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The Greorgia 'Weekly THE TELEGRAPH. MACON FRIDAY, AUGUST 6, i860. Machine' Department State Fair.—E. Crockett, Esq., hasbeen ap pointed Superintendent of the Department of Agricultural Implements and Machinery, and will receive, erect, put in motion and exhibit all machinery sent to him freight paid and with in structions. The Society will have a forty horse power engine to drive the machinery. Rous ton County. A Houston oounty planter thinks the crop of that county a fortnight behind where it was last year at a corresponding period. The weed is generally small, but well fruited and will make a fair crop if no misfortune be falls it At present, it shows frequent and numerous signs of rust, which may prove very fatal to the product Generally speaking, the county has suffered severely from drought, al though there are localities which have had time ly throughout the season. It is supposed that an adequate supply of com will be made for the county, but unless the weather clears off speedily the fodder will be lost to a great extent Some little cotton was open, and we heard a planter Bay. that picking, in a small way, would commence on some plantations this week. From Macon County. A gentleman from Montezuma states that the cotton in some sections of that county have had no rain for four weeks, and the late rains, wherever that was the case, have produced de structive rust. Crops which were expected to produce a bale to the acre, will not yield three hundred pounds. He thinks com enough was produoed in. Macon to supply the county, but there will not be a half crop of cotton made in that region. Macon Confederate Laboratory.—A Wash ington special to the New York Daily Tribune of the 20th inst, says Dr. Culver, of Georgia, left Washington to-night with authority to take pos session of the Confederate laboratory at Macon for the use of the State Agricultural Fair. Af ter the 1st of January it is probable the build ing will be converted into a hospital for aged and infirm negroes. If that is the probability, the society and peo ple of Macon should at leasteconomise their ex penditures on the building as much as possible. A hospital for aged and infirm, that is to say say, lazy negroes, will be a delightful appendage . to Tineville. It would be simply a den of thieves. Speculation in Bogus Money.—The Southern country appears to be pretty well flooded with the circulars of Noyes <fc Co., 65 Wall street, New York, offering packages of counterfeit United States Treasury notes at a heavy dis count for cash. One of these circulars has been sent us from Hickory Grove, addressed to a sub scriber in that rural region. This charming business is a legitimate successor of the coun terfeit operations upon the Confederate Treasu ry Notes, which were pursned with much suc cess during the war. A Sad Item.—The Barnwell Journal of Saturday says: “Miss Mary Lard, of Barnwell, died on Wednesday last from the effects of mor phine, taken by mistake for quinine. She sent to the drug store of John S. Shuck for ten grains of quinine on the evening before. By mistake morphine was weighed out instead of qninine, and Miss Lard took the whole quantity and did sot discover the mistake until too late. The aid of Dr. Duncan was summonedpromptly, butshe was so completely under the effects of the opiate that her life could not be saved. She died in a few hours after. We deeply sympathize with the affiicted family, and take occasion to say that the proprietors of the drug store are sorely distressed at this terrible accident.” The East Biyeb Bridge.—The plan of the late Mr. Boebling for a suspension bridge across the East river has at last been made public. The plan proposes a bridge 1,600 feet span and 1S5 high. This is opposed by Mr. Nolan, civil engineer, who contends a suspension bridge is impracticable, and submits the specification for a tabular bridge, with arches of 500 feet span and 200 feet above high water mark. Some Bolling Mtt.t. and Nail Factory.—The Courier says the immense buildings of this es tablishment are nearly completed and the ma chinery is being put in place. The main build ing is 180 by 190 feet, and the machinery will be driven by two eighty horse power engines. The works will employ a hundred hands. Curious.—Capti William Bone submitted yes terday a black ball about three or three and a half inches in diameter, found in the stomach of a slaughtered beef. It was very solid but light, and had a lustrous black surface. He supposes that it is composed of hair licked by the creature from his own coat The French Empress will be accompanied to Egypt by a complete staff of writers and artists, charged to reproduce by the pen and the pencil the principal episodes of the excursion. At the head of the draftsmen figures Gustave Dore, and of the chroniclers Theophile Gautier. It is understood that General Sherman has instructed General Canby that he is to take no action in the matter of administering the iron clad test oath to the members elect of the Virgi nia Legislature until the matter shall have been considered in Cabinet. Newnan Jail Destroyed.—The People’s De fender, of Thursday, says: “The county jail was destroyed by fire last night No occupants at the time. Incendiarism the supposed cause of the fire. No other buildings were injured.” Crops in Crawford.—A letter from Hickory Grove dated 81st nit, says: “Our crops are very fine—as good as the land can make them: but we are having too much rain for cotton.— The forms are falling off a good deal. The American Agriculturist, for August, is .an elegant number, abounding with the most spirited illustrations. Orange Judd & Co., 245 Broadway, New York. 81.50 per annum. « Wheat.—Wheat is worth in Knoxville—White, one dollar to one ten—Bed, ninety cents to a dol lar. In Nashville, Bed, one dollar; Amber, one five; White, one fifteen. In Borne, Bed, one dollar and thirty cents. ~ The eclipse in Macon begins 4h 42 5m, ends 6h 86 5m. If the weather does not improve, we shall know nothing about it.. A very heavy shower fell in Macon yesterday evening after six o’clock. A Letter from Newnan says there are now in that hill city, two hundred visitors seeking relief from the healing and invigorating qualities of its mineral waters. The Early county News says a great deal pf rain has fallen in that section of late, and that it it feared cotton will soon bej£n to shed. It also says that the caterpillar is', reported on several plantations. > One of the rooms at Long Branch Hotel was robbed of eight thousand dollars’ worth of dia monds on Saturday. The thieves were arrested, Uld the property recovered.