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The 1 .a Telegraph. THE TELEGRAPH. MACON FRIDAY, JULY 23, 1869. FrandM In Florida, An affair has just been developed in Florida of » most extraordinary character, if anything can be considered extraordinary in these times. The “Omnibus Railroad Bill,” so-called, just passed by the Legislature of that State, which provides for a State endorsement of Railway bonds to the extent of fourteen thousand dollars per mile, has been discovered, after its passage, to have been surreptitiously eliminated of its most important stipulations for the security of the State. The Legislative clerks argue that the fraud must have been perpetrated after the bill was enrolled and perhaps after it was signed. The Floridian thinks that duplicate enrolled sheets, with the alterations and omissions, were ) big capacity as a manager of a criminal prepared and substituted for such sheets of the The Trial of Turner. H. M-» Turner was arraigned yesterday, at ten o’clock, aJ m., before W. O. Morrill, United States Commissioner, for examination on the charges against him, of having in his posses sion, and attempting to pass counterfeit na tional bank bills. The Government was repre sented by CoL John .Milledge, United - States District Attorney, who made a statement that it was the intention of Court and Attorney that a fair and free investigation should be had— there was no disposition to oppress the ac cused. CoL Milledge is watchful and faithful as an officer, and the Government may be satis fied he will properly discharge his duties. The accused was represented by the following Attorneys, John B. Weems and H. W. Cowles of this city and John A. Stephens of Atlanta. The examination of witnesses on the part of ac cused, was made by Col. John B. Weems, who offioial enrollment as contained that part of the bill designed to bo changed, while the remainder of the enrolled sheets were retained and the bill thus hocussed went to the State archives.— The point sought to be attained was the applica tion of State aid provisions to the Quincy, Tal lahassee, Jacksonville end St. Marks road. The original bill made it a condition precedent to Stato aid that the road should execute an unen cumbered lien to the State, which the road was unable to do, as it had already executed a deed of trust to other parties. The hocussed bill Btruck out all in relation to this requirement. . The carpet-baggers who have possession of Florida are up to all the tricks known to the most advanced radical in Albany or Harrisburg. They have maintained a perfect carnival of frand ever since the close of the war, and will strip the little state of her last pin-feather be fore they have done with her. The Democratic Drift.—The Boston Post says the most liberal and practical policy is. re commended to the Democratic party by those Who take the deepest interest in its success. The Cincinnati Enquirer says: “It is not the time for extreme counsels to prevail, or for the selection of ultra and uncompromising men. The idea should be to lead men into the party, rather than turn them out—to look to the pres ent and the future, and not to the past.” The Philadelphia Age, the New Hampshire Patriot, the Providence (R. L) Herald, and other influ ential Democratic journals, express similar sen timents. Natural Immigration.—A Southern corres pondent of the New York World, after discus sing the aspect of the immigration movement to this section, adds: “The native increase of the South now demands a word. The land is over run with babies. Down the Mississippi, out in the Southwest, up through the cotton belt, the little creatures swarm. To see so many'of them at every turn strikes one somewhat curiously after the experiences of some other parts of the country. Talk of immigration! This is a kind of untalked-of immigration that beats them alL” A large crowd of whites and blacks were in attendance and the trial has excited a general interest CoL Morrill bore himself with pa tience through the slow proceedings of the Court, and showed every disposition to do jus tice in the premises. The full proceedings, as they occurred in the Court of examination, will be found elsewhere. The Cuba News received from time to time seems to be little better than affrays between soouting parties which amount to nothing ex cept useless loss of life. The summer is the ap pointed time for the rebels to push their luck, if they intend to have any. When winter comes the Spaniards will be down upon them with heavy reinforcements and they will find them selves more scant of provisions and resources of all kinds than ever. Proposition foe a Hioh Coubt of Nations.— Pope Pius IX feeling profoundly the wide-spread evil and crushing burdens imposed .upon the nations of Christendom by their gigantic arma ments, intends, it is announced, to lay before the approaching (Ecumenical Council at Rome a proposal for the general adoption of inter national arbitration in lieu of war, and for the establishment, by a high court of nations, of a definite code of international law, instead of the vague and unconnected maxims, from Yattel and other private sources, which at present con stitute the only approximation to the urgently needed influence of a regulating system of rules and precedents to be universally recognized throughout Christendom. Dr. Janes' Letter. We have had this letter on-file for publication some time and give it to our readers to-day in fuU. Many of them are no doubt often addressed with enquiries from abroad to which this letter will be a more complete answer than they have time to write. The outside world is full of cu riosity just now about the South and about Georgia in especial, and this interest is growing rapidly. We think it will be in full tide next faU. The Doctor presents as one point the superior income from Southern lands at $25 per acre to that of Northern and Western lands at $200. The Inst Hearth and Home, discussing the basis of the valuation of lands, finds it in the interest it will yield as nett profits. It maintains that lands are worth a principal of which their nett profits would represent seven per cent, interest. Upon that basis we should like to know what highly cultivated Southern cotton acre is worth. Dr. Janes says he has produced 1500 pounds cotton lint to the acre, which, just now, would be worth $465. Take the half of that sum os the cost of cultivation and manuring, and the acre is worth over three thousand dollars, under the rule of the Hearth and Home. The slightest reflection will make it clear this law of valuation can never apply to the Sonth. Our lands, properly treated, will yield more than a hundred per cent, on their market value every year, and they ought to rank as the best prop erty on earth. A Child Whipped to Death.—A day or two since, says the Charleston News, a negro woman living at Myrtle Grove, on the Combahee River, took her child into the woods, whipped her severely and went off. Shortly after she called the child, and receiving no answer, went to the spot where she was left and found her dead. Magistrate Colcock held an inquest, and a ver dict was given in accordance with the above statement. All-Powerful Lager.