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vtsfife««sarH* ir® . t iy ®te , &6®rgia Weekly Telc^apfe THE TELEGRAPH. MACON FRIDAY, JULY 80, 1860. An EdlMrial ExeaniMi. A circular from Superintendent Hnlburt pro* poses an excursion of the members of the press of Georgia’ for the purpose of examining the mineral resources of Georgia. The, train will leave Atlanta on the 25th of Angnst and proceed to Chattanooga. Front thence, by steamer, to the extensive iron works on the Tennessee river, above that city. Returning to Chattanooga the train will proceed to Rome, and from thence the excursionists will go down the Coosa by steamer and visit the iron works on that river. Retaining to Rome, they will go down the Sel ma, Rome and Dalton Railway, to the iron works on that road—the whole trip consuming about twelve days. The trip cannot fail to be highly interesting and profitable, and we doubt not L editorial frate^nty of Georgia win be fully represented. Co 1. Hnlburt, in his circu lar, says the iron crop of Georgia will, in a few years, exceed her cotton crop in value. Republicans Against the Chinese. It is now stated,- says the Richmond Dispatch, that a bill will be introduced at an early period in the next Congress providing that all contracts for labor entered into in a foreign country shall be null and void the moment the immigrant with whom the contract is made lands upon the Bhores of the United States. This is to strike at the Chinese immigrant companies, and if possible destroy them. Few Coolies will be brought in if no binding contract can be entered into with them before their arrival in this country. How will Messrs. Forney and "Wells like this ? There is a little fuss made upon the subject in Memphis ; but the matter of the active intro duction of the Coolies and the profit therefrom will be altogether in the bands of northern spec ulators. If Congress passes such a bill as that spoken of it will only breakup some very prom ising schemes gotten up in the North. To Kill Kot Grass. Dr. Nelson, of this place, says he was success ful in killing Nut Grass on the family home stead in Richmond county, by successive crops of Black Mustard, sown thickly broadcast, and sown twice daring the season. The dense shade, or quality in the mustard poisonous to the grass, or both, never failed to exterminate it—causing the nuts to rot in the ground. It is worth try ing. Fair at Marietta. A circular from Wm. L. Mansfield, superin tendent of Free School at Marietta, Georgia, in forms us that a Fair will be held daring the third week in August for the benefit of Educa tion in that place. He solicits contributions of books, magazines, boots and shoes, hardware, cutlery, and in fact almost every description of goods addressed to the School Fair at Marietta, Ga., or left at Burke’s bookstore or with Mr. N. A. Megrath, Hollingsworth Block. A Clean Baclt-Down Fitch, of the Griffin Semi-Weekly Star, has been promising a noble editorial so soon as it rains. Fitch is able to do it. It’s in the man. But laziness prevailed and here is Iris miserable reason: . ' / ' Stole ocb Thunder.—We promised our read ers n huge leader as soon as it rained again: but the Macon Telegraph has stolen onr sub ject, which was Grant’s horses, and we therefore merely copy its article. If the Star does not redeem its promise and give that editorial in -the course of a week— there’s no help for him. Negro suffrage for ninety days is the lightest penalty. Effect or the Supreme Court Decision’.—We printed yesterday much the ablest argument on the issues arising under the late Supreme Court eligibility decision which has yet been presented -to the people. A timely notice of it was omit ted by mistake. The Income Tax.—Next year is the last year, r ao x» uuw ottuma. in which the tax on incomes is to be collected. The amendment passed in 1867 to the 119th sec tion of the law reads thus: “That the taxes on incomes herein imposed shall be levied on the first day of March, and be due and payable on or before the thiertieth day of April, in each year, until and including the year eighteen hundred andseventy and no long er.” •; Unless, therefore, Congress extends tho op eration of this tax, universally acknowledged to be inquisitorial, oppressive and unconstitution al, its existence has nearly come to an end. North Carolina.—The Supreme Couit of North Carolina have lately declared the acts of the late Legislature of that State authorizing large land appropriations to* Railroads, uncon stitutional and void. North Carolina securities have advanced considerably in the course of the past few days on the strength of this derision. Miss Borxe, a Gallant Ears.—From Cape May comes a report that the daughter of ex-Secreta- ry Borie had distinguished herself by rescuing from drowning a gentleman who had ventured beyond his depth. Miss Borie is said to ‘be a strong, bold swimmer, and seeing a human; life in danger, she went promptly to the assistance of the drowning man, and seizing him by - the hair of the head, brought him toaplace of safe ty. Why not make Miss Borie Secretary of the Navy 7—Intelligencer. A Philosopher on - A- Dangerous Career.— Horace Greeley of the Tribune lately went down - to Long Branch to have a talk with Gen. Grant. How he got there is thus described: While riding from the depot to the Stetson House in a carriage the horses became frightened, and dashed up the beach road at a terrific rate of speed. The driver frightened, lost control of • his team, and they ran away. Mr. Greeley, re mained in his seat His face was pile, but be yond this there was no evidence of any fright Fronting the United States Hotel the horses sheered from the road. The wheels of tho car riage struck a board fence, tearing it up for some fifty feet The carriage was smashed, and Mr. Greeley was thrown to the ground. Hap pily, he escaped uninjured. On rising to his feet he made an attempt to brush the curt from his clothes, and said ; “Well, well; this beats my ride to Placerville with Hank Monk I” The dispatch goes on to say that Greeley had ’a long talk with Gen. Grant—discussed the Cuba question thoroughly and left the President deep ly impressed with his advioe.. ->*■ African Tournament.