- The New York World thinks that the great cost of the Nicholson pavements and the dimcul- »-tf of removing any part of it in order to get ait - -she water and gas pipes, constitute a serious ob jection to Reuse, 1 but of its superiority in other respects to the best Belgian pavement there can k*a»doobk The “ Dignity of Labor” Is doubtless very great. We are bound to be lieve in it as much as we believe in the fif teenth amendment —the civil rights hill and negro suffrage. It is a dignity, however, which mankind has ever shown a pertinacious and obstinate propensity to escape. They “don’t banker after it,” as they would, after a dukedom, or a ride behind a coach and four and a fine dinner with a bottle of old Heidsick. The fact is, after much reflection, we have come to the conclusion that men, as a general thing,pre fer to lay aside the dignity as often aa is con venient, and much more frequently and con stantly than they should do. It requires some strong incentive;to keep them np to the chalk line and compel them to accept a full and proper share of this dignity. The highest grade of laborers work because God has made.it their duty to labor, and it is a sin to be idle. They work because the necessities of the world call for it, but they long for the task to be over, when they can stretch themselves upon the green, sweet fields beyond the swelling floods and enter into rest. They work often with aching heads and aching bones and weary limbs, and, as a general thing, they don’t like it It does not “happify” them, as a good old Methodist brother used to observe. Then, as we descend in the scale of these dig nitaries, the laborers, we find the whip and spur applied to them to keep up to the mark of their dignity, various in their nature and application according to the capacity of the parties ad dressed. The old business man keeps at work to provide for his family, and if they have got enough, then to heap up the measure. He works, too, because the long habit of working has made idleness misery, and trade and business occupa tion has become a game with him, which he plays with the precise feelings with which he would pursue a game of chess or whist. The younger man of intelligence has every thing to spur him up both of pride and fear and hope and love. He is whipped np to labor by a perfect cat o’nine tail; and when we come down to the last found of the ladder there is the sim ple of hanger to stir np the stupid and be sotted soul who can feel no higher motive. If the laborer will not work, neither can he eat. So we see that God Almighty, when he pro nounced this “eldest primal curse” on his dis obedient creatures, arranged matters so as to hold them to the penalty—to enforce it, and to bring suffering as the punishment for skulking. He had no conception of attempting to gild the pill by misnaming that as a dignity which he pronounced aB a penalty for disobedience. The only possible dignity connected with the matter consists in a cheerful and dutiful compliance with the decree of punishment. As a matter of taste, considered per se, there is a good deal more dignity in silk stockings and elegant leisure. Now, the misfortune of the Southern part of the moral vineyard is that the penalty of idle ness does not apply with that point and force which is secured to it in more hyperborean re gions. The lowest order of humanity cannot be here addressed with the peremptory alterna tives—work or freeze and starve, because they can readily evade either. For six months in the year clothing is not necessary to comfort, and in the still lower latitudes it is not essen tial at alL Moreover, food of some sort is easi ly obtained—fire wood costs nothing—and a little lazy pilfering and vagabondizing are all that is necessary to subsist in idleness from year to year. The problem of the superior industry of the Northmen, aside from the bracing effects of a sharp atmosphere, finds its easy solntion in the diminished penalties for idleness, or the incapac ity to apply them at all. This i3 the reason why we have so many lazy whites and lazy ne groes in Georgia—who, having simplified their necessities to a point very little above those of purely savage life, are free of the stimulus to labor. The resources of the country—the amenities of the climate—a little hunting and fishing, and pilfering—do away with the physi cal necessities for labor. "What we need in Georgia is better education—more efficient po lice—sounder preaching, for the preachers do not properly enforce the duty of labor, and the sin of idleness. They should be emphatic against this sinful idea of flanking the primal Government Gone to the Springs. The press telegrams announced yesterday that there would be no regular cabinet meeting till September, except upon emergency. The Gov ernment hasin other words, shut npfor a month and gone a fishing, hunting, bathing, drinking mineral water and driving fast horses. We saw, the other day, from the World, that Bobeson and Borie were on a cruise with a miniature steam er to post up in nantical affairs and the science of navigation. In another column, it will be seen that General Grant went to Washington, the other day, to see “who had been there since he'd been gone,” and found affairs so sloppy in the White House that he went to a restaurant for a breakfast; but was foiled in driving a bar gain with the bar keeper. Bontwell, it is said, i3 off the New England coast catching mackerel, flounders, cod and haddock. Fish has gone to Saratoga. Cresswell is laid np with a broken arm, which is a fortunate thing for the crabs and terrapins of the Eastern shore. Hoar is roasting clams and lounging on the seaweed on the New England coast. Cox is looking after his fatten ing hogs in Ohio. Rawlings is attending to the President’s tanning interest in Galena. The departments, as to their heads, are all taking holiday—Washington is a hot place—Cabinet is closed and the Government has taken vacation till September. This is a spectacle never seen before in the history of the country. It shows, or ought to show, that the country is quiet—the rebels behaving pretty well—and if we are not yet in a state of peace, the war has assumed a very mild mannered and placid existence. Mr. Greeley in 'Virginia. The Bichmond Dispatch reports Mr, Greeley, of the Tribune,in Lynchburg last Thursday, and says he addressed a large crowd in the evening. The Dispatch says: His allusions to political affairs were brief.— He thought that Walker’s platform embodied the only true grounds of reconstruction. >He is opposed to political disabilities, and advocates the protection of the interests and rights of all classes. He dwelt upon the great material re sources of Virginia—especially its unparalleled supplies of coal and iron, and its productive soil. He urged the young men of the State to remain, there being enough .here for all to do, and opposed the substitution of ooolie for negro labor. Doolv Taxublbb.—From a slip received from the acting Tax Receiver of Dooly, we collate the following figures: Polls—Returns of whites 860 Returns of negroes.. 710—1560 White children returned 1360 Number hands returned 1792 Aggregate ralne of land ; 771.745 Valne of town property..........: 12,860 Money and solvent debts 1SS.799 Merchandize returned...,, 22,430 Stocks and bonds.......,.'