of the prisoner takes place to-day at Wayns- boro. The confession is as follows:— Constitu tionalist. “The woman Hariah struck by Lewis was not my wife, I just took up with her; my wife is named Clara; Clara was cook for Mr. Lewis; went home at night; Mariah showed me a rock; said Mr. Lewis struck her with it; Enoch told me if ’twas his wife he’d not rest until he killed Lewis; told me to wait till he (Lewis) came into the field in the morning. and out him all to pieces; Enoch and me were plowing side by side; Mr. Lewis came meeting us two cotton rows from me; he stopped me and talked abont Mariah; Enoch kept on plowing; had no hard words with Lewis; he made no threats; he was standing with his side to me when I cut him first; Enoch told me to kill Lewis, to go to Augusta, and the headman there would do some thing about Lewis knocking my wife; Enoch did not tell me I would be protected by any body for killing Lewis; I never told the man in Augusta that I was afraid of a mob of white men in Burke county; he told me I done right to come to Augusta; that I would be mobbed I hadn’t; I am not afraid now of being mobbed; I stopped at Mr. Johnson’s at Double Branches; he asked me what made the blood on my wife’s clothing; told him a white man done it; told him I was going to Augusta to see the head man; he said "Waynesboro was the place to get justice; I am not afraid of being mobbed; I believe I will get justice.” Politics and Journalism.—Reviewing the re markable career of the late Henry J. Raymond, the Springfield, (Mass.) Republican thus alludes to his attempt to make politics and journalism a successful combination: Independence and candor have come to be the essential requisites of a first class journalist, but they cannot be freely indulged in by a sue members are eleoted in accordance with the pro-! c t S8 ^ politician. While they are the strength visions of the Constitution. Hence, if the Con-! of a popular journal, they are the weakness of a stitution does confer the right upon negroes to j P^y man What is gopd journalism is often hold office, as decided by the Supreme Court, then the negroes have been deprived of that right by the action of the Legislature, and the decision of the Court, the interpreter of the Constitution, simply reinstates them in the ex ercise of their Constitutional rights. Supreme Court of Georgia—June Term, 1869. REPORTED FOR THE ERA, BY Z. D. HARRISON, ESQ. Atlanta, Friday, June 25,18C9.—The follow ing cases were argued to-day: No. 22. Southwestern Circuit-^Crawford, et aL, vs. Ross & Ross—Equity, from Lee. S. H. Hawkins, Esq., for plaintiffs in error, and W. A. Hawkins for defendant in error. No. 23. Southwestern Circuit—Parker vs. Brown, cf al,—Ejectment, from Sumter. W. A. Hawkins, Esq., for . plaintiff in error, and Messrs. N. A. Smith and B. Hill for defendant. No. 24. Southwestern Circuit—Cook vs. Smith & .Smith—Equity, from Baker. Judge Lyon representing Col.’ Strozier for plaintiff in error, and Judge D. A. Yason for defendants. No. 25. Southwestern Circuit—Moody & Moody vs. Ronaldson, administration—warrant for possession, from Sumter. W. A. Hawkins for plaintiff in error, and N. A. Smith for de fendant. No. 26. Southwestern Circuit—-Wardlaw vs. Wardlaw—Divorce, from Sumter. W. A. Haw kins for plaintiff .in error, and N. A. Smith for defendant. The Newark. Cornier thinks that to criticise era Illinois the yield averr.gee twenty-five bush- a newspaper is an easy task, but to print one to els per acre, * please everybody is a difficult undertaking. . 1 The vegetarians oi Germany recently held their first Convention at Werdshausen. They very bad politics; and Mr. Raymond's constitu tional incapacity for a successful party man was one of the chief elements of his success as a newspaper director. And what was worst and weakest in his paper grew out of his double po sition. The National Intelligences.—A Washing ton letter of the 19th inst, says: “ A meeting of several wealthy gentlemen, including J. C. McGuire and Jonah Hoover, of this city, and Hon. J. Y. L. Pruyn, of New York, was held at Wormley's last evening to consider the propriety of putting the old “ Na tional Intelligencer,” on a new footing, by sup plying the necessary funds for its publication, and thoroughly reorganizing its management. The purpose is to make it the central organ of the national Democracy, and supply sufficient capital to insure its pecuniary success. A num- of prominent gentlemen were named in connec tion with the editorial department. But noth ing definite was agreed on. Another meeting is to be held.” Two citizens of Jackson, Mississippi, having gone on a fishing expedition on Pearl River, found themselves, at the end of the second day, at. Madisonville without money. Inquiring for the sheriff of the county, they told him that they had escaped from the penitentiary at Jackson; that they had nothing to eat and had come to him to give themselves up. The Sheriff, think ing that he would be rewarded, took them back to Jackson and went to the keeper of the prison and told bow he came by his pri- ...... be-lm* soners. His scorn and indignation may 1 publish a vegetarian journal, which is taken by agined at finding himself the victim of a prac- more than a thousand subscribers. ~ ~ - * ' tieai joke. “Baksheesh.”