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T jggY & REED, Proprietors. The Family Journal.—News—Politics—Literature—'Agriculture—Domestic Affairs. GEORGIA TELEGRAPH BUILDING !- The Prospective Cotton Supply and Prices. The United States Economist of the 10th inst, says: The fact is, the supply of cotton at the pres ent time is inadequate, and the usual result of limited supplies is seen in the advance of prices. The depression must, therefore, continue until consumers of cotton are compelled to yield to the necessities of manufacturers. The indica tions now are that the latter contingency is the more probable. The supply of cotton this year is not likely to exceed last year’s average, while it may fall below it. It is as yet too soon to r Turn in Cuban Affairs, and the j predicate anything of the American crops. But *-' e state oC the Ocean. unless disasters occur, it may be expected to be “ ' fully up to last year’s supply. But the excess r^ia Telegraph Building, Macon. *1T*S or SDBSCSSVTtOHS ,/ r.i tmjirH—for one yew. _. 810 00 ^ISiMAPU-forsi-v months ... 5 00 ^1* .iTnrttr neriods Ono Dollar per month. Telegraph—one year.. 4 00 T*LKGKAPH-3ix m’ths 2 00 * u ?S, f rt-T Tilsobaph—one year 3 00 ffiiKLT T*tEGBAPH—six months 1 50 ^'gg-ptfAU alnavt in advancerS» ’ ft nd .Job Printing execsted at reasonable prices. ■ntaoM by mail with Postmaster s certificate a *$• iTABLISHED 1826.} MACON, FRIDAY, JULY 28. 1869. V01. ILin.-N0.63 Coining Slat® < 0, e CharU*o» <*•'?■ .* „i firont has at last taken action in il n n« to Caban affairs. And this action is ZZdto any farther recruiting in the United - Heretofore Cuba has received large ■-Vo in men and munitions of war, from 1 oda of the Atlantic. And this so noto- L „ to have warranted the conclusion that —s'n'th the implied sanction of the Govera- , p a t General Grant has at last reversed ’«'jcy. He has taken a sudden and decided erections were issued on Friday last to g“trict Attorney and Marshal of New York *aforte the neutrality laws, and break up all .'v.| 0B s designed for Cuba at every hazard, btiforce these instructions, General Grant j i commission, under the great seal, em- them to make requisition upon Gen. jwJl, in command of the troops, and the the Navy Yard, for such forces and is may be necessary, either to prevent rjfpMtnre of any expeditions, or if neces- _,’jo pnrsue and capture them on the high jii ii» vigorous move. The first fruits are fan a, in the telegraphic dispatch of this ming. The recruiting station at Long Isl- jhisbeen broken np, and the recruits cap- xd ud dispersed. Ctta. therefore, can expect but little more can hardly be expected to reach 100,000 bales. At present the crop looks well, with no more than the usual reports of disasters at this period of the year. July is the critical month, and a few weeks more will place us in a position to make more reliable estimates. The grounds for anxiety in the English cotton trade consist in the probability of only a very slight increase in the supply of American cot ton, and the crtainty of diminished supplies from other sources. Notwithstanding all the ef forts of English capitalists, for the last eight years, backed by the powerful aid of tho gov ernment, to encourage the growth of cotton in India, Egypt and other pieces, the crops this year will fall below tho proceeds last year. This result paralyses the trade, and accounts for its depression. On the 25th of June the stock of all Mnds on hand in Liverpool wss 388,480 bales, against a stock of 607,330 in the corres ponding period last year. Here we have a re duction of no less than 218,850 in the stock on hand. The cotton at sea for Great Britain, June 24, was: American, 79,000 bales; East Oeaf and Dumb Asylum at Cave Spring. Knoxville, Ga., July 16, 1869. Editors Telegraph : Notwithstanding the fact that almost three weeks have elapsed since the day of the annual examination of the mutes at the State Institution, in Cave Spring, still as I see no report in your columns in regard to that subject, I will, commit a few remarks upon it myself. The examination came off on Wednes day; the 30th ult, and was attended by, as it seemed, almost all the mutes in the State; for of those of them who were not students there seemed to be as great.a number as of thosG that were, since all that could, conveniently, flocked there for the sakeof enjoying themselves only as they can, with such as are like themselves, destitute of the faculties of speech and hearing. And the way they made their fingers fly in the no donbt pleasant conversations they enjoyed, was really interesting to all who, like myself, were unaccustomed to their antics, and perhaps more so to them that could understand what they were saying—I could not a sentiment The exercises of the Institute began at 9 a. st., and lasted until about five in the evening, and I can assure you that the progress of some of the pupils, with whom I am acquainted, was astonishing, and, judging the others from them, I should say that their improvement is such as must be highly satisfactory to all that are at all interested in their education. In writing, read ing, etc., some of them are singularly proficient, and those that were farther advanced solved out arithmetical problems with a correctness and rapidity that were truly astonishing. In- India, 520,000; total, 599,090 bales. At the . deed, it was a rare thing for one of them to same period, in 1868, the total amount of cot- , make a mistake, and when he did he would ton at sea was 537,000 bales. ’ The following almost invariably detect it himself without its table shows the changes in the market, June | having to be pointed out to him by others. I 24, as compared with the same date in 1868: | noticed that in the use of adverbs and adjectives |fi inereiore, am. upcauui. uum mute - j they are deficient, since, as they cannot hear, £ the United States? The advocates of Efcre ^a of qttt'y 1 tbe 7 b *? e ?° idea of euphony and place such E-ILm within her limits must, therefore. tion q y 1 139 310 i words indiscriminately without any regard to >;c3dence within her limits must, therefore, K I upon their own energies. it is a well known fact, that vessels of i m- ln-ing constructed in New York for jpinish government. As yet this govern Be question naturally arises, what has oc- '::ed this unexpected and decided move on i put of President Grant. It may turn ont i to be as really hostile to Caban independ- * nit appears on the surface. Ju London Times states “that Gen. Prim iother statesmen are convinced that the sep- boo of Cuba from Spain is only a question aae." Prom this it deduces the conclusion Spain is even now ready, if approached in t Banner consistent with national honor, to I her trans-Atlantic colony pursue its own me, and if her people so will, become a part And this opinion is confirmed by the Havana .