—The sable knights of Tennessee are going to hold a tournament. Among the passages-at-arms a butting match is conspicuous, and this will be severely contested. *-*• 9 Thebe will be four negro members in the "Virginia Senate, and fourteen in the House. Two of them are Conservatives, and the rest are Radicals. :■ Senator Cole, of California, thinks that Mex ico is the destined goal of Asiatic emigration on this continent, and wants it diverted in that di rection. T wants -trees States have adopted the Fif teenth amendment. Four more are required to make it a part of the Constitution. A oood turn is done our readers when we commend to them the American House, Boston. The same judicious management is continued vrfcicb b»« rendered it so popular in the past. Two Hopeless Things. Oar attention ba« been drawn to-day to two enterprises which we : think are quite hopless. The first of these is a scheme by the govern ment to beautify the revenue stamps. It is not in the range of human art to make those things look pretty to the people. Onr ancestry went into oonniption fits and burst the British gov ernment out of hatred to stamps, and those stamps did not call for a penny where ours call for twenty dollars. ^ -j • i. It is well said by the poet that life is now sim ply a sea of stamps. We eat, drink and smoke stamps. We sleep on stamps. We awake on on stamps, We get np in the morning and pull off a stamped nightgown,and (such of us as use the article) put on a stamped shirt. We then put on stamped dippers—soap our faces with stamped soap—lather with a stamped brush- shave with a stamped razor—brush our hair with a stamped brush—our teeth with the same —put on stamped clothing and go out and eat often a stamped breakfast. The stamps haunt us like Banquo’s ghost till sometimes existence is loathed and we sigh for the quiet of the grave. We are sure, though that grave be in the highway, it can never be stamped as much as the living subject. That is the reason why the Yankees represent human life in their favorite song: “Stamp! stamp!! stamp!!! the boys are marching,” as a never-ending series of stamps, from tho cradle to the grave—which it is. The Yankees are right in that particular. The second hopeless thing we shall mention to-day is a sermon by Ward Beecher to the bulls and bears of the New York Gold Room. Beecher is inflamed by a species of clerical knight errantry, and is persuaded, with his single lance, be can overthrow and scatter a legion of foul dragons, be they clothed in ada mantine scales, and armed with poisonous claws and tongues of fire. Hence he couches his lance, and storms the gold room. The tele gram does not give the result of the onslaught, but we imagine he was carried out of Downing’s Oystei Saloon, mortally wounded with cham pagne and oysters. The contest was too une qual. • Price of Lands In Georgia. A correspondent has written ns that first qual ity laud in Floyd county is held as high as cue hundred dollars per acre; and a friend recently from that section says that several sales have lately been effected in Floyd and Folk at that price. In Southwestern Georgia, however, un questionably the best agricultural section of the State, although lands are slowly rising in value, we suppose twenty dollars an acre would be the top of the market. . . The reader will see among our advertisements that the Furlow Place, in Calhoun county, of two thousand five hundred acres, one thousand of which are cleared, is offered for thirty thou sand dollars. As the improvements on the place are probably worth more than five thou sand dollars, here is a first rate place offered for ten dollars an acre. That land without ma nure, as things now stand, will produce at least from sixty to seventy-five dollars’ worth of cot ton to the acre at a cost of cultivation not ex ceeding twenty dollars, and show a nett product of say forty dollars to the acre. It is an odd kind of property which will pay 400 Der cent upon its value in a single year. And stranger still is this difference in value between an acre in Floyd and an acre in Calhoun. If we allow forty bushels of com to the Floyd acre, that is worth up there, say fifty dollars; and it would be difficult to make it nett thirty to the cultivator. Or if it produced thir ty bushels of wheat, that would be worth thirty- seven dollam and a half, and would result in a still smaller dividend. Some profound philos opher should take it upon himself to let us into the secret of these diverse valuations, and show us the principles upon which they are founded. Until this is done satisfactorily, we don’t think we should be over-eager to sell first class oak and hickory lands in Calhoun county at ten dol lars per acre. — — «>!■■» The New York Herald, of the 24th, indulges in cruel taunts on the subject of negro and Chi nese suffrage. Saith that paper : The homely old adage that “chickens - come home to roost,” when applied to those who meet with punishment or embarrassment as a conse quence of their own acts, is verified in the case of the negro-worahipping Radicals of California. They have gone with their party for negro suf frage, for elevating the Southern negroes over the white people and for the constitutional amendment putting all colors and races of men on an equality, and now they are alarmed at the consequences of their ultra-radicalism. They are likely to have as large a dose of the Chinese as they have forced the Southern whites to swallow of the negro. They are sick at stomach in advance and in contemplation of the future. The Republican State Convention of Califor nia in its platform of resolutions emphatically “opposes Chinese suffrage in any form.” Like the Radicals of other States of the North they magnanimously give the suffrage to the ignorant and brutal negro—to the lowest race of mankind —because they have scarcely any negroes among them ; but it is quite another thing when the Chinese are in question. How illogical and inconsistent are these Republicans! Everyone acquainted with history, as well as every phy siologist, knows that the Chinese are a far su perior and more intellectual race than the ne groes. They were a civilized people when the nations of Europe were barbarians, and in many things we may yet learn from them. In some arte they are yet superior; in agriculture they have attained a high point of excellence, and in the social or domestio virtues they will compare with the most civilized people, and they have maintained an organized govern ment and system of society from the earliest times to the present day, while the negroes have never emerged from barbarism, except where some degree of civilization has been forced upon them by the white man. We tell these California Republicans they must be logical in this matter. They cannot escape from the con sequences of their own acta and the acts of their party. If the suffrage is not to be held exclu sively by the white race of European stock, and if the negroes are to be put on an equality with our own intellectual race the Chinese cannot be excluded. If we are to try the experiment of a mongrel republican empire that race which stands next to the Caucasian cannot be placed beneath the negro, the lowest of alL Many of our Radicals may yet live to be seriously troub led by the political and social monster they have raised. . . Why should the Herald pounce on California alone, when universal Radicalism is engaged in forcing through, by hook or crook, the fifteenth amendment of the Constitution which prohibits all distinctions in suffrage on account of oolor or race ? The wise men of the Radicals, we know, determined on that movement in pure reference to the negro. They did not see the great crowd of Chinese immigration looming up in the East. They were very sharp dullards and blunderers. Now that they discover the mis chief, they are talking about legal provisions to deter Chinese immigration. They have tied themselves up to the apparent alternative of a ruinous debasement of the suffrage, or a for feiture of those immense national benefits which must result from the proper cultivation of the great alluviums of the South. That is the at titude in which they have placed themselves and the country. But they cannot prevent Chinese immigration, nor on the other hand, bo long as suffrage is extended to a race so alien as the negro, can they prevent the Chinese from attaining it. The Chinese Question.'