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Tile t3reoT"ia "W^eeJ^ly THE TELEGRAPH. MAHON FRIDAY, JULY 80, 1869. Tar Wxmi Tzucorapm has now a very henry circulation—toe largest, it |» believed, of anysecnlar paper ia Georgia. It will admit a few advert immeata at adequate pnees. As a medium of eommnnkatin# with Georgia fRrm- era, npoa manures, agricultural implements, cotton gim, cotton peessea, and aU the other intereets of unproved husbandry,''it has no equal A IcetUaa tieertfia KepatUran on ttwttec*. In a converention htety with a Republican of prouixateuoe uni in»e:hgeu-.v, wo gleaned the felkrwosg as to. his. o^h*x>je4 which will interest the*aadtor: tHit tW 1irn ' Bis opinion of the President is that he is not ifl h.h n,>,’ure <k fsmetie; that his idea at the ,. iih kisiouinistration was that heads of deputlfnonui tooukl hare complete control of appoinaownts. After he was driven from his fe*A Cabinet, he then determined to let the new one through their heads, direct matters, having uheir own policy, and thus the people of the Northern States, in coming elections, would vote as it were, upon that policy whatever it might be, and condemn or endorse it, as the result will Bhow. This gentleman, therefore, consid ers the policy of negro appointments in the South, more the policy of Secretaries Boutwell, Creswell and others, than that of the President; further, that should the elections in Pennsyl vania and Ohio, this coming fall, result in the defeat of the Republican candidates, the Presi dent would consider that “they had been weieheA in the BalanA-— l rutffla wanRug,” and carry ing out his originally expressed purpose of ad ministering the government recording to the Will of the people, he would have a new deal as to a Cabinet, and a new policy, conforming thus to the will of the people. This gentleman hopes if the President does take this course that a large portion of the Republican party and Dem ocrats wi3 find in the President’s position at the time a point upon which they can unite and up hold him. POST-UISTEB GENERAL CBESWELL. Mr. Creswell was represented to him as hav ing at one time, early in the war, been such a violent, malignant secessionist, in Maryland, as to have broken up all of his associations with TJnionistB of high standing, and now appoints negroes, not so much because he loves them es pecially, as to use the large negro vote that may be cast in Marylandin the future for his personal ends. RECONSTRUCTION 1 . This gentleman further reports itas fortunate that, at the close of the last session of Congress, a nunfber of Republicans from Georgia ap peared in Washington, to prevent the recon struction of Georgia. The contrast between them and the party who were working for that purpose was altogether to the advantage of the opponents of the measure. He fhinkn Butler’s bill would have passed the House, but for the influence of the President exerted over his friends. The House was more Conservative thr-L the Senate—no power could have prevented its passing the Senate, had it reached there. His general idea is that the President wishes no more reconstruction for Georgia, if it can be avoided by nothing being done by our people on which these persons can operate. He believes the President is pleased at the result in Virginia, from circumstances within his knowledge. THE SENATE AND THE CARPET-BAGGERS. The Senate has among Republicans no men of firmness enough at all times to face their party and contend for the right. The course toward Georgia was by many leading Republi cans considered a farce, bntyet they dreaded an issue and would not have it with the Radical piA4fn^ni- impuDucanmemoci^ _ _ _ a sovereign contempt for carpet-baggers as to so cial intercourse with them, but wish no other re presentatives from the South as these fellows are better tools for their purposes. HORACE GREELEY. In conversation with Horace Greeley this gen tleman asked Mr. G. to visit Georgia and see for himself how much our people were misre presented by our enemies. Mr.'G. replied, “No, I do not want to visit Georgia now. Let your people go ahead and make good crops and mo ney this year, get upon your feet, have every thing quiet, get rid of the miserable carpet-bag gers and niggers and then I wish to come.” Two carpet-bag Representatives of Georgia heard this remark by Greeley. Shall “Rebel** and “Traitor** be Drop ped? The New York Times, of Monday, devotes an editorial column to the consideration of the in quiry whether the Northern politicians and press should pretermit the use of the terms “rebels” and “traitors," as applied to the Southern peo ple, and comes to the conclusion it should not be done. Names are things, and the Southern people should he compelled to wear the badge of crime and disgrace. Under these cir cumstances, the Times will, of course, refuse to hold any financial or social transactions with the people of this section. He says this age is too near the pre-eminent iniquity of the rebel lion to gauge its proportions; bnt “future Hal- lams and Macaulays will depict it in all its infer nal monstrosity.” Let ns hope that future his torians will be able to discover the gigantic robbery whioh the South vainly sought to pre vent, in the effort to achieve sectional inde pendence. The Times is evidently in new hands. Mr. Raymond would scarcely have been guilty of such stuff. Rain—Rain.—Wednesday night light showers set in—very light—perhaps two or three of them during the night; but about seven o'clock Thursday morning, as nice showers as ever were seen gladdened the parched earth up to ten or eleven o’clock. “The ice is broken,” as they Say, and we have great hope that general rarna have set in all over this region. The skies betoken them, and we trust none of our planters will be disappointed. Crops in North Carolina.—The Wilmington Journal of Tuesday, says: “We regret to hear that the com along the line of the Wilmington, Charlotte and Rutherford Railroad is literally destroyed by the drought—dried up and com pletely withered. The crop on some plantations is accounted completely lost.” Supreme Court adjourned on Wednesday, pending argument in case No. 1, Pataula Cir cuit It has finished Atlanta Circuit, and has now only forty-four cases left. That’s encourag ing—go ahead. King Solomon is in a bad way in spite of all his wisdom and glory. He was before Justice Johnson, of Americus, yesterday, as a common cheat and swindler. Cotton Sales fob Future Delivery.