•respondent of the New York Tribune. He ttea distinctly, speaking of the Government Spain, “all the members of the Provisional oremment are under the impression that they anot hold the island to the end of the year, by rm measure. And if the latest dispatches correct, the Commons have already rejected amendments of the Upper House, appoint- a committee to report the reasons of the re- indiscriminately without any regard Decrease of exports 871.070 harmonious arrangement They use the right Decrease of stock 218,850 words; they know when they are correct, but it Decreaee of speculation 47,240 sounds clumsily to us that can hear and talk, to ^ The amount of cotton on hand in Liverpool hear of “a large hen fat,” “a fine pig black,” ‘{ii taken'no steps to prevent their con- and at sea, June 24, 1868, exhibits a grand to- and such other inaccuracies. Now this is not ' tal of 987,480 bales, which at the average weekly to be imputed to the faults of the teachers, for . consumption, in 1868, of 53,880 bales, leaves I do most certainly think that they do all that; only an eighteen weeks’ available supply for can be done to teach them what is right in every consumption in Great Britain. The continental respect; but it is owing, as I said, to the want shipments would reduce this estimate somewhat of knowledge of sound, and I believe they can- The balance of cotton to come forward from not be taught exact correctness in this special East India will not make more than a few weeks’ , instance. difference in the supply. j The Institution is blessed, I consider, in its The present condition of the American market teachers, as well as in its steward and matron, precludes further exports to any extent On the Everything seemed to work right, there being week ending July 3d the total stock in all Amer- no discord whatever during my stay of two or ican ports amounted to only 57,953 bales, three days. The health of the inmates of the against a supply of 95,0S1 at the same period Asylum was excellent, there being no sickness in 1868. Takeit altogether, according to the whatever among them, with a single exception; average of last year's consumption, England has a young man from Decatur, I think, was dan- not much- more than twenty weeks’ supply of gerouely ill, it was thought of pulmonary con- cotton on hand and atsea. The consumption this sumption. He was expected to die soon, year is, of course, below the average of last year. ; Cave Spring—the village entire—is one of the Otherwise, by the time our new cotton begins most beautiful little places, I believe, I ever to come forward Manchester would be very saw; and the vicinity abounds in magnificent nearly reduced to its last cotton bale. . scenery. The cave is a sublime work of nature, aadPrim particularly, has stronglv ad- The American market corresponds in many and the spring, at its bottom, with the rays of nted selling’ it to the United States,*even j respects to the English. Tempted by high pri- light from above glittering on its moving sur- * tie first insurgent movements. From a ! ces, we have sold too much cotton, and have face, transcends anything of the kind I ever -STOrthysource, we are informed that they i scarcely enough for home consumption. Unless saw. Most respectfully. Rustic. led to open negotiations with the Govern- j manufacturers reduce their .productions during j ■ ■ ait Washington, and the arrival of Dnlce at j the next few months, the.price of the raw mate- j The Pennsylvania Democrats Uni rill undoubtedly hasten the negotia- rial must advance considerably above present j i ~ j rates. We notice that the National Association ! General Hancock, it appears, refused to allow | hiii, we think, is contained the solution of | of Cotton Manufacturers and Planters, at their his name to go before the Democratic Gubema- Attorney Gen. Hoar and the Supreme Weekly Resume ot Foreign A Akira. Court. . ] £ PBKPAHKD FOB THE GXOEOIA TELEGRAPH. The World, of the 16th, tells the following; * Gm . lT Bhitaix—The lrish Church Bill, after Attorney General Hoar has forgotten the lea- a stormy debate in the House of Lords, has son which Chief Justice Chase set for him in 1 passed the third reading. March. The way of it was this: Hardly- - had* Lord Redesdale then presented a solemn pro- Hoar prostituted the position which a Stanberry test of the Earl of Derby, the head of the To- and an Evarts had virtuously and vigorously ries, against its being adopted, filled, before it became his duty to appear in the; The Peers have entirely altered the spirit of Supreme Court of the United States, which were(hp bill by their amendments, and the govern- reduced to the extremity of having him for their • ment can hardly accept it in its present form counsel. In the progress of a speech by him, wfchout resigning tho original intentions of the the venerable Justice Nelson inquired : “Wliat W-< ' ‘ - -- is the page of the authority you are quoting, ^ Mr. Attorney General?” "To which the mai whom ex-General Grant gave a Cabinet place- __ in exchange for a library, replied: “May i f jection. please the Court. I dechn'. to be interrupted in The bill as proposed by the government and my argument.” Whereupon the Chief Justice, passed by the Commons, provided that as soon assuming upon his younger shoulders the affront as it had*become a law, a commission should bo directed at his associate, and inoidently reflect- nominated to take charge of tho whole church ing upon the whole bench, brought the Massa- property, estimated at sixteen and a half mil- chusetts attorney to his knees at once, by say- lions of pounds sterling, (or $82,500,000 in ing: “Mr. Attorney General, you will cease in gold.) This enormous property was to be dis- your argument for the present This Court, as tributed as follows: you will learn when you have become nsed to Six millions six hundred and fifty thousand its amenities, reserves the right to question, at pounds sterling to the Anglican church; two any time, any of its counsellors, on any point, millions of pounds to the Catholics and Prssby- whatever. Your