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I i II' II ita li The Greorgia 'W'eekly Telegraph, THE TELEGRAPH. MACON FRIDAY, AUGUST 6 1SC9. £ Tike Radicals on Georgia. N. The letter of the Boston apostle of the negro- pMly Steams, who claims to have been driven ontof Georgia—the dispatches and editorials declaring that the United States revenue officers cannot safely hold and exercise their offices in the third district, and various other indications go to show that the next Congress will open with a heavy onslaught upon Georgia. The New York Tribune thinks we are sufficiently alive to the danger to be ready to accept the recent de cision of the Supreme Court as an excuse for retreating from a false step. The Radicals are anxious to get hold of Georgia and remodel her in some way that may promise to be ser viceable to the party.- j * * Front Florida. . The Catebpillab.—The Tallahassee Floridian of the 27th says: The weather for the last week has been bad for crops. An unusual quantity of rain has fal len, and we are apprehensive that it will favor the development of the caterpillar, the only thincrwe 1 nve to foar now. They are seen in gmnil numbers on many of the farms, but we sincerely hope that they will not increase suffi ciently to do much damage. We want about two or three weeks of dry, hot weather and we- think all will be well. The Tallahassee and Georgia Railroad,— The Floridian says that at a meeting of directors of the Tallahassee and Georgia Railroad a near ly or quite unanimous expression was made in favor of running the proposed Tallahassee and Georgia Road in the direction of Bainbridge, and a committee consisting of Messrs. Scott, Hilton and Brokaw were appointed to confer with President Bruton on the subject. The sur vey from Bainbridge to Columbus is about fin ished, and it is likely that the surveying corps will at an early day run a line from Bainbridge to Tallahassee. Rains In Augnsta. Very heavy rains occurred in Augusta last Tuesday and Wednesday, submerging a good many of the streets and washing others very much. The track of the Columbia road was so badly washed that the train was stopped at the three mile post, and the passengers were brought in on a construction train. New GreenbackDot.t.abs.—The Treasury De partment, it is stated, will soon issue new United States notes of the denomination of one dollar, the plates for which are now being en graved. Upon the new notes the bust of Wash ington will be substituted for the vignette of Chief Justice Chase. This is in accordance with an act of Congress, which prohibits the likeness of any person now living from being on the face of the national currency. Greeley considers the adoption of the 15th amendment secure, and therefore thinks it not -worth while to make its ratification by the ex cluded States a condition of their admission.— What effrontery is this, to acknowledge that States have been denied representation in Con gress, not for disloyalty, but simply to force their consent to a partisan measure. Greeley is bold to avow what every one knew.—Boston Post. The Growing Crop.—Some of the papers complain, of a disposition among brokers and speculators to force extravagant estimates of the young cotton crop upon the public. We in vito attention to the speculations and estimates of one of them, extracted from the Boston Traveler, which puts the growing crop some where between two million and two million five hundred thousand bales. New Books.—Havens A Brown have just re ceived Claude Gueux—the last day of a con demned man—by Victor Hugo. It is, in the shape of a story, a powerful plea in favor of the abolition of capital punishment. Carlton, pub lisher—275 pages. Also: The Kaledescope, a very dainty comic peri odical, by the brothers Tuplex—very beauti fully printed and illustrated. Carlton, pub lisher. Feacos in South Carolina.—The Edgefield Advertiser states that Gov. Scott, so-called, has deposited in the jail of that place 250 Manches ter rifles, and placed them under guard of negro soldiers. Affairs are fast ripening in that District for a row. Ex-Governor Bonham and General Butler waited on Scott and remon strated with, but received for answer: That be bad not authorized an organization of ’’ any militia company in our town or District— That he had merely sanctioned the employment of a sufficient guard for the arms and ammuni tion. And that he had sent said arms and am munition here as a measure of precaution, re presentations being constantly made to him of most lawless doings in different parts of the District Pollard’s Lite of Davis, and Secret Histo ry of the Confederacy.—The National Pub lishing Company send us a copy of this book— a handsome work of 500 pages. As the reader is aware it is a record of Pollard’s prejudices and hatreds and is pronounced wholly untrustworthy as history. Bust in Cotton.—We hear that rust has ap peared in some of the cotton fields in Jones, and it may probably be common if this damp and showery weather is long protracted. Showers are now falling, we fancy, almost daily through out the State. At present cotton looks welL Lawlessness is still unabated in Georgia. A colored man was taken from the Dawson jail a few nights since and literally cut to pieces by a gang of disguised Ku-KInx. The above was in the Radical organ yester day, and is as near the truth as that paper can ' get. The man mobbed, (who was in jail for murder,) was a white man, and, as such, his taking off will be of no consequence to the pow ers that be, in illustrating the lawlessness of Georgia. Rain in Marietta.—The Journal, of Friday, says the heaviest rain we have ever been per mitted to witness fell in this locality on last Tuesday evening; for the time being it was a successful deluge. Land fob Sale.—A fine plantation in Pulaski county W advertised for sale by. Mr. W. P. Head. ^He wishes to change investment See advertisement in this dsy’s paper. Senator Cole, of Californio, thinks that Mex ico is the destined goal of Asiatic emigration on this continent, and wants it diverted in that di rection. Y*' On dit—that Brigham Young was married re cently to a Miss FoHansbee, of Boston. No cards, and no bridal trip. Labor numbers of Americans are announced aa prepared to engage in the coolie trade, since Koopmanachaap's profits became known. The Supreme Court were about opening on Ho. 8 Northern Circuit, when they adjourned to Saturday. Gossip upon the Chinese Question. The rapidity, with which the question of Chinese Immigration and Labor baa risen to the rank of an engrossing topic is unexampled. It will probably become a leading issue in the next Presidential election, and very naturally come in as a collateral issue of the other schemes of some of the negro eleyationists. We shall not be surprised to see a very strong combination against it. The White Labor Unions and other organizations of the North and West wjH nat urally take issue against Chinese immigration as calculated to undermine free white labor. The negrophilists of New England will lead off against it as calculated to injure the interests of negro labor in the South. The religious ele ment of a portion of the country will side against it to involving . the introduction of swarms of unbelievers