—A Washington letter says : “The Chinese emigration question is already bothering the minds of some of the members of the Workingmen's Assembly here. There is no doubt that the workingmen generally are think ing deeply on this subject, and watching with interest, every movement looking to the impor tation of the Celestials.” 1 The 'Merrylag Quei>ii*h. THE DEMORALIZATION OT MODERN DRESS—WHY MEN DO NOT MARRY. [ffirw York Cormpondence of tKe Chicao~o~Tribime. Much of the careless morality of the present day is owing to the way in which women dress. There is no cavilling at the fact or pretending to ignore it, but the moderately dressed wife and mother is fast disappearing from our homes. The domestio daughter has long sinoe become a myth, and in. her place we have a creature of hair and humps—wasp hips, Grecian-bended, high-heeled, chignoned young lady, who laughs loud and talks fast, and writes herself “Mane” Or “Julie,” and who is a complete success in doing nothing and knowing nothing except the slang literature of the day. This model of young womanhood has a splen did wardrobe, a waist that measures eighteen inches, and a lover with tight pantaloons and a side whisker, whom she marries, under the pro test that if she sees some one that she likes better, she need not cleave to him any longer, knowing, as well as you and I do, that divorces can be procured without publicity. She wouldn’t have any children for the world—can’t endure the trouble—should die, etc.—the only sensible thing she was likely to do. You can see her any day on the sidewalk, or in a car nage—often at the church—always at the opera —and she is a representative of a large class, not wicked, or intentionally immoral, but oh! so weak—with that overburden of dry goods, laces, jewelry, enough to crash out any better principle that might assert itself. Over-dressing demoralizes a woman. I takes from her that purity of thought and character, the high prerogatives of a perfect life, which is her legitimate' birthright, and she sells it for a mess of pottage. It opens the avenues of her soul to a thousand destroying infinences, and leads her by silken tendrils over into the valley of the shadow of death. I think of this when I see mothers helping their little ones into the thraldom; I thought of it last Sunday, as I glanced from the chapel-master, in his robes, to a baby-worshipper in blue silk, en panier, all ruffles and folds, and Grecian bend—to the white hat, with its cluster of matnre ted roses— to the small wrists clasped in jeweled bands— to the shapely baby finger heaped with dia monds. I looked at the soft, pale, golden hair, ar ranged just like mamma’s—to the white brow on which the lace hat so properly rested—to the clear-cut features of the mature, precooious face, luminous with seven years’ wisdom, and I could not reiterate the good man's assertion: “Of such is the Kingdom of Heaven.” It seemed to me too much in the fashion of this world “which passeth away.” I think the rea son young men do not marry is because girls have ceased to be domestic, and spend a great deal of money upon dress. They are not con tented to live in a quiet way, and dress moder ately ; they must go out, dress and ride, and frequent places of amusement; have suppers and banquets, and receive adulation. It costa a great deal of money, which the young man furnishes, and he never gets ahead enough to marry; so they repent and try their luck over again. It is the easiest thing in the world to do with less luxury, but it involves a little self-sacri fice and economy, and those virtues are fast be coming exotics. Folly one-half of the girls who are now filling situations in stores, offices, etc., g# there, in the first place, in order to be able to dress better. They live in plain, but comfor table homes, and must help with the house work, or the children of their own kin; but they hear glowing accounts of the city; they want the finery that is denied them, and they want to go from those peaceful home-lives, from the kind guardianship of parents, to the toil and temptations of the ten-hour system. They go plain country girls,with modest,blush- ing cheeks and smooth, shining hair. They stay there a year or two, and their cheeks are pale and their hair is frizzed. They have lost the gtuichrrk of blushing and are bold at reportcr. They dress somehow; but they have hours-of despondency that make them old. It is onr long struggle with labor and temptation, am how they preserve their integrity God only knows. Now, would not these girls be happier as the wives of farmers or mechanics ? Would not one word of genuine love outweigh a ton of admira tion ? Would not the smile of a little child be a thousand times better than the gaze of a liber tine? Is it not easier to work for one’s own than for strangers ? to feel that you are a king in your castle, if it is only a one-story cottage ? Woman’s independence will work a deadlier wrong than any bond she has ever worn. "When she steps beyond the fair threshold of womanly power—the archetypal home, where God has made her supreme, to fight the demons of political or commercial life, she lays down a sceptre to take np a chain whose iron canker will eat into her soul. That was a true and beautifnl reply which one of our strongest ad vocates of suffrage in this city gave to a gentle man who called on her at her office and de- manuca -w kuvn *uo mcamng or woman's Rights. She looked np with a troubled face— the face of a delicate, thoughtful woman—from the pile of exchanges and manuscripts which lay before her, and answered with earnest solem nity, “I can give you its entire definition at this moment in two words, ‘Home andPeace!’ ” BY TELBGtlj^PH; From Washington. Washington, July 27.—Alexander H. Stephens, writing to a friend here, says: “l am gratified at the result of the election in Virginia, and earnestly hope that Judge Dent may be elected in' Missis sippi.” Dr. C. P. Culver leaves for Maeon to-merrow, for the purpose of placing the laboratory property in possession of the Georgia Agricultural Society., The President is expected for Friday's Cabinet. Mr. Greeley, with a party, have gone to Virginia. Hoar contemplates a week’s absence. Field, will officiate. Revenue, to-day, $300,000. TreasurerBpinnerbas received a counterfeit three dollar coupon from Germany, evidently manu factured there. The imitation of the engraving, signatures, seals, etc., is good, but the paper is bad. .