rejoinder to the question of terians ; while the remaining, about eight mil- my associate is inadmissible—and when you Hons, were to be allotted to institutions of pub- have apologized to the Court for language which, lie charity. we must say, was never heard here before, you if there is any fault to be found with themin- may proceed, but not until that is done. ’ isterial plan,we would think that thenew church, ■Whereupon the legal bully collapsed, and meeji- which comprises only about the eleventh part of ly begged pardon, which it pleased the Court to 0 f the population of Ireland, has retained too allow. Looking at Mr. Grant s special pleader’s much. But the Lords are of a different opin- demeanor in the Merger argument, on Tuesday, ion. Though they argee with the Ministers to it is plain that the Chief Justice must give him disestablish the ruling church, they oppose hex another humiliation, to bring him to his proper disendowment; and not to incur the reproach pl» ce - i of injustice they had proposed to give all con- —.u 1, i fessions an equal support from the State. 1 Tak- Tke Crops in South Carolina. ^ these ^ ag a ^ asi3j ^ Lordshave great- The long continued drought in the middle and i y> jf no t entirely, crippled the bilL The Re- npper sections of the State says the Charleston f orm League has, therefore, sprung into life News, is causing deep anxiety to the farmers, again to exercise a moral pressure upon the and all our advices agree in reporting that tho p ee rs, and its late President, Mr. Beales, has com crop will be largely reduced in both quan- aga j n aocepted this office, tily and quality. We afe informed that along a riot occurred in Sheffield between coal- the line of railroad between Hingville and Wi!- miners, resulting in a great many wounded, mington. North Carolina, a distance of one hun-, The Orangemen and Catholics had a fierce dred and seventy miles, there is not an acre of encounter in Belfast, Ireland. A great many com which is not seriously injured. But the Houses were demolished, weather which is unfavorable to com will im- : The Fenians are stirring again, prove the quality of upland cotton, and will give The palace of the Duke of Newcastle, in us an early crop, if not so large in quantity as Carlton House Terrace, London, presented a was at one time expected. In the low country strange spectacle in these days. The Dnke, a the rice is suffering for want of rain. The small member of the oldest aristocracy, has become a streams are so salty the fields cannot be flooded, bankrupt in consequence of his exaggerated but long continued showers will enable the plan- betting on the turf, as half a dozen of his peers ters to make an average crop. , From the sea besides. islands the cotton report are highly favorable, There is a public auotion in the magnificent and there is every reason to expect a better saloons, which have become a chaos of desola- crop of long cotton than we have had for many tion. Crowds gather around the. portraits of a years. The caterpillar now can do no harm, long Une of ancestors, and the auctioneer pro- Onr great foe is powerless. claims the min of a great name in the time- Farmers and planters often look at the blue Honored Peerage of England, side, but making all proper allowances for low Two portraits of the late Duke are numbered spirits and popular exaggeration, it may be said f or the sale; a broken guitar, piles of sump- tbat the drought has already done much harm, tuous damask linen embroidered with the ducal and will, if it lasts much longer, largely curtail crown are peacefully lying side by side. The the fair proportions of the com and upland cot- treasures of the wine cellar are put up to-day; tan crops of the State. ! objects of art will be sold to-morrow. His _ — ; Lordship’s walking canes, boots and clothes will Politics iu Tennessee. share the same fate. And all owing to the wild A dispatch to the Cincinnati Commercial, a bettings of the turf! Radical paper, says : Fbaxce.—The news from France have very agineii, A Grant's sudden enregy. Io permit the open departure of expeditions, tr negotiations are either pending, or in rraplation, would, at once, put an end to rreoniideration or consnmation. knew of his past sympathy and course, we ua account for his now action on any other ^position. r Tpon the very heel of General Grant’s in actions, the Washington Chronicle, which ticitakes to speak for the Administration, has efJlowing significant article : The Spanish gunboats building at New York tl elsewhere, one of which is already launched J rill soon have her armament on board, are i.ianing to awaken a new interest in Cuba, ijold they get out, the fate of the patriots is tied. Constructed in our own waters by a over with which we are at peace, and whose oentlship we are so anxious to preserve that lr Government has turned back most of the -'argent expeditions, we are not without hope at events will soon be so ripened as to render a hostile expeditions against Cuba unnecessary, general Sickles is at Madrid by this date, and it J not improbable that he may be empowered to i'ike peace between the belligerents. What f* instructions are we do not know, and if we td we shonld not disenss them. But there are wal ways by which Cuba ruay be relieved akont a concession of belligerent rights. Mng these are the immediate abolition of «try in Caba by a decree of the Spanish Cor- «. and the sale of Cuba to Cuba—resulting in * wcognltim of her independence by the Uni- llus statement of the case is useful as show- g litt events nro converging to a speedy cri- v Whatever that may be, we have a fixed Non that the American people are ready for Jtwnewhenit is presented, and especially it comes in the shape of peaceful acquisi- ■aorinnexation. The independence of Cuba, “"er procured, will present to us one or the ** these alternatives. With slavery dead, *}airersal suffrage alive and beyond harm "■United States, we cannot fear the some •taaent in what may soon become a new State. ^nmust be prepared for Cuba and for the T^Stites as exemplifying one people “out nation under heaven..” Ile ( rop Prospect In the North anti West. ,‘ : = Kew York Tribune, reviewing the crop to from all parts of the country, comes to - r'.fiction that the yield of cereals is to be a ^dmndantone. It says: ,*■ t.ere is anything to fear, (in Western New j*VHt is that moist air and cloudy skies may more straw than head—but we have 'kit a little