and idolators on the Western continent. The negroes, as we have seen already, demand that the Chinese now in the country shall be banished back again to their native soil. These elements alone' will forma strong combination against the immigra tion of the Chinese, and we shall find them clamorous for prohibitory enactments of stringent character. On the other hand, the vast material interests at stake are well calculated to call into ex istence a party which will insist that the tra ditional policy of the country in favor of leav ing it open to immigration shall be preserved and maintained. Without Chinese labor the most productive portions of the American con tinent—the vast alluviums of the South must re lapse into wilderness. The negro will not culti vate them—the white man cannot, and their immense tributes to the wealth of the ■ country in the finest cotton and in sugar threaten to be almost wholly lost. So, also, in the mining business of the coun try—immense values must be lost for the want of cheap labor. Yast areas of gold diggings in California will be valueless without the cheap labor from China, and the same is doubtless true of many other mineral deposits all over the continent. So, too, in all those gigantio works of in ternal improvement which are essential to cheap, rapid and easy communication between the Atlantio and Pacific shores, the Chinaman is as essential as the Irishman was in the At lantic and Middle States. We must construct all those great railways and canals which are absolutely necessary to homogenize so vast a population—to consolidate their interests—and to enable the Government to extend super vision and protection over the whole. From the Isthmus of Panama northward to the exist ing Pacific Railway, a vast and pressing demand for cheap labor, in the construction of great marine and overland routes is opening, which can only be supplied by the Chinese. These considerations,and many others we have no time to mention, are arraying a strong party, composed in great part of the intelligence of the country, in opposition to all attempts to interpose the barriers of arbitrary law against the natural flow of the great tide of Eastern im migration to the Western Continent. These men regard a policy which shall shut out Chinese labor from a continent yet unpeo pled, and every acre of which is clamorous for the subduing band of human labor, as just as narrowminded as the Spanish expulsion of the Moors, or the English expulsion of the Flemings and Israelites, or the French expulsion of the Huguenots. I would be a piece of policy unworthy of civi lization-five hundred years behind the age— identical, in fact, with that which has just been abandoned by the Chinese and Japanese them selves. The demand that the price of labor shall be kept up by shutting out supplies, is the old doctrine of “Protection to American Indus try” in a new and more ridiculous shape—which would lie with equal force against all labor sa ving machines and inventions which distinguish modem arts and agriculture. The doctrine that Christianity shall be seenred by proscribing pa gan immigration, carries ns back to the ages of the Inquisition and the cloister—when men were unwilling to trust Christianity to her own rational and scriptural defences, bnt must come to aid with fire and sword, and when it was be lieved that faith must triumph by flying from sinners and infidels. We see in this hasty review of the attitudes of the two parties the lines for as pretty a conflict of ODposing hosts as were ever drawn, and it requires no great fore cast to discover that a bat tle is to ensue here. We see the hosts gather ing every day. The Baltimore negroes "have endeavored to commit the Radical party to their view of the case by denouncing in one breath white opposition to the mixing of colors in labor, and Chinese immigration—demanding that the Chinese shall be expelled from the country.— They have called a National Negro Convention upon these propositions. We believe the Radi cal party will be badly mixed and disarranged on these issues. We shall next hear, before long, a grand white labor Congress demanding that Chinese immi gration shall be stopped and denouncing the scheme of mixing colors. We shall soon hear religions organizations deploring an influx of pagans and clamoring for laws against it. We have no doubt, therefore, that John Chi naman is going to stir up a lively commotion on the American Continent—he is going to throw the nigger into the shade for a time—he is going to confuse parties and give ns something to think and talk about. Mbs. Elizabeth OLady Stanton is out flatfoot ed in favor of women'wearing men’s dress. She aays: I The true idea is for- the- sexes to dress as nearly alike as possible. ‘ We have seen several ladies dressed precisely like gentlemen, who ap peared far more elegant and graceful than ’any real man we ever saw. Ayont glady in Fifth avenue dressed in male costume for years, trav elling all over Europe and this country. She says it would have been impossible to have seen and known as much of life in woman’s sttiti.-, and to have felt the independence and security she did, had her sex been proclaimed before all Israel and the sun. There are many good reasons for adopting male costnme. First, it is the most convenient dress that can be invented; second, in it woman could secure equal wages with man for the same work; third, a conceal- mentof sex would protect our young girls from those terrible outrages from brutal men reported in all our daily papers. We have had our suspicions that Mrs. Stanton was after wearing the pants for some time, and now the murder’s out. Few who have ever tried the American House, Boston, are tempted to leave that pattern Hotel tar any other. Yerger’s Probable Fate. From the Cincinnati Commercial, July 26. The findings and sentence in the Yerger case are, according to rule, kept secret, till they are approved by the reviewing authorities at Wash ington. We are advised, however, thairthe pro ceedings in this case have been forwarded to Washington. Now, as the sentence in any other case short of capital punishment wonid have needed only the approval of the commanding General of the District—General Ames, in this case—we can arrive at bat one conclusion, name ly : that the plea of insanity has not availed; that the commission did not find for either of the lower degrees of crime, justifiable homicide, or manslaughter—but that it has found that the ( killing of Colonel Crane was murder, and the ; punishment awarded—death. Mr.-A. P.‘ Messenger Thursday evening accom- Drawo a twentv minutes rain <m Sunday at j P^d inNewYorkthefeat of ndrng 500 miles, Cincinnati two inches of water fell, flooding the ° n a ™‘ hm ^ consecutive hours. Milan and lower floors of hundredsofTwell-! 7°^^ to ^ e ^‘r^ 1 5f w “ obl i8 edt ? Blak ! 