. 20,650 Value of property not enumerated.883.495 Aggregate valne of property....... 1,356,111 Taxable; value 1,180.843 Specie Payment.—The. Washington corres pondent of the New York World writes to that paper as follows: Secretary Bontwell, fox some time jpast,' has been corresponding with eminent capitalists of Europe in regard to the resumption of specie payment by this Government, and as a result thereof European capitalists have offered to loan the United States three hundred millions of dollars in gold on - a national bond, bearing in terest at the rate of three anqa half per cent, per annum. V\ v : ‘V Vr ’v';i The Eclipse of the Son. This event, says the New York Commercial Advertiser, is awaited with great interest A total eclipse is very rare at any given point. The astronomer, Halley, computed in 1715 that up to that date no total eclipse of the sun had oc curred at London fora period of 575 years. And since that date none has occurred at that place. At Paris, during the eighteenth century, but one total eclipse of the sun was seen,that of 1724; and during the nineteenth century, none has been, or will be, seen. We are told by astron omers of Washington that “no total eclipse of the sun has been visible in any considerable por tion of this country since 1834, and none will be visible after this year during the present century.” This eclipse begins in Siberia, where it takes a northeasterly course, till it crosses a little south of Behring’s Straits, after which it turns its course southeasterly traversing por tions of our new territory Alaska, thence into British America and through Montana, Dakota, Nebraska, Iowa, Missouri, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Tennessee, and North Caro lina. It ends in the Atlantic Ocean, off the coast of the last mentioned State. All places situated on the central line of this track will have the sun totally obscured for a.period vary ing from 2 min. 23 sec. to 3 min. 47.3 sec., ac cording to geographical position. Places situa ted on the borders of the track, or about seventy miles on either ride of the central line, will have the sun just covered completely for an instant; and the duration of the total phase will be great er the nearer the place is to the central line. Outride of the track of total phase, on the north ern ride, only a partial eelipse of .the sun’s southern limb, and on the south ride of the track a partial eclipse of the northern limb will be seen. But the duration and magnitude of the partial eclipse will be greater in proportion as the place of observation is nearer the borders of the track of total phase. Where nothing better can be had, a bit of plain glass, smoked over a candle or lamp, in some parts more deeply shaded than in others, to suit the varying intensity of the sun’s rays during the progress of the eclipse, will enable the observer to see most of the phenomena. In the city it will be easy to procure pieces of the red or ruby tinted glass, of different shades or depths, from most of the glaziers, which may be used with advantage, instead of the smoked glass. Those who con command a good opera glass, or small telescope of any kind, provided with a shade glass to screen the eye, will of course have a better view. ’.. '• • •• \ Close of the Canvass in Tennessee. The Tennessee canvass closed up on Satur day with a discussion between Senter and Stokes at Nashville, in which Senter is repre sented as triumphant. The election takes place to-morrow. The Nashville Banner says of it: The vote to be polled in the approaching State elections will be the largest ever polled in Tennessee. Added to the largely increased vote, by the admission of colored citizens to the right of suffrage, thousands of white citizens of the State, hitherto unrighteonsly excluded by un fair, partisan registration; thousands of mi nors who have attained the legal voting age since the war—thousands who, though fully en titled to vote under existing laws, have never deemed it worth their while even to apply for certificates, will contribute to swell the vote far in excess of any previous ballot. Of course the full vote of the State, if permitted to be polled, would be very much more considerable; yet, with nn honest exercise of the registration laws, the vote will be sufficiently large to insure the emancipation of all from the chains of polit ical slavery. Every legal vote in the State should be polled in this election, if the voter has never yet approached a ballot-box, and never again expects to do so. Foreseeing the result, the Northern Radical papers are full of complaints against Bontwell for identifying the administration with the suc cess of Stokes. All appearances indicate that Stokes will be miserably defeated. Houston Railroad Meeting. Ferry, Ga., August 3, 18C9. In accordance with the call published a few days ago, a large number of the most substan tial citizens of Houston county met at the Court-house, to express their views on the sub ject of building a railroad from Fort Valley, through this place, to Hawkinsville. Every one seemed to be impressed with the import ance of the enterprise to every class of per sons in our populous and wealthy county. Hon. C. C. Duncan, in a neat and appropriate speech, stated the object of the meeting. On motion, Mr. John T. Cooper was called to the Chair, and Edwin Martin, Jr., requested to act as Secretary. Mr. Duncan then read a let ter from Mr. Hazlehnrst, the President of the Macon and Brunswick Railroad, concerning the probability of that road building a branch from Hawkinsville to Fort Valley. On motion of A. S. Giles,Esq.,a committee of ten were appointed to draw up resolutions, ex pressing the sense of the people in relation to the subject under consideration. The following persons, representing the dif ferent sections of the county, were appointed: A. S. Giles, Esq., O. 0. Duncan, Esq., Jos. Tooke, Dr. B. 0. Bryan, David M. Brown, D. W. Vischer, Josiah Hodges, Dr. S. A. Riley, John H. Kendrick and Wm. D. Allen. The committee having retired, Gen. Eli Warren was called on and responded in his usual happy style, setting forth, briefly, the benefits that would accrue to our county from said rail road. At the conclusion of Gen. Warren’s speech the committee submitted the following resolutions, viz: Besolved, 1st. That railroad communication with the outer world has become a matter of vital importance and necessity to the people of Houston connty. 2d. That such a road built from Fort Valley, running near or through Perry and near or through Hayneville to Hawkinsville, being as near as practicable, an air line, would be the most profitable as to the investment, and would most certainly secure the objects contemplated, to wit: The convenience and necessities of the agricultural, mercantile and other interests. 