west of Syracuse that will meeting in this city last week, recommended torial Convention of Pennsylvania, and there- SS233S. ZS22 •KSS’&Si SS <«« - ■»y - *<-» interval before the new crop comes forward will failing to nominate him. After the solemn barely cover the minimum of consumption. A act of renunciation and abandonment of the stoppage of machinery is, therefore, urged as Pennsylvania Democracy by the Savannah Re- TSw of the cotton trade on both sides of publican, we were curious to see what offence the Atlantic indicates an upward tendency of against his convictions or against what might be prices. Southern planters will have the advan- [ termed ‘^polioy” in that State, these democrats tage of throwing their new crop upon a high tad comm ittecL Their refolutions read as fol- market. Whether prices can be main tamed de- . pends, of course, upon the actual supply. But, ; * ows: . . judging from the most probable estimates of j The Democracy of Pennsylvania, mConven- production in the South and in East India, the i tion met, do unanimously declare: _ yield is not likely to be sufficiently in excess of First—That the Federal Government is limit- last year to warrant anticipations of any consid- : ed to the grants contained m the Federal Con- erable reduction—if at all-in present quota-, stitution; that the exercise of doubtful constiT| tions of the staple. tutional powers is dangerous to the stabffity of m j the Government and to the safety of the people; The Crops in East Florida. j and the Democratic party will never consent The Savannah News of Monday has the fol-■ that the State of Pennsylvania shall surrender . ... J , . . . - : her great ngnt of local self-government, lowing from a Mieanpy correspondent, dated Second—That the attempted ratification of the 14th. It will be seen that he speaks lightly the proposed Fifteenth Amendment to the Fed- of the caterpillar alarm in that quarter: . ! eral Constitution by the Radical members of the During the months of May and June we suf- ! Legislature, and their refusM to submitthe fered from a long drouth, having during the i same to a vote of the people, was a deliberate B-a 1 been measurably ’a ffiilure^bufthe later com is | “ a bing such ratification should be promptly re- ises a heavier jield than or any pe 1 a j gr es3 or elsewhere to impose negro suffrage up- Bu”i am assured by a number of reliable, on the people of this State in opposition to their truthful farmers that in the | ™Fourth-That reform in the administration of Fifth—That the movements now being made for the amelioration of the condition of the la boring men, have our most cordial co-opera tion^ Sixth—That the legislation of the late Repub lican Congress, outside of the Constitution, the ££b coon of the caterpillar in the webbed state, or chrysaHs of the fly that deposits the eggs, from wbfch the next generation is produced. Yery few indeed of the cocoon, have yet been seen. If the weather will continue as hot and dry as it now is, the caterpillar will be much impeded in his work. Besides such weather.is unfavorable damp, ciouay weaker. ! exclusion from their seats in Congress of Rep- should dien set in. because it would take two «g tfae orerttirtnr of all Civil government there- shonld then set in, _ _ . . _ I generations of the insect to multiply sufficiently to eat out the crop, and that would _ re quire six weeks, three weeks being the period from chry salis to fly, worm and chrysalis again. In the early part of May, veritable cotton cat erpillar were seen on a number of fams, few be „ Ptefall „ remembered, and the guarantees SuSJ bn&-» * a. pi»»l {jAp »<»•«•>■»? — “• tesjsas?sj:iKSCs2r*-l .wwtmkj!!-' in, are acts of tyranny and usurpation that tend directly to the destruction of all Republican government, and the creation of the worst forms of despotism. Seventh—That our soldiers and sailors, who carried the flag of our country to victory, must ■earl,as the 23th of June yielded two tons "‘“If to the acre. Corn made little show J 1 * list of June, but this month the blades . 1 -Widened, and taken on a deeper emerald, tie U 6 rown thick, the tassels sprouted at '• of greea cups, and in some fields a iitk J °f silk appear. One joyful writer ***1 in view of such wide-spread gener- ^' 03 iie part of old Mother Bountiful, thinks grand thanksgiving jubilee ought to be 7!‘“.°'ar the land. - j, ““ltimore Sun adds: “While, however, (ijplta&d, Pennsylvania and Virginia the ,. Cro P has been an abundant one, the ■ - fur Indian com is not now so good, the having been very backward, and . ,7 tlle weather too dry. Speedy rains, mi 8ht enable it to regain much that j^kalost; yet it cannot be an abundant ViWi nraiized and native-born citizens at home and I P alt, firm—“Daring his visit in Ben Wade was asked out to din- Beet Mayor McCoppin and other, and at ' was placed at the Mayor’s right. The ^ °* Chinese immigration and suffrage >9,^ "»de, in his “bluff” manner, blurted ■* qeutloman next 1 "xu.ll .imoimnliln t QT-scuuemannext: “Well, why shouldn’t “■asse come here and have all the rights it SlWfile, The cotton caterpillar like all other indigeuu.^ ; the action of American uaiionality (1) insects are like the poor, always.wi h , , .halt command the respect of foreign powers, and furmsh an example^of oncourage- favor a rapid increase, we have no reasonto fear that they will be sufficiently numerous to injure crops, such were the facts this season, itwas unfavorable, and I predict that the caterpillar this season will not materially injure the sea island crop. .. Thx Subvex Completed.—Messrs. Dubois, Evans and Eugene Powers completed the sur vey of the line from this city to Newton on Fri day evening and returned here on Saturday— making the distance, 26| miles, in five days. They ran out from Albany W. S. W. across the Cooleewahee, twelve miles, and from that point South to Newton. An air line would be about four miles shorter. • The highest point reached on the survey was White Hul, which is 20 feet higher than the De r pot in this place. The depot surface here is 43 feet higher than the surface on the Court-house square in Newton. Would it not be wise to build the Road to Milford, and move Newton to that point?—AU bang Xcus. • 1 - " • From Haia Countt.—The Air Line Eagle of ment to people struggling for national integrity, constitutional Uberty and undivided rights. Nirth—That the present internal revenue and taxing system of the General Government is grossly unjust, and means onght to be at once adopted to cause a modification thereof. “The Georgia Republic ax."