—The Mercantile Journal reports the following: For future delivery the sales are large, on a basis of 33@33^ cents for Jnly. November, 26®26J; December, 26@26j; and January de livering 25j<&26. The favorable accounts of the growing crops have a tendency to weaken quotations in these speculative operations. A negro man was sold at auction last Monday, at Glasgow, Mo., as a vagrant, and bid in by the city, at eighteen dollars. Several crops of tobaooo in Macon and Brack, en counties, Kentucky, have been entirely de stroyed by snails. The Discharge or Turner. The examination of Turner, the colored Poet-master of Maoon, has ended in his dis charge—there not being, in the judgment of the United States Commissioner, good ground for binding Mm over for trial for the offence of counterfeiting- When the examination was gist dosed, on Saturday night, we are informed that the Commisrfone'r had prepared papers, binding Tomer over fbr trial before the United States Court, in the sum of ten thousand dol lars ; but the prodaetiohofriewtestimony, on Tuesday, satisfied that gentleman that there was no sufficient ground upon which to base a pros ecution. It is probable that the unusual course of proceeduxe in re-opening the examination, after it had been once formally closed, may give rise to accusations affecting the integrity of the Court; but our information upon the whole subject matter leads us to believe that all such charges and suspicions are unfounded, and that, in point of fact, Turner is actually innooent of the crime of passing counterfeit money—know ing it to be such—or of any complicity with the woman, Harris, in these fraudulent transac tions. We say this the more cheerfully because it will make no kind of difference in regard to the retention of Turner in the Macon Post-office.— That most desirable result of this explosion has been certainly reached—that Turner is com pelled to be dismissed from the Post-office— not for counterfeiting, hut for even perhaps worse moral crimes for a man in his position. The General Post-office Department in Wash ington has, or will have, in a few hours—such evidence of hideous moral delinquency on the part of Turner in its possession, that it cannot retain him if it would—it dare not retain him, unless it dare make itself the scoff of the whole country. •! Our readers may therefore rest assured that all they cared about in relation to this fuss is accomplished, and the Macon Post-office will be remanded to the custody of white men. Try, Mr. Creswell, and give ns a post-master of known character and respectability. That is all we ask. In respect to this last evidence against the moral character and fitness of Turner, it is of a nature which cannot be produced in these columns without outraging decency. Under this state of facts we say without reluctance—with en tire candor, and with the benefit of information from sonnies which have had access to all the evidence and have carefully studied this case, that in all probability Turner is entirely inno cent of complicity with connterfeiting. That was the work of the man Schnman, a messenger in the Treasury Department, who stole the notes and probably executed the forgeries, and em ployed the woman Harris to some extent in ut tering them. He gave her one of these notes in Philadelphia, which she passed; but evidence not produced on the trial shows that Turner was in all probability entirely ignorant of her possession of these notes as well as of her pecu niary resources, beyond the fifty dollars which she gave him to buy her ticket to Atlanta. Tur ner, in her company, got to Atlanta without funds and borrowed some there with great diffi culty to continue his journey, whereas if he had known her xesonrees, in genuine bills at the time, he would no doubt have borrowed from her. We say nothing of the nature of the other relations which might have subsisted between Turner and the woman Harris; but the evidence before the court, leaving out the testimony of Swayze, fails to establish a complicity in coun terfeiting, and we do not believe from the facts we learn, that it existed. So mnch in candid comment upon the trial. The result of the whole investigation is a grand explosion of the predominant influences, which to the shame of the government, have been al lowed to control its counsels in Middle Georgia. Look at this disgraceful exposure. The recog nized organ and exponent of the United States ^ *•—’**— -- r ctldTi desperate character that scores of his party friends swear they would not believe him on oath. This is the man who has been poisoning the ears of his party against Georgia—running riot in personal and malignant denunciation of everything respectable and decent—inflaming the passions and prejudices of the ignorant negroes against their employers — advising them to bum, kill and destroy—and using every artifice to foment discord, trouble and ex citement between the races. This was the chos en high priest at the altar of loyalty and fora year his office has been the headquarters of the so-called Republican party in this section. The struggle for this very Post-office appoint ment lay between Swayze and Turner—and what a choice! We doubt whether the respectable people of Macon, as affairs then stood, would nothave preferred Tomer, the negro, to Swayze, the infamous white man. But with the choice of Tomer, the administration has a bitter—a mortifying lesson before them, disclosing an ut ter want of integrity and capacity in the negro they preferred. Upon what ideas is a policy founded which seeks the representatives and exponents of Government in the very dregs of moral filth and wickedness. We hope the ad ministration will abandon the slums hereafter in the search for its agents in Georgia. Letter from Floyd County. A Mysterious Disappea ra n ce—Some—Negro La bor in Upper Georgia—-No Rain—A Fash ionable Wedding—The Yerger Case. Cave Spring, July 21, 1803. Editors Telegraph: You have probably seen in the Rome Cornier, some notice of the myste rious disappearance of a man from this place one day last week. It still remains a mystery, from' all appearances, not to-be solved this side of eternity. The man came here on the night of the 12th, at a late hour, and having with him as luggage, a carpet-sack. He was entirely so ber and sane, so far as outward appearances could determine, and took two meals at the hotel In the afternoon of Tuesday, the 18th, he walked off in the direction of the cave in the side of the mountain from whioh gashes the Spring that gives its name to the village, and possibly was seen ascending the mountain.