—Massachusetts set out ten days ago to enforce the new Prohibitory Law by which the sale of all spirituous and fer mented liquors, except cider, was absolutely prohibited. After a few day's trial such was the excitement that the Governor was obliged to let up and allow lager to come in. Lager has whipped oat “the Governor and commonwealth of Massachusetts” in a fair tusseL Radical Papers in Georgia. — A Georgia member of Congress, now in Washington, says the two wings of the Georgia Republican party are about to start drily papers. The one at At lanta will be the organ of Gov. Bullock; that at Augusta will be under the control of CoL Bry ant, the new post master. Both papers will be soon under way. South Carolina State Fair.—South Carolina will hold a State Agricultural Fair at Columbia, next November—precise days not named in the telegram. The State Agricultural Society has invited Hon. John C. Breckinridge to deliver the address, and has appointed a Committee on Chinese Labor. The premium lists are to amount to four thousand dollars. Of the new Captain-General of Cuba, a cor respondent says: “De Rod as is a man of quite good appearance, is somewhat short in stature, not measuring more than five feet seven inches, is bald headed, has a fine eye and a martial bearing. One not knowing his antecedents would think him amiable. Agricultural Club.—We hope the farmers and gardeners of Bibb county will not forget the meeting at the City Hril to-day, for the pur pose of organizing a Farmers’ Club. SmPLrrriNO Distribution.—According to the Mobile Tribune the negroes in that post-office have hit upon an expedient to simplify distri bution. They have chalked all the boxes white and red in equal division, and put all the yellow . letters in the red boxes and the white letters in the white ones. Death of Rev. R. K. Porter.—The Atlanta Intelligencer announces the death of Rev. Rufus 3L Porter, Pastor of the Central Presbyterian Church in that city, bom at Cedar Springs, Sooth Carolina, January 1, 1827. Also, of Mrs. V. A. Gaskill, wife of CoL Gaakffi. Don't Owe l’s Anything. Wo see a correspondent, on the other side of this paper, arguing for the Southwestern Rail road, says, in substance, she owes the people of Macon nothing—and he evidently manifests a disposition to pay the debt. Assuming all our correspondent alleges, in regard to original investments in the road, still is it right to say that a road which owes so con siderable a portion of its business to the city of Macon is under no obligations to it, because Macou did not invest heavily in building the road ? We hardly think that is a fair view of the matter. Take as an illustration any private business enterprise whatever. It is started in Macon and shares in it are offered to the public, but declined. The originator, however, proceeds with his enterprise and accumulates wealth, through business furnished by Macon and the surrounding community. As a question of striotly legal claim ho might indeed say the pub lic held none upon him. He furnished the ser vice and they paid for it, and both were quits. But that is not the practicable construction men usually adopt. A successful business man does usually feel some obligations to the community in which his wealth has been acquired, and manifests a sense of that obligation in a lively interest in the general welfare. We think this is the the sound and salutary view of the matter. Thc» Turner Trial. The preliminary examination of the Macon Postmaster, Turner, for counterfeiting, takes up much of our space to-day, and we are told we shall not see the end of it at snndown. It is surface plowing altogether, we fear; but some thing may turn up to break the crust before they get through with it. The belief is that a very extensive business in the way of loyalty has been going on, and Turner has held but comparatively small stakes in the game. The witness Swayze cuts a nice figure for the sole editorial exponent of radicalism in Georgia, vouching editorially for Tomer’s integrity on the 9th instant, when he swears he had full in formation of his frauds on the 4th; but we have no doubt bis testimony in the trial is true as far as it goes. He is of the sort who believes all is fair in politics. The witnesses fo^the de fence will appear to-morrow. From Dougherty County. The following paragraphs are clipped from the Albany News of the 16th: Corn Hunckadory.—Wednesday night’s rain was veiy extensive, and where it fell the com crop is made. A New Start.—Albany is about to take a new start. We hear of new buildings all about, and workmen are already clearing away rubbish and ordering material for extensive operations. Caterpillar in Mitchell.—A planter from Mitchell assures us that the caterpillar has ap peared in his cotton. There is no rubbing this out; be knows the caterpillar as well as he knows a stalk of cotton from a thistle, and he says it’s so. He has seen the fly in numbers, and found, bimself, one caterpillar. On the principle that one swallow don’t make a summer, we hope there is no danger. Special Providence.—It is no less strange than true that we, of this immediate locality, are being specially blessed. The intense heat has dried and parched everything, and the very atmosphere seemed ready to blaze; vegetation was wilting, and a critical point had been reach ed with cotton and com, and planters were trembling in their boots. Such was the state of things at sun-down, Wednesday evening, bnt the eastern horizon had the appearance of a molton sea of brass and mountains of lava, and by eight o’clock a universal deluge came. It rained. Com and cotton leaped for joy. Plant ers rejoiced. All nature smiled thanks upon the Giver. Merrick Bames—he of the Albany House— requests ns to return thanks for him for the blessing, and all such favors. His garden is re vived. A South Carolina Codifier.—The Charles ton Ne ws gives the following sample of the handi work of W. J. Wrfpper, a Northern negro, em ployed by the Legislature of that State to “di gest, arrange and consolidate” all the statute laws of South Carolina. It is an entry in Whip- per’s handwriting in an assault and battery case: “The State of Smith Carolina,') Inditcment **• > for ) Larceny. The Grand Jury having been discharged and J no bill giveing out in the above case, on motion , of W. J. Whipper atty for the Defendant it is A letter from , ordered that the defendant be discharged from The Weather and Crops. Crawfordaville,. to the Constitutionalist, says: , custody without day." “We are very dry here, wanting rain badly. | Cora is suffering greatly and this crop will be j oat short, if we get no rain soon. The gardens see bunted up.” It is understand that as soon as the Great retains to Europe she will take fresh We are sorry to learn that old Father Hick man, the Clinton mail rider, died on the 15th. After a long drought, Atlanta had a fine rain no rite 15 th. At a German pionic at Indianapolis, Ind., on Sunday last, 900 kegs of beer were sold. The German singing societies of New York The Obligations of thfe Southwestern Railroad to the City of Macon. Editors Telegraph : Please grant me space in your inestimable journal to notice the ob jections taken by the Semi-Weekly Albany News, in its issue of the 9th inst., to toepos- ition I assumed in an article captioned, “Rail road Combination,” which was published in the Daily Telegraph of the 7th inst. The News asserts that I assumed an untenable position, one wholly without warrant of law; that I mis conceived the law altogether in the assumption that the Central Railroad Company and the Southwestern Railroad Company, either