—The first num ber of the first volume of a paper of tho above title; made its appearance iu Atlanta on Satur day, the 17th inst It is a large and handsome: ly printed sheet of 28 columns, well filled with leading matter. It iseuitedbyHon. J. U Bryant, and in politics will be Radical RepubHcan. In his saluiatory the editor says: “I can assure the pubUc that it (the RepubHcan) will be a radural Republican paper. I have no other promises to make. The paper must speak for itselfM Keie Era. Libel Suit.—It .was reported, on what was supposed to be good authority, yesterday, that Governor Bollock was about to bring suit for li bel against our neigbors of the Constitution the ground of action being a paragraph, which appeared in that paper a few days ago, in ref- erence to a note of. the Governor sl winch was being hawked about the streets.—Aeio Era. ? Theyare a d—sight better than . 1Ir - McCoppin, of oourae,had too much j 8a ys; H-mL” W»kost to resent this insult in a ; ,_heb axd Crops.—We have had-for L but he arose anfl left the teble - ! week as intensely hot weather as was • —— — a gentleman said to Wade: ■ “ experienced in these parts. Crops which!. No Rais.—We are still without rain. The «*» not *™ Pe ’ y°°«P?? ke . ST” looking well up to this time, are be- g5rdens have generally succumbed to Old Sol; if h« U“ an ^v hmln , by T lrti ? a Sng to suffer for rain-more on account of f he com folds its arms with resignation to its uphold ill I ** re P ,y ; 1 *** ready Sr^tteme hot weather than from the length ! fat e; and even King Cotton bows his head in a c “ »amann«~ j a . . . . . i of the drought. In some parts of our county up- } meek submission, and begins to call loudly for ^ r-dci^s and gardens arVww suffering ^adly. IofrcsLi=g tott-Jatriau Ccurkr. ordinary change in public sentiment and the "Y- ‘““V.ttS political situation in Tennessee would have oc- J 8 ^ e t ? 1 4^i a U ovlslona .^ . one ‘ J 3 b S? curred as has taken place since then. This has Sthnnt been nominally brought about bv the fierce and J 1 * 3 r^fo^nSt without vrhich his dynasty cannot violent dissension in the Radical*party here, by *?*”.””* jji the pressure of the increasing toleration and *ho Imperial tutelage and Napoleon lll will but liberality which prevail throughout the country. f° Uo " the example of his irncle in the hundred Before the partystrife can be healed up Radical- da y s b y ado P h “g a constitutional government, ism will have lo’st its power in Tennessee, and .j-® relieve the monotony of C ^P. this bids fair to be an accomplished fact before S many months. A few weeks ago tho friends of officers to be ordered out of the camp of Chalons immediate franchise were satisfied, and had tacitly agreed to support, for tho Legislature, Lavalette apolomzed for the faux fas toMarshal Republicans who wero committed to the early removal of political disabiUties. Since then, however, the swift current of pubUc events, ini . valving the demoralization of the extreme Rad- “ icals and the liberal system of registration, have “P 1 ®®* tb ® so shaped the course of the opposition, that full- T®? 1 ln . th . e beart of * e P e0 P^ ramar ,. aMa fledged Conservatives areHkily to be nominated Pnbhc opmion has undergone a remarkable for the Legislature in most of the counties, with ^ an 8® 111 even ^ose Provinces which like a reasonable show of success in a large majority ^ of cases. The fact that in some comities there order ° f things. The King waa wannly wei- „« half , to.™ —eon- ZSm... i, servatives, which trill undoubtedly be done. It BoutfcOTi Stat.ea to jomffie Northem Con- is not at all improbable that a majority of the federation for restonngthe greatnesa and uruty next Legislature will be Conservative, and this ®. f 'Empire. A petition covered with many aSSJSSS ° £ AndyJohnSOn in the EnTo thTeffect thafthe Govemmen^might United States Senate^ ; ^ stepg fm the adiaissioa of Baden to ^ From Palaski County. North German Confederation. We clip the following items from the Hawk- A reduction of the army and still more liber- *. . .al policy in the administration in Prussia are insville Dispatch of the -1st: ' certainly things ardently to be wished for; and Rain.—We had a good rain last Wednesday though the heavy taxes and the enormous miH- night, and a shower on Monday. The indica- tary budget in the North may still prevent the tions are favorable for more rain, which would union of both sections for some time, the not come amiss. Some of our farmers in this Southern Germans admit that among all the and adjacent counties have not had rain in sev- German States, Prussia alone has proved her- eral weeks. self capable of raising the nation from its utter Negro Killed.—Weleamthata negro named poUtical insignificance to poUtical power. Ben HnrreU was killed by Jim Mltohdj, mother A t council of M Masonic Lodges will negro, on tbe plantation of Mr. W. W. Harrell, stortly be beld j n Berlin. Four hundred depn- last Sunday morning. tations from all parts of the world are said to be' Jua went oft on a aeer hunt, and, in his ab- ^ady announced, sence, Ben whipped his wife, who was Jim s Itis’rumored that the Prussian Landtag will step-daughter. Jim s wife interfered r and drew rea8Sem ble on the first of October, a gun on Ben. Ben took away the gun, when Iiing -Wiiliam has contributed two thousand she procured an axe. Ben then knocked her - -- - - down, and took that away also. She then told Ben she would have him whipped. On Jim's return, his wife told him what had occurred daring his absence. Jim. got his gun, dollars towards the expenses of the second Ger man Polar expedition. The Crown Prince of Prussia left for Koen- m igsberg to be present at the two hundred .and wbnt to < Ben’srhouse,"caUed W *him*Jut" V and shot fiftieth anniversary of the first East-Prussian him in the head with fourteen buckshot, tiffing regiment of Grenadiers. This corps formed him instantly. ° two hundred years ago, was present at upwards Mr. Harrell had Jim arrested, but he escaped, ® f a hundred pitchedbattles, severe encounters or and is still at large. groat seiges. Itfought under the great Elector of Not Dead.