— That was his last appearance to human eyes, up to this hour. The cave has been thoroughly searched several times by parties fully acquaint ed with all its mysteries, but no trace of the lost one turns up. If he went into the cave, as is generally upon strong presumptive evidence believed, and attempted to explore its dark and dangerous recesses, he very probably fell into a pool whose depth is not known, and whence es cape would be next to impossible. This seems the generally received opinion of his fate. If he had oome out of the cave, or had not gone in at all, bnt had wandered off into the country, he would certainly have been seen by somebody, as his disappearance and personal description had been pretty well canvassed in the neighbor hood. The clothes he left behind, two suits, were more than sufficient to settle indebtedness that he had incurred at the hotel. The most popular theories abont him are that he was eith er a deliberate suicide orafugutive from jus tice. I spent a day in Rome last week very agree ably. There is more appearance of progress and thrift in that city than in any other I have seen lately, except in Atlanta. I saw some twelve or fifteen houses, dwelling and business, in process of building, and the air was fairly vo cal with the music of saw, hammer and trowel. Trade was very dull indeed, but such signs show that the people have faith in the future, and are preparing for it. A Roman as fully believes in the destiny of his city as a place of great com mercial importance, as an Atlanta man does in the great superiority of his home in all the es sentials that constitute a city in the future over all other cities. But they neither borrow money to build with, nor break after finishing their houses. The houses I saw going up are the investments of native capitalists. Dirt iB very dear, all things considered. I saw a lot for a dwelling house, G5 feet front, by 215 deep, for which $1100 had been freely paid. Other sales, and prices asked, were even more satis- factory to real estate owners. My own judg ment is that these prices must come down be fore Rome settles down to her work for good. She is, of course, destined to be the most flour ishing town in' Cherokee Georgia, but there is such a thing as an unhealthy inflation of values —“overdoing the thing”—in the vulgar ver nacular. The stagnation in trade was explained to me as the result of a “dead lock” between the buy ers and sellers in the wheat market The latter were holding back for their price—$1 50 per bushel, white the former would not budge a cent beyond $1 25—at which figures the very little brought to market was sold. Buyers are very confident of winning so soon as the crop results of other wheat sections are felt upon the market. And apropos of wheat: I teamed this fact the other day: A gentleman who owns a very fine farm on the Etowah river, between Rome and Kingston, stated that be should here after devote his attention to raising oats instead of wheat He was satisfied, by experiments, that he could raise three, or possibly, four times the quantity of oats upon the same land hereto fore given to wheat and which, at 85 cents per bushel, would make result of $255 at least, against $150, at most You cannot realize without a visit and re sidence here, how much better off the people of middle and lower Georgia are with respect to negro labor than those of this section. If a man wants to be satisfied how utterly worthless and unreliable negroes can be, let him live up here a year. Such a saucy, ill-mannered, un trustworthy set in town and country, I have never seen. They understand the situation ex actly—that their numbers are few, comparative ly, and that there is work for them all toe time, and at almost their own price, and act accord ingly. If you wish a cook, or washerwoman, or house servant particularly, yon must almost Government in the Beal Estate Busi ness. The Baltimore Gazette's Washington corres pondent says it has trustworthy information that toe Government contemplates toe purchasing of Cnba, but it is to be done under cover of relia ble parties in Cuba as the principals in the transaction. He has positive information that Secretary Fish thoroughly endorses, and in fact, originated toe scheme. In regard to the an nexation of St Domingo this correspondent quotes Forney’s Press, Forney being hand-in- glove with Sumner in toe business, as follows: The annexation of toe Island of San Domin go to the United States is admitted to be mere ly a question of time. Responsible persons, representing toe Government of toe Island, have recently been in Washington for the purpose of securing toe aid of toe Administration in their efforts to negotiate Its absorption, -jeney say that their object can be accomplished withont the expenditure of money, and argue that toe value of the coffee and similar products of the Island will be far more valuable to us than toe products of Cuba. They will return when Con gress meets to urge their project before that body. ‘ The Coming Chinamen.—The London news papers contain correspondence from Canton, stating that preparations are making there for wholesale emigration to the United States, on the part of the masses, who are but too eager to embrace any opportunity to get away from their Mandarins and the bastinado. One of these writers says there is one caution to which the authorities of toe United States would do well to give their attention—they must keep the whis ky bottle from their new subjects. Hitherto this has been done with the most satisfactory results, and if it is not done now, we are warned that we shall get rather a bad bargain, a drunk en Chinaman being about as hard a case as a whisky-drinking Indian. New England Manufacturers.—The Boston Post advises toe New England cotton manufac turers to put their surplus goods on the market at once and then out down production to a point at whioh they can sell their goods at a profit as they leave the loom. Wz see in the Atlanta Intelligencer a corres pondence between toe Governor and Comptrol ler General Bell, which we will reprint to morrow. treated with toe utmost deferenoe and punctilio, why off they go without a moment’s warning. I know of no section of Geoigia that will have cause to hail the arrival of John, with his pig tail, than this. That rain, of whose promise I spoke in my last as so essential, in this neighborhood, to toe welfare of the com crop, has not vet fully ful filled it. It seems to have rained all around ns. here, though. We arereally suffering, and fears are entertained that toe result will be seriously felt. Com is twisting np in some places, and gardens are rapidly coming to naught. A good rain, even now, would have a wonderful effect upon toe price of com in this valley next winter, but every day we are tantalized by fine promises and very scant performance. With one or more real good seasons, the market would open next fall at 75 cents, and possibly 50 cents per bushel. I assisted—as the French say—on Monday evening last, at a most stylish marriage cere mony celebrated in toe very neat little Protest ant Episcopal Church, at this place. ' The con tracting parties were Mr. S. N. of Rome, and MissF. F., of Woodstock, a famous boarding school for young ladies near the village. The ministers officiating were Messrs. Williams of Rome, Elliott and Rees, of your city. The church was very tastefully decorated, and toe coup d'oeil quite charming. Why have yon not published the verdict of the Yerger military commission? I presume, from toe language of an article in your city contemporary, which speaks of “Yerger, or Col. Yerger) who murdered Crane,” that a ver dict to that effect has been pronounced. Radi cal papers, of course took it for granted that it was a murder, and so denounced Yerger, even be fore his trial had been organized. I presume, however, that no Southern journal, which de sires to do justice to a Southern man, erring and unfortunate as he may be, will follow an ex ample so highly reprehensible. I trust toe day is far distant, indeed, when such a practice will find