1 l 10,000 circuits of the hall where he rode, and -, — j turn 40,000 corners. Is That Tarns ?r-ie the New York Tribune's The colored mechanics of Baltimore and the fastinsation that Gnat’* ximiniatrstionia dead as State of Maryland are organizing into trades’ Mp hone wall -founded T The “favorite mere i unions and societies of their own, oa the white Remedies for lb* Boll Worm. The Box Spring corespondent of the West Georgia Gazette t^tes that paper that the boll worm has mafleRs appearanoe in his fields one month in fiance of list season. Fifteen days ago he poticed the flies, and he recommends that bmps and pans of tar should be set in the fluids' at night, to attract and destroy the moths. He also proposes to kindle pine-knot fires, at proper intervals, through the fields, so that the moth may be scorched and horned. In addition to this, he suggests tapping the cotton, and causing each hand engaged in top ping to carry a sack,- in which to put the bud, which should be carefully burned. It is known to farmers that the eggs are generally, if not always, deposited in the bud of the main stalk, or those of the larger branches. If, then, the parent stalk, with its branches, be budded or topped, and these buds bo burned, the fell de stroyer is destroyed. In regard to the condition of crops, Box Springs says: Cotton crops in this section are very promis ing, and com as good as the land can produce. The cotton which has received the help of the “Joana," as the freedman terms it, is four or five hundred per cent, ahead of that which has not the benefit of any manure. This is true as to weed and fruit . _ _ , I saw a stalk growing on old land (been cul tivated more than forty years) having two hun dred and eighty well developed forms. Upon this land I put one hundred pounds of guano per acre, with a considerable quantity of farm manure. The cotton growing contiguous to this—with the same amount of farm manure which was put in with the guano—shows the im mense value of the guano to the fanner. The weed which received the guano is more than four.feet in bight, while, the rows next to it, planted without guano, are froin eighteen to twenty inches. The Gazette, editorially has the following: About the Boll Worm.—An experienced fanner of this county gives ns the following facts concerning the dreaded boll worm. He says the fly, which resembles the candle fly, us ually makes its appearance towards the last of July, and abont the first of August begins to de posit its eggs. These it drops about on the limbs, leaves, and in the bud of the cotton stalk. Those left in the bnd are the ones that do the damage; for if it be dry the eggs on the limbs will die for want of sustenance. If wet weather, however, all of them will thrive. Our inform ant says that a sure remedy is to top the cotton between the first and the tenth of August, after you are sure the fly has laid its eggs. He has tried it often and never failed in making a crop, while others who neglected it lost nearly all— The fellow in the bud is the one to be dreaded, therefore top your cotton. From Atlanta—Dental Convention. Atlanta, Ga., July 28,1869. Editors Telegraph: After a pleasant but tardy journey of a week from your beautiful city, we arrived in Atlanta yesterday noon, and are now safely ensconced in that gem of a Hotel, in everything that pertains to a man’s comfort, the National. After a protracted stay in Macon, we must confess that other cities look narrow and contracted when compared with its broad and shady avenues. The Southern Dental Convention is now in session here, and the meeting has been harmo nious and successf ol in the highest degree. New Orleans, Baltimore, Louisville, Nashville, Mem phis, Montgomery, and many other cities are represented by some of the most able members of the profession. It is truly a fine looking body of gentlemen, and does honor to the South. Atlanta is growing in all directions, and the new residence of Mr. James, the banker, will rather eclipse, we think, anything of the kind in the State. Macon must look to her laurels. More anon. Cobvus. know by telegram la vary dead. 1 men refuse to admit them into their unions. From Talbot, Meriwether and Taylor. The Talbotton "West Georgia Gazette, of the 29th instant, is responsible for the following: High.—Com and com meal are at present worth SI 75 per bushel in Talbotton. Thank Heaven, the recent rains will secure the crop in this section. Wheat.—We have heard of wheat being sold in this county at $1 75 per bushel, though we believe the price generally asked is §2. Not much offering. Killed.—A negro boy was run over and killed by a train on the Southwestern Railroad last Sunday, about five miles below Geneva.— The boy was asleep on the track. Good Turn-out.—Ten bushels of new wheat yielded 400 pounds of first quality flour at Per sons’ Mill last week, being forty pounds to the bushel Raul—We have had fine rains in this seetion daring the last few days. Geneva.—This pleasant village is thriving rapidly. Two or three new bnildings are going np. Messrs. Gorman & Martin, grocery mer chants and provision dealers of this place, are building a very large store-house near the depot, and other signs of progress are evident. Gene va is a go ahead place. All the people need is more capitaL , From Meriwether.—A gentleman who has jnst returned from a trip to Meriwether, informs ns that the crops in that comity are greatly above the average. In passing through the val ley he noticed that not more than half the cleared land was in cultivation, and by far the greater part of that in cotton. The valley peo ple, however, have plenty of hog and hominy. What Gbit Will Do.—A subscriber in Harris writes us that a young lady of that county—Miss Carrie A. Benning—has in cultivation abont five acres of cotton, which is the best in the neigh borhood, there being plenty of bolls on it the 20th of June. Miss Carrie planted and worked this cotton herself, except one plowing, and it is believed she will realize three or four bales from the patch. Miss Benning was wealthy be fore ihe war, bnt now sees the situation and is notafraidof.it. The man who is so fortunate as to marry this lady will have a treasure in a wife. . The Early County News has seen a planter trying to engage com at 75 cents per bushel, and thinks it will be plentiful at 50 cents at the time of gathering. When the moon turns to green cheese, then you’ll see Georgia raised com at 75 cents per busheL So, look out! From Taylor County.—We leam from a sub scriber that the crops in Taylor county are gen erally good—the com particularly so, a large area having been planted. Cotton as good as conld be where it has had proper attention. . The spring term of Butler Academy, under choree of Prof. Monroe Edwards, closed last Friday with an examination and exhibition at nighty Seventy-five pupils were in attendance. Our informant says the examination and exhi bition wet®, highly creditable to teachers, pupils and the confmmaty. Butler is improving—several new buildings being in course of erection. Wo are glad to bear this. The citisen* .of Taylor are an inter esting people, and are sqj^t o mako ’ both ?nds meet, and have something ov*t - A flairs In Colnnbas. The Enquiror of Thursday understands that the membership of the African M. E. Church in that city him increased to such an extent that a new church building has becomes necessity so urgent that active steps arc being inaugurated to secure one of sufficient capacity to accommo date the members. We hear that they have some idea of purchasing Temperance Hall, if a fond large enough can be raised. Everything abont the city yesterday was quiet and pleasant. But little was stirring. _ Mer chants are doing nothing as amiably as if they had no use for trade, and really enjoyedleisure. We admire their spirit but regret their condi tion. But few strangers in the city. Receipts of goods light. The Eagle and Phoenix Manu facturing Co. continue to get huge packages of new machinery for their mill now in course of erection. The Sun and Times of the same date has the following: Judge William Dougherty, of the Ckatta- hoochee Circuit.