3d. That we will heartily co-operate with any railroad company already chartered by the Leg islature of this State, or any other company of capitalists that will, with the least delay and greatest ability, undertake the construction of the aforesaid road. 4th. That for the furtherance of the objects contemplated in the last resolution, a committee of five be appointed to correspond with Presi dent Wadley, of the Central Railroad, and also with President Hazlehurst, of the Macon and Brunswick Railroad, to ascertain which of said companies will most certainly, most expeditious ly, and most ably assist in the construction of said Road—in fine, to ascertain what they will do, and what they expect the people to do in the premises, and that said committee explain fully the resources and abilities of this section to sup port and maintain a Railroad. 5th. That when this meeting adjourn, it ad journ to meet again on the 3d Saturday in this month, at this place, to hear from said ccmmit- ree of correspondence and to determine finally, as to which of said companies we will co-operate with. 6th. That the citizens of Pulaski county, and of Fort Valley, are requested to be present and co-operate with ns in said meeting. 7th. That the Macon Telegraph and Journal and Messenger and the Hawkinsville Dispatch, be requested to publish the proceedings of this meeting. Th® following committe was appointed: O.O. Duncan, A. S. Giles, David M. Brown, B. F. Tharpe and D. W.- Vischer. \ The meeting then adjourned. John T. Cooper, Chairman. Edwin Martin, Jr., Secretary. Among those Englishmen who have lately re ceived the honor of knighthood,' we are pleased to. find Sir Peter Coats. His name with ns is a familiar household word, and the relations which he has held to this country almost make it seem as if Her Most Gracious Majesty had selected a genuine live Yankee as the recipient of this flat tering testimony of her regard. There isnoth- ing threadbare in the character of Sir Peter He has not been dnbbed a Knight for the old tradi tional reasons; but because he belongs distinct ively to that new order of men—the utilitarian, not the heroic—whose services to mankind are all in the peaceful channels of art, industry, and commerce. I X'. \ BY TELEGRAPH. From Washington. Washington. August 3.—Revenue to-dav 8674,000. Depositaries sre instructed to withhold greenback legal tenders from circulation. Cresvrr 11 hopes to be able to come to Washing ton in ten days. The revenue authorities contemplate stopping the distillation in Philadelphia and order a start on an honest basis. Hereafter all custom blanks and forms will be furnished from here. Washington, Augusta 4.—The Revenue, Depart ment has intelligence of the seizure in the Nor folk, Virginia. District, of three illicit distilleries in Dismal Swamp. Treasurer Spinner thinks the first spurious legal tender tens were purposely issued defective, as blinds for a more perfect counterfeit now circulating widely. Revenue to-day, 8874,0000. The new tobacco stamps registered are ready. Ths unregistered ones will be ready in ten days hence.' Secretary Cox postpones action in the McGarra- han matter until Congress meets. Radicals here think the test oath will be exacted from the Virginia legislators. Among the schemes talked over to secure a quorum, is that of giving a certificate to the next highest candidate when the person elected can't take the oath. From Cuba. Washingtos, August 3.—The Cubans here have officialadvicesto26th. The Cubans, in therecent en gagements, have made quite a number of prisoners, which prevents the immediate slaughter of captured Cubans and secures their proper treatment. The modification extends to captured fillibnsters. Qne- sada has completely destroyed communication with Puerto Principe. Sickness in the city alone prevents its occupation. Several efforts of Latona to open communication have been disastrously defeated; the Spanish losses being treblethose of the Cubans. Latona's effective force at Neuvitas and in the en tire dictrict is about four thousand. Quesada’s is nearly nine thousand well armed and disciplined men, prepared to advance when the health on the coast permits. Jordan has had several defensive fights, in all of which the Spaniards were repulsed with proportion ately great loss. At Villa Clara the Spaniards lost two hundred, with arms, ammunition, wagons, ord nance and provision trains. Another expedition near Trinidad, to take possession of certain market plantations, was nearly destroyed. Eighty were killed and three hundred captured. The number of Spaniards engaged in this fight was thirteen hun dred; Cubans, seven hundred and sixty. Jordan reports himself and troops in excellent condition. He asserts that his command is equal to three times the same number of those opposed to him, and says they are well organized, well drilled, and fight like demons. His force is daily increasing by recruits. He expresses entire confidence in the success of his cause. Havana, August 4.—The Spanish troops had a reeonnoisance of a party of Insurgents near Cinco Villa and killed thirty. Alabama Flection. Montgomery, August 3.—This city gives Buckley (Radical) 3082, and Worthy (Democrat) 1015 for Congress. Selma, Augusts.—The election passed off quietly. Reports from several beats show considerable fall ing off from last year’s vote. This city resulted as follows: Buckley, 2028; Mann, 511. Bepubli- can loss, 511; Democratic loss, 182. Union beat: Mann, S2; Buckley, none. Mobile, August S.—The vote in this city, for Congress, is as follows: Mann, 410S; Buckley, 2848—majority for Mann, 1160. For Legislature— Proskanar (Democrat) elected. Alabama—Election of Mann in tbe Mo bile District. Mobile, August 4.—Mann's majority in Mobile county, so far as heard from is fourteen hundred and fifty-nine. Four precincts to hear from. The connty will probably give eighteen hundred majori ty for Mann. At the Court-house in Baldwin county, a negro Radical mob took possession of tbe polls and beat one white man badly and prevented any Democratic negro from voting. They were very riotous. The Sheriff could not control them. That precinct gives Buckley two hundred and twenty majority. Pollard, the capital of Escambia county, gives Mann one hundred and nine majority. Cliibome, in Monroe connty, at 4 o’clock p. M..had polled three hundred and eighty-three, all for Mann. Tho indi cations are that Mann is elected by fifteen hundred majority. 1 From Alabama. Montgomery. August 4 The election tews is meagre. As far as heard from tho poll is rntjch less than the year previous. Tho probability is in favor of the election of Parkinson, Democrat, in the Third District, by a handsome majority. The con test between Worthy, Democrat, and Buckley, Re publican, in tbe Second District, will bo much closer than was expected, and the latter’s friends are fear ful of his defeat on account of the great falling off in the negro vote. Later.