root, generally, this side toe Potomac. R. Lynch Law in Dawson. We copy the following from the Dawson Journal of Thursday: As we go to press, we learn that John G. Lee, who was charged with, and tried for the mur der of Captain Richard H. Fletcher, and npon whose case toe jury made a mistrial at toe last term of our Superior Court, was killed last night in jail. The parties were disguised, and are unknown. The keys to the jail were taken from toe jailor at the pistol’s mouth, and toe throat of the prisoner cut We have not time u* bjhiuo ^ mio «1«4a£2o o# Ala &U(1 regret exceedingly that we have even had cause for its mention. He having paid the debt, our opinion cannot injure his cause now, and while we are free to say that we have no doubt but that he was toe murderer of onr worthy citizen, Capfc. F., and that justice cried aloud for his life, we disapprove of mob law, and think that toe law of toe land should have been allowed to take its course, and its decision abided by and held sa cred. Our community mnch regret the oc currence. ’ From Clarke County. The Athens Watchman, of the 24th, says: We are still without rain here, and the weather continues intensely hob It is true, there have been rains within eight or ten miles of town, and one or two slight “sprinkles” in town, but so slight as to have done no good. At toe time we write (Monday forenoon) there is some pros pect of rain. We may very safely caloulate, ac cording to toe idea of our friend, Mr. G. W. Barber, that “there will be rain about the breaking np of this dry spell 1” A negro boy in the employ of Doctor Elder, of this county, was instantly killed by lightning during a heavy shower last week, Another ne gro was severely shocked at toe same time. Mr. J. W. 'Johnson, a wooden legged soldier, of Pike county, has 50 acres of cotton over tlnee feet high, and as clean as a parlor. His only labor besides his own, is two mummy negroes, so old they can’t hear it thunder. The Boston Post says: “Are you going to car ry out your liquor law ?” asked a thirsty New Yorker yesterday of. one of our citizens. 1 ‘Cer tainly,' of course we arc. We do such things here —carry it out of toe State next November. ” ffhe New Yorker thought toe answer clever and or dered cider, but didn't drink it on tbe premises. From Meriwether County. Visit to Chalybeate Springs—Splendid Improve ments—Delightful Place—Amusements — D. L. BooTier <fc Son— GoL Spain's Line of Ele gant Couches, etc. CHALYBEATE SPRINGS, July 18, 1869. Editors Telegraph: Once more at Chalybeate Springs, siuated in Meriwether county, Ga., my eye wanders over its beautiful lawns and sloping Villa to see what changes have been made since one year ago. We find toe hotel re-covere| and much improved—toe cabin;, on the other tide of the avenue having undergone also many agreeable changes. Amid-way on either sideneat summerhouses have been erect ed, pleasait seats here and there provided; while the gi>ve lends its grateful shade to cheer the passing tour. As we approach toe Springs we observe toe neatness of tie drives and walks that converge at this point, i The Springs are four in number, distinct and Beparate : Chalybeate, Sulphur, Magnesia andFreestone. The Chalybeate dis charges 60 galons per minute or 3,600 gallons per hour. Yo\ pass from one to the other, bnt a few steps amt, trying the different waters. The bath housiiare but a few paces further and here we notice! a decided improvement has been made. IiiAddition to the old row quite a number of new bithing houses have been erect ed. The gas woes are in full operation and the whole groundsmay be seen illuminated at nigbt. In toe wayof new amusements I notice a beautiful plot of ground for croquet. This game is indulged h quite freely by the girls and boys. Let us stroll along up the grand avenue leading frori\the Springs to the hotel. And should you bavt with you two as pretty girls ns lightened eachstep of mine, bright will be toe day and pleasa^ the walk on this grand avenue. For their eyes, iikibrightest stare, Are twinkling though the grove; Ught’ning up its beauteous walks With beauty, hope and love. About seventy; guests were present at Cha lybeate, and Unite a large number expected daily. I met General Austin, of Tallahassee, Florida; MnJames Baggs, of Newton, Ga.; my old friend, Lr. Grant, of Alabama, and many others. It isthought General Bragg and family will arrive ins few deys. Under the manage ment of my plover friends, D. L. Booher and Son, I see iiahing to prevent a crowded season at Chalybeaje—in fact, I believe Chalybeate will be overrun very soon. The Warm Springs, seven miles further north, are opened—and, be tween the wo, we may expect a gay season. The nights kre delightful at Chalybeate—toe mornings cod enough for cover. Two or three weeks difference was observed in the vegeta tion on either sde of Pine Mountain, this year —the difference being in favor of Chalybeate. In coining to these delightful Springs come via Geneva an| Talbotton, on Colonel W. B. Spain’s splenduline of coaches,which make the distance from (eneva, Southwestern Railroad, twenty-one mile, in a few hours. The fare is but a few dolhjs, and accommodations excel lent. j “Occasional,” South Ctrolimv—Heavy Story. Henry Spariick, Commissioner of Immigra tion for the Staa of South Carolina, publishes an official manifesto in the Cincinnati Commer cial inviting irani grants to that State. We don’t know whether Ipamick is a negro, a carpet-bag ger, or an old-lne citizen; but it is certain bis statements are remarkable. For example : Scarcely onefonrth of the land in the State has ever been filled, and the residue now lies in original forest Such of it as has been im proved, even bjr toe almost primitive system of agriculture heretofore prevailing in South Caro lina has yieldedharrests which, in general com pare favorably with the most prolifio lands of the West, and in.many cases far surpass them in variety and abundance of their productions. Over one hundred bushels of com and .sixty bushels of wheat have, with ordinary cultivation frequently been made to an acre in this State, and there are instances, since the close of the war where, by goodploughing and a moderate use of toe manure^ three hundred bushels of com have been gatlered in the same area. Un der my personal observation two hundred and twelve bushels weri made on one acre, within the corporate limitsof this city last season, on land that can hardlr be classed ordinary, and yet it is confidentlyexpected that toe same soil will, with toe emplqyment of a little more care, yield a third larger prop. Prior to I860, an average harvest per acre, according to the <^Scial reports of the United States, was six hundred pounds of cotton, twen ty-five bushels of com, fifteen bushels of wheat, —‘v bushels of barley, forty buahela of vine, one hutnized bushels of Irish and three hundred bushels of sweet potatoes, and this despite the carelessness of slave labor, the laoh of improved agricultural implements, the parsimonious use of manures, and Lany other disadvantages