—Our brilliant Howadji re. turned from his celebrated tour in Egypt aad tbe East, deeply impressed with the importance of Baksheesh, but little dreaming that the coarse of that institution was westward like that of civ- iiization itself. General Grant has received Baksheesh fron ] Mr. Washburne, Mr. Borie, Mr, Stewart, Gene- ral Butterfield, and many others. General Sher- man receives Baksheesh from his admiring fel I low-countrymen. Admiral Porter receives Bak- sheesh from the Annapolitans. And nowire hear of General Dix receiving Baksheesh fron the Emperor Napoleon ITT. If some Easter | traveler were to come to America and join tie | fashionable circles at the Presidential mansic: and visit the Government offioes, and glance e: I the houses, horses, saddles, Sevres vases, and [ the other Baksheesh lavished upon Americc J functionaries, he would no donbt feel inclined to exclaim to our traveled compatriot: “0 fas cinating Giaour 1 thy country eclipseth mine i: Baksheesh as in everything else, and the pres ents bestowed upon thy Sultan and thy Grind Admirals and Plenipotentiaries are like the tf<xxl of the ocean to pebbles of the shore as compared with all that the East can exhibit. In making Baksheesh the burden of thy book, 0 literary Giaour, ihou hast proved thyself to he not only I a great writer, but also a great national prophet! ’ • [New Fork Sun. Foreign Immigration.—A New York letter I says: “The immense number of emigrants f now daily arriving at this port surpasses any thing ever heretofore known in the history of I the city. It far surpasses, in number, the grea: J rush to this country from abroad during th: | first discovery in California. They come i: I immense cargoes day by day, and more, still I more are coming. In fact, it is said by an ag=:: | of one of the leading Europenn steamship line; I that hot enough ships are offering on the other I side to take all those anxious to emigrate ce: I the Atlantic. The class emigrating hitherxa:. I appear to be also of better calibre, with more I money and less greenish looking than those wi; I used to come years ago. The Germans are b I far in the majority of the new arrivals, wl& I there is a decided falling off in the number d| Irish emigrants.” At the Varieties Theatre, in St. Louis, nights ago, white the “Can-Can” was beinii danced, a number of boqnets were thrown or :fc| stage to tho female performers. When M--I Canchita Ronzati came forward to the footligb f near die private box on the left side of the tiel atre, a young man who was in the box threw M a boquet. She stopped dancing in a secoul bounded into the box, seized the boquet-thro^l by the hair of the head, and administered : | him. several slaps on' the jaws. Leaping b:sl to the stage, she picked up the boqnet, will was still lying there, and dashed it in his fs’B tho audience cheering vociferously all the ticl She then resumed the dance. A neobo Senator in Louisiana approach Gov. 'Warmouth with a long petition for the' moral of obnoxious white officials; butt:- happened to be Yarmouth's friends, _eni^ checkmated the dart Senator by sternly inqt ing whether the petition had been recordwH the office of the Recorder of Mortgages. *'' H Gov’nor, I don't know ’zacktlv,” was the rto “Then I cannot consider it,' responded v -| mouth. The English sparrows which have been i dneed into New York have already done 2 ■ velous work of cleansing. In the upper pM the city in Jersey City, in Hoboken, and t'P' ally in Brooklyn, which hitherto has bees ^ very paradise and elysian fields of worms- pest of former years is hardly noticeable. The Railroad carriage factory in FraM*-" 1 ! recently received orders to supply sixty wooden seats, each provided with four » cords, and thus to be suspended from “* *, of the freight cars. It is quite evident L are intended to facilitate the hasty tit&P 0 ] large bodies of troqps. A Peruvian newspaper speaks of mi e dinary phenomenon discovered in the “ Locumba, which appears to have been ^ by the late earthquakes. Every hes ! . reaches a certain spot immediately faU i. This has so often taken place that inmM 11 * bars of carcasses are heaped on the spot- A New York lady recently ordered » ^ at Stewart's for her daughter’s doll, ww ceived a complete outfit in under c ‘ ot r'; J ’s and lace. One of the articles ordered . India shawl, minature size, at $S0. handerchief was valued at $12. ( The Chinese Empire contains 500) pies, containing 8,000,000 idols. The are valued at § 1,000,000,000. Recently, in New York, first-class ve o< have been sold at anotion for from J Ceylon is chiefly devoted to coff® 6 ®^^ , and has 130,000 acres of coffee plants*- 1 J An English nobleman drives a P ul ?J; from London to Windsor, just for the * 1 SMprem. A Slanderous young man in horse-whipped by a bevy of sweet ^ A Colored preacher in Georgia, two miles, when he gets warmed up *° ■ The Second Adventists propose to J world again on the 10th of July. ^1 The prairies of Northern Texas havel erally covered with strawberries this .1 Seven miles of violin strings vibrtf | Boston Jubilee. Champagne is now manufactured 1 for nineteeb cents a bottle. A Man in London follows the , ‘professional introducer,” and by it.. * Ovxa. 4,006 tone, or SQ,000_ b«fP> seed have been consumed during “ ^. son, in Cincinnati, in the mannfaeq”. The Newark Courier think’ <h Wise** 35 T A .41 ?03 Mi laitsA