sepa rately or combinedly, had the right to so reg ulate their tariffs as to be able to pay tbe Com pany a fair remuneration in dividends. Now, I ask, by what law are these particular “fran chises hedged, restrained and regulated” ? By provision of their charters, or by some general law relating to such corporations ? I dare say by neither, for these companies, with able legal minds to advise, have, for a long time, exercised the right of fixing tariffs, and in many instances these have been widely discriminating in their operations. Suppose you, they would have done this in violation of law, and thereby sub ject themselves to its severe penalties? Or if this had been done in violation of some known regulation, suppose you that these corporations would not have been held to a strict account be fore the courts for the offence by those who felt themselves aggrieved? The following extract from the Charter of the Southwestern Railroad Company, relates to the point in question: Sec. 11. • • * “The Board of Directors shall have power to fix the rate of toll upon all produce, goods, wares, merchandise and other effects, transported on the railroad, and also the rate of toll charged, for each and every passen ger passing or traveling thereon, with power to collect the same, and shall be capable of exer cising all such other powers and authorities for the well governing and ordering the affairs of said Company as to them shall seem fit for the interests of said Company.” This is the only section referring to the fixing of tariffs, and I ask if anything herein can be so construed by the News as to hedge in or restrain the management of the road from fixing any tariff that to them may seem necessary to pro mote the interests of the Company ? Again: What would the News have us under stand by tho “mutual obligations and mutual rights between these corporators and the peo ple?” As my original article was confined to the probable effect which the combination would have upon Macon, I will narrow the question and ask what are the “ mutual obligations and mutual rights” between this particular corpor ation, the Southwestern Railroad Company, and the city of Macon, as a corporate body, or as citizens in their individual capaci ties? In the original construction of this rail road, which was to become the great feeder of Macon—this enterprise, which was manifestly to do so much in building up and enriching Macon, it does seem that her municipal author ities and her citizens should have felt a sense of obligation to lend every possible assistance in the execution of the great work. Bat, I ask, did they realize this obligation, and if so, did they respond to the call made by the commis sioners for aid in prosecuting a work which was so greatly to benefit them ? The records an swer.nol When the books were opened by the Com missioners, and subscriptions to the stock so licited, the city of Macon, in her corporate ca pacity, failed to subscribe a single dollar—nor has she yet invested any of her capital in the stock of the company. Has she pursued a sim ilar course toward other kindred enterprises diverging from her limits ? Not so—she has subscribed liberally to them all. Why this dis crimination, and that, too, against a road which has done more to support, build up, and enrich her than all the others combined? Was it be cause she felt that her interests were not in volved—because she felt no benefit would accrue to her in the want of the success of this enter prise ? I give her credit for more financial sa gacity, because the truth which has since been demonstrated, as to the benefit which has ac crued to her from thi3 source, must have beeD patent to her then. The citizens in their individual capacity, sub scribed less than $6000,00, and a large portion of this was forfeited by the non-payment of in stallments, and a considerable part of the re mainder was paid by right of way, drayage and printing, leaving only a very small amount which was paid in money. Why was this ? I can conceive but one answer, and that is as fol lows : Tbe city of Macon and her individual capitalists must have concluded that there was no danger of the enterprise falling through, that the Railroad would be built without their assist ance, and they would derive the benefits that would accrue to them by tbe construction of the road any way; therefore as this corporation would not probably pay them in its infancy as large dividends as they could derive from other investments, they would reserve their capitalfor other enterprises which for some time to come would pay them better. Can any more plausi ble answer be deduced from their course ? Now in the face of these facts, facts which the records of the company substantiate, I ask if it be not the highest degree of presumption, nay more, bold, barefaced effrontery in these people to claim exemption from discriminating tariffs on the plea of “mutual obligations and rights ?” Tbe sequel shoves that these people were not sufficiently far-sighted; they suffered imme diate interest to blind them to the probable re sult in the future of their then selfish course. Had they come forward and subscribed liberal ly to the stock of the company, in the propor tion of this liberality, would they have been privileged a voice in the management of the company. But having acted as they did, it re quires a bold face indeed to talk of “mutual rights and obligations.” What fair minded man would regard that this company was under any moral or equitable obligation to secure these people against discriminating tariffs, if the in terest of the stockholders demanded that snch be fixed? The only obligation the company owes Macon, is that contained in the “contract with the railroads." That indenture, made be tween the city of Macon on the one part and the Central Railroad and Banking Company, the Macon and Western Railroad Company, and the Southwestern Railroad Company on the other part, enteredinto on the 24th Jane, 1851, provides that in consideration of certain priv ileges and rights, as to these companies cross ing the river and running tracks to a general depot fully recited in the contract, that these companies wonld pay an annuity of $5000 to the city, and they further obligated themselves in the manner set forth in the following extract from said contract: * And said three companies further covenant and agree with the Mayor and Coun cil of the city of Macon, for itself and on the be half of all persons who, as aforesaid, fas ship pers of produce or otherwise,) may be or become interestedin the faithful observance of this par ticular covenant, that from and immediately af ter the crossing and connection herein contem- “plated shall take place, the rates of freight be tween Griffin and Savannah, [meaning the city of Griffin on the Macon and Western Railroad Company’s railroad, and the town of Oglethorpe on the line of the road of the Souhwestern Rail road Company,] shall be and remain always, at least one fifth more in the respective cases than the fates of freight between Macon and Savan nah. Now, theso are the only obligations and rights which the people of Macon can justly claim from this corporation. These have been, and will continue to be respected, and in the latter the people of Macon have something to relieve their fears respecting discriminating tariffs. It will be remembered that but little cotton produced beyond