of a similar character. $nco toe close of the war this average has beet largely increased under the operation of thefree labor system, and will, beyond qestion. be jreatly augmented by n libe ral use of modem fetilizing agencies. Our climate and ail are adapted to the growth of the most of the gain and fruits of a more Northerly latitude, fimostas much so as to that of th«se which are laterally found to prosper here, Rnd it his said with great truth, that there is scarcely a f«ot in toe whole domain of South Carolina where a phnt would not flourish. We cannot sly that we never read or heard of such a thing asthree hundred bushels of com to toe acre. Tie think we have read that such a yield has acttally been realized somewhere in the Western edrntry, upon very fat alluviums, and we suppose; on similar lands, it can just os well be made in South Carolina as anywhere else; but, it seehs to us, toe anticipations of immigrants, fouled from such statements, are likely to be disappointed. The average harvest of South Carolinai if correctly stated, are much greater than we supposed. Stock or Fields. An interesting question was presented to the State Senate dnringtbe first session of the pres ent Legislature, by our Senator, Hon. W. C. Smith. It was a proposition to enact a law per mitting a majority of the people of each county to determine whethel the five stock owned with in its limits should hi confined and toe fields al lowed to go free of eitlosure, or the present pol icy of fencing and leting stock run at largo be persevered in. At first the proposition occurred to us as visionary, bat n brief consideration caused it to appear ratbnal, practicable and im portant. In the old counties of the State, where the land is generally cleared, it is an absolute neces sity that some plan should be adopted that will relieve planters from keeping their fields fenced. In these counties the tiiiber is destroyed, and it is impossible at any reasonable rate to pro vide rails for this purpose. If the policy of planting hedges should be resorted to, it would require a long period to get it in successful op eration. There are some counties, it is true, sparsely settled, and only a small area of whose territory is under cultivation, where a change of polios io not required. As the law, however, submitted the question to toe people of each county to determine for themselves, no injury would result to one county from toe action of others. We are indeed inclined to the belief that the confinement of stock generally would end bene ficially for toe following, reasons: 1. The economy of tithe, labor and timber, required for the purpose of fencing. 2. Stock would.then be continually under the protection of toe proprietor, and less subject to disease, wonton injuries, or loss by theft, than when permitted to run at large. 3. Penning them regularly would secure the cheapest and most reliable fertilizers which are now almost entirely lost to the owners. 4. The people would bo more • attentive to their stock, and this wouldgreatly improve their value. 5. Farmers under this plan would keep a less number of domestic animals, and select im proved breeds, which would yield supplies more cheaply than toe present short stock of the country. The loss of the wild range would be more than compensated by the safety cf stock and their contributions to the fertility of the soil, 'and other advantages mentioned as resulting from the suggested policy. If, however, any should desire to enjoy the wild ranges they could do so by providing herdsmen to accompany their' stock, who could, while guarding 1 ' them against injury to fields and farms, also protect them from toe vicious who now too frequently make them their victims. —Nmnan Peoples' Defender. A fashionable lady in New Orleans eloped on Tuesday with the confidential clerk of her husband. She carried with her several thou sand dollars in diamonds, and had previously had money placed to the credit of her Adonis in New York. B^ST TELEQEAPH. IMPORTANT PROM ENGLAND. DEFEAT OF THE DI8ESTABLI8MENT BILL BY THE LORDS. GREAT EXCITEMENT AMONG THE PEOPLE. London, July 22.—After a prolonged debate, nearly every Lord explaining himself, toe House of Lords divided on toe preamble to toe church bill as it came from toe Commons, and too Government was defeated by 78 votes to 1.78. The issue is final ly joined between the Lords and the country. The political excitement; m — consequence, is intense." The Cabinet was in.session all ^yesterday after noon. Messrs. Gladstone, Bright, Lowe, and all the stronger members insist upon an immediate withdrawal of the bill, on the ground that the obsti nate resistance of toe peers renders a conflict be tween tlio two Houses inevitable. Some members, including Clarendon, advocate more moderate pro- ^ ceedings—such as letting toe bill take its course *” and only abandoning it at the last moment; but toe insulting language used by Earl Salisbury towards Mr. Gladstone, and toe luge vote againBt toe pre amble show that all attempts at compromise are useless. There is little doubt that Mr. Gladstone will cany hi3 point, by withdrawing the bill imme diately to be followed by a speedy adjournment to August, by which time the creation of a new batch of peers will prevent a ministerial majority in toe House of Lords. Placards appear on the walls to day headed, “Shall the People or toe LordBrule?” calling a mass meeting at Arandala Hall to-morrow, followed by a monster open air' demonstration. It is rumored that the Duke of Cambridge expressed openly his indignation at the radicalism of toe min istry and expressed a hope that the Queen would refuse to sanction a coercion of toe peers. Decisions of the Supreme Court of Georgia. DELIVERED AT ATLANTA, TUESDAY, JULY 20. [Reported Expressly for the Constitution, buN. J. Hammond, Supreme Court Reporter. j Bold and Brother, plaintiffs in error, vs. Al- pheus 8. Spenoer, defendant in'error. Assump sit from Troup. Brown, 0. /.—'Where a case was triad and a verdict rendered in favor of the plaintiff, a motion was made for a new trial; and the Judge who heard the case went out of offioe before the motion was disposed of, and no brief of the evidenoe was Agreed npon by the.parties, or ap proved and certified by the Judge to be oorrect: Held, That the Judge who succeeded to toe Bench committed no error in refusing to grant a new trial. . •- 2. A brief of the oral and a copy of the writ ten evidence, adduced in toe Court below, must be embodied in the bill of exceptions as certi fied by toe Judge, or the case will be dismissed on toe hearing m this Court. Dismissed, and toe judgment of toe Court be- From Washington. Washington, July 22;—Senator - Morion favors too rerognihon nf toe Cubans as hUagopanta. Gen. Ames, commanding toe Department of Mis sissippi, has been called to Long Branch by General Grant. < The Cuban Colonels, Ryan and Crowder, are safe in Canada. B. H. Bigham, B. H. Hill, for plaintiffs in error. ' . Feriill, Hammond A Bro., for defendant in error. Edward Broughton, plaintiff in error, vs. W. T. Goodwin, detendant in error. Motion for new trial from Troup. Brown, C. J.