—Enough returns have been received to indicate tbe certain election of Parkinson, Democrat, by several hundi'ed votes in the 3d District. Buckley, Radical, is elected in this District. : I Foreign News. \ [by the french cable.] Madbid, August 8 The Captain General oi Madrid has addressed a letter to Regent Serano and General Prim, in which he says; “I took par) in the revolution, hoping to see morality, law and justice succeed former abuses. It is now ten months since the revolution was accomplished. My hopes hare been deceived. Greater abuses, wide-spread immorality and deplorable anarchy prevail—disorders to which it is absolutely necessary to put an end. The Constitution having pro claimed a monarchy, the immediate choice of a king is indispensable. If the Government does not shortly consider the question, I shall abandon all hopes as to the consolidation of the revolution, and retire to private life.” His letter was read in the Council of Ministers, and created a profound im pression. Dresden, August 3.—Three hundred persons w we killed outright in tho colliery accident in the moun tains near this city. Halifax, August 3.—The man-of-war Eclipse, from tho'feio Grande hither, lost her commander, first lieutenant and sixteen others by yellow fever. The ship Barraconta arrived to-day with yellow fever aboard. Rio Janerio, August 3.—The Allies failed in their movement on Villa Rica—losing for several days their rear guard. Lopez, however, was unable to follow np his advantage; but his position in the mountains prevents the allied reconnoitrings. Paris, August 3.—A draft of the Senatus consul- turn has been completed. It gives the Emperor and Corps Legislate the initiative in making laws. The Cabinet and ministry c^ji be members of the Sen ate or Corps Legislatiff. The sitting of the Senate must be public. Each.body will make its own inter nal regulations. The members of both Chambers have a right to address interpellations to tho Gov ernment No amendment to a law is to be adopted unless previously referred to a committee charged with the duty of examining the project and com municating it to the Government. If the latter doeB not accept it a council of State will then pronounce definitely on the subject. The budget i3 to be sub mitted by chapters and articles.. Modifications of tariff and postal service by international treaties to be made obligatory only by laws enacted for that purpose.. ' ■> . London, August 4.—The London Times’money article says there are strong rumors that the pre liminaries for an agreement between the United States and Spain regarding Cuba have'been ar ranged. .. . • •. .>• Madrid, August l.^Several severe encounters with Carlists are reported. The Carlists were de feated in every instance. - ;.'■■ ■■ , , s . > Madrid, August 4.—Tho Government will shortly call ont the reserves. Formidable Carlist uprisings are reported in Tortosa and Trevol. The .shooting of two Carlist prisoners is contradicted. Liston, August 4.—Tbe Chambers have adopted" resolutions giving concessions to cable' companies j to and from Portugal.- t ipa fvrt’ . • !> ;. ;* General NeWa. ',W : •. . New York, August 3.—Mayor Hall presided over a large Tammany meeting to protest against the course of the administration regarding Americans captured in Cuba and Ireland.'•' '< ■ -The Greek firm of Rhodolanachi & Franghadi have failed—liabilities unknown. New York, August 4.—Marshal Barlow of this, city has seized all the Spanish gunboats now being built in this. port. This cause is vari ously attributed. But the most plausible reason as signed is that the boats were intended to operate against Peru. Barlow refuses to allow Colonels Ry an and Conner to return to the United States. The China took out a half million in specie. Michael Cortez, an alleged Cuban patriot, was ar rested to-day for attempting to pass a forged check for three thousand dollars.' The President, Fish andPierrepont, will consult about the seizure of the, Spanish gunboats to-mor row. San Francisco, August 4.—It is stated that twelve millions in gold coin is locked up in the Assistant Treasurer’s office, to the injury of the business com munity. , ' The coroner’s report shows 39 suicides, 11 mur ders and 82 fatal accidents within the last year. Sr. Louis, August 4.—The Marine 'and Fire In surance Company,of Peoria,Illinois, has suspended. Heavy shipments,of fruit arrive daily from San Francisco, for the Eastern markets. Bobton, August 4.—Major White, said to bo of Tennessee, killed tho wife of Dr. Alvin H. Hobbs, in the presence of her husband and child. White has been arrested. From Texas. New Orleans, August 4.—At Galveston,to-day, the Congressional Republican Convention unani mously nominated Hon. W. T. Clark, to represent the Third Congressional District in Congress. The nomination is considered equal to an election. Kentucky Election. Lqusttt.t.e, August 3.—Several pistol rows at tended the election—none killed. The city is Dem ocratic by 6,000 majority. The State probably 50,- 000. The Republicans claim fifteen to twenty mem bers in the Legislature. Letter from Floyd County, j Rain—Crop Prospects—Delightful Weather— An Iron Mountain—Stock and Grass Farms —Real Estate and Few Enterprises in Rome. Cave Spring, August 3, 1869. Editors Telegraph: I see by your daily edi tion, whose neat, smiling, well-filled columns greet me every morning with most refreshing regularity, that the dwellers in your section, and below, have had their prayers for rain answered at last, and are likely to have too much of a good thing. 'We, np here, had similar fears last week, when the reign of the drought was broken by one very good, and one tolerably ditto sea son. The sun was quite a stranger for several days, but this morning is out brilliantly. The results of these rains are likely to prove very satisfactory. Early com, of course, was almost too far gone to be redeemed, but that coming to maturity later in the season shows very plainly the beneficial effects of the reinforcement. Crops of all descriptions are springing towards harvest with an added vigor and luxuriance most gratifying to see. Farmers tell me that com will open in the fall at not over 75 cents per bushel Bead, in the light of your propheoy of $2.00 for Macon and vicinity next year, onr condition, in this respect, seems enviable, indeed. The weather just now is simply superb—no other adjective does it justice. Not too warm during Hie day, with an alternation of clouds and sunshine, and pure, soft breezes whose wooing makes the mere act of respiration a lux ury, and the nights are even more enjoyable. With no mosquitoes and cover an absolute ne cessity for comfort, the most restless, nervous man imaginable, is almost forced to sleep with a deep, dreamless, refreshing regularity and soundness that only he can appreciate. I rode down the railroad six or seven miles yesterday, in company with the owner, a gen tleman of this place, to visit a veritable iron mountain. I send you per express some speci mens of the ore, that you may judge for your selves as to its promise. It lies within fifty yards of the railroad, and combines as many elements—it appears to me—for successful and profitable working, as