Oglethorpe has for some time found a market m Macon, it having been sold by the small planter to the buyers in Eufaula, Albany, Americas and other points, and by them shipped through to Savannah and New York, while the large planters have for some time been shipping their cotton directly through. to. Cotton {Stealing In New York. A correspondent writes as follows to the New York Journal of Commerce: Complaint is often made of losses in the weight of cotton. To-day while looking out of my office window I saw a solution of this whole difficulty. Opposite there is a cotton warehouse, (and there are several others in the neighbor hood,) and I saw the thieves stealing the cotton as it came from the warehouse. The word steal ing tells die whole story! All hands steal. The cartmen, the laborers,' the samplers, and hosts of girls and boys and men and women that are hanging around, all steaL And the warehouse men themselves wink at it, if they do not profit by this wholesale stealing. If yun will spend a few minutes at my office almost any day you may witness all that I have detailed above. At the same time, probably, you may see a police man leisurely walking by ignorant of all that is going on. A short time since I called the atten tion of a policeman to a case of cotton stealing, and he told me that he wonld not arrest a cotton thief if he saw one in the act. His excuse was that the Police Justice wonld not notice him, and that he wonld get nothing but abuse for his pains, and that if he persisted in doing his duty he could not keep his place three months. This is a dreadful condition of things. In my neigh borhood are several places where this stolen cotton is openly bought, and the thieves can be seen going in and ont at all times of the day, and their business is no secret. This city will suffer in its business unless this thing is stopped. It is not safe to send cotton to New York for sale. I wonld not do so, and would advise my friends not to do so, unless a stop could be put to this wholesale thieving. From Lowndes County. • The Valdosta Times of the 14th, contains the following: A great many people were present at the ses sion of court, last week. The crops are gener ally laid by, and the farmers came to town. The general report from them is that com and cotton are in fine order, as well as other products. A letter from Indian river, Florida, informs us that the crops are poor, rain scarce, musqui- toes, 500 pound turtles, and turtle eggs in abun dance. Our correspondent says he captured five turtles in one night, weighing altogether from two to three thousand p»ounds, and wishes we had half of them. We wish so too. , “The oldest inhabitant” doesn't recollect any such hot weather as we had last week. We hear that J. W. O'Neal, Esq., Representa tive and a prominent lawyer of this county, has received the appointment of Post Master at Brunswick. The Glynn people do well, considr ering the fate ef some of her sister counties. A buff-colored mulatto now runs as mail- agent on the Gulf road. Among the darkies he is a sensation. They gather round his car, as if he were a lion in his cage, and seem very much elated, that a real, genuine man and brother has got into that office. We like his physiognomy better than that of his predecessor, Mr. Bice. It is a farther re move from the original monkey. We had as soon risk our letters through his hands as a car pet-bagger’s. From Greene Connly. The Greensboro Herald of Thursday has the following: Mercer Univeesitz.—The Commencement Exercises of this institution opened on Monday last, and closed on Wednesday evening. The Commencement sermon was preached by the Rev. Dr. Tucker, President of the University, in hi3 usual able and eloquent style. With the thermometer in the nineties,we hardly expected to find a large audience, yet were most agree ably surprised in this respect. The examina tion of the students was thorough and search ing, and their proficiency showed that they had been tinder the tuition of able teachers, and had made good use of their time. The Sophomore Prize Declamation, which came off on Monday, was a most interesting occasion, and the young gentlemen who participated in it all acquitted themselves with great credit. The first prize was awarded to Ker. B. Tapper, of Wilkes, and the second to John J. Brantly, of Greene—two young men who have it in their power in the future to prove an honor to their Alma Mater. The original poem was delivered by Mr. B. J. Larcomoe, of Savannah, who well deserved, and received the praise of all who heard him. The graduating class, fourteen in number, came fully up to the expectations of their friends. Last Sunday morning, while a number of young negro boys were sporting in Mr. Porter Daniels’ fish bond, near the city, a youth, about nine years of age, ventured ont into the deep water, and was drowned. He, Crops pi Jefferson County.—A correspond ent, writing the Chronicle and Sentinel from Jefferson, says: “Very dry and hot—crops looking sick, and rapidly 'going up the spout.’ How soon have our prospects and fond anticipa tions for a bountiful harvest been blighted? Quite a number of water courses have ceased to run, and the question of getting meal is exciting interest in many localities.” j , • vnjr, _ _ __ _ cible on board and start for Inffia to lay a line have sent 1000 Jelegates to tbe Baitjmore ay and floes. festival. Our Macon Telegraph failed to come to hand again on yesterday. We suppose that Elder Turner would not let it pass. Won’t Brother Cliaby send oar copy, by our friends Giles and Jeter, the courteous and efficient conductors on the Southwestern Central road.—Columbus Sun of Thursday morning. We think everything will be straight in our 1 post office in a few days. Supreme Court. Thursday, July 15, 1869. The Court met pursuant to adjournment, and heard argument as follows: No. 7. Tallapoosa Circuit—Connell vs. Vaughn —Relief from Carroll, and No. 8, Tallapoosa Circuit—Bonner vs. Martin—Relief from Car- roll, were argued together by Col. L. J. Glenn, representing Austin & Reese, for plaintiffs in error and by Messrs. B. Oliver and H. F. Mer- rell for defendants in error. No. 9. Tallapoosa Circuit—Reid & Bro. vs. A. S. Spencer—Motion for a hew trial from Troup, was dismissed. No. 1. Atlanta Circuit—Chandler vs, Johnson ef. at.—Assumpsit from Fulton, was argued by Messrs. Hammond & Mynatt for plaintiff in er ror, and CoL L. E. Bleckley for defendant in error. Pending tho opening argument of Mr. Winn in the next case—Miller vs. Swift—the Court adjourned till 10 o’clock a. m., to-morrow.—In telligencer. From Grlflln. We learn from the Star that Griffin had a good rain Thursday afternoon, just as the Star was giving up in despair. That paper has the fol lowing : Positively the last !—We noticed a bale of cotton in the Brick Warehouse yesterday, which is said to be positively the last of the last crop. To the fanner who ’brings to Griffin the first bale of new cotton, we offer as a premium, one year’s subscription to the Star. Cotton Bolls.