—By section 3666 of toe Code, the presiding Judge may exercise a sound dis cretion in granting or refusing new trials in cases where the verdict may be decidedly and strongly against toe weight of evidence, although there may appear to be some slight evidence in favor of the finding. 2. In this case toe Judge did not abuse the dis cretion which the law vests in him in refusing to grant a new trial. Judgment affirmed. . Speer & Speer, by Hugh Buchanan, for plaint iff in error. B. H. Bigham, by B. Oliver, for defendant in error. Wm. Mc.CVmnoU, plaintiff in error, vs. Start ing H. Bryant, defendant in error. Millwright's lien, etc., from Fulton. Brown, C. J.—Where the affidavit and coun ter affidavit are filed, in a proceeding to fore close a millwright’s lien on a mill; and tbe issue which is formed by the affidavits, is re- Six of Minnie Gaines' jurors have signed a ver- i turned to the Court, and is pending on the ap- dict by cross marks, and that is a mighty good jury ■ peal, and at the hearing toe defendant is not for these times. ! present, and his counsel abandon his case, be- Revenue to-day, $715,000. | cause their fees are not paid; the Court should be,. a «.,b,a lantic squadron. ; the justice of his claim, before he is permitted Customs from toe 10th to the 17th, inclusive, I jg take judgment; and it is error to order that $3,100,000. ! that the defendant’s affidavit be dismissed, and The President’s Morgan mare, Ada, is dead. ’ [What killed the poor creature? Tell us all about it.] Decrease of debt, probably nine millions. Commissioner Parker has advices convincing him that toe danger of extended Indian trouble during toe summer is over. The Indians have formed no combinations. WashiaitM Letter. Correspondence of the Ri-kmond /^foakh ] WASHmpgs, July 1ft The Radical extremists; aft sorely r How to oounteraot the stebng . - , Virginia election on thd other contests gaging, the pnbtio attention is. a «ubi« causes town no little appmtau . other is the manner a which to, »o ** I without too glaring a show of party in order to defeat befo^-Congress mate restflta of v (to them) *» «artlin 0 .TH servative victory in a State which. toe sanguine Radicals, has been oflate t no less a stronghold than Vermont or MiuSr I setts. Xt is perhaps somewhat significant that first point the leading representative m en party have hesitated to approach the PreSs® contenting themselves with the assnran^* 51, 1 Mr. Boutwell and one or two others belong 01 1 toe Cabinet, though not all of these officbO 1 ® | toe government patronage and authoritT!!’, 1 as their departments are concerned, w&’v! 71 rooted in favor of the ultra Republic^ t;7v I in Mississippi, Tennessee and Texas, im • ! Conservative Republicans altogether/Ofm? 8 the same policy will be pursued with ref., to toe elections in Ohio and Pennsylvania ^ From a close observance of the offim.'i duct of the President himself with referen C ° 3 ’ the distribution of the patronage of the Gn 10 ment in toe past I can find no reason to ins* 1 ' the slightest impression that he will take ,C6 direct action bearing upon toe the three Southern and two Northern Sutfu tions now so prominent in toe public aia 1 I His policy regarding appointments has W cepting in particular cases, to leave such Vi* te ™ * ******* ° f ** de P ar taeite which they belong. I Grant will hold himself aloof in the cn-- contests. Whatever efforts are made to V® toe onward tide of Conservative success thiem? out the entire country will be without anvS" stantial aid from the President " ' It is this disinclination on his part, commit I in by at least two of the members of the Cabf I net, that is worrying the extremists. D: ' J Upon toe other topic, relative to arossir- Congress to toe act of refusing to allow the rt suits of the Virginia election to receive the^ I practical, legitimate recognition, there is di versity of opinion in the Republican rank I The stronger party, however, and the evident 1 are by no means few—admit and declare tw I toe State must be restored to her rights is th I Union. Jt 1 that the execution, which issued upon plaintiff’s affidavit, proceed. Judgment reversed. Arnold & Broyles, for plaintiff in error. Hill & Candler, for defendant in error. M. A. Bull, Ex’or., plaintiff in error, vs. T. B. St. J^hns, defendants in error. Complaint Prominent Radicals here are hopeless of the sue- j & mS^it was instituted to recover toe cess of Stokes in Tennessee. j value of professional services rendered by an The Revenue Department attributes the success | Attorney at Law for his client, and there being of toe discovery of illicit distilleries in toe Northern evidence in the record that, there was a special mountains, to negro spies and guides. j contract made between the Attorney and client The Star says the President *hia morning trans- j in the year 1863, or 1864, that the services were mitted a dispatch to the Secretary of the Interior to *** performed for the sum of three hundred , „ , , -- . ... ,. I dollars in Confederate cunrency, and that owing have Egypt and Cincinnati, his two favonte carnage ; fo ^ feeble bealth of the ^mey, the client horses, shod and sent on immediately to Long j was compelled to employ another Attorney to Branch. The of der has already been complied with. [ complete toe business for which the first Attora- —[Highly important and valuable news to. toe j ney was employed, and it further appearing country.] j from the evidence, that in 1867, the client had It is understood that toe steamer Seminole, which i paid to each of the Attorneys for their respective left Norfolk on toe 11th, under sealed orders, is di- j ? er ™* B * * e ™ Be ’ ° n ** al *?i^ 0D > ma ^ B « ... ^ A ^ two bales of cotton, worth sixty dollars each.— lectedto capture and bring to Washington, the Hay- i ^ ^ a Euit ’ by ^ administratrix of the tien Pnvateer. Hero, for molesting American ship-; fijgt Attorney against the client when toe jury V va S‘ _ _ I returned a verdict in favor pf toe defendant Secretary Hoar is reported to have said to a dele- upon the foregoing state of facts, that this Court gatioD, urging interference in behalf of certain | will not control the discretion of toe Court below Americans, incarcerated in Ireland for Fenianism, ' in refusing to grant a new trial, on the ground that the men had no business in Ireland. He be-' that the verdict was contrary to the evidence, lieved the invasion of Canada was the act of a setalthough toe plaintiff proved that toe services of of robbers and murderers, who deserved Bevere h®* in testa tewere worth at least one hundred punishment, and declared that our Government wao i “ d twenty-five dollars, independent of any 7" . ; special contract between toe parties. determined to have the laws faithfully and vigorous-1 ^re is evidence in the record from which ly executed. _ ., : tbe jury might have found there was a special The Tribune, editorially, says: “The President, ■ contract between th© parties, and in that view we need hardly state, ha6 had no part nor lot in the J of it, the verdict was not so strongly and deci- proposed nomination of his relative, Judge Bent, ! dedly against the evidence as will authorize this for Governor of Mieaiseippi. Whether Judge B6nt | Court to set it aside; the more especially as the is a Conservative Republican, a Radical, or no Re- J preceding Judge before whom the case was tried publican at all, makes no shadow of difference.