—Judge Johnson left the Bench of the Superior Court during the morn ing, yesterday, and it was immediately occu pied by Horn Wm. Dougherty. The matter occurred in this wise: A case was oalled, in which Judge J. had been retained as counsel Under the law, when such is the case, opposing counsel can consent to an attorney acting as Jndge pro tern. Mr. D. was agreed upon, and sat in the case. The incident waa a novel one in this Circuit. Idle Negroes.—The city abounds with them. They saunter around town in their best clothes, and seem to think that labor is odious. It is next to impossible to hire one to wash and cook, or to cut wood and work the garden. Some of the more fashionable haul their babies around in carriages, and seem elated at the idea that the “bottom rail is on top.” How they manage to keep np appearances is questionable. Of course the more depraved among them have no consci entious scruples against stealing. Baxnbbidqe, Cuthbebt and Columbus -Rail road.—The Engineering Corps of the Bain bridge, Cuthbert and Columbus Railroad reached this city Tuesday afternoon, having run the line of the preliminary survey of that road through from Bainbridge to Columbus. The character of the country on the line of survey from Bain bridge to Lumpkin, and the favorableness of the ground for the road, was stated in a letter from the Chief Engineer, Col Harkie, to the Sun, severe! days ago. In a conversation with him, we leam that the ground this side of Lumpkin is generally favorable, with the exception of that portion termed the Hannahatcbee Hills.— The line just run, passes immediately through the village of Cusseta, from thence, and in a north direction to the Ochillie Creek at or near the plantation of Beverly A. Thornton, Esq., thence down the valley of that stream to the Upatoie, passing through the lands and near the null of Air. Van Horn. From the crossing of the Upatoie jnst below the mouth of the Ochil lie, the survey passed down the creek through the lands of William Baxter, and the late Dr. Robinson. The line passes north of the dwell ing on the Robinson plantation; thence through the valley north of the dwelling on the Andrews place, and crossing Bull Creek above the Aver- ett bridge, comes to the east commons of the city, known as the “gallows” or “old City Maga zine” grounds. Another line, we understand, will probably be ran from this city to Lumpidn via. James town ; and, possibly, another farther east of a portion of the line just beyond Cusseta, before any decision as to location is made. Col Harkie says the land owners on the line of the survey manifest a very liberal spirit as to the right of way, most having already granted the right. Cotton Prospect In Southwest Georgia. From the Cuthbert Appeal of the 30th.] That false and exaggerated estimates and re ports of the growing crop in this section, have been widely circulated, no one will deny who is posted as to facts, and capable of forming a correct opinion. Personal observation, and information de rived from careful and competent individuals, lead to the following conclusions: First. The crop is at the lowest calculation two weeks behind its usual status at this stage of the season. This is the result of the exceedingly late spring, and the repeated slight frosts up to A Radical Peter the Hermit ea a Cru sade North Against Georgia. That our readers may oomprehend the char acter of the appeals to the North to reconstruct Georgia, we copy the following. Its falsehoods are about as numerous its lines: Tmt CAUSE OF FBEZDKSN IN GEORGIA. uobton, July 21,1869. To the Editor of the Boston Journal: I am a resident of Columbia oounty, Georgia, in which locality I settled some three years ago. Aa the affairs of Georgia have become somewhat com plicated, it has occurred to me that the state ments of a resident there would be particularly valuable at this time. I am a native of Maasaehn- ckusetts, and have resided several years in Bos ton. I left this city in 1854, as one of the pio neers in the work of rescuing Kansas from the grasp of the slave power. On my arrival in Georgia and settling on my own plantation, I proceeded to establish a Bun- day-school for the benefit of my own laborers and those who chose to attend from the sur rounding plantations. For this act of temerity my life was immediately threatened, and Btrong precautionary measures were adopted on my part. A little more than a year afterward we began to organize our poliffical movement, and the war “waxed hotter." In November, 1867, enr Constitutional Convention was held, and in the April following our first election under it. At the eleotion we polled some 1650 colored votes, out of abont 1800 registered ones. The polls were protected by soldiers and but little disturbance occurred, although the rebel spirit was rampant. But in November the times had changed. The military was withdrawn and reb- eldom “ did what they listed.” Consequently we polled bnt one vote for Grant. In Lincoln county, adjoining us, not one Republican vote was cast. In our Senatorial district, embrac ing Columbia, Lincoln and Wilkes counties, the last being the home of Robert Toombs, out of 3000 votes polled in April, we cast but 86. for Gen. Grant. This gentleman would not be per mitted to set his foot in Lincoln county to-day. Mr. Adkins, the murdered Senator, resided in Warren county,adjoiningour county on the west. He was well known as an aged gentleman, of ir reproachable character, and a minister of the Methodist Churoh North, in which capacity he preached in Augnsta the Sunday previous to his brutal murder. A friend of mine warned him ofhiB danger on that day, and besought him not to attempt to return to his home, as threats had been made in Augusta a day or two previ ous by persons from ms county. Following this murder was that of the negro who was driving him home, and on the Sunday night previous an infuriated mob attacked the Rev. Mr. Stillman, presiding elder of the Me thodist Churoh North, in the town of Waynes boro, about twenty-five mileB from Augusta.