• Proceedings have commenced against Sdrarman, (colored) the former Messenger of the Treasury, for uttering bogus money. H. M. Tomer, the ne gro Post-master, at Macon, Ga., will be brought here as a witness. Washington, July 28.—It is understood that Mc Dowell will relieve Gen. Canby in Virginia, who is to be Eent to Mississippi. Great interest attaches to Friday’s Cabinet when the test oath question in Virginia will be decided. In the meantime it is stated that the President lias positively ordered Gen. Canby to take no action. Revenue, to-day, nearly one million dollars. It is stated that Morton will introduce a universal amnesty hill immediately upon the ratification of the fifteenth amendment. M Coolie Trade Prohibited, Koopmansehaap’s Enterprise Contrary to Lav> —The Acts of Congress on the Subject—The Punishment for Offenders Fine and Impris onment. From the New York Timet. It is well known that the wealthy San Fran cisco merchant, Koopmarischaap, has recently strenuously advocated the introduction of the colic labor system, which at present prevails only in the Pacific States, into all parts of the United States; that he started a gigantic project for bringing coolies into this country direct from China; that he was prominently concerned in the Memphis Convention, where the subject of cheap labor was extensively discussed; that he subsequently came North with the expectation of receiving encouragement in his undertaking; and But it appears that the coolie trade is strictly forbidden by law. His enterprise comes under an act passed during the second session of the Thirty-seventh Congress, specifying that no citizen or foreigner coming into or residing with in the United States shall engage in the Coolie trade under penalty of losing the vessel or ves sels so engaged. In the same act it is provided that every person who shall aid or abet the building, equipping or navigating of any vessel intended for the Coolie trade, shall, upon con viction, be liable to a fine not exceeding $2,000, and be imprisoned, not exceeding one year.— Another section of the same act makes it on offence to take on board of any vessel, or re ceive or transport any Coolies who shall be intended for' the Coolie trade. The punishment is a fine of $2,000, or imprisonment for one year. The first and most important sec tion of the act reads as follows: “That no citizen or citizens of the United States, or foreigner coming into or residing within the same, shall, for himself or for any other person whatever, either as master, factor, owner, or otherwise, raise, build, equip, load or otherwise prepare any ship or vessel, or any steamship or steam vessel, registered, enrolled or licensed, in the United States, or any port within the same, for the purpose of procuring from China, or from any port or place therein, or from any other port or place the inhabitants or subjects of China, known as Coolies, to be transported to any foreign country, port or place whatever,-to-be disposed of, or sold, or transferred, for any term of years, or for any time whatever, as servants or apprentices, or to be held to service or labor. And if any ship or vessel, steamship or steam vessel, belonging in whole or in part to citizens of the United States, and registered, enrolled or otherwise licensed as aforesaid, shall be employed for the said pur pose, or in the Coolie trade so called, or shall be caused to procure from China or elsewhere, as aforesaid, any subjects of the Government of China for the purpose of transporting or dis posing of them as aforesaid, every such ship or vessel, steamship or steam vessel, her tackle, apparel, furniture and other appurtenances, shall be forfeited to the United States, and shall be liable to he seized, prosecuted and condemned in any of the Circuit or District Courts of the United States for the diatriot where the said ship or vessel, steamship or steamship or steam ves sel may be found, seized or carried.” Death of Captain Francis J. Cebcopelt.— We regret to announce the death of this old citizen, who expired at his residence, comer of Jones and Price streets, last evening at seven o’clock, of chronic dysentery, aged sixty-three years. He was for thirty-five years captain of a steamer on the Savannah river; was in the ser vice of the Confederate government during the war, and at the time of his death was Messenger of Council. Railroad Accident. Cincinnati, July 23.—A passenger train on the Memphis and Ohio Railroad, near Clarksville, Tonn., went through the trestle work over Budd Creek The train, with the exception of one car, was burned. The engineer and fireman, and three or four others were killed. Thirty were badly hurt. Later.—The entire train and contents, except the Orleans sleeping car, were burned, and that badly damaged. Casualties, killed—Eugene Riley, engineer; Chas. Childs, fireman; Hugh McCall, passenger from Orleans. Badly wounded—Mrs. H. McCall, of Orleans; Joseph Nent of Orleans; H. B. Mitchell, Orleans ; John Burt, Columbus, Miss. Judge Caulkins and wife, Orleans; J. J. Buck, Clarksville; Seth Henderson, (colored), Memphis C. H. Sage, Fulton, N. V.; C. A. Brown, baggage- master; John C. Duggan, express messenger. Slightly wounded—Wm. McCall, Orleans: Ed. Stowe, Eufaula, Ala.; Mr. and Mrs. Peterson, Baton Rouge W. S. Packer, Pittsburg; J. C. Hannah, Coffeeville, Miss.; J. O. Levy, Holly Springs, Miss.; Miss Hat tie Michael, of Lauderdale; W. E. Shephard, Or leans; J. L. Corril], Stewart’s Station; Barton Salisbury, Stewart’s Station; two children of Judge Caulkins, of Orleans; Sam. Lowry, sleeping car conductor; W. D. Wray, milligant; E. N. Boon, brakeman; 0. B. Webster, brikeman. Negro Riot in Charleston. Charleston. July 27.—A negro riot, which at one time threatened very serious consequences, oc curred last night on the occasion of the departure of a visiting base-ball club from Savannah. The dub was accompanied by a brass band composed of colored men, who were said to be Democrats. Aa the dub was leaving in procession for the Savannah boat, they were attacked with sticks and showers of stones and brickbats by a negro mob of several hun dred men. Several shots were fired on both sides. Mayor Pillsbnry was on the ground, hut said he was powerless to quell the riot, and called on Major Oglesby for the assistance of the United States troops. The Club was then escorted to the boat be tween platoons of the Eighth Infantry, followed by a large crowd of yelling and infuriated negroes, throwing stones and compelling the soldiers at in tervals to face about and threaten to fire. Several were wounded, mostly members of the colored band. The affair causes intense indignation among the whites. __ • ’■ From Virginia!^V.’;\ Bichmond, July 27 General Canby has modified his order for the payment of January interest by directing that only one per cent, he paid. -This will amount to $350,000. It is stated that James C. Taylor, Attorney Gen eral elect, is to be commissioned by Gen. Canby to fill that office, its occupant having resigned. White Sulphur Springs, July 27.