are to be found any where. The ore ues in single stones and huge masses all over the mountain. Yon cannot take a step without treading on it, and the in dications are, as pronounced by Pennsylvania miners who have seen it, that it is but the crop ping ont of a very deep and extensive vein. At the base of the monntain is a pond, kept full by never-failing springs, and furnishing an abund ant supply of water for furnace purposes. There is also plenty of space for all necessary build ings, and wood in the greatest abundance. Here, then, you have the ore, wood, water, plenty of room for all building purposes, right at the mine, and transportation within almost arm’s length. Specimens similar to those I send you were pronounced by the miners to whom I have alluded, as containing at least sov- enty-five per cent of ore. Even the “lean” ore was rated at forty-five to fifty per cent These miners made the owner of the mountain an offer for the property, with the intention of erecting, at an early date, works to cost $100,- 000; but the figures were considered too low, and so the matter stands at present I think they will probably make another ^‘pass” yet. On my way to this iron region several farms were passed which, from location, character of soil, and abundant water supply, would seem specially suited to the raising of stock and the production, in perfection, of the various grapes. But for the railroad, which passes directly through them, they would probably never have done more than make a scanty living for the cultivation; but now they are destined, some day, to bring very high prioes. One of them, in Polk county, containing three hundred and twenty acres, with the railroad running within one hundred yards of the house, seemed to me particularly attractive. The owner averaged eleven bushels of wheat per acre the last season, and has on his farm a large quantify of as beauti ful natural meadow as I have ever seen. These farms can be bought for an average of $15 per acre—the owner of the one above referred to being anxious to sell at$500G, The country is wild and sparsely settled, bat there is the rail? road as the connecting link with civilization and the markets of the world. I was in Rome last Saturday, and hearing the cry of a very deep-lunged auctioneer joined the crowd gathered around him. He was crying a vacant lot, 100 by ISO feet, lying on the out skirts of the town, near the Rome Railroad, which was knocked down finally at $1,800— pretty fair price for an inland town, eh ? • The rolling mill and nail factory of the Messrs. Noble, at Rome, is an enterprise whose progress towards completion is watched with much inter est, and a visit to' which, will fill np an hour or two very satisfactorily. The*e gentlemen are among the moss energetic,' thriliy, and publio spirited citizens of this section, and are their mark upon the history of the industriw.^ volopmonts of this portion of' Georgia. They already have at Rome, a foundry in full opera tion, and a furnace at Cornwall, down the Coosa river. In the rolling mill and nail factory, they are connected with capitalists elsewhere. The main building is 180 by 190 feet. The ma chinery, which will be of the most approved pattern, is to be propelled by four engines—two horizontal of eighty horee power each, one eighty horse power beam engine, and a smaller engine for light work. The rolling mill will have five trains of rollers, three of which, with the nail factory are expected to be at work in a month, at least. 'When complete in all its departments, one hundred hands will fiind constant employ ment. This is the kind of ‘ ‘reconstruction’ ’ it delights every friend of Georgia to hear of. I am sure no subject is more pleasing to me to al lude to. Such triumphs of energy, and that prac tical patriotism which is, after all, the only sort that can really save the State, deserve wide spread chronicling. Therefore I ask a place for it in the Telegraph. R. The Method ttnd Benefit of Beep Cnltnre * -q LETTER FROM MR. GU3TIN. Tineville, August 4, 1869. Editors'Telegraph: Ifoel embarrassed by the prominence which h«« been given my. cot ton patch in the Telegraph, aa. you. are aware that I have no taste for a publio controversy with those who advocate a different culture. But as you and some of : your readers seem anxious to get more information about it, I will try to desoribe, as briefly as possible, my method of culture on this patoh. Bans* by hacgsMoN.~Qutte % x of the colored brothers, and sJetezs of thaw* ' Baptist Church, of thk' dfy, gathered on th. u of the river just tins side of or bdowtheBau" Cemetery, last Sabbath afternoon, to bAptism, by immersion, of four colored *0^* ** I one man, bv Rev, John James, colored. ° *** I It was our good fortune to bo walking inu. cinity. and we stopped to see the solemn w* I preesive ceremony; but we must, in troth I that the way the “sSstem" behaved when the'J^T ter raised them from beneath the surficeTf water, was anything else than solemn and im \ ive. They came up with a shout and with tte* I , *—— | violent and spasmodic exercise of their wT'’**! I run thoroughly convinced, from experience, j woman requiring two stout, ablebodiedui'w up by deep cause the ground soon beoomes hard and com pact underneath, if only the surface soil is culti vated in a shallow manner ; the disadvantages of which I will speak hereafter. The cotton patch in question is on a gentle slope of a red hill, and more soil has been washed from it, to the lands below, than has out in tk jhdter. , We assure our “colored aistem,’ m all . _ ness, that the requirements of the Goepeid^^^ of believers no such violent and silly demonsti!! as they made on Sunday last, eitherin erom f^l water. They went down into the wsttoHriJi .1 lently and decently, and why shouldthey n L I come up out of it in the same becoming 1 been washed npon it from those above. It is The simple sacrament of baptism is co - ’ 51 ■ In Darkness.