— His life was saved only by the protection of a large number of colored people. Hon. Josiah Sherman is Senator from our district, but has not dared to visit his home there since he left to take his seat in the Legislature, more than a year ago. Hon. J. AL Rice is Representative from Columbia county, but does not dare to go anywhere openly in that county, bnt resides a few miles from the line, near Angusta. Mr. Madison is Representative from Lincoln county, bnt has never dared to show his face there for more than a year. I was elected “Jndge of Ordinary” for onr county in April, 1868, bnt was driven from my position by a ferocious mob, who gave me my choice to abdicate my office or die. When I appealed to the authority of Con gress their reply was, “d—n Congress; it is only a rump Congress.” Said they: “We will be d—d if the niggers shall rule over us, and yon was elected by the niggers.” When I refused to leave the court-house they dragged me from it. and some proposed instant death at that time. Mob law thus triumphs in onr county. I have not deemed it safe to visit onr county seat since then. On my return from that place I was taken sick, and for two months was confined to my honse, daring which time rebel ballets flew around me, and rebel yells and screechings could be heard night and day. My situation was nnpleasant in the extreme. My object in visiting the North is twofold. 1st. Tourgenpon the people the necessity of Congressional action in our behalf. We need protection and must have it, or the Republican party in Georgia will exist only in name. No fair election can now be held there with out the presence of soldiers. If this is not granted, and Georgia is readmitted, you will The Cotton Crop. An experienced and well known cotton broker sends the Boston Traveller the following com munication respecting the growing cotton crop at the South. He has good facilities for obtain ing information, ahd ms statements may be re lied upon: Observing the numerous and varied efforts of writers on the Southern cotton crop, for more than a month past, to induce a general belief in their predictions of 3,000,000 of bales as the product of 1869, 1 am constrained to offer yon a few considerations per contra: In the first place such efforts are usual They come every year at this season. Such writers oy it uie reai oonon aestroyerinan easily 1^ ^ ~ ~ anguished from all others. Then thereof Alay, which, though not killing the plant out- g av0 j n ' Congress mne additional Representa- rigu, yet left it feeble, yellow, and covered j ^ vea 0 f th 0 Democratic faith. Do you wish for with hce. Afterwards, abundantrams induced j an even t ? Then let Congress pass either great succulency and a rapid growth, which was the Edmunds or Butler bill, either of which will again suddenly checked by the late dry and ex tremely hot spell. When the rains set in two or three days since, thousands of acres in this and adjoining counties had ceased to grow, and were flowering all over, like fields in September. Except where ample distance in the hill, also, had been left, the burning suns had played sad havoc with the squares and young fruit We have seen crops in which, at least, one half of the embryo fruit lay on the ground, or had dried upon the branches. This fact hun dreds will attest. Secondly—Where fertilizers have been lav- iskingly employed, under the stimulus of repeat ed rains prior to the drought, the cotton weed has sprung forward luxuriantly, and developed far more stalk and fibre than bolls. The bumingiguano beneath, and the fiery or deal above for several weekB past, have each conspired to bring to grief the exuberant hopes of many planters, who talked largely, of har vesting more than a bale to the acre. This portion of the crop therefore has suffer ed most We feel justified, accordingly, in the asser tion that the forthcoming crop in Southwest Georgia will not be an average one, leaving out of account even the well authenticated tidings that the genuine caterpillar has appeared in Dougherty, Baker and other of the lower count ies. Should this scourge prove as fatal and general as last year, the falling off will be sad indeed. Of course the above statements are subject to modification in particular locations, where the seasons have been more propitious. In the main, however, they will be found to be correct The Tappahnimocli Wheat—From Northeast Georgia. Bio Savanna, Dawson County. July 27, 1869.) Editors Telegraph : Please find enclosed sub scription to your paper, and also a wheat head, of the Tappahannock variety seed, obtained from Virginia, at Falling Creek Alills. I raised this year from one quarter of a bushel nine bushels, sown on a small lot, where I have fed my sheep for a number of years. Two years previous to sowing I gathered a good crop of clover hay each year from toe lot I suppose the lot contains something over a quarter of an acre. Iliave ordinarily realized eighteen bushels per bushel sown, for two years past My judg ment is the Tappahannock variety is the best for this climate we have ever sown. It does best Bovra three-fourths of a bushel per a ore. Com crops are looking well, though we have The Aufc% Rent War—Serious Fight. Several Persons Wounded. Albany, N. Y., July 27.—Later advices from the scene of the anti-rent troubles in East Greenbush, Rennsselaer county, yesterday, give additional particulars of the affair. The prop erty about to be levied upon belongs to Wm. Whitbeck, and not to Air. Dennison. As the Sheriff’s posse advanced np the road they encountered skirmishers from the enemy, who were on the look out The skirmishers re treated as the posse advanced. Finally, the Sheriff reached the premises. Wm. Whitbeck was in front, while the others were standing around apparently unconcerned spectators.— Some of them were whitling. Sheriff Gregg approached Wm. Whitbeck, and demanded pos session of the farm under a process which he held; 'Whitbeck drew a revolver, and declared that he would relinquish his hold upon' the property only with his life. Just then a rapture between one of Whitbeck’s sons and one of the Sheriff's posse occurred. Blows were struck and in a minute a general fight was in progress, Pistols, stones, and clubs were freely used.— The ■ anti-renters being prepared fought with advantage. The attack was so sudden and unexpected that the Sheriff’s posse were taken aback. The re sult of the engagement was that the Sheriff’s party were driven from the ground in conster nation and dismay, and the anti-renters left .masters of the situation. The fight lasted only about ten minutes, yet it W'ts a regular hand-to-hand encounter, and was desperately contested. In the melee six persona are known to-have been wounded, but it is likely that some others were hurt. One account has it that eight persons were wounded. In addition to those reported wonnded last night are Special Deputies Southard and Gideon Mc- Afenomy, both of this city, as well as William Whitbeck, the' person sought to be dispossessed. Deputy Sheriff Gregg and Speoial Deputy Whitbeck are seriously -wounded,' and are hot expected to survive their injuries. The first named is reported dead, though as he was left on the ground his fate is uncertain From Spalding.