— ^^nflgment affirmed. v The President has taken no part in the election of | Mabry, by Hugh Buchanan, for plain- Governors by toe people of the respective States, tiffin error. and is very unlikely to take any.',’ YT. O. Tuggle for defendant in error. —- The Yerger Case, j Doe ex. dem., H. G. H. Miller, plaintiff in error, Jackson, Miss., July 22—The trial of Mr. Yerger, j vs. Roe casual ejector, and Jno. N. Swift, de- before a military commission, concluded to-day— ! fendant in error. Ejectment from DeKalb. verdict not known. After the trial concluded, Yer- ' When an action of ejectment was instituted ger was brought before Judge mil, of toe United by toe vendee of a tract of land against toe ven- States Circuit Court, on a writ of habeas corpus. do 1 r > ** leBa .f* ot tbe defendant claiming under T av _ a bond for titles executed by the party m pos- i f r6e f’ btoalfof the prisoner, Bess j on 0 f the land, and one half* only of the submitted toe plea, to which Judge Advocate Col. j purchase money having been paid: Held, that Thomas F. Barr submitted a return, and Yerger was| the vendee of toe land claiming under a bond remanded to military custody. The points involved •, for titles cannot maintain an action, of eject- having heretofore been passed upon by Judge Hill, j m«nt against the vendor thereof, until the full with toe same result, toe case will be next heard j amount of the purchase money has been^paid, or from in the Supreme Court. 1 f le “‘ tender of the amount * due for the land shall have been made to toe vendor thereof. Judgment affirmed. Alston & Winn, ■ A. W. Hammond A Son for plaintiff in error. Hill A Candlar, L. R. Bleckley, for defendant in error. Felix H. Henderson, plaintiff in error, vs. JohnD. Pope, endorser, defendant la error. As- smnpset from Fulton. Warner, J.—Where suit was instituted .uoa the following writtan paper, to wit: “Atlanta, Ga., August 4th, 1866. Georgia National Bank of Atlanta, Ga.: Ninety days after date, pay to F. R. Bell, or order, one thousand dol lars.” Signed, “Maesey A Herty;” endorsed by F. R. Bell and John D. Pope; which was pro tested for non-payment on the 2d November, 1866. Held, That the paper was a bill of ex change, and entitled to three dags of grace be fore being protested for non-payment, and was not a cheek payable at bank at sight or on de- manA, as contemplated by the 2742 and 2749 sections of the Code, on which no days of grace are allowed. By the full Court, judgment affirmed. Warner, J.—Held, also, on a motion to dis miss toe writ of error in this oase, that toe 240th section of the code, which provides for toe se lection of a practicing attorney of the Court, to preside in cases in which the Judge of the Supe rior Courtis interested, and authorizes such attorney selected by the parties litigant to exer cise aU the f unctions of a Judge in that case, is not a violation of either the letter or spirit of the Constitution of this State; and that a writ of error will lie from this Court to correct such errors as may be committed by that pro tempore Judge holding the Superior Court in a case in which the Judge of toeeirenit is an interested party. McCay, J., concurring as to jurisdiction. Where the Judge of the Superior Court is dis qualified from presiding in a cause, and toe par ties, as provided by section 240 of the Code, agree upon a person to preside, the Court so constituted ir none toe less toe Superior Court for that oase, and a bill of exceptions will lie, for toe correction of its alleged errors, by this Court. .* . . . Brown, C. J., dissenting as to jurisdiction, delivered a long dissentient opinion, whioh we are forced to omit for lack of space. A Remarkable Opinion. The Milledgeville papers, of a recent date, have published the dissentient opinion of Judge Iverson L. Harris, in the case of Chancelly vs. Bailey, delivered in toe Supreme Court of The Dent movement is supported by the press of the State, and he will receive toe support of Con servatives of all parties. From Virginia. Richmond, July 22.—There were four hundred arrivals at toe White Sulphur Springs, West "Vir ginia, to-day. Among them Geo. Peabody, W. A. Corcoran, General Geoige E. Pickett and others. Blankets and overcoats are in demand—thermome ter at noon sixty-seven degrees. Alexandria, July 22.—Commodore S. S. Lee, brother of General Robert E. Lee, died to-day at home, in Stafford county. General News. “ San Francisco, July 22.—The Avitor made anoth er successful trial trip. Several engineers believe that toe large machine now constructing will be successful. The Republicans elected a delegate to Congress from Washington Territory by 148 majority. A steamer from Japan has arrived. The steamship Tallahassee, formerly a Confed erate cruizer, was totally destroyed near Yokoho- ma, andtwenty-two lives lost, including the Captain, crew, and most of toe passengers. The Prussian trade is unparalleled in toe histoiy of Japan. There has been no arrivals of new silk. The cold weather has destroyed many worms. New York, July 22.—The papers are silent re garding Canby’s policy of imposing toe iron-dad oath on the Virginia Legislature. Frank Ballard, Secretary of toe Security Insur ance Company, is a defaulter for toe sum., of sixty- tliree thousand dollars. John A. Rending, a well-known bridge engineer, died to-day with lock-jaw. from a jammed foot. R. D. Bogart, defaulting Naval Pay-master, baB arrived from Galveston, Texas, in custody. . The Cuban patrols at Fort Lafayette are to be re leased to-morrow. Daniel Kelly killed liis father on yesterday. From Cuba- Havana, July 22.—Manzanillo merchants have been arrested for dealing with the rebels. The loyal Cubans of Santa Espirito have issued an address urging their rebel brethren to return to their allegiance. «. v The Insurgents, eight hundred strong, have been defeated with heavy loss. Jordan is wounded. Haytieu advices to toe tenth nit., report toe Dauey, delivered in we oupreme Qa*« 0..,, iU. OotabU,8t. M™. i tiTot Salnave is personally superintending the opera- ^ ^ 0 ^ OU) and take occasion to direct tions against Anx Caves. His friends are confl- t be attention of lawyers and statesmen to it dent of success. Oaloe, however, io determined to . when published in the law reports. This opinion defend the place to the last extremity. j is toe greatest act of Judge Harris’ life, and no — mm i doubt did more to defeat nis nomination to toe Foreign News. ! Bench, or. a continuance on it, than anything London, Jnly 22.