—Thorough Manley sent us yes terday a couple of limbs from a cotton stalk with five bolls nearly grown. This looks like business. Stokes Flopped Over. The Tennessee papers sayStokeshas “flopped over” in favor of universal enfranchisement. At Washington last Tuesday he said: ‘If elected Governor, as I expect to be, I will enfranchise every man on God’s green earth who will come np and ask for it.” And turning to Gov. Senter said: ■ “ Enfranchise every man in the State, and no man will give it a more hearty endorsement than I will, aye, sir, I say amen. I am the first man in tho State belong ing to the Republican party, who ever advocated extending the franchise. The boys who wore the grey, owe me n debt of gratitude for forcing Senter and Brownlow to come out in favor of giving them their votes. ” Health of New York.—There were six hun dred and forty-three deaths in New York last week, an increase of one hundred over the pre vious week. A letter from that city says : The Health Board admit that there were three cases of cholera, but declined to say whether it was cholera morbus, or of the Asiatio type. It is no secret that a great many sudden deaths have occurred within the few days past, from complaints strongly resembling the latter, and to these the largely increased mortality official ly announced is by many persons attributed. If tho Board of Health would return to the for mer practice of publishing the diseases, as well as the total number of deaths, the publio mind, in cases of this kind, would be less anxious than it is when left, as now, to grope in the dark. Radical Disruption.—The Washington cor respondent of the Baltimore Gazette writes: “ The disruption of the Radical party is ac knowledged at least by all those presses who live npon government pap. This is a very hope ful omen. But it is alleged that recent events show equally tho disintegration and surrender of the Democratic party. ‘A rose by any other name wonld smell as sweet.’ I see, however, through other spectacles, and can disoem no sign of decomposition in that ever-to-be revered and venerable constitutional party. To make a long story short, the recent extraordinary de velopments of public opinion are looked upon by the discomfited radicals as moro.indications of a political chaos, ont of which a new party is to spring into life with new-born issues, divested of nil reference to the negro question.” From Randolph County.—The Cuthbert Ap peal of Thursday says: The weather has been too hot to lie down, too hot to walk, too hot to work, too hot to quarrel, eat, or drink anything without ioe in it. Crops are giving way seriously, and the cry is water, water, water. God grant the supply may come in season. The Empire State of the South Every One! A. FULL DESCRIPTION AND A GENEROUS OFFER. From the ifew York Tribune.] Sir—I desire, through your extensively circu lated and ably conducted journal, to give to the great number of inquirers that have written to me, and to your good people generally, some points of information which they seek, and which I hope will prove interesting to them. There is a class of correspondents who oome among us with the view of misrepresenting ns, thereby inflaming the wounds of our suffering country. There is another class, who come to irritate and insult. There is a third class, who come as carpet-baggers and money sharks. These classes of men are not calculated to de velop the resources of any country. Georgia, once happy, is still proud and resolute, and, with her varied and boundless resources, has recaperated in a measure from the desolation, ruins and ashes of war, and is yet the Empire State of the South. Our doors are vnde open. We invite your farmers, mechanics, artisans, and men of every honest craft, with their wives and little ones, to come here and live with ns, and mind their own business, identify them selves fully with our interests, and make it their home. Gome with your money, your muscle and your energy, and help ns, and Georgia will soon become, not only the Empire State of the Union, bnt the garden spot or the world. Such men we welcome—they will thrive and prosper, and build up themselves and the country. The people of Georgia, as a people, are all right. The wounds created by the late disastrous war are fast healing, and our hearts are in the right place. There is no portion of the United States where honest labor meets with better recompense than here—no such place to recu perate a lost fortune, as our Southern histoiy since the war amply demonstrates. Lands are worth more intrinsically here than either North or West Here in Georgia, and es pecially in Middle Georgia, we have a soil and climate capable of every variety of production. Lands in Middle Georgia now selling at $10 to $25 per acre will yield more net profits to labor than Northern or Western lands selling at $75 to $200 per acre. There is no country on the earth where an honest man with his family can live better, enjoy better health, or make money fast er. We can make everything here that can pos sibly be made North, East, or West, and just as much of it, with the exception of ice/ We can make everything here that can possibly be made Sonth of us, and just as much of it, with the exception of the tropical products proper.— The soil and climate of Middle Georgia peculiar ly adapt it to a greater variety of production than any other locality on the earth. We can produce any and everything profitably and to a great degree of perfection with the two excep tions just mentioned. We can make of very many products two full crops a year on the same land. This is true of Irish potatoes, tobacco, and many other products. We can make a fall crop of wheat, or rye, or barley, or oats, and then a full crop of com afterward on the same land the same year. We can then ship our new flour to New York, or Boston, before the Northern wheat harvest begins, and thns obtain the best prices. What other climate and soil and locality under the sun yield so generously to the labor of man ? On ail the lands in Mid dle Georgia, several species of clover grow spon taneously, and cover the earth with a carpet of green through the Spring, summer, and fall months. The Lespidesa Striata orJapan clover, the white clover, and other species of clover are everywhere in profusion. The Luzerne or French clover thrives here as well as.it does in France. The perennial or large red clover does as well here as elsewhere, if the soil be natural ly or artificially rich enough. This point has never been fully tested until since the late disas trous war. The following extracts from letters received from friends who have visited my places this Spring, fully attest the fact. B. E. Spencer writes: “I have resided in this (Greene) county for- about forty years, but have never before seen a practical .test of the growth of the different grasses for hay in this section of country till I walked through your fields, and being a native of the State of Connecticut, and having lived with a practical farmer of that State some seven or eight years of my life, who cultivated all these grasses, except the blue grass, I had the opportunity of seeing and examining the grasses in all their stages from toe time they came np till they were cut and made into hay. My re cent visit to your plantation, lying on*toe waters of Fishing Creek, in this county, where I had the pleasure of seeing red clover, bine grass, herds grass and orchard grass, fully convinces me that they can be grown as successfully here, especially on your lands and those contiguous, as in any of the Northern or Eastern States. Your field of clover, which I understand was sown in March, 1868, 1 found to be fully hip high, just commencing to bloom, and nearly ready for cutting. I would judge from its ap pearance that