—The Griffin Star of Friday says: i The rains so far as we can learn have been pretty general The crops are looking remark ably well, and all nature seems to rejoice and smile, gladdening the - hearts and enlivening the countenances of onr people. . If.no unforeseen MM calamity overtakes the crops, our section will, had no rain to benefit our com crop in five have plenty and to spare, weeks. Very respectfully yours, etc., j JjIQHT frizzled curls are worn about the chig- J. D. P. | non, with a velvet bandean ent bias, for plain The wheat sent is a very full, heavy golden dress, and the gayest of aigrettes for a more grain, and the ear between four and five inches ’ elaborate toilet. in length. . i Prentice asks this question: Since the Gov- answer our purpose, although we prefer the former, as more thorough. But the colored members of the Legislature must be restored to their seats, and the military must be placed under the control of the Governor, who is a staunch Republican. Another objectlhad in view in coming North was to see if some of onr wealthy men could be persuaded to raise a fund for the purchase of of a farm, which should be leased or sold to the freedmen in small tracts. A plan has already been devised by which this could be made re munerative and perfectly safe to the purchasers, on the advance of a comparatively small sum— say §5,000 or §6,000—the remainder of the price of the land being collected by the seller from the rent and improvements upon it. The universal cry of the blacks is, “let us have some land.” They do not expect it to be given to them, bnt are willing to pay a good rent for it, with a lien on the crops for security. They say they can not vote the Republican ticket as they are How situated, and many of them say they would die before they would vote the Democratic ticket. In Lincoln county quite a number were killed before the balance would agree to vote the hated ticket; but under such potent instrumentalities as the bowie-knife and the bullet, they soon yielded, and in a mass deposited their votes for the rebels. It is the opinion of all the white friends of the freedmen at the South that they can never be thoroughly elevated without having land of their own to work upon. But I am trespassing too much upon yonr valuable space. Any per son wishing further information upon this land question can obtain it by applying to me by letter, or otherwise, at 517 Washington street. On next Sunday afternoon, at 3 o’clock, I shall speak in Morgan Chapel, Indiana Place, upon the moral and religious condition of the freed men in Georgia. Yours very respectfully, C. Stearns. The President at Long Branch. It is perhaps no great discredit to a man that he is not accomplished in small talk and is not “well np” in the attitudes and graces of fash ionable life. The Charleston Courier's New York correspondent says that is pre-eminently the case with Gen. Grant, and comments upon his figure at Long Branch as follows : The beaux and belles at Long Branch have had a good deal of fun, daring the past few days, with Gen. Grant. He is a most awkward man in the social circle, has very little to talk about, and looks, when unobservedly walking through the parlors of the Stetson House, as if he were a policeman in civil clothes. He is so unlike Farragnt, whose jolly manners have made him quite a favorite at the Branch, that, were both men not far beyond the mere oritioismof gossip ing young ladies and their admirers, a jealousy would spring up between them. that might en danger their friendly relations. As it is, Grant is not admired at all by the throng of dames and seigneurs who crowd the Branch just now, and even his distinguished career cannot over shadow the indifference felt toward him by the gay crowd that lounges on the piazzas of the hotel. Not even a cheer reached him yesterday after noon, when. on returning from New York,, he entered the hotel On the contrary, there was a general titter along the lines when, on jump ing from his carriage, several parcels followed him, containing things bought in the city. Some say h« came on to purchase some new clothes, which he needed very much while frequenting such respectable society as annually gathers at the Branch. Take him all in all he is looked upon, socially, as a veritable countryman; bnt, if he stays long enough, he' may be civilised sufficiently to cut a dash, even among the Ave- noodles now bleaching on the seashore. A Corn Story.—A correspondent of thea Co lumbus Enquirer in Musoogee oounty, says: “Let me tell you what I saw on the 27th of this month. I saw a man six feet two inches high, stand, and with a cane three feet long, touch forty-four eara of com. I saw the same man, with the same stick over his head, fail to roach the,silk, when standing erect and dose by the base of a stalk on the same plantation.” That’s tall. JH The.. Newnan. “Peoples Defender” says the eminent turned out an office-holder for marry-! county jail wss burned on the 27th. Fortunately 2 T _ V IT V - J *a _ j ' if wm a *w%4 nruiimlnil nf fVn limn Excited Frenchman at Niagara Falls—“Ah ! ing John H. SnrrattV sister, why does it.not l it was not occupied at the time. to Messrs. Neill Brothers have scarcely prog nosticated a cotton oTop of 1ms than 8,000,000 since the dose of the war. The facta have reg ularly shown how little knowledge they possess; and it is, only surprising that the uncommonly sagacious proprietors of cotton mills of New England should allow themselves to be deceived into that course of delay in purchasing their stocks, which is now so disadvantageous to them. They have allowed cotton to be ex ported to Europe, which should have been re tained for the udils of this country, and they nowsuffer for it Second—The whole season has been, until quite recently, unpropitious for the ootton plant; and the crop has been retarded from two to four weeks by the prevalence of late frosts, rain storms, and the consequent difficulties of working the bottom and even much of the marshy and clayey uplands, in their soft and muddy condition. Even should the caterpillar not come as early as usual, there will be a cor responding immaturity of the plants to favor its devastating mission; and should it not come in force at all, still we shall have the great disad vantage of late picking with all its losses, so well known by old factors as well as planters. It will come, however, beyond any doubt, and until it has spoken, speculations as to 2J, 2j, or 3,000,- 000 of boles, are little better than idle dreams worthy the fertile brain, of the milkmaid—a counting of chickens prematurely. Third—The area of land planted in cotton be ing less and the labor less than in 1868, every thing influencing the product must, for the re mainder of the summer and entire autumn, be exceedingly propitious if even 2$ millions of bales are to reward the toil of the producer. A very extensive and somewhat minute examination of .thp cotton regions of Louisiana, Arkansas and Mississippi enables the writer to compare the present with former years in the respects both of areas planted and labor engaged in cotton culture. Fourth.—The recent floods in the valleys of the Gnadaloupe, Camel, Colorado and Brazos rivers in Texas, to say nothing of the Trinity, Neches and more eastern streams of that State, have already swept away, as in a day, the hopes based upon the most fertile and best cultivated cotton valleys south and west of Red river. Never befoie, since white men have known the country, have the rivers of middle and western Texas swelled so high. Their entire and wide spread bottoms, bearing the broadest cotton fields of the State, have been wholly overflowed and swept by the flood, and the papers assure us that nine-tenths of the crop of the entire county of Gonzales is destroyed. Other large river counties, having a portion of uplands, suffer in less degree. “The Camel River rose to the third story of the cotton fac tory at New Brownfels, and destroyed all the material and machinery. Every flouring mill, woolen factory and bridge on Camel River has been swept away. If we add to this widespread destruction of the cotton crop throughout the very best regions of Texas, the meagre promise afforded by much of Arkansas, Louisiana, Alississippi and Ala bama, it will be difficult for the experienced merchant or manufacturer to see in the future any clear and satisfactory demonstration of more than 2,500,000 bales, even .if no worm appears. It would be safer to fix the estimate at 2,000,000 bales, and work accordingly.