—There was a colliery explosion else. The argument is masterly and does credit at St. Helena, a few miles from Liverpool, to-day, to toe man who delivered it. It is likewise a which killed thirty, and wounded sixty. credit to our State. It is one of the profoundest Madrid, July *22._The report that Don Carlos judicial expositions of thepowers ofourGov- . . a. ■ ■ - , - eminent, ever pronounced from the Joencjl province °f havarre is confirmed. /This is not only the oalm judgment of the The Government is taking great precautions. ; bnt it jg 'likewise the oordial testimony Paris, July 22.—Official papers say Victor Du- c f gome among toe brightest intellects in toe l ey and Adolph Yentiy have been appointed Sena- State. We commend it, therefore, to all who tors. value the noblest qualities of an undaunted Acgdent A^A^r-wTTe^et to learn, by to cS SmSS S letter, that Mr. Thomas McKenna, an old citizen of ^ Deeds the master cf thirty legions Eufaula, and a well known merchant tailor, fell ^ is mightier then battalions and that from a second story window of a house in that city there dwelieth on high a Ruler of the Universe on Monday nigbt, abont 9 o’clock, and received very whom no bayonets can coerce and so King cor- aevei e if not fatal injuries by tbe-fatl. • rupt or — C'fW In view of the excitement in political circle? I which has followed recent events, the opinio® I which are expressed hereto the effect that th I next session of Congress will be turbulentI lengthy are certainly based upon good fouti I tions. ** [ Grant will withont toe shadow of a doubt & 1 assert his opinions that when Southern Sst^l f have complied with toe reconstruction lavs, ti I | Virginia has done, and as Mississippi and Tun I will do, they must be restored to their privily I as States in this Union. He will in this dedal tion be supported by s formidable faction, if m \ a large majority, of toe Radical party, andb| the whole Conservative strength of the" coW | so that if the discontents, under the leader?!®! of their narrow-minded partisans, are dUposd| to refuse acquiesoenoe, it is easy to see *kid| party will go to toe walL Mew Wonder—A Revolution In Steu| Engines. I The Jersey City Times has a description dil machine, now in operation in that city, which! destined to work a revolution in one depaitn>e| of mechanical industry—namely, a nev steisl engine, which, one-quarter of the weight, id I occupying one-quarter toe space required hi an ordinary ten-horse engine, will give thesaj power, with twenty-five per cent less fuel | This little machine sets at defiance all rcf-j conceived notions on the snbject. Its ttos™ I power is all contained within the circumferesj of a broad, stout wheel, about three feet nil ameter, revolving upon a hollow shaft, which | receives the steam, and delivers it altcrnatdj | into two opposite reciprocal cylinders, euc| i fixed between toe centre and periphery, lie I power, therefore, instead of being at the certre. I presents the singular anomaly of being at lie I circumference—or, in other words, the tree center of power is at the periphery of the wheel I To use a familiar simile, the wheel is like tie I hand or drum of a squirrel cage, in which tv I squirrels were consentaneously—one in the | usual position; the other 'in the opposite, b:| with his head down, and with a motion similar! | that of a fly walking on toe ceiling,both of corn I in continually reversing positions aB the wheel I turns. It is an application of the simple proa-1 pie by which, as any one can see, a grindstc:* J may easily be turned, by placing tiie hand epos | its surface, while only with considerable mu. I cular exertion, a man’s hand grasping thesM I can produce the same motion. J The inventor, Mr. Buset, a Frenchman,»I sided at Communipaw until'quite recrmir I where he was well known as the author and ti; I patentee of several useful minor inventions. Th I Times says it is expected that a stock coop«:;l will be formed immediately for the mannfactctl of the Ru6et engine; whose value for allI requiring lightness of construction, oombineil with economy of fuel, may be seen by the sb I pie statement that it will give ten-horse poja I with no more fuel than would be required inil caloric engine of two-horse power, occnpjiiil one-fourth of toe space, and at a much is I cost. And one important feature is, that tV| same engine can be used either to attain a hi? I rate of speed or to do heavy hoisitng. Weather, Crops and Health. We cannot give so favorable a report on tkl weather and state of the crops as we hare bee I doing; toe extreme heat and want of rain, b*| caused the com to wait, and the consequent will be a failure to fill well, and the cottoa -I firing and throwing off toe fruit to such an a I tent, as will force ns to take back all we I said about the prospect for a good crop, | we have propitious showers, and that in a £ time. Tht. doctors’ faces look a little more cheensn I we can hear occasionally of a case of chide, s I alight attack <»f bilious fever; but no b«I than could be exposed, while we have so I fruit, and our people i^foge to be governed (J I toe laws of health. But ftttle complaint emeu I toe freedmen.—Daxeson Jour*#1, 22d. The Albany and Thomasvill® road. Thohastit.le, Ga., Jnly 17, ^ Editors Telegraph: The South Georgia *£| Florida Railroad is now completed beyond I Ccklockonee River—seven miles north of to ,! I —and the cars are running on it daily. T- grading is nearly done to the first depot—- miles. The superstructure is being laid ah* I of the iron, whioh latter is being laid very i$| idly. I will deliver toe whole of the lumber •-1 track and depot to that point within the r^j ten days. The work will be done, and cars I run to the depot by the first of August, whei I Company will get State aid of $8000 per set-1 so you see toe South Georgia and Floridi $»> I road to Albany is a fixed fact Yours respectfully, VL L **• Foreign Luuxgrahon to Virginia.—It* ^ I mond Whig says eighty Austrian families the neighborhood of Vienna are coming near Richmond. They have already disT 06 *! of their effects in Austria, and are awaiting ° | return of their agent, who has been here rt^ I ly to make arrangements for them. He i> | en route for that country. Those already ^ | are delighted with their prospects. Lippinoott fob August—has among it* !*l pere, Part 2d of the ’Rear of Bull 1 Trollope—Heroes—Joseph Jefferson—A® . I venture in the Snow— aManifest Destiny - " i of Beyond toe Breakers—Is it a Gospel of ' —Waifs from the Monti eello—Parlor and I en—Magdalena—Peter Crisp's Specterfe*’ 1 ’*' Annexation car West Florida to i The Tallapoosa Sentinel (Radical P«P^ ' j that there is not the slightest prospect ot than a “corporal's guard of the people ® . da voting in favor of the cession of the part of that State to Alabama; also Governor of Florid* is opposed to it Supreme Court.—In the Supreme Cea* ^ Monday, argument was heard in owe Xante Circuit—Brown guardian, **• Wright and wife-A»wi t*m Court of i nary of DeKalb oounty. J«5g* for plaintiff in ww, and M. A Candle*, for defendant in error. . ^ Court adjourned pending' <**■*“* Of Jfe. £ ■!-