—A meeting was held here to-day, composed principally of Southern ers. Resolutions were unanimously adopted express- Jncr flin erratitnda of the Southern peoplo todcor^-o Peabodyfor the munificent gift of $8,000,000 to the cause of education to the South. The reeolntions will be formally presented to Peatodv to-morrow. There are one thousand visitors here, two hundred at Hot Springs, eighty at Healing, one hundred and twenty-five at Alleghany, one hundred and fifty at Old Sweet, eighty at Red Sweet, and seventy-five at Salt Sulphur. It has been raining here the past two days. From Cuba. * Havana, July 27—Official reports state that regu lar effective troops are thirty-two thousand. Volun teers four thousand and Rebels six thousand well armed men and many guerrillas. Seviaro orders withholding the Jesuit College stipend owing to the indiscretion of the directors. The volunteers surprised and killed eighteen Reb els near Rem'edios. A skirmish between Villa Clara and Sagua re sulted in the loss of twenty Rebels, including Major Motigues. Sugar firmer and a large business at prices un changed. Washington, Jnly 28.—The Cabans here have of ficial advices to the twentieth. Quesada has de stroyed two important bridges on the Nnevitas and Puerto Principe Railroad, and holds the country between the two cities, which is closely invested. The garrisons are suffering from disease and short supplies. Several sorties fromNuevitas were driven back with serious loss. Quesada has a number of Spanish prisoners which he holds as hostages to in sure proper treatment to Cuban prisoners. The Cu bans hold several positions on the coast, giving them direct communication with the United States. The fight at Remedios resulted in a loss of one hundred and fifty Spaniards, killed, wounded and prisoners. The fight at Sagua le Grande lasted several hours. The Spaniards finally drew off with a loss of three hundred. The Cuban leaders have no doubt of their ability to maintain themselves against the forces nowin the field againBt them. A vessel with a largo amount of arms and ammunition, and a bat tery with three hundred and sixty men, landed near Nuevitas, and the expedition safely reached Quesada. Havana, July 28.—The Governor of the jurisdic tion of Trinidad orders all Spaniards between 15 and 60 years of age to arms. Persons unfit for ac tive service in the field to garrison towns. The presB praises the measure and demands its application throughout the Island. General News. Augusta, July 27.—There was a heavy rain storm this evening. The Constitutionalist states that a disguised party visited the jail at Appling, Columbia county, and took therefrom a negro man and woman, who were found dead on the road-side Sunday morning. The negroes had had a difficulty with a white family. Albany, N. V., July 27.—The Sheriff and his pos se have been driven from East Greenock by the anti renters. The Sheriff was mortally, and five of the posse seriously wounded. Buffalo, July 27.—Edward Holpto, an elderly man, fell into Niagara Falls, a distance of one hun dred and eighty feet to-day, and was instantly killed. Baltimore, July 28.—The Colored Labor Conven tion has passed resolutions, that the objections of white men to work with negroes must be overcome— a national negro convention to meet in Baltimore next December, and invoking Congress to drive Chinese labor out of the country. * >, .. ■- n j . f Richmond. July 28.—The State Treasurer will commence the payment of the one per cent. Janu ary interest on the State registered bonds on the 15th of August, and as soon thereafter as possible tho payment of coupons will be made. The.Boyal assent to the disestablishment bill bra been sent to both Houses. The Commons applaud ed loudIy.J"~'"*"v: '' |! " A collision between two Hull steamers resulted in their sinking and the loss of twenty passengers and the crew. Madrid, July 27.—The Cariists were repulsed in attempting to capture Pampoluna. Several were killed on both sides. . raws .telctdhi.S A .t. A party of Cariists were defeated by the volun teers at Saras eon. Offers of aid to put down the rebellion come fiom all quarters of Spain. Purtero offers his ser vices. '. V: . . , London, July 27 Gladstone is unwell. Parlia ment has prorogued till the tenth of Angnst. Faults have been discovered in the Atlantic Cable of 1866. They have been located one hundred and fifty miles from Valentia. Duxbury, July 28—The French Cable Ib pierfect. Its present capacity is 18 words per minute direct, and 25 words by repeating at St. Pierre. Paris, July 28.—It is reported that Don Carlos has ordered the cessation of the movement in his behalf, in Spain. From Louisiana. New Orleans, July 28—The investigation of the customs frauds are steadily progressing. Solicitor Bareii-.Id Las retained the legal firm of Hudson A Fearn to assist the District Attorney in the prosecu tion of cases. ~ . Tiie Cabinet on Texas, Mlssslssippi j-t and Virginia*| Mr. Forney telegraphs his Philadelphia Press of the 24th from Washington as follows: Texas and Mississippi.—The several parties in Texas and Mississippi are represented here by delegations whose duty it is to urge the ad ministration to use its influence there for the Conservative or Radical candidates in the pend ing campaigns. After carefully canvassing the Cabinet, both parties agree tnat Secretaries Boutwell and Robeson, Attorney General Hoar and Post-master General CresweU are opposed to the Conservative movement. It is, therefore, evident that the patronage of the government, which is mainly composed of the offices in the gift of the Treasury and Post-office Departments, will boused for the benefit of the Radicals. Both par ties also agree that President Grant will not in terfere with the desire of the heads of the sev eral departments, although the Conservatives assert that he is inclined to pursue a strictly neutral policy. They therefore claim that no changes will be made in either State, nnless oc casion requires new appointments, in which case most undoubtedly the Radicals will receive material benefit. j . ■■ Virginia.—The Radicals of Virginia, who da ring the late election were opposed to the suc cessful ticket, have made arrangements to pre sent arguments to Congress with a view to in- fluencing that body to reject the constitution as adopted. A delegation of leading Radicals from that State will stay here until the question is finally settled. Those of the delegation now here claim that one-half of the Cabinet, viz: Secretaries Boutwell, Creswell, and Robeson, are inclined to favor their proposition, but are not willing to recommend a new election. It is therefore probable that their efforts will prove futile. Wanted the Man Thrown In.—A Canadian Clergyman, not long since, was called upon by an Irish girl who inquired how much he asked for “marrying anybody.” He replied, “a dollar and a half’and Biddy departed. . , A few evenings later, on being summoned to the door, he was accosted by the same person, with the remark that she had come to be mar ried. “Very well,” said the minister—but perceiv ing with astonishment, that she was alone, he continued, “where is the man ?” • ■ An expression of disappointment passed over Biddy’s features as she ejaculated: “And don’t you find the man for a dollar and a half ? Drowned, Probably.