^ Last year we had Georgia' estimated by the class of writers above mentioned at 300,000, then 275,000, and so on, as the season advanced, down to 250,000 bales; not to mention some very confident gentlemen, who made still larger figures. Nowit is shown, bybarefnl examina tion, to be between 200,000 and 225,000 bales. Let any of your readers refer to the articles which were frequently appearing in the New York papers abont this time last year—notably the Times—assuring the spinners of a ereatly increased product in Georgia, if they wish to see how little these speculations in the interest of “sellers short” are to be depended on. Let mill owners be wise, and bny early, for there wiUl be small advantage, indeed, in delay. TItc Status in Georgia as Viewed by Tribune. The New York Tribune of the 26th, review ing the condition of the Southern States has the following upon Georgia: In Georgia, the “Conservatives” have on their hands a large elephant of their own rais ing. By expelling from the Legislature its colored members, when they thought Seymour and Blair were to be elected, they put them selves wholly in the wrong. They forced a ma jority for Seymour when at least ten thousand more voters preferred Grant. Since they heard of Grant’s election, they have been trying to get out of their false position; but this is not half so easy as keeping out would have been.— Yet the recent decision of their Supreme Court that blacks were eligible to office has given them an excuse; and opportunity alone is still want ing. They are ready to restore to the colored members the seats wherefrom they were most wrongfully elected, and to ratify the fifteenth amendment Conld they be assured to-morrow that they might thus regain the ground they most unwisely and perversely abandoned, they would promptly do so. (We speak of the vast majority; there is in Georgia, as elsewhere, an incorrigible few; but their soepter has de parted.) • ■ • '• How to Stop the Cotton Coterpiy^ As the season approaches when the * the cotton caterpillar may be expected, fo, * benefit of our planting friends we pnbliah a* following communication, which appear a. ^ last number of the Albany News: ; This worm is very simitar to several oth.- the same class, that are innocent. Ther**^ ^ o&t way of telling the simon-pure cotton ««u- it is touched it will not draw up sinmly «/' - worms do, bnt it will jump as if shocked peculiarity is noticed with but few worms ' by it the real ootton destroyer can easilyS 5^ no mistake about it It makes its at this season of the year most usually Tbjr™* invariably when the ootton is targe) on th* ^ der aide of the bottom leaves. It was de 10 * <Bl ' there as an egg by the fly from three to f before the yonng’worm isseen to eat This little worm makes up its journeyof • twenty-one days, when it passes into a efcrwli? state, partly webbed; and in this dormant^T for four or five days, when its cell is broken * a very sluggish gray colored ” and charged with the means of multi^^ Ini J spreading its raoe. It has an instim*;-?. spreading its raoe. It has an instinctive ! for the cotton plant, and may be seen late i J a evening in swarms in the rank cotton ing its eggs. These flies alone are the of spreading this plague. The worm trave, little. The army worm which appeared i/i and 1846 passed from field to field and em seen in large numbers in the ruts of the,'.? dividing cotton fields. This is a more shnni creature and rarely leaves the plant mm. it is hatched. The capacity of this fly to propagate is derfuL It has been ascertained by actual k serration that each fly will lay from 450 to Gm eggs in its short span of life, and that this stori? will average 400 vigorous, active worms. These are well known facts and may be relied upon; as they were noticed and carefnii- ; vested by the late DnLB. Mercer, who fid on this subject for twenty-five years, ana was» man of scienoe and well informed in histon He was also a practical scientific planter. ' The worm when seen first in the ootton, about the 20th July, is not numerous, and is first dis. covered in very rank cotton. If it appears latei —in August—they are more numerous, hatii® been propagated by the swarms of flies from ft* South. When this is the case it is too late to stop their progress. But if every planter woulj go to work with all hands, passing between the ootton rows and destroy all the worms whet they first appear, there is no doubt but the terri ble plague could be arrested. It would be a little difficult to find the weta when it first makes its appearance, for they ay very small; but in a few days their presence may be ascertained, even in very rank ootton, by the destruction of the leaves, making it mote light than other spots, and which they web fo the second crop, then one hand can destroy mil. lions in a day. When in this state they may he seen some distance—the stalk of cotton up® which they web having much the appearance of being covered by a large spider’s nest. This is the best working that can he given to cotton,''and will compensate better than all else that eonld be done. Let it be tried by ah means. Some persons think that this worm is pre served in winter in this climate. This is a mis take. The winter here is too cold. Its coco® or quarters are very fragile—nothing like sc compact as the cocoon of toe silk worm. There were few that did hibernate in this section the last season—in Alitchell and Baker conntiee- and they hatched oat in April and Alay, am passed away, but they are brought from Florid where they are safe in winter, and where the; frequently make their appearance in May and June. If this war could be made upon them n Florida and in toe border counties cf Georgs, there is no doubt but they could very soon hi destroyed, and this great enemy of the cotta crop in a few years wonid disappear. The plan of building fires in the fields afie: night to catch ihe flies may partially, protect isolated fields, but when they are so numeret- as to make this practicable, enough would be left to destroy all the crops northward of these places. These flies pass mostly in a north vari direction, and are doubtless driven by the winds. Go to work and save one year's work, for ve are sore to have them again in Southwest Geor gia this season. Dotohebit. The Textile Exposition. Great progress is being made in toe prepara tion of the rooms in which the Great Textile Fabric Exposition is to be held. The space in the rear of the building is being covered for toe exhibition of looms and other machinery, and a steam engine, famished gra tuitously by Messrs. Lane ABodley, of this city, is now being put np. The gentlemen