the field would yield toe present cutting from one and a half to two tuns per acre. In your two other fields, mixed with clover, herds grass, blue grass, and orchard grass, sown in November of last year, 1868,1 found growing beautifully. They will do to cut this season, the first year, and will yield an abundant crop. I therefore give it as my opinion that all kinds of grasses suitable for hay or pasturage, not only mature earlier in the season in this climate, by one month at least, but they grow higher, and will yield more hay to the acre and moTe pasture through toe year. I believe that you can safely count on two field crops during toe season beside a crop of rowen.” Profs.JS. P. Sanford and W. G. Woodfin of Mercer University write: “We saw every where on your lots a good stand of clover, and luxuriant and vigorous growth, and we plucked some bunches which had grown to the height of 4C4 inches. We are pleased also to notice that your herds grass and timothy are not at all in ferior to your clover. Your experiment, when known, must greatly enhance toe value of land in Middle Georgia; for it demonstrates the fact that in addition to com, wheat, oats, barley and cotton, too grasses and clover can be grown hero as successfully as in the Norther and West ern States.” “With pure and delicious water and a salubrious climate, subject to no extremes of heat and cold, and in which consumption, epi demics and malignant disorders are unknown, we see no reason why our lands should not, in the early future, be settled by the inhabitants of the more bleak and inhospitable North.”. Dr. H. H. Tucker, President of Mercer Univer sity, writes: “I have seen several fields of clo ver on the plantation of Dr. Thomas P. James, in Greene county, Georgia, and consider the growth fully equal to toe best I ever saw in any of the Northern States. From this and other experiments that have come under my observa tion, I have no doubt that any of toe grasses can be raised with complete success and with great profit in Middle Georgia.” On rioh uplands blue grass, meadow oat grass, orchard grass, vernal grass grow during toe Winter. If these are kept inclosed during the Summer months horses, mules, cattle and sheep will keep fat and require ho other food. With out toe costly covering of a bam, or any shelter, and with nothing given them save a little salt, they will do their own mowing and stock raising. I have now cattle and sheep well grown and fat, that have never been under a shelter, and have never been given any food outside of grazing save a little sdt. Our woodland, which has ever been unproductive capital, can be laid down in these Winter pastures. Bermuda grass thrives here wonderfully well and makes the best pasture in toe world, no grass giving an equal amount of grazing; grows tall enough on good lands to mow, and makes an abundant and valuable hay. There is no region on toe globe which affords a better prospect of more rapid fortune in stock raising and wool growing than in Georgia, cli mate, markets and facilities for Summer ■ and Winter grazing all considered. There is no reason why toe wool crop of Georgia should not be larger toon it3 cotton crop ever was. There is no better fruit region. The Middle Georgia peach is tbe richest and best flavored in too world. All varieties of fruits and mel ons do well here. Much attention has been paid to native seedlings, and we have .a number of varieties of late keeping winter apples and pears. I have seen pears and apples on the ta ble of different years 1 growth. The fruit busi ness in melons, apples, pears, peaches, straw berries, grapes, vegetables, etc., offers an invit ing field for enterprise. Their are great facili ties offeredin transportation of toe same to New York and other Northern cities. Our virgin forests teem with the finest tim ber in the world, consisting of white oak, red oak, white hiokory, poplar, chesnnt, gam, ash, beech, birch, maple, walnut, yellow pine, etc., inviting workers of wood of all descriptions. Middle Georgia is decidedly the best climate for ootton. The season is sufficiently long for it to perfect, and it is not subject to tbe many disasters and calamities of inseots, etc., which are incident to a climate Boutb of ns. Our good lands will yield from 300 to 400 pounds of lint per aore. With high cultivation and manuring I have made 1500 pounds of lint per acre. has bestowed noon the people of the Sonth the finest soil olim&te under th$ sun. Qspsble of the neatest variety of products we have been blinded by King Ootton to the neglect of\ our best interests, and have failed to develop the varied products and extensive resources which nature has placed within our reach. We need the right kind of men to diversify and dignify labor, and to give to the earth wise and proper culture, and that care and attention to diversified products which would make us the most independent as well as the most luxurious and happy people on earth. We need men to develop our resources and hidden stores of wealth. We need every daes, from the hum blest day laborer to toe aristocratio capitalist. Our doors are wide open. I have not referred to the mineral and manu facturing resources of Georgia. Our bill* and valleys teem with ores aim precious metals. Georgia has waterpower, and available, to move the machinery of the world. Onr climate is mild and salubrious, and the locality of the clay belt of Middle Georgia the most healthy on the continent. Here we are comparatively free from toe malarial fevers in cident to miasmatic districts and to toe pine- land or seaboard belt south and west of us, and from toe consumption, scrofula, rheumatism, inflammatory and typhoid fevers peculiar to a Northern climate ana toe mountainous regions whioh lie north of us. We have no siokly sea son, and (I speak as a physician) the best cli mate for a consumptive patient in the world. I firmly believe that long residence here will eradicate from the system this consumptive diathesis or habit of body. The liability of our white people to die of consumption is abont one in 3,200 per annum, whereas it is in Massachu setts one in 250. We live in a medium tem perature. The vicissitudes of toe seasons are neither great nor sudden. We glide gently from one to toe other. The transitions in toe weath er are regular. The physical constitutions of our families are not enfeebled by extremes of heat or cold, wet or dry. It is safe and healthful to visit and remain in the clay belt of Middle Georgia at any time and at all seasons of the year. We have no sickly season. We can never have toe yellow fever, nor Asiatic cholera, nor malignant types of dis ease. It is toe healthiest climate on toe conti nent. The thermometer in summer very rarely ranges as high as 90 degrees Farenheit. We have snow to fall once in about five years, and then rarely more than one inch in depth. Middle Georgia is emphatically the country for the white man, toe descendant of Japheth, Noah’s youngest son and son of blessing and promise. Here it is he con be blessed, andhere it is he can, in the language of prophecy, be en larged. He can labor here night and day if his physical nature would endure it without endan gering his health. We have not only the best Boil and climate combined, bnt we have toe pur est air to breathe, and toe purest and most de licious free-stone water and plenty of it to drink. What better country could we wish? In