—On Sunday night at Wesley Chapel, after the elose of a very able sermon by Rev. James E. Evans, and while a great number of penitents were in the act of kneeling for pray er, the gas lights suddenly died out, leaving an immense congregation, two-thirds of whom were ladies, in total darkness. The soene for a few minutes was one of intense excitement, but the preacher wisely improved it is an apt illustration of th9 sinners’" moral darkness, and his remarks impressed his darkened auditory with feelings of profound solemnity. Candles and lamps were soon brought in, and after about fifteen minutes free from stones and stumps..But was nearly as hard as a brick when it was ploughed for the first time in the early part of May last. Before ploughing, I sowed upon it broadcast “Gustin’s Superphosphate,” at the rate of 500 pounds per acre. With four mules to one of Brinlev’s largest sized prairie ploughs it was ploughed eight'inches deep—followed in the. same furrow by a subsoil plough, running twelve inches deep. The same quantity of superphos phate was again sown broadcast and harrowed in. The soil was thus pretty thoroughly pulver ized and disintegrated to the depth of eighteen or twenty inches, and enriched with superphos phate at the rate of 1000 pounds per acre. ' You will say that that is pretty expensive. But I will venture to say that this land will pro- duce twice as much cotton and as much com as the best land ona : plantation in Floyd county which sold for $100 per acre a few weeks ago. After harrowing it was checked off with a small plough 3x6 feet in which the seed were planted—a single plant only was left to a hill— and covered with a hoe, which was the only work done with a hoe—as the subsequent cul ture was done entirely with Mape’s Subsoil Lifterandahorsehpe. ‘it has been cultivated four times with the subsoil lifter and twice with the horse hoe. This subsoil lifter is made of wrought iron— is light and can easily be drawn by a single mule or horse where the grouneb has been previously snbsoiled. From its peculiar construction it turns no furrow, but works under the ground like a mole, to the depth of about fifteen inches —slightly raising the soil as it moves along. The soil in falling hack is pulverized at least a foot on either side of its track. The horse hoe is an improvement on the cul tivator and effectually destroys all weeds and thoroughly pulverizes the surface soil. At the first working of the cotton the subsoil lifter was run four times between the rows the Hide way—three times the second—twice the third time—and once at the last working, run ning as closely as possible to' the plants every time. There is no danger of destroying or injuring the roots by this method of culture if the plough is not run so near that the swingle-tree breaks the branches—on the contrary, it is the very best preparation for the rapid multiplication and extension of the small fibrous roots which are the feeders to the plants. "Thisdeep culture mustbekeptup from the beginning. If the roots are prevented from growing downwards by the hardness and pover ty of the soil below, and are forced to extend themselves only near the surface, deep plough ing, under such circumstances, would undoubt edly mutilate these roots to the injury of the plant and cause it to shed its fruit' This cotton is now about five and a half feet high, and where the stand is perfect the branch es meet in every direction, and are so heavily laden with fruit that some of the branches are splitting off with the weight It was planted on the 9th of May and has grown rapidly from the start It was not in jured in the least by the drought, and at that time not a single fallen boll, square or form could be found. Since the rains I have noticed a few fallen squares. Plants growing on a soil cultivated so deeply can hardly be injured by drought and are benefitted in various other ways. It must be remembered that the atmosphere is the great store-house from which plants de rive at least nine-tenths of the substances of which they are composed. Ammonia is con stantly escaping into the atmosphere from de caying animal and vegetable matter. Carbonic acid gas and water are largely diffused in the atmosphere, and tbe hotter the weather the more water is held in suspension. We all know how large a portion of a tree is charcoal or carbon, and that when it is burnt and combines with the oxygen of the atmosphere and becomes carbonic acid gas—an invisible gas escaping in to the atmosphere—howlittle is left behind as a residuum. That little is the product of the soil. What has disappeared is substance derived from the atmosphere. Now, if the soil be deeply pulverized, so as to allow a free circulation of the atmosphere through it, the watery vapor is condensed by coming into contact with the cool substratum of the earth, on the same principle that the atmos phere condenses upon the sides - of a pitcher filled with cold water upon a warm mid-summer day—thus supplying the roots with moisture holding in solution those fertilizing gases which the atmosphere contains, so necessary to the growth and development of the plant, and in this condition so readily to be taken np by its roots and fibres. Besides all this, these atmospheric gases and water make soluble and a food for the plant other substances in the earth, which without them, would remain insoluble, inert and useless. A deeply pulverized soil has still another ad vantage in dry weather. It draws up the mois ture from below, upon the principle of capil lary attraction, which may be illustrated by hold- ing a lump of loaf sugar part way immersed in your cup of coffee. The sugar will immediately draw up sufficient of the liqnid to become satu rated with the moisture. All these advantages are greatly diminished or entirely lost in a -hard, compact soil. When the rains fall—impregnated with these fertili zing gases—if the soil be deeply mellowed and porous, they are absorbed at once and penetrate to the roots of the plants, with their rich bur den of life and health. But if only the surface is mellow, and the ground be sloping or hilly, most of the rain runs off, carrying with it much of the surface mould into the streams below. On the other hand, should the ground be level it lies upon the surface till evaporated by the sun and the enriching gases escape again into the atmosphere which should be appropriated by the crop. Water whioh lies upon the surface till evap orated by tbe son makes'the ground cold. It takes the heat from it to oonvert the water into vapor, upon the same principle that a room or side-walk is cooled by sprinkling with water on a sunny day. Finally, if the water remains npon the surface long enough to become stagnant, it becomes so poisonous to the plants that they torn jeUow and sickly. lt '*ould be easy, Messrs. Editors, to prolong these re^jfcg indefinitely, but I have no time. I hold you •^sponsible, altogether for this ap parent obtrnsfc- m y views. I have no de sire to champiomzw^j- or combat con flicting opinions—but, appealed to me for an explanation of some '!. H ,| r 8illffalarit _ in the mode of cultivating the co.