—Astonishing as it may seem, we Brandenburg against the Swedes, then against the learn that Mr. Edmondson, who lately received such severe injuries at Hayneville, is not only ? took still alive, but actually recovering! ln Ital - V ’ and took P ar J m the Silesian wars, the Potts is still in jail, _Bass entered into a bond of $1,000, and then fled. From Baldwin Comity. The Milledgeville Recorder of the 20th has the following local information: Succession, against Napoleon, and lastly against tho Austrians ia 1866.- Though the regiment has on more than one occasion been almost en tirely destroyed, it has never lost one of the regimental colors. *.. _ ‘. Italy.—Investigations on account of alleged SiOBiL-On last Wednesday we had quite a b^eTskl coSe in FlorenceT wind »ud ram storm; the wand was for a time The Ministry does not Si joy the approbation terrible, blowing down and wringing off the tops of ^ aation J a3 far a8 ^Lktos to ito financial of many trees and also taking down fences &c. projects . ye t it is firmly supported bv the King. We are glad, however, to record that it did not p steamship lines wiil probably be estabUshed extend to Midway. MTiat the damage above us between Norfolk, Va., New Orleans, La., and has been, we have not learned. The com was some Mediterranean seaports, laid low, but we hope to no great extent. Portugal.—Great excitement prevails in Lis- Our streets were badly washed from the flood bon, and the Government takes extraordinary of zuin, and we hope,the^ City measures for suppressing a revolution. give them an early attention, especially those that are much used. Macon- and Augusta Railroad. —Messrs. Grant. Alexander and Co., brought the other day from Rome, the Penitentiary convicts that wero at work on the road in that section. They are Spain - .—A new Ministry has been formed. Admiral Topete is again Minister of Naval Af fairs. Sogasta. Minister of the Home Depart ment. A vote of cansu-e against Senor Herrera, the now at work on the Macon and Augusta road, late ,“j. te i of was offered by Senor about two miles from Milledgeville, some 150 in .Castillo Martas, in the Cortes, and supported by number. The Federal Union of same date, failed to make its appearance. General Prim. Admiral Topete spoke against it, and the motion was rejected by 142 to 94 votes. ... The RepubUcans approve of the poUcy of the Government, which excludes their partisans Payment from the State Road, Superintendent Hulbert notifies the Governor from the Ministry, declaring that they -could * „ afford to wait for the tniwapu ox Republican on the -Oth as follows : _ poKcy and principles. Sir—I have this day paid to N. L. _ Angier, qbe Governor of Catalonia was dismissed, for Esq., Treasurer of the State of Georgia, twen- not having prevented a public demonstration in tv-five thousand ($25,000) dollars, for the month Barcelona. Troops were kept under arms for of Jane, from the earnings of the Western and nT )y emergency. Atlantic Railway. 'Xhe remains of a Spanish lady, who had died „ „ ZZ . in the Protestant iaith, were deposited in the Ye Coidrid Milish. A company of home- geriera i cemetery in Madrid. This is the firet made colored militia, numbering some twenty burial of a Protestant.in sacred soil since the or thirty, arrived m the city this afternoon. order of the Alcade of Madrid, allowing such Upon inquiry, we found that the company was No disturbances occurred, collected to search for, and arrest if possible, rj-jj e students of Leipsio, Germany, have a negro man named Anthony Brown, who had ca g ed npatt ike German nation for contribn- A “ rch “ *»..»**.« ^ Ms esc^.-Amerkiis Charter. «» sentenced to three months imprisonmwt, for having, in one of his pastoral letters, pub lished doctrines menacing the pnbHc peace. The press, and the publio in general, oondemn the action of the Government Russia.—Several Polish bishops were banish ed as they would not acknowledge the Catholio College established in St Petersburg by the Rus sian Government. The censure has been extended in the Baltic provinces. At the same time the University of Dorpat has lost its right of self-cenanre, exercised since 67 years, for au books to be bought for the institution. The Bishop of Augnstorvo, Count Lerbienaki, who has banished to Liberia, has died suddenly on his way there. The Government contemplates making Pe kin, the capital of China, the seat of a Greek- CathoUc bishop, thus at last realizing the idea of Peter the Great, which was as yet impracti cable. Turkey.—The palaoe of Beglerbey is being fitted np for the reoeption of the Empress Eugenie and the Prince Imperial. The newspaper La Turguil has, from the be ginning, represented the European tour of Ismael Pasha on account the Suez Canal, as a rebellions proceeding against the Sultan. Now the editor of the paper has issued a pamphlet demanding that the Viceroy of Egypt should be deposed. And the sublime Porte is said to have addressed circular notes to the Turkish Ambassadors abroad, denouncing all negotia tions of the Egyptian with foreign powers as en croaching upon the soverignty of the Padisha. Thereupon, the successor of the Pharaohs has written a letter to Abdul Aziz, disclaiming any intention of making himself independent from Turkey. Jarno. A Day In the Country—A Barbecue- Fine Cotton—Watermelons. From the Albany IfemJ On Saturday last our friends, Maj. R. N. Ely and Mr. Jackson, gave their freedmen a barbe cue, at their place, a few miles above this, in Lee county. We were invited, and went On our way we made a halt at CoL Lockett’s Fowl Town Plantation—found Captain Allen, the ever faithful, intelligent and energetic manager, at the house—who, true to his raising, education and gentlemanly conrtesy, did the honors in the olden style. After resting, cooHng off, refresh ing, and disposing of a fifty pound watermelon, of the ice-rind variety, we were invited to look at the Captain’s melon patch, and—such a sight! About one acre and a half was literally covered with melons. We are not above toe mark when we say that there were five hundred ripe melons on toe vines, weighing from thirty to fifty pounds, and four times that many green ones. We never before saw such a melon patch, or finer melons. It is toe Captain’s own patch, and, though he has nearly three hundred colored people on the place, he has never missed a melon. He gives his hands as many as they want, treats them generally so kindly, and manages them so intelligently, that they scrupulously protect his property, as well as the property of Messrs. Jordon & Lockett, and.are ever ready to serve him and them. We next examined “the patch”—six acres of cotton of the Allen variety, a seed selected by Capt. Allen, and brought by him from Hancock county. This cotton was planted the 27to day of April, is about shoulder high, and. is richly fruited from toe ground to toe top. It suffered severely from the cotton lioe, and is not as good as it would have been bnt for that. We predict that the six acres will yield 18,000 pounds of seed cotton. We saw but one of Colonel Lookett’s fields—a beautiful field, containing 250’ acres—and that only from the road. The size of the cotton and its fruitage satisfied us that his system of cul ture is correct, and that the fertilizers be uses are of inestimable value in the production of cotton. The usual courtesies again indulged, we mounted and wheeled away a mile or two. Mai. Ely’s Place.