this particular, in Middle Georgia, Providence has lavishly bestowed upon ns all that heart could desire. I think the clay belt of Middle Georgia, em braced in the counties of Greene, Wilkes, Han cock, Oglethoipe, Morgan, Newton and others in toe same belt, to be toe most desirable sec tion of toe State, everything ^considered, and when folly developed under the skillful hand of a wise and judicious culture and improvement will become toe garden spot of the world. The principal cities of Middle Georgia are Augusta, Atlanta, Macon, Athens and Columbus. In all of them business is active and thriving, and rents high. Atlanta, which was a heap of ruins, has been rebuilt, as if by magic, and with a population of 30,000 or 35,000 is now doing double toe business she did before toe war. There are four male colleges, well endowed with able faculties, and quite a number of fe male collegiate institutions in Middle Georgia, all well patronized and in a flourishing condi tion. Middle Georgia is a network of railroads radiating in every direction, thereby giving us every facility for purposes of marketing and transportation. • We have a law of Georgia exempting from taxation for the next five years, all capital brought into the State and invested in. mach inery and manufactures. An Ret has recently passed establishing a Bureau of Immigration, POLITICS AND RELIGION AMONO Tw a In a very interesting discourse and religion among the negroes, the CoWl Sun makes the following curious Every man at all acquainted wUhthskfii and characteristic of the negroes during* days of slavery, knows that negro preach • greatest set of acoSSfiA infested the country. They were theW ^ all of the stealing and deviltry Rener»ll»^ ,, ® the slave class, and were invariably pests in the community. There were exceptions among this class then, and th,. ^ that may be truthfully said of them now have a greater influence over the minds Jrf tions of their hearers now than before pation, and this power has been used oontinue to be used to the iniorv lwiT;*® negro and the white man. The Bum’’ and the carpet-bag missionaril,^ 91 ' stirred np to its very depths the fanaHr^ the negro character, and the negro now have more time and occasion to toe credulity, superstition and pocket* J ??? auditories. Perhaps not a family in t ®*® m unity has failed to have its domesti« ° Dfc interrupted or broken up by the -- meetings that' ' - - -- and by day in this place. We have tat«£ occasion to examine into this matte- have never known a people so uttert* ** upon the subject of meetings as tho nJL this city and th^ surrounding country We have been informed by fiegro«\i selves, that pains and penalties are infliet*i ' on those who do not attend meeting Jr, ”?■ or who are absent from the regularnieS; •' the various religious societies that hawl? 801 up under toe care of the church. EnS? ments are made upon toe time of tho^i* have agreed to labor, and Sunday is hriSuS for religious exercises. We were Cffe one society has ordered its members in work on Monday, that cooking, washing V will not save souls. Such member* M this command are fined and locked np ip , j room. If our city readers will put themself to toe trouble of enquiry among their son* they will be surprised to learn even stroi« facte than those we have detailed, WUnf stimulus of a share in the crop, and the of the only thing worse than a bad negro prent er, Bureau Agents, have caused country nesrS to labor more faithfully and to better obyr* their obligations, the same cannot be siHvI those in the cities and towns. The facilities* pilfering and living on others are so great is £ towns and cities that negroes will not labor m perform their duties when a rousing ahonfc meeting offers them opportunity for indnlciL;, toe extravagance and excitement which deft; I them. Crowded together in these assemble* they soon learn to become the slaves in thing of the pastor, who plays upon their pi Not long since in retiring home from a tij| to toe country, at a station within twenty nil of toe city, a reverend colored divine, who k>| been filling an appointment in that neiefcborf hood, got aboard the train. We recognitedjj as the head of the Loyal League, and one ij had been dit missed from a town pulpit / drunkenness and immorality generally. Uul had found hearers and admirers in the ruralfi tricte. In one hand he carried a loaded misbt in toe other a hickory club and cotton nmbrshl His pockets were stuffed with June ep ‘ the amount of-a peck at least, and kind who had accompanied him to the depot, 1 in to him strings of chickens and bags of jk When the conductor came to take his fare, J production of a plethoric wallet filled withh tional currency, showed that his ministntiiieij the day previous had been appreciated t warded. We subsequently learned thatr had gathered to hear him from a radios oft miles, and that all along the route they < and went, toe gardens, orchards and tm ear patches of the planters looked on Jfa as though a swarm of locusts had passed tint the country. Since that time, in that same neighboitiwl a greater than he has arisen, a regular Ynil Doctor and Preacher, a healer of diseaseuilf performer of miracles. Among the min performed by this rascal, is telling the irtei for a compensation, whether his empl going to settle fairly with him in the falL quite sure that if things go on as they are: with an appropriation of $10,(XX). The rail- _ „ „ roads have reduced toe fare to two cents per : progressing, tho negro, as a laborer aid citi mile for excursionists and those seeking homes j must be demoralized and destroyed. Will ii in our State, and one cent per mile to actual, be better to have Chinamen with their “Ji settlers. The principal hotels have agreed on j houses in yards and on plantations, than fa reduced rates for this class of persons who hold j cal and crazy negroes ranting, roaring and proper certificates. Good improved farms can be bought from $10 to $25 per acre, according to locality, pro duction, etc. Lands can be bought with im provements for less than this, bnt they are not the cheapest. Good horses and mules are worth from $150 to $200, cows $30 to $50, and sheep $2 to $3 pier head. It is too late in the season to begin farming operations this year. Now is a beautiful and pleasant time to come on and prospect for another year or for a home. Memphis Chinese Labor ConvenUs Memphis, July 14.