—A negro boy who was bathing in the creek in Girard left his clotheB under the creek bridge and waded down to where the creek enters the river; he was last seen there. His clothes and hat were found late in the afternoon. His mother came down to look for him, and on learning the probabilities, on the tenderness of : her sympathies, exclaimed: “Well, if he’s drowned I reckon he’ll rise again.” So she went home not much concerned. [Columbus Sun. . «. .. Baker County.—A correspondent of the Sav annah News says: Some of the planters of this connty are using the fertilizers extensively and successfully, and I doubt not but what their land will yield from fifty to one hundred per cent. mare. Each plan ter has three or four acres of cotton planted around his house. This they have manured well, either with stable manure or guano. The owner of one of these patches says his will average one hundred and sixty forms to the stalk. I saw his patch, and I saw another gen- tlesman’s, and if the former’s will average one hundred and sixty, I know the latter’s will. Com crops are splendid; stalks higher than you can reach on your horse, and each having from two to four ears. I heard one old gentle man remark, who has been farming on that place four years, “that this was the best corn crop he had ever made.” A Savannah (Georgia) paper says that “it is a rare thing for the Northern Democrats to make a judicious nomination,” and that “since the South has been out of their councils the party appears to hare lost its brains.” Now, we al ways thought, and wo believe all sensible men at the South are satisfied by the result, that it was the Southern politicians who were crazy at the Charleston Convention in 1860, and not the Northern Democrats. If the Southern leaders had followed the advice of their Northern friends, the party would have been in power, and all of our trouble have been averted. As for the Northern Democrats not making “judi cious nominations,” our Southern cotemporary knows nothing. He does not live hero; he knows little of the temper of our people, and his advice, in any case, would evidently be the worst that could he adopted. His article, which we find copied in Republican exchanges, was evidently written for the Republican market, where he himself has been, we are satisfied, for some time.—Cin cin n ati Enquirer. I Thanks—We again thank the polite and attent ive route agents of the Southern Express Office for a copy of yesterday’s Savannah News, in advance of the mail, and from which we dip the following paragraph, in regard to the assault upon the Wash ington Comet Band (colored,) by a negro mob in Charleston, on the 26th tost: The attack was of the most unprovoked and bru tal nature that can be imagined—two or three thou sand armed and furious devils in human form, armed with clubs, palings tom from the fences, stones and brickbats, rushed upon these unpro tected and innocent and harmless men, kicking them down, beating and. jumping upon them—vei ling all the while as though hell had broken loose, and all its fiends had rushed forth to devour the world. Nearly every member of the band was struck. A squad of soldiers came to the rescue, and drove the mob from the grounds. The Mavor was present, but, when called upon for assistance, asserted that he was powerless to afford it Gen eral Anderson, Chief of the Savannah police force, then requested the commandant of the military to furnish protection to the band, which request was : granted, and they were escorted to the Charleston Hotel, where the clubs formed in line, accompanied by the invited guests, with a squad of soldiers in front and rear—marched to the hall of the Vigilant Fire Company, where the Oarolinas entertained their visitors with an elegant repast. ■ - 1 — . FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL* Foreign Hew*. London, July 27—It is rumored that a new trea ty has been made between France, Austria and His funeral will take place this afternoon at j thereby Italy furnishes fifty thousand troops four o’clock. I and will occupy Viterbo in case of war. Captain Ceroopely was respected for his many ! It is rumored that Prussia offers the Pope twelve excellent traits of character, and esteemed as a thousand troops, should France vacate Rome, good citizen,—Sir. Repsiblicun. -Egypt is ansung extensively. Stock Feed—Our attention was called yesterday to a new article of stock feed, in the shape of a bale of hay which had been cut, winnowed and mashed before baling, thus removing all the dnst and trash from the hay before packing, whilst at the same time all the hard joints in the grass were mashed and softened, and then cut up finely so that it could be easily mixed with oats or other grain, and thus render it much more nutritious and easier of diges tion. We were assured that this cut hay saves fully 25 per cent, to the stock feeder, though it sells at an advance of 50 cents per bale upon the usual mode of packing. It can be seen at Burdick & Bro.’s grocery and provision store, on Third street, and . these gentlemen take special pleasure in des canting upon ite virtues. T’Mi- r—i — -os. ■ —-V; More Rain—-For the last three dayswe have had a shower of rain each day, between the hours of 12 and 2 ?. n. How long this arrangement is to last, or how long the Clerk of the weather proposes to run on’thie schedule, we do not know; but we do know that if it is kept up much longer it will excite serious apprehensions in regard to the cotton crop in this vicinity. The shower of yesterday afternoon was the longest and heaviest that has fallen here during the month. Weekly Review of the Market. OFFICE DAILY TELEGRAPH, > July 28—Evening, 1869.f Aside from the operations in provisions and plan tation supplies, the wholesale and jobbing trad* of the city has been extremely dull during the week closing this evening. Prices for leading articles to dry goods have been steady all the week and have changed noDe whatever, but the trade in dry goods, clothing, etc., is very limited at this time of the year, and the merchant who can keep pace with his expenses is doing remarkably well. Financially we have nothing to report Honey is something tighter than it has.been for months past, but A1 paper has no trouble in getting accommoda tion at the usual rates of discount. There is an abundance of exchange in market bnt it is a little slow of sale. The stock and bond market is as dead as a mack erel, and this class of securities have no longer a charm upon capitalists, or at leat they have been abandoned for better paying investments.* We quote the market perfectly flat at the following rates: 1 EXCHANGE ON NEW YORK. Bnypg K prem Selling..• i......;.....; prem UNITED STATES CURRENCY—LOANS. Per month 1)4@2 per cent GOLD AND SILVER. Buying rates for Gold...' ........... ., .$132 Bn; raying ra pilling- . grates for Silver....; ...1 20i 1 30 ' r. RAILROAD STOCKS AND BONDS. Central Railroad Stock.........’