—A beautiful grove over looking the Kinchefoonee creek from a high bluff on toe west side, with a rear view of one of the most desirable little plantations in Lee or Dougherty. Mr. D. P. Jackson, the polite gen tleman, inteUigent planter and efficient mana ger, received us hospitably. A. good number of neighboring planters, their wives and daughters, and a squad of Albanians of both sexes had al ready assembled, and all were enjoying them selves in the most approved style of country comfort. The Premium Patch.—A look at the crop was the first part of the programme, and the “pre mium patch" being the nearest toe house, while our horses were being saddled, we walked through three acres of toe Dixon variety. It was planted, we believe, with a view of contest ing for a premium at toe Macon Fair. It is second year’s ground, toe rows are five feet apart, and there are about ten thousand^ stalks to the acre. It was richly fertilized, has been thoroughly cultivated, and is now five feet high. The fruit upon it is as thick as toe foliage, and all pronounced it toe best cotton they had ever seen. It was planted the 20th day of April, and the fruit already upon it, in our judgment; is sufficient to yield a bale of five hundred pounds to the acre. It is, at this time, ahead of Capt. Allen’s patch, though the Captain will wager watermelons that he beats toe Major. We ex pect to quaff the health of both gentlemen from premium goblets. The Main- Crop.—We next rode over toe plan tation and found corn and cotton in. a. splendid condition, though suffering for rain. The whole crop of cotton, with the- exception of a few acres of toe Peeler, is the Dixon variety. The first section we came to was manured with cotton seed, toe next with Schley’s preparation, and the third and last with toe Dixon mixture. There was a very marked difi'erence in the cot ton—that fertiUzed by the Dixon mixture being far superior to toe Schley, and toe Schley equally superior to the cotton seed. Mr. Jackson is one of the best managers and most inteUigent planters we-have, and if no dis aster befalls him we think he may safely calcu late on one hundred bales on the 100 acres ma nured with the Dixon fertilizer. The com crop was superb and beyond danger, Maj. Ely is confident of harvesting twenty bush els to the acre. We also looked at Mr. Jackson’s melon patchy which was altogether good enough bnt not equal to Capt. AUen’8.. Returning to the house and cooHng off with iced lemonade and other cooling beverages, we were invited.to a sumptuous barbaoue prepared by the freedmen and spread in the grove. - The dinner was a triumph of toe art—pork-, mutton, kid and beef, roasted over theeoals and deliciously saucec^. covered^ the table in. great profusion, and chicken pie, fruit and pound cake, tarts, pies and all manner of' delicacies and sweetmeatagladdened toe repast andsharp- ened toe appetites of the guests. After the white people had dined, the table was reloaded, and toe freedmen and freedwomen and children went in and did ample justice to them selves and toe good things before them. After dinner a colored -'violinist was pressed into sendoe and the young ladies and gentlemen .shortened toe hours of the afternoon in the heat ed whirl of “a trip on the light fantastic toe.” Crops Generally.—There were three of Col. Lockett’s managers, Messrs. Allen, Magbee and Lee, and qnite a number of other neighboring planters present, ofl of whom reported their crops in good condition, and none of them were willing to admit inferiority to Maj. Ely’s. We were astonished to hear that they were all suf fering seriously for rain. A district of some ten miles square, extending from Maj. Ely’s west and southwest, is in a critical condition, and if the drought is prolonged many days the cotton will be ont short materially. There were two lady planters present on tbe occasion, who rank with our best managers and never make a failure. We passed toe planta tion of one of them, and her crop is as good as anybody’s, and as dean as a garden. The other affirms she has 400 acres as good as Maj. Ely’s best, (not counting his “patch,”) and that toe intends to lay them all in the shade. We spent a pleasant, and we hope, not un profitable day—thanks to Major Ely end his guests. ■& '' PaStxe c*sUtoI'C#. * The Rain et Snakes. The East Tennesseeans are very severe with toe truth and handle her frightfully. Not con tent with his original Hiwlw ftnty the KllOXVille Press and Herald builds on to it in the fol lowing manner. We have sentenced him to nigger suffrage and hard labor for ninety days:. We had an interesting conversation yesterday morning with Phillip Crane, Esq., a well known and respected citizen of Campbell county. Af ter toe customary remarks about 'the “ hot' spell” and the injuries regarding, the state of affain in the poliooal world of Campbell county, the conversation turned on the late rain of snakes in Indian Grave Gap, narrated in our oolumns-a few days sinoe. Mr. Crane informed us that our statement of the phenomena was a true one. He also in formed us of a sad occurrence commoted- with - the affair, of which we had previously heard a rumor. It appears that a field hand,- working for Jas. Cook, on his farm, about one-half- mile from toe Gap, was examining the snakes in tbe morning succeeding;their fall. Noticing, one huge snake he was in toe act of measuruig.it with a string, when he discovered' that- it - was- moving. Starting back in affright be stumbled and fell with outstretohed arms on toe horrid - mass of the dying and dead serpents. One of them bit him on the thumb of the left hand. The poor fellow hastened from toe {dace as quick as possible; and reaohing toe farm-house - of his employer was