having the matter in charge are greatly encouraged by the manifestations of toe past few days. Large invoices are being received, and toe appearances are that the Ex hibition will equal the expectation of the most sanguine. Goods from toe foliowing manufactories and firms have been received daring the past few days : Batesville Alills, Charleston, S. 0.; George Draper & Son, Hopedale, Mass.; D. A. Jewell Jewell's Alills, Ga.; H. W. Bntterworto & Son, Philadelphia; Prattville Mills, Prattville; E. T. Clement, Nashville, Tenn.; Potter, Handy & Co., Hamilton, Ohio; B. Kaufman A Co., Al pha, Ohio; Seymour Woolen Factory, Seymonr, Indiana; Hope Thread Co., Pawtuoket, R. L ; Lehman, Dorr & Co.,agents, Montgomery, Ala,; Geo. F. Ellis & Co.. Terre Haute, Ind.; Bowling Green Alannfacturing Co., of Kentucky; Alex ander Edgar, of Yevay, Ind.; Houston Factory, Ga. ; Macon Alannfacturing Co., Ga.; Granite- ville Manufacturing Company,, Graniteville, South Carolina ; Muncle, Indianna; Janney A Son; Marshall Illinois; Williams, Lahmer So Co., New Philadelphia, Ohio; Barnet, Micau & Go., Taltassee, Ala. ; Augusta Factory, Augnsta, Ga.; Eagle and Phoenix Mills, Columbus, Ga.; F. K. Nichols & Son, Alton, III; Union Woolen Mills, Gallipoiis, Ohio.; Tiffin Woolen Mills, Tiffin, Ohio; Fontenoy Mills, Antioch, Ga.; James Wallace A Co., Ashland Alills, Steuben ville, Ohio; Porter, Hardy A Co., Hamilton, Ohio; Wm. O. Walker, Paris, HI; J. A H. Glassgens, New Richmond, Ohio; Lowry A Bat man, Indianapolis, Indiana. About sixty oases and packages, generally large, are already in toe rooms, and advioes are here of shipments having been made from almost all important points of toe West and South. Invoices were received yesterday of ten cases of shawls, shipped by one manufacturer alone, in Illinois.—Cincinnati Enquirer, 24th. The Mew Chief ol the Times. From the Few York Sun.] We understand that the proprietors of the Times have formed themselves into a joint stock association, and on last Tnursday, formally tendered toe editorship of that journal to the Hon. John Bigelow, at a very liberal salary. Although Mr. Bigelow had made his arrange ments for a trip to Europe, he has set them aside, and accepts the position, the duties of which he will assume on Monday next The proprietors had under consideration toe names of Frederick Houston, formerly of the Herald, George William Curtis, the Hon. William AL Evarts, the Hon. Luther R. Marsh, And other gentlemen distinguished in the field pt letter*. gentlemen distinguished in the field pf letter*. Font to inenoraei ane The selection ofMr. Bigelow over these able Uoodneas gracious! t»V« <■» and eminent gentlemen is a compfimentne Every fellow far himself, sod toe <tavn Prohibiting Chinese Immigration. A correspondent of the New York Evening Post (Radical) is considering practically the ab surdity of prohibiting Chinese immigration— That point, as we said yesterday, is rapidly loom ing up 03 a political question. This correspon dent says: s In fact, nothing bnt arbitrary legislation, ab solutely prohibiting the immigration of Chine® tabor, can possibly prevent it. Take only the State of Arkansas, covering over fifty thousand square miles, one half of which is cotton Isnd of the best quality, mostly river bottom. The Chinaman is fitted in every respect to settle the region, of which only about one acre in a hun dred baa ever yet been cultivated in cotton.- The crop easily made is a bale to the sore, and eight to ten bales to the hand, besides fooi- The value of ten bales is now over § 1200 in ca- rency. The tabor is not hard, bnt persistent Hero are the condition of demand for labor, and sixty days’ time, with about §100 in money will bring.-an umlimited supply. If such con- tracts can be made as were laid before me b; my informant, such demand and such enppij cannot fail to meet .The Pacific MailCompe- ny can move abont twelve thousand per month One hundred thousand such laborers would »di eight hundred thousand to one million bales to our annual crop of cotton, and would place np- der cultivation, in Arkansas, we will say, omr two or three acres more out of' each hundred in addition to the little patch now under culti vation. 1 There is a plan now maturing in St LomsW building a short line of railroad from Cape Gi rardeau to Helena, the distance being I belief about two hundred miles, and continuing the Iron Mountain road southward. The embsai- ment for this road to form a levee, excluding the Mississippi River .from five million acres ti the richest bottom land of which oyer a million acres have been subscribed toward the construc tion of the road. If this road should be brnit and this little patch put into cotton by Chit*' men, the crop therefrom might be four to hi million bales of cotton from land now almoe uncultivated and worthless. I had hoped for a complete statement fro my friend in San Francisco before mabng th* public, but I avoid delay, as I wish it to be inadt apparent that Chinamen who are not cooue may be expected in very large numbers. The Caterpillar- The Quitman (Broofayjounty) Banner has tin following upon the caterpillar in that secti " 1 - Caterpillar.—Some of our citizen 8 siderably exercised, because a few caterpui*“ have made their • appearanoe on several pw® tiona in this county. We have made inquiry, and have yet to learn of the P“®. who has, thus far, suffered from the depre<*_ tion of this insect. It is admitted that in* 8 - tain portions of the county—especially wbf there has been an extra quantity of rain-""* caterpillar has made its appearanoe, but weN“' tend that they have come too late in the sew®; to repeat toe devastation of last year. 1“ who have studied the nature of toe caterpw*^ say that it requires from four to six week, they first make their appearanoe to aocumau force and prepare for a grand onslaught A would delay toe periodfof destruction untu latter part of August; by whioh time tm** fourths of the orop will be in a condition to defianoe to all such pestiferous insects. Under these circumstance, we do not tnu* our planting friends have any grounds foe easiness. The crops may be s little *bort they will have the decided advantage of Pj* , it upon a higher market than ever before o» in the history of cotton planting. Oub friend of toe Macon Teixobapb plains that our white-horse joke is «**.*._» for want of an '‘interpretation;” fr°m wh* ^ infer that his acquaintance with toe d* 88 *** ^ not extend to the Seminole language for J edification we will translate aa iole for horse-" Chdocbr^ tocko" is Seminole for horse— ' v . nw iTZ"rteA~ means white-horae — u hajo" signme* "Wahf Yahr are exclamations td'NV*: “Hokneagu«” means bad or eviltedadoie, chef” fa an Indian irrioottiaapeare expre*** get up and dust,” or an&uuon, to on .a somewhat sxmtoe order of your goaf- “Stand HAttce. ,, i*. un- Butendcred max quotation Font to “The horse! dis is de grand spektAkle! 1 Supaarb! Mngnifi quo 1 By gar, he is come down fintnte 1” turn out men for going to see John Wilkes ■ 1 Booth’s brother upon the stage t which he may well feel hi* return to too editorial There are aver two. hundred persons at the (under his experienoed l Mineral Spring.—ibid. do no discredit to its wei' that -will i reputation. V