......... ■....121 Central Railroad Bonds ; .104 Macon &. Western Railroad Stock 138 Southwestern Railroad Stock 105 Soutwestem Railroad Bonds .101 Macon & Brunswick Stock 35 Macon & BrunswickRailroadEndoraedBonds... 90 GeorgiaBailroad Stock 7. 104@105 Georgia Bailroad Bonds 102 Muscogee Railroad Bonds 92 Atlantis & Gulf Bailroad Stock 35 Augusta & Waynesboro Railroad Stock.92 South Carolina Railroad Stock...7.:. 45@50 Cotton States life Insurance Stock : .>'.105 STATE Alto CITY STOCKS AND BONDS. Macon Gas Company Stock. 140 Macon Factory Stock 110 City of Macon Reserve Mortgaged Bonds....... 80 City of Macon Endorsed Bonds .100 State of Georgia new 7 per cent. Bonds 95 State of Georgia old 7 per cent Bonds...;...... 93 Stateof Georgia old 6 per cent. Bonds.......... 82 Cotton. — Receipts to-day 11 bales ; sales 3 ; shipped 16. Receipts for the week, ending this evening, the above included, 35 bales; sales for same time 7S; shipments 135 —showing an increase of receipts over those of the week before of 22 bales; decrease of sales for same time 60. The market has been very quiet and 'doll all the week under review and" the few sales effected were on a basis of 30 cents for middlings. The offering stock is well nigh, exhausted and there are now but two or three local buyers in market MACON COTTON STATEMENT. Stock on hand Sept. 1,1868—bales... 1.S26 Received past week ;.... 35 . . Received previously. . 58,355—58,S90 59.716 Shipped past week...... 135 Shipped previously .59,504—59.639 Stock on hand this evening.-. 77 . GROCERIES AND PROVISIONS. Trade in this line the past week has been confined mostly to the articles of com and bacon; but as a general thing the market has been quite dull. On Friday and Saturday last the stock of com in market was large and prices fell off from. 5 to 10c per bushel; but since then the stock has been very materially reduced and the decline has been checked —prices this evening standing about 5c per bushel under what they were in our last weekly review of the market, with an upward tendency and good de mand. Bacon has been firm all the week under a strong demand and steadily advancing prices. Onr quota tions are fully one cent higher to'-day than on Wednesday of last week. , : ' Hi other articles our grocery and provision mar ket is quiet at unchanged prices. With these re marks we give carefully revised quotations, includ ing those for coiton baling material: BACON—Clear Sides (smoked).. Clear Bib Sides (smoked). Hams (country). Hams (sugar-cured) RK—Mess Prime Mess..,..., Rumps................ BULK MEATS-Clear 8ideB.. ..$ 20)4© 21 . 20 ® 20)4 17 . 16)4® •V 28 @ 24 © -MK . 36 50 @37 50 . 33 00 @34 00 . 30 00 19)4 . 19 22 @ 26 30 @ 33 . 43 @ 45 10 @ 12)4 9 @ 11 1 50 2 00 40 : 30 . 25 25 @ 2 00 @2 50 @ 50 40 SO 27 23K 20 70 Shoulders..... COFFEE—Rio Laguayra Java DRIED FRUIT, per pound.. i... RICE per pound TEA—Black Green...'. ..- BUTTER—Goshen Tennessee Yellow ;.. Country CHEESE—According to quality... LARD— . 2214© SUGAR—According to grade...... 16 @ MOLASSES—According to grade.. 65 @ FISH—Mackerel, bbls, No. 1, 2, 3. 15 00 @24 00 Kits ....I 3 00 @5 00 Codfish per pound 10 SALT—Liverpool per sack 2 75 Virginia..1 2 50 WHISKY—Common Bye.. ..... .. 1 20 Fine 2 50 Com.. 1 15 Bourbon ' 3 50 ALE—Per dozen 3 00 TOBACOO—Low grades per pound 50 Medium 60 Good ;.... 75 . Bright Virginia......,...,.-. 85 Fancy 1 25 FLOUR—-Superfineperbbl..... 7 00 ® 1234 @ 3 00 @ 1 50 @ 5 00 @ 1 35 @ 5 00 @ 4 00 @ 55 ® 70 @ 80 @ 1 00 @ 1 50 Extra..:'. ~ 9 00 @10 00 Family......' 10 50 @1100 Fancv Family Brands 12 00 @13 00 New "per barrel. 11 00 GRAIN AND HAY. CORN—Yellow, Mixed and White. 1 85 @ 1 40 MEAL..... 1 40 GRITS 150 @1,55 OATS 1 00 0-1-O5 WHEAT—Per bushel 1 40 @ 1 50 FIELD PEAS..... 1 45 HAY—Northern 190 @200 Tennesse Timothy 2 00 HerdsGrass... 2 00 Tennessee 2 00 DOHBSTICS. Domestics—3-4 per yard 12}^ Shikting—7-6 per yard 13J4@ 14 4-4 15 @1534 Dmmxa—He»vyBrownperyard.-..‘....18 @20 Heavy Georgia Stripes..,....;... 18 @21 Osnabubgs—No.1,8 oz :.... 22 @22)4 No. 2, 7 oz 19 @21 Richmond.. .19 Milledgeville. No. 1......22 Flint River. No. 1 24 Shat.t.fy—Cnthbert, per yard .....30 BAGGIITG, TIES AND TWINE. BAGGING—Borneo, 2% lbs. per yard.. 31 Kentucky Roll, 2)4 “ - “ ■' “ .. 27 @28)4 BALING TWINE, per pound.......;... 40 IRON TIES—Arrow, per pound 8)4® 9 LATEST MARKETS BY TELEGRAPH. Domestic Markets. New Yoke, July 28, noon Gold 8654. J862s 23)4. Stocks feverish. Sterling 9)4. North Carolines 68: new 58)4- Virginias, ex-coupons 57)4i new 61)4 asked. Tennessees, ex-coupons 63; new 56)4— Louisiana*, old 69; levees 64)4. Flour 5@10 lower. Wheat 1@2 lower.' Coml lower: all dull. Mess Pork qniet, S3 00. Lard dull. Turpentine favors buyers. Rosin steady; common strained 2 23; good strained 2 30. Freights dull. Cotton quiet; uplands 34. New Yobe, July 28, evening. — Flour closed dull and scarcely so firm; superfine to fancy State 6 85@7 40; superfine to choioe white Western 5 85 17 70; Southern drooping: common to choioe extra 90® 1175. Wheat heavy; new extra Virginia 165. Com 2@3 lower; mixed western 110@111. Beef steady. Mess Pork firmer; new 83 25: old 32 50.— Lard firm; kettle 19J4@20. Whisky dull, 111.— Sugar in fair request. Other Groceries quiet Na val Stores quiet Turpentine 41)4@42)4. Rosin 2 25@8 00. Freights firm; cotton, per steam 34,- wheat per steam 7)4- . . Cotton rather more active; sales 1500 bales at 34. Money easy, 6®7. Discounts 8@10. Sterling firm, Gold closed heavy, 85)4- Gov ernments dull but steady. Southerns dull. Baltotobe, July 28.— Cotton quiet, 34. Flour quiet and scarce. Wheat heavy: red 1 55@ 1 65. Com firmer; prime white 110@113. Oats dull; 65@70. Mess Pork quiet, 34 00. Bacon active and advancing. Whisky scare?. Savannah, July 28—Cotton, no market; no of fering stock; exports 110 bales. Augusta, July 28—Cotton easier: nothing doing; receipts 7 bales; sales 20: middlings 31)4@82. Charleston, July 28. — Cotton quiet; PU^f 68 * no receipts: exports coastwise*) bales; **«dling« \ nominally 92. WrLMEtoxoN^Jffiy 28-Turpentine acti^T' Ta?qX“2 \ Mobile, July 28. — Cotton, sales 500 I wipts 11; market dull; mMAWiw^ gj. fmi, j 6 ® 1 *■ among *-few. - I -S*"** | -KEfe, Bran 1 05. Hay. prime &9 00. Mess iwt 1 ,J — 35 50. Baoon, shoulders SS)4 ; clear rib ** clesr sides 19)4. Lard,.tierce 19V@21k«^* ,4 22 K- Sugar stiffer; common lOJfgli v • S Wtus£ 117)4. Coffee dull; fa£lfS$M*K 17- Molasses nominal; prime fermenting 63 Foreign Markets. duft£’ ^ n ° On - C0n80liS »^ Bo^ | Sugar, on spot quiet; afloat steadv Liverpool, J* 28, noon—Cotton aa]«iw I bales; uplands 12)4; Orleans 12W; maritet« firmer. . ’ »shads | Red Western Wheat 9sld. ^vkbpool. July 28, p. m—Cotton uncW,o Havre, July 29. — Cotton, opened spot 151)4; closed on spot and afloat 151 ^ sot| • ^London, July 28, evening— Consols 9% ^ Tallow 2Gs6d. Liverpool, July 28, evening.—Cotton .. 000 bales; uplands 12)4; Orleans 12&- shade firmer. ““‘a i Red Western Wheat 9sld@9s2d. James R. Butts, Esq.—The memoir --....