given immediate assistance. Notwithstanding every effort toe bitten man died about sundown. Parisian Houses in Kew York. . The genuine French system of flats in dwell ing houses is to be introduced in New Y6rk. A model establishment of the kind on Eighteenth, street will be completed by January, next at-a - cost of $150,000. Its height will be five stories including attic and basement. The entrance hall will be handsomely panelled with tesselated marble, and toe whole exterior rich and'elegaat/ The suites of rooms of each fleor, except those- in toe upper story, will vary only as to height, and will contain a parlor and chamber facing the street, and! back of them two more, chambers, together with a servants’ br.d room and a dining room. Added to the convenience of water clos ets, bath room,.storage clout, etc., there will be - an elevator for hoisting-coal and stores from be- - low. Abundant light and ventillation will be. secured. The rents will probably range from. $100 to $45 a month. There are already more • applicants than can be accommodated^ Collection op the Direct Tax:—At Washing- - ton telegram to the New York Herald says: “There is some talk of enforcing toe collection of the direct land tax in the South. The Southern, States’ share of this Uxt—which amounted to $20,000,000 among all toe States—was $6,000,- 000; of this sum omyabout $3,000,000 have been - paid into toe Treasury from the Southern States. It will be remembered that when this amount had. been ccUected, President Johnson sent a mes sage to Congress setting forth that in view of' the poverty produced in the South by the war, it would in many instances be ruinous to that- section to enforce toe collection of.toe tax at. that time, and recommending that it be sus pended for some time, so as to allow the indus trial interests of the South to recuperate. It is. stated that the limit of toe suspension fixed by Congress has now passed, and toe law providing for toe levying and collection, of the tax, comes-into full force again. It is argued, by those who urge this proceeding that the indus tries of the South nave greatly improved in the interim, that toe crops are abundant, and that there is no longer any exease for ddsy on. the score of poverty. Whether the Secretary of. the Treasury will.act upon the advice tendered him in this matter remains to be seen.” Swharxno Chinamen.—The trial : of Ah Choy and Ah Sam, now going on in the District Court, for toe murder of Ah Sou, says toe Sil ver City (Idaho Tsrritory) Tidal Wave, is cre ating a greater interest than,any trial- that has. ever occurred here, onaoconnt of toa novelty of. the method of.swearing witnesses. A rooeter's. head is hacked off witha knife, aaauoer broken,, the oath written on yellow paper, burned, and the smoke, in which is supposed to be the spirit: of. toe burned oath, -blown, np to heaven in each case. The prosecution and defence each swore, five witnesses, killed five chickens, broke five saucers, burned five pieces of paper, etc.- Af ter lolling the chickens they are thrown arway- •by the Chinamen, and considered unfit for us»h but, having had their throats cut, nicely bled,, etc., the American heathon consider then.none toe worse for having bean sworn by, and we confess to having been guilty of the sacrilege of assisting to devour a portion that was really fat, tender and good to our unsanctified pakte., Chinese House Servants.—San Franoiseo- dispatches announoe toe arrival of another cargo of Chinese emigrants. Meanwhile it is. stateditoat arrangements are op foot for bring ing some of: the strangers to New York on in telligence office account. The question isasked: “Why shonld families be compelled to pay from. $12 to $14 per month for help, and be dictated to by that ‘help,’ when they can, get a China-, woman to do the work quite os. well, and much more civilly, for one-third the cost ? Anyhow, the problem is soon to enter - upon a practical 1 solution, with toe ohanoes that toe speculatien. will prove a remunerative one for those who. have advanced toe requisite capital. The first installment of these Asiatie biddies may be- looked lor, via Pacific Railroad, by toe 13th of September.” The Way Justice and Laser are Dispensed in Massachusetts—Boston, July 17.—Thelaiga quantities of lager seized July 6, in toe ' saloon, of toe brothers Flaff, was returned to them to day. The reason given tor the restoration, wan that the property would spoil before it could. b» reached. In the court a different result was. experienced by Mathias Nicola, in Cambridge, whose entire stock, consisted of one keg af lager, was seized and the owner sentenced to three months at the House of Correction and fined fifty dollars. The New Fractional Currency.—Tk* Treas ury Department on Wednesday issued toe first installment of new fractional curreocy — ten cento. The Secretary expects to have ether de nominations out by the first of August. Dm vignettes of any enrreney are not to contain the likeness of any Uving person. The otd curren cy got to be, towards the end, coverd with por traits of employes in the Treasury Department, whose faces crowded out the portraits and ven erated statesmen of toe first days of toe repub lic. Mr. Clark, the printer, took the place, of Washington. The Next Mexhko op xhe United Swtm Grand Lodge, L O. O. F.—The next annual ' meeting of the Grand Lodge Independent Order of Odd Fellows in the United States will be held at San Francisco, California, daring the ensu ing month of September. Already toe event is attracting the attention of toe Order in various portions of toe country, and, as the communi cation with the place of meeting by rail is now complete, the probabilities are that the attend-, ance will be very large. “Pa Mazzis.”—“Mozzis Addums” alias Px. Geo. W. Bagby, one of the best fellows in Vir ginia, edits the Native Virginian. That jongal gives the fallowing account of how Morals’-out up, at toe result of the Virginia election-. As Dr. Bagby is gone, poor fellowit may not be amiss to state the simple fact that, an Thursday last when the mail came in and. he as certained Walker had been elected by 50,000 majority, he went into the basement of the Court House and hollered “glory 1” until «» down. He then crawled oat and being unable to speak, pioked up a piece of ehareoal and wrote “GLORY” in large Toaoan Antique Con densed letters on Phil Fry's bask and expired. These are the unvarnished ftoto °f tfeto man’s decease. - ~