“° patch in question, I have written this solely m v^ rence to the requests of your readers and yours- „ Yours truly, S.' V CT. Alabama—.4 Congressional Candidate Killed. The Nashville Republican Banner, oi Tues day, has the following special: Coubtlaxd, Ala., August 2, p. si. About two o’clock this afternoon, while Dr, H&ughey, Conservative Republican candidate for Congress, was on the stand, delivering a speech, he said all the Hinds speakers were hirelings. Hinds represents the extreme Radi cal wing of the Republican party, and is alse a Congressional candidate. No sooner bad Dr. Haughey used the hireling expression than Dr. Collins, a friend of Hinds, called him a d-—-d bar, at the game time advancing toward him. Haughey returned the belligerent epithet, when both clenohed. During the struggle, which last ed only about half a minute, Haughey was abet in the Ipft br^st, just under the n,Tnth rib. The woundwillmqve fatalHaughey and Hinds occupy thC same position in the, Republican party of tms State that Benter and Stokes do in Tennessee. Hinds and Collins are bo* Collins is the qMStWltotgF than an ontward sign or evidence thaUk, h ^ I washed away; bat if the heart is no t ^ ^ water in the universe cannot cleanse that one must be prepared to receive haptic ^ the minister of God bestows it, or the sacm? . * curse; - and when one feels that he is I prepared, then is the time; if ever, to slw ^ 60 and tew one’s self, if such is at «H necessa^ vation, and it is not. " 0 * ■ The women on Sunday last, wa (foe Mv ^ • into the river predetermined to come ont of it«I •‘conniption fits,” anS this is proved bv th e TerT i , I that all came out in the same i»anner_«L I jumping, writhing and splurging, bnt I power and strenth of their escorts, they would - I parently, have been drowned. It j^”*' I that if these Btrong men had released their V; I npon them, they would have come out of th» ^ 1 in a becoming manner, and would have beea tm" ■ careful in their convulsions. j Aside from this misbehavior on the part o!th I colored sisters, (we cannot use a milder wort)«| were much interested in the solemn and impr Kt ;-' I exercises of the evening. The singing good, and the prayer of the minister was appro--! | ate, fervent, and at times eloquent, and we dot- not, came from his heart. Burglary.—On yesterday morning, between at. I night and two o'clock, some rascal entered t& 1*1 room of Mr. George Lawrence, under tbe for, I House, and cleaned ont the money drawer, nately, however, for Mr. L., there was bnt a ;ajl amount of money in it- The thief had a fair jr* I at the liquors in the establishment, bnt sears,;;I know hie failing if he once tasted ; and rather d-1 be caught there drank, he refused to touch ie I Burglaries are again becoming altogether vj prevalent in this city. Scarcely a night paaeet u| the premises of one or more citizens sre not va»| by the villains who lie about town in concealsel during the day, and at night venture forth toiil and plunder. It is now quite dangerous to retrt J night without seeing to it that the doors and $1 dows of your house are properly secured. And uJ would we urge upon citizens the propriety of hoi ng a revolver by the side of their beds at cisl within reach of the hand, so that when a nntrl prowler presents himself at their windows or das I they may “down” him as they lie in bed before si I aware that his presence is known. One ortwcrJ laius ‘ picked up” in this summary manner, wl-i l ert a wholesome influence npon aU of them, afi,til dare say, check, if not effectually stop, tbe wheel eala robbing and thieving practiced nightly iaih| community. Since the foregoing was written, we Ieam th; k I attempt was also made to enter the residence of h I Sam. Porter on Friday night last, but a lady tad | the burglar in his efforts to prize open the vfiJc I blinds, gave the alarm, and he made himself car: | before Mr. Porter got a shot at him. Fine Paintings—YTe have been shown two spsl imens of miniature oil paintings, on ivory board. ;| Miss Roeine Dela Torre, of South Carolina, wind I for beauty of finish, delicacy of shading, exquisal outlining, and the soft, natural blendings of coital surpass anything of the kind ever exhibited a I this city. Both paintings are miniature oopies from I the great Italian artist. The one is from his i'.'l donna di San Sisto, (painted between 1517 til 1520,) in the Dresden Gallery, representing the Ti-1 gin, Btandmg in majestic attitude with child iikl arms, in presence of a preist, while other figust; I inf ants are represented on the canvas. The pfij mg is said to have been executed at once ly til great artist, without any preliminary stndy, itdhl been engraved in a style not unworthy of the c»l inal, by Freiderich Muller; and Miss Torre is rep I during the picture in oil colors from an engwixl seems to have worked with the genius of the P-l master himself. The other is simply the held &| shoulders of one of Raphael's Madonnas, aadal fur artist has given ns a female face of surpi»y| beauty, and finished off in a style that would iihj any painter in this day and time. We predict for Miss Torre a brilliant careerii'J| divine art, to which she has been called by mc j for no one without genius could produce eitbe ; | the pictures to which wehave referred. They®*| seen at Burke's Book Store. Negro Shot at Church—Mr. Sol Johns® - I forms us that on last Saturday night, dorirg** j viral- meeting among the negroes, in his neigh 1 -1 hood, about four miles west of Macon, a negro :■ I named Charles Jordan, about eighteen years >1 slipped into the honse or church, daring the WfI ions excitement, and placing a pistol withal^I inches of the back of a negro named Ned ^1 fired, and then ran out and made his escape- I the time he was shot, Ned was leaning his headp J on his walking cane, as if in prayer; bot iBS T s j at sly raising his head, be exclaimed: "ChariesI dan has shot me;” though he did not see Cfy-1 Others,'however, saw him; but his daring ^‘1 confused and astounded them that tbey <ho I attempt to catch tho would be assassin antil he^ I out and gone. Ned is now lying ins I condition, and is attended by Dr. Crowell J° who thinks that the wound will prove fatal, tbfr I there is a slim chance for Ned. The hall too | near the right shoulder blade and passing “ the long, lodged just above the collar bone. The murderous and cowardly assault grev j a difficulty which the two negroes hadbai I Sol. Johnson's field about three months >6^ ‘ which Charles called Ned a liar, to which ^ replied by a blow with his hoe handle- mediately went to the house and tried to bo 1 ® | gnu or pistol to kill Ned then, but of course >■ refused him when he stated what he wanted (I and he then left the place declaring that he ed to shoot Ned the first chance he got * I made similar threats since, and, having ee- '" weapon, executed them as above related A New and Valuable Invention.—We shown by the Inventor, Mr. Thoa. J. . city, the model of a railroad car or house veal for which he obtained a patent ftomthelW^J at Washington, on the 18th day of M*T j cannot sufficientiy or olesriy explain to th« ? I tho modus operandi of the invention, but person Will immediately see its I Melt's svJife? model or * drawing of ih j l ^ Wo will say, however d* I is a methodforfg, railroad care at the top, while a* ^ ^ perfect * I cure against leakage in anyte-. . We have scarcely a doubt that n lntion in the present stylo of archttto- n g^| and house building, when its T ** lws .*7*Wr $1 known and tested. Wo understand thrt. j(i ,| will sodri pat hi feventiontatopractJeM**® ,1 oertalii thatttw® tahot aU the reqalw®*® 1 »»ry for thoroogh vanrilatjon. Physic is a good thing in it* P 1 *^ of our readew need it, they d coanjaw®*^ place totayitiakt Sod8* Ct*rt ^ Runt & Oo. £fyp*rtS«ilar end to the retailing and-diapouslnC ^ ness, dealing efc&ftlj intta ^ at alllegist*