—The Chinese Labor ( vention met this morning at 10 o'clock, attendance was large, being chiefly comp of planters and land owners of the neighoos States and surrounding country. Reports n submitted from toe Finance Committee, hit ing a Joint Stock Emigration Society, ri i officers at the principal cities, promiahj j Expenses fortheroundtrip from New York city I! welcome and protection to all emigrants! do not think will exceed $100. By steamer from j China and elsewhere. From the Transport! New York to Charleston or Savannah will be toe i Committee: That emigrants can be broagk j cheapest route. Thus we invite you to come, i Memphis in lots of 500 and over, from tbe if Many have already done so, and are more than ! cific States, by rail, for $50 each; from Hs satisfied—they are delighted. Our people are Kong to Sanfrancisco, for $80 to 100 in p" bing by night and by day over the whole cous~ warm-hearted, intelligent and hospitable. All classes of persons who come here with proper motives will be kindly received and well treated. Mr. Editor, I feel a great deal of solicitude upon this subject, and with your consent will be a little more specific, and in so doing do not design to advertise my lands or toe lands of any one. Y'our people are pent up, and wish to come here, and we invite them. I hold in my possession a volume of letters to that effect. There are difficulties which must be met, and with your assistance and that of your people the work can be done. Our best and most de sirable lands are generally arranged on toe old plantation system. The improvements are usu ally located about toe center. The plantations mast be divided up into small farms of 100 or 200 acres and houses placed on them. A sys tem of mixed husbandry ana a better mode of culture must be adopted. AVe must have skill ful and intelligent labor. Our people are awake Tye Kim Orr, a Chinaman, two years it f country, now residing in Louisiana, the convention. He stated that over HI Chinese were now laboring in the West In* and among many much distress prevails b they were not selected with proper care being effective dock hands, laborers ani f sans. Many were vicious criminals who 1 been sent on plantations to work at labor. T are not familar with agriculture. Men cane* ly be procured through proper agents fn*l interior of China. In Cuba they are p»Uj dollars per month, farm hands are paid eii> to twenty dollars per year. In China, living is cheap, they receive 150 pound which is equal to two dollars. Women work in the fields of China, ten is a lover of strong drink. Compare few are opinm eaters. It is a luxury thi'f rich and city people can afford to indnlgf* Of fifty now living in Donaldsonville, Lm to all the improvements in husbandry, but we i one is a whisky lover. They are all easily are in a majority of cases unable to adopt them. We are comparatively poor. How is this to be done ? As my name has been mentioned in your pa per, in such connection as to elicit a large num ber of letters from your good people, I will in stance my places, and propose a plan. I have two places in Greene county, Georgia, one con taining 1,680 acres, the other 1,350. There are no better places in toe State, and convenient to everything, and perfeotly healthy, and none more desirable. These places should be divided up into small farms, and honses placed on them, for good Northern farmers, with their families. How is this to be done ? It must be done in the same way, with toe aid of yoor people. You have large capitalists, who wish to invest their money profitably and safely. Let them loan their money to good, enterprising Northern farmers and mechanics, etc., to come on, buy our lands, and settle them, and grow rich on them. The capitalist can take a mortgage or lien on the land and improvements, until paid for, with interest. This would be a safe trans action. Will any of your moneyed men do this ?. We are comparatively poor. I speak as a repre sentative man. Some have more and some less land than I have. I have open lands for 75 to 100 laborers. I will divide up my places into small farms, and will sell, lease, or farm on Chinese Labor in Calitorma.-'A ton dispatch to the New York I* n Congressmen and others who bavo W* J ited toe Pacifio coast have a great <W*‘, about the Chinese immigration, ana * , be called the Chinese question, ana t4e j doubt that it will be the basis of n> s “l; at toe next session of Congress. j man, of Pennsylvania, has gone to «*. slope expressly for the purpose of sK‘ subject, and several other R6prt' sen *‘ F small I arms, ana will sell, lease, or lam on : Senators have also given the shares. I will furnish land, teams, and feed | q 011 '-, A g? ntleman w bo has j . , , [P #l them—farming implements and seed, the farm, j Franoisoo Rpeaks in tbo^S.^ ^ j aged, being patient, industrious, docilaS able and obedient Mr. Koolimanshop arrived at noon e dressed toe Convention, stating that W’* has directly and indirectly brought Chinese to California, where 60,000 are 5 gaged as mechanics and on railroad « They are paid from 90 cents to $1 j®* 1 per day. As laborers they can be ink come from San Francisco here at about month, but can bo obtained much chW China; and under a five year eontr» could be had for $10 to $12 per K. says they are not at all times reliihX- security is exacted, and will take 9en*' others if higher wages are offered theta The Convention adjourned until t-w" at ten o’clock. ers feeding themselves, and give one-third; or, they furnishing the teams and feed them, and seed, and board themselves. I will take one* third. The parties will have to help me put up houses. I expect to have saw-mills in operation by the 1st of August. Parties or colonies de siring to settle South can send on men to look at all toe points, and, if pleased, can make ar rangements, and their families can come on next fall or winter. I do not mean by this to adver tise my places. .My point is to strike upon some feasible plan of immigration. I prefer live Y an- kees to the masses of Europe. Ido not object to anykindof immigration of therigbt stamp. Ire- side with my family on one of my plaoes, and if Northern capitalists wonld go in with or assist me, I would put up machinery snd buildings for wood manufactures of every description. The suitable timber is here. Extensive towns snd neighborhoods of real live “Yanks’’ might be built np in toe best and healthiest country in the world, convenient to everything. We have the country—you toe men and means. Middle Georgia presents an inviting field. Her doom are open wide to immigration. There is now no slavery, toe war is fully over, and we have a common country. We need your Northern men, with their money and skilled labor. the Chinese as laborers, mechaW^ J vante generally. He instances the factory, where Chinese labor ttas .1 very satisfactory results. It is shrewd business men that unless , i wages on the Pacific slope can be n rT(l whole section will be bankrupt in Miners cannot afford to pay four or * per day to work their mines, for fLjs most of toe plaoers are not as i | they were formerly. Chinese l flb0 Jki A same work just as well tor on ®T ,jlJ sum, and hence they are employed: J same thing is true of nearly evert I »* & (Uo Virginia.—Gen. Oanby will P*" m til gate the official result of the rece in Virginia in about fifteen daj«, ® not settled as to the time when toe of toe new State officers will take P* Constitution recently adopted inauguration of the Governor shaU ^ of January aucoeeding his elects® > dinanoe of the Convention which Constitution provides that the “"L, elected thereunder shall be —,. mediately. One of the first ssssss**^ They wish j the attention of the new LegteW^JV llai |,[?r L, to come. It is to their interest, to our interest j consideration of the m*#eni*i-“"7 oat My design has been to write the truth, and bring j ilia expected, wijQ.be adopted with about practical, beneficial results. I am.no pol- position. .' itieian,and wMy^tervdte, but am proud bf! ^ ^ ■>joar»»i to the'value of their lands for Other profitable and noble ptsr/wesx Tbe author of otHr bete^ Our greatest drawback has been that ootton my country, and wish, the car of Improvement 1 -Op ***** has heretofore blinded the eyes of the plantenj to move onward and upward. wfcaaftwifl epamatfroas wps* 1 * x. .V—.Art. Ih* {• .’Wffinwpffi ~~ — Ptnjim, Green* eomf, GU.yMajK.1BW. before *> f u*W*toy*tn amt**"* ‘1