~ , y of tijfa and prominent citizen of Macon, demands a - onr hands than the brief announcement ^ death. His public services to the State, his^ plary life, his indomitable energy and pe'rse;-^ in all his undertakings, would furnish the mite u for a most interesting biography; bnt * e leave that work for some one mors family. the subject, and oonfine ourselves to a brief reriei of some of the leading features of his career James B. Butte was bom in the State ot Connee. ticut, on the 22d day of August, 1802, ad Maeon on the 26th day of July, 1669-aged sixtt^ years, eleven months and four daye. Re **’.v oldest eon of Dr. Elijah Butts, of Connecticut, aj when quite a young man he left the State J; v.. birth and became a citizen of Twiggs county,Ga, where he soon afterwards entered into the merejj. tile and boating business—running his boats to 1R con, where he soon after located. Abont the year 1830, he conceived the idea c j adapting steamboats to the navigation of the Oc- mulgee river, and constructed the steamer‘B-n. eer’ —the forerunner of a line of steamers oiled the-Tioneer Line.” extending from Macon to Tv rien, Savannah and Charleston. To the euwesud this enterprise Maoon owes much of its proepea;. During this Interval he was associated in buaiaesi first with Mr. Coats, and soon afterwards with «t esteemed citizen, Mr. Charles Day. The building of the Central Bailroad from Sivt nah to Macon,'changed the route of trade from tit river, when Mr. Butts extended his enterprise to fit Flint and Chatiahooche Rivers. In 1850, Mr. Butts was elected Surveyor Genet of the State, which office he filled with m&rke} tinction during Gov. Town's administration, h 1856 he returned to Macon, and in 1857 compiled u authentic map of the State, which to this davit c admirable and accurate work for reference to fit geographical student. In 1862 he was captured at St. Mark's, Fiorio- wliitherhehad gone to establish Salt Works-tyi party of Federal cruisers, and was incarcerate la nine months in the prison at Fort Lafayette, r- the distinguished Dr. Ould, of OMo, and othts On being released from his long imprisonment, it immediately returned to his adopted State ad family, and was known as a most zealous and & deviating, friend of the South and her brate de fenders in the field. Since the war he was the senior partner io fie real estate firm of Butts & Brother, of this c.tj. arid whilst conducting the business ot the office be conceived the plan of throwing into the marketed the world, by means of floating saw-mills, the mif nificent timber resources of the State which line fie banks of the Ocmnlgee River. Through his effom the Georgia'White Orik Lumber Company was op ganized, of which he .was the President, and daring last year he built-at our city wharf the“TaMah^ 1 a substantial and admirably constructed boat, for getting out ship-knees, pipe andbanelstaves; bn: which, for Some cause not yet clearly defined, met with a disaster soon after it arrived at the field oi operations, which checked and stopped the farther prosecution of an enterprise which will yet be car ried out, and confirm the vievrB of Mr. Butts, u often expressed to the writer, that from the timber along the banks of the Ocmulgoe, vast fortw« would some day be hewed out, by public spirits! and enterprising men. Up to within a short'time of his death, Mr. Bette was in the enjoyment of good health, for one of bs years; but when disease, at last, came, his enfeebled frame could not withstand the Bhock, and it broke suddenly aa the dried reed. Be was seized about) o'clock, on Saturday night last, with an attack c! bilious cholic, which tertninated in congestion of fie bowels, and he expired cm Monday afternoon, it 5 p. m., calmly and quietly, “like one who wraps fie drapery of bis conch about him and lies do-ra to pleasant dreams.” Vain Wish.—We heard a pensive man remit; yesterday: “I wish I had all the money back tin: I have spent for drinks the past ten yean.’’ The wish was vain, hut it may not be uninteresting tc him and others who cherish the same reflections. U make a calculation of the amount they would reshu if it were possible to reoover the money thus speat Before going into figures, however, we might saffej state that not one in twenty who, retrospective;; gazing, gives utterance to that wish, has iabx mind even an approximating idea of theuaosst which a person of even moderate bibulous propens- ties may spend upon drink in the space of tea years. Bat; leaving wishes and expensive honors quite out of the question, let us see what a plain cocktailist or modem imbiber of old rye is likely tc disburse on his favorite refreshments in the couise of a year. Take.a very moderate man as a simple- Assume that he drinks one glass of ale at ten cents, and four glasses of whisky at fifteen. That amounts to seventy cents a day, which makes four dollsm and nmoty cents a week. Multiply by four, aad you have nineteen dollars and sixty cents a month, which oomes, you know, to one hundred and thirty- five dollars and twenty-five cents & year. Thus, if the man who had carried on at this rate for ten years had all his liquor money back, his pocif- would be inflated to the tune of thirteen hundR- and fifty-two dollars. This ia only a small beer es calation ; but think of the men who spend first®- this amount on liquors, and remember that name is legion.^ During the heavy rain yesterday afternoon, just after a loud peal of thunder, a mule abo c: seventeen years of age, started down Fourth street with a dray attached to it, at a gait that madepe^ pie believe it was a young and likely animal. ‘ If '* was running to get out of the rain, we have nothin more to say; but. if it was running from thor.der- it’s owner was.rigbt when, seizing it by the ears, M called it a “darned fool,” and informed it that ’"•*** thunder was ahead before you started.” Personal.—The Commissi on era appointed at last session of the Mabtrns Legislature, to loo after the matter of annexing Florida to Alabina- were in the city yesterday, but we did not best o their presence until it was too late to obtain an in terview and learn what they had done, or propel to do on the subject The Telegraph has already published the ter® 5 upon which the authorities - of both States hire agreed to settle the matter, and it is possible tW papers have lately been signed, sealed and d*m ered, and the Oommiseioners are on their way fit® 1 ' with the documents in their pockets. Burglary.—The residence of Mr. Gabe near the upper end of Cotton Avenue, was on Tuesday night last and robbed of a lot of * ^ ing apparel for both males and females. entered through a second story windo* fry means a ladder. Before be departed he to the pantry, in eating pra*-*™** etc., thereby showing th*» 116 ***? at least, a of taste, if his mo*^ *** ^ qw city wm onuguaUy qniet yesterday- of tart one arrest, in police °*, * man who, being, too limber to take owe of bkotsJ’ was kindly furnished with quartan# «t tb« city h»t ? - His bill for the earns wiS be pwafot** this men®* gt Iffiook. te tbe _ '•*»—‘-v